Lyna couldn’t help but squint her eyes at him as she wondered if he was crazy. Why is he counting his eggs before they hatch? Have I just wasted a large sum of money?
When George saw Lyna’s doubtful gaze and the unpleasant look on her face, he quickly knew what was going through her mind. Why do people doubt geniuses nowadays?
Smiling insidiously, he walked toward Lyna and showed her the accounts. “These are where we will strike. Of course, you must make the necessary preparations beforehand.”
Lyna sat up straight and looked at where George was pointing. After that, she looked at him suspiciously and asked, “What sort of preparations?”
At that moment, George’s arrogant expression turned serious.
He explained, “You have to prepare a huge sum of capital to accumulate the shares of this company. After that, you should dump them in the market to create panic. What you want is to alarm the company’s employees and their partners. So that they will start doubting the company’s abilities to continue any type of collaboration.”
Lyna nodded thoughtfully at his plan. Mmm-hmm, that sounds good.
Once the morale of Fabian’s employees was broken, it would be a lot easier to carry out other initiatives. Realizing that, Lyna motioned George to continue explaining.
George chuckled silently. Do you finally believe that I’m a genius now?
“After that, you will break the company apart from within. I’m sure the people you have are not there for show. Through them, you will gain control of some of the employees and get them to set the plan in motion.”
He added, “At the same time, you can send men to sabotage their production floor. Once the supply lines have been cut, the wheels of the company’s economy will stop turning. When that happens, the time will be ripe to steal their partners away from them.
“Based on my observations, they have many industries that are linked with prominent figures who have no patience for them to get their act back together.” “By then, you can use the opportunity to negotiate with these prominent figures and steal Fabian’s contracts away from him. Furthermore, this company will be so overwhelmed by compensation claims for contract breaches that it will be paralyzed,” George concluded as he narrowed his eyes.
At first impression, Lyna was convinced by the plan. But, the more she thought about it, the more unrealistic she thought it was. In reality, the Phoenix Group was a lot more resilient against bankruptcy than George had made it out to be. Furthermore, they had five billion of liquidity which could be deployed to rescue ten to twenty companies, let alone a single one.
Moreover, the Phoenix Group was a massive conglomerate. Not only were they involved in light and heavy industries, but also film production and logistics companies too. To sabotage their operations, am I to assassinate actors and truck drivers too? If that happens, Fabian won’t be the one getting in trouble.
Holding that thought, Lyna asked George with a solemn expression, “Are you oversimplifying the matter? How can the Phoenix Group go bust so easily?”
“No, this was all but a summary. That’s why you’d think it’s simple. Are you concerned about their huge liquidity?”
George looked at Lyna and explained, “You don’t have to worry about that. As long as you give me five hundred million, I’m confident of burning away their five billion in reserves by attacking their stocks.”
Is he joking? How is it possible that he can cause them to lose five billion with only five hundred million? If you really are that good, shouldn’t we just crash their stock prices instead of going through all the trouble?
Lyna asked doubtfully, “Oh? How are you going to do that?”
George smiled as he laid out his plan in detail. While he was analyzing Fabian’s financial statements, he was conceiving his plan at the same time until everything fell into place. Of course, there were still some kinks to be ironed out, but George didn’t feel that they would pose any problems at all.
