Rebirth of the Strongest Tycoon

On April 20, a news from the battlefield cheered the British people.

The cruiser "General Belgrano", the main battleship of the Argentine task force, was sunk by the British attack submarine "Conqueror" at a distance of 187 nautical miles from the Falklands.

Six more ships were also sunk, and the remaining ships fled back to Port Stanley in a panic.

This victory not only excited the British people, but also shocked other countries.

Because this time, the British army created the first case of a nuclear submarine sinking a surface warship after World War II.

And the "General Belgrano", with a full-load displacement of 13,750 tons, was the largest surface ship sunk after World War II. Command of the sea in the Falklands waters.

Under the circumstance that air dominance was suppressed, the Argentine military lost its sea dominance, leaving only the Argentine Air Force to fight alone.

The Argentine defenders on the Falklands have become turtles in the urn, waiting for the British to strangle them.

It's just that the British haven't been happy for a day, but there is a bad news on the battlefield.

The modern and advanced battleship "Sheffield", which was launched by the British Navy in 1971 with a cost of 150 million US dollars, was sunk by the Argentine Air Force. The French "Flying Fish" missile!

When the news reached France, I don’t know how many French people were shocked. After the surprise, they became proud. The French military also paid more and more attention to this air-launched main missile, which was just commissioned in 1979, because they knew that in the future this missile will be used. Will get bulk orders, it's a pie in the sky!

The French were happy, but the British were angry. The $200,000 missile was replaced by their $150 million capital ship. This huge gap hit them in the face.

And the missiles are produced by the French, whom the British hate. How can they not make the British angry?

Xia Yu was speechless when he got the news. After that, he could only sigh about the wonder of fate. After all, the British Navy could not escape this disaster.

Originally, the British army could achieve a perfect victory, but now the main battleship "Sheffield" has been sunk.

The British military was mad, and decided to launch a general attack on the Argentine military, trying to end the war as soon as possible and save face for the British military.

In the middle of the night on April 23, the British Special Air Service Regiment landed at Fanning Point on the Falklands by helicopter. After a night of reconnaissance, vertical landing and beach landing, more than 1,000 British troops "falled from the sky" and successfully occupied San Carlos. The forty Argentine defenders stationed at the port were wiped out.

In the early morning of April 24, the British landing operation was in full swing. After the British landed, they immediately built defensive positions and formed an anti-aircraft fire network with naval guns, various anti-aircraft missiles and anti-aircraft machine guns.

Then the troops landed continuously through the port of San Carlos, and the troops were divided into two groups to attack the port of Stanley where the Argentine army gathered, and the ground war began in the mainland of Argentina.

The balance of victory is tilted in England again!

And right now.

Xia Yu, who was returning to London from Norfolk, got a piece of news from the United States.

Peter Lynch, president of Polaris Capital, has one thing he wants to ask him for.

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City of London, Bright Fund headquarters, in Xia Yu's office.

Xia Yu looked at the report in his hand with a satisfied smile on his face.

"Peter Lynch didn't let me down!"

Xia Yu said with a light smile.

Although he hasn't been to America for over a year.

But Peter Lynch executed every command he gave by remote command perfectly, and Polaris Capital also grew rapidly under his management.

Last year, Polaris Capital cooperated with the New York branch of Jiuding Securities Co., Ltd. and completed several extremely important tasks.

The first was to buy a 14.6 percent stake in General Electric for $1.9 billion and become one of the major shareholders of General Electric.

If only that was the case, the key is that now GE has bottomed out since Jack Welch took over as CEO in April last year, and now its market value has risen from a trough of $13 billion to $25.4 billion. Dollar.

This also means that the floating profit of the equity held by Polaris Capital has reached as much as 1.8 billion US dollars!

The second result was the Coca-Cola Company.

With the efforts of Peter Lynch, he finally bought a 25.4% stake in Coca-Cola from the Chicago consortium and 21.7% from the Morgan consortium. A total of $930 million was spent.

But the Coca-Cola Company was thus freed from the struggle of the three major consortia.

In addition to the 38.2% of the shares held by the British Bright Fund, Xia Yu actually owns 85.3% of the shares of Coca-Cola, and the rest of the shares are scattered.

But for Xia Yu, who already has actual absolute control, under the premise of not preparing to privatize Coca-Cola, the total 14.7% stake scattered outside is already very small.

besides.

The Taiwan branch of Polaris Capital is also growing very fast. It has invested in dozens of potential companies in Taiwan, including Hon Hai, which was named by Xia Yu, and obtained 45% of the equity.

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This time, Peter Lynch's report to Xia Yu about the company's development was not the most important thing.

The core purpose is about an acquisition.

After many discussions, the management of The Coca-Cola Company formulated a new long-term strategic development plan, and the most critical one was an acquisition.

The Coca-Cola Company hopes to acquire Columbia Pictures, one of the Hollywood giants that is now in a slump, to open up the channel between Coca-Cola and the entertainment industry, and to use movies to drive the growth of Coca-Cola's sales, increase Coca-Cola's market exposure and improve its product image.

The current CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, Donald Robert, also gave an example, that is, all celebrities drink Coca-Cola, and Pepsi only appears in the hands of villains...

At present, the market value of Columbia Pictures is only more than 370 million US dollars, but if it is to be fully acquired and privatized, it is conservatively estimated that it will cost 600 million US dollars or even more.

The Coca-Cola Company itself can't come up with it, so it must be necessary to issue additional shares for mergers and acquisitions, and it also requires a large amount of capital.

Because Xia Yu attaches great importance to the Coca-Cola Company, and Polaris Capital already owns a MGM studio in Hollywood, Peter Lynch was not able to make a decision, so he reported the situation to Xia Yu, hoping that he would make the decision .

"Boom...boom...boom..."

Looking at the information in his hand, Xia Yu smiled lightly, his fingers tapped the table rhythmically, and the information about the Coca-Cola Company in his previous life appeared in his mind.

The Coca-Cola Company in the previous life also acquired the Columbia Film Industry Company. The latter also produced many classic films in the hands of the Coca-Cola Company, and the company also went out of slump.

It's just that Coca-Cola's strategic plan to use the movie to significantly boost Coke sales has failed.

But Coca-Cola did not lose, because Coca-Cola later sold Columbia Pictures Industries to the island country Sony for $5 billion.

So now Coca-Cola is willing to buy Columbia Pictures.

More importantly, Xia Yu is really not satisfied with having only one MGM studio, he hopes to occupy half of Hollywood and become the supreme king of Hollywood!

Letting Polaris Capital acquire a Hollywood giant is too direct and too conspicuous, and it is easy to cause a backlash.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly a good way to acquire Columbia Pictures in the name of Coca-Cola, and the success rate will be even higher than that of North Star Capital, which already has a Hollywood giant.

Even if the Coca-Cola Company does not need it in the future, it can be left-handed and right-handed.

With so many benefits, there is nothing to hesitate, of course it is approved!

But at this time, Xia Yu saw Coca-Cola's plan from the information again, and he subconsciously frowned.

After calculating the time difference, he found that it should be around 9 am in San Francisco now. Xia Yu picked up the phone and called Peter Lynch's office.

Not long after, the phone was connected.

Xia Yu said very simply: "Peter, I'm Xia Yu... The management of the company is very good, I am very satisfied, thank you for your hard work..."

"Fully support the Coca-Cola Company's purchase of Columbia Pictures, and strengthen the cooperation between MGM Pictures and it after the purchase..."

"One more point, Coca-Cola's decision to change the formula is wrong. I don't agree. Coca-Cola's formula is the company's brand spirit and leads consumers' loyalty. Changing the formula is to change the habits of all consumers and challenge their consumption beliefs. , the consequences are extremely serious, and the company will use other means to increase sales..."

"Clap!"

After talking for more than ten minutes, Xia Yu hung up the phone.

In later generations, the Coca-Cola Company's formula change in the 1980s was even called by The New York Times one of the biggest mistakes American business has made in a century.

After changing the formula for only three months, angry consumers resisted and changed it back to the original formula. However, the damage caused to the Coca-Cola Company by this process was extremely far-reaching, and the sales of the Coca-Cola Company fell a lot. Give it up to PepsiCo.

Since Coca-Cola is his now, how could he turn a blind eye knowing that the management is making wrong decisions?

Even if the management doesn't understand and is dissatisfied, Xia Yu doesn't care, and the big deal will be replaced.

He is the real master, and his orders must be implemented!

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In the next few days, Xia Yu, accompanied by George Berkeley, inspected the Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered Bank respectively.

The personnel in the two banks were cleaned, and all the personnel belonging to the Rothschild family or related, whether they were executives or middle-level managers, were dismissed.

Before the Rothier family was a shareholder, Xia Yu couldn't do it if he wanted to. Now that he has finally achieved full control of these two banks, he naturally won't be soft-hearted.

The purpose of this is for confidentiality.

What's more, RBS and Standard Chartered have been dragging their feet long enough to do one thing that could well be costly if not done quickly.

That is, the sovereign debt to Latin American countries must be cleared as soon as possible!

When Xia Yu took control of Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered Bank, he asked George Berkeley to make statistics on the sovereign debts of these two banks against Latin American countries.

Among them, the Royal Bank of Scotland holds more than 2.23 billion US dollars of sovereign debt in Latin American countries.

Standard Chartered Bank holds more than $1.98 billion in sovereign debt to Latin American countries.

It is worth mentioning that Standard Chartered Bank also holds a 39% stake in Standard Chartered Bank of South Africa, the largest bank in South Africa.

Standard Chartered Bank of South Africa also holds more than $670 million in sovereign debt to Latin American countries.

Before Xia Yu let Duke Carter Howard cheat on the Rothschild family, conspiring to sell Lloyds Bank's sovereign debts one after another, and most of them were deliberately transferred to Barclays Bank at a low price.

But Barclays Bank has always been a shareholder of Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered Bank, so Xia Yu couldn't do it at all.

Now that the Rothschild family has been cleaned out, and the employees have also been cleaned, the ticking time bomb, which is as high as $4.2 billion held by the two banks, must be thrown out as soon as possible.

Otherwise, once the Latin American sovereign debt crisis broke out and the Latin American countries refused to repay their debts, Xia Yu would have lost more than 4.2 billion US dollars!

Therefore, after Xia Yu returned from the inspection of the two banks, he immediately called George Berkeley and the presidents of the two banks for a short meeting to clarify the work requirements.

Before June, all the sovereign debts of Latin American countries held by Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered Bank should be cleared out, and they should be transferred to Barclays Bank as much as possible.

During the meeting, the president of Standard Chartered Bank also raised a question, that is, should Standard Chartered Bank of South Africa also transfer its sovereign debt.

After all, Standard Chartered Bank is the largest shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank in South Africa. If the latter loses more than 670 million US dollars, then according to the proportion of equity allocated to Standard Chartered Bank, it is equivalent to a loss of more than 260 million US dollars.

That's a lot of money!

However, Xia Yu directly rejected the proposal of the president of Standard Chartered Bank.

One is that having Standard Chartered Bank of South Africa transfer its sovereign debt would create unnecessary risks.

Second, Xia Yu has a plan. It is not a perfect opportunity to make Standard Chartered Bank of South Africa, the largest commercial bank in South Africa and Africa, suffer heavy losses!

So after he explained his idea, the president of Standard Chartered Bank was pleasantly surprised and praised Xia Yu's shrewdness.

After finishing the tasks of the two banks, Xia Yu was idle again.

He's still in the UK and there's only one thing left to do!

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PS: Two chapters are combined into one big chapter, there is no update today, please know!

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