Time Smuggling Starting from the Year 2000

It's been a month since I got a loan of 140 US dollars, but Huang Xuan can't spend it. Naturally, there will be some rumors inside Hexin Industry. When talking about their bosses, many gentlemen said confidently: " If it were me..."

If it's Huang Xuan - he's in Texas now.

San Antonio is the 7th largest city in the United States, sometimes counted as 8th. The deepest impression on it is: San Antonio Spurs, Stone Buddha Duncan.

that is it.

But now there is one more, Southwest Bell's headquarters.

The market value of Southwest Bell is 780 US dollars, which is as much as 624 billion yuan when converted into RMB, which is equivalent to twice the market value of China Telecom at the same time. However, Southwest Bell is such a valuable company, but its customers are mainly concentrated in the Midwest and South of the United States, and "only" has about 50 million local call customers-long-distance calls and enterprise services are AT\u0026T's traditional strengths. It can not only explain the "division of labor" of the young Bells, but also explain the strength of the US telecommunications industry.

Although China Mobile was once the telecom company with the highest market capitalization in the world, its US$132.58 billion was also 1.7 times that of Southwestern Bell, but this was generated under the circumstances of basic monopoly and weak competition. The expenditure on telecom services alone reached US$1.2 trillion per year , Those companies that can be recognized by people: there are a lot of companies-, sprint, world, Southwest Bell; British Telecom, France Telecom, Spain Telecom, Sonera in Europe; Telstra, Optus in Asia-Pacific, one, powerful companies.

As for Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies), salivating people can flood 10 cubic meters with saliva.

Before Huang Xuan had time to drool, he met the current president and chairman of Southwestern Bell, Whittaker. If there is no accident, he will also become the president of the merged AT\u0026T company——sbc continues to use:+

Whittaker was in his late 60s, a tall Mediterranean man. black hair. Apart from dark eyes, olive skin, and some wrinkles around the brows and corners of the eyes, there are no signs of old age. He started with BellSouth. It is not easy to get to today's position step by step and become the chairman of the second largest telecommunications company in the United States. It can be regarded as a model of starting from scratch.

Huang Xuan currently owns 4.8 shares of Southwest Bell, with a market value of 3.744 billion US dollars (the purchase price is about 3.5 billion US dollars), ranking fourth in Southwest Bell's shareholder list.

In other words, Huang Xuan has 5 grounds to say whether to buy AT\u0026T or not.

Whittaker shook hands with Huang Xuan friendly and said, "Mr. Huang is very welcome to come to San Antonio. I hope you like the Mexican style here." San Antonio is a very stylish and interesting city. The Spaniards came here in the early eighteenth century. Here, white people began to settle here. Early nineteenth century. Mexico declares independence from Spain. The small town of San Antonio became a Mexican territory at the same time. In the 1830s, the Texans fought against the Mexican rule. Headquarters were also established in a building known as the "Alamo Mission Church." Fighting bloody battles with the oppressors, the last 187 defenders all died heroically. Some Chinese call it the Seventy-two Martyrs of Dihuanghuagang in the United States. It is also appropriate.

However, similar to many American cities, after the successful rebellion (novel network, computer station,, the fastest update) San Antonio did not carry out a revolution, but continued their Mexican life, so Whittaker said that Mexico style.

Huang Xuan shrugged and said, "I'm an internationalist." Saying this is actually like what many Chinese businessmen imply: I'm not a communist.

God knows, he is a promising future Communist Party member—if he follows Huang Jindi's arrangement.

Whittaker kept smiling and did not let go of Huang Xuan's hand, saying: "Before I saw you, Joseph said you were a young man, and I didn't understand until I saw you."

This is probably the Mexican-style "young and promising" compliment. Huang Xuan'an greeted him casually, while Dian Wei stared at the nearby black bodyguards in black suits, black ties, and black glasses. Speaking of which, it took a lot of effort to get a visa for him. If it weren't for Lorraine's excellent counterfeiting skills and the help of Huang Xuan's uncle Zhang Shuduan, Comrade Dian Wei would really like to see these four black youths easy.

Isaac has completely become Huang Xuan's family bodyguard. Not only is he responsible for Xiao Diao Meimei's commuting to and from school, but he also follows Cai Wenji to Beijing to turn east and west. Instead, Huang Xuan travels, usually with only Dian Wei and two Bodyguards with guns, the former is used to intimidate, the latter is used to guard the door.

Whittaker's subordinates looked at Huang Xuan unfriendly. Due to his Chinese identity, the US anti-monopoly agency did not think highly of this acquisition. Shares are different. After the acquisition offer is issued, the antitrust agency can only give two answers: yes

Of course, sbc is unwilling to waste the long-prepared efforts, but after Huang Xuan rejected the early acquisition, Southwest Bell had only one way to go, which was to forcefully pass the review and avoid

nationality issue. In other words, it was to explain for Huang Xuan.

Sitting in the Lincoln car heading to the city, Whitaker made his last effort and said solemnly: "Mr. Huang, what do you think of my proposal?" The proposal was for him to buy Huang Xuan's sbc stock, so as to cross the last threshold before the acquisition, and also avoid the trouble of political lobbying.

"I trust Mr. Whittaker's management of the assets." This is naturally a tactful refusal.

Whittaker sighed, leaned back in the chair, and said, "So, we have to face it together?"

He didn't say what he was facing, but everyone knew it very well.

"Benefits and risks are shared, as it should be." Having said that, for Huang Xuan, the actual risk has been reduced countless times. As the buffer zone becomes stronger day by day, it can actually be seen as being in front of a certain goal. The luck value of the increase - of course, that's just how it is understood.

Businessmen are afraid of risks and eager for profits. If there is no definite news, Huang Xuan, who has already earned 2 dollars, would be wise to sell the stock. Whitaker sat up. Frowning slightly, thinking of something, he said, "Which company do you think we will buy, Mr. Huang?"

There is less than a week left before the acquisition, as a shareholder. It's not surprising to know that sbc has an acquisition plan, but it doesn't necessarily know the target company to be acquired. Huang Xuan is naturally among those who don't know.

"ATT." Huang Xuan smiled softly. Turning the Bordeaux red wine in his hand. Whittaker is a guy who likes good wine. There are not only expensive red wines from the 1960s on the car refrigerator, but also new red wines produced in the past two years. This is a normal wine taster. Most of the gentlemen who talk about the 1986 red wine are more arty. .

Whittaker didn't let his surprise show, and smirked twice, saying: "It's hard to convince the gentlemen in Washington, we can't let this acquisition fail."

"I can afford more legal fees, for example. 80?" Huang Xuan tentatively asked.

In the U.S. The lobby, the collection of interests made up of lawyers, former government officials, and well-informed individuals, is absolutely borderless. Count from back to front. Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan, Carter, Nixon... Needless to say. Except for Nixon's successor after he stepped down, poor Gerald Ford, the previous presidents were all lobby stars in Washington. They are the best lobbyists for the new president, and their influence in the party far exceeds that of an ordinary local senator. And from the Japan issue in the 1980s, it can be found that those so-called former senior trade representatives (equivalent to Chinese ministerial officials), secretaries of state, and countless former governors and senators can speak for Japan in the face of interests, while Regardless of the position of the US government. The main reason why China cannot use the same method is that most officials are still cautious about contacting red China. Although McCarthy has disappeared, he has to guard against it.

But for a Chinese, or a Chinese shareholder, there is no similar problem.

In theory, any trade bill could pass in the United States as long as there are enough interests, plus a little lobbying money. Whittaker understood this, so he continued to talk with Huang Xuan.

Compared with a loan of 140 US dollars, Huang Xuan certainly would not be stingy with the "consulting fee" of tens of millions of dollars.

Such a straightforward attitude immediately changed Whittaker's attitude. He showed a "sincere" smile and said, "Don't worry, I will convince those bureaucrats." He clinked glasses with Huang Xuan and said, " Happy cooperation."

"Happy cooperation." After Huang Xuan toasted, he asked tentatively: "I heard that the Cleveland Consortium has also invested in SBC.

"Oh, you are all well-informed." This is a cold joke that belongs to Washington.

Huang Xuan showed a smiling face, and said without hesitation: "8 shares? That's 60 dollars. How could the Cleveland Foundation give it to a young man in his 20s to take care of it, him?"

"Aiken Mather." Whittaker confirmed, "Do you know the Mather family?"

"A member of the Cleveland Consortium."

"Yes, about a month ago, Aiken was only an important member of the Mather family, and he was the heir in line."

Huang Xuan opened his mouth wide and smiled bluntly, "Why is it like the royal family?"

Whitaker blinked, and continued: "Now there are some changes."

"What kind of change?" Huang Xuan said and clicked on the energy screen.

"His father has become the new head of the Mather family, so Aiken is the first heir."

The same content was displayed on the energy screen, but it was not a media report. The consortium was always secretive about their internal problems. What Lorraine showed was mainly the lawyer documents of the Mather family, which were as many as 500, and there were another 300 additional terms and twice as many addenda.

Huang Xuan decided to ask Whittaker, "Does he have no brothers?"

"You mean Aiken? He has two brothers, but the oldest one is still in high school, so..." Huang Xuan understood now, and hesitated a little: "He fully represents the Mather family?"

"It seems so."

Huang Xuan felt terrible. .