Winner Takes It All, Resurrection 2009

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The shareholder representative who was hit by the microphone covered his fat face with his hands in confusion. His astonished eyes, which had not yet recovered from his shock, were filled with confusion, resentment, and panic.

If it were any other situation, the man who smashed the microphone would have been dragged out by his men, beaten up, and thrown into the sewer with his limbs cut off.

All kidding aside, to measure the status of those who can appear here with money is simply an insult, even if the person sent as a representative is a white-glove business tycoon.

Except for Li Zehua, who used cheating devices to pile up massive resources and control rights, and caused qualitative changes due to quantitative changes, the others were not ranked according to wealth, but according to their background and current status.

To use a line from a TV drama, that is: My ancestors have already suffered all the hardships I would have to endure in this life, that is a future that I fought for with real swords and guns under Emperor Taizu Gaohuang!

The one who was hit is in a similar situation, but now he is down and out and can only make some money, and do some matchmaking and errands for big groups.

But it's the same as working as a professional manager. If you work for an ordinary boss, you are just an ordinary office worker. If you work for a state-owned enterprise, a central enterprise, or a foreign-funded enterprise, you are at least a white-collar elite with a stable income.

As for working for a super boss, hehe, just look at Liu Ziliang and you will know that in front of Li Zehua, no matter how many shocking titles he has, his main job is to be an assistant who finds and fills in the gaps.

To put it bluntly, he is the leader among the assistants.

But outside, who would dare to call Liu Ziliang and Zhang Defa assistants?

Even if Ye Jingming called, he would still address him affectionately as Director Liu. When the chairmen of other large groups called to make an appointment for a meeting, he would sometimes have to beg humbly.

If the actual controller of a company with a market value of tens of billions wants to line up for a meeting, it depends on whether Liu Ziliang likes him. Otherwise, don't even think about getting in front of Li Zehua to discuss cooperation in two years.

So for anyone, if you are born without it, the best way to change your destiny is to find a good platform. The platform is more important than anything else!
It can be a company, an industry, or even marriage, friendship, family, etc. Everything that builds a channel to expose one's own talents is collectively called a platform.

But now, the fat-faced shareholder representative regretted not checking the almanac before going out, and came out to question Qingyun Agriculture's losses in person.

Don’t you think about it? Liang Xiaolong’s internal number in Qingyun is 004, the fourth employee after Li Zehua, Yang Zhichao, and Yu Li, and he is also Li Zehua’s fellow townsman.

Just because of his action of being the first one to wipe the tables and mop the floor with a bucket on the first day of opening in the two-story building in Shanghai, Li Zehua will remember him for the rest of his life.

How could outsiders easily question the fact that he was so carefully appointed to be the chairman of a company suffering heavy losses, let alone openly questioning him in a general meeting of shareholders in full view of the public?
"What the hell, I owe you this, Nana. I didn't realize that the group as a whole suffered a serious loss this year, so you won't get a dime.

Damn, you took billions of dividends from me, not only didn't you say a word of gratitude, but you also had the nerve to question the overall strategy of the group. Who do you think you are?"

Li Zehua had no microphone in front of him, so he spoke without restraint. After a halfhearted apology, he pretended to say, "How is it? It didn't break, did it?"

Several directors nearby and several bigwigs in the front row heard his muttering, but they all smiled and pretended not to hear it.

It’s not that they have a broad vision. In fact, many people are not impressed by Qingyun Agriculture’s loss-making strategy, but they have a higher vision and perspective on the issue.

Why invest in Qingyun?
Increasing influence, especially the resource allocation and control brought by industry dominance, will be a huge boost to the overseas business expansion of the business groups they control!

Making money is just a by-product. To put it bluntly, at the level of super giant companies such as Runhua and China Merchants, money is just a number. Although it is indispensable, it may not be that important.

Money is useful only if it can buy control over resources and the ability to allocate them.

It just so happened that the money earned by Qingyun came with additional resources, so under the premise that they could not replace Li Zehua himself, everyone reached the best solution, which was to recognize his status and cooperate for mutual benefit.

What's more, Qingyun's overall profitability is astonishing, and this year is the first time that it has publicly distributed dividends through the Qingyun Industrial Fund. Everyone is overjoyed at the overall excess returns.

But some people rashly stand up and question everything. What are they thinking?
Is he simply dissatisfied with Qingyun Agriculture's losses, or is he questioning Li Zehua's position?
Who is behind him and what is the significance of doing this?

Everyone present was a smart person, and they couldn't help but think about it carefully, and then looking at that unlucky guy, they felt that something was not right.

The fat-faced shareholder representative also realized something was wrong at this moment. Why did the people around him look at him as if he were a dead person?
So he covered his face, forced himself to stand up, and said timidly: "No, it's okay."

"Oh, that's good. Xiao Liu, what happened to you? For such an important occasion as the group's shareholders' meeting, the microphone you purchased was of such poor quality that it could fly away if touched casually."

Li Zehua pretended to scold him, but what could Liu Ziliang do? The boss was passing the buck, so he had to rush forward and take the blame no matter how difficult it was.

Unfortunately, before he could sincerely admit his mistake, Li Zehua continued, "Well, your name is Ma Zhenghe, right? It seems that you are in this business?"

Ma Zhenghe, who was hit, didn't understand why, but nodded, "Thanks to you, business has been getting better and better in recent years. The group has diversified and expanded, and has indeed also started the office equipment business."

"It's over. This idiot is completely hopeless."

Ye Jingming couldn't help but whisper to Qin Xiangli beside him

The latter thought about it and couldn't help but frowned and said, "The one behind him is the one from Chemical Energy and New Materials, right? It doesn't look like he came here on impulse, he was fully prepared."

"Who says it's not true? It's hard to run a small business steadily these days."

Ye Jingming kept silent after he finished speaking, waiting to see what was going on. After all, the person behind the other party happened to be a major upstream player of Nandian Energy, controlling many of the domestic raw materials of copper, iron, zinc and tin.

Qingyun Group has made great efforts in South America and successfully opened up Samba's purchasing channels, which is obviously blocking other people's way.

As for whether it is or not, there is actually no difference.

Because of the simple conflict of interests, we cannot see the deeper meaning.

Then there is no need for him to stay in this circle, because a guy who doesn't even have a strategic vision is not qualified to play with everyone.

Since he came prepared, he was doomed to fail today. It was a good opportunity for him to use Qingyun to eliminate a potential rival for Nandian Energy.

Unfortunately, Qin Xiangli did not respond to him and ignored his private actions, which made Ye Jingming speechless, but he was too embarrassed to come forward in person as it would be too obvious.

Li Zehua obviously saw the problem, so after getting the answer, he pointed towards the door and said, "Then please ask Mr. Ma to go out and get a microphone made by our company.

Zhang Tao, send Mr. Ma out."

He didn't get angry, but he was more frightening than if he was angry.

Ma Zhenghe still wanted to struggle, "This?"

Even though Li Zehua ignored him and looked for help to the people around him, no one dared to respond. They all stared at him with mocking eyes as if he were a fool. No one was stupid.

No matter what promises each company made before coming here, seeing the current situation, who dares to stand up to Qingyun Group?
"What are you waiting for? Didn't you see that Mr. Ma's brain was smashed? Why don't you rush to the hospital?"

Ye Jingming didn't care about exposing his thoughts at this moment, and stepped out to add fuel to the fire, saying: "Boss Ma is such a precious person, we can't delay his treatment. It's best to do a full body check, especially to check his brain."

There was something fishy in his words, and anyone with a discerning eye could see what was wrong. Zhang Tao walked forward and looked at Li Zehua's attitude. Seeing that he didn't say anything, he waved his hand and said, "Drag him away."

Ma Zhenghe was furious. "Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen, you can't just stand by and watch someone die. We agreed before..."

However, before he could finish his words, he was stopped by someone's sharp eyes. Li Zehua didn't want to cause trouble in such an occasion, so he waved his hand and asked Zhang Tao to drag the man out. Once outside, no one spoiled Ma Zhenghe, and he was soon given special care~
"Let's continue the meeting. I'm a very disciplined person. We are all shareholders of Qingyun and friends who are here to build Qingyun better. Please express your opinions freely. If you have anything to say, just say it."

Li Zehua continued talking with a smile, as if nothing had happened just now.

No one at the meeting dared to speak. Even Mr. Chen, who was called upon by Ma Zhenghe for help, looked at the ceiling innocently, as if he was pondering the decoration style of Qingyun headquarters.

The farce ended, and Gu Shijie continued to represent Qingyun Group to introduce the business development of this year and the market outlook for the coming year.

During the period, Li Zehua went out for a short while. When he came back, he did not go on stage, but changed seats with someone in the first row and exchanged opinions in a low voice with several core external shareholders.

Deputy CEO Huang, who was sent by Temasek, had no objection at all. “It is better to kick out those who are not of the same mind and who play dirty tricks behind the scenes as soon as possible, so as not to ruin the group’s ethos.”

"That's right, Mr. Li, just go ahead and do it. Before we came here, Yanjing said one thing: it absolutely supports companies to operate legally and in compliance with regulations, and to use all means within the legal framework to protect their own rights and interests."

A deputy director of the state-owned assets department said with a smile that he came today just to support Qingyun.

Not to mention the locals in Shanghai. Anyone who causes trouble for Qingyun just thinks that his life is too comfortable.

However, Zhang Baige still left some room for maneuver, "Mr. Li, it's unrealistic to completely cut ties. Although Ma Zhenghe and the people behind him have evil intentions, no matter what, the channels for importing special materials and American oil are in their hands.

The domestic demand for this product is still very high, and there will be no substitute in the short term. Of course, I personally fully respect any outcome of Qingyun Group’s decision.”

Li Zehua nodded, turned around and asked Ye Jingming, "Can we use the channels at Goldman Sachs?"

Ye Jingming thought about it, shook his head and nodded, "Goldman Sachs has sent people to discuss the matter of spending a high price on strategic materials several times, but each time they included other conditions, which were far from the bottom line set by the higher-ups..."

Unlike the original time and space, in this life, due to the early success of RMB's overseas expansion, by the end of 12, Southeast Asian economies have replaced Hong Kong and become the largest overseas circulation market for RMB.

In accordance with the monetary cooperation framework reached in April and May, the central bank injected more than 6500 billion RMB in foreign exchange supplements into Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand through three special treasury bond issuances, and in the name of low-interest loans.

Inject an equal amount of foreign exchange RMB into Southeast Asian economies to meet the needs of Singapore-listed Chinese stocks, futures trading and daily trade in Southeast Asia.

At the same time, the Ministry of Finance, the central bank and central banks of Southeast Asian countries, as well as financial institutions such as HSBC, Minsheng Financial Holdings, and Zhongxin Financial Group have joined together.

Outside the US dollar global currency trade settlement system, a small gap has been quietly opened to sell Southeast Asian tropical specialties to the East, including agricultural products, raw materials, crude oil, natural gas and other necessities.

All products that account for more than 60% of the local industry's foreign exports will bypass the US dollar trade settlement system, directly use the RMB mid-price as the pricing standard, and trade directly with the Central Bank of the University of Tokyo.

The move is intended to bypass the US dollar and build a new international trade system centered entirely on the RMB, and the 60% baseline is the result of joint discussions between the two sides.

Because once it is included in the sanctions list by US capital, the remaining 30% of export share will be relatively easy to be completely replaced by the University of Tokyo, without damaging its own interests.

Tokyo and Southeast Asia are trying to form a new economic alliance similar to Europe and gradually abandon the US dollar system and build a new RMB alliance.

Ma Zhenghe and the people behind him were just pawns used by American capital to try to obstruct the process of Dongda stockpiling strategic raw materials.

It is said that history is a cycle. The appearance of Ou Meng was due to the compromise made by American capital in order to win over Ou Meng to deal with the big cat.

It is almost the same now. Now that American capital is fully focused on dealing with Ou Meng, it has to compromise with the University of the East in the Western Pacific region. To put it bluntly, the University of the East is close to the large American capital groups.

Most of the issues have been resolved by the Qingyun Group. Although the influence in the remaining economic and trade cooperation areas is still great, it cannot be brought together in a short period of time, and there is no suitable carrier group to come forward to cheer for American capital.

Therefore, it is difficult to react immediately, but the University of Tokyo, which has no internal constraints, can often take advantage of the time difference to produce results first and then negotiate with American capital.

After giving up part of the interests, they exchanged it for the American capital's subsequent recognition.

This is not cowardice, but a superb means of competition among real social economies, just like the survival rules of wild beasts in the animal world. American capital is now the king of the grassland.

Relying on coercion, inducement, intimidation and other means, he forced a group of lionesses (Ou Meng) to follow him and show off their power, running rampant across the entire prairie.

Peripheral economies such as China, India, Japan, and South Korea are more like a pack of hyenas. The global village is so small that their territories overlap with those of lions. In order to survive, they have to temporarily submit to the lions.

When faced with a powerful male lion leading a group, they often have to give up the food they have worked hard to hunt and stay away to avoid a head-on conflict.

And when the male lions take a nap or are temporarily not paying attention, they will sneak up and suddenly snatch a large piece of fat meat from the lion group.

The lioness (Ou Meng) is a master hunter, but she is no match for the hyenas that are ready to take action. She has to rely on the force of the lion to deter them from making any further moves.

The power of the male lion lies in the fact that it can find and kill the queen leading the hyena team in the first time, thus serving as a warning to other hyenas and preventing them from being too presumptuous.

Such is the nature of survival.

The competition rules of more direct wild beasts are often to rely on the advantage of size to determine the winner through non-direct head-on competition, because the cruel laws of nature are the experience engraved in the bone genes.

And many more bloody lessons from facts warn every powerful beast that no matter how strong an individual beast is, it should never engage in a head-on fight with carnivores unless it is absolutely desperate.

Unless your competitor reveals a fatal flaw and can be killed with one blow, when you raise your sharp claws and open your bloody mouth to attack, your soft abdomen and neck will also be exposed to the opponent's attack range.

Even if it could easily kill the opponent, there is a possibility of injury due to momentary negligence. Any large carnivore will try its best to avoid this consequence.

Even when hunting, they will make a series of thorough preparations, because they know that there is a lot of food on the grassland. Even if they fail to hunt once, there will be another chance. However, if they are injured and bleeding, they will lose their deterrent effect and will be attacked by the group.

American capital is the lion, and countless other small and medium-sized economies have developed agility in order to avoid being quickly harvested. As long as they run fast and hide well, they can avoid being the first to be eaten.

The development ceiling that American capital originally set for Southeast University was to make it, at most, an agile leopard. Although it was highly skilled in its own right, it would encounter groups of hyenas and large groups of lionesses.

It could only put down its prey and hide in a tree to escape. It didn't need to take any action itself to force the Dongda leopard to compromise, but Dongda had a strong historical and cultural heritage.

The most outstanding industrial workers who have developed through universal compulsory education have a spirit of never giving up in their bones, which is completely different from those in the United States and Europe. The agile leopard has turned into the king of the jungle, the tiger.

The lion was dumbfounded. Intimidation, coercion, and inducement all failed to force the tiger to surrender. He was completely helpless because he knew very well that if lions and tigers met head-on, the only outcome of the fight would be a fight to the death.

It means both sides will suffer losses and go to hell together.

Coincidentally, Dongda also realized that it was a cowardly lion. Don’t be fooled by its amazing amount of hair and intimidating appearance. In fact, it can do nothing but bully antelopes and giraffes with its mighty roar, and occasionally hunt bison in groups.

At other times, they dare not get hurt at all. That's fine. American capital is constrained by the international order it has established, and there is only that much upper limit. Now the lions and the lionesses have a fatal disagreement over the leadership of the lion group.

The tiger was also not idle, and quickly started industrial upgrading in the jungle. It has just been initially completed, and wings are faintly growing on its back. This is if the 15-year smart manufacturing plan is successfully implemented.

Wouldn't it be like adding wings to a tiger?
What's more, when other parties play their own roles according to the law of the jungle, or learn to run, or learn to hide, or evolve into something sour and smelly that is difficult to swallow (if there are no minerals, no oil, and it is not in a critical position, it will be difficult to breed mold).

The tiger was shocked to find that he could actually evolve. As long as he worked hard, he could regain his dragon body that could fly in the clouds and command all living things... (End of this chapter)