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"That's all, everyone. See you another day!"

Bai Ye grabbed Ororo with a smile, said hello to Beast Hank and the others, and left with Ororo.

His purpose of coming here was nothing more than to expose the darkness of the Brand Group and expose it to the public. Now that his goal has been achieved, he can retire with honor.

Before leaving, the "Blue Devils" gained more exposure, which was considered a profit.

Return to the villa.

"Thank you, Bai Ye!"

To thank Bai Ye for his help, Ororo excitedly pounced on him. Bai Ye originally thought that he would have a chance to go through the back door from Ororo tonight, and then he would be able to visit Xavier Academy and meet Jean Grey. But he didn't expect that Ororo would not play by the rules and would always bully people...

Chapter 167: Peak attracts false support, dusk witnesses piety

Believers

The next day.

Ororo came out of the bathroom wearing a black silk nightgown and barefoot, wiping her wet hair with a towel.

Bai Ye looked at Ororo who was walking towards him. He could not help but smile at her honey-colored skin, her slim waist and abs, her round butt and long legs, as well as her healthy muscle lines and excellent body flexibility.

As expected, everyone is scolding the black mermaid, and for a reason. That kind of ugly thing is really not worthy of being in a noble society, and a woman like Ororo makes people want to stuff themselves into her.

"Breakfast is ready, let's eat together."

Bai Ye was in the kitchen, greeting Ororo with a smile.

"Ok."

Ororo came to the kitchen and helped Bai Ye carry the plates and other things, and then the two sat together and had breakfast.

Bai Ye turned on the TV.

"…This is NBC Morning News. I'm reporter April. Next, I'll report on the major accident at the Brand Group's experimental base last night…"

Bai Ye saw the beautiful female reporter again, but unfortunately, he was so busy during that period that he forgot to flirt with her.

Bai Ye changed several channels, and basically all the current political news were reporting on the Brand Group.

"It seems that the Herbert Langdon incident last night was a big deal."

Bai Ye said with a smile.

"Of course it happens." Ororo said, "No matter how gentle the professor is, he hates the Brand Group's behavior of capturing mutants and using them for human experiments. He must have discussed it with both the positive and negative sides and they must severely punish the Brand Group for this behavior."

"That's why the news reports didn't mention the word 'mutants'. They just concluded that they captured innocent people for human experiments and denounced the brutality of the Brand Group." Bai Ye shrugged and said, "It seems that Professor X understands politics. He wants to expand the influence of the media at the cost of not embarrassing the American government, and use the Brand Group as an example to scare the monkeys. Anyway, ordinary people can be fooled, and they can just give them an explanation, but those who should know must know what the Brand Group is about."

"Alas, I don't know whether the professor's approach is right or wrong." Ororo sighed and said, "How can ordinary people empathize with mutants if they don't know the suffering of mutants?"

"You're overthinking it. Where do humans get so much empathy? Humans don't share the same joys and sorrows. What you find painful, they just think is noisy." Bai Ye said: "Besides, the American government will definitely not allow you to slap them in the face. This kind of thing is not something that Professor X can decide alone. He can only do his best to fight for your rights within the rules."

"..." Ororo looked a little gloomy: "That's true... The professor can't do anything about these things."

"You want to play with the American government within the rules, but of course you can't beat them, because the rules are set by them and can be modified at any time. How can you play?" Bai Ye said while peeling an egg, "If I were Professor X, I would jump out of the rules set by the American government and launch a dimensionality reduction attack on the United States."

"for example?"

"Run for president of the United States, with the slogan 'Make America Great Again', forcing capital to return manufacturing to the United States, implementing trade protectionism, cutting taxes on the rich, stimulating the economy, reducing international spending, opposing illegal immigration, cutting public welfare..." Bai Ye said, "With Professor X's mental power, how many votes does he want? Even if we don't mention using mental power to hint to his voters, just say that he can expose the dirt on his competitors without limit, who can compete with him? If all the people who can be American politicians are killed, there will definitely be some innocent people; if we kill every other person, there will definitely be some fish that slip through the net."

Ororo: "But can the American government allow a professor to run for president?"

Bai Ye: "America is a country of freedom and democracy. The Constitution gives every citizen the right to run for president. If someone doesn't allow him to go, then he can sue. Professor X is rich and can afford a team of lawyers. He can take the case to the Supreme Court to see if the Supreme Court will overturn this constitution. If the Supreme Court allows it, who the hell can still talk nonsense?"

Ororo thought about it and felt that there was nothing wrong with Bai Ye’s words.

The United States is not a feudal government. As long as you have money to argue with the American government, you can press the American government's head and make it shout that it is wrong.

In America, no one has more power than Capitol Hill, the White House, and the Supreme Court.

Of course, this is a game for the rich. For the poor, if you jump too hard, a NYPD officer with a gun can force you to commit suicide. Do you still want to take it to the Supreme Court? You are overthinking!

"That seems like a good idea!" Ororo said, "I'll go back and discuss it with the professors. If there is an American president among mutants, then the situation of mutants won't be as bad as it is now."

Bai Ye smiled slightly and said, "If you really want to do this, maybe I have a way that can greatly increase your success rate."

"what?"

"You can use the X-Men as the prototype to shoot a superhero movie. If the box office is a big hit and you become Hollywood superstars, you can also speak for mutants and improve their social status and influence." Bai Ye said, "It just so happens that I have a comic and film company under my control. You can license the copyright of the X-Men to me. Then, I can help you operate it and ensure that you have a positive image."

Ororo thought about it carefully and it seemed that there was indeed no harm in it, so she agreed in principle, but she had to return to Xavier College to discuss the specific matters with everyone.

Bai Ye was eating eggs: "By the way, I can still help you with the Brand Group's affairs."

Ororo: "So good? Bai Ye, I'm a little scared of you being like this. Isn't this a bit too good?"

Bai Ye: "I'm not that selfless, I just want to acquire the Brand Group. I recently opened a new biopharmaceutical company, business is good, and I'm preparing to expand production capacity, and I just happened to encounter your business. What is this? This is fate! You ruined the Brand Group, and I acquired it for my own use, isn't that good?"

Bai Ye was not afraid to tell Ororo about this, because it would not do any harm to Xavier Academy. They gained deterrence and Bai Ye gained actual benefits. This was the legendary cooperative infamy.

……

After seeing Ororo off, Bai Ye took a car to Galaxy Capital.

"Dear colleagues!" Jordan stood on the table in the office area, opened his arms and shouted loudly, "Thank you all for your hard work during this period of time. Now we are finally waiting for the reward. The boss just announced that due to the great success of these two operations, each employee will receive a bonus of 30 US dollars!"

Before Jordan could finish his words, he heard roars of cheers. The champagne that had been prepared long ago made a "bouncing" sound and sprayed towards Jordan with a scream.

There is money on Wall Street, but the rich are basically high-ranking officials, and the annual salary of ordinary employees is generally around $10.

Working for Bai Ye, you can easily get bonuses of hundreds of thousands of dollars. To be honest, an ordinary trader at Galaxy Capital can earn an annual salary of over one million dollars.

Jordan was hanging out with his employees in the office area, while Bai Ye was looking at financial reports in the office.

After shorting the Japanese index, Bai Ye led Jordan and others to short the Korean index and Lotte Group. The profit from this shorting was US$162.13 billion.

"It's less than what I made by shorting the Japanese stock index." Bai Ye said to himself, "But there's nothing I can do about it. South Korea is not as wealthy as Japan after all. The total market value of Japanese stocks is nearly 6 trillion US dollars, while the total market value of the Korean stock index is less than 2 trillion US dollars. How can we compare? If I had known this earlier, I would have chosen a few more targets."

During this period, a large amount of TNT explosives were placed in many of Lotte Group's logistics warehouses and exploded.

Shin Kyuk-ho, founder and chairman of Lotte Group, died of cerebral hemorrhage upon hearing the news.

Shin Kyuk-ho's son, Shin Dong-bin, the actual controller of Lotte Group, was in a car accident and his lower body was paralyzed. He is likely to become a vegetable.

Lotte Group is basically finished now.

As a result, Lotte Group's market value suffered a severe blow, and the Korean index also fell sharply.

After all, Lotte Group has a considerable influence in South Korea and is one of the five largest chaebols in South Korea.

——The top five chaebols in South Korea are Samsung, Hyundai, SK, LG, and Lotte.

And to what extent is Lotte Group arrogant?

Because of the Jang Ja-yeon incident, Lotte Chairman Shin Kyuk-ho had to go to court. However, this 90-year-old man, who was in a wheelchair and needed help to stand up, exposed the most vulnerable side of the South Korean government in court.

Shin Kyuk-ho was summoned to court as a criminal suspect. However, facing the South Korean judicial trial, Shin Kyuk-ho asked viciously in Japanese: Who dares to judge me?

The criminals whom Jang Ja-yeon accused at the cost of her life remained unharmed, simply because they were powerful and wealthy, and chaebols. South Korea is a country controlled by chaebols, and the law serves the powerful and wealthy.

All the bigwigs on the list, including Shin Kyuk-ho and Shin Dong-bin, were cleared of suspicion due to insufficient evidence. Only the boss of Jang Ja-yeon's agency was fined 2400 million won (12.3 yuan).

To be honest, among so many chaebols in South Korea, Lotte Group is one of the most disgusting and dirty ones!

"Forget it, the person is dead, so I won't bother with the dead." Bai Ye shook his head: "Anyway, they gave me the Brand Group for free."

Due to Herbert Langdon's human experiments on mutants, the market value of the Brand Group has been halved, and accompanied by a high fine from the US government, the company is basically finished. But the company is finished, and the physical assets inside are still there. Bai Ye is preparing to acquire the bankrupt and reorganized Brand Group at a low price.

"Master, let's go out and play together?"

Jordan came into the office with a smile on his face, covered in champagne, the mellow red wine emitting an aroma.

"I don't like this kind of scene very much. You can play by yourself." Bai Ye smiled faintly and said, "But you won't be able to play for much longer. Although this may disturb your chance to celebrate, but... time is running out!"

He threw a report to Jordan:

"Saturn Bio is planning to expand and acquire the Brand Group. You will be responsible for joining forces with Goldman Sachs to acquire the Brand Group."

Speaking of work, Jordan could only sigh in his heart and gave up the idea of ​​going to the club to have an im party with the employees of Galaxy Capital tonight. After all, he was very clear in his mind. It didn't matter if he fooled around on weekdays, but if he missed Bai Ye's work, it was possible that one night, a dozen black men suddenly ran out of his door, dragged him into the alley, and whipped him...

"The budget is $150 billion?"

Jordan estimated in his mind:

"Master, in fact, it may not cost that much. We can work together with Goldman Sachs and negotiate with the court. It won't be difficult to get it within 100 billion US dollars!"

"Anyway, you can do it. I don't care about the process. I just want to acquire the Brand Group."

Bai Ye waved.

Bai Ye had long known about the darkness of America. For example, in his previous life, when Bai Ye read the news about JPMorgan Chase's acquisition of First Republic, he was stunned.

Simply put, JPMorgan Chase acted as the "savior" and joined forces with the tycoons to inject capital into the First Republic. It symbolically put out $25 billion, and after acquiring the First Republic, it safely recovered its own $25 billion of capital. In the end, JPMorgan Chase did not spend a penny, but got a loan of $2000 billion for nothing, and had more than 1000 billion depositors. It was like a bank with assets of hundreds of billions of dollars out of nothing, and made a small profit of $67 billion in net assets.

The worst hit are the investors and creditors. JPMorgan Chase's agreement does not give the company bonds and shareholders a penny, so the shareholders and those who bought the company bonds have their assets wiped out...

JPMorgan Chase's acquisition of First Republic Bank really showed Bai Ye what it means in the real world: "The people's money is split 70% and the gentry's money is returned in full!"

Bai Ye also understood that the financial consortium itself achieved capital growth by combining with power organs.

Rules are used to manage leeks, and financial consortiums are the ones who create the rules.

If Jordan and Goldman Sachs are shameless enough and their manipulation of the acquisition of Brand Group is ugly enough, it is possible that the acquisition amount will be less than US$10 billion.

Compared with these financial conglomerates in terms of shamelessness, Bai Ye felt that he was still a little behind.

After explaining the acquisition of Brand Group, Bai Ye went to the office building of Mars Military Industry and found Andy.

"Are you really planning to take action against Koch Industries?"

Andy looked at the various plans that Bai Ye brought and was surprised.

"You are wrong. It was Koch Industries that was ready to attack me first. I just fought back." Bai Ye said confidently, "Capitol Hill and the White House have almost been persuaded by the oil and energy giants led by Koch Industries to hold a hearing on Stark Group and Venus Energy, forcing us to hand over the Ark Reactor technology for nationalization so that they can also have a share. How can I indulge them like this?"

Andy listened and felt entangled: "Hey, can't everyone just do business properly? Why is it like this?"

On Wall Street, Andy's job was to solve all problems with financial means, and he had never experienced the hardcore business wars like those between White Night and Koch Industries.

As a woman, and a woman with no background at that, of course she is not used to this kind of thing. After all, once she enters this mode, she will be easily knocked out by others. No matter how high her IQ is or how powerful her methods are, it will be useless.

Bai Ye: "This is the American way of doing things. How can making money honestly compare to robbing? You haven't encountered similar things, so you can't feel the temptation. It's like a woman who is used to making money lying down, easily earning dozens of times the income of an ordinary worker. How can you ask her to work honestly again?"

Andy stopped talking and looked at the plan Bai Ye had made.

"Fuck!"

Andy couldn't help but swear and looked at Bai Ye in disbelief:

"Are you serious?"

"Of course." Bai Ye lit a cigarette for himself and said proudly, "90% of the shares of Koch Industries are in the hands of Charles Koch and David Koch, and each of them holds 45% of the shares. Coincidentally, I found out that Charles Koch got married too early, in the 80s, and then the shares of Koch Industries changed a lot. The prenuptial agreement signed by the two had big problems. In other words, if Elizabeth Koch and Charles Koch were instigated to divorce, Elizabeth Koch would be able to get about 20% of Koch Industries' shares."

"David Koch and his wife Julia Koch don't have this loophole to exploit, but David Koch has been diagnosed with prostate cancer for a long time. Who knows when he will die? Once David Koch dies, Julia Koch will inherit at least half of his shares. And there are also underage children, and it must be Julia Koch who holds Koch Industries shares on their behalf."

"So, as long as the two of us can deal with those two women and acquire some of the shares held by Koch Industries' small shareholders, we will be able to control Koch Industries, this huge energy giant."

"It's not that easy, is it?" Andy rubbed his head and said with a headache, "The Koch family has absolute control over Koch Industries. Even if there are dispersed shares, I'm afraid they have signed an agreement to act in concert with them. You can't just buy it if you want to, right?"

"Really? That doesn't matter!" Bai Ye chuckled and said, "If Charles Koch is willing to be decent, I can give him a decent one; but if he is not willing to be decent, then I will help him be decent."

"The oil and energy giants have been so arrogant for too long that they have completely forgotten that the world has changed. I have the Extremis Legion in my hands and have become a warlord in the United States. Even if the Koch family has some means, they will be defeated by my Extremis Legion in one fell swoop."

"Next, the entire American financial group should learn how to respect the Osborne family. Not to mention the small Koch family, even if it is Morgan and Rockefeller, I dare to confront them."

"Bai Ye, your plan... how should I put it? Although it's a little bit mean, it's still feasible. The premise is... how do you plan to deal with Elizabeth Koch and Julia Koch?" Andy said, "Don't tell me you plan to force them too?"

"Haha." Bai Ye threw a stack of photos at Andy and said, "Do you really think that Elizabeth Koch and Julia Koch are the good wives and mothers portrayed by the media? It's all just a show."

Andy took it and looked at it, and saw that they were basically all erotic photos of Elizabeth Koch and Julia Koch.

These two women actually cheated?

Andy was stunned.

Bai Ye smiled faintly and said, "Andy, American women are different from your impression of Chinese women. The era of good wives and good mothers has long passed. Now is the era of liberalism. As long as you are happy, you can throw away morality. Charles Koch and David Koch are two old guys, but they both married beautiful and charming young wives, a standard old man and young wife. Do you think that with their physical fitness, they can satisfy the two wolves and tigers of Mrs. Koch? Then it is only natural for them to cheat."

"So what are you going to do next?"

Bai Ye shrugged and said, "The real business war is so plain and simple - unplugging the network cable, dump trucks, pouring boiling water, harassing phone calls in the middle of the night, reporting, voting, malicious orders, malicious takeout, malicious milk tea and ice cream, climbing over the wall to take pictures, commercial espionage, flirting with the other party's secretary, seducing the other party's wife..."

Andy's eyes widened. "So you're planning to seduce Charles Koch's and his wives, right?"

"Not necessarily." Bai Ye said, "I'm still looking for you to discuss the plan. If we can use the best plan to control those two women, I won't have to sacrifice my innocence."

Andy looked at Bai Ye with contempt. What innocence do you have?