Liu Siwei, chairman of the board of directors, and his wife Liu Zhanghui came back half a month ago, they did not go back to the headquarters, nor did they go back to the "mansion" on the top of the Taiping Peak, but spent the Mid-Autumn Festival with Zhang, Liu, and Xia in the Xiangjiang Special Economic Zone, and only then did they rarely appear at the headquarters of NB Electric Group in Kwai Tsing District, Hong Kong.

Coincidentally, since mid-September, the charter that has been having a lot of fun on the Clear Water Bay Peninsula no longer sneaks out to fish with a group of future Nobel laureates every afternoon as before, but shows up at the group's investment department at 11:30 p.m. every day.

Most of the staff don't know what the charter is doing on the fourth floor, but Liu Siwei and Mrs. Liu are busy on the sixth floor, and almost everyone knows about the group headquarters and the NB electrician headquarters across the road.

Not only did he not care about the affairs of the group, but he even transferred Liang Baoer, the head of the group affairs department, Gao Zhihe, the deputy director of the planning department, and Lin Huixian, the design director of NB electrician, who had just finished maternity leave, to his team to specialize in studying the articles of association and Xia Yao's wedding two months later, and the chairman of the "wedding preparation committee" of the whole child!

Professional things should be done by professional institutions, and after discussing the guest list yesterday, the manager and chief planner of Hong Kong's top wedding etiquette company were invited over.

"Be sure to study the weather conditions for your wedding and make a schedule for the ceremony based on the wind and the length of sunshine on the day......

I've been thinking about this for half a year, and every time I think of a little thing or precautions, Zhang Hui will write it down in the small notebook she carries with her, and now it really comes in handy.

Planning a wedding for Hong Kong's youngest wealthy man is an opportunity that not all wedding etiquette companies have. Manager Gan listened carefully and recorded in detail. Don't dare to slack off.

The chief planner, Miss Rong Ningsi, smiled confidently: "Mrs. Liu." We will check with the Observatory for weather conditions. And the wedding date of Mr. Zhang and Miss Xia has not been finalized, from November 17th to November 22nd, there are 7 days to choose from, and I believe that there will definitely be a few good weather in a week. ”

One is on the fourth floor and Ding Wenming doesn't know what they're doing, and the other runs to the NB Charity Foundation all day long, acting like it's nothing, I don't care who cares?

Zhang Hui secretly sighed and reminded very seriously: "Miss Rong." The key is that invitations need to be sent out in advance. At the same time, guests come from more than 40 countries and regions around the world, and we have to help them book flights and hotels in advance. Considering that many guests are coming to Hong Kong for the first time, we also need to make some travel preparations in advance. ”

Mr. Cheung is not only the 10th richest man in Hong Kong, but also an accomplished young scientist.

NB Electric Group's business is all over the world, there must be many business partners, and friends in the academic community are also indispensable, Manager Gan did not dare to be careless, and said thoughtfully: "Please rest assured, Mrs. Liu, we will contact the meteorological experts of the observatory after we go back, and strive to determine the wedding time as soon as possible." ”

"Then I'm sorry for you."

"That's what we're supposed to do."

His voice had just fallen. Liang Bao'er, the head of the group affairs department, looked up and asked, "Manager Gan, Miss Rong, as far as I know." Seaside weddings are not suitable for holding temperatures that are too low or too high, so to take better photos of the seascape ceremony, should you try to avoid the strong daylight at noon and choose a softer sunset? ”

"Mr. Zhang and Miss Xia's wedding is scheduled for November, not a hot summer, and I don't think it should have a lot to do with when the ceremony will be held. Of course, we will consult with the best videographers and photographers in Hong Kong on this issue. ”

Lin Huixian pondered for a moment, then raised her head and added, "In addition, the two of you need to pay special attention to the rules of the tide, when the tide rises and falls, so that the tide does not wash away the items placed on the beach. ”

"Okay, no problem."

Which hotel chef is invited, what kind of food is cooked, and the flow of the ceremony...... After nearly two hours of research, the first official meeting with the wedding company was over.

Seeing off Manager Gan and Miss Rong, the meeting was still going on, Liu Siwei looked at the information in the folder, and said worriedly: "The rest is the officiant, witness, best man and bridesmaid." The officiant and the witnesses are easy to handle, the key is the best man and bridesmaid, except for the researchers in the laboratory, he has few friends, Xia Yao is the same, you can't find a few people you don't know, right? ”

This is indeed a problem, Zhang Hui said thoughtfully: "Linlin is not married, maybe you can make up a number." ”

Lin Huixian was made ridiculous, and immediately reminded: "Sister Hui, how can a sister be a bridesmaid for her younger brother?" ”

"What then?"

The authorities are fascinated, the bystanders are clear, Liang Baoer hit the nail on the head and said: "Mr. Liu, Mrs. Liu, in fact, the wedding is such an important matter, I think we should ask for the opinions of Zhang Gong and Miss Xia." ”

It is true that they should be consulted, but Liu Siwei clearly understands that the investment department of the fourth-floor group is making billions of dollars of big bets, and the charter simply does not have the energy and time to think about this. Xia Yao listened to him for everything, and for her, the wedding was even just a ceremony that made the two old people happy, and she would not have any opinions.

"They mean let's see."

Liu Siwei shook his head with a wry smile, and then said: "If you really have any opinions, it is not too extravagant, not too public, and don't make the guests feel restrained." Group colleagues said that when everyone gets together, they will have an annual meeting, and then go home happily for Christmas. The problem is that his scientist friends, how to make them feel at home, I really don't have confidence. ”

Zhang Hui nodded his head and said expectantly: "Huixian, your husband is in the laboratory, and you are more experienced than us in this area." ”

Thinking of the "Carbon Nanotube Technology Seminar" held last year, Lin Huixian blurted out: "Then have a scientific wedding." ”

"Be specific."

"It's like engaging in academic exchange activities, with scientists as the mainstay."

The more Lin Huixian thought about it, the more feasible she felt, and said with a smile on her eyebrows: "Please ask Principal Gao, Professor Alferov, Professor Smith and Professor Popper and other seniors to be the officiant and witnesses for the two of them." In addition, they are not religious. There is no need to engage in any groomsmen and bridesmaids. Organize a group of men and women composed entirely of scientists. ”

Such a wedding charter must be liked. Liu Siwei laughed and said: "Professor Guo Junru, Dr. Cai Yangzhi, Dr. Chen Wushou, as well as Dr. Perelman of the Center for Mathematics Research and Director Linnas of the Computer Application Center, are the most outstanding young scientists. ”

Marriage is a matter of two people, Zhang Hui didn't like this idea very much, and said bluntly: "The men's guest group has such a strong lineup. What about the female guest group, although this is not such a diplomatic activity, the two sides must be reciprocal, but the gap can't be too big, right? ”

"Sister Hui, we have a lot of female scientists! Needless to say, Xinru also has Dr. Jiang and Dr. Xiang, who has just returned from Germany. There are five men, we are two people short, counting Jingwen is only one, and there are so many female professors and doctors in the laboratory and the University of Science and Technology, just invite one more. ”

"The question is what Xia Yao will think. They are all scientists, but she is not alone. She certainly didn't have a taste in her heart. ”

Liang Baoer felt that this was a good idea, and suddenly said: "Mrs. Liu, although Miss Xia is not a scientist, she is a philanthropist, and the fields she serves are different, and there is no problem of unequal status." ”

Zhang Hui was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but smile: "So I should also be considered a philanthropist?" ”

Liang Baoer just could speak, and confirmed with a thoughtful face: "You are enthusiastic about charity and public welfare, and fund sports, of course." ”

After unifying his thoughts, Liu Siwei said decisively: "Then it's decided, let's divide the labor, I am responsible for business friends, Xiaohui is responsible for relatives and friends in my hometown, Director Liang is responsible for the wedding etiquette company and foreign guests in Hong Kong's clothing, food, housing and transportation, Director Lin is responsible for coordinating with the laboratory, and communicating in a timely manner if there is anything." ”

Before you know it, it's already lunchtime.

After the villa on the top of the Taiping Peak was renovated, the parents-in-law and Xiao Jiahui moved over together. After the "business" was done, Zhang Hui naturally would not stay at the group headquarters for a long time, and he didn't even care about eating fast food at Chen Ji Tea Restaurant, so he took the Mercedes-Benz bulletproof car specially purchased by the board of directors for the charter to go back to accompany his son.

Although Liu Siwei was in his position, he did not seek political action, and said hello to Wu Jinhua, the CEO of the group who had just returned from a business trip to Germany, and went to the fourth floor to prepare to eat with the charter with the group affairs department.

There were not many people on the fourth floor, but with several teams heading to the United States, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom, there were only a handful of six people left, including Ding Wenming, the group's executive director and vice president, and Xie Weichang, chief economist with offices on the sixth floor.

Every time he comes here, Liu Siwei feels that the world is too unfair!

NB Electric has so many sub-group sub-subsidiaries, so many managers, technicians and front-line workers, and it takes a lot of hard work all year round to make billions of output value. And here, a genius investment manager plus a few smart analysts, as well as a few good traders, is enough to command a fund of hundreds of millions of dollars and be able to make incredible returns.

"Fake foreign devil" John Chen was lazily half lying in a leather swivel chair, his legs resting on the desk, tilting his head to look at a monitor hanging in the corner. Yesterday he was in this position, and today he is still in this position, as if he hadn't moved at all.

The office area next to the computer room was empty, and only when you walked in could you see that there were two analysts inside, and the trader was in the room at the end of the aisle. In the huge space, only the hum of the computer room was heard, no one talked, there was no phone, no fax, there was silence, as if you had come to another world.

Walking into the conference room, I saw that the charter, Ding Wenming, and Xie Weichang were concentrating on the LCD monitor on the wall, and the boxed lunches prepared for them were all placed on the conference table, neatly arranged, and it seemed that they were going to be like yesterday, and they would never come over to eat if they were not hungry and gurgling.

Liu Siwei gently closed the glass door and asked in a low voice, "How is the situation?" ”

The head of the charter did not look back: "The appetizer, soup and side dishes have all been eaten, and the main course is being served." ”

It was like eating Western food, Liu Siwei was happy, sat down next to them and asked with a smile: "Is the first plate smoked salmon or cocktail cup, don't tell me it's baked snails, I will be sick to my stomach when I see it." ”

Xie Weichang looked back and smiled: "Mr. Liu, the first dish is Finnish smoked egg with Finnish caviar, and the soup is Italian orchid soup." The side dish is a Spanish stewed oxtail. You'll love it. ”

I went around yesterday. Seeing that they were all busy, they didn't ask anything. The three of them were actually in the mood to joke, and Liu Siwei couldn't help but ask, "Gained?" ”

Seeing that he nodded slightly, Xie Weichang tapped the keyboard a few times, pointed to the monitor opposite him and introduced: "After the reunification of East and West Germany, there was a huge deficit in Germany's finances, and Bonn was worried that this would lead to inflation and cause dissatisfaction among the Germans who were accustomed to low-pass expansion. So much so that a series of political and social problems erupted. Therefore, Germany, with an inflation rate of only 3.5%, not only rejected the last G7 summit's request for a cut in interest rates, but raised the discount rate to 8.75% two months ago.

With such a high interest rate, international investment institutions and individual foreign exchange depositors trying to maintain their value will naturally not miss it, resulting in a wave of selling the British pound, Finnish mark, Italian lira and Spanish peseta in the foreign exchange market and snapping up the German mark.

Our focus is on the pound sterling, and to be sure nothing goes wrong, we have set aside a $630 million margin. The pound was in jeopardy, and the chances of a rebound were almost zero, so the margin was used to make a few short-term trades, with small gains in the Finnish mark, the Italian lira and the Spanish peseta. ”

From last year to now. Invest so much money, and even take advantage of the loopholes in German law. Rationally and legally embezzled billions of marks in the deposits of the East German people in the NB bank, and it was as it should have been to make some money.

Liu Siwei asked again: "How much is this?" ”

The charter smiled lightly: "More than 30 million, it's a dollar, not a Hong Kong dollar, not a yen." ”

"So much?"

"The best is yet to come."

The charter smiled, pointed to the monitor and said proudly: "Four days ago, Bundesbank President Schlesinger announced that interest rates would never be lowered, and speculators in the money market unscrupulously turned the target of speculation to the ever-strengthening mark. The pound has been falling, and the pound to the mark has now broken through three lines of defence, reaching 2.78 marks per pound, which has never been done before. ”

Liu Siwei was originally a senior accountant, how could he not know what this meant, and asked eagerly: "What about the British government?" ”

Ding Wenming took over the conversation, grinned and said: "Britain announced a two-percentage point increase in the bank interest rate in the early hours of yesterday morning, and a few hours later announced a three-percentage point increase, raising the interest rate from 10% before to 15% now. Raising interest rates twice in one day is also unique in Britain's recent history. In this way, an attempt was made to attract short-term capital inflows from abroad, increasing demand for the pound sterling in order to stabilize the pound exchange rate.

Unfortunately, market changes are subtle, and once confidence is shaken and the general trend is established, the trend of exchange rate movements becomes difficult to stop. Although central banks have injected tens of billions of pounds of money to support the pound since yesterday morning, it has not helped.

Now the value of the pound with the mark has fallen from 2.78 marks per pound yesterday to 2.64 marks per pound sterling, and the price of the pound with the dollar has also fallen to the lowest level of $1.738 per pound sterling. ”

Liu Siwei pondered for a moment, and couldn't help reminding: "The more you fall, the more you must be calm, and you must not fall short at a critical moment. ”

Several R&D projects being carried out by the Faculty of Technology Application are simply a bottomless pit, and the charter does not want to just stop like this, and said casually: "Brother-in-law, our contracts are all at the end of this month or the beginning of next month, if nothing else, the exchange rate of the pound against the dollar should fall to 20% to 30%, and one pound pound will probably become one point and four dollars from the previous two dollars, this opportunity is not available at any time, so we plan to wait for the contract to be completed before chasing it." ”

"Mr. Xie, what do you think?" The person next to him made a very accurate prediction last year to today, and Liu Siwei thinks that he should listen to his opinion.

Xie Weichang said with a smile: "Chairman Liu, although you can rest assured, Ding always has a very complete trading strategy, and more importantly, Germany has abandoned the United Kingdom, lifted their protection of London, and completely exposed that financial center to the ferocious firepower of global macro hedge funds, and we are only the most inconspicuous of them." It can be said that it is now a matter of earning more and earning less, without thinking about whether you will lose or not. ”

"So how are you going to chase it?"

Ding Wenming got up and said with a smile: "No one is a fool, it is impossible to borrow pounds like before, we are ready to adopt a circular trading strategy, and buy a large number of British stocks while delivering short orders, anyway, the group and the laboratory will not use so much money for a while." ”

When a country's currency depreciates, the country's stocks usually rise, which has both historical and theoretical basis.

Liu Siwei nodded slightly, pointed to the boxed lunch on the table and quipped: "The main dish won't come for a while, so the three of you will eat a few bites of the boxed lunch first." ”

The charter glanced at the time on the monitor, got up suddenly, and said: "Mr. Xie, Wenming, you eat first, our second largest investor will get off the plane immediately, he is coming to Hong Kong for the first time, I will go to the airport to pick him up." ”

Liu Siwei was confused, and asked with a blank face: "The second largest investor?" ”

"Prince Metb, the money in London is his."

Liu Siwei was even more confused: "How can he have so much money?" ”

The charter said with a wicked smile: "Of course he doesn't, but he can embezzle, he can borrow from the bank, you must know that people are members of the royal family, some are privileges, you may not believe it, he does not have to pay interest on loans in Saudi banks, it is already very good for people like him to borrow and repay, I heard that there are many princes and grandsons who only borrow but do not repay, making those Saudi banks miserable." ”

"The money speculated in London is more than 600 million dollars, and if the pound really shrinks by a quarter against the dollar, then won't he be a billionaire?"

Looking at his brother-in-law's stunned look, he said with a smile: "Billionaires, people have been here for a long time, but no one will be disgusted with more money, and we will not work in vain, because we have already reached a entrusted financial management agreement." (To be continued......)