Soon Berg recalled the first time he met Fang Lang, when Fang Lang scolded his subordinates with a sullen face outside the corridor door.
They were all in a daze for a moment, not knowing which one was Fang Lang's real face.
Just as Berg's mind was racing with thoughts, Fang Lang's car parked outside a high-end custom dress store on Fifth Avenue.
After waiting for a while, someone opened the car door, Fang Lang got out of the car, and the cold wind blew into the car, and Berg came back to his senses.
As soon as Berg opened the car door, he saw Fang Lang coming around to him and extending his hand to him in a very gentlemanly manner.
After hesitating for a moment, Berg put his hand on Fang Lang's, got out of the car, took Fang Lang's arm, and walked into this splendid high-end custom dress store together.
The waiter who greeted guests at the door knew that they were meeting someone important just by looking at the way they were traveling.
At this time, no one paid attention to Fang Lang's complexion, and quickly stepped forward to open the store door and bowed to welcome him.
A blond young man who looked to be in his twenties politely stepped forward and said to Fang Lang:
"Sir, welcome. I don't know how I can help you."
Fang Lang casually took a look inside the large store, which was very luxuriously decorated. Various men's and women's dresses were hung in the store for workers to select.
Fang Lang nodded and said to the young man beside him:
"Is there a female shopping guide who can match the lady next to me with a dress for the dinner party? We are in a hurry, so please hurry up."
"Okay, sir. Arrangements will be made for you immediately."
Soon a female shopping guide, about thirty years old, walked up quickly.
Fang Lang patted Berg's hand holding his arm and motioned for him to follow the shopping guide to choose a dress.
It was obviously the first time for Berg to enter such a high-end store, and he was a little nervous and did not dare to let go.
Fang Lang could only whisper in her ear:
"Go! Don't worry, your boss is not short of money."
Berg took a deep breath and finally plucked up the courage to follow the female shopping guide in.
Just when Fang Lang drank a cup of coffee and became a little impatient with the wait, there was a "click" and the door of the large fitting room opened.
Wearing a pair of red high heels, a long black dress, and a pure white mink vest draped over her shoulders, Berg, with her golden hair pulled back, looked like Nicole Kidman walking into a red carpet show. field.
Fang Lang couldn't take his eyes away anymore.
"Sir, believe me, your female companion will definitely become the focus of the party tonight."
Fang Lang swallowed his saliva and finally came to his senses:
"This outfit is great, but don't you think there's something missing around her neck?"
"Sir, I think Tiffany next to you will be happy to match your female companion with a piece of exquisite jewelry."
"Then what are you waiting for? Let them come directly. I want to see the overall effect."
After all, it is a high-end luxury store, and the service is indeed very good. Soon several Tiffany's clerks came over with jewelry for Fang Lang to choose from.
Fang Lang looked at it and finally chose a diamond necklace!
After I brought it to Beige personally, the effect was simply not good. The shopping guide around me couldn’t help but admire from the bottom of my heart:
"No Hollywood star is as beautiful as your wife."
At this time, Beige obviously liked his outfit very much. He heard the shopping guide say that she was Fang Lang's wife, and quickly explained:
"Don't get me wrong, this is my boss, I'm not his wife."
Fang Lang directly interrupted Beig's argument and said to the shopping guide:
"That's it, pay for it!"
"Sir, the total price including Tiffany's jewelry is nine thousand eight hundred US dollars."
Beg next to him screamed in surprise:
"Why is it so expensive? I don't want it anymore."
Obviously, with Berg's monthly salary of four hundred dollars, it would take more than two years without food or water to repay such a large amount of money.
It's a pity that Fang Lang will never give him a chance to regret it.
He signed a check and handed it over.
Berg walked out of the store in a daze, only to realize what he was doing when he was blown by the cold wind outside.
I have become a loser worth ten thousand yuan.
This made her look at Fang Lang with a look of resentment, thinking, it's over now, she's tied up with debt.
The boss wouldn't want to do anything wrong to him, would he?
Fang Lang next to him obviously didn't care about this consumption and said casually:
"Let's go and meet the famous Mr. Morgan."
The Plaza Hotel is located in the bustling area of Fifth Avenue in New York. This building is also a standard building on Fifth Avenue.
When Fang Lang and the other two arrived at the hotel, there were already people waiting at the door.
The two were quickly led to a very high-end restaurant box.
A bald middle-aged man in his forties had already extended his hand to Fang Lang.
"Mr. Fang, you are really young!"
"You must be Mr. Morgan, you look a few years older than me!"
They both laughed, introduced their female companions to each other, and then entered the box and took their seats.
"Mr. Fang, the container system developed by your Global Group has been completed, right?"
After a few people simply took a few bites, Mr. Morgan directly brought the conversation to the main topic.
This is completely different from what Fang Lang heard about Westerners not wanting to talk about work while eating.
"Yes, all tests have been passed and trial operation has begun. Why is Mr. Morgan interested in entering the shipping industry?"
Fang Lang asked knowingly.
"Haha. Mr. Fang, your great invention will completely change the new pattern of the world's shipping industry.
Although we at Morgan will not enter the shipping industry, we are very interested in such companies. I wonder if Mr. Fang has ever considered listing the company? "
"Going public? I wonder which company Mr. Morgan is talking about?"
Currently, Fanglang Global Group has six wholly-owned subsidiaries, namely Global Trading, Global Shipping, Global Shipbuilding, Global Steel, Global Port Machinery, and Global Terminal.
Global Trading only owns 25% of Shatta Trading's equity, so it is not a subsidiary of Global Group.
With so many branches under Universal Group, Fang Lang also wanted to know which company had the most investment potential in front of a big investment bank like Morgan.
“In my opinion, these companies owned by Mr. Fang have great potential, so if Mr. Fang is willing, we hope to list them all.
If Mr. Fang is concerned, we can proceed one by one. "
"I wonder which company's development Mr. Morgan is most optimistic about?"
A consortium with strong power in the United States like the Morgan family must have already known about the United States' upcoming European revival plan.
Therefore, Fang Lang estimates that what Morgan wants most to promote the listing must be Global Shipping.
The surprising result was that Morgan actually said:
"Fang, of course we are optimistic about Global Shipbuilding, which has patented technology advantages."
Fang Lang felt a little strange. Has the U.S. government not started proposing a European recovery plan yet?
"But my Global Shipbuilding is not a big company! The shipyards it owns in several countries are not big factories."
"It is precisely because it is not a big company that it has the potential to appreciate! Now you Global Shipbuilding have established shipyards in various countries in Europe and the United States.
The container system you invented has begun official operation again and is about to usher in a period of rapid development! This is the time when funds are needed to rapidly expand and occupy the market.
Therefore, if you ask us to choose one of your companies to list, we will definitely choose Global Shipbuilding! "
"Okay! What Mr. Morgan said is indeed very reasonable, but the actual situation now is that our Universal Group does not lack funds for development.
So, I am not ready to take my company public right now. If Mr. Morgan is really optimistic about my global shipbuilding, how about we change the way of cooperation? "
Mr. Morgan obviously did not expect that the young man in front of him would act completely out of character.
But after hearing him talk about a different way of cooperation, I was still interested and said with interest:
"Oh! Mr. Fang can tell you."
"I am also very optimistic about a company under the Morgan consortium. I wonder if we can do a share swap?"
These words were really beyond Morgan's expectation. He didn't expect that this young man would actually fall in love with the companies under the Morgan consortium, but it's no wonder.
As one of the largest conglomerates in the United States, the Morgan Consortium must have a lot of high-quality assets, but I don't know which company Fang Lang is interested in.
"Oh! It's an honor for us to be favored by Mr. Fang for our company. I don't know which company Mr. Fang wants to exchange shares for."
"As far as I know, the Morgan syndicate is the majority shareholder of AT&T, right?"
Hearing Fang Lang's words, Morgan smiled. Indeed, AT&T is a communications company that monopolizes the long-distance and local phone markets in the United States.
The company's profitability is obviously very strong.
"Yes, AT&T is indeed the holding company of our Morgan consortium. However, the scale of this company now is very huge!
If you want to exchange shares with this company, the shares you receive will be of little use. "
"Mr. Morgan, don't worry, I know this company is indeed a very profitable company, but I don't want to exchange shares with this company.
It's Bell Labs, a subsidiary of this company. "
Hearing this, Morgan was stunned. Of course, the current Bell Labs has not had the great achievements of later generations. This laboratory was established in 1925 after the American Telephone and Telegraph Company acquired the R&D department of Western Electronics Corporation. of.
When the company was founded, Walter Gifford, the president of AT&T, promised to use 3% of the company's annual profits as research funding for Bell Labs.
Since AT&T did not use its telephone patents to expand rapidly in the early days, its income was not particularly high, which allowed it to avoid the economic crisis of the 1930s.
It was not until the outbreak of World War II that AT&T began to rapidly occupy the U.S. market and penetrate into Europe and the United States, which allowed Bell Labs to receive a large amount of financial support.
Practical results began to be produced: long-distance television transmission, digital computers, talkies, and artificial larynxes.
Of course, the digital computer here is not the later electronic computer.
This means that this company has not actually produced much benefit, and at the same time, this company's R&D capabilities have also been recognized by everyone.
Fang Lang just doesn't know how much the Morgan consortium attaches importance to this company, and whether he has a chance to join the company's board of directors.
(End of chapter)
