At Merrill Lynch's London headquarters in Western Europe, Dampier Worthy, president of Western European affairs in Western Europe, has been quite troubled these days.

This time, the California consortium is preparing to buy British Steel and British European Airlines in order to expand their industry in Europe.

Unexpectedly, this acquisition actually encountered a strong opponent, and a person named Yingya Investment Company was also in contact with this group to discuss the acquisition.

Their Merrill Lynch Western Europe headquarters has been in London for many years, and they can be regarded as the head snake here, and the reason why they went to acquire these two companies is because these two companies are large, and there are no consortia and forces ready to start for the time being.

Although the Lee consortium is menacing, according to the information he has received, Li Guangyu's main targets this time are natural gas, water and electricity companies, and he has no plans to buy steel companies and British European Airlines.

He had never heard of this Yingya investment company before, how could such a company that suddenly appeared have such a strong strength to acquire this company.

In order to be able to know himself and his opponent, he specially arranged for the company's personnel to learn more about the company, so that he could better deal with the next things.

Dampier Worthy, who was struggling with this, heard a knock at the door, and when he came back to his senses, he said, "Please come in." ”

Lisa McGouau, general manager of administration at West Oil, walked in and said: "Worthy, there has been some progress in the investigation of Anglo-Asian Investments, which is very crazy and is not only buying two companies that we have our eye on, but also Statoil, Rolls-Royce, British Aerospace, water, gas and electricity companies that are being targeted. ”

Dampier Worthy listened to Lisa McGouo's report, and only felt that this investment company was a madman, where did they get so much capital, even if their California consortium increased their business, it was very difficult to come up with so much money to buy it at one time.

Although their consortium has strong assets, it is only assets, and it is very difficult for them to come up with hundreds of billions of dollars at one time.

This little-known company actually wanted to swallow all the major companies in Britain this time, and he had such a big appetite that even Morgan and Rockefeller did not have as much courage as them.

He asked: "Who is the force behind this company, and have they investigated it clearly, such an acquisition plan is not something that ordinary forces can do, even the California consortium backed by Merrill Lynch." ”

Lisa McGouo responded: "The president of this investment company is an Englishman, and we have investigated that he used to work for the Duke of Westminster and is a very important talent, and this company must be inextricably linked to the British aristocracy. ”

Worthy knew this Duke very well, and Merrill Lynch had cooperated with him, but with his knowledge of the Duke of Westminster, he was not such a crazy person, and their financial resources were not enough to eat these groups in one bite.

There must be other forces in this, and it was rumored that the Li consortium was discussing cooperation with some British nobles, and there would be no Li Guangyu's hands and feet in this.

For Li Guangyu, the founder and head of this rather young consortium, he really doesn't know if Li Guangyu will do something crazy.

He asked McCoo: "Has the Li consortium done anything in the past few days, and what are Li Guangyu and those high-level executives he brought doing?"

"The Li consortium has been very low-key since we began to acquire British Industries, and has stopped contact with various companies, and the day before yesterday, Li Guangyu also sent his own special plane to send some senior executives back to Xiangjiang, and at present, he only has his assistant and the person in charge of the British side.

In the past few days, he has also been visiting his industry, and it is estimated that after knowing that we were intervening, he knew how to advance and retreat, and chose to give up strategically. ”

Dampier Worthy didn't believe that Li Guangyu gave up the acquisition of British Industries so easily, there must be a demon when things go wrong, and this time Li Guangyu was so low-key that it was not in line with his usual approach.

The development of the Lee consortium over the years has caused some threats to the major consortia in the United States, and the Tianyu Financial Group is still a mystery to the outside world, and no one knows how much assets this group has, nor how much liquidity Lee Kong Yu has.

Last year, there was news on Wall Street that before the Plaza Accord, there was a huge amount of money entering the market, and a large part of it did not know the source, but a small share still allowed them to find clues, the Bank of East Asia, which is one of the banks under the Heung Kong consortium.

The Lee Consortium is also one of the Heung Kong Consortiums, but the Lee Consortium is too large to be singled out, just like First Citi and Rockefeller.

Since the Xiangjiang Consortium has entered the market, how could the Li Consortium not enter, and the huge amount of money is likely to belong to the Li Consortium and the Xiangjiang Consortium.

During this period of time, the Li consortium has not made a large investment, and Li Guangyu must have a large amount of money in his hands, and now that their American consortium is intervening, Li Guangyu retreats like this, and he does not believe it.

Li Guangyu has never been afraid of their American consortium, once when his strength was not too strong, the Texas consortium wanted him to become a member of the Texas consortium, Li Guangyu refused without hesitation, which shows Li Guangyu's ambition.

In the past two years, it has left no room for suppression of the American auto industry and Motorola in the US market, and now Motorola is regretting provoking this madman.

In the U.S. mobile phone market, it's really a small profit but quick turnover, a mobile phone used to earn more than a thousand dollars, and now it is good to be able to earn a hundred dollars.

Lanfeng Mobile Phone Company, a joint venture between Phoenix Mobile and Fumao Group in California, quickly occupied the market in the western states and New York at a low price, selling for only $1,288, a full $1,600 lower than Motorola's price.

With the Phoenix Group endorsing the quality of Lanfeng mobile phones in the back, American citizens are quite enthusiastic about buying Lanfeng mobile phones.

Now the general manager actually said that Li Guangyu has the knowledge to advance and retreat, which is simply a fantasy, and he is sure that this time the Anglo-Asian Investment Company must have the Li consortium in it.

It can be seen from the name of the company that this is obviously the British aristocracy cooperating with Asian forces, so it is named after Yingya.

It's just that he doesn't know if there are any other forces besides the Li consortium, and if it's just the Li consortium, it is estimated that it won't be so crazy, and the Li consortium can't come up with so much cash.

He said to Lisa McGouo: "You ask people to check for me, to see if this company is related to the Li Consortium, and to conduct a detailed investigation of the situation of the Li Consortium these days, and at the same time ask Xiangjiang, Tokyo and the headquarters to assist, we need to know what gods are behind this company." ”

Listening to Dampier Worthy's explanation, she knew that her boss was suspecting that the company was related to the Lee consortium.

Although she absolutely did not come to the Li consortium to do such a crazy thing, after all, this time they were the top four consortiums in the United States came to buy it, and Yingya Investment Company did this to start a war with several of their major consortiums at the same time, where did the Li consortium have such confidence.

However, she still responded that she would immediately arrange personnel to investigate, after all, Worthy had already explained, and it was not good for her to go against it.