Winner Takes It All, Resurrection 2009

"William, I'm very happy that you can call me at this time; but you disturbed my good time, and I feel very unhappy. What do you think I should do?" He was interrupted in the middle of his busy work.

Li was in a bad mood. He casually put on his bathrobe and walked out the door. "You'd better give me a reasonable explanation, otherwise this matter will not be so easy to resolve."

As he spoke, he saw the stunned Shen Wanqing and Chen Xiaomin, and casually said hello to them and told them to do as they please. Then he said to William, the actual controller of Bank of America and Angsa Capital Group in the United States, "Don't say superficial polite words.

I think it’s better for our relationship to be straightforward. After all, we can’t let those friends on Wall Street get upset, right?”

“You guy.” William smiled helplessly: “As you wish, I just finished talking with friends from military, food, energy, manufacturing and high-tech companies from all over the United States.

The Wall Street faction proposed limiting the export quota of shale oil extraction, stopping the construction of transportation projects in the Amazon rainforest, and prohibiting companies such as Lockheed Martin and HP from supplying Samba Aerospace Industries.

And Dongda Commercial Aircraft Group transferred the previously negotiated engine technology license, and stated that it would merge Samba Aviation Industries Group through broadcasting.

By the way, it’s not just that. For example, the shares of the Bitcoin trading platform must be equally divided, and Qingyun Group is prohibited from operating its businesses in Europe and the United States. In short, there are many requirements.”

At this point, he paused deliberately to wait for Li Zehua's reaction, but the other party just laughed twice and said nothing more, which made William very helpless. He could only urge: "Why don't you express your opinion on this!"

"Please, as I said at the beginning, our relationship is simply a cooperative one. Since you are here to stop this cooperation, the decision-making power should be made by you.

Whether it is good or bad, I will accept it calmly on behalf of Dongda Capital. "Li Zehua would not be fooled. He knew the plan of Hepai very well. "After all, the only thing that is eternal in this world is interests.

It is just like you are cooperating with Wall Street to go long on crude oil, actively exporting energy to make money, and joining forces with Jiaobenji Capital at the Samba Vale board meeting to drive out Dongda and Samba Capital.

Aren't you all considering your own interests? You even went so far as to breach the contract and withhold a batch of copper and lithium sent to Dongda, as well as 15 million tons of corn that were agreed to be shipped to Dongda.

But unfortunately, I am not one of those decision makers at Dongda University, so this trick of yours will not work on me. No matter how much you urge from above, Qingyun Group will not change its position.

At most, we will slaughter millions less pigs in the next few months (corn is used mainly as feed and also as fuel). In fact, we should thank you for that, because the domestic pork price has skyrocketed due to the breach of contract.

I will make a lot of money by doing this, and as for those who eat meat, let them eat more vegetarian dishes and lose weight. "

"Lee, you're such a jerk."

"Thank you for the compliment."

"Tell me how I can make you change your mind." William played the emotional card, trying to control Dongda by controlling energy, food and mineral exports, and let the internal group of Dongda deal with Qingyun.

The attempt to force Qingyun to give in on cooperation projects with traditional American capital has basically failed, because Qingyun Group itself is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle for Dongda Capital.

Moreover, after four years of internal cleansing, business groups and institutions close to American capital were uprooted from top to bottom, and even the greatest voice in Internet public opinion was taken away by WeChat and TikTok.

With no one from their own side to help and interfere, and no loud speakers or amplifiers to disrupt the judgment of more people, American capital really has no way to influence and interfere with their decision-making from within.

After all, with the limited connections that American multinational corporations have, it is difficult to guarantee the normal interests of joint ventures, so how can they have the spare energy to help gain more benefits?
As Tokyo University continues to make efforts in semiconductors, consumer electronics, new materials, and high-performance, high-precision and cutting-edge products and equipment, there are fewer and fewer industries in which Europe and the United States can gain a leading advantage.

At best, it has certain advantages in a few industrial manufacturing industries such as pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, automobile manufacturing, and internal combustion engine technology, but it cannot be manipulated, so it is naturally difficult to have much impact on the internal decision-making of the University of Tokyo.

William was helpless, but for the interests of traditional American capital and factions, he had no choice but to negotiate with Li Zehua.

Fortunately, the latter did not intend to kill him completely. Hearing William's intention to compromise, he immediately issued a reasonable code: "On the basis of the original South American agreement, add 1 billion interest-free loans and 3/ of Venezuela's energy export share!
The interests in Southeast Asia will be handled according to the old rules. You will take 1% and hand over Luzon. As for Annan, you can keep it if you want."

“This is impossible!” William jumped up and shouted like a rabbit whose tail was stepped on: “Venezuela’s energy is the core interest of the California and Texas groups, there is no room for negotiation.

In addition, we need at least 30% of the financial market interests in Southeast Asia, not including the share of Wall Street. If we can defeat them, you don’t even have to give us a single cent, but we must give you every single cent!
This is not a negotiation with you, understand?"

In comparison, a low-interest or even interest-free loan of 50 billion US dollars is insignificant, because as a super large group, traditional American capital is naturally not short of cash.

The Bank of America alone can invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the South American development plan (building roads is only part of it, the fundamental goal is to take the opportunity to control the minerals, energy and food of the three economies of Samba, Venezuela and Peru).

However, Southeast Asian interests, especially the special rights and interests of American capital in Luzon, cannot be traded. This is the bottom line of traditional American capital.

"Is that the bottom line for energy futures?" Hearing William mention the bottom line, Li Zehua laughed, "You have so many bottom lines. The current price is $119.75, right? If it drops to $60, or even $50 per barrel.

Do you want to add an energy bottom line?
If Qingyun imports grain from Argentina, Chile and White Elephant, and prepares to import the deficit of wheat, corn, cotton and soybeans from Big Cat and Central Asia, do you have to increase the grain bottom line again?
I'm sorry, I think that the University of Tokyo is fully capable of determining its own import sources and does not need to be controlled by American capital. If you still insist that we must follow the conditions just now as the basis, then there is no need for us to continue our conversation. "

"Wait." William was anxious. "Damn it, you can't do this, especially when energy prices fall below $60, something uncontrollable will happen. Can you bear the consequences?"

"What are the consequences? Give up dealing with Ou Meng and run to the vicinity of Dongda to show off and put pressure on him?" Li Zehua sneered, "How about you guess, now Dongda dares to pull all its marine formations to the Gulf of Aden and the southern waters, if something really happens.

Do you think it would be worse if your global strategy collapsed, or if the East China Sea Fleet was crippled and then rebuilt with its strong industrial production and manufacturing capabilities? "

"I don't believe it!" William acted like a rogue because he couldn't answer.

"Then we can talk about it when that day comes." Facing the tough guy, Li Zehua did not give in. "I still don't believe that you dare to let Ou Meng rise, not to mention that you only occupy a little more than one-third of the American capital.

You haven't even got the control, so why are you talking to me? What qualifications do you have to point fingers at Dongda?

Want to threaten and blackmail? Sure, let the deep control group behind Wall Street come over and tell me in person that Zhupai has given up the plan of Ermao to cut off Oumeng's future development direction and break Oumeng's industrial backbone.

And when you were ready to mobilize all the power of American capital to encircle Dongda and fight a war that was destined to have no winners, I believed you.

If you can't do that, then stop farting here!"

"I think it is very necessary for us to meet and talk. There are obviously a lot of misunderstandings here." Having the truth exposed in front of you is tantamount to being pointed at in the nose and scolded.

William couldn’t sit still anymore, and wanted to turn his face, but he didn’t dare, so he could only change the subject, “It’s not clear on the phone, it’s easy to misinterpret the other party’s meaning, what do you think?”

"That's not necessary, you know I'm very busy." Li Zehua shrugged, looking nonchalant, "If I had this time, I might as well study the stock price of American Energy Group.

See if there is any chance to help you lose weight. "

"Don't do that." William was unhappy, and his words were inevitably filled with resentment. "Qingyun Group has many interests overseas. If we really tear our faces apart, no one will be able to play."

In fact, he had already given in at this time. At least Li Zehua heard the subtext, because now the Zhu faction was in charge, and the He faction was suppressed and had no way to survive, so they were forced to compromise.

Thinking of this, he opened his mouth and said, "Come to the Magic City and talk in person. I'll wait for you."

"Okay, I'll arrange to fly over right away." William realized that there was no point in continuing to pester her, so he readily agreed.

After hanging up the phone, Li Zehua passed the message to several important allies, and then called Zhou Shouyuan, asking him to find out the details of today's meeting in Los Angeles through internal channels of American capital. "If it were the previous time, William would have turned hostile to me if we talked like this, but this time I asked him to fly across the ocean from America and he didn't refute it. It's strange." Li Zehua couldn't figure out the specific situation for a while.

We can only analyze the limited information. "Wall Street has definitely put pressure on him, but it's not clear how the talks were conducted."

"The shale oil market is going to collapse." Zhou Shouyuan is in the United States, and with the Zhou family's century-long accumulation in Europe and the United States, it is easy for him to get inside information, "The faster the oil price rises.

The more greedy these people are, especially Wall Street, which is responsible for raising funds, has a particularly big appetite. Since the financial crisis in 08, the control of US capital over the global economy has been greatly reduced.

In the past, if the Mesopotamian region dared to use the euro to replace the US dollar as the main settlement currency, American capital would dare to send mold to wipe out the opponents in the Mesopotamian region on the spot!
But that is no longer possible, because Europe, which has been hit hard by the European debt crisis, is fighting back desperately. Both sides are attacking indiscriminately in almost every occasion that people see, and this involves most of the power of Wall Street.

They were all dragged into this by Ou Meng. Boss, you have a very sharp vision. You seemed to have foreseen it and made many back-up plans..."

After a little compliment, Zhou Shouyuan continued: "Because Wall Street continues to lose blood, they urgently need to supplement from external resources. There are currently three channels, including the Korean chicken.

This is my own farmland, I harvest leeks whenever I want.

The second is to bring back funds from oil-producing countries, such as relaxing sanctions on Big Cat Capital. Although Big Cat is still one of the rivals of US capital at the economic level, the US dollars held by Big Cat Fund have no grudge against Wall Street.

I heard that after the last round of raw material futures and the battle to defend the pound, Wall Street received $3500 billion in liquidity supplementation through just two big cats and big investors (big investor sovereign investment funds).

But before the money was even warm in my hands, you, the boss, organized a global attack on energy. Now Wall Street can no longer sit still and can only reach out to traditional American capital. "

In fact, the situation is much more serious than what Zhou Shouyuan said. The cooking faction is best at reaping the benefits of both finance and public opinion. Traditional American capital is certainly not convinced and wants to compete with them.

However, the Zhu Pai group did not follow the usual path at all. They directly cut off the source of the problem. On the one hand, they accused shale oil companies of making too much money and paying too little dividends, which seriously damaged the interests of investors.

On the other hand, they also incited local American groups such as the Workers' Home and the Workers' Fund to encourage upstream and downstream companies of shale oil companies to take the approach of turning the table over.

It also encourages those surrounding land investors whose interests have been damaged by shale oil exploitation to control capital of groundwater (one of the most important means of shale oil exploitation, water injection exploitation) to significantly increase the production costs of shale oil companies.

In short, after realizing that it could not get enough crude oil delivery from the secondary market, Wall Street has been arranging a retreat, and the scapegoat is traditional U.S. capital.

The logic is simple. Wall Street controls long positions worth hundreds of billions of dollars through large investment banks and financial institutions. There is no way for it to escape successfully before the alliance of various economies launches a general offensive.

Seeing that measures such as production cuts and controlling the transportation of oil-producing countries could not push oil prices above $120 (Wall Street has already identified the strategic reserves of various economies and knows that this is the point where demand is waiting to plummet.

Once all parties use their trump cards, investors from all over the world will rush in to short sell, and Wall Street will be doomed).

Therefore, in order to survive, Wall Street can only cheat traditional American capital by continuously raising the cost of shale oil extraction, forcing traditional American capital to enter the market and go long on crude oil at all costs to protect its own interests.

Even at critical moments, through the military-industrial complex controlled by the He faction (traditional American capital controls the middle and lower-level command and is deeply rooted, and financial capital controls the boards of directors and shareholders of most large military-industrial groups, but cannot form an absolute advantage).

They would not hesitate to let mold start a war against one or several major oil-producing countries to prevent oil prices from collapsing.

The targets have been selected. One is Gibraltar, a country in North Africa that has always been at odds with American capital. One is Venezuela in South America, which is deeply influenced by Europe. The other is Persia, which is located in the middle of the crossroads from the Mesopotamian Basin to the West.

The last one is the second cat whose conditions are not mature enough in all aspects.

In short, for the sake of profit, these people can do anything.

Traditional American capital does not want to be used as a gun, but if it is really forced upon them, they can only move forward with gritted teeth. After all, the shale oil project is related to the influence of the Hepai faction in the local area.

It is a matter of life and death, and it is impossible not to be cautious, so William is willing to go to the Magic City in person.

"What a good plan!" Li Zehua sincerely admired: "From the large-scale investment in shale oil in 09 to today, traditional American capital has been trying to regain influence in key areas of the country.

They have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in equipment and technology research and development to increase shale oil production, and in the process have given up a lot of profits to Wall Street, thereby obtaining the latter's funding and policy support (the Trump administration had to compromise when it was in power).

The original intention was to regain the pricing power of American capital in the energy market, but now it has become a sign that the peace faction must protect its life. The cost of shale oil extraction has exceeded US$45.

If Zhu Pai's plan works, no, it will definitely succeed, because He Pai has no power to fight back at all and can only be forced to compromise. In this way, the cost will fly through the sky.

It is an open conspiracy. The He faction must either accept that the controlling stake of the energy company will be taken away by the Zhu faction, thus destroying their century-long plan and losing their voice.

Either you rush into the energy futures market head-on and fight a futures war that is doomed to be unwinnable, or you cannot afford to lose and are forced to fight with another unlucky guy in some hot spot.

Using the shadow of war to threaten investors into compromise, a plan that would hurt the family, I don’t know who came up with it! "

"If the situation is allowed to develop, I personally think that Persia is most likely to be in trouble, after all, it is stuck between the two river basins and the crossroads." Zhou Shouyuan said cautiously, "Of course, it is also possible that several places will take action at the same time.

Then wait for oil prices to recover and then take the opportunity to get out.”

"Never mind, fight whoever you want." Li Zehua saw it clearly, "As long as it doesn't affect Dongda Capital's overseas strategy, you should keep an eye on Wall Street first, and wait until I have a deal with William, then you can act according to the changes."

Zhou Shouyuan nodded, and then exchanged some core information before hanging up the satellite call.

"It's a troubled time!" Li Zehua sighed, leaned his head on the sofa and closed his eyes to rest...

Shen Wanqing and Chen Xiaomin originally wanted to come over to say hello, but when they heard what Li Zehua was talking about, they didn't dare to move forward at all. After he finally finished talking, Chen Xiaomin pretended to leave.

Shen Wanqing held them back and refused to let them go. Shen Wanyi happened to come downstairs and called them over. Shen Wanqing walked halfway and looked at her sister and then at Li Zehua.

For some unknown reason, she didn't continue walking. Shen Wanyi knew what she was thinking, so she simply pulled Chen Xiaomin into the house and left her space to do what she wanted.

"Brother, are you tired from work?" Shen Wanqing mustered up the courage to walk behind him, stretched out her warm little hands, and soothed both sides of his forehead.

Li Zehua opened his eyes, glanced at her, and nodded slightly, "Work is always tiring, so you have to study hard and try to share my worries after graduation."

His tiredness was always revealed only in front of those close to him, which made Shen Wanqing feel extremely distressed. She couldn't help but cover him with her little hand, lowered her body, and whispered in his ear: "Actually, it's okay now."

"What can I do?" Li Zehua rolled his eyes at her and said, "Little girl, the important thing is to study hard."

Shen Wanqing was angry and pinched his face hard, "Humph, don't think I don't know, you and my second sister~"

(End of this chapter)