Chapter 1351: Chapter 462: California’s Changing Landscape (Part 2)
As for who will be the new chairman of the Italian Bank... According to the deliberations of the Italian Bank board, it’s decided that a formal election for the new chairman will be held in a week.
This decision, when sent back to Wall Street, naturally led to the stock price of the two major listed banks under the Italian Bank dropping again. Although they’ve already guessed that the election being a week away is to wait for the Treasury Department and the White House to sign the decree on the nationwide networking of commercial banks.
This is also to allow Amadei Giannini to fully sell off his stocks in the Italian Bank.
The new holder, naturally, will be either Morgan or Breton.
As the founder of the Italian Bank, Amadei Giannini led it from scratch to become the largest commercial bank in California. Actually, everyone believes in Amadei Giannini’s ability. As for Morgan and Breton, even though they are strong, whether they can smoothly take over the Italian Bank or will split its business after the takeover, all these remain unknown. Hence, everyone is willing to abandon Italian Bank’s stock now.
Just at this time, there were still people outside taking over the Italian Bank stocks!
For Amadei Giannini, losing the Italian Bank has already become an unavoidable matter.
It is under such circumstances that Donnie Block arrived at the hospital where Amadei Giannini was.
When Crea Gianini saw Donnie, his eyes immediately widened in anger, staring furiously at Donnie. If it weren’t for Donnie, their family might not necessarily have lost!
"You’re not welcome here, please leave!"
Crea Gianini said coldly.
Donnie didn’t mind Crea Gianini’s attitude. As the victor, he had his own demeanor, and calmly said, "I believe your father wouldn’t want me to leave at this moment!"
Crea Gianini still wanted to say something more, when Amadei Giannini, who had not been awake for long, spoke weakly, stopping Crea Gianini’s next words.
"Crea, bring a chair for Mr. Block!"
"Father!" Crea Gianini shouted, unable to accept it.
"Do as I say!" Amadei Giannini insisted.
After a moment of silence, Crea Gianini still went to bring a chair for Donnie Block, placing it by his father’s bedside.
Donnie sat down and said with concern, "Mr. Giannini, no matter what, the Giani Family needs you. You mustn’t have any mishaps!"
Crea Gianini stood on the other side of Amadei Giannini’s bed, glaring angrily at Donnie, thinking he was being hypocritical.
"Thank you, Mr. Block, for your concern. I’m still able to endure with this body; there won’t be any major issues!"
Donnie nodded and said, "That’s good."
Amadei Giannini then turned to Crea Gianini and said, "Crea, apologize to Mr. Block for your attitude earlier. This matter has nothing to do with personal grudges. If it were us in Mr. Block’s position, we would do the same!"
"Father!" Crea Gianini couldn’t understand, even at this moment, why his father would say such words.
"Are you disobeying my orders?" Amadei Giannini raised his voice, but it also affected his condition, causing him to cough several times, turning his cheeks red with exertion.
Seeing this, Crea Gianini hurriedly tended to his father. When Amadei Giannini’s cough subsided, faced with Amadei Giannini’s stern gaze, Crea Gianini finally bowed his head and apologized to Donnie.
Donnie nodded slightly, acknowledging Crea Gianini’s apology, then spoke to Amadei Giannini: "Since that’s the case, I presume Mr. Giannini is also willing to relinquish his shares in the Italian Bank?"
"You..." Crea Gianini’s previous apology was merely due to his father’s authority and not his true feelings. So hearing that Donnie was still intending to make his father abandon his shares in the Italian Bank, this infuriated Crea Gianini.
"A loss is a loss. Now that there’s no chance of a comeback, the only option is to admit defeat gracefully. Holding onto those shares is just making a fool of oneself!"
The words made Amadei Giannini look even older.
But he was indeed willing to give up now.
Donnie nodded and said, "Then tomorrow I’ll have the lawyer come over for you to sign the agreement, Mr. Giannini!"
Amadei Giannini nodded and said, "No problem, I’ll wait for your lawyer here!"
Donnie stood up, preparing to leave.
"Mr. Block, can you answer two questions of mine?"
Amadei Giannini called out to Donnie.
Donnie turned back to look at Amadei Giannini lying in bed, then sat back on the chair again and said, "Of course."
"The first question, if we hadn’t allied with the Rothschild family back then, and had instead opted to cooperate with you first, Mr. Block, would the result today have been different?"
Amadei Giannini asked weakly.
Donnie pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps not!"
Amadei Giannini continued to ask, "The second question, Mr. Block, can you tell me how you convinced the San Francisco Freedom Bank?"
This issue had been perplexing Amadei Giannini. According to normal expectations, when they and the Los Angeles National Bank controlled by the Rothschilds were both competing for the San Francisco Freedom Bank, it caused those in the San Francisco Freedom Bank to inflate their demands. With Breton Bank involved now, they should have driven up their asking price, even more, yet they silently sold themselves to Breton Bank?