1982 Started from Hong Kong

Chapter 263: In Hong Kong, plundering Japan

Capital chain broken?
When Ye Zhiming heard Zhai Yuan's ridiculous reason, his throat was almost choked by a piece of sashimi.

“Where did you spend your money?”

Although the income of Natural Selection is not as high as before, the money distributed to Zhai Yuan every day when it returns is over a million, which easily exceeds 10 million a month.

Not much different than a money printing machine.

And it's pure cash flow.

At that time, Jiahe had not yet gone public, and it was estimated that the net worth of its boss Zou Wenhuai was about 3 million Hong Kong dollars.

But if he really had to take out tens of millions in cash to make a movie, Zou Wenhuai would still have to look for investors everywhere to raise the cash, as he would not be able to raise the money in the short term.

Zhai Yuan’s net worth was estimated at 1 million last year, but he can actually come up with 1 million.

Unfortunately, he spent all the money in just over a month.

"Yeah, where did the money go? It was just used to support the two societies in Hong Kong and Japan, and then to develop land, build factories, and make movies..."

Zhai Yuan took the initiative to pour Ye Zhiming a glass of beer, scratched his head and smiled: "Pick! I didn't know I had done so many things. No wonder I have backaches recently. Anyway, the money earned from the gambling boat is not enough to spend."

Ye Zhiming stared at Zhai Yuan in silence, as if trying to tell whether his words were true or false.

But upon closer thought, it is also this guy's nature to eat alone. Apart from Natural Selection, which requires him as a shareholder standing in the front, Zhai Yuan has never been willing to share profits with outsiders in other businesses. Li Jiacheng has several shareholders eating from the same pot, but Zhai Yuan directly takes the pot away and puts it in his own kitchen.

With this kingly style, all the risks are on him alone. No wonder the capital chain is broken.

To be honest, there was a moment when Ye Zhiming's greed almost overwhelmed his reason.

If we buy the shares of the Natural Selection gambling ship from Zhai Yuan at a low price now, we will be the only one who owns this ship in the future.

Travel, gambling, and rice washing are all available in one place, without having to consider the feelings of the young shareholder in front of him.

"It's very troublesome to get approval for using a gambling boat as collateral at a bank."

Ye Zhiming pursed his lips and looked back at Ye Yuqing who was leaning against the railing not far away, enjoying the sea breeze.

He turned his head and looked at Zhai Yuan and said, "There's no point in giving your shares to the bank. Otherwise, if you lose money in the future, I can't accept the fact that the gambling ship suddenly has a major shareholder from the bank. How about this, I will personally take out 80 million yuan to lend to you, and you can repay the principal and interest when you turn the business around."

After that, he added, "Eighty million is not a small amount. People say I'm a billionaire, but actually all my money is tied up on that outlying island in Sai Kung. Would you consider it?"

Zhai Yuan asked: "Do you want me to write you an IOU?"

Ye Zhiming looked at a shameless person: "Eighty million! You don't even want to write an IOU? Unless you marry my sister tomorrow and change your last name to Ye Yuan or Ye Jingyuan, it's up to you!"

Zhai Yuan smiled, raised his glass, clinked it with his, and drank it all in one gulp.

Putting the cup on the table, Zhai Yuan used his thumb to scrape the hops from the corner of his mouth, looked at Ye Zhiming and said, "80 million is too little. You take out 120 million and I'll sign a contract with you. If I can't pay you back the principal and interest before the Spring Festival this year, I bet that all the shares on the ship will belong to you. See you in the rivers and lakes."

Ye Zhiming raised his eyebrows and stared at Zhai Yuan, but did not speak for a long time.

One hundred and twenty million, minus all expenses, based on the current rate at which the gambling ship makes money, it can be earned back in a year.

But who knows what will happen in this year?

He sucked his gums hard and asked, "What do you plan to do with this money? After all, I am known as the bridge king of the business world. I will tell you something for your reference."

"Are you concerned about me or yourself?"

Zhai Yuan said half-jokingly, leaning back in his chair and lighting a cigarette, without hiding much: "The Hong Kong market is too small, and 90% of the money has flowed into real estate and the stock market. After I build my factory, I plan to move to Japan to play a shop, so I went there in advance to collect some information."

That makes sense.

Are the four Asian tigers famous enough now? They are not as popular as Japan.

At this time, Japan claimed that it had enough money to buy the entire America.

Hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars is a huge sum of money in Hong Kong, but it may only be enough for layout after entering the Japanese market.

But Ye Zhiming still realized that Zhai Yuan was not telling the truth.

"Although what you said was half true and half false, it still gave me a reason."

Ye Zhiming rubbed his face with both hands and exhaled heavily, "It's very troublesome to transfer such a large amount of money. It will take about a week. The money should be in your account after a week."

Zhai Yuan said thank you and took the initiative to pick up the bottle and fill it up for him.

He smiled and asked the other party: "Do you want to go with me to Dongyang Market to play this shop?"

Ye Zhiming hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Forget it. I'm almost fifty years old now, and I don't have the ambitions I had back then. When people get old, they become nostalgic and don't want to leave Hong Kong. Besides, don't forget that I still have an outlying island waiting to be developed. Even if I can't make money, I will still be the owner of the outlying island in the future. Have you heard of this, Master Huang?"

He laughed twice when he said this, and then looked at Ye Yuqing on the other side of the deck: "Actually, my sister is not bad, she is pretty and has a good figure. She is only four years older than my son. Her whole family has spoiled her since she was a child, so she may have a bit of an arrogant personality, but I think she will get along well with you."

Zhai Yuan nodded in agreement: "Yes, Aqing is a good girl."

Ye Zhiming waited for a few seconds, but before Zhai Yuan could continue, he cursed with a smile, "I'll go find a lawyer to draft a contract. You idiot, sign it immediately and put your fingerprints on it. It would be best if I made you lose a lot of money in Japan this time. From now on, this gambling ship will be completely owned by the Ye family!"

…………

That night.

In a luxurious room on the Natural Selection.

Zhai Yuan accepted 120 million from Ye Zhiming and guided Ye Yuqing more attentively.

"Hey, don't pronounce the word '行' too accurately. It's sung like this: The sky is blue and matches the clouds, and it goes up the sea with the clouds, uh~"

Zhai Yuan dragged out the words in a very coquettish manner, which gave Ye Yuqing goosebumps.

Ye Yuqing rolled over on the bed laughing: "This pronunciation is too weird, I can't learn it."

When Zhai Yuan saw that he was calling out so earnestly but Ye Yuqing dared to laugh at him, he immediately pounced on her and pressed her under him.

As they kissed each other, clothes were scattered all over the ground.

Ye Yuqing was soon left with only a set of sexy purple lace underwear, which made her chest look deep and white even when she was lying on the bed.

"Laughing at me? You can't get out of bed tonight if you can't learn this song!"

"Can you do this, idol~"

Ye Yuqing licked Zhai Yuan's ears, breathing out hot air teasingly.

Zhai Yuan couldn't bear it any longer, so he pushed aside her lace panties and assumed an aiming and shooting posture.

"Sing!"

"The blue sky matches the smoke and clouds, following the clouds on the sea... Ha ah ~"

"If you make a mistake, try again!"

"The blue sky matches the smoke and clouds, following the sea of clouds...hissing~"

"Wrong again!"

"The sky is blue! I haven't even sung that line yet."

"mine……"

Zhai Yuan's singing lessons lasted until midnight.

Ye Yuqing was so tired that she collapsed on the bed like mud.

Fortunately, I finally learned how to sing the song "Blue and White Porcelain" with my unique voice.

The later version of "Blue and White Porcelain" by Miss Chen can be said to be "extremely popular". Zhou Huimin is suitable for singing the original version in a gentle and tender manner, while Yip Yuqing, the little coquettish woman, is perfect for this brothel version.

On the basis of the original song, instruments such as big drums are added to create a bright rhythm. It is a smart choice to start singing directly from the chorus, and add some pretty good Cantonese lyrics.

Zhai Yuan felt that if nothing unexpected happened, after Ye Yuqing's song was released, it would become more popular on the streets than Zhou Huimin's original version.

point out?

The citizens are not musicians, so of course they prefer this style.

Ye Yuqing leaned on Zhai Yuan's chest and said coquettishly: "I'm so tired, carry me to take a shower."

Zhai Yuan lit up a cigarette and said, "I'm tired too. I'll take a break before going."

Ye Yuqing snorted in dissatisfaction, unable to bear the sweat on her body, she propped herself up from the bed and prepared to go to the bathroom to wash. Zhai Yuan looked up at her greasy figure and grinned.

Ye Yuqing felt a little embarrassed at this time, and she clamped her legs together and said fiercely: "Wang Meizhe~"

"No." Zhai Yuan blew out a smoke ring: "I saw a clam spitting white foam~"

There was a sound of water splashing in the bathroom.

Zhai Yuan leaned against the head of the bed and sorted out his thoughts.

"Ye Zhiming has raised 1024 million. I don't know if the valuation of and Entertainment is million. If we mortgage the land in Yuen Long..."

He did a rough calculation.

This time we should be able to raise around HK$4 million.

The most important thing is that 1024 was rented from Zhao Yifu, and could not borrow much money.

"4 million is still a little too little, but it should be enough to enter the market and play a little."

Zhai Yuan took the last puff of his cigarette, extinguished it, and blew a dragon of smoke towards the light.

What year is this eve?
In early November 1985.

Anyone who has a basic understanding of economics in later generations knows that this year, the prosperous East Asia was about to face the fuse of recession.

Zhai Yuan is not a talented person. In his previous life, he read a book that was a collection of conspiracy theories - called "Currency War". He did not learn anything serious, but he was deeply impressed by this time point.

After this year is over, it won’t take many years for Japan to create a super bubble.

Zhai Yuan had to raise all his assets before this bubble formed.

all in Japanese yen.

…………

Ye Zhiming said it was a week.

In fact, it only took four days to complete the procedures.

Zhai Yuan obtained a gambling ship equity transfer contract that expired before the Spring Festival in exchange for a principal of 120 million yuan in his account.

Sitting in the office of Jiuyi Entertainment, Zhai Yuan kissed the HSBC cashier's draft in his hand hard and sighed from the bottom of his heart.

"Thank you, Mr. Song, for bringing me into the financial industry! I will buy you 100 copies of Currency Wars in the future!"

Perhaps the most widely circulated content of Song Moubing's book "Currency War" is the conspiracy theories about capital leaders such as the Rothschild family.

But I have to say that this is indeed a refreshing book that can easily make people interested in the financial market.

In his previous life, Zhai Yuan read this book, and then he read other books during college, such as "The Changing Fortunes" co-authored by Federal Reserve Chairman Volcker and Gyokanten Toyoo, "The Great Recession" by Gu Chaoming, and "The Big Bubble" by Yu Tianren.

At that time, reading these books was just to broaden my horizons.

But now, it has become the first of the seven weapons in Zhai Yuan's hands.

I want 3000 lives for you!

Capital chain broken?
Sprinkle some water~
Once Japan signs the Plaza Accord, the yen I am all in on will double in a matter of minutes!

They could also take advantage of the bubble boom in the past few years to strip Japan of its pillar industries.

Zhai Yuan held the bank draft in his hand, crossed his legs on the table, and thought arrogantly: "When I write an online novel in the future, the title of the book will be "I'm in Hong Kong, I'm fucking robbing the Japanese!"

In later generations, there was a conspiracy theory that was widely circulated on the simplified Chinese Internet.

It is said that the Plaza Accord was the fundamental cause that buried the Japanese economy.

This is exactly the same as the conspiracy theory that Mr. Xu Shaoqiang colluded with TVB to backstab ATV (Rediffusion) and went on strike after filming "Heavenly Silkworm Change". It forcibly links two completely unrelated things together.

Why didn’t Teacher Xu film Yun Feiyang back then?

Because ATV's "Heavenly Silkworm Change" became a hit, the top management asked him to temporarily perform for another 30 episodes.

But at that time Xu Shaoqiang had already signed a contract with a film company, and there was a conflict in schedule and it was difficult to balance both. So with the support of the film company, he went to court against ATV.

The Zhao family had nothing to do with it from beginning to end, but Uncle Zhao Liu was later put on the blame by the self-media.

It is easier to attract attention if TVB and ATV compete with each other for an actor!

Who knows the name of the film company that is competing with ATV for Xu Shaoqiang?
But Zhai Yuan knew.

The name of this film company is Colorful Pictures. It just went bankrupt two years ago. Its owner is Ye Zhiming.

Perfect closed loop! (Clarifying a rumor about Mr. Xu during his lifetime)

The Plaza Accord was also not the fundamental reason for the demise of the Japanese economy; at best it was only one of the triggers.

After World War II, representatives from more than 40 countries held a United Nations monetary and financial conference in a hotel in Bretton Woods, the United States, and eventually formed a fixed exchange rate policy based on gold and US dollar reserves, known as the "Bretton Woods System."

Later, during the war in the 1950s and 1960s, in order to prevent Japan from becoming a socialist country, the United States opened up a line between China, the Soviet Union and Japan, and directly sent orders to Japan, giving them the opportunity to export wartime supplies to the United States.

The two countries, where you attacked my Pearl Harbor and I threw little boys to you, have suddenly become close comrades-in-arms.

Japan also took this opportunity to gradually form an export-oriented economy.

The result is that America has nurtured a tiger that will become a threat to it.

Japan seized the opportunity and jointly exported with Western Europe. As soon as the war was over in the United States, the country's gold and dollar reserves were almost drained away by Japan.

The United States was not happy with this at the time, and it acted like a rogue and announced the unilateral dissolution of the Bretton Woods system. It also tried to create a petrodollar by controlling oil pricing.

Unfortunately, once the huge trade deficit was formed, it was too late to remedy it.

In 1985, America came up with a new strategy.

It planned to stimulate exports and reduce imports by devaluing its own dollar, and it also forced its four trading partners, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, to reach an agreement at the Plaza Hotel in New York, where the five parties would jointly sell the dollar to devalue it.

This later became the famous Plaza Accord.

Zhai Yuan felt that the scene at that time should be like this.

The American representative was holding a cigar at the table, pointing at the representatives of the other four countries and threatening them: "Listen carefully! It is not enough to just devalue the dollar. The currencies of the four of you must appreciate to help me relieve the pressure, otherwise I will beat you up."

Japan was the first to slide to its knees, followed by Germany.

Because America is their two largest customers.

The Plaza Accord certainly did not cause the collapse of Japan's bubble economy, because five years after the agreement was signed, in the 1990s, Japan's economic bubble finally burst.

It was during these five years that the Japanese economy experienced its most frenzied and prosperous period.

After the agreement was signed, the yen appreciated, which undoubtedly symbolized the rise of a great power for the Japanese, and the citizens' sense of wealth and self-confidence exploded.

During that period, Sony bought three of the eight major Hollywood film studios. Japanese saw that the landmarks of the United States, Rockefeller Center and the Empire State Building, were well built, so they bought them back with full payment. Hawaiian tourist resorts were not spared either, and almost all the land was bought by Japanese.

Unfortunately, it is all just a blooming flower and a raging fire.

The Japanese government made a series of stupid decisions when it was at its richest.

What to do if you have too much money?
Just lower the interest rate and release the money abroad.

As a result, major companies treated the government as an ATM, and as a result, all the money they lent out flowed into speculative markets such as real estate and stocks.

Once money is separated from the entity, a bubble will immediately form.

By the time the Japanese government realized something was wrong, it was too late to recover the money. Moreover, a group of super-large zombie companies were formed, which continued to drain Japan's vitality because they owed too much money and dared not let the other party go bankrupt easily.

Subsequently, the Japanese government adopted a crazy interest rate hike operation to curb the outflow of yen, which directly led to the bursting of the bubble that was blown to the sky and the complete collapse of the economy.

As a result, even after the next thirty years, the Japanese economy had not improved.

"After five years of Japan's bubble economy, the only thing left is a mess, and the only person who emerged is Masayoshi Son, who is Korean. He really won't spend the hot money he got."

Zhai Yuan sorted out the context of this period, tapped the table lightly, squinted his eyes and pondered: "In five years, I wonder how much wool I can get from Japan. If I get enough, maybe the Japanese economy will be shut down for more than 30 years in the future..."

(End of this chapter)