Chapter 320, the girl with the potential to buy treasury bonds
"So let's get down to business," said Alice, after the awkward laughter, "what are your plans for the $300 million in government funding?"
Everyone knows that they must avoid nominal private dealings between officials and businessmen in all respects. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info If it is a grant to a government contractor, then everything is normal, but the current situation is that in order to accelerate the end of the Iran-Iraq war and the greater interests in the future, the development of Blackwater International is accelerated, and it is tied to the giant chariot of the Ministry of Defense. Then, the name of this support fund must be carefully considered.
"We've come up with six options," Secretary Weinberg said, "for example, Plan A, where the government buys your company outright, which has the advantage of allowing the Department of Defense to invest directly, but the disadvantage is that over-policing is counterproductive to our purpose." ”
"Then there's Plan B, where members of Congress say venture capitalists take a stake in your company, which is financing under the direct supervision of the government. Of course, the companies involved will definitely be insiders, but I can't divulge too much to you right now. ”
"And then there's Plan C......"
"Maybe we can sell some Treasury bonds privately. Alice interjected: "Three-month and six-month Treasury bills are auctioned every Monday, and as for the price, US Treasury bonds are hundreds of years old, of course you know very well." Just like option stocks, you can use the internal price for me to buy some before the auction, and then I can sell it after the auction to make the difference, won't that be enough to raise the money?"
Weinberg's eyebrows furrowed, "We haven't considered such a tactic, Mr. President?"
Although it was all about sending money to Alice, it was about the national debt, but it was much more complicated than a simple investment in the Department of Defense, and everyone immediately focused on Reagan.
"Treasury bonds," Reagan said slowly, "Alice, do you want to develop into the Wall Street realm?"
As if in a farce, the heads of the people at the table turned in unison, and they once again turned their eyes to the girl at the end.
"The power of finance is very scary," Alice smiled indifferently, "I know that if you want to go this route, you will inevitably have to say hello to a lot of Wall Street bigwigs, and the specific work in this regard can be left to me directly, as long as you have a House of Representatives with enough weight as an introducer." Mr. Weinberg ......"
She looked at the Secretary of Defense and said, "Maryland is so big, I believe that the current congressman, Mr. Ronal-Mark, must have close ties with Lockheed, and Congressman Congers of New York State must have a close relationship with Wall Street." With the two of them here, it should be easy to connect with each other, right?"
The soldiers may have been a little confused, but Reagan smiled more satisfied.
With two congressmen as a guarantee, the arms giant Lockheed is involved, and then it is vaguely revealed that this is the will of the higher echelons, and it is indeed possible to make the relevant investment banks cooperate with the actions of the Ministry of Defense. And during this whole process, Alice herself promised to deal with those bank tycoons herself, and she would inevitably have contact with the Ministry of Commerce, which is really a beautiful plan to kill two birds with one stone!
Networking is extremely important at all times, isn't it?
Weinberg, who came back to his senses immediately, and even the two generals present with four stars on their shoulders, nodded to Reagan.
She is indeed a girl worth cultivating, although the racial issue is worth paying attention to, but she is not a rootless person who has just studied on the other side of the ocean, or just received a green card to come to this capital.
Of course, the core reason for this must be the potential value of Cisco, and Alice's threat to the right people to play again.
Since IBM stabbed out in March last year, the Department of Defense certainly can't be idle. While the judiciary was harassing the company every now and then, the IT Security Department was desperately trying to strengthen the security of the military network and keep getting more follow-up investigation reports from the F.B.I. And in this whole incident, the role played by Cisco and Alice has become more and more obvious.
It is believed that if it weren't for Alice's suspicions through the company's orders, coupled with her own capable technical cooperation, no one would have been able to find out behind Microsoft's IPO. Moreover, if she hadn't exposed IBM, then the world's financial community would have been directly exposed to the company that had already plotted against it once!
Then, when the Defense Department's computer experts pored over all the details, they submitted a report to Weinberg and other executives.
First, Cisco's nationwide share of trial production, and data from other near-non-threatening peer companies.
Second, the program code of the Cisco product. According to the experts' reports, the quality of its products far exceeds that of its peers, and the degree of code refinement is far from comparable to the general level in the industry. And such a product and its code were made by Alice herself.
Third, the computer experts of the Department of Defense could hack into the Nasdaq exchange, but no one had ever thought of doing so before. In other words, before the 'firewall' product has been widely used, an entire Cisco company and even Alice herself can invade the world's financial markets anytime and anywhere. The concept and research and development of the firewall was proposed by Alice and Cisco was responsible.
So there is no doubt that this girl is simply more important than the president!
I really don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.
So the question is: is such a character obliterated, or is it to be fostered and co-opted?
Any politician will make the same choice, as long as he doesn't get kicked in the head by a donkey.
Well, yes, any politician, as for the other capitalists...... It seems that in the information technology industry, Alice herself is already a small big capitalist?
Well, well, the battle between the capitalists will be left to the capitalists, and the even politicians just have to pick up the thick thighs.
There's always more behind the scenes than there's in the foreground, and Alice doesn't know anything about what has to be told between the White House, Congress and the Pentagon for more than a year. Because she doesn't need to understand at all, because politicians can only woo the capitalists, and all she needs to pay attention to is the problems in the market.
So the agreement was settled, and the Treasury Bureau would be summoned by the president himself and say hello. Considering that the people buy Treasury bonds through financial institutions after all, Congressman Congers is also responsible for introducing Wall Street people to Alice, after all, only through the resale of bonds can the batch purchased at the internal price be sold at a high price, which is indispensable for the internal operation of the relevant institutions.
There was undoubtedly a lot of trouble in the process, because Alice made it clear that she wanted to use it as a springboard to get involved with Wall Street. Of course, the people in the Ministry of Defense have an indifferent attitude towards this kind of thing, because it is the president and parliamentarians who need to be busy, and they are only responsible for allocating funds.
As for the New York State Youth Councilman Congers, who has only been in office for two years, of course, he is happy to meet a tycoon like Alice, a leading company in an emerging industry, and it is too late to thank him.
And the bankers on Wall Street are also eager to get the IPO of Cisco, which has not yet been listed, who is not willing to do Alice such a favor?
President Reagan, who had a wishful thinking and analyzed such details, happily explained to his wife the things that had happened before and after on the night he returned home.
Of course, just when Reagan, who was returning home from work, had just returned to the White House from the Pentagon and talked about Alice to his wife and children, the girl herself sat at the dinner table at Vice President George H.W. Bush's home again.
"I know people on Wall Street!"
Bush Jr. raised his glass and said in a sharp voice: "You don't need to look for Congers, I have a lot of contacts on Wall Street, Citigroup, Bank of America, Mitsubishi JR branches, and ......."
"George, we need to give Congus a favor. ”
Bush Sr. sliced the steak slowly, there was a lot of pepper tonight, and the spicy smell could be smelled far away: "Our base is in Texas, and when Alice wants to make a cowboy movie, it's not too late for us to help." ”
"Oh, thank you, thank you, I actually have a lot of material about cowboy movies, and my father is an expert on American cowboy history. ”
Alice took a sip of fruit wine, and suddenly her eyes rolled: "By the way, George, since you said that you know a lot of people on Wall Street, Grayson & Company, do you know?"
"Grayson?"
It is indeed a well-known company, and Bush Jr. immediately found the right target: "Do you know Auguste Grayson's oil-investing company?"
"His son Conrad is my alumnus at EtonHouse, and he just graduated this summer, by the way, so is our family Maiya~"
is simply a good hand at changing the subject, Alice suddenly looked at Bush Sr. with bright eyes, and grinned: "Yes, yes, old George, do me a favor, I have a good sister who wants to go to West Point, you write her a letter of recommendation~"
"West Point?"
Bush Sr. smiled dumbly: "One of your ...... Girlfriends, that's a great girl. No problem, of course, just a letter of recommendation, do you want me to have Weinberg sign it again? I think he would be happy to do it. ”
Nonsense, the old lady just saved your little life, dare not sign, beware of the puppet with a chakra scalpel to cut off your hands and feet!
With such a belly in her mouth, and then took a sip of some fruit wine, Alice turned to look at Bush Jr., and withdrew the topic of crooked buildings: "Yes, yes, since we talked about Grayson, talk about your Bush oil losses?"
So, Alice was very satisfied to see that Bush Jr.'s eyes also lit up. (To be continued.) )