But the business transactions we're involved in can't be based on imagination alone, haha! Actually, I really hope he can conjure up hundreds of millions of dollars just by imagining things..."
"Hundreds of millions of dollars? I reckon he can't even afford a plane ticket from Hong Kong to the UK now! A bankrupt wretch!"
Lord Davis nodded, and said with a relaxed expression:
“That’s right. I heard that Governor Murray MacLehose has been extremely anxious these past few days. He’s staked his political future on that bankrupt young man.”
"I guess he invited us here today just to...sigh and formally withdraw that ridiculous takeover offer! Ugh! What a boring farce."
The two were chatting and laughing when the meeting room door was suddenly pushed open.
Governor Murray MacLehose walked in, and his face did not look too good; in fact, it was a pale look, a sign of exhaustion and shock.
Good morning, Your Excellency the Governor.
Upon seeing this, Humphrey and Davis stood up lazily, not even bothering to extend a hand in greeting.
"You've come to withdraw the acquisition offer? We understand. After all... your 'business genius' is probably..."
Good morning, gentlemen.
MacLehose interrupted them with a smile, and as he turned to the side...
A person followed him in.
Who else could it be but Lin Huowang?
"You...you..."
Sir Humphrey, who had been holding the cigar with such flair, dropped it to the ground with a "thud".
Lord Davis's smile froze instantly.
The two men stared at Lin Huowang in front of them as if they had seen a ghost, their eyes wide open.
"You...you shouldn't...shouldn't you be bankrupt by now?"
Humphrey exclaimed somewhat involuntarily, but after he finished speaking, he realized that his behavior was very impolite.
Lin Huowang, however, paid no attention to any of this. He gently pulled out the chair at the head of the table, sat down, and then looked up with a smile at the two astonished Englishmen, saying:
Bankruptcy?
"Gentlemen, you seem to be... always reading old newspapers."
"How about we continue our discussion from last week regarding the acquisition?"
...
MacLehose immediately sat down next to Lam Fook Wong.
He didn't look at Humphrey and Davis. In his eyes, these two fools who had brought the great Leland Corporation to the point of having to sell its assets were not worthy of his attention.
His gaze remained fixed on Lin Huowang's profile with reverence.
Actually, he only just learned that the mysterious person who had been crushing short sellers in the silver market and making billions of dollars was Lin Huowang.
When he heard the news, Mak Lai-ho simply couldn't look at Lam Ho-wong's excessively young face.
It's only been a short time!
How did he do that?
When he first arrived in Hong Kong at the beginning of the year, he was just a rising star in Hong Kong who barely managed to gain a foothold on the island with the help of a manga magazine called "Dragon Jump".
At that time, he wasn't even qualified to visit him at the Governor's House.
But what about now?
They reaped billions in profits in a single battle.
And these two idiots actually thought that Kobayashi Tenno had gone bankrupt?
MacLehose was filled with scorn for them.
"My God..."
"They...they know nothing."
"They thought Kobayashi Tenno had gone bankrupt..."
"They don't know... just yesterday! Just last night! Shen Bi called me... that encrypted call that I'll never forget in my life!"
Last night, at 3 a.m.
MacLehose was startled awake by the urgent ringing of the telephone.
On the other end of the phone, HSBC tycoon William Sham solemnly reported:
"Your Excellency... Yihe... Yihe is finished."
MacLehose, still looking sleepy, asked, "What's over? Peter, do you know what time it is?"
Shen Bi, however, said with utmost caution: "Newbie! Swire! Madden! Swire, Wheelock, Jardine Matheson, all... almost all British-owned conglomerates in Hong Kong... are all finished! They... they were... slaughtered on the silver market!"
MacLehose instantly snapped to his senses: "What? How is this possible? By whom?"
Shen Bi took a deep breath before saying, "It's him... it's Kobayashi Tenno."
"He did not go bankrupt on his silver investments, sir; we were all wrong."
“He’s not gambling, he’s…hunting.”
"He took advantage of Newbie's whistleblower report, exploited the rules of the US government, and took advantage of the Hunt brothers' bankruptcy..."
"He...he was alone in London, and he did it all so quietly..."
"They slaughtered the financial foundation of our British Empire in Hong Kong Island, which had been built up over a hundred years!"
"He didn't go bankrupt, sir..."
"He is now, he is now the largest conglomerate in Hong Kong!"
...
Thinking of what Shen Bi had said, Mak Li-hao looked at Lin Huo-wang beside him and felt lingering fear, which further strengthened his determination to stand on the same side as Lin Huo-wang.
"I am sitting with a... Demon King who just slaughtered Jardine Matheson, Swire, and Wheelock, who has at least tens of billions of US dollars in cash, and who also has the 'miracle drug' Viagra and the 'magic' Harry Potter."
Suddenly, MacLehose's confidence surged again. After all, who would complain about having an overly powerful ally? He smiled at the two idiots from Leyland Corporation, thinking to himself:
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