Lehman Brothers was founded in 1850 and has a history of nearly 140 years.

As one of the five largest investment banks in the United States, its strength is undoubted, not only helped to establish the New York Cotton Exchange, but also has trading seats on the New York Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

It's just that such a powerful investment bank also suffered from poor management of the company because of previous decision-making mistakes, and was later acquired by Yuntong Company.

Lehman Brothers, which now belongs to Amex Brothers, did not become independent again until 1994.

As the world's largest global company in tourism services and integrated finance, financial investment and information processing, Amex owns Amex Bank and Lehman Brothers Investment Bank, which has merged with Hilson Securities.

Indeed, Ji Cheng saw how terrifying and fast Lehman Brothers' ability to raise funds is now backed by Amex.

Lehman Brothers is headquartered at 19 Liberty Avenue in Manhattan, New York.

The 31st floor of the building.

Ji Cheng met with Richard Brown, the company's current senior vice president of lending and operations. Forder, who would later become chairman of Lehman Brothers after it spun off from Amex.

Milken now has too much influence in the financial markets, and in just two or three sentences, Richard . Forde agreed to take the lead in finding several banks to borrow together.

"Next, I personally came forward to find Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and other investment banks to raise $4.1 billion for you, Mr. Ji." Richard. Forde calculated the time, "It is expected that it will be remitted to the designated account in three days, as for the interest rate, since Michael has come forward, then I will give you the most preferential one, 6.5 percent, how about it?" ”

Lowest interest rates on bridge loans!

And it can be raised in three days!

Ji Cheng never thought of Michael. Milken stepped in and raised money so easily!

It's just that he also has a little regret, that is, if Milken didn't help him issue junk bonds, he wouldn't have been able to help himself get this huge bridge loan, otherwise he would have been able to get through the financial difficulties with this bridge loan.

But it's okay to issue junk bonds, anyway, in the end Sony pays for it.

"Okay, then I'll leave it to you, Richard." Milken said.

Ji Cheng also said "thank you", and then asked: "Don't you need my assets as collateral?" ”

Richard. Fuord laughed, "I won't sign a contract with you, but with Dechong Securities, of course, I have to wait for the two of you to sign a contract, and then I will sign a contract with Dechong, and then start raising funds." ”

Milken explained, "After you sign a contract with me, the high-interest bonds issued for you in the future are collateral, and once the funds from the bond issuance and sales are used, they will be used to repay the loans and interest of Lehman Brothers as soon as possible, so you will go back later, set up a wholly-owned subsidiary with Huajin Capital as soon as possible, and then sign a contract with me in the name of this subsidiary, and the terms of the contract will indicate the use of the funds. All the way to the end of the process of fully acquiring Columbia Pictures. ”

Ji Cheng bowed slightly, "Okay, let's go sign the contract." ”

"Then Richard, I'll go back first, you can contact Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and other funders."

After Milken finished speaking, he got up and left Lehman Brothers with Ji Cheng.

Ji Chengzhen didn't expect that the financial problem that he thought was a big problem would become so easy after Milken's move.

That's influence!

This is the most powerful influence in the financial industry at present!

If you have Milken's influence one day, it will be very easy to raise money.

At this moment, a seed of ambition was born in him, and he longed to become stronger!

"Rebirth: The Great Age of Waves"

It's just that this seed of ambition needs strength to grow and grow.

Ji Cheng knew that he still had a long way to go, but he believed that with his ability to travel through two time and space, he would definitely be able to do it!

……

Ji Cheng was very busy for the next period of time, so busy that he hardly had time to talk to Cheng Jianjun and others, let alone accompany them to visit New York.

Of course, Cheng Jianjun, Mr. Shi and others also understand that Ji Cheng's career is important. Under Baker's leadership, he had a lot of fun every day.

Ji Cheng first spent money to register a subsidiary in a short period of time, and then sent Li Kai to be the person in charge of the company, and signed a contract with Dechong Securities.

After the signing was completed, under the guidance of the people sent by Dechong Securities, the newly established subsidiary "Huaying Pictures" was put into operation.

On the third day, the funds were in place.

On the fourth day, Dechong Securities helped Huajin Capital acquire the outstanding shares of Columbia Pictures in the market.

On the sixth day, Huaying Pictures had acquired 30% of Columbia Pictures' shares.

On the seventh day, the announcement of the offer was released in major media, and Huaying Pictures issued a general offer to all shareholders of Columbia Pictures!

Generally, this kind of indicative announcement needs to be made at least three times, and this is the first time.

But as soon as the announcement was published, it caused an uproar in the beautiful country!

The Wall Street Journal was the first to publish the announcement.

News headline: "Columbia Pictures Releases Progress Announcement on Tender Offer".

Content: On July 7, Columbia Pictures Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Columbia Pictures Co., Ltd. or the company) today issued an announcement on the progress of the tender offer (hereinafter referred to as the announcement).

According to the announcement, the company has disclosed the "Announcement of Columbia Pictures Co., Ltd. on the Change of Controlling Shareholder's Equity Structure and Change of Actual Controller", "Columbia Pictures Co., Ltd. on the Receipt of the Summary of the Tender Offer Report" and "Columbia Pictures Co., Ltd. Summary of the Tender Offer Report" on July 7, 1989......

Below is a picture of the original announcement of the progress of the Columbia Company's tender offer.

One of these passages is the root cause of the uproar.

This paragraph reads as follows: Huaying Pictures, the indirect holding company of New York Huajin Capital Management Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Huajin Capital"), has approved the acquisition transaction on July 3, 1989, and as of the disclosure date of this announcement, Huaying Pictures has completed the internal review and approval process, and Huaying Pictures will continue to actively promote various work and timely disclose the tender offer report in accordance with the requirements of relevant laws and regulations.

Columbia Pictures said that the tender offer has not yet taken effect and there is still uncertainty, and said that it will announce the results of the voting at the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders tonight.

At first, not much people noticed the announcement, and it was only an internal discussion among a small group of people involved in finance and film.

A man named "Charles. Li's "Chinese financier is a hobbyist, and he has been reading a book called "I Have a Factory in Ancient Times" in his spare time recently, but after reading the "Wall Street Journal" this morning, he didn't even read it, and shouted inside the company: "You absolutely don't know what news was published in the Wall Street Journal today!" My God! Columbia Pictures is about to be bought! It's about to be acquired by Huajin Capital! Right! It is the financial giant Ji Cheng's Huajin Capital, which has recently shone in the world financial market! I heard that the film industry is all fried! Shocked! ”

Then, a few more people who saw the Wall Street Journal announcement jumped out.

Nomans: "Shet! It's really going to be acquired! ”

Gujes: "The financial giant lives up to its name!" ”

Chris. Kim: "That's Columbia Pictures!" I almost fainted in the toilet! If you hadn't seen the Wall Street Journal announcement with your own eyes, it would have been unbelievable! I had heard that Ji Cheng, a financial giant, was powerful, but Fake didn't expect it to be so powerful! Could he be more intimidating? Columbia Pictures is also going to be acquired? ”

As soon as these news came out, many people in their company thought they were joking, and some people thought they were spreading rumors.

"Poof, look at you guys seriously."

"Don't be kidding."

"Charles, have you seen too much? I can really blow it, so go back and see yours. ”

"Hehe, the total assets of Huajin Capital are no more than 500 million US dollars, and Ji Cheng's own liquidity may be more than 1 billion, but the current market value of Columbia Pictures is more than 2 billion US dollars, and it is definitely impossible for you to acquire according to the current value per share, right? If it is higher than the price per share, even if I buy it for 19 US dollars per share, it will be almost 2.4 billion, plus I heard that Columbia Pictures still has a foreign debt of 1.6 billion US dollars, which means that Ji Cheng will have to come up with at least 4 billion US dollars at once to buy Columbia Pictures, do you think it is possible? It's impossible! ”

"That's it, why don't you say that Ji Cheng acquired Haolaiwu?"

"It's impossible for a fool to believe this kind of nonsense!"

"Please, you guys are a bit technical in spreading rumors, okay? I heard the news that Columbia Pictures wanted to sell the company, and I was actively contacting buyers, but only Sony was interested, but now you say that Joaquin Capital may be buying Columbia Pictures? All I can say is that you have a lot of imagination! ”

Many people didn't believe it and scoffed.

The few people who read the newspaper announcement were angry and retorted!

"Why are you lying to you?"

"Why don't you believe the truth?"

"Fack, what's there to spread about this kind of thing? Look at the Wall Street Journal! ”

"Yes, I remember there was another financial newspaper published in it!"

Suddenly, many people read the Wall Street Journal in disbelief after hearing it, and the front page of the newspaper was a picture and almost the entire page of content, with Ji Cheng and Columbia Pictures Chairman Victor. Kaufman and Coca-Cola Chairman Robert Brown. Goyin Sueta and others took a group photo, and there were countless reporters around with stunned expressions.

Suddenly, everyone thought it was a rumor-mongering, but it exploded in an instant!

"Huh?"

"What?"

"Really?"

"Oh God! My eyes aren't bad, are they? The newspaper really published an offer announcement! ”

It's not just this financial company that's putting on a startling scene.

As time went on, more and more people paid attention, but many people were still in disbelief, and even though the announcement was published in the major newspapers, they still felt like they were dreaming!

Columbia Pictures is about to be acquired!

Zhennima is about to be acquired by Huajin Capital!

……

Elkeson Corporation.

Ma Xiu is busy with the customer's business.

"Mr. Matthew! Mr. Matthew! Jack Zhao ran in excitedly with a newspaper.

Matthew looked over, "What's wrong?" Is something wrong? ”

Several other Elkeson executives who are familiar with Ji Cheng are also discussing things in the office, and when they saw Jack Zhao's appearance, they all didn't know why they looked over, and said why is this Jack Zhao making a fuss today? Could it be that aliens have invaded Earth?

Jack Zhao opened the Wall Street Journal with a stunned face, pointed to the front page and said, "Look at it! Mr. Ji has made a big move again! ”

"Huh? What's the big move? ”

"Hurry up and show us!"

Everyone leaned over to look at it while asking, and then Matthew almost turned it back in one breath, and the other company executives also stared at each other and exclaimed one by one!

"Oh my God!"

"Really going to buy? According to the content of the announcement, there is a good chance that Columbia Pictures will be acquired! ”

……

Magic City.

Universal Trading.

It was already eight or nine o'clock in the night, and Liu Zhi and Ji Aiguo urgently held a meeting because part of the company's equity fell into the hands of Qin Gongzi, and Chu Zhonglin, Ji Qing and others were there.

"Hehe, as the boss thought, Qin Gongzi really used Huajin Capital to obtain a part of our equity, and then wait for them to fully acquire it, and then they can kill this grandson." Liu Zhi said excitedly.

Ji Aiguo also seemed very happy, "Well, the eldest brother is really clever, but I don't know how he is doing in the beautiful country now." ”

Liu Zhi smacked his lips and said, "I don't know, he hasn't called back for the past few days, and he said that he was going to take us north to Xiong Country this time, why didn't there move all of a sudden?" ”

Just then, the landline on the desk rang.

Liu Zhi didn't think much about it, he picked up the microphone and put it to his ear, at first his expression was light, but the next moment he became stunned, and then opened his mouth wide in shock, "What you said is true?" Mr. Nan, you're not kidding, are you? ”

"Huh?"

"What did Mr. Nan tell you about being so surprised?"

Ji Aiguo and the others couldn't hear what the two were talking about on the phone.

After a while, Liu Zhi hung up the phone, looked at everyone dementedly, and suddenly took a deep breath, "You...... You must not know how much the boss has made a move in the beautiful country! ”

Ji Aiguo asked anxiously, "How much is the movement?" You mean! ”

Liu Zhi's stunned expression was still on his face, and he said dumbly: "Just now Nanhui told me that his relative in the beautiful country, Jack Zhao, called him and told him that the boss was spending four billion dollars in the beautiful country to buy a company, what is that company called Columbia Pictures or what!" ”

Everyone doesn't know the name Columbia Pictures, but they know the weight of four billion dollars!

In an instant, the entire office was silent!

Then, one after another, screams resounded through the office!

"Huh?"

"it!"

"What?"

At this moment, Ji Aiguo, Ji Qing and Chu Zhonglin, old friends who followed Ji Cheng to fight the world at the beginning, felt dizzy, how could they not expect Ji Cheng to do so much in the beautiful country, Nima spent four billion dollars to buy a company?

……

Sony Headquarters, New York.

Akio Morita just came back yesterday and specially convened the company's senior management to discuss the acquisition of Columbia Pictures again, which is related to the future development of Sony and is a top priority, and he must always be concerned.

Everyone sat in the conference room and talked.

"Columbia Pictures has been even more excessive these days, and they are actually asking for twenty-one dollars per share, why don't they grab it?"

"It's just that the offer is too high."

"Didn't Ji Cheng, the boss of Joaquin Capital, say that he was willing to help us buy Columbia Pictures?"

"He? The asking price is even more outrageous! Saying that we want to come up with six billion dollars to sign a VAM agreement, Columbia Pictures is so excessive, and it is only a price of 21 dollars per share, if we are really willing to spend 6 billion and use him to help buy it? “

"Hehe, he really dared to ask for it."

"This Chinese man really doesn't have any self-knowledge, he dares to ask us for such a high price, who gives him the confidence?"

"Okay, don't talk about him, let's talk about the acquisition."

"Yes, let's not talk about it, let's continue to talk about the acquisition of Columbia Films."

Akio Morita didn't speak much, and when he heard his subordinates mention Ji Cheng, he felt ridiculous, what kind of person, and the price was six billion dollars? Crazy about money?

Suddenly, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and the president of the company's operations walked in from outside, he had a customer reception just now, and he was late at this time, but his face was not very good when he came in, "Guys, this time there is really a big deal!" ”

A white female executive in her fifties glanced at him and said, "Joe, what makes you look like you're constipated?" ”

The president of operations didn't even sit down, and put down the newspaper in his hand with a wry smile, "Originally, I was still talking to the customer, but when I saw the announcement on this newspaper, the content was really amazing, so I specially said sorry to the customer, I came to you first, let's take a look." ”

The white female executive in her fifties didn't realize the seriousness of the matter and said with a smile: "Then I'm going to see what makes our chief of operations look so uncomfortable." ”

With that, she picked up the newspaper and flipped through it.

The headlines on the front page are impressively in everyone's eyes!

"Columbia Pictures Releases Progress Announcement on the Tender Offer"!

White female executives in their fifties were dumbfounded!

Akio Morita and more than a dozen other high-level executives are also blindfolded!

Didn't they negotiate with Columbia Pictures yet? Why did you make a tender offer announcement?

Everyone will realize that what the chief operating officer said is true, and they will stand up and gather around the newspaper to watch, and then they will all gasp!

No way!

Ji Cheng couldn't get a commission from their side, so he actually went out in person to prepare to buy Columbia Pictures!

Just now they also said that Ji Cheng didn't know where he got the confidence to ask them for six billion US dollars, but the next moment, they saw the tender offer announcement from the newspaper, and judging from the content of the announcement, Ji Cheng is very likely to complete the acquisition!

Akio Morita's face changed suddenly, of course he knew what would happen to Columbia Pictures after it was acquired by Ji Cheng, and the asking price would definitely be more than the six billion quoted at the beginning!

Nima!

Your grandson is too much!

Why can't people get the entrustment, they can't get it, and your grandson actually buys it directly? Is there anyone who does this business for you?

Akio Morita panicked and yelled, "Hurry up and re-quote with Columbia Pictures, twenty-five dollars per share!" ”

But he re-quoted too late!

Before anyone on Sony's side could contact Columbia Pictures, another shocking piece of news came out of Columbia Pictures.

Coca-Cola and the other nine shareholders of Columbia Pictures collectively announced to the outside media that they had accepted the purchase price of $20 per share offered by Huaying Pictures for Columbia Pictures, and made it clear that not long ago, they signed a share transfer agreement with Huaying Pictures!

As soon as this news came out, it blew up the entire beautiful country!