San Francisco, Washington Street

The shrimp boy **** leaned on the head of the bed, and the cigarette in his left hand had burned to the end.

Shrimp looked at his injured right hand intently, and the few blood stains oozing from the bandage had turned dark red.

Bang bang, someone slammed on the door.

The shrimp boy turned over and got out of bed, and when he opened the door, he saw that it was a few of his younger brothers.

"Brother Shrimp, are you okay?" several people swarmed in and asked Shrimp Boy with concern.

Shrimp Boy lit another cigarette and scattered a few of his subordinates, "It's okay, I can't die." ”

One of the younger brothers said indignantly: "Cai Ye is too unfair, Brother Shrimp, you were born and died in the hall, as a red stick in charge, you were cut off for such a trivial matter, and the brothers are all upset for you." ”

Shrimp Boy listened to everyone's gossip in silence, and spit out a few smoke rings: "Okay, it's no big deal, rotten boy, how is the situation in these two heavens?"

The little brother who spoke first was rotten Zicheng, and he was a little deflated when he heard this: "In these two heavens, one order a day, the mouth is getting tighter and tighter, and two more brothers have been executed to help the rules, although they are not serious, but everyone's morale has been greatly affected. ”

Shrimp Squinted his eyes, and Rotten Boy Cheng saw that the boss didn't speak, and boldly continued: "If it goes on like this, people's hearts will really be scattered." Cai Ye shouts for change every day, but he also has to give everyone a way to live, so many brothers, what to eat!?What to drink!?"

Shrimp Boy smiled contemptuously, change?

Spit out a smoke ring, Shrimp Boy said: "I have understood a truth in the past few days. ”

Everyone quieted down, and the shrimp boy closed his eyes: "People are swordsmen and I am fish and meat, do you think swords are the most powerful?"

The little brothers looked at each other, not knowing what the shrimp boy was talking about. Rotten Tsai Cheng said boldly: "Yes, the knife cuts the meat, of course, the knife is more powerful than the meat." ”

The shrimp boy opened his eyes, "The knife is always just a knife, it can cut meat and cut people, it depends on who holds it, it is not the knife that is powerful, but the person." ”

Everyone still looked at each other, and they didn't understand what the shrimp boy meant.

Shrimp took a deep puff and slammed the remaining half of the cigarette butt into the ashtray.

"I want to be on top!"

Cai Qi broke the shrimp boy's finger.

Zhang Chen understood in his heart that this was Cai Qi's show of favor to himself, and it was also a warning.

In his heart, he does not want to come into contact with such people, and in essence, he is not the same kind of person.

If he wants to protect himself, he would rather set up his own security company, apply for a formal license, and find a few Israeli mercenaries, which are much more reliable than these rabble.

Hongmen certainly has a tradition, but in recent decades it has been far from the Hongmen of the past.

As Cai Qi said, the structure of Hongmen is designed for troubled times, and once the world is chaotic, Hongmen will rise with the trend. And if it is a peaceful and prosperous era, the power of Hongmen will become smaller and smaller.

Moreover, the purpose of Hongmen was to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and the purpose at the end of the Qing Dynasty was to expel the Tartars.

But now, the first two tenets are no longer applicable, and Hongmen is getting closer and closer to the real Heibang, with a mixed mix of good and bad members, coupled with a loose organizational structure, and members working independently and attacking each other, which has caused headaches for successive Hongmen leaders.

Zhang Chen thought about it, but decided to meet Cai Qi, after all, the other party released goodwill, and the two sides did not have any deep hatred.

But all this has to be said about when we come back from New York.

Tinder's $50 million acquisition of Berkshire Hathaway's shares in Salomon Brothers has been reported to Warren Buffett.

$50 million is a lot, but Berkshire Hathaway is a company that manages $100 billion in assets (not that he has 100 billion, but manages 100 billion), and if Buffett is involved in everything, then he doesn't have to do anything else all year round.

Therefore, in a business of this size, unless the other party is his old friend or has a high status, Buffett will not come forward at all.

But Salomon Brothers is different, not to mention Buffett's setbacks in this company, after all, he was the chairman of Salomon Brothers, and he still has feelings for this company.

Therefore, Buffett took a moment to meet this buyer.

Ajit Jain helped Zhang Chen and Frank Fen book lunch in Manhattan at noon on Tuesday, although Berkshire is based in Omaha, Nebraska, but Buffett is in New York for at least one or two months a year, after all, there is Manhattan and Wall Street.

If there is only one capital center in the world, it is Wall Street.

In his previous life, Zhang Chen read some reports from Buffett, and at that time Zhang Chen remembered a report that Buffett had only bought one house in his life, located in Omaha. There are no courtyard walls and no gates, it is only worth 400,000 US dollars, and my wife spent 15,000 US dollars to redecorate, and she was criticized by Buffett or something.

After being reborn, Zhang Chen's level changed, and he realized that maybe Buffett does only have this suite in his name, but it doesn't mean that he only has this property, and the other houses are bought with the foundation under his name, isn't this TM the same as buying it himself?

And it also avoided taxes.

As for the decoration, it's even more nonsense, the Omaha property is a few people in their family can't live for a few days a year, isn't it normal not to decorate and not hire security guards.

Just like Li Ka-shing, they all say that he wears quartz watches, but in fact Li is the richest man in Patek Philippe's largest private collector. The reason why the media reports this way is nothing more than to establish good values, to create a false impression that you see that people are so rich and don't spend money indiscriminately, so they can be rich.

Emperor Daoguang also wore a dragon robe with patches, and a patch cost two hundred taels of silver.

But Buffett doesn't really have an office in New York, because he doesn't need to.

As a director of more than a dozen Wall Street giants, why does Warren Buffett have a separate office in New York?

This time it was an American Airlines flight, from San Francisco to New York, Zhang Chen and Belankefen departed at 10 a.m. on Monday, and arrived in New York at 8 p.m., in addition to more than six hours of flight time, there was a time difference between San Francisco and New York of 3 hours。。。。。。

They were greeted at LaGuardia Airport by Bellankefen's wife, Laura Jacob, a tall Eastern European woman with long brown-black hair and a serious, unsmiling complexion.

Bellankefen enthusiastically introduced his wife to Zhang Chen, Laura is a lawyer who works in a New York law firm specializing in non-litigation business, although not very famous, but the female lawyer who can establish herself in the New York business community is successful enough.

Laura sent Zhang Chen to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, made a veneer salute, and pulled her husband home.

Seeing Laura's tall, plump body and towering cheekbones, Zhang Chen began to understand why Bellankefen was almost bald in her early forties.

It's no wonder that after coming to California, Belranken's complexion was much better than when Zhang Chen first met him.

Zhang Chen hadn't talked to Bellankefen yet, he was still thinking about the adjustment of the structure of the spark source.

With the existing structure, it is difficult to realize the potential of Belranken, and it is always a waste to let the second-best president in the history of Goldman Sachs be the housekeeper for himself.

However, how to adjust it to ensure that it can temporarily use the funds of the Tinder source, and at the same time ensure that Blanciffen can have sufficient financial autonomy is a dilemma.

If this problem is solved, Zhang Chen has a hunch that the source of fire will be taken to a higher level.

(End of chapter)