Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Bang!
"Great! The yen is starting to appreciate! Haha!"

Inside a villa estate in Deep Water Bay, Hong Kong Island, Little Peach was overjoyed to see the Japanese yen beginning to appreciate.

The chubby boy next to him had already slammed his hand on the table, his face equally excited.

Xiao Baozi, Zhao Jinshi, Zhao Yuechan, and the other brothers and sisters also had happy expressions on their faces.

After the Plaza Accord, they knew that the yen would likely appreciate.

However, unexpectedly, it wasn't until October that prices started to rise.

It's astonishing how calm Takeshita and his ilk were, waiting until after October to start selling off their US Treasury bonds and other dollar assets, thus deliberately appreciating the yen and depreciating the dollar.

The global economy has begun to change at this point.

However, Sam's domestic traditional manufacturing industry was like a hopeless case; even with the best efforts of James Baker and others, they still couldn't salvage the situation.

James Baker and his team have proactively devalued the dollar to strengthen traditional manufacturing companies in the US and make their export products more competitive internationally.

It didn't work!

Many companies, such as General Motors and Ford, may rank highly in sales, but it doesn't really matter.

Kimura has Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and other automakers, while Europe has Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, BMW, Audi, Porsche, and others—all traditional automakers.

The Causeway Bay Motors Group on Hong Kong Island sells cars, especially the Zodiac series of luxury cars, which are quite popular among wealthy people in Hollywood, Wall Street, and other wealthy groups.

A car model featuring the twelve zodiac animals isn't cheap.

But a great many people buy this car, which is truly puzzling.

Currently, currencies such as the Japanese yen and the German mark are appreciating, while the US dollar is depreciating, leading to changes in the economic dynamics between Europe and the United States and Kimura.

However, such changes are not very obvious.

While the young people like Xiao Baozi, Xiao Shitou, and Zhao Yuechan were cheering with joy, Kimura Kuniichi on the other side was dejected.

For example, at Toshiba's headquarters, the executives all looked like they had lost their parents.

Following the Plaza Accord, they accelerated their export efforts and began discussing countermeasures.

Because the appreciation of the yen was inevitable according to the Plaza Accord, the cost of Toshiba's television sets, air conditioners, and other products would inevitably increase.

Furthermore, the US dollar depreciated, and with this rise and fall, Toshiba suffered heavy losses.

Therefore, after discussion, the executives decided that going abroad was inevitable.

Toshiba executives tried to change their mindset and began to improve their production technology to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

On the other hand, they are making significant investments overseas, and even considering shifting the production of some components abroad.

In short, businesses must know how to adapt if they want to survive.

This appreciation of the yen is completely different from the previous instances of proactive export restrictions.

Sam is clearly sharpening his knives to target the sheep, and if Toshiba still doesn't know how to respond, it's just waiting to die.

At almost the same time, all other export companies in Kimura carried out improvements in various aspects.

Meanwhile, in Yunlan City, Zhao Mancang was still enjoying himself, oblivious to his surroundings.

Zheng Ruoyan is indeed a stunningly beautiful woman, very pretty.

Even though Zhao Mancang was used to eating delicacies, he never got tired of them.

Moreover, Zheng Ruoyan has an exceptional learning ability and an outstanding ability to adapt.

However, a month later, Zhao Mancang was shocked to discover that his partner was pregnant.

Isn't this too fast?

He felt like he hadn't enjoyed it enough yet, and then the other person got pregnant.

Now that you're pregnant, you should take good care of yourself during the pregnancy.

So Zhao Mancang asked the other party to bring her parents to Yunlan City to rest and recuperate during her pregnancy.

However, when Zheng Ruoyan contacted her parents in China, they called her back and said they wanted to meet Zhao Mancang.

Upon hearing this, he hesitated to meet them.

If it were Yunlan City, Zhao Mancang would naturally have nothing he wouldn't dare to do.

But if it's going back to Hangzhou, after thinking about it carefully, I think I should forget about it.

Zheng Ruoyan was completely stunned after being rejected by him.

He immediately pressed for details, but Zhao Mancang kept quiet, only saying that he didn't really want to go back to China.

She quickly resorted to coquettishness, using her ultimate weapon.

Finally, Zhao Mancang said that he would return to Hangzhou after he finished his work in a while.

"You still have a job? How come I didn't know that?" Zheng Ruoyan was even more surprised when she heard this.

Over the past month, the two have been almost inseparable and haven't been apart much.

So she really didn't know that Zhao Mancang had work to do.

"If I don't work, am I just someone who's going to sit around and wait to die?"

Zhao Mancang rolled his eyes, thought for a moment, and said:

"Alright, I'll take you out to see the world, so you won't overthink it."

He immediately took the other person away from the beach villa and headed to the airport.

After driving into the airport, Zheng Ruoyan was completely bewildered.

This is not Iskushuban Airport, a major international airport, but a very obvious military airport.

She dared not speak, holding her breath, her heart pounding with nervousness.

However, Zhao Mancang was completely at ease, as if he were at home.

Then they arranged for her to board the plane, and then flew it away.

He piloted the plane himself, and there were only the two of them on board; there were no other outsiders.

This is a state-of-the-art Mach 5 passenger plane, not a fighter jet or any other fighter or reconnaissance aircraft.

"Brother, where are we going now?"

"New York, let me show you my business."

The plane soared into the sky, but had not yet reached an altitude of over 10,000 meters, so he was temporarily in charge of piloting it.

In fact, the aircraft's system could have easily enabled it to autopilot, but Zhao Mancang did not do so.

The main concern was that it might frighten the young girl, Zheng Ruoyan.

She was quite surprised; Zhao Mancang seemed to know everything, as if he were omnipotent.

Driving skills are nothing to brag about, but the ability to pilot an airplane can certainly be an eye-opener for many people.

Once they reached an altitude of 10,000 meters, Zhao Mancang finally set up autopilot and got up to pull Zheng Ruoyan away.

Instead, she let out a scream:
"Brother, why did you get up and leave? Aren't you afraid of bumping into someone?" Zhao Mancang laughed instantly.

"We're already 10,000 meters in the air, where would someone come from to crash into us? A god?"

"Stop spacing out. I'll take you to the back lounge to sit for a while. We'll be in New York in about half an hour."

The plane is very fast, so it will arrive at its destination in about half an hour.

"Only half an hour to reach New York? That fast? Are airplanes really that fast?"

At this moment, Zheng Ruoyan felt that her brain was not working properly.

Even though she didn't know much about airplanes, she wasn't illiterate and knew some basic common sense.

Yunlan City is located at least eight or nine thousand kilometers away from New York, right?

Some have even traveled tens of thousands of kilometers.

But how is it possible to fly such a long distance in about half an hour?
If she remembered correctly, most airplanes fly at around Mach 1, with only a few reaching Mach 2 or 3.

However, she soon remembered a news report about Yunlan City that she had seen before.

That was a few years ago, when Yunlan City fought with Sam. Yunlan City dispatched fighter jets with speeds far exceeding Mach 5.

Thinking of this, Zheng Ruoyan's gaze towards Zhao Mancang changed instantly.

It seems his status in Yunlan City is far greater than she imagined.

Is it really appropriate for him to just swagger into New York like this?
Regardless of whether it was suitable or not, half an hour later, when she saw the plane hovering directly over a large open space on a farm, she was completely dumbfounded.

Soon, she realized that Zhao Mancang had indeed come to New York prepared.

"I read in the newspapers that there's satellite interception or something. Don't they know where you flew from?"

Zheng Ruoyan was extremely curious because she really couldn't understand how Zhao Mancang had managed to evade all of this so easily.

"You're pretty good, you know how to think so much."

Zhao Mancang praised:

"However, I can't explain the technical issues to you in detail. Just pretend they can't see our plane at all. Their satellites, radar, and other systems are all collectively blind. I think you can understand my explanation, right?"

"I understand!" Zheng Ruoyan nodded, but she had even more questions in her heart.

However, she could no longer ask these questions, because it would be inappropriate to ask them again.

Subsequently, Zhao Mancang led her smoothly to downtown New York City, which is the place with the highest concentration of skyscrapers in the world: Manhattan.

In this place, there are skyscrapers made of reinforced concrete everywhere, and each one is taller than the last.

Zheng Ruoyan, who was visiting here for the first time, felt that she couldn't take it all in.

"When I first went to the financial center in Yunlan City, I thought it was the most impressive place in the world. I didn't expect there to be so many skyscrapers here in Manhattan."

Hearing Zheng Ruoyan's sigh, Zhao Mancang suddenly felt that there were still too few high-rise buildings in the financial center of Yunlan City.

Of course, Yunlan City has only been established for a short time.

In the short term, it is naturally impossible to compare with Manhattan.

However, Zhao Mancang was determined to redesign the new building for Lü Yangui and his team after he returned.

However, the towering buildings in Manhattan make it unsuitable.

It's too concentrated, there's no greenery at all. For many ordinary working people in high-rise buildings, working in such a place is suffocating.

In his previous life, Zhao Mancang worked at Taikoo Hui Plaza in Baiyun City.

Taikoo Hui Plaza has two towers, one of which is the HSBC office building.

During rush hour, there are long queues for the elevators in this building.

Even with six elevators for every ten floors, it's still not enough, because each floor has more than five hundred office workers, or even more.

There are at least 5,000 people on the tenth floor. Even if only 4,000 people arrive between 8:40 and 9:00, the six elevators can not transport a large number of people at a time.

In any case, Zhao Mancang always has to wait at the elevator entrance for at least a few minutes every time he goes to work.

That's not even the most suffocating part.

On the contrary, after get off work, when you come to the subway to queue, at peak times you have to wait at least half an hour.

And this is only because it is relatively far from the central business district of Zhujiang New Town; otherwise, it would be even more suffocating.

According to Zhao Mancang's former colleagues who worked in Zhujiang New Town, working in Zhujiang New Town meant not having freedom in terms of meals or commuting.

Therefore, the excessive concentration of financial buildings is not a good thing.

Therefore, the financial center of Yunlan City must be constructed in a reasonable manner, just like the central avenue of Beijiang City.

Zhao Mancang took Zheng Ruoyan to the office of one of his companies in New York.

This is one of the Wall Street Wolf companies; he just came to do a brief inspection.

After the tour, he led her away.

As soon as she stepped into the elevator, Zheng Ruoyan couldn't help but ask out of curiosity:
"Do you come here to work every day? Is this company very profitable? What kind of financial products does it mainly sell?"

She was very curious and asked many questions.

This shows that her understanding of finance is indeed unlike that of an ordinary person.

She was just an ordinary girl from Hangzhou. Although she was educated and a female college student, Zhao Mancang was surprised to find that she knew so much about finance.

So he started talking to her.

There are many different types of financial companies in Manhattan, such as hedge funds, securities firms, banks, and insurance companies.

It includes bonds, funds, futures and options, contracts, gold, etc.

In short, all financial products on the market can be sold.

Everything was for profit.

Where are we going now?

"Let me take you to experience this Michelin three-star restaurant. Although I thought it was just average, the ingredients were still quite good."

The food at a Michelin three-star restaurant is presented very well, the ingredients are sourced carefully, and the taste is quite good.

However, Zhao Mancang was used to Chinese cuisine, and he usually declined to try foreign food.

But since he brought the beautiful Zheng Ruoyan with him today, he decided to let her experience the local cuisine.

Yunlan City also has a large number of food courts, including Michelin three-star restaurants.

Yunlan City has a number of financial talents from different places such as New York, London, and Paris.

A significant portion of these people are white and prefer Western cuisine.

Of course, they do like Eastern cuisine, but they just don't eat it that often.

Furthermore, the Eastern cuisine of Yunlan City is definitely very much to the liking of Easterners, and may not be suitable for Westerners. (End of Chapter)