"Mr. Cai, something big has happened." Two days after the FBI seized SAR's U.S. investment fund company, Liao Mengna, the director in charge of SAL's public relations, hurriedly approached Cai Siqiang with a copy. "Mr. Cai, look at the Times Magazine published today, they published a long feature article smearing our Boss Du, describing Boss Du as an insatiable financial careerist with extremely sinister intentions. I think the company has to act now, otherwise it will have a very negative impact on our company. ”

Cai Siqiang took the magazine that still smelled of ink in Liao Mengna's hand, and on the cover was a close-up photo of Duke, and "The Other Side of Genius" was prominently printed next to the photo as the finale of this issue.

This is the famous financial columnist of Time magazine, Bob Brown. Calvin's latest masterpiece. A long-form feature written specifically for Time magazine, in this 10,000-word feature article, Bob . Calvin begins by claiming to use reliable information in his possession to reveal another side of Dr. Duke.

In his article, he fully discloses the shareholder information of Dr. Duke's companies that are set up in various secret offshore financial investment companies. Calvin made a very detailed list of the shareholders of these overseas offshore financial investment companies under Duke, and proved in great detail that the bosses behind these investment companies are actually from the famous SAL company in China, that is to say, these offshore financial investment companies are the assets of Dr. Duke, a famous Chinese scientist.

For this part of the article, Bob. Calvin's research is very solid, and the material he cites is genuine, and although these things are by no means easily accessible to a columnist like Bob, there is no doubt that what he wrote is a fact.

But Bob. Calvin's purpose is obviously not just to uncover Duke's privacy and let everyone know how rich Duke is, but to use this extremely informative evidence as an introduction and transition to speculate on his next sensational financial conspiracy.

In Bob's following article, he made a statistical analysis of the investment activities of Duke's investment companies, and through Bob's analysis, readers were constantly hinted by Bob that the extremely abnormal investment activities of these secret investment companies were actually used as tools to engage in illegal financial transactions for Duke.

Because since the establishment of these investment companies, they have actually only made two major transactions, one is short Apple and the other is short Google, and the rest of the time these investment companies are only engaged in gilt investments around the world, and have not made other high-risk investment projects.

Why is this happening? Bob. Calvin claimed that there was ample evidence from credible sources that Dr. Duke had used his superior computer technology to hack his competitors to cause huge negative scandals in their companies, and to make huge profits from such bad news.

Bob. Calvin analyzed in detail the two major scandals suffered by Apple and Google, two well-known American companies. Calvin confirmed through the transaction data obtained that Duke's financial investment company had engaged in a large short sale before the major bearish scandal broke out in the two companies.

BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF APPLE'S BACKDOOR INCIDENT, THESE INVESTMENT COMPANIES SHORTED HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF APPLE STOCK, AND SOON AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THESE SHORT SALES, A VIDEO OF EXPOSING THE BACKDOOR OF APPLE'S PRODUCTS BROKE OUT ON YOUTUBE, WHICH MADE APPLE FALL INTO A HUGE SCANDAL OF ILLEGALLY STEALING PERSONAL PRIVATE INFORMATION FOR A WHILE, AND THE STOCK PRICE THEN FORMED A HUGE SHOCK, AND IN THE PROCESS OF APPLE'S STOCK PRICE CRASH, DUKE'S FINANCIAL COMPANIES CHOSE TO IMMEDIATELY TAKE PROFITS AND CLOSE THEIR POSITIONS.

Bob claimed that the Apple case was similar to the Google satellite image fraud case, and that Duke's funds had made a large number of short sales shortly before the incident, and then took profits after the scandal.

Bob hinted at both of Duke's speculative investments as premeditated financial transactions with extremely "precise" coincidences in time. Bob pointed the finger directly at Duke, who has a "world-class" computer level, and believes that in these two financial short-selling speculation activities, although there is no direct evidence that Dr. Duke directly directed the two scandals, many indirect evidence shows that at least Dr. Duke's fund company received the relevant news in advance, so that it can accurately grasp this "rare in a century" speculative opportunity.

Bob. Calvin even deduced from the trading information that Duke's funds had made a total profit of at least $30 billion from the size of the shortings.

So, in Bob. In Calvin's pen, the originally respectable Dr. Duke is suddenly rendered as an insatiable financial villain. And Bob. In the afterword, Calvin explains that the FBI is now investigating the suspicious trading activities of several Duke's investment companies in the United States. Calvin's exposé adds a lot of persuasiveness.

Cai Siqiang read this long article, speechless for a long time, and now, two very strange big things have happened in a row, Cai Siqiang can no longer see that this is a conspiracy against Duke and Duke's companies, it would be too dull, Cai Siqiang seems to see a huge conspiracy from this article, which is involving SAL and Duke in the net.

The shareholder data and transaction data cited in this article are all true, and even some of the content speculated in the article is very close to the truth, although the evidence of this truth has no chance of reappearing, but Cai Siqiang can see that everyone who reads this article will have a strong suspicion of the behavior of Duke's investment companies.

After all, the timing of those two transactions was indeed too coincidental.

"Mr. Cai, I think we should immediately issue a lawyer's letter accusing Time Magazine of spreading rumors and defamation, our boss Du is so busy with work every day, and there are countless companies under him, how can he be ridiculous enough to do such a thing, we must ask them to stop publishing this article immediately, and apologize for clarification." Liao Mengna on the side quietly waited for Cai Siqiang to read it before she said indignantly.

In her eyes, SAL is almost a flawless company, unlike those companies full of various original sins, SAL almost completely relies on superhuman technical strength in the market step by step to get to today, there is nothing unscrupulous in the middle, Duke is the idol of the young generation of young talent idols, which is an important reason why Liao Mengna, a strong woman, left the position of director of public relations of BMW and joined SAL.

Now Bob. Calvin's use of this way to discredit Duke is as unacceptable to Liao Mengna as it is to discredit her idol.

"Even if the companies mentioned in the article are the investment industry of our SAL subsidiaries, these companies are all independent entities, and the relationship between them is only an investment relationship, even if we take 10,000 steps back and say that there are problems in some of the transactions between them, it is also the problem of these companies themselves, and there is no necessary relationship with SAL companies, let alone Boss Du who planned and directed these actions, and Bob's baseless inference is completely outright smearing."

As a top student of Cornell University's Department of Communication, Liao Mengna knows too well the lethality of this article in European and American societies, where integrity is a crucial part of a large company, although there are constantly people who defy the law, but once they are discovered, the end is very miserable, and large companies with annual revenues of tens of billions of dollars can collapse in an instant.

Therefore, Liao Mengna knew that once let Bob. If Calvin's heavy smear article succeeds, SAL's image in the Western countries of the European Union will plummet, and the damage to SAL's reputation and the loss of product sales will be immeasurable.

Moreover, this article is aimed at the most powerful SAL and its founder Dr. Duke, who is in the limelight in today's financial industry, which is undoubtedly a very explosive news, and it must be the financial headlines of major news media in the West as soon as the news comes out.

This happened too suddenly, Time Magazine did not follow the usual practice to communicate and verify with SAL before publishing the article, which made Liao Mengna completely unprepared, generally speaking, the media will usually carry out some necessary communication and verification before publishing the blockbuster news against large companies, because the consequences of this kind of article are very serious, and the slightest carelessness will be a catastrophe for the media. But now Time Magazine has completely ignored the convention and unilaterally forced the publication of news that is extremely unfavorable to SAL.

This is the worst option for both Time and SAL, because it will leave no room for maneuver between Time and SAL, unless Time has absolute certainty about the authenticity of its article, otherwise facing a lawsuit offensive launched by a large company like SAL, it is impossible to estimate the loss of damage to the reputation of SAL and Duke himself. If the lawsuit is lost, Time Magazine will not be able to compensate for such a huge loss anyway, and if it is not said that the door is closed, the relevant responsible persons will also be held accountable by SAL, and they may not be able to turn over for the rest of their lives.

So I don't know what kind of means Snyder used to get Bob and the editors of Time magazine to make such a decision with extremely serious consequences.