Chapter 589 Trip to Germany (5)

   "What happened just now was just a small accident. Please continue, everyone, don't be disturbed."

  After the figure of Adolf Meckler completely disappeared, Hans Schroeder hurried around to smooth things over, and soon the gentlemen and ladies who were full of the venue stopped paying attention to this side and continued the unfinished conversation just now.

   Naturally, these are social etiquettes, and the current appearance is just a show to show that they have good cultivation, but in fact most people keep this matter and Zhongshi in mind. Especially what Zhong Shi said at the end, which was almost a demonstration, shocked them even more.

Seeing the banquet hall restore order, Hans Schroeder finally heaved a sigh of relief and walked up to Zhong Shi with an apologetic expression on his face, "Mr. Zhong, I am very sorry that some unknown people disturbed you. How about that?" , I will personally accompany you in the next time to avoid similar impolite incidents from happening again, and at the same time introduce some friends to Mr. Zhong."

"There is no need for this!" Zhong Shi smiled and refused, "Mr. Hans, I believe that after what happened just now, no one should come to provoke me again. As for meeting friends you said, I believe you need to know my friends , you should come to the door by yourself soon, right?" After speaking, he gave Hans a meaningful look.

   Seeing Zhong Shi in this way, the expression on Hans' face suddenly stagnated. Even though he reacted quickly, he couldn't help showing a look of astonishment at this moment, but Zhong Shi saw it clearly when he didn't want to.

  Just a few minutes ago, Zhong Shi was acting like a "glaring King Kong", but soon he became a "low-browed Bodhisattva". This kind of emotional control is amazing. If Hans Schroeder praised his ability to control his emotions, then Zhong Shi's sentence "friends who need to know me will come to me by themselves" made Hans realize the young man's ability to guess people's hearts. And it was just thinking of this that a trace of surprise appeared on Hans' old and calm face.

   Sure enough, he is not an ordinary person, maybe he has already guessed his master's mind before coming to Germany. Hans Schroeder left with such doubts.

   "Mr. Zhong..."

   After helping the waiter clean up the mess on the ground, Sloan Landman came over, but he was interrupted by Zhongshi as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Sloan, you did a good job, very good!" Zhong Shi's first sentence made Sloan elated, but the next sentence made Sloan discouraged, "If you are a talent in investment, I may I dug you into our company."

  Investment requires extraordinary intuition and rigorous logic, while the most important thing in the mergers and acquisitions industry is personal connections. The difference between the two is more than a thousand miles away, so Sloan feels very sorry.

   "But I can give you a piece of advice!" Perhaps because he couldn't bear to see Sloan's disappointed expression, Zhong Shi made a rare gesture of kindness, and said in a low voice, "Leave Leimen Brothers as soon as possible."

  Sloan's face suddenly turned extremely pale.

  He doesn't think that Zhong Shi is aimlessly targeting, or warning indiscriminately. Two months ago, the sudden "death" of Bear Stearns shocked the global financial market, and people in the City of London were also shocked. Such a global investment banking giant was acquired as soon as it said it was acquired. The speed of development is too fast for people to react. Sloan and his colleagues carefully studied the case of Bear Stearns after the fact, and found that in the entire process of the incident, it took only three short days from the rumors to the unsustainable Bear Stearns.

  After the fall of Bear Stearns, speculations about who will fall next spread widely in the market, and Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers, the weakest among them, were pushed to the forefront. Although so far, there is no sign that the two companies have major problems in terms of liquidity or financial status, but Zhong Shi's opening at least shows that Raymond Brothers has been targeted by some funds.

  In fact, in the industry, since the collapse of Bear Stearns, there has been such a saying that Bear Stearns was strangled by hedge funds. But firstly, because of the lack of confirmation from important people, and secondly, because of the strong denial by people from hedge funds, this kind of statement has not spread on a large scale. But Sloan and his colleagues agreed that even if the immediate cause of Bear Stearns' collapse had nothing to do with hedge funds, hedge funds must have played a huge role in it.

   At one point, Sloan and others suspected that someone like Zhong Shi was behind it, but because of the lawsuit, Sloan and others did not put Zhong Shi on the list of suspects. But now after Zhong Shi said it, Sloan realized that maybe Zhong Shi was not involved in it, at least he must know some inside information.

   Now that Zhong Shi has escaped from the SEC lawsuit, he can naturally show his talents. Under such circumstances, the Leimen Brothers were being targeted by the opponent, what would happen to Sloan no longer dared to think about it.

  In just one minute, he was already cold all over, and cold sweat was dripping from his head.

   "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to my birthday party!"

   Right at this moment, the lights in the banquet hall dimmed, and then the main character of the banquet appeared on the stage under the light of the spotlights, Wolfgang Porsche finally appeared.

  Wolfgang Porsche is 65 years old and is the third generation of the Porsche family. He has a slightly comical round face, and the way he smiles is perfect for comedy. At this time, he walked to the center of the banquet hall with a smile on his face, and all the guests surrounded him in unison, forming a circle naturally, and the applause sounded at the right time.

Wolfgang Porsche pressed his suit with one hand, bowed slightly to the surroundings, and then said: "It is really a great honor to have so many colleagues and politicians come to my birthday party. Time flies So fast, I'm 65 in the blink of an eye, it reminds me of my 15th birthday, when there weren't so many VIPs."

In the midst of good-natured laughter, Wolfgang Porsche continued: "Although 50 years have passed and the world has become different from the past, the industrial spirit pursued by Porsche remains unchanged, and we are still persistently pursuing to serve the world. Customers around the world deliver better, faster high-performance sports cars. My grandfather, my father, my brother and I share the same goal in this regard.”

  As soon as these words came out, the entire banquet hall burst into warm applause. As the king of road sports cars and one of the most cost-effective sports cars, Porsche cars have always enjoyed a good reputation around the world. These achievements are naturally inseparable from the efforts of the Porsche family. As the current chairman of the board of directors, Wolfgang is naturally qualified to say such words.

"Perhaps everyone has noticed that while focusing on the high-end sports car market, we have also begun to enter the SUV market. The Cayenne series cars currently launched are just a test of the water. Although it is a preliminary attempt, the market response is very good. So in the future, In addition to the traditional sports car business, the Porsche factory will also provide consumers around the world with high-end, comfortable large cars."

"In addition, there is another good news to be announced. After a long and solemn announcement, the Porsche family decided to enter the low-end car market. Inexpensive regular sedan."

  Like a stone thrown into a calm lake, Wolfgang's words immediately stirred up waves among the quiet crowd. Since many auto giants participated in Wolfgang Porsche's birthday party, including auto companies from the United States, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, France and other countries, after Wolfgang Porsche said these words, their Emotional fluctuations appeared on the faces at the same time.

  Currently, Porsche is the company with the highest profit per bicycle in the world, just because the Porsche brand has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as a high-end product, and now that the Porsche family has announced to enter the low-end market, it is bound to share a share with other manufacturers. Although it is just an intention now, the major automakers have begun to mutter in their hearts how to deal with such a situation.

   For those who aren't engaged in car production, the news is even more shocking. At the moment, they don't care about etiquette, and have already started discussing in twos and threes.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please stay calm." Seeing that the effect he wanted to create has been achieved, Wolfgang Porsche showed a very satisfied expression, stretched out his hand and said, "About entering the low-end car market , Complementary to the current business, this is indeed a severe challenge for the Porsche family. Because neither our design concept nor the factory's production capacity can support all this in the short term. So I will announce a The thing, to be precise, is a road map for how Porsche will enter the low-end car market."

Speaking of which, many people have already guessed what Wolfgang Porsche will say next, and their eyes have turned to a middle-aged man with glasses on the edge of the crowd. This man is the representative of Volkswagen at today's birthday party. .

  Ferdinand Piech did not show up after all, but sent such a middle-aged man to attend. And the middle-aged man was expressionless at the moment, as if everything had nothing to do with him. It's just that the movement of constantly lifting his glasses and the twitching muscles at the corners of his mouth betrayed his true inner thoughts.

"I, Wolfgang Porsche, on behalf of the Porsche Board of Directors, once again announce that we will increase Volkswagen's shareholding from the current 30.9% to more than 50% in the coming period. In other words, we will absorb Volkswagen in the market stake in the car until we control the company."

   As soon as he said a word, all four people were shocked.

  Although the Porsche family has long been aware of Volkswagen's mind, but this idea from speculation to reality still shocked everyone present. For Wolfgang Porsche to say such a thing under the watchful eyes of everyone, it is undoubtedly tantamount to launching a war against the current Volkswagen management and board of directors. For the first time, the Porsche family has put its ambitions on the table.

   "Enjoy today's dinner, ladies and gentlemen."

   Just when there was a buzz of discussion in the venue, Wolfgang Porsche took a glass of wine from the waiter's tray, raised it high, and said to the surrounding crowd. Then soft music was played, the lights were turned on again, and the whole place returned to normal.

  Although the environment is still the same as before, everyone's mood has changed, and they are no longer as relaxed and easy-going as before. People lined up again and became small groups of three or five, but the topic of discussion was no longer pure social chatter, and everyone was discussing the heavy news announced by Wolfgang Porsche just now.

   "Mr. Zhong, hello!"

  The crowd dispersed, Zhong Shi quietly retreated to the corner, and he was quite shocked by the news. A good show of snake swallowing an elephant is really going to be staged, but I don't know what Wolfgang Porsche will do.

However, his thinking didn't last long. Wolfgang Porsche appeared in front of him accompanied by Hans Schroeder. The appearance of these two people immediately made him want to get close to Zhong Shi. Sloan hesitated, and could only stand not far away and looked at the three with strange eyes.

   "I'm sorry for causing you some unnecessary harassment just now." Wolfgang stretched out his right hand, his face full of sincere apology, "I promise that similar things will never happen again during your stay."

   Thank you very much book friend Shengshi Bianguan for voting for the monthly ticket and giving a big reward again! Recently, the time is really tight, and I am rushing every day, so I hope everyone can understand that it is late~ I will try to adjust it next week~

  

  

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