Wealth

Chapter 483: Heirs of the Boston Consortium

In the afternoon, Van Heng and important provincial leaders hosted Dr. Lawrenceheimer, the vice president of the Boston Consortium from the United States, at a store directly under the provincial government.

The Boston Consortium is also one of the ten largest consortia in the United States, ranking fifth overall, and one of the oldest monopoly consortia in the United States.

It was formed by the Lowell, Lawrence, Adams, and Rocky families of the Boston area that became rich by operating the slave trade in the nineteenth century, and the new Kennedy family united.

At that time, these families invested huge sums of funds accumulated from overseas colonial plunder in commercial banks, insurance businesses and investment companies, and relied on these financial institutions to provide funds to operate textiles, tanning, shoemaking, clothing, food, and chemicals. And other light and textile industry.

Since the textile industry exhibition reached the beginning of the twentieth century, the families of Boston, which have been intermarried for generations, formed the Boston Consortium with the First National Bank of Boston as the core.

In addition to banks, the Polish-Turkish consortium also owns four well-known insurance companies, but the Boston consortium is not as strong as the eastern consortium in terms of industrial and mining enterprises. The industries it controlled were originally the light and textile industry. Since the 1950s, the scientific research results of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been used to develop emerging technology industries, from the light and textile industry to electronics, optics, space, missiles and other aspects.

For example, the Texlon company it controls has merged with many small and medium-sized companies after the war, and its strength has grown. Its business direction has also changed from the textile industry to the aerospace industry and electronics industry exhibition, and it has become a diversified company with more than 70 subsidiaries. It not only manufactures aviation and aerospace products, various electronic components, aircraft parts, but also operates clocks and watches, furniture and poultry industries. One of its subsidiaries, Bell Helicopters, manufactures helicopters for the Pentagon and foreign countries.

The Boston Consortium exhibits superior technical power in emerging technologies and industries. The scientific research achievements of famous universities such as Buddhist University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have strongly promoted the exhibition of cutting-edge industries in the Boston area. Its affiliates, Textron, Raytheon, and Pola Royde, have grown rapidly due to the stimulus of emerging technology industries.

Politically, the Boston Consortium qualified Kefeller Consortium to support JF Kennedy as president. The Kennedys dominated the White House and won a large number of military orders for the Portutton Consortium, which caused strong dissatisfaction with the Morgan Consortium. Therefore, Kennedy's assassination caused a great blow to the Boston consortium, and its position in the competition with other consortiums continued to decline.

Dr. Lausheimer is the direct heir of the Lawrence family. He is taller and handsome in his thirties. The assets under his name have exceeded 500 million US dollars. He is still single and is considered relatively famous in the United States. The diamond king is the fifth, especially he has had scandals with many actresses in Hollywood, so he has always been a hot character in Lace Magazine.

Lawrenceheimer brought a total of more than 50 people to the investigation group, mainly to investigate the current situation of the textile industry in Jiangnan Province. See if there is a possibility of in-depth cooperation. After all, the Boston Consortium has a strong advantage in this regard. After the integration of the textile enterprises in Jiangnan Province, the Jiangnan Wool Spinning Mill was used as the local textile enterprise. It is striding forward with great momentum to the domestic textile leader's goal. There is a foundation and necessity for cooperation between the two.

Fan Heng and other leaders of Jiangnan Province also welcomed Lawrence and his entourage very much. Now Jiangnan Province is on the road to high development. Absorb more foreign capital and more technology. They are all very helpful, especially the textile industry has always been a traditional project in Jiangnan Province. Should continue to advance into the Boston Consortium's technical advantages in this regard. For Jiangnan Province's textile industry to take off. Significant.

Lawrenceheimer had greater hopes for this trip. Because before he came. It is believed that Jiangnan Province is the same as some other provinces in mainland China. The desire for foreign investment is very eager. They can reach the goal of this trip very easily. Invest some funds. Obtained controlling shares of major textile factories in Jiangnan Province. Then these textile companies with more than 200,000 employees will be transformed into their own production bases in China.

But after they visited the Jiangnan Wool Spinning Factory. I found out that it seemed that the reservation was a bit too high.

At present, the Jiangnan Wool Spinning Mill has sufficient funds. Since the implementation of debt-to-equity swaps. The Jiangnan Wool Spinning Factory received a capital increase from Fan. There are no problems in this regard. And in terms of production equipment. Also just introduced cash textile machinery from Germany. And introduced some blending technology. Many high-end fabrics can already be produced. And it works very well. Not only meets the needs of the domestic market. Also began to sell overseas.

In this case. Lawrenceheimer realized that his original ideas need to be adjusted. Now it is not possible to spend money to seize the textile industry in Jiangnan Province. If you want to achieve your goals. Only from the provincial government. Try to persuade them to enter into a joint venture. Get a controlling stake. NS

Go down the route you have planned.

So at the reception, Lawrenceheimer asked this question, "Dear Governor Fan, can our Boston consortium buy the Jiangnan Wool Spinning Factory?"

"This may be difficult." Fan Heng frowned and replied, "Jiangnan Wool Spinning Factory was originally a state-owned asset. Later, due to poor management, it was on the verge of bankruptcy. Fan's Investment Group proposed a debt-to-equity swap and cooperated with the provincial government. Jiangnan Wool Spinning Mill’s largest shareholder is also the controlling shareholder. If you want to acquire, you can choose other companies, but Jiangnan Wool Spinning Mill may be difficult to acquire.”

"Why? Can't your provincial government exert some influence?" Lawrenceheimer asked, "In return, we can provide Jiangnan provincial government with a preferential loan, such as 500 million US dollars or more, for The economic development of Jiangnan Province, such as the construction of high roads."

Lawrenceheimer thinks that his proposal is very good. If officials want to be promoted, they need political achievements. At present, what China needs most is the introduction of foreign investment. He puts such a large sum of money in front of Fan Heng. He has no reason to oppose it. of. As for talking about state-owned assets, he is just talking about it. He believes that the provincial government has many ways to properly solve this problem.

However, Fan Heng's reaction was obviously beyond his expectations.

"Mr. Lawrence laughed. The provincial government is inconvenient to intervene in business activities." Fan Heng said with a smile, "The provincial government can only provide some convenience in terms of policies to help enterprises develop. For example, the Jiangnan Wool Spinning Factory is now Fan The investment group is operating, if you are interested, you can negotiate with them, or you can reach a consensus."

Then Fan Heng said again, “In fact, the Jiangnan Provincial Government mainly hopes to introduce advanced technology to enable the textile enterprises in Jiangnan Province to have stronger competitiveness and participate in the international market competition. Therefore, we hope to gain in fabric design. Some help, instead of simply expanding the scale of production, only turning Jiangnan Province into a pure production base."

After Lawrenceheimer listened to Van Hen’s words, a problem emerged. The governor in front of him was very different from the many officials he met in China. He seemed not very interested in introducing funds, but paid more attention to The introduction of technology is really an accident.

But in this way, my plan will change.

Moreover, it seems that I don't know what a Fan Investment Group is.

Lawrenceheimer thought to himself, after he went back, he asked someone to investigate, who exactly did this Fan Investment Group. Knowing himself and knowing the enemy can win all battles. He took a sip of the white wine in a glass and felt the unique wine culture of China. , And then the gaze in front of her brightened, and the beauty who thought she looked very temperament came over.

"Governor Fan, you have your new document. It is from the State Flood Control Headquarters." Song Qing whispered to Fan Heng who was drinking with the guests.

"Well, let me have a look. You will accompany them here." Fan Heng nodded, and then left.

Song Qing greeted everyone present, and then invited everyone to have a meal at will, and arranged for the specialties of Jiangnan Province to be served in the kitchen, so that foreigners who have not seen Chinese cuisine can try them.

Lawrenceheimer's eyes were a bit dull after seeing Song Qing, or it was like a nail held by a magnet, moving with Song Qing's figure.

Speaking of ~www.wuxiamtl.com~ Song Qing is not stunning, but the whole person is very temperamental, especially after Fan Heng has exercised in the officialdom for some time in the past few years, she seems to be neither humble nor overbearing. Excellent, coupled with the fact that she also has a deputy department-level position, she has broken away from the original immaturity when she just graduated, and turned into an elegant professional woman.

Therefore, Lawrenceheimer, who is accustomed to hanging out among the flowers of Hollywood, became a little fascinated after seeing Song Qing.

"Qiu, who is that beautiful lady?" Lawrenceheimer asked the interpreter next to him.

The translator surnamed Qiu glanced at Song Qing, and then at Lawrenceheimer, who looked like a monkey. He was very contemptuous in his heart. He said that this foreign devil is not cultivated and has no patience at all. He didn't understand the truth of the Taishan collapse and didn't change his face, so he replied, "This is Song Qing, deputy director of the Provincial Government Office, and also Comrade Fan Heng's secretary."

"Oh, beautiful female secretary." Lawrenceheimer nodded. He didn't know what rank the deputy director of the provincial government office was, but he saw that Song Qing was not very old. He should be an ordinary white-collar worker, right?

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