Winner Takes It All, Resurrection 2009

"Fifteen million yuan has been credited to your micropayment account!"

As the beautiful electronic reminder sounded, Mr. House, the general manager of Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, almost smiled crookedly. "How can I be so embarrassed? Please thank Mr. for his generosity and extend my highest regards to him."

Then he raised his glass, "Let's drink to our common cause."

The other party was not polite. After drinking the wine in the glass, he smiled and said, "After the deal is done, the balance of 3500 million will also be transferred to this account. I wish us a happy cooperation in advance."

After the two of them had eaten and drunk their fill and sent House away, the middle-aged man took out his cell phone and called the boss behind the scenes, "It's done, the other party was very happy to tell me all the inside information.

They are also willing to actively cooperate with us to carry out the next plan. "

The person on the other end of the line said calmly, "You're doing well. Keep watching this line. You'll need him in the future."

……

After leaving, House did not go home, but went straight to the door of a room at the Peninsula Hotel. Before knocking on the door and entering, he carefully looked around to make sure no one was following him.

He knocked three times rhythmically as instructed, and when the person inside opened the door, he quickly said, "Someone will be here soon. You can leave now."

The people in the room nodded and told them to leave. Instead of taking the elevator, they walked directly up the stairs to the underground garage. Before leaving, they also hacked into the hotel's surveillance system.

Delete all previous video records...

"Why are you asking me out in such a hurry?"

Greg was very puzzled. Although BlackRock and Goldman Sachs had a lot of business overlap and belonged to the same camp, their core interests were different after all.

For example, when it comes to forcing Qingyun to compromise, Greg is more radical in both his methods and means, facing House, who has always insisted on using commercial means to solve problems.

He felt there was nothing to talk about.

Unexpectedly, as soon as House came up, he couldn't wait to give him a big gift.

"What? Are you saying that Yang Zhichao, who failed in the internal struggle of Qingyun, can be bribed and used?"

Greg's first reaction was total disbelief, and he even wondered if today was April Fools' Day. "Come on, he was once the third most important person in Qingyun, a wealthy man with an annual salary and options worth tens of millions. I don't think I can easily deal with him.

It's crazy that I'm sitting here talking to you about a topic that's doomed to failure. It's a waste of time to bribe a bonafide billionaire."

"But how do you know it won't work if you don't try?"

House shrugged, looking relaxed and happy. "After all, you should know that for a big shot of that level, the psychological gap is the real fatal blow."

Pointing at Greg, he said, "It's like if you can't solve the current predicament, everyone knows what the outcome will be.

Okay, no need to hide in front of me."

He interrupted Greg's defense without hesitation and said sarcastically: "Although most of BlackRock's funds come from public channels, absolutely not a penny will be wasted meaninglessly.

Now the whole Wall Street knows that your bets on Tengda and Xiangjiang were all taken away, and you lost the past 20 years' profits in one go. I don't think those gentlemen behind the funds will let you off easily.

That’s why you couldn’t wait to find Qingyun, trying to offset the huge book loss by purchasing the original investment shares…”

The more Greg listened, the more frightened he became. He hadn't expected that the other party actually held a complete set of top-secret information about BlackRock's Asian investments. His heart sank little by little.

“Who is Goldman Sachs? We are the wolf with the most sensitive nose in the entire Wall Street. The massive short selling of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was our masterpiece. The excess net profit calculated in the tens of billions of dollars is enough to prove everything.

However, during the double short selling process, we were surprised to find that many investment funds, including BlackRock, not only failed to close their positions in time, but instead went long against the trend.

Don't explain. I think this must be a clear instruction from the highest level in New York, because only when the stock market crash breaks out can the rationality of all the losses be perfectly explained.

Maybe more than half of the profits earned by Goldman Sachs and other investment banks were deliberately sold by you..."

After eating up your opponent, you eat your ally. If the ally is one who is willing to take the initiative to cut off his own flesh, then it is really...perfect.

However, with such a huge loss, it is inevitable that a scapegoat with enough weight will be introduced to take the blame. No matter how you look at it, Greg, who is responsible for emerging market investment, is the perfect scapegoat.

At this point, facing House who knows the inside story, Greg can no longer pretend and is forced to reveal many details, which naturally explains why he ran to the Magic City.

He chased Qingyun to Hong Kong and tried every trick in the book to force Qingyun to compromise. All his reasons were to make Qingyun take the initiative to cut his own flesh and fill the hole for him and the people behind him.

"…Mr. Hardy was held at the mercy of someone and had no choice but to compromise. Otherwise, many institutions, including the Federal Reserve, would be in big trouble.

You don't even know that while I was listening on the phone, many bigwigs in Guohuishan formally issued an ultimatum to Mr. Tommy, ordering him to follow a certain opinion.

You know, I'm just a professional manager. In their eyes, I'm like a bug that can be crushed to death at any time. Even Tommy lost in the competition, what can I do?

They could only obey and make a series of stupid choices that only a zhu would make, and watch the wealth accumulated by BlackRock in Hong Kong for 20 years disappear in an instant..."

House struck while the iron was hot, "So you should understand Qingyun Yang Zhichao's feelings. He had a similar experience to your Mr. Tommy, both of them were poor guys who lost in the competition.

Even Mr. Tommy is trying to find a solution to stabilize the situation, why do you think that person can't actively save himself?"

Greg's eyes lit up, but then he fell into distress again, "But how can we get in touch with him? Besides, he is a big shot who has lost his status. How can we achieve our goal through him?"

"You can lose a position, but you can't lose your network of relationships. For example, isn't Tommy still the largest shareholder in the Federal Reserve?
Yang, who was demoted to Lijiaopo, is now the acting president of Qingyun Global Business Group. It must be said that this is a very interesting position because it happens to conflict with Zhou in Los Angeles.

Goldman Sachs tried to take this opportunity to contact Zhou. You know, he has high-quality resources that even Goldman Sachs envied. If they could win him over, the future benefits could even reach hundreds of billions.

It's just a pity that a big shot who is on the rise and has a bright future must be very careful about his reputation.

However, although he temporarily rejected our friendship, he did not completely close the door to cooperation. He provided some very interesting inside information, including the news about Yang.

It is very interesting that this co-founder, who once worked with the founder of Qingyun to create this behemoth, stood on the wrong side in a key internal decision-making process, was deprived of all resources and sent to Lijiaopo.

Gave him a fake job and early retirement..."

If you suddenly fall from a great height, that feeling of psychological loss is enough to break down 99.99% of people. It is normal for them to give up on themselves, lie down and sink completely. Only very few people can make a comeback.

"But he is often followed by a team that monitors him in the name of protection. It is not easy for us to contact and convince him."

Greg couldn't help but frown. He certainly knew what it meant to have such a senior executive cooperating with him within Qingyun, even though he had left the core decision-making level.

However, the personal connections left over from the past are enough to find out some top-secret information. In modern business competition, the importance of information decision-making cannot be overemphasized, not to mention that a senior executive of the other party is actually one of your own.

That's just like Greg personally directing the company's investment team to go long against the trend when the stock market crash comes. It's certainly difficult to make money, but do you need someone to teach you how to lose money on your own initiative?
"Make this call at 10:30 tonight. Believe me, there will be extra gains, provided you have sufficient funds."

House had naturally made sufficient preparations to ask him out for a meeting. After leaving his phone number, he stood up and left, "This place is for you. I've already paid for the room and some other expenses.

have a nice evening."

It was a double entendre, and before Greg could react, he saw the door, which had not yet been closed, was pushed open again, and a hot girl who looked drunk staggered into the room.

He knew the person who came. She was his wife, a samba model who was managed by the best management team in his team. It would be a lie to say that he was not moved, but when he thought of her background.

The passion that was about to stir in him was forcibly suppressed.

But the other party's next action instantly made him forget all his worries, because the clothes he took off actively revealed his eyes widened, and there was only one thought in his mind...

"I told you this old guy is no good, haha, give me money, give me money!"

At the same time, in a business car near the hotel, several men were nervously staring at the high-definition video. As the two bodies stopped moving, the people in the car began to curse. Only one man laughed and asked for money. The others had no choice but to take out their wallets and throw thousands of Hong Kong dollars to him while cursing.

"This old man got such a good deal. It only took 67 seconds to kill such a hottie, including removing her equipment. What a waste of talent!"

"What a pity. It would take me at least three hours to go."

"Alright, alright, Lao Wu, take her ID and add the information to the hotel backend. Wait half an hour and go to her house to tell Mr. Second Man. We will take care of everything."

The man sitting in the passenger seat gave a few unpleasant instructions, and then arranged all the follow-up work...

What happened next was a natural progression. Having gotten what he wanted, Greg swept away his previous decadence and began to mobilize BlackRock's vast resources. He had to act before the forces behind him could no longer hold on.

He successfully captured Qingyun and used the latter's resources to make up for the losses. Although these losses were not caused by him, he was in such a key position and had to be responsible for everything.

Even if Mr. Tommy of Federal Savings resisted the pressure and successfully passed the buck, it was still a wrong decision to invest in Tengda, which caused the company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

He can still be held accountable. Mr. Tommy was implicated by him. If he had not been taken advantage of in the Tengda incident, he would not have surrendered so quickly.

Now Greg can only bite the bullet and go down one path to the end. Either deal with Yang Zhichao or find a way to break through Qingyun from the inside.

Either he could use the available resources to engage in a head-on confrontation with Qingyun and force the latter to compromise, but the latter option seemed unreliable.

Not to mention that there have been voices within Qingyun that they have given up on introducing lithography machines. Even if they want to continue purchasing them, it is not up to BlackRock alone to decide whether to continue the transaction.

Temporary obstruction is acceptable, but preventing transactions that affect the revitalization of abandoned assets and harm the interests of the majority of people behind them is not acceptable.

Fortunately, Yang Zhichao was also a wanderer in the world. He and Li Zehua had shared the joys and sorrows and worked hard together to start a business, but what happened in the end?
Today, Mr. Li is the richest man in the country, with a net worth of more than 100 billion!

What about Yang Zhichao himself?

As he told Greg, “Fuck! I’m sold.

That bastard turned ruthless after he got rich. I finally understood that if you rely on the mountains, the mountains will fall, and if you rely on the water, the water will dry up. You can't trust anyone except money!"

There is nothing wrong with this statement according to normal logic. He was once the third-ranked person in the group and was in charge of the most elite and outstanding promotion team of the group.

The full-time salary is 70,000 to 80,000 yuan, and the part-time salary is more than one million. The most important thing is that the promotion and operation department can do everything, manage everything, and make money from everything. It is not subject to the jurisdiction of the subsidiaries and has a very strong independence.

As the president of such a core department, Yang Zhichao's voice within the group can be imagined. In addition, as a co-founder, he once overpowered Lin Wenhui and Liu Zijie, who were in charge of finance and the compliance and supervision department.

He became the co-CEO of the group headquarters and vice chairman of the group, second only to Chairman of the Board Li Zehua and Co-Chairman of the Board Gu Shijie.

Such a big shot who was once high and mighty was sent to Lijiaopo to be a nominal president of the global business group, or an acting president, because he lost in internal competition. Who could stand this?

"One hundred million dollars, is he crazy?"

The person who was cursing was Tommy Locke, the major shareholder behind the Federal Savings. Greg was unable to handle such a big matter. After the initial contact, he decisively chose to hand the problem over.

Whether it succeeds or not, it's all a credit. If it succeeds, will he not be able to take the blame?
Tommy Locke’s first reaction was that this was crazy. How important does a person have to be to be worth $100 million?
But when Greg said some inside information that the other party had released as a token of sincerity, he hesitated and asked, "Are you sure?"

“It is still under verification, but judging from the reaction of the other company and the recent actions of the Central Bank of Dongda, it is very likely.”

Faced with the facts presented by Greg, Tommy had to be cautious, but the price of $100 million was too high, so high that he did not dare to agree easily. These days, the purchasing power of the US dollar is still very strong.

Greg felt the pressure coming from the other end of the phone and secretly groaned in his heart. It was only $100 million, but the boss hesitated when he thought of the astonishing price offered by Yang Zhichao.

He didn't even dare to make any follow-up requests, for fear that his boss would get so angry that he would kick him around like a ball.

"Let's keep him calm first and tell him that it will take time to raise such a large sum of money. If he can provide it or take the initiative to help us achieve certain goals, perhaps I can consider agreeing to it."

Tommy is also well aware of the current situation he is facing. The failed decision-making in the largest emerging market of Dongda has made him very passive. In the decision-making circle composed of a small group of people, his voice continues to be weakened.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have to use his connections and shares in BlackRock to fill the hole. It's just that it's easier to lose money than to fill the hole. Everyone laughs when dividing the profits, but it's not so easy to take the initiative to pay to settle the account.

Greg's scalp tingled. Did this really mean he was being stingy and was just trying to scam me?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but want to quit. At worst he would be fired and lose everything he had. Then he could find a place to hide away for his retirement. He wouldn't be killed by angry investors, right?

Fortunately, although Tommy was stingy, he knew that nothing could be done without paying a little, so he reluctantly gave him an amount of 5 million US dollars, and at the same time hinted that some traces could be cleaned up after the task was completed.

Greg understood immediately that this was capital. Once it had no use value, the best way was to get rid of it to prevent future troubles.

But the next day, he no longer thought so.

Because according to the investigation, BlackRock was surprised to find something outrageous.

That is~
"you sure?"

Mr. Tommy was very angry because due to the time difference between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, he was still resting in his private manor in America during the daytime in Hong Kong.

But when he was urgently awakened and saw a special will sent back from Hong Kong, he was stunned and could not believe it.

"I was cheated. My five million dollars was taken away from me?"

This was his first reaction at the time, but after Greg's patient explanation, he suddenly realized, "It's the damn face and legacy issues again. That Li's control ability is not as absolute as the outside world imagines."

But when he thought that the target person who was being bribed was actually the first heir to the group, his brain began to work rapidly, and a bigger conspiracy gradually took shape.

It is said that people working in finance are very flexible in their thinking and they always seek to maximize profits in everything. If he is just a marginalized executive acting as an insider, then his greatest value will be lost.

It was after he defected at a critical moment and helped the Federal Savings Bank achieve its special purpose that he was ruthlessly abandoned.

If he were to become the legal successor of Qingyun Group, and if the plan was better, or even if Li encountered an accident, could he take the opportunity to swallow up the entire Qingyun Group?
When I think about the fact that the other party holds absolute advantages in several super large industries, after a slight integration of resources and injecting them into the Sitai Capital Group, it will surely become the sharpest sword in the layout of Dongda.

Tommy Locke was so excited about the potential extra trillions of dollars in revenue that this could bring that he was shaking all over.

go to bed?

How many people got rich by sleeping?

He was not tired at all. "Contact that Yang. I want to talk to him in person. It's just 1 million US dollars. Give it to him. As long as he can bring Qingyun Group here, 1.5 million, no, million is also worth it."

Greg's forehead was black, and he cursed in his heart: "You are so stingy, the shares of Qingyun Group's Pinxixi group buying, Yida Group, Yadi Shares, BYD, BOE, and Yongchuang Group are all worth more than 1 trillion RMB.

If you give them $1.5 million, only a fool would cooperate with you."

So he opened his mouth and said, "He wants one billion US dollars now, and this is just the first installment. Don't be angry yet. He wants the money to buy off potential allies within the group and use it against competitors."

"No, don't even think about it!"

Tommy was furious. When had anyone ever dared to ask such a high price from them?
Considering the security force around Li Zehua, no one can be sure of taking him down unless Moldy takes direct action. And every time he takes action, it means that the group that takes direct action will be uprooted.

Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer forces willing to take action, mainly because they cannot withstand the rapid consumption of resources below. Don't think that Qingyun Group is a vegetarian. The 5.6 produced by them can also be fatal.

Tommy said coldly, "At most $200 million, the matter must be done well, I want Qingyun, and that Yang can't be alive in the end, do you understand?"

Greg was confused. It was easy for his boss to talk, but how could he convince others to cooperate?

(End of this chapter)