"Thank you for your thoughtfulness. I am very satisfied with the gift!"

After reading the gifts, Xia Yang once again expressed his gratitude to James and the others.

Congratulations were given and gifts were given.

Next, the four of them sat down on the sofa and got down to business.

"Liu Hua should tell you, what do you think next?"

James asked Xia Yang directly.

We must ask Xia Yang for his opinion. After all, it is a matter for four people.

Xia Yang had already made up his mind, "Give it up. Regardless of whether Citigroup is trying to scare people with its monopoly, we don't need them to bet on it. Besides, we made a lot of money by shorting Dell Computer and later acquired a lot of HP shares, so it's not a loss."

"I agree."

Julius was the first to support Xia Yang's decision to abandon the acquisition of Dell and HP.

After all, they are really unclean and are really afraid of being investigated by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

If it is really determined that it is suspected of monopoly, it will be too late to regret.

Theodore did not speak, but looked at James, obviously wanting to hear James' opinion before making a decision.

James lowered his head and thought for a moment before speaking, "My opinion is contrary to yours. The acquisition can continue, because I think the Citigroup companies are just scaring people. They dare not accuse us of monopoly, otherwise they will be hostile to all financial groups."

Indeed, this situation is like two gangs having a fight, but one party informs the police.

You know, these consortiums are not clean, and they will use their strong financial strength to dominate certain fields.

Therefore, once Citigroup becomes a whistleblower and breaks this layer of window paper, it will be hostile to all financial groups.

Xia Yang was unmoved and asked directly, "You mean to take a gamble that Citigroup will not dare to report?"

James wanted to say that he was not betting, because he was very confident that Citigroup and several consortiums would not tell the truth, but who could guarantee that nothing would go wrong, so this was not a gamble, what was it.

In the end, he had no choice but to nod and admit, "It's just a gamble."

Xia Yang nodded and continued, "Since you want to bet, let's take a look. If the bet wins, what will we gain? If the bet loses, what will we lose?"

After Xia Yang said these words, not to mention Julius and Theodore, even James was speechless.

Because it is obvious that if they win the bet, their plan will succeed at most and they will control two more computer companies.

But once the bet was lost.

With the evil heart of the capital of the United States, they will not fine tens or tens of billions of dollars. They have the same surname as the capital of the United States.

Obviously, the rewards and consequences are seriously imbalanced, that is to say, the chips on both sides of the gambling table are seriously disparity.

It can even be said that this is not gambling at all, but stupidity.

For the four people present, failure is acceptable, but stupidity is absolutely not allowed.

"Okay, you succeeded in convincing me."

James finally agreed with Xia Yang and gave up the acquisition of Dell and HP.

"Obviously, you also made a wise decision."

Xia Yang said with a smile, then his face darkened, "But can we let Citigroup go easily? It took several months, but the result was failure. I can tolerate it, but for the time we lost, they have to sell the order."

"I suggest canceling the discounts offered by Dell and HP, and giving them Banana and WINGDS operating systems at market prices. If they want to develop their own desktop operating systems, let them do whatever they want. When their operating systems are launched, we will defeat them with our strength."

Xia Yang proposed to use Banana and WINGDS operating systems to make huge profits from Dell and HP, not only to make up for their losses, but also to retaliate against several Citigroup consortiums.

"agree."

This time Theodore was the first to support Xia Yang's suggestion.

"Even if a few Citigroup consortiums spend money to develop a desktop operating system, the worst we can do is start a price war with them. At most, we can use the money we earned in the past few years to kill the desktop operating system they developed."

Julius looked vicious.

"It looks like we can only beat them in the market."

James looked helpless.

Originally, the four of them acquired Dell and HP to prevent several Citigroup consortiums from developing desktop operating systems.

It took me a few months to get back to where I started.

Of course, this situation is not too surprising. After all, the strength of the Citigroup consortium is no weaker than that of the four of them. Moreover, both parties are concerned about the monopoly of the capital of the United States, so they can only return to the market and adopt normal business competition methods.

After the four people discussed it.

Arrangements will be made soon.

Cancel the operating system discounts previously given to Dell and HP.

This immediately increased the cost of computer products for both companies.

But the best desktop operating systems currently on the market are Banana and Microsoft's WINGDS operating systems.

Citigroup and several consortiums have no choice but to hold their noses and admit it. They can only reduce costs in other ways to remain competitive.

But even so, the sales of Dell and HP computers have declined to varying degrees. On the contrary, the sales of Banana and Apple computers have continued to rise.

Especially at Banana Computer, there are often queues at Banana stores all over the world.

You can imagine how popular Banana Computer is.

The major foundries in Bay Island are all operating at full capacity, and ship after ship of banana computers are being sent to all parts of the world.

See this situation.

After discussing with Xia Yang, Jamji made another tough move, which was to lower the price.

On Christmas Day.

Banana Computer suddenly dropped in price, and the price dropped by 20%.

The goal of Xia Yang and James is very simple, to kill Dell and HP computers.

Dell and HP have no choice but to follow suit and lower prices.

But less than half a month later, the price of Banana Computer dropped by 10% again.

In order to maintain market share, Dell and HP had to cut prices again.

By this time, both companies had begun to lose money. They sold one computer and lost money on the other.

However, Banana Computer still makes money because it produces its own processor chips and operating system, so it just makes less money.

Not only that, Xia Yang and James also arranged for IBM to continuously seize the server market of Dell and HP.

This has made the two companies even worse, especially Dell, which is listed on the market, and its stock price has fallen for two consecutive months.

The business war between the two sides continued until March of the following year.

Because Zhu Meiyun and Chu Chunhong were pregnant, Liu Dajiang and the others did not come over to celebrate the New Year this year. They only called Xia Yang to pay New Year greetings.

By March.

Dell's share price has halved compared to last year.

It's about to kill Dell and HP.

Xia Yang and James were discussing and preparing to hold a yacht party to celebrate.

But an accident occurred.

End of March.

Dell and HP jointly launch a desktop operating system.

No wonder several Citigroup consortiums were clinging to two computer companies, Dell and HP.

They even threatened to sue the four people in Xia Yang for monopoly.

Afterwards, facing the price war launched by Xia Yang, they even lost money but still maintained the market.

It turns out that several Citi consortiums have been developing desktop operating systems for a long time.

Spergreen Springs Island.
Chapter completed!