1156 Lunch

"I owe you a favor!"

In the manor hidden in the dense forest, Mr. Patu raised the wine glass in his hand, with a smile that was rarely seen on his face.

He and Lynch clinked their glasses, then each took a small sip.

There were only the two of them and a butler in the quiet open-air lunch, and everyone else stayed away.

"Try this..." Mr. Pattu asked the butler to bring a piece of steak to Lynch.

The butler brought the steak over from the cooking cart in front of the chef in the distance. The steak, dipping sauce, and some pickles looked very appetizing.

"Looks great!" Lynch waited for the butler to steady the steak, then picked up the knife and fork and cut off another piece.

The steak was very tender.

It's not tender when it's not completely fried, it's tender when it's cooked through.

The knives and forks did their job with little hindrance.

Looking at the steak poked on the fork, it has a beautiful texture and looks very bright. In fact, the fat content is slightly higher, and some special methods are used in the marinating process to ensure its taste. .

This kind of steak comes from a very special variety, top quality ingredients specially prepared for upper class people, and its price is not cheap.

Even if this carefully selected beef is fully cooked, it will not taste dry or chewy.

The fat between the muscle fibers has become translucent at this time, and you can already imagine the special aroma and delicious taste of butter even before you put it in your mouth.

Dip a little sauce and put it in your mouth. The melt-in-your-mouth feeling made Lynch nod with satisfaction.

Real tenderness is different from some tenderness in the world today that pursues tenderness and does not seek methods in ingredients and techniques, but plays tricks on cooking heat.

Steak, or beef, is graded. There are many grades, ranging from grades that are not suitable for human consumption to beef that will not appear in stores.

If beef is divided into ten grades, the beef used for feed is grade one, and what Lynch eats is grade ten, then most ordinary families eat about grade three to grade four beef.

The second grade is the ground beef, which is often used to make meat fillings and make meat patties.

No matter whether a person is rich or poor, he will have the desire to pursue enjoyment, and the pursuit of food is one of them.

Nowadays, in order to allow ordinary consumers to enjoy the taste of high-end beef, some restaurants do not fry the steak thoroughly as in the past, but cook it half-cooked.

This can well ensure that when the low-grade beef is delivered to the guests, it can be easily cut and eaten, and it still has the taste of high-grade steak.

This is a wrong method, it should not be born, but... ordinary people don't have much feeling about this.

When ordinary families make steak at home, whether it is fried or grilled, it is fully cooked.

Only when they enjoy the steak at the restaurant, it will be undercooked, which will give them the illusion that the steak they are enjoying is high-end.

This approach can indeed bring a new sales trend to the restaurant, but it will also cause some unexpected effects.

But...whatever, the world is like this, there will always be some unexpected changes.

Lin Qi swallowed the piece of beef in his mouth and ate a small piece of pickled cucumber. The beef was too tender and a little fat, and it tasted a bit greasy to be honest. It was very suitable to eat some pickled cucumber at this time.

"It's delicious!" Lynch commented.

Mr. Patu kept a slight smile on his face, "I like this kind of beef very much. I bought a ranch for it. If you like it, I can have someone send you some on a regular basis."

Lynch did not refuse. At their level, regular delivery of ingredients was not even a "small favor", it was just an attitude.

Seeing that Lynch had no objection, Mr. Pattu wiped his hands with a handkerchief and lit a cigarette, "Do you know Mr. Wycliffe?"

Lynch also put down his knife and fork. He took a sip of the wine and shook his head, "Sorry, I haven't heard of this person. What does he do?"

"A..." Mr. Patu thought for a moment about what word could be better used to describe this person, for about a few seconds, "... a crazy speculator!"

"He can do any business, as long as the return rate is high enough..."

Later, during Mr. Patu's introduction, Lynch gradually got to know Mr. Wycliffe a little bit. This man was more like a rogue speculator.

His dedication to wealth and returns has made him quite famous in certain circles. What is famous is not how accurate his investments are, or what impressive returns his investments have created, but the way he does things.

"He likes to offend others and then pass his losses on to others. It's fine if the business he's targeting makes money, but if it loses money, it often makes things very troublesome."

Mr. Patu shook his head slightly, "The private island of Charlie brother and sister was burned down, and it was him who did it."

"He is searching for the whereabouts of brother and sister Charlie all over the world..."

Lynch roughly understood what Mr. Patu meant, "Do you think he will cause trouble for me?"

Mr. Patu nodded cautiously, "I don't think he will definitely cause trouble for you."

"I heard that he found a lot of connections this time and borrowed a lot of money and cash. He was preparing to make a big profit, but he ended up losing it all."

"He has already gone to trouble Charlie brother and sister. I think it will be difficult for him to recover the losses. Some people say that he lost close to 300 million, of which only about one-tenth was his own, and the rest was from other people. Got it from somewhere.”

"He is now dragging on the pressure from the financial side while trying to get the money together. Before the whereabouts of Charlie's brother and sister are exposed, there are very few people who can make up for his losses."

Mr. Patu's meaning has been very obvious. There may only be a few people who want to raise a large amount of cash in a short period of time, and Lynch is one of them.

There is no such thing as "secret" in the Federation, and it may not be long before Lynch's role in the whole thing will be revealed.

At that time, he will easily be regarded as the culprit of his own losses by Mr. Wycliffe. This is a rogue tycoon who is not a capitalist in the traditional sense.

He linked terror with capital, forming a new form of "terror capital", or "violent capital."

In order to recover the losses, he will definitely find ways to cause trouble with Lynch. Mr. Patu has a good relationship with Lynch now, and he feels that he needs to remind him.

Lynch smiled after hearing this, "He'd better not have such thoughts."

This little "reminder" ended here, and then Mr. Pattu took a deep breath and said, "How is Anna lately? I haven't seen her for a while. I heard she is very busy."

Lynch nodded, "I leave all the affairs of the Light of Tomorrow to her. It can be said to be a kind of exercise for her. Of course, I can also be lazy."

Mr. Patu nodded, "I have learned about the Light of Tomorrow Investment Company. Your investment company is different from other investment companies. It already has the prototype of a consortium, but it is not exactly the same as us... "

A traditional consortium, or traditional investment company, is like a magnet. The amount of funds it has is equal to its ability to attract.

Ultimately, its purpose is to control more companies and form a tight monopoly group. In this traditional group, every subsidiary is part of it.

They will not be separated easily unless necessary.

But Lynch's investment company is different. No subsidiary is indivisible to it. As long as it has enough interest, it can invest in the subsidiary, promote the subsidiary to go public and then sell the subsidiary.

Or split and package directly.

In short, as long as it can make money, it will do it. It seems... not as stable as a traditional investment company.

Once it holds shares in a company, it will continue to hold them. No matter how well it operates, as long as there are no huge troubles that will affect the parent company, it will not easily abandon these subsidiaries.

These subsidiaries are like roots that firmly grasp the soil, block enemy invasion, and then try their best to provide nutrients for the upper-level companies. This is the composition of a traditional consortium.

In fact, traditional consortiums still prefer the real industry, which is also to strengthen the monopoly or control of the industry.

Subsidiaries can form a complementary relationship with the parent company or other subsidiaries in business, thus forming an ecosystem.

For example, a consortium like Xingmengdie's main business is the management and development of mineral resources, so they have their own smelting plant, their own transportation system, and their own rough processing factory.

This has formed an industrial ecological chain, with upstream and downstream industries built around some core industries, which is more biased towards production.

The investment company established by Lynch is different. It is more focused on capital operations and pure financial operations. It seems that it does not have such a heavy accumulation, but in fact it has got rid of the heaviest burden.

For example, with the development and progress of society and the recovery of the economy, workers' wages will become an increasingly heavy cost for enterprises in the future.

There are also R&D costs for innovative companies, etc., etc., which will be heavy expenditures.

The current light of tomorrow does not have more contact with these enterprises. When an enterprise cannot provide benefits for the light of tomorrow, it will be abandoned without mercy.

There is not so much warmth in the world of capital, and this must be a trend in future development.

This is not to say that the industry is not good enough. On the contrary, it is very necessary and valuable for a large group company to have excellent and stable industry as a foundation.

In the final analysis, the core of capital is the pursuit of more profits. Lynch will completely separate industry and capital. The advantage of this is that if necessary, there will be Light of Tomorrow Investment Company as the "middleman" who can very well handle these matters. Companies are linked together.

If it is not necessary or some accident occurs, both the Light of Tomorrow Investment Company and the subsidiaries it invests in can quickly cut off the ties between them.

It is more changeable, more flexible, and more indifferent!

When people talk about the consortium chaired by Mr. Pattu, they may think of many affiliated companies related to this group of companies.

But when people talk about Lynch and his investment company, the only one who is deeply impressed is this company!