Chapter 70: The 1.75 billion that was exchanged for the bet of his life

How is it possible for the Grand Atlantic City Hotel to find a replacement in the chassis of MGM Hotels?

So, nine hours after the game began, the curtain came to an end.

Link won more than $1.8 billion in chips from the Greeks, which meant MGM Grand won the game.

With a dead face, Hulse pulled out a check for $1.5 billion and handed it to Tommy Cockline. That's the gambling contract. As for the two billion in chips, they have already paid.

In other words, Link is equivalent to winning $3.5 billion. According to the agreement with Cockline, he could take the $1.75 billion of it. But 40% of them will be exchanged for a 4% stake in MGM Grand.

After receiving sincere or false congratulations from the witnesses, Link and Tommy Cockline left the gambling room. As they walked out of the gambling hall, Benjamin's twelve bodyguards were at his side. And all the way to Tommy Cockline's office.

Link and Tommy Coklein went into the office together, and Benjamin and they stayed outside.

Tommy Cockline opened a bottle of champagne and poured two glasses.

Link took the wine he handed over. Just hear him say, "Cheers to the great gamble that just ended!"

Link clinked glasses with him, then drank them all in one gulp.

Seeing this, Tommy Cockline shook his head and smiled, and said, "Okay, I think you should rush home as soon as possible." You've been over the curfew for more than five hours. He said as he pulled out a check and handed it to Link.

According to their agreement, after the game is over, if he wins, MGM Grand must give him what he has won as soon as possible. So this check is a billion and a half million dollars.

Link glanced at it, the numbers on it were correct, and the check was genuine.

Then Tommy Cockline took out another document, which was a share transfer agreement.

The above has already been signed by the Cockeline family. He just needs to sign. But he still called Matthew Jackson to see that there were no problems with the agreement before he signed his name on it.

By this time, the sky was already dim.

Tommy Coklein poured two more glasses of red wine and said to him, "Link, this time you didn't put in anything, and you ended up taking the biggest pizza." I think the whole of Las Vegas will be jealous of your good luck. ”

Link tugged at the corners of his mouth, he knew that there were those who would be jealous. I'm afraid that the people who are most jealous of him are the people of the Cocklain family.

"If you were to count it that way, of course I took the lion's share," he said. But if you lose, not only will you be forced to sell all of your shares in MGM, you'll lose more than $1.5 billion in the deal. Now I use 700 million to buy a maximum of 400 million US dollars, and you will make more than 3.5 billion US dollars directly and indirectly. That's more than I got. ”

He raised his eyes and stared into the other's eyes and said, "And, if I lose, maybe I'll be the one who will be carried out of the gambling hall." Are you sure I didn't give anything?" and he almost lost!

Tommy Coklein was speechless and took a sip of his wine before saying, "Anyway, it's a win-win partnership!"

Link smiled and said, "Our cooperation will continue in the future." He also has a stake in MGM Hotels, and he will be a member of the hotel's board of directors. The two sides must cooperate. He paused and said. "It's time for me to leave. This damn gamble is making my brain wood. ”

"Speaking of gambling, you had a fantastic performance today. Your acting tricked me. ”

Link smiled, didn't answer, turned and left his office. He's going home to sleep.

Even with twelve bodyguards to protect him, Link still felt a deep sense of uneasiness in his heart. Thankfully, it was daytime. He was at his villa on Bakers Avenue, put his phone on silent and slept to his heart's content. When I woke up, I took a look at the vice president and realized that it was time to get some street duty. Although he still has a month or two left, he doesn't want to think about it when the time comes.

When he picked up his phone, he found that there were several missed calls, all from Jeff.

He immediately called back: "Dad, are you looking for me again?"

"Yes, I have good news. ”

"What's the good news?"

Hans said in an excited tone, "The leaf lip fry has successfully spoken. ”

Did the leaflip fish speak? Did the leaflip fish suddenly speak? He asked uncertainly, "Dad, are you sure you didn't drink?"

Hans then remembered that his adopted son did not understand the terminology of aquaculture. He quickly explained, "I mean the leaflip fish is starting to eat. This is a very critical level, which means that we have found the right opening bait for the leaflipfish. ”

It turns out that the fry will rely on the remaining yolk in the abdomen for a period of time after hatching, but when the yolk is not enough to provide the energy necessary for the fry, the fry have to eat. But fry don't eat everything, they have a lot of restrictions on what they eat, for example, what they like to eat, those things must also provide them with the nutrients necessary for the rapid development of the seedlings, and the size of the bait is not something they can swallow in one bite, whether it can be eaten by them, too big or too small, too fast, it is not good.

These are all factors that must be considered when choosing an open-opening bait for fry.

Hans's previous experiment was stuck at this step. It's not that he didn't find the bait that the leaf lip fry wanted to eat, but the fry kept stunting and eventually died, even though they opened their mouths to eat.

Jeff knew it might be that the bait he was providing lacked some kind of substance necessary for the initial development of leaf-lipped fry. It may be an essential amino acid, or it may be a mineral element.

And now he says that the successful opening of the fry means that the fry have survived the earliest stages of development in good health. When the fry have developed to a certain extent, the nutrient requirements become less demanding, and the subsequent cultivation work becomes much easier.

Link listened to his explanation and finally understood what this success meant to Jeff.

Jeff has been studying the leaf lipfish for more than six years, and now he has achieved success, which is the best reward for all his past efforts. He smiled and said, "Congratulations, Dad." You did it. ”

"Yes, I succeeded. I called you to tell you about it. Also, I think you should have the farm pond ready. In the spring, the fry can be stocked in the culture ponds. ”

Hans's farm had more than 300 acres of breeding ponds, and Link didn't think his adoptive father could raise that many fry. He asked, "I was about to discuss with you what fish should be kept in the pond on the farm." Do you keep rainbow trout and leaf lipfish?"

"Yes, I recommend you keep rainbow trout, but you'll need to wait for the weather to warm up. Some fry can be provided from the fishing grounds. Our triploid all-male fry have always had a good reputation. ”

Link thought for a moment and then asked, "I've heard that rainbow trout take about three years to develop. What do you recommend for a pond on the farm?"

"Maybe when you get back, we can talk about it. I'm going to think about it now, too. "Jeff is not only the manager of the farm, but also the technical advisor to the Hans Farm. He needed to think about how to plan the production of those fish ponds.

Link promised to go home tonight.

He looked at the time, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, so he hurriedly got up and washed, then got something to eat, and then returned to Overtown in four cars escorted by twelve bodyguards.

After dinner in the evening, Jeff and Link went to the small study at home. Jeff didn't talk nonsense either, saying, "According to our previous plan, the farm has a total of 500 acres of water surface, but there will be 150 acres of water treatment tanks. So we only have 350 acres of pond water that we can use for farming. ”

He paused and said, "You know, that's already a lot of water. We have other customers in our fishery who need to be supplied, so it is impossible to supply as many fry in a short period of time. ”

Link laughs, "I don't think we can put fry in all the ponds at the same time. Maybe we can put it in succession, so that we can also start selling in batches. ”

Hans nodded and said, "That's the right thing to do." I plan to supply 125 acres of surface fish fry to your farm within six months, and the other half of the pond needs to be supplied next year. The remaining 100 acres of water, if the leaf lip fry can be successfully cultivated, I hope you will be willing to use those ponds to raise them. Of course, they also have a long breeding cycle, and they are not yet able to produce the most ideal fry. But I guess that's worth breeding too. ”

"Will this year's fry meet the needs of a hundred acres of water?"

"It takes luck. But we can also launch it in two to three years. ”

Link knew that it was the only way to do it for the time being.

Just hear Hans say, "If you don't have a problem with this plan, wait until February to clean about 20 acres of ponds and wait for the fry to be stocked." By the way, when the fry are still young, the stocking density can be larger, and the fry can be divided into pools when they are older. That reduces administrative costs. ”

Jeff is the farm's technical advisor for fish farming and his own adoptive father, and Link certainly trusts him. He nodded and said, "You can do this thing." ”

After talking about business, Jeff got up and picked up a dry red from the wine cabinet to the side, and said to Link, "Drink?"

Link nodded and said, "Okay." ”

Jeff poured his wine and sat back at his desk, smiling and saying, "How was your life in Las Vegas? I called you several times in the morning, and you didn't listen." Was it because you were too tired last night?"