Two days later, Gu Biao rushed to the United States alone.

Gu Biao originally planned to spend all day drinking to pretend to be innocent until the last moment, but he didn't expect that he, the butterfly variable, had become so big that he had to play an insider in person and become a part of this wave of market itself.

But think about it: Americans are not stupid, and such a big thing as forcing the yen to appreciate must have been planned and comprehensively deduced. Those businesses that "have to be bought after the yen appreciates, and pay more", will the Americans not find ways to prevent them in advance?

In this regard, the important international forces that may form a production capacity substitute for themselves will naturally be tortured and co-opted by the Americans.

Looking back now, perhaps historically, TSMC was able to successfully prepare for the establishment in 87, and there was no lack of Americans behind the end of 85 years after forcing the yen to appreciate, they found that they had to ask themselves to buy semiconductor production capacity, so they turned a blind eye and secretly supported the establishment of TSMC.

All this contributed to Gu Biao's most low-key trip to the United States in the past few years.

The so-called "alone", strictly speaking, means that you do not bring any secretaries, business partners, or business subordinates, and the bodyguards still have to be brought.

This is already very "lonely", which means that after arriving at the hotel, except for calling the room attendant to take away the dirty clothes and clean the room, he has to take care of himself in other life. It's not easy for a billionaire.

The reason why it was so low-key was entirely because the trip was very sudden, and even President Akio Morita, Gu Biao's "closest external comrade-in-arms" in the past five years, had to hide.

Can't let anyone know his whereabouts, can't let Yue himself know, Peterson and James Baker actually asked Gu Wei to calculate them together.

All daily business and social interactions will be banned, at least after the results come out, and then a little delay for two days before Gu Biao can show up.

When I came out of New York's JFK airport, there was no Tiankun company car to pick me up - Tiankun's headquarters in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and the East Coast branch was in Watshengton, after all, when Gu Biao was studying for a doctorate a few years ago, he was in Watsonton, so it was more convenient to arrange.

In New York, Tiankun only has an office to manage dealers, and there is no branch. This level is too low, and it is easy to leak secrets due to the lack of henchmen, so I didn't let them pick it up this time.

"Mr. Gu, get in the car. It was President Peterson who sent us. ”

At the entrance of the terminal, Gu Biao was waiting for a pure black Cadillac Velo.

After listening to the other party's introduction, Gu Biao knew that this was the car of the Blackstone Fund Company.

Peterson's Blackstone Investment Fund is headquartered in New York. To be precise, more than eighty percent of investment funds in the United States are in New York, after all, this is the financial capital.

"What did President Peterson say specifically?" asked Gu Biao innocently as soon as he got into the car.

"Mr. Gu, don't worry, we don't know, but the participants are all important people, and it won't be a bad thing. "The driver obviously didn't know.

Gu Biao didn't bother to ask, closed his eyes and recuperated, and let the driver drive casually.

An hour later (due to traffic jams in New York, driving slowly), when Gu Biao woke up relaxedly, Cadillac Ville had already driven to the intersection of 59th Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, which is directly southeast of Manhattan's Central Park.

A 19-storey, white-walled limestone-clad medieval building comes into view, and there is no doubt that this is Manhattan's famous "Garden Hotel" and Plaza Hotel.

As we all know, hotels and guesthouses in Manhattan have always been selling with "being able to see Central Park" as a price increase selling point. After all, in a place like Manhattan, where every inch of land is valuable, 4 square kilometers of land has to be taken out to build Central Park, and the hotel where you can see Central Park is naturally very expensive.

As an aside, the Donald Building, which is familiar to all Chinese whites in later generations, is diagonally diagonally diagonally to the southeast of the Plaza Hotel - the Plaza Hotel is located on the west side of Fifth Avenue 59th Street, and the Donald Building is located on the east side of Fifth Avenue 57th Street.

Therefore, the location of the Donald Building is worse than that of the Plaza Hotel, but the Donald Building is three times higher than the Plaza Hotel, and the top part is converted into a hotel, and you can still take advantage of the height to see the Central Park across the Paris Theater and the Plaza Hotel, which is considered a "garden view room".

Of course, if the original trajectory of history is followed, then the comparison between the "Donald Building" and the "Plaza Hotel" will soon become meaningless - because three years later, in 1988, the real estate tycoon Donald would have bought the Plaza Hotel for $400 million and held it for a long time. By then, the Donald Building and the Plaza Hotel will be one.

At the moment, the deal has not yet happened, and the Plaza Hotel is still a Hilton property.

HOWEVER, AT THIS MOMENT, A CONSIDERABLE PART OF THE FLOOR OF THE PLAZA HOTEL SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN CONTRACTED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY, AND THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, JAMES BAKER, PAID FOR IT (OF COURSE, WITH THE DEPARTMENT'S OFFICE FUNDS).

He invited the finance ministers and business ministers of the five countries, as well as some important businessmen and brokers who influenced high-tech international trade, to conspire together and did not know what to hold a meeting.

As for the entire hotel, it is impossible to use the ability of the US Treasury Secretary, because there are perennial private rooms on specific floors of the hotel, and many celebrities in Hollywood and the press have rented long-term rooms in the Plaza Hotel for more than ten or twenty years. James Baker couldn't evict the tenants who came first, even if he spent money.

A room costs more than $1,000 a day (the price of the 80s), but someone buys it for 10 or 20 years, that's the cost of three to five million dollars, not counting the daily eating, drinking, and merrymaking - but many rich people in Manhattan have such a way of life, it is difficult for the poor to imagine.

The Cadillac Quevele, which Gu Biao was riding, drove past the main entrance of the hotel with other cars.

Through the dark car window, Gu Biao could vaguely see two rows of security guards standing at the entrance of the hotel and a red carpet. The Rolls-Royce in front of him stopped, and a little old man in a suit walked along the red carpet with papers in his hand.

Gu Biao didn't know that the little old man was Brittany's finance minister, Rosen.

It can be seen that at this moment, there is no real exchange here.

Gu Biao also wanted to get out of the car, but his driver did not stop at the red carpet, but waited for Rolls-Royce in front of him to leave, and followed directly.

"Why don't you get out of the car?" Gu Biao was a little alert.

"It's arranged, didn't President Peterson say you need to avoid the eyes and ears of those friends?" replied Blackstone's driver calmly.

Gu Biao thought about it.

At the main entrance of the Plaza Hotel, there were a lot of bright and dark reporters taking pictures. If Gu Biao is photographed entering the Plaza Hotel at such a sensitive moment, even if the reporters don't know what is going on inside now, there will always be a moment of unveiling in the future.

When the time comes, what kind of face will Gu Biao use to pretend to be an old friend to see Akio Morita.

Therefore, Treasurer Rosen can go through the main gate, but Gu Biao cannot.

Cadillac Vele mysteriously walked around to the underground garage before he was directed the way up a particular elevator.

Even the underground garage has a row of black suits, separating the hotel's permanent tenant area from the private area, ensuring that each part of the population can only go up to their own floor.

When Gu Biao walked into the elevator, he found that the floor buttons in this elevator were not all floors at all. In other words, this can only be stopped on certain floors, and the other floors don't even have doors.

When he came out of the 15th floor, Gu Biao saw Peter Peterson sitting on the sofa in the elevator foyer.

As soon as he saw Gu Biao, Peterson immediately got up and greeted him, and the two sides shook hands.

"I'm sorry I can't tell you some things in advance, and I'm going to bother you to stay here for at least two weeks, and you can't bring any communication tools into the venue," said Peterson with a smile. ”

As he spoke, he had already pushed Gu Biao's shoulders and walked to a metal detector security door, similar to those airport case checks, and then someone from the FBI scanned it.

Gu Biao's mobile phone was originally taken by the bodyguard, and it was impossible for him to carry that kind of two-pound brick big brother with him, so he didn't have to hand in anything.

"Look at this posture, is it the kind of major negotiation that will punish the 'insider trading crime' if you go outside to leak the news in violation of regulations?" Gu Biao's face was relaxed, and he didn't seem to be depressed at all when the communication tools were searched, and asked Peterson in a playful tone.

He would not have directly guessed that it was dealing with the exchange rate issue, but only that it was "a major event that could involve insider trading" – and in fact, the Plaza Accord was not just dealing with the yen exchange rate, but also with "the currencies of the world's major technology exporters, against the dollar" that had to appreciate.

The yen has appreciated, and so has the Deutschmark. Some of the low-end exits of the Germans will also be hit in this wave of operations to make way for the Americans.

It's just that the mark didn't rise as high as the yen, and it only rose by 40% in a few years, while the yen more than doubled.

Gu Biao's guess to this extent is very in line with his personality, Peterson will not feel that Gu Biao is prescient, nor will he think that Gu Biao is pretending to be crazy and stupid.

Peterson said bluntly: "That's right, it's exactly what you think, there's nothing to hide when you enter this door, let me be straight, they're talking about the depreciation of the dollar."

In order to prevent arbitrage in the time lag before the official decision, those who are involved in negotiations and outside consulting and consulting must be completely isolated until the date of the announcement. You're still young, don't think that there is a lot of insider trading on Wall Street, so you shouldn't take it seriously - when it comes to exchange rate negotiations, you will be very strict. ”

"So that's the case, so if I'm not mistaken, it's only about the 'depreciation of the dollar against the yen'? ”

Peterson smiled: "Of course, there is a specialization in the art industry, but there are some follow-up deductions for Japanese electronics and semiconductor technology companies, and you need to help negotiate together."

In fact, it doesn't take much time, and when you are free, you can play casually in the hotel, all paid by Minister Baker, as long as you don't leave the hotel. Let's start with Secretary Baker and His Excellency Kissinger. ”