Chapter 716 Counterattack
More than an hour later, Cai Siqiang came out of the reception room of Mr. Liu, "Director Sun, thank you." Cai Siqiang smiled and thanked him with a smile.
"President Cai is polite, I can't help much." Looking at Cai Siqiang's excited expression, Sun Hong said politely, "I want to thank you for your rescue just now. If you leave, the leader will beat me hard." Although Sun Hong was polite, the next sentence he added sat down with his favor.
"When will Director Sun inform my brothers when he has time? Let's find a place to sit?" Cai Siqiang knew it in his mind, so he naturally wouldn't just say it. "Mr. Liu said that I have something to coordinate in the future, but I have to work hard on Director Sun."
If it were just the previous one, Sun Hong would be fine, but the following sentence made Sun Hong feel excited. This was Mr. Liu's willingness to hand over the future contact with Cai Siqiang to him. For Sun Hong, who was worried about not finding any good opportunities, this was naturally a great joy. Fortunately, he had been practicing with Mr. Liu for a long time and his control over his emotions was far beyond ordinary people, so he did not show much joy.
"I will rest tomorrow. I don't know when Mr. Cai is the right time. My brother is here to order a table at Marco Polo. The Norwegian king crabs are done well there." Sun Hong immediately said, "It's rare for Cai Siqiang to come to Beijing once. Of course, Sun Hong will not miss this opportunity to make friends.
"Okay, I think it's noon tomorrow." Cai Siqiang agreed readily without being pretentious. Cai Siqiang didn't expect what Mr. Liu said just now, but he had already agreed to Mr. Liu that there would be a lot of things to do next that he would need to borrow from Sun Hong. Of course, he could achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Although Sun Hong is not very good at the level of the deputy department in Cai Siqiang's eyes, as the confidant of Mr. Liu, many things he has come forward is equivalent to Mr. Liu. What's more, Sun Hong was just in his early 30s and has climbed into the deputy department and is backing the big tree of Mr. Liu. His future is also bright. Not to mention, it is extremely promising to reach the provincial and ministerial level in the future.
As the saying goes, the future is long, Sun Hong is the star of hope for the future, so Cai Siqiang naturally would not reject such potential stocks.
The two of them had their own wishes. After a few words, they decided to discuss the time and location in detail. Cai Siqiang hurried away. After a talk with Mr. Liu, he had a lot to do. Although SAL's global headquarters is still located in Chengdu, he also bought a more than 30-story building in Beijing, named SAL Building. As the office and administrative center in Beijing, the Beijing branches of its major subsidiaries are concentrated here.
"This is a building that concerns the rejuvenation of our Chinese nation. Xiao Cai, in order to successfully complete our two major goals, SAL needs to win morality, lose the lawsuit, lose the arduous task of the US market in this crisis, cooperate with the country's foreign exchange surplus transfer, make the RMB international smoothly, and then assume the pioneering role of African resource development and become the leader in the economic field in the great cause of national rejuvenation!" When thinking of Mr. Liu's request, Cai Siqiang was always a little excited. What can he ask for in being a human being?
Therefore, Cai Siqiang agreed to Mr. Liu's request to publicize SAL. Although judging from the current development of the company, listing the company is not necessarily a choice to maximize personal interests, because SAL still maintains good cash flow and excellent products, with the characteristics of rapid development. Now facing the impact of bad news from the US market crisis, it will be greatly affected in stock price valuation. This is obviously not a suitable time for major shareholders such as Duke and Cai Siqiang.
However, compared with the future blueprint drawn by Mr. Liu, Cai Siqiang does not feel that there is any problem with the potential loss of one or two times the book wealth. He believes that Duke and others will not care about this either. Because based on SAL's current profitability, the global net income exceeded 240 billion yuan last year, and the cash flow on hand exceeded 600 billion yuan. The asset condition is very good. Calculated at a low-end valuation of 15 times, the SAL's market value will easily exceed 3 trillion yuan. Therefore, even if you only hold 5% of Dong Feng and Zhao Jianwu, their net worth is still more than 100 billion yuan.
This number has far exceeded the wealth of most of the first-line rich people in the world today, and it can be said that they will never be used up in several lifetimes. Therefore, from Mr. Liu, Cai Siqiang briefly told Duke, Dong Feng and Zhao Jianwu what he could say, saying that the current situation would be to list SAL. Duke simply authorized Cai Siqiang to handle it with full authority. Dong Feng and Zhao Jianwu had no objection. They each had a lot of things at hand and had no mind to care about these things. For them, it was not very important to have one zero or one zero behind wealth. The most important thing is that everyone is now doing their favorite jobs.
This matter completely fell on Cai Siqiang. He sorted out SAL's business, divested military industry and other irrelevant things, and integrated the company to meet the listing requirements. This matter sounds simple, but it is still very complicated to do. In addition to the several lawsuits with the Americans, Cai Siqiang was actually very busy and had no spare time. If he hadn't made an appointment with Sun Hong, he would have flew back to Rongcheng long ago.
However, Cai Siqiang also has his own office in Beijing, and SAL office has achieved the networking of most of the work, so as long as it is not face-to-face communication, it is the same to handle the work there.
In the United States, Liao Mengna, who is specifically responsible, has held a press conference and strongly condemned the special articles published by Times on SAL and Duke's reputation, and announced that it would use legal means to seek justice. At the same time, Liao Mengna announced on behalf of the company that SAL will reserve the right to pursue legal prosecution on any media that continues to spread these unprotected rumors and defamation.
Faced with SAL's strong attack, the media that were originally planning to follow up on this explosive news began to be cautious. Being stared at by giant companies like SAL is not a good thing. With SAL's strong financial resources, as long as you are a little careless and fall into endless lawsuits, not every media can handle it.
Therefore, most media did not follow up and further expose the so-called SAL shady, but turned to the legal lawsuit initiated by SAL, because SAL filed a huge claim of up to $20 billion for the Times Cycle. SAL claimed that this loss was calculated after the Times magazine published the direct and indirect losses of malicious attacks on SAL and Dr. Duke, plus the punitive damages required for malicious slander.
Liao Mengna organized a luxurious team of lawyers, led by Alan Dewitz, the top infringement lawyer in the United States. After carefully analyzing the article written by Bob Elvin, they compared the information provided by SAL. They believed that no matter who obtained the transaction data of various investment fund companies under SAL obtained by Bob, before the US court announced that these investment fund companies under SAL determined to have illegal transactions, even the news media owned the most confidential detailed transaction data of these investment companies, which was no longer the category of freedom of the press.
At this point, Bob and the editor-in-chief of Time magazine are not unclear about this key order, but they believe that SAL is a company in a distant country and half of the American people have a negative attitude towards this Eastern country. Therefore, there has always been a broad market for criticism and revelation of this mysterious country. If there is a lawsuit involving this Eastern country, jurors will naturally have an attitude tendency, so the Chinese are far more restricted than locals when suing lawsuits in the United States.
On the other hand, Bob's article seriously alludes to Dr. Duke's involvement in the Apple backdoor incident and Google satellite image fraud incident. Bob has no first-hand direct evidence at all. Everything is speculation. Although the article is implicit and does not directly point out that Duke is the behind-the-scenes hacker, according to Alan Dewitz's understanding, Bob connects Duke with hackers in public cognition through context, forming a de facto logical derivation connection.
So Alan believes that if Bob can't come up with direct evidence to prove Duke, it constitutes de facto slander.
Alan is the top infringement lawyer in the United States. He has almost never lost the infringement company he handles. He has a strong logic in court debates and has a strong influence on the jurors in the US courts. Therefore, SAL took action quickly this time and did not pass the so-called negotiations at all. The editor-in-chief of Time magazine originally decided that if SAL responded strongly, he might as well lower his attitude and make a so-called apology and revision for some inaccurate reasons to pass the test.
Generally speaking, even if local American companies encounter similar incidents, they are unwilling to offend the press to death. After all, in the United States, which has a high degree of press freedom, they can be regarded as the uncrowned king. Any lawsuit that challenges the press freedom will receive high attention from the public and the press, making things very complicated. For American courts that use the jury system to try cases, it is not easy for companies to win lawsuits in the same press when this principle is involved.
But just as they did not follow the practice of informing SAL in advance, SAL was not interested in private settlement and initiated legal proceedings.
Moreover, after carefully studying the case of SAL, Alan Dewitz said confidently that he would win the lawsuit, although the final amount of compensation may not be as large as the application.
The first shot of SAL's counterattack was fired.
Chapter completed!