Back at the manor, William continued to transform the manor's defense system, but he went home to hide in peace. The outside world was in an uproar because of today's news.
The happiest were all the Chelsea fans. The construction and transformation of the new and old stadium and training base of 500 million pounds was a large sum of money that had never been seen in this era. The money could buy the entire Arsenal and still have some left over.
And once the new stadium and training base were built, Chelsea's fixed assets would immediately become the first of all the British teams. Therefore, when all the Chelsea fans in London heard the news, they were as ecstatic as when the team won the championship and showed off everywhere.
Some people were happy, but of course, some people were unhappy. The other London Premier League teams and fans were almost crazy with envy.
The second-tier Chelsea for decades had a change of boss and had the momentum of becoming a powerhouse. How could people tolerate it? Since they could not tolerate it, they could only fight back.
For a time, the London fans were full of gunpowder. Many football fans began to gather in the Fulham area. It looked like the Chelsea fans would start a fight if they had nothing better to do. The London police were on guard and immediately arrested anyone who behaved excessively.
Lena was anxious when this happened. She was in a bad mood when she went home for dinner in the evening. On the one hand, Lena did not want this to affect the team's reputation. On the other hand, it was a matter of face. No one could stand being blocked at the door by the football fans of other teams.
William was upset when he saw that his mother could not eat. If he was upset, then others would not have it easy.
He instructed Sunday to investigate and did not expect to find a lot of black material. He thought it was just the fans and other teams looking for trouble, but it turned out that the whole thing was caused by the three major London construction groups.
When William handed over the project to China's construction group, the three biggest construction companies in London who had received the news early on and were waiting to eat the meat were the most unhappy.
Now that the meat was eaten by others, and they were not even given a chance to compete, the three construction companies were annoyed. This time, they secretly instigated the football fans to cause trouble was only the first step. Several companies joined forces to let William know what it meant to be a local bully and a tiger sitting on the ground.
The next day, just as he was preparing to lobby some of his acquaintances, several companies involved in the card project had yet to take action. News of the falsification of the financial reports reported by these three companies to the relevant departments, as well as the sharp drop of 35% to 60% year-on-year in the first ten months of this year.
Not only that, when the stock market opened this morning, a large amount of funds from outside the United Kingdom entered the London futures market and shorted the shares of these three companies. This could be considered as hitting the weak spots of these companies. During the stock market crash, the companies' profits were not good, and now they were being attacked.
In one day, the shares of the three companies plunged by an average of 15%.
Anyone with a discerning eye would know who the mastermind behind today's newspaper was. They would know that the attack on the three construction companies must have been done by William.
Now, not to mention finding trouble with William, it was hard to say if they could even get through this.
On the third day, the situation became more and more unfavorable for the three companies. Suddenly, more people came to visit William and Lena in the Devonshire manor.
William didn't even have to think to know that these people were all here to plead for mercy. But everyone knew that if you didn't kill the snake, it would bite you back.
If he didn't destroy these companies this time, would he wait for them to recover and retaliate against him? And in just two or three days of shorting the shares of these three companies, William's account at the Swiss Bank of Bastia had increased by nearly 220 million pounds.
And now the news had spread. Even if William stopped, other institutions that had joined in the shorting would not agree to it.
What would not let go were the other construction companies with the idea of dismembering these three companies. Even the big construction groups outside the United Kingdom began to want a piece of the pie. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to dismember and swallow their peers. They would be idiots to let it go.
If they didn't push the shares of the three construction companies to the lowest price, squeeze out the last cent of profit, and then wantonly eat the meat and trample on their opponents, these people would never stop.
By the second week, the people who shorted the shares and their peers who wanted to dismember these construction companies had formed an alliance of interests. On one hand, they wantonly suppressed the share price, and on the other hand, they lobbied the relevant departments to start investigating the financial fraud.
Everyone kicks a man who is down, and the whole world is waiting for you to be unlucky. And when they act together, it's useless to struggle. So although these construction companies had been looking for connections, banks, and white gloves to support them, the effect was very limited.
Even some banks that had suffered heavy losses in the stock market crash began to have ideas about them. Now, even if God came, he wouldn't be able to stop these guys who were eager to eat meat.
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At 2 pm in the afternoon in the Devonshire manor, William was receiving a visit from the West Temple's Duke Min Grosvenor.
In the past ten days, except for the first few days, lobbyists from the three construction companies came to the manor to visit William. After they were rejected by William and understood that William had no intention of reconciling, no one came.
After a few days of leisure, except for the late Grosvenor, William had received several groups of guests since this morning. They were all here for the futures contracts in William's hands.
As long as these futures contracts were in his hands, the chances of dismembering those construction companies would greatly increase. So, William wasn't in a hurry to hoard these rare goods.
Grosvenor, who had been sitting for almost an hour, put down his teacup and said helplessly, "You're so relaxed. You threw a lighter and a knife on the pile of firewood and didn't care about anything else.
Waiting for someone to pick up the lighter, help you ignite the fire, help you dismember the prey, help you roast those construction companies, and in the end, when the barbecue is done, they still have to spend money to buy the rights in your hands. "
"Haha, what rights? If you want the futures contracts, just say it. I didn't sell them to the previous people because I was waiting for you to come. Seeing that we have a good working relationship, as long as the price is right, I'll sell them to you first."
Grosvenor shook his head, "I don't have that big of an appetite, and I don't have that much money. The futures contracts in your hands are now worth no less than 600 million pounds, right?"
William chuckled, "I won't hide it from you. The combined volume of these three companies is less than 7 billion pounds. Excluding the contract from the beginning, after the scandal broke out, I don't even have a chance to enter again. So, the contracts in my hands are only worth 540 million pounds."
"540 million?" Grosvenor couldn't help but ponder. Although there was no expression on his face, William could clearly feel Grosvenor's disappointment. 540 million pounds was much less than he had expected. "Tell me, what do you want? As long as I have it and can give it to you, I'll give it to you."
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