Although everyone present made a huge profit while inflating Standard Chartered's stock price, just making money was not what Luofit wanted. What he wanted most was to bring down Liu Dong's Hanhua Group.
He complained that the other party made him look embarrassed when he was on the Poseidon cruise ship, and later even caused him to almost lose his right to inherit the family patriarch.
"Mr. Bouygues, Liu Dong owns many companies, so it's not surprising that he can allocate funds to hold shares now. But don't worry. Even if he can hold shares, we will have more means to deal with him later." Luo
Feite said quickly.
"I hope what you said is true. I forgot to tell you that the US$2.5 billion that Liu Dong purchased the shares of Abbey National Bank has already been in the account of Bouygues Group."
"Boygues dudu"
Listening to the blind tone coming from the cell phone, the look on Luofit's face instantly turned livid. If he hadn't been concerned that there were more people behind him, he would have thrown the cell phone away without hesitation.
After taking a few deep breaths and suppressing the anger in his heart, it took ten minutes for Luofit to recover.
Then after taking a look at the Standard Chartered stocks on the electronic display that were still solid after the sell-off of their stocks, Luofit's expression slowly became calm and solemn.
He turned around and looked at the middle-aged man one meter away on the left, "Mr. Fernandez, I'm afraid it's time for us to launch the third step of our offensive."
"Isn't it too early now?" Fernandez frowned.
"No, it's too late. Judging from the current situation, Liu Dong has raised funds to stabilize the stock price. Now we must use major adverse news to convince depositors, especially those big banks who have their money and assets in custody at Standard Chartered Bank.
Depositors choose to leave, which is the most advantageous way to attack Standard Chartered Bank." Luofit said firmly.
"Okay, I'll get ready immediately." After some hesitation, Fernandez turned and left.
Although he felt a little regretful at this moment, Fernandez, who had already stood on the boat, and Santander behind him, had no more options.
Either give up or continue.
If you give up, it means that Santander's previous acquisition of Abbey National Bank was a complete failure. Not only did it miss a bank with great potential, but it also made the enemy stronger. If it were not manipulating Standard Chartered
If a sum of money has been made in the process of stock price, I am afraid that Santander Bank has really complied with that sentence this time.
Therefore, in order to make greater profits, in order not to be ridiculed by his peers after the truth was revealed, and in order not to be criticized by the board of directors, Fernandez could only bite the bullet and go on with Rofit.
After hanging up the phone, Martin Bouygues, who was far away in the suburbs of Paris at this moment, looked at the Standard Chartered Bank on the computer screen on his desk. It only fluctuated slightly. It no longer fell like a cliff. After examining it for a long time, he picked up the red bank on the desk.
Phone call, "Karen, come to my office."
Not long after, there was a sudden knock on the door.
"Come in"
"Squeak"
Accompanied by a slightly hoarse friction sound, an old butler wearing a black suit and full of aristocratic style opened the door and walked in.
"gentlemen"
"Karen, you can sort out the Chinese cultural relics in my treasure room later, and then give me the list."
"yes"
"By the way. Is Liu Dong still in the Mediterranean now?"
"Yes, Mr. Liu seems to be really obsessed with salvaging sunken ships. He has never left his yacht Gonggong," Karen said slowly.
After nodding, Bouygues suddenly said with great interest: "Then has he salvaged sunken ships these days?"
"Two boats have been salvaged."
"It seems our Chinese guys are really lucky with the two boats," Bouygues said with a smile.
"Yes, sir"
"Okay, I understand, you can go down first."
"yes"
After waving the old butler out, Martin Bouygues looked at the stock quotes on the table. After a moment of silence, he said to himself: "Are you really confident, or are you just pretending?"
"Boss, the No. 2 sunken ship has been salvaged and brought out of the water."
Just as Liu Dong was sitting in his study dealing with company affairs, the phone next to him rang. Charlie Nord's excited voice came from it.
"I'll be there right away"
After putting down the phone, Liu Dong immediately stood up and walked out the door.
"Honey, where are you going?" Helen, who was about to open the door and come in, looked at Liu Dong who was walking in a hurry and asked immediately.
"Charlie and the others have salvaged the sunken ship No. 2. I'll go over and have a look."
"I didn't see you so excited when we salvaged the No. 1 shipwreck a few days ago." Although she thought so, looking at Liu Dong who was walking in a hurry, Helen hurriedly followed.
In fact, the reason why Liu Dong pays more attention to the No. 2 sunken ship than the No. 1 sunken ship that was previously salvaged 250 nautical miles south of Sardinia.
Mainly because the No. 2 shipwreck took longer, and the art preserved on it far exceeds that of the former.
In fact, the No. 1 sunken ship is just a 17th-century Venetian merchant ship. The ship shape is relatively complete, but there are not many valuable works of art.
Because Liu Dong spends his daily life on the Gonggong yacht, it takes a lot of effort to board the Ocean Explorer, which has a displacement of more than 50,000 tons.
However, with the presence of the helicopter on the yacht, this process was very short.
But when the two people got off the aircraft tarmac, they saw at a glance that it had surfaced at this moment. It was nearly 25 meters long, 5 meters wide, and had three masts. The displacement was about 250 tons. The ship shape had a strong Greek ancient style.
characteristics of the times.
The Archaic period was a period of fundamental transformation for Greek society. During this period, Eastern culture had an impact on Greek art through trade exchanges, and Greek art formed its own style by absorbing the strengths of Eastern culture and gradually getting rid of the influence of Eastern culture.
Moreover, during this period, free people as a class stepped onto the stage of history. Greece produced republics with different political systems, frequent exchanges with hundreds of city-states, the annual Olympic Games, the Temple of Delos and the Island of Delphi.
The sacrificial activities of the Temple of Apollo, the birth of Homer's epics, and finally formed the system of gods in Olympia with Zeus as the main brain, and formed the Greek art with Greek mythology as the main theme, and then the golden age of Greek art.
We are fully prepared for the arrival of the prosperous period.
Just as the glory of the Greek ancient civilization emerged in Liu Dong's mind, the eight huge metal claws on the Ocean Explorer had already firmly grasped the sunken ship that surfaced.
Soon, under the experienced command of Charlie Nord, the sunken ship numbered 2 was steadily lifted out of the water using a completely computer-controlled salvage system.
The weight of 250 tons is not enough to make the salvage ship originally used to salvage large deep-sea submarines have the slightest impact.
The load was generous enough for the machinery to easily lift the ship from the sea and put it into a specially prepared large cabin with a swimming pool on the deck.
"Boss Boss"
After noticing Liu Dong's arrival, the surrounding people who were excitedly watching the sunken ship quickly moved out of the way.
However, not everyone paid a good attention to Liu Dong's arrival. People like Klein, Kieran Cahill and others who focused on academics and scientific exploration were far more curious and enthusiastic about the new sunken ship in front of them.
Yu’s concern for Liu Dong and Helen.
"It's incredible that there are such well-preserved shipwrecks from the ancient Greek period in the warm Mediterranean." Klein said with excitement, his face flushed.
"Yes, it seems that it has not been affected by shipworms for more than 2,500 years. And its material has undergone some incredible changes in 2,500 years."
As he spoke, Kieran Cahill tapped the exposed side of the ship a few times with a metal hammer as thick as his little finger.
However, what everyone heard was not the expected muffled sound, but a crisp sound like a metallic collision.
While the two were still looking at and studying the shape of the sunken ship and the changes in the wood, Chris Noth, another impatient art restoration expert, could not wait to take the escalator handed over by the employee next to him, and leaned against the side of the ship.
, climbed onto the deck quickly with hands and feet.
Looking at his high-spirited look, it seemed to outsiders, especially girls, that the plankton, seaweed, dust, and all kinds of unknown gray and green debris accumulated on the deck were formed.
Things that are extremely disgusting seem to not exist in his eyes.
With him taking the lead, Klein and Kieran Cahill couldn't bear their curiosity and quickly climbed up the escalator.
"Are you going up?" Liu Dong turned around and said.
"No"
Although curious in her heart, Helen looked at the dirty shipside and deck, and then looked at the high heels on her feet, and shook her head with a hint of disgust.
"Now wait here, I'll go up and take a look and then come down."
"Well, hurry up then"
"knew"
After nodding, Liu Dong took Charlie Nord, who was qualified to go up here and was also very curious, onto the deck. As for more people, although they wanted to go up, they could only wait outside without the boss's order.
After all, this is a sunken ship from the 6th century BC, and no one knows how much support its deck has. Before scientific research, it is better for less unimportant people to get on it.
To be continued.
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