The instigator, Comrade Chen Xia, was still busy causing trouble for Johnson Pharmaceuticals and Lilai Pharmaceuticals in the United States.
When Pfizer and Pumpkin Vine invested in pharmaceutical factories in Yuezhou and imported equipment and raw materials from Europe, they were ripped off by Johnson and Li Lai.
The two companies used underground means to have pirates in Malacca hijack two batches of goods.
This caused Pfizer and Pumpkin Vine to lose more than 500 million US dollars at once, and they also faced the embarrassing situation of having no equipment and raw materials to start production.
If Chen Xia hadn't had a golden finger, and hadn't snatched back the looted supplies and completely wiped out Lansha City, it would be hard to say to what extent the losses would have expanded.
Chen Xia has always remembered this account and has not settled it. If he retaliates, it will be a revenge and will easily arouse suspicion from international police and intelligence organizations.
After all, whenever Chen Xia wants to cause trouble, he does it personally, and the Pumpkin Vine Company has enough motivation.
Now, several years have passed since the incident, and it's time to teach them a severe lesson.
After purchasing the farm in Wisconsin, Chen Xia took Xu Yuan to New York again, ostensibly to visit Pfizer Pharmaceuticals headquarters.
After all, his concubine and children are in the United States, and he needs strong support from local capital.
America is a money-oriented world, and you can buy everything with money.
But the American is also a big swindler. It is a piece of cake for him to cheat foreign capital. If he does not have a strong backing, Chen Xia is afraid that Xu Yuan’s companies will be badly cheated by local capital.
Relatively speaking, professional managers are relatively well-behaved. After all, they are also employees. If they have a stain, it will be difficult for them to find a job in the future.
Pfizer is the backer that Chen Xia found for Xu Yuan. If that is not enough, there is also the Walmart family consortium.
The real boss behind Pfizer is actually the Barossa Group, one of the top ten financial groups on Wall Street.
The Balos Group owns 46% of Pfizer's shares (the shares are dispersed among several companies under the Balos Group, but the boss is the same).
Combined with Chen Xia's 10% stake, it is just enough to perfectly control the board of directors, so Pfizer and Pumpkin Vine are firm allies.
Similarly, the Barossa Group and the Hong Kong Four Seasons Group are also allies, although the current wealth gap between the two sides is quite large.
However, Morrison, the actual helmsman of the Barossa Group and chairman of Pfizer, has a very good personal relationship with Chen Xia.
Especially after the "Li Lai Company Fire" and the "Lansha City Explosion", Morrison's attitude towards Chen Xia was as good as it could be.
Don't believe it?
Think about it, why does Chen Xia often call Citibank's VIP center whenever he has problems in the United States? The bank always responds to Chen Xia's requests.
Citibank is actually controlled by the Barossa Group, so any request from Chen Xia will be treated as a VIP among VIPs and will be handled at the highest level.
This alliance is first and foremost based on "interests". Chen Xia licensed the patents of N drugs to Pfizer, creating tens of billions of dollars in profits for Pfizer every year.
This was hundreds of billions of dollars in the early 1990s, which was not a small amount.
As long as Chen Xia can bring benefits to the Barossa Group, Chen Xia will always be their distinguished guest.
Similarly, this alliance is also based on Chen Xia’s “nuclear deterrence” premise.
Do you really think Pfizer wouldn't cheat Chen Xia like GlaxoSmithKline did? They could just commit financial fraud and reduce your royalties and dividends, leaving you with no recourse.
Because Chen Xia still had to rely on British capital like GlaxoSmithKline to survive in Hong Kong for a few years before 1997, he could only swallow his anger for the time being.
But if Pfizer dared to cheat Chen Xia like this, do you believe that a huge fire would burn down all of Barosse's companies? And then the Morrisons would be sleeping soundly in the middle of the night, only to be set off by TNT fireworks?
Didn't you see that "Lilai Pharmaceutical" is now in a state of collapse? Chen Xia still wants to continue to drive them to the bottom...
A private dinner at the Morrison family home in New York.
Chen Xia brought Xu Yuan here for a private visit, which was not easy to make public.
The key point is that Morrison certainly knew that the woman brought by the Chinese was not his original wife, but should be considered a "concubine", so he held an internal private dinner.
In addition to the Morrison family, the other family members present were Vice President Marcia and her family.
This was the first time that Chen Xia brought Xu Yuan to such a private gathering, which made Xu Yuan feel both touched and nervous.
Morrison was very good at dealing with people. He personally greeted Chen Xia and his group at the gate of the manor. When he saw the female companion next to Chen Xia, he said directly:
"Wow, Chen, your wife is so beautiful, like an oriental princess."
Mrs?
When Xu Yuan heard this, she secretly glanced at Chen Xia.
Chen Xia also smiled and replied: "Mr. Morrison, you have to trust my judgment. My wife must be as beautiful, generous, dignified and elegant as Mrs. Morrison."
This remark made the hostess laugh so hard that she couldn't stop, and she became even friendlier towards Chen Xia.
At the same time, the corners of Xu Yuan's mouth curled up slightly. Chen Xia admitted that she was his wife in front of his friends. This was the best answer.
Both sides laughed out loud.
Chen Xia was very nervous. If he dared to deny in front of Morrison that she was his wife but his girlfriend, it would probably leave a lifelong shadow on Xu Yuan.
Fortunately, one of his wives is in China and the other is in the United States, so they will never meet. If they were in a Shura field every day like Chen Hansheng, he would probably die young.
After dinner, Morrison, Marcia, Chen Xia, and Xu Yuan started a private chat in the study.
"Chen, are you saying that you want to acquire a cinema chain across the United States?"
"Yes, and it would be best if it were one of the top three cinema chains in the United States."
Morrison was a bit confused:
"Chen, you're in the pharmaceutical industry, so why do you want to invest in cinemas? As far as I know, the return and profit margins of cinemas aren't very high. After all, venues, equipment, labor, publicity, and so on all require a lot of investment."
Marcia also said: "If you want to enter the film and television industry, you might as well start a film and television company. Maybe a movie can make hundreds of millions at the box office, and it can also be a big hit and make a good profit."
Chen Xia smiled bitterly, "Investing in a film and television company in Hollywood is not that easy. The Big Eight companies dominate the market right now. There's simply no room for foreign investors like us to survive. You have to know that people in Hollywood are very ruthless towards foreign investors."
To know whether it is cruel or not, just ask the Japanese and Germans, these two countries have been cheated the most.
However, Japan at least had Sony, which had established itself and successfully acquired MGM and Columbia, although it was also defrauded of billions of dollars and the process almost caused Sony to collapse.
The Germans didn't even make a splash.
Chen Xia thought that he could not compete with those old foxes in the entertainment industry, so he decided to stay calm and acquire the cinema chain.
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