Chapter 501: Family Badge

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There was a faint smoke wafting in the small office, and Deng Lao looked at the TV indifferently, which was the live broadcast of Phoenix Satellite TV.

At present, ordinary people in the mainland have not received the signal of Phoenix Satellite TV at home.

But it is still possible in some government departments and the living compounds of their families, let alone Mr. Deng's office.

"Is this a concern?"

On the left hand side of Deng Lao sat Zhao Jun, director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, and when he heard Deng Lao's question, he immediately said: "As far as I know, it is still quite concerned. ā€

"Not only in Hong Kong, but also internationally. ā€

"I've heard that almost all the headlines in the UK today are about it. ā€

Hearing this, although he had expected it, Deng Lao couldn't help but sigh: "The British Empire is shaking yesterday, but the aftermath is still there." ā€

And such a large public opinion attention is exactly what the British want. ā€

Zhao Jun was relieved: "Chief, don't think about it, no matter how big the battle is carried out by the British, as long as Wei Ambition is towards us, they will be busy in vain." ā€

Deng Lao took a deep puff of his cigarette.

"I naturally believe Wei Xiong, but the British are not fools, and it is not easy for Wei Xiong to gain their basic trust. ā€

"Actually, the key is our relationship with the UK. ā€

"If relations between the two countries can improve, he will be under much less pressure. ā€

Zhao Jun nodded: "That's true, since that incident in the middle of the year, Britain has been following the United States to exert pressure on us. ā€

And he is trying to win over Hong Kong's rich. ā€

Deng Lao smiled slightly: "But Britain is not the United States after all, they have no consideration of global interests, and they have no direct interests with us." ā€

"So they are not destined to be as resolute as the Americans. ā€

"As the person in charge of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, you should pay close attention to the situation in Hong Kong and do everything possible to unite people from all walks of life in Hong Kong. ā€

"Especially the rich people like Wei Xiong and Huo Yingdong. ā€

Zhao Jun hurriedly said: "I will do my best to do my job, chief, please rest assured." ā€

……

"There are a lot of rules, and it's finally begun. ā€

Li Zhi watched Wei Xiong get up to accept the canonization of the Queen of England on TV, and couldn't help but complain, more than an hour had passed since the ceremony.

"If you don't make it a little cumbersome, how can you show grandeur. ā€

He Chaoqiong smiled faintly.

Although the emperor of the Wei family is not interested in Wei Xiong being canonized as a hereditary nobleman by the British royal family, it does not mean that other people are the same.

He Chaoqiong and the others are still very happy.

No matter how you say it, it's an honor, no, seeing that the time is almost up, the women in the family get together to watch the live broadcast.

At this time, it can be seen that the relatives are estranged and close.

Although the women will not be jealous and get along well, there is always a difference between a better relationship and a more general relationship.

"By the way, what do you say is going on with that Li Ruotong?"

Hearing Li Zhi ask about Li Ruotong, He Chaoqiong's brows immediately furrowed slightly: "In the past two days, Li Ruotong has an extra personal bodyguard by his side. ā€

Hearing this, Li Zhi also frowned.

Ho Chiu-king is the chairman of the board of directors of Webster Media Group, and to put it bluntly, Hong Kong's largest team of journalists and paparazzi is her subordinate.

Therefore, what she said about Li Ruotong should not be wrong.

And a personal bodyguard may have nothing in the eyes of outsiders, at most he will only think that this is Wei Xiong's consideration for Li Ruotong's personal safety.

After all, there are a lot of paparazzi following Li Ruotong every day.

But in the eyes of women such as He Chaoqiong and Lizhi, it is not only like this, after so many years, they know Wei Xiong's character very well.

knew that if Wei Xiong was not serious, he would never give a woman a personal bodyguard.

is like Lin Qingxia and Taiwan's Xiao Qiang, although they were also exposed by the media, they didn't see Wei Xiong arrange personal bodyguards for them.

"What then?"

Lizhi looked a little distressed, as vested interests, the last thing they wanted was for another woman to join them.

"Don't worry, he promised me that we would all agree, and that's what Daddy and Mommy meant. ā€

He Chaoqiong said lightly.

Li Zhi thought about it, for so many years, Wei Xiong was still very faithful, and they all knew Wei Hongdao's deterrent power to Wei Xiong.

But she was still a little worried.

"Ah......h

At this moment, her brow suddenly furrowed tightly, and a pain came from her stomach that was different from the previous fetal movement, and it became more and more painful.

"What's wrong?"

He Chaoqiong immediately discovered Li Zhi's abnormality and hurriedly asked nervously.

"It looks like it's about to give birth. ā€

When He Chaoqiong heard this, she hurriedly shouted to the maid on the side: "What are you still standing for, go and prepare the car, and inform the old lady." ā€

As soon as she finished shouting, she also felt a pain in her stomach.

"I, I also seem to be about to give birth. ā€

……

The British royal family is one of the oldest royal families in the world today, and there is naturally a whole lot of procedures for such a major event as the canonization of hereditary nobles.

It seems that this is the only way to show the grandeur of the ceremony and the weight of the knighthood.

And that's really the case.

Although Wei Xiong, who was the person concerned, was a little impatient in his heart, but after this ceremony, he did feel a strong cultural heritage.

The entire canonization ceremony, including the canonization of others, lasted almost two hours in total.

By the end of the day, it was already noon.

The royal family held a luncheon in the royal palace, which was small in scale but high in size, condensing the elite of the top of the entire United Kingdom.

The style of the luncheon is still grand and regular.

After the luncheon began, Elizabeth II gave a speech, mainly congratulatory message, which was not long and could be seen to be very formulaic.

Among them, Wei Xiong is also specifically mentioned.

In the past, there were some people in the upper class of the West who said that he was a nouveau riche, but now that he has been canonized as a viscount, there should be many fewer people who think this way.

To put it bluntly, Westerners are more realistic and interest-conscious than Easterners.

On such an important occasion, as the crown prince and princess, Diana naturally had to attend, but Wei Xiong had only had two courtesy contacts with her.

Once before the canonization began.

At that time, Prince Charles and Princess Diana appeared arm-in-arm, and Wei Xiong stepped forward to greet him, once at the end of the ceremony, before entering the table.

The contact time for both times was very short.

However, although the contact time was short, he could read many things from Diana's eyes, such as a kind of resentment of a deep resentful woman.

If it weren't for the fact that his trip was too much attention, I'm afraid I would have gone to the hotel to have a tryst with him last night.

In fact, they have only been separated for more than a week.

……

It was almost two o'clock at the end of the luncheon, and Wei Xiong's car drove slowly to Buckingham Palace, the car was still the same car, but there was a slight difference.

On the left side of the trunk of the car, a half-palm-sized gold badge was added.

This is the family crest of the Wei family.

The coat of arms is flanked by a lion with a crown on its head, and in the center of the lion is a shield divided into four squares by a 'ten'.

Each of the four spaces has a Peking Opera mask, and each of the four masks is different.

Above the shield is a golden crown with a golden dragon coiled on it, and the dragon's head is right in the middle of the crown.

This coat of arms was designed by Wei Xiong - himself at the request of the royal family.

Although the royal family had a little opinion about the golden dragon in the crown, they didn't say anything, because there was no rule that there could be no dragon in the crown.

Back at the hotel where he stayed, Wei Xiong did not rush back to his room, but stopped at the door of the hotel.

At this time, although there were not as many reporters outside the hotel as there were outside Buckingham Palace before, there were also a lot, and when Wei Xiong stopped, he immediately became excited.

Wei Xiong stood next to the car, facing reporters who were confined to the cordon.

"I have two things to announce here, I will be investing in a skyscraper in the City of London, and this plan will start to be implemented soon. ā€

The skyscraper will serve as the headquarters of Webster Holdings' European region. ā€

"The second thing is that over the next five years, I'm going to invest at least another $5 billion in infrastructure in the UK. ā€

"It's going to create a lot of jobs in the UK. ā€

This is called reciprocating the peach, and since he has been given such a title, he has to express it a little.

Besides, he doesn't lose anything.

The idea of building Webster's European headquarters in London was something he had for a long time. Investing in infrastructure is also not a loss-making business.

It's just that the returns are relatively slow.

After announcing these two news, Wei Xiong walked into the hotel under the guidance of the hotel manager, and ignored the questions of reporters.

Back in the room, Sister Ouyang immediately greeted her.

Ouyang Yaqing even hugged his neck directly and gave a big kiss: "Boss, you are so handsome at the canonization ceremony." ā€

Wei Xiong reached out and patted Ouyang Yaqing's buttocks: "Smack......"

"Wasn't I handsome before?"

Ouyang Yalan smiled and said, "Boss, just now Mrs. called and said that Sister Qiong and Xiaozhi had just given birth, Sister Qiong gave birth to a boy, and Xiaozhi was a girl." ā€

"It's a double blessing. ā€

Wei Xiong hurriedly let go of Ouyang Yaqing, walked over to make a phone call, and added a son and a daughter within a day, which made him happier than being canonized as a hereditary nobleman.

……

According to the tradition of previous years, the London stock market will be closed for three and a half days because of Christmas, and the market will be closed from the afternoon of the 24th and will not open until the 28th.

During these three days, Wei Xiong met with several members of the House of Commons of the British Parliament, whom he had met on various occasions before.

All of them are senior members of the British Parliament.

There are both Conservatives and Republicans. He did not meet these councillors for any special purpose, just to eat and chat.

At most, it will provide a little help to the enterprises with their ideas.

It's called bonding.

When the stock market opened on the morning of the 28th, everyone was excited, and the stock market was almost all green (only the Chinese stock market in the world rose in red).

Especially related to infrastructure, the increase was particularly large.

Obviously, this was influenced by the two news announced by Wei Xiong on the 24th, and for the British economy, those two news are a shot in the arm.

Let the market funds be more optimistic about the British economy.

Naturally, the British media once again praised Wei Xiong. However, at this time, Wei Xiong, who was the initiator, had already left the UK.

……

September 22, 1985 at the Plaza Hotel, New York.

The finance ministers and central bank governors of the five industrially developed countries of the United States, Japan, Britain, France, and West Germany held secret meetings and signed the famous "Plaza Accord."

According to the agreement, the five countries will jointly intervene in the foreign exchange market.

The U.S. dollar was lowered in an orderly manner against major currencies such as the yen and the mark in order to solve the huge trade deficit of the United States, which led to a sharp appreciation of the yen.

Since Japan's economy is typical of foreign trade and export-oriented.

The appreciation of the yen has led to a decline in the international competitiveness of products, a rapid decline in the value of product exports, and a difficult situation for business operations.

The Japanese government has been forced to adopt loose fiscal and monetary policies.

However, loose fiscal and monetary policies led to a surplus of money circulating in the market, which subsequently led to a wave of speculation in Japan.

This is especially evident in the stock and land markets.

Excessive speculation has led to a sustained surge in Japan's stock prices and land prices, which have greatly outpaced the growth of the real economy.

This eventually led to the creation of a "bubble economy".

The boom in the bubble economy was first manifested in the rise in stock prices.

In the four years from 1985 to 1989, the average stock price of Nikkei increased by 2.7 times, an average of 28.4% per year, which was the period of sharp stock prices in the postwar period.

It surpassed the high tide of the post-war economic cycle.

However, in terms of actual GDP, it was 4091834 billion yen in 1989 and 3429503 billion yen in 1985.

The four-year growth rate is 4.5%, that is, the average annual stock price growth rate is 4.3 times higher than the GDP growth rate.

This means that the stock price, as a kind of virtual capital, or symbolic economy, is 4.3 times higher than the real economy.

This shows the severity of the economic bubble.

The crazy rise in real estate prices is also a manifestation of the bubble economy.

In the three years from 1987 to 1989, land prices in Japan rose by 5.4%, 10%, and 7.6%, respectively, with an average increase of 7.7% during this period.

Consumer prices are rising at an average annual rate of only 1.8 percent.

In other words, the rate of increase in land prices is 4.3 times higher than the rate of price increase.

Figuratively speaking, people can make stable and lucrative profits as long as they borrow money from the bank to buy land without having to do anything.

This situation is obviously extremely abnormal.

The skyrocketing stock and land prices have increased the 'capital' held by various types of banks in Japan, thereby increasing their ability and total amount of loans.

One of the most obvious phenomenal is that Japan's major banks are among the largest in the world.

Since the main collateral for loans provided by the Bank of Japan is land, the increase in land prices has created conditions for an increase in the amount of credit.

As a result, excessive credit created a bubble economy.

The bubble economy, in turn, gave rise to more credit, and the result of the vicious circle finally caused the bubble economy to inflate to an alarming level.

But the continuous surge in the stock market has made all Japanese lose their cool heads.

A belief that the Japanese stock market is unlikely to fall is formed in the minds of almost everyone.

Without them even noticing, American financiers came to Japan with a new financial nuclear bomb, "stock index futures."

Betting with the Japanese insurance industry on the future of the index.

After that, a large number of short stock index options finally began to gain traction, and Goldman Sachs bought stock index options from the Japanese insurance industry were resold to the Kingdom of Denmark.

The Kingdom of Denmark sold it to the purchaser of the warrant.

It also promises to pay the proceeds to the owners of the "Nikkei Put Warrants" when the Nikkei Index goes lower.

The warrant was immediately sold in the United States, and American investment banks followed suit, by which time the time had come to December 29, 1989.

This trip to Japan was quite low-key.

And the car he was riding in was not the iconic '2' Rolls-Royce, but another car with a different license plate.

The purpose is to reduce the level of attention.

Coming to pick you up at the airport was Sylvester. As early as a month ago, Webster Capital sent people to Japan to make preliminary preparations.

Sylvester also arrived in Japan a week ago.

Of course, the itinerary is very low-key.

On the way to the hotel, Wei Xiong got a copy of the latest data on the Japanese stock market, and his expression was slightly gloomy.

39218 points!

This is the highest point ever for the Nikkei Stock Average, and it is enough to make everyone feel incredible.

But it's a bit of a problem.

If his memory is correct, the Nikkei Stock Average should have peaked at 38,915 points, which now seems to be much higher.

Could it be that because of his rise, history has changed?

If that had changed, would the stock market have collapsed at the opening of the market on January 1, '90, as he remembers?

In his memory, the Japanese stock market would plummet after the opening on the morning of January 1.

The entire trading board will be green, and almost all Japanese will be in despair as their life's savings are wiped out.

How could he miss such a capital feast?

For this purpose, he specially prepared a full 30 billion US dollars.

Due to the huge amount of money and the fact that international speculators were about to make a move, the Japanese government was inevitably aware of it, and it took a week to transfer the funds alone.

Then Sylvester followed his instructions and multiplied $30 billion by 10 times using the leverage theorem.

$300 billion was slowly poured into the stock market.

He would like to multiply it several times, but according to Sylvester's estimates, $300 billion is already the limit, and the Japanese government should find out more.

In addition, the joint investment and Xiangjia also invested 1.5 billion and 200 million US dollars respectively.

It has also increased 10 times through leverage, which means that Wei Xiong has invested a total of 317 billion US dollars this time, if the Japanese stock market really falls.

That's the end of it.

According to his instructions, $317 billion was spent on the large-cap index, which was a large amount of money, but it was slowly invested in a month.

So the market didn't react much.

With the rise of the stock market, the $317 billion is gradually getting bigger, and it was not until the last week that all the funds turned from buying up to buying down.

The battle has also entered the final stages of preparation.