Chu Huan came to New York this time mainly to inspect the construction of the World Financial Center.

  As for the meeting of the North American armor warehouse, it was arranged by Chu Huan to be held in Los Angeles. At that time, the senior leaders of the global armor warehouse will gather there and report to Chu Huan about the industrial chain they are responsible for.

  After resting in the manor for two days, Chu Huan came to the location of the World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan. However, the World Financial Center here has not been completed yet, and it can even be said that construction has just begun.

  The person in charge of this project is Marshall Allman, the general manager of the investment department of the North American library.

  Marshall Allman was originally an investment consultant for Harris Bank, and was later dug into the North American library by David Maxwell.

   Together with Marshall Allman is Guan Yanbo, the leader of the third team of the investment department of the former Xiangjiang Jiaku head office.

  At the same time, this is also the first real estate project invested by North American Jiaku in North America, and this first real estate project has already reached the investment quota of 1.5 billion US dollars.

  Before, Chu Huan left an investment of 50 million U.S. dollars for the North American Athletic League. Now this fund has begun to be invested under the responsibility of David Maxwell, but it is not included in the investment of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars.

   "Chairman, look, this is Cesapelli's design pattern. According to the project progress, it can be fully completed in 80 years. By then, the entire World Financial Center will become a landmark building in Manhattan."

  Marshall Allman introduced the situation of the World Financial Center to Chu Huan.

  Cisapelli was born in Argentina and later immigrated to North America. In 1954, he obtained a master's degree in architecture from Tucumán University in North America. He is now the director of the Yale School of Architecture.

Originally, the design of the World Financial Center was to be handed over to Cao Yunzu, but there were too many things in Asia that Cao Yunzu had to do, so in the end Chu Huan decided after a conference call with David Maxwell that this matter Or take the form of public bidding to find designers in North America.

  Finally, Cesapelli's design proposal was successfully selected.

   There are four high-rise buildings in the entire World Financial Center, ranging in height from 33 floors to 50 floors.

From the design plan, it can be seen that the facade at the bottom of the building is made of granite, and the upper part is a large area of ​​glass curtain wall. There is a winter garden with a glass roof between the buildings. There are two small octagonal buildings along the street, forming a pair of entrances. gatehouse.

  At the beginning of the 20th century, the tops of many high-rise buildings in North America were shrunk, or made into various spire shapes.

Cisapelli's design is based on the gap between the two. The upper parts of several buildings are gradually shrinking, and the top is a shape as the end of the building. The top shapes of the four buildings are different, respectively hemispherical. Body, square cone, non-pointed square cone and stepped flat top.

  Using this design, it shows that the design idea of ​​the World Financial Center respects the past history and is innovative at the same time.

   Between Buildings 2 and 3 of the World Financial Center, the World Trade Center is connected by a pedestrian bridge called Winter Garden.

  Winter Garden covers an area of ​​4,200 square meters and is 10 stories above the ground. It is hollow to the top and has a glass structure.

  While listening to Marshall's introduction, Chu Huan set his sights on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center not far away. The incident should have little impact on the World Financial Center.

   Chu Huan thought this way.

   After inspecting the buildings of the World Financial Center, Chu Huan left and returned to his residence.

  Wu Shuhan saw that Chu Huan was back, so he said to Chu Huan: "Boss, just now David called and asked when we will go to Los Angeles?"

Alder Commercial Bank will be the core industry of the North American bank. Although it has begun to transfer its business to New York, it will have to wait until it is fully completed, and the World Financial Center will be completed. Where will it become Alder? The headquarters of Commerzbank is also the headquarters of the North American library.

  So the headquarters of Alder Commercial Bank is still in Los Angeles, and David Maxwell has always been in New York, and Los Angeles runs on both sides.

  Chu Huan said: "After I finish meeting with Jerry Kohlberg and the three of them!"

  Wu Shuhan nodded and said, "Then I will tell David your decision!"

   "Okay!" Chu Huan asked, "How is Xu Yi's preparations going?"

  Wu Shuhan said: "Arranging the handover work, I called President Xu earlier, and they will leave for Los Angeles in three days to participate in this year's Jiaku meeting!"

  Chu Huan said: "Then let's go to Los Angeles in three days!"

  Wu Shuhan continued: "Also, Dr. Armand Hammer, the chairman of Occidental Petroleum Company in North America, sent you an invitation through the North American armor library. I hope that when you go to Los Angeles, I want to invite you to dinner!"

  Hearing the name Armand Hammer, Chu Huan was slightly taken aback. It wasn't that this person was not well-known, but that this person was too famous.

  In the history of world business, Armand Hammer is a legendary figure.

  He was the first North American businessman to do business in the Soviet Union, and also the first foreign entrepreneur to enter China by special plane.

When the nascent Soviet Union was tightly sealed, this person dared to go to the Soviet Union and facilitated a barter transaction in which US$1 million in Soviet supplies was urgently exchanged for US$1 million in North American wheat, helping the Soviet Union to obtain urgently needed supplies, and he also made a fortune from it , everyone gets what they need.

  After that, he established contact with LN and other Soviet high-level officials and became the first foreigner in the Soviet Union to obtain mining rights, which opened the prelude to the barter trade between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Hammer obtained a license to produce pencils in the Soviet Union and established the largest pencil factory in the world on the outskirts of Moscow at that time. In 1926, its annual output of pencils was close to 100 million, and the number of pens soared to 95 million. Also exported to more than a dozen countries.

  In 1972, Hammer and the Soviet Union made a fertilizer business that lasted 20 years and totaled 20 billion US dollars, pushing the trade between the United States and the Soviet Union to its peak.

Of course, the main reason why Armand Hammer dared to do business with the Soviet Union so blatantly was because of his background. Armand Hammer was a North American Jewish, and his father, Julius Hammer, was a North American *One of the founders.

  However, this is not the reason why Armand Hammer is well-known to the people of the country. The most important thing is actually this person's dealings with Huaguo.

Next year, the old man will visit North America. Armand Hammer mixed into the dinner reception for the old man, successfully met with the old man, and then got the invitation of the old man to visit Huaguo. At that time, Armand Hammer directly took more than 20 experts there China, and signed preliminary agreements on oil exploration, coal mining, etc., and started an economic cooperation plan with China.

  His oil company bid to exploit Huaguo's offshore oil resources, and was the first North American company to obtain Huaguo's offshore oil exploration rights.

  In 1982, the oil company also cooperated with Huaguo in the Pingshuo Antaibao Open-pit Coal Mine Project in Jin Province.

   This is a businessman who has influence all over the world. Now he has passed the North American library, and he specially invited himself to dinner!

  Chu Huan figured out Adelman Hammer's intention almost instantly. Like Mitsui and Sumitomo, he also regarded himself as a springboard for him to get in touch with his hometown!

   But this incident did not make Chu Huan happy. If Aardman Hammer knew clearly about his relationship with his hometown, then the North American government must also know.

  Adelman Hammer can rely on his influence in North America to do business with the Soviet Union and China, but Chu Huan does not have this influence in North America.

   "Is there any problem with our business in North America?" Chu Huan asked Wu Shuhan directly.

  Wu Shuhan was slightly taken aback, unable to understand what Chu Huan meant, but still said: "When I contacted David before, I didn't hear that there was any problem!"

Chu Huan thought about it for a while, maybe it is still related to his own business, that's why it happened. After all, Chu Huan's business in North America did not involve the core field at this time, and the one that is a little sensitive should be Alder Commercial Bank with HBO too.

  But the influence of these two companies in North America is not too great, and it will be acceptable at that time.

   But this also reminded Chu Huan that he must pay attention to his business in North America in the future.

   It must not involve the core field, otherwise, according to the shameless personality of North American politicians, it is very likely that their business will be blocked!

   "Tell Aardman that when I arrive in Los Angeles, I will visit him in person!"

"OK!"

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Chu Huan invited three KKR partners, Jerry Kohlberg, Henry Clivey, and George Roberts, to his estate. All three of them brought their wives to participate, while Wu Shuhan was As the hostess, I received the six of them together with Chu Huan!

   "Huan, thank you very much for your support in the past two years, so that our KKR can quickly make a name on Wall Street and get the support of more private equity funds!"

  Jerry Kohlberg picked up his wine glass and said with a smile, because the dinner tonight cannot be called a business dinner, but more like a family dinner, so Jerry Kohlberg and others are also very relaxed.

Since KKR was established with the support of Chu Huan, this company has made great contributions to Chu Huan's business in North America, from the earliest green blackmail of listed companies in North America, to the acquisition of Ford Motor's stock, as well as various North American stock exchanges. Acquisitions, you can see the traces of KKR.

   Especially the acquisition of Ford Motor stock made KKR famous and became an upstart on Wall Street. Nowadays, many investors are willing to hand over part of their funds to KKR for management!

  Chu Huan said with a smile: "It's because you three are capable, otherwise, just my support, it would be difficult for KKR to have the current reputation!"

  Chu Huan is now not only a shareholder of KKR, but also a customer of KKR. The cooperation between the two parties can be said to have been very pleasant.

   "Huan, we have already prepared funds and are ready to take action against Shibaura. Why did we suddenly stop this short-selling plan later?"

  Henry Clivey sat there and asked Chu Huan curiously.

Before, Chu Huan forced the Mitsui consortium to bow to him, so he raised a sum of money and put it in KKR's account, planning to short Shibaura's stock price, but in the end Chu Huan called KKR and stopped this plan, but that At that time, Chu Huan's thoughts were all in Japan, so he didn't tell them the specific reason.

   Now that Chu Huan has come to Japan, they naturally want to ask about it. After all, if this plan is implemented normally, it will bring huge benefits to KKR!

  Chu Huan didn't explain the specific reason to them, and in fact there was no need for it, so he said with a smile: "The goal has been achieved, so there is no need for specific operations."

  Jerry Kohlberg and the three saw that Chu Huan didn't want to talk about this matter in detail, so they didn't ask too much.

  In addition, this fund has now returned to the account of Alder Commercial Bank. Chu Huan just put 50 million US dollars in KKR and asked it to help invest.

  Although Chu Huan now owns Alder Commercial Bank and also has his own investment projects, Chu Huan did not put all his eggs in Alder Commercial Bank.

   Diversified investment is king!

  Chu Huan’s current investment in North America can be divided into six parts, which are the North American Aku Investment Department, which is in charge of Marshall Allman.

   Alder Commercial Bank is under the charge of David Maxwell. In fact, because David Maxwell is also the general manager of the North American library, the investment in the North American library actually needs to be reviewed by David Maxwell.

KKR, Chu Huan has put 50 million US dollars in KKR to let Jerry Kohlberg and the three invest for themselves, but this company is not a controlling company, Chu Huan is actually the least concerned about this investment .

   This is the company responsible for investing in North America for Chu Huan on the bright side.

  In addition, Chu Huan also has Star Investment, which has already invested in Microsoft and Apple, Deep Sea Investment, which controls Vertex Pictures, and Beihai Investment, which has sniped the North American stock market!

   It's just that these three investment companies were established in a tax haven, so outsiders don't know the relationship between these three investment companies and Chu Huan.

  Especially Starry Sky Investment and Deep Sea Investment, on the bright side, no one knows the relationship between Chu Huan and them.

   In the future, Chu Huan will gradually cut off the frequent cooperation with KKR, and more acquisitions and strikes will be handed over to Alder Commercial Bank.

   It’s not that Chu Huan has any thoughts on KKR. The most important thing is that this company has the lowest degree of connection with Chu Huan. However, if it involves large-scale acquisitions in the future, it will still cooperate with KKR.

The dinner between Chu Huan and Jerry Kohlberg did not talk too much about work. After the dinner, Chu Huan sent the three of them away, lay on the sofa, and began to think about North America. things.

Before that, Chu Huan regarded Japan as his cash machine. In fact, Japan has also accomplished its mission well. However, after entering 78 years, the cash withdrawal attributes in North America will surpass Japan. At least that was the case in the late seventies, early eighties.

  After entering 78 years first, the depreciation of the dollar is already an unstoppable thing.

  "After the Fed announced the rate hike, did the stock markets in North America change?"

  Chu Huan lay on the sofa and asked Wu Shuhan.

   After entering 78 years, the Federal Reserve announced an interest rate hike, raising the discount rate from 6% to 6.5%. The purpose of the Fed's interest rate hike is to deal with the deteriorating exchange rate problem.

  Since October last year, the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar against major currencies has begun to depreciate, and the U.S. dollar index has fallen sharply.

  Wu Shuhan, who was sitting next to Chu Huan, found a document on the table, and then said: "After raising interest rates, the Federal Reserve announced to push up short-term interest rates in the market!

The depreciation of the U.S. dollar exchange rate has directly led to a decline in stock prices in North America. According to the financial report released by North America in February this year, the data show that the retail sales in North America in January experienced the largest decline in 13 years. At the same time, the growth rate of industrial production has also declined. The U.S. dollar The depreciation was superimposed. From the fourth quarter of 1977 to the first quarter of 1978, the economy declined, and the stock market continued to decline.

   By February 28 this year, the Dow Jones Industrial Index fell to 742 points, a drop of nearly 11% from the end of last year.

   On the 8th of this month, William Miller took office as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve. "

"It should have fallen to the bottom!" After listening to Wu Shuhan's report, Chu Huan said, "Notify Wu Xiaoshi to ask her to raise 500 million U.S. dollars, and then hand over the money to Xu Yi, and let her be responsible for the 100 million yuan. Leverage to buy Dow futures and sell them all when the Dow hits 845."

  According to Chu Huan's memory, the Dow Jones Industrial Index of 742 points is the lowest point in 78 years, and then the North American stock market will start to rise in April.

  The direct cause of the rise in North American stock markets was the rebound in the dollar exchange rate in April and May.

  After the sharp drop in the previous period, US stocks ushered in a sharp rise in April this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Index rose 10.6% in a single month in April.

   On May 10, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates further, raising the discount rate from 6.5% to 7.0%.

  At this time, the interest rate hike had little impact on the market, and the core variable that the market was concerned about was the exchange rate of the US dollar. In May 1978, the market continued to rise, and the Dow Jones Industrial Index reached 867 points on June 6, 1978.

   "Also remember to remind me, when I see David Maxwell, let him buy as much cash as possible from North America into Swiss francs, Japanese yen, German marks, British pounds and other currencies!"

  Chu Huan continued to preach to Wu Shuhan.

The rise in the stock market did not curb the continued depreciation of the US dollar. By October this year, the depreciation of the US dollar against other major currencies in the world had taken shape. During this period, the US dollar depreciated 36% against the Swiss franc, 33% against the Japanese yen, and The devaluation of the Deutsche Mark by 24% and by 16% against the pound was a severe currency shock for North America.

Although it seems that buying Swiss francs is the most profitable, for Chu Huan at this time, the ultimate benefit is no longer what he can pursue. According to the amount of cash in his hand, if he does this, it is very likely It will attract more people's attention, which is not a good thing for Chu Huan's development in North America.

   "By the way, not only David Maxwell, Chen Haichao, Kelly also needs to be reminded!"

   Chu Huan added.

  Wu Shuhan was somewhat puzzled by Chu Huan's two decisions. The rise of the North American stock market and the depreciation of the dollar are obviously two opposite directions, but Chu Huan operated at the same time.

   "Boss, do you want to do hedging to offset the loss in a certain aspect?"

  Wu Shuhan asked Chu Huan.

  Chu Huan didn't explain anything to Wu Shuhan, and said with a smile: "It can be understood in this way!"

   That is to say, Chu Huan has no time to stay in North America this year, otherwise, just the changes in the North American stock market could make Chu Huanhai a fortune.

  The Dow Jones Index will fall after reaching 867 points in June this year, and fall to 806 points in July, but by September, it will reach the peak of 908 points in the North American stock market this year.

   Throughout the 78 years, the stock market in North America showed a V-shaped trend, which is definitely the best time to invest.

  This year, Chu Huan’s small change in North America is actually basically invested in the stock market and foreign exchange. Waiting until next year will be another opportunity to make a fortune brought about by the oil crisis.

  Of course, Chu Huan will definitely not earn the last copper coin.

   "After the investment in the North American stock market this year is over, maybe I can buy some professional teams in North America!"

   Chu Huan thought this way in his heart.

  Although running is still the most popular sport in the world now, in a few years, when the popularity of television becomes higher and higher, other sports will start to show their prominence and replace running.

  The acquisition of professional teams in North America is also to prepare for the future development of Nike in addition to the NBA basketball team.

  Chu Huan once planned his retirement life in his spare time, that is, like Ballmer of the later Clippers, he would watch the opponent's game on his own team when he was free.

  Of course, this is only limited to the 1990s and 00s. After the 10s, Chu Huan must not be in this mood anymore.

   Is the NBA without physical collision still the NBA?

  Chu Huan definitely didn't think so.

However, the four major leagues in North America are still very regional. Basically every big city has its own team from the four major leagues. If you want to buy a team from the four major leagues, you will naturally need to be in a city. Bought.

  For Chu Huan, there are actually two choices, one is New York!

New York is the economic center of North America. Although the New York Knicks are basically a mid-tier team in the NBA in later generations, it is undeniable that the New York Knicks have the highest market value among NBA teams regardless of the fact that they are backed by the metropolis of New York. Whether it's the Lakers at their peak or the Warriors as a rising star, there is actually no way to compare with the New York Knicks!

  The other one is the Lakers!

  In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Lakers had Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In the millennium, they had the OK combination. Forget it, anyway, they didn’t pay attention to the NBA at that time.

   It can be said that the Lakers have always been the trendsetters in the NBA.

  As for the Chicago Bulls, although they have the basketball **** Michael Jordan, it is only 1978, and there are still 6 years before Jordan enters the NBA.

   To be honest, Jordan means more to Chu Huan than a basketball team. After all, the NBA can be divided into two eras, and this dividing line began in the year Jordan joined the NBA!

  Before Jordan joined the NBA, the NBA was just a sports league that could only have a certain influence in North America, but after Jordan, the NBA has become a sports league that has attracted worldwide attention.

  Of course, this is Jordan's influence on the NBA. It doesn't matter if it is Chu Huan. What Chu Huan values ​​is Jordan's influence in the business field.

   Before signing Jordan, Nike was only a slightly famous sports brand, but after signing Jordan, Nike became the world's number one sports brand!

   Such commercial influence is unique in the entire history of sports.

   Let me give you the simplest example. In the late 90s and early 2000s, in the rural areas of China, you may not know who Michael Jordan is, but you have definitely seen children wearing the Chicago Bulls No. 23 jersey.

   "Shu Han, do you prefer New York or Los Angeles?"

  Chu Huan withdrew his thoughts, and then asked Wu Shuhan.

  Wu Shuhan thought for a while, and said: "Maybe it's Los Angeles, life there should be more comfortable!"

  Chu Huan thought for a while, nodded, and said: "After arriving in Los Angeles, remind me to ask David Maxwell to ask about the teams in the four major leagues in Los Angeles!"

Since Chu Huan didn’t think about it, and the people around him prefer the life in Los Angeles, then he bought the Los Angeles Lakers. Anyway, the professional league teams at this time are really worthless, so he probably bought all the teams from the four major leagues in Los Angeles. It doesn't cost $100 million either.

  But the market value brought in the future will definitely exceed tens of billions--US dollars!

   "Okay!" Wu Shuhan asked: "Boss, do you want to enter the North American sports field?"

  Chu Huan nodded slightly, and said that he wanted to borrow the influence of the four major leagues in North America and increase Nike's influence in North America and even the world.

  Wu Shuhan nodded after listening, and said: "Then do you still do what you said about buying a football team?"

  Chu Huan said with a smile: "Of course we did, but we can wait until we go to Europe!"

  Although Chu Huan prefers basketball to football, it is undeniable that football will be the number one sport in the world and the sport with the most fans in the next few decades.

  Since this is the reason, Chu Huan will naturally not give up this opportunity.

   At that time, HBO, Nike, and professional league teams in North America, if Chu Huan can acquire one or two TV stations in Europe in the future, then a complete sports kingdom will soon be formed.

   At that time, in the entire sports field, Chu Huan will also become the well-deserved No. 1 in the world!

  Wu Shuhan said: "Okay, then when we go to Europe this year, I will remind you of this matter."

  Chu Huan has too many things to pay attention to now. Without the help of Wu Shuhan and the entire Jiaku Secretary Department, Chu Huan will forget to deal with many things, and the losses caused may be goals that others cannot achieve in a lifetime!

   "Yeah!" Chu Huan nodded slightly, and then said with a smile, "Okay, let's have a good rest for a day, and then go to Los Angeles!"