Chapter 221 Catching Big Fish
Melvin and Qiao Sen trotted out, looked at the car full of imported vodka and said with a smile: "Boss, this batch of goods can be sold for at least tens of thousands of dollars!"
"Stop talking nonsense and move the goods."
Zhang Ailun asked the two of them to be responsible for the moving, while he went into the bar to slack off in the office. Mary and Gus were both there today, and when they saw the leader coming, they greeted him warmly.
Gis followed closely behind, holding a glass of brandy and ice that the bartender had carefully prepared. He pushed the door and broke into the chief's office, showing his courtesy, "Boss, we haven't seen you for several days. You don't seem to care about our bar's business at all!"
"Isn't this run by you guys? The bar's business is booming, I can see it all. You weren't here the last time I came here, so how can you say I don't pay attention to the bar's business?"
Zhang Ailun sat in the boss chair, took the brandy handed over by Gis, took a sip, opened the computer and checked the project list.
With the positive profits, several thousand dollars of net profits are deposited into the account every day. Now the chief leader can withdraw nearly 10 US dollars in net profit dividends.
Gis sat directly on the chief's thigh and dribbled the ball into him.
Zhang Ailun knew what she wanted to do at a glance and immediately reminded her that it was still working hours.
"Mary is the only one outside, and there are so many waiters, I don't need to worry about anything." Gis smiled and wanted to have a friendly match with the chief.
But before she could put her clothes into action, Mary came to her door and pushed it open, ruining her plan. She raised her middle finger to Gus and said, "I knew you were dishonest! Are you planning to cheat on me again while I'm away? Get out and work!"
Gis said unhappily, "Can you please not come and disturb my good times every time?"
"No," Mary objected.
"Ok, maybe you just don't want to see me eating alone. How about you go first?" Gis generously said that he could queue up and eat the leftovers.
Mary, however, did not appreciate it at all and urged her not to slack off during working hours.
"Okay, both of you go out and work! The drinks carried by Qiao Sen and Melvin must also be recorded in the accounts. Don't affect the atmosphere and business of the bar!" Zhang Ailun was helpless.
The leader really can't stand the two of them fighting with each other, why don't you come together?
He persuaded both of them to leave, and only then did he have some peace and quiet.
But not long after, the two men pushed the door open again.
"Didn't I tell you not to slack off during working hours..." The leader looked up and saw two bunny girls in black stockings. He was stunned instantly.
"Boss, we only have an hour!" Mary and Gus walked over with a smile, as if they had resolved the dispute.
hiss……
It actually took two hours to resolve the battle.
The two bunny girls left contentedly, leaving the leader alone feeling empty.
During this time, I received a message from Dominic.
Dominic: The street problem has been solved. The homeless people came from San Francisco, but they are not all white and black. There are also many Asians. I asked them to pay $150 in compensation and recruited them to work on the streets of the Sixth Street District to repay their debts!
Allen Zhang: I see.
Dominic: The Irishman in the sewer, the debt of several thousand dollars owed has been repaid in full today. I have put the funds in the account, and you can withdraw them at any time if you want to use them.
Zhang Ailun: OK.
After a few more words, Dominic went to work.
Reena also sent a message and a few pictures.
Zhang Allen took a look and saw that the background of the photo was a department lobby in the city center, with some stamped documents. Another photo seemed to be a scene shot from the fourteenth floor of a building office area on Sunset Boulevard.
Reina: The qualification issue has been resolved! I found someone online to apply for an office space, located at 14, 1469th Floor, Sunset Boulevard, with a weekly rent of $2000, or $6000 a month. But we still need to find someone to create our foundation's official website, so that others can make charitable donations. This is our foundation's charitable bank account, and the password is ******. You can still use the bank card you used at the Green Letter Shelter.
Zhang Ailun: I will find someone to help make the foundation's official website. Our current fund size is still too small, with only one million dollars in fundraising funds, so there is no need to be too formal. I will go to the office to take a look when I have time. As for the donation channels open to the public, it doesn't matter if there are any. Maybe Sig and others are willing to donate money to the foundation and launder it?
Reina: OK. I won't bother you anymore. My colleagues and I have an appointment to go shopping this afternoon.
Allen Zhang: Okay.
After doing these things simply, Zhang Ailun logged into the foundation's encrypted account again, and felt that the encryption of the account was a bit too simple, so he immediately sent another message to Blitz.
Zhang Ailun: The foundation's registration qualifications and office location have been finalized. There is a fundraising fund of one million US dollars in the account. I need you to help me set up the official website page, and the account also needs to be encrypted.
Blitzcrank: ok.
Not long after, Blitzcrank sent a link to the chief.
Britz: The website construction has been completed. You can log in directly from the backend. If you are not satisfied with anything, you can tell me and I will debug and make changes.
Zhang Ailun: No need to change, just leave it like this.
Clicking on the link, a very formal official page appeared on the screen: Hamberg Charitable Foundation.
The page style is relatively simple, no different from other foundations. From the backend management, you can also see whether anyone has made charitable donations, the charitable investment business currently in progress, or the company's employees.
The chief immediately sent a message to Dave, inviting him to serve as the foundation's legal attorney. Dave agreed without hesitation. After all, the salary paid by the foundation can be deducted from taxes.
The foundation has grown stronger as a result.
Time soon came to afternoon.
Old Jack, who had been out of contact all this time, sent a message to the chief leader.
Old Jack: A big deal has come to our door.
Allen Zhang: Are you referring to Wells Fargo's account balancing service?
Old Jack: How do you know?
Zhang Ailun: Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Wells Fargo’s debt problem is about to explode. They will definitely find someone to deal with this problem. Didn’t the media report a few days ago that a homeless man killed a bank executive?
Old Jack: Well, I didn’t expect you to be paying attention to this incident. They contacted me privately, along with two other teams. I offered them $500 million! After all, this problem is much more serious than the casino in Little Rock.
Allen Zhang: What did they say?
Old Jack: They need to think about it. But as far as I know, the other two teams offered $350 million and $400 million respectively. I think we have no chance, even though we just made a deal a while ago. Zhang Ailun: That may not be the case. I know a motorcycle gang leader in the suburbs. Her family has shares in Wells Fargo. If we can get her to come forward and guarantee us, and use internal channels, we should be able to take over this commission.
Old Jack: Do you know any rich people like this? If a shareholder can find someone he knows to cooperate, other bank executives will definitely agree. Even if the result is to pay more money, the security issue will be guaranteed.
Zhang Ailun: I'll give it a try, but the other party may not give me face.
Anyway, the leader is heavily in debt, and he owes the other party a lot of favors.
After exiting the call page with Old Jack, Zhang Allen found Sadie's ID and called her.
Sadie quickly answered the phone, "Hello? Juanjin? How come you have time to contact me? Do you want to buy me a drink? I promise!"
"I'm here to repay a favor. I can help you solve a troublesome matter." Zhang Ailun said with a smile.
"What's the big deal? What could possibly happen to me? My biggest worry is that I haven't found a chance to eat you up completely!" Sadie smiled, teasing in a relaxed tone.
"What if it's your dad's problem? He invested in Wells Fargo and holds shares in the bank, right? Even if the percentage is relatively small, he is at least a shareholder with a market value of tens of millions of dollars!"
Zhang Ailun said, "This is quite interesting. You should have heard about the Wells Fargo explosion a few days ago, right? Other investors urgently hedged and sold their bank shares and ran away. The bank's stock price fell all the way. In order to stabilize the bank's economy, other shareholders and bank executives frantically absorbed funds and became major shareholders from small shareholders. They were trapped in it. If they also ran away, then the bank would go bankrupt in an instant, and billionaires would become paupers! There is even the risk of being accused of financial fraud and spending the rest of their lives in prison!"
"Where did you get the information from?" Sadie realized the seriousness of the matter.
"I can help you with this. The bank's executives are like ants on a hot pot, running around in a panic. They want to spend a lot of money to find someone to settle the accounts and blow up the empty bank vaults. This way they can land safely and avoid the audit by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The people who took the benefits from the higher-ups will have an excuse, and the bank's people will have a way to shirk their responsibilities. The only ones who will suffer losses are the shareholders and middle-class depositors."
Zhang Ailun said: "This is their usual style, isn't it? They can give an explanation to the citizens."
Sadie asked in confusion: "Where did you get the information from? Even I don't know what they are doing, and my father never told me."
"If even you know about it, then it's no longer a secret that they're looking for someone to settle the accounts." Zhang Ailun said, "I know someone in the Bowhead Whale Organization. You can inform your father. For five million dollars, I can help you settle the matter. If he hires other people to help settle the accounts, he'll have to worry about those people biting back afterwards. But we don't have to worry about that, because as I said, this is to repay your debt of favor."
"I think what you want more is the reward of 5 million US dollars, right?" Sadie is not a fool. She quickly understood that the leader wanted to use her connections to take on this mission.
He said angrily: "You really have bad intentions! Do you only care about money when I treat you like this?"
"I don't care about money, so how can I care about you?" Zhang Ailun was a little speechless, and urged: "Okay, dear, this is a win-win situation. Tell your father quickly and ask him to think carefully. That's it, I'll wait for your good news."
Hang up.
Sadie looked at the hung up call, and after some thought, she also called her cheap dad.
He calls me dear, he has me in his heart!
He informed the other party of the matter and asked him how much money he had embezzled.
"Why didn't you tell me about this relationship earlier?"
After hearing the news from his daughter, the rich man was shocked at first. He didn't expect that even the other party knew that they were looking for someone to settle the debt. How could this be tolerated?
But he soon realized that the other party wanted to use her daughter's relationship to talk to him directly.
"I don't know who he knows. I just know he's in the arms business," said Sadie.
"He probably wasn't doing any serious arms business. Many people knew the inside story of what the military district was doing, but no one was willing to expose it."
The rich man said: "If it's just a legitimate business, you can't make much money. This is true for any industry. But I didn't make much money from the bank either."
"Is the Wells Fargo Bank situation really that bad?" Sadie asked in surprise, "Hasn't it been less than half a year since you invested in this bank? You have the shares in your hands, but you haven't made any money. Instead, you've gotten yourself into a lot of trouble?"
"I can tell you responsibly that things are just that bad! I only realized it later. The things those major shareholders did in private were simply unreasonable! They made a lot of money from it and had already withdrawn safely, leaving the mess behind for a few of us to handle! We didn't get to eat the meat when it was time to eat it, and we didn't escape the beatings when it was time to eat it!"
"We don't have the ability to settle this matter right now, and we can't afford to offend those major shareholders who have taken advantage of the situation. Otherwise, we will be dragged out and buried alive the next day, and thrown into the sea to feed the sharks!"
The rich also have their own pains. They originally went out to harvest leeks, but ended up becoming the leeks themselves.
If the major shareholders did not take the lead in running away, it would not be so easy for the company to go bankrupt.
However, the other party had opened up its IPO to the public for fundraising half a year ago, absorbed funds, and sold shares at high prices to attract investors like them, just to have someone to take the blame when the crisis broke out.
Those major shareholders who made a lot of money have basically all run away, leaving these small shareholders in a dilemma and directly stuck in the quagmire. They are the ones who have to take the blame!
Now if they want a smooth landing, they have to spend money to find someone outside to take the blame.
Otherwise, just wait to die.
After the matter is over, the major shareholders will see that the risks have passed and the overall environment has improved, and they may bring back large amounts of money again. In this way, the bank will be able to absorb funds again and prosper!
The worst outcome would be the bank going bankrupt, small shareholders and senior executives being blamed and sent to jail for a few years before being released on bail. If they like to talk nonsense, they might be shot in the head with 24 bullets and die by suicide.
No matter what, it will not affect the major shareholder who ran away.
The rich man pondered and said, "Well, the Bowhead Whale Organization is indeed within our consideration range, but their asking price is too high, hundreds of millions of dollars higher than other teams. But since your friend has this channel and the security issues are guaranteed, then we can consider choosing them. Can you invite him to your home as a guest?"
Sadie: “Okay.”
After hanging up the phone, he sent another message to the chief leader: My father wants to invite you to bring people to his home.
Zhang Ailun received the message and smiled knowingly: OK, what time exactly?
Sadie: If you have time now, you can pick me up and we can go to Palmdale together.
Zhang Ailun: OK.
Zhang Ailun agreed on a time with Sadie, and then found Old Jack and told him to meet at Sanji Bar.
Allen Zhang: A Wells Fargo shareholder wanted to invite us to his home.
Old Jack: It was done so quickly? The people you know are so powerful?
Zhang Ailun: It was just a coincidence. Although I didn't know the executives and shareholders of Wells Fargo, I knew the daughter of a shareholder. She was quite interested in me and asked me out several times, but I refused. After all, I have always been a principled person and I would not give in to wealth and status.
Old Jack: I think you are just fishing for the big fish. If I were you, I would have found a way to get her! All the assets in her family are worth at least $100 million!
Zhang Ailun: A real man should start his own business with his own hands. Where are you now? Come back soon.
Old Jack: OK, I'm at the tire shop in the suburbs. Some black people blew my tire and tried to blackmail me. I'll be back after I fix this!
Zhang Ailun: ...be gentle.
(End of this chapter)
