Chicago 1990

"Don't come, Mila don't come, don't come either, the situation here... is very complicated, I don't want to be distracted.

On Sunday, June 25, 2000, Song Ya persuaded Xuelinfen and Mila who were screaming with excitement on the other side of the phone. They learned some information that Daniel had guessed, so they both planned to rush to it. Come from Paris.

Fortunately, Xue Linfen knew to call in advance to ask for permission.

"I will return to rice in about two days, eh."

Song Ya rejected them. The situation here is indeed very complicated. He picked up the newspaper in his hand.

Messier has appeared on the front page of finance for many consecutive times. Last night, he had a meeting with people from the French Pernod Ricard wine industry. There was official news in the morning. Vivendi Universal is on the shelves.

However, Vivendi Global has not yet issued an official announcement.

"If they make an announcement today, Vivendi Global’s share price defense battle will start tomorrow after the market opens. If they don’t make it... then it is very likely that the short side will prepare a trap in the middle of the week and auction the Seagram wine industry to bail out It would be a good reason to announce the suspension of trading on major issues."

Julian Robertson judged like this, "What about you? APLUS, have you made a decision?"

"not yet."

Song Ya answered. Sloan went to contact Messier and the old Bronfman on behalf of himself. The remaining song copyrights left in Universal are only a small amount of money, and the Seagram wine industry needs to bid, and both himself and opponents such as Pernod Ricard. Standing on the same starting line, there is no benefit at all.

Then add let the past go? Only when Song Yan can agree to this condition is there a ghost.

"Didn't agree?" Julian Robertson asked.

"Still talking."

Song Ya saw Pino driving a Ferrari into the manor, and ended the call.

"APLUS, how are you thinking about it?"

The three generations of the same rich, Pinot Noir's external dullness is actually heavier than the little Bronfman. He was married and got out of the car with a young and charming female companion. "APLUS doesn't need to be introduced, right? He and Halle Berry Be a guest here, APLUS, this is..." Help the female companion get acquainted with the famous APLUS.

"I am temporarily incapable."

The Pinot family is still promoting the Le Duote website and the timber company. Song Ya is not interested. Le Duote has taken the time to log on and research these days. The French shopping site is sparse, and the Pinot Timber company is their family’s ancestral product. The depth is unpredictable.

Although he has a huge amount of cash on hand, Song Ya feels that it is still not time to start. The Gucci battle between PPR and LVMH is still going on. The Pino family that controls PPR is at a disadvantage, but there is still room for it.

For example, now, after giving a kiss, Pino suddenly put a silver female watch on Halle's wrist, "Wow, it matches your charming Miss Berry."

"Thank you Mr. Pinault, it's so beautiful."

Hallie was amused and giggled. With the help of the other party, she put her watch on and smiled happily.

"Bocheron, we just bought it."

Of course Pinot Noir does not mean that he bought this watch. PPR Group has just acquired the French jewelry brand Boucheron. "APLUS, IMHO, the Seagram wine industry is not cheap, and all wine giants will be interested in it. , Your participation in the bidding...may not be what you want." He continued to lobby.

"I know, I'm thinking about it."

It’s not time yet, so you can delay it. Although currently living in someone’s home, Song Ya still intends to use her ‘dragging’ trick flexibly and asks, “Are you interested in teaming up with me to bid?”

As a luxury goods group, both PPR and LVMH own alcohol brands.

Little Pino shook his head, "Siegram wine business is too expensive for the current PPR. I heard that even Pernod Ricard cannot afford it and needs to cooperate with others. How about you? Have you contacted?"

"I asked, they should join Diageo."

Diageo is also a multinational wine giant, British.

"What about Bacardi?" Pino asked.

Bacardi is another one.

"Bacardi is maliciously acquiring Tricolor Vodka, and it has a very poor relationship with me."

The founder of Tricolor Vodka was not willing to give up, so he tried to merge with the A+ wine industry that they looked down upon to expand the total equity to fight against Bacardi. This kind of news cannot be concealed from the French Pinot family, Song Ya answered truthfully .

The relationship between Bacardi and the U.S. government is also very poor. The Bacardi family started making rum in Cuba. After the change of Cuba, the Bacardi wine industry was driven away as a remnant of the old colonial era. In the early 1990s, Cuba turned to tentatively compromised with large European companies in order to break through the U.S. blockade. Bacardi was only one mile away from returning to Cuba, but it was eventually disturbed by the Americans who regarded Central and South America as their backyard. Up.

"That's terrible."

Little Pino is much higher than Little Bronfman's double quotient, and while helping Song Ya make ideas, he continues to promote the company he wants to sell, and spy on intelligence by the way.

"Sorry, let's be out of company."

Spying on each other, Song Ya saw Hayden waving his mobile phone in the distance, so he went to answer the phone.

"Damondash and Arya have found the hotel and they want to see you." The bodyguard who stayed in the hotel reported.

"At night, I asked Hayden to get them two tickets for the show."

The publicity mission in France has to be carried out. Song Ya and Halle will go to Gucci's fashion show tonight, and they will be exposed by the way.

"The teeth are sharp!"

At this time, the Bronfman family castle, the old Bronfman was full of grievances against Sloan's slender back. This woman from Capitol Hill lobbyist has a strong style and is difficult to deal with.

"APLUS hasn't agreed yet?" the old friend next to him asked.

"No."

He just made an overweight promise that the baby son will not manage the Universal Group in the future, reiterated that the Bronfman family will not retaliate, and whether APLUS has bid for the Seagram wine business or not, he is willing to pay a lower price to the Grey Goose The vodka distributorship was sold back to A+ Liquor, but it still seemed not enough to impress the other party.

Sloan just made it clear that he did not believe in these verbal promises and the influence of the Bronfman family on Vivendi Global, and he hurriedly left to find Messier.

The hero was not free to transport, and indeed there were not many cards in his hand to play, and the old man was holding his chest in anger.

Messier...

I haven't seen it again since I left here the night before, and I didn't pass the word. After getting a trick, he wanted to kick himself away from the idea. But for Messier, he still has a trick.

When the old man thought of this, his eyes flashed.

"Ms. Sloan is here."

Messier was very busy these two days and only slept for a few hours in total. "Let her wait." With the careful arrangement and arrangement one by one, his confidence has become more and more sufficient, mainly Andersen, that is The most important potential collaborator in the old Bronfman plan.

"So you agreed?" he asked Andersen's people.

"No problem." The people of Arthur Andersen were so happy when they heard that they could win all the business of Vivendi Global. They were only responsible for the audit of the merger of the two companies. "Please rest assured, we will help your company. Successfully went to the market to clear up all rumors!"

They slapped their chests and promised, "But the premise is that you can guarantee that there will be no problems with the French regulatory authorities."

"No, so happy cooperation?"

"Happy cooperation."

As one of the world's top five accounting firms, with Arthur Andersen's endorsement and the French government's sidetracking, all accusations of false accounting can be suppressed. Messier secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Through participating in the audit during the merger, Andersen was actually aware of some Vivendi’s false accounting issues, but in order to obtain this business, it can be said that there is no bottom line. Before leaving, the head of the French district, Aldo Padoso, also reminded him, “A little bit. The problem is not good either. The 1.5 billion medical company is very difficult to handle. It's better to let your country's regulatory authorities make a deal to deal with public opinion. Others... can't be delayed too long, it's best to step by step within five years. Flatten the account."

"Of course, let's find a way together." Even Messier himself didn't expect to persuade the other party to go so smoothly, so naturally he promised.

"Let Ms. Sloan come in." He felt relieved after sending away Andersen's people, and simply took a nap before telling his men.

"Messier behaved like a high emperor today."

Sloan didn't get any good looks from him, and came back to complain to Song Ya: "I mentioned that I switched to buying his game company, but I was flatly rejected."

"Has the attitude changed so much?" Song Ya opened the curtains, and Pino and his female companion were driving the Ferrari away from the manor.

"Yes, it's huge. Of course, his strength may also be deliberately..."

Sloan looked at his watch, "So, with these conditions, there are only...twenty hours left before the time agreed with them."

"No, I will make a decision before twelve o'clock midnight, and I have to leave some time for the friends who have been notified."

Anyway, Song Ya didn’t want to use the air bargaining chip too ugly. On the side of the empty side, in addition to the poor attitude of Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs Paulson and other big shorts have all given the benefits of verbal promises. You can get the news of your choice for the first time.

He simply went back to his room and immersed himself in playing Blizzard’s new Diablo 2, which was only bought yesterday.

This game company under Vivendi is well-known for its good optimization, 2D graphics, if the market is full of such games, the high-end 3DFX chips can not be sold, but the red blood blue magic interface still brings some to Song Ya Familiarity.

"what!"

The barbarian on the screen let out a scream, and once again fell under the lightning of the little boss Rakanisu.

"..."

Song Ya dropped the mouse and continued to meditate.

Eat at both ends, but both ends eat some chicken ribs. This is not normal. Maybe Goldman Sachs Deutsche Bank has no plans to continue to make a ruthless short-selling next week? Maybe Vivendi Global has prepared adequate means of self-rescue?

Thinking about it, he suddenly smiled and muttered to himself, "It's none of my business anymore. Why do I bother thinking about this?"

"Will APLUS come?"

In the evening, the well-dressed Arya and her boyfriend Damon Dash appeared on the T stage. They heard some new'APLUS' in New York after a huge loss of four billion and still gave the world a fatal blow to complete revenge in Paris.'' In order to complete the bet, he secretly planned for two years' and other rumors, and he was so admired that he immediately set off and rushed over.

"Don't worry." Damon Dash boasted to his girlfriend pretendingly, "I and his good brother for so many years."

A+ Liquor and Tricolor Vodka have not yet been negotiated. Damon Dash, the player in the game, has a good reason. He knows that he won't even bother to see him when he comes to APLUS. "Hey! Johnny!"

The two saw the Hollywood movie stars Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci, and Damon Dash greeted them familiarly.

Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci are here to promote the "Drifting Valley". This 65 million cost thriller probably only got a global box office of 100 million dollars. The male and female protagonists are in a very ordinary mood. Last year The French actress Vanessa, who just gave birth to Johnny Depp, is also there.

Johnny Depp was withdrawn, shook hands with Arya and Damon Dash in a coping style and sat in his seat to smoke.

‘I heard that APLUS will come, he single-handedly caused the Vivendi Global tragedy last week. ’

‘Oh my God, it was he who hurt us miserably, and the French investors’ money was defrauded by these U.S. vultures! ’

"Even Mr. Messier has to come to APLUS to make peace..."

‘Isn’t APLUS singing the cup of life? ’

‘Don’t forget his other identity, the American tycoon. ’

‘We should catch APLUS! ’

The conversation of the French in the back row reached the ears of a man and three women. Damon Dash and Alia could not understand, but they could clearly hear the APLUS that popped up in the French population from time to time, "What are they talking about? "Aaliyah asked Vanessa.

"It's about stocks." Vanessa didn't care much about this.

At this time, the surrounding area suddenly became quiet. The five people looked over and APLUS appeared accompanied by Halle, Hayden and Gucci Director Tom Ford.

The French who had just had no good words got up one after another, waiting to greet him and shake hands, and Hayden smiled and introduced them one by one.

Damon Dash felt the atmosphere as if an emperor suddenly arrived.

"Dame."

Song Ya’s fist has been stretched out, and he is still stunned. He said that he had known that he would not go back to New York to mix with Jazzy. Even if he sold his Ro-A-shares, he would not be separated from his old brothers such as Biggs. Several million, and APLUS is already shorting multinational giants with a market value of 100 billion.

Especially if he succeeded, it would be terrifying.

Not only did it succeed, but it was so calm in the French land...

"Yo!?"

Was "awakened" by Song Ya, "Oh, Yo, APLUS... Boss." Hastily touched a fist respectfully.

"Fortunately, Christina."

But soon, the emperor broke his own merits. After seeing Christina Ricci, his eyes flickered to the opponent's chest, ignoring the others present, and took the initiative to change positions and sit next to her and began to verbose.

Christina Ricci didn't resist him either. When the lights were dimmed and the models on the stage filed out, the men and women who met for the first time had their heads together and began to whisper.

"Listen to Jenny, do you plan to have breast reduction surgery?"

"Jenny? Jennifer Connelly? Wow, do you even talk about this kind of thing?"

"Uh... I have a good relationship with her. She didn't do it herself, you are still young, don't you need it?"

"She's tall, I'm too short, only 1.5 meters, and her **** are too big, which will affect the way of the play. Producers and directors often think: Can you keep it down?"

"How can it be affected? It's nothing like that..." Song Ya grinned and quietly hit Hallie with his elbow.

"Christina, come to our party tonight?" Hallie invited.

"Okay."

After the box office of Duantou Valley was not as good as expected, Christina Ritchie, a quirky child star who was once in the Adams family, also dimmed. The transformation of child stars was inherently difficult. Even her generation, who had obtained good resources like Star Wars Natalie Portman has encountered a career bottleneck. The new generation of girl stars like Scarlett Johansson in the Horse Whisperers, Dakota Johnson in Crazy Alabama, and the new generation of Disney Princess Lindsay Lohan are here again. Fast chasing behind.

Christina Ricci has been under a lot of pressure recently, and like other child stars in transition, she is ready to take on the show. This time I met the super-rich, one of the second-tier Hollywood bigwigs, APLUS, this opportunity, naturally, I should seize it.

Besides, Song Ya herself is a superstar of singing and film, and her childhood idol does not lose even if she collects stamps.

Hayden in the back row heard Christina Ricci agree, and immediately disappeared silently and went to the Zhang Luo party.

"Has APLUS made a decision?"

At least D. When Song Ya was already raising his hand to recall, undercurrents in Paris, London, and New York were surging. The bigwigs of all parties were still waiting for news from him. It was rare for Edison who stayed up all night to take a look and walk past twelve o’clock. Hour hand, yawned and asked.

"No." The subordinate replied: "Would you like to contact him and add some chips?"

"No need, what bargaining chips are worth more than the huge amount of funds when the market opens tomorrow morning?"

Edison shook his head and decided to stay strong. Often times when he was stronger, the other party would be afraid.

"No news from APLUS?" Old Bronfman was also holding on in the castle.

"No." The old friend shook his head worriedly, "Don't wait, go to sleep, we will have an appointment with APLUS before the opening..."

Old Bronfman shook his head and hung up Messier.

"I didn't get any news, but I feel that he is actually becoming less and less important."

Messier, who had negotiated with Arthur Andersen, became more and more confident that he could tide over the difficulties. "The key is Solomon Smith Barney on your side. We will meet them in the Fei Mi country in two days?"

"Yes, after you put the shares of my brother's family into the auction assets of Seagram Wines." It's all old foxes, and the old Bronfman has already begun to guard against him.

"Actually, I have already talked to Solomon Smith Barney on the phone."

Although the other party had the idea, Messier did have the plan to cross the river and demolish the bridge. It would be more beneficial to keep the Bronfman family's money inside the Global Department. After all, the DefJam case was investigated by the Wall Street Sheriff to the point that it was beyond control. Universal swallowed the bubble blown by Polygram, and he himself couldn't tell the extent of the internal fraud...just like the Bronfman family couldn't tell Vivendi.

"Hehe, don't be overwhelmed with Messier, I made the idea. You don't think I will come to France without bringing anything?"

The old Bronfman decided to show the last card, "If you play tricks, I will let you not be marketed in the United States, we will die together!"

"Oh?" Messier's eyes were cold, "I don't believe it..."

"Watch the news about the US election!" Old Bronfman hung up aggressively.

‘A source revealed that the Donkey Party candidate Al Gore will choose Jewish Senator Joseph Lieberman as his running mate. If nothing else, this decision will be announced at the Donkey Party National Convention in August...’

Messier found a piece of news about the general election. He knew that Lieberman and the Bronfman family had a good relationship, but he also knew that the Bronfman family's influence in the Jewish circle had almost disappeared, and he still had a glimmer of hope. "Find a way to contact Senator Lieberman once." He took a deep breath of irritability and ordered his men.

"Why would Gore choose a guy who is more conservative than himself... Is it just because Lieberman is Jewish?"

Under Sloan’s reminder, Song Ya also saw the news, but he did not want to contact Lieberman, nor did he want to bet whether the Jewish senator had abandoned the Bronfman family, which prompted him to do so. The last straw for the decision.

"Julian, I decided to compromise with them."

The first call was made to the Tiger Fund, and at the same time he asked Sloan to tell Messier and the old Bronfman, and then personally called Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and other relevant parties one by one.

"YES!" Messier clenched his fists in the office, and then felt ashamed of his excitement. This was just a decision made by a new rich man of twenty-five and sixteen years old.

"I'm going to bed." The old Bronfman finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't move tomorrow, let's see the situation." Julian Robertson confessed Bill Huang to the love he had just returned from France.

"Damn it!" Edison was a little bit irritated, "Alright, we'll eat this black pharaoh first in the morning! Does he really think he is a weathervane? Change hands to do more? He dreams!"

"Although APLUS people are good, business is business. When the market opens, let's clear him and Tiger Fund. I have a tacit understanding with Edison." Goldman Sachs boss Paulson also ordered the chief investment officer. French institutions and small and medium investors have been heartbroken by Vivendi Global last week, and there are not many big fishes.

On the morning of June 27, 2000, the Paris Stock Exchange opened for trading.

Messier copied his hands and stared at the screen, regaining his kingly composure, but he soon broke the mark. Vivendi Global’s share price still fell straight down from forty-eight euros. He frowned in surprise, “APLUS won’t be available. Are you kidding us?"

"He dare to play tricks on this matter, and my family will die with him!" Old Bronfman replied in the middle of the castle.

"Huh? APLUS didn't do much? Or did he play tricks again and still follow us as rats?" Edison was also puzzled when he succeeded in hitting the market but did not achieve the expected gain.

"Call Addison and the others. That's all right today." Goldman Sachs' chief investment officer gave the trader a blank expression, "We will go back tomorrow."

"Harry, Christina... we're going to start, hurry up, the Cognac area is far away."

Vivendi Universal, which continued to plummet, made Song Ya feel puzzled, but he still yelled to the bedroom without regard to his own business.

He wants to visit the top wine cellar owned by Martell by appointment. Martell is not only making his own wine, it is also the largest wine store in the Cognac area.

"Boss?"

Damon Dash and Arya who were guests at the manor were already waiting in the lobby to set off. They were very surprised when they saw Song Ya and the two girls. It was not because Christina Ricci was hooked up by Song Ya so quickly. The three of them are not too formal.

"What?" Song Ya asked.

"You..." Damon Dash looked down at the formal dresses on himself and his girlfriend.

"Just take it with you. We will stay there for the night, and there will be activities tomorrow."

Song Ya smiled and waved, "And they said that the traditional wine cellar is not clean. It's just a visit and tasting of wine. It's not a grand event."

"OK." Damon Dash hurriedly changed clothes with Alia.

‘APLUS took his own 757 and his celebrity friends to La Rochelle in the Cognac area...’

The little Christina Ricci, who also owns a big cream cake, is a good spoiler during the flight. The precious thing is that she is young, only twenty years old. Song Ya also succeeded in persuading her not to undergo surgery and to save another lost lamb, a great deed.

It's a pity that flying here from Paris is almost ready for the 757 to land as soon as it takes off.

"Hello Mr. APLUS."

The people of Riise and Tricolor Vodka are already waiting at the airport, and there is also a key figure, Sam Bronfman of the Bronfman family, who is also the younger Bronfman's cousin.

"Hello." Song Ya shook hands with the other party and allowed reporters to take pictures with the champagne gold 757 as the background. This was part of the transaction.

I hope that in the future, this Bronfman's promise to keep the old Bronfman will expose the previous contradictions.

"I apologize to you on behalf of Edgar Jr. He has been a bad kind since he was a child."

The motorcade traversed the picturesque country roads in western France. Sam Bronfman is also a rich three generations. After seeing Song Ya and him briefly, he felt that he was also a dude, maybe even worse than the little Bronfman. He was incapable of learning and was a little stupefied. Except for chatting about wine and yelling at the cousin, other topics were all about hobbies like flying eagles and running dogs, and women.

Song Ya even had the illusion that he hated the young Bronfman more than himself.

"APLUS and the Bronfman family have begun to investigate the Seagram wine industry. He is absolutely impossible to participate in short selling." After seeing the news, Messier put down his suspicion and ordered his men, "Expand this news. ."

The historic castle-style winery, endless vineyards, elegant French servants, and the ubiquitous aristocratic old Qian Fan are completely irresistible to American stars. After staying for one night, Halle and Christina Ricci, Aaliyah wore ladies' wide-brimmed hats, as if it would turn them into classical ladies.

"Wow!" They wandered inside the huge wine cellar, exclaiming at the rows of large oak barrels.

"I heard that Pernod Ricard and Diageo will jointly bid for the Sigram wine business. We also plan to speed up the merger with Tricolor Vodka and introduce some private equity funds..."

The men followed the three women to discuss business matters, and Song Ya was mainly talking about Martell and the person who manages the wine cellar.

Song Ya's words are true or false. He promised to participate in the bid for the Sigram wine business, but he didn't want to pay too much, just peeing, just let other dogs smell him. Therefore, he intends to bring in Bacardi, a liquor giant that has already held a lot of shares in Tricolor Vodka in the process of malicious mergers and acquisitions. Bacardi is also willing. They do not want to fall behind in the competition with Pernod Ricard and Diageo, and at the same time I don’t have enough cash in a short time, and I also need to form a team.

Seagram, Pernod Ricard, Diageo, Bacardi, and Mingyue Hennessy under the LVMH Group, there are probably only a few top giants in the West playing spirits, and LVMH, which is fighting PPR fiercely, should be overwhelmed.

In addition to these two waves, some other wine giants, such as Anheuser-Busch Budweiser, etc., will also participate in the bidding. The Seagram wine industry is very popular. Of course, all parties are mainly thinking about whether they can take advantage of the pain of Vivendi Global to cut the meat. If the leak is found and the price is too high, everyone's desire to buy will be greatly reduced.

"Today, Vivendi's global price rose sharply!" Someone ran in from behind to report.

"It may be that Mr. APLUS came to us today to bring confidence to the market." Martell's people joked.

"Hehehe..." Song Ya smiled triumphantly.

"What's the matter?" Today's Edison is more depressed than yesterday, and he was so **** lonely after he was playing long and short.

"They seem to be washing in a wide range of shocks? Haha, yesterday's caution saved us from a catastrophe!" Julian Robertson looked at the K-line of Vivendi Universal and couldn't help but rejoice. "It seems that APLUS's judgment last week was correct. He is a genius playing finance!"

Bill Wong blinked and didn't want to say anything. He was only impressed by the black hole muzzle of APLUS's private lawyer, and he would still be scared now.

"When they are tired of playing, the market has almost finished digesting the good news of the rescue of the Vivendi Global Auctions Sigram wine industry, and we will look for opportunities to enter the market when that time comes!" Julian Robertson made a decision.

"APLUS won't have run away last week, right?" Paulson thought of a blind spot, and he asked his subordinates: "Did APLUS never say that he will close out and leave this week, or switch to longer?"

"No, he only revealed that he would compromise with Vivendi Global." The subordinate replied.

Paulson slapped his forehead and closed his eyes in pain.

"Pick one." Deep in the cellar, Sam Bronfman was standing in front of a row of vintage wine racks. The bottles were covered with a thick layer of ash. Most of the wine labels were lost. The brand and year of these antique wines can be distinguished by the label hung on the bottleneck.

"introduce?"

Although his ex-wife was once strictly prohibited from drinking, Song Ya himself has a hobby of drinking and sometimes drinks too much. "I don't understand this."

Martell’s people began to introduce them one by one. These wines are very powerful. They started in a century and all come from vintages that produced good wines in history.

"The time is almost here." A manager of the wine cellar reminded that people should not stay in such a constant temperature and humidity place for too long.

"Just this one." It just happened to introduce a Macallan whisky from 1878, which Song Ya appointed casually.

"Wow, you are very discerning Mr. APLUS." In the compliments of everyone, Song Ya was hugged to the wine tasting room again after being called forward.

"Uh..." There was also an episode in the meantime, and the people at Martell couldn't get the cork that had long been like a wine bottle.

"Give it to me." Song Ya stopped the other party from reaching for the professional tool's hand, asked for the wine bottle, and knocked it on the table. With the sound of the crisp glass cracking, the wine bottle was disconnected from the neck.

"That's all right!" Song Ya laughed triumphantly.

"You still have a way, Mr. APLUS." Everyone had fun.

"Whiskey don't need to wake up? Give me that glass." Song Ya poured Sam, Hallie and the others one by one. Of course he wouldn't forget himself, "Cheers!"

"Cheers!" Damon Dash echoed loudly, and then drank it hurriedly.

"Yeah! Yeah! Not bad, this wine is really good! Isn't it good?" Song Ya asked Hallie.

"Um..." Halle smashed it for a long time and couldn't tell why.

The veterans of the Sigram liquor industry in the periphery lowered their heads secretly when they saw this scene of the old blacks.

"Damn it!"

On Wednesday, June 29, 2000, before returning to the United States, Song Ya glanced at the K-line that Vivendi Global was rushing down again, and rolled his eyes to complain.

"Robble! Jon! Sansa! Arya! Dad wants you to die! And little Dassy!"

On Thursday, Song Ya returned to Chicago to reunite with Xue Linfen, Mira and the children. At the same time, he began to worry about how to comfort Amy, who was pregnant, while Vivendi Universal was still falling.

"Senator Lieberman." Messier also contacted Gore's running partner, Lieberman, the future deputy commander of the United States.

"Mr. Messier, the stock price of your company plummeted after the acquisition of U.S. Universal Corporation, causing serious losses to U.S. investors. I need an explanation for this." Lieberman really began to confirm the old Bronfman under his inquiry. The previous warning.

Messier had no choice but to explain in a desperate way, "I'll handle it, don't worry." He put down the phone disappointedly, "The scheme of auctioning the Seagram wine industry, add the shares of Sam's. …"

"Okay, let's enter the market!" Julian Robertson saw that the stock price fell below the 40-Euro psychological barrier, and the Tiger Fund began to re-enter the market.

Goldman Sachs, Universal and other short-selling institutions have already left Song Ya behind and continue to enjoy the feast of vultures.

"If this continues, the rating agency will downgrade us on the weekend!" The subordinate reminded Messier in a panic: "Would you like to announce important matters at night and apply for an emergency suspension of trading tomorrow?"

"No hurry." Messier's will became firm. "That's good, better than I expected. It's already like this. Let them eat."

On July 1, 2000, on Friday, Vivendi Global rose slightly in late trading, closing at around 36 Euros.

"Give me Solomon Smith Barney, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Industrial and BNP Paribas." Messier ordered: "Also notify Andersen."

"Messier should be launched." The old friend said to the old Bronfman.

"Ok."

Old Bronfman dropped his cane and walked onto the lawn with his hands behind his back. The old king looked up at the blue sky of France.

"Vivendi Global decided to sell the Seagram Wine Company at auction and complete the transaction before September. This is expected to bring us nearly tens of billions of dollars in cash."

Messier delivered a speech at the press conference that evening, "At the same time, we have also decided to complete the listing in the country before 2001. I am honored to announce that we have hired Goldman Sachs, Solomon Smith Barney, Lehman Brothers, and Germany. Many investment banks and asset management companies such as Bank, Industrial and BNP Paribas have come to introduce strategic investment, financial restructuring and debt reduction for this listing. I am honored that Andersen Certified Public Accountants is willing to undertake all audits of this listing. jobs…"

"Huh?" Hearing this, Song Ya, who was humiliated, couldn't help but stop moving, dumbfounded.

"Let's go back to Canada." The old Bronfman finally let go, "Vivendi Universal should be suspended for a long time."

"The French regulatory agency has summoned several senior executives and related auditors of Vivendi Global’s medical companies. The person in charge told reporters that so far, only 1.5 billion euros in double-counting operating income has been found in the company. He committed suicide earlier, and it is not clear whether this part of the operating income was due to an accounting error or from high-level instruction..."

"The New York State Attorney General today issued an arrest warrant against DefJam President Lyle Cohen. A spokesperson for the Office of the Attorney General told reporters that it is likely that Lyle Cohen had already started financial fraud before DefJam was sold to Polygram Records. , The related behavior lasted for nearly ten years..."

"Vivendi Global CEO Messier visited New York, UU reading www.uukanshu.com and New York Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs Chairman Paulson, Deutsche Bank Global Financial Division President Edison, Lehman Brothers, Solomon Smith Barney and other investment banks At the high-level meeting, all parties friendly exchanged views on Vivendi Global’s listing in the country."

During the trading suspension period, various news broke out. In mid-July 2000, Vivendi Global reopened trading on the Paris Stock Exchange, the first day's daily limit, and subsequent trading days continued to rise.

"Today is a sad moment for me and all my colleagues in the Tiger Fund. Based on personal and investment failure reasons, I announced that I will close the seven funds under the Tiger Management Company before January 1, 2001. In the future, I will focus on theoretical research and education..."

At the end of July, Julian Robertson, who suffered a Waterloo-style liquidation at Vivendi Global, choked and announced: “Thank you for your company over the past 20 years. The method of refunding the remaining assets of the fund will be announced later... I will not surrender, and I will Will not stop investing..."

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