Cross the Songhu battlefield and rise to become the most powerful warlord

Chapter 366 Gambling Agreement

366 Betting Agreement

"Mr. Ye is here!"

As the servants of the Anthony family shouted, the men and women gathered in groups of three or five in the hall suddenly quieted down.

They all looked at Ye Qingshan and Alice who had just entered the room.

Even Alice, who is usually outgoing and generous, felt a little nervous in this situation.

Grasping Ye Qingshan's arm,

Ye Qingshan patted Alice's arm gently to comfort her and tell her not to be nervous.

Then, the two walked into the reception hall.

“Haha, Ye, Alice.

Now that you are here, we are waiting for you."

Anthony and Juliet came over to greet them.

"Ye, come with me."

Anthony said to Ye Qingshan.

Juliet pulled Alice away towards a group of noble ladies.

Ye Qingshan followed Anthony and left.

Soon, the two walked up to the three white men, and Anthony pointed at them and introduced them to Ye Qingshan: "Huggins, from Los Angeles.

The one hundred trucks you purchased earlier were manufactured by the joint automobile factory of our family and the Hutchinson family."

"Hello there!"

Ye Qingshan took the initiative to shake hands with him.

“Mr. Ye, if you need a truck in the future, you can order one from me.

I’ll give you a 20% discount.”

Hutchinson also took the initiative to show goodwill to Ye Qingshan.

"How can a 20% discount be acceptable? We are partners from now on.

At least 30% off."

Anthony said with a smile beside him.

"can."

Huggins smiled and nodded.

“This guy, McCarthy, is from Seattle.

The family's main businesses are steel, chemicals, and military industry."

Anthony introduced the second white man to Ye Qingshan.

“I heard that Mr. Ye has been looking to purchase arms.

We can cooperate more in the future.”

"no problem."

The two shook hands.

"This is Buck, from Nevada. His family is engaged in mining, railroads, and textiles."

Compared with the previous two, Buck's attitude towards Ye Qingshan was relatively cold.

He just nodded to Ye Qingshan without even shaking hands.

Then, Anthony continued to introduce other people to Ye Qingshan.

“Never mind, that fellow Buck is just annoying, arrogant and conceited.

It’s just because their family is married to the Mather family of the Cleveland consortium.”

Anthony whispered to Ye Qingshan.

"The Cleveland Syndicate."

Ye Qingshan was also surprised.

This was one of the eight largest financial groups in the United States during World War II, on par with the Morgan Financial Group and the Rockefeller Financial Group.

This explains why the other party is so arrogant.

Afterwards, Anthony introduced Ye Qingshan to seven or eight other young masters from consortium families in various states on the west coast.

Ye Qingshan discovered that most of these people came from small and medium-sized American financial groups.

There are no people like those in the eight major financial groups.

Moreover, the main industries of these families are related to steel, machinery, military industry, railways, etc.

These are industries related to steel.

Ye Qingshan could understand this.

After all, if there really were eight major conglomerate families involved in their new steel alliance.

Then, they will definitely take the biggest share.

By then, Ye Qingshan and the others would probably only be able to drink some soup.

Although the Anthony family has some strength in California, it is still far behind the eight major American financial groups.

This time, these small and medium-sized financial groups and families came together.

With the help of Ye Qingshan's new steelmaking technology, what needs to be done is to snatch the meat from those large conglomerate steel companies.

Thus, achieving promotion for their family.

After Anthony finished introducing the representatives of all the consortium families to Ye Qingshan.

They followed Anthony to another large room for a meeting.

Everyone took their seats, and Anthony, as the initiator, must sit in the main seat.

Ye Qingshan knew that the highlight was coming.

This meeting will determine whether their new steel alliance can be successful.

"Everyone, this is the purpose of coming here today.

I don't need to say more.

Since you are here, it means that you have already thought about it. "

Anthony spoke first.

As they spoke, Joseph and Juliet also came in from outside.

They represent the Pitt family and the Joseph family respectively.

"We have read Mr. Ye's data report on the new steelmaking technology.

The doubling of steel production will give us an unparalleled advantage in the steel market.

If we assume conservatively, we can take up 20% to 30% of the domestic steel market within two years.”

Hutchinson spoke first.

“Hutchinson, you are still such a coward.

We are sitting together this time to subvert the steel industry.

Then we can't be conservative.

Otherwise, is it worth it for us to sit here?"

Buck said disdainfully.

“In one year, or at most two years, we will occupy half of the domestic steel market.

Pull down those old steel giants in the country."

Ye Qingshan glanced at Buck, who was very arrogant.

Half of the U.S. steel market share is worth more than $1 billion a year.

“Buck is right.

If we are going to do something, let’s do something big.

There is no point in making small fuss.”

Anthony is also ready to fight.

"Okay, come on!"

"That's okay with me too."

Representatives of other consortium families also agreed.

These people, like Anthony, are the next generation successors of their family.

At this time, most of them are in their thirties or forties, which is the time when they are thinking about performing well.

"But in advance, I want to ask Mr. Ye's new steelmaking technology, are you sure there are no problems?

We haven’t actually visited it yet.”

Buck stared at Ye Qingshan.

"You can come and see it any time."

Ye Qingshan hated Buck a little bit, because of that look of contempt.

“I went to Ye’s steel mill and inspected it myself.

Their improved new steelmaking technology can indeed more than double the steel production.”

Anthony said.

Everyone didn't believe Ye Qingshan, but they still trusted Anthony.

“In that case, let’s confirm it.

Let’s talk about the future shareholding of our new joint company.

Then we can clarify the division of labor.”

Hutchinson suggested.

"Can.

This time, our family will take out all four large steel mills as shares.

In addition, we will invest another 10 million yuan in our new company.

As a technical improvement for subsequent steel mills and to expand production.”

Anthony spoke first, and he started off with a big move.

Let everyone exclaim.

"Our family doesn't have a steel mill here on the West Coast, but we can still invest 10 million."

Juliet said with a smile.

"In that case, our family will also contribute 10 million."

Representatives of other consortium families also expressed their views.

“Our family invested three large steel mills and 20 million in shares.

I want the largest share of the new company."

Finally, Buck spoke.

In a short while, these consortiums took out more than a dozen large steel mills and nearly 200 million in cash.

It is considered as the start-up capital for the new company.

"Mr. Ye, let's calculate your new steelmaking technology based on five million.

what do you think? "

Anthony looked at Ye Qingshan.

Ye Qingshan nodded temporarily, agreeing to Anthony's price.

But then Ye Qingshan said: "I will also invest another 10 million yuan in the shares."

In this way, Ye Qingshan invested in the new company with new steelmaking technology, a large steel plant, and 10 million in cash.

Later, after everyone's calculations.

Ye Qingshan can hold 5.5% of the shares of the new company, and Anthony can hold 7%.

Buck holds the largest share, 10.5%.

The others divided up the remaining shares.

Although Ye Qingshan could pay more money and get more shares.

But then, others will be dissatisfied.

Ye Qingshan originally wanted to leverage power. These consortium families invested not only capital, but also the influence of their families.

“Another thing is that these new steelmaking technologies of ours are still being improved.

At present, the goal is just to double the steel production.

But I am confident that within three years, we can increase our production capacity by more than five times, or even more.

How should we calculate it then?

My new steelmaking technology is priced at only US$5 million, which is fine for now.

After the technology improved, I lost money. "

Ye Qingshan must say this in advance.

Otherwise, his new steelmaking technology, which could have increased production tenfold, would have been sold at such a low price.

Ye Qingshan really suffered a big loss.

"Increase steel production fivefold in three years?

You will die if you don't brag."

Buck stared at Ye Qingshan and didn't believe what Ye Qingshan said at all.

"hehe!"

Ye Qingshan sneered and was too lazy to talk nonsense with him.

Without my new steelmaking technology, your so-called New Steel Alliance is nothing.

Anthony also realized this and didn't want Ye Qingshan and Buck to come into conflict.

Looking at Ye Qingshan, he said, "Ye, are you serious?

This is no joke.”

"Of course!"

Ye Qingshan said confidently.

I thought to myself: If I wasn’t afraid of you, I would have obtained the new steelmaking technology so early. The resulting steel production capacity would have been terrifying.

I can now increase steel production tenfold.

"I remain skeptical."

Hutchinson said rationally.

"Me too."

Representatives from other consortiums also nodded.

To put it bluntly, they are not willing to give more shares to Ye Qingshan, because that way they will have fewer shares.

"So, I came up with a bet-share agreement."

Ye Qingshan looked at everyone and said with a smile.

Since you don't believe it, let's take a gamble.

"What kind of gambling agreement?"

Anthony was curious.

"It's simple.

The bet was on my new steelmaking technology and the increased steel production.

If, within three years, I can quadruple steel production.

Each of you can give me some shares, so that my share can be increased to 7%.

If I can increase steel production by more than seven times within five years.

You can transfer some of the shares to me, so that I can hold 10% of the shares.

How about it, do you dare to bet?"

Ye Qingshan looked at Buck with provocation.

"what?

This bet agreement is quite interesting.”

Anthony laughed. It was the first time he had seen such an agreement.

"What if you lose?"

someone asked.

“If I lose, I won’t achieve a four-fold increase in production within three years.

I will give up 1.5% of my shares and give them to you.

If I fail to increase steel production sevenfold within five years, I will give you 3% of the shares. "

After Ye Qingshan finished speaking, everyone started whispering.

"Okay, I'll bet."

As a result, Buck was the first to agree.

“I just don’t believe that you can really increase steel production by so many times in three to five years.

If you really did it.

So what if I give you a few shares!"