Chapter 929: Morgan's General Electric Company (Two Chapters in One, 5000 Words)
"Jonathan, have the reserves been calculated?"
A group of people gathered around Jonathan, and when they saw him stop counting the pen, Bush Jr. hurriedly asked.
Jonathan said excitedly: "Chairman, after rough calculation, 95 percent of the oil reserves in this oil field may exceed 9 million barrels, and there is a high probability that it will reach 10 million barrels!"
"And it has more than 50 million cubic meters of natural gas reserves!"
"Wow!"
"Finally out of oil, after two years finally succeeded!"
Old Jack and the other workers immediately cheered, and George W. Bush laughed excitedly.
In the final analysis, he has only graduated for three years, and except for the first year when the Bush Energy Company was idle, he has worked for two years without producing any results, and how can he not bear tremendous pressure in his heart.
Now that he has suddenly reaped success, he has been completely released after two years of suppression, and he can't help laughing out loud and cheering with the employees.
At the same time of excitement, he recalled in his mind that Xia Yu's estimate of this oil field in the afternoon was exactly the same as the result calculated by Jonathan, which was a miracle!
Subconsciously glanced at Xia Yu with an indifferent smile, and Bush Jr. once again firmly established the idea of cooperating with Xia Yu in his heart.
It was already so late, and of course so many people couldn't spend the night in the wilderness, so the group immediately set off to return.
Anyway, the land has been leased, and no one can take away this oil field, so they will come back tomorrow to continue exploration.
Early the next morning, after breakfast, George W. Bush repeatedly invited Xia Yu to stay, but Xia Yu flatly refused, saying that it was about to be the Spring Festival of the Chinese lunar calendar, and he must go home after dealing with things as soon as possible.
In desperation, Bush Jr. could only reluctantly send Xia Yu on the plane, and repeatedly asked Xia Yu to contact him after he came to the United States and keep in touch.
Xia Yu knew that George W. Bush had tasted the sweetness and wanted to drag him to continue looking for oil.
But Xia Yu won't let Bush Jr. get his way!
Xia Yu remembered that the Bush family's oil company would find a lot of oil fields in Texas in the future, but he didn't plan to give half of it to Bush Jr. in one go.
"The harder it is to get, the more you know how to cherish it!"
Anyway, it's all by fooling, it's all up to him, it's just to find a suitable reason to shirk.
And he can also wait for the oil industry to be sluggish later, buy an oil company, and exploit it himself, and all the profits will go into his own pocket.
Seeing Xia Yu enter the boarding channel after being tested, Bush Jr. sighed in amazement.
"Feng Shui masters also have compasses...... I'll have to find a way to find out, didn't he say there are hundreds of them in the East......"
A future American president who was superstitious about Chinese feng shui was born.
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This time, Xia Yu took the plane to Houston, and then changed to a plane to Washington State in Houston.
Before he left the United States, he planned to take a trip to Seattle to see how his Seattle computer products company was doing.
Xia Yu has learned that IBM will hold a product launch conference on February 1 to release IBM's first microcomputer.
As soon as the news came out, Apple's stock price fell, revealing the worried mentality of capital.
According to the original historical trajectory, IBM was able to release the finished product in April, but in this life, Xia Yu intervened, and IBM solved the problem of the computer system a few months in advance, so IBM was able to hold a new product launch conference more than two months in advance.
IBM's new product launch conference, Xia Yu doesn't plan to join in the fun.
However, he knew that with the popularity of IBM's microcomputers and the introduction of Seattle Computer Products' SCP-DOS operating system to the market, he needed to mention Buck Daniel again.
Not only that, but in addition to the SCP-DOS system and its future versions, Seattle Computer Products also had to develop other products to improve the company's overall strength and resilience to risks.
A forward-looking vision is not good to use to formulate the company's development strategy, unless he has his brain pumped!
At around three o'clock in the afternoon of January 29, Xia Yu finally came to Seattle Computer Products.
As soon as he came in, Xia Yu found that the Seattle computer products company had changed a lot, the most obvious being that the company had many strange employees, which had obviously expanded in recent months.
Fortunately, there are still many old employees, and after greeting Xia Yu, he informed Xia Yu that President Buck Daniel was in the office of the programming department.
"Boss, welcome to the company!"
"Buck, long time no see. ”
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After a few brief pleasantries, Xia Yu asked about the SCP-DOS system.
"Barker, IBM is about to release a microcomputer, is our system continuing to be developed, and to what extent is the technical reserve?"
Buck Daniel led Xia Yu to a big white butt computer, and said to Xia Yu: "Boss, this is a new product that IBM is about to release, our company is their first batch of customers, you can see, the system of this computer, in fact, has been determined on December 2 last year, and now after nearly two months of research, we have carried out a certain degree of optimization on the basis of the original system." ”
"Next to it, we have a computer with the latest system installed. ”
"At present, the company has applied for a total of 97 patents, including 29 core patents, and 36 have been approved......"
Xia Yu nodded with satisfaction and commented: "Good job, as long as a technology is researched, we will apply for a patent, and our system needs enough technical patent barriers to maintain an advantage." ”
With that, he sat down in front of the first computer, briefly fumbled for a while, and then started to experiment with the functions of IBM's first-generation microcomputer, and then experienced the performance of the SCP-DOS system.
As for the second computer with the latest system installed, Xia Yu did not touch it.
Buck Daniel stood next to Xia Yu, quietly watching Xia Yu operate, also observing the performance of the system.
After a long time, Xia Yu stopped his movements, turned to Buck Daniel and said: "Yes, our operating system is more stable and smoother than Apple's system, and it is more complete in terms of functions, which is a mature operating system for the current market." ”
"However, our system is an open platform, and with the continuous development of technology, there will definitely be a variety of problems that have not been discovered, and you need to arrange good people to collect feedback in a timely manner, and do a good job of docking with IBM to patch in time." ”
"Boss, I've already done this setup. Buck Daniel said.
Xia Yu bowed slightly, thought about it and said: "Another point, after the release of IBM's microcomputer, other computer companies such as Texas Instruments will definitely follow up to develop microcomputers, and you must cooperate with them as soon as possible to make our system the mainstream of the market as soon as possible." ”
"Okay!"
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Just when Xia Yu was about to ask Buck Daniel to brief him on the company's other projects, a person suddenly walked in, and it was Michael Bloomberg.
Seeing Xia Yu here, Michael Bloomberg was obviously stunned, and then quickly greeted Xia Yu: "Boss, I didn't expect you to be here, good afternoon!"
"Michael, good afternoon. ”
Xia Yu responded with a smile, and then asked, "Are you here for the financial information service terminal?"
Aside from this, Xia Yu couldn't think of what Michael Bloomberg would do here.
Michael Bloomberg immediately nodded and said, "Yes." ”
"What stage of development are you at now?"
"The complete financial information service terminal has been designed, but the system is not perfect, and some bugs need to be solved to further optimize and improve. ”
"When can I expect to be able to bring it to market?"
As soon as he heard Xia Yu's question, Michael Bloomberg was speechless and subconsciously looked at Buck Daniel.
After all, the surging news agency he runs has only been established for a short time, and how can its technical strength be comparable to that of an old software company like Seattle Computer Products?
After he got Xia Yu's permission, on the one hand, he recruited computer talents, and on the other hand, he signed an agreement with Seattle Computer Products Company to entrust the other party to customize a special service system for their surging news agency.
Seeing the boss Xia Yu looking at him, Buck Daniel immediately said: "Boss, the financial information service terminal is in another office, which is in charge of a special team, and there are indeed some bugs, because this is a complete system, and it is difficult to develop and is still being solved." ”
After speaking, Buck Daniel took Xia Yu and others to another office, and asked people to demonstrate the product to Xia Yu, and at the same time clarified the difficulties.
The current surging terminal, in fact, the core is the "surging professional services" computer system, according to the functional design, users can access and analyze real-time financial market data and financial transactions through the "surging professional services".
Not only that, the Surge terminal also has a special news push service, which pushes the latest news and real-time quotations from the exchange in real time.
It can be said that the surging terminal is a combination of the operation and trading aspects and the information aspects that are most needed by financial market practitioners, which can greatly improve the work efficiency of the financial market, which is the perfect job that Wall Street urgently needs in the prosperous era.
It's just that because the "surging professional services" computer system is not stable enough, this supposed perfect tool is not perfect.
"I know what's wrong, you're thinking wrong, you don't know the financial markets well enough. ”
Saying that, Xia Yu directly asked the employee to get out of the way, and then opened the programming interface and quickly modified it.
Seeing Xia Yu's fast blind typing, his fingers were about to appear afterimage, and the lines of code on the computer desktop were beating, Michael Bloomberg's eyes widened, and he subconsciously looked at Buck Daniel.
It seems that the boss Xia Yu seems to be very proficient in computers, and he didn't know about it before.
Seeing Michael Bloomberg's surprise, Buck Daniel smiled instead, his reaction at that time was no less than Michael Bloomberg's, but as he saw Xia Yu's strength, he had long been numb and convinced of the boss.
He leaned into Michael Bloomberg's ear and whispered, "Michael, the truth is that as you can see, the boss is very computer savvy, and he is much better than me." ”
"I didn't expect the boss to rely on the company today, he hasn't been here for months. ”
"You're lucky, now that the boss has done it, these bugs that have been bothering you for a long time can be solved. ”
Michael Bloomberg nodded subconsciously, feeling very uncomfortable.
He was proud of being proficient in finance and computer science, but he didn't expect his boss to clean up his old club in the financial market, and now he has shown strong technology in the computer field.
Both sides were crushed by the boss Xia Yu, and it was heartbreaking!
At this moment, Michael Bloomberg put away the last bit of arrogance, convinced the boss, and had only one thought in his heart, run The Paper News Agency well, and don't let the boss down.
Time passes slowly......
"That's it!"
As Xia Yu pressed the run button, and then the surging service terminal system began to run on a trial basis, an interface popped up on the computer desktop, on which was a K-line chart, which jumped at fixed intervals, and a gradually complete K-line chart was drawn smoothly.
Not only that, but at the top of the interface, there are red letters to broadcast the news.
Of course, the data of the news and K-line charts were set by Xia Yu before, after all, there is no data from the exchange now.
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
Seeing this result, Michael Bloomberg and others could only express their inner feelings with warm applause.
Xia Yu looked indifferent, and said to Michael Bloomberg: "Michael, the key problem has been solved, and some of the remaining small flaws will continue to be optimized, but they can be solved in a short time." ”
"You have to do a good job of production and promotion. ”
"After the finished product is made, I will ask six or seven companies to purchase directly to solve the initial promotion problem, which is expected to require 100 units. ”
Of course, Xia Yu has to give priority to his own use, Polaris Capital Company, Jiuding Securities New York Branch, Philip Salomon Company, etc., as well as the British Bright Fund, Xiangjiang's Jiuding Securities, Jiuding Bank, and the island country's Jiuding Securities Company, etc., are also needed.
As long as these companies are installed and the effect spreads, I believe that soon the surging terminal will be able to open the markets of the United Kingdom, island countries, Hong Kong and the United States.
"Okay boss, I'll be well prepared in advance!"
Michael Bloomberg said with a high spirit.
"It's almost six o'clock, let's go have a meal together, I have to leave the United States after this time, I don't know how long it will take to come." ”
Looking at his watch, it was already five fifty-two in the afternoon, Xia Yu said to the two with a smile.
The boss invited him to dinner, so he naturally had to appreciate his face, and the two immediately agreed.
Let Buck Daniel recommend a luxurious restaurant, everyone had a good meal, and before leaving, Xia Yu told the two of them again.
Early the next morning, Xia Yu flew to New York and secretly met with Julian Robertson of the Tiger Fund and Rey Dalio of the Bridgewater Fund.
After that, he came to the New York branch of Jiuding Securities Company.
He had just remembered something and needed to lay it out to Toby Molton before leaving.
The first is investing in General Electric stock.
The core of the Morgan consortium is the Morgan Consortium, a 1892 merger of Thomas Edison's Edison Electric Light Company, Thomson Houston Electric, and is a manufacturing giant that not only produces consumer and industrial electrical equipment, but also a huge arms contractor, producing everything from aeronautical instruments to radar.
It's just that the old companies have a strong bureaucratic atmosphere, so at present, General Electric has fallen into a bottleneck, and the market value is not high, only 13 billion US dollars.
But Xia Yu knows very well that just this year, in a few months, Jack Welch, who will later be known as the "world's first CEO", will leap from vice chairman of General Electric to CEO and chairman, and lead General Electric Company to embark on the road of reform and strength, and bring General Electric Company from 13 billion US dollars to 480 billion US dollars in 20 years, creating a miracle that has attracted the attention of the world.
Although he can't snatch it because General Electric is the core enterprise of the Morgan consortium, it is still very good to buy some stocks and wait for appreciation.
In order to gain a firm foothold on Wall Street, the New York branch of Jiuding Securities Company does need to invest in several super-large enterprises, and use the platforms of those super-large enterprises to expand its popularity and influence, and General Electric Company is just right.
In addition to General Electric, Xia Yu also instructed Toby Morton to try to buy Coca-Cola shares, if he could take the part of the shares held by the Morgan consortium and the Chicago consortium.
After the transfer of the shares of the Rockefeller consortium's New York Chemical Bank, the fighting atmosphere on the Coca-Cola Company has dissipated a lot, and as long as Toby Morton is willing to grind, it can still bear fruit in a long time.
To facilitate Toby Moulton's actions, Xia Yu also injected a billion dollars into the company's Wells Fargo account.
After finishing his busy work in New York, Xia Yu flew to San Francisco again, and he was going to take a plane back to Xiangjiang in San Francisco.
Before leaving, he also made a special trip to Polaris Capital and learned about the progress of the acquisition of North American theaters from Peter Lynch.
Polaris Capital won a medium-sized theater chain from the western, southern, northern and eastern parts of the United States, and after the integration, it acquired 11 small theaters and some independent theaters, integrating into a large theater chain that barely covers major cities in the United States, with 215 theaters and 257 screens, accounting for 1.87 percent of the number of theaters in the United States, ranking 10th in the theater market in the United States.
However, these theaters are all theaters in the city, and their revenue capacity is much stronger than that of rural theaters.
The only fly in the ointment is that the degree of multiplex renovation of these theaters is not enough, and it is generally a big screen in a theater, which is too wasteful of resources, Xia Yu immediately asked Peter Lynch to arrange someone to arrange the renovation of the theater after he left.
It is worth mentioning that this cinema line is also called Universal Cinema Line, because in terms of equity, it is affiliated to Xiangjiang Global Cinema Company, so it is also the American branch of Universal Cinema Line, but Jiang Zhiqiang does not know it for the time being.
Polaris Capital owns MGM Pictures, and if it owns a theater chain, it will face sanctions under U.S. law.
Finally, Xia Yu asked Peter Lynch to continue to assist Universal Cinemas in its expansion, with the goal of becoming the top three cinema chains in the United States and looking forward to the first place in the national cinema market!
On the afternoon of January 31, Xia Yu boarded a plane to Xiangjiang.
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