Chapter 356: We
Xu Teng initially thought that this visit to the United States, in addition to receiving the award, was to visit the White House, Silicon Valley and Wall Street circle of friends, arrived in Washington, D.C. on August 15, and returned to Jiangzhou from Silicon Valley on August 23 to continue to be his tech otaku president. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
It wasn't until he concluded negotiations with Peesenlaw, the White House special policy adviser, that he learned that the Hugo Prize jury must have been under political pressure to award him the most important novel of the year.
There may be two or three people in American political circles who want to get him to the United States at the same time, perhaps Pessen-Rouse, or perhaps White House Chief of Staff Rahm Iman, who have been wary of his special friendship with President Obama during the campaign.
Over the past two years, Mr. Xu and Mr. Obama have had very little informal contact, apart from holiday greeting emails, at the strong suggestion of White House chief of staff Rahm Iman.
Again, this could be a small move from Secretary of State Hilary's faction...... Xu Teng hadn't thought about this before, because he had relatively little contact with the Democratic Party, and he had no interaction with the Hilary faction.
In the 2008 Democratic internal election campaign, he did directly choose to support Obama, but his support was only verbal, private, and known only to a very few people, and was ultimately implemented through SVB Silicon Silver and Silicon Valley tech moguls.
To this day, he doesn't believe Hilary, or intelligence agencies like the CIA, are aware of this.
Even after Obama became president, Xu Teng did not ask for any kind of return, and the most demand was to let the Democrats fight for one eye and close one eye, and not to block his several mergers and acquisitions in the United States.
It wasn't until Secretary of State Hilary's deputy chief of staff, Huma Anadin, asked for a private meeting with Xu Teng that Xu Teng realized what Hilary was aware of.
At this time, it was only 3 hours before Xu Teng's special plane took off.
The two parties agreed to meet at a small restaurant near the airport, which Miss Holmes had chosen for a makeshift basis, paid $400 to charter the venue, and sent someone to check in advance to make sure there were no problems.
Xu Teng arrived 15 minutes early and ordered a local Mexican-style bacon burger and a glass of pure water.
Soon.
The deputy chief of staff of the secretary of state, who is only 30 years old, and Huma Anadin, who is definitely a rocket climb in the White House circle, also arrived 10 minutes early, and also brought a team of people to check in advance, after all, the meeting place was designated by Xu Teng.
Xu Teng didn't get up to shake hands, but just motioned for the other party to sit down, pushed the plate away, and wiped his hands with the disinfectant tissues provided by the entourage, "Madam Chief of Staff, I really think that your sudden invitation made me feel both honored and a little caught off guard, because we don't seem to have any friendship." I don't have any contact with your boss, but she's the Secretary of State, so I'm still in agreement with you. ”
"President, I think you are willing to accept the request for a meeting, and this is a very wise choice, I have a very important piece of information that shows that your relationship with the Chinese government is very special and close, and at the same time, I also know that you have a good personal relationship with Mr. President, so, I really think you need to give some explanation. ”
Huma Anadin has a kind of pampered and arrogant sharpness, and for a white-left young man who can become the deputy chief of staff of the Secretary of State at this age, he does have capital worthy of arrogance.
She almost looked directly into Xu Teng's eyes, a little like asking the teacher for guilt, took out a file marked with a confidential seal from the silver-gray handbag, and pushed it to Xu Teng.
"What?" Xu Teng would not be stupid enough to open a file marked with classified US government documents in front of the staff of the US State Department, he just asked simply, and he really felt that Huma Anadin was a typical Democratic Party idiot chick.
Maybe she's smart, she's cunning, she's turned a blind eye to what the White House and American political circles are doing, and maybe she's done similar shady deals for Secretary of State Hilary countless times, but she's still stupid.
"In April this year, the top level of the Chinese government adopted a special plan called the 04 special project, requiring domestic enterprises to strengthen breakthroughs in the machine tool industry, with the ultimate goal of using it in the military industry, especially in the manufacture of nuclear submarines and military aircraft. Soon after the adoption of this agreement, you suddenly began to buy a large number of state-owned enterprises in China's machine tool industry, all negotiations were unusually smooth, and at the same time, your company also made large-scale overseas contacts with a number of European machine tool companies, proposing as many as 20 acquisitions, at least more than 6 billion US dollars. Huma Anadin was full of confidence, and looked like he had caught Xu Teng's handle.
"Is there anything wrong with this?" Xu Teng didn't know what to say, and he didn't know how to question whether the other party's brain was sick.
"I know you must find it strange that you are a Chinese businessman, and the U.S. government has no right to intervene in whatever business you do in China, but I have more information here...... Prove that you are interfering with the functioning of the Foreign Investment Review Board by supporting the Republican Party through indirect sponsorship. Huma Anadin did not produce any intelligence files this time, "Mr. richest man, perhaps I should remind you that the consequences of foreign businessmen interfering in American politics are very serious, especially foreign businessmen with government backgrounds, and I can have you arrested right now." ”
"That's your job. Xu Teng shrugged indifferently, very calmly, because the other party could not have any evidence in his hand, and this kind of thing was not difficult to judge, in the Capitol, this is basically something that can be talked about behind closed doors.
"Are you still sensible? Mr. President, do you understand your situation, that you have almost violated the most serious criminal law in the United States, and that everything you have done is a crime that the United States can never condone. Huma Anadin had already seen that Xu Teng didn't care about these accusations at all.
She is a master of negotiation.
It was only at this moment that she took out another file, clearly marked with the names of the FBI and Xu Teng, which was the FBI's investigation report on Xu Teng's interference in American politics.
"Do you really think I've done anything?" Xu Teng still doesn't care, because the FBI can't catch any valid evidence at all, and he does interfere in the political operation of the United States, such as the tea party's political donations, at least one-third of which come from his overseas family funds, which are registered in the Oman Islands and then in Nevada through subsidiaries.
In one sentence, he can control at least 30 votes in the US Senate, ruin any agreement between Democrats and Republicans, and ruin the voting process on any bill in the Senate.
In addition, he has an extensive business network and allies in the United States, these people have a combined asset of more than $300 billion, and each person, every family has long-term cooperative federal senators and congressmen, and these politicians have been sponsoring them since they began to run for state legislatures, and they have been making political donations non-stop.
Today, he is not only a Chinese businessman who cooperates with Wall Street, but also an overseas member and shareholder of Wall Street, the largest shareholder of AIG Group, the third largest shareholder of Citibank, the fifth largest shareholder of Bank of America, the third largest client of Goldman Sachs Investment Bank, and the most important partner of Wall Street in China.
Similarly, he is also the most important investor in the US technology industry, and it was at his initiative that he established the Asia-Pacific Technology Entrepreneurs Association -- the bullshit Asia-Pacific technology entrepreneurs, which is a small circle of leaders of network technology and semiconductor enterprises in China and the United States.
In the traditional industry in the United States, he is the second largest shareholder of Ford Motor Company and the fourth largest shareholder of the American petrochemical industry and shale oil and gas giant ConocoPhillips.
In addition to the military industry, Xu Teng, the Xu family, and the Huayin consortium have bets on almost all important forces in the United States, including labor unions, retired workers' associations, shipbuilders' associations, new energy industry associations, environmental protection organizations, and the Xu family's overseas family funds in the United States have huge "public welfare" donations.
When Xu Teng signed and handed over 21 of the 34 overseas family trust funds registered in the United States to Goldman Sachs, the remaining 13 funds were basically in charge of the agent of Miss Holmes, an elite family of both parties in the United States.
If there's anything wrong with Xu Teng, it's that he keeps an extremely wonderful distance from all this, so much so that he looks like just a normal richest man in the world, a normal Chinese businessman, without any rights.
Of course, he would not tell Huma Anadin about this, because he was very sure that he suspected that this white left girl was making a tentative attack.
Xu Teng just looked at the other party quietly, calmed down, and waited for the other party to continue to make moves.
"We also have other intelligence, that the aircraft carrier that China is currently building is actually bought by your family from Ukraine and sent it back home by bribing Turkish government officials, and you have been donating to military research and development for the past ten years. Huma Anadin took out a file again, this time in a posture that really asked Xu Tengfu to admit his guilt, "Can you tell me what level the Chinese military's electromagnetic catapult system has progressed, the reason why I want to ask you, because the development of this system is completely paid for by your family, and it has probably cost 50 million US dollars, right?"
"I'm sorry, I don't know about these things. Xu Teng just shook his head and smiled bitterly, feeling more and more bored about the other party, snapping his fingers, asking the waitress who accompanied him to the United States to come over, and ordered her to prepare a glass of cognac, and asked Huma Anadine by the way, "Do you want to order something, there are still 2 hours before my special plane takes off, So, you still have an hour." Sorry, I usually board 40 minutes early, play cards, or just take a nap. ”
"Then I'm sorry, your plane has been canceled, and I think you should be able to get the news by now. Huma Anadin probably said that his mouth was dry, sneered, and looked at Xu Teng, as if he was going to put a lot of pressure on him.
"It doesn't matter. Xu Teng still didn't care, because the other party had no way to take any action, so he could only say, "That's right, prepare a cup of coffee for you." ”
"If you really feel that you have a personal relationship with the president, that you have money, you can evade the laws of the United States, and all I can say is that you don't know us Americans. Now, you have ten minutes, and you can choose to cooperate with the State Department, or you can choose to be held by the FBI and charged by the Department of Justice. I can assure you that this will be a world-shattering case, and you don't even want to escape. "Huma Anadin finally played the last card, which means that she is not a simple trick, and she does have some evidence in her hand that can accuse Xu Teng.
However, what she wants is not to put Xu Teng in jail, because her evidence is more likely to come from the tax department, which may cause some trouble for Xu Teng, but as long as Xu's network in Washington, D.C., is operational, the Democratic Party will pressure the State Department and the Justice Department to drop the prosecution, presumably to avoid a conflict between China and the United States.
The person who was slapped in the face in the end was Secretary of State Hilary.
In return for more than $40 million from a Wensten fund from 2002 to 2007, your boss, then-Senator of New York, and her husband blocked three Democratic environmental bills on shale oil development. Now, I can tell you with no mistake that this is my family trust. ”
Xu Teng counterattacked, hitting the vital point once, leaving Huma Anadin speechless in surprise.
"In 2003, the Republican Party launched the DN3077 proposal, asking the Senate to vote to pass the bill authorizing military action against Iraq, which also involves the House of Representatives' war budget review, and they need to pull 7 votes from the Democrats to pass the bill, and your BOSS accepted a $2 million political donation from Franklin Resources, which got the 7 votes they needed for the Republican Party. Behind the deal, ConocoPhillips donated an additional $17 million to the Clinton Foundation through four fund companies and a technology company. Guess how I know?"
Of course, Xu Teng didn't need Huma Anadin to guess blindly, and gave a direct answer, "The reason is very simple, we are shareholders of ConocoPhillips, and I have to pay an extra amount, because I also hold another West Gulf Oil Company, which is the third largest contractor in the Iraqi oil contract, and ConocoPhillips is the first largest contractor." I said we, you know what that means?"
"You've been an intern at the White House since you were in college, and you certainly know more about how American politics works than I do, but you have no idea who I am, you don't know who we are. Do you really think I care about the competition between China and the United States? For us, these things don't matter at all, as long as you don't go to war, who cares how you control this game of thrones, do you know why? Because we're gamblers on both sides, and you're just two bulls in a cage duel. Xu Teng must still be angry, with his rank, a secretary of the secretary of state dared to run over and threaten him, which really made him lose face.
"You can go back and tell your boss that I've changed my mind and will continue to visit the United States for another month, and if she wants to run again, it's best to find a way to mend the relationship between us. And told her that I would not personally intervene in American politics, that was not my duty, and that my duty was to ensure that everyone's investment in China was absolutely safe. ”
Xu Teng had nothing more to say, took a glass of cognac from the waiter's hand, and pushed it in front of Huma Anadine, "This is the product that my family business offers you Americans, I hope you like it." If you don't understand me, go back and look at all the shareholders of this company, from Wall Street to London, to China, to Germany, to Brazil, to Australia, we are everywhere. Our rules are simple, each party takes care of its own country, so no matter what you and your boss want from me, don't do anything so embarrassing. ”
What exactly does Hilary want from Xu Teng?
Xu Teng didn't know, and he didn't want to know, in fact, it was nothing more than to get more information through him, use his investment in the United States as a threat, and let him control China's online media according to the requirements of the US government.
This is not the first time that the US State Department and the CIA have done this kind of thing, but this time it has been kicked to the iron plate.
However, Xu Teng did change his mind, he didn't plan to return to China for the time being, and was ready to stay in the United States and deal with Hilary for a while, to be exact, watching others deal with Hilary.
He never crossed the bar, never personally intervened in the direction of American policy, never personally intervened in the operation of American politics, because this practice is really dangerous.
He has enough allies in the United States that he doesn't need to do that at all.
As for Hilary, he lived completely in the Cold War era, and the old women were like this, thinking that Xu Teng was doing things for the Chinese government, so he was an enemy of the United States, but he didn't know that he had also taken Xu Teng's money and done things for Xu Teng.
She didn't know these things, just because Xu Teng's level was too high, and she didn't have to do these dirty things herself. (To be continued.) )