?While Guo Shouyun was playing with a few women, Springer, who had come to the Far East from Colombo for nearly a week, was hiding in his hotel room, carefully drafting a new collaboration. protocol. /. qb5. c0m

Unlike the negotiators of Industrial Bank, as the manager of Morgan Stanley Bank, Spilinger has been in the Far East for so long, and he has not directly contacted the Guo brothers. He is investigating and investigating the Guo brothers' influence in the Far East. influence, investigate their business scale, investigate their connection with the political and economic circles of the Far East, investigate their asset status, and so on.

Just like what Springer said at the Morgan Stanley shareholder meeting two years ago, as an international financial capital, every investment should not only consider the size of the capital, nor just consider the amount of money one has made. In order to obtain the expected return, the bank must also have the most comprehensive understanding of its partners, and consider what they need and what return they expect. Only in this way can they be targeted and achieve the greatest gain for the bank.

During this period of time, Spilinger was doing this, and through this type of investigation, he was surprised to find that in the current Far East, the Guo Group's influence is so great that it is enough to be jaw-dropping. , Take Khabarovsk as an example, the four purchasing stations established by the trading department of the Guo Group almost supply more than 50% of the city's demand for commodity batches. In other words, in the urban area of ​​Khabarovsk, more than half of the various shops, large and small, are sourced from the Guo Group's purchasing station, and they are all "working" for the Guo brothers. In terms of exports, more than 60% of Khabarovsk region's exports of steel, logs, aluminum ore and other materials are done by the Guo Group. The export of heavy finished machinery is almost single-handedly controlled by the Guo Group, and there seems to be no possibility for others to intervene in the short term. Raw materials and heavy machinery, these two have always been the main economic lifelines for the Soviets to earn foreign exchange through exports, and the Guo Group has grasped these two. That is equivalent to controlling the economic lifeline of the Far East, and what will happen afterward can be imagined.

Before coming to the Far East, the terms of cooperation issued by the board of directors of Morgan Stanley. In fact, it is basically the same as that of Societe Generale, that is, they are optimistic about the foundation of the Guo Group in the Far East. Therefore, they plan to use the method of financing to become a shareholder, based on strong funds, in exchange for the shares of the Guo Group. In order to use the power of the Guo Group to open up a way out in the Far East. But now, after his own thorough investigation and understanding, Spilinger can say with certainty that it is impossible to pass a similar cooperation intention from the Guo brothers, on the one hand because they do not lack funds, on the other hand, It is because their power occupies an absolute advantage in the Far East. In this case, how could they possibly allow others to come in and get a piece of the pie? Just look at how tightly the Guo brothers are grasping the Far East. Just two days ago, the local garrison in the Far East states suddenly took action and imposed a so-called "short-term military control" on research institutions and research institutes everywhere. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, the tourism management department, and the entry-exit inspection agency jointly acted. Dozens of outbound tourism agencies have been closed successively. In the past two days, there has been a lot of uproar about this matter. International criticism, official condemnation from Moscow, and criticism from some news media in the Soviet Union followed one after another. However, the state governments and local garrison in the Far East ignored these and kept silent, and the various news organizations in the Far East retorted from time to time to outside criticism. Such a weird phenomenon. Can't help but arouse suspicion. And Springer knows, behind this incident. There must be a shadow of the Guo Group at play.

There is no doubt that in this case, the cooperation project proposal formulated by the board of directors is no longer realistic. On the other hand, the Guo Group is indeed a potential partner. It is inevitable to revise the cooperation project book.

To say that among the international financial consortiums, the American Morgan Stanley and the French Societe Generale have very different behavior styles. As an old investment bank with a history of more than 100 years, Societe Generale has very strict rules and regulations. Act naturally and follow the rules. As for Morgan Stanley, it only started to emerge in the late World War II. As a new type of multinational investment bank, its behavior style is practical and effective. some black box operations. The most important point is that Industrial Development really values ​​the Far East, while Morgan Stanley values ​​the huge ruble deposits absorbed by the Far East Commercial Bank and the rich resource reserves of the Far East.

At present, the so-called economic advisers of the United States, as well as the delegations of international banks and the International Monetary Fund, are ready to leave for Moscow, and when they officially arrive in Moscow, a large-scale carve-up operation will be fully kicked off. . In this case, if Morgan Stanley wants to make more profits in this carve-up activity, they must master more rubles. Only by mastering huge rubles can they have more rubles in the near future. big act. Judging from the current situation, the Far East Commercial Bank controlled by the Guo Brothers is really the best partner they need. In the Far East, the banks in the Soviet Union's central bank system do nothing, and the foreign capital, mainly Xingye, does nothing. Banks, because of policy restrictions, cannot absorb ruble deposits on a large scale. Only the Far East Commercial Bank has risen rapidly. Coupled with the previous ruble against the dollar, the bank's reputation is well-known in the Far East. Therefore, its rapid development Enough to be eye-catching. Morgan Stanley needed the Far Eastern Commercial Bank's huge ruble reserves, and they paid the price for it.

In this case, Spilinger's report to Morgan Stanley's board of directors was quickly approved, and the board's instructions to him was to draft a realistic cooperation project as soon as possible, and then submit it to the board of directors To review, at the same time, we must establish contact with the Guo brothers as soon as possible, at least let them understand that the bank has the intention to cooperate with them, and by the way, test their conditions.

In this way, Springer began to plan a new cooperation project book. In the cooperation project book he redrafted, the terms of Morgan Stanley's exchange of financing for shares were deleted, and the conditions offered by the bank also appeared. richer. Take the exchange project of ruble funds as an example, Morgan Stanley is willing to exchange USD funds for the ruble deposits absorbed by Far East Commercial Bank at a rate of five thousandths higher than the international market rate. At the same time, Morgan Stanley is willing to work with Far East Commercial Bank to jointly Pay for the savings interest you need to pay for deposits. Not only that, in this project book, Springer also made a promise that as long as the Guo brothers accepted the project book, they could share international financial information with Morgan Stanley's financial information center. Stanley's financial consulting experts will also create a tailor-made exhibition plan for the Guo Group. All in all, after being created by Springer, this project book has become a cooperation agreement that no one can refuse, because on the surface, the entire project book has almost no requirements for the Guo Group, the only one. The ruble currency transaction was bought by Morgan Stanley at a high price.

It took Springer nearly four hours to complete the project book with more than ten pages. After that, he went back and checked the past several times until he felt that there was no problem, and then handed it over to him. Assistant Cole, instructed him to hurry up and send the copy to the headquarters.

After all this was done, it was already midnight. With a cup of fragrant coffee, Springer walked slowly to the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, looking at the deep night view outside the window, and fell into contemplation again. ----He is thinking about the official contact with the Guo brothers soon to be launched the day after tomorrow. That's right, the project book is indeed a lot of preferential terms, but after all, there is a hidden conspiracy behind it. It may not cause any harm to the Guo Group, but from the perspective of long-term interests, a large number of The outflow of ruble funds could have disastrous consequences for the entire Soviet Union. Although Springer has not had direct contact with the Guo brothers before, he believes that since the brothers were able to build such a huge business empire in such a short period of time, it is enough to show that they are not simple characters. . Faced with such a project book, it is impossible for them to fail to perceive the real purpose of Morgan Stanley. In that case, two endings are most likely to occur: First, they will categorically refuse, and then use the control of their own hands. news media to disclose the conspiracy. Second, they will not be satisfied with such a project book, on the contrary, they will make more demands, and even directly ask to participate in this division.

Will the Guo Brothers choose the first ending? Spilinger personally believes that this possibility is not very large. After all, the so-called "serving the country and the people" is unlikely to be reflected in a businessman. The long-term market competition is enough to obliterate any business. A person's conscience often ends up being that the bigger the business is and the more successful the businessman is, the more completely that basic conscience will be wiped out. What's more, the Guo brothers are not from the Soviet Union. They are Chinese. They have yellow skin and black eyes. It is too unreasonable to ask people like them to benefit the Soviet people.

What Spilinger is more worried about now is that the Guo brothers are too ambitious. If they are not satisfied with this cooperation project book, but insist on getting more, or even directly participate in the division, what should they do? to deal with? Is it possible to accept them at the headquarters?

Of course, speaking from his own perspective, Spiringer hoped that the Guo brothers would be more ambitious, and he hoped that the headquarters would accept their participation, because it was directly related to his personal interests-maybe, maybe some things still need to be cautious operation.