Chapter 577 Preparation before the war

August is also hard to be hot in Hong Kong, but because it is located on the beach and the sea breeze blows away the heat, it will not turn Hong Kong into a "stove" like Wuhan and Nanjing in the mainland. However, many shopping malls and hotels in Hong Kong have turned the air conditioner to the maximum and are preparing to take the opportunity to welcome customers coming to escape the summer heat.

At this time, Yang Xing was sitting in his temporary office in Central, blowing air conditioning and passing through the large floor-to-ceiling windows, carefully looking at the location of the former Kai Tak Airport in Kwun Tong Industrial Zone across the sea. Because there was a huge community of tall buildings rising from the ground, if you look down from a high altitude, eleven skyscrapers with different shapes rose up and formed by different shapes, like a large flower blooming by the sea. Surrounding the middle stamen is a giant tower standing tall.

This giant building, which looks similar to the shape of an ancient Chinese multi-story pagoda, has a dark blue color like a traditional ancient city wall. It is coupled with the flying eaves structure of the carved painted building. In addition, the rainstorm has arrived, while dark clouds are only wrapped around the waist of the tower. It really looks like the legendary treasure of the Pagoda King fell to the mortal world and supported this sky.

This is the tallest building ever built by mankind. It accounts for one-third of the budget of 10 billion US dollars. The Zhaixing Tower, the headquarters of Sky Star City Zhongxing International, is located in Zhaixing Tower. Unlike several other major industrial parks of Zhongxing International, Sky Star City is mainly composed of Zhaixing Tower and the office buildings of eleven other companies surrounded by it, as well as the bottom square and lake park. It looks like a Tai Chi diagram from a high altitude.

Compared with the Burj Khalifa built in Dubai, UAE, which was a little shorter than the Zhaixing Tower in its previous life, although the construction cost is 3 billion US dollars, the Middle East oil tycoon can only build one building in the desert. The cooperation of Zhongxing’s own Xingyuan Construction and the joint efforts of many years of partner Huaxia Construction not only greatly reduces labor costs, but also mostly comes from the products of Zhongxing’s brother companies. This alone saves a lot of money than Burj Khalifa. Therefore, although it includes the world’s tallest building, the entire Sky Star City cost is not much higher than that of Burj Khalifa.

After three years of construction, the eleven office buildings of the "Everything All the Directions" and the Xingdou Research Institute are basically almost completed. As the headquarters of various companies in the future, the eleven groups of Zhongxing have also racked their brains to show their unique style. For example, Xinghua Real Estate uses the location close to the seaside, and the headquarters building is designed as a tornado column rising from the ground. The exterior is composed of glass and steel brackets. Every day, sunrise and sunset will reflect or reflect dazzling sunlight. Even if it is separated by Victoria Bay, Yang Xing is still dazzled by the huge luminous body opposite.

"I wonder if someone will sue the Food and Environmental Protection Department at that time and say that the house is light pollution?" Yang Xing turned around and asked the other people in the presidential office with great interest. Everyone couldn't help but look at each other, knowing that the boss likes to wander around again, and he was distracted halfway through such an important meeting.

"It shouldn't be. We chose the former site of Kai Tak Airport to build Sky Star City because it is surrounded by the sea on three sides, with few houses around it, and have a wide view. In addition, the glass outside the Xinghua Building is a high-tech product, with the ability to self-purify and selectively transmit ultraviolet rays. It has not been completed yet. After completion, each glass on each side must be controlled by a central computer. Choose the best reflection angle and will never cause light pollution."

The person who answered Yang Xing's words was a middle-aged man in his forties. He was the head of Xingfu Investment's internal high-tech angel investment fund. He obviously had a thorough understanding of his professional knowledge. Although he rarely met this young boss, now the big boss asked for inquiries, and he immediately gave an answer out of professional habits.

Yang Xing nodded and praised his immediate boss Fang Kai with appreciation, "Yes, indeed, he has professional qualities. Fang Kai, you have good subordinates. I was embarrassed just now, I was distracted. Today, we asked everyone to come because we had been preparing for so long before, and it was time to uncover the mystery. Xingfu Investment is responsible for investment. You are all elites in this industry. Now everything is ready, but we only need to discuss the war that is about to begin, and see if there are any omissions."

Today, Yang Xing returned to the headquarters in Hong Kong to call the senior executives of Xingfu Investment to hold a meeting in preparation for the upcoming US financial battle. After his unremitting efforts, he finally achieved the goal of raising US$300 billion, which Yang Xing paid a considerable price to do. In addition to performing hard work in the United States and persuading investors with a thirsty mouth in Europe, his share of equity in Zhongxing International has been weakened to a very dangerous level. If he loses this time, he may lose the controlling stake in many of its companies. It can be said that this is his biggest adventure since his business, and it is already a waste of the ship to make a big frustration.

After a secret battle between the United States and the American consortium last time, Yang Xing felt more and more that a person's ability was always limited. If he had not had a group of very capable subordinates to make suggestions in advance, his $300 billion plan would have died long ago. Fortunately, although there were twists and turns, his merits were finally fulfilled. Now the shells are ready, and it is time for Xingfu Investment's subordinates to understand the entire plan and make a last try.

The group's senior management guessed some of Yang Xing's plans when Yang Xing held a meeting last time, but now when he heard the full picture of the plan, Fang Kai's subordinates were still shocked. This was a huge bet of $300 billion! This temptation is too great, and many financial experts may not be able to see it in their lives! Now that they can come to the meeting in person, they are eager to try it.

Those present were actually mentally prepared for the United States and even the world economy that fell into recession this year. The U.S. stock market has been going down since the Nasdaq collapse last year, and there has been no sign of recovery now, which has led to the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan having to dance the interest rate magic wand many times this year, reducing the U.S. federal funds rate from 6.5 to around 3.5, and the market believes that there is still room for decline.

The main reason is that the United States started the bad start this year, and the GDP growth rate fell from a mere 1.3 in the first quarter to 0.3 in the second quarter. Many people believe that the third quarter is likely to set a situation where the US economy shrinks for the first time since 1993. As for the radicals at Stardou Research Institute, they even proposed that the US economy has fallen into recession.

Oil has caused chaos while it was hot, and prices soared, pouring cold water on the dying international economy. Although President Clinton opened the gate to help Gore's vice presidential election last year and used the strategic oil reserve "platform deposit", unfortunately it was still a drop in the bucket. In the end, not only did his opponent Bush be elected, but millions of barrels of oil were poured down, but international oil prices were not curbed. So after Bush took office, he announced that he would relax the ban on Alaska and coastal oil collection, trying to increase domestic oil extraction to reduce his dependence on imported oil.

Unfortunately, far-reaching water cannot quench near thirst. The rise in international oil prices directly transmits inflationary pressure to countries around the world. Japan's Nikkei index has been falling all the way, and European countries are in chaos for foot-and-mouth disease incidents. The inflationary pressure is already high, and the rise in oil prices makes people sigh that the world is raining all night long, and the world economy is about to turn around.

In this case, Xingfu Investment is not uncommon for the boss to bet on the sharp drop in the US stock market. What is incredible is that the boss can accurately predict when the US stock market will fall to the sky. If it can be achieved, it is indeed worth a try to press all US$300 billion. However, after seeing the boss' amazing prediction skills in the Asian financial crisis and the Nasdaq collapse, they had to choose to believe the boss's extraordinary financial intuition again.

Yang Xing did not explain more about his insistence that the US stock market will fall sharply after September 11, after all, the fact that terrorist attacks is unbelievable. His main purpose of calling on the company today is to make them consider how to secretly turn US$300 billion into short-selling US stock futures contracts.

According to Qian Yiming's suggestion, they adopted medium- and forward-term and option trading methods of financial derivatives, and have used the "Dragon" fund and international hedge funds to buy a short-sell contract of nearly a trillion US dollars in the international financial market. However, the Swiss syndicate provided Yang Xing with a 100 billion US dollar financing that the Swiss syndicate could not operate in this way. After all, the goal of this money is too big, and it was borrowed in the name of industrial investment by Zhongxing International. How to change their uses and enter the United States without being noticed by the US financial regulatory authorities is necessary to think of some solutions.

Yang Xing found them and had a rough idea. Qian Yiming originally proposed to trade financial derivatives. One of the methods was to take advantage of the US economic recession and a large number of companies went bankrupt, acquire corporate physical assets, reorganize or split and package them, and then turn them into virtual assets such as bills to make profits. This is a common method for hedge funds.

So this year, Zhongxing International launched a campaign in the United States and made a secret arrangement to change its previous approach of acquiring controlling rights of the company. In addition to acquiring core technologies, many acquisitions only pursued a small amount of shares of the company, as long as it could operate restructuring and splitting. In the process of virtualization of physical assets, Yang Xingchao not only sneaked into the United States, but also gained profits before the action, which was a method of killing two birds with one stone.

Although this plan was suspended for a while due to the interference of Mellon and Morgan, as Frank Mellon left his hometown, Yang Xing successfully launched this action. Now that $300 billion has been in place, Yang Xing asked to use this method as a model, Xingfu Investment should do its best to display their professional skills and transport the remaining money into the United States. Fortunately, the United States made a big fuss in the stomach.

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