Chapter 55: Bundled Cooperation
"That's the way it is, it can be seen that this little boy has great ambitions, he wants to build high-rise buildings on flat land, maybe some experience in China has made him gradually arrogant, thinking that there are things in this world that can be obtained through hard work. www.biquge.info"In his subsequent report to the board of directors, Sandywell specifically talked about Li Mubai's character.
After only a few words, Li Mubai's image gradually plumped up in his mind, and the source is not big, which is enough to prove Sandywell's ability to recognize people, but to the point where he has made a simple judgment on people of the same level is just the most basic work.
Paul George smiled at Carl Anthony, the plenipotentiary of State Street Funds, Citigroup's largest fund shareholder, and said, "It seems that this is a difficult guy to deal with." ”
"It doesn't matter, anyway, we Daofu have a lot of experience in dealing with this kind of person, I don't believe that in this world, there is nothing that can't impress the stone, as long as he is still a person, he will definitely have weaknesses. Besides, the American Federation is by no means a small South Korea, and the example of Samsung is not enough to illustrate anything, and anyone who is secretly arranged by several large American conglomerates will end up like that. ”
Carl Anthony's words, let Paul George secretly relax, he was worried about the fate of Samsung Group, will make the board of directors have different voices, after all, in the past two days, the situation on Wall Street has become more and more dangerous, some large investment banks and financial services companies have begun to appear in various degrees of crisis, Citigroup is also involved, there are about $18 billion worth of bonds and real estate loans into a loop, if you can't quickly find a new performance growth point, may be the company's performance in the fourth quarter of the second half of the year, It will not be easy to bake.
It would even cause a sharp drop in Citi's stock price, which would cost Paul George's life, and even if the people behind him knew that it was a short-term loss caused by the financial crisis, they would put a hat on his head that was unfavorable and could not avoid risks for the company, and he knew this.
Therefore, reaching an agreement and cooperation with Orange Technology has become his most important work in the short term, because the latter has a rich cash flow of about 6 billion US dollars at this time alone.
But this requires them to be able to subdue Li Mubai in a short period of time and force the latter to agree to transfer the funds from Yuntong to Citigroup, otherwise it will be a castle in the air, which cannot be seen and touched.
"I'm very happy that you can say that, but what we have to do now is to reverse his attitude in a short period of time, otherwise when the financial crisis turns into an economic crisis, then Citigroup will be forced to reduce its business scale and give up some less important businesses, which will make our company's financial statements very ugly, and the rich people behind you will also have a lot of complaints about it." Paul George had a headache in the short period of time, and there wasn't much to spend his hands on.
"It's a pity that China is no longer the backward country that needed the help of Western capital in the 90s, otherwise we can force them to make concessions, so that Orange Technology must reach a cooperation with us." Carl Anthony misses China in the nineties of the last century, when their Western capital took the initiative in cooperation and almost responded to everything.
"yes, so we have to find a proper way to force him to give in, what do you think of Washington's decision-making interference?" Paul George thought of a way in the blink of an eye.
However, it was rejected by Carl Anthony and Sandwell at the same time, the latter shook his head and said, "This is unlikely, although the influence of Orange Technology in the United States is not very large, but their allies are by no means small companies that easily compromise, and the other side of the cooperation, Amex itself also has strong energy in the United States, rashly attacking such a cooperative alliance, it may not be them who suffer." ”
Carl Anthony also said, "Yes, although Washington's decision can delay the cooperation between the two countries, it cannot fundamentally veto the proposal of this cooperation, and even I think it will make the relationship between us worse and lead to the loss of the possibility of a second round of cooperation in the future." ”
The second round of cooperation he said is entirely possible, because as Orange Technology grows like Nokia Group, then they will not only cooperate with Yuntong on a global scale, whether it is to diversify investment and avoid risk avoidance, or to avoid a monopoly in the future, Li Mubai will not be able to hand over his overseas financial lifeline to a company, unless he will take the controlling stake or control of the entire Yuntong in his hands.
As long as the capitalist has money to make, he will not be hostile to a person who is bound to have a great future unless it is necessary, because it will cost them potential profits.
Paul George rolled his eyes, "So what should we do?" ”
"I think that we can use the cooperation between Intel and Orange Technology as a blueprint, and we can find a project bundle that the Chinese government urgently needs in exchange for the cooperation priority of Orange Technology." Sandy Will thought for a moment, then suddenly proposed.
They knew that in the East, there was a saying called taking care of the overall situation, or in other words, it was called political tasks, which were tasks that some people had to scruple about, otherwise they would be recorded in the black book, and one day they would have to settle accounts after the autumn.
"But where do we find a project that they desperately need? You must know that the military industry and high-precision machine tools and the like are all prohibited by Washington from being sold to Huaguo, plus this kind of sensitive technology, handed over to China on a small scale, they do not necessarily need it, and if it is large-scale, it will definitely be known by others, which is not a good choice. Karl Anthony asked, a little embarrassed.
Since Sandywell dared to speak, he was naturally confident, and he directly threw out a set of data, "10 years ago, China's steel industry was less than half of Germany's, but today, China's total steel output is higher than the total output of the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, plaster flag, France and other five countries, but according to the data provided by our financial company in China, China does not produce high-level iron ore, and more than half of its raw materials need to be imported from Brazil, Australia and Africa. The annual shortfall is more than 10 billion US dollars, and if we can find a large iron ore mine and hand it over to China, I believe they will be happy to accept this quid pro quo. ”
"But this is also contrary to Washington's policy, they can always demand that the world's resources be blocked, and the price of raw materials sold to China is raised as much as possible, if they are allowed to control a raw material base, will not be subjected to strong interference by Washington?" Although Paul George thinks this method is feasible, it may not be smooth on the Washington side.
"Compared with high-tech and high-precision technology, this kind of shoddy and inferior raw material base will not excessively attract the interference of the Washington audit committee, even if they interfere, this also happens abroad, we just need to find a country that can withstand the first round of interference by Washington." Sandy Wil laughed, he didn't take the restrictions of Washington into account.
He is a capitalist, if he can't make enough profits from his group, then the boss will definitely let him sweep away the floor and serve the interests of the United States, will the US government bring him hundreds of millions of dollars in income every year, as well as provide superior social rights?
With the support of enough profits, the capitalists behind him will make a decision with their butts, that is, to immediately find a raw material mining area that can be sold, sell it to Huaguo at a high price, and then take the opportunity to put forward a request for cooperation with Orange Technology, I believe that the other party will not hesitate too much, after all, Huaguo is waving money all over the world at this time to buy some high-quality mining areas and hoard them.
"Then let's do it!" After making a phone call and communicating with the forces behind him a little, Paul George immediately changed his attitude, anyway, if something happened, there was a group of capitalists behind him to deal with Washington, and it was best to win, and he didn't lose if he lost, didn't he.
Capitalists always move the fastest in the face of profits, but in just one day, they have found a perfect target from the world's major mining areas, that is, Australia's Rio Tinto Group, a super mining group with annual sales of up to $30 billion and pre-tax profits of up to tens of billions of dollars.
At the same time, it is also the world's second largest mining group and marine transportation group, and the most critical thing is that two months ago, Rio Tinto distributed about $26 billion in bonds through financial institutions led by Citigroup and JPMorgan Investment Bank to provide the company's acquisition of Alcoa Canada, which ultimately cost $38.1 billion, and after the completion of the acquisition, Rio Tinto Group became the world's largest aluminum group in one fell swoop.
At this time, Rio Tinto was busy digesting Alcoa in order to complete the internal transformation as soon as possible to cooperate with Rio Tinto's global development strategy, but only if it maintained good cooperative relations with the U.S. government and financial groups led by Citigroup.
Otherwise, the U.S. antitrust authorities could reopen the antitrust investigation, and if the investigation is confirmed, Rio Tinto will be liable for a fine of about $45 million per day until the antitrust commission rules that its operations are no longer suspected of violating monopoly laws.
As soon as Citigroup makes trouble and reaches an agreement with the financial groups on Wall Street, it can sell a large number of bonds that were originally eaten by them in the market, although this will cause certain losses, but for Rio Tinto, at the same time, a number of well-known financial groups sell their own bonds, which means that the company's credit in the market is completely bankrupt.
However, in order to force Rio Tinto to sell its Hammersley Iron Ore Company in Western Australia and Glasberg Copper Mine Company in Indonesia to Huaguo, Citigroup still took the lead in a full exchange of views with the capital group behind Rio Tinto.
After all, this is a transaction involving tens of billions of dollars, and even if Citigroup is in a hurry, it must be cautious, otherwise if there is an accident, it will lose their own money and time.
The largest holding group behind Rio Tinto is a US fund organization, and most of the shareholders behind it are tycoons involved in traditional energy and resources groups, but when faced with the behemoth of Citigroup, most people have also chosen to wait and see rather than recklessly oppose it.
Among them, the most influential is Hua Guo itself, because they are waving checks with no upper limit, and are preparing to sharpen their knives to the pigs and sheep.
Within the Rio Tinto Group, it has gradually begun to diverge, after all, through the news transmitted by Citi, there is no obstacle to the acquisition of this acquisition, that is to say, the US government is acquiescing, you must know that in today's world, the world's largest demand for iron ore is China, and the amount of iron ore he needs to import every year accounts for 60% of the world, and this data is likely to continue to rise in the future.
Rio Tinto is also preparing to strengthen its partnership with Huaguo in the near future, and the two sides have reached an agreement on the acquisition of Rio Tinto's UK branch, which is willing to eventually invest $12 billion to complete the acquisition of 12% of the shares.
Of course, they know that a steady stream of raw materials sold is worth more than a one-time sale, but if the difference is made up by a five-percent stake in Orange Technology's U.S. branch, that's perfectly acceptable.
Don't think that traditional energy companies don't envy the exaggerated profits of high-tech companies, especially the recently emerging Orange Technology, which has submitted more than 20,000 patents in the international patent organization, some of which have proven to be very promising, and the large American companies that have reached cooperation with it cover almost the entire technology industry giants, such a promising large company, with its sales in the entire North America, will not be less than $50 billion in the future, and 5% of the shares, Once the capitalists are allowed to carry out the financial operations, this is enough to bring in more than a billion dollars of net profits.
This is a world of difference compared to an iron ore origin region with annual sales of less than a billion US dollars.
"Tell the people at Citigroup that as long as we can get these original shares, and any financing will ensure our priority investment authorization in any case, then these mines can be handed over to Huaguo at any time, and the price is negotiable." No one is stupid, and as soon as the truth of the matter was confirmed, Rio Tinto reacted positively.
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