Chapter 1205: Dangerous Eric (Part 2)

"The Matrix Laboratory was founded in 1984. Eric invited the Nobel Prize winners in Physics. Dr. Yang Zhenyin of Chinese descent served as the director of this laboratory. He also used Dr. Yang Zhenyin’s appeal and his own financial resources. It has recruited a large number of top talents in basic physics, electronics and microelectronics, computer networks, optoelectronics, software and algorithms. We are familiar with the "MIPS" CPU, "iDoor" operating system, and the digital technology that has become more popular. Most of the application technology in the camera, the "Indigo" graphics workstation, etc., come from this laboratory, and I need to remind you that according to our survey, this "matrix" laboratory, from the perspective of equity relations, almost It is the laboratory belonging to Eric alone, and its registered place is neither in San Jose, where its main office is, nor in San Francisco, or even in our country, but in the remote Xiangjiang River, nominally located in San Jose. , Just the US branch of the "Matrix" laboratory!
William Joseph Casey's voice became deeper and deeper, and it sounded a gloomy taste: "And around this laboratory, we can find several extremely fast-growing companies, such as manufacturers of graphics workstations and ordinary personal computers. SGI, operating system and office software supplier "iDoorsoft", CPU supplier with the highest market share "MIPSelectronic", chip manufacturer "Huaxin Microelectronics", and I would like to remind you that Eric These companies occupy a dominant position. What is even more strange is that these companies are high-quality IT companies that are very keen to invest in the current capital market, but he rejected all attempts by capital to enter these companies, and even never I haven’t discussed with anyone about IPO of even one of these companies. You must know that any of the companies I just mentioned has outstanding performance recognized in the industry. Once IPO, under the current capital market conditions, A valuation of 20 times or even more than 30 times is easy. Someone has calculated that with Eric’s equity in these companies, he can easily obtain tens of billions of dollars in assets, but he seems to have no intention of doing so. It’s incredible to not be tempted to face tens of billions of dollars in assets."
"IPO means that all the operating data of these companies must be made public, and there is also the risk of being diluted by other capital, reducing his control over these companies. I think this should be the reason Eric is not willing to do this. After all, we Everyone knows that he is not short of money." This is Skef. Mellon spoke a fair word for Tan Zhenhua from the perspective of corporate management.
"Mr. Mellon, I can agree with your explanation to a limited extent, but I personally don't think Eric is not short of money. On the contrary, I think his current funds are very tight." William Joseph Casey reads from his notebook I pulled out a note and read to it: "According to our CIA's financial investigation of the above-mentioned companies, we found that these companies have obtained large loans from various banks, and these loans are all in the medium and long term. The total amount is as high as..." He paused, imitation himself was shocked by the above numbers, and took a deep breath before saying: "The total amount is as high as 18.237 billion US dollars!"
As this number was reported, even if everyone in the room was well-informed, they couldn't help but let out an amazed "Oh", and some people began to whisper to each other.
Indeed, in 1987, 18.237 billion U.S. dollars was really a huge loan figure, and Mellon knew that this number should be true, because his Mellon Bank alone gave Eric's companies up to 5 billion U.S. dollars. Credit line!
He even knew that what Eric had done with the money-in the remote eastern island countries, these dollars are frantically pushing up all assets denominated in yen with scary leverage. He knows that in the last two fiscal years, Eric has made tens of billions of dollars in profits every year!
He is not the only one who knows this. In this room, there is another person who knows it well—Brent. Scowcroft relied on being with Warner. Blumenthal’s friendship has long been involved in this financial adventure like a ballooning game, and he and Werner have jointly shorted the oil market once, and now he is desperately pushing the world up. The price of grain futures is long, and behind all these transactions, you can see Eric's figure...
Of course, the head of the CIA, William Joseph Casey, apparently has his own source of intelligence. He said: "It is not that there is any problem with his business that caused Eric's capital shortage. On the contrary, in addition to a large amount of borrowing, Several of his companies are operating very well and have strong profitability. According to our survey, inventory and accounts receivable are also within a reasonable range. Well, maybe the word "excellent" is more accurate. , We believe that this is obviously related to his girlfriend Vivienne’s father’s excellent financial control ability. The reason for his shortage of funds is that he drew a large amount of cash and gave it to another one of his worthy of our attention The company is operated by "Red Flag Capital". This company registered in Xiangjiang has a fund that is becoming more and more active in the global capital market and has a more and more powerful voice-"Red Flag Fund". In addition, "Red Flag Capital" At the same time, dozens of large and small funds are operated by entrusted management, including a national sovereign fund of the Emirates and a national sovereign fund of Haosha. Our CIA tracked these funds and found In the past two years, the investment direction of the entire "Red Flag Capital" has been concentrated in the country. We have also estimated the overall scale of these investments and obtained another amazing number."
"How much?" Even President Reagan couldn't help asking.
"The numbers we can count are extremely inaccurate, but I can say responsibly that the actual numbers will only be more than we know."
"Okay, William, don't sell it, how much is it?"
William Joseph Casey stared at his notepad and read word by word: "According to the current market value, about 350 billion US dollars."
Quiet, extremely quiet.
350 billion U.S. dollars, although this is not the money that Eric really owns, it is the money in his control, or the money he can influence, and this amount of money is enough to detonate many large-scale wars around the world!
By comparison, the US military budget approved by Congress in 1987 was 100.4 billion U.S. dollars (historical figures), and this was the highest in history!
"Gentlemen, the Mr. Eric we are talking about now is a person from Red China, a person who has clearly rejected our invitation to join the U.S. citizenship as an olive branch. He has something to look forward to. The money and the cutting-edge technology involved in countless industries, the most important thing is that he is still a person who may be out of our control at any time. I also want to tell you that our CIA investigation also found that this Eric is related to many international majors. The incident is related, such as the confirmed civil war in Burma, the unconfirmed incident of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Alian Chieftain and China, etc., gentlemen, now do you think this Eric, is he dangerous?"