Blackstone Code Chapter 1156: Lunch

"I owe you a favor!"

Hidden in the manor in the dense forest, Mr. Patou raised the wine glass in his hand, and there was a smile that was rarely seen on his face.

He and Lynch clink glasses, then each take a sip.

Only the two of them and a housekeeper exist for the quiet open-air lunch, the others are far away.

"Try this..." Mr. Patou asked the butler to deliver a steak to Lynch.

The butler brought the steak from the cooking cart in front of the distant cook, steak, dipping sauce, and some pickled cucumbers, looking appetizing.

"Looks great!" Lynch, waiting for the butler to stabilize the steak, picked up a knife and fork and cut another piece.

The steak is very tender.

It's not tender that isn't fully cooked, it's tender that's cooked.

Knives and forks do their job with little hindrance.

Looking at the steak poked on the fork, it has a beautiful texture and looks bright, but it is actually slightly higher in fat, plus some special methods are used in the marinating process to ensure that its taste.

This steak comes from a very special breed, top-quality ingredients specially prepared for the upper class, and it's not cheap.

This carefully selected beef, even if it is fully cooked, does not feel dry or hard to bite.

The fat between the muscle fibers is now translucent, and even if it has not been put in the mouth, you can already imagine the special mellow and delicious taste of butter.

Dip a little sauce and put it in the mouth. The melt-in-your-mouth feeling made Lynch nodded in satisfaction.

Real tenderness is different from some people in the world who pursue tenderness, do not seek methods in ingredients and techniques, but manipulate tenderness in cooking.

Steak, or beef, is graded, and there are many grades, ranging from grades unfit for human consumption to beef that doesn't appear in the store right now.

If the beef is divided into ten grades, the beef used for feed is grade one, and what Lynch eats is grade ten, then most ordinary families eat beef of grade three to four.

Second grade is the kind of ground beef that is often used to make mincemeat and make patties.

Whether a person is rich or poor, there will be a desire for enjoyment, and the pursuit of food is one of them.

In order to allow ordinary consumers to enjoy the taste of high-grade beef, some restaurants are starting to fry the steak not as thoroughly as in the past, but medium-rare.

This ensures that when the low-grade beef is delivered to the guests, it can be easily cut and eaten, and the taste of this high-grade steak is still there.

This is the wrong approach, and it shouldn't have been born, but... ordinary people don't feel much about it.

When ordinary families make steak at home, whether it is fried or grilled, it is well done.

Only when they eat steak at a restaurant, they use undercooked, which gives them the illusion that the steak they're eating is premium.

This approach can indeed bring a new wave of sales to the restaurant, but it can also have some unintended consequences.

But...well, the world is just like that, and there are always some unexpected changes.

Lynch swallowed the beef in his mouth and added a small piece of pickled cucumber. The beef was too tender and a little fat, and it was a bit greasy to eat. At this time, it was very suitable to eat some pickled cucumbers.

"It's delicious!" Lynch commented.

Mr. Patou kept a slight smile on his face, "I like this beef so much that I bought a ranch for it, and if you like it, I can have someone send you some regularly."

Lynch did not refuse. At the level of both of them, regular delivery of ingredients is not even a "little favor", it is just an attitude.

Seeing that Lynch had no objection, Mr. Patou picked up a towel, wiped his hands, and lit a cigarette, "Do you know Mr. Wycliffe?"

Lynch also put down his knife and fork. He took a sip of wine and shook his head, "I'm sorry, I haven't heard of this man, what does he do?"

"A...", Mr. Patou thought for a moment about what word would be better to describe this person, and for a few seconds, "...crazy speculator!"

"He does anything, as long as the rate of return is high enough..."

Later in Mr. Patou's introduction, Lynch gradually got to know a little bit about this Mr. Wycliffe, who is more like a rogue speculator.

His obsession with wealth and returns has made him quite famous in certain circles. He is famous not for how accurate his investments are, or for how impressive his investments are, but for the way he does things.

"He likes to anger other people, and then pass his losses on to others. It's good that the business he is eyeing makes money, but if he loses money, it often makes things very troublesome."

Mr. Patou shook his head slightly, "The private island of the Charlie brothers and sisters was burned down. He did it."

"He's searching the world for the Charlie brothers..."

Lynch probably understood what Mr. Patou meant, "You think he's going to trouble me?"

Mr. Patou nodded cautiously, "I don't think he will definitely trouble you."

"I heard that this time he found a lot of connections and borrowed a lot of money and cash, and was about to make a fortune, but it all fell into his hands."

"He has gone to trouble with the Charlie brothers and sisters. I think it is very difficult for him to recover the losses. Some people say that he has lost nearly three hundred million, of which only about one-tenth is his own, and the rest are He got it from somewhere else."

"He is now dragging the pressure of the funder while trying to find a way to collect the money. Before the whereabouts of the Charlie brothers and sisters are exposed, there are very few people who can make up for his loss."

Mr. Patou's meaning has been very obvious. Now there may be only a few people who want to collect a large amount of cash in a short period of time. Lynch is one of them.

The fact that there are no "secrets" in the Commonwealth, it may not be long before things will come to light about Lynch's role in the whole thing.

He could easily be seen as the culprit of his own losses by this Mr. Wycliffe, a rogue tycoon who is not a capitalist in the traditional sense.

He linked terror and capital, forming a new form of "terrorist capital", or "violent capital".

In order to recover the loss, he will definitely try to find a way to trouble Lynch. Mr. Patou has a good relationship with Lynch now, and he feels it is necessary to remind him.

Lynch smiled after hearing this, "He had better not have such thoughts."

This small "reminder" ended here, and Mr. Patou took a deep breath, "How is Anna, I haven't seen her for a while, I heard she's very busy."

Lynch nodded, "I gave her all the things about the light of tomorrow. It can be said to be a kind of exercise for her. Of course, I can also be lazy."

Mr. Patou nodded, "I've heard about Rising Light Investment Company. Your investment company is different from other investment companies. It already has the prototype of a consortium, but it is not completely the same as ours. Same..."

A traditional consortium, or a traditional investment company, is like a magnet. The amount of capital it has is equal to how much attractive it has.

Ultimately its purpose is to control more companies and form a tight monopoly in which every subsidiary is part of it.

Unless necessary, it will not be easily divided.

But Lynch's investment company is different. No subsidiary is inseparable to it. As long as there is enough interest, it can invest in the subsidiary, push the subsidiary to go public and then sell the subsidiary.

Or directly split and package.

Anyway, as long as it can make money, it will do it, and it doesn't look like... as solid as a traditional investment firm.

Once you hold a company's shares, you will always hold it, no matter how it operates, as long as there is no huge trouble that will affect the parent company, it will not easily abandon these subsidiaries.

These subsidiaries firmly grasp the soil like a root system, block the invasion of the enemy, and then try their best to provide nutrients for the upper-level companies. This is the composition of traditional consortia.

Traditional consortia actually prefer the real industry, which is also to strengthen the monopoly or control of the industry.

Subsidiaries can form a complementary relationship with the parent company or other subsidiaries in business, thereby forming an ecological circle.

For example, a consortium such as Xingmengdie, their main business is the operation and development of mineral resources, so they have their own smelters, their own transportation systems, and their own rough processing plants.

This has formed an industrial ecological chain, building upstream and downstream industries around some core industries, which is more inclined to production.

The investment company formed by Lynch is different. It is more inclined to the operation of capital and pure financial operation. It seems that it does not have such a heavy precipitation, but in fact it also sheds the heaviest burden.

For example, with the development and progress of society and the recovery of the economy, workers' wages will become more and more heavy expenses for enterprises in the future.

And the R&D costs of innovative companies, etc., etc., these will be heavy expenses.

Tomorrow's Light now does not have more connections with these companies, and when a company cannot provide benefits for Tomorrow's Light, it will be ruthlessly abandoned.

There is not so much warmth in the world of capital~IndoMTL.com~ This is bound to be a trend of future development.

This is not to say that the industry is not good enough. On the contrary, it is very necessary and valuable for a large group company to have an excellent and stable industry as a foundation.

In the final analysis, the core of capital is to pursue more profits. Lynch will completely separate the industry and capital. The advantage of doing this is that if there is a need, there is a "middleman" of Tomorrow Light Investment Company, which can be very good. to link these companies together.

If it is not necessary, or if some accidents happen, both the Tomorrow Light Investment Company and the subsidiaries invested by it can quickly cut off the connection between each other.

It's more changeable, more flexible, and more indifferent!

When people talk about the consortium chaired by Mr. Patou, many of the affiliates associated with the group of companies may come to mind.

But when people talk about Lynch and his investment company, the only thing that is impressed is this company!