Chapter 2111 Backer Abdicates

"Life in America ()"

The way for small and medium clubs to survive is actually very simple. Compared with the giants, the choice space is very narrow, which means that it is difficult for them to have a bright future, and they will be exploited by the giants in this life.

Therefore, we can see many giants in the five major leagues raising satellite teams in their own secondary leagues or countries other than the five major leagues.

Let these satellite teams transfuse blood for themselves, and Liverpool is also doing the same. Thanks to Yang Cheng's financial resources, Liverpool has not only recruited satellite teams in European countries in recent years, but has not stopped around the world.

Tens of millions of pounds are spent on this every year, but it is still not enough. Taking advantage of this year's bumper harvest, Ian Ayer is going to continue to increase the price. This proposal also received the full support of Yang Cheng.

After staying in Liverpool for two days, Yang Cheng finally returned to the United States with Luo Yue, and began to make final preparations for the wedding.

For this reason, Luo Yue stopped what she was doing and focused on the preparations for the wedding.

Of course Yang Cheng couldn't stop, there were a lot of things in the company waiting for him to work on.

After the last integration, the group has now formed a troika structure headed by New Era Media, New Era Cultural Tourism, and New Era Industry.

Among them, New Era Media is a well-deserved core pillar, which governs Toutiao app, MS short video, CW TV media network, New Era Films, and New Era Newspaper.

These assets are also the profit engine of New Era Media after its listing in the future, and they are indispensable.

The New Era Cultural Tourism includes several luxury hotel brands, aircraft leasing companies, sports groups, theme parks and tourism companies. The cultural tourism group and the media group have a strong linkage, and the communication between the two is close. The shareholders of the group have repeatedly suggested to Yang Cheng to merge the Cultural Tourism Group and the Media Group.

There is no doubt that once merged, it will create an unprecedented giant monster that will run rampant in the financial market.

However, this suggestion was resolutely rejected by Yang Cheng. The cultural tourism group, including the industrial group, were the two moats Yang Cheng had left for himself.

It's not bad to take out a media group to share the cake with the crocodiles on Wall Street, how much more do you want? Not afraid of dying.

In fact, Yang Cheng knew that in the future, he would gradually reduce his holdings of media group stocks, some of them would be transferred to offshore companies to keep them completely secret, and some of them would be released to cash out. Of course, he was also telling Wall Street that Xiaoye had no plans to eat alone, so there was no need to target I.

To put it bluntly, New Era Media is Yang Cheng's target. If you have any ideas, you can use them for this company. All other resources are his private land. Don't use wrong ideas, and you will die if you move.

After returning to New York from London, Yang Cheng devoted all his energy to the listing of New Era Media.

According to the plan, the listing time is set at the end of this year. It is hard to say whether it will be the end of November or the end of December, and it depends on the situation of the previous IPO.

After the listing, Yang Cheng’s shares will be reduced to 30%, and will be further reduced to 20% in the next three years. Of course, family members and friends including Yuan Shan will increase their holdings appropriately to ensure that Yang Cheng’s position in New Era Media absolute right to speak.

There is another thing that needs him to worry about, which is the child in Susu's belly. Her belly is getting bigger and bigger every day. The doctor has given the expected date of delivery, which is in mid-August. According to the plan, Yang Cheng's family should be floating in the sea at that time. It's honeymoon.

But after the expected delivery date came out, Yang Cheng decided to temporarily adjust the voyage. After the wedding, she will sail around the Pacific Ocean first, and return to the United States in mid-August to recuperate, and accompany Su Su to give birth by the way.

After adjusting for a month, they set off again, crossing the Panama Canal to the Atlantic Ocean, and started the second global trip. During this period, they will visit the Antarctic and the North Pole respectively. The whole honeymoon trip lasts for half a year, and it will be December when they return to the United States. When Times Media went public, Yang Cheng definitely couldn't miss such a moment.

However, the plan couldn't keep up with the rapid changes. Yang Cheng also designed several sets of alternative plans, which can be used in case of accidents.

Let's not mention the future, let's talk about the present.

After two days of meetings in the company, Yang Cheng thought he could take a breather, but suddenly received a piece of unfriendly news—Richard Durbin was about to step down.

The moment he heard the news, Yang Cheng felt the world's malice towards him, should he do this? The young master is getting married soon, why are you treating me like this?

But when he called Richard Durbin, his voice was still very relaxed, as if he had expected this result.

"Jason, the position of consultant at Yuanshan Bank, can you keep it for me?"

Faced with Richard Debin's ridicule, Yang Cheng said helplessly, "Keep it, but aren't you too relaxed?"

"Otherwise? Do I still want to try to commit suicide? Comeon, I have been in this position for more than ten years, and I should step down. If you hadn't stopped me last time, I would have been fishing in the Caribbean for a year."

Yang Cheng was speechless, what she said was true, but. . .

Seeing that he didn't speak, Richard Debin said again, "I really want to quit this time. We lost the general election last year. Many people in the party raised dissatisfaction with me, and they were forcibly suppressed. Now , we can't do too much, and it is reasonable to take advantage of this time to complete the excessive position."

Yang Cheng sighed again, "Well, the result has already been caused, it's useless to say more, and the same sentence, the position of chief consultant of Yuanshan Bank will always be yours."

Upon hearing this, Richard Debin solemnly said, "Thank you Jason, thank you for keeping your promise, and I will not let you down, believe me, I can continue to make contributions to you."

Inadvertently, Richard Debin lowered his posture. He knew that he would have to call Yang Cheng boss in the future.

Yang Cheng himself didn't have any special ideas. If he and Richard Debin had the intention of using each other at the beginning, now they can be called friends for years, so how could they destroy their relationship because of this kind of thing.

"Let's not talk about this Richard, after you hand over over there, take a break for a month, and after attending my wedding, you can officially perform your duties."

"I think so too. By the way, I have to trouble you to bring me some good wine. I didn't have a chance before, but now I can finally have a big drink."

"Ha~ No problem, do you want me to drink with you?"

"Forget it, you'd better concentrate on preparing for the wedding, lest the bride be angry."

"How come, I still have a little say at home."

. . .

After hanging up the phone, Yang Cheng let out a deep breath, her biggest supporter had stepped down, and it seemed that she was going to find a backer again.

Richard Debin introduced someone, but Yang Cheng decided not to meet for the time being. If he could find the best one by himself, the introduction from others would not be as strong as the relationship he established.

Yang Cheng took a sip of tea, when Liu Junyu came in and reported, "It's time to meet Mr. Bastian from Delta Air Lines~"

"Well, let him in~"

Not long after, Liu Junyu led Bastian in, and Yang Cheng pointed to the chair in front of him, "Sit down, what do you want to drink?"

“Coffee is good~”

Soon Liu Junyu brought coffee, and after she left, Yang Cheng asked, "Is it about ordering a new plane?"

Bastian nodded, "Yes, someone from Airbus came to ask us what we think about Bombardier's C-series. By the way, they are planning to rename it to the A220 series."

Yang Cheng found the document that Bastian had sent to him earlier, and after looking at it for a while, he said, "Whether it is called the Bombardier C series or the Airbus A220 series, this aircraft is always an excellent regional and small-to-medium-sized trunk liner." airplane."

Since Boeing and the U.S. Department of Commerce proposed to impose high tariffs on the C series, Bombardier has realized that the impact of overlapping competition with Boeing and Airbus products is far more serious than expected, and it is difficult for Bombardier to obtain For a longer development, it is more like a helpless move to sell yourself cheaply to Airbus, but only in this way can the C series go further.

I just didn’t expect that Airbus is already thinking about customers. There have been rumors about changing the name to Airbus series models a long time ago. Now it’s expected that the dust has settled. For the two companies, it’s still a win-win situation. , It just means that the Bombardier brand's entry into the mainline civil aircraft market has failed.

For Airbus, it has filled the gap in the regional market of 100-130 seats and below MTOW70t, which means that Airbus is the first to complete the layout of the civil aircraft market covering the main regional routes compared with Boeing.

With Airbus' strong brand effect and extensive maintenance network, the A220 is very likely to achieve greater success, and Yang Cheng can give such a prediction.

On the other hand, Airbus acquired a regional aircraft with excellent performance and commercial success at almost no cost.

For Bombardier, selling its C-series to Airbus, on the one hand, can prove that the Canadian government does not have sales subsidies for itself, thereby reasonably avoiding high tariffs in the United States.

Furthermore, with the backing of Airbus and the use of Airbus' brand and network, A220 sales may reach a higher level. After all, Canadians still have nearly 50% of the shares in the A220 project or the Airbus branch company.

It may be a bad thing for Bombardier to share the risk with Airbus and perhaps make more money.

Bastian nodded and said, "The A220 series is really a very good aircraft, and the unit cost is relatively well controlled. With its good aerodynamics and the high energy efficiency of the GTF engine, it has both the operating cost of the regional aircraft and the Profitability is also capable of medium and long-distance routes of more than 3000km.

In addition, the 2+3 seat layout can be used to advance, retreat and defend, which controls MTOW within a good range.

Thinking about it comprehensively, we can try to place a few orders, after all, we have to reserve a certain share for Boeing. "

Yang Cheng agreed with Bastian's idea, "Let's order 5 planes first. It would be better if Boeing can follow closely behind. If not, it won't be too late for us to add Airbus orders."