Chapter 565: The Emperor of Wealth
In a European-style manor house covering more than one square kilometer on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in eastern Washington, Yang was lying comfortably in the shade of a tree next to a fish pond, holding a pretended fishing rod in his hand, and a dozen beautiful bodyguards in black stood solemnly behind him.
This is his own private property in the United States, of course, as the head of Yang, he can't go to live in a hotel, in fact, all the capitals of the Ming Dynasty, he has a private residence of his own, not to mention the United States, even Canaan He has it!
On the other side of him was a middle-aged white man, sitting there with a stiff face, reporting to him the results of last year's work in front of an account book.
This is the general manager of Procter & Gamble, since it was bankrupt and then bought by Yang Yuan, the company immediately began to reborn with new technology, and is currently firmly in the position of the leader of the daily chemical industry in the United States, and it is second only to the blue sky daily chemical of Daming in the world, and Unilever, which Yang Feng holds a large part of, ranks third in actual sales.
"Last year's total sales were US$1,038,650,000 and after-tax profit was US$127,580,000, but sales have fallen by 10 percent year-on-year since the beginning of this year, mainly due to the impact of the terrorist attacks and the war between the two countries.
The manager said cautiously.
"Can the horror struck affect shampoo sales?"
Yang Feng said in amazement.
"But the terrorist attack caused a sharp decline in the economy, unemployment has risen, consumer purchasing power has declined, more choices are more cheaper brands, although our products belong to the civilian class, the price is still high, and some raw materials need to be imported from Daming. There is also a need to add a part of the cost of sea freight and customs duties. So there must have been a decline in sales. In addition, the main buyers of our products are the younger class. The large number of young people who went to war also affected sales, and you know that the soldiers who fought in the jungles of Annam and the guerrillas had little access to shampoo and skincare products. ”
The manager was honest.
"Forget it, I really can't blame you, your work performance was still good last year."
Yang Feng stretched out his hand to the back as he spoke, and a beautiful bodyguard immediately handed over the checkbook, and then the head of state opened a check with a very angry gesture and handed it to the manager and said: "This is a little bit of my heart, go back and work hard." I will try to increase sales in the next few months, and if sales continue to decline, I will have to find another general manager next year. ”
The latter took the cheque with both hands, looked at the string of zeros on it, and hurriedly agreed with a smile, and then quickly stood up and bowed and left, without delaying the Führer's precious time.
"Next!"
Yang Feng said to the beautiful bodyguard.
At the gate of the manor, dozens of luxury cars of various brands gathered, and under the shade of the lawn, a well-dressed man and woman were sitting around the table drinking tea and chatting, and even the Führer's wife was chatting happily with several women. In fact, the wife of the head of state, who was born in a British aristocratic family, is not inferior to Yang Feng in popularity in the United States. If you really want to count it, she has more friends in the United States than Yang Feng.
At this time, a beautiful bodyguard standing next to him suddenly said loudly: "Please invite the general manager of Red Bull Beverage Company." ”
A white man who was chatting quickly stood up and hurriedly boarded a battery car and drove towards Yang Feng.
Although he looked as nervous as a small clerk standing in front of the boss's office at this time, out of this manor, in any bank in the United States, in any governor's office, he needed to be carefully served as a VIP. RENDBULL, WHICH HE MANAGES, IS THE SECOND-LARGEST BEVERAGE GIANT IN THE UNITED STATES ALONG WITH COCA-COLA AND PEPSI, WITH A BUNCH OF VARIOUS BRANDS OF BEVERAGES SELLING JUST OVER PEPSI LAST YEAR AND IS NOW SECOND ONLY TO COCA-COLA.
And this is just a very ordinary part of Yang Yuan's assets in the United States, he has dozens of companies of this level, no matter which one is a well-known predator level in the industry.
DreamWorks Pictures, Star TV, Galaxy Press.
This publishing house is mainly novels and comics, for example, the puppy Snoopy was born in this publishing house thirteen years ago, Spider-Man has been flying around last year, and the Chronicles of Narnia has been published in this publishing house fifteen years ago, of course, it is certainly not written by Lewis, the current best-selling thing in this publishing house is Dark Matter, but its original author is still in high school at this time, and he reads the novels he wrote in the original history every day with relish.
There are also toys like Procter & Gamble, Red Bull, Mattel.
This toy company is now more than just selling Barbie dolls, although Barbie dolls are still a favorite of little girls until now, but after all, you can't live on Barbie dolls alone, like hula hoops, yo-yos, and even Transformers have appeared. It's just that Optimus Prime has been replaced by a heavy truck under Kirin Motors, Bumblebee has become a Golden Nation sports car, and the derivative cartoon has also been produced by DreamWorks, and the latest launch is the image of Garfield's doll, and the cartoons and comics of this fat cat will definitely appear next.
Don't underestimate these things, these are very important to Yang Feng, and even need him to care about them personally, because these are the heavy responsibilities of his cultural penetration into the United States.
The cultural penetration of the United States cannot be forced, it is difficult for readers to turn Spider-Man into Chinese, and it is estimated that the probability of hitting the street is as high as 90%, but it is much safer if Spider-Man's girlfriend becomes a Chinese girl, in fact, Mary Jane at this time is a Chinese-American mixed-race, and even the name has not changed.
Similarly, if Garfield lives in Yingtian and shows his image in a Chinese family, it is estimated that the children in the United States will not like it, but if he still lives in the United States, and his favorite thing is to take Odie to the Chinese restaurant next to it, and then the neighbor is a pair of Chinese, and there is a cute kitten, it is estimated that there will be no problem.
This is cultural infiltration.
It's not that you tell people anything, and people don't have no brains, how can you say whatever you say, but let people get used to you, let people get used to everything about you, let people slowly feel that everything about you is good, let people slowly take everything about you as their own, just like the fusion of water and paint, slowly, gradually, silently change color.
Yang Feng's goal is to change the color of the country.
In addition, in the seed industry, pesticides, chemicals, mining, automobiles......
and so on, he has a large number of assets in the United States, and his combined strength is not inferior to that of the Rockefeller, DuPont, and Morgan consortia, and even if you calculate carefully, it is no problem to enter the top five of the United States consortium. And this is only his assets in the United States, not counting his in Europe, especially in the more terrifying homeland, just an empire of oil is not inferior to Chevron, so it is not an exaggeration for Time magazine to describe him as the world's richest man.
Of course, what people don't know is that these are only his assets in the open, and he has another asset in the shadows.
For example, Apple Inc., which has just sprung up in the United States, and the only competitor of the Pentium Electric Computer Division in the United States, which is also fully supported by the United States government in the computer field, is actually controlled by Yang Yuantou. As for IBM, it has been squeezed by two powerful opponents, one inside and one outside, and declared bankruptcy at the beginning of last year, because of Apple's sudden rise, the US government did not save him, but forced IBM to sell all its assets to Apple to support this new hope to fight against Pentium.
And Yang Feng still has a lot of assets hidden in the shadows, and they are not even inferior to his bright ones.
In the following time, Yang Yuanfu sat in his manor like a monarch who received ministers, and met with the managers of his properties in the United States in turn, listened to them report on the achievements of the year's work, saw how much his wealth had increased, and by the way, rewarded them like a generous monarch, or made them feel fear like a stern monarch, in short, quickly disposed of his private property.
Through these industries, he can basically know how far the rice country has been tossed by himself.
"This year's negative economic growth of the United States is inevitable, and it is very likely to reach negative five percent, although the war and the arms race have stimulated the arms industry, but the money needed is paid for by the entire United States, because the dollar continues to depreciate and the national debt has not been sold, can only increase taxes significantly, and the tax increase will increase the cost of domestic products, the competitiveness will continue to decline, exports have declined year after year, and the trade deficit is becoming more and more serious, and it will only continue to deteriorate if it continues like this."
Said his general manager of Young's Bank.
This manager is Chinese, and he came directly from Daming, and Yang's Bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Imperial Bank in the United States, and in fact, it is also the core of the Yang consortium in the United States, and this general manager can be regarded as the general manager.
Now Yang Yuan's wealth empire also has a complex management system.
The core is the Führer's Asset Management Committee led by Fang Xianting, which is composed of representatives of all the companies under Yang Feng or controlled by Yang Feng, just like the parliament, and in the United States, Yang Bank is the core, just like the local self-government, and in Europe it is dominated by the Rotterdam Imperial Bank.
And he is the emperor of this empire.
"The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, the strength and heritage of the rice country are there, even if it worsens, it is not a big deal, this country has a strong self-regulation ability, they are smart people, they will find solutions by themselves, we don't have to worry about it."
Yang Feng said.
His manager stopped talking.
In fact, Yang Feng is really not worried about the collapse of the rice economy, they can survive the Great Depression, not to mention such a small trouble, there is still a long way to go to bring them down, at least there is no hope for ten years. (To be continued.) )