Facing his girlfriend's surprise, Lin Sanqi waved his hands pretentiously:
"Calm down, calm down. Only 500 antiques were sold at this auction. There are still thousands in the warehouse. We'll sell them off slowly over time. Your husband is not short of money, otherwise Citibank wouldn't have contacted me through Sotheby's."
There is no absolute secret in this world, just like banks, which are open to everyone.
Sotheby's wanted to help Lin Sanqi cover up, evade taxes and hide the cash he earned from the antique auction, but this would have been impossible without the help of the bank.
Of course, Citibank would not miss such a "new" rich man with terrifying cash flow.
How many wealthy people in the world can come up with $5 billion in cash?
Even though these wealthy people in Hong Kong are often the richest people in Asia or among the top ten families, it is still difficult to ask them to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash.
The assets of wealthy people are all invested in various bonds, securities, fixed assets, company stocks, etc.
Otherwise, when Xiao Li was kidnapped, Li Huanggua had to borrow 1 billion yuan from HSBC in order to get through the difficult time.
At this time, Manager Waters opened another box, which contained a number of English documents.
"Mr. Lin, these are the documents of several offshore companies that you entrusted us, Citibank, to handle. There are 20 of them in total, and all of them have cross-holdings. Basically, no one can find out who is the real boss behind the scenes.
In addition, your domestic shares in Lingnantang Pharmaceutical Sales Company, Lingnantang Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic, and Southern Pharmaceutical Factory have all been broken up and distributed among these 20 offshore companies, so you are no longer the nominal owner of these companies."
This is exactly the effect Lin Sanqi wants.
If we really want to find out who the boss behind the offshore company is, we will definitely find out. For example, the old rogue US government has no moral principles.
But ordinary capital, especially domestic capital, does not have this ability.
In particular, the 20 offshore companies have cross-holdings and the equity distribution is a mess. Coupled with confidentiality regulations, even the Big Four accounting firms cannot find out the truth.
Lin Sanqi's goal is to turn all of Lingnantang's companies into "Hong Kong-funded" or "foreign-funded" companies, so as to guard against the greedy hands of most domestic capital.
If it really didn't work out, he would just give up the company. It was just a shell company anyway. Lin Sanqi took the antiques, medicinal materials, and ran away with his sister-in-law.
All the money earned by Lingnan Hall flowed into the accounts of various offshore companies, and its final destination was unknown, leaving domestic capital with nowhere to start.
Don't think that Lin Sanqi is too timid or has persecution complexes. He is an entrepreneur who is confident that he can thrive in China, but in the end he was severely punished by some truly greedy tycoons.
People can order directly, pull out a list of companies, and then randomly select: "Grandpa, I want this one, and I want this one too."
As for whether foreign capital will wield the machete?
This possibility also exists. Foreign capital will still be ruthless and all capital in the world is of the same character.
But as long as Lin Sanqi keeps a low profile, does not take the initiative to invest in entities in Europe and the United States, and does not take the initiative to do things that harm the interests of European and American countries, he will be relatively safe.
Capital is going to chop down the big knife and target your real economy, cut off your source of funds, and then force you to sell assets at a low price.
But Lin Sanqi has no physical assets abroad, what can they do?
Tie up Lin Sanqi and transfer all the funds out? This possibility is unlikely. The rules of the game always need to be followed.
Otherwise, Musk, the South African, would have been killed long ago.
Lin Sanqi handed a box of offshore company information, accounts, and various official seals to Yin Lianyi, and let the finance department worry about the financial matters.
Yin Lianyi was actually a little confused. After all, she was a finance student who had just graduated. She had no confidence at all in the complex cross-holdings of offshore companies and assets totaling more than 6 billion US dollars.
Fortunately, many professors at Huadu University of Finance and Economics are financial consultants hired by Lin Sanqi, so let them worry about it.
Worster personally brewed two cups of coffee and placed them in front of Lin Sanqi and Yin Lianyi, then revealed his other purpose:
"Mr. Lin, leaving so much money in your account untouched is a crime against money. My advice is that you should invest it. As you Chinese say, let money make money, and that's how you generate more money."
Lin Sanqi felt that this sentence was right.
Now, whether it is the US dollar, the euro, or the domestic RMB, all countries have started the nuclear-powered printing press and are printing money crazily.
Printing too much money will cause inflation, which is actually a disguised way of taking money from ordinary people, which is very rogue.
Lin Sanqi now has 6 billion US dollars in overseas accounts. If he does not invest it, it may become 6.5 billion US dollars in 10 years and earn some interest. This behavior is the most stupid. The purchasing power may be worth only 3 billion US dollars in 10 years.
So Lin Sanqi agreed that he should invest, but how to invest was a matter of consideration.
"Mr. Worster, I mentioned to you before that I wanted to acquire a top medical laboratory in Hong Kong or mainland China. Have you made any progress?"
Having said that, Worster stood up again and took out a document from the bookcase.
"Mr. Lin, please take a look at this information. This is the information of Xiangjiang Federal Pharmaceutical Company. Johnson & Johnson is now preparing to acquire Federal Pharmaceutical. If the acquisition is successful, the Federal Pharmaceutical Experimental Center will be disbanded.
My idea is that Citibank can ask Johnson & Johnson to split off this experimental center, and then we can help Lingnan Hall acquire this experimental center. What do you think of this method? "
While Lin Sanqi was flipping through the information, he was quickly searching for the company "United Pharmaceuticals" in his mind.
Then I saw an introduction to cough syrup in the information and finally had an impression of this company.
Federal Pharmaceutical once had a flagship product, Federal Cough Syrup, which is a powerful cough suppressant indicated for dry coughs without sputum and severe, frequent coughs.
Because of its excellent efficacy, it once ranked among the top cough syrups in domestic sales.
Finally, due to problems with certain ingredients in the drug, this best-selling cough syrup was discontinued and withdrawn from the market.
Federal cough syrup also has another chemical name, called "Compound Codeine Phosphate Oral Solution". Just by hearing the name, you know where the problem lies, right?
Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi asked Yin Lianyi to open the laptop she carried with her, and under Worster's puzzled eyes, she began to search for information about Federal Cough Syrup.
The main ingredient of Federal cough syrup is codeine.
Codeine is an alkaloid found in the opium poppy plant. It can be extracted from tooth slices and then chemically synthesized.
This method is actually the same as the one used by Chinese pharmacist Tu, who extracted artemisinin from Artemisia annua and created a new method for treating malaria. For this, Tu was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Regardless of whether this kind of medicine is considered Chinese medicine or Western medicine after being extracted in the Western medicine way,
However, whether it is extracting quinine from opium poppy or extracting artemisinin from Artemisia annua, these are actually drugs developed with inspiration from ancient Chinese medical books.
What does this mean? It means that Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) actually has great potential, but it requires scientific research and the use of modern medical methods to refine it.
Lin Sanqi doesn't have much else, but he has a lot of lost national treasures of ancient Chinese medical books and secret recipes. So, is it possible to find inspiration from these ancient books and secret recipes and then develop some special medicines?
This not only proves the case for traditional Chinese medicine, but also, if done well, it will become a huge market worth tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars.
At the very least, it would be good to take back the Chinese medicine market from Japan and South Korea.
The Federal Pharmaceutical Factory's laboratory can produce cough syrup by extracting codeine from poppy bunches, which shows that their experimental center already has relevant experience and results.
This is truly commendable.
Unlike Western experimental centers, their researchers believe that Chinese medicine practitioners are witch doctors and charlatans, so how could they possibly study Chinese medicine and Chinese herbal medicine? This is different from their philosophy.
The experimental center in Hong Kong is just right. Their researchers have both modern clinical pharmaceutical thinking and the subconscious influence of traditional Chinese medicine, and are willing to believe in Chinese medicine and Chinese herbal medicine.
Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi closed his notebook and said:
"Mr. Worster, I'm quite interested in this laboratory center. Can you guys at Citibank help me negotiate with them? If they're willing to split it up and sell it as a whole, I can buy it. If they're not willing to sell, it would be best if you could help me poach their researchers."
As mentioned earlier, banks can meet all the requirements of Black Gold Card users.
They will solve the problems they can solve themselves, and entrust professional institutions to solve the problems they cannot solve. Of course, all the expenses incurred will be borne by Lin Sanqi.
If Citigroup completes the acquisition, the bank will receive a large brokerage fee.
Bank employees like Worster's income is linked to commissions from customers.
So for bank workers like Worster, they are not afraid of customers having requests, but they are afraid that customers have no requests, otherwise it will be difficult for them to achieve their performance goals.
"Okay, Mr. Lin, I will personally follow up on the acquisition of the Federal Pharmaceutical Factory's experimental center. However, based on the information I have, even if the entire center is acquired, the price should not exceed 300 million Hong Kong dollars.
Mr. Lin, you have $5 billion in Citibank alone. Would you like to look at other investment projects? I have a document here. All of the companies mentioned above are currently looking for investors.
Lin Sanqi took a copy of the document and began to read it again. (End of this chapter)
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