In the New Mexico governor's mansion, Giovanni Sr. wore a pair of reading glasses and sat behind a desk looking at the papers. And Charlie sat across from him and waited quietly for him to finish.

After reading it, the elder Giovanni took off his glasses and said, "You said that someone sent this thing to your mailbox?"

"Yes. Father. It's divided into hundreds of emails, and that's just a part of it. ”

Old Giovanni frowned and didn't speak for a long time. After a long time, he said, "What do you think now?"

"I looked at these materials with professors at California State University, and several professors agreed that the trial data could be said to be invalid. Because there are too few experimental comparison groups, such experiments cannot draw the conclusions made in the experimental report. ”

"So you want to make these things public?"

Charlie nodded and said, "Dad, there are actually some things." They are more sensitive. He said as he took out some papers. "This involves a large number of officials. ”

Old Giovanni took the information, put on his glasses and looked at it carefully. The more he looked at it, the more solemn his expression became. When he saw this, he looked up and asked his son, "Do you plan to announce these too?"

Charlie slowly shook his head and said, "These things are too sensitive. ”

When the elder Giovanni heard him say this, he stopped looking at the documents and said, "You have done the right thing." This kind of stuff can be published by others, but you can't. He picked up the ones he had seen before and said. "But that's fine. ”

Charlie smiled when he heard him say this, and said, "I think the same way." As a state legislator you have an obligation to seek a better life for your constituents. If you find something that could threaten the health of your constituents and fail to report it, it is a sign of disqualification for an elected MP. ”

The elder Giovanni smiled and said, "You are right to think so! As a parliamentarian, the most important thing you should do is to please the voters." Let voters know that you are a councillor who serves them. As for these. Old Giovanni raised his face, and Charlie finally took out the information. "Although it will please voters, it will offend many people even more. These people have a huge network. ”

Charlie nodded and said, "I have that concern too, so I don't plan to announce it." ”

"Not only can it not be published. You should also remind the people who should be reminded. ”

The people who should be reminded? After checking the ideal, I realized that my father was talking about those people. He's a Democrat, and of course a Democrat should be reminded. Those people owe him favors, and they will help him in the future.

He nodded and said, "I understand Dad!"

"Now the question is, are you the only ones who have these things?"

Charlie immediately shook his head and said, "I've thought about it, but I don't think it's possible." I'm not famous. Not even a federal parliamentarian. If they're looking for just one person, I'm not the best fit. ”

"Didn't you think it might have been sent to you by someone you know?"

Charlie was stunned for a moment. He frowned and said, "Dad, you mean Link?"

"He's having trouble with Meng Sandu!"

"He could have just given it to me. ”

"It doesn't matter what he thinks. The key is what you think!" "Giovanni Sr. knows that his son has been in politics for less than half a year, and there are many things he has not yet learned. He continued. "Perhaps, he didn't want people to know. Or maybe he doesn't want you to go against his will because of his will. ”

After checking the ideal for a while, he said, "You mean, if this is what he sent me, the main thing is to see how I choose?"

"Whether he sent it or not, it's not for sure. However, if these things are used well, they can be of great benefit to you. ”

Charlie nodded and said, "Maybe I should go talk to him about these things." He wanted to make sure if Link had sent him these Dingxi. If so, he's going to have to revisit his relationship with Link.

Old Giovanni nodded and said, "You can test him." ”

Charlie nodded and said no more.

Old Giovanni saw that he did not speak, and reminded: "However, no matter who sent it to you, you can do it first." ”

Charlie nodded again and said, "I see." ”

"You'll be California right now. When you go back, you can immediately announce everything that you think should be made public. ”

Before Charlie got on the plane, he couldn't help but make a phone call to Link. Knowing that Link was on his way to New York, he didn't say anything more. What he had to say was hard to say on the phone.

Link received a call from Charlie, and the other party didn't say anything on the phone, only that he would call him when he returned to Huazhou. He muttered to himself, did Charlie suspect that he had sent it after receiving those materials, or did he want to exchange opinions with him.

His plane soon landed in New York. Flon sent someone to pick him up at the airport and take him to the company.

When I arrived at Stoll & Company, I came to Fren's office. Flon came out from behind his desk, gave him a hug, patted him on the back and said, "You know what? ”

After Link let go of his hand, he smiled and said, "Do you want to be an old otaku?" Others can fly all over the world after retirement, but Flren has a fear of flying, do you plan to drive a car around the world?

Fren laughed and said, "So I decided not to retire for the time being." ”

He took out the champagne that had been prepared long ago in the small cellar of the company, poured two glasses and said, "Congratulations on making a fortune." ”

"You too!" Link said with a smile. "But you asked me to come here to talk about Stoll's future business?"

Flon took a sip of his wine, put down his glass, went to his desk and fetched a report, saying, "This report may not be as good as the one Neil gave you." But it should also make you feel happy. ”

Link took it and looked at it, and it showed that in this crude oil market, Stoll's net income was as high as more than $18 billion. He looked up and asked, "Are you planning to pay dividends or do you want to keep the money in Stoll?"

"We're a private company, and we're not on Wall Street. Leaving too much money in the company is also not a good thing. I plan to give 10 billion dividends, what do you think?"

Link nodded and said, "Just do as you say." "Because Stoll has not made much action since last year, the yield is relatively low. Most of the other people's funds have been redeemed in the last year. Today, Stoll basically only has the funds of the two of them. The two of them account for more than 98% of the company's capital. The two of them took almost all of the dividends themselves.

"Since you agree, sign it here. ”

Link signed the company's "minutes," which he had already prepared, saying that he also agreed to pay dividends.

"After the dividend, the company's assets will increase to $13 billion. I'll try to do some short-term investing. There will be about $3 billion, and the remaining $10 billion will be mainly long-term investments. "They're private companies, and they don't have to inflate their yields to curry favor with other investors, and they don't have to pay dividends on all their money. "In addition to a large profit like now, we can pay dividends at the end of the year for every year in the future. ”

"Yes. "The company's profits must be divided. Even if you don't pay dividends, you still need to pay personal income tax. And Stoll can't run much money for the time being. If they need capital, the two of them invest their private funds directly in the company, using the company to operate.

"On the company's side, I will let the retained funds legally avoid taxes. In order to achieve this goal, we must also avoid taxes on the funds that pay dividends, and we may need to communicate with each other in this regard. "Whether it is dividends or retained funds, they will be counted in the personal income tax payable on the personal income tax, since they want to avoid taxes, the two get exactly the same income, and of course they must have a unified caliber when they are exempt from taxes.

Link laughed and said, "Of course. ”

Flon whispered, "If it goes well, the two of us together can be exempted from at least $1.5 billion in personal taxes." That's not a small amount of money. ”

Link picked up his glass and touched it with him, and the matter was silent and louder.

Furren smiled, took a sip of his drink, and then went on to explain some of his next thoughts.

He plans to invest in a number of manufacturing, transportation and retail sectors, as well as in the resources sector around the world. "Neil is right, the dollar has begun to decline, and the United States wants to continue to rely on finance to support the country's economy, and one day it will become like those countries in Europe," he explained. I communicated with him. We all believe that if the United States wants to continue to prosper, it must redevelop its industry. So in the U.S., manufacturing and transportation have a lot to offer. And the retail industry, no matter what era it is, will have room to rise. In the resource industry, regardless of whether the United States develops industry or not, there will always be countries in the world that want to exist as the world's factories. So resources will continue to be very important in the long run. ”

Link thought for a moment and felt that he was not unreasonable. In fact, he had some thoughts like that. Especially what he has observed and seen over the years makes him feel that the dollar has reached the edge of a cliff. The United States has lost its foundation for continuing to dominate the world on the dollar. Because competitors have emerged.

When the dollar is no longer the world's currency, the days when you can buy what you want from all over the world by printing the dollar on green paper will be gone. Unless the world has another world war.

But now in the event of a world war, it is unlikely that the United States will be as neutral as it was on the previous two occasions. Despite its separation from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the United States should not even think about isolationism as it has in the past.

Without war, the United States has gradually lost its desire to make the dollar the world's only trade settlement currency. When the dollar is no longer the world's main settlement currency, the chances of trying to seize the wealth of other countries through financial warfare against other rivals will also become slim.

If the United States wants to remain a world power, it must regain its manufacturing roots.

It's just that if the United States wants to pick up manufacturing again, how easy is it?

He thought for a moment and said, "Now there is almost no manufacturing in the United States, except for military industry, aviation, food and chemistry. The entire industrial system has been completely destroyed. No matter how urgent it is, it is difficult for the manufacturing industry to develop. "This can be seen from the fact that the corporate tax burden in the manufacturing industry is far greater than that in the financial industry.

And the financial industry is not going to give up its position to now control the entire United States. If industry wants to develop, it still has to rely on bank funds. Besides, the United States is not an open country, and if you want to reform the industry, the first thing to do is to open up.

The United States has centuries of conservative ideas. In a country like the United States, which has never been unified in thinking, it is difficult to imagine how difficult it is to open up. Maybe it takes a decade or two just to prepare for the mind.

Unless, there is a strong figure in the United States, a figure who can make a final decision like Russia's Putin. But is that possible? The American political system cannot have such people.

Flon is not a fool either, with Stoll's little money, he wants to be a "pioneer cow", that is whimsical. He said with a smile: "For the time being, when investing in the United States, I will choose those manufacturing industries that the United States must support." And the transportation industry, such as rail transportation and the like. That's a long-term stable industry. ”