Advanced Players in Arc

"Making money is only secondary to me. I have many ways to make money. My real purpose is to leave my name in history."

"But although I am good at making money, the road to becoming the world's richest man is definitely blocked. Because with you, a different world's richest man, others may never have the chance, so I can only play with my space dream. ”

After Musk finished speaking, he took another sip of depressed wine.

"That's enough, Lao Ma," Dong Chen clinked the wine glasses with him and took a sip. "You don't know how spectacular it was when your rocket landed on the offshore recovery platform a few years ago."

"From that moment on, you were destined to be recorded in history. It was you who let the world know that the aerospace industry can be played even by private individuals, and it can be played well."

"No matter how good I am, I'm just a delivery boy, and I haven't even been to the moon," Musk said. "There's really no future in following those visionless people in the United States, but I don't have the strength of your Arc Light Group. , you can’t live without them, so you can only be restricted everywhere.”

Listening to Musk saying that he was so "miserable", Dong Chen didn't know what to say. Depending on the situation, this guy might have had a little too much to drink, otherwise he wouldn't be talking nonsense.

As for why such a shrewd guy would be so relaxed today and simply drink too much, I don't know.

Maybe it's really stressful, maybe it's really because of your own ideals and your own future, or maybe it's intentional.

But after hearing this, Dong Chen said, "How about... our group acquires your company? You guys will work with Arc Light Aerospace?"

As soon as Musk heard this suggestion, he immediately became energetic, but he only became energetic for a moment before he became weak again. He picked up the wine glass on the table and drank it all in one gulp, "I think so, but those bastards from the Foreign Investment Committee will definitely do it." Those who intervene, as long as they intervene, this matter will not be successful."

Hearing what Musk said, Dong Chen also thought of this organization, which is notoriously difficult to deal with. For companies that want to acquire American companies, it is notoriously "easy to deal with."

No matter how far the acquisition progress is, as soon as they come, it will definitely be bad.

Whether your acquisition progress has reached 99% or 98%, it will be cleared directly for you, which is extremely cruel.

No matter how willing the acquiring company or the acquired company is, it won't work and it will make you angry to death.

Of course, there are such institutions in every country, it just depends on whether they are strong or not.

In recent years, China's overall economic strength has been increasing rapidly, and it has gradually become an indispensable role in the world's financial and capital circles. For this reason, China has adopted a strategy of large-scale global "corporate mergers and acquisitions", which is unprecedented in China's modern history. The astonishing actions and speed will naturally arouse the concern and concern of the United States.

Under the influence of the global mergers and acquisitions expansion of Chinese companies, the United States' concerns and concerns are understandable. After all, the things in some companies are indeed very advanced and may have a cracking effect on the "Chinese Technology Blockade Plan" implemented by the United States. This is something they absolutely do not want. Allowed.

However, the United States is not just targeting Chinese companies to enter the United States and acquire large American companies. It is essentially a global thinking that any country is on guard against, even its own allies.

The things that the Committee on Foreign Investment investigates are actually "related to the matter, not the person." It exists only to review foreign acquisitions of American companies, with the purpose of ensuring that the national security of the United States is not threatened.

It's just that it is more lenient with its allies, and then becomes more harsh with non-allies, and even more harshly with China. Who makes the current China the most jumpy in its eyes? China is already the biggest threat in its eyes. No. To guard against China, whom should we guard against?

Therefore, this organization has disturbed countless acquisitions of American companies by Chinese companies.

Each investigation initiated is composed of the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Finance, or a government agency that may be affected by the transaction. In essence, the Foreign Investment Committee is composed of multiple government departments, and each investigation will involve Targeted changes.

It will then provide a "risk analysis" of possible attacks based on the business content involved in the target company for merger and acquisition and the opinions of the President's Office, and finally adopt an attitude of acceptance or rejection.

Of course, it has long been a practice for the U.S. government to non-publicly review foreign acquisition transactions on the grounds of national security. Because Arclight Group had been dealt with in this way, Dong Chen remembered him.

It turned out that Arclight Group had acquired many American companies during its initial expansion. At that time, Arclight Group was still listed overseas, and the companies it acquired were mainly technology companies, so each company had to be carefully investigated by it.

Some companies finally passed the acquisition requirements, while others had their progress bars cleared, which made Sun Hao and the board members of the acquired companies half angry to death.

You must know that the Arclight Group made a lot of money back then, because the investment in scientific research was small, which directly accounted for a large proportion of the income. In addition, Dong Chen required that the expansion be completed quickly so that the group could become more complete as soon as possible, so the bid at that time was not low.

Later, when Arclight Group became the number one company in the world and quickly distanced itself from the number two company, the directors of the company that had once been potentially acquired were eager to eat up those who were originally investigated.

No, it’s not about eating. Those people are just a pile of stinking shit. It makes you feel sick even if you step on it. It’s simply the indignation of both humans and gods.

This time he suddenly thought of this again, and Dong Chen planned to give it another try. After all, today's Arc Light Group is no longer the Arc Light Group of yesterday, and Musk's team is also quite good, and it can also have another layer of benefits.

One action can achieve several goals. It would be a waste not to try.

"Whether they agree or not, that's their business, but don't you want to give it a try?" Dong Chen looked at Musk with a smile.

It was obvious that Musk was a little drunk when he heard Dong Chen say this. He frowned and thought for a moment before firmly saying, "Okay, let's give it a try. If I don't even dare to give it a try, then I'm not a horse." Scratched."

"Okay, this is what I've been waiting for," Dong Chen picked up the remaining wine and clinked glasses with Musk, "Then I wish us a happy cooperation this time."

"I wish us a happy cooperation." Musk also clinked glasses.

After drinking the wine, Dong Chen looked at Musk's face and said, "Would you like the waiter to send you back to the room to rest? I think you can't drink anymore in this state."

Musk shook his head after hearing this, feeling that his condition was a bit bad, so he agreed, "Okay, but don't forget about our cooperation."

"Of course," Dong Chen said with a dark look on his face, "We just clinked glasses and wished you a happy cooperation."

"And you have to ask my CEO about this. You know, I don't care about the specific affairs. I will inform him about this later."

"Well...it seems I really should take a rest," Musk grinned. "I really envy you. You don't even have to work to become the richest man in the world, and your group is still developing so well."

"Haha, it's all the result of everyone's hard work. You can also join our group. I'm looking forward to it. I wonder what kind of wonderful ideas you can come up with after cooperating with our Arc Light Aerospace." Dong Chen laughed. said.

"I'm also looking forward to seeing what kind of monsters are in your Arc Light Aerospace Company." Musk said with bright eyes.

Seeing this scene, Dong Chen shook his head speechlessly and called the waiter and asked him to send Musk to his room. This guy really needed to rest.

"Whether we can dig out this big corner... this wall depends on whether the big hoe of the Arc Light Group has evolved into a steel excavator."