Lynch didn't want to know whether the senator was brave or not, nor did it matter if he knew or not.
It was impossible for him not to understand that the senator had been controlling him for so long, and now that he suddenly relented, it must have something to do with the increased orders.
The military had won a war and gained the title of "The World's Most Powerful Navy", and now the military's strength and influence were limitlessly expanding.
Someone calculated that five years ago, the entire military's annual military budget was less than a few hundred million, and the Congress rejected more than 60% of the military's budget.
The reason was that they didn't want to cause an international confrontation, and they thought that the Federation's military's increasing strength would only make international friends uneasy, so they rejected most of the budget requests.
This year, just the navy's budget, after the review and approval, had already exceeded one billion, which showed that the military's "strength" in all aspects was rapidly expanding.
Today, the military would stop the military from getting what they desperately wanted, and tomorrow, the military intelligence would begin to search for the senator's black material.
Indeed, the Federation's law did not allow any investigation of an official in office. If someone was familiar with this law, there must be only one "area" in it.
This law could only restrict law enforcement agencies, such as the Federation's Investigation Bureau, the Federation's Police Department, the Federation's Safety Committee, the Federation's Department of Homeland Security, the Federation's Tax Bureau, and so on.
The military intelligence and the Federation's Army and Federation's Navy's Internal Investigation Department were not included in this law.
Under normal circumstances, the military would not take the initiative to investigate any official, because it was not necessary, and it was not worthwhile.
But it was not that they couldn't do it, and this was very important. They could do it, but there was no need to do it, and it was not that they couldn't do it.
Once the military intelligence believed that the senator had a very serious impact on national security, they could directly investigate the senator.
In the end, they might find out that this was a "false alarm", but in the process of this investigation, they would accidentally find some other problems, such as official crimes, or abuse of power.
These two crimes might be a joke in some countries, such as Gevra, but in the Federation, they were enough to make a senator lose his power.
In any case, the senator often dealt with the military, so he must know these, otherwise, he wouldn't be so eager to curry favor — before the truth was revealed.
This was also the reason why Lynch didn't directly give him any substantial benefits and only gave him a piece of information. This was what he wanted to express.
"If you want benefits, take a gamble!"
When the senator returned home and thought about all the gains and losses, the CEO was in torment, moving forward second by second.
To him, time was like a saw that was cutting his soul. Every second was a back and forth pull, and his soul was about to split open.
His assets were shrinking at every moment. What was even more frightening was that some shareholders had told him that someone had contacted those shareholders in private, intending to buy a portion of their shares.
At the same time, his personal advisor also told him that there were some abnormal transactions in the stock market recently.
A large number of stocks were swallowed up by some scattered investors. Although these people wanted to pretend that this was a normal trading phenomenon, it itself was against the financial laws.
In other words, someone was trying to acquire a certain number of shares at once by purchasing non-tradable and tradable shares. Then, they would launch an acquisition war at every moment.
The acquisition of capital had always been a very unusual thing. It wasn't as simple as some people who didn't know much about stocks but thought they knew everything.
Acquisition was very complicated. It involved a lot of things, and the most important thing was capital.
If the market value of a listed company was one billion yuan, then to acquire the company, one had to prepare at least 1.3 billion yuan. This was the minimum.
Generally, analysts would tell those who tried to do this — you have to prepare two billion yuan, and you have to face a certain possibility of failure.
The reason why the premium was so high was that most listed companies had something called a "repurchase clause".
This clause was already written in the contract when the shareholders first joined the company.
When the company faced a hostile acquisition, the company's board of directors had the right to purchase the shares in the hands of the shareholders at a price higher than the market price.
This price was previously agreed upon by everyone. There was also an unspoken rule, which was that it should not be lower than 30%.
When a company with a market value of one billion yuan faced a hostile acquisition, they had to take out 130% of the tradable and non-tradable shares to recover the shares. Therefore, if one wanted to acquire the company by force, they had to have at least 130% of the market value.
Many people saw the profits every moment and every year, and their eyes were red, but there was nothing they could do.
These Maliroans knew how the Federation played the capital game. Before the Federation could react, they had already settled the composition of the board of directors.
There were people from the Federation's local investment organization, free investors from the Federation, and also investment from banks. Then, they divided the remaining shares into small portions and gave them to some puppets. It looked like everyone held a few percent of the shares, and the most was no more than 20%.
But in reality, about 40% to 50% was in the hands of the chairman. He was controlling everything behind the scenes!
In the past, people wanted to get involved, but they didn't have any good methods.
It was impossible for the Federation's small shareholders to sell their shares. This kind of high-quality company that could guarantee a profit every year was rare in the Federation.
So, they could only look at the stock market and buy 3% of the tradable shares before blowing the horn of the acquisition war.
But the market value was too high. Once the shareholders knew that someone was going to start a hostile acquisition, there was no need for the chairman to persuade the shareholders to raise the share price. The shareholders would take the initiative to raise the share price.
Hundreds of millions of tradable shares, in the end, they might have to spend more than twice the amount to get it. Even if they got it, they wouldn't be a major shareholder. After entering the board of directors, they would have to go through a round of share dilution and re-listing.
In other words, they might spend 700 to 800 million or even a billion to buy less than 20% of the shares. They might seem like a major shareholder, but they would still be controlled by the Maliroans.
Although people were envious, they could only be envious.
But the situation was different now.
Lynch's press conference became the horn to launch an all-out attack. When the share price plummeted, capital once again smelled the sweetness of blood. They surrounded every moment and would pounce on a piece of flesh from time to time.
Now, they wanted the shareholders to spontaneously raise the share price?
They only hated that their shares didn't have two legs. They hated that they sold too slowly. If they sold too high, others wouldn't want them. How could they be in the mood to help launch a defensive war at every moment?
In the beginning, they didn't notice this problem at all because they were always taking small bites from multiple accounts. According to the Federation's financial laws, if an account bought up to 3% of the total capital stock, it would have to submit information to all parties.
Was this a normal investment or an acquisition?
If it was an acquisition, it was divided into a normal acquisition and a hostile acquisition.
The former required the company or individual holding the share account to sit down and talk about the acquisition at every moment. Finally, an announcement would be made to explain the situation.
If it was a hostile acquisition, then the Financial Management Association would activate the hostile acquisition regulations and monitor the operations of both parties to ensure that they didn't harm the interests of ordinary shareholders.
Hostile acquisitions were divided into several stages. Once it was launched, it couldn't be easily stopped. Otherwise, it would be investigated for the crime of "disrupting the order of the financial market".
It was precisely because of this that most of the time, in the early stages of the war between capitals, there wouldn't be too obvious a signal.
Before preparing for a hand-to-hand fight, they would always be patient and fully prepared.
A rapid increase in the number of shares exchanged was a signal. A large number of bites was also a signal. In order to discover this, someone had to be constantly monitoring and analyzing it.
When those people were almost done eating, they would transfer the shares from different accounts into one account. When it exceeded 3% or even 5%, they would directly launch an acquisition.
Combined with the frequent contact that the small shareholders in the company had with some people, there was no doubt that someone intended to swallow every moment in one go.
This was the weakest moment since the establishment of every moment!
Because the market value had shrunk substantially, the bank's credit rating had been lowered. They couldn't even borrow money from the bank!
Of course, this was normal. The bank would never lend money to those who urgently needed money because they couldn't afford the interest or the principal.
They would only lend money to those who didn't need money and could afford the interest and the principal.
Now that they were in trouble, the situation obviously wasn't like this. Even the part of the company that belonged to the bank's investment would turn from shares to debt!
The bank had long been used to turning the borrowed money into shares of the fast-growing company. When necessary, the shares would turn into debt. In any case, they would not lose money.
"Mr. President, the number of shares exchanged today has begun to drop. We don't have much time left."
The president looked very haggard and reeked of alcohol. "Why do you say that?"
The analyst pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose. "The drop in the number of shares exchanged means that the shares in circulation are beginning to decrease. Some of them have already entered the accounts of those people. Some may have also noticed the problem and began to choose to wait and see."
"Isn't this a good thing for us?"
He made a judgment with his brain that was no longer very flexible. This should be a good thing. At least those people wouldn't be able to buy many shares.
The analyst shook his head. "This means that it's almost time for our opponents to launch a general attack..."
"If you can't come up with a solution, we're likely to lose a lot of territory."
His words made the president sober up. He looked at the analyst and asked, "Then what should I do?"