Mikes looked at Zhou Liwen in confusion, not understanding why he was satisfied. Could it be because of his concessions? With his understanding of Zhou Liwen, he should not be able to do so.

Zhou Liwen smiled and said, "Are we friends?"

Seeing Mikes nodding in confusion in agreement, he said, "As a friend, I thank you for everything you have done for me, of course this is also business. However, I am an Oriental and have lived in China since I was a child. The way we Chinese make friends is somewhat different from that in the West, so we don't just look at the problem from a business perspective for our friends."

"I know a little about this. My home was near Chinatown. I have also watched your kung fu movies. You orientals pay attention to a special friendship, or call it Qi," said.

"Haha, it seems that you still know the Eastern culture very well." Zhou Liwen smiled and said, "Yes, Easterners value loyalty, and there is also a saying that is to put a knife on both sides of their friends..."

Before Zhou Liwen could finish his words, Mikes was startled and waved his hand and said, "No, no, no, this is really terrible. Punching the knife into both sides of the ribs is going to die." As he said that, he still gestured with both hands, his face full of fear.

Zhou Liwen was stunned and burst into laughter, laughing so hard that tears were almost falling.

"Mix, Mikes, this is a metaphor. Does the metaphor know?" Zhou Liwen laughed and shook his head repeatedly, and then continued: "A Eastern metaphor may not be able to understand the mystery, but as long as you know this meaning, you must have it. So, for your friend, I have decided to help you."

"Help me?" Before Mikes could come back to his senses from the horror shot of whether he really had a knife inserted into his ribs. When he heard this, his eyes lit up and he asked hurriedly: "Oh dear Bavc, have you changed your mind? Hahaha, I just said, you Orientals are loyal and can also stab yourself twice for your friends. God, this is a metaphor. I understand, but this metaphor is too terrible. But no matter what, I have to thank God, thank you Bavc..."

Mikes, who was so excited that he danced with joy, gave Zhou Liwen a hug. Zhou Liwen couldn't help but push him away, and stretched out his fingers in front of him: "No, no, Mikes, you misunderstood. I didn't change my mind. It was my decision to strip Alipay, and this will never change."

"But you just..." Mikes's body stiffened, and he looked at Zhou Liwen in disappointment.

"I said I would help my friend, but I didn't talk about Alipay." Zhou Liwen blinked at him and smiled: "You want to compete for the vice president. I can support you in this regard, and it can also help you get this position as you wish."

"This is impossible," Mikes shook his head in frustration and said, "Bavc, if you are a member of the board of directors, you may be able to help me, but you have not joined the board of directors, and your shareholding ratio will not affect the resolution of the board of directors. Unless you secretly..." Speaking of this, Mikes glanced at Zhou Liwen, thought for a while and shook his head, "This is impossible. As a senior director of the Finance Department, if you secretly absorbed Fuguo's shares and even reached the proportion of entering the board of directors, I would not know, then maybe there is only one answer..."

"What is it?" Zhou Liwen was a little curious about what he said, and couldn't help asking.

"Unless you are God, or the Son of God." Mikes muttered, and after saying that, he felt that this was inappropriate, so he quickly drew a cross on his chest to ask for God's forgiveness.

Looking at Mikes's magical look, Zhou Liwen was so amused and laughed. He didn't plan to keep him in a silence, and he just told his own way out.

"Mix, if I leave the listing of Shanghai Bank to you, how confident do you think you will be to compete for the position of vice president?"

"Shanghai Bank? Listed in the United States?" Mikes was stunned, then suddenly became energetic and asked quickly.

Seeing Zhou Liwen nodding and confirming, Mikes quickly began to calculate. The development of Shanghai Banking in recent years has been particularly rapid. As the leader of the banking industry, Wells Fargo has detailed data and survey reports on the top 106 banks in the world. Since the past few years, Shanghai Banking has squeezed into the top 60 banks, and its ranking has been rising every year. By the end of last year, Shanghai Banking had risen to 7 places, and the ranking of banks in Asia alone was as high as 6 places.

From the perspective of the entire bank's wealth, Shanghai Bank currently owns RMB 600 million, which does not include bank deposits and loans, which are converted into US dollars by nearly 100 billion. And most importantly, Shanghai Bank is not a listed company in China, only some of which are listed in Xiangjiang. From this point of view, it is very likely that it will be listed in the United States.

Although Zhou Liwen is not nominally the owner of Shanghai Bank, he is actually the big shot who controls the decision-making power of Shanghai Bank. This is not a secret in institutions like Wells Fargo, not to mention that Mikes had cooperated with Shanghai Bank through Zhou Liwen, including in the previous project of Zhou Liwen entrusting him to acquire the No. 1 National Bank of America, he knew the relationship between Zhou Liwen and Shanghai Bank.

In this way, if Zhou Liwen did not deceive himself and handed over the US listing of Shanghai Bank into his hands as a reward project, it would be a pie falling from the sky. Based on the current total capital of Shanghai Bank of China at US$10.6 billion, and by Wells Fargo, it would not be difficult to double its total capital after the raising and listing. Compared with this project, the listing of the Internet Group they talked about before would become a big deal. In addition, Zhou Liwen now takes the initiative to talk to him about this project, which means that he is not going to be undertaken by Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs on this project, but will leave it all to Mikes for handling.

"Of course, of course there is no problem Bavc, you are my angel, you are my lucky god." Mikes was so happy that he didn't know where to put it. He hugged Zhou Liwen with one hand. The strength almost made Zhou Liwenle so angry that he couldn't breathe.

"Bavc, thank you so much. Thank you very much. I finally know what it means to insert a knife on both sides of the ribs. I have to do this project and I have to give me some time. I will give you a detailed plan soon." At this time, how could Mikes sit still? He ran out like a thorn under his butt. He wanted to go back to his office and call on his hand to come up with a plan.

Seeing that he couldn't wait to run out, Zhou Liwen didn't call him anymore. He knew that Mikes was excited now. However, for Zhou Liwen, this was also what he had considered before. The time for Shanghai Bank to go public is ripe, and he, the big boss behind the scenes, can't always control Shanghai Bank, and one day he will come to the front desk. Now it's a good opportunity. At least Shanghai Bank has not been approved for domestic listing in recent years. The bank has long complained about this. Now it has been converted to US listing. I think the China Banking Regulatory Commission will not set too many obstacles. As long as the listing is successful, everything will be decided by the time the overall situation will be decided and can't be changed.
Chapter completed!