Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 513

On this day, Lu Yiming had nothing to do, so he called Li Yiwen and Zhao Tiezhu, and the three of them went to the headquarters of the Saltwater Fund to inspect to see if the employees were working hard to help him make money.

As a result, as soon as he entered the office, he saw Ian Ball looking sluggish, with a black circle around his left eye and a large bruise at the corner of his mouth.

Immediately, Lu Yiming couldn't bear to ask curiously: "Ian, did you go to the underground boxing ring to fight boxing? When did you become obsessed with this kind of sport? Don't call me, I will make a big bet Buy you win."

Being ridiculed by Lu Yiming like this, Ian Ball replied weakly: "What boxing? I was beaten by someone!"

As soon as this matter was mentioned, he was still full of anger.

Just yesterday, a few Texas cowboys squatted outside the company early in the morning. Taking advantage of Ian Ball's time to go to work, they rushed over and punched and kicked.If it weren't for someone passing by, posing directly to draw a gun and scaring the cowboys away, it is estimated that Ian Ball is either lying on a hospital bed or lying in an urn now.

Although Ian Ball kept saying that he wanted to hire bodyguards before, he was too busy during this time, so he didn't have the energy to go to the security company to choose a suitable bodyguard, which led to such an unwarranted disaster.

Facing Lu Yiming, Ian Power said very dissatisfied: "Enron's investors are too barbaric. Instead of going to the Enron executives who cheated them of money, they came to use violence against me, an innocent person. Really, you What did you say?"

"It doesn't make sense."

"Yes, it's just unreasonable!"

Seeing Ian Ball's funny appearance, Lu Yiming couldn't help laughing, and then comforted him: "Thinking about the good, at least they didn't bring guns this time. I heard that the Texas cowboys have plenty of martial arts, and some There are even howitzers and Gatlings on the farm, I suggest you increase security in the future."

When Ian Ball heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat, and said in surprise, "Isn't it?"

If there are really howitzers and Gatlings, please use the bodyguards. I am afraid that even buying an armored vehicle may not be able to withstand such heavy firepower!
Seeing Ian Ball's miserable appearance, Li Yiwen couldn't help whispering in Lu Yiming's ear: "Fortunately, you and I didn't show up in person this time, otherwise we would be the ones being beaten."

Lu Yiming thought so deeply, and said, "Fortunately, I have bodyguards."

Ian Ball said dissatisfiedly: "Can the two of you not whisper so loudly? And you also speak English, are you afraid that I won't hear you..."

new York.

The trading floor of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange was full of voices.

In the crowd, Wei Dong sat alone on a bench in the corner, looking up at the huge electronic display in the center with dull eyes.

He saw a large area glowing red on the screen, which made his heart skip a beat.

In the US stock market, green rises and red falls, so red here is not a festive color, but represents that the stock market has turned into a sea of ​​blood.

Looking at the stocks in his hands that were almost turned into waste paper, Wei Dong was doubting his life, cursing wildly in his mouth: "What about the United States that was promised to be the best in the world? The American stock market that was promised is a big bull, and fools can make money when they come? Liar! Liar! They are all big liars!"

Wei Dong was about to go crazy. He was celebrating Chinese New Year, and he didn't have family reunions during the Spring Festival. He traveled thousands of miles to the United States. Could it be that he wanted to lose money?

And when he first came, he bought a few stocks to test the waters, and they all performed well.

As a result, as soon as Stud enters the arena, the Internet winter will come soon?
Is there such a coincidence?
Conspiracy, this must be a big conspiracy!

Especially the sudden collapse of Enron, such an energy giant, went bankrupt just by saying it went bankrupt?It also brought down the entire U.S. stock market, which is simply an obvious butchery.

Wei Dong could not accept such a cruel fact.

This is the United States, why does the United States also have a slaughterhouse! ?
He scratched his hair in pain, his eyes were already red, like a gambler desperate to lose.

Two off-duty stock managers happened to pass by. Seeing Wei Dong's haggard look, they immediately looked at each other, and then they were filled with emotion.

"Look, another crazy one."

"A lot of people have gone crazy recently, and even more people have died. I hope God bless America."

"I think God should bless and bless us first. Maybe it will be our turn to lose our jobs next month. Do you know how many fund companies have gone bankrupt in just this week?"

After finishing speaking, both of them looked silent. The stock market has fallen so badly. The low-level financial workers like them are the most uncomfortable. Many people can't even keep their jobs.

At this time, in a luxurious manor in the suburbs of New York, several well-dressed gentlemen were playing billiards.

If there are financial elites from Wall Street appearing here, they will be surprised, because these people who are playing billiards are all well-known big names in the investment circle.

Or it should be said that all of them have a bad reputation.

For example, the white-haired old man standing on the side and wiping the head of the club with chocolate powder has fierce eyes. It is George Soros who once set off the Asian financial turmoil and is also a well-known hot money predator in the world financial circle.

However, he has kept a low profile in the past few years. After all, he broke his halberd and fell into the sand during the Xiangjiang campaign, and even suffered a big somersault at Maozi's hands.The current George Soros has lost the kingly attitude he used to have, and has begun to live a semi-retired retirement life ahead of schedule.

And the bald fat man who is kicking off is Cliff Asness. He is much younger than George Soros. He is less than 34 years old this year, and he is a "rookie" in the circle.

But despite his bearded face and rough appearance, he is actually a well-known "academic" in the financial circle. He studied under Eugene Fama, a Nobel Prize winner in economics, and he is the most proud of Eugene Fama protégé.

Cliff Asness has been on Wall Street for many years at a young age. The AQR Capital Management Company he founded is considered to be one of the most profitable quantitative hedge funds in the world, representing the highest quantitative academic level in the world. A top academic master who uses models to speculate in stocks.

The last person, younger than George Soros but older than Cliff Asnes, is James Chanos, the future head of the largest short-short hedge fund, nicknamed "Catastrophe Capitalist", which made countless A listed company is frightened by the human disaster.

These three people are all well-known big shorts in the North American investment circle, and they eat people without spit out their bones.

Just like carnivores on the prairie, they will always use the most vicious methods to hunt and kill their prey.

But now on Wall Street, there are people who are more ruthless than them.

Ian Bauer, the darling of the news media, the most watched rising star in the financial circle in North America at the moment, he was about to go bankrupt and become a homeless man, but by shorting the stock market, he turned the tables against the sky and not only became a billionaire, but also received a lot of attention. Worshiped by countless financial practitioners.

But as the saying goes, a colleague is like an enemy country, if you eat more meat, I have to eat less.

In the investment circle, there are many people who don't like Ian Ball.

After Cliff Asnes hit three shots, he suddenly asked, "What do you think of Ian Ball?"

James Chanos made a hole-in-one, but he said very displeasedly: "The little miscellaneous fish that came out of nowhere actually took a step ahead and cut off the prey that should belong to me."

In the original history, it was James Chanos who shorted Enron. In fact, he had already set his sights on this piece of fat, but before he could make a move, Ian Ball took the lead.

In order to investigate the internal information of the Enron Group, it took him several years of work and invested millions of dollars in costs.

The results of it?
Now it's all in vain!
Cliff Asness couldn't help but mocked: "You should have done it long ago, you hesitated, are you stupid now?"

James Chanos immediately retorted, and said with a sneer: "How can you be better than me? The big guys who were shorting technology stocks are now in the pockets of the people behind the saltwater fund, AQR Capital Management The loss is not smaller than mine, don't the investors behind you have any objections?"

Both are big bears, and both are ruthless people who drink blood and eat flesh. Naturally, the two of them dislike each other, and neither agrees with the other.

On the other hand, George Soros, who has fallen from the altar, has cultivated his moral character in recent years, and his temper is not as violent as before. He opened his mouth to stop the quarrel between the two.

"Now is not the time for internal strife. No matter how many conflicts we had in the past, now we all have a common enemy. Is it okay to use your anger and energy to unify the outside world?"

After all, it is Big Brother. Even if the scenery is not as good as before, George Soros's words still have some weight.

James Chanos thought for a while and suggested: "Or just report it to the Department of Justice. I don't believe there is nothing wrong with the Saltwater Fund."

Although Cliff Asnes disliked James Chanos, he also agreed with his idea.

On the contrary, George Soros asked coldly: "It's okay to let the hyena investigate, but the question is, do you know who to investigate?"

Cliff Asnes was puzzled: "Other than Ian Ball, who else can we investigate? We can't let the Department of Justice investigate the big man behind him, right? If the sky is broken, we can save Can't live."

People in the United States naturally know who can be offended to death, and who can't touch a tiger's butt.

What kind of party leader, president...maybe if you check and check, you will find this kind of person. How will it end then?Have all the insiders been stunned?
George Soros didn't say much, but threw out a few photos with a wave of his hands. It was the scene of Ian Ball and Lu Yiming meeting and talking at the Salt Water Fund. From the shooting angle, it can be seen that it was Candid shot at a very close distance, and the technique is extremely unprofessional.

No need to ask, this must be a candid photo taken by an employee of the Saltwater Fund paid off by George Soros.

James Chanos and Cliff Asness both read it but were puzzled.

Among them, James Chanos picked up the photo, looked left and right, and asked in a daze: "An Asian? Who is he?"

For Lu Yiming, George Soros can be said to hate him to the bone.

After all, besides being robbed of the business by Lu Yiming this time, Lu Yiming took away a lot of his money when he shorted Xiangjiang two years ago.

"He is Lu Yiming. I started to pay attention to him when I was in Xiangjiang two years ago. He was also the one who made a lot of money by investing in VA Linux some time ago. They have a "Hurun Rich List" there. Known as the youngest billionaire in Xiaguo mainland, he ranks first on this hundred rich list.

James Chanos and Cliff Asness both instantly remembered.

After all, the VA Linux thing has just passed not long ago.

"Is he the lucky boy who was favored by the goddess of luck?"

Lu Yiming's reputation is still very loud in the North American financial circle by investing in Linux-related companies and directly earning an astonishing profit of 27 billion US dollars.

Even if you don't know him, most of you have heard of his reputation.

But many bigwigs on Wall Street just regarded him as an oriental kid who got lucky, and they didn't really pay much attention to him.

Only George Soros, who had fought against Lu Yiming in Xiangjiang, knew how powerful he was. He immediately snorted and said, "He is not some lucky boy from the East, but a fierce lion cub. A carnivorous beast, anyone who despises him will pay the price."

The two of them didn't believe it, especially Cliff Asness, who came from an academic school, felt that George Soros's statement was ridiculous, and immediately said contemptuously: "As far as the economics desert of Xia Kingdom is concerned, people who can cultivate Such a financial genius?"

George Soros shook his head and said with emotion: "I know you don't believe it, but it is true. When I was in Xiangjiang, I suffered a big loss from him."

Naturally, George Soros would not publicize the embarrassing loss to a high school student, so James Chanos and Cliff Asness really didn't know, and they were shocked.

"Is there such a thing?"

George Soros grimly: "Do I have to joke about this?"

Only then did the expressions of the two become serious, and James Chanos frowned and looked at George Soros: "You mean, he is the real mastermind behind the Saltwater Fund's shorting of US stocks this time?"

George Soros nodded slightly, with a serious expression: "Yes, I still know about Saltwater Fund. I thought this company had gone bankrupt before, but I didn't expect it to come back suddenly with such a high profile, so I asked someone to investigate After a while, I later learned that Lu Yiming joined forces with Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein and others to inject capital into the Saltwater Fund and wantonly short US stocks.”

"Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein?"

Hearing these two names, James Chanos and Cliff Asness were quite surprised.

There is no doubt that these two are big names in the top social circles in North America.

James Chanos was very puzzled: "Microsoft also lost a lot in this short-selling catastrophe, and its stock price plummeted."

George Soros said with a dark face: "But he made money from shorting! And he also took the opportunity to increase his holdings of a lot of Microsoft shares. It seemed to be a loss in a short period of time, but in fact he made money!"

"Ah this..."

The two never expected that Bill Gates could still play such a showy operation.

How else could he be the richest man, he could even kill himself, he really was a ruthless man!

"It seems that this saltwater fund is very tricky." James Chanos frowned and his expression became serious.

Originally, I thought that this saltwater fund was nothing more than a blind cat meeting a dead mouse, but I didn't expect that there are so many twists and turns in it, not only involving the richest man in mainland China, but even the richest man in the world.

George Soros hated Lu Yiming to the core, not to mention the time he got involved in the big hairy boy, and the Hong Kong stock market later, one was unreasonable at first, and the other was protected by the government of Xia State. He failed twice. George Soros You can even find yourself a step down.But now, Lu Yiming, a native of the Xia Kingdom, came to the United States to do his best, and his nephew could bear it, but his uncle couldn't bear it either.

Don't let him do this, so he won't be able to jump on everyone's head to shit in the future?

"What's so difficult? We can't do it if they can do it? I will contact the people in the judicial department and ask them to send someone directly to the door to collect evidence."

A hint of ferocity appeared in the corner of George Soros' eyes, as if he had turned back into that ferocious hungry wolf again.

Seeing that George Soros had a plan, James Chanos and Cliff Asnes immediately expressed that they would provide support when necessary.

In the villa, the firewood in the fireplace was burning, and the whole house was warm.Lu Yiming and Li Yiwen had a very pleasant time eating the delicious foie gras and barbecue.

Lu Yiming wiped his greasy hands, and then said with a smile: "Qingxue called me just now, and I have to go back to class. Now the Saltwater Fund is on the right track, so I don't need to stay here and stare at it." Yes. I plan to go back tomorrow, you stay here to watch the situation, and report to me directly if there is any situation."

It is now March, and the university has already signed up for classes. Shi Qingxue has already gone to school, and has been attending classes for a while.

"Damn, you left me again."

Li Yiwen complained.

"Do you know that it's dangerous outside now? If you leave me here, you won't be afraid that I will be killed? Just like that Ian Ball. By the way, I recently heard that guy yelling that he wants to buy an armored vehicle. "

Lu Yiming was dumbfounded: "An armored vehicle is not enough. Well, I think you also need to find a bodyguard. In this way, I will let Zhang Jiefang come over to protect you tomorrow."

"It's almost there."

Li Yiwen felt that he was becoming more and more dangerous now, especially after coming to the United States, one day he and Lu Yiming even witnessed a gun battle on the street through the glass window of the villa.

After a full meal, Lu Yiming told Zhao Tiezhu to arrange for him to return home tomorrow.

Zhao Tiezhu came out of his room and planned to go out, but just as he opened the door of the villa, he saw a police detective wearing a police uniform, with a baton on his waist, and holding a big wolf dog in his hand, waving a riot stick and walking towards this side come over.

Zhao Tiezhu hurriedly closed the door and returned, and said to Lu Yiming with a serious face: "Mr. Lu, he is an armed police detective from the United States, and he has surrounded our place."

He opened the drawer of the shoe cabinet, took out two pistols, and pulled the safety off.

This is good in the United States. With Lu Yiming's contacts, it is easy to get a few pistols.

"Detective?"

Li Yiwen couldn't help looking at Lu Yiming: "What are you doing behind my back again?"

Lu Yiming said with a dark face: "I haven't left the house for the past few days. What bad things can I do? They're mobilizing the relevant departments to get me. I just said, the United States is so pissy, believe it now?"

He took out his cell phone and called Bill Gates.

At this moment, the sound of leather boots hitting the floor came in clearly, outside the door, the police detective shouted: "Open the door, FBI!"

(End of this chapter)