Chapter 135: The Devil's Salesman (I)
An elongated Cadillac limousine drove across the long road to the White Mountain Forest north of Brighton and into the Adams family's estate.
The car was parked on the estate's dedicated parking lawn, and state senator Brooke stepped out of the car, and the servant in charge of greeting him at the estate led him into the back garden, where Christo, the patriarch of the Addams family, was chilling.
Brooke followed the servant to the back garden, and came to Christo, who stood straight in front of Christo like a schoolboy who saw a teacher, and when the servant had finished reporting to Christo, he said, "Hello Mr. Christo, may God be with Adams." ”
Christo smiled, raised his hand and motioned for Brooke to sit down, then asked the servant to pour him a glass of water and said to him, "This is a special drink of ancient Celtic origin, which can make your brain very clear, which I personally like very much." ”
Brooke thanked Christo, took a sip of the water cup carefully, and then reported to Christo: "Sir, now that I have gone back to the company to have a meeting with the company's management, and have made the decision to lay off employees and liquidate the company's funds, and then sell some non-performing assets to sell new corporate bonds, which should be able to make up for all the losses caused by the subprime mortgage crisis." ”
After hearing this, Christo only lightly grated, he picked up the water cup and took a sip before saying: "These are very emergency measures, basically no problem, I can only give you a guarantee, that is, as long as the company's situation is not too bad, the financial rescue of the bank and the government is possible." ”
Brooke nodded and said: "Sir, you can rest assured, although this subprime mortgage crisis came very suddenly, but the little trick played by the Chinese will end here, because most of the subprime loans in the company are very risky, but in fact, the existence of the audit system still has real estate or cars as collateral, so as long as we can dispose of this batch of assets, we can easily get through this crisis." ”
"If you want me to see Councilor Brooke and Mr. Christo, are you a little too optimistic? If you want me to see that Chinese will definitely slap you again!"
Suddenly a voice came, Brooke and Christo turned their heads to look, and saw a very impetuous Robert coming over, he came over and sat directly on the chair, reached out and grabbed the drink bottle to his mouth and drank it, his very uncultivated behavior undoubtedly made Christo very annoyed, but he had nothing to do but be angry with this son.
Instead, Brooke said to him: "There is nothing wrong with your idea, but that Chinese is only a Chinese, and he can persuade those poor people of minority groups to file for personal bankruptcy and rely on the inherent defects of subprime loans to cause a subprime mortgage crisis, which is already the limit." However, even so, the losses of my investment company are still very limited, and as long as I start to deal with emergencies and take care of my family, I can easily get through the crisis. ”
Christo also said to Robert: "I think you really should let go of something, otherwise your eyes will never see the whole world, and you are surnamed Adams after all." ”
"Before you say that, Mr. Christo, should you ask yourself?"
Robert yelled at Christo, but then he regained his composure and said: "I just put forward a hypothesis, I think if you are so confident, why do you care about my hypothesis? Aren't you stupid? I'm still the same me, I hate that Chinese, but I want to see you guys kicked in the back by him!"
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Robert's words were said casually, but he didn't know that he really guessed it, and at this time, Zhou Ming had already returned to the Sky Ladder Building.
Before they walked into the company, Lin Muqing and Chen Yening immediately gathered around and anxiously asked how the situation was, obviously they were very concerned about Zhou Ming's situation against James, and they had been waiting here.
Zhou Ming knew that they were all waiting anxiously, which was also the key to the follow-up plan, so Zhou Ming did not sell it, and said directly: "Although the process was a bit repetitive and lucky, in the end I still persuaded Mr. James, and he agreed to find a way to sell those mortgaged properties to us at a low price when we were in Brooke Investment Company." ”
Although they were all very confident in Zhou Ming, when they heard Zhou Ming really say this, everyone immediately cheered.
Then Zhou Ming took Lin Muqing and Chen Yening into the conference room, Zhou Ming first said: "James over there has successfully rebelled, the rest is the preparation work on our side, we now need a new company and a very special account, I don't know how you are prepared?"
"The company and the account are ready. Lin Muqing said, "Today I checked the previous investment situation of the insurance company, and found that one of the asset management companies that I invested in was very seriously affected by the subprime mortgage crisis, and we can directly get the management rights through equity, and I think this company can be used as a company that accepts the mortgage of Brooke Investment." ”
"In addition, there is a special bank account, and I can directly use an old account opened by Siming Investment in the United States that is rarely used, and because the initial account opening is very private, there will be no problems. Lin Muqing said.
For Lin Muqing, Zhou Ming was very relieved, so now that he heard her say this, Zhou Ming didn't ask much, and said another question: "Then what about the real estate statistics of the Vinda community and others?"
Lin Muqing glanced at Chen Shu, and Chen Shu replied with some embarrassment: "Teacher, I am in charge of this matter, I'm sorry, because there are too many people in those ethnic minorities, especially many people have no contact information, so it is a little difficult to count, and at present, even the minorities in the Vinda community have not been able to complete the individual-to-household statistics." ”
"You can count as much as you can, there's no way to rush this. Zhou Ming said.
Zhou Ming is also mentally prepared for this problem, after all, it is now 90 years, even in the most developed United States, it is impossible for everyone to have a mobile phone, not to mention that the reason why these people have a very low credit rating is mostly because of their poor living conditions, many people don't even have pagers, for this reason, once they leave their houses, there are no people together, they may not be able to get in touch. Brighton is also a metropolis with a population of hundreds of thousands, and it is still difficult to find a specific person who has no contact information among so many people.
Chen Shu and Ye Ning also understood this, so they didn't say anything more on this issue.
"Okay, since there's nothing wrong with that, let's go about our own business first. Zhou Ming said, Chen Shu and Ye Ning both nodded and left the conference room, and when they both left, Zhou Ming said to Lin Muqing, "Sister Muqing, we should also send this account to my internal response." ”
Lin Muqing nodded and said yes, but there was still some hesitation on her face: "Zhou Ming, you said that James, he will really help us, and can he succeed?"
Zhou Ming thought for a while and said: "Maybe we can't have confidence in him, but we must at least have confidence in ourselves, and believe that we can cultivate a devil salesman who will kill our own company." ”
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Meanwhile, James, whom they've been talking about, returns to Brooke Investments, and as soon as he walks into the office, he sees the manager sitting in his office chair.
Seeing James come in, the manager glanced at the time and said, "James, it's half past five in the afternoon, which means that I've been sitting in your office all day today, but I haven't seen you, I need to know where you are and what kind of work attitude you have!"
Before James could speak, the manager sniffed his nose and said, "I seem to smell the strong smell of alcohol on you, it seems that this is the reason why you didn't go to work, you are a professional agent at Brooke Investments, you actually go to the bar to drink during work hours, it seems that you are living too comfortably, you have completed the tasks assigned by the company, right?
"I'm sorry, but I can't convince them. James replied.
"And you still have time to go to the bar for a drink?" said the manager, who suddenly slammed the table hard, and he pointed at James's nose and scolded, "You are such a scumbag!"
The manager quieted down after scolding, he took out a letter and put it on the table like a trick, and said to James playfully: "Anyway, you idiot has nothing to do with me, this is a lawyer's letter from the company to you, requiring you to return all the company's 200,000 bonuses within a week, otherwise the company will take necessary legal measures......"
Listening to the manager's words, James couldn't help but say loudly: "That's the bonus given to me by the company, why should I return it? And I only took 150,000, why should I return 200,000?"
The manager smiled: "I said James, you are really an idiot, and if I remember correctly, I have already told you on the phone, because you used deceptive means in your work performance, which caused a very big loss to the company, so the company has the right to recover the bonus that has been issued to you, and this 200,000 is the bonus that has been issued to you, not only the 150,000, but also last year's year-end bonus, do you understand what I said?"
Facing the manager's slightly mocking tone, James was so angry that he trembled: "Damn, you bastard, you did it on purpose!"
"Mr. James, I advise you to be more respectful to me, otherwise I will report to the company that you have a problem with your work attitude, and that you have instigated the minorities who have filed for personal bankruptcy, and you will have to pay for the defamation. ”
The manager said very proudly, he looked at James's expression of being about to be blown up very happily, and finally said: "Okay scum, in addition, let me tell you another good news, the company is preparing to sell those mortgaged properties recently, or you can help the company solve this problem more, maybe you can help yourself earn back the $200,000 bonus, so you don't have to go to jail." ”
James looked up at the manager and said, "That's great news! But why are you telling me this?"
"Because last time you were drunk I sent you home, your sister made me very comfortable. The manager said to him deliberately.
"Shit, you bastard!" James roared and rushed at the manager, who pulled out a gun and put it at James' head first.
"Dear Mr. James, I hope you'd better not be impulsive. ”
The manager said to James, then laughed and left the office, leaving only James crying in the office.
After a while, James received a call from Zhou Ming, Zhou Ming said to fax the account information to him, James said: "Mr. Zhou Ming, you said that as long as you succeed, you can bring down this Brooke Investment Company, right? If it is true, I am the slave of your most loyal minister, even if this is the abyss hell, let me make a deal with the devil, I am willing!"