Rebirth Starts From 2006 Chapter 782

After Xue Li's voice fell, Qin Yu stared at her blankly for a few seconds, then lowered his eyebrows, thinking alone,

On the screen, the six executives of the American Rainbow Group present were waiting quietly without any impatience.

After a brief silence, Shirley suddenly looked at a middle-aged man across the conference table. This man was the former chairman of Lehman Brothers and the current special advisor to the president of American Rainbow Group, Richard Fuld,

Receiving the eye message from Shirley, Fuld raised his brows, rolled his eyes twice, raised his head and glanced at the screen first, then coughed dryly,

Awakened by the sound of coughing, Qin Yu suddenly raised his head and looked at the computer screen.

At this time, Fuld raised his hand, indicating that he was going to speak, then adjusted the height of the microphone on the table, looked at Qin Yu on the big screen, and said seriously,

"Ms. Qin, I want to talk about my thoughts."

Qin Yu nodded, "Please."

Fuld smiled and said, "There is no doubt that the American Rainbow Group is a financial company. Even if we have recently acquired a large number of technology research and development companies and manufacturing factories in Europe, the purpose is not to fully expand the physical business, but to hope Able to provide systematic support to the main financial business from the physical aspect,

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Because we did not arrange for people to fully take over the operations of these companies, but gave them advice from the side and provided financial support,

I don't know my understanding, is there any problem? "

Qin Yu nodded slightly, and said seriously, "Of course, this is the business development idea we determined before.

Although the financial industry is at the top of the industry pyramid, it is still a service industry in the final analysis, and it needs to rely on the real economy to survive and develop.

Finance and entities are symbiotic, co-prosperous, and mutually integrated.

Finance that is separated from the entity, although financial derivatives can be used to move the wind and rain in the financial market and leverage greater interests, it is also a river without a source and a tree without its own foundation. Once a storm hits, no matter how big it is, may be destroyed once,

Therefore, it is necessary for the real economy to provide us with blood and possibilities, so that the entity becomes the material basis of the main financial business.

Only in this way, the main financial business will not develop uncontrollably, and the risks will be magnified without limit.

When faced with attacks from financial market opponents, entities will also provide us with more confidence and means. "

After saying this, she turned her attention to everyone, "This is the successful experience of Santander Bank, and it is also the most essential difference between us and most other financial institutions."

After Qin Yu finished speaking, seeing that she had no intention of continuing to speak, Fuld nodded lightly, and said seriously,

"I totally agree with you that finance should be backed by a physical presence,"

After a pause, he raised his head and said with a smile, "However, I think the method of relying on it can be more flexible."

Qin Yu looked at him without any change in his eyes, "Tell me your opinion."

Fuld smiled and said, "It is true that we need a physical entity, but we are a financial institution after all, and it is impossible to devote ourselves to operation and management like a physical company.

In fact, in this regard, HSBC and Goldman Sachs, as well as pioneer institutions such as Santander Bank, have provided us with very good examples.

That is, adhere to the core position of financial business, intervene in the real industry with financial means, choose suitable targets, cultivate and grow them,

Then sell most of the stock at a profit, retaining only a small stake to maintain the bank's influence in the company and industry,"

Fuld spread his hands and talked eloquently,

"This is different from venture capital, and also different from industrial investment, but it is both venture capital and industrial investment.

In the final analysis, finance needs entities as support, but what kind of entity to choose and how to support each other, there is a lot of room for manipulation. "

As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at Shirley, and said,

"I would like to ask Ms. Shirley to introduce Russia's energy companies. As for the grain companies,"

He gestured with his raised left hand and grinned,

"I heard that in the former Soviet Union, there was an unspoken rule in their officialdom, that is, if you want to bring down an official, let him manage agriculture,

The reason is very simple. Soviet agriculture is a bottomless backwater, and anyone who goes there will pay for nothing. "

The words are not exhaustive, but the meaning is very clear. For the size of Rainbow Group, Russian agricultural companies are not worth mentioning.

After Fuld's words fell, there was a burst of light laughter in the quiet conference room.

Shirley took a deep breath and grinned, "Okay, Mr. Fuld, I will first introduce the major energy companies in Russia.

But regarding Russian agricultural companies, I have a slightly different opinion from you, we will talk about this later.”

Then he looked in the direction of the big screen and said seriously, "Russia's most important energy products are natural gas and oil. Their energy giants also take these two products as their core business, focusing on the exploration, smelting, transportation and Carry out work in links such as terminal supply,

Among them, the ten largest companies are the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, the largest state-owned oil company Rosneft, the largest independent oil company Lukoil, the largest joint venture Russian Tyumen British Petroleum Holdings,

As well as Surgut Oil and Gas Company, Ross Oil Company, Novatek, the largest independent gas production company, Slav Oil Company, Bash Petroleum Company, a well-known private oil company,

And the last Tatar oil company,

Just a few days ago, the Russian government included these ten oil and gas companies in the list of Russia's strategic core energy companies. "

After saying this, Shirley looked at Fuld,

Fuld nodded immediately, turned to look at the big screen, and said to Qin Yu,

"The top ten energy companies are the top ten giants in the Russian energy field, but in the global energy market, their current size is far from enough, neither can be compared with OPEC, nor can they be compared with Western Petroleum Group, and they are not even enough to influence market price,

And Russia has listed these companies as strategic core energy companies. The intention is very obvious. It is to use energy as a strategic resource, elevate the status of energy, and make it an unconventional weapon of the country.

But this requires a very large capital investment. With Russia's economic strength, it is obviously a bit difficult for them.

exactly,"

Fuld spread his hands and said with a slight smile, "We are planning to enter the energy field. They have what they need, and we have what we want. This is a godsend opportunity!"

As he said, he turned the seat, facing the big screen, and said softly,

"Our main business is finance, and our specialty is also finance. Now we want to get involved in the food and energy fields on a large scale. The biggest weapon should also be finance.

Therefore, I suggest that we send a delegation to start a dialogue directly with the Russian Federation, and strive to invest in at least three core energy companies.

In particular, Gazprom, which is negotiating with Germany to prepare for the Beixi No. 1 project, and Novatek, an independent natural gas production company supplying natural gas for this pipeline,

Be sure to get enough equity and at least one director seat in these companies,

In this way we have the opportunity to fully intervene in the Russian energy market from point to point,” he said.

Fuld spread his hands and said seriously, "Our advantage lies not only in our well-known sufficient capital reserves, but also in the fact that we are based on Wall Street and are a member of the Western Capital Group.

Even if Russia no longer has hopes of joining NATO and the EU, it will still expect to be in line with the West,

What's even more commendable is that the Chinese background of the head office also coincides with Russia's "turn east" strategy,

This opportunity is completely tailor-made for us. Apart from us, Russia cannot find a more suitable investment institution to participate in this big project.

At the same time, this method of financial intervention will not cause resistance and rebound from Russian energy companies, and they will even welcome it with open arms.

As long as we can get shares in Russian energy companies, we can exert influence on them,

After that, it is natural to use these influences to infiltrate downstream industries,

Instead of us bidding on oil fields, building pipelines, and opening refineries,

That's not our forte! "

Having said that, Fuld paused for a moment, looked at Qin Yu's reaction, saw that she was still listening carefully, and continued,

"I think the concept of 'financial industry' can be the initial guideline for us to implement this plan.

We don't need to personally control the entity, we just need to maintain enough influence over the entity,”

As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at Xueli, then turned back, and said to Qin Yu,

"Ms. Shirley said just now that Russia will have at least a ten-year peace window, which means that we only have ten years for stable development.

The construction period of a 10-million-ton oil refinery is about three years, and a 1,000-kilometer gas pipeline will take about the same amount of time.

So in addition to normal market investment, we also need to race against time,

Be part of the energy industry first, then use their power to grow and thrive,

Technology, equipment, manpower, let their resources become our help, and develop the energy industry outside Russia, such as Africa, or other emerging regions. "

At this point, Fuld stopped abruptly and raised his right hand to signal, "This is my suggestion."

On the screen, Qin Yu looked at him and nodded slowly, and said,

"Very pragmatic advice to consider,"

Then turned to look at Shirley, "You seem to have something to say just now, I mean, about the food part."

"Uh, yes,"

Shirley nodded, glanced at the notebook in front of her, and said with a smile, "Just now, Mr. Fuld meant that there are no agricultural companies worthy of large investment in Russia.

I can't say that Mr. Fuld's statement is completely wrong, because that was the case a few years ago," he said.

She raised her head and smiled at Fuld as she spoke,

Fuld smiled back, saying that he doesn't care. He really hasn't paid attention to the agricultural situation in Russia for a long time. He has been immersed in the hot subprime bond market for the past few years, and he has no time to care about those irrelevant things.

Xue Li nodded with a smile again, then looked at Qin Yu, and continued, "I won't say much about the failures of Russian agriculture, anyway, it has become a thing of the past.

What I want to say is that after Putin came to power, targeted adjustments were made to address the shortcomings of the previous agricultural reform.

He allowed small farmers to develop freely, reduced the proportion of family farms to less than 12.5%, and then fully supported large-scale agricultural enterprises, that is, state, collective joint-stock and private farms, reducing the remaining 87%. Five of the agricultural lands were handed over to them,

To this end, he changed the law to allow free trade in agricultural land and established the Russian Agricultural Bank to provide low-interest loans to agricultural companies.

It even lowered the agricultural tax, reducing the original 28 agriculture-related taxes to ten.

His series of actions soon saw the effect,

Just in the past 2008, Russia's total grain output exceeded 100 million tons for the first time, and the export volume exceeded 10 million tons, successfully transforming Russia from a grain importing country to a grain exporting country."

After introducing the basic situation, Shirley raised her forehead slightly and said with a smile on her face,

"The rapid development of agriculture has also given agricultural companies that only survived before the ambition to go public.

So, our opportunity is here! "

Hearing this, everyone on and off the screen couldn't help but smile,

Some even laughed out loud,

Agricultural companies seek to go public and enter the financial field. When other financial giants in the world have not noticed Russia,

If the elites of the Rainbow Group can't eat a piece of fat from them, why don't they do investment banking at all, and just go home and take care of their children!

Just now Fuld said that Russia's energy industry is almost tailor-made for the Rainbow Group. Now it seems that the grain industry may not be much different.

Shirley turned her neck, looked around at everyone present, and waited for the laughter to stop completely before continuing,

"As for the specific implementation plan, my opinion is the same as that of Mr. Fuld.

Enter first financially, then seek to expand, and finally use their resources to contribute to our own cause,"

After finishing speaking, she turned her gaze to Qin Yu, waiting for the final reply from the big boss.

Qin Yu pondered for two seconds, raised his head and glanced at the crowd, finally showing a smile on his face,

"Your suggestion is good, just implement it according to this idea,"

Pausing for a moment, and waiting for smiles to appear on everyone's faces, she continued,

"I agree with your opinion that Russia is the first choice, but I ask you to start investing in Africa immediately after completing the layout in Russia~www.mtlnovel.com~,

At this point in time, I hope it will not exceed three years. "

Xueli thought for a while, looked at each other with Fuld and Aguilar, and after confirming their eyes, she nodded at Qin Yu and said, "No problem, if the plan goes well, maybe this time can be moved forward a year. "

Qin Yu laughed immediately when he heard the words, "Then implement it according to the two-year expectation."

Shirley smiled helplessly and made an OK gesture.

Qin Yu turned his attention to Woodman again, and said, "If you go to Africa, how large a security team is needed to ensure safety?"

Woodman said without hesitation,

"It depends on the size of the project site. Normally, a large oil field or a large farm needs about 100 people to ensure the safety there,"

Having said that, he tilted his head helplessly, "Because in addition to dealing with external dangers, they also have to deal with riots that may come from within!"

After a pause, a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes, and he added,

"However, if they encounter an organized attack, the only thing these security personnel can do is to evacuate immediately by helicopter."

He did not say where the establishment's attack came from,

In Africa, the armed forces may serve anyone, but whether they will encounter such a crisis depends on the strength of the investor itself.

For example, Occidental Petroleum Group's projects in Africa have never been attacked by such attacks.

Well, neither do all the projects in China.

After listening to Woodman's words, Qin Yu felt that it was similar to what he had analyzed based on the data before, so he nodded and said,

"Can,"

Then he glanced at everyone, "Immediately sort out the minutes of today's meeting and execute them quickly. The meeting is adjourned."

Chapter end