"You guys draw up a plan in the next two days and see how much funds are needed. I'll open a special account here and let you operate it..." Cao Mo pondered for a while and then said to Jiaying and the others.
"We are brothers and sisters, but we have to make clear the settlement of commissions in advance." Cao Jiaying began to think about running a company, so she treated the matter in front of her as a new business for Muxiang Capital.
"If you can ensure that the loss is controlled within 10%, then I guarantee that you will get 2% of the management fee; if there is a profit, I will give you a 20% dividend." Cao Mo said with a smile.
To drive Taihua's stock price to the floor, as long as there are enough funds, anyone with a little knowledge of financial securities investment can easily do it. But even if Cao Mo wanted to find the Lu family's displeasure, he could avenge the Zhou Han family's tragedy that year.
It cannot be said that money is not regarded as money at all.
Considering that the Lu family has pledged all their shares, they must also be extremely concerned about the abnormality of Taihua's stock price, and may even secretly prepare some funds to protect the market. At this time, he will transfer some funds to enter the market to avoid laws and regulations.
To compete with the Lu family's protective funds in the market, and to sell Taihua's stock price at the lowest possible loss, this requires a professional team to operate.
"How much money can you give us to operate?" Cao Jiaying asked.
"The current market value of Taihua is 4 billion. When we open a position, we must try not to exceed the 5% limit. If your plan is suitable, Tianyue will first open a special account with a limit of 200 million for you to operate." Cao Mo said.
Wu Ruifang and Cheng Xin looked at each other and ensured that the loss would be controlled within 40 million, and they would be able to get at least 4 million in commission. This deal was completely worth doing.
Of course, they were still deeply shocked by what they saw in front of them. Just to make their competitors unhappy, they spent 200 million yuan, and they didn't even mind losing 30 to 50 million yuan. They really didn't understand the world of rich people.
Are there really people who have trouble with money?
How could Cao Jiaying's family be so wealthy that they are so incompatible with Taihua's Lu family?
Counting state-owned holding companies, there are less than 100 listed companies in Xinhai as a whole. Wu Ruifang and Cheng Xin are determined to specialize in securities investment, and they are somewhat clear about Taihua Group, Xintaihua Investment and the Lu family.
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Although Cao Mo's time in the country was short, a special office was prepared for him here.
Walking out of Chuancha Bookstore and walking through the brightly lit corridor, his office is on the southernmost side facing the lake.
Time is running out, and no one knows in the current situation whether Taihua's stock price will fall directly into a deep hole tomorrow, and they must prepare as soon as possible.
Cao Jiaying left with Wu Ruifang and Cheng Xin and returned to the company with a pile of materials to study and formulate specific strategies; Cao Mo returned to the office and sat.
At this time, the autumn sun is slightly slanting, and the sunlight shines in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, and the light is not very dazzling.
Cao Mo was thinking secretly in his heart.
Cao Mo was not familiar with the Lu family and several financial investment institutions involved in mortgage lending, except for Huamao Investment, a subsidiary of Han Shaorong, so it was not clear what the relationship between the Lu family and these financial investment institutions was.
In addition to these financial investment institutions accepting Taihua Group's stocks as mortgage loans, the Lu family also used other channels to raise billions of dollars in mortgage loans in order to raise the funds needed for Cornero Marina New City and related projects.
Most of the many creditor-rights relationships were unfamiliar to Cao Mo.
During the past period, Zhou Han has been trying to collect more information, but the public information is very limited.
Apart from these creditors and institutions, Cao Mo felt extremely overwhelmed just thinking about Han Shaorong, Fulkov Investment, Atlantic Bank, and the Oppenheimer family being involved.
Han Shaorong and the Oppenheimer family are not good people, and Atlantic Bank lurking behind Fulkov Investment and the Oppenheimer family has even more ulterior motives.
To be honest, Cao Mo didn't want people like Han Shaorong to take advantage of him while he was beating up the lost dog. He even hoped that when Han Shaorong, the Oppenheimer family and Atlantic Bank showed their ferocious fangs to the Lu family and Taihua Group, he would
It can make a fisherman profit.
But how can this be achieved?
Cao Mo wrote a personal name and a company name on the whiteboard. He sat on the sofa and stared at the personal name and company name, thinking and weighing them.
It was almost evening before Zhou Han and Song Yuqing knocked on the door and walked in.
"Sister Yuqing, where have you been this afternoon? How come I haven't seen you?" Cao Mo asked, "My sister will come to the company this afternoon, and I would like to introduce you to our official acquaintance."
"..." Song Yuqing pursed her lips slightly. She was very much in love with Cao Mo, but whether she had an unclear relationship with Zhou Jun, or Cao Mo and Cheng Xi, who were childhood sweethearts, had a more stable relationship, it was called
She didn't want to get too involved in Cao Mo's family life.
Song Yuqing knew that Cao Jiaying and the others were coming over in the afternoon, so she deliberately ran to the factory below to avoid meeting.
Looking at Song Yuqing's watery, talkative eyes, Cao Mo grabbed her soft jade-like hand. He could imagine what she was thinking, so he changed the subject and told her that he was planning to allocate part of the funds to raise shares in Taihua.
"Since you have decided to leave this matter to your sister, why are you still worried?" Song Yuqing stood next to the sofa and looked at the messy writing on the whiteboard, which was full of people's names, company names and various pointing arrows.
"Jiaying and the others can only take on part of the professional work," Cao Mo said. "There are many things to consider whether we can take a bite of the fat this time, or just throw away tens of millions to make it easy."
"Just throw away tens of millions to have fun, and someone will be more grateful to you." Song Yuqing glanced at Zhou Han and said with a pointed smile.
Zhou Han glanced at Song Yuqing with his beautiful eyes, walked to the whiteboard, circled the name "Sturgeon Foster" with a marker, and drew a wavy line under the words "Atlantic Bank" and said:
“Sturgeon Foster is always lurking beneath the surface
, even though the Lu family mortgaged their equity in the New Taihua Refinery and obtained a loan of US$80 million from Bank Atlantic, Lu Jianchao, Huang Hebin and the others still had not figured out what happened between Fulkov Investment Company, Bank Atlantic, and Sturgeon.
Foster's relationship, I thought that this loan was obtained by them all by themselves. The information I collected during this period shows that Atlantic Bank has been actively shrinking its international business in the past six months.
This shows that Sturgeon Foster and the top management of Bank Atlantic have realized that the spread of the subprime crisis may have a huge impact on the global economy as early as half a year ago. Under such circumstances, Bank Atlantic also took the initiative to lend to New Taihua.
Erkov Investment has also been so active in promoting the construction of Cornero Marina New City and promoting the rapid implementation of a number of projects. It is very likely that the Taihua Group was already the target of Sturgeon Foster two years ago..."
Cao Mo rested his arm on the armrest of the sofa, cupped his cheek and stared at the whiteboard:
Yan Zhicheng is lurking next to Lu Jianchao and the others. He seems to be responsible for managing the casino part of the New Taihua Resort Hotel for the Lu family and does not interfere in other affairs, but the information passed on is very important.
It is also true that it is not difficult to guess what they are planning against Sturgeon Foster, or what is the most worthy of Sturgeon Foster spending so much time planning in the industrial territory on the south bank of Cornero.
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Of course, the African continent’s crude oil and refining landscape does exude an exciting temptation!
Crude oil futures prices fell rapidly after briefly reaching the highest peak in history. Even if the subprime mortgage crisis spreads and severely damages global consumer demand, oil prices will be further hit. However, oil has always been the black gold flowing deep in the land of West Africa.
Even when oil prices were at their lowest, oil continued to bring huge amounts of wealth to countries such as Kanem, Benin, and Akwa. It was also the most important source of foreign exchange for West African countries. Even if a considerable part fell into the hands of a few powerful people,
It may be used to purchase arms to start a civil war, but some of it is also used to import food, medicine, and various industrial products to prevent the complete destruction of this land.
For oil from countries such as Kanem and Akwa, excluding taxes, capital costs, transportation and warehousing, etc., only the extraction cost is less than ten US dollars per barrel.
Another cruel fact is that the export of crude oil to countries such as Kanem has brought huge revenue, but domestic industrial development has seriously lagged behind, and most of the fuel needed domestically has to rely on imports from overseas.
This also means that Fulkov's control of the Atlantic United Petroleum Trading and Transportation Company is not enough to only control one link in the upstream crude oil trade source chain, and he cannot capture the most lucrative part of the crude oil trade chain.
They also need to master the downstream refining capacity so that they can continuously capture excess profits that are unimaginable to outsiders in this land where the cost of crude oil extraction is extremely low and there is a stable and high price difference between crude oil and fuel oil.
Lu Jianchao originally intended to build an oil refinery on the south shore of Lake Cornero, and his idea was actually correct. However, they were too eager to achieve success and were too accustomed to going the wrong way. They chose to cooperate with the Jidam family and the Steel Fist Brotherhood. After many twists and turns, they even
The first phase of the refinery, which has the crudest technology, has only completed trial production at this time.
If Kanem's oil output and economy are hit by the subprime mortgage crisis, the first phase of the new Taihua Refinery, which is built with the goal of absorbing smuggled crude oil and has extremely crude technology, will be difficult to make a profit. This really raises high hopes.
It is a second-phase project with a higher level of technology and the production of a variety of chemical products in addition to fuel, but it will take at least another year to be completed and put into production.
Although Taihua Group is not directly engaged in the refining and chemical industry, it was involved in oil product trading and sales in its early years, and subsequently involved in oil pipeline engineering and chemical machinery and equipment manufacturing. It can be said that it still has the gene for refining and chemical industry.
However, in recent years, China has been strengthening the monopoly operations of central enterprises in the fields of crude oil extraction, refining, oil product transportation, and sales. Taihua cannot guarantee that the original domestic business scale will not shrink.
If Taihua wants to break through and find new development, it must either transform domestically and focus on developing other new businesses with more promising prospects (money prospects), or go abroad and operate related businesses overseas.
From this point of view, Sturgeon Foster would never mind taking control of the listed company Taihua Group if given the opportunity.
However, the state has very strict control over the entry of foreign capital and will not casually allow foreign capital to directly control domestic listed companies.
Direct control is not possible. If Sturgeon Foster really wants to secretly control Taihua Group, he can only find suitable collaborators.
As long as the interests are suitable, Cao Mo feels that Han Shaorong would not mind becoming Sturgeon Foster's collaborator.
Cao Mo was now able to sort out his thoughts in general:
Since people like Sturgeon Foster, Han Shaorong and Nitz Oppenheimer all know that they are incompatible with the Lu family and will definitely add insult to injury if they get the opportunity, then he might as well use Muxiang Capital to attack Lu Jianchao first when the time is right.
, Lu Jiancheng and the two of them smashed the first giant piece on their heads, stirring up the situation. It could also be said that they were trying to frighten the enemy.
However, after luring Han Shaorong, Sturgeon Foster and Nitz Oppenheimer to reveal their hidden intentions, how can they maximize their interests instead of just sitting back and watching Han Shaorong, Sturgeon Foster and Nitz Oppenheimer?
Dr. Oppenheimer is the key among the keys.
Cao Mo was not a stingy person. It would be fine if Nitz Oppenheimer or Sturgeon Foster, who had nothing to do with them, benefited. But if he saw that Han Shaorong could sit on the fisherman's advantage, he would feel sad.
It will be somewhat awkward for a while...
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Cao Mo was worrying about plotting against Lu Jianchao and his gang when a call came in from Shen Ji:
"Where are you? Do you have time to meet me in the afternoon?"
"We just met yesterday, and you miss me so quickly? At this point, you can't come here to eat for me, right?" Cao Mo said with a smile, telling Shen Ji that he was at Tianyue headquarters, what should Shen Ji do?
Let’s talk about it directly.
"You threw me at the airport yesterday. Didn't you go all over the world with your childhood sweetheart? How did you end up with Shen Ji? Xinhai has a population of more than 20 million, not that much
Small, right?" Zhou Han asked curiously.
"The world is sometimes so small, and I can't help it," Cao Mo said, spreading his hands. "One of Cheng Xi's colleagues got married yesterday, and the groom was the son of a vice president of Xinlian Bank. I went with him directly after getting off the plane yesterday.
Cheng Xi went to attend the wedding, and happened to meet Yu Yiming, the chairman of Xinlian Bank, Li Xiaodong, the president, and others. Dongsheng may be really short of money now. Ding Zhaoqiang not only attended the wedding yesterday, but also made appointments with Yu Yiming and Li Xiaodong early.
They were playing cards at the groom's parents' house."
"Look, they are already in a relationship, and they don't know where they forgot you." Zhou Han and Song Yuqing said, "stoking discord".
"Cheng Xi is a very pure girl. No matter how miserable Cao Mo was in the past, or how different he is from her in the eyes of outsiders, it is not an important thing in her eyes. To be honest, I can't do this." Song
However, Yu Qing had already known about the affair between Cao Mo and Cheng Xi. She couldn't bear to feel jealous, so she put her arms around Zhou Han's shoulders and said jokingly, "If you have any ideas, you have to blame them on me."
"How could I have any ideas when he has nothing to do with me?" Zhou Han said.
"Then you've been chattering non-stop since yesterday?" Song Yuqing asked.
"Did I? How is that possible? It must be your illusion." Of course Zhou Han denied it.
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Shen Ji rushed over quickly, walked into Cao Mo's office, saw the densely written things on the whiteboard, and asked, "Who are you trying to plot against?"
"As long as I don't plot against the Ding family and Dongsheng," Cao Mo asked Shen Ji to sit down with a smile and told him about his meeting with Ge Jun in the morning and his plan to transfer a sum of funds to gradually buy the shares of Taihua Group from the open market. Let Shen Ji know about the matter, and hope that Shen Ji will be responsible for contacting the financial investment institutions that hold the debts of Taihua and Xintaihua. "Even if it is impossible for us to take over the Lu family's mortgaged listed company shares from these financial investment institutions, , but if there is a chance, we must also fight for a chance to make a quotation, and we cannot let Han Shaorong and the others get a bargain."
"At this stage, you are just looking for the Lu family's displeasure. Even if you have the intention of alerting the enemy, it is hard to say whether it will achieve good results. Dongjiang Securities and Qian Wenhan will definitely not play with you. However, if it does happen, Regarding the opportunity to seize the controlling stake of Taihua Group, Dongjiang Securities has strict risk control management and may not get involved, but I believe Qian Wenhan can talk about it," Shen Ji said, "Qian Wenhan came forward to find these financial investments. Institutional communication is much more effective than mine, but I will help you keep an eye on this matter. The question is, how much money do you plan to use to accomplish this?"
In the first half of this year, stimulated by the sharp rise in international gold prices, Ibogu Mining Group's profits were astonishingly good. On the other hand, countries such as Kanem also benefited from the sharp rise in international crude oil prices and are confident that they can boost domestic infrastructure on a large scale. Construction has caused the price of finished cement to rise again to a high of US$300 per ton, and Cornero Cement's net profit by August was close to US$200 million.
At the same time, the funds injected by Qian Wenhan and Xinhai Gold supported the second phase construction of the first mine of Wusang River Copper and Gold Mine. This left only two companies, Ibogu Mining and Cornero Cement, in the hands of hoarding so far. $300 million in cash.
Cao Mo previously transferred part of the equity of the Gulf of Guinea Shipping and Mining Company and Fanie River Gold Mine and other projects to Qian Wenhan and Xinhai Gold, and also received nearly one billion yuan in funds.
Even though a considerable part of this capital has been invested in bonds and trusts, they are all reliable financial assets that can be cashed in the short term.
Now that Dongsheng is under too much financial pressure, Ding Zhaoqiang can't wait to urge Shen Ji to come over and talk to Cao Mo about financing.
Shen Ji couldn't help but come looking for Cao Mo. He also knew that Cao Mo had a lot of funds at his disposal, but now the problem came. Cao Mo not only wanted to attack Taihua's stock price from the open market, he even intended to win over Taihua Group. How much capital does it need to prepare for the controlling stake, and how much capital can be allocated to alleviate the crisis Dongsheng is facing at this time?
"This is just a preliminary idea. How to do it is not certain yet? Besides, Lu Jianchao, Lu Yan and the others hate me to the core. They would rather give others an advantage than let me succeed easily," Cao Mo said with a smile, " Can you first tell me what Dongsheng’s plan is?”
Hearing Cao Mo's question, Shen Ji felt as if he was constipated. He hesitated for a while and then said: "The Dongsheng Board of Directors has proposed a plan, but even if I don't think you will accept it, I still have to come and convey it..."
"Dongsheng is not going to borrow one billion or eighty million from me and then pay me an interest of more than ten points per year, right?" Cao Mo asked in surprise.
Shen Ji nodded with a wry smile and said, "My uncle thinks you may not accept it, but Dong Chengpeng and the other two major shareholders are quite insistent, so let me come over and ask your opinion first."
Song Yuqing and Zhou Han looked at each other in confusion. They both knew that Dong Chengpeng secretly had a close relationship with Han Shaorong, but they didn't know whether his tough statement at the Dongsheng board of directors had anything to do with Han Shaorong.
Cao Mo frowned and said, "That means we don't have to talk about it yet. According to me, you can either come directly and help me manage Tianyue Investment. Ninety-nine percent of your current net worth is here, so you don't have to worry about it. It’s hard to do both.”
"Even if I agree to you, I have to wait until Dongsheng overcomes the current difficulties," Shen Ji sighed as he leaned on the sofa with his head in his arms. "Before you returned to China, I talked to Ge Jun. He was very optimistic about the future situation. The spread of the subprime mortgage crisis is indeed becoming more and more serious. To be honest, Dongsheng Real Estate is a good project and the real estate projects are all high-quality. My uncle has the ambition to become a first-class real estate developer. It is precisely for this reason that he did not make a prompt decision in July. , I missed the good opportunity of price reduction promotion. Even if I can lower the house price ruthlessly now, I guess the effect will not be very good. After all, there are too many real estates in various places that have lowered their house prices. Several sales offices have been smashed. The house prices have been formed in the minds of ordinary people. If you are deeply impressed by the continuous decline, you will be even more hesitant to buy. Now Dongsheng’s capital is withdrawn far faster than the consumption. If there is no new capital to replenish it, once the flow is cut off, the problem will be serious..."