Chapter 0381 - Slightly Painful
A regular-sized sandwich was chewed and swallowed slowly in Zhou Geng's hand for more than five minutes to be cleaned, and the one who ate it was called a gentleman's demeanor.
However, after eating the sandwich, Zhou Geng still didn't rush to speak, but took a sip of the fresh milk in the cup that was squeezed in the morning quite comfortably, and then looked at the piece of baked bacon on the plate.
The five people sitting around the round table all frowned involuntarily after noticing the details of his action.
A middle-aged man who seemed to be nearly forty years old, but still had a red face, finally couldn't help but extinguish the cigar in the ashtray on the table, "Zhou, you asked us over early in the morning, didn't you just invite us to breakfast?"
The middle-aged man who spoke was the contemporary patriarch of the famous Rockefeller family and the person in charge of the Rockefeller Company.
It is rumored that more than 60 percent of the oil imported and exported from all over the world goes from this man named William Rockefeller.
Someone opened this mouth, and Fred Dupont, who was sitting next to William, also raised his eyebrows and said: "Yes Zhou, I still have to catch the noon plane to Europe to talk about business, can't you put down that damn bacon first?"
This Fred DuPont is the real boss behind the now famous DuPont consortium.
The DuPont consortium, said to have originated in 1802, was a humble gunpowder factory on the banks of the brandy river, with 18 shares issued for just $2,000 each.
But after just a few years of development, this originally inconspicuous gunpowder factory quickly stood out among its peers and established a good reputation and strong prestige.
By the early 90s, after a century of development, the company had reached a level of fame in Asia and even in the world.
During the Second World War, they made a war windfall with the manufacture of gunpowder from their old profession.
Today, the DuPont consortium has a wide range of industries in the food, healthcare, clothing, furniture and construction, electronics and transportation sectors, and its business scope covers more than 70 countries around the world.
It can be said that today's DuPont consortium has fully developed to the point where it can be called thriving, and Fred DuPont, who is in charge of this behemoth, is even more valuable to the point of being afraid of death.
Seeing the leaves and knowing the autumn, just judging from the strength of William and Fred, it is not difficult to judge what rank the other three who are also sitting at this round table, but they have not opened their mouths to complain, and they seem to be low-key.
But in the face of such five business giants, Zhou Geng still just pursed his lips and smiled, chewed the roasted bacon on the plate without changing his face, and drank a sip of fresh milk before slowly speaking.
"Uncle William, Uncle Fred, it's not a good habit to not eat breakfast on time. Halfway through the words, Zhou Geng didn't forget to symbolically wipe the corners of his mouth with a tissue, and then continued to speak.
"Uncles and uncles, I have brought you here so early, first of all, please allow me to say sorry for taking up your time, and finally, the purpose of my meeting today is to cooperate!"
"Cooperation?" said William Rockefeller, whose face became impatient when he heard the word
"But Zhou, as far as I know, you Chinese energy doesn't seem to have developed any new projects recently." ”
"Yes, is it possible that you plan to use the already developing industries of Chinese energy to cooperate with us to seek financing? I have not heard of your poor cash flow. Fred Dupont then spoke.
After hearing Fred's speculation, even Joseph Morgan, the relatively silent Morgan chaebol ruler, couldn't help but raise his eyelids, "If that's the case, then I'll be very interested, after all, your kid's investment vision is far beyond us old guys, and I have been greedy for the meat in your Chinese energy bowl for a long time." ”
"Haha, this makes sense, although it is a bit of a slap in the face, but I have to admit that every time I see a business opportunity in an emerging industry, I will find that this kid has injected funds into it at least half a year earlier than me. ”
"In the past two years, in the land of the United States, no matter what industry it is, the meat we eat in our mouths will never be the biggest piece!"
William and Fred agreed one after another, although there was a full of self-deprecation in their words, but in the eyes of these old-timers, they showed their appreciation for Zhou Geng, the younger generation.
The other two did not speak, but their expressions were the same as those of William and Fred, and Joseph, with a mixture of bewilderment and undisguised interest.
"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, but the cake I'm talking about this time is not in Chinese Energy, but in ...... Huaxia!"
Zhou Geng pursed his lips, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, revealing a somewhat unfathomable mysterious smile, and before the words fell, he reached out and clicked on a row of control buttons on the desktop.
In an instant, all the blinds in the room were automatically closed, and the lights on the roof were adjusted to a relatively dim brightness.
"Huaxia, what's worth investing in that place?"
"Zhou, are you sure you're talking about the country where up to now, more than 70 percent of the materials in the country's livelihood industry have to be imported from the United States?"
"It's a waste of time to stop playing, it's a waste of time, instead of letting me go to Huaxia with money to make a fuss, it's better to use the time to contact the European side in advance. ”
Even on Wall Street, the five giants who can definitely be called financial predators, as soon as they heard the word Huaxia, the enthusiasm that had just been stirred up by Zhou Geng's words was instantly extinguished.
Seeing that the emotions of several bigwigs had fallen to the bottom, Zhou Geng was not busy speaking out to dissuade him, but he just raised Erlang's legs and lit a cigar to smoke, and then slowly spoke, "Everyone, really don't listen to me?"
The five people who had already lifted their butts from the chair were stunned when they heard this.
Obviously, with their identity and status, it is clear that they are a little uncomfortable that someone would talk to them in this tone, and it is in a place like Wall Street.
But after a moment of sluggishness, William and Fred and the other five realized that the words came out of Zhou Geng's mouth, and they were immediately relieved.
For Zhou Geng, it's not just Hua
On Er Street, even in the entire American financial circle, there are many bigwigs who are in awe, although Zhou Geng is younger than most of them, and even some of their grandchildren are a few years older than Zhou Geng.
However, this does not affect the influence of Zhou Geng's two words in the American financial and business circles.
Why? This world will always only look at strength and status, and age is just a standard used by fools to judge a person, the kind of character who will leave work after less than three chapters.
A truly intelligent person never uses age as a measure of a person's worth.
After the five people reacted, they were all stunned on the spot, Joseph Morgan was the first to sit back in the chair, and then said lightly with a smile on his lips, "Okay, your kid's eyes are always sharper than ours, at least in the two years I have known you, there has been no mistake." ”
Fred DuPont followed the point, "If it's you, Zhou, you're worth putting aside my business in Europe for a while, or even delaying the flight by a day." ”
With Joseph and Fred starting, the other three also felt that they had no face to let go, so they simply put their butts back on the chair they had just stood up.
In Fred's words, yes, if it is Zhou Geng, just by his name, it is worth five people like this.
As Fred Dupont, he had to fly all the way to Europe himself, rather than just send a secretary or manager to the past, which was enough to see what kind of business he was going to talk about this time.
At least it is certainly not as simple as the trade cooperation of those second-rate businessmen in China, and the business that requires Fred to do it himself, the start-up capital alone must be in the unit of 100 billion.
Without this level, in Fred's own words, this business is not worthy of my identity.
Zhou Geng saw that the five characters who could stomp on Wall Street could tremble, and they were sitting on his left and right at the moment, so he nodded with satisfaction, and reached out to tap a few times in the dense embedded keyboard on the table.
Immediately after that, on the projection wall behind him, there is an interface to an Internet web page, which shows the detailed information of the Baodong Group of Huaxia Huadu, as well as all the high-level information of the Luo family, from Luo Zhenqiang and his wife to Luo Bing's sisters and brothers.
"Here's some material about our goal this time, so you can take a look at it. Zhou Geng pointed at the projection curtain wall behind him without looking back, "By the way, the cooperation I am talking about is not to establish any business dealings with this Baodong Group, but to work together to snipe Baodong's stock and win his controlling stake in one fell swoop!"
"It turned out to be a forced acquisition, Zhou, it's rare to see you be so ruthless to any company. ”
Fred raised his eyebrows, and a little cunning light appeared in his eyes, "To be honest, it's not because he has good development prospects for pulling us to attack this Baodong Group, right? ”
After these words were thrown out, the other four also focused on Zhou Geng at the same time, waiting for his reply.
And Zhou Geng frowned quietly, the treachery and prudence of Fred's old fox made the financing plan he had carefully prepared suddenly a little painful.