Saturday, September 13th.

When Andy walked into the lobby of the Federal Reserve Building with his assistants and bodyguards around nine o'clock in the morning, Alvitre, who was sitting on the sofa in the lounge area, quickly chased after him with six or seven people around him.

With a bright smile on his face, Andy asked Al, "Are you done receiving it?"

"Yes boss, the Berlin side has called to inform the British side that the lease contract will be re-signed early tomorrow morning, and our people will rush to Berlin as soon as possible... ”

In the elevator, Alvitatre quickly introduced the situation to Andy, and this morning Al took people to the Lehman headquarters, and almost took 13 value-for-money commercial buildings from the other party almost like a robbery, I believe that now, the news has spread all over Wall Street.

Sure enough, when Andy walked into the conference room, the CEOs and bigwigs of various banks looked at him with complicated and envious eyes, but the faces of several people were very ugly, including Paulson, after all, Andy's behavior was very undesirable for some people.

"A few of you have such ugly faces, haven't you slept well? Tsk, when you're old, don't work so hard, pay more attention to your body... With a big smile, Andy sat down in the boss's chair and teased at a few ugly old foxes, not caring about the other party's gaze.

Paulson's eyes were dark, and after looking at Andy meaningfully for a while, he saw that the person was almost there, coughed lightly, and said in a somewhat hoarse voice: "The latest news, Merrill Lynch Securities is currently negotiating a deal with Bank of America. Bank of America has officially pulled out of the Lehman Brothers' acquisition, and now only the British Barclays have chosen.

Guys, I hope to see the results of the Lehman assets accounting today, and in any case, give me a number!"

The meeting quickly broke up, and the group of bigwigs, including Andy, had to continue to sit and let their accountants and data analysts work hard.

At around 12 noon, the first data finally came out, and Goldman Sachs' Lloyd's and Andy, along with three other bank and investment bank CEOs, went to a conference room to present the report, where Paulson and Geithner were responsible for collecting it.

Paulson and Geithner couldn't help frowning slightly as they looked at the table data written down in blue, and at this time, the data of several other groups were also sent one after another, looking at the data, the brows of the two main leaders of their heads furrowed even tighter.

The data shows that there are different perceptions of the true value of Lehman, especially the most notorious real estate assets, and almost every figure is different, and each one is lower than the other.

"Is there really $41 billion in cash assets, or $24 billion, or less?" asked Paulson coldly as he looked at Lehman CEO Foord, who was sitting in the boss's chair and was a little depressed.

And Forde also seemed to see through Paulson's fake model, his eyes were indifferent, and he did not make any answer, before that, he had just received a call from Lehman's bankruptcy lawyer Harvey, who was very angry on the phone, and the representative of the Fed was very dissatisfied, and the other party was completely insincere to help them Lehman, and he had been talking nonsense.

Forde glanced at Andy Smith, who had been smiling at the corners of his mouth and with an indifferent expression, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he thought of what the other party said last night.

"What will happen to Merrill Lynch if we're done?"

Hearing Forder's cold question, and sitting not far from him was John Sain, CEO of Merrill Lynch, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly fell into embarrassment.

"You guys take care of yourselves! I'm sure I can handle AIG and Merrill Lynch. Paulson's face changed slightly, his eyes looked at Forde coldly, and then he looked around and said, "John is here, and it makes me feel a little uncomfortable talking about Merrill Lynch... ”

The smile on Andy's face retracted, his expression became indifferent, and his gaze at Paulson was full of mockery, but just a glance, he cast a trace of sympathy on Forder, whose face was flushed and his fists trembled slightly, this guy who was already known for his arrogance was almost spurted blood in a humiliating way by the rich man.

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The meeting ended in an extremely strange and awkward atmosphere, and Andy was a little disgusted by Paulson's almost torn face to see Lehman, and to be honest, he led people out of the Fed building as soon as the meeting ended.

"Al, what do you think of Paulson?" asked Andy abruptly, looking out the window.

Al pushed down his glasses, pondered for a moment and said, "Boss, do you feel that he is not urgent and important to save Lehman?"

Andy didn't speak, just nodded.

Actually, this is not understandable, but from three aspects, you can understand Paulson's thinking.

First, most of the bonds issued by Lehman have been bought by Asia, and some of them have been bought in Europe, but only a few in the United States itself, and Lehman's bankruptcy can allow Asian countries and other countries to bear the losses of the US economic recession, and can partially pass on the losses of the US financial crisis, so as to avoid the burden of the US government's debts on the shoulders of the financial crisis.

The second is to shirk the public opinion pressure and public pressure of the US government to pay for all the collapsed companies, so as to silence the donkey party members who "used the money of the SHUI people to save the market" in all walks of life in the United States at that time.

The third is ... Objectively, for Goldman Sachs and MG to compete in the capital market in the future, clear a strong opponent. ”

When it came to the third point, Al hesitated, but finally said his inner conclusion.

Andy's eyes were deep, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he said lightly: "It seems that there is really a lot of inside information here! Al, do you believe it? After Lehman falls, the storm will be completely out of control." ”

"Of course, so that we have a chance, boss, Lehman must fall, deducting the 1 billion spent this morning, this time we have harvested 13 commercial buildings and 4.2 billion dollars from Lehman, your cash assets currently reach 34 billion dollars, we have the ability to compete for the most delicious part!"

Andy nodded, no longer entangled in those unhappiness, nothing made him happier than the growth of his own wealth, and couldn't help but chuckle: "This is really just saved the second room, and I can't save my brother!"

Alvitatre shook his head and smiled, shrugged his shoulders, noncommittal.

Back at home, Ivana, who was wearing a black sundress, gently stepped forward to kiss Andy, helped him hang up the suit, and then took the tie that Andy pulled off, reached out to stop Andy's waist, and asked softly, "Did it go well today?"

Andy put his arm around Ivana and said with a smile as he walked into the living room: "Yes, the handover of the 13 buildings went smoothly, to be honest, it is relatively lucky to be able to win this part of the assets, don't you know, when I first entered the conference room this morning, those old guys wanted to kill me with their eyes, hehe, especially the two buildings adjacent to 52nd and 53rd Avenue on Fifth Avenue, it is definitely worth the money!"

"Hey—"

Ivana smiled happily and turned around Andy's neck, jumped up, and hung on Andy's body, Andy could only reach out and hold her up to the sofa in the living room.

"Po~Giggles, I know you're the best!" Ivana smiled and kissed Andy's mouth with a smile, her eyes full of adoration.

"I will set up a property company to manage and operate these 13 buildings, and then they will be included in the Smith Foundation's asset list... Andy sat on the couch with a smile, looking at Ivana, whose eyes lit up when he heard his decision, and stretched out his finger to point at the tip of her nose.

Naturally, Ivana will be very happy, as a family foundation, she and Andy's children will be the beneficiaries, and in the future, she and Andy's children will also inherit this foundation, that is, her children will truly become billions of babies born with a golden spoon!