Chapter 153

Mr. Gu, who has a "good personality", is secretly preparing a birthday surprise for Jiang Nuo. While Googling "how to please my boyfriend on my birthday", he is also sorting out the funds under his control (including funds that can be leveraged). The corners of his mouth sometimes rise in a sweet and infatuated arc, and sometimes sink and purse, with a very conflicted expression.

——Although this amount of wealth is already quite considerable, it is enough for a person to spend on eating, drinking, gambling, smoking and whoring from the Qin Dynasty to the present, and he may not be able to spend it all.

But if Gu Jiangkuo wants to remove Mr. Gu from the position of actual controlling shareholder, no matter how he calculates, reorganizes resources, or increases leverage, he is still far from it, which is tantamount to an ant trying to shake a tree.

He originally only held 2% of the Gu Group's shares, but Gu Xin had previously compensated him with a portion of the shares privately, and in addition, he had been quietly purchasing shares from various channels over the past year, so Gu Jiangkuo's shareholding had only increased to nearly 5%. There was no other way, the Gu Group was simply too big.

The Fang family has never revealed how many shares they hold, but according to Gu Jiangkuo's speculation, it should be between 12% and 14%. Mr. Gu alone owns more than 45%. This is only the account that can be calculated on the surface, not including some gray industries that cannot be calculated. The overall estimate is that it should be more than 300 billion.

The most direct way is of course to let Gu Zhonghong make a will. However, Gu Jiangkuo knows that if the old man makes a will, then the heir can only be Gu Xin, oh yes, and his son who has taken over the old man's family and is now sick and frail.

The best way now is to settle for the second best and take a roundabout way to save the country. First, take up as many shares as possible, become a major shareholder, and then further gain the right to speak.

But this would also require an astronomical figure. Gu Jiangkuo roughly estimated that based on the current stock price, he would need at least 40 billion in cash.

At the current rate of capital expansion under his name, it might take another five to ten years, but could the old man still live that long? Besides, he was tired of living apart from Nuonuo.

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Jiang Nuo completely forgot that he had a birthday to celebrate and had been sending people to keep an eye on the lithium carbonate futures price on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. Because he always had an uneasy feeling in his heart, he had been consciously controlling the shipment volume in recent months. Now that the inventory is sufficient, as long as he adds tens of thousands of tons of overseas orders, it will be enough to deliver on time.

Moreover, President Jiang also stored some extra backups in Shengchen's warehouse. These reserves are only known to Professor Wu and his team who are responsible for the development of new technologies, and are also kept confidential.

"Actually, am I a little too nervous?" Jiang Nuo pinched the bridge of his nose and muttered to himself, "It seems that the price is still very stable now."

In fact, because the price of lithium ore has fallen in recent months, the price of lithium carbonate has also been adjusted accordingly. If he hoards so much, he may even lose some money. It would be more cost-effective to buy it on the international market and then deliver it.

It's not just Mr. Jiang himself who has such concerns. Most of Xingxu's middle and senior management, including General Manager Chu Le, think that Mr. Jiang is being too cautious. The purpose of opening a short position is to hedge costs. Now, by stockpiling so much goods, the risk of price decline is still borne by himself. Isn't it a waste of time to hedge?

Only Mr. Zhang, who was hired back by Mr. Jiang himself, was still a loyal supporter of Jiang Nuo. He even quarreled with other executives because of this matter.

For example, today, with less than three days left until the delivery date, Mr. Zhang overheard several middle-level managers discussing the situation at the factory: "Everyone says that Mr. Jiang, despite his young age, manages Jiang's company so well and is much better than Mr. Wei. I don't think so. Mr. Wei even knew how to open a short position to hedge risk, but Mr. Jiang doesn't even know such simple common sense. He just keeps working so hard. Now, the delivery price has dropped, so he's losing money."

"It's not like we're losing money, but the profits are definitely down. It's mainly because our costs are high. As soon as he took over, he rushed to rehire Mr. Zhang and let him buy whatever equipment he wanted. How much did we spend? Just wait and see. The quarterly financial report isn't good, and the bonus won't be much. We might as well have sold all this stuff last year and gotten a generous year-end bonus."

"I'm really not as good as President Wei."

"No one should look down on anyone else. These two big bosses are both in their twenties. As the old saying goes, 'those with a straight face don't hold their ground.'"

At this time, Mr. Zhang came in. The factory was noisy, and the two middle managers chatted and gossiped, unconsciously raising their voices. They didn't even notice Mr. Zhang's footsteps. Even when the employee in charge of temperature control coughed vigorously, he didn't react and asked, "Do you have a sore throat?"

"Don't remind him!" Mr. Zhang shouted angrily, "Is this how you work? Gossiping in the factory?"

Both middle-level managers were shocked and their faces immediately turned pale. Being caught gossiping by the real person, is there anything more socially disastrous than this?

"come out!"

Mr. Zhang finally gave them face and did not scold them in front of ordinary employees.

But they were both very nervous and tried to make amends, saying, "Mr. Zhang, we're not talking about you. Purchasing equipment is for the future of the company."

"Yes, we are just complaining. Isn't this a loss?"

"We're not the only ones saying this. Right now, everyone in the factory is worried about their quarterly bonuses. We really don't have any other intentions."

Mr. Zhang knew it very well, and he actually sighed for Jiang Nuo's move. Rehiring himself was Mr. Jiang's first move after taking over as the chairman of Xingxu. Now it is still hidden and in an absolutely confidential stage. Therefore, in the eyes of others, Jiang Nuo's first move is to stock up.

Unfortunately, the international market prices fell, and this tactic of stockpiling became the most clumsy and useless operation, which was really a bad start.

Unless, the market price of lithium carbonate suddenly skyrocketed.

But usually at times like this, it can only be that the bulls are eyeing their short orders, otherwise the price will not change. And it is no secret that Mr. Jiang is hoarding goods. Unless the bulls are crazy and want to cut their losses and offer money, there is no need to raise the price.

Therefore, it seems that there will really be losses this year. Even Mr. Zhang could not come up with a strong rebuttal. He could only criticize them from the perspective of "you gossiping during working hours and your attitude is not correct", but he still held his breath in his heart.

The two middle managers were scolded by their boss but didn't dare to say anything. As they left, they just grumbled quietly, "We're losing money and we're not allowed to talk about it."

"Unless the price suddenly goes up in the next two days, I will admire Mr. Jiang's foresight."

"Okay, Mr. Jiang is not a god. Even a god can't save him. It seems that the quarterly bonus is definitely gone."

"We were caught badmouthing the boss by his henchmen. Even if we make a profit, we can forget about our bonuses. Think about how we'll be harassed in the future. Forget it... Let me check the Nasdaq futures price again. Don't let it drop again... Wait! Am I seeing things? Look, it's gone up so much!"

In less than half a day, the news spread throughout Xingxu that lithium carbonate futures prices had suddenly skyrocketed. In less than a day, the increase exceeded 180%! Nearly doubled!

The whole company was in an uproar!

Mr. Jiang, who was working in the Jiang Group, had his phone nearly blown away by calls, with waves of congratulations growing louder and louder.

Jiang Nuo looked at the strange price fluctuations and fell into deep thought. He felt that this seemed to be a good thing on the surface, but it was probably related to the supplementary clause - the bulls would not be so stupid as to give away money - but he was not panicked at all.

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To thank you all for your comments on the previous chapter, I’m adding another chapter!

ps: Bulls and bears are opposites, one is long and the other is short, which can be understood as one is bullish and the other is bearish.