Chapter 1711 Counterattack
William's identity is too sensitive, so this time it was Dean, Picken and others who led the team to discuss with Yang Dongxu. After discussing matters related to the Lehman Group with Yang Dongxu.
The ostensible representative of this team also wants to go to Shenzhen to discuss the construction of a chip production plant.
In short, you have to do a good job on the surface. At least if someone makes trouble about this matter, there will be a reasonable reason.
The rest doesn't matter, after all, Yang Dongxu is no longer as invisible as before. Morgan and other large financial groups have already focused their attention on him, and the other party who needs to know will know. He also knows things that you don't want the other person to know.
So there is no need to do anything special. Just do what you should do as usual. Don't just do nothing just because the other party is likely to send someone to monitor you.
In the conference room of the Presidential Suite of the Peninsula Hotel, Yang Dongxu took a careful look at the information brought by Dean, then pondered for a moment and then spoke.
"So what you are worried about now is that Morgan and other consortiums have currently suspended their plans to interfere with the economies of other countries. They are making full preparations to take down the Lehman consortium.
If the other party's plan is not to seize the opportunity to set off a financial storm after taking over the Lehman Group. Then the benefit from our current arrangement will be very small.
It will even become passive, because when Morgan and other consortiums use all their strength to deal with the Lehman consortium, they will not leave us a chance to make a move. In other words, all the things that have been done around this matter will be in vain? "
The subprime mortgage crisis then evolved into a global financial crisis. It does not mean that the Lehman Group exploded and the world immediately entered a financial crisis. It took time to grow before it could become a subprime mortgage crisis that affected the whole world like the previous one.
This is like a typhoon on the sea. First of all, it is just a low-pressure cyclone. If the Lehman Group collapses, it will become such a low-pressure cyclone.
If this cyclone wants to turn into a financial turmoil affecting the whole world, it must first draw the first wave of energy from the businesses involved in the Lehman Group and the countries where the businesses are located, and make the first strengthening.
To put it bluntly, the Lehman Group collapsed. First of all, the businesses it had previously been involved in and the market turmoil in the countries where these businesses were located were all sources of power that amplified the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis.
The previous approach of Morgan and others was to crush the Lehman Group and allow the low-pressure cyclone at the core of the financial crisis of the subprime mortgage crisis to form.
At the same time, it uses the influence of its own consortium around the world to cause various troubles in the financial market. In this way, the low-pressure cyclone of the subprime mortgage crisis can continuously gain strength until it forms a financial storm sweeping the world, and these consortiums will follow the storm to reap wantonly.
Now, Morgan and other consortiums have stopped causing trouble in financial markets around the world. It looked like they were satisfied with swallowing up the Lehman Group and were not prepared to cause trouble again.
This made William and others have to be careful, because whether they were interfering with the Lehman consortium before, or they were preparing to compete with Morgan and other consortiums later.
All plans were based on the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis. First, the Lehman Group was used to support the Morgan Group. Then the other party wants to harvest the world's leeks, and there is no way to concentrate on dealing with them. They follow the lion like hyenas to eat some meat.
Suddenly the subprime mortgage crisis is gone, and everything seems to be in vain. Not to mention, after the lion kills the prey in the Lehman Group, it is very likely that it will turn around and bite the hyena to death.
"From the current point of view, the Morgan consortium seems to have made a very careful choice about us. They seem to want to ensure that they win the Lehman consortium first, and then do other things.
This is not good news for us, because judging from the information currently available, even if we intervene, Lehman Group will escape the fate of being hunted.
And once the Morgan consortium and others are not prepared to cause a world financial crisis, they will have the energy to target us when dealing with the Lehman consortium. And after swallowing up the Lehman Group, we will definitely be the next hunting target. Piken said with a solemn expression.
The situation in front of them can be said to be extremely unfavorable to them. They originally thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to breathe. Because of the opponent's strategy adjustment, he instantly became in danger.
"This is indeed a trouble." Yang Dongxu rubbed his chin, thought for a moment and then said, "Let's test it out and ask the Bank of England to contact the top executives of the Lehman Group and ask them if they want to mortgage their core assets in exchange for a money to relieve stress.”
"Will such a provocation cause the Morgan consortium to take action against us in advance?" Dean frowned.
"Now they are ready to compete with us. If they are not ready to trigger a global subprime mortgage crisis, there is no doubt that their target after swallowing up Lehman Group will be us.
Do you think they have given up on using this opportunity to start a subprime financial crisis to harvest leeks, and will they let us go easily after they free up their hands? Yang Dongxu asked rhetorically.
Dean and Picken both frowned and said nothing. Because the answer is obvious. They gave up harvesting such a big crop of global financial leeks just to deal with them. How could they let them go so easily.
"So." Yang Dongxu shrugged, "No matter what we do here, the hostile relationship will not change, nor will the other party's determination to attack us.
In this case, it is better to take the initiative than to passively defend. Moreover, we can get such great benefits by taking the initiative. The core assets of Lehman Consortium are still very attractive. "
The core assets of Lehman Consortium mentioned by Yang Dongxu are the assets that the hunting members headed by Morgan Consortium couldn't wait to divide up after Lehman Consortium announced its bankruptcy.
The reason why Lehman Consortium didn't panic when it encountered the crisis at the beginning was because they knew that although the bad debts of the subprime mortgage crisis would indeed hurt their vitality.
But with these high-quality core assets, even if they hurt their vitality, these properties can be mortgaged to exchange for a considerable amount of funds to survive this crisis.
But what they didn't expect was that the consortium headed by Morgan first cut off the lifeline of the government rescue of Lehman Consortium.
Then, either by promise or by coercion and intimidation, banks willing to mortgage high-quality assets to Lehman Consortium were not allowed to do this business and not allow Lehman Consortium to mortgage these fat assets they were eyeing.
So the Lehman consortium had mountains of gold and silver, but no one could convert them into cash flows to save the company. In the end, these mountains of gold and silver were divided up by the consortiums that were hunting them at bargain prices.
Yang Dongxu arranged for the Bank of England to provide a mortgage loan to the Lehman consortium at this time, which was equivalent to intercepting. He took these high-quality assets of the Lehman consortium in a reasonable and legal way.
Although the price of negotiating now must be high, after all, the Lehman consortium can still struggle now, and it is not a desperate moment. The price of such a good asset must be high, but these are nothing.
Because as long as the current management of the Lehman consortium is not crazy, those who want to save themselves will not ask for an outrageous price. And as long as the price is not outrageous, there is profit in this business, it is just a matter of how much profit.
So if you make less money, It doesn't matter to Yang Dongxu if he makes less money. The main purpose of doing this is not to make money, but to make trouble for Morgan and other consortiums.
Once these assets are in the hands of the Bank of England in the form of mortgage, Morgan and other consortiums will be in trouble.
If the Lehman consortium continues to be crushed, all the valuable things will be taken away by the Bank of England, and they will only have a handful of shit.
If the Lehman consortium is not crushed, what will happen to the huge investment in the early stage?
More importantly, the Lehman consortium was not killed with one blow, so the other party could breathe a sigh of relief. After this period of time, the Lehman consortium will clean up the internal garbage and stabilize the company's situation, and will definitely take counterattacks against them like a mad dog.
And it is definitely a counterattack strategy that kills 800 enemies and loses 1,000 of its own, which seems to be very stupid. Because the Lehman consortium must It is necessary to let other people who are ready to make a move know that they are not easy to mess with.
At the same time, this counterattack method that hurts others is not only not beneficial to oneself, but even hurts oneself. It seems stupid. But Morgan and other consortiums have no way to hide. Because this is a close-up fight with fists and flesh, either fight back or watch the other party bite madly.
So if the Bank of England lends money to the Lehman consortium at this time and takes away all the high-quality assets of the Lehman consortium, Morgan and other consortiums will definitely jump up and curse. This is no longer a provocation, it is simply a declaration of war.
Seeing that Dean and others are still hesitant, after all, if this move is used, it will really stand opposite Morgan and other world consortiums and start a war.
Yang Dongxu said: "Let William coordinate with the Bank of England to try it first. If the other party reacts violently, we will see the situation first.
If the other party's attitude is still the same as it is now, they will not harvest the whole world, and swallow the Lehman consortium in the most stable way, and then deal with us.
Let the Bank of England negotiate a loan business with the Lehman consortium first. In short, it is a test, a constant test. Until the other party gives up on treating us as the first target after Lehman Brothers.
In addition to this, we also have to prepare for the second hand. Didn't we plan to follow them after the subprime mortgage crisis and make a lot of money? "
"What do you mean?" Dean's eyes flashed with a sharp light.
"Just as you think." Yang Dongxu raised the corners of his mouth to reveal a cold arc, "When things have come to this point, they can't adjust their strategies just because they want to.
As long as they don't give up hunting Lehman Brothers, after the Lehman Brothers collapsed, the financial storm that affected the world, if they don't start it, we will start it for them.
If they don't follow, then we will happily use the foundation they have laid to cut leeks. If they follow, they won't be able to concentrate their forces to deal with us within one or two years. In short, whether they follow or not, we will make money. "
"When the Morgan Brothers warned you before, didn't you say that we should keep a low profile and not cause too much hostility from the other party?" Piken asked.
"This is a different time. "Yang Dongxu shook his finger. "At that time, the confrontation with them was too intense. They had the choice to stop dealing with Lehman Brothers and strangle us first.
It's different now. The Lehman Brothers has been squeezed to the brink of explosion. And the top leaders of the Lehman Brothers have been fooled.
At this time, they have no way to get rid of the explosive bomb and then deal with us with all their strength. So their priority now is to deal with the Lehman Brothers first, and then we can deal with them.
And they can't put the Lehman Brothers aside like they did last year, kill us first and then go back to deal with the Lehman Brothers."