Rebirth of the Financial Crisis Sweeping the World

Wang Guanxi looked at the surprised Ford Ingrid and nodded with a smile: 'Yes, Miss Ford'

He didn't expect that so many people would know about it after he became the largest rancher in Ohio.

This should be the result of the Wall Street media's fueling the flames. After all, Blackshirt Investment Bank and Blackshirt Insurance Company, both owned by Wang Guanxi's Blackshirt Group, are well-known on Wall Street.

Known as the Eastern giant, it attracts attention and traffic, and can bring traffic to Wall Street media.

What Wang Guanxi didn't expect was that Ford Ingrid was also paying attention to the largest rancher in Ohio.

The Ford family is also a very famous family in the United States. Although their wealth is not top-notch, they are famous because of the Ford Motor Company and are a household name.

Wang Guanxi was also very curious about this family. The Ford Ingrid in front of him was also a beautiful woman, and she was in the same age group as him.

Ford Ingrid took a deep breath and said: You are really amazing. When I saw on the news that a 30,000-acre rancher appeared in Ohio, I thought he was an old man. I didn't expect you to be so young. How is it done?”

As people of the same age, she felt even more confused after hearing Wang Guanxi's personal confirmation at this moment. She felt that there was such a big gap between herself and him. How did he do it?

Wang Guanxi smiled and said: Ms. Ford, actually this doesn't matter. I'm just lucky. I'm a financier.

Ford Ingrid asked: Do you open many banks? Huntington Bank is yours, right?

Now the Ford family's family business is in debt and short of money, and the banks are constantly collecting debts. I wonder if the boss of Huntington Bank is the young man in front of me?

Wang Guanxi: I acquired Huntington Bank and Silicon Valley Bank. I specialize in stocks, and then I acquired Silicon Valley Bank and Huntington Bank.

Ford Ingrid: Wow, you are so awesome. I suddenly remembered an Eastern financial company that shorted many Wall Street companies, including Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual Bank, and AIG Group. What the media said about the Eastern predators , then what do you call the company black, black, black...

She couldn't remember the name of that financial company for a while.

Wang Guanxi said: Blackshirt Group, which owns Blackshirt Investment Bank and Blackshirt Insurance Company, is my company in Hong Kong!

Ford Ingrid exclaimed: So you are the Oriental crocodile that the Wall Street media said. You are so powerful. You have shorted so many big Wall Street companies, including Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual Bank. You have shorted them until they went bankrupt.

Wang Guanxi smiled and said: Miss Ford, I'm just lucky. I didn't bankrupt Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual Bank by shorting them.

Ford Ingrid said: Just call me Ingrid. Miss Ford, my eardrums are broken.

Okay, Ingrid. Then the two chatted, and then Wang Guanxi invited her to have dinner together.

At dinner, everyone was eating Angus beef. Wang Guanxi asked: Miss Ford, why didn't your father, Mr. Bill Ford, come to my ranch to sit down?

Ford Ingrid asked: My father is very busy;

I don’t have time to come, Mr. Wang, please don’t mind.”

After thinking for a while, she asked again: By the way, are you planning to acquire control of Ford?

Although the Ford Family Foundation only holds 3.3% of Ford Motor Company's shares, all of these 3.3% are Class B shares, which have super voting rights. These 3.3% of shares account for 40% of Ford Motor Company's voting rights. The Ford family still firmly controls the Ford company.

Wang Guanxi smiled and said: I do have this idea. Ford Motor Company is facing a serious crisis now and needs a lot of funds. In my eyes, it is a great company. I don't want it to collapse in the financial crisis. , causing a lot of unemployment. I told your father, Mr. Bill Ford, to acquire control of Ford Motor Company at three times the price, but your father did not agree.

He was willing to buy the Ford family's control of the Ford Motor Company at three times the price, but unfortunately Bill Ford refused.

However, Wang Guanxi is very eager to control Ford Motor Company, and he is willing to pay even four or five times the price.

He needs the huge influence of Ford Motor Company, which affects employment, economy, and politics in the United States, especially hundreds of thousands of employees. Branches, large and small, can generate many interest chains, support politicians, and relatives and children of political figures. This They are all good platforms for conveying and obtaining benefits.

In particular, such a large enterprise is indispensable for Wang Guanxi's future Crown Consortium. There are not many Fortune 500 companies, so how can they dare to be called a consortium.

And Wang Guanxi plans to use Ford Motor Company to defeat the Tata Motors Company of the Indian Tata consortium!

Ford Ingrid smiled and said: Ford Motor Company is the honor of our Ford family. My father is a man who attaches great importance to honor. Ford Motor Company is his life's work. He has always wanted to restore Ford Motor Company to its past glory!

My aunt previously proposed selling control of Ford, but my father overcame her objections!

Ford Motor Company is the glory of the Ford family. They will not sell control of Ford. Of course, if Ford goes bankrupt, it will be a different matter.

After all, Ford Motor Company's rival General Motors may be going bankrupt. Although it is not bankrupt yet, it is already on the way to bankruptcy.

The Ford family is working hard to save Ford Motor Company.

At this time, Wang Guanxi suddenly said: Yinggri, what if I pay four times the price?

During this crisis, Ford CEO Alan Mulally finally took drastic measures to turn the tide and carry out major reforms, which saved Ford.

Ford Ingrid was stunned for a moment and asked in surprise: To acquire control of Ford Company at four times the market price?

The Ford Family Foundation currently holds 3.3% of the equity. Ford's share capital is 3.992 billion shares, and the stock price is US$1.8 per share. These 3.3% Class B shares, a total of 131 million Class B shares, are worth US$237 million, 4 times The price, that's $948 million.

These 131 million Class B shares control 40% of the voting rights of Ford Motor Company, firmly controlling the company.

Wang Guanxi nodded: Well, four times the price, I will acquire your family's control over Ford Motor Company, and in the future, your family members can serve as senior executives of Ford Motor Company.

Ford's stock is divided into two types: ordinary Class A shares, with one vote per share and held by public investors; B shares, held by the Ford family, with super voting rights.

According to the company's articles of association, as long as the number of B shares held by the Ford family is no less than 60.7 million shares, it has 40% of the voting rights; if the number of B shares held by the Ford family is between 33.70 and 60.7 million shares, the voting rights will be 40%. The right is 30%; if the number of B shares is less than 33.7 million shares, the B shares will be equivalent to ordinary shares, with one vote per share.

Although only holding 3.3% of the company's shares, the Ford family still has 40% of the voting rights.

Wang Guanxi now wants to buy the 40% voting rights and control Ford Motor Company.

Ford Motor Company is one of the top 500 companies in the world and has huge influence. It is now on the verge of bankruptcy. But Wang Guanxi knows that General Motors has gone bankrupt, but Ford Motor Company has not. CEO Alan Mulally has turned the tide and launched a major reform. The fire sale brought Ford Motor Company back from the brink of bankruptcy.

If you buy control of Ford Motor Company when its market value is at its lowest, you will undoubtedly have picked up a big treasure.

Wang Guanxi does not expect the value of these shares to increase. What he wants is this Fortune 500 company and its huge influence.

Use the huge platform of Ford Motor Company to begin to understand the U.S. economy, employment, and politics.

A Fortune 500 company has countless downstream companies, countless suppliers, and hundreds of thousands of employees. It affects the jobs and destiny of many people.

Ford Ingrid asked seriously: Are you really going to pay four times the price?

Wang Guanxi nodded: Yes, at four times the price, you will get nearly 1 billion US dollars in funds!

The Ford Family Foundation sold Ford Motor Company's stock to 3.3%, cashing out a lot of money, but the Ford Family Foundation's investment performance elsewhere was mediocre.

Now your Ford Family Foundation has suffered serious losses in the financial crisis and needs funds. This US$1 billion is a lot of money.

When Ford Ingrid heard this, he took a deep breath. This one billion US dollars was a great temptation.

It's all cash, which can solve many problems of the Ford Family Foundation.

And his father, Bill Ford, was also miserably trapped in the financial market.

Mr. Wang, let me ask my father. Ford Ingrid called his father Bill Ford and offered to acquire control of Ford Motor Company at four times the price.

But Bill Ford still disagreed.

He said directly to Wang Guanxi on the phone:

Mr. Wang, I will not sell my equity in Ford Motor Company. This is our family's century-old business and our family's honor!

Even if Ford Motor Company goes bankrupt this time, I will not sell it.

Bill Ford's attitude was extremely determined.

Wang Guanxi was also helpless. Bill Ford still wouldn't sell it, even though it was four times the price.

So Wang Guanxi said: Then I will buy your control of Ford Motor Company at 5 times the price. Members of your family can still serve as senior executives in Ford Motor Company, and you will be the honorary chairman.

Bill Ford was stunned for a moment, and said with a very firm attitude: Mr. Wang, it's impossible, I will not sell control of Ford Motor Company!

Even if you pay 10 times the price, it's still impossible.

Wang Guanxi had no choice but to say: Okay, Mr. Bill Ford, if you regret it in the future, you can call me at any time.

Bill Ford: Mr. Wang, I will not regret it. Even if Ford Motor Company goes bankrupt, I will not sell control of the company!

You'd better give up on this idea!

Then the call ended.

Wang Guanxi said to Ford Ingrid: Your father is so stubborn. He refused to sell control of the company for five times the price.

Ford Ingrid smiled and said: My father is like this. He is very stubborn and values ​​​​honor. He served in the U.S. Navy when he was young. Last year, he told my aunt because of the control of Ford Motor Company. There was a big fight over whether to sell.”

In fact, Ford Ingrid did not value Ford Motor Company as much as her father, and her sense of honor was not as strong as her father's. She actually understood her aunt's thoughts.

She does not support the sale of control of Ford Motor Company, nor is she opposed to the sale of control of Ford Motor Company.

Mr. Wang, don't mind what my father said. Ford Motor Company is like his own child to him. To him, it is a priceless treasure.

Yes. Wang Guanxi thought for a while and suddenly asked: Yinggri, have you graduated from college?

Ford Ingrid said: Not yet, I am currently interning at the family foundation while going to school.

I usually study financial investment, but it's difficult to make money, and I don't know how you make so much money.

The Ford Family Foundation mainly invests in bonds, stocks, and venture capital investments, but its results are very average.

She found these financial investments particularly difficult to make money on.

The Ford Foundation suffered heavy losses this year.

After two days of chatting for half an hour about financial investment, she admired Wang Guanxi,

Wang Guanxi smiled and said: Yinggri, I am just talented in financial stocks. Everyone has their own strengths.

Ford Ingrid said: You are really a financial genius. Now you are the largest rancher in Ohio. You are also the boss of Huntington Bank and Silicon Valley Bank. You also have a large financial group in Hong Kong. You are so awesome!

Wang Guanxi smiled lightly: I was just lucky enough to make a little money.

Ford Ingrid asked curiously: So how much money have you made recently?

She estimated it, it was at least 2 billion US dollars, right?

Wang Guanxi thought for a moment and said, It's about 20 billion U.S. dollars. It's really not much.

Ford Ingrid was suddenly shocked, and a wave of horror surged in her heart. She opened her small mouth slightly, opened her beautiful eyes wide, and looked at Wang Guanxi in disbelief.

The boy in front of her is the same age as her.

She is less than 20 years old, and the boy in front of her has already earned 20 billion US dollars?

Originally, she just thought that he had recently earned US$2 billion, but she did not expect that he had earned US$20 billion!

Oh my god, how did this happen?

It's incredible.

Ford Ingrid felt ashamed, and his inner sense of superiority was completely crushed by the boy in front of him.

She made her own investments and lost money.

Can't play.

And the boy in front of me, before he went to college, actually made 20 billion U.S. dollars.

This is the best peer she has ever seen.

And he looks so handsome.

She, who has a very high vision, couldn't help but feel admiration and admiration, but she hid it well.

Mr. Wang, I'm going back, please contact me when you have time.

Wang Guanxi said: You can stay here tonight. It is not convenient for you to go back to Michigan now. If you want to stay in a hotel, you might as well stay here in my manor. We can discuss some investments.