Chapter 352: Work with me

Zhou Ming saw Rogers at 1 pm, which was as fast as Zhou Ming could go. After all, Harvard University was in the suburbs far from the city centre. Even so, when Zhou Ming arrived at the restaurant as scheduled, he still heard Rogers complaining non-stop.

This was an upscale restaurant next to the Brighton Bank Building. Rogers was waiting at the door, and Zhou Ming only parked the car and came over. He then walked up to greet him in three or two steps.

'Mr. Zhou Ming, I really think you should get a better car. If you keep getting stuck in traffic like this, a lot of things will go wrong. Fortunately, New York is experimenting with a lunchtime trading system, otherwise it would be the same as before, with trading non-stop from morning to night. During the time you were stuck in traffic, the Deep Blue Airlines would have already collapsed,' Rogers said to Zhou Ming.

In response to Rogers' complaints, Zhou Ming shrugged and said, 'I think I care more about the distance of the journey than the performance of the car. It would be better if there was a direct highway.'

'That's not something we can decide,'

Rogers said casually, then invited Zhou Ming into the restaurant. As they walked, he said to Zhou Ming, 'Mr. Zhou Ming, due to the sharp drop in the stock price of Deep Blue Airlines this morning, my clients have suffered heavy losses. I hope that you, Mr. Zhou Ming, can come up with a countermeasure as soon as possible to stop this situation.'

Compared to Rogers' impatience, Zhou Ming was very calm. He said, "Manager Rogers, there is an old saying in our country: "God wants it to rain, the mother wants to marry, stocks want to rise or fall. Just as you said, there can't be a direct highway, and neither of these things are within our control. However, what I can tell Manager Rogers is that Deep Blue Airlines has great potential, and we must have confidence in it.'

'In addition,' Zhou Ming continued, 'in last week's trading, didn't all of your clients make a lot of money on the shares of Deep Blue Airlines? How could they lose money?'

'Mr. Zhou Ming, what you are saying is very irresponsible! For my clients, not making money is a loss, and it has fallen by eleven percentage points in just one morning, which has already lost all the profits!' Rogers angrily said to Ming Zhou, 'If Mr. Ming Zhou cannot stop the decline of the stock price of Dark Blue Airlines, then I have no choice but to advise my clients to sell their shares of Dark Blue Airlines.'

'Manager Rogers, you must not do this!' Ming Zhou said, 'If you do, it will be tantamount to admitting that you have given your clients a losing investment...'

Rogers interrupted Ming Zhou and said, 'This is not a losing investment, it's just that the timing of the withdrawal was not good, and I will not lose the trust of my clients.'

'I have no doubt about that,' said Zhou Ming, as they arrived at the seat that Rogers had reserved for him. Zhou Ming continued, "But Manager Rogers, you also said that only profitable investments are investments, and any investments that do not make money are all losses, right?'

'I did say that," Rogers nodded, calming down a little before asking, 'So Mr. Zhou Ming, do you have a way to make my clients make all their money back?'

'Of course I do, and this has always been the principle of my investments. I must make my friends earn money with me, otherwise I won't have any friends for my next investment,' said Ming. "And in this case, I think the best way is for you to convince your clients to continue buying shares of Deep Blue Airlines, because Deep Blue Airlines will definitely rise again in the future.'

Hearing Ming's answer, Rogers was dumbfounded. He asked in a daze, "Mr. Ming, is this your good solution? Are you sure you're not joking with me?'

'It's not a joke, I'm very serious,' said Zhou Ming.

Rogers slammed his hand on the table, stood up, and said angrily, 'Mr. Zhou Ming, I hope you understand one thing: I am the key account manager at Brighton Bank Securities, not an investment advisor for your hedge fund! What I need to do is make investments that bring benefits to my clients, otherwise I will be fired, not bring them to play this capital game of hedging with you. If this is your attitude, Mr. Zhou Ming, I will have all my clients withdraw their investments.'

'Manager Rogers, please calm down. Sit down and let me finish,' said Ming, still unruffled, inviting him to sit down. "I of course understand your responsibilities and obligations as a key account manager. I'm not asking your clients to play the capital hedging game with me. I'm just giving you a suggestion that will allow your clients to recoup their losses and make even greater profits.'

'Mr. Zhou Ming, I hope what you say next will please me," said Rogers, sitting down.

Zhou Ming nodded with a smile and said, 'I understand that you, Manager Rogers, are worried about your clients losing money. But I think your worries are unnecessary, because your clients will not lose money. As long as they follow my advice, I can guarantee that they will not lose money, and it will not be a loss as defined by you, Manager Rogers.'

Rogers shook his head dismissively and said, 'No one can make that guarantee, Mr. Zhou Ming.'

'But I can!' Zhou Ming said. "If Manager Rogers doesn't believe me, I can use my assets as collateral. If Manager Rogers" clients suffer losses under my advice, I will bear all of those losses.'

Upon hearing this, Rogers immediately warned, 'Mr. Zhou Ming, please be aware that what you just said violates the spirit of the Constitution of freedom and justice! Since you are now my client, I will not report to the relevant authorities, but in the future I will no longer be responsible for any of your transactions or provide you with advice, because this is against the spirit of the law!'

Facing Rogers' warning, Zhou Ming calmly asked in return, 'Do you really think so, Manager Rogers?'

'Mr. Zhou Ming, what do you mean by that?' Rogers asked with a frown.

'I don't mean to say that everyone does this and the law is bullshit, but I just want to say that this is a guarantee of cooperative investment,' Zhou Ming said after thinking about it. 'Manager Rogers, you must also know what my Wharton Insurance Company's products are, right? The so-called insurance and wealth management is nothing more than a guarantee that our investors will not lose money. Have you seen any relevant agencies investigating me? So this is legal.'

'This is a preposterous fallacy! As the key account manager of Brighton Bank Securities, I will not agree to it!'

After saying this, Rogers got up and left the restaurant, but Zhou Ming did not chase after him, because Zhou Ming believed that he would come back, for the simple reason that he was a key account manager and he needed to be responsible to his clients. He had to make up for the losses of today for his clients, otherwise neither his clients nor the company would let him off the hook. Despite the fact that he had made so much money for them before, as long as someone was serious about it, he was going to be in trouble. Compared to a stable guarantee, he would never bet on the pitifully small luck and the understanding and quality of his clients.

With this confidence, Zhou Ming calmly sat in his seat, sipping his coffee. When the waiter came up to inquire, Zhou Ming simply said, 'Continue serving as ordered. By the way, you can bring a cold Coke. I think that gentleman needs to calm down a bit.'

'I'm sorry, sir, we don't sell any sparkling drinks here,' the waiter politely said.

Zhou Ming then remembered that this was an upscale Western restaurant, and had to say, 'Then just bring him a glass of watermelon juice.'

As soon as Zhou Ming finished speaking, Rogers stormed back. Zhou Ming smiled and said to him, 'Welcome back, Manager Rogers. I just ordered you a glass of watermelon juice, hoping to cool your temper. Now have you decided to work with me?'

Zhou Ming's teasing made Rogers a little embarrassed, but he still sat down and questioned Zhou Ming, 'Did you really mean what you just said? Then you will also make up for today's losses?'

Zhou Ming nodded and replied, 'Of course, but only if you do what I ask, otherwise I won't pay a single penny.'

Zhou Ming's words were firm, but this time Rogers didn't dare to retort. After all, by leaving and then returning, he had completely lost his momentum. But he didn't understand, how was Zhou Ming so sure that he would definitely come back? Or was Zhou Ming really so confident that he could recover the losses?

Looking at Rogers' puzzled expression, Zhou Ming pointed out the window and said, "Do you see the black car falling? That is the source of my confidence.'

This made Rogers even more confused: "Is there something wrong with that car?'

'That's Mr Wharton's car. As a friendly reminder, this Mr Wharton is the founder of Wharton Company. However, I later bought the company and now he is employed by Mr Brooke, and this time the fall in the stock price of Dark Blue Airlines is most likely the doing of this Mr Brooke,' said Ming.

'Mr Zhou Ming, is the Mr Brooke you are talking about the state senator Mr Brooke?' Rogers asked.

'Yes, it is. Since I sent his son, Junior Brooke, to prison, he is taking revenge on me,' Zhou Ming said.

Once again, Rogers was dumbfounded.

...

Meanwhile, in the car downstairs in the restaurant, Walden was also observing the situation above. When he saw Zhou Ming pointing at him and Rogers looking down in his direction, Walden panicked. He immediately took out his phone and dialed Old Brooker's number: 'Mr. Brooker, it's Walden. I just followed Zhou Ming to the Brighton Bank Building. I saw him having dinner with the key account manager Rogers, and they have already discovered me.'

'Oh, that's really bad news, Mr. Walton, you're so careless,' said Old Brook.

'I'm sorry, Mr. Brook, this is my mistake, but it also provides us with a very important piece of information. He came to see Manager Rogers today, and the fact that they found me must mean that they are planning the next plot, most likely to raise the stock price of Dark Blue Airlines and hedge with you, Mr. Brook,' Walton guessed.

'That's what I was thinking too, but now that I've thought of it, any plans he had are useless.'

Old Brooker then said to Walton, 'Also, Mr Walton, since you have been discovered, you should move somewhere else quickly.'

Walton nodded and said, 'No problem, I will move somewhere else immediately and provide you with some more valuable information as soon as possible!'

'Then I'll leave it to Mr Walton,'

Old Brook said, but if Wharton was in Old Brook's office at this time, he would have seen the expression on Old Brook's face, which was not at all so-called.