Recast youth

Chapter 2263

Ye Feng told Wen Yueqi about Wang Xiaoqiang.

After Wen Yueqi heard Wang Xiaoqiang's various deeds, she felt incredible at first, then looked at Ye Feng and said, "So you still bring him to work with you?"

"Then what should we do, drag him here and beat him up, or find some connections to get him in? There's no need. There happens to be a position in the North China Morning Post that suits him, so we can just get him there. It's quite suitable for him."

Having said this, Ye Feng smiled and said, "He likes to fabricate things about me. Let him fabricate enough this time."

Wen Yueqi looked at Ye Feng and reminded: "It's true to say that you make the best use of everything, but you have to be careful. Villains bite people to the bone. Many heroes in history are often defeated not by their opponents, but by those around them." The villain."

"Well, I have a clue."

Ye Feng nodded and said: "He belongs to a separate department in the North China Morning Post, and is responsible for writing news about me and my company. He has no access to core matters, and we will not give him this opportunity."

"You just have to figure it out."

Wen Yueqi nodded after hearing this.

Just when he was approaching New York City, Ye Feng's cell phone rang. It was Yang Qingzhi's call.

After answering the phone, Yang Qingzhi asked straight to the point: "Have you gotten off the plane?"

Ye Feng held up his cell phone and said, "Well, we got off the plane and we're about to arrive in New York City."

"I'll be waiting for you at the company."

"Okay, see you later."

After saying that, Ye Feng hung up the phone. When he came to New York this time, he notified a total of two people, one was Wen Yueqi, and the other was Yang Qingzhi. Ye Feng guessed that Yang Qingzhi might have encountered difficulties because of the incident at the Hilton Hotel.

After all, the loan alone for this acquisition amounted to US$200 billion.

Now the entire Hilton is valued by the outside world at only US$70 billion. Investment banks such as Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are pressing for debt. It is surprising that Yang Qingzhi is not under pressure.

15 minute later.

Ye Feng and Wen Yueqi came to the Maple Leaf Fund company on Wall Street. Inside the company, many employees were working, and the computer pages were all about securities.

When Yang Qingzhi saw Ye Feng, he came out of the office to greet him.

Ye Feng hadn't seen the former famous PE king on Wall Street for a while. He had lost a lot of weight, but looked very energetic. He welcomed Ye Feng and Wen Yueqi into the office.

Feng Zheng and Pan Kun followed the rules and did not follow the office. Instead, they sat in the reception room next door. The reception room was not big, but it was fully equipped with sofas, tables, etc.

"Tea or coffee?"

In the office, Yang Qingzhi picked up the kettle and asked about Ye Feng and Wen Yueqi.

Ye Feng ordered a cup of tea, and Wen Yueqi ordered a cup of coffee.

Soon, Yang Qingzhi brought the brewed tea and coffee to Ye Feng and Wen Yueqi, and then sat down.

Ye Feng put down the tea cup, looked up at Yang Qingzhi who was sitting down, and said, "You look like you have lost a lot of weight. Are you under a lot of pressure from the Hilton Hotel?" "It is true that you are stressed, but it is not because of the Hilton Hotel."

Yang Qingzhi took out a cigarette and handed it to Ye Feng. He also lit one, then smiled and said: "Now the entire investment banking industry is laughing at me, thinking that my comeback is a failure. Many people even said that I could succeed before. , completely because it is backed by the big tree of Goldman Sachs. In short, everything is too bad to be bad sooner.”

As he said that, Yang Qingzhi looked up at Ye Feng, with a smile on his lips and a bright look in his eyes, and said: "Actually, you should be the one who is under pressure. You are the big boss of this company and you have invested the most money. Once Hilton is liquidated and its debts are paid off, Not only will the US$40 billion of our own capital invested be lost, but we may also be saddled with an additional US$90 billion of debt. How about that? Are you feeling any pressure?"

Ye Feng picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea, and said, "I was stressed before I came to New York, but after seeing you, the pressure is gone."

"How to say?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Qingzhi leaned back on the sofa and looked at Ye Feng with interest.

Ye Feng said: "Because you can still laugh."

"You must be able to laugh."

Yang Qingzhi was very satisfied with Ye Feng's answer and admired Ye Feng's courage. To be honest, it was rare for Ye Feng to have such strong courage at such a young age. It was not without reason that he could become the richest man in China.

under normal circumstances.

Generally, when a major investment accident like Hilton occurs with private equity investment, investors will call immediately to ask what happened, but Ye Feng did not.

He was even asked to call Ye Feng many times.

Yang Qingzhi liked this feeling of delegating power, but what he liked even more was Ye Feng's trust in him. He took a puff of cigarette and said, "Actually, the valuation agency is right. Hilton's acquisition was a failure. I took action." It's a bit too hasty. If we wait another three months or so, US$150 billion should be able to win the Hilton hotel. However, the matter has already happened, and it is meaningless to talk about it anymore. What we should think about now is how to operate in the big environment. Comeback against the wind in bad conditions.”

Having said this, Yang Qingzhi smiled and said: "Yes, the current investment in Hilton Hotel has lost more than 70%, but in fact these losses only appear on the books. In fact, we have not lost anything."

"How to say?"

Ye Feng asked.

Wen Yueqi is also looking at Yang Qingzhi. Yang Qingzhi is not only her senior, but also her senior on Wall Street. As early as when she just graduated and entered Wall Street, Yang Qingzhi was already making waves in the Wall Street PE industry.

It wasn't until he went to the European Goldman Sachs branch to develop the European market that Wall Street lost part of his legend.

Now Yang Qingzhi is back.

Moreover, the first major acquisition was criticized by many peers. Naturally, Wen Yueqi also wanted to see how Yang Qingzhi turned around and learn from his experience.

Yang Qingzhi put the cigarette box on the table and said: "Let's first think of this box of cigarettes as a Hilton. For example, the price of this box of cigarettes was 240 billion U.S. dollars, but after it got into my hands, due to financial Due to the impact of the crisis, others thought it was only worth US$70 billion and wanted to buy it at this price. In this way, it was equivalent to a loss of US$170 billion on the books. In fact, we had no losses outside the books. .”

"What's the key point here? The key point is that this box of cigarettes belongs to me. It's up to me to decide whether to sell it or not, and at what price."

"Yes, it is true that the current financial crisis is true, and it is true that the tourism industry has entered a cold winter, but prosperity must decline, and decline must prosper. As early as 2000, the United States experienced the Internet bubble financial crisis, which lasted until March 2003. In March, it lasted for three years, starting with the adjustment of Nasdaq, and experiencing the 3 terrorist attacks and the Enron incident in the middle. The prosperity of this period was at the expense of serious overdraft consumption and poor food supply, but what was the result?"

"The result is that both the U.S. economy and the Internet are experiencing rebirth from the ruins, and the Internet has now become a concept stock in the securities market. Many Internet companies have bucked the trend and risen during this financial crisis."

At this point, Yang Qingzhi raised his head, his eyes slowly passed over the faces of Ye Feng and Wen Yueqi, and said, "The crisis encountered by Hilton Hotel is the same this time. As long as we survive the financial crisis, I believe our deal can be called The worst investments can become Wall Street's most successful capital operation turnaround cases."

(End of this chapter)