After meeting with Hope and completing the assessment, Lai Xiaohu rested for a night that day, and from the next day, he was taken by Donald to visit more than a dozen big people on Wall Street one after another, including the helmsmen of major banks around the world, as well as Wall Street's world-renowned investment institutions, as well as several people who are not well-known but hide under Wall Street and have strong speech power on Wall Street.

The relationship between Donald and Lai Xiaohu's bank needs to be opened in two aspects, of which the most direct need to get through the relationship is from the relevant government departments. This is the most straightforward, but it is the easiest with Donald, and the government department is the easiest to deal with for those who do not have money. Relying on his network, Donald easily completed all the formalities needed to open a bank.

In addition to these relevant government departments, another joint that needs to be opened is naturally these unofficial figures on Wall Street. Because they weren't from the government, and they couldn't find a place to restrain them, it was hard for Donald to convince them and get their support.

Otherwise, Donald would not have spent half a year preparing the bank now, but fortunately, despite the difficulties, Donald still managed to do it.

In fact, when Lai Xiaohu came to Wall Street, Donald had already opened the joints that needed to be opened, and the reason why Lai Xiaohu was still needed to come was just the request of these major bankers on Wall Street. Many people are very curious about Lai Xiaohu, a young rich man who has just emerged but is strong, and now that Lai Xiaohu is going to do business in their territory, how can he not see Lai Xiaohu himself in advance?

Therefore, the main thing for Lai Xiaohu to come this time is to let those big people take a look, and then talk to them about inconsequential things, and then have a meal together. And so it ended.

Things are very boring, and it also makes Lai Xiaohu very helpless, in his heart Lai Xiaohu is very unhappy to do this job, it looks like he is here to be a model, just to let those characters see him, he has to come all the way here, and it takes two days. So this kind of thing made Lai Xiaohu a little angry, as if he had been insulted a little.

In fact, in his heart, Lai Xiaohu has never put the so-called big names he has seen in his heart, and he looked at it round and round, anyway, Lai Xiaohu didn't find anything special about those people, except for letting Lai Xiaohu see their arrogance, there was nothing else. However, Lai Xiaohu was very disgusted by the threat that was not revealed in their words. Who is afraid of whom, if it really provokes Lai Xiaohu, it's a big deal to find an opportunity to kill the other party directly, and see who can know that he did it Lai Xiaohu.

It is precisely because Lai Xiaohu knows that he has the strength not to be afraid of them, so he has this dissatisfaction in his heart. Strength determines a person's thoughts. Letting an emperor kneel down to a beggar would be an insult to the emperor even worse than taking his life. Although Lai Xiaohu is not like this. But the thoughts in the heart are essentially the same.

Donald admitted that he could also see the displeasure in Lai Xiaohu's heart. However, although Donald knew that Lai Xiaohu was very powerful, he didn't trust Xiaohu how strong his personal strength was, not to mention that this was the real world, and Donald believed in real power.

So for Donald, it's normal to put up with those arrogances, and he doesn't feel anything bad about it. So every time Lai Xiaohu showed his dissatisfaction, Donald would persuade him on the sidelines.

Fortunately, such a trip was short-lived, and after a hasty meeting with more than a dozen characters, Lai Xiaohu returned to Los Angeles directly with Donald. It feels like New York is Donald's home. Don't forget that Donald is known as a New York real estate tycoon, and it can be said that Donald lived in New York most of his life from before to after his career. It's just that now Donald has to make Los Angeles his first family for the time being.

On the one hand, his beloved daughter Ivanka prefers to live in Los Angeles, and in order to reunite with her daughter, Donald has to accommodate her daughter. On the other hand, it is also because of Huamei Group. After Donald handed over the real estate company to his subordinates, his most important job was to manage the Huamei Group, and the headquarters and main business of the Huamei Group were in Los Angeles, so Donald had to live in Los Angeles for a long time. After a long time, Los Angeles is more like a home.

The trip to New York took almost four days, and by the time the two of them flew back to Los Angeles, it was already the last day of December, and after this day, when the next day came, it was the New Year in the United States. On this day, Lai Xiaohu and Donald had to be by Ivanka's side, so they hurried back from New York.

Of course, the things to be done in New York were pretty much taken care of, and before going to New York, Donald had already agreed on the acquisition of FGC Bank and Hope. And after Lai Xiaohu went, while affirming Hope, he also affirmed the acquisition. So in fact, when Lai Xiaohu went to meet with the Wall Street bankers the next day, Donald and Hope had already completed the transaction procedures between the two parties. After the $360 million arrived, Hope signed the contract that had been drawn up long ago.

In this way, FGC Bank belonged to Lai Xiaohu at the moment the contract was signed, and of course, after Lai Xiaohu was in his hands, this bank could not be called FGC Bank, and it was imperative to change the name of the bank.

Lai Xiaohu and Donald have already thought about the name of the new bank, and the renamed FGC Bank will be called East West United Bank, which is the same as the private capital of East West Group, but it is just two more words.

At the same time as the acquisition of the bank was completed, Hope was also hired by Lai Xiaohu as the CEO of the new bank, which means that in addition to no longer being the boss of the bank, Hope has not changed much in fact.

Hope's main task at the moment is to assist the supervisors sent by Donald to complete the changes in the bank's work as soon as possible, of course, in the case that neither Lai Xiaohu nor Donald can directly deal with it, the restructuring of the new bank also needs to be led by Hope.

However, although Lai Xiaohu handed over everything to Hope, he was not worried that Hope would secretly benefit himself. Because in addition to having Donald send a lot of professionals to assist and supervise Hope. Lai Xiaohu quietly put down a listening device on Hope's body.

It seems that since the last time he monitored Song Xin, Lai Xiaohu has discovered the benefits of this monitoring, which is really time-saving and effort-saving, and it doesn't have to work hard. So when parting with Hope, Lai Xiaohu secretly put down a listening device on Hope.

Lai Xiaohu is not responsible for real-time monitoring, after all, there is an idler in the space who is idle all day and has nothing to do, and Lai Xiaohu does not plan to monitor Hope all the time, except for the fact that he is not familiar with Hope at the beginning, he needs to take precautions, and then if Hope passes the tests at all levels, then Lai Xiaohu will naturally rest assured of him.

It may take some time for the new bank to start operational. Donald gave Hope half a month before leaving, to complete the establishment of East West Bank and its takeover of FGC Banking. Counting the time, basically it will not be a few days after the New Year for East West Bank to officially replace FGC Bank and start operation.

And Lai Xiaohu's trip to New York was actually to take one thing, and he kept meeting with various characters. However, Donald also went to his own real estate company in the middle, and he did not directly intervene in the management of his own company for a long time, and Donald went back to look at it with great nostalgia.

Now the U.S. economy is in a recession. Economic development is generally sluggish in all walks of life, and the same is true for real estate. Because the root cause of the outbreak of the U.S. economic crisis this time is related to real estate. So in the midst of a crisis. The real estate market, like banks, has been the hardest hit.

The economic downturn will greatly reduce the purchasing power of the public and commercial companies, and even Donald's real estate company has also suffered a lot of impacts, but unlike other real estate companies that have tightened monetary policy, Donald has let his subordinates attack aggressively. In just one year, a lot of good land has been acquired in New York and several surrounding states.

In terms of reducing development, Donald believes that he is doing the same as others, trying to minimize the development of real estate to avoid risks. However, although the development of real estate is decreasing. But Donald also saw an opportunity for development in this crisis.

The impact of the recession on the entire real estate industry is all-round, not only the development of real estate, but also those construction companies will be affected, and the price of land will also be affected.

In the midst of the crisis, the price of land must fall sharply, otherwise it will not be possible to sell the land at all. The price reduction of the land is a good opportunity for Donald, otherwise he would not have allowed his real estate company to buy and hoard land in a big way.

Crises are always short-lived, but development is always the mainstream. So even if this time the crisis seems to be menacing and there is no end in sight, Donald absolutely believes in one truth, that is, the crisis will always pass, either in a year or two, or in three or four years.

When the crisis passed, all walks of life began to recover, and at this time, needless to say, the price of land in various places will definitely increase significantly, so just by buying land at a low price in the crisis, Donald can make a lot of money after the crisis. Not to mention that he can use these scarce plots of land for more commercial development.

Crisis is also an opportunity, and many people can see the opportunity in the crisis, but not everyone can seize it, because most people do not have that strength.

Even if the price of land will be reduced, it still requires a lot of money to buy a large amount of land, and not everyone can buy it without any scruples like Donald, who is not worried about the shortage of funds at all.

Of course, Donald's funds are not his own, but he himself borrowed money from the bank, relying on Donald's stake in the Huamei Group, no bank in the United States will refuse Donald's loan.

Donald uses the money in the bank, and the money in the bank does come from the general public, so ordinary people keep their money in the bank to subsidize the rich forever, and in turn they have to be exploited by the rich who subsidize themselves.

But if you don't keep your money in the bank, you don't have a place to put it. It is not safe in your own home, and it is easy to lose money if you invest it. Ordinary people also have no choice.

After returning to Los Angeles. Lai Xiaohu accompanied Ivanka to come over an American New Year. In terms of atmosphere, there is still a big difference between the American New Year and the Chinese New Year, at least the American New Year is more about a festive carnival, while China is a kind of warm reunion.

As soon as the New Year passes, Lai Xiaohu can go back to China to reunite with Zhang Ying and Song Yaqiao, after Lai Xiaohu left, Donald also went to New York, and in ten days the United Bank of East America will start running, Donald is not at ease, so he went to stare at it.

Now the capital of the newly established Huamei Group has completed the first step of capital injection. Three billion dollars, a whole three billion dollars. East West Bank's first registration was $3 billion. It's a lot more than what Donald said back then. However, in the eyes of others, a lot of money, Lai Xiaohu took it out very easily. And this is the first investment, and Lai Xiaohu will continue to invest in the bank if needed in the future. Of course. If the bank itself develops quickly and well, it will naturally be the last time if it does not need to rely on Xiaohu to invest money again.

But even so. It's definitely a big deal. That's why Donald felt uneasy, and went from Los Angeles to New York again to watch the bank's preparations.

And Ivanka didn't follow Lai Xiaohu to China this time, but let Lai Xiaohu go back alone, but this is only temporary, because before Lai Xiaohu left, Ivanka had already told him. When China is about to celebrate the New Year, she will go to China to find Lai Xiaohu. So when he went home for the New Year this year, Lai Xiaohu had to find a way to fool his family and hide Ivanka's identity.

Knowing that Lai Xiaohu was coming back, Zhang Ying and Song Yaqiao were naturally very happy. This time, Lai Xiaohu went to take it for so many days, but the liver and intestines that made the two of them wait at home were broken, but fortunately, the two of them could still be each other's company, but they were not too lonely.

When I went to the United States, I naturally couldn't go back empty-handed, Lai Xiaohu specially selected a lot of good things for the two, including popular clothes there, and some luxury goods that are very famous in China.

Although the two of them were not short of money, they were still very happy to see the gifts Lai Xiaohu bought, and the little complaint in Lai Xiaohu's heart quickly disappeared without a trace.

During the period when Lai Xiaohu was no longer there, everything was normal in Jincheng, the company was developing well, and no one came to trouble Lai Xiaohu.

However, there are two things that Lai Xiaohu needs to pay attention to, the first thing is naturally related to "Love Apartment", there was a call from there, the crew is preparing smoothly, and it is expected to start filming in February this year.

Lai Xiaohu spent the Western New Year in the United States, and Zhang Ying and the others naturally spent New Year's Day in China. Now, a new chapter has been opened, and 2010 has arrived.

And after knowing the news from there, Lai Xiaohu was stunned, it turned out that the second part had not been filmed yet, and he thought that he had already filmed a lot. After asking carefully, I learned that it was all the preparation of the crew before, and Lai Xiaohu regarded it as having started filming.

"It seems that my dream of being an actor is going to be postponed again." Lai Xiaohu suddenly said helplessly. Now that the official filming has not started there, it is estimated that it will be in the summer when the crew comes to Jincheng to shoot the plot about Lejia Supermarket.

"What kind of actor, I think it's a trick." Listening to Lai Xiaohu's complaints, the two girls couldn't help but hit on the side.

Another thing is closely related to Song Yaqiao, that is, the case of Han Li, the mayor of Shanghai, who is in a uproar, will be sentenced in three days. As one of the people involved in the Han Li's case, Song Xin's trial will also be held three days later. It can be said that in a few days, the final outcome of Han Li and Song Xin will be doomed.

This speed is much faster than Lai Xiaohu expected, and under normal circumstances, it is normal for this kind of major case to drag on for a year and a half, but now that Li Qian has only been in Hucheng, it has only been a long time since Li Gan arrived in Shanghai, and this has completed the investigation and interrogation of the entire case, especially since it will finally enter the trial.

The speed is indeed very fast, but Li Qian also has to be faster, otherwise the more this matter drags on, the worse the impact will be. After all, Han Li is the mayor of Shanghai, and Shanghai is a special city. Therefore, the impact of Han Li's incident is also extremely huge, whether it is at home or abroad, what damages the prestige of the government at home, and what damages China's image abroad.

This matter can't be delayed, and the longer it takes to get off, the greater the bad impact will be, so not only does Li Gan want to speed up the interrogation, but even the above also has this idea.

Moreover, Li Gan really wanted to make Han Li's case an iron case as soon as possible, because now he already felt that many people had begun to bring him words to plead with Han Li through various channels. Li Gan was worried that the longer it dragged on, the more difficult it would be to try Han Li, so if Han Li's case was made an iron case as soon as possible, those people would be able to die. (To be continued......)