Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 931 The Intelligence Battle Next to the Trash Can

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The current situation is too complicated - if you do nothing, you may be scolded for being ruthless; if you do something but do it poorly, you may be scolded for being in vain; if you do too well but offend certain interest groups, you may be scolded for meddling .

Therefore, the richest man does not want to be influenced by public opinion, or even kidnapped, so he tries to keep a low profile. Even his own Media Asia TV, Fragrant City Radio, Ming Pao Group, Phoenix Satellite TV and other media do not accept interviews.

After seeing Zhuang Menghua, Meng Jing and others, Tang Huan first opened his mouth to make sure of one thing, "Peregean and the others are highly respected elites in the financial circle, especially Liang Botao, who has helped Li Bancheng to raise funds through rights issues. It can be said to be close—couldn’t they be recruited to help in this critical moment?”

"You, the big boss here in Xiangjiang, are not the only ones who are busy protecting their own business—Qinhe Group." Zhuang Menghua asked back, "Do you know what the stock prices of Li Bancheng's Changshi and Rong Zhijian's CITIC are now?" Is it?"

Tang Huan shrugged, "I'm not interested in them, how can I have time to pay attention?"

My little cousin Meng Jing took the words, "Let me tell you—the stock price of Cheung Kong dropped from 98 Hong Kong dollars to 28 Hong Kong dollars; the stock price of CITIC Pacific fell from 53 Hong Kong dollars to 9 Hong Kong dollars."

"You mean that these local Chinese businessmen in Xiangjiang are too busy to take care of themselves." Tang Huan frowned, "What about the international market?"

"I found it too." Zhuang Menghua nodded, "Last month, Peregrine announced the introduction of Zurich Center Group as a strategic shareholder, and it will invest 2 million US dollars to subscribe—but the destructive power of the Asian financial turmoil is too serious. Fortune Group lost as much as 10 billion Hong Kong dollars in stocks alone, so the other party retreated again."

"In this case, there is little possibility of something tricky here." Tang Huan mused, "Then how do you think we should win Peregrine?"

"Of course I'm waiting for it to be liquidated." Zhuang Menghua smiled slightly, "If you can't wait, you can coordinate with Peregrine's shareholders and the SAR government to speed up the process. The entire team should also be able to receive most of it."

"It seems that the New Year's Day in 1998 will be spent in Xiangjiang." Tang Huan sighed, "You have worked hard too—but, let's hurry up and act."

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Next, the richest man will definitely meet Chief Executive Dong Jianhua.And the other party asked with a wry smile at the first sentence: "I don't know how long this financial turmoil will last before it will end?"

Tang Huan thought about it and answered, "It's hard to say - the international speculators are almost invincible, so naturally they are not reconciled to Xiangjiang's raw rice in their eyes, and in order to determine the winner, they must continue to fight until the second half of the year." .”

Hearing this, Dong Jianhua's expression became even more bitter—his first term as chief executive was not going well. Originally, Xiangjiang was a small temple with a lot of troubles, but it ended up catching up with the unprecedented Asian financial turmoil.

The richest man joked: "Just look at it a bit more, stretching your head is a knife, shrinking your head is also a knife - it's just a fight!"

Dong Jianhua nodded in agreement, and in turn jokingly said: "Mr. the richest man, coming to Xiangjiang at a critical point in this turbulent period, should it be specifically to send charcoal in the face of hardship?"

Tang Huan said frankly: "I always want to be worthy of the Great Bauhinia Medal, and do what I can."

After Dong Jianhua was surprised for a moment, he asked happily: "Then do you need any cooperation when you come to me this time? Just mention it!"

"There is indeed something I need to trouble you for." The richest man nodded slightly, "Isn't Peregrine hopelessly hopeless? It just so happens that I need such a platform with sufficient manpower, skilled operation, hard work and outside the system to operate With the Hang Seng Index in such a sluggish situation, the blue-chip stocks are absorbed in order to stabilize the Hong Kong stock market as much as possible, and I hope the SAR government can help one or two."

Dong Jianhua, who was relieved, immediately nodded and said: "The SAR government will immediately appoint an independent committee to supervise the liquidation of Peregrine."

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With official assistance, Peregrine's liquidation process has indeed progressed much faster.

In addition to those shareholders, Tang Huan also deliberately communicated with the staff of Peregrine including Liang Botao.

When the time came to mid-January 1998, the context was basically sorted out—the liquidated Peregrine Investment was replaced by the new Tracker Investment.And its role is mainly to openly buy the blue chips of Xiangjiang.

As for the risk of doing so, of course there will be, but referring to the fact that the Xiangjiang Special Administrative Region government, which also did the same in time and space, retired after success, there is no need to worry too much.

It is the responsibility of the Xiangjiang Special Administrative Region government to do so; and the generosity of the richest man is a good man who is unparalleled in benevolence and responsibility-not only can he clean up some speculative gains, but more importantly, he can also reap The reputation in many ways, including the 600 million people in Xiangjiang, is worth it!

Of course, Mr. Richest Man will not be so stupid as to allow himself to completely replace the Xiangjiang Financial Management Bureau—the other party is the absolute main force responsible for guarding the soil, and he must not be lazy.

To this end, Tang Huan specially held meetings with the Financial Secretary Zeng Yinquan of the Xiangjiang Special Zone, Ren Zhigang, the President of the Monetary Authority, Xu Shiren, the Director of the Treasury Bureau, and Chen Delin, the Vice President of the Monetary Authority.

The focus of everyone's discussion is whether the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, which is doing its best to defend the pegged exchange rate system of 7.8 Hong Kong dollars to 1 U.S. dollar, should open up a second battlefield to enter the market.

The real world is a complex system that affects the whole body. So far, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has maintained the linked exchange rate system, and its performance is commendable; It hit Xiangjiang's economy and attracted criticism.

The so-called "responsibility" is not so simple - it is impossible to find a perfect solution, and there are always things that cannot be taken care of. In the public opinion environment like Xiangjiang, where anyone can jump out and point fingers, "Pick up a bowl and eat meat, The phenomenon of "putting down chopsticks and scolding mothers" will only become more intense.

It can be said that under such extremely complicated circumstances, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority dared to allocate resources to enter the market while defending the linked exchange rate system. .

Let me say a word of condemnation - in the end, even if the linked exchange rate system is not preserved, but there were so many surrenders including Siam and South Korea as "models", and everyone present who "did their duty" can be calm Face it; but if you enter the market "without doing anything", you may not win much praise if you succeed, and it will be a complete stain if you fail.

Tang Huan said with a clear attitude: "This year's offensive and defensive battle will only be more tragic, and judging from Xiangjiang's open system, the offensive side will only find more breakthroughs from within Xiangjiang. To put it bluntly, fight with Xiangjiang's money. Xiangjiang; the defensive side will become more and more passive—this is my original intention to inhale Xiangjiang blue-chip stocks through the liquidation of Peregrine Investment and the establishment of Tracker Investment."

"My motives are not as noble as those of you here when you took the oath of office on July 7. I just don't want the headquarters of the Qinhe Department to collapse like other attacked economies. Otherwise, the loss will be too great. .”

"Right now, Tracker Investments has my injection of 10 billion US dollars, so it's a matter of doing everything. If the Hong Kong Financial Management Authority decides to enter the market, I will cooperate with it and add at least 10 US dollars!"

Just as Zeng Yinquan and the others were frowning and pondering over the pros and cons, and prudently did not speak immediately, the assistant held his phone and whispered something to Tang Huan.

The richest man nodded, looked around the crowd and said, "George Soros wants to use my mouth to declare war on everyone."

Astonishment, surprise, nervousness... and so on, flashed across everyone's face.

Tang Huan casually put the black Fangyuan business phone on the notebook in front of him, tapped a button lightly, and said, "George, congratulations on defeating all your Asian opponents as you wished."

The microphone of the mobile phone clearly conveyed George Soros' high spirits at this time, "To be precise, there is still one Xiangjiang short."

The richest man couldn't help laughing, "It's as big as the Hong Kong stock index and futures plummeting, and as small as my Qinhe, the stock price has fallen by at least two-thirds-what else do you want?"

"Is this why you joined the war?" George Soros said with excitement in his tone, "Don, it is very worth looking forward to having the opportunity to fight against you."

"You clearly want to add the world's richest man to the list of losers under countless finance ministers and central bank governors!" Tang Huan laughed loudly, "However, you may be disappointed—I won't stay here forever We are in Xiangjiang, so the chances of us facing each other directly are not high."

"Then I can only say that I'm sorry." George Soros changed the topic and said: "Tang, I think you have had a lot of contact with the person in charge of the Hong Kong Financial Management Agency recently - then please tell me on your behalf to maintain the Hong Kong Linked Exchange Rate. The cost of the system is too high, the Hong Kong dollar is almost the most valuable Asian currency at present, and the attacks on our side will only become more and more fierce."

"As you wish, I will tell the truth." The richest man handed the phone to the assistant, and said leisurely: "Everyone see, the other party's information is very well-informed. Use the enemy's dark self to describe this kind of information asymmetry It’s not necessarily enough.”

"This reminds me of the hacker community in the IT field. On the one hand, some hackers have transformed into security experts after committing serious crimes of invading major computer systems; Under the instructions of the national intelligence agency, do some hacking activities to intrude into the computer system."

"It is difficult to distinguish between black and white, and in the final analysis, they all belong to a big circle that understands each other."

"The current situation is almost the same - all the cards are laid out clearly, and no one can hide them from anyone; one can roughly guess how the cards will be played; it's just a matter of opinion on the trend of the card game."

"My idea is very simple - get rid of those dazzling things, bet that Xiangjiang, as the window of the mainland, will not be shaken as an international financial center; bet on Xiangjiang's 900 billion US dollars of foreign exchange reserves and China's 1400 billion US dollars of foreign exchange Reserves are a sufficient deterrent; betting that the attacker will exhaust himself over time."

Ren Zhigang raised his hand and said in a deep voice, "I think it's worth entering the market."

Chen Delin raised his hand, followed by Xu Shiren...

Zeng Yinquan sighed, and finally raised his hand, "Then let's work together and fight to the death."

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When the richest man is busy with these serious affairs, he will occasionally be harassed by people who make him laugh or cry.

For example, Guan Meiren complained: "Brother Huan, I lost a lot of money on the several 1000-square-foot mansions I bought as an investment."

"Isn't it just a far bigger place of more than 100 square meters, why are you nagging?" Tang Huan scolded angrily: "Stop worrying, just keep it in your hands and wait for the market to improve before taking action. "

It has to be said that Guan Meiren's experience is very representative, especially many celebrities in the Xiangjiang entertainment circle, who have been miserable by the Asian financial turmoil.

Those in power must be too lazy to care about this kind of "civilian suffering"-whoever makes you want to make a fortune, then you have to admit defeat; moreover, if you lose all your money, you just have to work hard again!
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Because there is still an anti-monopoly case lingering in the United States, it is impossible for the richest man to stay in Xiangjiang any longer. battlefield.

On the way to the airport, Tang Huan remembered something and opened Fangyuan's laptop to check a copy of the email.

Seeing Tang Huan use a spreadsheet to make a set of data into a histogram, the little cousin Meng Jing who came to see him off asked curiously: "Brother, what kind of chart did you make, and you specially rendered it in red?"

“这是爪哇历年排~华事件的数量统计。”首富先生指着屏幕，淡淡地解释道：“这是1994年——发生了5起；1995年——发生了16起，1996年——发生了27起……”

Meng Jing put away her smile, and the car fell into silence.

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When Tang Huan returned to Cupertino, it was already late, but he decided to go to the office to review some documents as soon as possible.

As a result, when the richest man got off the car and looked into the distance unintentionally, he found several people arguing endlessly by the trash can.

American President Bill Clinton's affair has just been revealed.Tang Huan, who knew how big this mess would be, tensed up even more.The scene in front of him made him instinctively feel that it was unusual.

The bodyguards who received the instructions immediately surrounded him quietly.

Unexpectedly, those guys' "quality" is quite high, and when the situation is not good, they run away.

After struggling for a long time, the bodyguards finally subdued them.

"Boss, these people have already confessed that they are private detectives." The bodyguard reported and handed over a few documents that had not been completely processed by the shredder, "This is what they were fighting for just now."

The richest man rolled his eyes, and said coldly, "It's too much to bully!"

(End of this chapter)