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"Mr. Xu, we received a call from the Kunpeng. The Black Palace Guards sent a small team to help us guard the Kunpeng."

Zhang Hongweihui reports.

Xu Liangliang was moved and said with a smile: "It seems that Ellison wants to make trouble again."

Apart from Ellison, he couldn't think of anyone else who could make the Black Palace so nervous.

"Mr. Xu, do you want the Kunpeng to be transferred?" Zhang Hongwei asked.

"No, why transfer? Just blow it up."

Seeing the puzzled looks of Zhang Hongwei and Lu Hui, Xu Liang smiled and didn't explain much.

How much does a Kunpeng cost?

The cost of buying it and modifying it is less than $50 million.

If Ellison gets burned or blown up at this juncture, then it will be a slap in the face of Colin Powell, and the entire Black Palace will be brought to its knees.

By then, Ellison will only have more enemies.

Moreover, he can also express his anger by the way and ask for some benefits from the United States.

Not to mention anything else, as long as he is less stuck when acquiring some sensitive companies, he can save 50 million US dollars.

But he was afraid that Ellison was just deliberately creating tension so that he could take advantage of it.

Time flies and the next day arrives in the blink of an eye.

Xu Liang is in good health and never suffers from jet lag.

Get up step by step to exercise and practice martial arts. After breakfast, start preparing to visit the Black Palace.

But before he could go out, Ram Hills came in a hurry.

"Mr. Xu, I'm very sorry. Because Mr. Secretary of State has urgent matters, today's meeting will be postponed to three days."

"put off?"

"Yes."

Xu Liang wasn't angry either. He smiled and said, "Is it because Ellison didn't come?"

Ram Hills' eyes trembled, but he remained calm.

"You misunderstood. There are traces of Bin Laden in Afghanistan. Mr. Secretary of State needs to coordinate the arrest."

"So that's it, then I'll wait for another three days. But please tell Mr. Powell that I have many companies and time is tight. I can't wait here for that lunatic all the time. So I will wait for three days at most. If I come back after three days, If there is no news, then I will not accompany you."

"I will tell the truth to Mr. Secretary of State what you said."

Xu Liang waved his hand.

Ram Hills also took the opportunity to say goodbye.

At the same time, the ‘black’ palace is the official residence of the Secretary of State.

Powell held the phone and looked gloomy.

"Ellison, didn't you promise to come to Washington before? Why haven't you started yet?"

"Dear Colin, I regret it. The thought of sitting next to that yellow-skinned monkey makes me want to shoot him."

Ellison gritted his teeth.

"Allison, this is no reason. If you really don't want to come, you refused when I contacted you."

"Dear Colin, you think of me too complicatedly. I am just a lunatic with no good ideas. If you hadn't sent someone to protect that bastard's plane last night, I would have set it on fire.

Now that I can't achieve this goal, I feel very unhappy, and I don't want to see that yellow-skinned monkey. "

Powell said coldly: "Ellison, there are many people paying attention to this matter. If you can't give me a satisfactory answer, just wait until Oracle is abandoned by the military and government.

That was not my intention, nor was it the President's order. "

"Dear Colin, I am an American and a white man. That yellow-skinned monkey is just a lowly and dirty Chinese bastard. I don't understand why the Black Palace would help an outsider deal with me, a kind and upright American gentleman?"

Powell frowned, now seeing the cunning behind Ellison's arrogant mask.

"Allison, put away your racist remarks, otherwise don't blame me for being rude."

He is of African descent.

And he was the first African-American to become Secretary of State.

"OK, no problem. Dear Colin, please believe that I did not mean to be sarcastic. Blacks and whites are both true Americans."

Powell was not interested in his seemingly sincere but insincere words, but he did not hold on to them either.

"Tell me, what do you want? I still have a lot of work to deal with, and I don't have time to accompany you around here."

Ellison on the other side of the phone clearly felt the impatience in Powell's words, and he also felt that the heat was almost there.

“Actually, I don’t want much, there are two main things.

First, Xu Liang publicly apologized to me in the media.

Second, Oracle is preparing to acquire Sun Microsystems, and the government's antitrust department cannot veto our acquisition under any excuse. "

Powell's frown deepened.

The more successful a person is, the better his face. Seeing how Xu Liang burned Ellison's fixed assets without hesitation before, you know that he is a person with good face.

It is almost impossible for him to publicly apologize in the media.

The second point is relatively easy to achieve.

Sun Microsystems and Oracle are both top companies in the U.S. database field. If the former is acquired, Oracle will occupy an absolute dominant position in the enterprise-level database field.

Therefore, antitrust investigation is a threshold that Oracle must go through.

"I'll think about it and tell you tomorrow."

He had no intention of agreeing to Ellison right away. Things that are too easy to get are often not cherished, and it is not conducive to subsequent bargaining.

"No problem. I'm waiting for news from you."

After finishing his words, he hung up the phone first.

Powell frowned, did not put down the phone but called George W. Bush and reported the situation just now.

"Just do as you say."

After a slight hesitation, Powell said, "Mr. Bush, if Ellison never comes to Washington, I'm afraid Xu Liang will also need some comfort."

Although he instinctively despised Xu Liang.

But he recognized the other party's ability. Hanhua Capital, a rising global financial giant, had a high return on investment that no one could refuse.

Powell also doesn’t want to be excluded from Hanhua in the future.

After all, he can only serve as secretary of state for a few more years, and he will need a source of money after retirement.

"What's your idea?"

"I'll communicate with him first and listen to his thoughts."

"That's fine. If there are any results, remember to notify me as soon as possible."

"OK."

——

At this moment, Xu Liang was on the phone with Liao Yan.

"Mr. Xu, after nearly a month of negotiations, Ike Perlmutter's terms for us are 700 million in cash and the assumption of Marvel's debt of 1.1 billion U.S. dollars, and the total price to acquire Marvel is 1.8 billion U.S. dollars."

When Disney acquired Marvel for US$4.24 billion in 2009, "Iron Man" was already popular. Although "The Incredible Hulk" did not perform well, it at least recovered the cost.

The value of Marvel’s copyright has been reflected.

Unlike now, except for "X-Men" and "Spider-Man", Marvel's other film and television works have mediocre results.

Unfortunately, the copyrights to these popular comics are not owned by Marvel.