Chapter 240 Sanantonio has been getting 14 billion dollars in loans for a month, but Huang Xuan only spent less than 500 million dollars


    Naturally, there will be some rumors within the Hexin industries


    When it comes to their boss, many gentlemen confidently say: "If it were me


    " If it was Huang Xuan - he was in Texas now


    Sanantonio is the seventh largest city in the united states, and sometimes the number is the eighth


    Huang xuan was most impressed by it: the Sanantonio spurs, stone buddha Duncan


    That''s all


    But now there''s one more, the Southwest Baer headquarters


    Southwest Baer has a market value of 78 billion us dollars, which is more than 624 billion yuan in exchange for rmb, which is twice the value of the market at the same time


    However, for a company as valuable as Southwest Baer, its customers are mainly in the middle and south of the united states


    " Only" has about 50 million local phone customers - long distance calls and business are traditional strengths of at & t


    This not only explained the" division of labor" of the little Baer, but also showed the strength of the american telecommunications industry


    Although china mobile was once the world''s largest telecommunications company with a market value of 13


    258 billion us dollars, which was also 1


    7 times that of Southwest Baer, it was created under the circumstances of basic monopoly and weak competition, while the world''s total telecommunications service expenditure alone reached $ 1


    2 trillion per year


    The companies that can be mentioned casually have a long list - verizon, qt, Southwest Baer; British telecommunications, french telecommunications, spanish telecommunications, sonera in europe; Australia telecommunications and optus in the asia pacific region, each of which has been tested for a long time, are strong companies with so-called core competitiveness


    As for bell labs (lucent technology), drooling people could drown 100,000 cubic meters


    Before he could drool, he met Whitaker, the current president and chairman of Southwest Baer, who, if not surprisingly, would become the merged president of at & t, sbc, using the company''s gold-lettered logo


    Whitaker, over 60 years old, was a tall mediterranean man with black hair, black eyes, olive skin, wrinkles on his brows and corners of his eyes


    He started from Baer in the south and reached his current position step by step


    He became the chairman of the second largest telecommunications company in the united states


    It currently holds a 4


    8 % stake in Southwest Baer with a market value of us $ 3,744 million (about us $ 3


    5 billion) and ranks fourth in the list of shareholders of the company


    In other words, huang xuan had a 5 % say in whether to buy at & t


    Whitaker shook Huang Xuan''s hand and said," Mr


    Huang is very welcome to Sanantonio


    I hope you like the Mexico style here


    " Sanantonio was a very stylish and interesting city


    At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the spanish came here and the white people began to settle there


    At the beginning of the 19th century, Mexico was declared independent from the rule of spain, and the small city of Sanantonio became the territory of the mexicans at the same time


    In the nineteen thirties, in order to resist the rule of the mexicans, the people of Texas set up a command post in a building called the" church of the alma sermon," and fought the oppressors with blood


    The last 187 defenders were all sacrificed


    Some chinese call it the 72 martyrs of the yellow flower gang in the united states, which is also appropriate


    But like many american cities, Sanantonio, after the successful rebellion, did not carry out a revolution, but continued their Mexico style of life, so Whitaker would say Mexico style


    He shrugged and said," I''m an internationalist


    " God knows, he was a well-established future" communist" party member - if he had followed Huang Jindi''s plan


    Whitaker kept smiling and did not let go of Huang Xuan''s hand


    " Before I saw you, Joseph said you were a young man


    I didn''t understand until I saw you


    " This was probably the" young and promising" compliment of the Mexico style


    Huang Xuan greeted them calmly, while david stared at the black bodyguards in black suits, ties, and glasses nearby


    Speaking of which, in order to get a visa for him, it really took a lot of effort from the boss


    If it wasn''t for Lorraine''s fake skills and Huang Xuan''s uncle Zhang Shuduan''s help, it wouldn''t have been easy for comrade Pawn Wei to meet these four black youths


    Isaac had become Huang Xuan''s family bodyguard, not only responsible for Xiaodiao''s beautiful girl''s school and school problems, but also to follow Cai Wenji to Beijing to travel around the west


    Instead, it was Huang Xuan, usually only with Pawn Wei and two armed bodyguards, the former used to intimidate, the latter used to guard the door


    Whitaker''s subordinates looked unfriendly at Huang Xuan


    Due to his chinese identity, the american antitrust agency did not have a high opinion of the acquisition, which consumed a lot of energy for some gentlemen


    Unlike buying at & t shares directly, after the offer was made, The antitrust agency could only give two answers: yes or no


    Of course, sbc was reluctant to let the long-planned effort go to waste, but after Huang Xuan rejected the early acquisition, Southwest Baer had only one way to go, forcing a review to avoid Huang Xuan''s nationality


    In other words, it was an explanation for Huang Xuan


    Sitting in a lincoln car heading downtown, Whitaker made the final effort and said solemnly," Mr


    Huang, what do you think of my proposal


    " The previous proposal was for him to buy the sbc shares in Huang Xuan''s hands to cross the final threshold before the acquisition and avoid the trouble of political lobbying


    " I believe in Mr


    Whitaker''s management of assets


    " Naturally, this was a tactful rejection


    Whitaker sighed, leaned back in his chair and said," so, we have to face it together


    " He didn''t say what to face, but everyone knew it


    " Benefits and risks should be shared


    " That being said, for Huang Xuan, the actual risk was reduced by countless times


    As the buffer became stronger, it could be seen as the increase in luck before a certain goal was set


    Of course, that was just the understanding


    Businessmen were afraid of risk and eager for profit


    If there was no real news, Huang Xuan, who had already made 200 million us dollars, would be wise to sell stocks


    Whitaker sat up, frowned slightly, thought of something, and said," which company do Mr


    Huang think we would buy


    " With less than a week to go before the acquisition, it was not surprising for shareholders to know that sbc had a acquisition plan, but they would not necessarily know about the acquisition of Target Corp


    Huang Xuan was naturally among the unknowns


    " Att Corporation


    " Huang Xuan smiled softly and twirled the Bordeaux red wine in his hand


    Whitaker was a wine lover


    Not only were there expensive wines from the'' 60s in the car refrigerator, but there were also new wines produced in the last two years


    This was the normal wine taster


    Most of the gentlemen who talked about the'' 86 red wine'' in the beginning seemed to be more of a yes-man


    Whitaker did not surprise himself


    " Lu" smiled and said," it''s hard to convince the gentlemen in washington


    We can''t let this acquisition fail


    "" I can afford more lawyer fees, for example, 80 %


    " Huang Xuan probed


    In the united states, lobbying groups, which are composed of lawyers, former" government" officials and well-informed people, are an absolute borderless organization


    From the back to the front, Clinton, bush senior, Reagan, Carter, Nixon


    Needless to say, other than Nixon''s successor, poor Gerald & ford, the previous presidents were lobbying stars in washington


    They were the best lobbyists for the new president, and their influence in the party far exceeded that of an ordinary senator


    From the japan issue in the 1980s, it was clear that the so-called former senior trade representative (equivalent to china''s ministry officials), the secretary of state, and countless former governors and senators could speak for japan in the face of interests without taking into account the position of the us" government


    " The main reason why china could not use the same method was that most officials were still cautious about their contact with red china


    Although Mccarthy had disappeared, he could not help but guard against it


    But for a chinese, or a chinese shareholder, there is no such problem


    In theory, any trade bill could be passed in the united states as long as there were sufficient benefits and a small amount of lobbying fees


    Whitaker understood this, so he would continue to talk to huang xuan


    Huang Xuan certainly didn''t skimp on tens of millions of dollars in" consulting fees" compared to 14 billion dollars in loans


    Such a forthright attitude immediately changed Whitaker''s attitude


    He" revealed" a" sincere" smile and said," don''t worry, I will convince those bureaucrats


    " He said as he clinked glasses with Huang Xuan and said," happy working together


    "" Happy cooperation


    " After Huang Xuan toasted, he asked tentatively," I heard that Cleveland consortium also invested in sbc


    "" Oh, you are all well-informed people


    " It was a sneer from washington


    Lu smiled and said," 8 % of the shares


    That''s 6 billion us dollars


    Why would the Cleveland consortium give it to a young man in his 20s


    His name is Aiken, right


    "" Aiken Mather


    " Whitaker confirmed," do you know the Mather family


    "" A member of the Cleveland consortium


    "" That''s right


    About a month ago, Aiken was only an important member of the Mather family


    He was the eighth in line


    " He opened his mouth wide and said with a rude smile," why do you look like a royal family


    " Whitaker blinked and continued," there are some changes now


    "" What kind of change


    " Huang xuan also lit up on the energy screen


    " His father became the new head of the Mather family, so Aiken is the first in line


    " The same content was displayed on the energy screen, but it was not reported by the media


    The consortium was always secretive about their internal problems


    Lorraine was mainly showing the Mather family''s lawyer''s documents, which were more than 500 pages long, with 300 additional pages and an appendix that was twice that


    Decided or asked Whitaker," he doesn''t have a brother


    "" You mean Aiken


    He has two brothers, but the oldest one is still in high school, so


    " Huang Xuan understood and hesitated a little


    " Does he fully represent the Mather family


    "" Looks like that


    " The feeling was terrible