I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 467: Evil disciple!

Last month, Lao Tong's physical examination showed that his fatty liver had turned from mild to moderate, and his blood lipids had hit a new high. The director of the metabolic department of the First Affiliated Hospital of the National Hospital criticized Lao Tong very seriously, saying that if he did not control his condition at this age, he would soon develop metabolic diseases.

This scared Mrs. Zhao to death. She usually cooked with a lot of oil and salt, and loved to make high-cholesterol dishes such as braised pork with minced meat noodles.

When Mrs. Zhao was frightened by the director of the metabolic department, she immediately went to the other extreme and ate whole grain rice and boiled vegetables for every meal.

There was only a pinch of salt in the boiled vegetable leaves, not even a bit of sesame oil. Lao Tong was strictly forbidden to eat out, and when he was hungry, he was forced to eat steamed carrots.

The fat in Lao Tong's stomach was drained away, and his eyes were red from hunger. His front teeth were a bit big to begin with, and he felt that if his ears were longer, he would turn into a rabbit god.

Of course, Jiang Nanzhen invited him to the dinner today, but it was not the first time that Tong Yongshan met Robert Capito.

He had previously attended a meeting organized by BlackRock when he was in Miami, and had met Robert Capito several times.

Tong Yongshan is also no stranger to George Osborne. George Osborne is the youngest Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK in a hundred years. During his four years as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer ten years ago, George Osborne attended the Bilderberg Conference every year.

Tong Yongshan is certainly not an official participant of this mysterious meeting known as the "Bilderberg Club", but he has served as an on-site consultant for two consecutive years at this annual global non-public forum, which only invites 150 participants and does not allow any media coverage.

Finance is also a pillar industry in the Angola. When attending the meeting, George Osborne consulted Tong Yongshan on many issues related to finance and economics.

After becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne also asked some non-official organizations under the Policy and Resources Committee of the City of London to provide regular sponsorship for Tong Yongshan's projects in Miami.

In the Anglo-American cabinet structure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has always been the second in command after the Prime Minister and has great power.

George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has a very good relationship with Da Zhou and should be the most friendly Anglo-British finance minister to Da Zhou during his term in office.

The period when he served as Treasury Secretary was the period of the closest economic cooperation between Great Zhou and Angola in history. When he dies, he will probably be given the posthumous title of "Old Friend of the People of Great Zhou" like Nixon.

The reason why George Osborne attaches importance to the relationship between Angola and Da Zhou, in addition to balancing the influence of Miami on Angola, is hard to say that it has nothing to do with the influence of Tong Yongshan.

This time when he came to Da Zhou, Osborne, who had just stepped down, was originally going to attend a forum summit in Xinhao in his personal capacity.

Capito heard that Osborne was in the Great Zhou and had a relationship with Tong Yongshan, because Tong Yongshan was Jiangnan Zhen's teacher. In order to show his sincerity, he specially invited Osborne from Xinhao to Haixi.

Robert Capito had a deeper purpose in inviting George Osborne, the former British finance minister who was about to join the board of directors, to "endorse" his decision and serve as a witness.

If any problems arise with this acquisition in the future, George Osborne will be the witness to prove that he did not abuse his power for personal gain.

The level of witnesses required for different levels of "traceable endorsement" is of course different. Except for Larry Fink, perhaps no one at BlackRock is qualified to serve as a witness for Robert Capito.

Osborne is the perfect "witness" for this negotiation.

Tong Yongshan was of course very happy to meet George Osborne on such an occasion.

What made him even happier was that he could finally eat meat!

Do you know what kind of life I have been living for the past half month?

Rabbits can’t eat grass like me!

In half a month, I lost 8 kilograms and almost looked unrecognizable.

I wake up hungry every night, and I drool when I see others eating pancakes on the street.

Ever since the fried foie gras was served in front of him and he smelled the tempting fat aroma of the hot foie gras, Tong Yongshan has been secretly swallowing his saliva. His attention has always been on the foie gras, and he didn't even pay much attention to what the people at the table were talking about.

It smells so good. It smells so good. How can it smell so good?

What a delicious foie gras! The foie gras is topped with amber juice and has a faint scent of truffles.

The last time I had such good foie gras was the last time. Tong Yongshan had a social smile on his face. He smiled and nodded, as if he was listening carefully to the conversation at the table. He cut the foie gras and swallowed his saliva quietly.

Facts have proved that even scholars who have won the Nobel Prize in Economics, even in such top-level social occasions, cannot completely suppress their desires in the face of hunger and appetite.

Tong Yongshan was about to put the cut goose liver into his mouth when he heard Luo Ziming, who was sitting opposite him, saying his name.

"...Tong Yongshan represents 404 to join the BlackRock board of directors!"

Damn it, can’t I even eat properly?

It was obviously inappropriate to eat too much after being cueed. Lao Tong smiled and nodded habitually, and only reacted after a second or two.

What is this four-eyed frog saying?
Nominate me to the BlackRock board! ?

Lao Tong shuddered violently, and even the feeling of hunger was temporarily eliminated.

Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit!

Tong Yongshan couldn't help but swear in his heart.

No one mentioned this to me before coming to eat.

Tong Yongshan knew Si Lingsi's background very well, and his first reaction was - this evil disciple is trying to trick me!
I was wondering why you suddenly asked me to be the independent director of 404 a few months ago. I thought you were showing your filial piety, but now it seems that you want to grab a toad and squeeze the urine out of your teacher.

The second reaction was: Are these guys crazy? You guys who haven't even grown all your hair yet want to get involved in BlackRock's board selection?
Are you crazy or am I crazy?
In addition to several management members, there are now a total of 14 independent directors on the BlackRock board of directors. Just looking at George Osborne, you can know what qualifications are required to become an independent director of BlackRock.

George Osborne is the former Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom! A few months ago, he was the de facto second-in-command of the United Kingdom!
No matter how awesome I am, I am only in the academic world and haven't won a Nobel Prize yet. How could I possibly be on the BlackRock board of directors?
Not to mention me, even Glenn Hubbard, the dean of the business school at my old employer Columbia University and former chairman of the White House Economic Advisory Committee, has been seeking to join the BlackRock board of directors for several years but has not been able to do so.

And the third reaction after rational thinking is - wait, maybe there really is hope?

Tong Yongshan felt his palms suddenly become wet, and sweat kept coming out.

He knew too well the capabilities of the Woking system 404, and was not surprised by Blackrock's determination to win.

In fact, with the combination of his strong factor model and the AI ​​big model, the advantages of the strong factor model in the field of risk identification suddenly became apparent. In just half a year, all institutions have started large-scale machine learning model training for the strong factor model, and it has now almost monopolized the quantitative trading market.

However, none of these large models can compare with the Woking system in terms of effects and capabilities.

This change caught Tong Yongshan, the corresponding author, off guard and made him extremely excited.

Recently, when he was hungry and couldn't sleep in the dead of night, he even felt that he might really win the Nobel Prize one day.
Nobel Prize-level scholars are not necessarily Nobel Prize winners. They also include scholars who most people believe are qualified for the Nobel Prize but are unlikely to win it.

Tong Yongshan is one of them.

But now it’s different. With the combination of strong factor models and big AI models, although the Nobel Prize in Economics is rarely awarded for innovations in financial engineering, but instead focuses more on the originality of basic economic theories and/or methodology, this kind of revolutionary engineering innovation may not be without chance.

"Robert, Professor Tong is my teacher. Although he does not have the intellectual property rights of the Woking system, the foundation of the Woking system was created under his guidance. Of course, I am just supplementing the information and am not qualified to make any suggestions on such an important matter."

Jiang Nanzhen moved closer to Robert Capito, seemingly introducing the situation, and added a sentence softly beside Robert Capito, then smiled brightly at Tong Yongshan, raised her glass, and clinked it with Tong Yongshan.

Through the sleeves of his shirt, Robert Capito felt the heat from Jiang Nanzhen's body. He even seemed to smell the scent of Jiang Nanzhen's perfume in his nostrils. His heart skipped a beat.

"Professor Tong is indeed qualified, but I cannot guarantee this now. But what I can guarantee is that I will try my best to get the position on the board of directors."

Robert Capito licked his lips slightly nervously, clinked glasses with Tong Yongshan, and then looked deeply at Jiang Nanzhen.

(End of this chapter)