"Mr. Soros, we can offer you a place to buy Xianming rice for a long time......"

"Mr. Simmons, we have a spot ......"

"Mr. Abraham, you can get a spot......"

Scenes of live negotiations, if accompanied by background music, are like the villains conducting some kind of PY deal.

Originally, Jiagu's M&A scene for Gao Hong should have been like this: Jiagu, the prey, was surrounded by Wall Street predators, and a group of bankers and lawyers eager to advance through the M&A actively played a supporting role, full of greed, madness and arrogance. In addition to a long tug-of-war with the board of directors of Gaohong, overcoming the noise and challenges of various stakeholders, Jiagu also had to entangle with rival Marubeni until the last minute...... As the saying goes, "every negotiation is a war".

However, after Zhang Zehong sacrificed this trick of "exchanging his life for shares", he was stunned and pushed all the way in the "war".

The older the major shareholder, the more he can't refuse Xianming rice.

During this period, Zhang Zehong also sent a message to the minority shareholders through an intermediary, the lobbying company's Ai Jin Gangbo Law Firm, and set similar conditions.

Of course, there are also shareholders who only need money, but after the major shareholders have defected, it has nothing to do with the overall situation.

As a result, when Qi Zheng completely finalized the financing matters, the U.S. M&A team also came with definite news.

On June 18, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Qi Zheng and the Saudi crown prince held a formal financing signing ceremony.

The two sides sat on square wooden chairs, stepped on the red velvet carpet, and signed their names with five pens each.

After that, the Saudi crown prince and Qi Zheng exchanged signing documents and completed the official signing ceremony.

While shaking hands to celebrate, the Saudi crown prince said in a low voice: "Mr. Qi Zheng, please be sure to take down the American Gaohong Company." ”

As Qi Zheng thinks, the primary goal of the Saudis' participation in and financing the merger is to do everything possible to ensure a stable supply of food in Saudi Arabia.

"Of course, this is our common desire. Qi Zheng's voice was also not loud, and he kept a smile on his face, "Actually, I was about to say sorry to you, the crown prince, I'm afraid I won't be able to attend the banquet in the evening." ”

"Oh, is there any good news?" asked the Saudi crown prince keenly.

"Good news indeed. The board of directors of Gao Hong agreed to our offer, and I will fly to the United States immediately to prepare for the final negotiations. Qi Zheng said with a smile.

"So fast?" said the Saudi crown prince in amazement. In this case, wouldn't it be that if their financing negotiations with Jiagu are delayed for a little longer, they may not be able to catch up with the progress of the merger and acquisition?

But he reacted immediately, shook Qi Zheng's hand, and said with a smile: "This is really good news. It seems that I can only wait for the acquisition of Gao Hong and then hold a celebration banquet for Jiagu. ”

After Qi Zheng thanked the crown prince for his understanding, he and the people arranged by the Saudi side flew to the United States non-stop.

The final negotiation took place in Omaha, Nebraska, where the company is headquartered. As soon as Qi Zheng got off the plane, Zhang Zehong first reported the latest developments.

"Chairman Gao Hong formally replied to me in writing, saying that Gao Hong is willing to agree with us to conduct due diligence and start negotiations on the final details of the transaction at a stake price of $3.6 billion......"

"Very good!" Qi Zheng exclaimed.

Zhang Zehong smiled, enjoying the moment that was infinitely close to victory.

Although he was inevitably guided by the group, he made most of the decisions in this negotiation. When any decision may affect the final outcome, it is difficult to resolve emotions such as hesitation, hesitation, and fear of difficulties.

But how much pressure I have endured before, how much lusciousness I can taste when I am close to victory.

In fact, when the overall situation is basically decided, Zhang Zehong is still a little unsatisfied.

Of course, there will be a strong pleasure when pushing all the way, but after the flat push, there will inevitably be a sense of emptiness.

It was so empty that after talking about business, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I feel that our style of play is strengthening the class solidification of Americans......

Qi Zheng looked at him in surprise and said, "What gave you this illusion? What is the feeling? We are strengthening the class solidification of Lao Mei!"

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"Besides, if we don't intervene, can the class solidification of Lao Mei be improved?"

What is the solidification of class? In one sentence, it is "Whoever has is to be doubled to make him redundant, and what he does not have must be taken from him." ”

The "high-energy growth factor", which has obvious effects on enhancing physical fitness, strengthening brain power and concentration, is, to a certain extent, indeed an "amplifier" that strengthens class solidification.

At least in the United States, the presence of "high-energy growth factors" is doomed to the poor. The rich already have more resources and opportunities, and by supplementing with "high-energy growth factors", they can live smarter and longer. Well, to put it mildly, it's simply not giving the poor a way out.

It can be said that it is an extremely difficult thing for the bottom people all over the world to get out of the class quagmire. On the one hand, the middle and upper classes will do their best to protect themselves and maintain their own class status, and on the other hand, they will also consciously or unconsciously block the opportunities for people from other classes to enter their own class through some systems and means.

It's just that this is especially true in the United States.

For example, the education that can change the class the most - there is no "college entrance examination" in the United States, and the admission system of American universities does not look at test scores, but only on comprehensive quality. And everyone knows that the "comprehensive quality" thing is something that ordinary children have no way to change by studying their own, staying up all night doing homework, or relying on their own ingenuity, and there is no chance to make up for the gap at all.

Even in the United States, different classes have different levels of personal security.

In many cities in the United States, there is a strict distinction between slums, civilian areas and rich areas, of course, the names are usually not so explicit, everyone will say that they are "good districts" and "bad districts".

The law and order situation in a good district is very good, and the crime rate may be zero - if you have an American friend who says that he can casually visit the neighborhood at night, don't hesitate to hug his thighs, this is undoubtedly a local tyrant, and if the bad district makes people sound scared - if your American friend says that he never dares to go out easily at night, well, send him a bigger red envelope.

In short, in the United States, upper-middle-class people will never go to a bad area for the rest of their lives, and people who grew up in a bad area may never have the opportunity to go to a rich area for the rest of their lives, and you will have very little opportunity to meet people from another class.

In a sense, it's a kind of isolation!

Zhang Zehong, who has been running all over the world, naturally knows a lot about this, and can't help but shake his head and smile: "I have also been in China for a long time, and I was confused by our company's operation......"

To be sure, in China, the degree of class solidification is relatively light.

In particular, Jiagu is actually inhibiting class solidification in China.

Take the products containing "high-energy growth factors" as an example, although it is difficult to see Xianming rice on the market now, Jiagu milk can still be bought on the market, and with the expansion of Jiagu Dairy and the opening of Jiagu dairy cows to other dairy companies, there are more and more opportunities for the people to supplement "high-energy growth factors", not to mention the almost "free" Jiagu students to drink milk.

There is something that Zhang Zehong may not have realized, but Qi Zheng noticed that he was not thinking about this from the perspective of his own class.

Who thinks about class solidification?

The real top-level people will not, their only concern is how to live more elegantly, and they don't care about the noise of class solidification.

The real people at the bottom will not, they are anxious for survival, how can they care about the solidification of the class?

Only people in the middle class, whose position is unstable and can go up or down, will care about the so-called class solidification.

To a large extent, Zhang Zehong, and even the entire Jiagu Group, were influenced by Qi Zheng, the big boss.

No matter how down-and-out Qi Zheng was in his previous life, he was not a real bottom-level person. And in the first life, subconsciously, Qi Zheng regards his own rebirth as a responsibility and mission - many times, he also does not think about problems from his own level.

If it's just for enjoyment, Qi Zheng can live a relaxed life.

It is only necessary to control the number of products produced with the Spirit Array, all of which are positioned as high-end brands, just like luxury goods, enjoying an absolute high premium - Qi Zheng can even use one-fifth of Jiagu's current employees to create higher profits than now.

Instead of using the Spirit Array as a machine and developing agriculture as a manufacturing industry as it is now, manufacturing has always had an unbreakable latent law, no matter how high the price of a product is, with mass production, it will eventually become the price of cabbage.

Of course, the products produced by Jiagu will not become the price of cabbage, but it is a clear trend to make ordinary people affordable - there is nothing that can imperceptibly improve the physical fitness of the people more than imported food.

From the point of view of interests, the capitalist class cannot understand Jiagu, which is why the large American pharmaceutical alliance wants to "force" Jiagu to the negotiating table through suppression, and they do not know how to negotiate cooperation with such Jiagu.

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Miraculously, as the person in charge of Marubeni's acquisition of Gao Hong, Tetsu Wakabayashi, the head of Marubeni's grain department, can understand such a Katani.

As the saying goes, the one who understands you best will always be your opponent.

After Jiagu sacrificed this rogue trick of "exchanging his life for shares", the situation he created to compete with Jiagu soon collapsed.

If he was defeated by a subtle strategy, Wakabayashi might have been convinced and excited. Because he is confident that he can learn such methods and means, so as to improve himself.

However, Jiagu's method is simple and difficult to learn.

It's not just a matter of chips, it's also a mental issue.

He really wanted to shake the Gao Hong shareholder who was bought by Jiagu with a "quota" and yelled: Wake up, you are just barely getting the same treatment as ordinary Chinese nationals. We unite to oppress Jiagu, and even dismember and divide Jiagu, don't we want anything?

But apparently, Kaya, the chicken thief, did not give him this chance.

What embarrassed the Western capitalist class in the past was that ordinary Chinese citizens could get "high-energy growth factors," but as a class standing at the top of the world pyramid, they could only watch.

However, after Jiagu conditionally opened up the overseas production of Jiagu milk, it completely divided the capitalist class.

Doesn't the American capitalist class know about the difference between internal and external treatment?

Of course not, but, so what?

As long as they have access to "high-energy growth factors", who cares about serving the public?

In the United States, a country dominated by "liberalism", "individualism", and "cosmopolitanism", the smell of wealth and power is exuded everywhere, and the willingness to serve and contribute to the country is getting weaker and weaker.

With refined egoism as the mainstream, and individualism and cosmopolitanism as the goal, the country is doomed to lose its leadership. Quite simply, a society in which everyone is self-serving is not cohesive.

Ruolin Zhe did not know that there was an unprecedented epidemic in the later generations, which exposed this flaw in Western countries. But he knows that the island nation has also been affected by this.

In the past, in order to become strong, people would unite and give up their own interests to national interests and national interests, but in recent decades, under the aggression of Western culture, individualism has been greatly exaggerated, and the island society has gradually changed from collectivist orientation to individualistic tendency.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt a sense of loss.

The biggest threat to China's rejuvenation to Western countries is not in the material level, but in the spiritual level, including "contribution to the country" - Jiagu can be said to be a typical representative of this.

As a direct competitor, no one wants to see that happen — Gaohong's board of directors rejected Marubeni's offer of $3.72 billion in favor of Jiagu Group, which only paid an extra "quota".

In just one week, he went from full of confidence to full of loss.

The threat of American grain merchants is not in his eyes - since the news of Marubeni's official acquisition of Gao Hong came out, Cargill, Bunge and other cooperative American grain merchants have all issued threats that "they are very angry".

However, it was the domestic pull that made him exhausted.

For example......

"Minister, the Board of Directors has sent a circular asking us to stop losses in a timely manner. Akio Ota, who was promoted to assistant, reported.

Marubeni has now invested more than $70 million in the acquisition of Gao Hong, and if it loses, this cost will naturally not be compensated at all.

For a giant like Marubeni, a loss of tens of millions of dollars is not unacceptable. They sink hundreds of millions of dollars a year in expansion costs for expansion, but that doesn't mean the board will love the losses.

Wakabayashi Zhe, as the group's executive director, has been in the United States for so long, because he is worried that the horse will stumble. But he didn't think that before the horse's hooves completely fell, he was first tripped by the country.

"What else?" Seeing Akio Ota's expression of wanting to speak and stopping, Wakabayashi Tetsu asked with a tense face.

"The headquarters also sent a representative to show favor to Kaya in order to win the opportunity to buy more Senmei rice......" Akio Ota said, tugging at the corners of his mouth.

"I see, where's the nearest flight?"

Akio Ota was secretly stupid: "Minister, I don't need you to return to China in person, isn't it more convenient to communicate with the board of directors by phone or video?"

"No......" Ruolin Zhe lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes, full of pain: "I want you to stuff him into the nearest flight and kick him back to China immediately!"

Baga, it's not enough to be pushed all the way by others, you have to go over to kneel and lick?

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