Chapter 445: I'm Already Hungry and Thirsty Like This

In the global economic order, Xu Teng has always been the sword bearer of establishing a balance to ensure that all parties are satisfied with the status quo, and he is bound to be good at breaking the original balance and establishing a new balance. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

He is very fair, very restrained, never out of control, never overly greedy, and never does unprofitable things.

He is also the top 1 of the world's gentlemen for 5 consecutive years, which is not a certificate issued by the international men's fashion media "Vanity Fair", but a symbol of status, power, image, character, taste, and elegance.

For this list, Xu Teng only cares about one thing, whether his ranking is higher than Obma or lower than Obma, as long as he is higher than the ranking of the owner of the White House, the first and second are not important.

After determining that he would be ranked first again in 2014, Xu Teng was very polite and politely took a day out of his busy schedule to shoot the cover of "Vanity Fair" and accept an exclusive interview.

Over the years, Xu Teng basically does not accept any interviews with financial and political magazines and weeklies, but he is not very willing to refuse men's fashion magazines such as "GQ" and "Vanity Fair", and he will always serve as the theme figure once a year.

At his level, he can open up to men's fashion magazines, and the magazine naturally has to understand the rules, the best dressed man of the year in "GQ", and the gentleman of the year in Vanity Fair, no matter how these two lists change, he is in the TOP3 category.

This is normal.

In the golden age of 30-35 years old, he has controlled the world's largest international consortium, ranking first on the Forbes world's richest list for 10 years, he is the life limit of 3.5 billion men in the world, and the ideal partner of 3.5 billion women in the world.

As the old saying goes, people rely on clothes and horses to saddle, look pretty, and also know how to dress, in order to attract praise from the global fashion media, after all, this is an era of looking at the face and body.

Since 2005, Xu Teng has not spent less than 20 million euros on installation fees every year, and the reason why he has to use euros is because his clothing, leather goods and watches are all flown from Europe to China.

Life is like this, you have to be able to manage yourself.

is as strong as Xu Teng, but it is not necessary to find a way to get the media to praise him and promote him for free.

In addition, not to mention that no one cares about the annual gentleman ranking of "Vanity Fair", Xu Teng cares very much, and Obma also cares, it is normal for the best dressed man of the year to be far behind, and the annual gentleman of demeanor also makes others lead, which is very bad.

For Obma, Vanity Fair's Gentleman of the Year can boost support among America's elite upper class and middle class, and for Xu Teng, Gentleman of the Year is good for word-of-mouth and business.

They just won't say it, they won't admit that they actually care, especially the side that has repeatedly lost the rankings, and is very generous and open-minded.

Yesterday just shot the cover of a new issue of "Vanity Fair", and today, the Chrysler Building welcomed new guests, Vice President Borden and Treasury Secretary Jacob arrived together with sincerity in the onlookers and interviews on major American television stations.

As long as it is the moment when he is on the key news of the mainstream media, Xu Teng must be carefully prepared, with the most exquisite and professional, while maintaining the modest and cordial temperament of a young man, personally go downstairs to greet the two VIPs, and shake hands with a smile in front of the cameras of CNN and ABC...... It can't be a tearful handshake.

Cooperate in front of the stage, and dismantle the stage behind the stage.

This kind of thing, both sides have been very skillful, and there is nothing to be embarrassed about.

In the 2012 G20 Finance Ministers' Meeting of the G20, among the 40 officially recognized global financial companies that are too big to fail (TooBigToFail), the Huayin AIG consortium actually accounted for 9, AIG, AIA, Generali, Prudential Insurance, PN Insurance, Huaxia Finance, IMB, Unicredit, and Yangtze River, but they were merged together one after another.

If Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and ING Group, which actually hold the largest shareholder seat behind the scenes, are included in the accounting, the entire Huayin AIG consortium actually accounts for 13.

This is not called "too big to fall", this is called "too big to be saved".

If something happens to the Huayin AIG consortium, the governments of the three major economies of the United States, China and the European Union can work together to rescue, so this is also "too big to do", so many years, don't look at Xu Teng and the Huayin AIG consortium have done a lot of things that harm the United States behind the scenes, and the United States can basically only stop it through negotiation and negotiation, and cannot directly tear it head-on.

If you really want to sanction the Huayin AIG consortium, the White House has a lot of evidence in its hands, and any one can scare the global stock market to crash, and the New York and Nasdaq stock markets can be scared to fall to a circuit breaker.

The U.S. economy is also miserable now, and it can't be worse by Xu Teng, the U.S. economic growth rate in 2012 was 2.1%, 2013 was 1.5%, 2014 was 0.7%, and whether it could maintain positive growth in 2015 is a problem.

There are only three keys to the U.S. economy returning to growth.

The White House and Congress are on the left, Congress is on the right, the Progressive Democratic Party is on the left, the Tea Party is on the right, and the Obma administration is basically a lame duck;

The Federal Reserve, now in full swing, has a sprinkler that generally injects more QE and liquidity into the market at the cost of a violent explosion of US Treasuries.

The third key is really in the hands of China and the Huayin AIG consortium.

If the U.S. economy wants to grow and do well, it must cooperate with China, but the Chinese government's negotiations are too difficult, and some negotiations that will damage China's economy cannot be advanced at all.

In contrast, as the main and core part of China's economy, the Huayin AIG consortium and the Huateng Industrial Consortium are much easier to talk to, easier to negotiate, and easy to reach a deal.

Vice President Borden and Treasury Secretary Jacob arrived in New York at the same time to visit the Chrysler Building and meet with Xu Teng, in fact, to visit the pier and look for a third key.

Prior to this, the Huayin consortium and the White House had been talking for more than a month through multiple channels in private.

Before Vice President Borden arrived at the Chrysler Building on behalf of President Obma, the two sides had talked about everything they could, leaving only a few issues that did require Xu Teng to back down before an agreement could be reached.

Xu Teng can completely say no, because the Huayin AIG consortium is too big to be saved, too big to be done, and the White House does not dare to act rashly against the Huayin AIG consortium.

History has also proven time and again that as long as there is a bubble in the international capital market, when the time is ripe, the Huayin AIG consortium can make the United States exhausted, the US economic growth rate will decline, the US unemployment rate will soar, and the support rate of the White House and the ruling parties will plummet.

After arriving at the Cloud Club on the 75th floor, Xu Teng invited two senior White House cabinet officials to sit down and personally brewed a pot of Longjing tea for them.

"As I said before, in Chinese culture, the person who pours tea is more equivalent to the person who mediates the negotiation, so I want to give you this power. Xu Teng was very respectful, and with a cordial smile like a spring breeze, he put his hands on each other, and handed the teapot to Vice President Borden, by the way, he still had to remind the other party to be a little careful, "Tap it when you put it down, this set of tea sets is worth fifteen million dollars, the best teapot master in our history, if it weren't for you coming, I wouldn't be willing to use it myself." ”

"Oh......!" Vice President Borden trembled in his heart, from his kidney to his heart, if this is broken, he really can't afford to pay it, fortunately, the old man is the most senior senator in office after all, and he has been vice president for another six years, what big scene has he not seen?

"Should such a precious teapot have a separate name? I heard that China's precious porcelain and bronze ware will have some very poetic names!" "Treasury Minister Jacob is not as simple as a finance minister, he is all from the president level of Goldman Sachs Group, and his net worth is rarely less than 10 million US dollars, and he has done too many big business.

"Spring Garden Wild Bamboo, the first set of precious teapots I received in my life, when I was a college student, my ex-wife sent me a token of love. Now, she is the chairman of the board of directors of Intertrust Group, and every time I use them to entertain guests, I think about how much she misses his ex-wife. Xu Teng teased his life, nodded slightly, and thanked Vice President Borden for pouring tea for him personally.

"Have you ever been married to May? I've read the report, she seems to have given birth to your two children through other means, but you don't seem to be officially married?" Vice President Borden still reads gossip news, not to mention that it is not gossip news, and CNN doesn't know how many times he has explained about Xu Teng's family relationship and life.

"When we were traveling in Thailand, we used to register our marriage at a local chapel, but it was not legal, it was just a ritual. And, after all, she's a mother of two, so you know how I feel about her, she's always going to be an important part of my life. The good news is that her relationship with Xia Li has been very good. "The things Xu Teng and Vice President Boden said about these things are a topic that the two briefly talked about at the Marbur Manor last time, about women.

Men are like that, quickly building friendships by chatting about each other's privacy and ex-wives.

Before starting the formal negotiations, Xu Teng chatted about trivial things, hoping to win over the relationship with Vice President Borden, and hoped that when the other party made an offer, it would be a little more restrained.

Although the Huayin AIG consortium is too big to engage in it, it does not belong to the same level after all to compete head-on with the US government and the White House.

If the power index and deterrence of the US government are 10 stars, and the Huayin AIG consortium is at best at the level of 5 stars, the gap is still very large, of course, no nuclear weapons and ICBMs can reach the level of 5 stars, it is not simple.

After a brief exchange of greetings and a few words of conversation with their respective family members, Treasury Secretary Jacob proposed several list of transactions on behalf of the U.S. Treasury Department and the White House, and the Treasury Department could not fully inject capital to solve the bankruptcy crisis of Goldman Sachs, and the new proposal was to acquire Goldman Sachs by Blackstone.

Goldman Sachs is one of the investment banks that is too big to fail, and it is the highest and most important investment bank.

The White House has searched for all the American financial investment institutions on Wall Street, and finally all kinds of coercion and inducement have been exhausted to force the Blackstone Group to agree to take over Goldman Sachs.

Citi disagrees, Bank of America disagrees, and Bank of New York Mellon disagrees, so they can only let Blackstone come forward to solve it, because Blackstone is the largest pension trust institution in the United States, which is the strongest deterrent that the Treasury Department can come up with.

Blackstone knew that this was coercion and fraud by the Ministry of Finance, and it could only be forced to agree.

However, Blackstone's largest shareholder is China Foreign Exchange Trust Company, and the second largest shareholder is Huateng Company, and the two can exercise their veto together.

There is no need to even join hands with foreign exchange trust companies, as long as Xu Teng says no as a major shareholder, all the small and medium-sized institutional shareholders of the Blackstone Group will vote together to veto, which is Xu Teng's influence.

In the previous negotiations, the team of the international investment department of Huateng Company has vetoed the deal, and Jacob Lucson, the US Treasury Secretary, has no choice but to go to Xu Teng to do final negotiations, let Xu Teng veto the decision of the CEO of Huateng Company, let this matter pass, and try to avoid letting the Ministry of Finance directly inject capital into Goldman Sachs Bank.

Wall Street has long been notorious.

During the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007, the U.S. Treasury spent at least $700 billion to save the nine largest U.S. banks on Wall Street.

Xu Teng must say yes, because he actually holds 37.4% of the shares of Goldman Sachs Group, and he took over when the stock price fell to single digits.

He just had to put it on and try to get a better price.

Finance Minister Jacob didn't know that Xu Teng held so many shares of Goldman Sachs Group, and he really felt that Xu Teng was going to completely kill Goldman Sachs now, and he gave a very generous price as soon as he opened his mouth.

However, Xu Teng still refused.

"I don't think Blackstone is a good choice, the central bank foreign exchange bureau holds close to 1/4 of the shares in Blackstone, which is a national asset, and even if I agree, the government will not easily agree. If Wells Fargo, or Citibank and Mellon are willing to merge Goldman Sachs, I can agree. Xu Teng is actually optimistic about Wells Fargo's investment in the merger with Goldman Sachs, because Wells Fargo's largest shareholder is Warren Buffett, Goldman Sachs' largest ...... At least the former largest shareholder is also Warren Buffett.

If Goldman Sachs really goes bankrupt, the biggest loss will definitely be the pension and medical insurance funds in the United States, followed by Warren Buffett, and then Xu Teng, after all, Xu Teng bought Goldman Sachs shares at a very low price.

As far as he knows, Buffett actually bet that the U.S. Treasury must save Goldman Sachs, and secretly invested in the acquisition of many new outstanding shares.

"They don't agree, and we don't have enough bargaining chips. "Finance Minister Jacob admitted that he was incompetent, admitting that he deliberately wanted the Huayin AIG consortium and the Chinese State Administration of Foreign Exchange to bear the losses.

"Then let Goldman Sachs go bankrupt, I can't do anything about it at all, we do act as an agent for the trust contract of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, with full authority to deal with these foreign exchange assets and exercise shareholder authority, but you must understand that we actually have to report to the big client of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. Such a big loss is enough for the foreign exchange bureau to fire us, an irresponsible trust institution, which is a $300 billion trust agency contract, and I would rather let Goldman Sachs go bankrupt. Xu Teng insisted on his own requirements, don't expect to use Blackstone to bear these losses, let Wells Fargo go go up, and if you want to pit yourself.

"We can make some concessions in other areas to convince the Chinese government and the central bank to agree. "Vice President Borden has finally spoken on behalf of the president, and this is the conclusion of his discussions with Obma, and it is better to talk to the Chinese government if he can't do it, although it is also tricky, and it takes enough sincere exchange chips to quickly convince the other side, but it is better than a stalemate like this.

Of course, the White House doesn't want to do such stupid things unless it is absolutely necessary.

Vice President Borden just used deception to force Xu Teng to back down, after all, as long as Xu Teng agrees, the White House can give all the benefits to the Huayin AIG consortium without paying a political and diplomatic price.

The U.S. can print as many dollars as it wants.

"If you are willing to make this deal and convince the central bank to agree, I have no objection. Xu Teng didn't eat the trick, and signaled that this matter could be passed, and there was no need to continue the discussion.

"Shun, we are very sincere friends, and we should try not to embarrass each other. We can give you a very good condition, you are happy, we don't have to get into trouble, and Goldman Sachs doesn't have to go bankrupt. "Vice President Borden has decided to turn the tide and salvage the negotiations, and he is determined not to negotiate with the Chinese government, which is tantamount to making the opponent ask for a price, and it will be difficult to bargain.

"You have to inject $17 billion and get rid of half of the debt, and we all know very well that it's not that hard, it's better than the Treasury taking all of Goldman Sachs' losses on its own, and it's better than going to negotiate with the central bank. If the central bank's conditions make the US commit to reducing its debt, you technocrats might as well just find a sewer and drown yourself. ”

Of course, this is only one condition for Xu Teng, he has another condition, "In addition, the transaction of the Huayin consortium to control Amazon, as well as Amazon's acquisition of Yahoo and AstraZeneca's acquisition of Pfizer, will be approved immediately, don't delay any longer." As you said, you should try not to embarrass us. ”

"That's not a problem. Vice President Borden lightly agreed, but he actually chuckled in his heart, which was the best bargaining chip in the hands of the White House, and it has been pressed to this day, wanting to exchange multiple agreements, and as a result, one agreement is used up.

In fact, Vice President Boden and Finance Minister Jacob wept in their hearts and continued to negotiate with tears.

Getting Xu Teng to agree to Blackstone's merger with Goldman Sachs is a relatively easy thing to achieve, and the next few things are more difficult to agree on than the other.

President Obma is a perfectionist who takes the polls and his political reputation very seriously, and tries to maintain his prestige even if he is not under pressure to run again.

Obma's ideas on how to solve the current resource investment bubble crisis and Wall Street's hedge fund crisis are very unrealistic, and strictly demand that the Treasury take over as much as possible and avoid using the Treasury money to solve the problem.

It is impossible for the Obma government to let Bank of America, Mellon, and Wells Fargo take over, and it is unlikely that it will be pressed, so the only way is to negotiate with the Huayin consortium, because if it negotiates with Xu Teng, the Obma government still has a lot of chips to trade.

The hedge funds on Wall Street are now beyond their control, and neither can the White House and the Treasury Department, but mainly the banks.

The three most dangerous banks, Goldman Sachs, State Street and JPMorgan Chase, State Street Bank was too large to invest in shale oil and gas before, and bought long for a long time, and was lost to death, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase were killed by this wave of operations in the Middle East financial crisis.

As for Morgan Stanley's losses, they are generally controllable, and the Huayin AIG consortium handles most of the losses.

In addition to Goldman Sachs, State Street, and JPMorgan Chase, there are still a number of small and medium-sized banks and insurance companies in the United States that are not "too big to fail the 40 list", which are also in danger.

For the U.S. government, these two years have been the most annoying moment in history, on the one hand, it wants to prevent the Huayin AIG consortium from continuing to expand in the United States, and on the other hand, only the Huayin AIG consortium has the ability to help the United States clean up the mess.

At present, whether it is a financial institution in the United States, or a financial institution in Europe or Japan, it is typical that they are powerless to merge with other financial institutions, or even dare not expand at all, just hoping that they can survive.

Globally, the only financial institution that has the ability to continue to expand is the Huayin AIG consortium, and there was a Middle Eastern consortium that could wrestle with the Huayin consortium, but with the active cooperation of Wall Street, it was disabled by the Huayin AIG consortium, completely disabled.

The European financial industry, not to mention that with the active cooperation of Wall Street, was crippled by the Huayin AIG consortium, completely disabled?

Through Xu Teng, Finance Minister Jacob Lucerne completely understood a truth, the Chinese are indeed worthy of being familiar with the 36 Schemes and Sun Tzu's Art of War in kindergarten, they are all scourges, and they are all natural masters of conspiracy.

Jacob Lucson, the secretary of the US Treasury Department, is telling the truth, and the Wall Street predators are not only stupid, they are simply hopelessly stupid, they are all dumbfounded now when they are bent on making money, and they don't look at the extent to which the "collaborators" are masters of conspiracy, right?

Xu Teng has an advantage, which is called accepting when he sees a good thing, in fact, as long as the White House is temporarily powerless to stop his expansion in the United States, or even has to support his expansion in the United States, it is enough.

As for extending Intel's X86 license to AMD for 30 years and allowing Huateng Electronics to introduce a 14nm process chip production line in China, these are all trivial things.

He's still easy to talk.

As long as the White House is sincere and sincerely willing to resume the honeymoon period with the Huayin Consortium, there must be no problem on his side, he is a businessman who is seeking money, how can he not get along with the government?

What's more, you are still the U.S. government that is the overlord of the Blue Star, and if you give him another guts, he will not dare to teach the U.S. financial industry a lesson.

As for the fact that the White House wanted the CIA to assassinate him, it must have been a misunderstanding, and he believed that Obma could not be so ignorant and shameless.

In front of Vice President Borden and Treasury Minister Jacob, Xu Teng swore that he had absolutely no intention of calculating the hegemony of the US financial industry, because this kind of thing could not be calculated at all, and he just wanted to get a more share of the US financial industry, mix with the United States, and shear sheep with the United States.

He paid tribute to all the wool he sheared, and stayed in the United States to invest in high technology, new energy, and infrastructure.

In two years, he could create 10 million jobs in the United States.

Xu Teng has repeatedly emphasized that he is a very responsible international investor, and the Huayin Consortium is also the benchmark enterprise in the world that is most willing to assume international responsibilities, and has always pursued the balance of international investment and economic and trade relations, and has always actively protected the rights and interests of governments, people and workers in investment regions and countries.

Xu Teng said it not very ostentatiously, but said it very kindly, very softly, and even had a sense of grievance that was misunderstood, telling the essence of Huayin culture in detail.

Anyway, he, the god of international capital, has always been shameless.

Xu Teng told Vice President Borden a very simple truth: If the White House feels that the investment of the Huayin consortium in China and Europe threatens the interests of the United States, it is very simple, open the market and let the Huayin consortium invest in the United States on a large scale, wouldn't that be balanced?

Because Huayin Consortium is a world capital giant without borders, it actively does addition and never subtraction in every country.

The more your country welcomes me and provides me with supra-national treatment, the more additions I will make to you.

The emphasis of the Huayin Consortium is not to love the country, but to love every country.

All this, he just said this, and Vice President Borden listened to it, but in fact, everyone did not believe it in their hearts.

The most embarrassing part is that even if he knows that what Xu Teng said is nonsense, Vice President Borden still has to pretend to believe it and appreciate it, because the White House did not have the election, and the United States did not have the election.

Knowing that the Huayin Consortium is an AIDS carrier, and they are already hungry for such a United States and the Obma government, they can only cooperate with tears to let the Huayin Consortium enter their bodies more deeply, more deeply and more felt.

The biggest fig leaf for the United States and the Obma government is to continue to cooperate with the AIG Group, claiming that this "American international financial group" is an authentic American enterprise like Ford, and at most only the Huayin consortium holds the largest shareholder seat, and most of the equity is still in the hands of American investment institutions.

The two sides talked for four hours, and finally reached a series of agreements that, unlike the previous verbal agreements, were genuine agreements.

The British bank Intercredit merged with State Street, Morgan Stanley merged with JPMorgan Chase to form the new Morgan Stanley Bank, and the "American" international financial group AIG was responsible for the settlement of some of the insurance and banking companies in the United States.

So far, there are only 7 of the 9 major banks in the United States in the 90s, AIG Group, Goldman Sachs Blackstone Bank, Morgan Stanley Bank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citibank, and Bank of New York Mellon.

After experiencing three large-scale shocks, the subprime mortgage crisis in '07, the international resource bubble crisis in '14, and the Middle East exchange rate crisis in '15, the U.S. financial industry has suffered most of its strength and is on the verge of collapse.

Obma!

Kissinger's evaluation of this man is not wrong, and if he pays too much attention to short-term interests and his own prestige and reputation, his long-term historical evaluation will not be high.

At this moment, what Obma should really do is not to hesitate to decline in the polls, and at the expense of the 2016 presidential election of the Democratic Party, it is also necessary to resolutely inject capital from the U.S. Treasury Department, maintain the fundamentals of the U.S. financial industry, reorganize the mountains and rivers, concentrate on dealing with the Huayin AIG consortium, and force the Huayin consortium out of the AIG group.

Obma should even forcibly nationalize the AIG Group, directly cut off the control of the AIG Group by the Huayin Consortium, and cut off the arm of the Huayin Consortium to control the US financial industry.

As a result, Obma's choice was to only look after the interests of himself and the Democratic Party, and did not hesitate to open the floodgates to allow the Bank of China consortium to intervene in the US financial industry on a larger scale and to a deeper extent.

The result of this choice is very simple: if the impact continues, among the seven major banks in the United States, AIG, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone Bank, Morgan Stanley Bank, and Bank of America are essentially under the control of The-ShunFamliy and the Bank of China consortium.

The remaining Wells Fargo, Mellon and Citigroup banks, Wells Fargo and Bank of New York Mellon are not good at asset custody and investment business, and Citibank's asset custody and investment business is in the 07 years after the subprime mortgage crisis, most of the state-level pension funds and medical insurance funds ...... These high-quality customers have been lost, and there is basically no way to make a comeback.

This means that the vast majority of wealthy families and their family trusts, as well as various states, are forced to deal with the Huayin AIG consortium and rely on The-ShunFamliy's investment banks to handle finances and taxes.

For the United States, this threat is super huge, with Xu Teng's ability and skill, once he is given such an advantageous condition, he can quickly establish a new balance in a short period of time, before Obma and the U.S. government react, so that all subsequent U.S. governments will be bogeyed, and they will all be under pressure from all sides, and they will not be able to take drastic measures to restrain the Huayin AIG consortium.