Chapter 498: Abalone
Zeng Xinquan's pupils shrank: "Zhang Chen? It sounds familiar, but it seems that there is no financial scholar in the mainland with this name?" Director Liu, can you help me introduce me, I want to talk to this Mr. Zhang." ”
Liu Yunkai smiled: "It's simple, he is in Xiangjiang now, I will ask him for dinner in the evening, and ask him when the time comes." ”
Liu Yunkai held back a smile, just to see what Zeng Xinquan's expression would be after seeing Zhang Chen.
Zeng Xinquan just wanted to thank him, but a message displayed on the pager caused an uproar in the entire conference hall.
At 9:30 a.m. on July 6, the United States and Dongying formally rejected Goryeo's request for assistance.
All of you here are financial elites, so you naturally understand what this news means for the situation in Goryeo. Now it is the closing period, and when the market opens on July 7, there is no doubt that the Goryeo exchange rate will fall below 1000:1.
The day before yesterday, white-collar employees of Korea Insurance, Securities, and the Central Bank took to the streets to begin a sit-in demonstration for the first time when they learned that the government might merge these three institutions and face large-scale layoffs.
The response of the Goryeo cabinet was slow, and it was only yesterday that the central bank of Korea was pressured to announce that it would provide 2 trillion won in aid to banks and securities companies to ease the pressure on their economy.
But now, these two of Goryeo's most trusted allies have stabbed Goryeo at a critical moment, and it is also the most deadly one.
At 11:00 a.m., the loan shark bank that had boasted of Haikou suddenly left the foreign exchange market without saying goodbye, leaving only an empty trading floor.
Goryeo's foreign exchange reserves were officially depleted, leaving only $3.8 billion unusable.
At 1 p.m., the Goryeo exchange market was forced to close under the pretext of a power outage, and by the end of the closing, the Korean won had fallen below 1,100:1 against the dollar.
In just three hours, two securities companies in Korea collapsed, five banks declared bankruptcy, and 450 financial companies lost their money.
Shiyang Securities was one of the two securities companies that collapsed.
Yoon Seung-hyun was carrying a briefcase, looking blankly at the crowd of people coming and going on the street, everyone's face was full of despair and panic, the flying look and full smile on people's faces in the past have disappeared, some people are in a hurry, some people are like walking corpses, even if the foundation on the face is thick, it can't hide the bloodless face.
What happened to Goryeo?
On the big screen on the street, Goryeo President Kim Yong-sam bowed repeatedly with a sad face and apologized to the people, but few people paid attention to what Tai said.
"Tom!", a black shadow fell not far from Yin Chengxuan, Yin Chengxuan came back to his senses, and looked at it, a man in a dark blue suit was on the ground and formed a piece of words, and the red blood quickly soaked the snow-white shirt.
"Ah!! someone jumped off the building!!" There were screams around him, and Yin Chengxuan took three steps and made two steps, "Song, Song, senior!?"
Yin Chengxuan's mind was dizzy, even though the face of the man on the ground had fallen into shape, he still recognized this senior who had always cared for him a lot in the company at a glance.
"Call an ambulance!" Yin Chengxuan shouted angrily, and the spectators in a circle unconsciously took a few steps back.
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"Zhang Chen, this is Mr. Zeng Xinquan, the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, and this is Mr. Ren Zhigang, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. Director Zeng, President Ren, this is the Zhang Chen you want to meet, don't look at him young, now he is a billionaire with a net worth of more than a billion dollars, and he is also the only author of the paper on the Southeast Asian financial crisis, haha. Liu Yunkai introduced the two sides with a smile on his face.
Zeng Xinquan and Ren Zhigang looked at each other with dull eyes: "Director Liu, you're not kidding, are you?"
Liu Yunkai laughed: "I know that you have this kind of expression, do you know that the iCom computer is very popular in the United States now? That is his company's product." And the ICQ that you use now, he is also the founder, and he is also one of the directors of Salomon Smith Barney in the United States. ”
Zeng Xinquan and Ren Zhigang looked at each other, the two were the same age, they were not young, they didn't know much about the high-tech Internet, although they would also chat on ICQ, but it was more for the communication needs of work, and without preparation, I really didn't know that this iCom and ICQ were made by Zhang Chen.
Zeng Xinquan's heart suddenly moved, Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen 。。。。。。 I remembered that the day before yesterday, when I attended a party organized by Da Liu, someone seemed to have mentioned this Zhang Chen, and it seemed that he had a very unpleasant quarrel with Liu Yuci.
Zeng Xinquan was a little embarrassed, he had a good personal relationship with Liu Yuci, and he had also heard about Liu Yuci's credit rating downgraded by Citi, but he really didn't associate the author of this article with this Zhang Chen.
Zeng Xinquan couldn't help but look Zhang Chen up and down, and stretched out his hand, "Zhang Sheng, hello, I'm Zeng Xinquan, you can call me Donald." I'm sorry, Zhang Sheng, it really scared me just now, I thought that someone who could write this kind of article should be at least about the same age as us, and he lost his temper. ”
Zhang Chen smiled and shook hands with Zeng Xinquan: "Director Zeng is polite, in fact, it's nothing, it's just a blind cat and a dead mouse, in fact, this article is just a graduation thesis from my summer program at Stanford last year, which makes you smile." ”
Ren Zhigang gasped: "Zhang Sheng hasn't gone to college yet?
Zhang Chen said with a smile: "After the age of nineteen, I still need more advice from the elders." ”
Ren Zhigang and Zeng Xinquan stood on the spot, completely unbelievable, in their opinion, it is normal for one or two geniuses to appear in the fields of mathematics, physics and chemistry and science and technology, but in the fields of finance and economics, in addition to talent, what is more important is experience and experience. They really couldn't imagine that such an article with rigorous arguments and old-fashioned techniques was actually only completed by Zhang Chen when he was in high school.
Although they can't believe it, they believe that Liu Yunkai will not be open-mouthed, although Liu Yunkai is only the deputy director of the Financial Department, but everyone knows that next year's election, as Yang Zhuping's secretary, Liu Yunkai will inevitably follow Yang Zhuping to ascend to heaven. It is impossible for a character like Liu Yunkai to make up such a big lie to deceive the two of them.
Zhang Chen looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "Director Liu, the two gods of wealth, I finally booked such a table in Fulin, let's sit down first, what do you think about eating and chatting?"
Zhang Chen set the place to eat in Fulin, before he came to Xiangjiang, he asked the people of the source of fire to order eight three-headed abalone, the authentic Dongying Qingsen Flower Valley net abalone, the color is bright, the abalone beads are round, put under the light of a dozen, you can reflect the beautiful amber platinum color, although it is not the two-headed abalone in Zhang Chen's heart, but it is also the best in the abalone.
Fish maw, steamed rat grouper, shark fin, roasted goose paw in abalone sauce, dim sum plus two shrimp dumplings and four soups, if it weren't for these four three-headed abalones that have been concocted for two days, this meal would be unremarkable.
When Mr. Yang Guanyi, the boss of Fulin and the founder of Ayi Bao, took his apprentices to personally serve these four abalones, Zeng Xinquan and Ren Zhigang, the two Xiangjiang God of Wealth, couldn't help but sigh: "Three-headed abalone, I haven't eaten it for several years, and now there are fewer and fewer such big net abalones." ”
Zhang Chen cut a piece of abalone and put it in his mouth, a fresh fragrance melted in his mouth, "That's true, abalone everyone loves to eat, although picking abalone is very dangerous, but there are still people who go to pick abalone one after another, after a long time, there are fewer and fewer abalone in the sea, and when the net abalone in the sea is cleaned, this sea will be worthless, what do you say?
(End of chapter)