On September 20, 2014, a minibus pulled up at the famous state street corner in Brighton, and a middle-aged man and a group of students stepped out of the bus and followed the street to the entrance of a spectacular financial building.

"Isn't this the Brighton Bank Building?" the students called out the name of the building, after all, the Brighton Bank Building has always been the symbol of the city of Brighton, and it is difficult to recognize it.

However, some students are curious about the purpose of their visit: "Teacher, what are you bringing us here for? Do you want us to do an internship here? But we haven't entered the internship period yet, so wouldn't it be a little too early to come here? And we're already in the first year of graduate school, neither high nor low, so it doesn't seem like our internship position is easy to arrange, right?"

Faced with the students' questions, the middle-aged man just shook his head and did not answer, he led the students to the café opposite the bank building, and found a box with a good view of the bank building.

After the middle-aged man and his students sat down in the box, he said: "Today's course is to understand the merger and acquisition of enterprises, although I am not sure where you will go after graduating from school, but whether it is a fund company or other enterprises, the merger and acquisition bill of the enterprise must be understood, otherwise you will be no different from idiots." ”

The middle-aged man then pointed to the bank building opposite: "That's the Brighton Bank Building, one of the three pillar banks in our country, with total assets of more than one trillion dollars, which is second to none in the world, but it is such a behemoth, twenty years ago, it was acquired by someone through three million dollars, which can be called a textbook leveraged merger." ”

These words were like a bombshell, scaring everyone stupidly, and these students were surprised one by one: "Teacher, this is impossible, even if you calculate development and inflation, Brighton Bank still has assets of tens of billions of dollars twenty years ago, no matter how he is in debt, he should not be acquired by three million dollars, this figure is simply incredibly low!"

Another student said, "This is not so much a merger and acquisition, but a robbery, and I think it's more appropriate, how can this be a textbook leveraged merger? Because even the most exaggerated novel can't be written like this, right?"

In the face of the surprise and doubts of these students, the middle-aged man just sat there calmly and drank coffee, and only after the students said that they were tired did he say: "If it had been 25 years ago and someone told me that I could buy Brighton Bank for 3 million dollars, no matter who this person is and what kind of attainment he has in the field of economics, I will definitely pour coffee directly in his face, and I will say something more excessive than you." ”

Listening to the middle-aged man's speech, all the students stopped their mouths and listened quietly to the middle-aged man's words.

The middle-aged man sighed as he spoke, and finally laughed helplessly: "But now I can't disbelieve it, because I am a witness and witness to that incredible merger and acquisition." ”

With the middle-aged man's words, an exclamation suddenly sounded in the box, but the middle-aged man had no reason, he just turned his head to look out the window, looked at the tall bank building, and muttered: "It is because of that merger and acquisition case that I believe that there is a real genius in this world, just that year, it was the Chinese who slapped everyone one after another." ”

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Time back to 90 years, in Rhode Island's coastal holiday villas, this is a kind of Rhode Island vacation villas specifically rented out, because many people to Rhode Island just come for vacation, do not need to buy property here, so this kind of rental villas in Rhode Island is very much, all kinds of grades.

Although Zhou Ming negotiated an alliance with the three families of Kendini Lawrence and Lowell, he was still in no hurry to return to Brighton, so he rented a luxury villa in Rhode Island, where Edward, Lawrence and Louis also lived.

In the morning, Zhou Ming and Lin Muqing were watching TV in the living room of the villa, and Edward Lawrence and Louis walked downstairs together and took down a brown paper bag.

"Mr. Zhou Ming, this is the industry document you want about the Addams family, although it is impossible to investigate the situation of each person in the Addams family in a short period of time who controls which industry and which company, but the general control of which industries is still recorded, and they are all here. Edward said and gave the brown paper bag to Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming took the brown paper bag, he glanced at Edward, he knew very well in his heart that although the Brighton Consortium included hundreds of companies, as the three major families that also controlled the Brighton Consortium, it was impossible for them to really not know who controlled which company in the Addams family, after all, there were so many companies that could really be looked down upon by the Addams family, and there were only so many that they had to be firmly controlled in their hands.

And Edward said this, it is estimated that the three of them want to leave themselves the last way out, in case the plan to deal with the Addams family fails, the situation will not be bad to the end.

Be a man and leave a line, I want to see you in the future.

Zhou Ming understood this truth, so he didn't pierce it, Zhou Ming opened the brown paper bag, although he had prepared for it, but when he looked at the content on it, he still gasped.

"Brighton Bank, Massachusetts Insurance Company, Massachusetts Securities Corporation, Bell Aircraft Company, Phoenix Company, Massachusetts Cotton Company, Northeast Mining Company, Brighton Media Company, ......"

Zhou Ming read out the names of these companies one by one, each of the above companies is a very famous large company in Massachusetts and even the whole United States, unexpectedly all of them are holding companies of the Addams family, and these companies together take care of almost all aspects of the industry, no wonder Brighton can be called a consortium of monopoly parties, and the Adams family is a family of monopoly consortiums, this tentacle spreads too incredible.

Zhou Ming remembered that he had seen a very interesting evaluation on the Internet, saying that the reason why Li Cheng can become the richest Chinese in the world in the future is because no matter how much money he spends in Hong Kong City, he can finally return to his own hands through his industry, so he can only make money and not spend it, so he will naturally become the richest man.

This is undoubtedly a joke, but it does illustrate one of the most important economic laws, and that is monopoly.

Imagine that Li Cheng monopolized many port city industries and became the richest Chinese in the world, so now the Adams family has monopolized the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the entire Massachusetts through the Brighton consortium, as small as a button, as large as an aircraft missile, and even participated in the moon landing program, how can this degree of monopoly not be huge and shocking?

Before he saw the end, Zhou Ming closed the document and said with a wry smile: "It seems that the Addams family really has too many resources!"

"And that's just the companies they own. Lawrence reminded Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming glanced up at Lawrence, and Lawrence reminded him again: "Mr. Zhou Ming, I think you should remember the matter of Councilor Brooke, right?"

After being reminded by Lawrence's words, Zhou Ming remembered: "You mean the parliamentarians they support?"

"Not only the councillors, but also the people they have trained in the various branches of the state government, who may not have the surname Adams, but because they always have friends or relatives with the surname Adams, so that it is much easier for them to get loans and other things, these people are also very happy to do things for the Addams family. Louis explained for Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming let out a breath and said, "In other words, the Addams family has firmly tied themselves to this Massachusetts through these three hundred years of control, right? If you want to forcibly kill the Addams family, it is equivalent to killing the entire Massachusetts." ”

"Since Zhou Ming has decided to deal with the Addams family, you should also think of such a situation, right?" Edward said.

Zhou Ming didn't answer this, because he didn't know how to answer at all, it was true that as Edward said, when he decided to deal with the Addams family, he thought about what kind of behemoth he was going to deal with, but now when he saw the company controlled by the Addams family, and then thought of his possible control over the state legislature and the state government, it was too powerless.

The reason is very simple, these companies controlled by the Addams family are combined to be a very complete and benign industrial chain, no matter which link they destroy, the other party can be relieved in a very short time, if they unite the three families, not to mention whether they can work together, even if they can, but once the matter is big, the state government and the state legislature forcibly intervene, things will be very difficult to handle.

For Zhou Ming, the current Addams family is like a round ice hockey puck, and he only has an embroidery needle, and he doesn't know where to start at all, so he can destroy all the puck at once.

Looking at Zhou Ming's distressed appearance, Edward Lawrence and Louis were very happy: "It seems that the arrangement of the Addams family for three hundred years is not done in vain, at least even a smart person like you, Mr. Zhou Ming, is stumped." But this can't be helped, after all, the control of the Addams family is too complete, I don't know how many people want to kill the Addams family many times, but unfortunately they didn't succeed, how can an outsider shout a slogan can do it?"

In the face of the ridicule of the three people, Zhou Ming didn't speak, but Lin Muqing, who was with Zhou Ming, couldn't sit still, and she said very dissatisfiedly: "What's the matter with you? What's the point of not helping and trying to find a way to sneer here one by one? Could it be that Zhou Ming can't think of any benefit to you? You are all from the Brighton consortium anyway!"

Lin Muqing's words reminded Zhou Ming, and Zhou Ming immediately raised his head and looked at Edward Lawrence and Louis and said, "That's right, don't I still have you?"

The three of them were caught off guard, they looked at each other, and finally Edward, who could say the most, stood up and said: "Don't worry, Zhou Ming, since we have formed an alliance, we will definitely help you ......"

Before Edward's words were finished, Zhou Ming interrupted him and said, "I think I'm sorry Mr. Governor, because I didn't plan to ask you to help me think about it, but I want you to tell me directly where the key point of the Addams family is." ”

Zhou Ming's words made Edward Lawrence and Louis stunned, they didn't expect Zhou Ming to say this, Louis shrugged his shoulders and said: "Mr. Zhou Ming, your words are too strange, isn't it? How can we possibly know what key points? You can't put the blame on us without thinking of it, right?"

"I'm not passing the blame, but you must know!" Zhou Ming said categorically, "As the three families who also control the Brighton consortium, you intermarry with each other, and the industrial companies you control are basically the same, and in the three hundred years in the big consortium of Brighton, there has not been so much peace between you, so you must know." ”

Edward Lawrence and Louis wanted to explain something, but Zhou Ming said: "Or do I can't see the problem at a glance, and you can't find it in three hundred years? ”

Faced with Zhou Ming's words, Edward Lawrence and Louis couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, they looked at each other, and finally Edward replied to him: "Okay, it seems that Mr. Zhou Ming is worthy of Mr. Zhou Ming, let me tell you, the key point of the Adams family is at the Brighton Bank." ”