Chapter 548: Chapter 543: International Coalition Army

At 2:30 PM, although there were no breakouts in Tianxing System’s eighteen stocks, the transaction amount and trading volume rapidly increased.

Apart from Ningde Era’s second card-raising and passive position lock, a large amount of capital in the other seventeen stocks quickly flowed out.

“A soft knife still works.”

Unable to mourn the late Li Chengrong in time, Jun’an Branch welcomed the acting general manager Wei Jianfeng.

He called in Li Chengrong’s former deputy and smiled as he asked, “How much more capital do we need to close out?”

“Ningde 3.4 billion, BYD 8.2 billion, Tianqi Lithium 3.2 billion…” Zhao Quan sighed, as grief turned to despair.

That morning before the market opened, he had breakfast with Li Chengrong, never expecting that in the blink of an eye they would be eternally separated.

“Mr. Li was a very insightful person. He wanted to take advantage of this wave to step on Lu Liang and rise to power, but he lost.”

Wei Jianfeng patted his shoulder, revealing a seemingly insincere sorrow: “So here I am.”

To remove the word ‘acting’ and become the actual general manager, he must clean up Li Chengrong’s mess.

To manage external threats, one must first settle internal issues. To reduce losses, he needed the support of Li Chengrong’s old team.

Zhao Quan regained his composure and forced a smile: “Mr. Wei, what do you plan to do?”

“Trade at high levels for the next two days and first present Mr. Lu with a meeting gift,” said Wei Jianfeng.

He wouldn’t be foolish enough to go against Lu Liang; even with some advantage now, it’s like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

This year, as the quarter just began, he’d first send Lu Liang away comfortably and gradually make up for losses by slicing the ‘leeks’ later.

In the coming months, Lu Liang will be busy with DiDi and NIO’s successive IPOs, and rumors suggest a new car release at the end of April.

He likely won’t want to waste too much time on this; by initiating goodwill, Lu Liang should accept.

“Will Mr. Lin and his group agree?”

Zhao Quan was stunned, full of disbelief.

Li Chengrong died standing, sacrificing himself for a glimmer of hope for them.

Yet, Wei Jianfeng just surrendered, making Li Chengrong’s martyrdom seem a joke.

“Mr. Lin said to leave it entirely to me to handle.”

Wei Jianfeng’s smile remained, looking at Zhao Quan with deep meaning: “The dead deserve respect, and we won’t judge their merits, but some people are still alive.”

Li Chengrong caused huge losses, so he chose to end it all—that was the reason, but certainly not the main one.

When a company is strong, its light can cover all blemishes, but when the light dims, darkness surfaces.

That’s why he chose to burn himself just before the shadow was to emerge, allowing for a fresh start.

Wei Jianfeng wasn’t curious nor wanted to know.

Whether Li Chengrong’s choice was active or passive, if it had any direct relation to the imminent shadow.

But he knew that Zhao Quan certainly had a hand in it.

Even if not, he was currently responsible for this project.

If he said it mattered, then it did.

Zhao Quan remained silent for a long time, grasping the implied message: “I understand, Mr. Wei.”

Wei Jianfeng smiled, his lips curling upward: “We should respect Mr. Li’s last wish, right?”

“Right.” Zhao Quan nodded.

At 3 PM, Big A closed, ending today’s trading.

The limit-up board, teetering for two hours, ultimately did not break.

“Can anyone tell me where it will go tomorrow?”

“The sealing attitude looks unsure, yet it didn’t break the board.”

“A non-committed seal should have broken long ago; why is the support so strong?”

“Forget Ningde Era; probably half the circulating stocks are in Lu Liang’s hands, but BYD with so many floating stocks, sealed with just 1.2 billion?”

Retail investors, who were watching the market closely, were puzzled by how things deviated from expectation.

They thought there would be panic selling in the afternoon, but it seemed weak yet strong.

Suddenly someone said, “Running away today was definitely wise. Lu Liang is not in Modu, he went to Beijing for the DiDi IPO.”

“Damn, really? Don’t tell me those days were handled by someone else?”

“Indeed, it was handled by that person, watch more news, less gossip.”

“There’s proof, with DiDi valued at $54.5 billion, planned financing of $8.175 billion across Beijing, Xiangjiang, and New York.”

“Damn, finally a company going public, can someone teach me how to subscribe?”

“Wait for the news. It’s different for DiDi; you must wait for internal subscriptions to finish before public release.”

At 4:30 PM, Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Financial Street.

People who just concluded a meeting at New Chenghai Building hurriedly rushed to the hotel’s seventh-floor banquet hall.

They joked and laughed before boarding, but upon disembarking, their eyes at Lu Liang were filled with more respect.

Because on the way to the hotel, they learned why Lu Liang suddenly left mid-meeting.

Zhang Jing is indeed a puppet CEO, the person in charge of the Public Fund from start to finish is only one, and that is Lu Liang.

Foreign capital and northbound funds were all beaten down, even the person in charge could only die with the cause, leaving behind a suicide note.

They once thought that the so-called combination of Soros and Buffett was just an exaggerated term used by international media.

Now it seems, it’s not exaggerated at all, and maybe in some time, we’ll even have to add Musk into the mix.

Simply called ‘Suo Ba Ma’.

It’s hard to imagine, if one could combine the forces of these three, how powerful Lu Liang would become.

At least Cheng Wei had no thoughts of resisting at all, he even thought having an Emperor might not be so bad.

Being a flunky to a group of people,

isn’t as good as being a flunky to just one person.

“Mr. Sergey didn’t come?”

Ignoring the eyes of the crowd, Lu Liang entered the banquet hall with Li Bing and saw the representative from the Saudi Sovereign Fund.

But it wasn’t his old acquaintance Sergey, instead, it was another person with Middle Eastern features, called Salerqi.

Salerqi smiled slightly, “Mr. Lu, the president had a last-minute matter and couldn’t make it, he asked me to send you his regards.”

Lu Liang nodded slightly, not asking more.

After all, the Saudi Sovereign Fund holds over 200 billion US Dollars, the 50 billion US Dollars of DiDi is just a drop in the bucket.

He exchanged a few pleasantries with Salerqi, then called over Li Bing, “This is Li Bing, the General Manager of NIO.”

“Mr. Salerqi, hello, hello.”

Li Bing beamed with a flattering smile.

With a headscarf on, I’m the richest in the world, can you tell who wouldn’t know?

The key is they have a great reputation, they just fund you and never meddle in the daily operations of the company, every entrepreneur’s ideal investor.

“Hello, Mr. Li.” Salerqi nodded smiling, Lu Liang said, “NIO is a new energy company I invested in two years ago, planning to start IPO tomorrow, with the goal of listing on Nasdaq in May or June.”

Hearing Lu Liang’s investment, Salerqi’s eyes lit up with interest.

A person without ambition is committing a sin, is a perfect depiction of Middle Eastern oil-rich countries.

Whether they’re scattering money globally, or Qatar applying for the World Cup, or the UAE building seven-star hotels.

Their intention is always to draw attention, to remind the world that there are still these resource-rich small countries on this planet.

So that when oppressed by the United States, they won’t be unheard by the heavens or blamed by the earth.

A couple of years ago, the incident to the south allowed East Country to ascend among the world powers, becoming the only country on the planet that can wrestle with the United States.

They redesigned their strategies to align more with East Country, investing as much as possible to deepen bilateral relationships.

Investing in East Country’s industries inevitably involves the super dark horse that has risen sharply in recent years – Lu Liang, since Lu Liang has invested in NIO, they’re very interested as well.

“Only raising 1.5 billion US Dollars?” Salerqi frowned, immediately feeling it lacked appeal.

He suggested to Li Bing, how about launching another round of C+ funding before listing, they’ll cover it.

After all, out of the 1.5 billion US Dollar funding quota during an IPO roadshow, at best only a billion or two come to them.

This small investment hardly piques his interest.

Li Bing was almost dizzy with happiness, replying with a forced smile: “Mr. Salerqi, the plan has already been set, for now there’s no intention to change it.”

“Alright then, what time tomorrow, I’ll come to check it out.”

Li Bing hurriedly said: “Same time, same place, also here.”

Salerqi was surprised but said nothing, he turned to Lu Liang: “Mr. Lu, I’ve heard Tianxing Technology seems to have raised funds again?”

Lu Liang nodded with a smile: “Some resource swaps, but the funds are spent quickly, and soon we’ll start round C financing, hopefully Mr. Sergey and Mr. Salerqi will definitely grace us with your presence.”

Different from other companies, they never lack investors, each funding round is like sitting in a row, dividing the cake, trying to achieve evenly distributed benefits, without neglecting any.

“Definitely, definitely, I’ll convey this to the president for you.”

Salerqi smiled broadly, they are very interested in Lu Liang leading new energy enterprises.

Previously missed out on Tesla, they could only buy in secondary markets, now they won’t make the same mistake.

Li Bing smacked his lips, suddenly finding the Vice President’s card in his pocket less appealing.

If he didn’t know Lu Liang was an entrepreneur, he might even think Lu Liang was the investor.

Entrepreneurs bowing and scraping, flattering investors is the norm, but it’s reversed with Lu Liang.

“Hello, hello…”

The lowered morale didn’t last long on Li Bing’s face, the smile quickly reappeared.

Because with another few greetings from Lu Liang, he had more business cards from Softbank, Temasek, and IDO in his pocket.

When Lenovo is confirmed, a sovereign fund is also confirmed, as well as multiple international institutions like Temasek, Softbank, and IDO.

Li Bing suddenly felt an urge to lean back and put his hands on his hips, what is an international coalition, this is an international coalition.

Is it excessive to sell the next new car for 800,000?

Not excessive at all.