Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Problem of Money
Because he has a deeper understanding of Kotaro Hashimoto, Liu Wei has a very strange feeling when he sees him.
This old guy was able to develop the fraternity into the number one society in the book from scratch, and let the Hashimoto family enter the high society of the company, and his mind was by no means simple. Although Liu Wei didn't think that Kangtaro already knew his true identity, he had to pay more attention to the matter of recruitment.
A militarist who can do everything will never care about his granddaughter.
Even if it's the only granddaughter.
Besides, the social status of women in Yuben is very low, and there are almost no cases of inheritance of the family by a female surname. Kantaro has only one granddaughter, but Kenjiro has several sons. Even without Yumi Hashimoto, the foundation of the Hashimoto family would not fall into the hands of outsiders.
Come to think of it, Liu Wei didn't show it.
When he stayed in Osaka to deal with the agreement related to the joint operation of the two families, Yasutaro had already used the family assets as collateral through Li Tingxuan's line, first in exchange for equivalent shares from the Lee Foundation, and then obtained an equal loan from HSBC, and all the money was transferred to the account of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi.
Transferred by the Lee Fund, the gray assets of the Hashimoto family were successfully bleached.
In just a few days, Kantaro had received a loan of about $4 billion, and when Liu Wei returned, he was processing the last loan of about $500 million.
According to the agreement reached with Sakuraka Ogata, this time the Hashimoto family will contribute 4.5 billion dollars.
The remaining three billion dollars were paid by the Ogata family.
The Ogata family's method of obtaining funds is the same as that of the Hashimoto family, which is to exchange the family property for the shares of the Lee Foundation, and then use the shares to go to the bank for mortgages.
Are there any risks associated with this?
Liu Wei didn't understand the economy, and he didn't know anything about finance, so he didn't ask much.
Even if there is a risk, because this matter was handled by Li Tingxuan himself, and with the full assistance of the Li family, he has already taken preventive measures.
The biggest risk is that the Hashimoto family and the Ogata family take this opportunity to enter the Li family fund and weaken the Li family.
Strictly speaking, this risk is not small.
You must know that the total assets of the Li Fund are about 100 billion US dollars, and the Li family only accounts for 50% of the shares, and the other 40% of the shares belong to a few subordinates who founded the Li family with the old man of the Li family. After decades, these people also have their own families, and the shares are scattered among family members.
In addition to the $2 billion self-raised, the Hashimoto family and the Ogata family need to receive $13 billion through the Lee Foundation.
Because the other shareholders of the foundation were not involved, the $13 billion loan could only be secured by the shares of the Li family. Based on the mortgage ratio of 70 per cent, a total of $17.3 billion worth of shares is required, equivalent to 30 percent of the Li family's stake in the Lee Fund.
In other words, if the money is not paid by then, the shares will be auctioned off by the bank.
If someone takes this opportunity to make a big purchase, even if the Li family is still the majority shareholder of the Li Foundation, they will lose control of the foundation.
In order to reassure Li Zhenxing, Li Tingxuan took out the two billion dollars of fixed assets of the Military Intelligence Bureau as a guarantee.
These fixed assets have been acquired by the spies of the Military Intelligence Bureau through various channels in the past few decades, and unlike those fixed assets used to cover the spies, they are gray assets, which are not in the budget of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and therefore are not under the supervision of the state, and are managed by the Military Intelligence Bureau itself.
It's just that this money is not necessarily used at all.
In order to eliminate the risk to the greatest extent, Li Zhenxing did two things, one is to retain the right to redeem the shares of the fund, and the other is to package the replacement property of the Hashimoto family and the Ogata family into a secondary trust capital.
When it comes to means, Li Zhenxing is a real expert.
Reserve the right of redemption so that he can use the family capital to redeem the mortgaged equity if necessary. If the Hashimoto family and the Ogata family cross the river and tear down the bridge, Li Zhenxing will be able to trade the trust capital equivalent to 20.5 billion US dollars and recover all the investment.
It is precisely because of this that Li Zhenxing can rest assured and boldly take the shares of the Li Fund as collateral.
If you really want to make a fuss, it is not the Li family that suffers, but the Hashimoto family and the Ogata family.
If you look at it more thoroughly, you can find that as long as the Li family receives strong reinforcement and keeps the shares of the fund without using its own capital, it can use the capital used to redeem the shares to acquire the properties of the two families, so as to control half of the assets of the two families.
At this point, what Li Zhenxing has to do is to replace the Hashimoto family and the Ogata family, as the number one shareholder, to obtain one percent of the equity of the Mitsubishi Consortium that the two families worked hard to obtain from Iwasaki Eiichi, enter the "Jinyao Club", and become a member of the board of directors of the foundation.
Even if it is only one percent of the equity, the Li family can also use this to enter the capital.
For Yueben, this is definitely a more tragic loss than losing a submarine, an engine, and an experimental base.
The Li family's opening of a breakthrough in the Mitsubishi consortium is equivalent to opening the door to the treasury for Chinese capital and laying the foundation for national enterprises to defeat the company.
At the beginning, Li Tingxuan was able to persuade Li Zhenxing, I am afraid that this factor played a role in determining the surname.
Erli's ambitions are not small, just for the country and the nation, and the other for his own family. Fortunately, the two walked the same path and headed in the same direction.
If the commercial war is compared to a national war, the crisis facing Ben at this time is no less than the situation when Yuan Shizu stationed troops on the Korean Peninsula and prepared to cross the sea to the east. Hundreds of years ago, a typhoon that arrived a few months late saved the day. What wind can save Yuben this time?
Doesn't Kantaro know the mystery in it?
Although he does not understand economics and finance, there is absolutely no shortage of such experts around him.
The agreement reached with Iwasaki Eiichi is equivalent to buying a seat for 1.5 trillion yuan. In order to make money on this huge investment, it is necessary to have strong enough strength to take advantage of the information advantage gained by entering the Mitsubishi consortium to obtain profits from other channels, especially the industry.
If it can't be done, the Hashimoto family and the Ogata family will end up with only one ending: being annexed by the Lee family.
For this reason, Kantaro needs more money, so much that he can get enough income in the short term to redeem all the property that he has replaced.
It is obviously not practical to borrow money from the bank, and if you can get a loan from the bank, you don't have to make such a big detour.
Besides, the loan must be repaid, which is equivalent to tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall. If there is a problem in any link, even if only one loan is not repaid in time, the Hashimoto family will have to declare bankruptcy.
It is also not feasible to sell the family business, after all, most of the property has been replaced.
If it is sold again, the Hashimoto family will be an empty shell.
The only way to do this is to profit from the grey industry. Anyway, the income has to be transferred from the Lee Fund to HSBC, which is equivalent to washing the gray funds.
After returning to Yokohama, Kantaro planned a series of community actions.
The old guy is quite capable, and in just a few days, he forcibly acquired the core industries of the other four major associations, excluding the expenses used to deal with the important members of the authorities, and the net income exceeded one billion dollars.
The problem is that compared to the tens of billions of dollars in replacement industry, this amount of money is only a drop in the bucket.
Besides, after the agreement officially takes effect, the Hashimoto family must get on the right path as soon as possible and draw a clear line with the gray industry in order to be recognized by the other members of the "Golden Yao Club". If they stepped on two boats and secretly did those things of stealing chickens and dogs, the Hashimoto family would definitely not be able to enter the mainstream society.
When Liu Wei rushed back, Kantaro was worried about this matter.
It's one thing to enter the "Golden Yao Club", but it's another thing to sit in this position.
Don't look at the Hashimoto family's usual wealth, what is most lacking at this time is money. This is also reflected in the food. For Liu Wei, Kantaro only prepared a few dishes, most of which were vegetarian dishes. The drinks are also very simple, they are all the kind of sake that is as light as plain water on the supermarket shelves.
"Most of them are short-term loans with a term of three months." Kantaro let out a long sigh and said, "Counting the short-term loans we managed to get from small domestic banks, we need to repay $6.5 billion in three months." If you count the interest, it's almost $7 billion. ”
"How much money has been raised now?" Liu Wei was also a little anxious.
This is Yumi Hashimoto's dowry, even if you don't necessarily get it, it's very comfortable to think about.
"Counting the money that has just been recovered in the coffers, there are only a billion dollars, and the money has not been disposed of." Kantaro sighed again and said, "At this rate, we can only raise a maximum of four billion dollars." If the family and the community were to be divided according to the plan, the funds that could be raised would be less than $4 billion, and it would be nice to have $3 billion. ”
Liu Wei nodded thoughtfully and said, "Anyway, after becoming a member of the 'Golden Yao Club', maybe you can get help." ”
"Whose help?"
Liu Wei was stunned for a moment and said, "Iwasaki Eiichi won't die without help, right?" ”
"It depends on who saves it." Yasutaro shook his head with a wry smile, "Although you saved his life in Osaka, in front of the family's interests, personal relationships are insignificant. He wants to thank you and won't give you billions of dollars. Besides, whether the Iwasaki family will help, especially if they come up with billions of dollars at once, Iwasaki Eiichi can't make the decision, and he has to go through the family council. Even if Iwasaki Eichi is willing to help, others are not necessarily willing to lend a hand. As for the other members of the 'Golden Glory Society', it is even more unlikely that they will help us through this difficult time. ”
"At least we have to try, even if it's just a long-term loan from the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi."
Kantaro nodded and said, "After arriving in Nagasaki, we will talk to Iwasaki Sakae together, hoping that he can come forward and help us get a long-term loan." Just don't get your hopes up, we don't have enough assets to get a sufficient amount of long-term loans. ”
"I'll have to think of something else."
"If Li Jiaken helps people to the end......" Kangtaro didn't finish his words, but the meaning was very clear.
Of course Liu Wei understands. "I'm going to figure it out, but I can't pack the ticket."
Kantaro nodded, not pushing too hard. In any case, Liu Wei has done a lot of things that should not have been done by him.
(To be continued)