Reborn in Brazil As a Plutocrat

  Chapter 151 Bell Laboratories

   Soon Berg remembered the first time he met Fang Lang, outside the corridor door, when Fang Lang scolded his subordinates with a sullen face.

   I was in a daze for a while, not knowing which one was Fang Lang's real face.

   While Berg was full of thoughts, Fang Lang's car parked outside a high-end custom dress shop on Fifth Avenue.

   After waiting for a while, someone opened the car door, Fang Lang got out of the car, and the cold wind blew into the car, and Berg came back to his senses.

  Berg had just opened the car door when he saw Fang Lang had walked around to his side and stretched out his hand to him in a very gentlemanly manner.

   After hesitating for a moment, Berg put his hand on Fang Lang's, then got out of the car, took Fang Lang's arm with his hand, and walked into this splendid high-end custom dress shop together.

  The waiter who greeted the guests at the door knew that he had met a big shot when he saw how many people were traveling.

  At this time, no one paid attention to Fang Lang's complexion, and hurriedly stepped forward to open the store door and bowed to welcome him.

  A blond boy who looked to be in his twenties stepped forward politely and said to Fang Lang:

   "Sir, welcome, I don't know how I can help you."

  Fang Lang glanced casually at the spacious storefront, which was very luxuriously decorated, with various men's and women's dresses hanging in the store for workers to choose from.

   Nodded Fang Lang said to the young man beside him:

   "Is there any female shopping guide to match a dress for the dinner party for the lady next to me. We are in a hurry, please hurry up."

   "Okay, sir. Arrange for you right away."

   Soon, a female shopping guide in her thirties walked up quickly.

  Fang Lang patted Berg's hand holding his arm, and motioned him to follow the shopping guide to choose a dress.

   And it was obviously the first time for Berg to enter such a high-end store, so he was a little nervous and didn't dare to let go.

   Fang Lang had to whisper in her ear:

   "Go! Don't worry, your boss is not short of money."

  Berg took a deep breath, and finally mustered up the courage to follow the female shopping guide in.

   Fang Lang drank a cup of coffee, and when he was a little impatient waiting, there was a "click", and the door of the large fitting room opened.

With a pair of red high heels on his feet, a long black dress, and a pure white mink vest on his shoulders, Berg with his golden hair behind his head is like Nicole Kidman walking into a red carpet show field.

   Directly made Fang Lang's eyes unable to move away.

   "Sir, believe me, your female companion will definitely be the focus of the banquet tonight."

   Fang Lang, who swallowed his saliva, finally came back to his senses:

   "It's a great outfit, but don't you think she's missing something around her neck?"

   "Sir, I think Tiffany next to you will be happy to match a piece of exquisite jewelry for your female companion."

   "Then what are you waiting for, let them come directly, I want to see the overall effect."

   After all, it is a high-end luxury store, and the service is indeed very good. Soon, several Tiffany clerks came over with jewelry for Fang Lang to choose.

  Fang Lang took a look and finally chose a diamond necklace!

  After putting it on for Berg, the effect was not too good, and the shopping guide beside him couldn't help admiring from the bottom of his heart:

   "No Hollywood star is as beautiful as your wife."

  At this time, Berg obviously liked his outfit very much, but the shopping guide said that he was Fang Lang's wife, and quickly explained:

   "Don't get me wrong, this is my boss, I'm not his wife."

  Fang Lang directly interrupted Berg's argument, and said to the shopping guide:

   "That's all, pay the bill!"

   "Sir, including Tiffany's jewelry, the total price is nine thousand eight hundred dollars."

Beg beside    cried out in surprise:

   "Why is it so expensive? I don't want it anymore."

   Obviously, with Berg’s salary of 400 US dollars per month, it would take more than two years without eating or drinking to repay such a large amount of money.

   It's a pity that Fang Lang never gave him a chance to repent.

  Shua Shua Shua Shua signed a check and handed it over.

  Berg walked out of the store in a daze, only to react to the cold wind outside the door.

  I have become a millionaire.

   This made her look at Fang Lang with resentment, thinking, this game is over, and she is bound by debt.

  The boss won't try to mess with himself!

   Fang Lang next to him obviously didn't care about this consumption, and said casually:

   "Let's go, let's meet the famous Mr. Morgan."

  The Plaza Hotel is located in the bustling area of ​​Fifth Avenue in New York, and this building is also a standard building on Fifth Avenue.

  When Fang Lang and the two came to the hotel, there were already people waiting at the door.

  The two were quickly led to a very high-end restaurant box.

  A bald middle-aged man in his forties had already extended his hand to Fang Lang.

   "Mr. Fang, you are so young!"

   "You must be Mr. Morgan, you look a few years older than me!"

   Both of them laughed, introduced their female companions to each other, and then entered the box to take a seat.

   "Mr. Fang, have all the container systems developed by your Global Group been completed?"

  After a few people simply ate a few mouthfuls, Mr. Morgan directly brought the topic to the main topic.

   This is completely different from what Fang Lang heard that Westerners don't like not talking about work while eating.

   "That's right, all the tests have been passed and trial operation has begun. Why is Mr. Morgan interested in entering the shipping industry?"

   Fang Lang asked knowingly.

   "Haha Mr. Fang, this great invention of yours will completely change the new pattern of the world shipping industry.

   Although we at Morgan will not enter the shipping industry, we are very interested in such companies. I wonder if Mr. Fang has considered listing the company? "

   "IPO? I don't know which company Mr. Morgan is talking about?"

   Now Fanglang Global Group has six wholly-owned subsidiaries, namely Global Trade, Global Shipping, Global Shipbuilding, Global Steel, Global Port Machinery, and Global Terminal.

  Global Trade only owns 25% of Shata Trading's equity, so it is not a subsidiary of Global Group.

  With so many branches under the Global Group, Fang Lang also wanted to know which company had the most investment potential in front of a big investment bank like Morgan.

  “In my opinion, these companies owned by Mr. Fang have great potential, so if Mr. Fang is willing, we hope to list all of them.

  If Mr. Fang is considerate, we can also proceed one by one. "

   "I don't know which company Mr. Morgan is most optimistic about the development of?"

   A consortium with a strong presence in the United States like the Morgan family must have known about the upcoming European recovery plan in the United States.

   Therefore, Fang Lang estimates that Morgan most wants to promote the listing must be global shipping.

  The result was unexpected, Morgan actually said:

   "Fang, of course we are optimistic about Global Shipbuilding, which has the advantages of patented technology."

   Fang Lang felt a little strange. Hasn't the US government started to propose a European recovery plan?

   "But my global shipbuilding is not a big company! The shipyards owned in several countries are not big companies."

   "It is precisely because it is not a big factory that it has the potential for appreciation! Now, Global Shipbuilding has established shipyards in various European and American countries.

  The container system you invented has started to run again, and it is about to usher in a period of rapid development! This is the time when funds are needed to rapidly expand and occupy the market.

  So, if you ask us to choose one of your companies to go public, we will definitely choose Global Shipbuilding! "

   "Okay! What Mr. Morgan said is indeed very reasonable, but the actual situation now is that our Universal Group does not lack funds for development.

   So, I'm not ready to take my company public right now. If Mr. Morgan is really optimistic about my global shipbuilding, how about we change the way of cooperation? "

  Mr. Morgan obviously did not expect that the young man in front of him would play cards completely out of routine.

  But after hearing him talk about a different way of cooperation, he still became interested, and said with great interest:

   "Oh! Mr. Fang can talk about it."

   "I am also very optimistic about a company under the Morgan Consortium. I wonder if we can have a share swap?"

   These words really surprised Morgan. It was unexpected that this young man would fall in love with a company under the Morgan consortium, but it's no wonder.

  As one of the largest consortiums in the United States, the Morgan consortium must have a lot of high-quality assets in hand, but I don't know which company Fang Lang is looking at.

   "Oh! It's an honor for us to be chosen by Mr. Fang for our company. I don't know which company Mr. Fang wants to exchange shares in."

   "As far as I know, the Morgan Consortium is the majority shareholder of AT&T, right?"

  Hearing Fang Lang's words, Morgan smiled. Indeed, AT&T is indeed a communications company that has monopolized the long-distance and local telephone markets in the United States.

  The profitability of such a company is obviously very strong.

   "That's right, AT&T is indeed the holding company of our Morgan consortium. However, the scale of this company is very huge now!

  If you want to exchange shares with this company, the shares you get will not play much role. "

  "Mr. Morgan, don't worry, I know this company is indeed a very profitable company, but I don't want to exchange shares with this company.

  It is a subsidiary of this company-Bell Laboratories. "

Hearing this, Morgan was taken aback for a moment. Of course, the current Bell Labs has not achieved as much as the later generations. This laboratory was established in 1925 after AT&T acquired the R&D department of Western Electronics. of.

  When the company was established, Walter Kifford, president of AT&T, promised that three percent of the company's annual profit would be used as research funding for Bell Labs.

  Because AT&T did not use its telephone patents to expand rapidly in the early stage, its income was not particularly high, which allowed him to escape the economic crisis in the 1930s.

   It was not until the outbreak of World War II that AT&T began to quickly occupy the national market and penetrate into Europe and the United States, which allowed Bell Labs to obtain a lot of financial support.

   Began to produce practical results: long-distance television transmission, digital computers, talking movies, and artificial larynx.

   Of course, the digital computer here is not the later electronic computer.

  This also means that this company has not actually produced much benefit, and at the same time, the company's research and development capabilities have also been recognized by everyone.

   Fang Lang just doesn't know how much the Morgan consortium attaches to this company, and whether he has the opportunity to join the company's board of directors.

  (end of this chapter)