Chapter 33: The Outpost Battle (1)
In a blink of an eye, three months passed, and the time came to October of eight or nine years. As the turmoil in the mainland gradually subsided, Hong Kong's property market gradually warmed up.
Despite the uproar in Hong Kong, the result was a happy outcome, at least on the surface, not too many people were harmed, no one was sentenced to death, and most of the people on both sides left the country through various means.
However, because of this incident, the country's economic policy inevitably tends to be conservative, and the market that has just opened up has a tendency to further tighten, and Liao Chengde's factory in the mainland has been subject to several joint investigations by law enforcement agencies in just a few months. Fortunately, Liao Chengde has stopped in time and made some changes to the main direction of the factory, gradually changing to the direction of toys. Moreover, he is a Hong Kong businessman with a name and surname in the central government, and even if the local government has the intention to make things difficult, he does not dare to go too far.
After the property market picked up, Liao Chengde gradually released the real estate in his hand through an agent after obtaining Zhongshi's consent. In order to ensure the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong, some consortia from the mainland are also quietly buying Hong Kong assets, including some real estate projects. They quietly found Liao Chengde, and the price was nearly 20% higher than the market.
For such a good thing that can achieve both fame and fortune, Liao Chengde naturally does not refuse to come, so in a friendly and harmonious atmosphere, some real estate projects under Liao Chengde's name have changed hands quietly.
After the dust settled, Liao Chengde calculated carefully, only to find that in just a few months, the income obtained was as much as doubled, not counting the real estate that has not been sold yet, just the sale has made more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars, and this is only his part, the big head Zhongshi has earned 500 million Hong Kong dollars.
Since the transaction between the two parties was carried out in a secret state, the outside media did not know at all, otherwise it would have caused an uproar.
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There are two flowers, one on each branch. In Japan, after the agreement between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan's local shili was reached, the funds were continuously transferred to a special account, and all parties rushed to Kobe, the port city of central Japan, the base camp of the operation.
The reason why I didn't choose Tokyo is because Tokyo is located under the watchful eye of regulators, and the slightest hint of wind and grass can be caught in the net, and it is easiest to try to install these foreign nationals on charge. All it takes is one suspicion that they are espionage, and then all of them are deported, all their previous preparations can be wiped out, and even their funds can be withheld.
Kobe, on the other hand, is home to the headquarters of Japan's largest yakuza, the Yamaguchi-gumi. The influence of the Yamaguchi-gumi here is so great that it even far overshadows the police. In fact, in Japan's seventies and eighties, there were several outbreaks of encirclement and suppression of gangsters, the spearhead of which was directly aimed at the Yamaguchi-gumi, and in the clashes between the two sides, the gangsters armed with submachine guns beat the police to the ground and fled, disgraced the face of the Japanese police.
However, later a civil war broke out between the Yamaguchi-gumi because of the struggle for the position of leader, and the two sides began a year-long assassination operation, and Zuihou was reconciled by the other two gangs, and the leader of the split "Ichiwakai" Hiroshi Yamamoto announced the dissolution of the Ichiwakai and retired, and the civil war between the two sides ended.
In April of '89, the fifth generation of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Watanabe Yoshinori, came to the throne, and he vowed to regain his former glory, and he adopted the policy of Wakatou (deputy chief) Otami Katsu, avoiding confrontation with the police, and at the same time infiltrating all parts of the country through different forms, under his leadership, the Shili of the Yamaguchi-gumi actively infiltrated the Kanto region (Tokyo, Yokohama, etc.), and clashed with the local Sumiyoshikai and Inagawakai from time to time.
Gangsters control gambling, pornography, drugs and other industries, grabbing a large amount of money, and these unknown sources of money can not be consumed through legal channels, in fact, black money is a big problem that plagues the whole shijie underground. When the American police dealt with the notorious mafia, they could not find evidence of their crimes, so they arrested him on charges of tax evasion, and even a famous mafia godfather lamented that he could kill people and set fires, but forgot to pay taxes to the federal government in time. The godfather was sentenced to hundreds of years in prison for tax evasion and eventually died in prison.
Japanese gangsters also understand the importance of this crime, and they are actively looking for ways to launder money, especially large amounts of money, in Shijie. Under these circumstances, some U.S. financial firms active in the Japanese market hit it off with the Yamaguchi-gumi, and the two sides reached a money laundering agreement privately.
Money laundering is a thing that all Shijie's financial institutions are doing, the only difference is whether they are caught by the regulatory authorities, and in the later generations, HSBC and Standard Chartered were accused of money laundering by European regulators, and the two sides settled the matter with billions of dollars.
This time, the allies of the United States briefly explained the situation to the people of the Yamaguchi-gumi, and these extremely righteous gangsters naturally agreed, and they did not ask what the specific matter was, after all, who dared to make trouble on the territory of the Yamaguchi-gumi!
If they had known that these blond-haired foreigners were conspiring to destroy the Japanese economy, they would never have agreed so easily.
After gathering the top traders in Europe, the United States and Japan, Jim, as the convener of the operation, had the responsibility to be the leader. Dozens of them summed up the opinions of all parties, and after half a month of discussion, they finally formulated a set of operation strategies that they thought were perfect.
Since October, a large amount of money has flowed into Singapore's futures exchange, and most of these tens of millions of dollars have been invested in Japanese stock index futures.
At the same time, a lot of the money flowing out of the makeshift team in Kobe also went to the Japanese home market, and these funds were reduced to zero, buying shares of some large Japanese companies through dozens of accounts, which is one of their strategies, which is to hedge the risk from the Singapore stock index through the Japanese market.
Naturally, this risk cannot be fully hedged, and the Japanese market is so large that every index rise or fall is billions of dollars, and this kind of change in the amount of money is by no means reflected by just a few Japanese company stocks.
"How's it going?" On this day, Jim asked about Maxim, who was working nervously on the phosphor screen. As Jim's most effective assistant, Maxim naturally joined the team.
"It's not good, the Nikkei is still growing slowly, and the bull market is not over yet!" Maxim wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and shook his head slightly.
"It doesn't matter, continue to absorb empty orders. The amount of money in this operation is not as large as before, and we don't have to worry too much about the loss of tens of millions of dollars. Jim reassured.
The funds collected this time are about 5 billion US dollars, both from the United States and the United Kingdom are 2 billion US dollars, and the Japanese mainland has 1 billion US dollars. Money from Europe and the United States does not need to enter the country, and the flow of Japanese funds into foreign countries requires certain procedures, and no one knows whether there will be a regulatory department in this.
For such a large amount of money, the loss of tens of millions of dollars is indeed nothing, but the money wandering in the Japanese market has made a lot of money, at least it can be said on the books.
"Let's continue to increase our positions, and pay attention to the bearish aspect of Zuihou." Jim commanded, and turned to check on the other people's deals.
These busy traders don't know that the funds they are gathering now are just an introduction, these money is to test the reaction of the market, just like the head of the flock, and the shili behind them hopes to attract the attention of the market through the operation of these funds, and then gather more funds to attack the bulls, thus causing an avalanche in the Japanese market.
The cannon fodder trader doesn't have this awareness, and Jim knows it, so he doesn't care about the loss.
By the end of October, these people had used $500 million to establish a sizable position in Singapore, and the account continued to build up short positions finally attracted the attention of those who were interested in the market, but under the investigation of many parties, the background and information of this account were all blank.
Even so, the market participants clearly smelled a conspiracy, and there was no shortage of rumors in the capital market, some people said that the money came from Japan, some people asserted that the money came from the United States, and even more, they swore that the money came from mainland China.
Behind this account, there are gradually some followers, although the funds cannot be compared with the amount of funds in this account, but the number is quite a lot, and it has slowly formed a large Shili.
Originally, in Singapore's Nikkei index market, bullish funds have always occupied an overwhelming advantage, and most of the funds that are short are mainly short-term, and no one dares to hold them for a long time in the face of Japan's turbulent bull market.
If there is not enough shorts, there will not be enough opponents, and after a period of time, the bulls have also begun to hold short-term, fighting with each band and the short side on each trading day, and the long-term holding has become rare on the Singapore Exchange.
However, since the appearance of this account, people with a little sensitivity began to check the past transaction records of this account and found that this account rarely closed positions.
This is clearly the performance of the anti-aging Japanese stock market.
This discovery made the market excited, and many parties were happy that they finally had a counterparty, the short side of the big money stopped to watch, and the customers of small funds hoped that the water would be muddied as much as possible, so that they could make money in the cracks. (Many book friends mentioned that the update is too slow, this author has tried his best, and it is currently changed to two more on Saturdays and Sundays, I hope you can understand the hard work of code words, more recommendations, more collections, xiexie support!) )
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