Chapter 195 Venetian Hotel
The Mafia family patriarchs walked into Hardy Casino. There are a lot of casino visitors. Although they have seen the introduction of Hardy Casino on TV, they can feel it for themselves and find that it is more luxurious and lively than on TV.
Before hundreds of slot machines, many tourists played one, and the machines dinged and tinkled from time to time.
Dozens of gaming tables are full of gamblers, and from time to time someone wins a big one, causing gamblers around to exclaim.
Such a business, it is difficult to make money or not.
At this time, music sounded in the lobby, and the 2-hour lottery activity started. Many people gathered around the lottery area. Among them were a few people in yellow vests with the company name "Lucky Angel Betting Company" written on the back.
The amount of bonus this time is written on the betting table.
52366 USD.
Some gangsters also rushed to bet on a few lottery tickets, which made them feel more involved. After the New Orleans Marcelo family patriarch bet on the lottery tickets, he asked the casino steward next to him: "Is there so much bonus for every draw?"
"It used to be less, but now it is more and more. The amount of betting by the agency investment company now exceeds the amount of betting in the casino." Steward said.
Marcelo looked at the people in the yellow vests.
Silently calculated, if every bet is 50,000 US dollars, the casino draws 15%, 10 times a day, it is more than 27 million a year.
This amount shocked Marcelo.
This is only the income from lottery games, the casino itself is still profitable, so Hardy Casino can't make 30 or 40 million a year.
It’s no wonder that Hardy dared to open his mouth to say that he invested 100 million yuan, because this business is too profitable. After a few years, it will be able to pay back, and the rest is profit.
The lottery draw began. After two rounds of lottery draws, a lucky gambler finally appeared. This time the winner was a woman in her thirties.
When the woman knew that she had won the prize, she screamed excitedly, hugged her husband together, and finally received the prize.
Taking pictures at the casino and interviewing the TV station. This scene was seen by audiences all over the United States.
Marcelo said in his heart that the people in front of the TV saw other people winning the jackpot every two hours, so how could they not be eager to play, and of course they wanted to play.
Agency investment companies will have more and more funds in the future. Let’s not say anything else, but this fund-raising ability does not know how much profit it will bring to the agency investment company. You must know that this money has no interest, and the agency investment company can do whatever you want. Use it as long as the amount of funds continues.
He pondered.
If investing in a new casino has the profitability of the Hardy Hotel, earning 30 to 40 million yuan a year, it is equivalent to investing 30 to 40% of the annual return on the investment, and the investment can be earned back in three years, and the rest is all It is income, and the shares in his hand are also worth a lot of money.
The most important thing is that this money is legal income.
Think about it now, 100 million is really not much. If this business is announced to the public by Hardy, I believe there will be countless investors holding up banknotes to invest.
Marcelo can think of this, and other mafia family patriarchs can naturally see that they have gone through two lottery draws after two or more years in the casino, and some people can't sit still, and they said that they wanted to be with Hardy. Mr. chat.
The **** smiled and said, "Mr. Hardy invites you to the hotel meeting room."
These family patriarchs flocked to the hotel's large conference room, and upon entering the door, there was a huge design drawing hung on the wall of the hall.
On this picture, there are several tall hotels, as well as various other building facilities. There are corridors and water systems in between. The river runs through them, and each building is marked with a purpose name.
Some people say that this will not be the new casino that Hardy is going to build. It can be described as a huge scale. There are dozens of buildings alone, and there are artificial lakes and rivers next to them. Where is the casino, it is like a small city.
At this time, Hardy walked in and greeted the mafia masters with a smile, "I didn’t accompany you. I want you to experience it firsthand. How do you feel here?"
"The Hardy Casino is indeed very good. It is the most luxurious casino I have ever seen, and probably the most profitable casino." said a patriarch.
Hardy smiled, "Unfortunately he is still too young. Some underestimate the enthusiasm of the people. The rooms here are always full. As you can see, there are people everywhere in the casino. I think the gamblers should have better enjoy."
"So I am tempted to build a bigger casino with better facilities." Pointing to the wall, "Everyone, look at this design drawing. This is a new casino designed by the best design company in the United States. I named him." The Venetian Hotel'."
A patriarch suddenly exclaimed, "Ah, I said I feel familiar with the style of the building. It turned out to be Venetian style."
They are all Italians. Regardless of whether they have been to Venice, Italy, they still have a touch of nostalgia for their hometown. Hardy turned the casino style into a Venetian style and suddenly made these mafia patriarchs like this design.
Hadi stood in front of the big design drawing and introduced it.
"The name here is "The Venetian Hotel"."
"The main building is going to cover 49 floors. Below is the casino lobby, which can accommodate 1,000 slot machines and 300 gaming tables for 3,000 people to go on stage at the same time. There is also a VIP room upstairs. There is a separate gambling hall. People with identities like you come here and don’t want to play in the public area. You can play together with a few friends."
"There are guest rooms above the building. Gamblers can go directly upstairs to rest when they are tired. There are more than 700 rooms in the main building. There are not only guest rooms upstairs, but also various performance halls for various performances and competitions."
"I will bring in the river directly, and there will be a lake covering a few acres outside, and the open waters will make this place pleasant."
"There are two separate hotels outside, so the entire casino will have more than 2,000 rooms, and there will also be a villa area outside, which will build more than 100 villas. Come here to play and the whole family can live in the villa."
“There will be a long shopping street here, when it will bring together famous brands from all over the world, clothes, shoes, bags, jewelry, watches, etc., to satisfy people’s desire to buy.”
"There will be many gourmet restaurants here, and there will be a variety of cuisines from all over the world. There is a river in the middle of the shopping street, and people can take a boat to tour the entire casino, just like visiting the city of Venice."
"A conference, exhibition and banquet center will also be built here, which can hold various large-scale events. I designed the "Miss World Pageant" and "Victoria's Secret Angel Model Contest", which can be held here at that time."
"In the future, this will be a large-scale integrated holiday resort integrating gambling, food, shopping, accommodation, leisure and entertainment, and business. I expect that the number of employees may reach 5,000."
"You should also see the'lottery game' of the Hardy Hotel. To be honest with you, that event is very profitable. In the future, I will let the new casino also carry out this event. You know, Las Vegas TV is mine. Yes." Hardy said with a smile.
The patriarchs of these mafia families laughed along with them.
The lottery game is definitely a wonderful money-making idea, but this trade can't be done by others.
You need to have a place like Las Vegas where gambling is legal, you need to have a TV station covering the United States, you need to have a large casino, there are countless gamblers who are willing to bet, and you need to have the strength to keep it.
Hadi has all of these, so he made it, but it is extremely difficult for others to do this business.
"In addition, I am also planning to build a hospital and a University of Las Vegas. The hospital is a public facility and part of the service for tourists. The university mainly studies hotel services and also cultivates service personnel for hotels."
"At the same time, this is also considered as urban infrastructure. The government is very happy to have these facilities. It is necessary for us to have a good relationship with the government."
The patriarchs can’t help but nod. They run the Mafia family and naturally know the importance of having a good relationship with the government.
At this time, a patriarch was anxious and asked, "Excuse me, Mr. Hardy, I want to invest in a new casino. I don't know how many shares can I buy?"
Hadi glanced at these patriarchs and said with a smile: “There are many families here today. I have set a standard. Each family can buy up to 5% of the shares, 5 million.”
5 million only 5% of the shares.
It’s so expensive.
To tell you the truth, Hardy drew a bright future for everyone, with unlimited prospects, but when it comes to investment, many small families are still a little stretched.
Not everyone can come up with 5 million U.S. dollars. At the beginning, Siegel asked the three big families to raise money, but the three big New York families put out 800,000 and stopped paying. In the end, he fell out with him for this little money, and even moved. Murderous.
These gangster families are not Hardy, they have such a strong business acumen and means of making money, as well as their knowledge of the next few decades.
Five million dollars.
Some big families may still be able to take it out through gritted teeth, and some small families can’t really take it out.
But these people are very eye-catching about the profits of Hardy Casino. They can calculate that Hardy can make tens of millions every year.
"Well, everyone, let’s discuss it. If someone is willing to buy shares and give me a message in the afternoon, I want to decide this matter as soon as possible."
He is short on time and has something to go back to Los Angeles recently.
"But there is an advance. In order to facilitate management and avoid other problems, everyone who buys shares needs to sign a voting rights binding agreement to determine the manager's control over the casino. I don't want to get it to the end. Someone will play tricks to get the company. The interior is unstable." Hardy said.
Many people hesitated after hearing Hardy’s request, and signed the voting rights binding agreement, which is equivalent to handing over management to Hardy completely, and they only have the right to pay dividends.
Just now, people are full of enthusiasm Now they are calming down. Someone asks: "If Mr. Hardy is not well managed and our shareholders still have no decision-making power, wouldn't they just watch the casino lose money?"
Hardy spreads out: "I will be a major shareholder. I have invested more money than you. Will I lose money for no reason? As for the operating ability, you look at Hardy Hotel and you should know how my operating ability is."
"I want decision-making power to maintain the internal stability of the new casino. Commercial methods should not be uncommon for everyone. We are all aware of our own identities. If the battle for power in shopping malls evolves into large-scale armed conflicts, it will be boring. , So I decided to say it in advance." Hardy said.
These family patriarchs are also aware of this. The business intrigues are a little bit more intriguing than the underworld. In case someone tries to seize control of the new casino, even if commercial means are used to succeed, the families will not give up. There will definitely be conflicts and deaths. Dozens or hundreds of people are average.
But in this way, their rights are weakened.
How to choose?
These patriarchs hesitated for a while.
Just then Tom Hagen stood up, “Mr. Hardy, the Corleone family is willing to buy shares, buy 5% of the shares, and sign the voting rights binding agreement.”
(End of this chapter)