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There seemed to be no space in the whole fishbowl-like hall, and even the notes floating in the air had to take a lot of effort to squeeze into the center of the hall, and the sound of plates, chairs, human voices, shuttle footsteps, and the clanging of glass glasses seemed to be the noisy roar of a huge machine.

But there is a corner that is cut off from these glamours, full of tension, and the atmosphere of this circle of people is particularly silent under the huge crystal chandelier, but this is the place where countless people are watching, after all, the helmsman of Citi, Will Dimon, is standing here.

Most of the time he just exchanged pleasantries and shook hands, but in this circle, he stopped, and people noticed that the young man standing opposite Will Dimon was Cheng Xiaoyu, a popular Chinese director who was having an affair with Catherine Blanchett, the flower of America.

Although the public does not pay much attention, industry insiders know that Cheng Xiaoyu's "Voice of Rain" is seeking to acquire "EMI Baidai".

Hearing Cheng Xiaoyu's salty and non-indifferent display, not only Xiao He Dianxiong opened his mouth in shock and was speechless like a goldfish falling on the shore, but even Will Dimon and Andrew Ceylon, the president of Universal Music, who were standing on the side, suddenly heard such shocking news, not only in his heart, but also in his expression.

This is like playing cards in the four directions, Will Dimon is the banker, but the dealer is only out of a pair of three, and the next family Xiaohe Dianxiong only has a pair of five, Cheng Xiaoyu directly threw the king out of the bomb, this began to throw the bomb, it simply blew up Xiao He Dianxiong began to doubt life!

The "Sound of Rain" and "Xichu" founded by Cheng Xiaoyu are enough against the sky, who would have thought that he still has a "Xi Yu" in his hand that can be called a monster enterprise.

After a long silence, Will Dimon was the first to come back to his senses, he stared closely at Cheng Xiaoyu's handsome face, smiled and said again: "No wonder Mr. Cheng dares to bet on the 3D and IMAX business, he has such sufficient confidence..... It seems that Citi is going to upgrade the credit ratings of 'Xichu' and 'Voice of Rain'. ”

Cheng Xiaoyu hadn't spoken yet, and Xiao He Dianxiong, who had mixed tastes, had no face to continue to stay at this time, and he forcibly interjected to Will Dimon: "President Dimon, about the acquisition of 'EMI Baidai', I will wait for your call, I still have something to do, so I will leave first.....

After speaking, he shook his arm without waiting for Will Dimon to reply, and turned away directly, and the person who was listening to the side spilled red wine, and one stumbled and almost fell, but fortunately he was short and had a low chassis, and after standing firmly, he didn't even say sorry, and squeezed into the noisy crowd and disappeared.

Because of a little bit of wrong information, it led to Xiao He Dianxiong saying the wrong thing, and made him lose the courage to continue to stand here to listen to the news, which is a huge insult for him personally and Sony, but the business battlefield is like this, whoever has the capital is the uncle, "Sound of Rain" If there is really a "feather" behind it, "Citigroup" is easy to make a choice in front of "Sony", "Universal" and "Sound of Rain".

Those who do finance are more realistic than anyone else, and whoever can bring the greatest benefits will be chosen.

Norio Koga was not without gains, at least he knew what kind of enemy Sony was facing, but it made him even more desperate.

Andrew Ceylon, the president of Universal Music, didn't make excuses to leave, and even though EMI Momoyo was destined to be in the pocket of Sound of Rain, he had to hear what the young man who was even more legendary than the golden boy of Wall Street in front of him had to say.

Cheng Xiaoyu just glanced at Xiao He Dianxiong's penguin-like back and sighed and said: "Sony's decline is not unreasonable, once Sony was almost synonymous with neon and even the world's technology, and was the embodiment of innovation and quality. Before the Internet age, Sony was a giant in the tech world. Sony's success stems from Neon's craftsmanship, and Sony's failure also stems from their craftsmanship. They have always been obsessed with technology, investing in research and development of top products regardless of cost and trend, and ignoring marketing and customer needs, resulting in it producing the best products while suffering losses for many years. Although I always thought that Samsung's products were inferior to Sony, Samsung did marketing, and the annual advertising expenses reached a staggering tens of billions of dollars, so it came from behind, leaving Sony far behind, but despite Sony's paranoia of not paying attention to the situation, I still have a lot of respect for Sony as a persistent company. ”

Cheng Xiaoyu used to be a good member of Sony's Dafa, putting aside the national plot, he still loves the products of such a company, and Sony loses money every year, and even becomes insolvent, for many reasons, one is Neon's bureaucratic idea, and the shortcomings of management, the other is that the degree of enterprise diversification is too deep, and the product line is too long, from headphones, medical printers and virtual reality equipment, to home video recorders, televisions, cameras, mobile phones and other personal electronic products, there are more than 2000 products. These products are not related to each other, and it is difficult to form complementary advantages. To make matters worse, among the many products, Sony lacks a core product that is truly competitive.

Although Sony has long regarded mobile, digital imaging and games as its three pillar businesses, it has still not been able to get out of the quagmire, in Cheng Xiaoyu's impression that Sony is completely supported and maintained by the insurance business, and there is a joke in the industry, that is, Sony is the best insurance company for digital products.

I remember that after Kazuo Hirai took over Sony, he gradually divested Sony's non-core business, and even sold all the headquarters buildings in the United States and Neon, and the same thing is still happening in this world.

This has nothing to do with the historical trend, but is caused by the character of the neon people, just as it is inevitable that China will be able to rise sooner or later and compete with the United States for hegemony.

Will Dimon didn't expect Cheng Xiaoyu to treat Sony's competitor with such an attitude, so he paused for a moment, smiled and took two glasses of wine from the waiter's hand and handed Cheng Xiaoyu a glass and said, "With Mr. Cheng's mind, I want to toast you." ”

Cheng Xiaoyu took the wine glass, touched it with Will Dimon and drank it all, put down the empty wine glass and then said: "But this does not mean that I will live in peace with Sony, after all, there are too many overlaps in our business..... None of this has anything to do with revenge, I wonder what Mr. Will thinks of JPMorgan?"

Will Dimon didn't expect Cheng Xiaoyu to ask like this, shrugged his shoulders and said, "I've never heard anyone call me 'Avenger'. I think it would be a waste of my time to spend my life on revenge", and then Will Dimon smiled at Cheng Xiaoyu and said: "Look at Abraham Lincoln, look at Nelson Della, after more than 20 years in prison, he still maintains the faith and nobility of the year. Look at their experiences and you know you don't have to worry too much about yourself. ”

This time, Cheng Xiaoyu brought a plate of wine over and distributed it to the whole circle, including Andrew Ceylon, and then he raised his glass and said, "Let's toast to Mr. Will Damon's tolerance and generosity!"

Everyone smiled and drank it all, Cheng Xiaoyu put down the cup and said with a smile to Will Damon: "Mr. Will Damon, do you know why I spent such a big price to acquire 'EMI EMI'? Because I was also expelled by a company that is bigger and stronger like you, I need 'EMI Momodai' to prove that I can become the number one in the industry, and then look at them condescendingly like you, and then let go of my anger to show my tolerance and generosity..... I hope you can fulfill this little wish of mine, and Citi will win my friendship. ”

Will Dimon heard Cheng Xiaoyu's words and said with a smile: "I can't answer you about the acquisition for the time being, but I have a little experience in letting go of hatred, and after leaving JPMorgan Chase, I made a list for myself, which included ten things I wanted to do, such as learning boxing, driving across the United States, and reading history." The only thing that hasn't been achieved now is the climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. ”

"Mr. Will Damon, I think you seem to have forgotten one thing, that the day after you were promoted to Citibank, you called Sandy Lance, who had evicted you, about the Four Seasons Hotel, where the two used to have lunch. On the front page of the Financial Times on December 17, 2001, the day after you met, in addition to reporting on the war between Russia and Chechnya and the record-breaking trade deficit, there was also a special report on 'The End of the Fight Between Will and Sandy'.

Chen Haoran on the side carefully whispered, Chen Haoran spent a lot of money to buy all the news about Will Dimon from a reporter of a financial newspaper, including some very secret news that was not reported by the newspaper, the result of that conversation was not as pleasant as the newspaper reported, he thought that Will Dimon must have dreamed of how to break JPMorgan Chase, although this is not realistic, but he at least wanted JPMorgan Chase to give in and expel Sandy Lance from the board of directors of JPMorgan Chase.

Will Dimon glanced at Chen Haoran and said lightly: "I didn't expect Mr. Chen Haoran to know me so well, to be honest, I am not willing to talk more about the past......" Then he turned to Cheng Xiaoyu and said: "Mr. Cheng Xiaoyu will not tell you, before this, I was more inclined to sell EMI to 'Sony' and 'Universal', the reason I think you understand is that the pressure from European regulators to sell to" The Sound of the Rain didn't do much good to them, but now that I've heard about you and me, I've changed my mind, and I'm more than happy to help you get EMI, but my willingness alone won't help, I'll have to convince the Citi board members, after all, it's too big than a deal, but if you can help me solve a problem- Citi's business in China is doing so badly that not only Citi, but all foreign banks in China are gradually being marginalized compared to Chinese banks...... If Mr. Cheng can help me in this regard, I think EMI Momoyo must be in the bag of 'Sound of Rain'....."