Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 147 A Gift is a Slap

Liu Mingzhang let out an "ah" and then slapped his thigh hard. "Ah! It hurts, hahahaha... It hurts, hahaha..."

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Yes, Liu Mingzhang thought everything he saw from then on was fake and was an illusion. But the pain proved that everything he saw was real and not an illusion, so he laughed crazily.

The reason why he laughed so hard was because of the numbers on the screen, because those numbers were all green. Yes, green, green means a drop. "Haha! It's dropped, it's dropped..."

Yes, it did fall. According to Lu Shaohua's memory, the Japanese stock market fell as soon as it opened on January 1990, 1. It was January 1 now. Seeing the fall, Lu Shaohua secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although he seemed very confident, he was still a little worried. After all, he was reborn and history had changed a little. If fate played a joke on him again and made the stock market change a little, then everything would be over.

But at this moment, fate did not play a joke on him, history did not change, the stock market really fell today, and it was still a sharp drop. Lu Shaohua had only one thought in his mind at this time, that is, his money was already in his hands. Yes, he could say with certainty that his money was already in his hands.

Because Japan's stock market bubble burst, since the Plaza Accord was signed in 1985, the exchange rate of the yen against the US dollar has continued to rise, and the per capita GNP has exceeded that of the major economies such as the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, ranking first in the world.

On October 1989, 10, a global stock market crash broke out. Japan not only failed to learn from the US stock market crash, but immediately recovered and stock prices bottomed out and rebounded. In 19, the Japanese stock market continued to rise, and the Nikkei index broke through 1988 points at the end of the year. In 30000, the Japanese Nikkei index hit a new high and reached 1989 points on December 1989, 12, which was nearly three times higher than the lowest point in 29. In 38915, the market value of Japanese stocks reached 1985 trillion yen, reaching the highest point in history.

Groups of numbers appeared in Lu Shaohua's mind, but these were from the past. It was already 1990. Lu Shaohua had relatively few memories of the numbers in 1990. He only knew that after entering the 90s, the stock market suddenly changed and plummeted. On April 1990, 4, the Japanese Economic Index fell to 2 points, which lasted for 28002 months and was a 4% drop. In October 23, the Japanese Economic Index fell below 90 points, a drop of 10%. From 2000 points at the end of 48 to 1989 points, what a terrible number it was...

"Okay, now that the price has fallen, you can rest assured." Lu Shaohua glanced at Liu Mingzhang and said.

"Hahaha! Of course I'm relieved. The harder it falls, the more relieved I am." Liu Mingzhang said with a laugh.

Lu Shaohua didn't say much and just smiled. He also wanted the Japanese stock market to fall more. The more it fell, the more money he would make. With more money, the rise of his economic empire would also be shortened.

However, Lu Shaohua did not understand Liu Mingzhang's current mentality. He was happy not only because the stock price fell and the company made money, but also because he gave the international speculators a slap in the face. He still remembered that when Lu Shaohua said he would give gifts to the speculators, he did not know what gifts Lu Shaohua was going to give. But on the first day of the buying, he knew what gifts Lu Shaohua was talking about, because Lu Shaohua secretly instructed him to buy the stocks that the financial speculators bought (see Chapter 144).

In fact, the gift is just a more elegant way of saying it. To be more precise, it should be a slap in the face. At the end of 89, they thought that the Japanese stock market would fall in the short term, so they sold their stocks that had risen, and then bought stocks that fell. However, the Japanese held on for a month, and watching their funds shrink, those financial speculators were heartbroken.

As financial speculators, they refused to admit that they would fail and believed in their own judgment, thinking that the Japanese stock market would fall in the short term. However, they were wrong. However, there was nothing they could do and for the sake of their funds, they could only sell their stocks with great pain.

But the Japanese stock market kept rising, so who would buy when the market fell? It was not until December 89, 12 that those financial speculators finally breathed a sigh of relief, because on that day, Liu Mingzhang bought the stocks they held at the lowest price. But less than a week later, the stock market fell.

Liu Mingzhang: There is reason to believe that if some financial speculators have a heart disease, they may have a seizure on the spot, because this is really too embarrassing. The stocks they hold fell in just a few days after they were sold. This is equivalent to slapping themselves in the face.

Maybe they thought they were slapping themselves in the face, but Liu Mingzhang didn't think so. What he had at that moment was an indescribable sense of accomplishment and pride, because he had defeated those financial speculators and defeated them psychologically.

Although Liu Mingzhang is a rising star in the business world in Hong Kong, he is nothing compared to those financial speculators, because they have a certain reputation in the world, while his reputation is limited to Hong Kong. A person who only has a reputation in Hong Kong beats some people with a reputation in the world, and the achievement and pride are self-evident.

To say that he defeated them is actually a bit of an exaggeration. Without Lu Shaohua's idea, he would not have had the chance to defeat them. However, Liu Mingzhang believed that he defeated them himself because he did it all by himself. That was enough, because it was Lu Shaohua's fault for not doing it himself.

Let's not talk about Liu Mingzhang, who was very excited because of his operation to defeat those financial speculators. Lu Shaohua would not care about these. What he cared about was the peak of the next plunge in Japan. According to memory, a large number of stock index short selling options finally began to work. After that, the Nikkei index plummeted by 70%, and real estate fell for 14 consecutive years. The Japanese economy fell into a recession that lasted for more than ten years.

Yoshikawa Mototada, a famous Japanese scholar, believes that the loss of wealth caused by this stock market crash is equivalent to the consequences of defeat in World War II. Some people even believe that this is a conspiracy by international financial speculators to defeat Japan's finance and economy. But is it really just a conspiracy by international financial speculators? Shouldn't the Japanese bear some responsibility for their madness?

International financial speculators are certainly responsible, but they only played a role in adding fuel to the fire in this stock market crash. The ones who really pushed Japan into despair were the Japanese people and the Japanese government. The people were crazy, but the policies introduced by the Japanese government had problems, which led to the tragedy.

Lu Shaohua sat on the sofa, looking at the screen from time to time. The screen was green, and Lu Shaohua knew that it was a foregone conclusion, and there was no point for him to stay. "Mingzhang, you stay here and watch, I'm going back to the villa first."

"Oh!" Liu Mingzhang responded nonchalantly, and after a while he reacted, shifted his gaze to Lu Shaohua, and asked. "What? You're leaving?

"Well! I'll go back to the villa first. You can just stay here and keep an eye on it." Lu Shaohua said lightly.

"Okay." Liu Mingzhang said.

Without even turning his head, Lu Shaohua opened the door and prepared to go out. However, before he stepped out of the door, Lu Shaohua stopped and looked outside with a smile on his face...