Chapter 650

On the second day after the meeting, teras and FedEx jointly established Uber, holding 80% and 20% of shares respectively, and then recruited programmers to secretly develop Uber taxi software.

Contrary to Uber's low profile, rookie Network Technology Co., Ltd. created a sensation all over the world when it was founded. On August 1, 2008, Nicholas international e-commerce, together with Maersk Group, FedEx, Tesla, Taobao and Williams Royal Investment Co., Ltd., jointly announced that the "global intelligent logistics backbone network" project was officially launched, and the "Cainiao Network Technology Co., Ltd." jointly established by all parties was officially established. As soon as the company was established, it was so powerful that it was impossible not to attract attention.

At the beginning, many logistics companies didn't know about rookie network technology companies, so they felt like they were facing the enemy.

UPS rookie network is a logistics company, make complaints about the rookie network is super giant logistics company!!!

In fact, rookie Network Technology Co., Ltd. does not set foot in logistics, but builds a set of open, shared and socialized infrastructure platform on the basis of logistics, and forms a set of open and socialized storage facilities network in the world through self construction, co construction, cooperation, transformation and other modes.

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At noon, in the hot sun, in the Lucas supermarket in New York University City, a fat man with a big stomach and bare arms sat in the office, bored watching HBO TV series. At this time, the door rang a few times, and then a tall young woman with long hair in jeans shorts and a white shirt came in.

Fat man's eyes immediately looked in the past, saw a beautiful woman came in, can't help smacking her tongue, staring at her long white legs, and said with a smile: "Oh, it's beautiful Miss Betty, how about it, has the matter been considered clearly?"

"Yes, Mr. Richard Lucas!" The beauty named Betty nodded.

"Ha ha... So you are willing to sell me the Betty supermarket that your father left you!" Then the fat man sat up, picked up the Coca Cola "Gulong Gulong" on the table, drank it up, and then put the bottle on the table.

"Mr. Richard Lucas, I've come to tell you that I've decided not to sell Betty's supermarket!" Betty took a chair and sat down.

Don't sell it?!

Fat man smell speech, stunned unceasingly, he can't help but pick eyebrows.

"Miss Betty," he asked, "Betty's supermarket is not well managed. It seems that it's going to close down. I can't figure out why you can't sell it at a good price now?"

"Because that's my father's legacy!" Betty said it firmly, then stood up and left the office.

Betty supermarket and Lucas supermarket are the two major competitors in New York University. With the advent of the financial crisis, Old Betty lost heavily in the stock market, which led to problems in the capital chain of Betty supermarket. Lucas supermarket took the opportunity to suppress Betty supermarket, making Betty supermarket worse and on the verge of bankruptcy. Old Betty was so angry and desperate that she died. Old Betty's daughter, Jessica Betty, inherited his legacy. At this time, Richard Lucas came to buy Betty supermarket.

Jessica Betty naturally does not want to sell Betty supermarket, but it is very difficult to get Betty supermarket out of the current predicament. At this time, she saw a news on TV: rookie Network Technology Co., Ltd. was established, and all kinds of partners are invited to cooperate to establish an open network of social storage facilities!

Betty suddenly had a flash of inspiration, as if she saw the hope and murmured: "Betty supermarket can cooperate with rookie network to become a storage base! In this way, Betty supermarket can not only get an extra income from rookie network technology company, but also bring more people flow!!! If students want to mail things, they can come to the supermarket. Students can store their online shopping in Betty's supermarket for free, which is convenient to pick up. In addition, Betty supermarket can make some product leaflets and send them to each dormitory or paste them directly on the package. If students are willing to buy more than $10 in Betty supermarket, Betty supermarket is willing to deliver them to the door of the dormitory for free, along with their online shopping products. Usually delivery to the door of the dormitory all need to charge a part of the fee, rather than in this way, students are more willing to spend money to buy Betty supermarket goods! If it goes on like this, Betty's supermarket may be able to survive

Betty thought more and more excited, rekindled the fighting spirit, the day can not help but find the fat man Richard Lucas, and then severely refused him!

Want to buy Betty supermarket, no way!!!

Betty out of Lucas supermarket, immediately contact rookie Network Technology Co., Ltd., request cooperation. Rookie Network Technology Co., Ltd. has just been established, and now it needs a large number of partners like Betty supermarket. Therefore, for Betty's request, rookie network company will certainly not refuse.

And after Betty supermarket becomes the partner of rookie network company, the performance has improved immediately!

In addition to Betty supermarket, there are many companies participating in the cooperation of rookie network. The scale of rookie network is getting larger and larger, and its development speed is faster than people's imagination. On average, 500 companies become members of rookie network every day.

Many large logistics companies have also cooperated with rookie network one after another. Rookie network then re introduced seven of the world's top ten logistics companies as strategic partners, including UPS package delivery company, Deutsche Post, Ryder system, panamania, Yingyun logistics, TNT express company and Gangjie international company. FedEx and Maersk are also among the top ten logistics companies, Among them, only Japan express was excluded.

At this moment, the media are stunned.

"Rookie network will spread all over the world, and its market value may be another Nicholas international e-commerce group in the future," said Lina Micah, editor in chief of Fortune magazine

"Rookie network is the brightest business star under the global financial crisis!"

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To the outside world, the rookie network is so explosive, but to Henry, it's just a small test. At this time, the global financial crisis did not stop because of the rise of rookie network, while Citigroup, which is second only to Williams and Bank of America, is in danger!

Citibank lost 18 months from February 2007 to August 2008. Customers, creditors, investors and rating agencies totally lost confidence in Citibank. The wall of Citibank collapsed and could collapse at any time. Even if the US government rescued Citibank for three times in a short period of time since October last year and injected huge funds into Citibank, Citibank's financial crisis will continue, However, it still faces bankruptcy crisis. Citibank's share price has plummeted from a high of about $35 in 2007 to $1.6, and its market value is less than 5% of the $280 billion at the end of 2006, or $12 billion

Henry asked Williams Royal Investment Company to short US $1 trillion in the US stock market. In order to save the market, the US government kept spending money to fill the hole. It is at the end of its tether. Although Citibank has great economic status and influence in the United States, with tens of millions of users, if it goes bankrupt, the country will be in chaos. The United States is determined not to let Citibank go bankrupt and wants to continue to pull Citibank. However, the global financial crisis triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States continues to worsen, and the Williams Royal Investment Company is particularly targeted at Citibank. Therefore, in this case, the United States government can not pull Citibank. In this life, Citibank will either go bankrupt or be acquired by Henry!!!

Seeing Citibank going bankrupt, the U.S. government began to look for the "takeover man".

The U.S. government first inquired about * *, * * *, saying that Citibank was too big to eat, and that it was about to "die", hoping that the U.S. government would send some life-saving funds! The U.S. government then went to Bank of New York Mellon, Wachovia, American Express... However, they did not dare to touch the hot potato of Citibank.

Henry was very sympathetic. The U.S. government asked Williams about Bank of America. If you did, you would be willing to buy Citibank! And other banks, who dare to buy Citibank, I let Williams Royal Investment Company Crazy short Citibank stock, lose them!!!

The U.S. government asked about banks of all sizes, but almost asked bank of America Williams. At present, Bank of America Williams is the only one, which has a serious impact on the U.S. economy. If it merges Citibank, it would be great!!!

At this moment, the White House is holding a very important meeting.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was yelling at the meeting with an anxious face“ Ladies and gentlemen, at present, only Williams Bank of America has the ability to acquire Citibank. Therefore, in order to keep Citibank, we can only... "

Before he finished, someone stood up and interrupted: "Henry Williams has penetrated into every corner of the United States. Among them, Williams Bank of America is his industry. If we let Williams Bank of America take the opportunity to become bigger, I don't know who is in charge of the bottom of the American economy. Do you think it's still you? Paulson, US Treasury secretary? "

The meeting room is a mess, no different from the vegetable market. No, it's even more fierce than the vegetable market, because Treasury Secretary Paulson has been fighting with the quarrelers!

"Stop it!" U.S. President George W. Bush roared, you paralyzed, when the U.S. president is dead? Unexpectedly, I started fighting in front of me. If I didn't worry about my image, I would lift my sleeve and beat you!

Paulson was separated. He had just been punched in the face with a trace of blood on the corner of his mouth.

If Henry had known what had just happened, he would have laughed.

Bush's face was livid, and he sternly reprimanded: "is it glorious to fight in the U.S. Congress?"?! Paulson and Richards, why don't you two go back to your seats and sit down! "

Bush's speech still worked. They sat down in their seats, but they still looked at each other with anger.

"Well, I've heard so much from you. Let me express my opinion." Bush touched his nose, thought about it for a while, and then said, "I think Citibank must be preserved. We can let Williams Bank of America buy Citibank for a while. When the financial crisis is over, we will ask Williams Bank of America to split up because it is too large and suspected of monopolizing the market."

"Your Excellency, I am afraid that if the US government goes back on its word, it will be criticized."

"There is no need for the U.S. government to guarantee this acquisition. Citibank can contact Williams Bank of America by itself."

"If so, I think it's feasible!"

"I agree!"

"I agree too!"

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On August 10, Williams Bank of America invested a total of US $12 billion to merge Citibank. The world could not help but be in an uproar. On that day, Citibank's share price picked up.

When the outside media were talking, Henry ordered the merger of Williams Bank of America and Citibank. After the merger, the new bank was called Citibank. At present, the Central Bank of Williams empire is called Williams bank, and Henry wants to distinguish other banks from Williams bank.

After that, Henry ordered that Citibank's overseas business be sold to Standard Chartered Bank and standard bank at a low price. At the same time, he cut off the junk business and overlapping business of the new Citibank in the United States, streamlined its troops and reduced its scale.

From now on, Citibank is in charge of the United States, Standard Chartered Bank is in charge of Asia, standard bank is in charge of Africa, Royal Bank of Scotland is in charge of Europe... Although these banks have different names, they can form an alliance. Just like China's UnionPay, Henry can build a "Williams banking alliance" with Williams bank as the core, Other banks are also welcome to join the alliance.

As for why Henry wants to restructure so quickly, it is because he bribes US Congressmen and knows exactly what the US President Bush is up to. Therefore, without waiting for the United States to make a move, Henry took advantage of the financial crisis to sell Williams Bank of America and Citibank to other banks under his own name at a low price. What he did in this special period, such as laying off employees and selling subsidiaries at a low price, is reasonable, and the United States government has nothing to say. Citibank is still the largest bank in the United States. It has reduced a lot of expenses, but it has high-quality assets and users in the United States, and its profit rate is higher. If the U.S. government still wants to ask Citibank to split, it will directly Sue. What's to be afraid of!

Henry plans to mainly promote Williams UnionPay card after the establishment of Williams banking alliance, and also launch "black card" and "supreme black card". Black card does not accept applications, only banks take the initiative to invite customers to join. Only a very small number, or even less than 0.1%, of the world's top customers are invited.

Black cards can be overdrawn indefinitely, and cardholders can obtain services covering almost all fields, providing them with the most meticulous needs, such as private and first-class upgrade services for daily airliners, hotel suite upgrade services, private travel advisory services, entrance tickets for heavyweight performances, 24-hour private banking VIP seats for all kinds of global events and top private clubs in major cities all over the world enjoy services such as courtesy. As long as the cardholder has a request, he will do it wholeheartedly.

And the "supreme black card", only Henry and Williams royal family members can have（ Two in one)