Start with a Cat and Mouse Game

Chapter 1031: Swapping interests and taking advantage

Just got off the plane and greeted each other with Benjamin Arthur's chief of staff and the senators of the Weapons Review Committee representing the interests of major military industries in the United States.

Some of the reporters on the side couldn't wait to shout Li Changheng's name.

Then the other reporters couldn't help but started to ask questions loudly, wanting to know the inside story about the desert trip first-hand from him.

Of course, Li Changheng would not talk nonsense on such an occasion, and waved to the reporters who were blocked by the security guards six or seven meters away.

Stand up straight and let the reporter take a few photos, and then get on the special car specially sent by Benjamin Arthur.

The Army One of this era is not a bulletproof car produced by Cadillac, but a Lincoln.

Judging from the appearance alone, it is just a square and elongated luxury car.

And just looking at the thickness of the glass, you know that bulletproof technology should only be able to protect against pistols.

As for the bulletproof ability of the car door, the muffled sound of closing the door was not heavy, which made Li Changheng wonder if the bulletproof level could reach level 4.

No wonder Lincoln will be replaced by Cadillac in the future, which makes Li Changheng regret not bringing his Rolls-Royce bulletproof car here.

The convoy drove for half an hour and drove directly into the Capitol.

Before he got out of the car, he saw Boyin's President Payne, Grumman's President Brett Ehrman, and the CEOs of several other weapons manufacturers directly passing several senators with anxious faces. He greeted him with an expectant expression.

There is no need to guess, this group of arms dealers must have learned that they are holding a $1.7 billion worth of arms orders from the news deliberately released by Shater.

As soon as the car came to a stop, Payne and Brett squeezed away the others and stood by the car door one on the left and one on the right.

While helping Li Changheng open the car door, he also wanted to know the specific content of the order as soon as possible so that he could get the weapons he could produce as soon as possible.

Then exchange orders for weapons that they cannot produce with other companies.

"Long time no see, Boss."

Li Changheng, who got out of the car, smiled and shook hands with Payne. He didn't say a word about the order, but asked in a low voice, "How far has the development of Apache reached?"

Payne's eyes lit up when they heard this, and they didn't understand that Li Changheng had found a potential big customer for Apache.

And because Grumman used engines and missiles produced by Boyin for the F14 project, the two companies have been in close contact with each other in the past two years.

Apache is another project that Li Changheng personally put forward the design requirements and is extremely optimistic about it.

Therefore, in the one and a half years from the end of 1973 to the present, the two companies not only cooperated with each other, but also invested more than 100 million U.S. dollars in research and development funds before receiving the navy's research and development funds.

"The first prototype has been built and is waiting for testing. If you have time, we will arrange a test tomorrow."

Li Changheng nodded, seeing that the heads of GM, Raytheon, and Lockheed and Martin who had not merged at this time all looked at him anxiously, knowing that this is not a good time to say more.

Nodding to Payne and Brett, "The test flight is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon."

"Understood, boss."

GM was indeed controlled by Morgan for a while, but as GM became bigger and stronger in both military and civilian industries, Morgan had to downplay his presence in GM.

Although Morgan Stanley still holds a lot of shares in General Motors, the two companies at this time can only be described as mutual assistance, not that General Motors must belong to a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley.

As for Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, just like Grumman, they were infiltrated and controlled by several financial groups because they were relatively pure military-industrial groups and their market value was not too high.

But everyone knows that Li Changheng is a shareholder of Boyin and Grumman. In addition, in the F14 project, he has successively won the fighter jet market of England, the island country, Israel and Shate, and his influence even exceeds that of Boyin and Grumman. Board of Directors.

Now with several arms orders from desert countries, GM and other companies are trying to curry favor with Li Changheng, but at the same time worry that he will make some excessive demands because of his disagreement with Damo.

In addition, on the issue of Iran's purchase of F14 and F15 before, it was forced by many consortiums to give up Iran's fighter jet market.

GM and other companies are worried that Li Changheng will be angry, so they will directly exclude them from the order, or maximize the interests of several companies.

It's a pity that the GM companies don't know at all. Li Changheng hopes that the F15, and even the F16, which is about to produce a prototype, will enter Iran.

Moreover, his target this time is not the weapon market of Shater and others, but the idle funds in the hands of these local tyrants, calculated in tens of billions or hundreds of billions.

Of course, he would never talk about this topic.

On the contrary, you can use the orders in hand and more weapons orders in the future.

Talk to various consortiums about whether Citigroup and Belford Investment Company can become the largest underwriter in the market on the underwriting issue of subprime mortgage financial products.

It would be even better if, as an inventor, he could get an invention fee from major consortiums including Citigroup.

But Li Changheng also knew that it was basically impossible to get the money.

According to the legal team, new portfolio financial products cannot be patented.

Because the model composed of prime mortgages and subprime mortgages is taking advantage of the predecessors, if you really want to think about it, the entire Wall Street has to pay patent fees for the inventors of prime mortgages and subprime mortgages.

However, if Belford Investment Company can become the first batch of underwriters, then the company's market value will definitely double, or even triple.

After the market value of the investment company soars, even Citigroup shareholders will definitely think about buying shares in Belford.

And other consortiums and investment banks will also not watch Li Changheng eat meat alone.

At that time, Li Changheng's solution is also very simple. The condition is that part of the money is added to each company's shares, and he will give up at least half of Belford's shares.

When Citigroup's market value has risen again by 8 billion, reaching 24 billion US dollars, I have the money to buy 2.5% of Citigroup again.

Like other consortiums, UU Reading www. uukanshu.com continued to infiltrate into the opponent's camp, and also made many consortiums and big families, because of their own compromise, feel relieved to regard him as a part of the circle.

"Is this the first time we've met, Esther?"

Esther Duval didn't care at all about Li Changheng's tone, which obviously contained a hint of arrogance and the meaning of a superior to a subordinate.

And before Li Changheng took the initiative to stretch out his hand, Esther folded his hands on his waist, lowered his head slightly and said, "Nice to meet you, Your Excellency Lord Selby."

Li Changheng laughed when he heard the Lord. Although Esther had to bow his head for the order, he also implicitly expressed that it is not necessarily a good thing to be the top status of the United States and England at the same time.

Thinking that the design of M1 was provided by Chrysler, Li Changheng, who had always been small-minded, suddenly laughed and asked, "Can all 100 M1 main battle tanks be delivered to my customers within two years?"

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