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"Huh? Mr. Wang, you bought it for a market value of 5.5 billion?"

The subordinate was immediately astonished upon hearing this.

Previously, we only bought stocks worth less than 5 billion. What's the situation now?

However, as time went on, the stock price continued to fall and couldn't be stopped.

It seems that besides Wang Jianchao and his group selling off their shares, other individual investors and large corporations are also selling off their shares.

Paramount stock has seen unusually high trading volume in the past two days, with a large number of people buying and selling.

Despite the stock price falling, there were many buyers and just as many sellers.

This is very strange.

Besides the 30% stake in Geo Moreno, there's also the 40% stake held by Maple Leaf Holdings, meaning only 30% of the shares are actually traded on the market.

Maple Leaf Holdings has increased its stake in the company by 40% over the past few months.

In addition, Goldman Sachs should still hold about 5% of the shares, and some well-known individual investors and large retail investors also hold about 5%.

Simply put, the percentage of Paramount stock circulating in the market should be around 20%.

Given that Paramount's market capitalization has now dropped to only $5.1 billion, 20% of the shares would be equivalent to $1.02 billion.

Even if Geor Moreno is incredibly powerful, he can't possibly buy 20% of the shares from the secondary market.

Moreover, if he really makes a large-scale purchase, Paramount's market value will definitely soar, and it might even trigger a circuit breaker.

Because Paramount stock is now a hunting ground for a group of Wall Street giants, big-time investors, and a large number of retail investors.

It may seem like there aren't many stocks on the secondary market, but the price fluctuations are extremely volatile, with huge price differences between rises and falls.

Wang Jianchao had already joined the large-scale buying spree when the market value was 5.5 billion.

Zheng Baoyin, Li Efra, and others on the other side also joined in.

Therefore, sell orders decreased while buy orders increased.

The market sentiment shifted dramatically, and Paramount's market capitalization rose at an incredible pace.

Then I got a circuit breaker triggered!
It really was a circuit breaker; everyone was stunned.

There's nothing left to play.

The next day, the 24th, the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" was released.

The box office figures haven't been released yet, but the movie's promotional advertisements are everywhere.

It was a Wednesday, and Paramount's stock price jumped 20 percent immediately after the New York Stock Exchange opened.

They startled everyone as soon as they arrived.

In the market, buy orders are still increasing, while sell orders are almost nonexistent.

Paramount's stock price is still rising.

By the time the stock market closed at noon that day, Paramount's market capitalization had returned to the six billion range.

Wang Jianchao was also hesitating: should he sell or not?
But looking at his limited holdings, he ultimately chose to wait and see.

However, to his surprise, as soon as the stock market opened in the afternoon, some people started dumping shares.

The number of orders surged, leaving Zheng Baoyin and Wang Jianchao bewildered: Did this mean they didn't have a good impression of the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"?

Even though it's already been released, we can roughly guess how well the movie is doing at the box office by simply sending someone to observe the attendance rate.

Surprisingly, some people cashed out and left at this time, which is really strange.

"Boss, should we buy in?"

"purchase!"

The stock price was quickly driven down to below six billion, at 59.58.5.

This stock price drop was entirely due to someone dumping shares, and the sell orders are still increasing.

Following this wave of change, Geor Moreno was caught in a dilemma.

On the one hand, he firmly believes that the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" should achieve very good box office results, but so far there is no sign of that.

After all, most people go to the movies in the afternoon or evening after get off work.

Today is Wednesday, not the weekend.

On the other hand, Paramount's stock price is now falling, and continuing to fall, which is making him very nervous.

Keep in mind that he put real money into buying large amounts of Paramount stock.

Of the one billion dollars in funding, nearly three hundred million dollars had already been spent.

If he doesn't sell, he'll suffer a huge loss.

What?

While he was hesitating, someone had already been liquidated.

Many retail investors are taking out loans or using leverage to build positions and go long on Paramount.

These people were very optimistic about "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," but they simply couldn't stick with it.

Therefore, when stock prices fall, the leverage they used becomes their death knell.

Trying to leverage a small amount of capital with a large amount of leverage, but lacking the ability to raise funds in time to compensate, will inevitably lead to a margin call.

"purchase!"

When the stock price fell to a market value of $5.5 billion, Wang Jianchao issued another order.

In the evening, several television stations, including ABC, Fox, and Columbia, reported a news story: "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" was released simultaneously in multiple countries but was met with a lukewarm reception, with very low attendance.

When Wang Jianchao and his colleagues saw this news, they understood why someone would sell Paramount stock when the company's market value was six billion.

Someone must have known about this beforehand, or even it was these people behind the scenes who were stirring things up.

Seeing this tactic, Wang Jianchao and his colleagues speculated: It's most likely Goldman Sachs, right?
Because only Goldman Sachs has that kind of capability.

Although Goldman Sachs is not a bank, it is able to provide a large amount of loans just like a bank.

Goldman Sachs, with its extensive reach and influence, is a very large multinational corporation with branches in many parts of the world and a global network.

Especially their network of relationships in the United States.

Therefore, such methods are not surprising.

The following Thursday, the box office figures for "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" were not reported.

On the contrary, newspapers such as The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Wall Street Journal were filled with reports about the poor box office performance of Independence Day.

The media seems to focus on this point in their reporting, but upon closer examination, it becomes clear that these articles do not provide any detailed information.

It seems to be just a very vague issue of low attendance; there hasn't been a single word reported on the box office performance.

It's obvious that someone is suppressing the reporting of this kind of news.

Even the major movie theater giants in the United States have not released the daily box office figures for "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".

The storm is coming!
This led to a strange event at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday: Paramount's market capitalization fell below $5 billion again, reaching $4.4 billion.

Unbelievable!
Retail investors are unaware of the situation, but judging from the overwhelming number of buy orders, someone is definitely up to something.

There aren't many orders left.

Trading volume has also dropped to a certain extent.

It seems everyone believes Paramount's stock price will rebound, and everyone is waiting, but no one knows exactly what they're waiting for.

The next day, the stock price barely moved.

Meanwhile, trading volume remained relatively stable.

This was the first time Wang Jianchao and his team had ever seen such a scene. Good heavens, who exactly is the bookmaker?
They, Maple Leaf Holdings, clearly hold more than 40% of Paramount's shares.

But this time, the situation seems very different.

On Friday afternoon, after the stock market closed, Wang Jianchao and his colleagues got together for a short meeting.

Internet teleconference.

Lee Efra and his team stated that Maple Leaf Holdings will continue to buy shares when the stock market opens next Monday.

If the stock price rises too quickly and the market value exceeds six billion US dollars, sell immediately, sell as much as you can.

There is only one conclusion: thwart the conspiracies and schemes of the Wall Street giants.

Maple Leaf Holdings holds more than 40% of the shares, so as long as it's not less than 33%, they can build whatever they want without any problem.

After the meeting ended, it goes without saying that the box office of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" exploded over the following two days of the weekend.

In North America alone, "Indiana Jones" grossed $65 million in just three days, from Wednesday to Friday.

When Wang Jianchao and his team saw this news, they knew that it must be Georgio Moreno who was involved in the manipulation.

The $65 million North American box office figure is definitely fabricated.

How could box office revenue be so high on a weekday?

The box office over the weekend is going to explode!
Monday arrived in the blink of an eye, which was May 29th.

Early in the morning, newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal began to publicize the box office performance of the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" over the weekend, which grossed $29 million on Saturday and $25 million on Sunday.

Together, the total box office for the first five days was $119 million.

This is just the North American box office performance; the opening week box office figures for more than 20 countries and regions worldwide are not yet available, and we will have to wait another day or two.

But this box office performance alone shocked the entire United States.

So at 9:30 a.m. on the 29th, just as the stock market opened, Paramount was hit with a circuit breaker.

The movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" is so exciting that stock market investors are very excited and want to get on board and buy Paramount stock to make a fortune.

Clearly, with the phenomenal success of the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," Paramount's market value is very likely to break the previous $10 billion mark again.

Paramount's market capitalization before the circuit breaker was just over six billion US dollars, so there is still a lot of room for growth.

In addition, Bloomberg also released its latest forecast report: Paramount's market value will surge.

The fluctuations in Paramount's stock price over the past few months, not just due to the release of the movie "Indiana Jones," suggest that large institutions and capital giants are manipulating the company's stock price.

This forecast report has earned the trust of stock market investors.

After all, they spend most of their time in the stock market, and in recent months, Paramount's stock has been the most outstanding performer.

If it weren't for large financial conglomerates manipulating Paramount's stock price, how could there have been such dramatic stock price fluctuations over the past few months?
Therefore, they all highly trust Bloomberg's report.

American financial media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, and Barron's have all released new financial reports.

There was an overwhelming amount of good news about Paramount.

Jean Moreno, the president of Goldman Sachs, Viacom's Reston, and others all watched the stock price soar.

After the circuit breaker ended, it was already 10:30 a.m.

Then, less than ten minutes into the trading session, the circuit breaker was triggered again, and everyone went crazy.

After finally waiting for the afternoon opening of the market, once Paramount's stock could be traded, its market capitalization had already jumped to $8.9 billion.

In his office, Wang Jianchao was using an encrypted internet channel to chat with Li Efra, O'Brien, Zheng Baoyin, and others, communicating in real time.

Because the circuit breaker was in effect for most of the morning, they were unable to take any action.

So at this point in the afternoon, after Paramount's market value had soared to such a terrifying level, Wang Jianchao and his team had already decided to sell!
As a result, Paramount's stock trading volume surged.

There were originally a lot of orders, with everyone rushing to buy Paramount stock and vying to get on board.

The surge in sell orders indicates that Maple Leaf Holdings has intervened and sold a large number of shares.

This caused Paramount's stock price to slow down instantly, and within five minutes, Paramount's stock price even dropped by two dollars.

Goldman Sachs, Georgio Moreno, Sumner Redstone, and others who witnessed this scene all launched into a tirade of profanities.

Goodness, they wanted to make a move too, but they weren't as decisive as Maple Leaf Holdings.

Based on a share price with a market capitalization of $8.9 billion, Redstone and others sold the shares at a share price with a market capitalization of $8.8 billion.

However, Wang Jianchao and his team, referencing the stock price with a market capitalization of $8.65 billion, quickly traded 5% of the shares within just five minutes.

Quantitative trading systems such as Velociraptor Fund and Maple Tree Capital lock in data and execute trades at extremely high speeds.

After all, there are plenty of buyers in the market at this time, so there's no worry about not being able to sell them.

As Paramount's stock price fell, the booming market seemed to quiet down, leaving investors somewhat bewildered.

However, the market has already been stirred up, and media outlets such as Bloomberg have made predictions.

With the box office explosion of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," according to predictions from professional film media and other organizations, the film's North American box office is sure to exceed $300 million, and $400 million is not out of the question.

Therefore, it's really hard to say what the final box office result of this movie will be.

Anyway, it's already a sure thing that it will be the box office champion of the year.

With news of positive developments for Paramount flooding the market, retail investors are already being manipulated and don't think much about it. They're just blindly rushing in.

Unfortunately, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

The president of Goldman Sachs, Georgio Moreno, Sumner Redstone, and others have all launched scathing attacks and sold off their shares.

However, as sell orders increased, buy orders also surged simultaneously.

Although the stock price is falling, thankfully, it hasn't reached the limit for triggering a circuit breaker.

In just half a day, Paramount's market value has dropped to $7.2 billion.

The stock market trading session ended on the 29th, and the market closed.

Everyone was still excited, and some retail investors were encouraging themselves because they had bought in when Paramount's market value was around eight billion.

Their stock has suffered significant losses due to the current market value decline.

However, they did not use leverage, or perhaps they had abundant funds.

Paramount's stock price will definitely rise again once the global box office figures are released tomorrow or the day after.

They had no other way but to hypnotize themselves like this.

Maple Leaf Holdings has already sold a full 8.5% of its shares, making a hefty profit.

Because the average market value of the stocks that Wang Jianchao and his group bought was less than 5.5 billion US dollars.

The average market value of the shares sold today is over $7.8 billion.

The difference of $2.3 billion is the profit.

Eight and a half percent of the shares, equivalent to US$195 million.

Making nearly two hundred million dollars in a short period of time, that feels amazing.

Although Maple Leaf Holdings has not yet successfully acquired Paramount, it has made a considerable amount of money from the acquisition over the past few months.

In today's market, without major bull markets or stock market crashes, earning this much profit is already quite impressive.

"Should we continue selling tomorrow?"

After selling 8.5% of its shares, Maple Leaf Holdings still holds approximately 36% of the shares.

Zheng Baoyin and his team still wanted to sell, but they were worried that Paramount's stock price would continue to fall.

After all, Georgio Moreno and his team aren't stupid; they wouldn't just stand by and watch Maple Leaf Holdings make money.

"Let's see how the market goes tomorrow. If it goes up, we'll sell; if it goes down, we'll stay put."

After Wang Jianchao and the others finished their discussion, they dispersed.

The very next day, as soon as the stock market opened, Paramount's stock price rose sharply.

why?
Because Bloomberg and other media outlets released the global box office figures for "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," the film grossed $237 million worldwide, excluding the US market, over the five days from the 24th to the weekend of the 28th.

This box office result is absolutely phenomenal.

In other words, the film grossed $356 million worldwide in its opening weekend.

In 1988, the highest-grossing film worldwide was "Rain Man," which only grossed $172 million in North America and $412 million worldwide.

However, Invictus Gain grossed $356 million in just one week, which is truly terrifying.

This is why the behavior of retail investors is so interesting.

Everyone is rushing to buy, causing buy orders to remain high.

There were also quite a few sell orders, which left Wang Jianchao and his team speechless.

Trading volume was extremely high, but the stock price did not rise significantly and did not trigger a circuit breaker, precisely because there were many sell orders.

It seems that the bookmakers, including Geor Moreno, have made their move. They staged this whole thing today so that they could escape smoothly.

Goldman Sachs and its affiliates need to take profits and exit, rather than continue holding Paramount stock.

"Do you think Goldman Sachs might have already shut down?" Zheng Baoyin asked in the chat channel.

Georgio Moreno, Paramount's publicly acknowledged major shareholder, had previously taken out a loan of one billion US dollars, a fact that could not be kept secret from Wang Jianchao and his team.

This is because one of the Los Angeles-based banks that provided loans to Geo Moreno is a subsidiary of Maple Leaf Holdings.

Given Georgio Moreno's wealth, it would undoubtedly be very difficult for him to continue acquiring Paramount stock.

A billion-dollar loan seems like it could significantly boost the economy.

But given Paramount's current market capitalization, a billion dollars is simply not enough.

"I don't know, but judging from today's trading volume, it's probably Goldman Sachs that's dumping a lot of shares."

Lee Evra analyzed:
"Forget about Goldman Sachs for now. I've already sold 1.6% of my shares. What about you?"

They still sold a considerable number of shares; with profits at stake, not making a profit would be a waste of this great opportunity.

After all, Paramount has already released all the good news.

Further positive news is unlikely unless Goldman Sachs announces its acquisition of Paramount.

Unfortunately, that's unlikely.

Geor Moreno's Paramount shares haven't been sold yet, and given their current market value, Goldman Sachs is unlikely to buy them. The former wants to sell, but there are no buyers.

No one would be willing to be the one to suffer such a huge loss, buying 30% of the shares held by Geor Moreno at a current market value of nearly eight billion.

That's $2.4 billion!

This is no small sum of money.

"Yes, I've sold 0.5% of it."

After discussing their respective profits, the group ended the call.

Based on the current stock price, it's unlikely that Paramount's market capitalization will fall significantly in the near future.

It is estimated that the price will gradually decline over time.

Of course, if large capital intervenes at this time and suppresses the stock price, then it is still very likely that the stock price will fall.

Unfortunately, judging from today's trading volume, Goldman Sachs has most likely already taken profits and exited, leaving retail investors stuck at the top, hoping the stock price will continue to soar.

Little did they know, the positive news was gone, and the so-called "big capital manipulating the market" was unlikely to continue.

Harbin Institute of Technology, Weizigou Campus, on the island in the middle of the lake.

At 8:00 a.m., Wang Duoyu received a call from the United States.

It was Zheng Baoyin and his group who had finished their stock trading and were reporting the current situation to him.

When Wang Duoyu heard that "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" had grossed over $350 million worldwide and its total box office had now exceeded $400 million, he was still very surprised.

In the original timeline, if he remembered correctly, movies like "The Lion King" and "Jurassic Park" might have grossed around $800-900 million, but none of them had even broken $1 billion.

But what the heck is "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"?

Wang Duoyu had heard of movies like Star Wars and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, but he hadn't heard much about Incredibles.

As for the chain reaction caused by his flapping of wings, he doesn't think so.

Because his influence is limited to industries such as technology, clothing, and finance, but he has almost no impact on the film industry.

The movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" isn't anything particularly groundbreaking, so how could it have such a phenomenal box office performance?

If it's not fake news, then it must be something else.

For example, tactics employed by competitors, given that Warner Bros.' "The Batman" is set to be released next month.

Wang Duoyu had heard of this movie. In the 80s and 90s, whenever Warner Bros. failed with other movies, rebooting the Batman series could boost the company's stock price.

In the original timeline, "The Batman" grossed $250 million in North America and over $411.5 million worldwide.

Even with the phenomenal success of "The Batman," the global box office only reached a little over $400 million. What makes "Indiana Jones" so special that it could potentially gross $800 million or even $900 million?
After all, the box office of $356 million in its opening week is still quite impressive.

After pondering for a while, Wang Duoyu finally spoke:
"For now, hold back. If the trading volume of Paramount stock is not large and the stock price does not fluctuate much, then ignore it."

"The 33% stake we currently hold does not need to be touched!"

Let's talk about it next month.

In Wang Duoyu's opinion, Paramount stock was simply too fantastical.

Although he was rich, he didn't want to be taken advantage of.

If Maple Leaf Holdings shows any interest in acquiring Paramount, something big is bound to happen.

"Keep a close eye on Sony and see when they'll acquire the Hollywood giant."

Based on current trends, Sony is bound to acquire Columbia Pictures.

Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox have probably been abandoned.

However, if Maple Leaf Holdings still wants to acquire Paramount, it will need to leverage the prevailing trend.

However, they only recently acquired MGM, a giant in the industry, and their strategic planning will take time; we'll just have to wait.

After discussing the work in the United States, Wang Duoyu inquired about the market situation in Japan.

"Professor, both the real estate and stock markets in Japan are currently experiencing explosive growth. The Nikkei index has already reached 37592."

Upon hearing this, Wang Duoyu nodded to indicate that he understood.

This value is not far from 38944.

It's the end of May now, and there are still more than six months until the end of the year. It's not impossible for it to slowly rise to 38944, or even higher.

This is because Japan today has a very high debt ratio across society, and the household leverage ratio is also steadily increasing.

Everyone is dreaming of being a landlord and collecting rent, without ever thinking about one problem: who will rent their houses?
With such high housing prices, who should they sell to?
"Does anyone know anything about the situation in Europe?"

Zheng Baoyin and Li Efra were unaware of this, but Fuller Carson had recently been to Europe, so he knew about the situation there.

The situation in Europe isn't too serious, but something still happened.

The inflation rate continues to rise, but this rise is very different from the price increases in our country.

The price increases in Europe are accompanied by economic recession, soaring unemployment, and the fact that ordinary people simply don't have any money.

However, the situation in China is quite different.

There are several reasons for the rise in domestic prices, one of which is the issuance of the fourth set of RMB banknotes in 1987.

This is a set of high-denomination banknotes.

Before 1987, the largest denomination of RMB was ten yuan.

However, the largest denomination of the fourth set of RMB banknotes is 100 yuan.

When many people see banknotes of this denomination, their first thought is of the time in 1949 and 1950.

Secondly, the amount of new money issued in our country has rapidly increased from tens of billions to hundreds of billions.

At the same time, before the reform and opening up, people had no investment channels and nowhere to put their money except to buy agricultural and sideline products.

Therefore, when monetary policy is loosened, it triggers inflation.

Finally, at the end of the 1980s, many commodity prices were deregulated, leading to strong expectations of price increases and making it easy for various buying frenzies to occur.

This is also a major reason.

"Okay, I understand. That concludes today's meeting. I will inform you of any new adjustments to the plan."

After saying that, Wang Duoyu hung up the phone.

After the conference call ended, Wang Duoyu pondered for a moment before getting back to his work.

He has been working on proving the Hodge conjecture for six months, and is only about 35 percent complete.

In the period following the Spring Festival, he had already progressed to 18%.

Several months have passed, and progress is still minimal.

Every time he finally came up with a point, even after expanding on it, he still couldn't get many important clues.

Trying to solve this problem by brute force is difficult.

June has arrived in the blink of an eye.

On June 2nd, Takeshita Noboru resigned.

In fact, Takeshita Noboru had already submitted his resignation on May 25th, but it wasn't until June 2nd, after Sōsuke Jōno took office, that Takeshita Noboru officially resigned.

The changes in Japan have had little impact on their local economy.

There may be some fluctuations, but they will be negligible.

In early June, many things happened both at home and abroad, but none of these things had much to do with Wang Duoyu.

Meanwhile, in Europe, the Dror Report was also adopted in June.

This report advocates for the creation of a European Economic and Monetary Union in three phases: the first step is to achieve full free movement of capital.

The second step was to establish the European Monetary Authority, which was the precursor to the European Central Bank.

The third step is to establish and implement an economic and monetary union, replacing the member currencies with a single currency.

In short, this was a very important report on the emergence of the euro.

The publication of the Dror Report caused a global uproar.

Many financial experts are discussing this issue, and numerous television stations, newspapers, and other media outlets have written articles or produced programs dedicated to financial reports on the Euro.

Although the European Monetary System was established in 1979, with the introduction of the European Currency Unit (ECU) and the commencement of operations of the European Monetary System (EMS), the system was not yet fully operational.

But then, nothing came of it.

After all, the US dollar hegemony system cannot be challenged.

At that time, Europe was not yet that powerful, and there were also the Plaza Accord of 1985 and the Louvre Accord of 1987.

This has directly caused immense suffering for Germany, Europe's strongest economy.

If it weren't for this reason, Want Want Group would not have been able to successfully acquire Daimler-Benz, BMW, and Audi.

Now, in 1989, the European Single Currency System has made a comeback.

Will it succeed?

do not know!
Anyway, according to the Dror Report, it's a three-step process.

The strategy is excellent; the question is whether it can withstand the pressure from the United States.

But they should be considered lucky, since at this time, the United States was paying close attention to our neighbor.

I have no time to spare!

Schoumburg, Illinois, Motorola headquarters.

"What exactly is going on? How could Huaxin Company possibly receive support from companies like Boston Commercial Bank, New Brown Bank, and Gardner Bank? Who are these companies behind?"

"I'm furious," a Motorola executive said.

The other shareholders, chairman, president, and other Motorola executives also looked grave and frowned.

Last month, newly inaugurated President George W. Bush took time to review an economic document.

This made giants like Motorola, IBM, and AT&T very happy.

If this document is signed by George W. Bush, then American capital can wield its sickle and uproot companies like CEFC and Excellence Technology.

These companies, such as Excellence Technology, are like very juicy pieces of pork belly; who wouldn't want a bite?
Even if we don't take over the markets and products of these companies perfectly, just taking over a portion of the vacant markets would be enough to make companies like Motorola very rich.

Unexpectedly, several companies, including Boston Commercial Bank, took the lead and took over companies such as Excellence Technology before George Bush signed the documents.

There was no need to change the names; the shareholders of these companies were simply changed to New Brown Bank and several other companies.

The speed is jaw-dropping.

This is why Motorola executives were so angry, yet powerless to do anything about it.

"The continent beneath our feet is a complex web of power dynamics, so it's quite normal for new forces to emerge."

One of the shareholders pondered for a moment and said:

"In the past few years, several European capital giants have emerged in New York. I admire their rapid rise."

"Europeans are large and powerful, and they made their fortunes in the luxury goods industry. Perfume, deodorant spray, and similar products are their family's traditional skills. It's normal that we can't compete with them."

"I suspect that this time it's French capital involved, because they always dare to take risks."

France is a unique phenomenon on the European continent.

Leaving aside Dassault's actions in the early 1980s, let's talk about earlier years. The whole world was saying they didn't want to play with us anymore, but France went against the grain.

For example, before Wang Duoyu traveled through time, Xiao Mao from Europe was fighting with our next-door neighbor.

At that time, almost all European and American brands, including KFC, McDonald's and other fast food brands, withdrew from our neighborhood.

But all the French brands are still there, and they're still operating as usual.

This is absolutely bizarre!

Therefore, Motorola shareholders now believe that this sudden attack by a capital giant, which snatched away the businesses of several Chinese technology companies such as Excellence Technology, was a surprise attack that got them ahead of them.

It's highly likely they're immigrants from France; this guess isn't entirely baseless.

"Is it really them?"

The other person had a furrowed brow:
"If it really is them, then what is their financial strength? They swallowed such a huge piece of meat, leaving us not even a hair. It's so outrageous. If we don't react, what will others think of us?"

What does it mean to say how others see us?
Isn't it because they're unwilling to let Boston Commercial Bank and other companies swallow up such a big piece of meat?
Driven by profit, what wouldn't these Motorola executives do?
"Then let's investigate thoroughly and dig deep into the lives of these capitalist conglomerates to find out what's really going on."

This statement received unanimous agreement from many executives.

A week later, after spending nearly five million dollars, they did manage to uncover some information, but this information left them speechless.

Behind the Boston Commercial Bank stands the Winster family, a family that keeps a low profile.

However, the family of the third-ranking White House official has a very good relationship with the Winster family, and the Winster family also has close ties with several major California financial families.

In other words, although the Winster family's headquarters are in California, most of their assets are located in other places such as New York and Chicago.

From this perspective, the Winster family certainly has some tricks up their sleeves.

Although this family has only risen to prominence in the last few years, according to research data, their assets have already exceeded two billion US dollars.

This is merely information that is currently on the surface and can be investigated by them.

A family with assets of two billion US dollars is already among the top-ranking capital giants in the United States.

Motorola, despite its seemingly powerful status, still lags far behind financial giants like the Boston Commercial Bank.

For example, the Boston Commercial Bank has assets of just over $300 million, but it attracts deposits of up to $2 billion.

Two billion dollars is a huge sum of money for many large banks and corporations.

Should we continue the investigation?

One of the executives spoke up, and the meeting room fell into a deathly silence.

Just then, someone's phone rang.

Even a vibration can be quite jarring in a quiet indoor environment.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw that Motorola's CEO had picked up the phone and his expression had become serious.

The CEO originally wanted to turn off his phone, but the call came from his secretary.

As a secretary, it's impossible for him not to know that he's in a meeting, and an extremely important one at that.

The other party was clearly outside the meeting room, yet they wanted to make a phone call; it seems something had happened.

"Boss, Thomas from the IRS is personally leading a team to our company. Thomas's secretary just called me; they've just set off."

hiss!
Upon hearing this, the CEO immediately realized what was happening.

This was definitely a counterattack from the Winster family; otherwise, the IRS would have come knocking on their door while they were in a meeting.

Others may not know who Thomas is at IRS, but surely the CEO knows.
That's the IRS field manager in Illinois, right? The Motorola CEO has a pretty good relationship with him.

But now it seems that the other party is acting impartially, so the only option is to have the secretary inform them.

This is tricky!
In America, people fear nothing but taxes and death, because no one can escape them.

Motorola, a large corporation, shouldn't be afraid, but the Winster family has already taken action to retaliate, which must have involved giving the IRS a lot of benefits.

So we'll have to wait and see what the situation is.

The CEO, his face unusually grave as he hung up the phone, stared at everyone and said, word by word:

"Gentlemen, Thomas from the IRS is on his way. I suspect it's highly likely a counterattack from the Winster family."

The expressions on everyone's faces in the conference room changed drastically in an instant. (End of Chapter)