Winner Takes It All, Resurrection 2009

"For a hole of 80 billion, they only gave us 20 billion. They are just sending beggars away, and they still want us to go out and fight against the thunder. They are just dreaming about their own future."

Wu Xiaohui has been very upset recently. He has not had a good day since he experienced the nightmare of speculation in the futures market 10 years ago.

Dingguo was originally used by Moqi to insure the cars it sold, and also to get involved in the life insurance business. Later, it was spotted by Mr. Xiao Lu and went through a series of mergers and acquisitions that dazzled outsiders.

It has only developed into the eighth financial group in the country with full insurance channels (Qingyun Great Eastern Insurance is the ninth), but unfortunately Dingguo did not catch up with the good time of expansion of the insurance industry.

By the time it hurried into the market, the country's existing market had already been eaten up by large groups such as China Life, PICC, Ping An, and China Pacific. Dingguo, which barely caught the last train, encountered difficulties in business development.

It is not like Qingyun, which can rely on diversified operations and use internal resources to feed back the development of insurance business. When the external market tends to be saturated, Qingyun can create new markets out of nothing.

In turn, the insurance company can use the premium income and the issuance of medium- and low-risk principal-guaranteed financial products to legally obtain huge amounts of funds from the financing market, which can be fed back to other businesses, thus forming a virtuous circle.

The income provided by bundling Magic Car sales and special care in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions alone cannot satisfy Dingguo and the investors behind him, because the cost of developing new markets remains high.

This led Dingguo to gradually take the crooked path of financial speculation. Not to mention, for a bunch of young masters to engage in finance was definitely a suitable profession because their fathers had generally held high positions.

Moreover, the students and relatives of each family are spread all over the world, and most of them are in key positions. When engaged in finance, the most important things are information and the ability to ensure that the maximum penalty for violating the rules is three glasses of wine.

The information gap, especially the top-secret information, the benefits brought by knowing it in advance and knowing it later, are huge, ranging from mergers and acquisitions between listed groups to cooperation on large projects.

From small things like annual report information disclosure to business failures, they can know about them one step ahead of the market, so they have ample time to buy low and sell high to earn the difference, and they can also escape the peak and avoid risks in advance.

Needless to say, the punishment of three cups of wine is fine. Even if ordinary people are lucky enough to know the top-secret information in advance, they can use the money to buy at a low price and take a ride to earn some pocket money.

For a single project, would you like to invest tens or hundreds of millions to try and grab the banker's cake?

Tired of living?!
The ending is destined to be sung inside: iron doors, iron windows, iron chains~
Therefore, when Li Zehua made his first fortune, he often diversified his investments to avoid being noticed. When the scale reached a certain level and someone was targeting him and preparing to set up a trap to reap the benefits, he decisively withdrew.

Later, in order to eliminate hidden dangers, he donated all the money he earned from the stock market to various universities as scholarships.

Only in this way can he get rid of the development problems and go into battle with a light load. Later, the company gave him the money as a management bonus in the name of image and brand promotion, and he could feel at ease taking it.

By the time the industrial fund was established and made large-scale investments in the mainland stock market, Qingyun had already become one of the biggest market makers and could even participate in rule-making. It would be polite if it did not reap the benefits of others.

It's the same with them. If things really get out of hand, they can just push a white glove out as a scapegoat, and the person behind the scenes will at most have to drink three glasses of wine as punishment, and then they can get through safely and continue to play music and dance.

This is still one of the simplest ways to monetize resources. There are countless other ways to play, such as participating in capital turnover and taking advantage of others. In short, it is very pleasant to make money while lying down.

Unfortunately, people’s ambitions will expand, and their desires will never be satisfied. Even if they are worth tens of millions, they still want luxury cars and villas. Even if they are hugging models, they still want private jets and luxury yachts.

Even the ancient emperors, who had palaces and courtyards and ruled the world, still dreamed of immortality.

So Mr. Lu and President Wu are no exception. Over time, they have lost interest in small-scale operations. After working hard for several months, they only earn tens of millions, or hundreds of millions at most. Who can they look down on with such a small amount of money?

If you’re going to do it, do it big!
Their biggest plan is to develop the Minsheng system, without a doubt, because Dingguo has become a large group with omni-channel insurance qualifications through a series of mergers and acquisitions.

The scale of accumulated debt is getting bigger and bigger, and the investment returns promised to all parties are becoming more and more difficult to deliver, relying only on the small money obtained from financial operations and the meager income from operating insurance business.

It was simply not enough to fill the growing hole, so they had to find a way to solve the problem once and for all. It was in this process that the People's Livelihood Department gradually came into their sight and became their target.

The saying that Zhongxin is all one family will never be out of date. The amount of internal resource allocation depends on the closeness of the relationship. Mr. Xiao Lu is one of the core figures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang capital.

If they take a fancy to the Minsheng faction which was born out of Zhongxin and want to get it as Dingguo's money bag, there won't be much objection from inside.

What's more, Zhongxin also took a fancy to Dingguo Insurance's omni-channel resources. Many things that Zhongxin was not convenient to do could also be accomplished through it. So after a series of internal resource exchanges.

All parties quickly reached a consensus and supported Mr. Xiao Lu to replace the Taishan faction and become the largest shareholder of the Minsheng faction. However, they never expected that the Qingyun faction would suddenly appear and successfully intercept the shares.

At that time, Zhongxin, Dingguo and the Minsheng faction all suffered heavy losses due to agricultural futures trading. The Minsheng faction did not even mention it, and dragged the Taishan faction into hell as well.

The group of people who led the group were either imprisoned, died or escaped, and disappeared from then on, taking with them a large number of hot money in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Dingguo is burdened with more than one billion US dollars in foreign debt and tens of billions of domestic debt. Once it goes bankrupt, even Moqi behind it will not be well off. Under pressure from all sides, President Xiao Lu can only be forced to compromise.

In fact, he had no choice at the time, because after taking over Lu Zhiqiang and Lianxiang Capital of the Panjiang Group, Minsheng shares held by the Fujian Group, and receiving strong support from the New Hope Group, Qingyun had de facto become the largest shareholder.

Once the relationship is broken, Qingyun will start to thoroughly investigate the internal related transactions of Minsheng Department and collect the debts at the same time. Dingguo will not survive for more than three months.

Lian Zhongxin was helpless in the face of the aggressive Qingyun faction, let alone Dingguo.

After losing the money bag of the Minsheng Department, General Manager Xiao Lu and Wu Xiaohui thought of many ways, such as taking over Sichuan Rural Commercial Bank and Pudong Development Bank, but they all failed for various reasons.

Because they had no available resources for continued exchanges, successive failures created a bigger hole, causing complaints from the investors behind them, who began to distance themselves from them and no longer helped.

Especially after Wu Xiaohui's second brother lost his position as president of China Unicom Investment Group, Dingguo's external funding sources were almost completely cut off, and the Zhongxin Group no longer provided financial and resource support.

Faced with the crisis, Dingguo's management must take the initiative to seek change in order to save the situation, because if they can no longer hold on and let Dingguo's inside story be exposed, no one online will have an easy time.

That's why Mr. Xiao Lu accepted Qingyun's advances and successfully obtained a short-term loan of 20 billion from Weifuli. The price he paid was that Dingguo had to reveal all the inside information of Zhongxin Group's recent major investments.

Handing everything over to Qingyun, especially when it comes to energy futures trading business, is simply a token of surrender. Once Zhongxin finds out, Dingguo's good days will be over.

Wu Xiaohui could not accept this in any way. At an internal top-secret meeting, he and General Xiao Lu confronted each other head-on and neither gave in.

As a compromise between the two, Zhao Jiaguo, who was transferred from the vice president of Moqi to the executive vice president of Dingguo, could no longer sit still. "Boss Chen, Qingyun's money is not easy to take!

The fact that they are so anxious to find out the details of Zhongxin’s crude oil futures positions proves that Qingyun will inevitably make a big move in this direction in the next phase.

Since Zhongxin exposed its holdings in advance, it will inevitably be targeted and attacked. If something goes wrong, it will be thoroughly investigated, and we will not be able to escape responsibility at that time. "

Wu Xiaohui felt more confident when he saw that Zhao Jiaguo was on his side. He didn't believe that Mr. Xiao Lu would dare to offend his only support, Moqi, at this critical moment.

So he struck while the iron was hot and said, "Mr. Chen, Dingguo's development cannot be separated from Zhongxin's support. Cooperating with Qingyun is tantamount to seeking the skin of a tiger. Regardless of whether we win or lose, our ending is destined not to be too wonderful."

Under normal circumstances, Mr. Lu would have been furious and would have scolded the two people to protect his own unshakable position. But today, he remained silent.

He let the two of them talk back and forth, belittling his plan to nothing, but he still kept smiling.

Wu Xiaohui was so uneasy about this abnormal appearance that he couldn't help asking, "Mr. Chen, are you feeling unwell?

Do you want to adjourn the meeting for now and come back to preside over the meeting when you are better? Don't worry, Mr. Zhao and I will take good care of the company during this period."

No matter how rampant he was, Wu Xiaohui didn't dare to drive Xiao Lu out, because Dingguo could get to where it is today thanks to Xiao Lu's golden signboard. As long as he was there, Dingguo would be there.

"Why, are you so impatient to take the top position and let me rest so that you can completely sideline me?"

Xiao Lu finally spoke up and sneered, "You are just that capable. No matter how many times you get married, you won't change your petty character.

You should learn more from your cousin He Zhongping and see how he maintains balance in Libao and how he subdues his opponents..."

This is really hurtful. Everyone knows that Mr. He is the son-in-law of Tianzun, and Wu Xiaohui is the son-in-law of Tianzun's grandson. According to seniority, Wu Xiaohui should call Mr. He uncle. Mr. He's descendant He Zhongping is only a few years older than him, but he relies on his own strength to firmly control Libao, one of the four major groups, and his status in the circle is much higher than his.

Even when Mr. Xiao Lu met He Zhongping, he was always polite. It was because of his strength that the seats were arranged according to their abilities. Li Bao, who sat with Zhong Xin on a daily basis, was looked up to wherever he went.

This is equivalent to pointing at a leader and scolding him as a bald man, exposing his shortcomings to his face and not giving him any face at all.

Wu Xiaohui's face flushed, and he wanted to open his mouth to refute, but he was met with Xiao Lu's emotionless eyes. At that moment, he felt like he was being stared at by a wild beast, and he was so scared that he didn't dare to say a word.

Fortunately, Mr. Xiao Lu still needed him, so he didn’t continue to dwell on this issue. Instead, he chose to knock him for a while, and when he saw that he seemed to be obedient, he said with satisfaction: "The way out you just mentioned.

It's all fart!

I was doing well in the import and export trade, making 300 to 500 million yuan every year without doing anything. How easy was my life?

Wasn't it Zhongxin's gang who instigated me to get involved in this so-called insurance business that could make a fortune?
I won’t say anything else, let’s just talk about the agricultural products transaction. Did Zhongxin trick us in the end?
Without it, would we have been able to scrape together money from everywhere, abandon the last bit of our face and kindness, and invest more than 20 billion yuan here and there, only to lose everything in the end?
Haha, they protected Zhong Xin and left first, and then compensated us for our losses in the future. But in the end, when we were really in dire straits, those people didn’t even say a word…”

As if to cover up the embarrassment just now, Wu Xiaohui also cooperated and fired at Zhong Xin, "That's right, it makes me angry when I talk about this..."

Zhao Jiaguo had a helpless look on his face, watching the two people talking to each other, talking about Zhong Xin's betrayal and demolition of bridges after crossing them, but what was the use?
What can be solved by speaking it out?
So he listened for a while and couldn't help but said, "Boss Chen, Boss Wu, aren't we here to discuss how to break the impasse? Although Zhong Xin has a thousand faults, he is still an unshakable behemoth.

And Qingyun is the culprit that caused us to fall into the current state of desolation. Now he is offering 20 billion to us to be his accomplice, and the conditions are so harsh. Will Zhongxin spare us once the news is exposed?"

He is afraid of taking the blame. Both Mr. Xiao Lu and Wu Xiaohui are core figures. Even if they become enemies, they will at most go abroad and never come back for the sake of their past friendship.

And he was destined to be a ready-made scapegoat. In order to save his own life, he felt it necessary to make his position clear.

If things get out of control, he plans to run to Yanjing and find Zhongxin Chairman Chang Zhenming to explain himself and try to find a way to survive.

Wu Xiaohui looked at him deeply and was about to say a few words when Mr. Xiao Lu spoke again, but the words he said made him feel as if the sky was falling.

"Take it in, why not? If a man does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth!"

Mr. Xiao Lu was full of murderous intent, "Isn't it just revealing the position situation? Qingyun can make targeted layouts, but we can't take the opportunity to profit from it?

As long as the profits are big enough, you can have the best of both worlds, eating up the bulls (Zhongxin, American capital) and the bears (Qingyun), and even if you operate well, you can fill all the holes at once.

Zhongxin won and took the opportunity to take back the controlling stake of the Minsheng Group.

Qingyunsheng, the controlling stake of Zhongxin Bank may not be out of reach."

Both of them were stunned, speechless for a long time, unable to believe it.

All I heard was Mr. Xiao Lu imagining a beautiful blueprint.

Wu Xiaohui was almost going crazy, and subconsciously said: "Boss Chen, are you drunk? There are only 6 million yuan in the company's account, and the principal and interest of the debt due in the next three months is as high as 30 billion.

Even if I fulfill all my promises to Qingyun and get the 20 billion, it still won't be enough. How can I have the extra money to satisfy both sides?"

Zhao Jiaguo also advised, "Mr. Chen, Chairman Zhong Xinchang is about to expose the inside story of the Minsheng Department's transactions. By then, we will be at the center of the storm. We should think about how to overcome the current difficulties."

Both of them thought that Xiao Lu was upset and crazy, and didn't believe him at all.

Mr. Xiao Lu didn't care, "Money? Isn't it enough to have hands?
Xiao Wu, we previously issued a small-scale universal insurance with an 8% coupon rate of return. This time, if you raise it to 12% or even above 15%, I don’t believe that we won’t be able to get the funds.”

"You're really crazy."

Wu Xiaohui didn't know what to say. Dingguo had indeed issued universal insurance for financial management before, but it was affected by the 6.5-8.5% principal guaranteed investment business of Weifu.

As a result, Dingguo, which wanted to rely on this business to make a comeback, failed again. It originally planned to raise 15 billion yuan in the first phase, but in the end it only raised a little more than 2 million yuan and failed to recover even the operating costs.

Now that the rate of return has been raised to 12-15% in one go, investors who are unaware of the truth in the market will surely pay money crazily. The key is how to cash it out?
Universal insurance is not a one-time deal, but a principal-guaranteed insurance investment with long-term protection. It often starts from five to ten years, and has a 15% return rate that rolls over ten years. Which company dares to honor this?

Doing this will only result in you dying today, but if you try any possible medical treatment, you will definitely die ten years later. Moreover, the higher-ups will definitely intervene in the investigation, and what will you do when they punish you?
"What do you know."

President Xiao Lu waved his hand and said, "This time we can really make money!

Just think about it, American capital, Zhongxin, and so many oil-producing countries are doing their best to go long on crude oil, and Wall Street is investing hundreds of billions of dollars in shale oil companies across the United States for technological research and development to expand production.

What is being fought over is the power to set global energy prices and the financial dominance behind it. This unanimous bullish view on the general trend cannot be reversed by a few groups or countries.

Qingyun overestimates his own abilities and tries to stop a chariot with his bare hands, which is nothing more than serving food.

There is an old saying in the futures industry: the bears will not stop until the bulls die, and vice versa. No matter who has the advantage, the fight will not stop until the last piece of flesh is torn off the other side.

I heard that Qingyun has prepared tens of billions of dollars for energy futures this time. Although it is beyond its capabilities and seeking its own death, it will definitely respond accordingly as soon as it enters the market.

As long as we get enough funds and follow the previous short selling, we will definitely make a lot of money. Then when the US capital and Zhongxin counterattack, we will continue to go long and make money again. Why worry about not having money to fill the hole?"

Mr. Xiao Lu's words made the two of them suddenly enlightened. After thinking about it, they realized that it was indeed the case.

"But a 15% return is too much. Even if we only count the principal, we will have to pay 150% interest in ten years!"

Wu Xiaohui wanted to eat meat but was afraid of being beaten, so he was very anxious.

Zhao Jiaguo never mentioned going to Yanjing to protect himself, but was thinking about where to get the money. If he could seize this opportunity, even if he could only tear a piece of meat from Qingyun, he would be able to feed Dingguo.

"Over at the Magic Steam, Xiao Zhao, come and figure out a way. Take as much as you can. We are destined to make a fortune together this time!"

Mr. Xiao Lu was not panicking at all and arranged the tasks in an orderly manner. "Xiao Wu, I don't care what method you use, but you have to get at least 20 to 30 billion funds this month."

Wu Xiaohui was helpless. "Well, I'll try to issue a five-year universal insurance first. I'll go home and think of other ways."

"That's right. If we can raise a few hundred million, we can completely turn things around this time. With the money, we have nothing to fear. Whether it's Zhongxin or Qingyun, just wait for me."

President Xiao Lu is completely desperate and is ready to give it a try. Zhong Xin thinks he has no use and is ready to trade Dingguo and Qingyun Minsheng Department for him.

Qingyun also had bad intentions and was planning to use him as a weapon, but he would not let the two families get what they wanted.

After everything was arranged, Wu Xiaohui and Zhao Jiaguo left with great hope, while he couldn't wait to take out his phone and make a call.

The first sentence is, "I have already arranged it here."

A voice rang out from the other end of the phone, "Don't hesitate if you want to do it. No matter who wins or who loses, neither family will let you off easily. Only when they both suffer losses can Dingguo live a good life.

According to what we discussed before, with the money, Dingguo can diversify and expand, and in the future, the market value will reach trillions. Who would dare to attack you?"

Mr. Xiao Lu said coldly: "Don't worry, there is no turning back this time. I will give you the Zhongxin holding information I promised you. With this, I don't believe Zhongxin can hold steady..."

The person on the other end of the phone laughed, "Haha, I'll wait and give Zhongxin a big gift in the domestic futures market. When we make money, we can go to the international crude oil market and make a fortune!" (End of this chapter)