Chapter 157: The Price

After two days of comprehensive analysis, combined with the information fed back by the US side, everyone believes that this time the US government will only set up some obstacles for investors to travel. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoFor example, the AMC cinema acquisition plan that has been suspended now, and the listing plan of Tencent has been rejected by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

AMC Cinema's acquisition plan was vetoed, which did little damage to Zhou You, but Tencent's listing plan was suspended, and the loss was great.

The first is the underwriters, who have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in underwriting and roadshow fees for Tencent, and now they have been stopped because of Tencent, and Tencent has to compensate. Fortunately, these companies are still very optimistic about Tencent's future, so they did not double Tencent's compensation, but only how much they lost and how much they compensated.

Even so, the compensation plus the initial investment of Tengxun will cost Zhou You $140 million just because of this project.

Combined with Zhou You's other expenses, Zhou You's losses exceeded $150 million.

He really lost a lot this time.

However, the money is out, and Zhou You's heart is also relaxed, because the US government will not be entangled in this matter all the time, and the eyes of George W. Bush and Congress are mainly on Iraq and Afghanistan. Even if there are one or two members of Congress who are entangled in this matter, the members of Congress who rely on traveling around can downplay the matter.

During this period, Zhou Yi has been obediently only going back and forth between the mainland and Singapore. In order to avoid being caught, he didn't even dare to soak in the girl. In order to deal with the imminent listing of Baidu, he lived in the capital for a few days, but he didn't move in the face of Yang Mi who was sent to the door. This made Yang Mi, who had always had some strange feelings for him, more and more tempted by him.

On 25 September, representatives of the Government of Colombia and representatives of the guerrillas held their first informal contacts in Havana, and on 3 October, both Marulanda and Uribe appeared in Cuba, where the two men made their first official contacts.

The two sides of the civil war in Colombia have been fighting and talking for decades, and there is a complete set of negotiation procedures between the two sides, and there is no need to talk, and both sides know where the bottom line of the other side is.

Therefore, such negotiations often only need an introduction to continue rigorously.

During this period, Zhou You has been staying in the headquarters building of Tencent, almost announcing his intentions and existence at a press conference every day, and trying his best to downplay his role in this peace talks.

And in Langley Park, a northern suburb of Washington, a conspiracy is brewing around the tour.

In the eyes of outsiders, the CIA, which is not bound by congressional appropriations, is the boss of the world's intelligence community, with enviable funds and privileges that go beyond the law, and every agent is as handsome and versatile as 007.

In reality, however, most of the C.I.A. staff are ordinary people who earn no more, if not less, than their neighbors. Because in addition to the operative group agents who will have some operational funds, the agents of the firing group will have some informant funds in their hands, and most of them can only live on wages, and these wages can only sustain them to live a non-poor life.

Yes, although the CIA has a lot of appropriations, in order to maintain their huge global network, in order to replace advanced equipment in a timely manner, and to collect more intelligence, personnel funds have been strictly controlled. It is the so-called landlord's family that has no surplus food!

Ochoa is one of his own who has a clear understanding of this situation, having been with the CIA for twenty years since he was recruited into the CIA as a Cuban immigrant in '84, and has risen from an ordinary staff member of an operations team to the head of the area in charge of more than twenty countries throughout Central America.

Two years ago, when Zhou You first entered Colombia, the CIA broke Zhou You's wrists through Atlantic Oil and the Fernando gang. Unfortunately, the CIA suffered heavy losses that time, so Atlantic Oil alienated the CIA, accepted Colombia's terms, ceded the oil fields, and the Fernando gang was uprooted by Zhou You.

Ochoa was criticized internally, and it took two years to downplay the mistake. But for Zhou You, he also secretly paid attention to it.

Since the beginning of the 90s, the CIA has gradually shifted its focus to the collection of economic intelligence and other international hot issues, such as the economic policies of hostile countries, military development planning, counterterrorism, the prevention of the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the prevention of the leakage of state secrets.

The economic development of Colombia is just the scope of the CIA's close attention, and it has concentrated nearly 20 large enterprises and nearly 10 banks to jointly develop the energy and mineral resources of a medium-sized country, and at the same time led Colombia to set up thousands of supporting enterprises, forming a real development tide, which Ochoa also admires.

However, admiration is admiration, and he thinks that as the opponent of Zhou You, Ochoa still regards Zhou You as a setback in his life, and he wants to cross this hurdle.

But although Zhou You's this person keeps making small mistakes, he never makes big mistakes. He targeted the pirates, from the victim's side, and killed Prabo, but the clue was cut off from Jack, who bought the explosives, and he couldn't get to Zhou You's body at all.

As for Hu Mo, until now, the CIA has not been sure that Zhou You did it, because Zhou You and Hu Mo at that time had no reason to kill him.

Yes, traveling around Colombia has hampered U.S. interests, but these are commercial practices, even including his formation of a security company, which are also legitimate business practices, and the CIA simply cannot use them as justifications against him.

What's more, the upper class of society traveling around the United States is also calling for wind and rain, the old family Hilton, the new hero Adelson, and the Walton family, which he recently cooperated, have a majestic influence on Capitol Hill.

All of this provides protection for Zhou You's behavior, and it is not easy for anyone to deal with him.

Although the United States is big, it is a country, and no one can grasp this force in his hands, even the president, who is only the spokesperson of this force.

If you want to deal with Zhou You, even the CIA, it is not a single heart, and Ochoa can't even take this matter to the joint meeting for discussion, because it is impossible to pass it.

This time, the White House and Capitol Hill have set an example, and although many congressmen and George W. Bush have grievances about traveling around the peace talks, there are no effective means to restrain them. Yes, interrupting two of his business plans cost him some money. More than 100 million dollars is an astronomical amount for an ordinary person, but for the rich man who travels around, it is simply some floating profits.

In terms of the stock appreciation of Google and Apple alone, Zhou You's wealth has increased by more than $500 million this month, and what can this more than 100 million dollars be?

The United States is also a country that respects private wealth, and no one has a reason to possess personal wealth, including the state. Therefore, the United States seems to be powerful, but it lacks the real power to restrain travel.

"Mr. Ochoa, Deputy Director, please come in."

Ochoa came to her senses from her contemplation, looked at the black girl with a hot body in front of her, smiled and said, "Thank you, Lawrence, how much time do I have?" ”

"Twenty minutes, no more than half an hour at most, at noon Director Joseph asked Congressman Westport to have lunch in Washington, so ......"

"I see." Ochoa stood up, straightened his tie, and walked straight through the secretary's office, pushing open the door to the deputy commissioner's office.

Seeing Ochoa push the door in, Joseph pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed, "Levi, welcome back to Washington, I haven't had a good night's sleep these days for your plans." ”

He stood up, invited Ochoa to sit down at his desk, and handed him a copy of the papers. "In Evan Zhou's many experiences, we don't have direct evidence of his involvement, so it's not easy to deal with him. This is the information that we have forwarded from our African Administration about Evan Chow's siege of pirates in the Seychelles, which you can see. The Seychelles side has taken the initiative to legalize his actions, which makes it difficult for us to use these as evidence of his crimes. ”

With limited time, Ochoa didn't open the information to look at it, but asked, "Since the existing evidence is not complete, why can't we forge a copy?" ”

Joseph paused for a moment and said: "Don't say anything like this in the future, Evan Zhou is not an ordinary person, his words can affect the Wall Street stock market, you dare to use forged evidence against him?" ”

"Shall we just let him go?"

Joseph shook his head and said, "Of course not, if his mistakes are not punished, then how can the honor of our America be maintained?" But neither in the White House nor on Capitol Hill has a unified opinion on how to deal with Evan Zhou's behavior. Now the key question is direct evidence, do you understand? If you can get your hands on a recording of his conversation with Castro, you'll be fine. ”

Ochoa shook his head and said, "You know it's impossible, that old fox of Castro will never give us the slightest chance. ”

"Yes, so we don't want to directly arrange a big crime for Evan Zhou, we just want him to know that there are some things that he can't be involved in."

"That's all?"

"That's all!"

"Well, as long as I can get him the punishment he deserves, I'll accept it in any way."

However, Joseph said: "I have already transferred Evan Zhou's information to the FBI, and if you want to deal with Evan Zhou on American soil, the FBI is better than our CIA." He then handed over a business card. This is the business card of Ms. Luna Farcher of the FBI's Technical Services Department, and you and she will be responsible for the follow-up. I have only one request, and that is to let Evan Zhou know that there are some bottom lines that cannot be crossed, and there will be a price to pay if they are crossed. ”

"No matter what means we use?"

"Yes."