Global Monopoly of Technology

This capital war is moving towards a white-hot level. This is a war that can't see the smoke of gunpowder, and even outsiders can see it as thrilling.

Science and Technology Complex Building.

"Master, there is great news from Professor Liu Jianwei's team. The email he sent you shows that the research team spent half a year concentrating on research and development, and successfully produced carbon fiber nanotubes with a length of 0.58 meters, breaking the world record."

Luo Sheng's eyes lit up when he heard Xiaona's report, but he was relieved quickly.

It was indeed unexpected for Liu Jianwei's team to make a breakthrough so quickly, but with the memory of his past life, it was reasonable to think that Liu Jianwei's team solved the material problem of the space ladder cable.

This news proves that krypton can really speed up scientific breakthroughs.

After Liu Jianwei's team joined Star Arrow International, they don't have to worry about funding issues, nor do they have to worry about some worldly issues.

Star Arrow International will help solve it.

Even their life problems are arranged extremely thoughtfully, he and his research team can wholeheartedly devote themselves to scientific research without any distraction.

It is also necessary to break through technical difficulties in advance.

"Return an email to him, and don't announce the results to the academic community for the time being." Luo Sheng immediately instructed, this is also good news. The announcement of such news will definitely make a sensation in the material academic community, and Bluestar Technology Group is also a star. One of the major shareholders of Arrow International, no matter what good news is, it needs to raise bt stock price.

Xiaona: "Understood, the email has been edited and sent."

At this moment, Luo Sheng's phone rang, and when he took it out, he saw that it was from Yao Jianhong.

"Mr. Luo, Wall Street has collectively demanded debt from Azure Coast. If the company's money repays its debt, it may not be able to help Bluestar Technology. Otherwise, its own operations will be seriously affected, unless layoffs are liquidated and assets are realized."

In terms of importance, Azure Coast is larger than Bluestar Technology, because the former is mainly for bottom-level applications, while the latter is for upper-level applications.

But in terms of influence and ability to make money, Bluestar Technology wants to kill the Côte d'Azur, especially the profit. The latter is obviously a high-tech company with higher technical content than Bluestar Technology, but it does not have much high profits.

You must know that Bluestar's full-year net profit last year was four times that of the Côte d'Azur.

Because it is crazy to spend money, the annual R\u0026D budget alone is as much as twice that of Bluestar Technology, which is close to 40 billion US dollars. In addition to the high welfare expenses for employees, etc., there are also some operators and supply chain partners. Accounts turnover problem.

Luo Sheng asked directly, "How much do you want to pay back?"

Yao Jianhong on the other end of the phone replied: "$62.2 billion."

Luo Sheng said without hesitation: "Since they have collected the debt, it's just a matter of repaying the debt. As for Bluestar Technology, you don't have to worry about it. You just need to make sure that the giant sail on the Azure Coast does not have any moths."

Yao Jianhong hesitated for a moment before speaking, and finally nodded in response: "Okay, I understand, I'll deal with it now."

Luo Sheng didn't explain anything, and directly ordered the execution. Although Yao Jianhong was worried, he strongly felt that confident attitude from the tone of the other party's statement. Yao Jianhong felt inexplicably relieved even if he did not explain anything .

The sky is falling and there is a super boss standing on it, so worrying about it is nothing.

Yao Jianhong is more willing to believe in Luo Sheng's style. Although he frequently speaks astonishingly, he never says anything, and he never does anything he is not sure about. He is confident and decisive, calm and courageous at critical moments.

Not long after the call with Yao Jianhong ended, another call came to Luo Sheng.

It was Qin Weimu who called.

"The client of Shengfeng Capital's asset fund asked to redeem their investment fund in Shengfeng Capital, on the grounds that you are crazy and they don't want to be dragged into the water by you."

Hearing this, Luo Sheng smiled happily, ignoring the second half of her sentence, and immediately asked, "What percentage are there, and who are the main people?"

Qin Weimu replied: "Almost all are foreign capital, accounting for 28% of Shengfeng's total capital, and the total redemption amount of funds reached 206.1 billion yuan."

It is worth mentioning that 65% of the equity of Shengfeng Capital is foreign, but the largest shareholder is held by the "Luo Sheng Family Fund".

Therefore, the largest shareholder of Shengfeng Capital is actually the "Luo Sheng Family Fund", followed by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Office, Luo Sheng is the third largest shareholder on the bright side, and the second is the foreign investment that votes with his feet to believe in the "Luo Sheng effect". These restrictions are urgent.

"That is, to redeem 32.8 billion US dollars..." Luo Sheng muttered to himself, but after a while he replied to Qin Weimu: "The investment agreement has agreed terms, and Shengfeng Capital is protecting the interests of all investors from damage. , has the right to freeze investment funds at a critical moment and tell them if they want money or not, just come if they want to file a lawsuit."

32.8 billion US dollars, such a huge astronomical sum, has already occupied 60% of Shengfeng Capital's cash reserves, and cash flow can only be recovered by selling other venture capital.

it's out of the question.

The biggest purpose of Shengfeng Capital's establishment is for this. If you have done this for the past few years, the strategic layout of building the entire domestic semiconductor industry chain will not be empty, and you will be busy in vain.

Fortunately, when investors entered the market, they had closed the loopholes for the possibility of today's crisis.

Luo Sheng is very confident that investors will definitely not go to court.

Who told them to blindly admire the "Luo Sheng effect" in the first place, they refused to agree and froze their assets, and they didn't do anything wrong.

There is only one case in which they can redeem the fund.

That is, Shengfeng Capital Investment Fund was liquidated and closed, and all the assets were realized and distributed to the holders.

However, the possibility of forced liquidation is almost non-existent, because Qin Weimu, who has been in charge of Shengfeng Capital over the years, is constantly bringing in profits. Investors actually see the continuous appreciation of their assets, which is a happy rhythm.

Although the fund cannot be directly redeemed according to the agreement, it can be obtained through the transfer of the fund. Therefore, it is a fact that investors have not received a penny over the years, but the assets are increasing in value. Moreover, the investment in Shengfeng Capital is not an individual, and the threshold is extremely high. All fund companies or V institutions are not short of cash. They prefer asset appreciation to optimize asset lists and release dazzling performance reports.

This time, the investor suddenly asked to redeem the fund, and the biggest reason was that he felt guilty.

Luo Sheng now feels to them like a madman who has lost his mind, pulling all the companies, funds and Wall Street fighting methods he controls.

Investors are obviously not optimistic that Luo Sheng can defeat the short sellers on Wall Street. They admit that Luo Sheng is a genius, but want to fight the entire Wall Street by himself?

Investors felt that this was basically a dead end and did not want to go to hell with Luo Sheng.

But it's not up to them.

After Qin Weimu ended the call, he immediately formulated a group email and sent it to all Shengfeng Capital investors.

The content of the email is very concise. Some investors are now requesting the redemption of the foundation to increase the risk index of Shengfeng Capital, which will damage the interests of all investors. Therefore, from the distribution of the email, all investors' funds in Shengfeng Capital will be frozen. When will it be thawed, until Shengfeng Capital comes down from the high risk.

The subtext is that the freeze time can be extended indefinitely.

When the investors who wanted to redeem the fund received this email, they instantly realized that they had been completely trapped, and their mentality exploded in an instant.

Investor: Why do you want to die and drag us into the water?

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With the passage of time, after entering October, this capital war without gunpowder has entered a full white-hot degree.

Wall Street's short-selling funds are also clearly feeling the pressure. As of now, all short-selling funds have suffered a total book loss of 100 million US dollars in order to short Bluestar Technology. .

Among them, there are a large number of hedge funds, and hedge funds have risk exposure limits. The risk exposure of a hedge fund is set at 5%. Once it hits the red line, it can only close the position.

The market value of Bluestar Technology has not fallen below the $500 billion mark so far, which shows how resolute Zhang Bowen is to support the market.

The short sellers are also beating fast now, but they are all a group of adventurers and gamblers. They know that they are under great pressure, and they are more aware that the pressure of Bluestar Technology and Zhang Bowen will be even greater at this moment.

The short-sellers have suffered heavy losses, but Bluestar Technology has suffered even more losses. Now not only have all the cash reserves been emptied, but also owed debts to Azure Coast, Shengfeng Capital, and Life Science Fund.

These brother companies and funds came to help with cash flow, but they were not given for free, but borrowed.

Whoever can hold on to the last breath will have the last laugh, and all the losses can be earned back with all the profits. It depends on who falls first.

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On October 21, Bluestar Technology Group's new headquarters of Mobius Ring, the core executive meeting room.

More than a dozen core managers who attended the meeting heard the sound of the meeting door opening and looked around, only to see Luo Sheng entering the meeting. What surprised Lao Zhang and the others was that he actually brought an outsider in.

Even the majority of the company's executives are not eligible to attend meetings at this level.

This person is Zhong Yuanhong impressively.

After he came in, he sat on the sidelines and listened. The executives at the meeting looked at each other and didn't ask anything. Although he didn't know the reason, since Luo Sheng brought it in, he had his own reasoning in it.

Zhong Yuanhong did not sit at the conference table, but sat quietly as a guest, and did not say a word the whole time he entered the conference hall.

Luo Sheng came to the chief seat and sat down, then looked around and said, "How's the battle going?"

Zhang Bowen, who was sitting in the second-in-command position, immediately replied, "Mr. Luo, I'm running out of money."

Concise and concise.

It also shows the tragic degree of this capital war. As the richest technology group in the world, Bluestar Technology has no money, and it is obvious that the lack of money here also includes Shengfeng Capital and Azure Coast. The extra money will be used to support the front-line battles, otherwise there will be a crisis of the capital chain breaking, and then it will really be the rhythm of the whole blood collapse.

Luo Sheng said: "Why don't you have any money? Don't forget that the company has 40.8% of the treasury shares in its hands. If you sell some and realize it, you can make money."

Everyone's eyes were full of doubts when they heard it, and one of the executives at the meeting said with a wry smile: "Mr. Luo, you are not joking, there is no difference between cashing in treasury shares and directly announcing surrender..."

In fact, everyone complained in their hearts but dared not say it. All of this was because of Luo Sheng's decision to start a repurchase program with US$135 billion. Otherwise, those short funds would not dare to play with their courage, and they would not Hit the point of running out of ammunition now.

Luo Sheng never explained anything, because he never explained to them that Bluestar Technology was going to go public in Hong Kong after all, and the biggest purpose of going public in Hong Kong was to find a super strong backing for Bluestar Technology.

The executive who attended the meeting added: "But if the transfer to a third party does not circulate in the market, who would dare to take over at this time?"

Hearing this, Luo Sheng turned his eyes away with a mysterious look. Seeing this scene, Lao Zhang and the others also followed his line of sight.

The eyes of everyone in the conference room fell on Zhong Yuanhong who was listening.

At this time, Luo Sheng's words drifted into the ears of Zhang Bowen and others: "Who said no one will take over? Isn't that the buyer who has already been invited?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone subconsciously exclaimed: "What?"

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