Rebirth 76: Industrial Internet Empire

After eight long rounds of negotiations, Spindler finally made a compromise and, after submitting it to the board of directors for approval, agreed to sell all of Apple's shares for $41.8 billion.

Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, California.

"Hello, I am Li Heping from Qianhai Asset Management Company..." Li Heping stretched out his hand and looked at a thin man with a mustache and said.

"Qianhai Asset Management Company Li Heping? Is this the Qianhai company that just acquired Apple?" The thin man said in sudden realization after being stunned for a moment.

Li Heping nodded and said, "Yes, you are Mr. Steve Jobs, right?"

Jobs nodded and looked at Li Heping in confusion.

Li Heping stopped beating around the bush and said straight to the point: "Steve, I came here to visit you because I hope you can take charge of Apple. Only you can bring Apple back to life..."

"No... no, Mr. Li, I have left Apple for many years!" Jobs shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"No matter how many years you have been away, Apple was founded by you and Steve. Can you watch it fall apart? It is like your child. No matter how long you leave, you will still miss it!" Li Heping He said with a sincere face.

"Yes! Nine years! Steve and Wayne have both left, and Apple has fallen to the point of huge losses!" Jobs said with emotion.

"That's why I invite you back on behalf of the board of directors. Only you can make Apple great again!" Li Heping patiently persuaded.

"Mr. Li, I've heard that Qianhai Asset Management is one of the top capital companies in Silicon Valley. Not only is it powerful, but it rarely interferes in the operations of its holding companies. I wonder if you have your own ideas about Apple's development strategy?" After Jobs pondered for a moment, he suddenly changed the subject and asked.

Li Heping knew that this was Jobs starting to talk about the conditions for returning to Apple. He smiled and said: "Steve, all the core management and technical teams will be rebuilt by you, and the specific option incentives will also be formulated by you. Under normal circumstances, , Qianhai Asset Management is only responsible for the operational support of the capital market and does not participate in Apple’s operations!”

Ten years ago, because of the failure to launch the Lisa database and Apple II, the board of directors removed the position of vice president of technology and took back the power to make business decisions. This has always been a pain in Steve's heart!

He also tried to take back control several times, but failed and had to leave Apple.

Qianhai Asset Management showed enough sincerity, so how could Jobs give up such a great opportunity? After thinking for a while, he agreed to Li Heping's invitation.

When Jobs returned to Apple, he showed his tough and iron-blooded side, carried out drastic reforms, stopped some unreasonable research and development that he believed had no future, and devoted all manpower and material resources to the development of new products imac and osx operating systems!

San Francisco Bay Area, Hillsboro.

While Yang Mo was drifting off to sleep, the phone in his room beeped.

Yang Mo grabbed the phone with sleepy eyes and complained: "Who is it? They don't let anyone sleep in the middle of the night..."

"Do you still want to sleep? Kexin is worried to death in London..." Lin Xi's voice came from the phone.

"I guessed it was you. No one would call me at this time except you. The midnight ring!" Yang Mo said in a daze.

"Sorry, Ke Xin just finished calling me. I was so anxious that I forgot about the time difference. How about you continue to sleep?" Lin Xi said embarrassedly.

"Why are you still sleeping? You can't sleep even if you don't even say a word. Tell me! What happened to Kexin? Was she abandoned? Do you want me to help her find a partner?" Yang Mo said angrily.

"Yes! Kexin and I have both been abandoned. How about you do a good job and take us both in!" Lin Xi said with a pinched voice.

"Okay, okay, I'm scared of you! Let's get down to business now? What's wrong with her?" Yang Mo said.

Lin Xi then said: "Kexin followed your instructions and did hedging for the Escondida Copper Mine on the London Commodity Futures Exchange. Who knew that these short orders were being targeted by someone? In just a few In just one month, the price of LME copper futures soared from US$2680 to US$2855, resulting in a huge loss on the books!”

"Shouldn't it? The capital market should all know that Zongheng Capital is an affiliated company of Zhiyuan Group, and Escondida Copper Mine is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zhiyuan Group. The short copper futures contract sold by Zongheng Capital on LME has delivery. Who among the capable people would not have the foresight to keep an eye on these short hedging orders with the ability to deliver?" Yang Mo asked in surprise.

"Here's the problem. There are only a small number of short orders. Kexin opened the position in the name of Zongheng Capital Hedging. Most of the short orders were used to hide the equity of affiliated company accounts! Kexin didn't care at first, thinking We already had a certain delivery ability, so we fought with each other, but we didn't expect that our opponent was like a lunatic and ignored it, swallowing empty orders whenever there was one..." Lin Xi continued.

Yang Mo also noticed something was wrong and asked in a deep voice: "What is the net short position of all Kexin's accounts now?"

"More than 25000 hands!" Lin Xi said.

"So much? More than 60 tons? The opponent's market should also have a strong background, right? Otherwise, it would be impossible to swallow so many short orders!" Yang Mo also asked a little surprised.

Lin Xi said with some frustration: "Yes, the floating loss is close to 5 million U.S. dollars. The opponent does have a strong background. He is the number one bull in the copper futures market and is known as "Mr. 5.00%"..."

"Mr. 5.00%? What do you mean?" Yang Mo asked in confusion.

"Mr. 5.00% is not just a casual nickname. This person has always been famous for his fierce and ruthless behavior. According to rumors in the futures market, he alone controls more than 5% of the world's copper spot, as well as London's LME The copper futures market is close to [-]% long!" Lin Xi said in a familiar tone.

Yang Mo chuckled and said, "Are you talking about Yasuo Hamanaka of Sumitomo Trading Company?"

"How do you know?" Lin Xi asked in surprise.

"I also know that in the past two years, Tainan Hamanaka's hoarding was the driving force behind the surge in the price of LME copper futures from US$1650 to US$2700. Sumitomo Trading Co., Ltd. made a lot of money, and Yamanaka Hamaka was appreciated and trusted by President Tomiichi Akiyama. , the status within the company has skyrocketed, and now he is the head of the metal trading department of Sumitomo Trading Company!" Yang Mo said in a deep voice.

"What should we do? Is it difficult for Kexin to escape unscathed this time?" Lin Xi asked anxiously.

"It's not certain who will win! Tell Kexin to move the short position currently held at a discount and transfer it to the next contract to lure Hamanaka Tainan to continue to follow up. I will prepare enough funds for him and deliver the cathode copper." , I want to see what other tricks Akiyama Tomiichi can use!" Yang Mo said disdainfully.