Three hours later, Yang Cheng was sitting in the first class cabin of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 777 with a constipated look on his face. He looked at his business attire that he had not yet had time to change out of. He couldn't help but smile bitterly. He hated Louis Lehman even more.

It was all his fault.

The family's private jet was flying to New Zealand for fishing, so Yang Cheng had no choice but to take the first-class cabin because the air tickets were purchased in a hurry. Elena and the two bodyguards who were accompanying her were in the business class at the back.

This time Dad sent his secretary to assist Yang Cheng to facilitate communication with all parties.

Thinking about what Yang Sen said to him at noon, Yang Cheng still feels that his brain hurts. This time, it involved Yuanshan Capital, the Lehman family, and Hershey Company (the largest chocolate and candy manufacturer in North America).

Three American companies, two bar subsidiaries, Lotte Group and Tai Wing Real Estate, and Lotte (Z Country) Foods, a joint venture company located in the Shanghai stock market in which Hershey has a stake.

The core of it is the Hershey Company, a long-established company headquartered in Pennsylvania with a history of 120 years.

Undoubtedly, this food giant with a market value of more than 20 billion U.S. dollars, the world's sixth largest candy company with the largest share of candy sales in North America, and annual revenue of more than 7 billion U.S. dollars is favored by the Lehman family, which has been focusing on mergers and acquisitions in the food industry, and has become their new company.

hunting target.

But unlike other companies, Hershey's is actually in the hands of a group of kids.

The founders, Mr. and Mrs. Hershey, had no children during their lifetime. The caring Mrs. Hershey decided to dedicate her maternal love to those orphans who had lost their families. Her suggestion received the full support of Mr. Hershey.

In 1909, Mr. and Mrs. Hershey founded the Hershey Industrial School, the predecessor of today’s Hershey School, specializing in educating orphans from all over the United States.

Hershey School provides all education, room and board expenses for them.

At present, Hershey School has grown to 1,500 students and is the largest private school in the United States.

The student dormitories at Hershey School are beautiful villas. Each student house houses 8-12 students, with Hershey Company employees or community volunteers acting as their temporary parents.

The school provides a total tuition fee of US$70,000 per student.

This middle school with a mere 1,500 students actually ranks fifth among the richest schools in the United States, behind only Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford, with assets exceeding US$9 billion!

The Hershey Trust Committee, which manages these assets, has 70% of the voting rights in the Hershey board of directors, which means that whether the company is sold or not is at the discretion of this committee.

As a group of standard businessmen, you cannot expect them to always think about a group of children. Profit first is their creed.

Because the general operating goal of listed companies is to maximize the interests of shareholders, when performance is poor and stock prices plummet, the best way is to obtain or expand shareholder value through mergers and acquisitions. The committee has never thought of this idea.

As early as 2002, the Charitable Trust Board had thought about selling Hershey and authorized the then president to find a buyer. Cadbury and Nestlé jointly bid for US$10.5 billion, and Wrigley Candy Company offered as much as US$12 billion.

However, the residents of Hershey City objected one after another because they were afraid that the new factory owner would lay off employees or even close the factory. Media news reports also continued one after another, which caused such a fuss that the Pennsylvania Attorney General and a senior local judge intervened.

As a result, legal measures were taken to stop the sale.

The Attorney General removed the members of the Trust Board who voted in favor, and former Pennsylvania Attorney General LeRoy S. Zimmerman became the Chairman of the Charitable Trust Board.

Zimmerman has publicly stated on many occasions that the Trust Board must maintain its controlling stake in Hershey. Even in its most recent statement, the Charitable Trust Board also emphasized that "the accelerated development of the company does not mean that the Board must give up its controlling stake."

After this incident in 2002, Pennsylvania enacted legislation requiring that any school board of trustees decide to relinquish its controlling interest in Hershey to notify the Attorney General's Office in advance.

The legislation also gives the Attorney General prerogatives to block school trust boards from any transactions inconsistent with their obligations.

It is probably not common to protect companies through special legislation, which undoubtedly makes the sale and merger of Hershey Company more difficult. Any behavior that may threaten the controlling position of the school trust board is a challenge to this legislation.

The old fox Paul Lehman, who is well versed in this, will naturally not be unaware that the biggest obstacle to the successful acquisition of Hershey Company is not the funds, but how to defeat the current Pennsylvania beautiful Attorney General Katherine Kane.

Logically speaking, this matter has nothing to do with the Yang family. One is engaged in the real estate non-performing asset industry, and the other is focused on the food field. There is no relationship between them. The two families have never had any contact before, but sometimes things are just like this.

coincide.

In 1967, Stanley Milgram, a psychology professor at Harvard University, wanted to describe an interpersonal network connecting people and communities. He conducted a chain letter experiment and proposed the six degrees of separation theory.

Simply put: "There will be no more than six people between you and any stranger. That is to say, you can get to know any stranger through at most six people."

This theory is completely consistent with the current situation. The Yang family has developed to this position, and as a yellow race, it is inevitable to seek political protection. As early as the arrival of the 21st century, Mr. Yang began to win over political stars in Texas. Later, Yang Sen

It has also set its sights on the United States, and the Yang family's think tank has set up a political public relations group responsible for maintaining relationships with politicians.

Of course, the Yang family has no political leanings. Whether you are a Xiang party or a donkey party, as long as you are capable, friendly to the Chinese, and most importantly, provide the most powerful protection to the Yang family, you can become a member of the Yang family.

My friend, Katherine Kane, is one of them.

About 2 years ago, in 2012, Katherine Kane, with the help of the Yang family, became the first Donkey Party member to serve as Pennsylvania Attorney General since 1980, and the first female Attorney General in the state.

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For this reason, the Yang family spared no expense to acquire dairy cows from bankrupt ranches in Pennsylvania. The milk produced was purchased by the Hershey Company, and all the profits were invested in welfare undertakings in Pennsylvania, adding luster to Katherine Kane's political achievements. Of course, this

Everything is unclear to the outside world, but there is absolutely no way to escape the investigation of those who are interested.

Wouldn't this be discovered by the Lehman family now, who want to find evidence of the Yang family's contact with Katherine Kane, in order to blackmail Katherine Kane into relenting on their acquisition of Hershey Company. As for how to publicize other members of the Attorney General's Office, then

It couldn't be simpler. We are all adults and have our own desires. Beauty is still beautiful, as long as you speak.

However, the Yang family is not so easy to investigate. As the mistress of the Yang family, Liu Yun naturally became a breakthrough point in Louis Lehman's eyes. Women, no matter the East or the West, are blind once they fall in love. How crazy can they do for their lover?

The move is not difficult to imagine, let alone just leaking some news?

I don’t know whether this guy is arrogant and arrogant because of his consecutive years of success, completely forgetting that Liu Yun’s Z country blood is very different from their Western culture, or whether he thinks that the Yang family is just like the ordinary people he provoked in the past. In short

, this time he hit the iron plate.

As the Boeing 777 passenger plane steadily climbed into the stratosphere and cruised, the beautiful stewardess began to take action to provide drinks to the first-class guests.

"Mr. Yang, welcome to your China Eastern Airlines flight. What would you like to drink?" Yang Cheng, who had been deep in thought as soon as he got on the plane, was slightly disturbed by this pleasant voice.

Turning her head following the voice, she saw a dignified and elegant stewardess standing next to the independent cabin with a heart-warming smile. She was as bright as a peach blossom, and the charming charm flashing through the corner of her eyes made people sway.

Yang Cheng was slightly absent-minded. It was not that he had never seen beauties before. He had tasted even more beautiful and sexy women than the one in front of him. But what she brought to Yang Cheng, well... it seems that there are no special words to describe it. It was just comfortable.

, as if he was used to the hustle and bustle of the city, and suddenly came to an uninhabited green valley, with small bridges, flowing water, birds singing and the fragrance of flowers, and his whole body and mind were cleansed. But he knew very well that this was not love at first sight, but a man's attraction to a woman.

some of the most basic impulses.

While he was staring blankly at Jiang Shiyu, the stewardess, Jiang Shiyu was also observing him. Compared with Yang Cheng, she had countless other friends. With her work experience and environment, she was considered to be well-trained and could sit upright.

Who in the first class on international direct flights is not an elite? They are tall, short, fat, thin, old, young, ugly and handsome.

But Yang Cheng was the only one who aroused her curiosity. To be honest, Yang Cheng was not the kind of handsome and earth-shattering bitch. If she had to give a score, it would be around 70, which is better than the top but still more than the bottom. She is considered a handsome guy.

of that class.

But his handsome face with a slight Western classical style, and his elegant and graceful temperament in his movements, it is really easy to leave an impression on others, especially when he is thinking seriously, he has a mature charm.

Jiang Shiyu, who remembered her work, came to her senses first and chuckled, "Mr. Yang? What can you drink?"

Yang Cheng rubbed his face to make sure he didn't show Brother Zhu's expression just now, tapped his fingers on his thigh and said in deep thought, "A glass of red wine." He needed alcohol to relieve his tense nerves.

Jiang Shiyu nodded with a smile, "Okay Mr. Yang, please wait a moment."

As Jiang Shiyu's graceful figure left, Yang Cheng slapped himself gently and cursed secretly, "Look at you, you have never seen the world, you have no future."

If it were another time, Yang Cheng would definitely not miss the opportunity to hunt for women. Stewardesses can always bring endless reveries to men. Unfortunately, now he is only thinking about how to complete the task assigned by his father.

In addition to being a family member and being able to trust him 100%, leaving such an important link to him is not without the element of testing.

Yang Sen knew that his son was smart, and his past stock investments could prove Yang Cheng's vision, but that was just a trivial matter at best, and was still far from being a real investor or businessman.

Especially now that Yang Cheng has emerged from decadence and wants to achieve a career, Yang Sen is pleased but must also carefully train him. After all, Yang Cheng is the sole heir of their Yang family. He must train Yang Cheng's abilities without destroying him.
Chapter completed!