Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 447: It’s Time to Set Off

Although Deng Lao was very conflicted, he was not the kind of person who would procrastinate. He still had to make up his mind when it was time to make a decision. There were only two choices before him. One was not to participate in this incident and pretend that it had never happened. The second choice was to participate in this incident, but the country's people had to completely obey Lu Shaohua's command and take certain risks, either losing or making a big profit.

There are always risks when you want to make the most profit, especially in the financial market, which is fraught with dangers. If you do it well, the result will make people laugh, but if you do it badly, you will lose everything you put in, without even a penny left.

Deng, who was once a national leader, quickly sorted out his thoughts and made a decision at this moment, but before that, he still had a few questions to ask Lu Shaohua before making the final decision.

"How sure are you?" asked Mr. Deng.

"I dare not say 100%, but 90% is still possible. However, the prerequisite is that you obey my command completely." Lu Shaohua said seriously.

It is true that Lu Shaohua is a reborn person. Over the years, history has not changed much, and this time is no exception. As long as history does not change, he is 100% sure. But at this moment, Lu Shaohua did not say 100%, but left himself a way out and said 90%.

Elder Deng did not rush to speak, but looked at Lu Shaohua seriously. Seeing that the latter did not seem to be lying, he changed the subject and asked his second question, "You just said that you plan to invest more than 50 billion US dollars?"

"Well, to be precise, it should be 58.6 billion US dollars." Lu Shaohua nodded heavily and replied.

"Yes." Deng Lao nodded, and his expression changed from serious to relaxed. Then he said, "The last question is, where is your target this time?"

Lu Shaohua was in a dilemma and began to hesitate, not knowing whether he should tell it out. If he told it out, would Mr. Deng know about it in advance and let the country's people do it themselves?

This is the issue that Lu Shaohua cares about the most. If the country's people act on their own, there will be too many unknowns. So before getting the final answer, Lu Shaohua will not say that his target is Mexico.

"Grandpa, it's not that I don't trust you, but this matter is of great importance and I can't tell you." Lu Shaohua rejected Deng's question.

"Ah!" Elder Deng sighed and shook his head with a wry smile. How could he not understand what Lu Shaohua meant? But he didn't say much. As Lu Shaohua said, the matter was of great importance, so it would not be wrong to be cautious. "Okay, I promise you, the country's troops will all follow your command, but you have to remember one thing, be careful, be careful, and don't make any mistakes, otherwise, I really don't know where to put my old face."

Deng Lao is now retired. He is using his reputation to get the country's people to follow Lu Shaohua to make money. If they make money, it's fine, he will be proud. But what if they lose everything? Although others dare not say anything directly, there will still be gossip behind his back.

"Don't worry." Lu Shaohua made the promise with a confident smile on his face.

Without 100% certainty, Lu Shaohua did not dare to gamble, nor did he dare to mobilize more than 50 billion or nearly 60 billion US dollars to participate. Since he did this, it means that he is fully confident. As for whether he can succeed in the end, it depends on God's will and whether God is deliberately playing tricks on him.

"Yes." Deng Lao was very satisfied with Lu Shaohua's assurance, nodded with a smile, and said lightly, "You sit down for a while, I'll go up to the study to make a phone call."

After saying this, Mr. Deng called over his guards and helped him go upstairs. Lu Shaohua and Zeng Jianguo sat in the hall, and neither of them spoke first.

After a long while, Zeng Jianguo couldn't help asking, "Xiaohua, you have mobilized nearly 60 billion US dollars in funds. Are you ready to do something big?"

This question seems very naive, but how could Zeng Jianguo, a man over 50 years old, ask such a naive question?

Zeng Jianguo knew Lu Shaohua's development history very well. When the Japanese stock market crashed in 89, Lu Shaohua circled land and raised money, and finally gathered more than billion US dollars in funds, but the final profit was more than billion.

Now, nearly 3.2 billion US dollars of funds have been directly mobilized, which is times more than the funds used in the Japanese stock market crash. Anyone can see what this means. Lu Shaohua is preparing to do something big, bigger than the Japanese stock market crash.

Lu Shaohua is preparing for a big move, bigger than the Japanese stock market crash. However, although it may be a big move, Mexico cannot be compared with Japan. It is not the case that by making big moves and investing more, more money can be prepared. This also needs to be calculated in combination with the extent of the decline.

Therefore, Lu Shaohua didn't know how to answer Zeng Jianguo's question about the "double-sided nature". He nodded, then shook his head, and then said, "I am ready to do a big job, but how much I can earn is still unknown. I have to wait until it's over to get the result."

"Oh!" Zeng Jianguo was a soldier, not an expert in economics, so of course he didn't understand the subtleties. However, he was able to understand Lu Shaohua's answer a little bit, so he nodded, as if talking to himself, and said, "It looks like another international storm."

Lu Shaohua smiled. According to his memory, the Mexican financial crisis in 1994 could indeed be considered an international storm, but its impact was limited and not too serious. It was much weaker than Black Monday. In a sense, it could not be called international.

"So what if it's international? We just make our money, and the rest is none of our business." Lu Shaohua said with a smile. As for the other meaning in his words, Zeng Jianguo needed to think about it seriously.

Zeng Yuling's reaction was not slow. She immediately realized that Lu Shaohua was reminding her, and confirmed it again. "Will it have no impact on our country?"

Zeng Jianguo discovered the deeper meaning, and Lu Shaohua could no longer hide it. He nodded and said with a smile, like an expert on a stock trading show. "It's dispensable. It's inevitable to cause panic, but it won't have any actual impact."

"That's good." Zeng Jianguo said with a sigh of relief.

After getting the answer from Lu Shaohua, Zeng Jianguo finally felt relieved. Although he was from the National Security Bureau and was responsible for national security, things like the financial crisis were also considered a form of undermining national security, and their National Security Bureau had the right and responsibility to take precautions.

Before Zeng Jianguo asked the question, Lu Shaohua had already guessed his purpose, and now that he had given him the answer, there was no need for Lu Shaohua to say anything more. He sat quietly aside, closed his eyes, and waited for Mr. Deng to come down.

Soon, about ten minutes later, Deng Lao came down with a smile on his face. After he came to the sofa, he sat down, nodded to Lu Shaohua, and said, "It's done, but the funds that can be raised are too much, about 5 billion US dollars."

It is now the mid-1990s, and the country is not as rich as it will be in the 21st century. The 5 billion US dollars mentioned by Deng should be the country's limit.

Since the country has put up the largest amount, Lu Shaohua can't let people down, right? He nodded again and promised. "Don't worry, just wait for us to return triumphantly."

"Yeah." Deng Lao nodded. Since it was a done deal, he was no longer as conflicted as before. He smiled and said, "Three days. In about three days, the funds can be mobilized and we can prepare to leave. Oh, by the way, do you want to stay in Beijing for three days or go back first?"

"I'll go back first." Lu Shaohua had no intention of staying in Beijing. "When the time comes, just send someone to Hong Kong to find me."

"Well."

With Mr. Deng's "Okay", the topic officially came to an end. Lu Shaohua had finally come to the capital, so naturally he had to chat with Mr. Deng. So, the two old men and the young man sat together and talked about casual topics.

It was not until exactly twelve o'clock noon that the three of them finished their conversation and had lunch.

After lunch, it was time to say goodbye. Lu Shaohua still had some things to deal with in Hong Kong, but before leaving, Deng Lao still asked, "Now that things have been settled, can you also tell me where the target is?"

Lu Shaohua stopped walking, turned around, smiled at Mr. Deng, said three words, "Mexico", then turned around and left without looking back.

Time flies, and three days passed in the blink of an eye.

During these three days, Lu Shaohua stayed in his villa in Hong Kong, keeping a close eye on the movement of every sum of money transferred from Africa, and then called Xie Jianwei to prove that the funds had been obtained.

There was no other way. Thirty billion US dollars was too huge a sum of money. If it was transferred to the Phoenix Group's account all at once, it would inevitably be noticed by someone with ulterior motives. Lu Shaohua could only ask Xie Jianwei to divide the money into several payments and transfer it one by one.

Ten billion US dollars a day, divided into several transfers, is no small project.

When the last sum of money arrived, Lu Shaohua finally breathed a sigh of relief. The same was true for Liu Mingzhang. After dealing with the follow-up matters, he went home to pack up and prepare to leave for Mexico.

The next morning, November 1994, 11, Lu Shaohua had already packed his luggage and was staying in the villa, waiting for people to arrive.

Before nine o'clock, Liu Mingzhang arrived at Lu Shaohua's villa as soon as possible. Seeing him carrying a large gift bag, Lu Shaohua just smiled and motioned him to sit down first, and then there was no other words.

Time passed bit by bit. Liu Mingzhang wanted to ask Lu Shaohua several times when they would set off, but seeing that Lu Shaohua had his eyes closed, he moved his lips but swallowed the words back into his stomach and did not ask.

After waiting for nearly half an hour, there was finally movement outside the villa. It was the sound of several cars. Lu Shaohua opened his eyes after hearing the sound, stood up from the chair, and said in a deep voice, "We can set off now."