Chapter 112: Mr. Louis is in trouble

Louis brought Zhou Ming and Lin Muqing to the living room of the villa. In the middle of the living room were many documents. Louis pointed at the documents and told Zhou Ming that these were the account information of Brighton Bank.

'Mr. Louis, Ming Zhou and I are very sincere about joining forces with you to deal with the Adams family, but what you have done makes us doubt your sincerity. Forget about all the obstacles you have put in our way before, and now you have brought out so many documents. Are you trying to make things difficult for us on purpose?' Lin Muqing said angrily.

Lin Muqing's words were not groundless. You have to know that their villa is a luxury villa, and this living room is as large as half a basketball court, but now that these documents are here, they take up almost half of the area, so you can imagine how many there are.

Facing Lin Muqing's serious questioning, Louis replied nonchalantly, 'Isn't this what you asked for? All the accounting information about Brighton Bank is not publicly disclosed, and it is the most detailed first-hand information within our family. These were faxed from the family urgently over the past three days, which has wasted a lot of paper and ink. I even asked my servants to go out and prepare a lot of it so that it would not be interrupted.'

'But how do you expect us to read through all these documents? At this rate, if just Mr Zhou Ming and I were to go through them page by page, it would take at least half a month, wouldn't it?' Lin Muqing said.

Louis shrugged his shoulders and said with a look of indifference, 'That's not my concern, because I've prepared them exactly as you requested. Maybe you have your own special way of remembering things!'

'How could we possibly have a method? Besides, even if there was a method, with so many documents, do you really expect us to go through each one and sift through it? Are you sure there isn't any junk information in there?' Lin Muqing questioned again.

Louis still said nonchalantly, 'I didn't say that, but this is what you asked for. I just thought you Chinese would be good at noticing details that others don't notice. After all, Brighton Bank is so big, if there were major loopholes, they would have been fixed for sure. There are only small details that theoretically may exist, and these small details need to be sifted out bit by bit from a large amount of information.'

This time, Zhou Ming stepped forward and said, 'Then please, Mr. Louis, accompany us in the screening.'

Louis was stunned. He had never expected Zhou Ming to say that. When he tried to explain something, Zhou Ming immediately said again, 'Mr. Louis, as you know, there are only two of us, Ms. Lin and I, and we know nothing about the internal accounts of Brighton Bank. On the contrary, you, as the patriarch of the Lowell family, must know more than we do. So it will definitely be much simpler for us to conduct the screening together.'

At the end, Zhou Ming sighed and said, 'On the contrary, if it's just Lin and I, I'm afraid this task will take a long time, but the time we have left is not much.'

Hearing Zhou Ming's words, Lin Mucheng also happily agreed, 'Yes, Mr. Louis, what if we get delayed for a long time and the Adams family reacts, and he deals with the three of you first? What then? Governor Edwards and President Lawrence are both in Brighton and can react quickly, but you, Mr. Louis, are in Rhode Island. Maybe someone will betray their comrades-in-arms then!'

Louis was furious at the bantering between Ming and Qing, because it was clearly their job to do, and he had come to the party with the intention of watching the fun. Since you want information, I'll give you the most detailed information, as long as you can really read it. Louis even prepared melon seeds, peanuts, beer and drinks for this, so why is he being dragged down now?

Of course, Louis also hated Edward and Lawrence, who had left, even more, because these two guys had simply anticipated the current situation and had left in advance. What a load of nonsense about having important things to do!

With this thought, Louis helplessly lowered his head: 'It's impossible to accompany you in reading so many documents. At most, I can only answer some of your questions. What exactly do you want to know?'

Lin Muqing also looked back at Zhou Ming curiously in response to this question.

Zhou Ming thought for a moment and replied, 'What do you want to know? I don't know either, because I don't know anything about Brighton Bank!'

Zhou Ming's sincere expression and innocent tone made Lin Mucheng beam with joy, but it made Louis want to vomit blood.

Although Louis definitely knew that as the core of the consortium, Brighton Bank had always been the most important existence, and without the support of insider information, it was difficult for outsiders to grasp the key points, but now with this answer from Zhou Ming, it was still unacceptable to him. After all, it was Zhou Ming and Lin Mucheng who were investigating Brighton Bank now, so how could it be that listening to Zhou Ming had now become his job? What was going on?

'Mr. Zhou Ming, I hope you understand that this alliance was formed by you, and you were the one who suggested starting with Brighton Bank. Now you can just pass the buck to someone else by saying you don't know or understand? Isn't this a bit irresponsible?' Louis couldn't help but say to Zhou Ming with a full heart of anger.

'Mr. Louis, I don't think you need to get so worked up, because I don't have any intention of shirking responsibility. However, I know is know, and I don't know is don't know. I can't pretend to know when I clearly know, and I can't pretend to know when I don't know. Either behaviour is very detrimental to our alliance, don't you agree?' Zhou Ming said.

Zhou Ming's tongue twister directly confused Louis, who then came back to his senses. Feeling like he had been made a fool of, Louis angrily said, 'What on earth are you trying to say, Chinese Zhou Ming?'

Zhou Ming smiled slightly and said, 'I don't know! Perhaps Mr. Louis can just tell me what it is.'

This answer that went around in circles and then back to the beginning left Louis confused. He felt that Zhou Ming's words were not just a sentence, but a nuclear bomb that had directly exploded, making him feel like vomiting blood.

At this moment, all Louis wanted to say to Zhou Ming was: 'Big brother, please, there is a limit to teasing people, okay!

Zhou Ming seemed to sense what Louis was thinking, and he then said, 'Okay, Mr. Louis, I don't want to make things difficult for you either, but the current situation is indeed very difficult to judge.'

Zhou Ming thought for a moment and then said, "How about this, I don't want you to find flaws for me either, just tell me about the current and future strategic plans of Brighton Bank? Maybe we can find some problems from that.'

Louis snorted arrogantly, "Why should I tell you? This is a secret of our Brighton Consortium!'

Zhou Ming froze: 'Secret? So that means it's information that I can't be told?'

'Of course. Our Brighton Consortium is a large consortium that has been passed down for 300 years. It's not something that you Chinese can understand. Brighton Bank is our core. Although we have conflicts with the Adams family, we need to resolve them internally. We are by no means traitors to the consortium...'

Before Louis could finish speaking, Zhou Ming sighed and said, 'I see, that's a real shame. So Mr. Louis, why don't you take us through your analysis of the news?'

Louis, who had been raising his head and talking proudly about the consortium, suddenly fell silent at Zhou Ming's words. His face looked as bad as if he had eaten a dead rat. Louis stared at Zhou Ming and asked, 'Chinese, you did this on purpose, didn't you?'

Zhou Ming spread his hands innocently and said, 'I'm sorry, Mr. Louis, I don't understand what you're talking about. I'm only thinking about the interests of our alliance, and more importantly, finding out the problems with Brighton Bank as soon as possible, and then using this problem to target the Adams family?'

At this time, Louis really wanted to strangle this Chinese man named Zhou Ming, but he also understood that this was just his own imagination. He could only glare at Zhou Ming and ask with gritted teeth, 'Mr. Zhou Ming, are you sure that's really all there is to it?'

Zhou Ming also looked Louis in the eye without fear, saying, 'Of course, otherwise what does Mr. Louis think?'

In his confrontation with Zhou Ming, Louis was in no way in the upper hand, and the longer they looked at each other, the more guilty he felt, as if in the open eyes of Zhou Ming, he appeared so despicable.

In the end, Louis had no choice but to admit defeat and say, 'Fine, since you want to know the secrets of Brighton Bank so badly, I might as well tell you, but I can only tell you what I know.'

'Thank you very much,' Zhou Ming said, 'because I can't force Mr. Louis to tell you things you don't know, can I?'

Louis snorted, gathered his thoughts, and then said, 'As far as I know, Brighton Bank's biggest project at the moment is investment. Several investment banks and companies controlled by Brighton Bank are investing in new energy and arms.'

'I know that,' Zhou Ming picked up where Louis left off, "the current Gulf plan, the biggest beneficiaries are energy companies and arms dealers, and the Gulf plan itself is led by the Brighton consortium. Therefore, under the premise that there is no major mistake in this investment, it is difficult for us to find any flaws. Is there any other information?'

Having said that, Zhou Ming paused for a moment and then added, "For example, is there a recent new investment project, or is there a new investment area that is relatively large in scale?'

Louis frowned and thought for a moment before replying, 'There seems to be a mining project in South America that has been discussed a lot within the bank.'

'Is it the copper mine in Venezuela that is being jointly exploited with Vale?' asked Zhou Ming.

'Yes, is there something wrong with this investment? After all, Venezuela is a country that is not friendly to the United States, and there are deep roots of unrest within the country,' said Louis.

Zhou Ming, however, shook his head and said, 'On the contrary, I think this investment will be a very successful one. First of all, I don't know how the United States feels about Venezuela as a country, but as far as I know, Venezuela's economy is currently doing very well. He attaches particular importance to the domestic mining industry, because it is his pillar industry, and I don't think he would joke about it. So, Mr. Louis, please tell me something else.'

Louie was dissatisfied after being repeatedly rejected by Zhou Ming, and said, 'If this isn't good enough and that isn't good enough, I really don't know what kind of news you want to hear. I might as well just tell you everything!'

Zhou Ming just laughed and didn't say anything in response, and Louis just vented his dissatisfaction before continuing, 'The Brighton Bank still attaches great importance to supporting investments in subprime loan companies, and he also attaches great importance to real estate companies...'

Zhou Ming noticed the key point in Louis's words: 'Mr. Louis, wait a minute, what did you just say about subprime loans?'

'That's right, it's subprime loans. Because the real estate industry in Brighton and even the whole country is booming right now, the subprime loan business has a lot of profit potential, so this is the next move for the bank.' Louis said, looking at Zhou Ming, "You don't know what subprime loans are, do you?'

'Of course I know, but I don't just want to know, I want to know more!" Zhou Ming said to Louis, 'Then next I'm going to trouble Mr. Louis to help me find some information about subprime loans from Brighton Bank.'