The talks did not last long, but they were very constructive.

The two sides have reached consensus on many issues, and although the details have not yet been worked out, both sides are very positive about establishing a strategic partnership.

And the biggest shock was none other than Jonas' partner Rogers.

Once, when he and Soros founded the Quantum Fund, he thought that financial investors were already standing at the top of the world's pyramid.

However, linking finance and industry can be even more powerful.

At half-past five, Jonas and Rogers returned to the Japanese-style annex that the Mitsubishi Group had arranged for them. This is the only Dongying style courtyard of the State Guest House, which is built near the water and has national characteristics.

They will return to their arranged room to change their clothes and then greet the other guests.

When he entered the house, Rogers couldn't help but say, "Jonas, when you were talking to Xiao Yata just now, I suddenly thought that we now have such convenient conditions, and if we create a 'commodity index', wouldn't it be more able to increase our influence." ”

Jonas paused for a moment, and looked back at Rogers, a little surprised. "What's wrong?"

Rogers International Commodity Index, one of the world's six major commodity indices.

Together with the Dow Jones Commodity Index, Goldman Sachs Commodity Index, Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index, S&P Commodity Index, and Reuters Commodity Index, it has become the six most sought-after commodity price indices in the world.

The Rogers International Commodity Index now includes the largest number of commodities, now comprising 36 commodities in three categories: energy, metals and agricultural products.

This compares to 19 commodities in the Reuters index and 20 commodities in the Dow Jones index.

In the original time and space, this commodity index was created by Rogers in '98.

But now, is it going to be earlier?

Jonas pondered for a while, feeling that the early emergence of this commodity index would not directly affect the global energy, minerals, and grain markets.

The butterfly effect is not large, and the creation of this commodity index will do more good than harm to the development of Jonas.

"No, I'm just a little too surprised, because I've been thinking about building a fair, transparent, and credible commodity index for a long time. It's just that because it hasn't been thought out yet, it hasn't been made public for the time being. ”

Rogers laughs: "I think I'm a big deal in finance and can do the preparations. ”

Jonas shook his head and said, "The development of computers has not yet reached the stage of ordinary applications, and it will be very hard to keep accounts by hand!"

To put it simply, the commodity index is a long-term tracking and analysis of the world's major resource commodities and gives a price that can be used for reference.

Oil, all kinds of minerals, all kinds of grains, and even edible oils, can be the target of analysis, as long as the conditions of "resources" are met.

It is not difficult to build such an index, but it is not easy to make a lot of money.

Because if you want to be a credible index, you can't accept any commercial transactions.

This is like the "public knowledge" of later generations, and if the "experts" do not have a conscience and do not speak with money, their credibility will naturally be slowly established.

But if your butt is crooked, you will slowly consume your credibility.

The benefits of forming such an index are not direct, but indirect, implicit.

Having an index of your own is equivalent to creating a standard. Only when it reaches this level can it be said to be a first-class enterprise.

The thought of surveying and counting various resources around the world made Rogers' brow furrow.

"When I went back to Switzerland this time, I went to Tim Berners-Lee and asked him to help us design a set of statistical software, which would greatly reduce the manpower constraints," Jonas said. ”

Tim Berners-Lee, a computer expert, is an external client of the European Particle Laboratory, and he is not actually a member of the Particle Laboratory, and he is free to take on some commissioned business.

Rogers nodded and said, "It's just an idea at the moment, this matter is not in a hurry, let's discuss it later." ”

Back in the room, Sophia was running around on the tatami mats, now she didn't have to climb on the flat ground, only the steps scared her.

"Grandma, how do you feel here?"

"Very good, the weather is not hot, similar to Switzerland, but the humidity is a little bigger. Are you going to get ready for dinner?"

Jonas nodded, picked up Sophia and kissed her, letting her lie by the window and watch the koi in the pond. "I'll go out now after changing my clothes, you can take Sophia to attend at 6:15, and the dinner party will start at 6:30. ”

Today's dinner was just a business dinner, and neither the Imperial Family nor the government were in attendance, so Grandma didn't have to rush out to socialize.

This kind of occasion, if there is no social task, is actually very boring.

At 5:45, Jonas appeared at the gate of the State Guest House on time and greeted guests from all walks of life in Toei with Yayoi Jiro and Iwasaki Toyokawa.

Guests from all walks of life seemed to have made an appointment, and from 5:45 a.m., when the first guest appeared, the arrival time of each guest was only one minute apart.

Jonas guessed that they should have lined up at the East Gate to get in order to control the time so well.

The first group of customers of the Koyo Bank Consortium was represented mainly by Dai-ichi Koyo Bank, Itochu Corporation, Shimizu Construction, and Kawasaki Steel.

The second group of guests, the Sanwa Foundation, is mainly represented by members from Sanwa Bank, Nissho Iwai, Nippon Cotton, Cosmo Petroleum, Kobe Steel, Nippon Express, Sekisui Chemical Industry, etc.

The third group of customers is the Fuji Foundation, whose main members are Fuji Bank, Nissan Motor, Nippon Steel, and Marubeni Shoji.

The fourth group of Sumitomo Consortium guests is mainly composed of Sumitomo Bank, Sumitomo Metal, Sumitomo Chemical, and Sumitomo Corporation.

At 6:20, the last group of Mitsui Foundation guests came together, mainly from Mitsui Bank, Mitsui & Co., Sakura Bank, and Toyota Motor.

Almost all of these enterprises are members of an alliance of interests, and they have needs in terms of minerals, resources, food, etc.

And the alliance of interests can provide them with a convenient platform.

In addition to the main leaders of major companies, there are also many young people from large families. There were nearly 400 people attending the banquet in the evening.

Unfortunately, due to the fact that Jonas has an illegitimate daughter and now has a stable girlfriend, there are not many female dependents.

The people who can attend today's banquet are all the top bigwigs in Dongying, and the big families and their daughters will not show off their style on this occasion.

Even if there are a few female dependents, they don't focus on chasing stars.

At 6:30 a.m., Jonas entered the building with the last of the guests and arrived at the banquet hall of the State Guest House.

Everyone's seats are arranged at the beginning, and every chair has a name on it, so you can't sit wrong.

Jonas was seated at the first table next to the podium, with Yata Kota on the right and Michio Watanabe, Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Toei on the left.

Of the eight people at their table, except for Jonas and him, the rest happened to be representatives of the six major consortia.

In terms of the scale of the industry, Jonas's Hoffman Group is far inferior to everyone here, and the reason why they treat Jonas so high is that Jonas is a rising star of the interest alliance and the heir cultivated by Richie, but also because of his precise investment in the financial world.

They need to get to know Jonas better as a person, and today is a good opportunity.

These six major consortia, even the smallest of them, have assets of more than $100 billion.

Dai-ichi Koye Bank, Itochu Corporation, Fujitsu, Kanematsu, Shimizu Construction, Kawasaki Steel, Asahi Kasei Industries, Fuji Electric, and Yokohama Rubber are the smallest consortium that is sandwiched together.

After three years of expansion, Jonas's Hoffman Group currently has assets of less than $20 billion, how can it compare with the other party?

However, whether a company is competitive or not is not entirely based on scale, but mainly on potential.

Although the Hoffmann Group does not have a commercial bank at the moment, two investment banks, plus a private bank, can already give people a glimpse of their potential.

Moreover, this group is still controlled by a twenty-one-year-old young man, and it can even be said that he has developed it in the past three years.

Even with Richie's support, can someone else do it? There is one thing to say, and no one in this room thinks that they can do it.

In just three years, a group was created from scratch, increasing the value of his personal assets by five times, and almost doubling his investment with hundreds of partners.

Most of these 700 partners will also be on his side when there is no conflict of interest with Jonas.

Not to mention others, 34 of the companies here today have invested in Jonas and have doubled their investment.

The reason why Hoffmann Group's investment in Dongying is so smooth is not only because he has an alliance of interests behind him and the support of Switzerland, but also because in his plan to invest in Dongying, these 34 large enterprises in Dongying have invested.

This is the reason why he was able to invest in Dongying smoothly and has not been subjected to strong sniping.

Try it with a foreign company that doesn't have Dongying capital, and the pants that guarantee that it will make the foreign capital lose money are not worn.

Today's Dongying, but the richest country in the world, has nowhere to spend foreign exchange, and if you invest in the world, you have to buy the world, who dares to be their enemy?

Even the Armenian consortium, because of its scattered strength, will not clash head-on with the Dongying consortium.

Of course, they will use more tactful means to directly let Dongying fall into the abyss at once, and he has not climbed up for thirty years.

Masao Iwasaki, as the master of the day, took the lead in giving a speech, and at this time, Jonas needed a translator.

In his welcome speech, Masao Iwasaki spoke highly of Jonas's personal abilities and specifically mentioned the important role played by Yonas in the development of Angolan oil.

Then he spoke highly of Jonas's investment in Dongying, believing that Dongying's economy is currently the most active market in the world, and the future is promising.

He didn't particularly approve of Jonas's investment vision. It's really today's Dongying, as long as you follow the general trend, even a fool can make money.

Jonas took advantage of the early entry, and after the Plaza Agreement, I don't know how much foreign capital wanted to speculate, but it was blocked by the Dongying government.

Countless people see this active market, but they can't squeeze in.

In Hoffman's plan to invest in Dongying, Mitsubishi Group has always been the closest to Hoffman.

How much money Hoffman makes, they probably know better than Jonas.

Of course, they will always earn more than Jonas.

At the end of his welcome speech, Masao Iwasaki excitedly said that Mitsubishi Group has reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Hoffmann Group, and will strengthen cooperation and liaison in minerals, petroleum, shipping, shipbuilding, automobiles, and financial investment in the future.

This is relatively unexpected news, and Mitsubishi is not the only one who is optimistic about Jonas.

However, this kind of partnership is not the establishment of a cooperative company, and it is not that other companies do not have the opportunity to cooperate.

It was Jonas's turn to give a speech, and before he took the stage, he bowed to Masao Iwasaki from the audience to express his gratitude.

This move also caused a round of applause in the audience, and Iwasaki Masao walked off the stage with some excitement, bowed to Jonas, and Jonas returned the salute before he was invited to the podium with his arm in hand.

Behind Jonas, there were several more simultaneous translators.

There are so many guests that many of them don't necessarily know a foreign language. So Jonas spoke in German, with simultaneous translation.

After speaking in front of 100,000 people in the World Cup, Jonas went on stage again at last year's annual meeting, and he did not hesitate in the face of these Dongying people.

At the beginning of his speech, Jonas opened with the phrase "It's fun to have friends from afar", which led to his yearning for oriental culture.

In his speech, Jonas portrayed himself as a young Western man who had been yearning for Eastern culture since he was a child.

The civilizations of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and ancient Babylon are all buried in the dust of history, and only the oriental civilization dominated by ancient China has never been broken for thousands of years.

He likes oriental civilization, which also makes him full of affection and yearning for the east.

He talked to these Dongying people about Taoist civilization and Confucian civilization, and also believed that scientific research has been the world's most advanced way of selecting talents since a thousand years ago.

In this process, Jonas quoted scriptures, idioms to say thieves, he spoke idioms in Chinese with correct words, most of the Dongying people here can't compare.

The Dongying people are a people with extreme inferiority and extreme conceit, they have been ruled by the mainland for hundreds of years, and they have been going to the outer continent.

After the Black Ship Incident, they realized the gap between themselves and the rest of the world and began to fully Westernize.

After they developed, they regarded themselves as representatives of the oriental civilization, and the deeper they loved the mainland, the deeper they hated.

Jonas's recognition of the Eastern civilization and his liking for the Eastern civilization are actually extremely proud of each of them.

In this speech, Jonas did not talk about any business plan at all, but just used oriental culture as a link to establish his image in front of everyone.

And this move is more effective than he talks about ten business plans in front of everyone.

Only Hannah, the grandmother who raised Jonas since childhood, is a little disapproving, this grandson, but he is getting more and more foolish!