Chapter 900: 896. Three Proposals (Seeking Subscriptions and Monthly Tickets)

Seeing that almost everyone had arrived, Aosituo did not waste a single word and directly laid out the entire situation.

Finally, he said, "That is how things stand. There are two problems that need to be solved urgently: first, we must stabilize Zhang Ran; second, we must find the three oil paintings that Zhang Ran lost."

Some people fell silent after hearing Aosituo's words; they all realized that if this matter was not handled well, it would bring enormous trouble to the Swiss Bank.

"Why did such a thing happen? The company's management..." A director's eyes flickered, wanting to take the opportunity to attack.

After all, they were not all of one mind here.

But before he could finish his sentence, he was directly interrupted by Aosituo, "Now is not the time to investigate these things, and how long have I been in office? I can guarantee that this matter absolutely could not have happened during my tenure.

You can find someone else to hold accountable when the time comes, instead of trying to pin the blame on me here."

Aosituo was also quite blunt; he was a rather strong-willed person to begin with, otherwise he would not have directly rejected the cooperation proposed by Zhang Ran back when he was at home.

That director was blocked by him and was instantly unable to speak.

"What everyone needs to do now is to discuss and reach a conclusion. Zhang Ran only gave us two days—no, to be precise, one and a half days.

If it is not handled well, then who can persuade Zhang Ran? In any case, I have no friendship with him at all, and regarding this matter, I have no way to deal with it," Aosituo said directly.

At this moment, he looked at those shareholders, wanting to hear from them that one of them would take on the task of resolving this matter.

But he had thought too much; even if some people knew Zhang Ran, they also knew Zhang Ran's character.

Wanting to resolve the matter satisfactorily was not that simple.

"Sigh, I had long heard that Zhang Ran and the Rhode Family were at each other's throats; I didn't expect the matter to actually involve us now," someone couldn't help but say.

But there was no help for it; although the Swiss Bank was not afraid of these two parties, there was no need to offend them.

Yet the current situation was that they had to offend one of them.

Relatively speaking, in fact, neither Zhang Ran nor the Rhode Family feared the Swiss Bank.

Especially on Zhang Ran's side, his foundation was entirely in Huaxia, and the Swiss Bank in Huaxia could only be said to be barely holding on; it was completely impossible for them to intervene in anything.

The Sida Hang were the leaders of banking in Huaxia, and no matter how great the reputation of the Swiss Bank was, it was not enough to be seen in front of the Sida Hang.

And Zhang Ran's relationship with the Sida Hang had always been very good.

Therefore, no matter what, Zhang Ran did not need to look at the Swiss Bank's face.

"Are there no other ways?" someone asked.

"I have no other ways. You can think about it, but I can guarantee that Zhang Ran is now determined to do this.

Once we do not agree to his conditions, he will definitely expose it," Aosituo said without hesitation.

Although he was also extremely annoyed with Zhang Ran at this moment, there were some things he still needed to say.

Otherwise, if he didn't say everything or misled these people because of some of his words, then in the end, he would be the one to suffer.

No matter how good his relationship with the Rhode Family was, it was not to the extent of sacrificing his own future to work for them.

The crowd was speechless; at this moment, they didn't know what kind of reaction to have either.

It was truly because the time given by Zhang Ran was too urgent, and this move of Zhang Ran's had caught them off guard.

Now they hated the person who stole Zhang Ran's things to death; this had brought them losses far exceeding the value of those items.

One hundred million dollars in bearer bonds, even including interest, was just so-so to them.

As for the three oil paintings, although their value was high, in total, one hundred million plus dollars was the ceiling.

That is to say, they would lose more than two hundred million dollars on this matter.

Although this money was a lot, they didn't take it to heart right now.

It must be said that many things depend on the environment.

If this matter were in normal times, losing more than two hundred million dollars for no reason would have caused many people to explode.

Their money didn't come from a strong wind; it was earned through hard work, and losing so much money at once was something they were unwilling to see.

But now, if they could resolve this matter, let alone two hundred million dollars, even if it were doubled, they would be willing to give it away.

"Do you have any ideas on your end?" someone asked.

Aosituo took a deep breath and said, "The best thing would be to persuade Zhang Ran. Of course, in my opinion, such hope is very slim; Zhang Ran has made up his mind to force us to compromise.

Another way is to let Zhang Ran give us more time—if nothing else, at least a month or more—so that we don't offend the Rhode Family to death."

Finally, Aosituo's eyes flickered as he said, "Of course, there is another way, and that is to lend money to the Rhode Family to buy back these bonds."

Once these words were spoken, everyone stopped talking.

Persuade Zhang Ran?

Judging from the current situation, it was very, very difficult.

More time?

If it were possible to have more time, Zhang Ran wouldn't be in such a hurry.

As for the third option, although it was a decent method, there were many risks involved.

It would be fine in normal times; the Rhode Family's credit and capital would not be a problem.

But now........

"As far as I know, the Rhode Family no longer has much capital. Just two days ago, the South Africa Development Bank already made the Rhode Family redeem their Oil Bond.

And although the Rhode Family filled the capital gap, they also drained almost all of their funds.

Now I estimate that apart from leaving some money for company operations, they don't have much left," someone said.

The meaning of these words was very simple: the risk of lending money was too great.

Especially now that Zhang Ran was keeping his eyes on the Rhode Family, no one knew what the final situation of the Rhode Family would be.

No one would truly underestimate Zhang Ran, especially people like them.

If nothing else, Zhang Ran's cash flow was truly massive.

Another point was that many of the industries under Zhang Ran's name had extreme potential; if Zhang Ran were to say he was using some of his industries as collateral, he could borrow a huge sum of money in minutes, and no bank would refuse.

"Then what do you mean we should do?" Aosituo asked directly.

That person stopped speaking again; he also found it difficult to make a decision on this matter, but looking at this appearance of Aosituo, he could not help but say: "Since you were chosen to be the CEO, do you really have no way to handle it at all? Does everything need to rely on us?"