After arranging the food matters, Xia Yu began to deal with the backlog.

He first picked up the summary table of major news events specially provided for him by Jiuding News Agency and looked at it.

Jiuding News Agency collects news from all over the world, large and small, and then uses it in different newspapers or TV stations according to the choice.

If Xia Yu is allowed to look at it like this, it is undoubtedly unrealistic, and he has no leisure.

Therefore, since the establishment of Jiuding News Agency, it has been stipulated that major and relevant news should be listed separately and presented to him in a concise and clear format, so that he can control the changing international situation at any time.

From the day he went north, Xia Yu slowly browsed down.

Facts have proved that the influence of Xia Yu's butterfly wings is not big enough, and what should have happened in Iran has happened.

Just a few days after Xia Yu left, on November 4, more than 4,000 students in Tehran, the capital of Iran, with the support of Ayatollah Khomeini, occupied the US Embassy, tore down the US flag and hung it with a white flag with the words "XX great", and detained 66 US diplomats and US citizens as hostages for the United States to hand over the former Shah Pahlavi, which caused a huge sensation around the world.

International crude oil prices skyrocketed instantly.

Then U.S. President Jimmy Carter immediately exerted economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran, ending oil imports from Iran on November 12, 1979, and some Iranians were expelled from the United States.

By November 14, about $8 billion worth of Iranians' assets in the United States had been frozen.

The tension intensified, and in retaliation, Iran imposed an oil embargo on the United States.

In just over 10 days, the international crude oil price has risen to $26.2 a barrel, and the rise is still very fast.

Xia Yu immediately calculated an account in his heart.

Previously, the Galaxy Fund bought international crude oil futures worth $4 billion at an average price of $20.4 a barrel.

Now the value of this batch of crude oil futures has risen to $513 million.

In just over ten days, the floating profit exceeded 1.1 billion US dollars!

After coming up with this number, the corners of Xia Yu's mouth hooked a touch of arc, and he was in a good mood.

"Don't be in a hurry, the price is still rising!"

On the other hand, international crude oil prices have skyrocketed, and Iran has imposed an oil embargo on the United States, which has led to a decrease in oil shipped from the Middle East to the United States, which has caused a certain impact on the tanker transportation industry.

The share prices of several major shipping companies in Hong Kong have been affected.

Although Huaguang Shipping is mainly engaged in container ships, it also has a lot of business in oil tanker transportation, which has also been impacted.

Seeing Huaguang Shipping, Xia Yu thought that he hadn't paid attention to the progress of the equity acquisition for so long, and he didn't know what Wang Qi was doing.

Thinking of this, Xia Yu spent more than an hour dealing with the backlog in his hands, and then instructed the subordinates of the chairman's office to notify various companies to receive the approved documents, and then planned to leave for Jiuding Securities Company.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he went out, he saw Gavin Peter coming over with a bunch of documents, and when he saw Xia Yu, he immediately squeezed out a smile and quickened his pace.

"It seems that I can't go to Jiuding Securities Company this morning. ”

Xia Yu said secretly in his heart.

Then he smiled and called Gavin Peter, who he hadn't seen for a long time, into the office.

After taking his seat, Xia Yu asked, "Gavin, when did you come back?"

Previously, he arranged for Yan Wenhan and Gavin Peter to start their international expansion respectively, and then Gavin Peter went to Europe.

Gavin Peter said with a smile: "Chairman, I came back three days ago, and I wanted to report to you at that time, and I learned that you haven't come back yet, so I came over today knowing that you are in the office." ”

"These days, I've been going to all over Europe to find out what is going on in the publishing field, and here's a survey report I've written, so you can see it. ”

After speaking, Gavin Peter took out a report from a stack of documents and presented it to Xia Yu with both hands.

Xia Yu took it and said, "There's coffee over there, you can pour it yourself, I'll take a look first!"

"Okay!"

Gavin Peter answered, then got up and walked to the coffee machine in the corner.

At this time, Xia Yu looked at it slowly.

It was the end of the 70s, the European economy was in a downturn, and the people of Europe were struggling to make ends meet, let alone spend on books and magazines.

For this reason, the market in the European publishing and media sector has been declining every year in recent years.

The only country that is still growing rapidly is West Germany.

According to the report, if you want to gain a foothold in the publishing industry on the European continent, it is best to choose France, West Germany and Spain at the same time to build a foundation, and then stabilize before entering the markets of other countries.

The most important of these is West Germany, followed by France, and finally Spain.

Despite the fact that Germany has not yet been reunified, West Germans are the most willing to invest in spiritual civilization, and last year they published 62,414 books, making it the third largest publishing country in the world, second only to the United States and the Red Polar Bear.

After analyzing the publishing market in Europe, the publishing market in West Germany, France and Spain is listed below.

In West Germany, according to the statistics of the West German Publishing Association, there are more than 2,100 publishing houses in the country, of which 65 are large publishing houses, more than 80 are medium-sized publishing houses, and the rest are small publishing houses.

The publishing houses were mainly concentrated in the three publishing centers of West Germany, namely Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Cologne, and the top five publishing companies in Germany at this time were Betelsmann Publishing Group, German Art Book Publishing House, Holzbrink Publishing Group, Springer Publishing Company, and Carl Hanzel Publishing Company.

Behind each publishing company, Gavin Peter marked the characteristics, the prospect of the analysis, the approximate value and the level of likelihood of being acquired.

In addition to the publishing companies, the report also lists in detail the largest national book wholesale companies in West Germany, the top five major bookstores in the country, and so on.

The publishing houses in West Germany were followed by those in France and Spain.

After reading this thick nearly twenty-page investigation report, it took Xia Yu nearly an hour.

But after reading it, Xia Yu has a clear impression of the publishing markets in West Germany, France and Spain.

Putting down the investigation report in his hand, Xia Yu praised: "Gavin, you have done a solid job and done a good job!"

Gavin Peter smiled and said modestly, "It's my job, it's what I'm supposed to do." ”

In fact, the better the preliminary investigation work, the more beneficial it is for the subsequent international expansion, and there is competition and comparison within the consortium, Gavin Peter certainly does not want to be compared to others, and hopes to develop the company as well as possible.

Xia Yu nodded with satisfaction, took a sip of tea and said, "Gavin, since you have investigated so clearly, which companies do you plan to acquire, and what is the reason?"