It was already two o'clock in the morning after Lin Yilong and his cousins had finished supper, and the subway to Uncle Lin's apartment had already been collected, and if they wanted to go back, there was only one way to go by taxi.

Lin Yilong has also experienced so many cities in the taxis: among them, Amsterdam's taxis are the most distinctive, Berlin's taxis are the highest-grade, the Middle East's taxis are sturdy and hard-working, Yanjing, Moscow and Hanyang almost all use "modern cars" as rentals, both hardware and service are very average, and London taxis are the most expensive and have the worst hardware - as for Edo, although Lin Yilong hardly likes everything here, he has to praise the facilities and attitude of Edo's taxis.

However, considering the 10,000 yen taxi fare from Shinkoiwa to Komaba, Hayashi followed his cousins back to their apartment and rested on the tatami mats in the living room.

Edo is really hot, and even though Hayashi has experienced the hottest days of summer in Yenkyung, he can't stand a hot spot like Edo. The apartment that the cousins rented together was not very cool even if the air conditioner was blowing, not to mention that they came in the door to follow up with the mosquitoes that had been dancing next to him, which made Lin Yilong, who was used to the cool and no mosquito troubled summer, very uncomfortable, and did not sleep all night, until the second day of dawn.

Without saying goodbye to his cousins, Lin Yilong followed the instructions on the map, took the first Yamanote Line back to Uncle Lin's apartment, took an almost hot bath, turned on all the air conditioners to the lowest setting, and took out the previously cut watermelon from the refrigerator.

"This is summer!" Lin Yilong sighed to himself.

However, before he could fully recover from the mental turmoil caused by the heat, an application for a videoconference from New York had to put him on the upper part of a business suit, and the lower half of his body was still shorts in a lounge suit.

The end of the balance sheet expansion of the US Federal Reserve last fall (2014) was disastrous for oil prices, and the big oil companies did not care, but the small oil companies were hit by the central government and had to seek financial assistance from outside. However, they are not limited to Wall Street or Chicago, but also in the City or Frankfurt, after all, rice knives are also rice knives, and rice knives from Edo Port Ward are also welcome.

Lin Yilong's target is not for these small oil companies. These small oil companies have the exploration and production rights, and if these small companies don't go out of business, they will end up with the big oil companies.

Throughout the video conference, Lin Yilong maintained a sleepy-eyed and tired state. Even so, the terms of financing he offered at the negotiating table were unusually harsh, the details were consistently meticulous, and the asking price was almost stuck with Katie's standards – such negotiations were rightly inconclusive, and there was no need to continue.

The negotiations delayed his sleep until eight o'clock in the morning.

Lin Yilong still slept until four o'clock in the afternoon, and then learned from the email that Katie had signed a contract with the target.

Because Xu Zhenkun was going to visit his mentor and classmates, Lin Yilong continued to run the air conditioner in Uncle Lin's apartment, digesting the meat he had eaten the day before.

"Now that the purpose in Edo has been achieved, can we come back?" Katie asked during the phone with Hayashi Yoshiryu, "Polly and Cellly haven't seen you for so long." When you see each other again, it will feel strange. ”

"I'd love to go back too, but in the past few days I've been studying my target audience, I've found new opportunities. Lin Yilong said, "In no more than two weeks, I will be by your side." ”

"And the next talk with the gas company......" Katie said, "please let me play a little free?"

"No problem, but Katie is a parliamentarian and negotiates with oil and gas giants, will the press interpret it as an obvious 'transfer of interests'?" Lin Yilong asked with some concern.

"It's okay, as far as I know, as long as it's a member of parliament who eats this bite of legal food, everyone does it. Katie replied, "Even if someone finds out, they can say with a clear conscience that it just so happens that my client is dealing with an oil company." ”

"But the press doesn't care about these things?" Lin Yilong asked rhetorically.

"Yilong, you didn't find out, in fact, the activities of commercial companies, very few companies report, unless it is the media news released by these companies and further follow-up reports. Katie explained, "I was originally the lawyer who took over McGonagall's work, and even if I was photographed by tabloid reporters, it was nothing. ”

"Is it so casual?" Lin Yilong asked.

"You should know this better, Yilong. Business information is different from media information, and once leaked, those newspapers and media cannot afford to pay for the loss. Katie replied, "Even if they knew, those people would have to weigh their own size to pay for the huge loss claims." Your worries are completely unnecessary. ”

“hmm...... Then I'm relieved. Lin Yilong actually knew that there was no need to worry about it at all, but his prey was really huge, so he had a little more adrenaline secretion.

Together with Katie, he met some oil merchants from Western Siberia at a yacht show last year, and later provided them with loans and financing. In the past few months, Lin Yilong has used this friendship to cash in on some industry rumors. The equity investment that translated into that rumour, combined with a stake in the small oil company, put him in a position where he was in a position to influence the big decisions of some of the top companies.

This kind of influence is like the combination of vertical and horizontal during the Warring States Period, what can determine the situation of vertical and horizontal is not the Chu State or the Qin State, which are the largest of the two allies, but the relationship between the two central axes of the vertical and horizontal and the Three Jin Dynasty.

As BP's sister company, United Gas has a place in it, although it is not as well-known. The oil and gas fields under the name of the small oil company that Lin Yilong tried to control are the most important target of United Gas at this stage - but because of the expansion of the meter of the United Federal Reserve, the pace of United Gas has suffered a slight setback, anyway, after the bankruptcy of the small oil company, the prospecting rights of the small oil company will be transferred together with the bankruptcy administrator, so they have suspended the pace of acquisition, so that Lin Yilong has an opportunity.

When the new plan came out, they were ready to buy the plan to United Gas, unbeknownst to them, they also became prey, and the Royal Shell Oil Company was sharpening its knives and taking advantage of the sluggish oil price drop to attack United Gas.

"My goal is to take 2% of this company. Lin Yilong revealed to Xu Zhenkun, "It is best to have the right to nominate the board of directors, if there is really none, it is not bad to make a long-term holding plan." ”

"Quite an appetite. Xu Zhenkun sighed.