nightcrawler in los angeles

Chapter 164 Tao Xi's Business Game

The civil war in Nicaragua did not come to an end, but became more intense on its original basis.

However, these are no longer Tao Xi's concerns. Under the siege of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Tao Xi does not believe that the Northern Revolutionary Army can still get assistance with the help of the CIA.

One belongs to the job of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the other is a shady transaction.

And the United States also has Mike Somoza, who they support in Nicaragua.

Although Tao Xi didn't know what kind of support Mike gave him from the people who sat in the air-conditioned room and signed various documents every day.

The defeat of the Northern Revolutionary Army was only a matter of time.

Prince Shea picked up a glass of water and drank it slowly, when the phone in his arms rang suddenly.

"Hey!"

"Yes Yes Yes!"

"Received sir! DEA Assistant Director Prince Shea is heading to Panama immediately to take over as Regional Team Leader!"

Seeing Prince holding the phone in his hand with a serious face, Tao Xi couldn't help muttering: "You won't get promoted again, will you?"

"Wow!"

"Tao Xi, you are really my lucky star!"

"I've really been promoted again! I'm now the regional team leader for Panama!"

Tao Xi, who couldn't help but roll his eyes, didn't talk to Prince who was beaming, but recorded his recent financial expenses by himself.

Because [Panama Star], as the first free newspaper in Central America, is really a bestseller!
This newspaper can achieve 11 subscriptions a day in poor places like El Salvador.

Even every night when no one was around, Tao Xi had an urge to check if the newspapers there were used by El Salvador, whose literacy rate was less than 10%, to see if they had used newspapers to paste the walls.

"Hey, why don't you bless me?"

"I wish you good luck like the East China Sea, and a long life like Nanshan!"

Although Prince didn't understand, but seeing Tao Xi clasped his fists, Prince also clasped his fists and returned the same action.

"Oh, it's a waste of money. In just one month, I have no more money in my pocket."

When Prince lowered his head and saw the dense numbers recorded by Tao Xi in the notebook, he felt a little dizzy.

"If you're short of money, I can lend you some."

Tao Xi waved his hand: "I don't need a little money. I plan to buy a shell company on the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. This is not a small amount, at least 5000 million."

"Five million!"

"Here, look, this is the money my family fund pays me every year."

"It should be enough, but I don't know how much."

Without paying attention, Prince took out a Wells Fargo bank card from his pocket and threw it on Tao Xi's desk.

When Tao Xi saw this bank card, he suddenly thought of a sentence that Old West once said to him.

[Prince Shay?I remember that the majority shareholder of Wells Fargo, which started in San Francisco, is also named Shay! 】

Tao Xi, who was staring wide-eyed, glanced blankly at Prince taking out the money, and muttered dissatisfiedly like throwing Chinese cabbage: "What a big dog!"

Prince, who walked out, didn't notice Tao Xi's sour and admiring expression behind him.

"Hey! West, let's start the operation, the money has been prepared, the sooner the better!"

"Well, if backdoor listings on the Australian Stock Exchange are also allowed, I don't believe that I can't produce a company with a market value of tens of billions if I take a country's gold mine as a valuation and list it!"

When Tao Xi said the last sentence, there was even a hint of madness in his eyes.

Tao Xi, who has no financial knowledge at all, has such confidence because of the radio in his hand that can listen to future news.

When the radio that hadn't worked for a long time uttered the news, Tao Xi was really eye-opening.

【Hello, welcome to the late-night storytelling on Star Radio】

[I am your show host Tracy, today I will tell you about the real event prototype of the movie "Gold Mine", which is currently being screened]

[A Canadian mining company called Bre-X is a junk stock listed on the Australian stock market with a value of less than $10.

His boss wanted him to make a lot of money.

In May 1993, the company announced that it would implement a joint venture gold exploration project in the Busan area of ​​Limantan, Indonesia.

According to the data of the 19 drill holes that the company has constructed in the Busan area, it is believed that this is an area with great potential for gold resources, and it is emphasized that the predecessors did not realize its potential.

Meanwhile, the company's shares traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange at C$0.45 per share

A geologist who personally handled this incident is named Guzman.

The geologist was well-known in the industry because he accidentally discovered a small copper mine, but he was reported and lost his job because he ate and drank with public funds.

It's just that Guzman, who was used to being lavish before, couldn't get rid of his bad habits for a while.

Moreover, he has four beautiful wives in Indonesia. In order to make a fortune, he accepted the employment of Bre-X mining company.

Next, together with the Indonesian government and Bre Mining, they promoted this company with a market value of less than 10 US dollars to a market value of nearly 800 billion!
During this period, not only the well-known Barkley Gold was deceived, but also many Wall Street tycoons were manipulated.

It wasn't until Buckley Gold paid a huge sum of money to acquire the company's shares that it discovered the scam. 】

Look before and after the story!

Such a high market value can be defrauded by a scam. Nicaragua is a serious and real mineral. Tao Xi does not believe that the market value of this company cannot be blown to 400 billion US dollars by virtue of his relationship with the Yellow Pages and ABC in California.

Tao Xi still has the rationality he should have. After all, there is still a long way to go between 1986 and 1995. There is no rush for such things.

The days just passed by.

【Panama Star】Because of publishing for free, it gradually attracted the attention of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch in New York.

Murdoch, who is 55 years old this year, is still energetically sitting at his desk handling the work of a huge media group.

"Why has the Times' subscription sales in Central America been getting lower day by day since June?"

A very well-dressed woman replied very seriously: "Sir, there is no problem with the operation of The Times. I think there may be a competitor in Central America that we cannot ignore."

"Oh? Tell me?" Murdoch picked up the hand-ground coffee at hand and took a sip slowly.

"This is a sales chart of [Panama Star]. Since June, this newspaper has been focusing on the free strategy."

"At first I didn't pay attention, because no newspaper in Central America has the capital to stick to this strategy for a long time."

"Since August, this newspaper has been frantically expanding its distribution channels in Central America. Since then, I have realized that there may be a capital force behind this newspaper that we cannot ignore."

"You have repeatedly told us to be more cautious about capital intervention in the media industry, so we have not changed our strategy without authorization, and the boss of this newspaper is also very smart. He has told every offline channel distributor that the newspaper is not allowed to sold outside of Central America."

Murdoch thought for a long time, probably because he was a little older, he never thought of the name of the owner of this newspaper.

The very beautiful woman submitted a form again with a serious face: "This is the advertising cooperation situation of the Panama Star in recent months. The advertising department has roughly estimated that the newspaper is still losing money. But I found a very special advertiser in it."

【Neil's Hot Dog Chain Restaurant】

Murdoch was silent for a long time when he heard the advertiser's name, and his fingers kept tapping on the tabletop to make a sound of "dong dong dong".

"Well, I remembered, it's the [Yellow Pages] that rushed out of California and continued to expand its influence, right!"

"The business ideas of these two things are similar."

"I remember that the owner behind this restaurant seems to be Old West's benefactor, right?"

"Yes! He has a Hollywood girlfriend named Sophie Marceau, and because of Top Gun, she's very popular now!"

Murdoch smiled "hehe" and opened the [VOGUE] magazine at hand.

"I remember [VOGUE] magazine seems to ask us for something recently, right?"

"correct."

"Find a girl no worse than Sophie Marceau and send it to Panama, let her try to become the cover spokesperson of [Panama Star]!"

The woman nodded when she saw Murdoch with an inscrutable smile and walked out.

Noriega kept smashing things in his office with an angry expression on his face. The security guard at the door and the female secretary all stared nervously at the movement inside the door.

Louis Borken walked upstairs with a relaxed expression on his face.

"Louis! Go and have a look, the Grand Commander is angry in the room."

"Ham, it's not because of the damn [Panama Star], he published a news in the newspaper that the [Nicaragua Grand Canal] is about to be excavated."

Luis Borken pretended to be surprised and said, "Nicaragua is not at peace yet, and they started acting like demons again?"

"Who said no?"

When he reached the door of Noriega's office, Louis took a deep breath before slowly opening the door.

"Mr. Datong, here is your itinerary for today, please check it."

Noriega, who was sitting on the chair, saw that it was Luis and immediately picked up a pen holder and threw it at Luis' head.

Louis didn't dodge or dodge, so he was hit so abruptly.

"It's you!"

"It was you, the capitalist spy, who made me set [Panama Star] as the only newspaper purchased by the Panamanian government."

"It's all right now. The entire upper class of Panama knows the news of the [Nicaragua Grand Canal]'s construction."

Luis Borken clearly felt that his forehead was bleeding little by little, but instead of wiping or covering it, he explained to Nogale seriously: "The current Nicaraguan regime is not stable yet, the northern The resistance of the revolutionary army is still going on, and don't forget that it takes time to dig the Grand Canal, and their government has no money!"

Seeing the blood on Louis' head, Nogalie's tone gradually calmed down.

"Well, what if they want to dig, now we don't have the money to widen the Panama Canal, what if they get the money?"

Instead, Louis Borken put the business card left by Tausi in front of Nogale last time on the table.

"Isn't this someone who wants to contract the operation of the Panama Canal?"

"Why didn't we promise him?"

When Nogalle heard Louis' answer, he was about to explode again: "You fart! Do you want me to be scolded to death? I finally got the management rights back and now I have to hand them back again?"

"Commander, the jurisdiction of the United States is not just the right to operate. We don't have the right to enforce the canal they manage."

"But this person just wants the right to operate. As the name suggests, the right to operate means that he can only raise opinions on the operation of the Panama Canal."

"We might as well ask him to pay for the widening of the river channel first, and then we will sign a gambling agreement with the other party when the river channel expansion is completed! The income of the Panama River Channel must increase by 50% in the next year. If he can't do it, we will then Just take back the right to operate.”

"Of course what I said is that the Nicaragua Grand Canal is really going to be built!"

"If [the construction of the Nicaragua Canal] is just a joke, then what's wrong with us taking it as a joke?"

Noriega finally laughed when he heard this wave of analysis from Luis Borken.

"Heh, I knew you were smart. I remember there was a piece of land in the suburbs of Panama City. Take the time to see who needs it and sell it."

"Thank you, Commander."

Louis Borken bent down respectfully, the blood on his forehead was not wiped off from the beginning to the end.

Noriega was hailed as a dictator by the American media because of his temper.

Every time Noriega was angry and furious, Louis was the only person in the entire government building who dared to come in and report to him.

This is also the reason why Louis can be promoted quickly, but a person's character and temper are the most difficult to change.

As a latent pawn, Louis Borken's performance just now is undoubtedly qualified.

During the conversation just now, Louis only talked about the good and not the bad, which really convinced Noriega, an idiot who only understands politics but not business.

A bet that promises a 50% increase in the revenue of the Panama River!
It is the most conservative conclusion that Tao Xi obtained among the estimates of nearly 30 actuaries.

If the river channel can be widened and the transport capacity increased, in recent years there have been frequent flash floods and heavy rains in Central America, and it is absolutely impossible for Panama's river channel to face no water available.

Now that the river channel is wide and the river water is sufficient, 150% of the income can be doubled!
Tausi, who received a call back from Louis, yelled happily when he saw the shell company certificate that Old West received with more than 7000 million US dollars.

"Hahahaha!"

"Everything is ready now, only the east wind is owed!"

"What shit Raytheon! What shit gold mining rights!"

"I'll show you what a real business operation is!"

(End of this chapter)