On April 9, after bidding farewell to the CCTV film crew, Lin Cheng and his entourage came to the headquarters of Citibank, a world-renowned bank at 399 Park Avenue in New York City.

Citibank, the Chinese name "Citigroup" is derived from the customary name of the bank by the citizens of the old Modu City, which is a retail bank owned by Citigroup, whose main predecessor is the City Bank of New York, which was established on June 16, 1812.

After nearly two centuries of development, mergers and acquisitions, Citibank has become one of the largest banks in the United States and a major international bank with branches in nearly 150 countries and regions around the world.

Citibank is also a training ground for many national and regional finance ministers, including the future financial secretary of Hong Kong, Leung Kim Chung, and many others such as the Minister of Finance of Pakistan, the Minister of Finance of Belgium, and the Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas were former employees of Citigroup.

The arrival of Lin Cheng, the world's richest man in Xinke, directly alarmed Sandywell, president and CEO of Citibank, which is known as the king of capital.

Sandywell is one of the founders of the U.S. imperialist Citigroup, a financial empire that affects the main vein of the world economy, and is a highly respected soul figure on Wall Street.

With his iron wrist, he finally allowed Citigroup to dominate the entire financial world like never before.

He fought for 40 years in the business circles of the United States, which was known for its cruelty and cold-bloodedness, and he not only gave a new definition of "transaction", but also gradually became the embodiment of property rights trading, and was known as the "king of capital".

The Nasdaq stock market, which is still falling and falling, obviously has traces of Wall Street wolves manipulating, and Citibank is one of the biggest behind-the-scenes demonstrators.

After the collapse of the Nasdaq, Citibank and Bank of Merrill Lynch, which misled investors into the stock market at the beginning of the Nasdaq crash, were both fined by the US imperialist government, indicating that they played an extremely disgraceful role in the Nasdaq bubble crisis.

But none of this has anything to do with Lin Cheng, the reason why Lin Cheng came to Citibank today is naturally for the big apple that was bitten.

"Lin from Oriental China, welcome to Citi, is there anything we can do for you?" said Sandywell enthusiastically after introducing Lin Cheng into the office.

If you are not enthusiastic, Lin Cheng is now the richest man in the world, and his huge wealth of 102 billion US dollars makes him the richest person in human history.

Citibank, as a professional bank that provides commercial financial services to customers, Lin Cheng, the world's richest man, is undoubtedly the most exclusive VIP customer that Citibank must treat with great care.

Lin Cheng said straightforwardly: "Mr. Will, I'll tell you straight to the point, I have a big business to entrust your bank to do, which may be a little difficult, I don't know if you have the ability to do this for me, if not, bother, I'll find **** or Goldman Sachs." ”

"Oh, big business?!" Sandywell hurriedly asked: "Don't look for ****, Goldman Sachs, our Citi specializes in big business, Mr. Lin Cheng said, choosing Citi will not disappoint you." ”

Lin Cheng, the richest man in the world, took the initiative to come to Citibank to do business, which must be a long face for Citibank, and Citibank is currently actively entering the Chinese mainland market, and Lin Cheng, the world's richest man from Chinese mainland, maintains a good relationship, which is undoubtedly a great thing, Sandwell is a fool to push Lin Cheng out!

Lin Cheng smiled: "Mr. Will don't talk so much, this time I came to Citi to entrust Citi to help me acquire shares in Apple, uh...... , I'll do the math, at least 50% of Apple's shares, I want to achieve a controlling stake in Apple. ”

"Apple?!"

Sandywell was shocked when he heard this, controlling Apple, this is really a big business.

After Lin Cheng became the richest man in the world, as business analysts said, he would definitely march into the US imperialist market, and now, Lin Cheng's first magic hand was extended to one of the representatives of US imperialist high-tech enterprises, Apple.

However, after all, Apple sells electronic products, even if he is one of the symbols of the high-tech enterprises of the US imperialism, but it will not be controlled by the US imperialist government like Intel and Goldman Sachs, which are involved in semiconductor chips.

And this is also the reason why Lin Cheng took the initiative to come to Citibank, if his own capital is responsible for the acquisition of Apple's shares, the resistance will come from all sides, especially the US imperialist government.

It is not the same to replace it with the U.S. imperialist's Citibank to buy it, the financier behind Citibank is itself one of the rulers of U.S. imperialism, and Citibank in the U.S. imperialism represents unimpeded.

However, although Apple's performance has improved greatly after Jobs took office, not to mention compared with Microsoft, IBM, Intel and other old giants, even Yahoo, Amazon, Oracle and other Internet upstarts are far inferior, and it is obviously an outdated enterprise.

Lin Cheng, as the richest man in the world, is now coming to Citibank with great fanfare, and wants to control such an outdated company as Apple, what does he want?

Sandywell asked directly: "Forgive me for taking the liberty of taking the liberty of Mr. Lin Cheng, although Apple once had a glorious history, but now it is outdated, why do you still have a soft spot for it?"

Lin Cheng said without thinking: "I very much appreciate the ability of Apple President Jobs, and it is precisely because of Jobs that I made up my mind to control Apple."

By the way, if Citibank accepts my commission to help me buy shares in Apple, you must tell the shareholders who sell Apple shares that the prerequisite for me to buy Apple shares is that Jobs must stay at Apple. ”

Sandywell said with concern: "Mr. Lin Cheng, although Apple's stock price is not high, Apple's shareholders are too scattered, and it is obviously not easy to persuade these shareholders to sell Apple shares one by one. ”

"200 million US dollars!" Lin Chengshi said with his mouth wide open: "As long as you help me achieve my desire to control Apple, I am willing to pay a commission of 200 million US dollars, and if you help me persuade Jobs to continue to stay at Apple to serve me, add another 100 million US dollars in commissions."

And Mr. Will may not know that I own 5.6 percent of Apple, the second largest shareholder of Apple, and you can earn up to $300 million in commissions for me to buy another 45 percent of Apple."

Lin Cheng has said this, what else can Sandy Weir say? He immediately said: "Citi has taken over this entrusted business!"