The storm originating in the Mediterranean has finally subsided. It arrived with the speed of a fierce eagle, and departed like the receding tide of the Qiantang River, retreating hundreds of miles in an instant, leaving the water calm and still. (This last part is a website name and doesn't translate directly. It seems to be a list of keywords or tags related to online discussions.)
Although the event lasted only a short time, its process was full of twists and turns. From the very beginning when Aslan traveled a long distance to bring the warning, to now when he personally negotiated with Flander in the Morgan Stanley building, only a month had passed. However, in that month, the world's elites were watching this struggle closely, and the world's media were also joining in the excitement.
This is perhaps the beauty of power: whether you roar angrily to the sky or mutter to yourself in a low voice, as long as you make a sound, the whole world must go silent and listen attentively.
Over the course of the past month, the Duanmu and Morgan families have each employed their own methods, dazzling and overwhelming onlookers, yet their performances are still breathtaking. Although this is a competition without referees, with no one to declare victory or defeat, everyone secretly knows the outcome.
The instigator of the war was undoubtedly Morgan. They launched the first attack on the management council, intending to eliminate those so-called "insignificant surnames." The Duanmu family was the first to be targeted because, among those "insignificant surnames," only the Duanmu family did not seem so insignificant.
In fact, there are very few companies in the world that have the confidence to regard the Duanmu family as insignificant. Morgan is undoubtedly one of them. However, after this setback, everyone knows whether Morgan can still maintain this confidence.
Morgan's offensive was incredibly aggressive in the early stages. He not only acquired The Magniient with a boastful move, quietly outmaneuvering the Duanmu family, but also launched a vote within Rare Club to completely reshuffle the management board.
During that period, the Mediterranean was shrouded in continuous torrential rains, and the members of the Rare Club on the Mediterranean coast believed that the Duanmu family was also in turmoil, just like the Mediterranean, even though the war was not yet over. However, they had already decided who would win in their hearts and had even made some preparations for the aftermath.
For example, Ivan's family, the richest in Russia, planned to take advantage of the management reshuffle to replace their own family members, completing a new round of generational change. They had even begun sending people to contact and lobby the Morgan family on this matter, and had also heavily bribed the Windsor family and the Rothschilds.
However, they were all wrong, and all their preparations came to naught.
The Duanmu family's counterattack was completely unexpected. The unexpectedness wasn't in the counterattack itself—in fact, it was necessary—but in their method. It was executed with such effortless ease and grace, a stroke of genius! A work of genius!
Who would have thought that the Duanmu family not only possessed The Magniient, but also everything mentioned above? Morgan swallowed an incredibly tempting cake, thinking he had won, only to find out that it was just a fancy bait.
Morgan was in a sorry state.
The media was raving about Morgan, and public opinion was overwhelmingly positive. Bookstores and publishers were even preparing to reprint books about the Morgan family, and there were rumors that Hollywood directors were interested in investing in films featuring the powerful Morgan family. Morgan was enjoying immense success during that period, as if he had returned to the first half of the last century.
To command the wind and rain.
Then, in an instant, the prosperity crumbled, swiftly enough to make one blink. News of the Morgan Stanley strike spread, and those commentators who had been fawning over Morgan Stanley the day before completely reversed their stance overnight, launching a scathing attack as if they were the very cause of America's current economic woes. And the media, needless to say, were masters of the unethical practice of kicking someone when they're down. Bookstores and publishers quietly canceled their reprint plans.
The situation reversed in an instant, and the Duanmu family turned the tables.
The vote for the Rare Club management committee members proceeded as scheduled. However, the Duanmu family's name was quietly moved to the original "Top Five Surnames" column on the ballot, while the Hilton, Christian, and three other families remained in their original positions. This silent change signified that the Duanmu family had officially left the management committee's "insignificant surnames" and joined the ranks of "prestigious surnames."
The ballot clearly distinguishes between "honorable surnames" and "insignificant surnames," placing them in blatantly different positions. If anyone fails to grasp this obvious implication, it's not a matter of emotional intelligence, but rather a matter of intellectual intelligence.
So, unsurprisingly, the final vote resulted in the removal of Hilton, Christian, Baker, and Robert from the management board. The original top ten surnames on the board are now reduced to six. Duanmu, Morgan, Saudi, Windsor, Rothschild, and Rockefeller remain high above, shining brightly.
The fates of the four companies that were ousted varied. Hilton and Christian, after being removed from the management board, were urgently appointed as observers, thus retaining a foothold in the board and maintaining their dignity. As for Baker and Robert, those two idiots, they were completely abandoned, losing all face.
After their downfall, they were subtly shunned by others in the Rare Club. Apart from those who wanted to profit from their foolishness, no one else was willing to deal with these two clubs.
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