Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 692 It Happened Suddenly (Two in One)

Fang Zhuo came across CCTV by chance, and only then did he know that Li Jiacheng had arrived in the capital.

Although I don't know what this person came to the capital for, but it certainly wasn't just to record a program, and intuitively speaking, [-]% of it was related to the investment of Bank of China.

Different from the real estate business, even though the Li family’s real estate is much higher than the industry’s average standard, the listing of the bank this time will inevitably create profits beyond many people’s imagination. Such an investment of [-] billion U.S. dollars is worth the attention of the Li family. It's normal.

Lenovo heard the news that the Bank of China may have to carry out fund delivery, and things may be becoming urgent.

Taking this into consideration, Fang Zhuo did not underestimate Li Jiacheng, and immediately called the head of the Bank of China to inform him of the latest hedge fund news.

Sure enough, President Li was furious.

"What? Hedge funds?"

"How dare Merrill Lynch do this?!"

While President Li was furious, he also asked Mr. Fang: "Where did you get this news? Is it accurate?"

"The news from the United States is [-]% to [-]% accurate." Fang Zhuo said vaguely.

When President Li heard Mr. Fang's words, he knew it must be accurate.

Fang Zhuo said again: "I asked the person in charge of the MIGA fund. He has never heard of this hedge fund. Although this type of hedge fund is hidden, it is indeed a bit too inconspicuous."

Sometimes, signs are also important.

The Li Jiacheng Foundation has the endorsement of Li Jiacheng, and the MIGA Fund has the endorsement of Fang Zhuo. Everyone will automatically replace the institution with the richest man in China and the richest man in the mainland.

As for a hedge fund I've never heard of...

President Li fully automatic determination, overseas pheasant hedge funds!
A scandal, a scandal for myself and the bank!
President Li felt his hands shaking unconsciously, he took two deep breaths: "Okay, Mr. Fang, I understand, thank you."

Regardless of whether this news is the "huge uncertainty" mentioned in the meeting that night, the most important thing is that Merrill Lynch did it so clearly!
Once it is fully implemented, this will be a major setback before the IPO!

President Li ended the call. In the case of a filing, even if it would be unsightly to make efforts at the securities regulatory level, it is much better than what I heard now.

Why did you go blind and choose the Royal Bank of Scotland?

President Li calmed down. The first thing was to consider stopping the imminent capital delivery, and the second thing was how to tactfully seek help from the leaders of the Securities Regulatory Commission. Their intervention at such a time would definitely be criticized.

After thinking about it carefully, he decided to be hospitalized first, and legitimately postponed the meeting that needed to be held.

President Li couldn't wait any longer, so he called his secretary and said to him seriously, "Drive me to the hospital."

The secretary was surprised: "President, who do you want to see?"

"I have kikuchi and I need to seek medical attention immediately." President Li remained serious.

The secretary didn't dare to be careless and hurriedly called the driver, and then asked confusedly: "What's the matter with k, k?"

"Histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis is an emergency. It is easily misdiagnosed as lymphoma. It can be cured quickly and will not affect long-term health." President Li introduced seriously.

The secretary was a little dazed. The leader stood up in awe and respected the sick when he got it.

He changed his mind slightly, and immediately said, "Okay, I'll arrange for a familiar hospital."

President Li nodded in satisfaction.

Soon, the leader came to the hospital as he wished, visited and personally experienced the work in the hospital.

That night, after Li Jiacheng and Zhou Kaixuan finished recording the CCTV program, they set off for the hotel.

"Li Sheng, I asked the TV station that you will be the last interview guest." Sitting in the car, Zhou Kaixuan chatted about today's program, without mentioning the person's name, but showing that he had no doubts. heart of comparison.

Li Jiacheng smiled: "Fang Zhuo is the second to last?"

Zhou Kaixuan nodded: "That's right, this shows that we can still distinguish who is more worthy of respect here, and Fang Zhuo was not the finale."

Li Jiacheng said slowly: "The finale is the penultimate one."

Zhou Kaixuan was taken aback.

Li Jiacheng looked at her expression, and said with a smile: "You are so competitive, so what will happen to him in the end? I think this person is in the limelight in the mainland, and he acts without scruples. Let's see."

Zhou Kaixuan chewed on Li Sheng's evaluation: "I don't have any scruples..."

"Since then, I have been very aggressive, rebellious, disregarding words, scheming, and looking down on the two palaces." Li Jiacheng smiled and said the origin of this word.

Zhou Kaixuan was quite emotional when he heard Li Sheng's words, and lowered his voice: "Fang Zhuo acts like this, there must be consequences."

Li Jiacheng didn't say anything more, the mainland market is huge, so what if East China suffers setbacks?
Goose feathers fly to the sky, and there is always a time when they fall to the ground.

……

the next morning.

Accompanied by Zhou Kaixuan, Li Jiacheng inspected the new project of his real estate in the capital.

Halfway through the car, he received a message from the Bank of China.

"Tomorrow's Bank of China meeting is temporarily cancelled." Li Jiacheng put down his phone, frowning.

Zhou Kaixuan was surprised: "Why?"

Li Jiacheng replied: "President Li was hospitalized due to illness."

Zhou Kaixuan said: "He is hospitalized, and the bank work has to start. Is it because he doesn't carry out normal fund transfers?"

Li Jiacheng thought for a moment, then slowly said: "The work will definitely proceed, and the cancellation is understandable, but it will be postponed for a few days."

Zhou Kaixuan hummed: "These people don't know how tight Li Sheng's time is."

Li Jiacheng said noncommittally: "Let the director go to the hospital to send some flowers and fruits to the president, and see how the follow-up arrangement is."

Zhou Kaixuan thought for a few seconds: "I'll go in person, so don't worry."

Li Jiacheng nodded, this is the best way, the other party can feel the sincerity.

On the other side almost at the same time, Fang Zhuo also received the latest news from the Bank of China.

"This... is really... really a helpless choice."

After thinking about it, he said to Kong Yu who was reporting on the fundraising work: "What kind of disease is this histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis? Can't you really get it?"

Kong Yu was also not sure, so he quickly checked the condition of the disease.

When he heard that it was a disease that was easy to recover quickly, Fang Zhuo said with emotion: "It's not easy, you have to be knowledgeable when you get sick, or how can someone be a leader."

Kong Yu asked: "Mr. Fang, when will there be any news from Merrill Lynch?"

Fang Zhuo just talked to Paulson in the morning, and he also asked about the deadline.

As a result, Paulson didn't know if there was something new. The second hedge fund couldn't get Merrill Lynch out within half a month as planned, and it would take more time.

He replied: "At least three days, at most a week."

Kong Yu's expression brightened, knowing that the Bank of China's change has come to the last moment, but it is not clear whether it will be able to come true in the end.

……

Time seems to pass slowly but really fast.

As Double Eleven approaches, Fang Zhuo needs to face a lot more e-buy work content, and many problems and resources need to be coordinated.

In particular, this time involved many partners, involving the company's energy from top to bottom.

Not to mention the actual market position of e-buy in the home appliance chain industry, even if Fang Zhuo has the title of the richest man in the mainland, this title can't control any other small company, and there are always some problems in connecting such similar businesses. Not going well.

However, these good or bad things can be dealt with patiently. When the date is getting closer and closer to the second time set by Paulson, there is still no movement from the United States, which makes Fang Zhuo start to think about the changes.

He had some doubts that the two hedge funds driven by Paulson might just take over Merrill Lynch directly.

Although this increases the cost of holding, but according to the size and status of the Bank of China and the development of China's economy, there must be a lot of profits.

But, can Goldman Sachs really hold back his appetite like this?

Merrill Lynch's plate is all eaten, which is 7.5 million US dollars.

If the Royal Bank of Scotland's plate is dug out by leveraging Merrill Lynch, it will immediately be more than twice as much as 16 billion US dollars.

What factors will affect the gap between them?

Is there a relationship between Goldman Sachs and RBS that I don't know about?

There was no trust between Fang Zhuo and Paulson, so it was inevitable that they would think more about it.

However, when he was thinking about digging into the hedge funds driven by Goldman Sachs, the American media finally got news about this matter.

The well-known financial media "Wall Street Journal" published a large-scale interview with SP hedge fund, during which they talked about the fund's recent operations, including but not limited to the strategic investment of up to US$4 million in Bank of China.

Subsequently, the Wall Street Journal Chinese website translated the article into Chinese and launched the website in the afternoon of the same day.

Accompanied by this move, many financial media in the United States have intensively reported on SP hedge fund and praised its amazing performance. Among them, some financial reporters also mentioned the contradiction between the two identities of hedge fund and bank.

Hedge funds are a role that often appears in financial crises. When they are linked with banks, which seek stability, what kind of effects and influences will they have?

Just in the evening, Sohu Finance reprinted a translated article from the Wall Street Journal's Chinese website.

Sina Finance followed closely behind, and exerted its first-class news capabilities. Immediately, some of its reporters called the US SP Fund to try to interview relevant information.

However, in the end, the reporter could only write in the press release that "SP Hedge Fund's headquarters phone has never been able to answer the manual service. We turned to find its branch in Xiangjiang, but the branch staff refused our interview."

Such news spread to the domestic financial circles, and a reporter from "Huaxia Securities News" began to contact the relevant personnel of the Bank of China, wanting to understand the whole story.

For a long time, the strategic partner mentioned by the Bank of China is the Royal Bank of Scotland. Although the latter has found Merrill Lynch Securities and the Li Jiacheng Foundation, the reputation of these two companies is barely acceptable.

Hedge funds that popped up all of a sudden claimed to make a strategic investment of US$4 million in the Bank of China. Where did this come from?

The spokesperson of the Bank of China received an interview call and was taken aback: "What? Hedge funds? This, this, this related information is subject to the official statement."

Even though the spokesman had reacted quickly to the shocking news, his initial words gave away the situation.

The strategic investment in BOC by overseas hedge funds appears to have been unplanned.

In other words, the appearance of Merrill Lynch Securities and Li Jiacheng Foundation was also outside the plan.

"Huaxia Securities Journal" did not give up on this, and quickly called the higher-level leaders of Bank of China to explore the truth of the matter.

During this process, the reporter obtained more news materials, such as "There is no such thing", "What? What did the foreign media say? Don't write nonsense", "Don't report", etc., and finally moved most of them to the news release .

So far, overseas hedge funds surfaced, American financial media reported extensively, domestic media reprinted and followed up the situation, the bank was deeply shocked and reported to the Securities Regulatory Commission... Bank of China was torn apart because of loopholes in cooperation with the Royal Bank of Scotland. mouth.

The listing plan announced by the Bank of China is to start an international roadshow in Xiangjiang early next year to prepare for the IPO of the Hong Kong stock market.

At this juncture, the bank's equity allocation has suddenly undergone major changes, which undoubtedly casts a heavy shadow on the prospect of listing.

The Bank of China was shocked, and the leaders were furious. They questioned the Royal Bank of Scotland and Merrill Lynch overnight, and contacted the SP hedge fund to verify the situation.

However, the situation of the SP hedge fund is still unclear, and another hedge fund named WI-Tyio stepped forward and announced to take over Merrill Lynch's remaining US$3.5 million strategic investment in Bank of China.

This time, all the leaders of the Bank of China and the leaders of the Securities Regulatory Commission who paid attention to this matter were... numb.

Again?

Is it bad enough?

In the end, Merrill Lynch gave a formal and public response: "Follow the contract and there is no breach of contract."

According to this rhetoric, Merrill Lynch has nothing to do with Bank of China.

Even the way it responds publicly shows its attitude, I acted completely in accordance with the contract, who are you?

Some leaders at the interim meeting of the Bank of China dropped their mobile phones and severely criticized the cooperation with the Royal Bank of Scotland this time.

On the second night when Bank of China encountered an unexpected situation, Li Jiacheng, who hadn't slept well the night before, had just squinted for a while when he was suddenly awakened by Zhou Kaixuan's voice answering the phone.

He lifted the thin blanket covering his body, and asked unhurriedly, "Is there any good news? I hope you are happy."

Zhou Kaixuan held the phone and said with a smile, "There is really good news."

Li Jiacheng motioned her to bring him some tea, and said, "These two days are bad news, Merrill is too short-sighted, let's talk about it."

Zhou Kaixuan went to the hospital to visit the sick president of the Bank of China two days ago, and they chatted with each other about the common goal of strategic investment, and today they received news about him.

She said: "President Li is going to come back to preside over the work while sick."

Li Jiacheng was slightly taken aback, and said with a smile: "This is really good news. He will definitely be able to stabilize the situation as soon as possible. Although there is a problem with Merrill Lynch, if he is in such a state to restore the situation, he will surely be able to make up for it."

He thought for a while and said, "You call President Li for me, and say that our foundation has prepared all the funds, and is willing to deliver the funds first to stabilize the situation, and is willing to fully support his work."

Zhou Kaixuan nodded: "Okay, it's timely. President Li will definitely thank us."

Li Jiacheng took a sip of tea lightly for mutual benefit, and there is no better choice for this one.

(End of this chapter)