PricewaterhouseCoopers really wants to be strong, especially in the face of an industry like Li Mingbao, and their work efficiency wants to be high. As an industry group that has been established for no more than three years at the longest and less than a year at the shortest time, and has had strict supervisory staff from the beginning, its accounting is relatively clear. Compared with the inventory of those decades-old companies with unclear accounting and so on, Li Mingbao's companies in the United States are really a simple matter for the staff at PricewaterhouseCoopers. . It only took less than a month for PricewaterhouseCoopers to find out all the accounts involving capital transactions of Li Mingbao's properties in the United States. Li Mingbao's current cash amount and total expenditure and income. A clear form can be made directly for a type of thing. And it was sent directly to Li Mingbao's fax in Hong Kong. In the years before the Internet, only faxes were more reliable. Although in these years, faxes and other things were quite expensive for ordinary small companies. , but for a wealthy person like Li Mingbao, the small amount of money for faxing is nothing. Asking PricewaterhouseCoopers to take action, in less than a month, Li Mingbao spent a total of two million US dollars in labor fees, and this was the bulk of it. In these years and months, the U.S. dollar has not yet begun to depreciate on a large scale. Although banks in Japan and Europe, mainly Germany, have begun to collude with each other and prepare to depreciate the U.S. dollar, after all, such a thing has not officially begun yet, so two million U.S. dollars The price is definitely not cheap. In the United States, two million dollars can buy a large piece of permanent land in Texas or Arizona or some other land suitable for farming. farmer. Or buy a pretty good independent villa in some relatively developed areas. Unless some top villas, ordinary high-end villas, the price in these years is between two and three million US dollars. As for the above A villa worth tens of millions of dollars is considered top-notch in the United States. Unless you are a real boss, generally no one will be so extravagant. Therefore, the remuneration paid by Li Mingbao is definitely not small. Only a powerful company like PricewaterhouseCoopers dares to ask for such a price, and even if it is two million US dollars, it is not just a one-time audit by Li Mingbao. The income brought is the service fee for two full years. In other words, PwC's real income is one million US dollars a year, but even at this price, they are the only top-notch companies. Companies only dare to speak up. For ordinary companies, they can enjoy services for one or two years for hundreds of thousands of dollars. PwC's action was naturally extraordinary. After checking the cash flow, it began to comprehensively investigate other aspects of capital and assets of Li Mingbao's companies. Normally, most companies would not give up their authority to investigate confidential matters like this, but Li Mingbao had no intention of keeping it secret. It was not that he had no secrets at all, but that he wanted PricewaterhouseCoopers to be a disseminator to let the United States The people in the top circles also look at their own strength. Of course, when it comes to corporate investigations, companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers must adhere to the principle of confidentiality and will never disclose client confidentiality. But Li Mingbao also understands that such confidentiality does not really mean complete confidentiality. Even Swiss banks cannot keep complete confidentiality. As long as the profits are sufficient, they can even sell the deposits of leaders of some countries, let alone businessmen like PricewaterhouseCoopers. There is a question of whether to sell or not. , at most it depends on whether the value you pay is high enough. In the real top circles, there are very few confidential things at all. Everyone knows some general things. Isn't it because companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers sell information for a fee? Ordinary people may not understand, but how could people like Li Mingbao not know what role some so-called neutral service companies play? Not to mention neutral companies, even if it is a neutral country, when it is profitable, it will be sold to whomever it wants. Eating the plaintiff and eating the defendant is not just a local specialty like the court, it is a profitable business like this. , as long as it is a force that has the ability to intervene, there is absolutely no chance of letting it go. ¡° If Li Mingbao has any secrets that cannot be known to outsiders, then some outside companies will naturally not be able to enter Li Mingbao¡¯s company to have a good look inside. But in the industry in the United States, there is really nothing that Li Mingbao cannot let outsiders know. If he had not formed an alliance with John and the others, then Li Mingbao would have hidden some of his company's profitability and other things as deeply as possible. That way, it is not easy to be remembered and it is not easy to get into trouble. Although others can also see some clues from the clues outside, as long as they don't really see the bills in Li Mingbao's company, then Li Mingbao can completely deny that others We can't do anything to Li Mingbao either. But now that Li Mingbao has such two big names behind him,? Backing, it is not a problem to hide it like now. Properly showing one's strength and ability will also help some people understand the value of Li Mingbao, making them somewhat apprehensive. Li Mingbao is relatively weak in American industries and other matters, but companies like Li Mingbao have one thing in common, which is that they are very profitable. Generally speaking, companies that make money without the ability to protect themselves are just free sheep to other companies. But now that Li Mingbao owns John's 20th Century Fox and the protective capabilities of News Corporation, his pure cash advantage can also be turned into a terrible offensive weapon, especially for a company like Li Mingbao, which has completely given up on itself. The protective shell puts all the strength on cash, so the offensive nature of such a weapon is very nerve-wracking. A cash flow of ten to twenty million US dollars is definitely a delicious meal for the giants here in the United States. But if the cash flow of one to twenty million US dollars does not have any protective measures, then not only will it be It is just a delicious meal, but it will become a delicacy that everyone is fighting for. You can get the money without making too much effort. No one will not like it. And if it is a cash flow of one or two billion US dollars, it is even more enviable. If there is not enough protection ability, it can also cause a big storm in the United States. But if the cash flow increases to more than 300 million, and the cash flow that can be generated every year in the future is at least 500 million US dollars, then such cash flow will have terrifying characteristics, because such cash flow will be placed in many places in the United States. , will also become something that destroys the balance. For those established consortiums, such things must be controlled in their own hands. Of course, if there is a thick protective shell outside the funds, anyone who wants to take action will easily break their own hands. On the contrary, it is easy for everyone to accept such cash flow. They cannot turn it into their own, and it is best not to turn it into an enemy, because such an enemy is also quite terrifying. If it really hurts others by its original nature, it will do no good to anyone. Li Mingbao's current industry has such characteristics. He has little relationship with those American consortiums, but he has reached certain agreements with John and Murdoch, so he can also By borrowing their power, everyone becomes an equal opponent. If people who were jealous of Li Mingbao's interests in the past still dare to attack after seeing such a combination, then Li Mingbao will have to admire their courage. . Combinations like Li Mingbao¡¯s are actually not uncommon among consortiums in the United States. Li Mingbao's new combination can actually be regarded as a new type of consortium. Of course, compared to those old American consortiums, Li Mingbao's only disadvantage lies in their power in the American political circles. It is not very deep, and the help from the political circles will be much less than that of the established financial groups. But even so, Li Mingbao and the others are not a neglected existence in the United States now. As long as there is time and accurate investment, in the political field, they can rise quickly in a short period of time, and as long as they continue for several consecutive If the first investment is successful, then it will not be much different from those families with profound foundations. By then, people like Li Mingbao can be regarded as new rich in the United States. Apart from their incomparable background, all the treatment is similar to those of older families. At this time, the consortium forces in the United States will begin to study Li Mingbao and his new consortium to see which side has a clear weakness, and when it comes to fighting, where is a better breakthrough point. If Li Mingbao is still keeping a low profile at this time, he will inevitably be compared with others. To prepare for a rainy day, Li Mingbao is now using the power of PricewaterhouseCoopers to convey his strength in the United States. . Anyway, Li Mingbao basically doesn¡¯t have many secrets in the industry. The industries he is engaged in, at least yet, do not involve any high-tech things. Even things like computer special effects have only been prepared for a short time now, so It's just that "Terminator" has been used for a while, and it has played a preliminary training role. If you really want to make money from this, you will need to invest a lot of money in the future. At least now, Li Mingbao doesn't have that ability, so he can have another place to burn money. , it¡¯s almost enough to temporarily maintain the existing projects. After all, things like computer special effects are most fundamentally dependent on money, and the other is hardware. Things like software are important, but at most they are malleable things. Funding is the fundamental thing. In terms of hardware and software, if these two things are missing, no matter how good your software is, without hardware support, it will be in vain. Since there are no secrets, Li Mingbao doesn't mind being a peacock to let those American consortiums understand that although he, Li Mingbao, is the weakest link, when it comes to aggression, he is absolutelyNot the weakest. After the cash flow reaches a certain level, the effect will be no less than that of the army.