"Hello, this is Mr. Landrini's assistant's office!"
"Please connect me to Gilbert. Tell him this is George Soros."
"Alright, please wait a moment…"
Before long, the call was put through.
"Hello."
George Soros did not waste words. "I'll be direct, Gilbert. We're holding a gathering in Los Angeles the day after tomorrow, and I hope you can attend."
On the other end of the line, Gilbert was puzzled. "Oh? Why should I attend?"
"Because you are an American. In the face of the loss of national wealth and hostile forces, every American citizen should offer ideas and effort. You are no exception."
"Is that so?" Gilbert was unmoved by the big hat being placed on him. "When people are thinking about the money in my pocket, I'm no longer an American.
"If I really am an American, then may I ask why someone is trying to snatch my wealth from my hands?"
George Soros was used to being domineering and replied bluntly, "Wealth must be shared, otherwise the road becomes narrow."
"Then why is everyone coming to share my wealth, but no one is letting me share theirs?"
"As long as you enter the circle, there will naturally be sharing."
"Sorry, I'm personally rather selfish and don't want to share with others."
With that, Gilbert hung up the phone.
George Soros was stunned for a moment, not expecting Gilbert to be so decisive.
In this financial crisis, Wall Street suffered heavy losses, and countless fortunes evaporated out of thin air. Fortunately, a major Eastern power took over U.S. debt; otherwise, Wall Street might have collapsed completely.
Although this financial crisis was not on the scale of the Great Depression of 1929, it still caused global wealth to shrink significantly.
Yet some people seized this opportunity and made a killing during the crisis, stuffing all kinds of high-quality assets into their pockets.
The one who ate the fattest, without a doubt, was Gilbert, who had long been prepared.
Gilbert's movements naturally could not escape Wall Street and the financial groups behind it. Wall Street and those conglomerates also suffered considerable losses this time, but they could still absorb wealth from all over the world.
And Gilbert, as a blood bag, was naturally among those to be absorbed.
However, earlier attempts by certain people not only failed but instead alerted Gilbert, causing the carrot-and-stick tactic to fall through.
But in fact, that did not matter. Anyone sensible knew how convenient it was to become one of their own.
Things like young women were merely fringe benefits. The real advantages were resources, information, intelligence, and so on. These were all shared internally, and anyone interested could participate.
But Gilbert seemed unaware of these implicit rules, acting entirely on his own, and nothing much happened to him.
As a result, centered around him, a group of people quickly united, becoming a major headache for Wall Street, the financial conglomerates, and the medical-industrial complex.
At this point, there were only two paths. One was to continue trying to recruit him. The other was to destroy him completely.
But the first path had failed, as it was clear he did not want to play along. The second path would break the rules. Mutual predation always had a bottom line.
Once methods including, but not limited to, physical elimination were used, it would mean crossing that bottom line.
Once that bottom line was crossed, it meant acting without restraint. When the bottom line was broken, there was no bottom line left.
This was also why Gilbert could act so boldly and still live just fine. No one dared to give him a "suicide" with eight shots in the back, nor dared to let him drown by accident.
In the end, conventional methods were used: smearing him through public opinion, restricting him through legislation in Washington, and manipulating the stock market to shrink his wealth.
Then the economic crisis happened. Everyone was too busy taking care of themselves, while Gilbert instead grew stronger.
In recent years, many influential figures supported by New Silicon Valley capital were spread across both the Red and Blue factions, making legislation through Washington not very effective.
As for media attacks, Gilbert was not just a director, but also a media tycoon.
Fighting a public opinion war with him left everyone evenly matched. If Gilbert were to release explosive revelations again, although no one really cared about the opinions of the lower classes, who were all expendable,
it would still not look good on the surface and would also shock allied nations.
That was why George Soros made this phone call. With his status, he hoped Gilbert would realize:
We have already given you enough face. Stop being reserved and quickly join our big family of benefits!
The person may have been chosen correctly, but the method was wrong.
George Soros was extremely domineering. His commanding tone made Gilbert very uncomfortable. But even if his tone had been sincere, Gilbert would not have joined.
Gilbert stated that he liked fair-skinned, beautiful women with long legs. As for loving lolitas, he really could not bring himself to like that.
Don't look at the fact that Scarlett had followed Gilbert since she was five years old until now. At the beginning, Gilbert truly had no such thoughts and only intended to raise a future star-like little sister.
As for Scarlett later becoming someone in his bed, it could only be said that men are men. Moreover, Gilbert waited until Scarlett became an adult. He did not love her during her loli period.
In recent years, through Mr. Smith, Gilbert indeed held a great deal of explosive material, involving many political and business elites.
It could be said that if these things were leaked, although it would not lead to the destruction of the world, it would still cause a major upheaval.
And once Gilbert decided to release the list, he would definitely manipulate the media to blow the matter up, and would not allow such filthy matters to be turned from major issues into minor ones.
This conversation ended unhappily. George Soros then informed the other decision-makers of Gilbert's attitude.
"So, he is unwilling to come?"
"I think so. His attitude was very firm."
Someone from the Rockefeller family said, "I said it long ago. This is an ambitious person. He would never be willing to be a subordinate."
"So what do you suggest we do?" someone from the Morgan family asked.
"In my opinion, find someone to take him out." The Rockefeller representative made a throat-cutting gesture.
"No, absolutely not." The Morgan representative objected. "That would break the bottom line."
"But can you tolerate this person remaining active?" the Rockefeller representative countered. "He has been jumping around for so long. If others see him, won't they take him as a role model?"
What the Rockefeller representative said did make sense, but most people did not agree with directly using violence. Everyone still hoped to use financial means to annex Gilbert's industries.
"How is the investigation into Gilbert's financial strength progressing?"
"It's already out. It includes several Silicon Valley companies, as well as the high-quality assets he has been frantically acquiring recently. Preliminary estimates show that his personal wealth has already surpassed Bill Gates, making him the new richest man in the world."
"A new richest man in the world, yet not in our camp. Gentlemen, this is unacceptable. If he does not join, then he must be dismantled."
But when it came to how to dismantle him, everyone fell silent.
In the past, the methods used to strike external financial groups were basically to stir up regional conflicts and then trigger wars. That way, wealth would flow back, and each side would reap huge gains.
But this was the United States. They could not very well start a war here, could they? Using financial means and public opinion methods was also unreliable. The operators of Silicon Valley capital were not one bit weaker than Wall Street's veteran traders.
Although several financial groups had jointly been suppressing stock prices, several companies under Gilbert still delivered decent financial reports even during the financial crisis.
They did control the market, that was true, but the market was made up of people.
People's thoughts could not be controlled, even if they possessed wealth across the seas.
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