Chapter 501: More and More Identities

After Yunshan Capital was established, Zhou Muchen and the other five, plus Liu Yutong, became partners—seven in total.

Among them, Liu Yutong, as the founding partner, contributed the most capital and held the greatest say.

Therefore, it was only natural that she assumed the position of Chairman of Yunshan Capital.

Similar to the approach taken by Mingzhu Capital, Yunshan Capital also established a special investment decision committee, which only partners could join. Its function was similar to that of a group company’s board of directors.

Liu Yutong held veto power.

Major investment matters required discussion by the committee, but the final decision-making authority rested with Liu Yutong.

No one contested this arrangement.

Liu Yutong then announced the personnel appointments for Yunshan Capital.

Among the six of them, only Zhu Silin had consistently worked in investment and achieved results.

The others all had their own businesses to varying degrees. For example, Gu Yebai and Shen Hao operated Cloud Summit, South City’s most exclusive private club, while another woman, Bai Shisui, was more interested in fashion design and planned to launch her own clothing brand.

In short, Zhu Silin was the only candidate capable of overseeing Yunshan Capital’s daily operations.

Liu Yutong immediately announced the appointment: “Silin, you have the most investment experience among everyone. From now on, you will serve as President and Chief Investment Officer, responsible for building and leading the investment team.”

Zhu Silin was somewhat surprised. “Me?”

She thought she’d misheard. There was no way she could possibly compete with Liu Yutong for the position of Chief Investment Officer.

“No… no, I can’t. You should…” Zhu Silin stammered.

“It’s fine. With me here, you won’t make mistakes as long as you execute my strategic intent,” Liu Yutong interrupted.

Hearing Liu Yutong say this, Zhu Silin had no choice but to accept. The others had no objections either.

Liu Yutong then turned to Chen Mo. “You’ll serve as Vice President of Yunshan Capital and assist Silin with her work. Any issues?”

Chen Mo immediately responded, “No issues at all! I will definitely assist Ms. Zhu to the best of my ability!”

Liu Yutong nodded. “Your 270 million yuan can be invested, and we’ll grant you a profit-sharing percentage corresponding to your capital contribution.”

Chen Mo was overwhelmed with excitement. “Thank you, Miss Liu!”

“I, Chen Mo, hereby swear to devote myself fully to Yunshan Capital and to you, to serve with absolute loyalty!”

This meant he had essentially become a true member of this inner circle.

Of course, some gaps still remained, but that was only normal.

His background and strength couldn’t compare to those present.

But as long as he could integrate into this circle, his future achievements and status would undoubtedly rise.

With Yunshan Society’s arrangements largely settled, Liu Yutong’s list of identities was growing ever longer.

Chairman of Wanlong Society Group.

Chairman of Wanlong Capital.

Chairman of Yunshan Capital.

Chairman of Mingzhu Capital.

Director of Yu Group.

President of Mingzhu Chamber of Commerce.

And President of Wanlong Charity Foundation.

This sudden accumulation of identities meant her influence had risen to an entirely new level.

Although Wanlong Capital was subordinate to Wanlong Society Group, it was essentially completely independent.

Wanlong Charity Foundation was also independent and currently undergoing the relevant procedures. Once the process was completed and it was officially established, the promised donation of over one billion yuan to BS Province would be immediately disbursed through this channel.

The Wanlong Charity Fund did not accept external donations—this was a hard and fast rule set by Liu Yutong.

This way, outsiders couldn’t criticize her foundation.

All charitable funds were provided by Wanlong Society Group and some close partners.

For instance, everyone from Yunshan Society had promised to donate one hundred million yuan each.

Their donations combined with Liu Yutong’s contribution totaled around two billion yuan in initial funding.

Liu Yutong had already communicated with Uncle Zhu, confirming that these funds would be used entirely for rebuilding new school campuses in the disaster area—over one hundred schools, including both primary and secondary schools.

Reconstruction had already begun ahead of schedule, with construction companies fronting the costs initially.

Liu Yutong only needed to promptly deliver on her promised payments thereafter.

Uncle Zhu’s side had also expressed high praise for Liu Yutong.

Disaster area reconstruction was definitely a lucrative opportunity, yet Liu Yutong and the capital behind her had no intention of competing for these benefits. Instead, she unhesitatingly invested approximately two billion yuan upfront for campus reconstruction.

This kind of pure charitable act easily won others’ goodwill.

Though Liu Yutong asked for nothing in return, Uncle Zhu couldn’t help but show some gesture of appreciation.

The several cities involved in the disaster reconstruction would, through compliant procedures, allocate Liu Yutong several plots of land in downtown areas for commercial plaza development, with a five-year tax exemption.

This was the first form of support from his side for Liu Yutong!

The value of these plots was tremendous.

Because these areas were mostly small cities with concentrated populations, once a shopping plaza was built and operating in the city center, it would effectively create a monopoly. It would be nearly impossible for a second commercial plaza to compete with them.

Wanlong Plaza would undoubtedly become the commercial calling card of each city and the top shopping destination for local residents.

This also indirectly confirmed Liu Yutong’s saying: wherever Wanlong Plaza is, that becomes the city’s central destination.

In addition to the ten disaster-stricken counties and cities, a Wanlong commercial plaza would also be built in the BS Provincial capital.

This meant constructing eleven commercial plazas directly, with sizes varying according to regional constraints.

For example, the plaza located in the BS Provincial capital would have the highest positioning and largest scale, expected to become a city landmark complex, with a single project investment estimated at around one billion yuan.

If other real estate companies were to undertake this, the investment amount would likely need to double, as they wouldn’t just develop shopping plazas but would also invest in building residential complexes nearby.

Liu Yutong had long made it clear that she would absolutely never get involved in this type of real estate project.

As for whether Yu Mo’s Yu Group would build supporting residential complexes next to future Wanlong Plazas, she wouldn’t interfere—that would depend on whether Yu Mo had the capability.

In any case, all of her Wanlong Society’s real estate projects would forever be primarily for self-use.

Excluding the provincial capital plaza, the other ten commercial plazas would require estimated investments of three to four hundred million yuan each, depending on the city’s conditions and population size.

The total estimated investment for BS Province in the early stage was around four to five billion yuan.

This meant that nearly one-third of the fifteen billion yuan Liu Yutong had just earned for Wanlong Society Group was already allocated and needed to be spent.

Liu Yutong began planning to allocate over five billion yuan to Wanlong Society Group for normal development. As for the ten billion yuan in Wanlong Capital, it was essentially reserve funds set aside for Wanlong Society Group’s development.

Before being called upon, these funds would be used elsewhere, such as for long-term investments.

When needed, such as this time when BS Province’s expansion required substantial funds and the group’s cash flow was insufficient, Wanlong Capital’s funds could be deployed.

Other capital firms, such as Mingzhu Capital and Yunshan Capital, had funds unrelated to Wanlong Society Group and would be used for other investments, such as the most important technology industries of the future.

Liu Yutong held six point six billion US dollars worth of overseas tech stocks. Besides knowing these stocks would multiply in value in the future, there was also a speculative purpose—to see if she could get her hands on something good.

Such as the future lithography giant, ASML.