Chapter 379 Two Questions (5372)
"You are..." Luo Ziming's eyes were dull.
"I'm Yang Mi." Da Mi Mi nodded politely.
"She is..." The dull gaze shifted to Black Widow's face, whose hair had returned to medium length.
"Hi, Scarlett Johansson, you can call me Scarlett." Scarlett smiled, "Ahem, sorry, the chili here smells too strong."
"You are..." Luo Ziming's eyes struggled for a few seconds, then turned back to Da Mimi, as if he was still expecting a miracle to happen.
"Yang Mi, I just said it. Hey? Why does your classmate look so stupid?" Big Mi Mi turned her head and asked Fang Yu.
Fang Yu chuckled and pointed at the chili oil on the table.
The muscles on Luo Ziming's face trembled, and he picked up the chili oil on the table and poured it into his mouth.
"Ah!!!" Da Mimi and Scarlett were both shocked. What's wrong with this boy? Is he really a fool?
Looking at the other three boys, they were laughing so hard that they were bent over.
Boys are so weird.
Luo Ziming was willing to accept the loss, and Fang Yu did not go too far. After Luo Ziming ate two large spoonfuls of chili oil, he was not allowed to eat any more.
If he eats too much, he will have to be cast a spell or sent to the hospital. The spiciness is just right. I guess Luo Ziming will have to walk with it on his legs tomorrow.
"Oh, thank you, thank you, I can do it myself." Da Mimi took the oil dish handed over by Lu Xuechang with both hands. Lu Xuechang was flattered.
Lao Fang!!! You deserve to die!!!
Luo Ziming was almost in tears, but then he became excited again, Da Mimi and Black Widow!
I'm having dinner with Da Mimi and Black Widow!
Who would believe it if I told them?
No, we must take a photo together later.
How did Lao Fang know them? Just like what Lao Huang said, it’s not surprising to know Da Mimi, but it’s really a bit strange to be so familiar with Black Widow.
Luo Ziming suddenly remembered that on the day when Huang Xiang caught Xiao Ai cheating, someone seemed to be sending him photos of Black Widow non-stop. At that time, Lao Fang said it was Black Widow.
Could it be that he wasn't joking?!
Huh? Those photos are quite revealing, could it be...
Luo Ziming took a deep breath and looked at Black Widow and Fang Yu suspiciously.
"No, it's okay. Well, I've always been your fan." Lu Xuechang blushed and handed the oil dish to Da Mimi, his hands shaking.
Although he is now a wealthy man and has seen the world in the last one or two months, the time is still short and he has not adapted to the change in his status, so he still retains some student thinking.
Fang Yu interrupted: "Isn't Baby your and Rockman's idol?"
Lu Xuechang glared at him.
"Baby~" Da Mimi glanced at Fang Yu meaningfully, "You can ask your roommate to introduce you. He has Baby's WeChat."
Luo Ziming was shocked, you old Fang, you hid it so well.
No wonder you said that your relationship with Lu Jiayan is similar to your relationship with Baby.
Fang Yu picked up a piece of tripe with chopsticks and put it into his mouth: "Nonsense, I just put it in directly, I didn't add it at all."
Da Mimi said sarcastically, "Young Master Fang has great magical powers and can penetrate any hole. It won't affect him if he doesn't add it, right?"
Fang Yu thought to himself, today I must let you know what it means to be omnipresent.
Fang Yu leisurely picked up a piece of luncheon meat for Da Mimi with chopsticks: "I like meat, eggs and milk, not porridge and side dishes."
Luo Ziming felt something was wrong when he heard this, and then he looked at the expressions between Da Mimi and Fang Yu.
hiss~
This son of a bitch, Lao Fang, can't...
Damn it, you deserve to die.
"What is this? Cow's stomach? Ugh, sorry, I didn't mean to, it's just that I don't eat offal... Ugh..." Scarlett asked curiously when she saw the tripe on the plate. After Huang Xiang explained, Scarlett couldn't help but retching a few times.
Da Mimi rolled her eyes. This woman is vomiting all the time. Could she really be pregnant?
Why does she want to have a baby so much?
Huang Xiang was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth: "I didn't expect that your Zhou Yu is so good."
Scarlett glanced at Fang Yu, and said to Huang Xiang with a half-smile: "Thank you, your Zhou Yu is also very good."
Huang Xiang: ...You learned Zhou Wen from Lao Fang, right?
Of course not, it’s just that Scarlett “shared” Fang Yu’s language ability.
What Fang Yu cast on Scarlett was not the "Language Knowledge" spell which was only effective for one hour, but the "Chain of Faith", a third-ring spell of the School of Spells developed based on inspiration from divine magic.
This spell allows Fang Yu to share a "skill" with his followers. With Fang Yu's current mental strength, he can only connect with 12 followers at the same time, and can only share 0-level tricks and "skills" that do not involve supernatural powers.
For example, language.
When Fang Yu shared his language ability with Scarlett, Scarlett was able to communicate with others at Fang Yu's level of Zhou language.
But when Fang Yu breaks the faith connection with Scarlett, Scarlett will return to the level of not understanding Zhou Wen at all.
The two older sisters were both smart and had high emotional intelligence. They knew that these kids were Fang Yu's classmates and friends, so they naturally didn't act condescending. Instead, the 404 trio gradually became less nervous, but they were still a little excited and restrained.
The two major meats, eggs and milk from the East and the West were shining brightly, and the small, shabby box of Shudu Impression actually had a sense of splendor.
"I signed a confidentiality agreement and cannot reveal the plot, but the original plan was indeed to start filming the third film early next year, but now it's hard to say, it may be postponed. Thor 3 has also been postponed."
Although she couldn't tell, Scarlett still revealed some information about Avengers 3.
Scarlett took a pair of disposable chopsticks that were called chopsticks but were actually tongs and took a bite of a piece of pork belly. "Shh~ It's spicy, don't you think it's spicy?"
The Hollywood upheaval caused by the Alcatraz incident implicated many people, even Robert Downey Jr., the soul of the Marvel Universe. Now Disney’s new senior leadership has not decided what to do next, and it is not known whether to replace Robert Downey Jr. or continue to use him.
The current online speculation is that Robert Downey Jr. is most likely fine. After all, there are too many people involved, the law does not hold everyone responsible, and some of the plots involving him are not serious, so he should be able to avoid this wave of controversy.
"Lao Fang, what are your plans for tonight? Do you want to move to our hotel?" Huang Xiang was sweating profusely while eating and was gulping because of the food he was eating.
Fang Yu shook his head. "No, why would I stay with you guys? Besides, I have other plans and won't be available for the next few days. By the way, has the fundraising period for those three funds you're working on ended? How's the funding situation?"
Lu Xuechang's eyes lit up. "We didn't even need a 30-day fundraising period. We were oversubscribed that afternoon on the day of the meeting, and there are still many people waiting in line. Seventy percent of the funds have been raised, and the remaining funds should all be paid out before the end of the fundraising period. Old Fang, you didn't see it, our 404 Fund is really popular this time."
"You also opened a fund company? How are the returns?" Da Mimi was still on a diet. She looked like she was eating all the time, but in fact she didn't eat much.
"Actually..." Huang Xiang was about to say that it wasn't actually opened by them, but Fang Yu glared back at him.
"They are Maiyuan Fund. The rate of return is not bad, much higher than the products on the market. I have invested in them before, and you can also invest some." Fang Yu said nonchalantly.
"Then I'll invest 20 million dollars." Scarlett agreed immediately without thinking.
Da Mimi was shocked.
Sister, your total income last year was only 25 million, and after deducting taxes, it was less than 20 million. You didn't have much money from making art films before, so you invested all your fortune in it?
And you don’t even ask about the rate of return or management fees? Or the commission?
The 404 trio were also startled.
"Mr. Fang, there is no quota left. Now all three funds have been sold out, reaching the billion-dollar upper limit reported to the SEC." Huang Xiang said with difficulty.
"That's fine. Just set up a parallel fund." Luo Ziming thought quickly. "The capital distribution should be similar to that of funds 2, 3, and 4. We can just share the strategy."
"There are legal and reputational risks." Huang Xiang shook his head. "If we go with a parallel fund plan, both management fees and commissions will increase."
Huang Xiang, fearing Scarlett might misunderstand, explained, "It's not that we don't accept it. It's mainly because we're a closed-end fund. This time, the investors are all institutional investors from Wall Street. They might think that the parallel fund and the original fund are sharing investment opportunities, which might make them feel that their potential returns are being diluted."
"If we don't set higher management fees and profit sharing requirements for parallel funds, we might be in trouble if they sue us."
Da Mimi was a little surprised. When Fang Yu first said that several of his roommates had set up a private equity fund, she thought it was a small fund company.
But from what Huang Xiang said, the size of this fund has exceeded 10 billion US dollars?
This scale is not small in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
"What are your current standards for management fees and commissions?" Da Mimi has invested in many private equity funds and is well versed in them. "How do you calculate your high watermark?"
Huang Xiang was a little nervous when he heard Da Mimi's question. "We have a 2% management fee. We're a short-term arbitrage private equity firm. We don't do quantitative trading or cross-period trading. The lock-up period is only six months, and we'll be liquidated after six months. Therefore, the high watermark is calculated based on the return rate at the end of the period relative to the beginning of the period."
"As for profit sharing, it is a tiered system. For example, for Fund No. 3, if the annualized return is less than 8%, there will be no profit sharing. For the portion between 8% and 15%, there will be a 35% share; for the portion between 15% and 25%, there will be a 45% share; and for the portion above 25%, there will be a 49.9% share."
When Da Mimi heard this, she was even more surprised: "This fee is too high, isn't it all paid for by the institution?"
I just heard what they said, they are all institutional investors. They charge 2% management fee to institutional investors, but they still sold all of them?
Institutional investors tend to prefer a low-management-fee, high-performance charging model. Generally, private equity firms are unlikely to charge institutional clients more than 1%. A 2% management fee is already the ceiling level in the industry.
But their profit-sharing model is quite interesting.
Da Mimi thought about it. Scarlett invested 20 million dollars at one time. It would be a bit unreasonable if she did not invest at all. Anyway, even if the management fee increased by 25%, which is only 2.5%, she could just consider it as maintaining the relationship.
Moreover, despite such high fees, the investment is from institutional investors, which at least shows that the product strength should be strong.
"I'm poor. I don't have that much money, and I don't have any Mai Yuan. It's too troublesome to exchange currency in China now. The money I can use now is less than two million Mai Yuan. You won't think it's too little, right?" Da Mimi drank a mouthful of yogurt and licked the bottle cap on purpose.
This yogurt is Amul imported from Dazhou. The owner of this restaurant is quite interesting.
Luo Ziming excitedly said: "No, it's not too little."
Can the money of female celebrities be the same as the money of institutions?
I went out to pick up girls and told them that BlackRock had invested in us, but they had no idea what BlackRock was.
But if Scarlett Johansson and Mimi also voted for us and then took out the photo, the meaning would be different.
Luo Ziming was about to say something when his face suddenly turned pale and he looked painful: "I'm going out for a while."
After saying that, Luo Ziming ran out in small steps.
"Hahahahahahaha!!!" Fang Yu and Lu Xuechang burst into laughter.
After a full ten minutes, Luo Ziming came back with a pale face, as if he had collapsed.
"Where did Young Master Luo go just now?" Lu Xuechang chuckled maliciously, took a bag of yogurt from the table and handed it to Luo Ziming, "I really should have filmed those few steps for you just now."
Luo Ziming was furious: "Where did it go? It went to your favorite drink, Amul."
Da Mimi, who was also drinking yogurt, suddenly spat it out.
This boy is really sick!
After dinner, Scarlett took the trio to Hollywood for a tour, and the trio truly experienced the changes in their personal status.
Can ordinary people have the current Hollywood queen as their tour guide?
Even if the other party was doing this for Old Fang's sake, Fang Yu was not around now, and Scarlett Johansson and Da Mimi's attitude towards them remained unchanged, without any of their condescending star airs.
Only then did they truly realize that their status in this society had changed.
At least in the eyes of Da Mimi and Scarlett Johansson, the social status of the three of them is already in the same class as them.
All three of them were a little uncomfortable with this change.
Eh? Oh, where's Lao Fang?
He said he had something to do and left after eating hotpot. What was it?
——
Missouri, Washington University in St. Louis.
In a tiered classroom, Edgar Rosenberg, who was already 65 years old, with gray hair and a pair of glasses hanging around his neck, leaned on the podium and gave a lecture to more than 40 students below in a steady tone.
“…after arriving at the castle, Henry waited outside for three days and three nights. Legend has it that he wore sackcloth and stood barefoot in the snow, demonstrating great piety and submission. On the third day, Gregory VII, moved by Henry’s “sincere repentance,” lifted his excommunication.”
"But the Investiture Struggle did not end there; instead, it continued to intensify. Henry IV then returned, invaded Rome in 1084, and deposed Gregory VII."
"No matter what era, forced submission can never truly make an opponent surrender."
At this point, a barely perceptible smile appeared on Edgar Rosenberg's lips. He coughed twice and was about to continue speaking when he saw a tall and strong Eurasian boy in the third row of the podium looking at him with a half-smile.
Who was he? Were there any Asians in his major? Edgar Rosenberg couldn't help but feel dazed for a moment, then seemed to have forgotten all about it. He put on his glasses, glanced at his handouts, and began assigning homework.
"Okay, here's your homework. Choose one of the following events: the Road to Canossa between Gregory VII and Henry IV, or the conflict between Thomas Becket of England and Henry II. Analyze the root causes of the conflict and analyze its short-term and long-term impacts."
"As usual, use at least three academic articles or books as references, at least one of which must be from a peer-reviewed academic journal; provide a clear historical background, conflict process, and conclusion; word count requirement: 1,500-2,000 words."
"By the way, don't try to fool me with AI. I'm also using AI to identify whether your homework was done by AI. This homework will be counted towards your final grade."
There was a chorus of sighs from the audience.
"Okay, here's a tip for you. You might as well discuss the conflict from the perspectives of Zheng Zhi, society, and faith." Edgar Rosenberg took off his reading glasses and prepared to go home after class as usual.
But he didn't notice that the Asian boy just stretched and followed him slowly, all the way to the Clayton community where he lived.
Creighton is a community in the suburbs of St. Louis. It is not very large, but the security is relatively good. The residents in the community are basically faculty and staff of Washington University in St. Louis.
Edgar Rosenberg lived on the edge of Clayton in a two-story house with a small, exquisite garden filled with roses and pomegranate trees.
After returning home, Edgar Rosenberg flipped through two pages of the book, feeling somewhat uneasy for some reason.
"Where is Ann?" Edgar Rosenberg suddenly remembered that after he came back, he did not see any trace of his wife Ann.
"Knock, knock, knock."
Edgar Rosenberg was just about to call his wife when he heard a knock on the door. Looking out through the small window on the door, Edgar Rosenberg was stunned.
It was the young man of Asian descent whom I had just seen in the classroom.
"Professor, I'm sorry to bother you, but I have two questions about the lecture you just gave. Please open the door." The young man of Asian descent smiled.
Edgar Rosenberg subconsciously opened the door, and the young man of Asian descent walked in without any courtesy.
Edgar Rosenberg couldn't help but frown slightly, feeling a little unhappy. Just as he was about to ask the other party's name, he heard the young man of Asian descent ask:
"First, the Canossa Incident is generally considered in secular terms to be the capitulation of royal power to religious authority. However, after Henry IV gradually stabilized the situation through submission, he expelled Gregory VII. Does this mean that there are some organizational problems with the Temple, and that it lacks sufficient institutional defenses? If the Temple wants to prevent this from happening again, what needs to be done?"
Edgar Rosenberg was stunned when he heard the question from the young Eurasian man. This question was quite interesting. It was exactly what he wanted to say in class but didn't.
"It's an interesting question. In fact, any large, public faith-based organization will have this hidden danger. No secular government would completely relinquish control over religious power, even in the Middle Ages when religious power was at its peak."
"The institutional defense flaws you just mentioned are precisely one of the typical misunderstandings."
Edgar Rosenberg couldn't help but smile.
"Any faith-based organization that places its hopes on force will fail. Faith-based organizations rely on the fanatical power of faith and cannot compete with the professional force of secular power."
"The only way to solve this problem is through infiltration."
At this point, Edgar Rosenberg suddenly felt something was wrong. How could he open the door to a stranger so easily?
"Okay, I've answered all your questions. Who are you? How did you find my house?"
The young man smiled. "That's a very insightful answer, Professor. Don't worry, I have a second question."
"Is it because of the reason you just mentioned that the Omniscience Society exists? Professor Rosenberg, or Mr. Tyrant of the Omniscience Society?"
Some idle talk:
A few days ago, my son was always depressed and in a low mood when he came back from kindergarten. I asked him what was wrong, but he didn't say anything at first.
Later, he told me that A no longer paid attention to him and always played with B.
A is a little girl in their class. She is a very cheerful girl. She used to have the best relationship with my son, but recently after being regrouped, she has become better friends with the little boy B in the same group.
I asked him, "Do you like A?" My son said yes. I said, "A and B have a good relationship, and they ignore you. Do you feel very sad?" Then my son started crying.
I said, let me teach you a trick. When you go to kindergarten tomorrow, ignore A and go directly to say hello to C. Then play with C all day. As long as A doesn't take the initiative to look for you, don't take the initiative to look for her either.
C is another little girl in their kindergarten. She is also very cute and has a very bad relationship with A.
My son said, A must be unhappy. I said, don’t worry about whether she is happy or not. Just listen to your dad. Bring a capsule toy to C tomorrow and tell him it’s a gift for C.
My son said, but I want to give an A.
I said, baby, think about it, A ignores you, do you feel very sad, do you feel that you like him more?
My son thought about it and said yes. I said, that’s right, everyone likes someone who can make them cry, not someone who makes them laugh.
Try doing what your dad says tomorrow, maybe A will like you again.
There is not enough space, I will continue tomorrow.
Please give me a monthly ticket! ! ! !
(End of this chapter)
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