Chapter 58 Postdated Checks
The rumors have already dispersed
I made arrangements before I came to the Special Administrative Region, and after I arrived, there was a memorandum provided by the brokerage company, and a large book was sprinkled with a large number of places and types of gatherings on which day and time.
Diplomatic embassies, business, politics, public and private, and then subdivided into specific industries.
For example, the buffet hosted by the Jordanian envoy will not be assigned to the diplomatic embassy, but will be marked in red to separate public gatherings from private gatherings held by members of the royal family.
The latter will indicate who will attend the conference and the areas that may be discussed, such as energy and regional hotspots.
The details will even be specific to the subdivisions discussed, a bit like an interview outline, that is, let the participants know before they participate, and they will not clink glasses like some film and television dramas, and it will be a coincidence to see who to talk about.
Politicians generally don't have the time to bump around, and when they do, they are usually used for photography, and even the messy open house party like the White House dinner has a detailed outline.
The organizers of various gatherings will deliberately disclose the specific information of the party to the brokerage company, and the brokerage company of the senior mixed Washington government will also take the initiative to collect intelligence.
Coupled with the fact that the brokers from all walks of life thread the needle, the information about where the big names in Washington are haunting every day is actually very transparent, but the chickens don't pee and pee, and they still can't find out what they shouldn't know.
Meticulous annotations will allow customers to participate in targeted activities without wasting time.
Of course, the customer level is strictly distinguished, and those who can get the outline book are big shots, and they want to participate in which party to tick the invitation card, and the vehicle and security personnel are on standby at any time.
The assistant who arranges with you can explain all the resumes of the main guests of the party on the road, and if you forget it, you can simply bring the assistant to participate.
After a few days of running down the field, Lashi felt that the harvest was okay, in addition to a bunch of verbal invitations from politicians and businessmen, he also received an invitation from the public relations committee of the "G2 Joint Advisory Committee".
He asked his assistant to check it through the channel, and the news from the feedback made him very strange, not because the name was unfamiliar and there were many low-key companies, but because the invitation itself was very interesting.
In layman's terms, this is a post-dated check written by Wall Street, which belongs to the outstretched hand of the eastern financial forces. And his supporters and base, that is, many political action committee PACs, are basically conservative forces in the Midwest.
He can represent the interests of the farmer's beef, wheat and corn, the interests of the military-industrial complex or the energy conglomerate, but he cannot represent the interests of Wall Street at the same time, and the two are contradictory.
It is said that once he shakes hands with Chicago, Wall Street should not be bored, and the political ecology of the United States does not allow politicians to change their faces, even the sponsors.
Even if you are a Republican donor, you have been betting on the Republican Party, and even if the Democratic Party comes to power, you will not dare to do anything to you, this is the rule of the game.
Wall Street, which has the most important rules, will not easily break the rules, let alone ignore them.
But this strange invitation still came.
What's even more strange is that the information found by the assistant shows that G2 has invested in a very small energy company, Haken, and signed a very harsh VAM agreement.
Once Haken's bet with G2 failed, his old friend's son's small investment in Haken vanished.
What does this mean, you must know that old friend is George H.W. Bush, who is about to become president, but someone wants to kick the president's son out of a small energy company.
The son of an old friend turned out to be a hippie, and it was already quite difficult to save some money, so he finally inherited the family tradition and focused on the oil industry, and invested a small stake in a small energy company.
This company called G2 is still going to kick people out, and that kid is not clean and slippery, how much hatred does this have?
As for the possibility that Haken can win G2 in a bet, Lass doesn't believe it at all, a third-rate small energy company with such a bad operation wants to bet against Wall Street, and there is no pants left to lose.
On the one hand, he wanted to make a feud with the president, this way was too strange, and it also aroused La's strong curiosity, and he couldn't help but come over to talk to his old friend's son and ask what the situation was.
When I arrived at the office where the Bush Sr. campaign team was located, morale was high.
The television screen hanging overhead in the room was showing the news that Bush Sr. had won the election.
In the aisle, the rooms were dressed in suits and leather shoes, the color of which was mainly white, blue and black, and the men and women wearing badges on their chests cheered, and everywhere they were celebrating the victory and bursting with morale.
With a lazy smile on the corner of his mouth, he greeted the familiar and unfamiliar, and after being informed of his intention, he was led to the side room by the staff and sat on the sofa for a while.
Bush Jr. came very quickly, and he just had nothing to do to help Bush Sr. in his campaign.
The relationship between father and son turned out to be bad, Bush Jr. used to be indulgent and uninhibited and love freedom, while Bush Sr. did not listen to the sea and the sky, and could not understand his son's rock and roll fan, and the relationship between the two was quite stiff and did not talk much.
Later, Bush Jr. broke up with Nixon's daughter, married a good woman, Laura, and gave birth to twin daughters.
It turns out that George W. Bush himself was elected, but he failed miserably in Texas ten years ago, and no one knows what he did.
He didn't mind if he lost, and he still played with the oil company.
Later, I found out that oil was not as fun as I imagined, and the loss was very much.
Bush Sr. was very successful in buying and selling oil. Later, he served as vice president, ambassador of major countries, and CIA, with a rich resume and a full understanding of politics and business. When he arrived at Bush Jr.'s political bar, he couldn't even elect a congressman, and he lost a lot of money in the oil bar, and found that the gap was too big, and he himself was an extremely smart person, so he began to put his heart in and find his father to steal the teacher.
George W. Bush is a world-class friend, and he came in and hugged him well.
"Where's Jeb?"
Rash is a wonderful person, but he likes Bush Jr.'s unobtrusive brothers.
"I was confused by David, and the two of them were discussing with great interest about selling motors and pumps to South America."
George W. Bush is well-dressed, heroic, with a grinning little bad expression, and the shallow evil smile at the corner of his mouth is exactly the same as that of Rash.
"Is there a shortage of this in South America?" Rath is weird.
"Nigeria, of course."
Bush Jr. had a very positive expression, "It is said that there is a shortage of water and electricity. ”
Rumsfeld laughed and pointed at Bush Jr.: "This is a good joke, and I will use it next time I meet with an African chief." ”
The two laughed for a while, and Rashi poked Bush Jr., who was sitting on the table: "Do you have an investment in Haken?" ”
"It's... Hey... Wait, what's posted on the outside stuff column that I don't know? ”
Bush Jr.'s eyes lit up and he became interested, "What, you want to be my partner?" ”
"I'm good at filling oil wells, I don't know how to dig oil, I'm here to ask G2, the company that injected capital into your Haken." Rath smiled and asked, "Old friend?" New friends? ”
"To be honest, I'm not even familiar with Haken, a small oil exploration company, the conditions given are good, it's better to invest some money to play than to do it yourself, you don't know, our brothers' business is worse than the other, Neil's JNB exploration is even worse, even Jeb has the idea of selling things in Africa, who knows what Africans use to buy his industrial products, diamonds?" George W. Bush laughed at himself.
"So G2 is a new friend, and you don't know about the VAM agreement it signed with Haken?" Rath asked.
"Of course I know, it's a good new friend, but it's also a generous friend, isn't that an investment agreement, what's the bet?" Bush said innocently.
Rass stood up helplessly and patted George W. Bush: "I suggest you find an expert to review the 'investment agreement' again, otherwise old George will be proud to find that his son threw his hat over the wall, but he couldn't jump over it." ”
“… Why would they do this? ”
George W. Bush thought about it seriously but didn't figure it out.
Rash understood what Bush Jr. meant by "they" and waved his hand: "I guess it has nothing to do with Wall Street, this new friend also sent me an invitation, it shouldn't be malicious." It's just that I don't understand what this means, this new friend has managed to arouse my interest, and I will track it down. What about you, old George is about to be shrouded in a layer of light, are you going to stand in the aperture or are you going to jump out again? ”
"I want to go back to Texas, what do you think of buying the Arlington Rangers?" George W. Bush asked.
"Still want to start in Texas? Step by step from the local level, the foundation is stable, but it is very slow, it is like the style of old George, if I were to follow the senator directly, learn things quickly, face to face. Sports exposure is okay, what, with the support of old friends? ”
Naturally, Rash knew that Bush Jr. could not buy it with his own money, and he had no money.
"Yes, Senior Brother William is easy to talk to, we have always been partners, but Mr. Mercer Lynord is not very active and is lobbying, I think I should be able to convince him." George W. Bush is full of confidence.
"Today, he'll convince himself."
As he walked out, he said, "I asked my assistant to prepare a copy of the G2 materials that have been investigated, and you remember to find someone to get them." ”
Bush Jr. sent Rash away, found someone to get a stack of materials in a brown paper bag, and muttered to himself: "G2, I forgot to ask what this ghost's name means, does it have a grudge against Haken?" It shouldn't be for me, am I being implicated? ”
George W. Bush has always been righteous, and at this time he didn't even have the only stain on Cheney's assistant when he was a secret agent, and his private credit has always been very good, and he is a scarce animal in both his circle of friends and politicians.
He didn't believe that G2 was coming at him, and his expression was extremely innocent.
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