Chapter 0911 Offshore Company

Everyone reacts differently in the face of crisis. Some are paralyzed with fear and die instantly, while others fight back and seek a way out.

The latter, even if as weak as an ant, deserve respect for their courage, because in them there is a quality that moves people—hope.

And hope is the only support that keeps a person alive.

For Zhao Fusheng, he needs to give hope to everyone around him. At the very least, he must make those close to him see that following him leads to a bright future.

For example, if he didn't tell Zheng Yao about the shares in Shengda Technology and Tencent Technology, Zheng Yao would think that Zhao Fusheng, as her boss, was messing around and wasting his talent in advertising.

Profession and professional are two different concepts. When it comes to people, Zhao Fusheng always assumes the worst. No one can maintain patience for a long time doing one thing. Zhao Fusheng believes Zheng Yao is kind, but that doesn't mean he will let his guard down around her.

The saying 'if you employ someone, don't doubt them; if you doubt someone, don't employ them' doesn't work for Zhao Fusheng.

Zhao Fusheng believes in the principle of checks and balances, because greed is a deep-rooted flaw in human nature. If you trust someone without limits, you will ultimately suffer.

In this world, apart from his parents and Fan Baobao, Zhao Fusheng will not trust anyone unconditionally.

Tan Kaixuan is an exception. That guy's mind is too big, and there's no need for Zhao Fusheng to be wary of him; he will spill everything himself.

For instance, recently he has been gathering funds, planning to invest in real estate or financial markets.

Although Zhao Fusheng wants to stop him, on second thought, perhaps this is the path Tan Kaixuan must take.

He is only a reborn person, not God.

If he has to meddle in how others live their lives, wouldn't they become puppets in his hands?

Tan Kaixuan was not a puppet, nor was Fan Baobao, and even Zheng Yao was not. What Zhao Fusheng brought to those around him was a change in destiny, not turning them into his tools.

After calming Zheng Yao, Zhao Fusheng left the headquarters of Future Advertising, went downstairs, and got into his car.

"All settled?"

Zhang Qian's voice sounded, as steady and forceful as ever.

"Yes, we can begin." Zhao Fusheng said calmly.

Zhang Qian nodded, indicating that he understood.

From now on, he would go abroad to register an offshore company in the Cayman Islands.

The Cayman Islands, a British colony, is known as the world's fourth-largest offshore financial center. Registering a company here offers many benefits, such as facilitating cross-border business, avoiding foreign exchange controls, and having a relaxed legal environment. Most importantly, it allows for reasonable tax avoidance and reduces the global tax burden.

Moreover, companies registered in the Cayman Islands have minimal information disclosure requirements and relatively strict confidentiality regulations, which help businesses maintain commercial secrets. In the major offshore financial centers of the Caribbean, international business companies registered locally benefit from confidentiality-friendly regulations. These include no requirement to submit audited accounts or annual audits, permission to issue bearer shares, no need to maintain local activity records, no obligation to disclose director names to the company registrar, and no requirement to register shareholder information. The relaxed legal environment and high level of business confidentiality provide ample security for offshore companies themselves, greatly reducing various risk factors. Local courts have even repeatedly prevented banks from providing client information to foreign courts and governments, offering favorable concealment conditions for companies and their actual controllers.

Zhao Fusheng's considerations were relatively utilitarian. As far as he knew, given the current preferential policies for foreign investment, it was undoubtedly a rational choice for domestic enterprises to set up an offshore company and then invest back in China under the name of that offshore company to enjoy the "super-national treatment" for foreign investors.

Moreover, registering in the Cayman Islands would make it easier to conceal the actual controller of the company.

The rules involved were simple: domestic companies often registered multiple "shell" companies in various offshore financial centers. In the process of injecting domestic assets into overseas "shell" companies, the shareholding relationships were intertwined, and asset swaps were bewildering. Tax-haven offshore financial centers had extremely lax information disclosure requirements, providing good confidentiality for offshore companies' business, assets, liabilities, and the composition of shareholders and directors. It was difficult for non-core insiders to know the true relationships between various offshore companies and their actual controllers, thus facilitating related-party transactions and allowing insiders to deliberately obscure the true ownership of the company for certain purposes. Market participants summarized this strategy as "the more complex, the safer."

For these reasons, Zhao Fusheng decisively sent his most trusted person, Zhang Qian, abroad to handle this matter. He could be sure that once the registration was complete, he would be able to control the shares of his various companies through the offshore company.

After all, this was just the beginning. In the future, Zhao Fusheng's assets would grow larger. He did not want to be high-profile, but investment matters always required a company to exist, so he prepared in advance.

As for the next step, Zhao Fusheng had already chosen his target.

He had set his sights on the stock of an internet portal company.

Ding Sanshi's NetEase!

This was Zhao Fusheng's target this time. He remembered this company's stock because, in his previous life, he had read a WeChat article about how the founder of Pinduoduo started his business. In that article, Zhao Fusheng vaguely recalled a passage saying someone had bought two million shares of NetEase stock at an average price of less than one dollar, spending no more than two million dollars in total, which was sixteen million RMB.

Two years later, NetEase turned around thanks to its gaming business, and the stock price soared to over seventy dollars. The two-million-dollar investment became one hundred and fifty million dollars.

To be honest, Zhao Fusheng knew nothing about finance or mathematics. Apart from money, he wasn't very interested in anything else.

But Zhao Fusheng was well aware that in the stock market, whether abroad or in China, everyone involved was dreaming of getting rich overnight.

In essence, it was a carnival, a carnival of the end times, where everyone, for their own benefit, desperately hoped others would lose money.

Simply put, as long as I can make money in the stock market, who cares if others live or die?

Zhao Fusheng wasn't like others who liked to hold themselves to double standards, because he knew very well that from the day capital came into this world, it was full of filth. No matter how we whitewash things, we can't hide that fact. As for chicken soup for the soul, it's just human self-suggestion.

For example, in movies, TV shows, or even literary works, if the protagonist swallows his pride, it's called 'the sea admits all rivers, tolerance is greatness,' or 'Han Xin endured the humiliation of crawling between someone's legs.' Conversely, if it's the villain, it's called hypocrisy or groveling.

It's all just for survival. Why must we see others as so despicable and place ourselves on a moral high ground?

So, if there was a chance to make money on Ding Sanshi's website, Zhao Fusheng would reach out without hesitation, showing no同胞爱 (compatriot love). And Zhao Fusheng believed that if Ding Sanshi had the chance, he wouldn't show any mercy either.

They were strangers to begin with; why should anyone go easy on you?

Because they were both Chinese from the same roots?

Heh...

Even Zhao Fusheng himself didn't believe that.

"By the way, this matter needs to be kept secret." Zhao Fusheng sat in the car and, after a long while, suddenly said to Zhang Qian.

Zhang Qian was startled, then understood his meaning and nodded: "I know."

Yang Panpan and Zhang Qian's relationship was now basically confirmed, but Zhao Fusheng didn't want Zhang Qian to tell Yang Panpan about this, because he hadn't figured out how to tell Fan Baobao yet.

The car drove all the way home. Zhao Fusheng entered and saw Yang Panpan and Fan Baobao huddled together studying something. He smiled and asked curiously: "What are you two doing?"

Hearing Zhao Fusheng's voice, Fan Baobao didn't look up and said in a muffled tone: "Studying the script."

"Script?"

Zhao Fusheng was taken aback and looked at her strangely: "So fast? The top actress of Future Films is about to become a big star."

Future Films currently only had Fan Baobao as a signed artist, so Zhao Fusheng jokingly called her the top actress of Future Films. It was purely teasing, but she liked it too. When bored, they would call each other that at home.

"Big star my foot. I'm playing a supporting role." Fan Baobao glared at Zhao Fusheng and said irritably.

Frowning, Zhao Fusheng said: "Didn't I say that playing supporting roles doesn't mean much for you now?"

This was true. Fan Baobao had been in several art films consecutively. What she needed now wasn't more exposure but improvement in acting skills. That's why Zhao Fusheng agreed to let her take the exam for the People's Art Theatre. Now Fan Baobao said she was going to play a supporting role, and Zhao Fusheng thought it was absurd.

Hearing Zhao Fusheng's words, Fan Baobao sighed helplessly: "I'd rather not, but I can't help it. Our class teacher asked me to do a favor."

Zhao Fusheng was instantly speechless. He knew that since that was the case, Fan Baobao really couldn't refuse. After all, personal connections were something she had to manage on her own.

"By the way, I heard from Old Jiang that Huayi is going to cooperate with Future Advertising. Do you know what's going on?" Fan Baobao looked at the script and suddenly asked Zhao Fusheng.

Zhao Fusheng was startled, then shook his head: "Not sure. Maybe they think a strong alliance will make them bigger and stronger."

As he spoke, he smiled at Fan Baobao: "Maybe one day, you'll meet Wang Jinghua again. But by then, she'll be the one begging us to give her artists a chance."

At that moment, Fan Baobao felt that her boyfriend must be dreaming.