50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 567 The Negotiation Table of Civilized People

Why is this considered restraint? Because if Sun Zhiwei could deliver notes filled with nonsense to everyone's pillow, he could certainly place bombs and bullets in the same spot.

This is a warning to Harry Oppenheimer, and a very serious one at that.

If Harry Oppenheimer doesn't provide a positive response soon, it's hard to say what will happen next.

The security captain submitted his resignation letter that day, but before leaving, his sense of responsibility led him to offer his own security suggestions.

In his description, the Oppenheimer family's enemies this time were exceptionally powerful, and ordinary guards were simply no match for them, because he still hadn't discovered the enemy's infiltration route.

He clearly stated his speculation: the enemy is currently very restrained, but if a satisfactory result cannot be obtained, things might change next time.

Harry's son, Nicky Oppenheimer, was a capable successor; he first appeased the captain of the guard who wanted to resign.

He then sent a telegram overnight to Harry Oppenheimer, who was far away in London, detailing the day's events and the captain of the guard's advice.

Large multinational corporations like De Beers have their own private telegraph lines, so the news reached Harry's ears before dawn.

Harry was shocked and frightened when he heard the news. Since his father's death, he had become more and more concerned about his family, and protecting his family members was also his responsibility as the head of the family.

It would be unacceptable for him to put his family in danger because of his business.

This is actually why he underestimated Sun Zhiwei.

Normally, when Harry faces powerful opponents such as Australia or the Russian bear, he is very vigilant and restrained, and he will not use any outrageous methods.

However, the power that Sun Zhiwei displayed on the surface was far from enough to make him wary, which led to this dangerous situation.

Now that Sun Zhiwei has flexed his muscles, Harry will naturally change course and communicate with him in a more appropriate way.

Just as Sun Zhiwei was preparing to leave Johannesburg for London to confront Harry Oppenheimer, he received a telegram from the store manager, Theodore Ellis.

Julian Maxwell, De Beers' head in New York, contacted him to convey the stance from London.

The board approved his proposal to exchange Anglo American's gold business for Sun Zhiwei's Borneo diamond mine.

Sun Zhiwei received the news just before boarding the plane and almost strained his back.

He never expected that Harry Oppenheimer would back down so quickly; a few threatening notes were enough to make him give in.

This was because he misjudged the way big capitalists operate, which was also due to his lack of experience; he had never encountered capitalists of this level before.

Big capitalists have large businesses and many concerns.

Harry wasn't the first pioneer; his goal from the beginning was always to maintain the stability of the family, with expanding the family's business being secondary.

If expanding his business conflicts with his family, he will prioritize his family.

Another reason is the current rules of competition among capitalists.

The early generation of monopoly capitalists, whether it was Morgan, Rockefeller, or DuPont.

Back in the early days of their pioneering era, which of their first generation wasn't waving banknotes in one hand and holding knives and guns in the other?

They believed in the law of the jungle, overcoming obstacles to expand their power. When faced with an enemy, their first thought was how to eliminate and then devour them. But in the next generation, their style of doing things will undergo a significant change, shifting from naked, direct confrontation to using national laws and administrative policies to achieve their goals.

In other words, it has changed from barbaric plunder to plundering under the guise of civilization. Although the essence has not changed, the methods have become more covert.

Being barefoot is different from being wearing shoes. Everyone is rich now, so it's uncivilized to keep fighting.

The key point is that we all came from that barbaric era; whatever your trump card is, others have it too.

Everyone has these kinds of methods of harming others. If you do the first thing, someone else will do the fifteenth. Will the instigator have no descendants? Who can be afraid?

The current situation is that everyone's swords are very sharp, but their shields are very fragile, and no one wants to be the next one to fall in a pool of blood.

As a result, the rules of competition among conglomerates and capitalists began to change. It was no longer an open war of life and death, but rather a game of money.

Everyone has a bottom line in their actions; they won't easily kill each other physically, and even if they win, they won't wipe out the entire enemy force.

In other words, even if there is a set of competition rules on the surface, at most it will be like what Sun Zhiwei did, threatening and giving a signal, but there will be no real action.

Harry thought he had understood the signal Sun Zhiwei was giving him, so he immediately changed his competitive approach and returned to the negotiating table as a civilized person.

In fact, modern financial groups have begun to diversify, and failure in one direction will not lead to total defeat.

Once a conglomerate has grown to a certain size, it is no longer easily defeated by a one-sided, temporary setback.

This reminded Sun Zhiwei of the civil service system in the Song Dynasty. People could fight each other in the court, but if they lost, they would step down and leave the central government. They would have a chance to make a comeback in the future, so everyone was safe.

It was precisely this situation that enabled Sun Zhiwei to achieve his goal with just a few slips of paper.

So he immediately changed his flight and prepared to take the next plane back to New York, as this level of negotiation required his personal presence.

Three days later, New York.

Julian Maxwell, representing the De Beers Group, signed an industrial swap agreement with Sun Zhiwei.

From today onwards, the five gold mines, corresponding refining plants, and sales channels under the Anglo American Group have all become Sun Zhiwei's businesses.

Correspondingly, Sun Zhiwei also handed over the diamond mine in Borneo to the De Beers Group.

According to his estimate, the diamond mine in Borneo can be mined for another six months. After that, the depletion of the vein will no longer be his problem.

Although Anglo American's five gold mines are all in the late stages of mining, according to the original exploration results, they can still be mined for about 10 more years.

Of these five gold mines, three are in South Africa, one in the United States, and one in Australia.

After the agreement was signed, he distinguished the five mines.

The mines in South Africa and Australia were handed over to Huang Hongxuan for takeover and management, while the gold mine in the United States was managed by Ryan Clark, the mine manager of the Swell Gold Mine.

From now on, he has two teams in the mining industry, one in the United States and one abroad.

Huang Hongxuan was in charge of mines in Borneo, Africa, and Australia, while Ryan Clark was in charge of three gold mines in the United States.

(End of this chapter)