v3 Chapter 1397： Overwhelming

In the next half month, undercurrents surging in the Philippine political arena.

Ferdinand convened all his confidants to discuss the opening of the general election ahead of schedule, and the supporting opinions accounted for the majority, which also strengthened Ferdinand's confidence.

Most importantly, Ferdinand made a special trip to the United States and met Ronald Reagan.

Although Ronald Reagan did not give him a good face and questioned his series of actions that undermined the image of "democracy" in the Philippines, after all, he did not fall apart.

It doesn't matter if you are angry, Ferdinand is afraid that Ronald Reagan will completely give up support for him.

Therefore, Ferdinand has repeatedly assured Ronald Reagan what will happen to him after his re-election.

After that, Ferdinand was determined to return to the Philippines.

The day after he returned, he announced the dissolution of the Philippine Congress and the opening of the general election ahead of schedule.

The official election time is set for January 12, 1986!

After the news was announced, he thought he had caught the opposition by surprise.

But I don't know that there is a group of people in the Philippines who are very excited, and at the same time, this group of people are more and more awed by Xia Yu.

What Ferdinand didn’t even know was that after he sent an application to the United States, Xia Yu had been to Washington and played two hours of golf with Ronald Reagan as soon as he got the news.

In this half month.

The pattern of the American business community has changed a lot.

And the impact will be very far-reaching.

First of all, the Gulf Oil Company has completely come to an end.

The Gulf Oil Company completed the split, and the Gulf Oil and Gas Trust Company received half of its oil and gas reserves.

In the Gulf Oil and Gas Trust Company, the parent company Gulf Oil Company only symbolically holds 1 share, which is almost infinitely close to zero.

For this company, Exxon Petroleum holds as much as 774 shares, completing the actual dominance.

Whether or not to annex the Gulf Oil and Gas Trust Company is entirely up to Exxon Oil Company.

The Pacific Oil Company concentrated all its rights and interests in Gulf Oil Company.

The shareholding is as high as 682.

Considering that Gulf Oil still maintains its status as a listed company, its equity is relatively dispersed.

Therefore, with the shareholding ratio of 682, no one party can shake the dominant position of Pacific Oil Company.

International crude oil prices have not yet reached the bottom, and Gulf Oil's share price is still relatively high.

Therefore, Xia Yu does not intend to privatize the Gulf Oil Company for the time being, and will continue to wait.

The battle at Morgan Trust in New York has greatly reduced the prestige of the Rockefeller family.

In the articles of association of Morgan Trust Company in New York, it is stipulated that the chairman and vice-chairmen shall be elected by the board of directors by a majority of all directors.

I don't know how much benefit John Chris Morgan promised.

Anyway, after the election of the board of directors, the positions of former chairman David Rockefeller and vice chairman John Chris Morgan were reversed.

And after John Chris Morgan became the chairman, he showed no mercy to David Rockefeller.

The first proposal submitted to the board of directors is to temporarily suspend the company's trading and rename the company. The changed company name is Morgan Bank, and the corresponding stock market code should also be changed.

This proposal was passed by more than half of the vote on the board of directors.

About this board meeting of Morgan Trust Company in New York, the outside world was fascinating. Some said that David Rockefeller was furious on the spot, some said that David Rockefeller slammed the door and left, and some said that John Chris Morgan laughed wildly at the venue.

Anyway, no matter how it spreads outside.

The Rockefeller Consortium lost control of the fifth largest bank in the United States.

This will have a major impact on the power system of the entire Rockefeller consortium.

The renamed Morgan Bank has board seats in many giant companies.

These directors, who were all David Rockefeller before, belonged to the employees of the Rockefeller consortium.

Once John Chris Morgan replaces these people with his confidants, the subsequent struggle between the two consortiums will no longer be confined to Morgan Bank, and wars will spread everywhere.

At that time, it will be head-on head-to-head in multiple areas, and the dog's brain will be played out.

Therefore, the leaders of many forces are convening think tanks to study the matter, to see how to avoid being caught, and whether there is a chance to benefit from it like the directors of Morgan Bank.

All in all, the storm in the United States has intensified.

However, these have little to do with Xia Yu for the time being.

Because of its short establishment time, the Polaris Consortium has not been able to penetrate the United States into the established consortium very strongly, and it is still in the stage of accumulating its heritage and strength.

With this in mind, it would be better to chop the Cleveland consortium a few more times.

However, at this time, the North Star Consortium’s equity acquisition of various targets has become difficult.

The equity that can be taken is basically grabbed, and the rest are basically hard bones.

At this time, you need to adjust the offensive direction.

Ten birds in the forest are not as good as one bird in hand. It's time for a showdown with the Cleveland Consortium!

Therefore, after reporting to Xia Yu and receiving affirmative instructions.

Peter Lynch, president of Polaris Capital, took Alman Simmons and other right-hand men to Cleveland, Ohio.

After arriving in Cleveland, Peter Lynch met with the Mellon family team.

The team of the Mellon family is led by James Mellon, who has stepped down as chairman of the Gulf Oil Company.

"Mr. Lynch, it's an honor to meet you, I'm James Mellon."

"Mr. Mellon, it's also my honor to meet you."

"Hello, Mr. Simmons."

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Both sides are allies, and this time they came together to put pressure on the Cleveland consortium. After meeting, they were all smiles naturally.

"Mr. Mellon, let's go, it seems that those people are waiting in a hurry."

Glancing at Douglas Mather and others who had come out of the door, Peter Lynch said with a smile to James Mellon.

"Alright, let's be together."

After all, a group of people walked in the direction of Douglas Mather and others.

Meeting with several big families of the Cleveland Consortium, the atmosphere is not good, it can even be said to be very cold.

After shaking hands bluntly and asking for a few words, he entered the conference room for negotiation.

The Polaris Capital Consortium and the Mellon Consortium sit on one side, and the Cleveland Consortium sits on the opposite side.

Both sides are enemies, and sitting together is only a matter of interest.

So after sitting down, I didn't bother to overdo it, and went straight to the topic.

"Mr. Mather, Mr. Hanna, Mr. Humphrey, and Mr. Eaton."

"Before coming today, we and the Mellon family have reached an agreement."

"Whether it is a war or a peace, we don't care, it depends on how you choose."

"You provoked the war. If you continue to fight it, we won't have any losses."

"Today, the three of us can sit down and talk. The biggest beneficiary is your Cleveland consortium. We hope that you can show your sincerity, otherwise we don't know what it will look like if we continue."

After Peter Lynch finished speaking, James Mellon echoed: "Mr. Lynch's attitude is also ours."

"Actually, within our Mellon family, the opinion that we agreed to negotiate with you is only just over half of the time. Holding tens of billions of dollars in funds, we are fully confident."

This sentence is full of threats.

Douglas Mather and Reginald Hannah heard the muscles beating, but they did not dare to attack.

The situation of the Mellon family and the Mellon consortium is actually clear to the top of the United States.

As the strength of the Mellon Consortium has shrunk and the control of the financial core is completed, the flow of funds of the Mellon Consortium has definitely skyrocketed.

Tens of billions of dollars may be exaggerated, but Douglas Mather and others have no doubt that the cash flow of the Mellon consortium will be less than 15 billion U.S. dollars.

This amount alone is enough to toss the Cleveland consortium.

However, in negotiations, the momentum is completely downwind, which is very harmful.

So Douglas Mather said without changing his face:

"Mr. Lynch, Mr. Mellon, you don't have to deliberately frighten us."

"The Mellon Consortium can survive by docking, and we can do the same."

"We haven't reached this point yet, doesn't mean we don't have the courage to do it!"

"Of course we also hope to sit down and settle our grievances through negotiations, but if we exceed our bottom line, then we would rather fall to Rockefeller completely, even if we completely become vassals!"

Peter Lynch sneered: "If you choose this way, UU read , then we don't really matter. We can also sell everything in our hands to the Morgan Consortium in exchange for other benefits."

"I think John Chris Morgan would definitely be willing to take over."

"Just by then, I don't know if the Cleveland Consortium will be the same as the previous Chicago Consortium."

Reginald Hannah, whose temper was a bit violent, was stimulated to flush on the ground.

But Peter Lynch didn't give him a chance to have a seizure.

Say directly: "Well, don't say so many meaningless words."

"These things are what we need."

"And these are what you want."

"Satisfy our requirements, we will no longer trouble the Cleveland Consortium, you can completely clean up other people."

"This is the list of our Mellon consortium." James Mellon also threw the list out.

The lists of the two parties arrived in front of Douglas Mather and the others. After a glance, the expressions of each became very ugly.

They didn't expect the enemy to get so many shares in core companies.

In particular, the Polaris consortium, which acted first, has too many chips in hand.

For example, the shares of Cleveland Trust Company 121, the shares of Cleveland National City Bank 112, the shares of American Financial Group Co., Ltd. 223, the shares of Cokai International Group 194, the shares of Fifth Third Bank Corporation 176, and so on.

Five core financial companies have been acquired so many shares by the other party.

I don’t know how much it took the Polaris Consortium to win so much equity ahead of them!

If these shares are held in the hands of the Polaris Consortium, they are completely in your throat, and you must be prepared at any time!