Chapter 403 If You Want to Eat Meat, You Have to Look at My Mood
Back at the manor, William continued to transform the manor's defense system, but he went home to hide in peace, but the outside world was in an uproar because of today's news.
The happiest people are all Chelsea fans. The construction and renovation of the new and old stadiums and training bases with 500 million pounds is a huge amount of money that has never been seen in this era. If you really calculate it, this money can buy the entire Arsenal and have some left.
And once the new stadium and training base are completed, Chelsea's fixed assets will immediately become the first among all British teams. So when all Chelsea fans in London learned of this news, they were ecstatic and showed off everywhere, just like the team won the championship.
Some people are happy and some are unhappy. Several other Premier League teams and fans in London are almost crazy with envy and jealousy.
Chelsea, which has been second-rate for decades, has changed its boss and has the momentum to become a giant. How can people tolerate this? Since they can't tolerate it, they can only fight back.
For a while, the atmosphere among London fans was full of gunpowder. Many football fans began to gather in Fulham, and they were ready to fight Chelsea fans if they had nothing to do. The London police were so scared that they were on guard everywhere and would immediately arrest anyone who had any extreme behavior.
When this happened, Lina was of course very anxious. When she went home for dinner at night, she felt very bad. On the one hand, Lina did not want this incident to affect the reputation of the team. On the other hand, it was a face issue. Being blocked at the door by football fans from other teams was something that no one could bear.
William was very upset when he saw that his mother could not eat. If he was unhappy, then others would not be happy either.
He ordered a check on Sunday, and unexpectedly, a lot of black materials were found. He originally thought that it was just fans and other teams looking for trouble, but it turned out that the whole incident was caused by the three major construction groups in London.
If William handed the project to the construction group of China, the most unhappy ones would of course be the three most powerful construction companies in London who had received the news early and were waiting to eat meat.
Now that the meat is being eaten by others, and they are not even given a chance to compete, the three construction companies are conceivably angry. This time, secretly instigating the football fans to make trouble is just the first step. Several companies have united to let William know what a local snake is and what a local tiger is.
The next day, when they were preparing to lobby some familiar regular customers and the companies that were involved in the project had not yet taken action, news broke on the Internet that the financial reports submitted by these three companies to the relevant departments were false, and that their earnings in the first ten months of this year had fallen sharply by 35% to 60% year-on-year.
Not only that, as soon as the stock market opened this morning, a large amount of funds from outside the UK entered the London futures market and shorted the stocks of these three companies. This hit the soft spot of these companies. The companies' performance was not good during the stock market crash, and now they are being sniped.
The stock prices of the three companies plummeted by an average of 15% in one day.
After a discerning person reads today's newspaper and knows who is the mastermind of the football fans' riot, he will understand that the sniping of these three construction companies must have been done by William.
Now, let alone trouble William, it is hard to say whether he can get through this.
On the third day, the situation became increasingly unfavorable to the three companies. Suddenly, more and more people came to visit William and Lina at Devonshire Manor.
William knew without thinking that these people were all here to plead for mercy, but everyone knows the principle of "if you don't kill the snake, you will be bitten".
If he doesn't cripple these companies this time, will he wait for them to recover and retaliate against him? Moreover, William's account at Basti Bank in Switzerland has increased by nearly 220 million pounds after shorting the stocks of these three companies for only two or three days.
And now that the news has spread, even if William stops, other institutions and financial companies that have joined the short-selling party will not agree.
What will not let go are those other construction companies that want to dismember these three companies, and even large construction groups outside the UK are beginning to want to get a piece of the pie. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to dismember and swallow up their peers, it would be an idiot to let it go.
These people will never stop unless they drive the stocks of the three construction companies to the lowest price, squeeze out the last penny of profit, and then buy the bottom and eat meat, and crush their opponents at the same time.
By the second week, the short sellers and their peers who wanted to dismember these construction companies had formed a hidden alliance of interests. On the one hand, they suppressed the stock price, and on the other hand, they lobbied the relevant departments to start investigating financial fraud.
When the wall falls, everyone pushes it, and when the whole world is waiting for you to be unlucky, and they act together, it is useless for you to struggle. Therefore, although these construction companies have been looking for connections, banks, and white gloves these days, the effect is very limited.
Even some banks that suffered heavy losses in the stock market crash have begun to target them. Now even if God comes, don't think that these guys who are eager to eat meat will stop.
At 2 pm at Devonshire Manor, William was receiving the visiting Grand Duke of West Temple Min Grosvenor.
In the past ten days, except for the first few days, lobbyists from the three construction companies came to visit him at the manor. After being rejected by William and realizing that William had no intention of reconciliation, no one came.
After a few days of leisure, William has received several groups of guests since this morning, except for Grosvenor who came late, all for the futures contracts in William's hands.
As long as this batch of futures contracts is in hand, the probability of dismembering those construction companies will increase greatly, so William is not in a hurry to make use of the rare goods.
Grosvenor, who has been sitting for nearly an hour, put down his teacup and said helplessly, "You are so leisurely, throwing a lighter and a knife on the firewood pile, and then you don't care about anything else,
Wait for someone to pick up the lighter, help you light the fire, help you dismember the prey, help you grill those construction companies, and finally when the barbecue is done, you have to pay to buy the ownership in your hands".
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"Haha, what ownership or no ownership, if you want futures contracts, just say it directly. I didn't sell them to the previous visitors, but I was waiting for you to come. For the sake of our good cooperative relationship, as long as the price is right, I will of course give priority to you".
Grosvenor shook his head, "I don't have such a big appetite, let alone so much money. The value of the futures contracts in your hands is no less than 600 million pounds now".
William chuckled, "I won't hide it from you. The combined size of these three companies is less than 7 billion pounds. Except for the contracts that entered the market at the beginning, after the scandal broke out, I thought I would have no chance to enter the market again, so the value of the contracts in my hands is only 540 million pounds".
"540 million? ", Grosvenor couldn't help but fall into deep thought. Although there was no expression on his face, William could obviously feel Grosvenor's disappointment. 540 million pounds was much less than he expected. "Tell me, what do you want? As long as I have it and can take it out, I will give it to you."