Chapter 132: Quietly Reopening

The World Trade Center in the South Brighton District is a landmark financial building in the entire city of Brighton. As a senior Massachusetts senator, Brook's most important investment company, which is also named after him, is located in this building. 

As one of the largest investment companies in Brighton, Brook Investment has always regarded itself as a benchmark enterprise. Although there are often hundreds of people calling at the same time due to business reasons, on the whole, except for the business department, the entire company looks very well organised. However, on October 10th, Brook Investment was in a mess.

From the entrance of the company to the president's office, it was packed with people. Although each of these people was dressed in a stylish manner, they were making a mess and yelling here without any sense of image.

"Hey! Hurry up and arrange for me to meet your CEO. I must see him today. Do you know that I have been here for three consecutive days? Don't think that you can get away with it by keeping me here. This is absolutely impossible. Neither I nor my investors will let you off the hook, ever! Oh, you backstabbing bastards, don't push me, or I'll push you right off the building!'

'That's right, I've brought my lawyer with me, and you have to pay for my lawyer's fees, otherwise I'll definitely sue you, you faithless bastards!'

In response to these people's verbal abuse and pointing fingers, the golden female secretary who was blocking the door was about to cry out of frustration, but she still had to try her best to explain, 'Please calm down. The president knows about your situation, and he is currently dealing with your situation in his office. I believe you have all known for many days that he has not left his office for three days!'

At this moment, in the president's office, sitting in the president's chair is not the president, but the real behind-the-scenes boss of the company, Senator Brooke. As for the president, he is just a little boy sitting in front of Brooke and receiving training.

'Mr. Brook, according to incomplete statistics, as of 10 o'clock this morning, this credit crisis caused by personal bankruptcy has lasted for four days. Ten thousand of our loan customers have declared personal bankruptcy, and our economic losses are expected to reach 500 million U.S. dollars. At the same time, the company's creditors and investors are also demanding that we clear our debts and get our investments back. This part has not yet been sorted out, but a conservative estimate is between 400 million and 600 million U.S. dollars.' 壹看书·1?k?anshu·cc'

Facing the president's report, Brook nodded silently. While looking at the financial report in his hands, he pointed his finger at the door and asked, 'Is that the group of people outside who are constantly making noise?'

The president nodded nervously and said yes. Brook then closed the financial report in his hands and casually threw it on the table and asked again, 'So is there any way to reduce the economic losses?'

When he seemed to hesitate, Brooke angrily slammed his hand on the table and said, 'If you have any ideas, spit them out. If you're going to be so indecisive, I'll call a board meeting right now and replace you!'

The president then replied honestly, 'Mr. Brooke, I think we can now probably carry out major layoffs and liquidate our investment funds. This is expected to reduce our losses by more than $200 million. If we then partially dispose of some assets and issue new bonds to the public, we may be able to completely make up for the economic losses.'

'You are the president I personally appointed, and I have great confidence in your abilities, so much so that I have given you a 10% stake. So since you are saying this now, just do it your way.'

While speaking, Brook stood up: 'You know that this time it was that damned Chinese guy Zhou Ming who caused all this trouble. I don't want you to lose to a guy who knows nothing. You understand? And that guy James, I heard he didn't come to work today. Send him a letter from my lawyer. His bonus must be recovered. That's a very important sum of money. I'll leave now.'

Brook said, walked towards the side door of the office, but before leaving the door, he paused: 'The group of people outside, you figure out how to deal with them yourself.'

After leaving this sentence, Brook left the office, leaving behind the president, who looked miserable.

After sitting back in his seat for a while, the president picked up the phone and yelled, 'Tell all the assholes in the company to get the fuck moving! If you want to continue working here, you'd better get your asses to work and complete your tasks, otherwise I won't let you off the hook! And, do whatever you can to get that son of a bitch James, I want to kill him!'

Brook could no longer bear the sight of his president's almost crazed appearance, so after leaving his office through the side door, he took the elevator on the other side of the building to leave. 壹看书?·1?k?a看n?s?h?u看·c?c?

This side door was deliberately reserved when the room was selected. No one had thought about it before, just to avoid dangerous situations such as fires, so that the president could escape quickly, but no one had thought that it would also be useful for escaping encirclement today.

When they arrived at the underground parking lot and got back into their car, Brook took out his mobile phone and dialed a number. His tone suddenly became very respectful: 'Hello, Mr. Christo. I've just come from my company, Brook Investments. My company is now in tatters. There are thousands of creditors and investors demanding liquidation of debts. The company's losses will exceed one billion US dollars. You must do something about it!'

Christo replied, 'Don't worry, Brook. You are a servant of the Adams family centre, and the family will naturally not sit idly by. Brighton Bank is now mobilising funds, and I will also persuade the state government to lend a helping hand and use state finances as a guarantee to secure more funds for you.'

'As for that Chinese guy, Zhou Ming, who does he think he is? Inciting those poor ethnic minorities and trying to beat you with the most clumsy method of personal bankruptcy? He is really naive. I will show him with practical actions how the game of capital should be played. It is not something that a schoolboy like him can play!' said Cristo.

'If that's the case, that would be great. Thank you, Mr. Cristo. I, Brook, will always be the most loyal servant of the Adams family!' said Brook, overjoyed.

...

While things were heating up at Brook Investment, things were quiet at Zhou Ming's end. After all, although he had caused the subprime mortgage crisis, for some reason, the subprime mortgage crisis was still mainly concentrated at Brook Investment. Before the effects of the actions of the three families of Kennedine Lawrence and Lowell came out, the impact on the Adams family was very limited.

It is precisely for this reason that even if the Adams family is now preoccupied with the subprime mortgage crisis, they can only temporarily attend to themselves. If I really have nothing to do and go to him, I believe he will still be able to spare the time to deal with me. Zhou Ming also does not want to touch this bad luck, especially when the other party is angry.

Zhou Ming picked up Lin Muqing at Brighton Rugen Airport. This was what Zhou Ming had promised Lin Muqing before: once the entire subprime mortgage market was in chaos, Lin Muqing would be able to return from Rhode Island.

The moment Lin Muqing walked out of the arrivals gate, she became the focus of the entire airport. She was wearing a black chiffon blouse over a knee-length black skirt**** and small leather boots of the same colour. They might have looked a little loose, but they still couldn't hide her curvy figure, and they accentuated Lin Muqing's noble and elegant temperament, instilling in people a fear of looking too closely. Although Lin Muqing lowered her head and put on sunglasses to avoid trouble, it gave people a sense of mystery that went straight to the heart.

Many people couldn't help but stop in their tracks, just to catch another glimpse of Lin Muqing. However, what happened next made them a little unhappy, for the simple reason that Lin Muqing saw Zhou Ming.

When Lin Muqing saw Zhou Ming, he immediately couldn't control his emotions and pounced into Zhou Ming's arms. Because she had been alone in Rhode Island while Zhou Ming was in Brighton, she had worried about and missed him so much. Even her outfit today had been carefully selected to meet him.

Zhou Ming of course understood, but there were a lot of people and chatter at the airport exit, so Zhou Ming didn't say much to Lin Muqing, and they immediately went to the parking lot to get in the car and leave.

In the car, Lin Muqing hugged Zhou Ming tightly, and this was also because there were bodyguards here, and she was embarrassed to do too extreme of a move.

'Sister Muqing, let's go back to Wharton Insurance first,' Zhou Ming said to Lin Muqing.

Lin Muqing nodded with a 'hmm' and said, 'I'll go wherever you take me.'

An hour and a half later, Zhou Ming and Lin Muqing arrived at the Sky Ladder Building. They went upstairs to Wharton Insurance Company. Although there was still a pungent smell of paint in the air, the inside of the company had already been cleaned.

Ye Ning came out in surprise when she heard a noise. She said, 'Teacher, you've come with Muqing. That's great. We're just tidying up the company!'

Zhou Ming smiled and rubbed Ye Ning's little head, then walked into the company with Lin Muqing.

In fact, after Zhou Ming and Lin Muqing left Brighton, they had someone come in and clean the office, but because someone had messed it up so badly, the cleaning staff that was hired only gave it a cursory clean, and Zhou Ming didn't bother with it at the time because he couldn't take care of it. Now that the subprime mortgage crisis had been fixed, he would be back soon, and the protesters had disappeared, so naturally he let the finance class students come back and clean up first.

It was precisely for these reasons that when Zhou Ming and Lin Muqing walked into the company, it looked like it was in perfect order.

'Everyone, stop for a second. The teacher is here to pick up Sister Muqing!'

Ye Ning shouted happily to all the students in the finance class, and in no time at all, all the students in the finance class came out of the rooms they had been cleaning.

"Has the meeting room been cleaned? If it's ready, let's go to the meeting.'

Zhou Ming said, then waved his hand, and led everyone to the conference room. Due to the arrangements Zhou Ming made before leaving, this was the first place to be cleaned. Zhou Ming, Lin Muqing, and all the students in the finance class sat down here. Zhou Ming looked around and said, 'Classmates, in the past half month, I have made you suffer along with me, and I feel very sorry.'

In response to Zhou Ming's words, all the students in the finance class shook their heads and said it was okay, especially Li Yang, the vice class president, and Ye Ning, the secretary of the Communist Youth League branch: 'Teacher, if you apologize to us, it means you look down on us. You are our teacher. Without you, we would never have been able to come into contact with the real United States, let alone understand the essence of finance and the economy so early. So no matter what, you are our teacher, and no matter what we encounter following you, we are willing to do it!'

Finally, class monitor Chen Shu stood up and took the lead, saying, 'And more than that, we are even more grateful for your consideration for our safety, for allowing us to see the power of capital, and for witnessing the miracle with you. We are grateful!'

After saying this, Chen Shu led all the students in the finance class in bowing to Zhou Ming. This made Zhou Ming feel very much that after all, in Zhou Ming's opinion, he had not brought them up well and had not fulfilled his duties as the class monitor, but they were still like this, what really lovely students they were!

Zhou Ming finally let out a long breath and said, 'Okay, everyone, please sit down. I asked you all to come to the company today to tell you that our Wharton Insurance Company is about to reopen, and the first business we will undertake is to prepare to dispose of ** assets.'