Vol 5 Chapter 350: The trouble of the rich

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In a hotel in the wealthy district of Sao Paulo, the Force China team is holding a dinner to celebrate the victory.
Zhang Guan took a wine glass and walked to Barrichello before speaking. "Rubens, I want to thank you very much. If you give me the first place, I won't win the championship."
"This is what I should do. I am the second driver." Barrichello said with a smile.
Zhang Guan can feel that there is a trace of regret in Barrichello's smile. Brazil is after all Barrichello's homeland and his home. As a driver who has been driving F1 for more than ten years, Barrichello is in Brazil has countless fans. Of course, he hopes to win a championship in Brazil and give his country and compatriots an account. But in the end he still gave the championship to Zhang Guan, so he created Zhang Guan in this season. The thirteenth victory.
Prior to this, the most winners in a single season belonged to Schumacher's thirteen wins in the season, which means that Zhang Guan tied Schumacher's record. But Zhang Guan's 13-win record is even more gold than Schumacher's 13-win record. When Schumacher set a record of thirteen wins in 2004, there were 18 matches that year. In 2004, there were no matches between Turkey and Singapore, but there were France, the United States and Canada. This year, North American events have withdrawn from F1, and the French station has been suspended for a few years, with only 17 games left in F1. Winning thirteen games in seventeen games naturally has more gold than winning thirteen games in eighteen games.
However, Zhang Guan was not satisfied with this. Especially when Zhang Guanhao won twelve wins at the end of the Japanese Grand Prix, a consensus was reached within the China Force team to help Zhang Guan win a 14-game winning streak and surpass Schumacher. Therefore, Barrichello gave way.
On November 1st, in Abu Dhabi, UAE, the richest place in the world, this year’s Formula One finale battle officially began.
Both the driver's championship and the team championship have lost their suspense. For other drivers, this race has become a battle of honor, and it has nothing to do with the overall situation. For fans, this race is still full of suspense: Can Zhang Guan Breaking Schumacher's record of 14 wins this season.
A new record was born, and the entire F1 was happy, and even the car king Schumacher expressed his expectations for Zhang Guan in the interview before the race. But not every driver is capable of adult beauty. For example, Hamilton, he was desperately in qualifying yesterday and got pole position. Today's race, he intends to snipe the crown again, at least to make Zhang Guan unable to Completed 14 victories in the season.
Unfortunately, God didn’t stand on Hamilton’s side. On the twentieth lap, the rear brake system of the mp4-24 that Hamilton drove had a problem. He couldn’t control the car on the track and had to return to maintenance. District, and then chose to retire.
Even if it is a civilian car, there is no problem with the brakes, let alone an F1 car with a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour. And even if Hamilton dared to continue driving on the track with this problem, the race officer would stop him from doing so with dangerous driving. After Hamilton retired, no one could stop Zhang Guan from hitting the 14th race.
After 1 hour and 34 minutes and 55 laps of competition, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was finally over, and Zhang Guan also broke the record of Schumacher's 13-game winning streak.
Red Bull Racing's two cars performed well, ranking second and third respectively, and Red Bull Racing has thus locked in the runner-up of the season. It's just that there is a big gap between them and China's power in the total score.
"Zhang Guan, congratulations!" Vettel stepped forward to hug Zhang Guan and congratulated him. At that time, Vettel's envious look was personally visible.
"Thank you." Zhang Guan secretly said: "Don't envy me, starting next year, you will have the fastest car."
This season, if it wasn't for Ross Brown to drill the regular loophole and use the double diffuser, Red Bull will be the fastest car, and next year the rules will be more clear, and Ross Brown will no longer have a loophole to drill, Red Bull's design master Newey will show his efforts to create the fastest car, and Vettel will also bring a four consecutive championship to the Red Bull team and become a new generation of car kings.
"Congratulations, I know you can do it." Schumacher also stepped forward and congratulated Zhang Guan. Although Zhang Guan broke Schumacher's record, at this time, Schumacher did not have a frustrated expression, but instead looked at Zhang Guan with a rather gratifying look.
Just listen to Schumacher and then say: "The season is over, what are the plans next?"
"I have to go back to China first, deal with some things, and then give myself a vacation." Zhang Guan said.
"Are you interested in skiing? The ski season in the Alps is about to begin, and Meribel is where I go every year." Schumacher continued.
"Skiing? To be honest, I actually don't know how to ski. In our country, winter sports are not very popular." Zhang Guan said.
"It's okay, I can teach you, my skiing skills are not inferior to professional skiers." Schumacher continued: "If you have time, come and relax with me. You broke my two records this year, I can’t beat you on the field, I have to get me back on the snow!"
Schumacher was very sincere in inviting Zhang Guan. Zhang Guan was really kind, but nodded and agreed.
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F1 has entered the offseason. The new competition will start in March next year. The team's staff also received a two-week vacation. Zhang Guan also took advantage of this opportunity to return to the country.
Domestically, waiting for Zhang Guan is a variety of welcome and celebration ceremonies, and sponsors swarming with banknotes waving.
Automobile companies come the most. Under the background of the global financial crisis, the sales of commodities such as cars have been greatly affected. Those multinational car brands have not had a good life. In the traditional European and American markets, car sales All fell, but only in the Chinese market, car sales rose against the trend. Zhang Guan returned with the trophy of a Formula One champion and suddenly became a "sweet bun" in the eyes of the automobile company. The major car companies are not hesitating to make Zhang Guan become their spokesperson, and Zhang Guan is waiting for the price to sell, waiting for the car company to give a highest price.
Last year, China Force’s revenue reached US$188 million. This figure was obtained after deducting the cost, which included the bonuses received by the team, advertising costs and additional bonuses given by the sponsors. The cost of running an F1 team is actually very high, and every race, the team needs to rent aircraft, rent venues, rent equipment, these are all expensive, not to mention the development of racing cars is a bottomless hole, such as That kinetic energy recovery system burned Zhang Guan's tens of millions of dollars.
This revenue, after paying the team staff bonus and leaving part of the operating funds, was Zhang Guan and Ross Brown, the two major shareholders. Zhang Guan finally got a share of 100 million US dollars.
It is quite a lot to earn 100 million US dollars a year. Even the Ferrari team does not have such a high profit. However, compared with the 500 million US dollars of gambling, it is really a dime.
Although Omi, the initiator, was jailed, the money should still be paid. Omi had no such economic strength, so it was the Maria family who signed the contract. Even if the Maria family didn’t want to spend the 500 million US dollars, there was no good way. After all, people all over the world looked at it. .
The world knows about 500 million US dollars, and wants to see if the Maria family is willing to carry out this gambling contract, and whether they will owe money or not.
If you let the Maria family choose 500 million US dollars or face, the Maria family will definitely choose 500 million US dollars. Although it is shameful to owe money, but where is the 500 million US dollars on the face? Even if it is scolded by people all over the world, it may be worth making 500 million US dollars. However, the bet is written in black and white. If the Maria family really does not pay the money, they still have legal means.
For the Maliya family, the simple legal means are not terrible. The Maliya family has industries all over the world. Transnational debt collection has always been a worldwide problem. .
But when public opinion abducts the law, the situation is completely different. The procrastination process can be simplified, laziness can become efficient, and even the things born in the two worlds can cooperate hand in hand.
What's more, if you don't pay the money, it will affect the credit of the Maria family.
Credit is a very important thing. Even the least trustworthy people will desperately hope that others will be trustworthy, so people who don’t trust credit will always be condemned by the public, and honest and trustworthy people will condemn them because their untrustworthiness will be violated. Your own interests; untrustworthy people will also condemn these same kind, the reason is also because their untrustworthy will violate their own interests. This is like a thief, he hopes he can steal the money, but does not want other thieves to steal his money.
This is especially true for people who engage in business activities. In addition to those who do a bargain, compliance with credit is the most basic thing. This can even be regarded as a hidden rule in business activities. For the Maria family to continue to engage in commercial activities, he must obey this unspoken rule.
The Maliya family eventually returned the money to Zhang Guan, although it will be repaid in installments over the next year. In fact, 500 million US dollars is not a small sum for the Maria family, at least their airlines have to buy a few fewer aircraft.
However, what Zhang Guan did not expect was that the 500 million US dollars caused him a lot of trouble.
The trouble of the rich!
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The canteen of the Provincial Track and Field Training Center.
"Come here, Zhang Guan, often this fried chicken is the chicken that our team raises. It is all free-range. From childhood to no big food, it is impossible to have hormones. And it’s Chef Xu himself. Fried." Coach Zhou transferred the plate of fried chicken to Zhang Guan and pinched Zhang Guan's biggest chicken leg with public chopsticks. He said attentively.
"Coach, you are kind to me, just come by yourself." Zhang Guan took a sip and then nodded: "The taste is really good. When I was in the team, I used to cook Chef Xu. The dishes have less salt and light taste, but the taste is very good."
"Yeah, Chef Xu is a Lu cuisine chef, but he doesn’t like to add salt, which is different from other Lu cuisine chefs. It was not his duty today. I heard that you are here, so I have to come and make some special dishes for you. Coach Zhou paused, and then said: "In the past two years, our team has built a vegetable planting base and animal husbandry base to provide athletes with pollution-free food. Our table dishes are all our own. Kind of."
"Isn't it? Food safety is indeed too important for our athletes. Ten years of hard training may be destroyed by eating a bite of pork with Clenbuterol. Now even many vegetables use what The ripening agent is not grown by myself, and I really dare not give it to the athletes." Coach Wang said next to him.
"Hey..." Coach Zhou sighed, and then said: "But growing your own vegetables and raising chickens is not a long-term plan! Otherwise, we can't afford it in terms of funding. Take this chicken. He said that the white stripe chickens on the market can be out of cages in less than 50 days. The grass chickens in the chicken farm will be better, but at most it is three months. And our own chickens have not been eaten in three months. The hormone is half as big. Our athletes have to eat meat to supplement their nutrition. How can a chicken have to be raised for six months to have some meat? This time cost is a small thing, but the economic cost is too high!"
Coach Zhou said that he picked up a piece of spinach, and then said: "There is also spinach, we grow our own spinach, many pesticides are afraid to use, if used, I am afraid that athletes will eat problems. But if pesticides are not used, spinach is still long. It’s not too big to be eaten by insects. The spinach grown on one acre of land is not as long as others’ half an acre of land."
"Coach Zhou said yes!" Coach Wang next to him said: "Now the cost of planting and animal husbandry is too high. Fortunately, we are not making money, but it is not a way to lose money. Since last year's Olympics After the end, sports funds were cut a lot. In 2008, we were able to plant and engage in animal husbandry for athletes to eat. At that time, there was a lot of money. But the current funds, I am afraid that it can’t be sustained for a long time. ."
During the Olympic Games in the capital, it is an indisputable fact that sports funds are abundant, and after the Olympic Games, it is inevitable to reduce sports funds. The number of domestic sports competitions has decreased a lot, and some leagues will simply not be able to run.
This is regarded as a drawback of the nationwide system. Even if it wins more gold medals and wins more championships, sports cannot drive upstream and downstream, and cannot form a sports industry chain. Relying on financial appropriation, the situation often appears is : When the money is in place, this sports event will produce results, and the money will be taken away, and this sports event will soon hit the street. Of course, there are exceptions. No matter how much money is thrown into Chinese football, it may not be able to rise. Everyone knows that it is not money at all!
Watching Coach Zhou and Coach Wang complaining here, a smile appeared on Zhang Guan's face. He had already seen that these two were singing double reeds in front of themselves.
They are here to ask Zhang Guan for money! (To be continued.)