Chapter 48: Direction and Control
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The meeting lasted until late at night, but the CIA still couldn't come up with a concrete plan on how to deal with Zhou You. In the end, it can only be determined that Huntley and Zhou You will negotiate cooperation with them first, at least, when the current crisis is getting bigger and bigger, Zhou You cannot be allowed to deal with the crisis in the United States again.
He is not terrible alone, but the money that follows him is very terrifying, and hundreds of billions of dollars of money are a huge threat to the US economy, no matter which link is attacked.
In the early morning of South Africa time, Larison received an order from China, and he was a little unwilling, but somewhat relieved, to buy a ticket to leave South Africa as soon as possible.
Alsace he can no longer take care of it, in fact, if it were not for the fact that there is a strong motherland behind him, even his situation is very dangerous.
Evan Zhou's power is still a little weak compared to a country, but his power is completely controlled by him, and his role is far greater than that of a country that needs to do everything.
And this operation in Africa also made Liang Luoshi find a very dangerous sign, that is, Evan Zhou has noticed the military cooperation with some weak countries, in response to this development, when the security company in Evan Zhou's hands becomes a military force, at that time, Evan Zhou will be even more terrifying.
Before getting on the plane, he dialed Alsace's phone, but unfortunately, the other party never answered. He sighed, took out the calling card, threw it in the trash, and turned and walked into the airport.
In front of the chapel at the Flying Farm, a grand funeral is underway. As one of the famous emerging families in the United States, although the strength of the Hilton family is not the largest, its popularity is definitely good.
Dozens of old or emerging families of the top 10 conglomerates in the United States, many big families in industry, commerce, the Internet industry, and banking, including many big figures from both parties in the United States, sent representatives to attend Barron Sr.'s funeral.
It's not so much a big funeral as it's a big social event. In the past two days, he has seen more big people than he has been in contact with in the United States in the past few years.
This also makes the members of the Hilton family feel very honored, but they all know very well that half of the reason is because Zhou You has become a member of their family, and Zhou You, as the richest man in the world, is much more attractive than them.
In the mourning session, Zhou You was also elected by them to take the stage and give a speech. The eulogy was confirmed by the members of their family, and in the middle, in order to consider the feelings of the other brothers and sisters of Barron Sr., there is no depiction of Barron's great achievements in fighting for the family property and carrying it forward. It was more focused on his love of flying, his stupid behavior in life, and the laughter of the people on the scene from time to time.
At such a funeral scene, Zhou You also felt very interesting, no one cried, more laughter and nostalgia. Except that everyone was wearing dark clothes, it barely felt like it was a funeral.
The hearse moved slowly, and most of the guests followed it to the cemetery, witnessing Barron's return to the earth. After eating and drinking at the main house, most of them took their leave.
I can't go around, and I have met too many people these days, but compared to the guests, there are still too few. Meetings with many of the guests were scheduled after the funeral.
Moreover, the Hilton family also held a family meeting to distribute the inheritance left by Barron Sr. In fact, there is nothing, mainly some souvenirs left by him are distributed to everyone, because most of the assets are still under the family's foundation.
The inheritance tax in the United States is very heavy, in order to avoid paying taxes, most American families will entrust their inheritance to one or several foundations, and then, the right of management is actually the right of inheritance, but this can avoid half of the family property to be taken away by the US government.
In order to win people's hearts, Paris, who inherited most of the family property, took out a part of the cash as a gift for her own meeting, and promised that the annuity of the family members would not only not decrease, but would slowly increase in the future.
This pleased everyone, and with the exception of the branch, almost none of Barron's descendants were in order. As long as it does not harm their personal interests, their gang of rice worms have no intention of fighting for power and profit.
At this point, Paris has officially become the new head of the Hilton family, but she is only nominal, and the actual management is still in charge of the two management teams of the Hilton Group, one is the casino hotel management team and the other is the chain hotel management team.
At the first meeting of the group's shareholders, Zhou You accompanied Paris to attend the shareholders' meeting. Paris announced in a high-profile manner at the conference that although the economic crisis is spreading and the hotel's performance has fallen sharply this year, she is willing to spend more than $2 billion to buy back Hilton shares at a premium.
In order to control the Hilton Group, Zhou You formulated a three-step plan, the first step was to increase the Hilton family's shareholding ratio, and strive to make the Hilton family's shareholding ratio of the Hilton Group more than 40%.
Secondly, it wants to take advantage of the financial crisis stage to buy back the London-based Hilton International, and no longer let Hilton become two companies.
Then, it is necessary to carry out a large financing and acquisition to make Hilton Hotels the world's largest hotel chain again. For this plan, the cash trip alone is willing to come up with $5 billion, relying on financing and leverage, which can leverage at least $50 billion in acquisitions.
Therefore, although Paris is the nominal chairman, her ability is definitely not enough, and she can only be a front-end figure forever.
Everyone knew this very well and believed in the ability to travel, so when Paris offered to buy back the shares, the reaction was very cold. In addition, many people began to buy individual stocks in the stock market, which made Hilton's stock price rebound against the trend after falling by nearly 30%, which was much higher than the stock price at the beginning of the year.
However, Zhou You's patience is very strong, if the internal acquisition does not go well, he can directly carry out the second part of the plan, at that time, the shareholders who have no capital investment can only follow the rhythm of Zhou You, the big deal is that the repurchase price is slightly higher.
It wasn't until August 5th that Zhou You arranged a series of things for the Hilton family, and it was at this time that Hunter came to the Flying Farm with a large group of people.
Now that the U.S. government has made a decision, and law enforcement agencies like the CIA have agreed to it, opposition can no longer prevail.
The timetable and scope of the talks were determined. These include the ability to invest in no more than two U.S. banks in the normal business context of business, and not to hold more than five percent of the shares.
However, the idea of traveling to the development of the secondary industry is restricted, and only agriculture in the primary industry and service industries in the tertiary industry are allowed, and the industrial sector will not allow the holding of the tour, and the maximum shareholding ratio cannot exceed 20%.
At the same time, Zhou You immediately stopped speculating in response to the subprime mortgage crisis, and the projects that have been invested in are required to maintain a minimum holding period of two years.
For this, Zhou You just wants to laugh heartily. In two years, when the time comes, not to mention doubling the capital of these bottom-buying companies, at least more than 50% of the profits.
Although Zhou You can't speculate directly, but his cooperation with the mainland CIC has already begun, without Zhou You, there are still a lot of mainland funds that will continue to kill people with soft knives against the US government, and the good days they want will have to wait slowly.
On August 7, Zhou Yi returned to Singapore, and summoned back Sanchez and Demosa, and set up a negotiation team with the Strategy Department and the Investment Department as the main body. At the same time, two world-class accounting firms and a law firm provided services at the same time, allowing them to formally negotiate with the U.S. government's business delegation.
In Singapore, Zhou You went to the home of the young head of the house again, and formally proposed the idea of building a military force of his own to the young head of the house, and was willing to take Singapore as the main object of military purchase.
Although Singapore is small, Singapore is one of the world's top five arms companies, and Singapore's military spending is also the highest in Southeast Asia, second only to India and Iran. Indonesia is almost 10,000 times the size of Singapore, and its population is dozens of times larger, but its military spending is only two-thirds that of Singapore, and as for Malaysia, it is even less.
Singapore's licensed self-propelled howitzer is the lightest howitzer of the same level in the world, only less than 30 tons, but the lightest howitzer of other countries is more than 40 tons, and the performance of Singapore's howitzer is not bad at all.
There is also an all-terrain combat vehicle that is also a flagship product of Singapore, and this combat vehicle is the first advanced product of a combat vehicle produced in Asia to be exported to European and American countries. Second to none in the world. There are also small landing craft produced in Singapore, including SAR-21 rifles of various models, anti-tank guns, which are very good weapons.
In addition to large warships and fighter jets, as well as medium and long-range missiles, which are weapons that are not produced in Singapore, as long as they are produced in Singapore, the performance is very good.
The young master had already vaguely sensed Zhou You's thoughts from Zhou You's past behavior, but he was still a little surprised to hear Zhou You directly propose arms purchases to him. He pondered for a long time before he asked seriously, "I've always wanted to ask you, what is your real purpose like this?" ”
Zhou You also said sincerely: "I have no interest in managing a country, and I don't want to be caught up in complicated management affairs, facing endless meetings and endless hearts every day." I did this so that others would not treat me like a soft persimmon. ”
"But do you know that your actions are very dangerous, this kind of private armed forces are very strict in the management of puppets around the world."
Zhou You nodded and said, "Yes, so I won't use my own name at all, but push the DRC to the front." I will use the name of the DRC government for some arms purchases. ”
"In that case, why are you talking to me about this, you can make your own decisions."
"Two reasons, one is that I respect you and don't want to hide this from you, which will damage our relationship. Secondly, I think there is a lot of room for cooperation between me and Singapore. ”
He paused for a moment and asked, "What do you say?" ”
"One of the benefits is that my military camp in the DRC can also be used as an overseas training base for Singapore. In addition, Singapore's retired soldiers are directly retired after two years, and a large number of people are willing to work in the military camp, and Singapore cannot provide so many jobs, or military expenses. And my security company can set up a military service company like Blackwater, which is dedicated to serving the military, and I can pay some soldiers high salaries, which is equivalent to expanding Singapore's military scale and strength, and it does not have to bear a little military cost from Singapore. When my military service company has an all-Singaporean team and has the opportunity to do real-world training, the benefits to Singapore are obvious. ”
"Do you mean that you are willing to become a supernumerary army in Singapore and not have to bear the military expenses of Singapore?"
"Yes."
"And what do you get?"
Zhou You laughed. "I get more. Your presence will make my power in the DRC more balanced, and they will be taboo even if they want to annex my weapons. Secondly, a combat-ready military service company can also provide me with many opportunities to make money, and the situation in African countries is not always so stable. I'm going to invest heavily in Africa, and I don't even need to pay commissions from those countries, I can just pledge my resources. What's more, when my own army is formed, no one dares to attack my industry or my people directly. ”
The young master pondered for a long time before he spoke: "I need to think about this matter carefully, and I will inform you after thinking about it." ”
Oxley Road in the heart of Singapore, which is a sacred place for most Singaporeans, because the old boss who has guarded the country lives here. The houses here are no more luxurious than elsewhere, and even a little more depressed because of their age.
In the study, after listening to the introduction of the young master, the old head sighed and said: "When the situation cannot be controlled, the first thing we have to consider is that the change is more beneficial to us. The Americans have no way to deal with him now, and if they want to deal with him, they will not be right, they will not deal with him, and they cannot watch him harm their own interests. But now, it seems, the Americans have succumbed to reality. ”
"Yes, he came back this time to build a negotiation team with the United States."
"Since our joining is more beneficial to Singapore, then of course we can't let go of such an opportunity, the only thing to consider is the attitude of the United States, so we just need to settle for a benefit, and let him do what is in the limelight."
The young head shook his head and said: "I just can't figure it out, since he is very irritable about trivial matters and has no intention of entering politics, why does he want to make so much trouble for himself." ”
The old man laughed, teasing one of the birds of paradise in the birdcage. "Perhaps, he just feels that life is too lonely."