Chapter 12 1985 Full of Opportunities

Since Liao Chengde listened to Zhong Shi's words, he bought the shares of "Cheung Kong Industrial" in a big way. Since Li Ka-shing bought the controlling stake in "Hong Kong Electric Company" in 1984, the whole of Hong Kong began to pay attention to this black-rimmed glasses. People look at each other with admiration.

  Compared with the veteran Bao family and Huo family, the self-made Li Ka-shing is more recognized by Hong Kong people, and he made two moves to take the company owned by the British under his banner, which makes Hong Kong people feel proud.

  Hong Kong people began to discuss who is the richest man in Hong Kong, the veteran tycoon Pao Yu-kang and the up-and-coming Li Ka-shing. With the current fierce momentum of "Cheung Kong Enterprises", it is only a matter of time before Li Ka-shing takes the seat of the richest man.

  The "Cheung Kong Enterprises" purchased by Liao Chengde increased by as much as 20% in just a few months. This achievement made him ecstatic, and he became more and more obedient to Zhong Shiyan.

  So as soon as he received a call from Zhong Shi, he immediately called his broker and began to check foreign exchange futures without stopping. Liao Chengde has no idea what futures are, but this does not prevent him from believing Zhong Shi's words, especially when he has made so much money.

   As for the yen futures mentioned by Zhong Shi, Liao Chengde also vaguely understands that this kid wants to do something in the RB market. Before entering the stock market, Liao Chengde also supplemented his economic knowledge. He knew that RB's economy has grown rapidly in recent years, and its GDP is close to half that of the United States, making it the number one economic power in Asia.

What Liao Chengde didn’t know was that at that time, RB implemented an export-driven policy, and the entire western capital world was flooded with RB manufacturing. In 1980, RB’s cars exported to the United States accounted for 21% of the U.S. car sales that year. The semiconductors manufactured by RB , has reached more than 10% in the US market.

Many RB companies have surpassed their counterparts in Europe and the United States in all aspects. For example, Steinway in the piano industry cannot compare with RB's Yamaha piano at all; Only purchased part of the technology of the bullet train in 2010, RB's car completely defeated the German car, and it was close to the American auto company.

   Just in 1985, RB will replace the United States as the world's largest creditor country!

Under such circumstances, American companies initially attributed their inability to enter the RB market to the fact that RB closed the market. Later, a research report by the U.S. Department of the Treasury showed that the trade deficit between the United States and Japan was not a protection policy of RB. , but the lack of competitiveness of American products.

  Under such circumstances, politicians in Europe and the United States feel the threat of RB's rise and the rising pressure of their domestic companies to promote protectionism.

  In order to cope with the growing fiscal deficit of the United States and the sharp increase in foreign trade deficit, the United States can only hope that the dollar will depreciate to increase the export competitiveness of American manufacturing and improve the imbalance of international payments.

On September 22, 1985, the finance ministers and central bank governors of the United States, RB, Federal Republic of Germany, France and the United Kingdom held a meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York, and reached a joint intervention in the foreign exchange market by the governments of the five countries to induce an orderly exchange rate between the US dollar and major currencies. Devaluation to address the huge U.S. trade deficit. The agreement was also known as the "Plaza Accord" because it was signed at the Plaza Hotel.

  At that time, RB and Germany ranked second and third in the world economy, and the Japanese yen and the Mark also became important currencies in the world. As the U.S. dollar depreciated, these two currencies naturally appreciated rapidly.

Capital with a keen sense of smell naturally flowed into the RB market, stimulating RB's stock market and real estate market, and making the RB economy falsely prosperous. The Nikkei even once rushed to 40,000 points until the economic bubble burst in 1989 and entered the so-called "lost market". ten years".

   These are all things to talk about. With Liao Chengde's level, he naturally doesn't know about these things, but Zhong Shi knows all of them. He is now figuring out how to take advantage of this rare opportunity this year and make a fortune at RB.

  The broker was still dedicated and found out everything about foreign exchange futures in just a few weeks. When he handed a thick stack of information to Liao Chengde, he was full of doubts.

  This Mr. Liao invested tens of millions in "Cheung Kong Enterprises" and made a huge profit in just a few months. Even in the current general trend of the stock market rising, it is very remarkable.

  I don't know why, but this Mr. Liao didn't take his professional words to heart. The first point of investing is not to put all your eggs in one basket, but he can’t take care of so much if he can bring in such a large sum of money for the company. Two days ago, the general manager even hinted that he would be promoted. job.

  Thinking of this, the manager surnamed Zhang felt a burst of pride in his heart, and the smile on his face became even bigger.

  Liao Chengde took the information in the agent's hand, flipped through it roughly, and nodded expressionlessly, but cursed "idiot" in his heart, obviously aimed at the inexplicable smile on the agent's face.

  …

   On the last day of 1984, Zhong Shi was lying on the bed bored at home, picked up his sister's book by the way, and read it at a glance.

Zhong Shi's older sister is Zhong Xiaohui, a thirteen-year-old girl who is currently studying in junior high school with good grades. The school teacher said that she is expected to be admitted to the county's high school. Possibly an undergraduate degree.

   These days, it is a great thing to be admitted to an undergraduate degree.

   "It's really easy! When will we grow up?" Zhong Shi felt drowsy, couldn't help yawning a long time, turned over and put the book under his body, and fell asleep.

  The little yellow dog under the bed was lying on the ground gnawing on a pig bone. Hearing the movement on the bed, he stood up and listened for a long time. Seeing that there was no movement, he gnawed on the bone with relish.

  The little yellow dog has grown into a half-meter-long dog, and he is also familiar with the reincarnated Zhong Shi. He often wags his head and tail behind Zhong Shi, and Zhong Shi often gives it some simple training on purpose.

When Liao Chengde took away the white porcelain bowl of Ding Kiln, he left 10,000 yuan in RMB. This money was naturally knocked down by Zhong Shi. It was already a huge sum of money at that time, but Liao Chengde still gave Zhong Shi Contemptuously, he fled back in embarrassment.

   Regarding the use of this money, Zhong Jianjun and Liu Lan had a good discussion, and finally decided to hand it over to Zhong Shi. Without further ado, Zhong Shi installed a telephone first, which cost 6,000 yuan, and Zhong Shi was so angry that Zhong's father called him a prodigal son.

  After giving another 500 yuan to the grandfather's family and the uncle's family, Zhong Shi still has nearly 3,000 yuan left in his hands. It is very uneconomical to store it in the bank to earn interest these days. With a wave of his hand, Zhong Shi decided to eat the three thousand yuan. After all, it is not easy to eat something nutritious these days.

   Although Zhong Jianjun and Liu Lan were very dissatisfied with the son's decision, after all, his son earned the money, and it was his freedom to use it as he wanted, so they didn't say much.

  So every Sunday, chicken, duck and fish can often be seen on Zhong's dining table. The reason why it is only on Sunday is because Zhong Xiaohui will go home on holiday on this day, and she can also eat meat.

  After several months of nurturing, Zhong Xiaohui's originally pale face gradually turned a tinge of blood, and the eight-year-old Zhong Shi's height also shot up rapidly, a head taller than children of the same age.

   What Zhong's father and Zhong's mother didn't know was that their youngest son would often help his sister with homework. Speaking of this incident, it was a Saturday night when Zhong Shi woke up from his sleep and found that his sister’s room was still lit. After a little thought, he realized that this nominal sister was studying all night .

  He looked out the window for a long time, and heard Zhong Xiaohui crying softly in the room, so he opened the door curiously, and found that the young lady was holding a pen, poking the draft paper vigorously, crying while venting.

  Zhong Shi naturally showed his genius, helped his cheap sister with tutoring, and made an agreement with the young lady that this matter was only between the two of them and could not be leaked to others.

  If people know that an eight-year-old child is helping a junior high school student with tutoring, it will be too shocking. Zhong Shi didn't want to. One night, the national scientific research department broke into him, put a black hood on him, took him away quietly, and turned him into a cold corpse. He was placed on the dissecting table for those hair Pale, researched by scientists wearing thousands-of-degree wine bottle bottoms.

  He intentionally exaggerated the danger of this incident infinitely, frightened his young lady until she turned pale, and promised repeatedly that she would not speak out, so she was relieved.

   "It's really time to have a party, in this New Year's time!" Zhong Shi woke up to the barking of the little yellow dog, and said silently in his heart.

   "Dead dog, what are you yelling, making me sleep!"

  Zhong Shi yelled at the little yellow dog, which scared the little yellow dog to clamp its tail, whimpered and hid under the bed, not even the pig bones.

  Suddenly, Zhong Shi slapped his forehead and ran out with a strange cry.

  The little yellow dog hiding under the bed tilted his head and looked at Zhong Shi who was running outwards. After being stunned for a while, he jumped out from under the bed and happily followed Zhong Shi.

  As soon as Zhong Shi ran to the door, he heard a rapid knock on the door, and an anxious shout came from outside the door.

   "Is there anyone, come out quickly!"

   The little yellow dog following Zhong Shi immediately barked, Zhong Shi gave it a dissatisfied look, and then opened the door.

   "Hey, it's a young man, what about your adults?"

   Appearing in front of Zhong Shi was a middle-aged man in a grass-green military uniform. When he saw a child who opened the door, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and then he stretched his head to look into the room.

"who are you?"

  When Zhong Shi saw the behavior of the middle-aged man, he felt a trace of vigilance in his heart.

   "Little friend, let me ask you something, is this Zhongzhuang?"

   Seeing that there was no one else in the room, the middle-aged man took two steps back to avoid suspicion, with a friendly smile on his face.

   "This is Zhongzhuang, who is uncle looking for? What's the matter?" Zhong Shi replied with a naive smile on his face. At this time, Zhong Shi looked exactly the same as his age, an eight-year-old child.

   "Uncle is here to investigate, just passing by here, want to ask for a sip of water, kid, can you?"

  Seeing that the child spoke clearly and logically, the surprised expression on the middle-aged man's face flashed, and he said his intentions openly. (Seeing that some friends voted for me, thank you very much! I also hope that other friends who think this book is not bad can also vote for me.)

  (end of this chapter)