Chapter 246: A dilemma
People from those big families in Hong Kong are beginning to watch the drama one by one, and they are waiting for the Hong Kong government's final choice, whether to choose to compromise with the Wang family, or to completely eliminate the Wang family and the Guo family.
At this moment, the Hong Kong government is in a dilemma, and they did not expect that a small decision could actually put them in a dilemma. On the one hand, it is the dignity of the Hong Kong government, on the other hand, it is indeed facing the pressure of international public opinion, and the influence of the Wong Group and the Kwok Group in Hong Kong and Asia is not small, and Wang Tianyu and Hua Xuanwu are not ordinary people, and their influence in the international community is also huge. The Wang Group and the Kwok Group belong to the Wang family and the Guo family, and they said that they closed down for rectification in order to cooperate with the Hong Kong government and the safety of Hong Kong citizens.
On top of that, Hong Kong is a well-known international city with investors from all over the world, and if the Hong Kong government cracks down or confiscates their property for no reason, it will definitely scare those investors away from Hong Kong.
Of course, Wang Tianyu is also a test of the Hong Kong government's bottom line, if the Hong Kong government disappoints him, he can only let the Hong Kong government down.
The Hong Kong government does not want to arouse public anger unless it is absolutely necessary, and they can only wait now, and when they can't support the Wang family, they will be the first to bow their heads. But to everyone's surprise in Hong Kong, the Wang family and the Guo family did not seem to have the slightest intention of compromise, not even any nervousness, and it seemed that it was not their business that was closed. Wang Bonian, the Wu family, the Guo family and others actually wanted to put down such a big bunch of stalls and organize a group to travel abroad.
This news can startle those public servants of the Hong Kong government, if they are allowed to travel abroad, who will preside over such a big mess, in case they don't return, it will be even worse, won't these companies of the Wang Group close their doors permanently? Those Hong Kong government officials took the Wang family, the Guo family and others back from the airport.
However, Wang Bonian and these people made such a fuss, which attracted the attention of the Hong Kong government, and at this moment, Wang Tianyu had secretly boarded the plane to New York, USA.
"Bonian, Mingde, we are old friends, you guys are making such a fuss. But it hurts me. Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Zhenying looked at Wang Bonian and Guo Mingde and said. As Hong Kong's chief executive, the pressure at this moment can be imagined.
"Hehe, I don't dare to borrow ten guts from me, it's not Tianyu's kid who tossed it, and I can't help it. He is in charge of the royal family's finances. I also had no choice but to do it. Wang Bonian smiled bitterly and said helplessly. put the blame on Wang Tianyu, but all this was indeed Wang Tianyu's idea.
"That kid!" Liang Zhenying couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard Wang Tianyu's name, he knew that Wang Tianyu was a very capable master. Look at the battle between him and Gao Sheng, but it is in a global uproar.
Liang Zhenying looked around, but saw no trace of Wang Tianyu, and couldn't help asking, "Well, by the way, what about that kid Tianyu?" ”
"Oh, he went to the United States, and he said there was a bit of a rush over there." Wang Bonian said with a smile at Liang Zhenying.
"What? Did he go to the United States? Liang Zhenying was shocked, he came this time to talk to Wang Tianyu about how this matter should end, and now what will he do as soon as Wang Tianyu leaves, he has no choice but to pin his hopes on Wang Bonian.
"Bonian, let's be honest, how can you be willing to reopen your company?" Liang Zhenying said directly to Wang Bonian, now the Wang family can wait, but the Hong Kong government can't wait, this will not be good for Hong Kong's reputation, and the impact on Hong Kong's economy will be huge.
"The Wong Group is still under investigation by Hong Kong government officials, so it's not good to open like this!" Wang Bonian looked at Liang Zhenying and asked.
"When is it, you are still sloppy with me." Liang Zhenying said with a frown.
"Well, Tianyu said before leaving, if the Hong Kong government can't guarantee the safety of our company, it's better not to open." Wang Bonian looked at the anxious Liang Zhenying and said solemnly.
"That's no problem, the Hong Kong government has an obligation to ensure the personal and property safety of Hong Kong citizens." Liang Zhenying nodded and said directly.
"However, Hong Kong has been in a bit of chaos lately, especially the gangsters in Hong Kong, and I am worried about ......," Wang Bonian continued, but he did not say anything later.
When Liang Zhenying heard Wang Bonian's words, she knew in her heart that Wang Bonian wanted to get rid of the Liu family by the hands of the Hong Kong government, but this incident was indeed provoked by the Liu family first, so she nodded and said, "This is no problem." ”
"That's good, there is also the fact that the matter between the Wang family and the Zheng family is a private grudge between us, and I hope the Hong Kong government will not interfere again." Wang Bonian then spoke.
"I can promise you this, but you can't involve other big families." Liang Zhenying looked at Wang Bonian and said.
"As long as people from other families don't get involved, we won't touch other families." Wang Bonian said.
"Yes!" Liang Zhenying nodded and responded, now that the Wang family is powerful, no one should be stupid enough to hit the muzzle of the gun by himself.
Liang Zhenying continued to look at Wang Bonian, waiting for Wang Bonian to continue, but Wang Bonian did not speak again.
"That's all?" Liang Zhenying frowned and looked at Wang Bonian, he thought that Wang Bonian would continue to put forward conditions, because these two conditions were too simple, he knew in his heart that the losses of the Wang family in the past two days must be not small, so they have to make up for it! But he didn't expect Wang Bonian to mention it at all, how did he know that Wang Tianyu didn't take the money in his eyes at all. But in Leung Zhenying's view, this is the Wang family selling face to the Hong Kong government.
"Well, that's all." Wang Bonian said with a smile at Liang Zhenying.
"Hong Tao, tell me to go down and notify all employees to start going to work immediately." Wang Bonian said to Wang Hongtao.
Soon, the Wong Group, the Kwok Group, the Wu Group and other companies began to return to work, declaring to the media that the Hong Kong government had completed the inspection and rectification of the companies. The Hong Kong government is very cooperative at the moment, telling the media. I am very grateful to Wang's Group, Kwok's Group and other companies for cooperating with the Hong Kong government's inspection, and for praising Wang's Group and Kwok's Group. The two work together seamlessly, so that most people believe it. Only those who really know the inside story understand that the Hong Kong government and the Wang family seem to have reached some kind of agreement, and then the Liu family and the Zheng family are going to be unlucky.
Sure enough, on the same day, the Hong Kong government dispatched a large number of police officers and began to conduct large-scale inspections in the nightclubs controlled by the Liu family, and countless people were arrested and imprisoned. Liu Qixiang naturally realized the seriousness of the matter and was ready to run away, but the Liu family had long been targeted by the Hong Kong police. None of the main characters of the Liu family escaped the fate of being caught. Hong Kong police said. The reason for this large-scale crackdown is that these gang members have recently been fighting vigorously and disrupting social order. Many members of the Liu family were sent to court and ended up in prison. And the younger generation of the Liu family who did not commit crimes began to flee Hong Kong, but Wang Tianyu would not let them go. One by one, they all died on the road for no apparent reason.
The Zheng family now does not have the Liu family as an ally. It's isolated. Zheng Yutong looked very haggard at the moment, as if he had aged twenty years in an instant, and he no longer had the vigor of the past. Finally sighed. made a decision, and if he continued to struggle now, he would only lose the last bit of property, so he began to sell the assets and stocks in his hand, but ordinary people did not dare to take it, and in the end he still cheapened the Wang family. And the Zheng family has completely declined at this time, and there is no longer the glory of the past, and it is impossible for the Zheng family to do business in Hong Kong, so they can only let a few young people with some ability to go abroad to start a business with the only money left by the Zheng family.
After seeing the tragedy of the Zheng family and the Liu family, those big families in Hong Kong sighed, after all, Zheng Yutong and Liu Qixiang have been fighting with them for half their lives, and now they are suddenly bankrupt, which makes them feel a sense of desolation when a rabbit dies and a fox dies.
The United States is also in a dilemma, because they are now having a headache for Gao Sheng.
Because of Wang's plan, financial regulators in the United States and Europe have fined some financial institutions tens of millions of dollars in order to appease investors' anger. This makes those financial institutions very depressed, if they make money from it, they will not say anything, the key is that they do not make money at all, and even some institutions have lost a lot. However, the fine was not large, and they had to admit it this time.
Those ordinary investors are so confused, but the high victory in front of them is a huge problem.
Located in Lower Manhattan, New York, the Goldenmont Group Building echoes the World Trade Center Tower, which was reduced to rubble in the 911 terrorist attacks. This 43-storey silver-gray luxury building with glass curtain walls is the most dazzling beacon of American financial capitalism, and in 2008, when the financial tsunami struck, Lehman Brothers fell, and the dominoes came to an abrupt end before Gao Sheng, and when the world cried blood and the economy was in recession, Gao Sheng became the most amazing cash cow in the United States. It was this cash cow that came to the defendant's seat in April 2010 because of "fraudgate".
In fact, Gao Sheng is not at fault for opening a bet - the capital market is the casino, but Gao Sheng allowed the gambling party to do things privately, which broke the rules of the casino.
Months before the SEC filed the civil lawsuit, the SEC sent a "Wells Notice" to Gao Sheng indicating that he might face a lawsuit from the SEC. According to the regulations, once the "Wells procedure" is entered, all possible litigation actions after that will no longer be communicated to the other party. Gao Sheng obviously didn't take it seriously, and on April 16, it was suddenly reported that he was sued, and Gao Sheng was surprised. "Stock God" Warren? In his speech at the company's shareholders' meeting, Buffy said that Gao Sheng was in trouble with the CSRC and was a complete "public relations failure".
Gaosheng is known as "America's Prosperity" because Gaosheng is a financial company, and it is actually a capable leader of the US government in waging financial warfare. The development of the Greek debt crisis to this point is due to the "game" of Gao Sheng's work in 2001. At that time, Greece was eager to join the eurozone, and in order to cover up the budget deficit of more than 3% of GDP, it listened to Gao Sheng's "foreign exchange swap transaction" and borrowed dollars to package euro debt as forward debt, so as to temporarily disappear this data from the statistical table. Greece has become the forefront of the financial battlefield in which the dollar squeezes the euro, and the currency war is not about the financial crisis orchestrated by Wall Street, it is only about the outcome. As a result, the euro has depreciated to 2004 levels under the pressure of the dollar, and assets have returned to the hands of strong currency controllers.
At the same time, on the eve of the outbreak of the financial crisis in Vietnam, international investment banks such as Gao Sheng are still calling for everyone to buy Vietnamese stocks, and created the concept of Vietnam "the new favorite of Asian stocks", but since April 2008, Vietnam's stock market and property market have plummeted, and then the inflation rate has been as high as 25%. The financial capital headed by Gao Sheng is the real manipulator behind this financial tsunami.
New York's Rolling Stone magazine called Gao Sheng "a giant vampire squid coiled in the face of the class, stretching its blood-sucking funnel into every pore that smells of money" in the world economy. Gaosheng peddled toxic financial derivatives around the world, and countries such as Russia and Argentina have suffered greatly. When the world was in the midst of a deep financial crisis, only Gao Sheng made a fortune, setting an all-time profit record of $13.4 billion in 2009 alone.
U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Carl ? "Investment banks like Gauson are selling risky and complex derivatives for their own personal gains, which is one of the factors that led to this crisis," Levine said. They amplify and diffuse risk throughout the financial system by putting harmful mortgages into complex financial instruments and selling them to investors after they have been rated AAA by credit rating agencies. At the same time, they often bet on the opposite side of the financial instruments they are selling, profiting at the expense of their clients. ”
Gorson Group eventually agreed to pay a $550 million fine to settle civil fraud charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Spurred on the news, Goldman Sachs shares rose 4.2% on the New York stock market on the day, with a market value increase of $800 million. The market generally believes that although this is the largest fine ever issued by the SEC to a financial institution, the settlement cost is extremely low from a high-win perspective. For Goldman Sachs, which has deep pockets, $550 million is just a drop in the bucket, and the record fine is only equivalent to Goldman Sachs' 14-day profit in the first quarter of that year.
Gao Sheng can be said to be the sword of the US government to launch a financial war, and the US government naturally does not want to see it fall like this, but they can't make a move, because this time Gao Sheng is guilty of public anger. The most important thing is that now Gaosheng's customers are divesting, and if a large amount of money must be provided to save Gaosheng, the American people will not agree with the US government to use those taxpayers' money to save Gaosheng. Therefore, the U.S. government had no choice but to take the lead, hoping that other financial institutions in the U.S. would come to the rescue of Gao Sheng, especially those large banks with strong funds. (To be continued......)
PS: PS: The third update is finally over, a 4000-word chapter.