Chapter 401: An Elegant Wolf

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On the morning of February 1, 2013, the British newspaper The Guardian suddenly revealed most of the framework of the American Prism program, and since 2007, the NSA and the FBI have unhindered access to the servers of major Internet giants such as Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo through the Prism system to monitor the private data of American citizens such as emails, chat logs, videos, photos, and call logs.

It's awkward.

Xu Teng had just implicitly exposed the existence of a super-surveillance system in the United States at the Reichstag, and half a month later, the "Guardian" came up with sufficiently detailed evidence and reports.

Before the plane took off, Xu Teng had already received very detailed information, and it is expected that in the next few days, the "Guardian" and the "Washington Post" will continue to disclose more major news, completely igniting the whole incident.

This means that Snowden is about to become famous and become the focus of global attention overnight, four months earlier than Xu Teng estimated.

Xu Teng doesn't know what happened, maybe it has something to do with him, but it doesn't matter, because judging from the current situation, when Snowden arrived in Russia, he had already ended his visit to Russia.

In fact, Xu Teng's itinerary to Russia changed slightly, and he arrived two days earlier than originally agreed, so that he could visit for about a week and get more done before returning home.

As a result, because two days in advance, I encountered a lot of moths.

Before Xu Teng's A340 plane arrived in Moscow, he received the latest news from the avant-garde team, FBS seized the two Rolls-Royce Aero-grade Ghosts that arrived in Moscow a few hours earlier, citing security checks.

This is a very unfriendly move.

Xu Teng will definitely have an "avant-garde team" to arrive about a week in advance to do all aspects of work due to temporary changes in the itinerary, the "avant-garde team" and the company's international public relations department personnel only flew to Moscow 7 hours in advance.

When the security department of Moscow airport detained the two aviation-grade ghosts, they initially promised that they would complete the inspection in only a few dozen minutes, but after they got the car, they kept delaying in every way, and when Xu Teng's special plane was about to arrive at the airport, the members of the avant-garde team went to ask for the car again, only to be informed that the two aviation-grade ghosts had been transported by FBS-Russian Federal Security Service.

This situation is more tricky, because the ambassador to Russia and a deputy foreign minister of the Russian Foreign Ministry have already arrived at the airport to wait for him, and Xu Teng must get off the plane when he arrives at the airport.

This means that when Xu Teng left the airport, he was likely to take a vehicle provided by the Russian side.

If he wants to get the two Ghosts back later, I am afraid it will be very difficult, and it may be delayed until he finishes all his trips in Russia, and FBS has already studied these two Ghosts thoroughly.

Obviously, FBS has enough intelligence to prove that the two Ghosts have Dr. Lu's data.

These two Ghosts belong to voice-activated recognition, and Dr. Lu's client will be officially activated when they hear Xu Teng's voice command and fingerprint password, these two things, FBS should have gotten it.

Twenty minutes before landing at Moscow International Airport, the plane was in a mess, and the public relations team of Huateng was trying to find a way to contact the embassy staff, hoping to get the car back through the ambassador's intervention.

During this time period, the Ukrainian crisis has not yet fully erupted, and Russia has not fully intervened in the Syrian issue...... To put it simply, Russia is not the kind of leisurely state that must have to turn to China, and it is quite a bit of an idea of taking advantage of the Sino-US game to take advantage of it.

The issue of arms sales and economic cooperation between China and Russia is, of course, all kinds of embarrassments.

The large-scale investment of the Huayin consortium in Central Asia has also been repeatedly sabotaged by Russia, and before Xu Teng arrived in Europe, two Central Asian gas pipeline investment projects were stranded.

Annoying, right?

It can't be helped, great power competition is so annoying.

In Russia's intelligence system, the Huayin consortium is the kind of multinational consortium that colludes with various US interest groups, and in Central Asia, it is a direct rival of Gazprom.

This is the reason why Xu Teng has always deliberately avoided Russia, although the scale of investment in Russia is not small, and the Russian market is by no means small, but he never visits Russia.

Until the special plane landed at Moscow International Airport, Huateng Company still did not ask for the two aviation-grade Ghosts back.

There was silence in cabin One.

More than 40 entourage members of the international public relations department of Huateng Company, including Tang Hailing, President of the International Investment Department, Asdair Campbell, President of the European Region of the International Public Relations Department, Li Yu, President of the China Region, and Executive Vice President of the Regional Market of Russia and CIS...... They were all there, and no one knew what to do.

After thinking for a few minutes, Xu Teng decided to get off the plane first and attend the welcoming ceremony of the ambassador and the Russian vice foreign minister.

The airport was full of laughter and laughter, and many people came to greet them, including many students in Russia and employees of the Huayin Foundation in Moscow, as well as many staff from the Russian side.

Xu Teng could only pretend that everything was normal, with a smile on his face, and shook hands with the Russian deputy foreign minister, ambassador, and other leaders of the welcome team to thank him, and then went to the VIP channel of the airport together.

At the end of this 30-meter passage, accompanied by the Russian deputy foreign minister and the ambassador to Russia, Xu Teng walked comfortably in the middle of the two, wearing a well-cut black thick tweed coat, which set off his long-term tall figure, which can be called the most handsome version of Chinese entrepreneurs.

Seeing that there were still more than a dozen steps to enter the airport hall, Xu Tengcai suddenly stopped, "If FBS continues to detain my two Ghosts, I will not leave the airport, I will wait at the airport very patiently." ”

All the joy and joy stopped in this moment.

The long team lineup, more than 100 personnel from the international investment department and international public relations department of Huateng Company, almost half stopped, and the rest continued to leave the channel and arrange other work first.

Everything is changing, if Xu Teng personally comes forward and can't get back the two aviation-grade Ghosts, all of Xu Teng's trips will be stopped immediately, and he won't go to today's Sino-Russian entrepreneur cooperation meeting, and the others will continue.

As for tomorrow's meeting with the Russian prime minister, we will talk about it at that time.

When the Russian staff translated Xu Teng's words into Russian simultaneously, the deputy foreign minister's expression was very abrupt and ugly.

Xu Teng didn't intend to back down, he just stood in the center of the VIP passage, away from the crowd, with his back to everyone, quietly looking through the window at the Russian scenery outside the airport, where several presidents of the international public relations department were here, and the ambassador and the Russian deputy foreign minister discussed the seriousness of the problem face to face.

This is no longer a problem that the two cars contain a large amount of commercial technology of Huateng Company, but all the recorded data and secrets inside the on-board system, where Xu Teng has been in the past year, almost can be found.

This is a very vicious business intelligence case.

FBS can investigate in the shadows, which is normal, but investigating in this way seems too rude and completely unscrupulous.

It would be foolish for the Russian side to think that Xu Teng and the Huayin consortium would consider Sino-Russian relations and choose to forbear for the time being, giving FBS time to break through the encryption program of the on-board system and steal data.

What's more, these are two unique intelligent cars, Huateng company according to the principle of the battlefield full induction system of the fifth generation fighter to develop the test model, a number of aviation system research institutes have participated in the overall design, each car has more than 70 sensors and intelligent driving systems, all sensing systems and driving systems are redeveloped, involving more than 40 domestic and foreign high-tech enterprises

At this moment, Xu Teng was very disappointed and very calm.

His Ghost, whether in the United States or in Europe, has not encountered any problems.

Why is Russia doing this?

Xu Teng's estimation is mainly an independent action of FBS, and the target is directly aimed at Dr. Lu's system, which is actually in vain, Dr. Lu's data level is not at all accommodated and operated by several on-board server systems, and there is only one client in the on-board system.

If you have watched "Captain America 2", you will have a general feeling that the car when S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury was attacked was basically the same as Xu Teng's four Ghosts, but it was a movie, which is a fact.

The reason why Huateng's intelligent car system has not been commercialized is that it is too expensive, and the transportation legislation at home and abroad is also a problem, and the content of military technology is a bit too high, so there is no way to mass produce it for the time being.

FBS may have initially estimated that it would only take a few tens of minutes to crack the in-vehicle intelligence system of the two Ghosts, but the results definitely exceeded their expectations, and the stereo sensing technology of the two Ghosts definitely exceeded their expectations.

Now, FBS should also be riding a tiger, and is hurrying to crack the encryption protection, or it may be temporarily transported to a more advanced testing center to analyze the stereo sensing technology framework of the two Ghosts.

The matter is very awkward and complicated.

Xu Teng waited at the airport for an hour and a half before two Ghosts were returned by FBS in the name of Moscow airport and customs, and he took one of them to the hotel, and all trips were canceled today.

In the absence of a higher level of apology and assurance, he will end all his visits to Russia early, citing illness...... Of course, this is just talk, and when he visits Russia this time and meets with the president, all the huge investments he wants to promise to cooperate with Russia's economic plan are chips for entering the market in advance, and will eventually be used to wash the ruble foreign exchange and the Moscow stock market.

There is such a sentence in the documentary "Snowden" - the CIA, the NSA spies on countries like China, Russia, Iran, and that is quite understandable, I (the protagonist) can't understand why even Australia and Germany have to be monitored, we install malicious software in the server systems of all countries, install malicious software in the systems of power plants, dams, factories, and destroy them at any time, I can't understand why we do this.

To what extent does the U.S. hegemony over the global network and semiconductor industry go, and if the U.S. decides, they can quickly plunge 70% of the world's countries into a total power grid collapse and telecommunications collapse.

In all IBM, Intel, and Cisco systems, they used backdoors to place hidden destructive programs and cover the whole world.

This is not a war on terror, this is global hegemonic control.

For the United States, this is not a moral issue, this is not a legal issue, because if the United States wants to, they can press the nuclear button and kill all human beings outside the United States.

The development of the semiconductor and network industries has only provided the United States with another weapon to kill all other countries.

Therefore, Xu Teng will never stay in hotels other than Jiangtai Hyatt Group in all foreign visits and inspections, and all hotels of Jiangtai Hyatt Group have installed a set of Huateng systems that can resist this network hegemony.

When he decided to stay at one of the hotels, the hotel's system was upgraded a month ahead of schedule.

The hotel Xu Teng chose to stay at this time is the Park Hyatt Hotel on Tverskaspekt in Moscow, and a month ago, the information security team of Huateng Company comprehensively upgraded the hotel's network system to have a more secure and confidential satellite communication system.

The hotel is a short distance from the City Hall and one of the busiest business districts in Moscow...... In fact, it is just that, far inferior to Jiangzhou's Jiang'an financial district, let alone Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

As for the city of Moscow, the country of Russia, how to say, is still dependent on the dividends of the USSR to this day.

Moscow's metro system is a magnificent remnant of the Soviet era, and each station is as majestic as a church, but all the metro cars and automation systems have not been replaced in the past decade.

There are a lot of cars, and it is cheap to buy a car, however, the road is very potholed, and it is very congested.

From the airport to Tverskaya Street, the first half of the road is the suburbs, and the second half of the road is the more prosperous area of Moscow, where Xu Teng was blocked for half an hour.

All his trips for today were cancelled, and more than a dozen other co-partners attended the Sino-Russian Investment Forum on behalf of the Huayin Consortium, and he went directly back to the hotel to have a short meeting with the consortium's accompanying team.

Soon, everyone else went out to run errands.

Xu Teng sat alone in the conference room of the hotel, turned on his tablet PC, and chose silent mode to exchange information with Dr. Lu, which made Xu Teng a little surprised.

FBS has Xu Teng's voice-activated recording, which has downloaded the records of his trips in the United States and Europe through the on-board system, where he has been, and when he has been...... FBS was able to obtain this intelligence data, and they could use other intelligence to find out which politicians Xu Teng had close contacts with in the United States and Europe.

They tried to copy the data and programs of the entire on-board system, but were unsuccessful because Dr. Lu knew where Xu Teng was, and Dr. Lu's client in the on-board system activated the second layer encryption program.

At the same time, Dr. Lu generated dozens of files according to the cracking encryption technology program used by FBS, embedded in the itinerary record data copied by FBS, when FBS used the network map to verify all Xu Teng's itinerary information, these files will form a temporary program, using the network to download new data, into a very special hidden virus, dormant in FBS's search system.

The theft of intelligence and the infiltration of the FBS search system surprised Xu Teng, and he had to take some time to think it through.

That's when Carrie arrived in the conference room.

When she was in Switzerland, she and Xu Teng's itinerary was temporarily separated, and instead of following Xu Teng to the Netherlands and Belgium, she went to Italy, and then arrived in Moscow one day earlier than Xu Teng.

She had her own business to deal with, and after a meeting with the Central Bank of Russia, she hurried back to the Park Hyatt on Tverskaya Street, only to hear that Xu Teng's two Rolls-Royce Ghosts had been hijacked by FBS in the name of Moscow airports and customs.

"Okay, have you lost any classified information?" was not surprised, after many years of living in England, she had long been accustomed to the pervasiveness of this kind of intelligence agency.

"No too important information was lost. Xu Teng's trip today ended early, and there was nothing to do at this time, so he poured two glasses of wine and asked Mei Jiali to accompany him to drink a little cognac and chat casually.

"Is this hotel absolutely safe?" Mei Jiali was a little worried, and looked around, after all, being targeted by FBS was still a very annoying thing.

"No problem, just rechecked an hour ago...... At least it's safe here. Xu Teng nodded and glanced at Mei Jiali, "Do you have something to discuss?"

"Then I'll tell you directly, I have reached a deal with Dresterbank and USPA Bank, and they are willing to provide us with financing for 300 billion rubles...... You're going to make an empty ruble, right?" Mei Jiali sat in the chair next to Xu Teng, took out a slender Sheraton, and lit it for herself, she only started smoking in the last year, and she was empty and lonely when she thought about it, and took the Hennessy VSOP handed by Xu Teng with the other hand.

She is no longer willing to waste time running a so-called love life.

This is the reason why she is getting better and better, maybe not the best banker, but at least trustworthy.

"Yes. Xu Teng nodded, "I'm not sure about the specific shorting time for the time being, maybe this year, maybe next year, so we and the ruble debts of various European financial institutions must be dispersed, and we must take our time to determine the right time to short." ”

He came to Moscow to deliver money on this visit.

The amount of investment he will promise will be clearly written in the agreement, but it is difficult to say exactly when these projects will be launched.

Doing business, it does not mean that if you commit to invest $40 billion, the $40 billion will be paid immediately...... It's not business, it's neurosis!

Russia's situation is relatively special, Xu Teng said that he came to expand investment, but it was better to enter the market to change chips and wait for the bloodbath of Russia.

Russia.

Over the years, Russia has been trying to use its special influence in the five Central Asian countries to buy out the natural gas trade in Central Asia, and wants to cut off several gas pipelines from Central Asia and China, so that Central Asia's natural gas exports can go through the Sino-Russian pipeline.

It did not build this Sino-Russian pipeline, because it wanted to sign a unified sales agreement with the five Central Asian countries first, and then it would force China to accept the highest price, let China fund the construction of the natural gas pipeline, and return it to its control, so that China would be subject to Russia in the supply of natural gas for a long time.

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

Not to mention China's long-term penetration in Central Asia, central enterprises and private enterprises have expanded their business everywhere, and the Huayin Consortium has also been heavily involved in Central Asian investment since the establishment of FMG International Resources Group in 2005.

This is the game of great powers, this is the reason why Xu Teng has not visited Russia, the frequency of private exchanges is too high, and it is normal for Russia and FBS to be on high alert against Xu Teng.

By 2013, the Huayin Consortium-Sinopec Gas Consortium and five Central Asian countries signed investment contracts for four gas pipelines, and only now have they been built with great difficulty, and the most important main road projects have been repeatedly stopped, and Russia always has a way to keep sabotaging.

This main road is the Iran-China oil and gas trunk line planned by the Huayin consortium, which is very much contained and cannot be pushed forward at all...... Xu Teng sometimes thinks about it, because the other two main lines, the China-Pakistan Line and the China-Myanmar Line, are both three-barrel oil projects, which have nothing to do with him, and he can't make a dime.

Of course, even if there is no such mess, Xu Teng will bloodied Russia, and try to be as subtle as possible.

With an avalanche of ruble exchange rates, Moscow's stock market and oil prices imminent, it would be strange if an international chaebol giant like him had not shorted Russia a year in advance.

His visit to Moscow this time is to send money, in line with Vladimir the Great's national economic strategy, to expand diversified investment in Russia's financial, semiconductor, machinery, automobile, and chemical industries.

Once this money enters the market, it will be his bargaining chips for bloodbathing Russia.

He will not let go of every dime of profit.

Then, he borrowed money from Russia and used Russia's oil export profits as collateral to help Russia survive.

The Huayin-AIG consortium is an international consortium, the world's second largest international asset management company, with trillions of dollars of trust assets under management, and international insurance, banking, venture capital, securities, private equity, and hedge fund businesses.

In the face of this kind of good business, it must not be missed.

"You're really aiming for the USPA, right?" Mecarrie has always had this intuition, Xu Teng's target is UniCredit Italy, she knows Xu Teng too well, and many small details can prove it.

Previously, in the merger and acquisition case of Porsche Volkswagen, Xu Teng specifically stared at USPA Bank short, and this time he obviously had to stare at USPA to make a game, because USPA is a merger of Italy's Unicredit Bank and Germany's Yubao Bank, and its business scale in Russia is very large, which can be called the largest foreign bank in Russia in the European Union.

USPA has a high presence in Italy, Germany, and Russia, all of which are extremely high-risk regions.

"You guessed it right again, but we can't set the goal too early, take one step at a time, and don't rush. Xu Teng shrugged his shoulders, took a sip of the bright red Hennessy VSOP, and smiled sweetly.

"So, when your plan is successful, and Fuxin International Group invests in the acquisition of USPA, it must be the time for you to provide a huge amount of capital injection again, if you consider the merger and acquisition of the French National Savings Bank, how many shares will I have left?"

She knew very well that Xu Teng had carefully calculated all the possibilities through Dr. Lu.

"10 percent, or 7 percent, I don't know, because Intertrust International is also going to merge with the British Trust and Savings Bank and the French National Savings Bank, and there are a lot of problems in this. ”

Xu Teng was a little embarrassed, he didn't expect Mei Jiali to be so good in the City of London, "You don't have to think too much, these are just plans for the time being, I have a lot of plans, and very few are really realized." Taking 10,000 steps back, even if these mergers and acquisitions can be successful, it will be a gradual merger and acquisition for four or five years, and it is impossible to do it all at once, and we will arrange for Phoenix Capital, Intertrust International, Huaxia Bank and AIG to intervene at the same time. I'm sure we can also enter into a good new agreement to re-raise your equity. ”

"That's ......!" Mecarrie didn't know what to say, because the situation might be of her own making, because she wanted to acquire the British Trust and Savings Bank and the British Standard Life Company, which are banks and insurance companies with good performance, and if they want to merge, they must pay a high cost.

Xu Teng wants to merge with USPA, and he is ready to hit the opponent hard before merging.

This is the difference between the two in terms of planning, Mei Jiali hopes that the "British Fuxin International Group" will first become a local financial group in London, based in the United Kingdom, and gradually develop, while Xu Teng hopes that the "British Fuxin International Group" will quickly become one of the top ten financial groups in Europe.

The simultaneous advancement of the two things will lead to a problem, Xu Teng must inject capital again to ensure the controlling stake of the "British Fuxin International Group" by the Huayin Consortium.

This is Xu Teng's style and style, he believes in every co-partner, but he will never rely on each other, even Mei Jiali is no exception...... How do you say that, the woman who can cause you the most harm is 100% your ex-wife.

The reasons why the Huayin Consortium is keen on overseas mergers and acquisitions are more complicated: first, the advantages of the Huayin Consortium's own mechanism, which determines that the Huayin Consortium is more likely to succeed than central enterprises, state-owned enterprises and private enterprises in the process of overseas mergers and acquisitions;

The second is The-ShunFamliy's wealth level, which determines that Xu Teng's business style is so wild and uninhibited, and he doesn't care about the cost of acquisition and the rate of return.

Xu Teng is an aggressive, but also extremely fierce and calm business leader, the wolf character is very strong, he values the ultimate win and lose, who is the winner of history, who is the loser of history.

Therefore, at many critical moments, Xu Teng's decision-making is characterized by a war mode, and he wants to achieve the final victory at all costs.

Third, since 2007, the exchange rate of the renminbi has continued to rise, and it is currently at the highest peak in history in the past two years, and the world is in an ultra-loose monetary policy situation with extremely low interest rates.

This means that the financing cost of overseas mergers and acquisitions of the Huayin consortium is very low, and in large-scale overseas mergers and acquisitions, especially for large customers such as the Huayin consortium, the European and American bank consortiums are basically rushing to provide loans, and the interest rate is really cost-effective.

This is very different from the situation before 2007, when the interest rate of 7% or 8% was the minimum for financing with foreign consortiums.

Half of the funding for the acquisition of Syngenta by the Huayin consortium came from UBS, and the financing cost basically accounted for only 4.7% of the total transaction value, which was completely unimaginable ultra-low cost before 2007.

Isn't it a neurosis not to expand now and wait for the renminbi to enter the depreciation channel and then expand in a high-cost way?

The overseas mergers and acquisitions of Huayin Consortium and its partners in the fields of semiconductors, chemical materials, basic industrial devices, and machine tools were basically completed in 2012, and Xu Teng's goal in 2013 was to fill the gap in the acquisition of the European financial industry.

He set two goals, one is Société Générale and the other is USPA, the former is not a problem to temporarily replace the French National Sberbank, because of the conflict of strategic ideas, and Maycarrie wants to acquire Credit Saves and Standard Life of the United Kingdom.

Others, including Germany's Dresterbank Bank, could also be a target for the Huayin consortium.

Xu Teng is advancing these five merger and acquisition plans step by step, and in the end, as long as two can be completed, especially Xu Teng's long-planned USPA and A.B.A.

As for the other goals, it doesn't matter if the deal doesn't work, it doesn't matter if the acquisition doesn't work, just think of it as a long-term financial investment, be a responsible major shareholder, and have some influence on the boards of directors of these European financial companies.

Xu Teng has always been daring, his style of doing business, including the first requirement for employees and subordinate executives, is not to be afraid, nothing to fear, not to be afraid of opponents, not to do it yet, it feels impossible, it feels like it will be a heavy loss.

Based on this style, he and the Huayin Consortium have indeed swallowed a lot of bitter fruits over the years, and the frequency of their own deaths is very high, but ...... So far, he is the most powerful person in overseas mergers and acquisitions in China, who has rich experience and strong and murderous methods.

USPA Bank is one of the six major banks in Europe, Bank of China, ICBC, and CCB...... I can't think of a goal, Xu Teng has nothing to fear, first pit and then buy.

If you can't do it, forget it, if you can do it, you can take it resolutely.

Xu Teng is an elegant wolf, no matter how elegant and humble he is, he is still a fierce and aggressive wolf in his bones, this is a wolf-like BOSS, leading a wolf-like team.

Xu Teng is also a ferocious wolf, and he roamed between Europe and Russia at this stage from late 2012 to early 2013, all kinds of tricks aimed at finally bloodbathing Russia.

Russia's GDP is now $2 trillion, which is equivalent to China in 2005 and Germany in 2002.

Xu Teng cut this knife, how much profit he will cut, only God knows.

When Russia can't bear it, knock the bamboo pole again, and if it doesn't take ten or eight years, Russia, the polar bear, won't want to ease this breath.

In short, it is still the same sentence, a weak Russia is the best Russia.