Reboot 2003

Chapter 213 Chapter 121: Drawing fire under the cauldron (two-in-one)

In short... Lao Xu finally handed over the USB flash drive.

After all, thinking about it now, this matter is still a bit of a fuss - someone from Goldman Sachs gave him a USB flash drive, but later said that he had leaked ICBC's business secrets and wanted to take the USB flash drive back.

If we only look at it from the perspective of power and responsibility, we cannot say that there is anything wrong with Goldman Sachs’ actions.

However, compared to the USB flash drive itself, what seems to be more confusing is that Goldman Sachs' sudden change of attitude and this inexplicable leak reminded Lao Xu of some confidentiality regulations that he had done his homework before.

But the confidentiality regulations in his memory did not tell him how to deal with such a messy situation where the multi-party information security system was entangled, and what Xiao Chen said did seem to make sense...

In short, Lao Xu finally agreed and handed the USB flash drive to ICBC’s confidentiality team.

Bex didn't say anything more at that time. He went out immediately. Later, ICBC experts checked the USB disk information and he was not present.

But Lao Xu quickly understood the seriousness of the problem...

Of course, the so-called problem itself is not related to what just happened. The expert was checking the information on the USB disk. Lao Xu was waiting on the other side of the reception room. During this period, he praised Xiao Chen and asked how you knew that honey. Tank Tactics'?

He seemed very profound, and he guessed the motives of Goldman Sachs and ICBC quite accurately.

At this time, Lao Xu was also a little surprised... I had never noticed before that this neighbor Xiao Chen knew a lot.

As a result, Xiao Chen told him on the spot that he learned about it from reading "Computer News" recently.

In the past, to prevent and kill viruses, you would find the viruses yourself and then make targeted arrangements based on the characteristics and patterns of the viruses.

Now to prevent and kill viruses, you can use honeypot tactics and deliberately leave a few holes and call items.

When viruses and Trojans want to use these resources, these call items will be targeted and killed, and a 'honeypot' will be used to stick harmful files...

Yes, this honeypot tactic is actually a theory in the field of digital security.

It's just that within large banks and large groups, the complexity and procedures should be similar.

In order to protect business secrets, they will definitely use some similar methods to facilitate the company's management of the galaxy, and proactively find ways to leak secrets after loopholes appear...

What Xiao Chen said makes sense.

But when Lao Xu heard this, he became numb.

I originally thought you knew a lot, but then I subconsciously believed Xiao Chen’s advice. But it turns out you were blind?
"When someone asks you in the future, don't say that the idea was yours. No one can ask. Do you understand?"

Lao Xu quickly gave Xiao Chen a serious explanation, but at this moment, the ICBC staff on the other side of the room started to commotion for some unknown reason.

Old Chen looked up and met a few dangerous prying eyes.

When asked what happened, these people didn’t answer.

After another while, the 'check' was completed.

Lao Xu felt uneasy and quickly talked to the company's legal department. After further explaining the situation, the company's legal department didn't think there was anything wrong with the matter. He just thought that the process was not right, so he decided to clarify the relationship between authority and responsibility. The reason was that I gave Lao Xu some ideas. In summary, I told him to run away. Lao Xu heard from the ICBC people that everything was fine. Before the USB flash drive was processed and registered, he hurried upstairs to pick up the elderly and children.

When they met, Grandma Xu asked him anxiously: "Tao, who was that bald guy just now? You didn't cause anything else, right?"

"It's okay, don't ask anymore, let's go home quickly..."

As Lao Xu packed his things, he was already calling his colleagues to book a plane ticket for him.

However, when I returned to the hotel lobby, I still saw people waiting there. Of course, the head of the confidentiality team was there, and Bex and his translator were also there.

"Sorry, the case process is a bit slow, but we will hurry up and get it done." The rough man said apologetically and handed back the USB flash drive in a sealed bag. "The information has been checked. Thank you for your help." Cooperate."

He didn't say what the results of the inspection were. After all, this was part of the confidentiality system. After hearing this, Lao Xu said, "No, it belongs to Goldman Sachs. You just need to return it to them."

The rough man was obviously not used to others rejecting his request, and he still insisted: "Please accept it..."

"Then give it to me." Bex was unambiguous and reached out to take the bag of the USB flash drive. After meeting again, he had regained his grace and elegance and turned into the capable Wall Street manager. He smiled slightly and said, He seemed very calm, and there was not much blood in his eyes. "This USB flash drive contains confidential information from both Goldman Sachs and Galaxy Software. It must be kept closely, and focusing on goodwill is the way of life of Goldman Sachs. We have this item." It will be kept safe.”

Then he said as if he was gossiping: "But now... Captain Liao, since you already know that these people are related to overseas money laundering organizations, why don't you arrest them directly?"

"I work in the banking system now and I don't have this power."

"Then it's up to you." Bex looked back at Lao Xu, "When you go back, give your boss... or the bosses a message. Tell them what happened here and that you still have a chance."

"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about." Lao Xu shook his head and gave him one last look, "Let's see."

After saying that, she didn’t bother with him and quickly walked out of the hotel with her family. Baker’s voice came from behind: “Goldman Sachs has always upheld the principle of putting clients’ interests first. If you have any needs, you are welcome to come to Goldman Sachs to solve them.” question……"

It was still early after we left, but it was almost here for this New Year’s Day trip.

Lao Xu was not busy delivering messages to Goldman Sachs, but anyway he began to rush to go abroad and rushed to the airport after leaving the hotel.Especially when waiting for news at the airport, the official documents from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange had been sent to the Red Water Fund. After hearing this, Lao Xu was so frightened that he flew out.

His worries were obviously not groundless. After all, this matter was indeed having a growing impact. During an information drill at ICBC, a confidential team leader who had just been transferred from the disciplinary system discovered a document about the Red Water Fund. , out of professional sense, he kept the document and submitted it to his superiors.

The government has just recently introduced anti-money laundering laws, and the efficiency in handling this kind of matter recently has been incredibly high. After the report was issued, all the joints were opened up on the same day. Although the red water fund cannot be controlled domestically, it can be said in the documents. It is very clear that Kuaikan Media has a very close relationship with this fund.

So it was like overturning the first domino. It was just a small push at first, but the force expanded rapidly, putting huge pressure on the sniper target who seemed unprepared...

Coupled with the push from Goldman Sachs, it seems that the momentum is indeed quite high.

Goldman Sachs did not hide their role in this matter. All their methods were legal and reasonable. In order to prevent themselves from being blamed for leaking the trade secrets of their friends, they even actively planned this 'accident' - they He did not disclose the trade secrets of his friends. He just deliberately put the trade secrets of the three parties in a USB flash drive when teaching ICBC to do confidentiality management, and then pushed ICBC to "accidentally discover" it.

And this well-arranged conspiracy broke out like this, and then... nothing happened.

It is said that the local officials in Shencheng and Lin'an reacted very fiercely that day, and they went back and forth with the bank. Although outsiders did not know what happened, it seemed that there were several rounds of fighting between gods and gods.

But after that, it is said that the bank did not respond at all, and the senior ICBC executive who met with international friends in Lin'an also hurried to Beijing, leaving the Goldman Sachs executives in Lin'an aside.

Later, two related companies submitted some documentation, and nothing happened, and Lao Xu went abroad smoothly.

Sure enough, the government still needs time to discuss and confirm it slowly?

All parties involved seem to think so, but once the plan has started, there is no reason to stop.

"Aqin..."

On the train back, the air above the heads of the two families still seemed heavy.

Old Chen was sitting in the front row, trying to find a topic to talk to the old man, but Grandma Xu was a little distracted - anyway, the scene she witnessed during the day had a too big impact on her. For ordinary people, it is difficult to understand the complex business. Logic is not an easy thing. It is very common to over-exaggerate a certain threat but fail to understand the real threat. During the incident during the day, she indeed saw the most unsightly scene. After that Even if ICBC's confidentiality team enforces law enforcement, it actually does not use such relatively brutal methods.

But the back of Old Xu Xingse who hurriedly got on the plane was still in front of her. The old man was restless on the way back. Old Chen tried to find something else to say to her. Xu Lingling was also worried and looked at Chen Qin beside her. Chen Qin said : "It'll be okay."

It will indeed be fine.What Goldman Sachs does is probably similar to what he does - of course Goldman Sachs may be a little more intense, and the thinking is not complicated, but it just means taking the fire under the cauldron...

At the beginning, he dangled Edward Fund, making the other party mistakenly think that he could find more funds to take over the deal immediately. But before he could wait, the market overturned, and the person behind the scenes jumped off the building.

The purpose of Goldman Sachs is also to increase the financial pressure on red water funds. Now he has bought hundreds of millions of CDSs. Many of them have small margin ratios and require continuous maintenance fees. If you compare it with the accounts borrowed by Goldman Sachs, it should be easy. You can know that the red water fund has no cards in its hands.

But Goldman Sachs has no way of knowing this conclusion, because in Goldman Sachs' view, these funds are provided by red water funds. Red water funds have many external investors. These investors can help red water funds cover the bottom line and provide ammunition, but the background But not very clean.

In order to "drain the fire", Goldman Sachs planned this "misunderstanding"...

For offshore capital with such problematic backgrounds, regulatory iron fists are much more serious than market overturns. Faced with investors who are constantly withdrawing their capital, what can a private equity fund do?Just like the original Edwards Fund that has jumped off the building, what was originally supposed to be able to last for four years may be immediately imminent, but what was originally supposed to be able to last for only half a year...

It may indeed go bankrupt and jump off the building.

Of course, after all, this was never going to happen.

Red Water Fund actually does not have any external capital. Those 'external investors' were part of the empty city plan. If they ran away, it would not have any impact on the fund. As for Goldman Sachs alarming supervision and driving away the wolf, he had already prepared for this.

Although it was expected that the government would discover this matter later, the impact would not be significant - the Chinese government does not have long-arm jurisdiction, and even using the domestic industry of Galaxy Software to scare the monkeys would be unjust. Based on future experience, this This situation is generally not dealt with directly.

What's more, Chen Qin didn't want to keep those 'partners' at all. He had already prepared the list and could hand it over to them at any time if the government needed it. If Goldman Sachs wanted to punish him in this way, it would be regarded as starting from the beginning. It was in the wrong direction from the beginning.

Thinking of this, Chen Qin repeated in a low voice, as if confirming: "It will be okay. Uncle Xu is not in charge of this matter, so don't worry."

Xu Lingling nodded, her hair on her temples swaying slightly as the car rocked: "Then I'll go back and tell grandma."

Chen Qin hummed, but looked at the plain outside the window, waiting for the bus to arrive.

Lao Xu arrived in Xiangjiang soon. When he got off the plane and reported that he was safe, the long-distance bus had not yet reached Hanzhang City.

After arriving at Hanzhang, the car stopped for 10 minutes and then drove towards Longshan.

Nowadays, the highways across the country have not been completed. The car got on the old national highway and became more and more bumpy. The old lady in the front row was a little motion sick today and sat on the chair with a pale face. Finally, they arrived at Longshan. Lou Xuemei called a taxi to take her there. Man, finally let the old man get home safely.

When she went upstairs, Grandma Xu screamed, and Mr. and Mrs. Chen sent her upstairs.

After returning home, Lou Xuemei asked what was going on. You guys went out to play normally, but what happened to Lao Xu suddenly?
Old Chen didn't know how to explain it, but Chen Qin sat for a while and felt like he had nothing to do, so he took his computer bag and returned to his bedroom.

“What did the people at Yahoo say?”

"I just said that we should have canceled the Luxemburg account a long time ago. If we can't afford to offend, why can't we hide..."

"Look at what's going on over there. It's better to tell Mr. Gu and ask him to make the decision."

"So who leaked that information? If it was Goldman Sachs..."

"Having said that, I don't think Luxembourg can be entirely blamed for this..."

As soon as he entered the company's remote conference room, it was a mess. The person in charge of the meeting said that Mr. Chen was here. The people in the investment department continued the meeting in fear, and someone sent him a private message telling him what happened during the day. He also said that the department is currently solving the problem according to the risk control plan, but the internal assessment document for this accident has been completed...

Just as expected...no big things, just small things.

Goldman Sachs's punch was powerful enough, but because it was struck in the wrong direction, it had no practical use at the beginning.

It's just that the difference in rank is too big, and he was accidentally involved in the feud between ICBC and Goldman Sachs.

Just being touched a little was enough to make the industry around him tremble.

"Today, the Weibo backend detected that many newly registered users are hyping up topics about us, saying that the Red Water Fund is 'domestic corrupt officials engaging in charity in Meijian'."

"Shencheng and Lin'an suddenly sent accountants to the company to check the accounts, and everyone was extremely busy..."

"Also, look at the media. We haven't asked yet, but they also have big questions."

"It is said that Yahoo headquarters suddenly announced its support for the rights protection of those small shareholders. Yesterday, it started asking Mr. Gu from Kuaikan to announce the whereabouts of the US$[-] million in financing..."

"enough."

Chen Qin stopped the financial intern who was trying to explain the situation to him. He had guessed some of these situations. Los Angeles had sent an email before, and he almost knew what happened.

"Have you tried contacting Goldman Sachs?"

"There has been communication." The intern on the call already knew about this, "Goldman Sachs seems to want to put pressure on us, but at the same time they contacted Mr. Sun of Galaxy Software, and their attitude seemed to have changed..."

Chen Qin asked: "What do they want?"

"We were urged to tighten our debt before, but it is said that the conditions are different this time..."

The intern said wait a moment and seemed to go directly to talk to Sun Xiaomei. A moment later, Sun Xiaomei made a direct online call and said to Chen Qin: "Mr. Chen, Goldman Sachs suddenly came to offer me terms at noon today. He said They no longer seek profit from our debt.”

"He said... Goldman Sachs has extensive experience in dealing with China. If we are in trouble now, they can buy all the CDS in our hands at a premium. In exchange, Goldman Sachs can extend our debt for ten years. He also guaranteed Goldman Sachs can help us complete all the business at hand, they can help us acquire Mozilla, they can help us get Weibo, they can help us sell mobile phones all over the world, they can even help us go public for free within three months... …”

"How did you answer?"

Sun Xiaomei replied: "I thought the conditions were too good and must be fraudulent, so I didn't accept them. Speaking of boss, there are rumors that our company is running a hedge fund?..."

The situation seems clear.

Maybe the situation may really be different. Thinking of Bex's bloodshot eyes this morning, maybe he didn't sleep well last night. As for Chen Qin's previous feeling that the Galaxy Software business was not attractive enough to them, that was probably true. That's right.

But everything is different now. A bigger business seems to be surfacing, and it is precisely because of this business that they have been targeted by Goldman Sachs again.

"Boss, have the people from the investment department told you? People from the bank came directly to our company to check our taxes today."

"I said so."

"Then what should we do quickly? The situation here is not serious yet, but it seems very dangerous. Mr. Gu seems to be very anxious today..."

"I'll go check it out later, thank you everyone for your hard work."

Sun Xiaomei had other troubles to deal with, so she quickly hung up the phone and went to work. Chen Qin sat in his room and found the contact information in Los Angeles. Of course, he didn't plan to do anything, just let them know the nearest be careful.

But before making the call, Chen Qin suddenly thought of something.

In his own bedroom, he moved the clutter on the table and threw his schoolbag on the bed.Picking up a small mirror, the primary school student in the mirror is no longer the same as he was three years ago. He just didn't sleep well and has some dark circles under his eyes today.

I looked out the window again, at the low buildings and the gloomy sky outside the window. It was going to snow in Longshan.

(End of this chapter)