Chapter 5 Big Shots
It was mid-September, and Zhou Lei had been living in this space for a month. The plaster on his feet had been removed. Although he could not focus on his strength and had not thrown away the crutches, he could also carry out some small-scale activities.
Every day, I swayed around the farm, rode my horse, and did some small favors. I went online when I was fine. This world was no different from what Zhou Lei remembered, and there was no big event that should have happened. Although the angle of paying attention to news here is different from before, this is indeed the world he had experienced, not like a different parallel space. However, there is indeed a different parallel space here. In the past space, there was no experience of Zhou Lei becoming Jonas.
During the month of recuperation, Jonas also welcomed several condolence teachers sent by the academy, as well as former classmates, friends, and former girlfriends. Unlike Zhou Lei's thoughts, although these girlfriends had experienced love between men and women with Jonas, they were limited to this. They did not have the idea of further development and were still good friends after breaking up, which made Zhou Lei really confused. Jonas's current girlfriend had already gone to the United States before him and successfully found a good job in a club in Pennsylvania.
Jonas has always wanted to go to the United States, and most of it is because of her. However, now, Jonas, who has the soul of Zhou Lei, has no idea of going to the United States to develop. The United States still has to go, but it will not live there for a long time. As for this girlfriend, he does not have the previous fascination mentality in his heart, and everything will go with the flow. Maybe in a short while, this relationship that is thousands of miles apart will end in vain again.
Yankel was approved by the state legislature to allow cutting down a batch of big trees in the forest for 20 to 40 years. From several familiar farms, a group of lumberjacks were invited to work in the forest. Yonas couldn't help much, so he cut down branches after the pine trees were placed. According to Chinese saying, it was just a small worker.
The big branches were cut off by chainsaws, so the women collected the branches. Jonas's task was to break these big branches into small branches. Although it required some physical strength, it could sit there and work without any effect.
After working for two days, Jonas fell in love with this primitive and rough feeling, which was a bit like an American western. The uneven branches became neatly under the axe in his hand, and the whole mountain was filled with a nice pine fragrance. In this environment, people can easily forget all the external troubles.
It was another weekend. At less than five o'clock in the afternoon, two helicopters hovered above the forest. One was the Robinson R22 twin-plane at home, and the other was a luxurious Bell six-seater helicopter. There was a guest coming, and Jonas didn't care. He stood up and waved to his parents, and then buried his head in cutting down the branches.
The plane circled for a while and stopped on the grassland road outside the forest. Yankel muttered, "Bitch. I will definitely squeeze a hundred kilograms of milk less today."
"Hi, Grandpa, maybe Dad brought a big man, he could bring us the benefits of a ton of milk."
The old man muttered, "I am the cow who feels sorry for me..."
Jonas 'uh' and had nothing to say.
After a while, two business elites in suits and ties walked in under the leadership of Janik. Jonas knew these two of them, one of whom was his father's colleagues, one of whom was the general manager of his father's company, Hank, and a Swiss, and the other was Thomson, a British man, and like Janik, the vice president. Jonas noticed that Thomson accidentally stepped on a branch, and a trace was scratched on the leather shoes worth thousands of dollars, and grinned in pain.
He couldn't help but smile and said in English: "Mr. Thomson, maybe you should change your outfit and go into the forest."
An old man in sports attire, holding a rifle with a muffler, entered Jonas's vision with two bodyguards. The two bodyguards also held a rifle with a pistol in their waists.
Switzerland is a country that can't help but have guns. The per capita proportion of guns is higher than that of the United States. However, their comfortable life makes their crime rate ranked low in the world. Jonas's family has several guns, and he is not surprised at all, but the old man's face makes him feel a little familiar.
Although Yankel had a little bit of annoyance about them stopping the plane directly on the ranch, he still warmly greeted them, took off his gloves, shook hands with them. He greeted Hank and the others briefly. Facing the old man, he smiled and said, "We are too busy. If you want to hunt, you may not be able to walk closer. Yankel, Yank's father."
The old man said, "Mark Ritchie, an old man who is about to retire."
"Young man. Don't say you're old in front of me." The two of them smiled and let go of their hands.
Jonas, who was on the other side, heard the old man's name, lost any reaction with a loud clang in his mind. Looking at Ricci, his mouth trembled a few times, but he could not make any sound. A hot light appeared in his eyes, and the axe fell to the ground.
Cecia, who was following Jonas, hurriedly asked, "Baby, what's wrong with you?"
Jonas had no idea of finding a crutch, so he couldn't help but walk forward a few steps, looking at Mark Ritchie and said, "Mr. Mark Ritchie, is it really you? You are my idol!"
Ricci was stunned for a moment, looked at Jonas and asked, "Do you know me?"
"Of course I know you! You are the king of oil! I don't know that I would meet you at my own home." After saying that, Yonas realized that he was not Zhou Lei anymore, he was Jonas now. Ricci is Zhou Lei's idol, but for Yonas, he was just a stranger. This time, it's really hard to explain.
"That's my honor. I'm just an ordinary person." Ricci looked at Yannik, as if he wanted to hear an explanation.
Yannik was also stunned. He had never mentioned anything about Rich to Jonas. He said, "Mr. Ricci, we have not mentioned anything about you to him."
Cecia nodded, and asked Yonas, "Baby, how did you know Mr. Ritchie?"
Yonas organized a language in his mind and said, "Mr. Richie, I realized that I had someone like you because of President Clinton of the United States, and then I slowly paid attention to you later. All your actions made me admire you. I didn't know that my parents had something to do with you. Oh my God, I actually realized today that we were so close."
Ritchie's face improved a lot, and he reached out and smiled and said, "Maybe we can talk after dinner."
"Of course. I'll be waiting for your summons at any time." Jonas quickly took off his gloves and held his hand tightly.
This was just a small episode, and everyone did not take Jonas' worship seriously and began to discuss the hunting route for a while. Cecia helped Jonas back to his original position, kissed him intimately, and then went back to find Hank and the others to find Janik's hunting suit and hiking shoes, and replaced their suits and leather shoes.
Several people changed their clothes and shoes, and Janik personally served as a guide, and soon disappeared into the forest. Jonas had a foot injury and could only watch them leave, annoyed by the loss of close contact with his idol.
Markridge, this is a true legend. Compared with him, Saddam, Gaddafi and Laden can only be his students. At most, a registered disciple is a registered disciple. He created an order alone, and he changed the world alone. This is not fantasy, not a myth, but reality. Sometimes, reality is often more bizarre than fantasy.
To give a few examples, you can tell how powerful he is. He is known as the king of oil, founded the world's crude oil spot market, and broke through the monopoly of seven sister companies on crude oil. He is the top ten wanted criminals in the United States for 17 years, but he finally pardoned him. He established a network of the most powerful, informal, and ** mineral traders in the world, and more than half of the countries in the world trade with him.
He is behind the scenes of the mafia of many countries, but the Israeli special forces are used as bodyguards. He is a demon in the eyes of some people and an angel in the eyes of some people. He is Mark Rich, the founder of Genocide.
Zhou Lei worked in securities in his previous life, but he also found out that Glencore had the first stock quotation in London and Hong Kong in 2011. This is not to say that Glencore is a small company, he can only say that he is secret.
Before Glencore went public, its turnover reached 100 billion US dollars, but ordinary people have never heard of such a giant crocodile. It is the world's largest partner company, but few shareholders know who it is. He has always been hidden behind the market and acted as the invisible hand.
There are countless large mining companies he holds and invests in. The mines he owns make state-owned enterprises salivate. When it first announced its results in 2011 due to its initial share offering, it entered the top 20 of the Fortune 500 and the top 15 in 2012. Such a company shocked Zhou Lei at that time.
What shocked Zhou Lei even more was still there. Because of curiosity, Zhou Lei collected some information about Glencore and realized that his life experience was too simple. It turned out that there was really one person in the world who fought against a country and won. Moreover, this country was the United States. This person was Mark Rich.
The largest client of the crude oil spot transaction he founded was the United States at the beginning, but because he supported the Khomeini regime and seized control of Iran, the US government wanted to arrest Markridge for tax evasion. However, many governments such as the former Soviet Union, Israel, Switzerland, Spain and other governments have been protecting him, and his bodyguards are all elites of Israel's Mossad. Even when the United States wanted him, it traded with him, and finally pardoned him.
Even when the United States wanted him, he still leisurely traveled around Switzerland. Because he opened Glencore in Zug, a small town with 20,000 people, he actually started more than 26,000 multinational companies by his disciples. Although many companies no longer work here, their headquarters registration locations are all in Zug.
Almost all the transactions in the world about energy are controlled by this small city. Russian natural gas exports to the west, Canadian coal mine mergers, African gold mine change hands, and China tungsten mine pricing are all manipulated by Ritchie's disciples. He is never included in the rankings of wealthy people because he doesn't know how much of his property is, and even more so because he doesn't dare.
He is also a notorious war dealer. In his heart, there is no motherland, only business objects, which is what he is most criticized. It is rumored that he supported Castro's Cuban Revolution, he supported the Iranian Revolution of the Khomeini government, as well as the Angolan riots, the apartheid in South Africa, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, were his shadow behind it.
It is just speculation that before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he exchanged a loan of 100 billion rubles for 100 billion dollars. The ruble fell by tens of thousands of times, and his income was much more than the world's richest man.
But he was a philanthropist, and he had donated countless money. Many governments such as Israel, Spain, Switzerland begged him to live in his own country, and in many places, he was the king behind the scenes.
Such a big man suddenly came to his side, so why didn't Jonas get hit?
Cecia smiled at her son's appearance and said, "I never knew Mr. Ricci was your idol."
"Mom, everyone has their own secret. What Mr. Ritchie did is simply a legend."
"Of course. Your father and I are his loyal disciples."
Jonas was interested and begged, "Mom, can you tell me more about Mr. Ritchie?"
Cecia said in embarrassment: "Mr. Rich is not a singular person. Since he was wanted, he has been much more low-key. We all have confidentiality agreements."
Yonas nodded and said, "Can you sign a confidentiality agreement, then, are you and your dad working for him?"
"Yes, besides Garnett, Mr. Ritchie has several companies. The companies you work for and your dad are all his companies."
"This is so awesome. Mom, I'm proud of you." Jonas asked, "Is Mr. Ritchie really gone at all in Gennelg's shares?"
Cecia shook her head, "Baby, this cannot be said."
Jonas smiled and said, "Then how did you get into your current company? This should be something to say?"
Cecia laughed, "Well, just say a little bit. Do you remember introducing the Marquises I knew with your father? She spent her vacation at our house." Jonas nodded, and Cecia said again, "She used to be Mr. Ritchie's secretary. Mom went to work in her current company."
Jonas found the impression of the Marquis in his memory and said, "I know the Marquis, but I didn't expect that she would be Mr. Ritchie's secretary." But neither Zhou Lei's memory nor Jonas' memory remembered her name.
Cecia smiled and said, "Aunt Ursula is the guide of my life. She is still in charge of Mr. Rich's Spanish business. Well, I can only say so much. If you are really curious, you may have the opportunity to chat with him after dinner. You can ask him in person."
Jonas smiled and said, "I think maybe I should show him my cooking skills."
Cecia laughed and said, "This is a good idea."
(ps: Today, a reader asked me when there was a fierce one. I told him that he had not entered the mall yet, so there was no. The news would have to wait until after Chapter 20. After the protagonist entered the business world, various plots of abuse and stomping on others would appear. Now it is still a prelude to it. The first volume of Chapter 22 ended, and then began to enter the business world. Various struggles would also occur. Africa opened gold mines, the Middle East competed for oil, and did not have a foundation to fight for it without a foundation? So, be patient and everything would be there. This book is slow-heating.)
Chapter completed!