Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

Friday, the last day of October, is also the last trading day of the week for the stock market.

New Century Software (NCSW)'s trading volume today is still very large. Although it is incomparable with the previous two trading days, the trading volume of nearly 500 million US dollars that day was still the largest trading volume stock on Nasdaq that day.

The stock's amplitude today is still very large, but it is incomparable with the previous two days. The amplitude is only more than 30%.

Like the previous two trading days, the stock still rose today, with an increase of 5.958% and closing at $14.05.

After the close, New Century Software's total market value exceeded $2.8 billion.

Lin Baicheng's shares were not sold during these three trading days, so the rise and fall of the stock during these three trading days had little to do with him.

However, the sharp rise in stock prices after listing is a great thing for New Century Software Company. The higher the market value of the company, the greater its reputation. If there is a need for financing or debt issuance, it will be easier to raise money.

Lin Baicheng had been staying in New York for the past two days, and Isabella happened to be in New York as well. The two people who had already talked about it, simply lived together.

Of course, both of them have their own work to be busy with. They both go to work during the day and only stay together at night.

In the evening, Lin Baicheng specially invited Isabella to have dinner at the Hilton Hotel alone.

"Bella, I bought this for you. I don't know if you like it or not."

Before eating, Lin Baicheng took out the gift box he brought, which contained a gem necklace.

"It's very beautiful, I like it very much."

Isabella didn't refuse when she saw this. She knew that the price of a necklace was nothing to Lin Baicheng.

"As long as you like it, I'll wear it for you."

Lin Baicheng picked up the necklace, walked behind Isabella and put it on for her.

"Thank you, Alan."

Touching the necklace around her neck, this gift from her 'boyfriend' made her feel different and inexplicably happy.

After returning to his seat and sitting down, Lin Baicheng asked, "Have you taken care of the company's affairs? When are you planning to return to Los Angeles?"

"It's been taken care of."

Isabella replied: "I have to go to the company on Monday, but I can go back the day after tomorrow." It's perfectly time to go to work on Monday and go back on Sunday the day after tomorrow.

Now that the relationship between the two has been semi-confirmed, Lin Baicheng rarely comes to the United States. Of course, Isabella wants to spend as much time with him as possible.

Lin Baicheng said immediately: "Then if you are okay, come back to Los Angeles with me tomorrow."

"Okay, I'm fine."

Of course Isabella didn't object. She planned to stay tomorrow to accompany Lin Baicheng. If Lin Baicheng wasn't there, it would be meaningless for her to stay specifically. However, she was quite curious about whether Lin Baicheng had something to do when he returned to Los Angeles tomorrow.

"Alan, are you going back to Los Angeles for something?"

"Um."

Lin Baicheng nodded: "There is an important barbecue party to attend at noon the day after tomorrow."

"Who threw the barbecue party?"

Isabella knew that this must be an important person, at least to Lin Baicheng, otherwise Lin Baicheng would not fly to Los Angeles to participate.

"It's Reagan."

Lin Baicheng didn't hide this either. He looked at Isabella and said, "Bella, when the time comes, you can come with me as my female companion."

"It turns out to be Congressman Reagan."

Of course Isabella would not refuse. Lin Baicheng took her to meet Reagan, who was running for president. This was a good thing for her.

Although Isabella had met Reagan before and even communicated with him, she was Lin Baicheng's assistant at that time. She acted as an intermediary, communicating between Lin Baicheng and Reagan, and as Lin Baicheng's female companion Showing up makes a big difference.

Lin Baicheng was a major financial sponsor of Reagan's campaign, and Isabella was Lin Baicheng's female companion. This meant that Isabella was also a financial sponsor of Reagan and could be respected by Reagan.

"Alan, now that President Carter is in the spotlight, does Congressman Reagan still have a chance?"

This year is an election year, and the vast majority of people in the United States will pay attention to the election, not to mention corporate CEOs and social elites like Isabella.

Isabella is also very clear about the current election situation. Reagan, the Elephant Party supported by Lin Baicheng, is clearly at a disadvantage. It seems that President Carter is more likely to win re-election.

"I believe he can win."

Lin Baicheng replied, paused and then said: "And you also know that my connections in the government are all members of the Xiang Party. I can only support the Xiang Party."

"What you're saying is that this kind of thing is most taboo. To use an Eastern word to describe it, it's "two ends." Isabella nodded.

"What you're talking about is snake and mouse."

Lin Baicheng couldn't help but smile: "Only consortiums like the Rockefeller family can bet on both sides. Without that level of capital, they can only choose one side to fully support and be tied to one side's chariot. And I can only choose It’s an elephant party.”

"Alan, you are absolutely right."

Isabella agreed very much. The Rockefeller family's level of capital can actually be said to be the masters of the United States. Both the Elephant Party and the Donkey Party serve them. Of course, they can choose to support both sides. No one will blame them. them.

If it were a businessman who was not strong enough, if he did the same thing, it would definitely cause dissatisfaction between the two parties, forcing the other party to take sides, and they could only choose one side.

After the steak was served, Lin Baicheng and Isabella chatted while eating.

The two of them mostly talked about current financial affairs, rather than sweet words.

After dinner, Lin Baicheng and Isabella went to watch a musical on Broadway.

After watching the musical, the two went back to the villa where Isabella stayed temporarily.

The next morning, Lin Baicheng and Isabella went back to Los Angeles together.

Because of the time difference, it takes nine hours to fly from Los Angeles to New York, but only three hours from New York to Los Angeles.

The morning flight arrived at noon local time in Los Angeles.

After sending Isabella back, Lin Baicheng went back to the villa in Beverly Hills alone.

Guan Zhilin was not here in the villa. She should be with her mother and brother. Lin Baicheng came over without notifying her in advance because he did not have time to spend time with Guan Zhilin.

Today is Halloween, and it is quite lively here in the United States. However, the brother and sister Lin Baicheng and Lin Qin are not interested in this kind of festival. They did not go out to participate in Halloween.

…

At noon the day after Halloween, Lin Baicheng first picked up Isabella, and then went to a manor outside Los Angeles.

The owner of the manor is a wealthy businessman in Los Angeles, who also supports the Elephant Party, and can be regarded as a small financial backer supporting Reagan.

Supporting the Elephant Party sometimes does not mean supporting Reagan, and the two cannot be confused.

Reagan was able to run for president as a representative of the Elephant Party only after defeating other competitors within the Elephant Party.

As for the competitors defeated by Reagan, these people also have capital to support them. After their defeat, some capital will turn to support the victorious Reagan, and some capital will not. However, these capitals still support the Xiang Party, but Just don't support Reagan.

Therefore, supporting the Elephant Party and supporting Reagan cannot be confused.

"Alan!"

When Lin Baicheng arrived, the person who came to pick him up was his old acquaintance, lawyer Jean Carter, a member of the Reagan campaign team.

After Jean Carter greeted Lin Baicheng, he looked at Isabella. Of course he knows Isabella. When Lin Baicheng came into contact with the Xiang Party, Isabella's assistant worked as a middleman for a period of time. But now Isabella is holding Lin Baicheng's arm, acting intimately, and her status may be different. Different.

Lin Baicheng smiled when he saw this and said, "This is Bella. You should have met Lawyer Carter."

"Of course, Ms. Kent is now president of a public company."

Jean Carter understood clearly and knew that Isabella's identity had changed. In the past, Lin Baicheng called Isabella Kent's assistant, but now she calls her Bella as a close friend. This explained everything.

"The media reports a few days ago also said that President Kent has become a multi-millionaire. I haven't even congratulated President Kent yet."

In this day and age, there are still very few multi-millionaires, and they are also women, and they have grown from scratch from a wage earner to a multi-millionaire. This is certainly worthy of special mention, and the media is naturally eager to report on it.

Although everyone in the Reagan team was busy with the campaign, they did not pay attention to important news at home and abroad. On the contrary, they collected it every day, and it was not necessarily certain which news would be helpful to the campaign.

"Thanks."

Isabella smiled.

"Allen, President Kent, please come inside. Congressman Reagan and some of our people are already here."

Jean Carter called the two of them in, and Lin Baicheng and Isabella naturally followed behind.

When the three of them went inside, they happened to see Reagan talking to a few people, all of whom Lin Baicheng knew.

Lin Baicheng discovered that in addition to members of the Reagan campaign team, such as Jean Carter, Bush Sr., and others, those who came here today were big donors like Lin Baicheng.

Lin Baicheng was the largest donor supporting Reagan's campaign. Although the other major donors did not spend as much money and resources as him, the difference was not huge. They were also among the major donors to Reagan's campaign.

It can be said that the funds provided by the donors who came to this barbecue party today have reached 70% of the total funds received by the Reagan campaign team.

In other words, Lin Baicheng and others can basically represent all the donors who supported Reagan's campaign.

Reagan was talking loudly, but Lin Baicheng and the others came in without interrupting his speech. After listening to a few words, Lin Baicheng knew that Reagan was bragging again.

Lin Baicheng was not surprised at all by this.

The so-called election campaign is to flatter the donors and voters, and to trumpet the benefits more loudly, so that everyone can see a bright future and therefore choose to support him.

Whether it is Reagan or Carter, whether it is a candidate before or after, they are all the same.

Reagan finished talking for a few more minutes. Jean Carter went over and muttered a few words, but he told Reagan about the changes in the relationship between Lin Baicheng and Isabella.

Don't think this is just a trivial matter. Sometimes trivial matters are not trivial. What if Reagan offended Isabella because he didn't take her seriously, causing Lin Baicheng to no longer support him or to have a worse relationship with him? None of this is good for him.

The current Reagan is not the president. Once Reagan fails in this election, it will be almost time for him to retire at the age of seventy.

At that time, Reagan had never even served as president. He was just one of many politicians. Not to mention big capitalists like Lin Baicheng, even wealthy people like Isabella, whose paper wealth was only tens of millions, were Reagan can be ignored.

Therefore, whether he can become president this time is also very important to Reagan.

With the current campaign at a disadvantage, Reagan needs the support of his donors even more and cannot easily offend any of his donors.

"Ellen, Ms. Kent."

Reagan led people towards Lin Baicheng and Isabella.

"Congressman Reagan."

Lin Baicheng and Isabella shook hands with Reagan.

"Alan, congratulations to you. Another company under your name has been successfully listed. Congratulations to Ms. Kent for becoming the president of a listed company and becoming a new multi-millionaire." Reagan congratulated the two of them.

"Thanks."

Lin Baicheng smiled. Not to mention that he had heard such congratulations too many times, the market value of New Century Software Company alone could not make him too excited.

The market value of a listed company with a market capitalization of two to three billion US dollars is not low, and Lin Baicheng’s share is not low, but it is incomparable to Galaxy Games and Hutchison Whampoa, not to mention that Lin Baicheng’s long position in crude oil futures is about to become huge. Make a lot of money, earn more than the total market value of a listed company.

In comparison, Isabella was much happier.

After a few more chats, Reagan said, "Alan, I want to talk to you." He glanced at Isabella as he spoke.

"Congressman Reagan, just say it straight, Bella is not an outsider."

Lin Baicheng directly affirmed Isabella's status and did not let Isabella leave.

When Isabella heard this, the smile on her face became even brighter.

"Ms. Kent is certainly not an outsider."

Reagan immediately echoed, and then said: "The campaign is now entering the most intense stage. I hope that you can support me more, Allen, and please believe me. I will definitely defeat Carter. Under Carter's term, Many people have lost their jobs, and his ability to develop the economy is too poor. If people don't want to lose their jobs, they will definitely vote for me."

"But, for now, President Carter has the advantage."

Isabella spoke up, but Lin Baicheng didn't say anything when he saw this, letting Isabella speak.

Reagan waved his hand: "That's just an appearance. I have the determination and confidence to win."

"I think President Carter also has the determination and confidence to win. This doesn't mean anything."

But Isabella shook her head: "Allen's support for Congressman Reagan is already strong enough. If Congressman Reagan fails in the election, Allen will suffer heavy losses. It may not be a bad thing to stop the loss now."

Lin Baicheng still didn't say anything after hearing this. He decided to support Reagan, and he could only support Reagan, but he couldn't just take whatever Reagan wanted and treat him like a cash machine.