"I didn't know it earlier than you did, but I can say for sure that this incident will have a great impact on the outcome of the meeting..."
"Your Highness, from what I understand, you have a good relationship with the eldest daughter of the TP family, um, the 'young genius investor', Miss Ivanta."
Barron's relationship with Ivanta will be kept secret from the public, but John Bogle is not surprised to know about it. He just won't admit it explicitly:
"I do have some business cooperation with Ms. TP, which is not fundamentally different from my cooperation with Vanguard Group. Just like I can't influence your decision, don't you think so, Mr. Bogle?"
"But we know that Miss Ivanta met with David Smith two days ago. At that time, the news that IC Capital would join the Sinclair Group's board of directors had not yet been made public. Now it seems that her intentions are worth pondering."
"Mr. Bogle, no matter what, the interests of the Vanguard Group in the Sinclair Group will not be harmed. It's just a question of whether we can get more benefits. I told John Smith that I will stand on the side of the winner. I believe you think so too. But who will be the winner?"
Barron no longer wanted to play guessing games with Bogle, the old fox:
"I can only say that no matter what, we still have friendship with each other. Under this premise, I would not object to your acquisition of SEM Group's shares... As for the outcome of the Sinclair Group's board meeting, I wish us good luck."
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This was the message Barron gave to Vanguard Group before this.
As for Ivanta's question...
It is also easy to understand. As Barron said, no matter what the outcome of the board meeting is, Vanguard Group's interests will not be greatly harmed unless they choose to stand on the side of the loser.
That was why, after noticing the emergence of the variable IC Capital, and with Ivanta following Barron's suggestion and requesting a final vote, Vanguard Group was unsure whether John Smith's proposal could get a majority vote at that moment - the choices of IC Capital and DS Capital were no longer under their control - so the safest option was to abstain.
Although they will not stand on the side of the winners, at least they will not stand on the side of the losers, which is the safest option.
When the Vanguard Group made its choice, the choices made by Amber Sheehan and Ivanta, who represented DS Capital, were finalized.
This result is good for Barron's. DS Capital can choose to abstain. Although it has temporarily given up on John Smith, it has not completely stood on the side of David Smith. It can be considered neutral.
It also allowed John Smith to retain hope of a comeback - provided he was willing to show enough sincerity.
"Dear, then shall we proceed as planned?"
"Yes."
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After hanging up the phone, Barron continued to read the plan for the new capital of Kolo that he hadn't finished reading before...
Yes, the Kolo government has announced their new capital plan before, and they will move the country's main administrative departments from Loti to the central city of Blita within the next three years.
In fact, Kolo has long had the idea of moving the capital, but it was difficult to promote it due to historical reasons.
The first is that Loti's location is not suitable to be the capital of a country.
Because Loti is not only a coastal city, it is almost right next to the border between Kolo and its neighboring country Ghana...
There is a saying that a shell fired from Ghana can hit the presidential palace in Kolo, which is only one kilometer away from the border, and their parliament building is only two kilometers away from the border.
The reason why Barron helped the Kolo Liberation Front to successfully launch a coup was also because of the geographical location of the capital, Loti...
There are historical reasons for this situation. In the earliest times, the entire Klo region was a German colony.
They landed from the sea, chose Loti to build a port and focused on its development.
After Germany's defeat in World War I, the Cologne region was divided between Britain and France.
Among them, the relatively rich western Kolo region belonged to Britain and was incorporated into the Ghana colony.
Loti and the relatively poor eastern Colo region were ceded to France and became French Colo.
Because Loti had been run by the Germans for many years and was the largest city there, it was made the capital of French Colo by the French.
After World War II, the independence movement in Africa emerged, and the two sides gained independence from Britain and France respectively, and they became the present-day Ghana and Kolo.
Another reason is that after years of development, as the original capital of Kolo, Loti has gathered a large population.
The entire population of Kolo is less than 7 million, 2 million of which are located in the city of Loti.
Now in the whole country of Kolo, the economy is strong in the south and weak in the north. To be precise, it is concentrated in the coastal area centered on Loti.
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Other areas, especially those to the north of the central province long occupied by the "rebels", are mainly agricultural and extremely poor.
On the one hand, although Loti has a large population, its layout is disorganized and not conducive to replanning in the short term.
On the other hand, the Kolo government also hopes to increase the development of areas outside the Maritime Province.
Thus, moving the capital and relocating the government's administrative functions to the interior of Kolo would be a good move.
Of course, the main reason why this measure can be truly implemented is that the Kolo government has money...
With the increasingly full development of offshore oil fields, and with oil prices now on the rise, the Kolo government has received generous special taxes on oil extraction, as well as high profit sharing from the Kolo Oil Company. This has enabled the Kolo government to implement the policy of relocating the capital and building a new city.
Their new capital was chosen to be Britta in the central province, which was originally just a small town. Next, large-scale construction will begin there, and within three years, most of Loti's capital functions will be transferred there.
Prior to this, Golden Africa Real Estate Group had taken the lead in purchasing more than 40% of the land in Brittany, and will also be the real estate company that benefits the most from the construction of the new capital.
Another project, the Jupiter Building, built by Golden Africa Real Estate Group, is a 25-story "residential building" that will become Barron's residence in Colo.
In addition, they will also start building commercial areas, office buildings and mid- to high-end residential areas in Brittany.
It is worth mentioning that after the construction plan of the new capital, Britta, is announced, the main artery running through the north and south of Kolo, the Loti-Dalton Expressway and the Loti-Dalton Railway, will first build the section from Loti to Britta to speed up the connection between the new capital and the largest city.