How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 646

The Unlucky Card Finally Gets Used—What’s Wrong With a Ride-Hailing Driver Having Some Money?

The security guards quickly ran over and surrounded Yang Chen and the others, following Roberts’s orders.

Roberts said smugly, “Listen, I don’t want to repeat myself. Apologize to Mr. Hamilton immediately, or we’ll arrest you and take you to the embassy. This is serious racial discrimination, and the consequences will be very serious. Do you understand?”

The bodyguard immediately showed his credentials. The security guards quickly lined up and bowed to Yang Chen.

“Hello, Mr. Yang!”

That’s right, these security guards were all from the Starlight Defense Group. They knew that only the work permits of the five bodyguards responsible for protecting Yang Chen would have the word “Special” on them. Globally, anyone from Starlight Defense must unconditionally cooperate with all their strength when they see such a work permit, because the five of them are protecting Yang Chen.

Yang Chen nodded and waved for them to go back to work.

Roberts immediately shouted, “Hey! Hey! I didn’t tell you to leave! Come back! F*ck! A bunch of idiots.”

Yang Chen: “Why the hell are you scolding my employees? Apologize to them immediately, or I’ll kick you out of Dragon Country.”

Helter Roberts: “I am the American president of the Shanghai Disney Resort. Do you have the ability to kick me out of Dragon Country?”

Yang Chen: “My name is Yang Chen, and these security guards are all employees of my Starlight Defense Group. I can kick you out of Dragon Country easily. You better apologize to them immediately!”

Roberts: “Listen, I don’t care who you are. Even if you are Yang Chen, I’m not afraid. You are not qualified to interfere with the management and operation of Walt Disney, and it’s not up to you whether I leave Dragon Country or not.”

Yang Chen: “Is that so? I hope you won’t be looking for me everywhere tomorrow morning.”

Yang Chen put his arm around Tang Xia and left, and the bodyguards blocked Roberts and the others.

Roberts called the security guards over again, but the security guards ignored him.

“F*ck! I’m going to fire these stupid security guards! F*ck!” Roberts cursed in exasperation.

However, he was just talking nonsense. He was not qualified to decide which security company to cooperate with.

Gao Yuncheng immediately stepped forward to fan the flames and said, “Mr. Roberts, this matter must not be let go easily. Even if you don’t consider my personal grudges with him, he insulted black people in front of you, so he must pay the price! Racial discrimination is always a red line, and no one is allowed to trample on it!”

Li Kaile: “That’s right, racial discrimination is a red line, and no one can touch it, not even Yang Chen. Anyway, Yang Chen has completely fallen out with the capital tycoons in the United States. Mr. Roberts doesn’t need to be afraid of him at all. It is politically correct to deal with Yang Chen in the United States now.”

Roberts nodded and said, “You are right. We will hold a shareholders meeting tonight, and I will tell the shareholders about Yang Chen’s racial discrimination.”

Gao Yuncheng and Li Kaile’s “evil plan succeeded”, and their faces were full of happy smiles.

Yang Chen and Tang Xia bought tickets and entered the park together.

Today was a weekday, and there weren’t many tourists in the park, which was perfect for enjoying the attractions.

Tang Xia: “What are the backgrounds of the two people next to the foreigner? They seem to have a grudge against you.”

Yang Chen: “The bosses of two entertainment companies. I have banned the artists of their companies, and they must be dissatisfied, thinking that finding the senior management of Disney can force me to lift the ban. How naive!”

Tang Xia: “That foreigner is also an idiot. Does he really think Disney is so great?”

Yang Chen: “I will definitely fire him at the shareholders meeting tonight.”

Tang Xia: “Then he will cry to death.”

Yang Chen: “That’s what he deserves. Let’s not talk about these messy things; let’s have fun.”

Tang Xia nodded, took out her phone, and took pictures while enjoying the park.

At 9:00 p.m., the Walt Disney shareholders meeting officially began.

However, Yang Chen and Tang Xia were delayed a bit by dinner, and they were still on their way to Yihai Apartment.

Shareholders who couldn’t attend the Walt Disney headquarters participated via video conference.

Helter Roberts addressed the other shareholders as soon as he entered the online conference room: “Everyone, I met Yang Chen of the Starlight Group today. That’s right, the same Yang Chen who is fighting fiercely with the Wall Street Alliance. Do you know what he did? He actually used the insulting word ‘nigger’ in front of me to humiliate my assistant, Mr. Hamilton. This behavior of his is too much, and it has seriously trampled on the red line of racial discrimination. I hope the headquarters can stand up for Mr. Hamilton, formally express our protest to the Dragon Country [China], and demand that Yang Chen apologize.”

There were black people among these shareholders, and their emotions were very agitated.

“F*ck! People who engage in racial discrimination should all die, and this matter must not be let go easily!”

“Does he think that the Wall Street Alliance can’t do anything to him, and we can’t do anything to him either? If we terminate our cooperation with Shanghai, can he afford the consequences?”

“We must show our attitude; otherwise, he will always have racist thoughts.”

“Our new shareholder is from Dragon Country. He can have the money to acquire so many shares, so he must be a very powerful person. We can let him deal with that Yang Chen.”

“Yes, yes, yes, this method is good. Since he has become our shareholder, he should uphold justice for our employees!”

“Speaking of which, the time has already arrived, why hasn’t he come in yet? Could it be that he forgot? Mr. Iger, I think you should call him and ask what’s going on.”

…

Robin Iger is the president of Disney Group, and he is currently responsible for the management and operation of the entire group. However, he personally holds very few shares and has no say in the shareholders meeting. The Disney family still controls Disney.

Iger: “Let’s wait a little longer. Roberts, don’t mention what you just said so quickly. We need to test what the purpose of the new shareholder’s investment company is. If he is a friendly person, then you can mention what just happened. If he is not a friendly person, then don’t mention it.”

Roberts: “Okay, I understand, Mr. Iger.”

At this time, a person entered the video conference room; it was Yang Chen.

Helter Roberts was stunned, and it took him several seconds to recover.

“Hey! Hey! What are you doing here? How did you get in?” Roberts questioned.

Yang Chen: “Isn’t it obvious enough? I am the new shareholder.”

Roberts: “Ah? You are the new shareholder? Why did you buy our company’s stock? What is your intention? Everyone, he is the racist I just told you about, the boss of the Starlight Group, Yang Chen.”

The shareholders were shocked. The bastard in Roberts’s mouth turned out to be the new shareholder!

They couldn’t act rashly. He is the second-largest shareholder with a shareholding ratio of up to 20%.

If anyone dares to offend him, they will definitely not have a good time at the shareholders meeting.

Seeing that everyone was not speaking, Roberts became anxious and said, “What are you doing? Why are you silent? He is a racist! This is the red line of the United States, and we absolutely do not allow racism to exist. Hurry up and condemn him! Let’s vote together to confiscate his stock, not allow him to invest in the company, and not allow him to interfere with the company’s management and operation.”

President Iger quickly said: “Roberts, calm down. Mr. Yang, hello, I am President Robin Iger. Welcome to invest in Walt Disney; you will be honored for today’s choice.”

Yang Chen smiled and said, “I think you should be honored that I will invest in Disney. Okay, let’s not talk nonsense; let’s officially start today’s shareholders meeting. I am now exercising my shareholder rights, and I demand that the company immediately send me the real financial reports and operating data of the past ten years. If there is any fraud, I will sue in court and expose it to people all over the world.”

The shareholders were silent, and no one dared to speak at all.

It was obvious that Yang Chen was not easy to mess with, and it would be troublesome if they said the wrong thing.

Robin Iger thought to himself: “As expected, he is not a friendly person. He wants financial and operating data as soon as he comes up. This is clearly making things difficult for us!”

Helter Roberts immediately said: “What do you mean? You invested in our company just to get the company’s financial data?”

Yang Chen: “This is my right as a shareholder; don’t give me so much nonsense. I have invested so much money; I have to let me exercise my shareholder rights, right? If this doesn’t work, then I will change one: immediately fire Helter Roberts and no longer hire him globally. These two requirements, you must meet one of them for me. Everyone, choose.”

Helter Roberts panicked, and he could guess how the shareholders would choose without thinking.

“Don’t listen to his nonsense! Let’s do as I said; we will vote together to drive him away and not allow him to hold even 0.1% of Disney’s stock. I will express my position first; I agree!” Roberts said in a panic; sweat was already on his face; obviously, he was very scared now.

The other shareholders did not respond; only he awkwardly raised his hand.

Roberts: “Dear shareholders, what are you hesitating about? Hurry up and raise your hands to agree! We absolutely cannot allow a racist to be in Disney’s shareholder ranks. If investors and customers know about it, who will invest in our company, and who will go to Disneyland? This will be a fatal blow to the company, and a century-old enterprise may be gone!”

President Robin Iger couldn’t listen anymore and said, “Roberts, stop exaggerating and be quiet. That’s right, I absolutely oppose racial discrimination. But whether Mr. Yang is racist or not needs evidence to prove it. Roberts, do you have evidence?”

Roberts: “Hamilton and I are both witnesses, and I have friends who can also testify.”

Robin Iger: “You can’t testify; you need a fair and objective third party to testify.”

Roberts: “That’s not it! Mr. President, there’s no need to be so troublesome. We just need to raise our hands together and vote him out.”

Robin Iger: “Walt Disney is a fair company, and it is impossible to drive away a shareholder holding 20% of the shares at will without evidence. If it really goes as you wish, then can you join forces in the future to vote me out? Can we join forces to vote out the Disney family?”

Roberts was stunned by Iger’s words. He thought to himself, which side is Iger on? Why does it sound like he is speaking for Yang Chen?

Roberts: “Mr. Iger, I don’t mean that; I mean…”

Robin Iger immediately interrupted: “Okay, stop talking. Let’s do this: regarding the two requirements Mr. Yang just made, let’s decide which one to meet through voting. He did invest a lot of money, and we must ensure that he can enjoy the rights of a shareholder. If we don’t let him enjoy the rights of a shareholder, it is equivalent to denying our own shareholder rights. Everyone, is that right?”

The shareholders immediately echoed their positions.

“Mr. President is right. One thing is one thing; we should indeed guarantee the legitimate rights and interests of each shareholder.”

“I have no objection; listen to Mr. President.”

“I have no objection either; voting is the fairest.”

…

Roberts panicked and quickly said, “Dear shareholders, you can’t play like this. I…”

Robin Iger interrupted again: “Okay, stop talking about irrelevant things. As the president, I will express my position first. I agree to meet Mr. Yang’s second requirement.”

The other shareholders also quickly followed suit.

“I also agree with Mr. Yang’s second requirement.”

“I agree too!”

“Me too!”

…

Roberts was so shocked that he couldn’t speak. These bastards were preparing to sacrifice him to avoid Yang Chen getting the company’s real data.

Robin Iger: “Okay, the voting results are out; everyone agrees to meet Mr. Yang’s second requirement. Mr. Helter Roberts, I now formally inform you that you have been fired by the company and blacklisted, and no Disney-related company worldwide will hire you again. This decision will take effect immediately; please leave the video conference room.”

Helter Roberts angrily slammed the table and cursed at the camera: “You are all bastards, cowards, cowards! You actually succumbed to a racist; it’s really shameful! Especially some black shareholders, he discriminates against black people, but you help him deal with me; are you worthy of Martin Luther King?”

Robin Iger directly kicked Helter Roberts out and then said with a smile: “It’s much quieter this way, don’t you think?”

“Haha…” All the shareholders laughed together.

Robin Iger: “Mr. Yang, are you satisfied now?”

Yang Chen: “Well, I am very satisfied. I have invested in many foreign companies, such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, LVMH, etc. You can inquire about it. I never interfere with the management and operation of these companies. As long as I get dividends on time and don’t have any ideas about my shares, I won’t make things difficult for anyone. So, it’s the same here at Walt Disney. I only do pure financial investment and will not interfere with management and operation. Everyone can rest assured.”

Robin Iger breathed a sigh of relief and then said with a smile: “Very good.”

On the other side, after Roberts tried many times to enter the video conference room and was rejected, the anger in his heart completely exploded.

He picked up the things at hand and threw them and then called Gao Yuncheng.

Gao Yuncheng and Li Kaile were waiting nervously for Roberts’s call.

Gao Yuncheng: “Haha… Roberts’s call is coming; he must have convinced Disney headquarters to deal with Yang Chen.”

Li Kaile: “Haha… answer it quickly, answer it quickly; we have been waiting until now for this good news.”

Gao Yuncheng cleared his throat and said pretentiously, “Hello, Mr. Roberts, may I ask your company’s headquarters…”

Before Gao Yuncheng could finish his words, Roberts directly cursed: “F*ck! Shut up! I was killed by you!”

The smile on Gao Yuncheng’s face disappeared visibly, and he asked cautiously: “Mr. Roberts, what happened? Is your headquarters unwilling to help?”

Roberts: “Yang Chen actually acquired 20% of Walt Disney’s shares, and he proposed to fire me at the shareholders meeting and never hire me again. I am no longer a Disney employee, and I have become an unemployed vagrant!”

Gao Yuncheng: “Ah? How could this happen? Is he… is he crazy? In order to deal with you, he actually acquired 20% of Disney’s shares? I’m shocked; Disney, with a market value of 150 billion US dollars, he said he would acquire 20%, and he acquired 20%?”

Roberts: “F*ck! God knows how he has so much money! It had nothing to do with me; it’s all because of you. You made me lose my job; you have to compensate me!”

Gao Yuncheng is a very realistic person. When Roberts was the American president of Disney, he would indeed curry favor with him.

Now that Roberts has been fired, what is he?

Gao Yuncheng: “F*ck you, f*ck you, f*ck you! F*ck you! Shut the hell up; if you dare to scold me again, I will destroy you! You have been fired by Disney; this is Dragon Country Shanghai; you are getting carried away with me; you are tired of living! I tell you, return the things I gave you intact. Otherwise, don’t think about leaving Shanghai safely!”

Roberts: “You… what do you mean? Are you crossing the river and tearing down the bridge [abandoning someone after they’ve served their purpose]?”

Gao Yuncheng: “You didn’t even let me cross the river; what are you talking about crossing the river and tearing down the bridge? Return the things quickly, or I will call the police!”

Roberts: “You are ruthless! Come and get it; I will return it all to you!”

Hanging up the phone, Gao Yuncheng and Li Kaile were both unhappy.

The two of them knew that Yang Chen was very rich, but they never thought that Yang Chen would spend 30 billion US dollars as he said, without even doing an inspection, and bought it directly.

Li Kaile: “As expected of Boss Yang, he is fighting fiercely with Wall Street, and he can still spend 30 billion US dollars at will. I’m convinced, completely convinced!”

Gao Yuncheng: “Who can not be desperate to have such an opponent! I’m also convinced; let’s admit it.”

The two of them tried everything they could, but they still couldn’t do anything about Yang Chen, so they could only obediently admit defeat.

It’s just a pity for Roberts; he lost his job for a gift of one million.

In the end, he had to send back this one million gift, a big tragic character.

At the same time, Starlight Investment and the alliance of ten companies shorted by Wall Street released an anti-short report, explaining and refuting the reasons for the Wall Street Alliance’s short selling one by one.

For example, the Wall Street Alliance believes that Oriental Education Group is trapped by national policies and has lost most of its education and training business, and the newly added live broadcast business is restricted by the platform and is very unstable.

The anti-short report jointly released by Starlight Investment and Oriental Education Group stated that Yang Chen is the second-largest shareholder of Oriental Education Group and Douyin [TikTok] and Alphabet Dancing Company, and he can ensure that the traffic of Oriental Education Group on Douyin is always stable.

As for the education and training business, it has indeed lost some, but with the benefits of live streaming, it is completely no less than the profitability of the previous heyday.

Therefore, the company’s stock price is very reasonable.

In addition to specifically refuting Wall Street’s short-selling reasons, each report clearly stated at the end that Yang Chen would take out real money to buy the stocks of these companies and use practical actions to prove his optimism about these companies.

At the same time, the long-treasured “Unlucky Card” was finally used by Yang Chen. Yang Chen used it on the Lion Fund. From now on, this investment bank will be unlucky until it goes bankrupt and liquidated.

After the short-selling report was sent out, Starlight Investment began to attack the short sellers and smashed in more than 30 billion US dollars in one breath to pull these stocks back.

This operation stunned the Wall Street Alliance. Yang Chen is just relying on his money to be unreasonable, right?

The leader of the Wall Street short-selling alliance, Lion Fund President Phil Tass, quickly contacted other investment bank executives to hold a meeting to study countermeasures.

Phil Tass: “I didn’t expect Yang Chen to be so determined. He really took out hundreds of billions of US dollars to sweep the goods and forcibly pulled the stock prices of these companies back. It seems that he has decided to fight us to the end, and our short selling is almost likely to fail. Does anyone have anything to say?”

Everyone expressed their opinions.

“According to the current situation, it is indeed very unfavorable to us. We may really fail.”

“Alas… If he is determined to use real money to backstop, our short-selling plan will indeed fail. This is not a guess, but a fact.”

“We have prepared for more than two months, and we have done everything we can. Now it is indeed this situation, which is really disappointing. If it really doesn’t work… let’s end the short-selling plan and admit defeat.”

…

A sad atmosphere permeated the air, and everyone was in a bad mood.

Admitting the failure of short selling is not only to lose some of the money for short selling, but what makes them even more uncomfortable is that they have lost face this time. People all over the world will know that their dozen or so companies joined forces and were defeated by Yang Chen.

Seeing that everyone was very sad, Phil Tass quickly threw out the argument that they would never lose.

“Everyone, don’t be like this. Didn’t we discuss it before? Even if the short selling fails, as long as we can attract Yang Chen’s funds to the United States, we can freeze his money and let him have no return. Whether he can save the stock prices of those companies or not, he is destined to be a loser.”

Everyone nodded, and now they can only comfort themselves like this.

At this time, the secretary rushed in and said: “Mr. Phil Tass, something big has happened. The vice president thinks that you have limited ability and should not continue to be the president. He demands to impeach you and step down, and he will take over as the company’s president.”

Phil Tass asked in shock: “What’s going on? Why did he suddenly do this?”

Secretary: “I don’t know; he just did it.”

At this time, Vice President Quentin Rivers came in with his loyal employees.

“Mr. Phil Tass, you led so many companies to short Dragon concept stocks, but you were counter-killed by Yang Chen alone. The facts prove that your ability is limited, and you should give way to the virtuous!” Quentin Rivers said triumphantly.

Phil Tass: “Mr. Rivers, do you know what you are talking about? You said let me step down, and I will step down? Who do you think you are?”

Quentin Rivers: “I am speaking to you on behalf of all shareholders and employees. So many employees who support me have come today. You have to step down even if you don’t want to!”

Phil Tass: “Why do you have to do this?”

Quentin Rivers couldn’t say why; he just felt that there was a voice in his heart guiding him on what to do, and the ultimate goal was for the Lion Fund to go bankrupt and liquidate.