Hong Kong Telecom and Cheung Kong Properties are the two core assets of Cheung Kong Holdings. Among so many holding companies, Hong Kong Telecom is second only to Cheung Kong Properties.
There is a famous advertising slogan that fully illustrates Hong Kong Telecom's domineering power - connecting the sky and the ground.
Li Bancheng pledged all the Hong Kong Telecom shares he held to Hua Xia United Bank, and invested all the HKD3.8 billion in loans into Hang Seng Index futures, all of which were bearish positions.
Gao Jian reported the news to Yao Yuan via satellite phone.
After receiving the news, Yao Yuan showed some excitement for the first time.
Lin Wei and Yao Yuan stood in front of the huge glass curtain wall, overlooking the night view of Hong Kong. Victoria Harbor was particularly beautiful tonight.
After a quick mental calculation, Lin Wei said, "If you enter the market with ten times leverage, the Hong Kong Telecom shares in Li Bancheng's hands will basically belong to the assets of China United Bank. This Li Bancheng is not necessarily very smart."
3.8 billion Hong Kong dollars with ten times leverage is 38 billion. In other words, Li Bancheng can buy 38 billion Hong Kong dollars in Hang Seng Index futures. If he wins, the minimum profit will be several billion Hong Kong dollars. If he loses, he will lose all 3.8 billion.
Yao Yuan said, "We have to look at this issue objectively. Li Bancheng is a treacherous person, but this is not the reason to criticize his ability. He has been in business for half a century. If he had no ability, he would have been eaten with bones.
Already."
"Yes, to be honest, he is quite powerful, and his character design is also very good, and he has deceived people all over the country. If I hadn't seen his true face clearly later, I would still be deceived by his superficial skills.
." Lin Wei said.
Yao Yuan sighed, "I am not like this, and the people of the whole country are like this. If his true identity is not revealed this time, I am afraid it will take more than ten or twenty years for us to find out."
After a pause, his face turned serious and he said, "Go long as soon as the market opens tomorrow. Buy the Hong Kong dollar and raise the Hang Seng Index at the same time. The speed must be fast so that Soros and Li Bancheng don't even have a chance to escape."
"I'm ready, now I'm waiting for news from Director He," Lin Wei said.
Soros's news mainly relies on the information provided by Shirley He who is far away in the United States. After she took charge of U.S. affairs, she established an intelligence system composed of members of Congress. It is not difficult to explore Ross's movements.
Yao Yuan's expression was still very serious. He said in a deep voice, "Awei, this time the risk is very high. If you fail..."
"If you lose, you lose. The worst it can be is to start all over again." Lin Wei was very calm. He had such a characteristic.
Yao Yuan smiled and said, "You can see clearly."
Lin Wei said, "I have been reading philosophy books recently and have some insights."
Yao Yuan walked to the coffee table and sat down, poured out the cold tea, brewed it again, and said, "You have some insights, let's talk about it."
Lin Wei came over and sat down, took out the crumpled Soft China in his pocket and tore off the seal. Then he took out the last two cigarettes, straightened one and handed it to Yao Yuan, and then took the other one himself.
While slowly stroking it, he said, "Who am I, where do I come from, and where am I going?"
"Damn it, stop talking." Yao Yuan's head got bigger.
Lin Wei said, "Ayuan, don't resist. Really, I have a deep understanding. You should also read more philosophy books. Once you understand these issues, you will have a clear understanding of many things..."
Yao Yuan snorted coldly, "I am a son of the people. I come from the people and want to go into the people. Which book are you reading? Philosophy? I'm afraid it's not Chicken Soup for the Soul published in Taiwan?"
"Chicken soup? No, it's not a recipe, it's..."
"Damn...I...you have a bachelor's degree now, don't let some small articles fool you."
Yao Yuan waved his hand to signal Lin Wei to stop talking, and then continued, "I know what you want to say. Money will not be taken with you until you die. If you can't get over the mountain, I will go over it. Sometimes you can take a step back and see how vast the world is, right?
?”
Lin Wei looked at Yao Yuan in surprise, "Have you read that book too?"
Yao Yuan snorted coldly, "Among the books published in Taiwan in recent years, there is a book that sells very well here. Do you know what it is called?"
Lin Wei blurted out, "Ugly Chinese!"
"Have you seen the stupid one too?" Yao Yuan snorted coldly.
Lin Wei nodded slowly, "Yes, it's bullshit. Many opinions are made up. I get angry just talking about it. What does that idiot writer named Bo Yang know? How many countries has he been to? He wrote randomly.
, portraying us Chinese as second-class people in the world, and portraying our Chinese nation as an inferior nation."
Filled with righteous indignation, he patted the coffee table and said, "We have been a Chinese nation for five thousand years. Our ancestors have invented textile technology and put on clothes. When Westerners were still naked, we have learned how to make food into dishes. Westerners
People are still chewing meat! As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, we have formed several mainstream thoughts such as Confucianism. When etiquette was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Westerners still peed in front of others!"
"That idiot actually painted us Chinese people as ugly Chinese. You say it's irritating or not. If you ask me, this person either has a brain problem or is extremely bad."
Lin Wei finished speaking in one breath, picked up the tea cup and took a sip to calm down.
Just now he was talking about the philosophical issue of "nothing can be ignored", but now he is filled with righteous indignation.
Yao Yuan smiled and said, "You see, what does it mean to be open-minded and what is meant to be indifferent? This is simply a false proposition. The reason why we are open-minded is that things do not touch the level of things we care about most."
Lin Wei was stunned for a moment and fell into deep thought.
Yao Yuan said, "But Bo Yang's book is very popular in mainland China, and the fact that it sells so well is proof. Why is this happening? Please explain it from a philosophical perspective."
"Philosophy cannot explain this problem. This is simply a soft war launched by imperialism against me. You know what soft war is, which means..."
"I know, skip the introduction of the concept and continue talking." Yao Yuan quickly interrupted Lin Wei. If he was allowed to express himself freely, he could talk for hours.
Lin Wei said, "In the book The Ugly Chinese, that idiot Bo Yang cited a large number of examples of how Chinese people behaved abroad. Not to mention whether the examples are true or not, there is one biggest problem.
What it is, is that most of us have never been abroad, and there are not many domestic journals that have introduced the situation abroad."
After a pause, he asked Yao Yuan, "A Yuan, let me ask you, in this case, a third-rate writer who claims to have traveled to many countries said that he saw us Chinese people abroad who are not polite and vomit in public places.
Phlegm makes a lot of noise, saying that Japanese toilet water is so clean that you can drink it directly. How can you tell whether he is true or false?"
Waving his hand, Lin Wei said, "Okay, regardless of whether it's true or not, let's talk about another actual situation. In fact, you see this more clearly than I do, and you told me about it. That is the relationship between foreign values in the entire 1980s.
Our penetration and influence. In the first decade of reform and opening up, I remember you said that this was the decade when Chinese people began to doubt themselves, the decade when society developed a mentality of worshiping foreigners and foreigners, and the decade when national inferiority complex emerged.
Among them, the ones who are most affected are precisely the high-level intellectuals, who are even so extreme that they feel sick because they are Chinese."
"In this environment, a book specifically criticizing the Chinese people came out, and a bunch of experts and scholars expressed their opinions, saying that we Chinese people should calm down and reflect. Damn you, I am reflecting on it!
"
Lin Wei became excited, "I asked someone to check on that Bo Yang. That idiot has been to the United States once. He is a third-rate writer who is so poor that he has nothing to eat. His so-called examples are all imaginary and fabricated.
"
"We often travel to various countries around the world, and we are very aware of the situation abroad. Let alone etiquette, outside of Manhattan, New York, who dares to go out after eight o'clock in the evening? In the UK, France, and Germany,
In Switzerland and Italy, don’t we know best what the so-called paradise actually looks like?”
"Su Wangting said something when we chatted after he came back. He was staying at the Paris headquarters for a while, and one day he was going to have a meeting with the Minister of the French Ministry of Economy. The car was walking along the Champs-Elysees. It was broad daylight. You know what happened?
What? The gunmen intercepted the vehicle in public and robbed it. The firepower was so powerful that the police did not dare to show their faces. Su Wangting's bodyguard was allowed to carry guns by the relevant French departments. If his bodyguard did not take action at that time, it is said that the army would have to be dispatched later.
special forces."
Taking another sip of tea, Lin Wei said, "Paris, the capital of France, is this kind of thing possible in our country? So, I think the appearance of that book is inevitable. After the previous attack on values, let me
Chinese people have a sense of inferiority and self-doubt, and then they create a bunch of seemingly objective books to guide us towards Western values, what are Western values, robber and pirate values, from a philosophical point of view, they are not even considered to have
A nation with modern civilization characteristics.”
Yao Yuan's eyes were opened and he said, "Awei, I really didn't expect you to have such a strong sense of nationalistic pride. You have never talked about this kind of topic before. I didn't expect you could see it so thoroughly."
Lin Wei said coldly, "How can we compare the past with the present? In the past, what I thought about every day was how not to be scolded by the team captain and how to save money to buy a motorcycle. Now, billions of dollars are being spent every minute, almost in all European countries, right?
Apart from the United States, I have never been to other countries. It seems that I have visited dozens of countries in total. So, the perspective and height of looking at the problem are different."
Yao Yuan gave a thumbs up in admiration, "For you in the past few years, the biggest gain is not becoming the richest man in China, but training yourself."
"Don't always talk about whether the richest man in China is good or not. There are people outside the world, and there are many people richer than me." Lin Wei said modestly.
Yao Yuan smiled and said, "I received a letter before when He Xueli was still here. It was a certain newspaper company that was going to do something... Rich list, learn from foreign methods, I don't know where the news of the arrival came from, I know the Dongfeng Group
People with billions of dollars gathered together and came to conduct interviews and investigations, but I refused."
"Wealth should not be revealed. I don't understand such a simple principle. If I want to see the rich list, it should be called the Pig Killing List." Lin Wei made a shocking statement.
Yao Yuan looked at Lin Wei with wide eyes and thought, are you a reborn person?
After digressing for a while, Yao Yuan changed the topic back and said, "After this battle is over, if I win, I will dismember Cheung Kong Holdings and take out Hong Kong Telecom to cooperate with China Mobile. It is best to merge
.If we lose, we will go back to Nangang to guard the Chunfeng Academy of Science and concentrate on technology research and development, and we will make a living by selling patents from now on."
Lin Wei said, "I set up a transportation company and recruited my former colleagues from the sugar factory fleet to drive."
It is obvious that no matter how big a big shot Lin Wei becomes, the experience of working in the sugar factory team is destined to be a hurdle in his heart that he cannot get around.
After graduating from junior high school, he replaced his father and joined the team of a sugar factory. From being an apprentice to a driver, his life was not satisfactory for more than three years. Being bullied was commonplace. In addition, because of his young age, his memory of these things is even more profound.
During the most difficult time, Lin Wei thought more than once that when he became a leader in the future, things would change and all the people who had bullied him would be put on night shift.
The leader didn't take it seriously, but all the former sugar factory leaders became employees of the subsidiaries of the secondary companies under his leadership...
By this time, Lin Wei no longer had the childish ideas he had at the beginning. Different stages of growth, and changes in the resources at hand, led to different ideas and views.
Yao Yuan said, "You are also the richest man in China. Even if the company disappears, don't you still have billions in savings that you won't be able to spend all in a few lifetimes?"
"No, I took it all out and threw it in." Lin Wei said.
In the past few years, Lin Wei's dividends and other miscellaneous things have added up to two to three billion Huaxia coins. Adding some of his own investments and the returns on investments in the stock market, I dare not say that there are more than five or six billion Huaxia coins.
.
The current deposit interest rate in the Mainland is at least 8%. If you deposit this money in a bank, the interest alone will be several hundred million per year, averaging millions every day. You will never be able to spend it all, and you will only spend more and more.
Yao Yuan frowned slightly and said, "Didn't I tell you not to invest your own money? The risk this time is very high. Let me tell you this, I am only 50% sure."
"You are really joking. You wish you had pawned your pants to invest in the war. I can't just watch. Besides, wouldn't a few billion more increase the chance of winning?" Lin Wei said.
What is a brother, this is.
Dongfeng Group has had too many executives who have made over 100 million yuan over the years. Although Yao Yuan did not understand it, he knew that very few invested all their money without reservation. Even Yu Yongan and Xiao Jiabing left a way out.
This is real society.
But Lin Wei invested everything, and there was one person before him, and that was He Shirley. As for Lin Xiaohu, Brother Hu simply didn’t know how much money he had. He never cared about these things. There is no doubt that as long as Yao Yuan needs it,
, he also has no reservations.
Without saying anything, Yao Yuan nodded slowly, refilled Lin Wei's tea, and said in a deep voice, "It depends on tomorrow. Let those Western barbarians see the wisdom of the Chinese nation."