America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 210 Something went wrong

Chen Jianqiu raised his hand and interrupted Abiot who wanted to continue speaking.

"We haven't found the owner of this land, right?"

Abiot was silent.

"Scott doesn't know about trivial matters." Chen Jianqiu waved his hand, "I just told him."

But he suddenly remembered something and asked: "Were you downstairs just now?"

"Well, I've been downstairs."

"Who was that guy who ran out of Scott's room before me?"

Abiot thought for a moment and roughly understood who Chen Jianqiu was referring to.

"Matt Dillon, Scott's full-time lawyer and a top student at Harvard Law School, has been following him since he was in business. He is a genius." Abiot said.

"He knew everything, from business disputes to criminal proceedings, and later he was dedicated to wiping Scott's butt."

"They seemed to have had a fierce quarrel just now?" Chen Jianqiu asked doubtfully.

"I'm not sure about that." Abiot shook his head, "What's next?"

"Scott asked you to follow me, then you should follow me." Chen Jianqiu said, "Your mission in Santa Fe has been successfully completed.

He rode towards the hotel and left a message:

"At least, Scott now thinks that he has an spy by my side."

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Astor IV deserves to be the heir valued by his great-grandfather. He has skilled business skills and his talent in business negotiations is unparalleled.

Chen Jianqiu had originally planned to pack his things and go back first. He estimated that it would take at least a month to deal with Astor's matters.

However, Astor came over the next day and told him that he only needed one week.

All shareholders except Rockefeller received Astor's telegram.

He is ready to buy back their shares.

These people have already been troubled by these five or six years of zero-revenue projects.

The reason most of them joined was because of the oil boom ten years ago, when oil wells were erected all over Pennsylvania and Ohio.

But later, people discovered that due to poor refining technology and low efficiency, the crude oil produced in large quantities could only be sold at low prices.

As for the possible oil field in New Mexico, it took five years, manpower and material resources, but not even a single hair was found.

Now the major shareholder who took the lead finally realized his conscience and he could finally get out of the trap.

So they quickly asked their lawyers in New York to handle the matter, fearing that Astor would regret it.

Astor acted very quickly and offered the right price, which made it difficult for these small shareholders to refuse.

But unfortunately, he forgot one thing. One of the minority shareholders, Alamente's company, was also in Cleveland, just across from Standard Oil.

So, one sunny afternoon, Aramente sat comfortably outside the cafe downstairs of his company, drinking afternoon tea.

He met a certain Standard Oil executive who was also taking a break from his busy schedule.

Alament told the executive that Astor was acquiring their equity, and lamented that the Astor family in New York had finally done something good.

The executive almost choked to death on the bitter Americano coffee in his cup.

He quickly ran back to the company and told his boss, John Rockefeller, the news.

"That land may be producing oil," the executive told Rockefeller, "Astor is frantically acquiring other people's stocks."

Rockefeller didn't even look up. He was studying a stack of documents on the table.

If there is one person in the world who firmly believes that this land will produce oil, it must be him, because he was the one who originally told the Freemasons that this land might contain oil.

But he has no intention of dealing with this matter now.

His focus was entirely on the Standard Oil Company's stockholders meeting in just over a month's time.

By then, the first trust in human history will soon appear, and this company in New Mexico is just one of the more than 40 companies controlled by him.

"Let Little John handle this matter. He should also learn to take on some things by himself." The tycoon lowered his head and said, "Isn't he just in Santa Fe with a few other people?"

After receiving the telegram from his father, John Rockefeller Jr. also began to frantically acquire the stocks of the remaining small shareholders.

This caused a very bad thing.

The price of equity has increased.

Those small shareholders who originally had no intention of continuing to play, even if they didn't find any clues, began to find strange things.

As a result, the negotiations reached a deadlock.

Seeing that the week before committing to Chen Jianqiu was getting closer and closer, Astor also felt something was wrong.

Why hasn't the news from New York been transmitted for a long time? Logically speaking, according to the cheerful energy of the previous companies, the procedures should have been almost completed in the past few days.

After understanding from many aspects, he finally knew what happened.

He decided to talk to John Rockefeller Jr., who was also in Santa Fe.

And the way to date him is very simple.

Also in the Chamber of Commerce, John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s office was just downstairs from him.

Unlike Astor IV, who was out of his mind, Rockefeller just came here to handle some business matters.

In addition to being taken over by others from the "Santa Fe Group", McCall's mine also attracted capital that smelled of blood.

So, when Chen Jianqiu walked in from the door of the Chamber of Commerce, he saw Astor running down the stairs on the second floor.

"Chen, you're just in time, come with me to meet Rockefeller." Astor waved to Chen Jianqiu, and walked quickly towards an office on the first floor without stopping.

Chen Jianqiu came here because he had other things to talk to Astor.

Behind him was Li Sifu. For a rare occasion, this child was carefully dressed up by Chen Jianqiu and put on new clothes.

They followed Astor and arrived at the door of Little Rockefeller, only to find that the owner of the office was already waiting for them.

At the same time, seats were prepared for them opposite a large desk.

Rockefeller Jr. straightened his tie, and Astor IV touched his collar.

The two most outstanding heirs of their respective families looked at each other, and the atmosphere was full of tension.

However, before the two of them could speak, Li Sifu whispered to Chen Jianqiu, which directly broke their guard:

"Boss, these two seem to be fighting cocks."

"Who are these two people?" Young Rockefeller looked at Chen Jianqiu and Li Sifu with contempt on his face.

"My business partner." Astor replied directly.

He returned directly to the topic: "Oil wells were discovered in Roswell."

"We already know." Rockefeller Jr. started his empty-city strategy. "It would be inappropriate to acquire equity without notifying us in advance. We can just go downstairs."

"Didn't I come to tell you?" Little Astor muttered, and he was defeated for a while.

"I suggest you give up. The remaining professional things that are ours must be done by professionals."

Little Rockefeller's face showed a smile that was determined to win.

There was silence in the office.

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