Growth-type Super Rich-Chapter 477 - 298: King of the World (Part 2)
This time, no one could compete with Lee Boo-jin for the position of president. With the collective vote of overseas joint directors and company headquarters executives, plus 166 subsidiaries, she passed with nearly 80% of the vote.
Lee Boo-jin’s rise formally announced the change of leadership in the vast Samsung Group.
However, apart from a few individuals like Lee Kun-hee who were aware of the true owner behind Samsung Group, regular people still believed it was controlled by the Li Clan.
This was not only something Gu Bai was pleased to see, but also Lee Kun-hee’s last wish.
A few minutes later, Gu Bai, dressed in a custom Chinese-style Zhongshan suit, stepped onto the stage of the press conference.
He formally announced the commencement of the Black Swan Energy’s mass production plan and decided to recruit global agents. The three-hour press conference left all the Western high-tech giants fully convinced.
Everyone understood that the era of constraining Hua Country’s high-tech development was over. The 2.0 energy era initiated by Black Swan Energy Company had officially commenced.
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In September 2018, Black Swan Energy was valued at over 600 billion USD, and it signed a 20-year agency agreement with the Morgan Clan and the Rockefeller Clan from the Beautiful Country. The agreement involved more than 100 billion USD in capital flow, and Gu Bai also became the new World’s Richest Man by personally controlling 80% of Black Swan Energy’s assets. Although the 600 billion USD was just a valuation, Forbes Magazine made an exception for the first time by including valuation in asset calculations. Gu Bai officially reached the pinnacle of world wealth with 526.5 billion USD in September 2018, becoming the world’s first post-90s billionaire.
In November 2018, the joint-venture film "Divine Tomb" with a total investment of over 800 million USD by Hua Country and Hollywood was officially announced to start filming. Hua Country Black Swan Entertainment’s artist Hu Ge played the main character "Chen Dong" and Black Swan Entertainment’s artist Di Li Ruo Ba played the leading female "Tantai Xuan." This film, destined to be noteworthy in the film industry, generated unprecedented anticipation among film enthusiasts worldwide just in its casting phase.
Especially the designated leading actors, Hu Ge and Di Li Ruo Ba, saw their worth soar, becoming the hottest actors in Hua Country’s film industry.
In December 2018, Gu Bai’s club achieved a flawless victory at Goryeo Incheon, winning the S8 World Championship, marking the end of the LCK’s supremacy by WE. WE’s third generation ascended to the divine platform.
In December 2018, while Gu Bai was honored as the World’s Richest Man, his Reputation Value remained stuck at around 2.5 billion. Although he had limited reputation in Europe, in the same month, at the invitation of the Grosvenor Clan, he went to the Eagle Country to attend the Queen of the Eagle Country’s coronation anniversary.
And through the introduction of the Grosvenor Clan, he began the acquisition of the Premier League giant "Manchester United."
Manchester United is one of the most successful clubs in the history of English football and one of the most influential and successful teams in Europe and the world. The club has won 20 top-flight league titles, 11 FA Cups, and 4 League Cups (excluding the League Cup, these are all records). In European competitions, Manchester United has won 3 UEFA Champions League titles, 1 European Cup Winners’ Cup, and 1 European Super Cup.
Hupu, September 25, 2018, reported: Manchester United released their 2018 financial year report. By June 30, 2018, the club’s operating profit for the previous 12 months was 44.1 million Pound Sterling, while its net debt had grown from 213.1 million to 253.7 million Pound Sterling.
As a result, Gu Bai spent more than 2 billion USD through premium methods to formally privatize "Manchester United" and delisted it in the same month.
January 5, 2019.
At Manchester United’s home stadium, "Dream Theater," Old Trafford, a wave of resistance surged, with over 50,000 people protesting the privatization of Manchester United. The streets were filled with banners saying "World’s Richest Man, please leave Manchester United alone." In the eyes of fans, these capitalists do not understand football, treating it merely as a toy for their amusement.
Years ago, Chelsea also faced similar resistance throughout the Eagle Country from all football fans, when Russian oligarch Ah Bu came, opening the era of gold football in the Premier League. Unexpectedly, Gu Bai went even further this time, completing the privatization of "Manchester United," blatantly placing gold football on the table.
But despite this large-scale resistance, neither the Manchester government nor Gu Bai made any statements on official sites.
However, with the official announcement from Serie A powerhouse Juventus and a brief introduction from Manchester United’s official website.
"C Luo’s journey home has commenced." 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
All Manchester United fans simultaneously abandoned their resistance.
Gu Bai brought C Luo back to Manchester United from Juventus for 150 million Euro, where just six months earlier C Luo had joined Juventus for 100 million Euro. In less than half a year, C Luo’s value surged another 50 million Euro. Compared to Juventus’s 500,000 Euro weekly salary, Manchester United offered a 600,000 Euro weekly salary, a price few footballers could refuse.
But C Luo joining was only the prelude.
In the winter break of the four major leagues, with Gu Bai’s privatized club, Manchester United, lavishly spending, they poached De Gea, Alves, Varane, Ramos, Marcelo, Modric, Kante, Hazard, Messi, Mbappe, and other top players from the 2018 FIFA Best XI. Apart from Messi and a few others who refused due to special reasons, most succumbed to the allure of money.
After all, no football club had a world’s richest man’s backing behind them who could resist Gu Bai’s powerful poaching.
Following Real Madrid’s Galaxy Battleship, Barça’s Dream Team, and Chelsea’s peak lineup, Manchester United, with the heritage of a traditional giant and backing of Gu Bai, the world’s richest man, set sail anew.
In April 2019, Gu Bai, with a Reputation Value reaching 3 billion, formally gained the inheritance rights to the Future Foundation. And led by the Grosvenor Clan, the "Gu-Windsor Clan Joint Foundation" was officially established with the Eagle Country’s royal family.
Gu Bai invested 100 billion USD to hold 75% of the Foundation’s equity, while the Windsor Clan entrusted all their existing enterprises to the Foundation, affiliating it under the Future Foundation.
Eventually, at the Eagle Country’s coronation ceremony, Gu Bai was awarded the Order of the Garter, becoming the first foreign prince outside of the royal family.
After becoming a prince of the Eagle Country, Gu Bai’s reputation peaked again and was ranked as the most powerful youth globally in the Forbes Magazine 2019 list of the top 100 influential young individuals.
Among them, Gu Bai, at the age of 22, topped the list of influential young individuals, while the youngest among the other 99 individuals was already 32 years old.
In October 2019, rumors about Gu Bai spread, inciting widespread passion among domestic netizens to collectively boycott Gu Bai. Ultimately, over 1,000 entrepreneurs from Hua Country joined forces on social media, and with Gu Bai’s donation of over 160 billion RMB to hope schools for millions of impoverished students, the boycott gradually subsided.
In May 2020, the Black Swan Group acquired four major Hollywood firms: MGM, Paramount, Warner, and Universal Pictures, and announced its listing, becoming the world’s first company to integrate the global entertainment industry, with a market capitalization of 1.245 trillion USD and Gu Bai’s assets surpassing 1 trillion USD.
In August 2021, Black Swan Energy announced the successful research and development of controlled nuclear fusion and took advantage of this momentum to announce its listing, with its market value exceeding 4 trillion USD, becoming the undisputed king of the world. Due to Black Swan Energy and Black Swan Group headquartered in Shanghai, global finance once again leaned towards the East.
By 2025, Samsung Group’s market value exceeded 1 trillion USD, revealing Gu Bai’s role as Samsung Group’s highest director, officially marking Goryeo’s entry into the Samsung era. Because of Gu Bai, most enterprises in Goryeo began to abandon listing in the Beautiful Country, opting instead for listing in Hua Country, thereby officially ending the Western-dominated economy for decades and marking Hua Country’s official economic dominance in the world.
The same year, through an interview with Forbes Magazine, it was revealed that the Future Foundation had actual funds exceeding 10 trillion USD from Gu Bai, making him the world’s first billionaire to have personal wealth over 10 trillion USD. Additionally, the industry derived from companies such as Black Swan Group, Black Swan Energy, and Samsung Group allowed them to be collectively known as the "Gu-White System."
In 2030, Gu Bai announced the handover of Black Swan Group, Black Swan Energy, and other publicly listed companies to the control of the Future Foundation, and in the same year, the "era where the Western economy was dominant formally ended" with Hua Country officially leading the world economy.
In the 13 years since obtaining the system, Gu Bai ascended to the throne as the King of the World.
(The end)
