Military Industry of Great Powers: Build the Strongest Flanker.

Chapter 207 Gulf War

In the early morning of January 1991, 1, the multinational forces led by the United States began to implement the "Desert Storm" military operation and launched a large-scale air attack on Little Ivan, and the Gulf War broke out.

At 2:24 local time on February 4, multinational forces launched a ground offensive. On February 2, Little Ivan announced that he would accept the ceasefire, and the Iraqi army collapsed immediately. At 26 a.m. on the 28th, the multinational forces announced the cessation of the offensive, ending the 8-hour ground battle. Two days later, the Gulf War ended...

In March 1991, Wison International's war to attack the international securities market began.

The first battle begins with Oracle Technology in the United States.

In 1990, Oracle's globalization strategy failed, and it lost $17 million for the first time in the year, which severely damaged investor confidence. On the day the financial statements were made public, Microsoft's stock also plummeted 80%, and Nasdaq Software stocks were in mourning, and Oracle's own stock fell % in a week and remained languishing until March.

Huisheng International acquired 20% of Oracle's shares from Lehman Brothers, McKee Investments, and the Norwegian National Fund for US$3.7 million at a premium of 33% above the market.

In March of the same year, Wison International invested US$56 million to participate in Broadcom's Series A financing and obtained % of Broadcom's shares.

In April, Wison International spent a high premium of US$2.6 million to acquire a 33% stake in an American EDA software company that was still in its growth stage, and then spent US$5.8 million to acquire a 37% stake in another EDA software giant, Jianteng Electronics. .

Autodesk will definitely not let it go. Now Autodesk is still a little brother and is not qualified to be listed on Nasdaq. It has only issued 11 million shares in the secondary market, with an issue price of US$ per share, and its market value is still Less than $ million.

Wison International directly scanned the secondary market and launched a privatization acquisition. It spent US$70 million, a 77% premium, and acquired 23% of Autodesk's shares. The remaining % of the shares were held by the founders of Autodesk.

Zhao Guoqing directed Wison International to attack cities in the United States and had great potential to recruit these future stars into the network in one fell swoop.

However, in May, Wison International's acquisition of Silicon Graphics and MIPS Computing was forcibly blocked by the U.S. Congress. Even though Wison International stated to Congress that it was only an investment and did not involve voting rights, it was still rejected!

All right! Even so, the rewards are great.

But 20 billion US dollars is indeed too much. Even if Wison International spent billion US dollars heavily betting on Microsoft and Intel, it would not be able to spend it all. There is still nearly billion US dollars that there is no place to put.

How to spend it, of course on the media.

CNN, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reuters, AFP, Hong Kong's Sing Tao Daily, The Sun, Asia Television, Oriental Daily...

As long as you want to sell, a high premium doesn't matter. The market value of The Washington Post is less than US$1.5 million, and the market value of media giant CNN is only US$2.7 million.

Sing Tao Daily quoted 20 million Hong Kong dollars, but Liang Jin said it was a big deal.

Zhao Guoqing spent 20 billion US dollars to invest heavily in media stocks. Although he cannot control these large international media, he is basically a major shareholder with more than 100% of the shares. As for the media in Hong Kong Island, he directly acquires all the media and holds % of the shares. Equity.

In June, Wison International followed up for half a year and reached an agreement with the board of directors of Cisco Technology to acquire 5.7% of Cisco's shares for US$72 million. This round of investment by Wison International came to an end.

The investment in Cisco was also commented by the Wall Street Journal as the stupidest investment in history, regardless of the fact that Wison International is the second largest shareholder of the Wall Street Journal.

“Wison International paid a 300% premium to acquire a company with revenue of less than US$ million...”

Even Alejandro, the president of Goldman Sachs Investment Bank, personally called Zhao Guoqing and hoped that Mr. Zhao would be cautious. If the transaction was successful, he would have no way to explain it to the Goldman Sachs board of directors.

As for Apple, which lost Steve Jobs, their company president Hector Canteros said sourly when facing the media: "Wison International should invest in Apple because Apple is good enough and can bring generous returns to investors! "

As for IBM, I am also confused as to why Wison International's eyes are not focused on IBM. After all, IBM is the leader in high technology in the United States.

In the eyes of investors, Wison International has become a brainless scapegoat. They leave the investigation step and go straight to the point. They don't even care about the price of the company they are looking for, which has lost the meaning of investment...

Well, Teacher Xiao Zhao doesn’t care. He told Liang Jin to keep an eye on those start-up companies, especially the Internet, software, and semiconductor sectors, and to formulate reports every week...

"..."

The cost of angel investment is often the lowest. Fortunately, the US$10 billion has been spent.

And the nearly five billion US dollars lying in the Vision Investment account has not been touched much. How to spend this money? Teacher Xiao Zhao has a headache.

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But his troubles don't end there.

In June 1991, Zhao Guoqing, who had been accompanying children in Hong Kong for more than half a year, returned to Shenzhen City and was immediately dragged to the guest house of a base in Kongzhi by Mr. Mu.

"Good guy, I thought you weren't coming back!"

"..."

Is it necessary to be in such a hurry?

Mr. Mu expressed his urgency.

"Little Ivan's equipment on paper is no worse than that of our country. They are equipped with more than 21 MiG-62s, and the ground armored forces have more than tanks, including main battle tanks such as the T, as well as those provided by Mao Xiong. SAM air defense missile, Mao Xiong’s most advanced air defense radar..."

But what about the result?

The whole world was dumbfounded.

I thought that even if they were defeated, the multinational forces would pay a heavy price, but in fact, the ground battle only took three days, and the multinational forces defeated little Ivan at an extremely low cost.

"If our country faced such an attack, would it be able to stop it?"

Mr. Mu described the U.S. precision guided bombs.

"The Wall Street Journal commented that during the Vietnam War, if the U.S. military wanted to blow up a bridge, it would need to dispatch an average of 130 aircraft, drop 160 tons of explosives, and pay the price of 12 aircraft, but now it only needs one Laser precision guided bombs..."

The results of the Tomahawk cruise missile are equally astonishing. It can be launched from a distance of 200 kilometers and accurately hit ground targets.

The existence of early warning aircraft once again confirms its status in modern warfare.

Mr. Mu said: "On National Day, we have studied that our fighter planes have no way to survive in a strong electromagnetic interference environment. Our radar will not be able to see it, and our missiles will not be able to find their target..."

Teacher Xiao Zhao saw the deep worry on Mr. Mu's face and smiled: "Mr. Mu, it's not as serious as you think!"

"Not serious yet?"

Zhao Guoqing nodded, the seven-year layout has begun to bear fruit, and it’s time to show it off!

(End of this chapter)