Chapter 708: Behind the Scenes
An office in a building on Wall Street, USA. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½fo
A gray-haired man holding a glass of wine stands by a floor-to-ceiling window, looking downstairs at the street and pedestrians.
On the sofa on one side, there were two men, both of whom looked at the gray-haired man from time to time, and then looked at each other from time to time, obviously waiting for the man to say something.
After a while, the gray-haired man drank the wine in his glass, couldn't help coughing a few times, and then said, "So, they may retaliate against us?"
The two men sitting on the sofa looked at each other again, and one of them said: "They have not stopped recruiting lawyers, according to the statistics of the bar association, they now have three law firms, a total of 66 senior lawyers, and they have reached agreements with various universities that a total of 100 law students will enter these three law firms for internships every year." β
Another man answered: "With such a large and diverse resource of lawyers, they can find any of our weaknesses and strike at will when we are negligent. β
The gray-haired man closed his eyes, pinched the bridge of his nose, nodded and said, "So, they have signs of retaliating against us?"
The two men on the sofa looked at each other again and reiterated the point of view of the two just now: "Not for the time being, but they may retaliate at any time, and we are not prepared at all." β
The gray-haired man lowered his hand, frowned and shook his head, "There are some things you don't know, Titan will not confront us in court." β
A man on the couch argued, "But, as the number of bankrupts increases, they can find someone willing to be a plaintiff at any time." β
The gray-haired man waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, they won't use this kind of method that seems to have results, but in fact will increase the hatred between the two sides." β
The two on the couch looked at each other, and one of them asked, "Is there some news we don't know?"
The gray-haired man crossed to the desk, opened the cigar box, threw one to each of them, lit one himself, took a hard puff, and said as he puffed on his cigarette: "Yes, but you better not ask, rest assured, they will not use the bankrupt to make trouble with us." Whether it is financial capital or real capital, in fact, they have done a lot of things that are detrimental to the interests of the American people, and everyone knows that Wall Street has actually been pushed to the forefront as a scapegoat, so even if we have some contradictions with the Titan group in the past, they will definitely not be difficult for us at this time. β
Although the two people on the sofa got cigars, they didn't light them, and when they heard the gray-haired man say this, they nodded to each other, and one of them asked, "Although this is the case, what are they doing to expand the size of the lawyer's group on a large scale? You must know that it takes a lot of money to raise a lawyer, and it also needs the support of a large database." β
The gray-haired man realized that neither of them had lit a cigar, and while handing the lighter to the two, he said: "To be honest, I don't know what they plan to do, we have already seen the ability of their lawyer team when we were in Detroit before, and this time we took advantage of the collapse of many cooperative law firms to attract a lot of people, which is really puzzling." But, as I said, in the current climate, they won't do anything against us. β
Seeing this, the two people on the sofa looked at each other again, one of them obviously wanted to leave, and the other stopped him, and helped him light his cigar, and said: "In any case, we think that the expansion of the three law firms controlled by the Titan group should be taken seriously, even if they are not aimed at us, I am afraid they are also targeting other things." Now that much of our energy is preoccupied by the new president's intention to restructure financial regulation, it's easy to overlook other issues, even with other bills in Congress, that we should be vigilant about. β
The gray-haired man's eyes were still empty, but obviously he heard the conversation just now, waved his hand and said, "Well, now most of our energy is used to deal with this crisis and discuss the allocation of rescue funds, and we don't have to pay attention to other directions, and we really don't have the energy to pay attention." But don't forget, the Congress is also keeping an eye on such a huge bailout plan, and if we interfere with other people's efforts to persuade Congress, then they may also interfere with us through Congress, so let's just treat it as if we haven't seen anything. β
The two people on the sofa looked at each other and nodded, and for a moment, except for the sound of smoking, the whole office seemed very quiet.
The gray-headed man with blank eyes came back to his senses and asked the two frowning people on the sofa, "Is there anything else?"
The two nodded, and one of them said: "According to the terms of the bailout plan agreed by the president before, we also want to follow up and praise China's propaganda plan, but the funds withdrawn from the financial investment channel a while ago have been invested in the field of agricultural product trading, which will cause global food prices to rise and cause famine in many regions." β
"Hmm, didn't we say it at the beginning, China has a population of 1.3 billion, and it is Chinese to advertise to the people of the world, especially in the famine areas, that they eat too much......" The gray-headed man was stunned and frowned: "Oh, you really can't advertise it like this now, damn Chinese......"
Another man on the couch said: " In fact, not only us, all financial institutions are transferring funds to the agricultural products and raw material markets, this is the only market that can guarantee that the funds will not shrink off a cliff, the raw materials are just there, the field of agricultural products is not good, Africa began to have a large-scale reduction in grain production since the year before, and it has not recovered until now, if the price of agricultural products continues to rise due to the influx of funds at this time, sooner or later someone will find out about the financial industry, now obviously can not offend the Chinese, but we can not find a scapegoat, which is more dangerous than the previous bank bankruptcyγ β
The gray-headed man frowned and paced around the office, while smoking his cigar fiercely, and said for a long time: "Let our people not have to create a gimmick that the Chinese are rising food prices, but let the Japanese news media hype it, by the way, push up the price of food for Japan by one percent, so that the Japanese people can also empathize, so that when the Japanese media report it, there will be more supporters." β
The two men on the sofa nodded when they heard this, and one of them said: "This is a good way, but will the Chinese see that we are pushing this matter?"
"Let the Japanese make documentaries, use the form of documentaries to tell the world that Chinese, well, they also happened to hold a grand Olympics, the global economic crisis, they are still holding the Olympics, I heard that the athletes who went to China praised the Chinese catering supply is very rich, just through the Japanese documentary, let the black pot throw the Chinese." The gray-headed man said.
"Well, this is okay, but the question is whether it will conflict with the White House's plan, after all, we continue to rescue the market, and we also need the help of Chinese to stabilize." β
The gray-headed man shook his head categorically and said: "No problem, Japan is China's old enemy, let them frame the Chinese, the Chinese will not suspect us, even if the White House knows, we can explain the past, after all, the White House cannot completely stand with the Chinese, after all, it is the White House of the United States, not China." β
The other two nodded, and at this time, one of them suddenly said: "Over there of the Industrial Capital Group, our people have been unable to get through the floating island, and a few environmentally friendly ships funded have been inexplicably wrecked before they can get close, although there is a US Navy nearby, but they don't seem to be able to see it, and now more than 30 people have died." β
"None of the boats on the island are sunk, but they are still wearing life jackets, right?" asked the gray-headed man.
"We could communicate before the ship sank, but after the ship sank, we couldn't know what was going on, and the only thing we knew was that those people didn't come back after they went to sea. The man who spoke hesitated for a moment, and then added, "I suspect that they were all killed by the men of Onclaude or Titan." β
The gray-headed man frowned and said, "What about the fishing boats? Didn't you also arrange for the fishing boats to go there to catch fish and observe them closely?"
The man who spoke shook his head and said: "The U.S. fleet warned all approaching fishing boats by radio, saying that military training is underway and fishing boats are prohibited from approaching. β
"Shameless ......," the gray head scolded.
"It can't be helped, it's the high seas, and the joint naval exercises between Venezuela and the Russians have made regional militarization operations in the Caribbean the norm. β
"Damn Venezuela, give me all the money that comes from Venezuela to buy food, and make their food supply system completely collapse in two years. The gray-headed man understood that if it weren't for that military exercise, Titan and Unclaude would not have been so tightly protected by the U.S. military, and even with them, when they were in Detroit, Titan would not have had a chance to get out of the way, and of course, they would not have the strength to show that bloody method in France......
Another man on the sofa said at this time: "We can't help Titan, after all, it is a resource consortium that some people in the diplomatic group have deliberately created, otherwise there will be no focus on building a special law firm from the beginning, and the diplomatic group has a very good relationship with the navy and the air force, and has a network of many intelligence agencies such as Langley and NSA, it is still easy to ensure that Titan's rise is not interfered by foreign forces in the early stage, after all, they are very experienced in interfering with other countries." But after all, they are highly diplomatic, and when Titan continues to expand, there will definitely be a breakdown, and what we are best at is to seize the key points to make profits, so there is no need to worry, even if that floating island is really full of business opportunities, do they really know how to develop capital? β
The gray head and the other man both nodded, and the gray head man clapped his hands and said, "No matter what, we must immediately spread the plan to Tokyo to shoot the documentary, and use the confidential communication network." One of the most important things now is to stop losses, and the other is to compete for a share of the bailout funds, and as for Titan and Un Claude, there are indeed opportunities in the future. So be it. β
The two people on the sofa felt that things were almost over, so they got up and said goodbye and left the office, one of them said before leaving: "Actually, don't worry too much about Titan, they seem to have a lot of conflicts with traditional industrial groups, they are building a new special tactical training base in Nevada, and the people of the military industrial group seem to be very dissatisfied, and the Pentagon also helps the military industrial group sell some weapons on SOFEX in order to balance." β
The gray-headed man nodded and said, "God, everyone knows that it is a covert subsidy of industrial capital by Congress in the form of special appropriations, even if the Pentagon does not recommend it, the military-industrial complex still has money to make." β
Another man nodded: "There are subsidies in industry, agriculture and even the service industry, and our financial industry has become a lamb to the slaughter, as long as there is a chance, anyone will come and stab us, this is too unfair." β
The gray-headed man smiled bitterly: "Even if we want to apply for subsidies, Congress will not pass it, so it is only right to take advantage of the fact that the president is presiding over the bailout plan this time, and find a way to win more from the bailout funds." β
The other two nodded, and with a little anger and fighting spirit, turned and left.
After closing the door, the gray-headed man poured himself a glass of wine, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, looked at the street downstairs, frowned and muttered, "Can you cause a bloody case in Paris...... Who is behind the scenes?"
After saying that, the gray-headed man fell into deep thought......