Chapter Ninety-Nine: High Protection Fees
After some negotiations, the three major mines finally spent a total of $400 million to obtain a 4% stake in the Peace Security Company, of which Williamson's company paid $200 million to obtain a 2% stake in the Peace Security Company.
The thing is their beginning, and the protection fee that needs to be paid will naturally be a little more.
400 million US dollars, even if it is too much to buy the entire Peace Security Company, the three major mines are quite reluctant to take this money.
They wanted to lower the price a little, but Zhong Yuan's attitude was very clear - if they couldn't afford this price, they shouldn't think about buying shares in his company.
Zhong Yuan didn't want to settle with them.
Once a settlement is reached, it will be difficult to trouble them again in the future.
In Zhong Yuan's idea, after Daxia Mining was fully developed and could meet the needs of Huaxia Iron and Steel Company, he would find a way to destroy the three major mines so that they could no longer produce ore.
It will take at least a few years for Daxia Mining to do this, and at that time, Zhong Yuan can completely advance to the Jindan realm, and there is a way to destroy the three major mines.
He did that for two purposes.
One, it's revenge.
Second, it is to crack down on competitors.
If it weren't for Zhao Hao's repeated persuasion of him to accept the other party's request for peace, he wouldn't want to collect the $400 million protection fee.
"$400 million, that's pretty good. Zhao Hao said to him in private, "If you don't accept their shares, you will force them to be anxious, and it will be very troublesome to fight with us." We can't always be cautious, can we?"
The strength of the three major mines is also very terrifying, and if they are forced to use national power, whether it is Samba Country or Kangaroo Country, they are not weak, and if they really want to destroy Daxia Mining, it is not something that Zhong Yuan can protect.
In terms of dealing with people, Zhong Yuan is indeed relatively lacking in wisdom, whether it is Zhong Yuan, the former little security guard, or the blood demon Wu Bai in the other world.
If Zhong Yuan had been a little more sleek back then, why would he have gone out to work for ten years and was just a small security guard, and he couldn't even be a squad leader.
Not to mention Wu Bai, his whole life after he was a teenager was spent on revenge, and it was the revenge of the nine clans of Zhulian at every turn, otherwise he would not be called a blood demon.
The memories of the two people added up did not make Zhong Yuan wiser, and he still didn't know how to compromise.
And the winners in this world are often the ones who know how to compromise.
Pushing people into a desperate situation often invites backlash.
Wu Bai just did too much back then, so he was attacked by others and finally died.
Zhao Hao persuaded Zhong Yuan for a long time before Zhong Yuan agreed to accept the shares of the three major mines.
However, Zhong Yuan was reluctant to take a stake in the three major mines, which really made the three mines frightened, which also facilitated the negotiations between Zhao Hao and them, and finally replaced 4% of the equity of the peace security company at a price of 400 million US dollars.
The Peace Security Company is a company established solely by Zhong Yuan, and the $400 million is equivalent to Zhong Yuan alone.
With more than $200 million from Smith and $400 million from the sale of equity, Zhong Yuan now has more than $600 million in book funds, which can be said to be very rich.
At Zhao Hao's request, a press conference was held on the matter of the three major mines taking a stake in the Peace Security Company, which was in the news.
This is to announce to the world that the Peace and Security Company and the three major mines are strategic allies, and whoever dares to provoke the Peace and Security Company will be in trouble with the three major mines at the same time.
The Peace Security Company is just a newly established security company and has little influence in the industry.
But the three major mines, that's a giant.
As soon as this press conference was held, Peace Security became a star company in the industry.
The fact that the three major mines spent $400 million to acquire a 4% stake in the Peace Security Company shocked the industry.
At this price, doesn't it mean that the Peace Security Company is worth tens of billions of dollars?
Wouldn't Zhong Yuan, who also owns 96 percent of the shares of the Peace Security Company, suddenly become a super-rich man with a net worth of tens of billions of dollars?
Although this is not the case, and if the Peace Security Company really goes public and raises funds, it may not be able to raise 100 million US dollars, but this does not prevent the news media from exaggerating Zhong Yuan's wealth in the most exaggerated language.
At least on China's largest online news platform, Youxi Shock Department, Zhong Yuan has become a definite billionaire — and in dollars.
Zhong Yuan reposted an article titled "From a monthly salary of 3,000 to a net worth of more than 10 billion US dollars, it only took him two years - a security guard's counterattack road" to the circle of friends, and said angrily: Nonsense, where is there so much money?
Ten billion dollars minus one zero, that's a billion dollars, that's a lot.
His circle of friends was dumbfounded, and those WeChat friends left messages one after another: Mr. Zhong Niucha!
When Xiao Wu saw this article, he was so shocked that he couldn't come back to his senses for several days.
She never thought that there were such rich people among her friends, and they lived together for a few months, and the rich man seemed to have an idea about himself.
It's incredible!
Xiaoqian left a message below: Brother Zhong Yuan, you are so rich, take out a little bit to make a movie for me.
Zhong Yuan replied without hesitation: Go dream! That's my brother's hard-earned money!
Gong Shengnan commented happily: My son's inheritance has increased a lot.
Seeing this comment, Zhong Yuan, who was originally in a happy mood because of the explosion of wealth, suddenly became a little melancholy.
Because, it is very likely that his son will not get a share of his inheritance.
There is enough aura in the capital to allow him to advance to the Jindan realm, and he will have a lifespan of hundreds of years at that time, and his son may not be able to live to that time.
Many people in the cultivation world have a weak concept of family affection, and the main reason is that they have to experience too much life and death in their lives, and they have to watch one after another relatives die of old age, and slowly, the concept of family affection has become very weak.
Blood Demon Wu Bai's family was wiped out when he was a teenager, and he never felt family affection again, but he didn't have those fetters anymore.
But Zhong Yuan has.
In this world, resources are too scarce to accommodate a few cultivators, which means that he will have to face his relatives leaving one by one in the future.
Come to think of it, it's a very bad feeling.
"I don't know how to go back to that cultivation world, when I get there, everyone cultivates, and maybe the situation will be much better. Zhong Yuan thought.
In that world of cultivation, although the children of monks may not be able to cultivate truth, at least that may exist.
In this world, even if his descendants can cultivate the truth, without so many resources, no matter how good his qualifications are.
"What should I do?" Zhong Yuan suddenly fell into deep thought.