Manhattan Reborn 1978

Wildfire Bar.

David found himself a seat by the wall and sat down, shaking the wine glass in his hand.

Zina came back by herself just now and called Polly and Mirala away. David didn't know how they would talk to Susan.

Harvey and Tangtang were chatting with Giles and Leslie about some interesting story settings in the TV series, while Lilith pulled Pine to talk to David about the media group company.

Lilith, who didn't drink much today, restrained her relaxation and entertainment mode and started her work mode.

She glanced at Leslie from the corner of her eye, turned around and sat next to David and said: "David, I have been contacting some friends these days and got some definite information about the acquisition target I originally selected. Most of the TV stations have shares owned by the Rockefeller family.”

"These shares are not very large and are very scattered. However, if we want to launch a large-scale investment, Rockefeller's shares cannot be bypassed."

"So, I called Leslie here today because I want us to first determine the method and price of acquiring these TV stations, and then let Leslie figure out the attitude of his family, so that we can complete all our company's plans more smoothly. , complete the industrial layout of the media company.”

"Rockefeller?" David glanced curiously at Leslie, who was hugging Giles and laughing.

Pine saw Lilith stop, and then introduced to David: "Kylena, you know that she and Giles are already engaged. In a few years, after Kylena graduates and returns to the United States, they will Will get married."

"Kelena is the youngest child in the Rockefeller family. She has three older brothers, and Leslie is her third brother."

"Kelina's eldest brother is now about 34 years old, about the same age as Elder. He is assisting the elder Rockefeller in managing the family's oil company, financial investments and other major family industries."

"Her second brother, who has not been interested in family business matters since he was a child, is now managing the family's charity fund."

"The source of funds for this charitable fund is a small part of donations from some social figures, and the majority of it is a part of the Rockefeller family's annual income, which will be automatically transferred to this institution."

"This money will be used to fund part of the planned charity projects every year to help those in need."

"Just like in recent years, they have joined forces with some local church organizations to start activities to help homeless people learn work skills."

“Now there are nearly [-] homeless people who have changed their lives and destiny because they have learned new knowledge and skills, found suitable jobs, and found suitable jobs.”

"Charity is a family rule set by the first generation founder of the Rockefeller family we know today: John Davidson Rockefeller Sr."

David sat up straighter in surprise and looked at Pine inquiringly: "Can you tell me the story of Old John?"

"When it comes to old John's deeds back then, I'm afraid we..."

Pine stopped talking and glanced at Leslie, seeing that he must have heard what Pine said, but he didn't react in any way.

Pine smiled and shook his head, and continued to David: "Well, in fact, Old John's life was very exciting. Let's just use a few important points in time that he experienced to explain."

"In 1839, John Davidson Rockefeller Sr. was born in a small town called Yangjia on the Hudson River in New York State."

"In 1855, John Sr. graduated from high school and found his first job as a recordkeeper."

“In 1858, John Sr. and his partner Clark started an independent business reselling agricultural products.”

"In 1863, John Sr. and Clark established a new company and recruited another partner, the chemist Andrews, to establish the first refinery in Cleveland."

"In 1865, John Sr. and Clark had serious differences in their business policies, so John Sr. borrowed money to raise some funds and successfully purchased all the shares of the company held by Clark at the auction."

"In 1870, John Sr. co-founded the Exxon-Mobil Oil Company."

"In 1882, John Sr. accomplished a feat. He completed the first trust in American history!"

"In 1892, the Supreme Court ruled that the Mobil Time Trust was an illegal monopoly industry enterprise. Exxon-Mobil had to be split into multiple small companies, but John Sr. still held the vast majority of shares in each company."

"In 1896, John Sr. retired."

"In 1899, John Sr. combined the branches to form the New Jersey Standard Oil Company."

"In 1900, after John Sr. completely retired, he donated $8000 million to what is now the University of Chicago, helping it transform from a Baptist school into a world-class university."

"After John Sr. passed away in 1937, someone made a rough estimate that he donated a total of more than 5 million U.S. dollars in property to various charities during his lifetime."

"As for the Rockefeller family's charitable foundations, after decades of integration, there are still three charitable foundations that have been making various charitable donations."

David couldn't help but take a few deep breaths after listening to Pine's narration like a biography of Old John.

The 5 million yuan spent a few decades ago is enough to equal the more than 1978 billion yuan spent in 50!

This exchange ratio will only be more, not less!

If Old John hadn't donated so much money, the Rockefeller family would definitely be richer than the Morgan family now, right?

Leslie had been listening to Pine's narration. When he saw that Pine had stopped narrating, he pulled Giles to David's side.

When Harvey and Tangtang saw them leaving, they very wisely got up and went to chat with Andy and the others.

Giles moved a chair with a smile and sat in front of David. He did not forget to give Leslie a place so that he and a few people could form a small circle so that they could chat more easily.

Leslie smiled and crossed his legs, looked at Pine and said with a smile: "Back then, my great-great-grandfather John, had it not been for the financial help of your Morgan family, he would not have been able to obtain all the company's equity from Clark, let alone Then there was Exxon Mobil.”

"So, as a fifth-generation Rockefeller, I still want to represent myself here and thank you, the Morgan family, for your help to our family!"

"To our friendship!"

With that said, Leslie raised his glass to Giles, Pine, and Lilith, and all four of them smiled and raised their glasses to show that our friendship will last forever.

A friendship that lasts for hundreds of years?

David looked at the four people clinking glasses and sighed in his heart, a century-old family with wealth and a century-old friendship, what else can shake their status in this country?

In David's memory, these two families were still the top plutocratic families in the United States until decades later.

Its financial strength and influence have not been reduced by half because of the passage of time.

On the contrary, due to the continuous accumulation of wealth and the continuous development of consulting, his behavior has become much more low-key.

Giles drained the glass of wine, smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, now that we've finished the polite words, should we continue the topic we left unfinished last time?"

Leslie glanced at Lilith with a guilty look: "What's the matter? Did we leave something unfinished last time?"

Giles sneered contemptuously: "Pretend! Keep pretending! I have to make my words clear, right?"

Leslie grinned, and her big eyes began to look back and forth at Pine, David, and Lilith.

"No, isn't it the MBS you mentioned? I have already talked with my elder brother. I also said it when we met David last time. We will use the best resources to complete this cooperation. of!"

"The best resources? What are they?" Giles asked.

Lilith smiled, narrowed her eyes, and interjected softly: "Have you and David met before? When did it happen? Giles, why have I never heard of you talking about it?"

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Giles and Leslie, the two slippery brothers, looked at each other and began to sweat. .

Pine leaned back, as if it had nothing to do with him and was just hanging high, ready to watch the show.

David held the wine glass and looked back and forth at the expressions between them, guessing that Lilith was the top of the food chain among them!

So as Lilith's boyfriend, hasn't he also become the upper level of the food chain among several people?

Hehehe~!

A strange smile appeared on David's face. He stood up gently and naturally, moved his chair so that it was close to Lilith's chair. Then he stretched his right arm and put his arm on Lilith's. On the back of his chair, he raised his eyebrows at Giles and Leslie.

"Well... I am Lilith's boyfriend now. If you make her unhappy, I will cause trouble for you!"

"You two, tell me, what else are you hiding from her?!"

Pine felt that David had broken his defense a little!

He gave David two thumbs up and a thumbs up!

Giles and Leslie stared at David like bells, wanting to see how he died!

Lilith turned her head sideways and glanced at David, who was leaning over, with an inexplicable and funny smile on her lips. She glanced at Giles and Leslie, thought for a moment, and moved her body towards David's side. He moved closer to David, and put a hand on David's right knee, like a little woman trying to snuggle into David's arms.

Then she asked the three people who were a little stunned: "David is asking you something! I'm waiting for your answer!"

Giles opened his mouth, swallowed, turned his neck stiffly, looked at Leslie's head, and slapped him on the back of the head.

"Did you hear that!? Lilith, no, it's David asking you!"

"Ah~? Ah~!" Leslie looked at Giles dully, not knowing what to say.

"Pfft~"

"Hahahaha~"

"Hahahaha~"

Several people were made to laugh by what Leslie was doing.

Lilith even exaggeratedly fell into David's arms, covering her mouth, pointing at Leslie, laughing so hard that her whole body trembled. .

David was a little stiff, smelling the tulip fragrance on Lilith's body, laughing with a few people on his face, but in his heart he didn't know if he should hug Lilith and declare his sovereignty?

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Forget it, it’s okay to just let him be a wooden figure in the background pretending to be sexy.

If something bad happens with Lilith. . .Laura will definitely kill him!

Emm..

Even if you don't kill him, give him a knife and let him practice the Sunflower Book. . .It would be better to kill him! !

Leslie looked at the laughing people, some understood Lilith's prank, and became a little annoyed.

But the moment he looked at David, the fire of gossip in his heart aroused strong curiosity.

He looked at Lilith who slowly stopped laughing, stretched her head and asked tentatively: "Um...does Laura know about you...?"

After Lilith heard the word Laura, she slowly stopped her smile, squinted her eyes and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her fingers, and said softly: "David is my boyfriend now, it's my turn. It’s not up to you to take care of it, right? Leslie!”

"No! No~! I can... no. I dare not meddle in your business~!"

"Well...as long as you are happy, just be happy!"

Giles smiled, scratched his head, and patted Leslie's thigh: "You, don't ask if you shouldn't, just answer the questions! Do you understand?"

"Ah, I understand!"

"Um...but, what should I answer?"

Seeing that there was nothing left to do in the scene, Pine continued with a smile: "Tell me how your elder brother arranged the MBS project!"

"Oh, what about this!?"

"That... what he means is that Citibank, a subsidiary of Citigroup, will come forward to join forces with your Morgan bank to sign a series of intention contracts with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on the acquisition of MBS projects."

"This contract will indicate that the two of us need to pay more than 8% of the contract's funds as collateral in exchange for all high-quality mortgage loan contracts from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."

"My elder brother's suggestion is that the contract between us and their two companies should be signed for at least five years."

"Of course, the more and longer the time limit, the better."

"In this regard, you, Morgan Bank, need to come forward to operate in it. We and Citigroup will also find someone in Washington to speak out."

"As for the details involved in the contract, you need to wait until my eldest brother returns to New York before you can discuss it in person."

"Oh, right!"

"My eldest brother said that we are prepared to spend at least 60 billion to participate in this cooperation project. He wants to know how much money you can spend to participate."

Pine, Giles, and Lilith fell into silence for a while. Brother Leslie could make a decision on this matter with his words.

But as for the Morgan family, the three people here can't keep their words!

Pine glanced at a few people and stood up directly: "I'm going to make a call. Wait for me!"

"Ok!"

Leslie looked at the expressions of several people with a smile, and felt secretly happy.

He remembered the MBS he just mentioned, looked at David curiously and asked: "This project was...did you come up with? Can you tell me how you came up with it?"

David smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "I just integrated some known information and analyzed its existence."

"Then I happened to know that Lewis had been applying for the rating of the MBS project, so I took it out."

Even David himself didn't believe this lie, but it was David's best excuse now. . .

As for whether the three people here believe it or not, that is none of David's business.

After hearing David's explanation, Leslie began to look David up and down again, then shook his head and said, "I can't believe that you are actually a financial genius?"

Giles glanced at Leslie and told Leslie about the fact that the MBS project had been gathering dust in Stanley's data room.

After listening to Giles' words, Lilith turned to look at David thoughtfully. After thinking about it, she turned back to Leslie and asked: "Did you receive the phone message I left you?"

"What do you think about our acquisition of shares in several TV stations?"

"TV station shares?" Leslie didn't respond. He patted his forehead a few times and thought about it.

He had never heard of Lilith's phone message.

He couldn't hide from Lilith, so how could he pay attention to this!

"Um...can you be more specific? I forgot the content of the message." Leslie smiled awkwardly and said to Lilith.

Lilith had an expression on her face that she knew would be like this: "Okay, our media company under the Da Group is ready..."

This time, in front of Lilith, Leslie listened to her introduction very carefully.

After a few minutes.

Leslie understood what Lilith said about the acquisition plan.

He thought for a moment and replied with a smile: "No problem!"

"I manage all the TV shares in the family, and I can say hello directly to them."

"But can you tell me about this media company? I'm still very interested in it!"

Leslie heard these acquisition plans very keenly during Lilith's introduction. At the beginning, they were all David's plans and layouts.

So. .Buy a stake in this media company. .

Maybe there will be some unexpected gains in the future.

Giles, Lilith, and David all understood what he meant by also wanting to invest.

But none of them opened their mouths to explain or answer Leslie's questions.

Giles kneaded the sore muscles on his face with his hands and asked Leslie: "Did you just say that you manage these shares?"

"Tell me what other companies' shares you manage in your hands and see if we have the possibility of cooperation in other business areas."

At this time, Pine came back after making a phone call, happened to hear Giles' question, glanced at David, pointed at Leslie and said to David: "Aren't you going to meet people from two Coke companies? "

"He manages a portion of the shares of two Coke companies. If you need anything, just talk to him!"

David looked at Leslie in surprise: "Our advertising company wants to bid for the bidding activities of two Coke companies this year. I want to..."

Leslie glanced at Pine in surprise: "How did you know that I have shares in the Coke Company?"

Pine smiled and made a phone gesture: "I called your big brother!"

"Oh..." Leslie curled her lips feeling a little bored.

"Have you finished the phone call? What do you think about the funds?"

Pine shrugged: "This matter is no longer under our control. Panaris will contact your elder brother to cooperate on this matter in the future!"

"Okay! This is best!"

"You don't know, every time I call my eldest brother, he always says that I...well..."

"Haha~ It's nothing! Where were we talking about just now? The advertising bidding of two Coke companies, right?"

"No problem! I'm going to say hello. As long as your advertising company's planning is not the worst, I will use it for this year's advertising project..."

"Um... David, the name of your advertising agency is... what?"

"da ad!"

"Yes, he belongs to your advertising company!"

David glanced at Giles and the others speechlessly, wondering if Leslie's chest-thumping promise could count.

Giles spread his hands and said he didn't know, this guy has never been very reliable.

Lilith stared at Leslie and asked for David's help: "Are you sure!?"

"Of course! I said, there must be no problem! I will call them tomorrow morning, and David can send people to the two Coke companies tomorrow afternoon to discuss advertising."

"It's just an advertisement. The two Coke companies spend nearly [-] million dollars on advertising every year. Giving Da Company an advertising contract is nothing!"

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Okay~!

It is truly a world-class company!

The bits of dregs that flow out from the cracks of your fingers are enough for the advertising company to eat and drink!

David smiled and thanked Leslie.

Lilith has not forgotten Giles' question just now: "Leslie, which company shares do you still manage now?"

When Leslie saw Lilith asking, she scratched her head a little. She really couldn't hide this time.

He thought for a while, shrugged and said: "Basically, the companies in which our family holds a small number of shares are now managed by me."

"Including two Cokes, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Paramount, Disney, Wal-Mart, etc., there are about more than 60 companies."

"There are also some companies whose names I can't name. The shares are so small that I don't even bother to remember them."

When David heard this, he was like, good guy!

These companies will all be among the top 500 companies in the United States in the future.

As long as you have a small share of the shares now, you will be a rich man on the Forbes list in the future!

And Leslie looked at the shares in these companies as if they were all very troublesome.

This made David really feel. . .

No matter how lucky you are, it’s better to choose the right reincarnation~!

Giles felt deeply for his uncle as he listened to Leslie seemingly complaining and complaining, but actually showing off the same words. .Disdainful!

After Leslie heard what Lilith said, she touched David with a smile and said softly: "It seems that our film and television company has a partner!"