Chapter 388: What Do You Love!
Kasang, who described the Conservative Cabinet's trickery and deception against the Xu family, as a well-intentioned cover-up, believed that the final outcome was something that both sides were happy to see. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The first half of this defense is hypocritical, and the second half is the truth.
The Conservatives manipulated the entire British public and political opponents, placing The-Shun Famliy on suspicion of having already defected to the British Empire and working for the Empire and the Queen.
If one thinks of the special friendship between the The-Shun family and former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, people would really believe it.
By exploiting this political suspicion, the Conservatives can accuse the Labour Party of undermining Britain's national interests in order to manipulate public opinion.
Party strife, party strife.
Politicians have the tricks of politicians, and businessmen have the tricks of businessmen.
Xu Teng also deceived Ka Xiang, he deceived Ka Xiang, secretly revealed a secret, his family is withdrawing a part of the US investment, about 140 billion US dollars, hoping that the Conservative Cabinet will quickly find a way to find some good projects with good returns for him.
This is a typical Chinese-style scam, but it has been tried and tested, and the local government in China has repeatedly fallen for it, and the United Kingdom is not immune.
Xu Teng did draw $140 billion from the United States, of which $40 billion was transferred from the shadows to the light to become the "World University Student Entrepreneurship Fund", and the other part was to fulfill his investment commitments in the United Kingdom, invest in high-tech industries, and complete the nuclear power renewal plan of British energy companies.
For a good capitalist, the movement of funds is always very flexible.
As long as the Conservative Cabinet can create a suitable project, although Xu Teng does not have a second $140 billion, he can always figure out a way to do things for 1 pound and 3 pounds.
This is the deception of merchants.
When Xu Teng left Downing Street in the burgundy Rolls-Royce Gstor, Ka Xiang couldn't wait to convene an urgent meeting of cabinet ministers - looking for projects overnight, and manufacturing projects if there were no projects.
Stupid humans.
Businessmen are stupid, politicians are stupid, and the people are even more stupid.
Politicians deceive businessmen, businessmen deceive politicians, and when necessary, they deceive the people together.
The United States has personally led the decline of the two superpowers, and now the American elite has witnessed the tragic tragedy of the Soviet Union's decline, and they will not allow it even if there is only a 10% chance that the United States will do so.
Therefore, once the United States finds out and realizes that The-ShunFamliy and the Huayin Consortium will do more harm than good to the United States, they will definitely be able to build consensus in a short period of time, break their wrists, and cut down the roots.
In order to prevent this extreme situation, the Xu family is constantly changing the capital registration place to the United Kingdom, and changing it to the investment of British capital in the United States.
The Conservative Party's deception is actually quite deceptive to the United States...... Which side is The-ShunFamliy on? Is it really a friendly army?
Some people always say that the biggest decision-making mistake of the Rothschilds is to give up investing in the American market, the truth of history is not so, when the United States won the Revolutionary War, the first European capital consortium to offend Britain and extend a hand of friendship to them was the Rothschilds.
For the first forty years of American independence, the Rothschilds controlled the banking industry in the United States, the equivalent of today's Federal Reserve, until President Wilson took office, and they supported President Wilson, and President Wilson's reward was to destroy all the Rothschilds' privileges and investments in the United States.
As President Wilson declared in his farewell address, his greatest achievement during his presidency was the kicking of the Rothschilds out of the United States, his greatest political legacy.
An untold piece of history is that the Rothschilds also provided financing services to Nazi Germany, just as American conglomerates once provided huge loans to Nazi Germany, the Freemasons and the Jewish Presbyterian Elite...... These are just stupid and boring conspiracy theories.
If there really is a devil in this world, it is the first person to create the concept of money for mankind.
By the end of World War I, the Rothschilds had lost most of their wealth, leaving only two branches, Britain and France, controlling two private banks that lacked influence.
After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and Italy embarked on a wave of nationalization, until Mitterrand nationalized all the banks in France, and they almost completely lost everything.
Today, they are asset advisors to the British royal family, as well as to other special families, providing confidential and thoughtful financing services to many companies, as they are one of the very few private investment banks in the world.
They are not as good as Goldman Sachs and Morgan, they don't have as much influence and power, but they can keep everything secret.
On their list of clients, The-ShunFamliy is the most special one.
In April 1998, when Mr. Xu arrived in the United Kingdom to visit Sir Jacob de Rothschild with a certain kind of worship, the result of the meeting was actually a deep disappointment for Mr. Xu.
Mr. Xu was surprised to find that the Rothschilds did not have much money at all, and Sir Jacob Rothschild was confused about the cooperation he proposed and the huge amount of capital required.
However, this unsatisfactory meeting still kicked off a long-term cooperation between the two families.
Over the past decade, Rothschild Bank has been the most important financial service provider and M&A advisor for most of The-ShunFamliy's and the Huayin consortium's acquisitions in Europe, providing clients with the best professional advice and analysis, selecting the best M&A targets, and ensuring that most of the M&A is successful and achieves the goals that The-ShunFamliy wants to achieve.
For every €10 million worth of acquisitions, they earn an average of 4 percent in return, and they share up to €450 million in commissions with UBS for the acquisition of Syngenta by Yongtai Chemical.
In the most important British Phoenix Capital Group, they still hold a firm 12% stake in the founders, and Sir Jacob de Rothschild not only serves as a director of the company himself, but also invited former Bank of England Governor Eddie George to serve as the group's second chairman.
It was during the chairman's tenure that the British Phoenix Capital Group finally won several real big business, becoming the controlling shareholder of the British Energy Company, Vodafone Telecom, and the largest shareholder of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Now, this is really a British capital consortium.
Xu Teng returned to Regent's Park 16# and saw Mr. Jacob Rothschild who had been waiting for a long time, who was discussing with Mr. Xu and drinking afternoon tea.
Like the Rothschilds in the 19th century, The-ShunFamliy was forced to split into two parts, one British and the other Chinese.
The former controls the British Phoenix Capital Group, and the latter controls the Huayin Consortium.
By the end of 2012, the Huayin Consortium was already the largest Chinese consortium in Europe, with a cumulative direct investment of 104 billion euros, while Phoenix Capital Group's cumulative direct investment in Europe was 53 billion euros.
London in winter is much colder than Xu Teng expected, but after all, it is shrouded in the warm current of the Atlantic Ocean, which is better than the winter in Jiangzhou, and you don't even need to wear a down jacket, a thick tweed coat and a slightly thicker cashmere sweater are basically enough.
What's more, whether he is out or at home, there are warmer high-tech underfloor heating systems everywhere.
Although the latitude is about the same, the weather in Western Europe is indeed better than in China, even in the legendary "fog capital" London, there are many more sunny days than Jiangzhou and Huzhou.
Mr. Xu's sentiment is mainly that business in Europe is not good, with more investment and less returns.
This is not a unique sentiment of the Xu family, Mr. Jacob de Rothschild can hear similar sentiments in all his clients, but The-ShunFamliy is one of the very few capital families who are still willing to invest their money in the industrial field.
No.
The Xu family's M&A transactions in the industrial sector have largely ended, and even if there are large-scale mergers and acquisitions in the future, it will only be for the European financial industry.
The weather outside was good, and there was no cold wind in the evening.
Mr. Xu and Mr. Jacob Rothschild have been good friends for many years, and decided to go out for a walk, in the surrounding open meadows and forests, Xu Teng did not shirk this proposal and followed them to spread.
This area of Regent's Park is home to 22 mansions surrounded by the entire Regent's Park, and almost all of London's most important wealthy families live in this particular area, with the Rothschilds owning a smaller villa as well.
There are seven hereditary nobles in the British tradition, except for the family of Gerald Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster VI, who are almost typical of having houses and no money, and they also have the glory of the days when the sun never sets, and their grandfathers, or great-grandfathers, were prime ministers of the British Empire.
Since 2005, the Xu family has lived here, often funded parties, and tried to integrate into this class, from the initial estrangement and rejection, contempt, to pivotal, to have real power, Xu spent 7 years.
Then, he's really old, too.
In Xu Teng's memory, his father is still the same bombastic look, but life is always changeable, and Mr. Xu, who is nearly sixty years old, has gradually understood the true meaning of elegant life - silence is golden.
Xu Teng once heard Mei Jiali say that Xu spent a long time trying to figure out Anthony Hopkins' performance...... This gave Xu Teng a new life experience, sometimes life makes you a certain type of person.
When you're a student, you're like a student, and when you're a robber, you're like a robber.
Xu Teng actually misses the father who spent hours with customers in order to sell a second-hand car, he is good at pretending and very real, and now Mr. Xu may be more real, enjoying a twilight life that is getting old and doesn't need to say too much.
Mr. Xu's mother can live in China, or she can always be on Bishop Hill in Macau, enjoying superior treatment, but she chose to live in the UK and enjoy her old age, more out of a yearning for developed countries and an indescribable climbing mentality.
They did not think about defeating foreign capital...... Because they discovered early on that capital has no borders, they thought they were enlightened, but in their inner world, foreign capital always represents the pinnacle of the world, and they want to be part of this pinnacle.
Ten years ago, when they first arrived in England, they had been treated with contempt, and it took them a few years to make real friends, and like friends in the senior club, with Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Grosvenor and Mr. Jacob de Rothschild being their best old friends.
They do business together, lament the aging of the body together, and lament the indifference of their children together, they help Mr. Xu and Xu's mother integrate into the high-level society in London, introduce more friends, and do more ambitious business.
It's all based on an important foundation...... The-ShunFamliy has wealth that ordinary people can't understand, as well as special power in the Chinese market, which is something that ordinary Hong Kong and Macau consortiums don't have, Li Jiacheng and Cheung Kong have also been trying to expand their investment in Europe in recent years, and even intervened in the acquisition of Vodafone, but unfortunately they have not competed with the Xu family.
European capital consortia actually know China very well, and they know very well that Li Jiacheng's shareholding or acquisition of these companies cannot effectively help these companies expand their interests in the Chinese market, and in fact, they cannot provide more capital to safeguard the long-term interests of enterprises.
After the Phoenix Capital Group, which is controlled by the Xu family behind the scenes, took a stake in Imperial Chemical, it was able to help Imperial Chemical pass the PET investment approval project in China with a phone call, just to be a joint venture with Yongtai Chemical.
In 2005, AstraZeneca Group, a joint venture between Imperial Chemical and Astra, encountered a very complicated trouble in the domestic market, with several batches of respiratory anesthetics and anti-cancer drugs having problems in a row, and there were also accidents.
In the end, Mr. Xu personally returned to China to deal with it, found many provincial leaders, suppressed the matter first, and then returned to China to check what went wrong.
The most powerful thing about the Xu family is that at the media level, at the government level, all aspects are very silent, and the scope of reporting is also very small.
This kind of ability is not available to Hong Kong and Macao consortia.
For example, soon after the Xu family invested in Vodafone behind the scenes, they were able to provide huge financing to help Vodafone reverse its merger with its old rival BT Telecom, and Vodafone officially launched the merger and acquisition of Mobistar, the second largest telecom operator in Belgium, this year, behind which AIG and Intertrust International jointly provided financing services.
There are many more of these things, basically, every time Mr. Xu returns to China, he has to deal with some small troubles for the business of these European consortiums in China.
The-ShunFamliy's transcendent position in London and Europe is slowly rising in this way, in fact, these consortia don't know, and some things are deliberately arranged by Mr. Xu...... How were AstraZeneca's accidents exposed by CCTV, and how were they blocked by more than a dozen provincial pharmaceutical groups, the water inside is deep!
Let's put it this way, since he officially entered London in 2002, spent a lot of money to buy a house and a club, and was still looked down upon by the old Europe, Mr. Xu raised a group of people in China, specializing in collecting the problems of these foreign-funded enterprises everywhere.
Mr. Xu's cunning, the kind of bad and dark belly of Chinese businessmen, old Europe still doesn't understand it.
In the past few years, Mr. Xu has slowly "run in", and Mr. Xu is very good in the UK, although he is not fluent in English as always, he always has to bring a voice translator like a hearing aid, and some very rigorous occasions must also bring a translation assistant.
In fact, Mr. Xu does not have a particularly strong mentality of returning to his roots, his generation is still very yearning for Europe, and in the years in London, he is also very satisfied with all aspects of life, especially after Mei Jiali added a grandson and a granddaughter to the Xu family, Mr. Xu's mother has no intention of returning to China.
There are also some Chinese billionaires in Mr. Xu's life circle, most of them are Hong Kong businessmen, who moved to London with their families 97 years ago, and some of the third generation of red who live in London, and some rich second generations in China, gather near Regent's Park and often come and go.
Objectively speaking, Mr. Xu's life circle and Xu Teng's life circle have not overlapped much, they went to the south in 94, Hong Kong in 97, moved to Macau in 2001, and began to live in London slowly in 2005.
This is like the song sings, where the fallen leaves that go with the flowing water, where will they go in the end, fall with the wind, and flow with the water.
They are like nomads in international capital, who go with the capital, and finally come to the oldest financial capital, live here, settle here, survive the initial discomfort, and slowly become the new masters here.
From 2005 to 2012, Mr. Xu sponsored more than 70 British NGOs and local public welfare organizations in London, they don't want to live the old age of square dancing and tai chi, they want to live this kind of life of being at the top of the world, they want this kind of luxurious and noble aristocratic life.
They traveled all the way through Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, and New York, and finally came to the source of world colonialism, where they lived in London, where the sun never sets, and settled down here.
A generation has a generational idea.
Especially Mama Xu, compared to the kind of domestic aunt who even has a good toilet in Japan, Mama Xu, who is about the same age, is much wiser, after all, there is too much gap in vision, wealth and social status.
Xu Ma will not say that China is good for everything, nor will she say that Britain is good for everything, the concept of "Britain" is a bit big for Xu Ma and has nothing to do with her.
If someone told Mama Xu how bad China was, Mama Xu would respond with a cold face, and then tell her British butler not to invite such idiots to participate in the charity events she and Mrs. Grosvenor held in the future.
Xu's mother will only tell Xu Teng that her mother lives very well in London, which is much more interesting than in Macau, and the only advantage in Macau is that there is no shortage of people to play mahjong, unlike in London, where there is a lack of one at every turn.
The most annoying thing is that there are two missing two, and there is not even a hope.
According to Xu's mother, her biggest contribution to Sino-British cultural exchanges is to teach many noble ladies in London to play mahjong.
Recently, the Crown Prince's second wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, has also been a frequent visitor.
As long as you have the title of Duchess, Xu Ma is very enthusiastic, if you can play mahjong, it will be better, you get along like sisters, no, teach by hand, until the meeting is held.
Murdoch's wife Deng Wendi doesn't come often, and she has a good relationship with Xu's mother, a sister.
Deng Wendi has a leg with the former Prime Minister of the Labor Party.
An old girlfriend like Xu's mother has known about it for a long time, and she has helped to cover it, Murdoch called her and asked her wife, Xu's mother said very methodically, don't look for it, play mahjong with me.
Xu Teng has spent a lot more time with his parents in the past few years than before, but when he tells the truth, he actually feels more and more unfamiliar, and the gap between him and his parents in his memory is too far.
He sometimes can't imagine that Xu's mother moved to Hong Kong at the age of 35 to start learning English, and it is said that she hired 4 tutors before and after, and studied for more than ten years.
As a child, Xu Teng can only say that his parents are happy.
Generation after generation thinks, Mr. Xu's mother is this kind of goal, and she has worked hard for more than ten years, just like Deng Wendi, she finally climbed to this position, what a pity if she doesn't live in London.
In the past five years, she has been ranked in the top three of the world's top ten wealthy ladies, Deng Wendi is also fifth, and the second wife of the crown prince, Madame Camille, may be too unloved by the British and has long been relegated to sixth.
The first and second places on this list, in the past two years, have basically been the competition between Xu Ma and Xia Li, in contrast, Xu Ma is much more high-profile, and dozens of charity events are organized in the UK every year.
Especially for those charity activities held by the royal family, Xu Ma has always had to go to the venue, and the donation auction is even more ruthless, who dares to steal her limelight.
Compared with Xu Ma, who is more than half a hundred years old, but frequently attends various high-class social activities and shows off all kinds of luxurious dresses, Xia Li is simply an otaku, the door is not out, and the second door is not stepping.
People say that Chinese aunts are so bold that they dare to wear anything, which is true, especially Xu Ma, Xu Teng has arranged seven top designers for her mother, at least 3 of them were scared away by Xu Ma, disgusted that the design is not noble enough, and does not show the identity and temperament of the first lady of The-ShunFamliy.
Xu Teng thought that Xu Ma used to work hard to help several small factories with the accounts of several small factories every year in order to make up for his tuition and help him save for a down payment on a house, which was really a bit schizophrenic.
Xu Teng followed Mr. Jacob de Rothschild and Mr. Xu to walk in the woods of Regent's Park, looking at the seventy-year-old London veteran investment banking tycoon, bowing his head and saying nothing, Mr. Xu's figure was a little fat, his gray hair was thinning day by day, and he was wearing a rigorous black three-piece suit, and if he held a cigar in his hand, he was basically a copy of Churchill.
It was getting late, and the last rays of sunlight disappeared into the woods.
Mr. Xu suddenly remembered something and asked Xu Teng, "When can Xia Li come over?"
"In another month, the kindergarten holiday will come. Xu Teng roughly calculated, "It may be too late in time, I'll ask her to come over early." ”
"I'm not asking you about the award, they British people think it's more important to this matter, let's ...... It's better for the party and the government to issue a grand prize!" Mr. Xu was a little emotional, suffering from gains and losses.
In 2008, the British royal family and the then Labour Party cabinet considered awarding the medal to President Xu, and at that time it was said that it was a knighthood of KBE in place, which translates to the knighthood of the knighthood.
Ferguson and Li Moumou are all at this level, and when they reach this level, they are SIR, which can be called Jazz.
Because domestic laws and regulations do not allow foreign governments to award medals to Chinese citizens, Mr. Xu thought twice at the time, so he refused this matter, and there were more things in the year before 1990.
In 2000, XX went to the UK secretly again and accepted the KBE award as a real knight.
This KBE award is not a medal, just go through the motions, many times the royal family members just testify, the KBE award is the Queen of England, or the prince holds the sword on behalf of the award, you have to perform a knightly salute, kneel down on one knee and swear allegiance...... In the same year, the former Prime Minister of Canada also awarded the KBE Commander Medal, and the current Canadian government at that time did not allow him to go, and finally the Canadian High Court directly ruled that the Queen of England awarded the medal to Canadian citizens unconstitutionally, because although Canada is a member of the British Commonwealth, it has been completely independent, and its citizens are not allowed to accept foreign governments and royal awards, and KBE is a very official queen award.
There is no news about this matter in China, and many public information avoids talking about it, but in Hong Kong, he is the only rich man who dares to accept the award after 97 years, and he is the only one who dares to accept the award of this level in the entire Hong Kong high society after 97 years.
So, later, everyone understands.
Why did he gradually transfer his assets to the UK, quite simply, where could he go?
Many media don't understand, saying that he is not optimistic about the future economic development of the mainland, nonsense, he has no opportunity to invest in the mainland at all, after 2000, how many decent plots of land did he buy in the mainland?
What kind of property did he buy, what kind of company did he buy? From electricity and water to ports, did he have a chance?
Let's put it this way, many people came forward to persuade him not to go, because the impact was very bad, very bad, very bad.
Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if you are heart-to-heart, after all, you didn't dare to make it public, right, you can't eat my food and smash my pot...... What's more, Lao Tzu treats you well!
That's why, before Mr. Xu became naturalized in the UK, Mr. Xu Teng and Mr. Xu had to go to the embassy one after another to explain clearly.
It's really not unpatriotic, and the business is doing this, and I can't help myself.
The Xu family wants to continue to expand investment in the United Kingdom and Europe, and use the United Kingdom as a springboard to control assets in the United States and protect their trillions of dollars in assets.
In Xu Teng's words, our Xu family has definitely not transferred assets from China, and has always used overseas investment income to continuously expand new investments overseas, because overseas investments, especially in Europe, basically do not make much money.
If we were not to accelerate the industrial upgrading of the country, we would never have been guilty of losing money in Europe and picking up rags.
If you want to make money, you still want to make money in China and the United States, but to make money in the United States, the risk of the Xu family's Chinese-funded background is too great.
Including this time Mr. Xu's award, if you don't pass it on, don't pass it on, just forget it if the British themselves are happy.
The British are sure to be high, just like when XX awarded the KBE Commander Medal, Mr. Xu's mother is much more powerful than this one, and according to Downing Street, this is the majestic strategy of the British Empire, and the world's first wealthy family has long defected to the British Empire.
There are many tabloid reporters and paparazzi in the UK, and during this time, hundreds of reporters are guarding outside the 16# gate of Regent's Park every day, and hundreds of photos are clicked when someone goes out, and every move is a variety of newspaper headlines.
Every time Xu Teng went to Downing Street, whether it was No. 10 or No. 11, those reporters were stuck in the road and chased after him.
The status of those rich people in Hong Kong in the United Kingdom is really not high, what is the matter with the money - many of the top rich people in the colonies and India, such as the Tata family, have been living in the United Kingdom, and they have held British nationality for several generations, and they are still not taken seriously.
British, the British media are reluctant to treat them as real Britons in their bones, and the rich people in Russia and Sweden are different, as long as they are naturalized, they are British rich.
To put it bluntly, Europa racism of the Anglo-Saxons.
The-ShunFamliy。
Xu Jiazhen is a very special existence, so special that the British feel that they want to kneel on the keyboard...... On the other hand, in the past few years, the world economy has been in a long-term downturn, and China's power has suddenly become stronger, including a transcendent status like the five permanent members of the Security Council.
The Xu family's status in the British upper class is transcendent, and the country's strength has a very close relationship, in the British media reports, the Xu family is China's Rockefeller family, there is nothing that cannot be handled, just like an alien family in this world.
Mr. Xu took cover photos for The Times and The Economist Weekly, and the editor-in-chief always chose the most imposing ones among the many photos, because they were more in line with their reports on the wealth and strength of the Xu family.
To put it bluntly, the Xu family has been inherited in the UK for 5 generations, and they will still not be regarded as "Europeans" by the British and the media, let alone "British", even if they are rich, even if they have a close relationship with the royal family and the cabinet, even if they are the most powerful bankers in London, they are not "British".
Ordinary people, naturalized in the UK are British, and they can't affect others anyway.
The capitalists are a different story, and it is certainly the pure Europeans who are more reassuring to the British.
However, the Xu family didn't care, because they didn't plan to pass it on to the second generation...... Xu Teng and Mr. Xu, including Xu's mother's point of view, is very simple, we don't care what you think, we are here to make money, you make a phone call, you go to the Internet, you go to the bank once, you use one kilowatt-hour of electricity, you just pay me money.
Thirty years later, after the signing of the China-UK, China-US, and China-EU Free Investment Agreements, China's strength is so strong that you don't have a temper.
This is international capitalism, what do you love!(To be continued.) )