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Chen Qing's two daughters left Simon's office and rushed to the Cersei Capital headquarters, also located in Building 1230 at Rockefeller Center.

The floor where Apollo Management Company is located is not deserted by Sunday, and there are still people coming and going from office to office.

Chen Qing knows that Apollo Management is currently promoting the acquisition of UCAR International, a graphite electrode manufacturer, involving more than $1 billion.

UCAR produces not graphite electrodes in batteries, but a peripheral product of the steel industry, which is used for heating inside the electric furnace steel. Because this graphite electrode needs to be in contact with a steel solution with a high temperature of more than two thousand degrees for a long time, it needs frequent Replacement is a consumable just needed.Moreover, there are only two such manufacturers in the world, and the other is the German SGL Group.

In the past few years, due to the global economic downturn, the steel industry has entered a trough period, and the demand for graphite electrodes has also been greatly reduced.

Apollo Management Company initiated the acquisition of UCAR at this time, which is obviously optimistic about the prospects of the world economy.

Chen Qing feels that there is probably a Chinese factor in it.

China's rapid economic growth in these years is obvious to all, and because of the importance it attaches to infrastructure construction, China's demand for steel continues to increase significantly.

In the first two months of returning to China, Chen Qing discovered that because of his special attention, BHP Billiton of Australia invested US$500 million in capital, technology and equipment in a large steel company in Jiangsu Province, acquiring 30% of the shares, and will In the next 10 years, it will become the sole iron ore raw material supplier of this large steel giant.Not only that, BHP Billiton also invested another 200 million US dollars in the expansion of the Lianyungang terminal, a large seaport in Jiangsu Province.

The total investment of 700 million US dollars, equivalent to 6 billion yuan at the current exchange rate, shows that the Westeros system is optimistic about the steel industry.

Apollo Management's acquisition of UCAR is clearly an extension of this bullishness.

Chen Qing also found that many companies in the Westeros system seem to be irrelevant, but in fact they are inextricably linked. Just like Apollo Management Company, this company invests in many projects, such as fashion, such as real estate, Such as technology, etc., can be regarded as familiar strengths of Westeros system.

On the other hand, it is probably also because of the huge investment of the Westeros system in China. During the return to the country, someone specifically found them, hoping that the two women would tentatively invite Simon to conduct an open visit to China.Obviously, as long as his boss agrees, a formal invitation from the Chinese official will be sent immediately.

Unfortunately, a guy is not interested in this.

Going back to the office where the two of them managed the company in Apollo, Chen Qing immediately called Leon Black. Her immediate supervisor was Jared Barkley, who was in charge of the Chinese business. However, Scooper was an American company. If you want to initiate an acquisition, it is best to directly interview Apollo Management CEO Leon Black.

Blake's secretary over the phone said BOSS was meeting, and there would be no time until an hour.

Chen Qing was not in a hurry. She made an appointment and sat in the office she shared with Lin Su to start reading the information about the VCD industry and Scooper.

Initially joining Cersei Capital, Chen Qing felt awe at the Wall Street giant.

Even though she was very confident on the surface, she was just brave herself. She was just an English major from China. Her understanding of Wall Street was limited to books and a small amount of hearsay, so she was still very anxious and worried that she would Smashed.

However, after six months of familiarization, Chen Qing gradually relaxed.

Chen Qing was not mistaken at first. Wall Street is indeed a very cruel place to compete, and it gathers a large number of top smart people from all over the world. The circle is also full of scams and weak meat. Therefore,

This can be seen from the fact that the company headquarters is still overcrowded today.

Of course you can rest according to the regulations, however, maybe you will come back on weekdays and you will no longer have your place here.

Secondly, Chen Qing made another mistake. Wall Street does not necessarily require graduates in economics and finance to enter.

The threshold of this circle is even very low.

Many of the big Wall Street brilliance in this circle, only a few people studied economics and finance majors in college, just like Lawrence Fink, CEO of Black Rock Asset Management, the other party studied political science in the University of South Africa. , Apollo Management CEO Leon Black, holds a degree in philosophy from Princeton University; and Chen Qing recently read the book "Liar's Poker" that exposes the inside story of Wall Street, author Michael Lewis, the other's university major It’s art history. However, this guy was in the heyday of the Solomon Brothers, but he became a flamboyant one. After leaving, he became a financial best-selling author.

Chen Qing has asked this question to some people. She felt that her boss, Jared Buckley, at a company party during Christmas last year made a lot of sense. This circle needs smart minds and hard work. Professional knowledge is second, because as long as you are smart and hard working, you can learn while doing what you need.

Understand these, Chen Qing no longer has the anxiety.

She is not lacking in cleverness and diligence. For new knowledge, even if she can’t forget it, she can remember it two or three times. With diligence, she is confident that she can exceed most people.Even if someone else didn't tell her but the network she realized by herself, it was only Simon Westero's one, which she thought was enough to explode everyone in the building.

At the appointed time, Chen Qing got up on time and left the office with a stack of documents. Lin Su behind the desk next to her saw that she did not shout at herself and paused, so she did not keep up.

In any case, she doesn't have Chen Qing's strong ambitions in her heart.

Just a little distracted.

Imagine whether a guy will continue to abstinence tonight.

So much the better.

Well, it seems not so good.

When they came to Leon Black's office, the two were not idlers. They handed over some prepared materials to each other. Chen Qing recounted the project and the results of the meeting with Simon.

In 1994, China shipped less than 20,000 VCDs.

However, only in January this year, with the widespread spread of VCD technology, according to the approximate data obtained by Chen Qing during his time in China, this number exceeded 30,000 units in the first month of the opening year, and it is expected to reach 500,000 in 1995 Above.

Through professional market research, both Chen Qing and BBK's team believe that this is just the beginning.

Take the relatively popular video recorders at this stage as an example. As of 1994, the number of video recorders in China is about 7 million, which is the best reference.

The selling price of VCRs in China is as low as 3,000 yuan, and the more expensive brands are tens of thousands.This is not the most important thing.The key is video tapes. The price of video tapes generally ranging from 20 yuan to 40 yuan, and the price of piracy, is not affordable for ordinary families. Therefore, many people buy video recorders, more of which are used to start a video hall to do business.

Even so, the number of video recorders in China has reached 7 million.

Looking at VCD, although the price of VCD in China is still more than 4,000 yuan at this stage, as long as the market demand increases and mass production, the price of various core components will definitely decline rapidly, and ultimately the price of VCD will be 2,000 yuan. impossible.

The cheapest is still a VCD disc.

Compared to the expensive price of 20 to 40 yuan for video tapes, the retail price of VCD discs is less than 10 yuan.

Of course, this refers to piracy.

Everyone knows that this is the status quo in China. At present, ordinary Chinese people can not afford the expensive price of genuine audio and video resources. The rise of VCD can only rely on the cheap pirated content industry chain.

Chen Qing also mentioned this in his information to Simon, and she did not hear any objections from her boss, who has a huge industry in Hollywood.

This is obviously the default.

Compared with the absolute advantage of the VCR, coupled with the rapid growth of the national consumption level driven by the growth of the Chinese economy, Chen Qing believes that the popularity of VCD in China is an inevitable and inevitable trend, and the market capacity will definitely be higher than the VCR. .

It was almost noon.

While listening to Chen Qing’s introduction, Leon Blake spent about 15 minutes quickly browsing the relevant information, and looked up to Chen Qing: “Chen, I’m busy recently, but I don’t have time to help you with this case. What are you going to do? do?"

Chen Qing directly handed A4 paper with several names on one page to Leon Black: "I know, Leon, I have done a good job in the preliminary work. Just give me these people and form an acquisition team. ."

Leon Black took that page of A4 and glanced at his eyes: "Christopher Dore, I also want to promote him as my assistant during this time, and Emmanuel Brandt, the one on the Thomas team The aggressive French girl, hey, that last time he had a big deal with Chris at the last weekend party, and there was a big deal with Nick Mendelson, Lloyd McEntire, Carla Hills."

Speaking of which, Leon Black has shook his head straight: "Chen, Simon's arrangement for you is Jared's deputy. I have also agreed to the two assistants hired by you and Lin to join the job. Now, you are planning to Do it alone?"

Chen Qing, a nice girl who asked her parents for pocket money, said: "Leon, our company has more than 200 employees, I only need five people."

Leon Black still shook his head: "But the five people you asked for, well, you should be clear."

Chen Qing is of course clear. This is the result of her quiet observation and inspection over the past few months. The five people are all under 30 years old. They are all rising stars with huge potential and rapid rise. No surprises. They will all hope to become the core of this company in the future. backbone.Chen Qing is well aware of her strengths and weaknesses, she is smart enough to work hard, but because of the short time to enter this circle, after all, she lacks enough experience to accumulate.

The five people on the list just make up for her disadvantages in these areas.

However, in the face of Leon Black at this time, Chen Qing will certainly not show: "Leon, I think there are many outstanding people in our company. They are only five of them, and this is what Simon agreed."

Leon Black immediately dismantled: "Simon agrees that you are responsible for this acquisition, but will not agree that you pull these five people to form their own team."

Chen Qing immediately found a smart Nokia phone and shook Leon Black across the desk, saying, "Or, shall I call him now?"

When Leon Blake saw Chen Qing press the button, it was really a bit inexplicable. His boss really could only use indulgence to describe the woman around him.

Moreover, he did not want to stab to Simon because of a trivial matter. In the six months since he joined Apollo Management Company, the Oriental girl opposite was indeed good enough. It was not the kind of vase that used Simon’s pampering, even if it was him. I also very much recognize each other's abilities, and believe that my own boss also weighs in.

This little thing quarreled with Simon, and it would be even more troublesome if the big boss felt that he was deliberately making things difficult for Chen Qing to rule out aliens.

The case of Black Rock's acquisition of State Street Bank's asset management department finalized a few days ago, on the surface, was a big expansion of Black Rock. Leon Black knew that this was actually a blow to Lawrence Fink.He didn't want to suffer such a beat.

In the end, it was still a compromise: "So, Chen, I will help you pick a few people, and as for Chris' team, the French girl will be among them."

Chen Qing saw Leon Black's tone loose, and directly lowered his head to start pressing the key: "I think I should call Simon."

Leon Blake paused and saw Chen Qing at his fingertips, and finally said: "Okay, okay, but only give you a day, you talk to them yourself, if these people are not willing to join your team , You can't force it."

Chen Qing immediately put away her mobile phone and looked up with a smile: "Deal."

Leon Blake froze for a moment, and soon realized that the girl on the opposite side must have had contact with the five people on the list. Perhaps it has been negotiated. A small threshold he finally set did not work at all. He smiled helplessly and said: "Okay, you have succeeded. I have a meal right away."

Chen Qing immediately stood up and said: "Do not disturb you, Leon, bye."

It was indeed negotiated in advance. After leaving Leon Black’s office, Chen Qing began to summon his own team. The five people on the list all arrived at the company today. They are all ambitious young people. They all know who Chen Qing’s two women are standing behind. It is also clear that as long as she cooperates with Chen Qing’s two women, it is easy to attract the attention of the big boss. This is the best channel for superiors. Therefore, after Chen Qing issued the invitation, she agreed without much hesitation.

In fact, through this period of communication, Chen Qing has more people looking for, but she also knows that only such a small mini-team will not cause a rebound of her boss and company BOSS.

Otherwise, even if there is trouble with Simon, Leon Black may not necessarily agree, and maybe Simon will not agree.

Moreover, this small team is actually not small.

In addition to the two women Chen Qing and Lin Su and the five people who just joined, Chen Qing also hired two high-caliber students as their assistants, one from MIT and one from Princeton, all of whom have economic and financial related A professional degree can just make up for the lack of professional knowledge of the two women.

In addition, the two female waitresses and two female guards that Simon provided for them, a total of four people, have also become assistants for the two women for several months. During the New Year's trip to China during the New Year, Chen Qing also specially brought four women back to China .

Calculated, this is already a team of 13 people.

Many Wall Street financial giants did not necessarily have such a scale at the beginning of their establishment.

Moreover, Chen Qing actually set up his own office in China. He hired a total of six people. The office is located in Shanghai. He is responsible for communication between China and the United States. The salaries of the six people are paid by two women. In this office, Lin Su did not donate all the prepaid salary last time he went back.

Chen Qing also suggested that the office should be paid by her personally. The annual salary of the two will be converted into Renminbi. At the current salary level in China, it is more than enough to support a team of 60 people in China, not to mention only six people.Lin Su instinctively didn't want Chen Qing to succeed, so he became their office.

At noon dinner, introduce each other, the team began to make final preparations for the acquisition of Scotch in the afternoon.

So until evening, the man's instructions were not forgotten. The two women were about to leave work at five o'clock and returned to their residence in Shangxi District. They suddenly received a call from girl A, and the dinner was temporarily cancelled.

For reasons unknown, some regrets were lost, so I decided to work overtime.

On the other side, Simon received a call from Grace when he was close to work. The woman asked him if he had time to have dinner together. He also said that he could stay outside until nine o'clock in the evening, feeling the cautious expectation in the woman's tone. Refuse the idea a little.

Appointed to dine in the apartment on Fifth Avenue.

Simon came home from get off work, but Grace was not alone, and brought Bless Levison together.I generally know the status of the woman. After the last incident, the Levisons were basically separated. Francis Levison stayed in Miami to deal with company affairs. Blaise Levison was in the name of taking care of his son's education. Live in New York.

Bryce entered the door with Grace, looking straight and vigorous, and said that this excuse was not in vain.

Probably understand what is going on.

Instead of letting the waitress get started, the three prepared dinner in person. To be precise, there were only Simon and Grace. The other one was just waiting for him from childhood to age, indistinguishable from salt and sugar.When the dinner was about to be ready, he volunteered to light candles, saying that to enjoy candlelight dinner, Simon had to send Grace together, very worried that Bryce burned the house.

Quirky candlelight dinner for three.

Overall it is quite warm.

Talking about various recent things at will, it's more than seven o'clock unconsciously.

Simon's personal cell phone rang suddenly.

After answering, it was an unexpected voice. Erin Lauder, the woman's tone on the phone was very formal, asking Simon if he wanted to participate in a masquerade ball in a circle in a bar in Midtown.

Simon can only refuse.

At the dinner table, seeing the man hang up, Bryce's inquiring expression of curiosity, Simon did not mean anything.

Grace heard the name "Eileen" during Simon's dialogue, and keenly remembered the reception of the Lauder family last night. She couldn't hold back her curiosity and watched the man with some strange inquiry: "I have been Think, what can a man and a woman do in ten minutes?"

Blaise was confused.

Simon immediately understood that thinking of last night's absurdity, of course, would not tell Grace, but just smiled and said: "In fact, five minutes is enough, wait for me to show you in person."

Bryce looked left and right, and saw Grace's face a little more glamorous under the candlelight. She seemed to understand what she was asking. "Are you guys talking about a yellow joke that I don't understand?"

Simon nodded: "Yeah, very yellow, very violent."

Grace's face grew red.

Blaise continued to ask, but Simon stopped explaining until after dinner.

At nine o'clock.

Grace refused Simon’s retention and left on time. The other woman didn’t get up from the bed and accused a guy of murder.

I thought this was the case tonight.

Near ten o'clock, just holding a woman out of the bathroom, the phone rang again.

It was still Elin Lauder.

The girl's voice drifted a bit, indicating that she was drunk. If Simon did not pick her up, she would let anyone pick her up, and warned her family not to notify her, or she would leave home. Running away is definitely not a joke.

Simon had no choice but to rush to the bar in Midtown in person.

The masquerade is still going on.

She also wore a mask when she entered the door. It was easy to find a woman in a corner. Sure enough, she had drunk a lot, but she was not drunk. She looked very clear. Simon remembered the woman saying that she had to attend every year because of her family background. Of course, there are more than two hundred parties, and the amount of wine is certainly not bad.

But he didn't want to go by himself, and Simon wanted to hold it before he left.

Can only hold.

Shrinking in the arms of a man, he began to nag, accusing a guy who was a devil, turning her, a devout Jewish girl, into a bad woman in ten minutes, and demanding compensation.

No need to pick other times, just tonight, pay for it.

Unwilling Simon to send her home.

Simon dared not take her back to his apartment on Fifth Avenue.

Blaise's arrogant temperament, Grace is okay, another woman appears, may fight.

There are many properties in Manhattan, but they rarely live. It is troublesome to pack them up late at night.Finally, he could only call a helicopter and rush to the manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.