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When Wood and Tang An's press conference was held, the Tang family got the news as soon as possible, and even realized real-time broadcast at home through the technical means of the media.

Zhou Ming and Tang Ran Lin Muqing got the news and rushed to Tang Jingsheng's villa, Tang Jingsheng also asked his housekeeper to wait at the door early, and when Zhou Ming arrived as soon as he arrived, he took him to the study, and at this time his TV happened to be Wood's future outlook for Lombard and Hamilton.

Looking at this unfamiliar face, Zhou Ming couldn't help but point at him and asked, "Who is this person?"

Regarding this question, Tang Ran told him: "Brother Ming, this person's name is Wood, he is the first heir in line to the Great Wood family from Michigan, and he has taken over many of the family's properties and has a very important position. ”

Zhou Ming's understanding of the major conglomerates in the United States is not as detailed as that of the Tang family, but at least he has done his homework, so when he heard Tang Ran say his name, Zhou Ming immediately remembered.

The Big Wood family is also a very important wealthy family in the United States, perhaps not as well-known as the family consortium like Rockefeller and Morgan, and even the presidential political family like Adam Kendini is not comparable, but it is a family that occupies a very important position on the historical map of the United States, because he occupies the largest heavy industry base in the United States.

Itley is located in the center of the Great Lakes Industrial Zone, relying on shipping railways and rich mineral resources, etc., so that Yatley has been the center of heavy industry in the United States for a long time in the past, not only the headquarters of the four major automobile companies in the United States are here, and the production of steel, instruments, plastics, glass, tires, engines and other parts related to the automobile manufacturing industry is quite developed; it is no exaggeration to say that every four American cars in the world must be produced by Yatley.

This is undoubtedly a very exaggerated figure, and with the industrial cluster base created by automobiles, Itley also has a very strong presence in other heavy industries such as aircraft and tanks.

If Itley is the huge and terrifying automobile kingdom of the United States, then the Big Wood family is the royal family of this kingdom, he has an absolute controlling stake in all the automobile companies here, and the largest shareholders of the other steel industry and metal processing industries, whether it is an automobile group such as General Motors, Ford or Chrysler, or other ordinary processing plants, as long as it is within the scope of Itley and even Michigan, it cannot escape the control of the Big Wood family.

From such a strong control, it is not difficult to see the strong strength of this Big Wood family, and even if you want to sort it from the strength of the family alone, the Big Wood family can still be ranked in the top ten. Only super families like Rockefeller and Morgan can be ranked ahead of him.

And now the young man who is holding a press conference with Tang An on TV can only be the first heir in line to the throne of the Great Wood family - Wood VIII.

With Tang Ran's prompt, Lin Muqing obviously also remembered this Big Wood family, so she immediately asked: "So now that he is openly appearing on TV, is it publicly expressing his support for the split of the Tang family, showing that he is the mastermind behind Tang An's backing and leading all this?"

Regarding Lin Muqing's conjecture, Tang Ran immediately echoed: "Sister Muqing, you guessed right, and as far as I know, although the Big Wood family controls the automobile kingdom, it is also because they have invested too much in heavy industry and are too dependent on local mineral resources, which has caused them to be quite weak in finance, which is also an important reason why they have not been able to fight against the big consortia in the east and west." ”

"They have always been eager to have a banking group of their own, but they have not succeeded due to the obstruction of other consortium families, so now they will set their sights on our Tang Bank, and support Tang An to split Tang Bank at any cost. Tang Ran guessed.

Zhou Ming shook his head and said: "He supports Tang An to split the Tang family, and he wants to get the Tang Bank, but he may not be the real mastermind behind the scenes." ”

Lin Muqing and Tang Ran didn't understand these words, and Zhou Ming then explained: "It's very simple, if we are determined to deal with a certain group, do you think we should hold a press conference to tell each other well, or quietly prepare, and wait for a suitable time to suddenly make trouble and remove the other party from their positions?"

"Of course, it's better to quietly prepare for a sudden attack, and if you hold a press conference with great fanfare, it will be too big. Lin Muqing and Tang Ran made the same choice.

"But since they are not behind the scenes, why did they choose to stand up and help Tang An?" Tang Ran asked again.

Zhou Ming didn't answer this directly, but prompted little by little: "I don't know if you remember what I said before, the real mastermind behind the scenes will not stand up directly, but he will manipulate the forces he can manipulate to disgust us." ”

"So Brother Ming, do you think that this big wood family that suddenly appeared is the same as Tang An and them, the evil dog that was released by the mastermind behind the scenes to bite us?" Tang Ran asked.

"That's how it is in the current situation. Zhou Ming replied, "I guess they will hold this press conference in such a high-profile way now, just hoping to shift our attention to them." ”

For this answer, Tang Jingsheng and Tang Huiyin couldn't help but gasp, because a family like Big Wood can be used as a gunman, and this family is so willing to take the initiative to stand up and find trouble for themselves, how terrifying such a force is, it can be imagined.

Thinking of this, everyone in the room felt the tremendous pressure and fell silent, not even reacting to the end of the press conference on TV.

After a long while, Tang Jingsheng opened his mouth and asked Zhou Mingdao: "So now that the Great Wood family has come forward, what should we do next?"

Zhou Ming thought for a while and replied: "Judging from the current situation, since the Wood family has stood up and made themselves a target and declared war on us through this press conference, then we don't need to think about other things, just face the battle directly." Didn't he just inject money into Lombard and Hamilton? ”

"Is this really good, because then we won't be led away by the nose?" Tang Jingsheng asked tentatively.

Zhou Ming shook his head and replied: "No, because this is only a temporary countermeasure, we don't know what the Wood family thinks yet, if possible, I hope to have a good chat with this Mr. Wood VIII, I think he may have the same idea." ”

As if to prove Zhou Ming's thoughts, when his words fell, the mobile phone on his waist suddenly rang.

It was a futuristic concept mobile phone that Jobs specially matched to Zhou Ming, although in Zhou Ming's view, this is just a very common button mobile phone ten years later, but for the current era of brick big brother and pagers everywhere, this is indeed very 'futuristic'.

There was a caller ID on the mobile phone, it was a completely unfamiliar number, Zhou Ming answered the phone, and a slightly flirtatious voice came out: "Hello, is it Mr. Zhou Ming? I'm Wood, I think you should already know about me, right? Then I'll make a long story short, I called you to meet you, let's have a good chat face-to-face, the time is set at noon today, and the location is as you choose." ”

Hearing that it was Wood, Zhou Ming immediately turned on the hands-free, so everyone heard Wood's words, which also made everyone confused, they didn't understand what Wood was doing at all.

However, this confusion is only the beginning, because then Wood continued: "If I guess correctly, Mr. Zhou Ming, you must be on the phone hands-free now, right? Maybe it is still the latest product of the AP company, a very small and practical concept mobile phone, I think this kind of portable mobile phone will definitely become the mainstream of society in the future! If I can, I also want one very much." ”

"It seems like a bit off topic, but let's get down to business, and I'm very sincere in asking you to meet because I know you're going to want to see me too. Wood continued on the other end of the phone, "Even if it's a gang fight, before we actually draw our guns, everyone has to find out what the other side is about, not to mention that the war we're about to start now is much more powerful than the gang fight, isn't it?"

Speaking of this, Wood suddenly remembered something: "By the way, there is one thing that I think you should be very interested in, that is, I have prepared tens of billions of funds for the war between Lombardy and Hamilton, and I heard that Mr. Zhou Ming, do you also want the ten percent of the shares of Tang Man Bank in Tang An's hand? I think I'm sorry to tell you, these shares may be transferred to my name in the future." ”

With Wood's words one by one, Tang Jingsheng and Tang Huiyin no longer knew what to say, Lin Muqing and Tang Ran also frowned, there is no doubt that these words are very anxious.

Indeed, Zhou Ming just said that he was going to talk to him about the situation, but now he directly said that he took away the shares in Tang An's hand, and said that he had prepared tens of billions of funds, which is not the same as fighting the landlord before he finished drawing the cards, and you directly showed the two kings in his hand four 2 and three A, how to play this card?

But if this Mr. Wood didn't have such a supreme deck in his hand, he wouldn't have called so arrogantly, would he?

Of course, in fact, tens of billions of dollars are impossible to defeat the Tang Bank, but the problem is that these tens of billions are just an introduction, and his purpose is to use this introduction to cause problems within the Tang family, such as Tang An's problem.

After all, Tang Ran, as a foreign patriarch, inherited the family industry, but he has not officially managed the family, which means that now is the time when the family cohesion is the lowest, if they can't solve all the difficulties strongly, then it is difficult to say what those jealous people will do, this is what Tang Jingsheng and Tang Huiyin are most worried about, otherwise they would not support Zhou Ming and Tang Ran like this.

But when everyone else felt a little powerless, Zhou Ming took Wood's words and said, "I think I already understand what you have to say, but Mr. Wood, you are pretending to be a little too much." ”

Wood didn't expect Zhou Ming to suddenly pop out of such a sentence, and he didn't react at the time, and subconsciously asked, "What do you mean by that?"

"What I want to say is that I originally planned to ask you out to talk, because I wanted to know what your purpose was, but now that you have told me everything, then what else do we have to talk about? ”

"In the end, I'll teach you, the essence of pretending to be b is to say the most bullish thing at the most appropriate time, instead of talking nonsense like you, just like you fight.