Reborn Capital Empire

Vol 2 Chapter 725: Hands-On

Chapter 725 hands-on

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After discussing Unocal’s future development strategy with Rebecca Mark, Guo Shouyun checked the time. Grabbing his jacket, he turned and walked out of the room.

The Plaza Hotel in New York, after getting out of the car, Guo Shouyun felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart when he saw this luxury hotel that has been famous in the United States for hundreds of years. Because you are its owner.

“Guo… Mr. Guo!”

Seeing the young man walking out of a black Rover extension, Ken Cross, general manager of the Plaza Hotel in New York, grew his mouth in shock. The new boss only asked him to come out to greet one person, but he didn’t tell him that he would be greeted by a top business tycoon who became famous in the United States because of Unocal’s listing.

“Hello!”

Looking at the right hand stretched out in front of him, Ken Cross, who came back to his senses, quickly grabbed it, and was flattered: “You… hello, it’s a great honor to meet you.” The tone asked again, “Are you Mr. Bruce Guo?”

“So you know me?”

This sentence has already revealed his identity.

“Of course! I also bought some Unocal shares the day before yesterday.”

“So we are partners!” Guo Shouyun nodded and smiled.

“It’s my pleasure!”

“Then, Mr. Partner, where is the person I’m looking for?”

“Ms. Ji is already waiting for you inside, please come with me.”

“No need, I’ll just go by myself. … Matthew, take Mr. Cross to rest!” Guo Shouyun didn’t want more people outside to know about his family affairs, especially in the United States.

“Mr. Cross, please come this way.”

Looking at the stout Matthew with a grim expression, Ken Cross obediently shut his mouth.

Guo Shouyun sorted out his clothes and walked towards the hotel with his feet raised.

Since the Plaza Hotel was renovated in 1943, neither Depp nor Prince Waleed have completely renovated it for half a century. So that this prestigious five-star hotel has fallen behind its peers in interior decoration and facilities after entering the new century. Therefore, after Guo Shouyun took over, the first thing was to close the hotel for renovation.

Over the past year, more than $100 million has been invested. And over the next two years, $300 million will be spent to complete the decoration of the entire hotel. Fortunately, as a hotel with a history of nearly 100 years, many of the oil paintings, sculptures and ornaments inside are already at the level of cultural relics. Through the auction, the hotel returned nearly $50 million and saved some expenses.

After stepping into the hotel door, you can see that the lobby is extremely empty. The old and luxurious wallpapers and decorations have been removed, leaving only empty walls.

Looking at the tall woman standing in the empty hall, wearing a burgundy women’s coat, black women’s trousers and high heels, with long hair and a shawl, Guo Shouyun walked over with a smile.

After hugging, Guo Shouyun smiled and said, “How come you have lost so much weight?”

“Don’t you guys like women with slender bodies!” Ji Hong looked at him and said.

“I still prefer plumpness. I’m too thin to touch all the bones, and I don’t even have the least touch here.” He glanced at the other’s plump chest. However, because of the heavy woolen coat, there is no seductive spring light at all.

Ji Hong gave him a white look, “Smooth tongue!”

After smiling, Guo Shouyun looked around, “Why don’t you just go home and let me come here? And it’s all building materials and bare blanks, what’s so good about it!”

“You come with me!”

Ji Hong took Guo Shouyun to the elevator, all the way to the 9th floor. As soon as he got out of the elevator, he was full of scaffolding. Obviously, this floor was being renovated. Just because today is the weekend, there are no workers here.

Walk down the corridor to a guest room that has been decorated with walls and floors. Except for the lamps, skirtings, curtains and other parts, the hard decoration of the entire room has been completed.

“look!”

Following the direction of Ji Hong’s finger, Guo Shouyun saw a wall covered with high-grade wallpaper.

“Very good, what’s the problem?”

“You touch it!”

Guo Shouyun stepped forward according to the words and reached out to touch the wallpaper. At first, he didn’t feel anything, but when he touched a slightly larger area, he clearly felt the slight ups and downs on the wallpaper.

Ji Hong walked to the side, squatted down and grabbed the wallpaper and pulled it up, and she pulled off a piece of the pasted wallpaper in an instant. What was exposed was a blue-grey cement wall.

Guo Shouyun didn’t know much about interior decoration projects, but he knew that Ji Hong would not aimlessly.

“Considering that the Plaza Hotel in New York is being renovated, I specially learned about the various processes of the interior decoration project, the materials used and the quotation. It turned out that the wallpaper that should have been pasted on the cement wall after scraping and smoothing it with putty was actually pasted directly. … and $2 million in putty powder and latex paint was recorded in the hotel’s submission to the headquarters for renovations.”

“This is just one of them. When I reviewed the hotel decoration costs, I found that the quotations for baseboards, wallpapers, and floors were generally five to ten dollars more expensive than the market price. Although they were inconspicuous in a single project, they combined , we spent an extra $8 million in decorative materials!”

“It seems that no matter where you are, there are people who are unwilling to be lonely!” Guo Shouyun sighed with narrowed eyes.

“It’s just human nature! It’s not the same there!”

Guo Shouyun nodded, “Have you investigated? Where is the problem?”

“If there is no cooperation from the person below, I don’t think this matter can be concealed until now.”

Guo Shouyun thought of Ken Cross who was left in the hotel lobby.

After nodding in agreement, “What are you going to do?”

“Of course it is to sue, and then recover our losses. Otherwise, they would think that our Huaxia company is easy to bully.” Ji Hong said coldly.

When acquiring the Plaza Hotel in New York, no one knew that Guo Shouyun had anything to do with the acquisition except for the middleman, Depp, and Prince Walid, the previous owner of the hotel. The signed acquisition contract is Yunfan Investment represented by Ji Hong.

A Huaxia company has acquired the best hotel in the United States. In addition, Ji Hong has just started production. She has to take care of the children and is also busy with the construction of the Plaza Hotel. As for the renovation project of the Plaza Hotel in New York, the attention is naturally not as close as the one close at hand. Magic City.

The lax supervision, coupled with the contempt for Huaxia, will naturally allow people with ulterior motives to take advantage of the loopholes.

In fact, in this era, there are too many examples of Huaxia Company being tricked because it is not familiar with the rules of the international market, resulting in heavy losses in international investment.

“It’s up to you. As the CEO of the company, you also need to establish your own prestige within the company.”

Ji Hong nodded.

“Don’t worry, I will help you with this!”

“Um!”

“Anything else?”

“I originally wanted to go shopping and buy some gifts for Xiao Zheng and Sister Yun to bring back. But seeing how popular you are in the United States now, I guess you can’t go.”

Guo Shouyun shook his head, “If you had come half a month earlier, you might be fine. But now even those who don’t know me will look at me more because of your relationship.”

“why?”

“Who told you to look so beautiful!” He said, taking Ji Hong’s jade hand, “Let’s go, go home! I want to eat Sichuan cuisine you made at night.”

Xiaobie wins the newly married, the sweetness and restlessness between the two naturally need not be repeated.

While helping Ji Hong deal with the embezzlement of the Plaza Hotel, Guo Shouyun also stayed in New York to deal with his own affairs.

For example, the one sitting in front of him now, wearing a fair blue suit, reminds the slightly fat middle-aged man.

“Mr. Smith, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”

Winthrop Smith Jr. looked at the young man in front of him who became famous because of Unocal’s listing, and after holding the other’s hand, he sighed a little: “Mr. Guo is unbelievably young! Especially! In front of the amazing career you’ve achieved.”

“Pass the prize, please take a seat!”

“thanks!”

After the two sat down, Wang Jue served them coffee.

After thanking him, Winthrop Smith Jr. said, “Mr. Guo, I’m curious why you set the meeting place on this farm outside New York?”

Guo Shouyun smiled lightly, “Mr. Smith, you are a smart person, you should have guessed my purpose.”

Thinking of some rumors he knew, he frowned slightly and stared at the other party closely: “Do you want to buy Merrill?”

“That’s right!”

“As the most successful financial institution in the past 100 years, Merrill Lynch has brought investment from Wall Street to Main Street, profoundly changing the financial habits of Americans. Merrill Lynch’s tenth is customer first, respect for individuals, teamwork, civic responsibility and integrity. Commandments’ international reputation has made the company founded by Merrill, Peter Lynch, and Mr. Winthrop Smith the most successful financial company in the world!”

“… Merrill Lynch achieved a record net profit of $3.8 billion in 2000 ~www.readwn.com~ Pre-tax profit margin of 21.3% and return on equity of 24.2%. Merrill Lynch ranked 48th in a row in the global underwriting business rankings In the first quarter of 2018, with a market share of 13.3%, Merrill Lynch ranked third in the global M&A business rankings. You ranked first in the world in terms of financial research and dominated the global equity secondary market transactions. .”

“Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch’s personal wealth management totaled $1.5 trillion in assets, and its global asset management business totaled $557 billion. Merrill has 72,000 employees, 21,200 financial advisors, and 44 There are 975 branches in 100 countries and regions. The global presence and good reputation make Merrill Lynch an enviable presence for financial institutions around the world.”

“But!” Guo Shouyun changed the subject, “…with Stan O’Neal becoming Merrill’s 12th CEO. He formulated the so-called ‘New Merrill’ plan, which not only sold the United States such as Canada, Japan, Malaysia, etc. The business that Lin has built over the past half century has also cut 33% of Merrill’s workforce. This goes directly against the core culture of the ‘Merrill family’.”

“Especially when Merrill was implicated in the Enron scandal, he scapegoated Robert Foster, William Foss, James Brown, and Dan Bailey, the head of investment banking, but completely Disregarding the fact that the Department of Justice abused its power by sending them to the Southern Virginia Commonwealth Penitentiary.”

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