Chapter XXVI Zurich Bank
Otto Rothschild looked at Pang Jindong, and after being silent for a long time, he gasped and said slowly: "This is too vicious!"
Pang Jindong smiled and said, "It's spicy but it works!"
"But ......"
Pang Jindong interrupted the other party's words and said bluntly: "I hope you don't refute this with stupid moral opinions, I think as long as you can defeat the opponent, it is okay to use some unconventional methods!"
It was at this time that Nick interjected: "I hope you can recall how many Israeli soldiers have been sacrificed in several wars in the Middle East, and how many Jewish civilians have been killed in Hamas's terrorist attacks!"
These two sentences were very convincing, and Otto Rothschild thought for a moment, and finally nodded. But he still has a question: "If Director Anderson can become president, he must hand over the drug trafficking network!"
"Letting his successor do business in the Middle East can be a condition for you to support him! But ......" Pang Jindong smiled, and then continued: "This is a matter between you, it should be discussed between the two of you, and I am not qualified to overstep the bounds." ”
Otto Rothschild was silent for a moment, and after a while the clock in the study struck exactly twelve times.
The two sides talked for too long, and before they knew it, it was late at night.
Otto Rothschild looked at the time, immediately stood up, and said to Pang Jindong: "I'm going to rest!"
"It's Saturday now, and I've heard that the Rothschilds strictly observe the Sabbath rule of not working, and it seems to be true!"
"It's good that Mr. Pang can understand!" Otto Rothschild nodded, and then said, "If it's convenient for a few people, you can live here!"
"Don't bother! Let's stay in a hotel!" Pang Jindong stood up and told the other party: "Trouble your driver to send us back!"
"Okay!"
It was still the Rolls-Royce Phantom that sent Pang Jindong and the three of them to a luxury hotel in Zurich.
After settling down, Nick asked Pang Jindong, "What should I do next in this matter?"
Otto Rothschild should have basically agreed, but he alone could not make decisions on behalf of the entire family, and there may be a discussion within the Rothschilds in the future. As for the outcome of this discussion, it is not up to us to influence. ”
Miria asked, "So let's wait and see?"
"That's all it takes!" After a pause, Pang Jindong continued: "In any case, we should not see Otto Rothschild again in a short time!"
"That's good!" Nick shrugged his shoulders and said with emotion, "I've been watching from the sidelines while you're talking to him, and it's really tiring to deal with savvy Jews!"
After a night's rest, Pang Jindong came to the Bank of Zurich early the next day and asked the bank staff to take him to the safe.
Each safe is sealed and can be taken out individually. There are two keys, one for the client and the other for the zài bank. The safe can only be opened if both keys are used at the same time.
After the bank clerk turned the key and took out the safe, he took Pang Jindong to a small room, closed the door and went out.
Facing the safe, Pang Jindong's mood was very complicated. On the one hand, Pang Jindong hopes that Bernard will surprise him here, and on the other hand, Pang Jindong is worried that this is the beginning of a new conspiracy.
Especially thinking that billions of dollars may be involved, Pang Jindong felt that this small iron box was extremely heavy.
With apprehension, Pang Jindong slowly opened the lid, this cautious look and action was like defusing a time bomb. It's just that when he opened the lid, Pang Jindong looked up at the ceiling. When the safe was fully opened, Pang Jindong took a deep breath before lowering his head to look inside.
However, to Pang Jindong's great surprise, the safe was empty, except for a small envelope in the depths.
Pang Jindong opened the envelope and found that it was a piece of paper.
The text was issued by a law firm in Zurich and can be seen from the many seals on it, and it is fully legally valid after being notarized and confirmed by a lawyer. But the content is relatively simple, the few lines of words are not even as many as the seal, but it just means that the person who holds the text is eligible to go to the law firm to handle and accept Bernard's gift.
Pang Jindong immediately rushed to the law firm, and then showed the text to the reception staff.
The reception staff glanced at Wen Jiàn, and immediately stared at Pang Jindong, with a look as if he wanted to eat Pang Jindong alive. Pang Jindong endured a moment of work under this wolf-like gaze before the receptionist returned the text to Pang Jindong, and then said respectfully: "Please wait a moment!"
After less than five minutes, the reception staff walked out and introduced a man to Pang Jindong: "This is lawyer Kushpan, and he is in charge of all your affairs!"
Kushpan was in his mid-fifties and had gray hair. He shook Pang Jindong's hand warmly, and then asked politely, "What do you call it?"
"Pong, Jerry Pong!"
"Sure enough, it's Mr. Pang, this is simply wonderful!" Kushpan bowed slightly, almost smiling and telling Pang Jindong: "Please come to my office to talk!"
"Sure enough, it's Mr. Pang?" Hearing Kushpan's words, Pang Jindong thought to himself: "It seems that Bernard once confessed, I will come here!"
After Kushpan took Pang Jindong to his office, he instructed his secretary: "If anyone comes, say I'm out; With that, he closed the office door.
Due to the lack of understanding of the situation, Pang Jindong never said anything, waiting for the other party to speak.
Kushpan didn't have such patience, and as soon as he sat down opposite Pang Jindong, he said frankly: "I'm a good friend of Bernard!"
"It's a pleasure to meet you!" Pang Jindong sighed and said with a little sadness: "Bernard took great care of me before he died, and his departure is a heavy loss in my life!"
"If I'm not mistaken, you're supposed to be from the Corbino Center, right?"
"It used to be!" Pang Jindong nodded, thinking, "It seems that he still knows some things!"
Cushpan said: "Bernard told me before his death that the person who came here to go through the formalities would be an Oriental surnamed Pang, also from the Corbino Center! But he can't be completely sure, after all, none of us can know for sure what will happen tomorrow!"
"I'm glad I didn't let Bernard down!"
"I'm also glad that Bernard was able to transfer the property to the intended person!" After a pause, Kushpan continued: "If you knew what Bernard had left you, you would immediately be happy for yourself!"
Pang Jindong smiled and asked lightly: "A large amount of cash, bonds, or real estate?"
"Neither!" Kushpan shook his head and said slowly, "It's stocks! To be exact, it's the shares of the Bank of Zurich!"
"I am a shareholder of Bank Zurich?"
Kushpan corrected: "After you go through the formalities, you will be a shareholder of the Bank of Zurich!" He handed a letter to Pang Jindong, and then continued: "This is what Bernard left you!"
The envelope was covered with fire paint, and the fire paint was stamped with Bernard's seal, indicating that the letter was never opened after it was written.
Pang Jindong opened the letter and read it carefully.
In his letter, Bernard told Jerry:
"If you can get that $200 million, then you should be able to get that lawyer's letter. With a lawyer's letter alone, you can get a stake in the Bank of Zurich, which I own. I had already gone through the formalities at the law firm and had given the matter to my best friend, Kushpan.
It seems necessary to explain to you a brief explanation of the origin of these stocks.
I used to be a very greedy person, and since I was in charge of the finances of the Corbino Project, the most important thing I have been passionate about every day is trying to grow my wealth.
When I found that I had wasted too much time and energy on this, but I was not enjoying life to the fullest, my life came to an end, but I had also accumulated a huge amount of wealth.
That $200 million is only a fraction of my fortune, and it is the last operating fund of the center. Over the years, I have used various methods to intercept funds from the entire program, and after money laundering, they have been transferred abroad. I found a safe and secure way to increase the value of the money that was being sent, and that was to buy shares in the Bank of Zurich.
Zurich Bank is a medium-sized bank with one of the highest performance among Swiss banks, which are the most trusted of the world's major banks and the least affected by adverse factors, such as the war.
I've always prided myself on my instincts and judgment when it comes to money, and it's the same in the securities market. Since investing in the Bank of Zurich, I have been able to expand my share of the bank through various technical means. As a result of my successful operation, and the dividends over the years have also been reinvested by me, by the time you read this letter, I have doubled my investment and the shares I own, which means 20% of the shares of the Bank of Zurich.
That's my last gift to you.
After reading it, burn Bernard Liu"
Pang Jindong took a deep breath, took out a lighter and burned the letter. Looking at the jumping blue flames, and Bernard's last words that were being turned into black ashes by the flames, Pang Jindong fell into deep thought.
Kushpan didn't bother Pang Jindong, and after a while, he cautiously asked, "Can you start now?"
"Okay!"
"Such a huge amount of property transfer requires very complicated procedures, I hope you have enough patience!"
"The last thing I lack now is patience!" After expressing his condolences to Bernard, Pang Jindong began to get excited about the huge fortune he was about to acquire.
Bernard's arrangements are indeed very thorough, and the heavy taxes that need to be paid for the transfer of the property and the fees required to entrust a law firm have been set aside.
It's just that, as Kushpan said, the whole deal took a lot of twists and turns, and as a result, Pang Jindong had to stay in Zurich for an extra week.
Coincidentally, as soon as the stock transfer was completed, the Bank of Zurich held a shareholders' meeting, and Pang Jindong was invited to attend.
Because he did not know the specific operating conditions of the Bank of Zurich, Pang Jindong did not say a word at the shareholders' meeting, but only listened to the speeches of others and carefully observed the shareholders. It was not until near the end that Pang Jindong put forward two requirements: the first was to fire the female receptionist at the front desk of the headquarters, and the second was to require all employees to learn Chinese.
At Zurich Bank, owning 20 percent of the shares means the second largest shareholder. In the past, the shareholders' meeting only knew that the shares belonged to a person named Howard, but they did not know anything about him, and this person never attended the shareholders' meeting.
Only Pang Jindong knew that Howard was actually a disguised identity of Bernard.
Now the shares have been transferred to Pang Jindong, and although Pang Jindong attended the shareholders' meeting, for the bank's management and other shareholders, the mystery has not only not diminished, but has become stronger. Almost everyone wants to know how this young oriental young man became the young owner of this century-old shop.
And Pang Jindong's low profile at the shareholders' meeting obviously did not help answer their questions.
Out of awe of equity and respect for Pang Jindong himself, Pang Jindong's two seemingly inconsequential requests were complied with almost without discussion.
After the shareholders' meeting, many shareholders came over and wanted to get acquainted with Pang Jindong. Pang Jindong knew that these people were not ordinary people, so he patiently socialized with them and did not return to the hotel until very late.
After learning about these things, Milia was not only speechless, but also said to Pang Jindong: "I didn't expect you to be a billionaire now!"
Pang Jindong corrected: "It's not 'me', it's 'we'!"
"You're going to make us rich?"
"If there is mine, there will be yours!" Pang Jindong smiled proudly and told Sù Miria: "Let every brother become a billionaire, is my pursuit!"
Nick said, "It's not enough to have money!"
"That's right!" Pang Jindong nodded and said thoughtfully: "And we don't want to make tools anymore, but to be the masters of tools!"
Miria and Nick glanced at each other, and then said slowly, "I didn't expect that after you retired, your ambitions would be greater than when you were a mercenary!"
Nick patted Pang Jindong on the shoulder and encouraged: "You want to be an ordinary person, but some people don't allow it! In this case, then let the whole world feel your strength!"
"If I say like Nick, my ambition is really too big! Even if my little butterfly flappes its wings desperately, it can't cause a storm in this world!" Pang Jindong shook his head and continued: "Actually, my starting point is not so complicated!"
Nick asked, "How easy is it?"