As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 65: No Big Deal

“Thank you very much. Whether Mr. Zheng is willing to meet us or not, please leave me your address and this set of Yoshitomo Nara’s Lone Star will be sent directly to your home.” The head of the private equity institution smiled.

Li Miaomiao declined politely, "No merit, no reward. I just helped you pass on a message, and you're accepting this gift. It's really hard to accept."

The head of the agency rolled his eyes and said, "Well, Ms. Li, I will send you a Taobao link later and sell you a fake Yoshitomo Nara painting, including a forged certificate from Christie's auction house."

"I passed the security check when I entered the Kechuang Biotechnology Building. I didn't bring any recording devices with me, and my phone was always on the table. Please rest assured that no third person will know about our conversation."

"What do you think?"

Li Miaomiao still refused: "You are so direct, so I will be more direct. I am not short of money now. My strategic allocation quota for Kechuang Biotechnology's listing is about 40 shares. These 40 shares can be sold on the market at a value of 2 million yuan."

The strategic allocation quota given to senior executives of Kechuang Biotechnology upon its listing is 7.03% of the total issued share capital, and the issued share capital accounts for % of the total share capital.

That is to say, the strategic allocation quota for senior executives is about 280 million shares, and Li Miaomiao, as the deputy general manager, has a quota of about 15%, which is a subscription ratio of shares.

The subscription ratio here refers to the ability to purchase company shares at the listing price.

Li Miaomiao continued, "Plus, Zheng Li gave me all of his strategic placement quota, so I don't lack money at all."

"If I accept such an expensive gift from you, I will definitely do something for you in the future. If it happens once, there will be a second time. You can give me more and more expensive gifts step by step."

"And I will also be trapped in the favor and help you with something I can't do."

“This amount of chips is far from enough.”

"So no matter what the consideration is, I can't accept your gift, even though I don't know how you learned that I like Yoshitomo Nara's art."

After Li Miaomiao directly refused, the situation became tense. She continued:
"Don't worry, I'll bring it if I need to, but these are really unnecessary."

"If you want to give me Lone Star, you can put it on Christie's auction and I will buy it at the market price."

In fact, it is very simple. Li Miaomiao used Yoshitomo Nara's work as the desktop of her mobile phone. It was seen by someone during a meeting of Ke Chuang Biotechnology, and then the information was leaked.

Information is always revealed without your noticing, so it is recommended that you put an anti-peep film on your phone if possible.

After finally ending the intrigue with the head of the private equity firm, Li Miaomiao checked online.

That group of works by Yoshitomo Nara was even more expensive than she thought. They were sold at Christie's auction house in Hong Kong last year and the final transaction price was HKD 375 million.

"The agency's investment is too big, and this sugar-coated bullet is a bit exaggerated."

"I'm not short of money right now, so there's no need for me to touch this kind of money."

Li Miaomiao has always felt more grateful to Zheng Li than any other emotion. In just two years, she completed the steps that most people cannot climb in their entire lifetime.

The evaluation system in society is not like that in school. Most schools have a binary evaluation system, and you will be rewarded if you work hard.

But after entering the society, you may not get even one point in return for your tenfold efforts.

Li Miaomiao put in ten points of effort and received twenty or even thirty points in return. She was well aware of this and was very grateful.

Kechuang Bio's board of directors meets once a week. Zheng Li occasionally attends. If he doesn't attend, Li Miaomiao will send him proposals and topics, and he needs feedback. Li Miaomiao thought about it and realized that she and Zheng Li had communicated quite a lot, but they always talked about work. Whenever she wanted to talk about things in life, Zheng Li would obviously lose interest and be perfunctory.

She sighed and called her father:
"Dad, the head of the private equity firm you asked me to meet today directly gave me a sugar-coated bullet!" Li Miaomiao said with dissatisfaction in her tone.

Li Xulin was in his office at the moment. "Hahaha, he was my college classmate. He also majored in biology in undergraduate studies, but later went to Shenhai to study finance. He asked me to help him."

"We had a very good relationship in college. I would usually have dinner with him when I went to Shenhai. We were friends who visited each other frequently. He asked me to see you. Tell me what happened today."

Li Miaomiao slowly recounted everything that happened today.

Li Xulin laughed and scolded, "No wonder I lose money every day when I trade stocks. These institutions are using tricks. You are right to refuse. There is no need to get involved in this kind of thing."

"Besides, he asked me before he gave you the gift, and I said it could be a test for you."

"My plan is that he will test you. If you accept the things he gives you, I will return them to him in another way."

Li Miaomiao said helplessly: "Dad, please don't make trouble for me. I have met many people who want to give me gifts in the past two years. I don't miss this lesson!"

"Also, do you know how much the gift he gave you is worth? You might have to sell your house in Jiangcheng to pay it back."

Li Xulin asked in confusion: "What he told me was just a small thing."

"The gift he gave me was sold for 375 million Hong Kong dollars at Christie's auction last year, and it is expected to increase in value this year. How can you come up with so much cash without selling your house?" Li Miaomiao explained.

Li Xulin smiled awkwardly: "I thought what he told me was just a bag worth tens of thousands of dollars. I can still afford a bag worth tens of thousands of dollars. The value system of these people in finance is different from ours."

"He said millions of dollars were nothing."

Li Miaomiao further explained: "If Zheng Li really cooperates with them to manipulate the stock price, with Kechuang Biotechnology's market value of hundreds of billions, they have a lot of room to make profits."

"When I think about it, it's really just a small thing compared to the profits."

"After we passed the listing approval of the Shenhai Stock Exchange, the China Securities Regulatory Commission asked us senior executives to attend the class."

"Regarding the listed company executives cooperating with institutions to manipulate stock prices, companies with a market value of only a few billion can make tens of millions of dollars in profits a year, not to mention Kechuang Bio."

"You must have heard of Zhangzidao, right? The scallops came and went. I don't believe there is no organization cooperating with the companies to reap the profits."

Zhanzidao is a relatively outrageous listed company. They even got involved in the Tonga volcano eruption.

Li Xulin murmured, "What you said makes sense. I won't introduce you to people in the financial circle anymore."

"By the way, Jiangcheng has been contacting me recently, wanting me to help ask if Kechuang Biotechnology is likely to move back to Jiangcheng?"

"Jiangcheng is willing to make every effort to create a good business environment for Kechuang Bio."

"The leaders of Donghu New District came to me personally, and I couldn't refuse, so I asked for them."

Don’t take the content of the novel seriously~ Of course, the real institutional manipulation of stock prices is definitely not as simple as what I wrote. The means of playing with the human nature of retail investors are more sophisticated, and the means of evading supervision are endless.

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