After spending a sum of money on special jade at the Huaxia Pavilion of the World Expo, Shirakawa Kaede finally left satisfied.

The famous Hetian sheep fat jade in later generations, and there are also master-level figures who personally took action.

$400,000 is about 100 million yen, which is not too expensive.

Sprinkle the water~, a certain nouveau riche said that this is a small amount of money and not worth mentioning.

"Xiao Feng, is Hetian Yu as good as you say? I think it's better to look at jadeite. ”

Matsuda Seiko, who is unwilling to be lonely, can't understand why Shirakawa Kaede spends so much money to buy Hetian jade, which has no international reputation.

You must know that in jade, neon people prefer jadeite, and it can even be said that jadeite is more valuable internationally.

The auction of millions or tens of millions of dollars of jadeite at every turn is the best proof of this.

Not only her, but even Yuko Tanaka and Keiko Matsusaka, who didn't speak, were a little strange why Shirakawa Kaede loved this kind of jade in Huaxia alone.

"The value of jade is mostly based on market speculation, which is irrational in itself.

So in terms of ornamentality, if you want to choose, choose what you like.

I like the white of white jade, just like the white of Shirakawa.

In addition, Hetian sheep fat jade was loved by the royal family in ancient China and was once used as a raw material for the production of jade seals.

The jade seal is an existence similar to the seal of a country, representing the highest point of power, identity, and status.

So it's not just about liking, but it's also going to rise in value in the future.

Of course, if you like jadeite, you can do it, and I will take you to see it next time there is a jewelry auction. ”

Shirakawa Kaede walked in front with his hands behind his back and spoke, looking like a teacher who gave science to elementary school students.

Yuko Tanaka and the others glanced at each other without a trace, and then said in unison, "That's not necessary, Hetian Yu is also very good." ”

It's a joke that deserves to be treated so seriously by Shirakawa Kaede, it must be of extraordinary significance, not to mention that it is related to the word "heirloom".

It's about the future of your children, what is jadeite, it's a big deal to buy it yourself.

So without exception, the three women were extremely rational at this moment.

As for what a woman can't walk when she sees a glittering jewel, it doesn't exist.

Seeing that they all agreed with their decision, Shirakawa Kaede nodded with satisfaction, his own woman is still very sensible.

In fact, the reason why Shirakawa Kaede is willing to spend a lot of money to buy the little-known Hetian jade is partly because he likes it, and he also wants to help his hometown.

He is not stupid, he has been in business for so many years, how can he not know how to negotiate the price.

It is obvious that 400,000 US dollars, at this time, the price of Hetian jade must be overestimated.

But there is no way, he has a special identity now, and he can't send it blatantly.

Otherwise, it is not a good thing for a chaebol owner to be too pro-China.

Neon's far-right wing and Mi Guo's father will teach him to be a man in the future.

Maybe one day the scene of "Heaven punishes the national thief" will be staged again.

And the price of buying jade should not be too high, otherwise it will be too conspicuous.

So in general, I can only send warmth through these small means, in short, I can help a little.

What is it that he can pay tens of billions of dollars for the fawns and antlers, and $400,000 for his first hometown.

He knows that his hometown is very short of foreign exchange now, to what extent?

In fact, the export of many commodities is sold at a loss, with the purpose of exchanging the renminbi in hand into dollars.

In '85, the official exchange rate between the renminbi and the U.S. dollar was about 3:1, but in order to exchange for the U.S. dollar, the ratio would be pulled to 5:1 or 6:1.

In the black market, the proportion is even higher. In the final analysis, it is because there is a shortage of foreign exchange in my hometown, and there is not much dollar circulating in the market.

So Shirakawa Kaede's $400,000 is not too much for his hometown on the other side of the sea, but it is not too little.

However, the first contact can be maintained at the current level.

The coming day is long, so why not be afraid of the road.

Shirakawa Kaede walked around the Expo Park for a while, and finally he found a snack bar that planted flowers.

There are all kinds of fried noodles, Guangling fried rice, and pancakes, and Bai Chuanfeng inquired a little, and this shop was also opened by the Chinese-American Gu Shangying just now.

Not only that, all the chefs are from China, and they will return to China after the World Expo.

Tsk, Shirakawa Kaede had to sigh, this business mind is hard to get.

Since it is an authentic snack for planting flowers, he has no reason to let it go.

Pancakes and fried noodles were served, and Yuko Tanaka was also pulled to sit down with them.

This meal is called a tearful meal that Shirakawa Feng eats, that's right, it's the taste~

"Invincible~How lonely it is~"

At this moment, Bai Chuanfeng understood the reason why Deng Qian was so excited after eating chicken in "The Mermaid".

However, the days of relaxation are too short, and although the Expo will not end until September, Shirakawa Kaede can only enjoy one of the leisure days.

After the opening of the World Expo in March, the neon here is lively and exciting.

But there is already an undercurrent in the world, and a tsunami or a storm is quietly brewing.

…

85 years is destined to be an extraordinary year, and since Li Gen was sworn in as the second term of the United States General in January, it has been destined to be an extraordinary year.

The Li Gen era was the 80s of the United States, at which time the United States had long since lost its high-spirited appearance after the war, and it was no longer the representative of the dream of the United States that everyone yearned for.

Because of a series of problems such as dollar appreciation, deflation, and fiscal deficits, the export manufacturing industry has declined significantly.

GM, Ford, and Chrysler, both in the domestic market and in the international market, have been defeated by Toyota and Nissan.

As of this year, even 60% of its own domestic market has been occupied by Japanese cars.

In the field of semiconductors, NEC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Toshiba, etc. have also pulled Intel, Motorola, and Deyi off the altar.

In 85 years, Neon Enterprises has occupied 68% of the global DRAM chip business, and the expansion rate is terrifying.

It can be said that since the 70s, the United States has slowly ceded its share of the global trade market to Neon and West Germany.

Of course, all this is not voluntary, looking at the gradually widening trade deficit and fiscal deficit, the United States government is also anxious and trying to find a breakthrough.

From the 60s to the 80s, as Shirakawa Kaede analyzed to the Minister of International Trade and Industry at the beginning, there were constant trade frictions and games between rice and Japan.

In fact, the same is true in Zhizhou, where the trade conflict with the United States has gone from agricultural wheat to the current automobile industry.

North Rice, Neon, Na Zhou, several rounds of trade wars down. After you add tariffs, I will add them, and after I add them, the trade barriers will increase higher and higher.

So now, in the 80s, from the perspective of the global situation, trade between countries is decreasing.

Decades of trade wars have turned globalization into de-globalization.

So after the United States knocked on neon, knocked Germany, and beat the little brothers around him, has the trade deficit been resolved?

It turns out that not only is it not, but now there is a tendency to further expand.

Because in terms of product quality and price, Neon and Deutsch's products are really powerful.

The common people don't care what trade deficit you have, he only buys cheap and good quality.

So now, the life of the rice country is really not good.

And because of anti-globalization, other developing countries in the world are not having a good time.

Many international economists believe that the trade system is not overhauled and there is a possibility of collapse.

Therefore, Li Gen specifically mentioned in his speech as the head of the office, "Reduce the deficit, and open up overseas closed markets through tax reduction programs."

And let them cut taxes to strengthen their economy to buy more rice products. ”

The last sentence is the point, what is the ultimate purpose of the trade war? It is to sell rice products.

Only by selling products to make money from other countries will the problems of the trade deficit and fiscal deficit of the United States be solved.

Also in January, the United States launched a market-oriented multi-field negotiation plan with Japan, known as the MOSS agreement.

The content of the agreement is mainly to carry out market-oriented multi-field negotiation plans for Neon in four fields, including electrical appliances, electrical communication products, medical devices and pharmaceuticals, and forest products, among which the electrical field includes semiconductor products.

This is the negotiation investigation carried out by the Mi government on the neon official, and the power of public opinion is not idle.

Fortune magazine published a report entitled "Neon Spies in Silicon Valley", which immediately aroused the vigilance and disgust of the people of the United States towards neon as soon as it was published.

At the same time, "Business Week" also published a special report "Chip War: The Threat of Neon", which detailed the threat posed by neon semiconductors, which is the first time that the United States has used "war" to describe semiconductor competition.

The government, public opinion, and the people are a trinity.

What's going on? It's justifying yourself!

What's the name? The teacher is famous!

That's right, in ancient times, it was like a thief's essay before the expedition!

Some countries with a keen sense of smell or enterprises with strong backgrounds in the world have already smelled the smell of wind and rain.

In the world of great strife, strife will arise.

Looking back at Neon here, the people are enthusiastically participating in the World Expo.

The government also maintains a considerable level of self-confidence and is indulging in a dream of "powerful neon".

But after Shirakawa Kaede returned from the Expo, he tensed his nerves again.

From April to June, he and the decision-makers of the Hokuto Bank, led by Hiroshi Arai, held frequent secret meetings in the Shirakawa Building.

What to discuss? Most of them are about currency and exchange rates.

After the collapse of the Bretton system in '70, in the more than a decade from '71 to '85, central banks basically handed over the pricing power of money to the market.

As a result, a huge market for currency speculation has been created, and a lot of strange things have happened in this bizarre market because it is not regulated.

For example, in 85 years, the trade deficit of the United States was more than 100 billion US dollars, and according to the normal market law, the United States economy should be depreciated.

But even in such a year, the dollar continues to appreciate because of the frenzy of currency speculation in the market.

Therefore, it can also be said that the currency speculation market has contributed to the appreciation of the US dollar and reduced the competitiveness of the country's export products.

At the same time, it has further led to an imbalance in the trade system and thrown the global trade market into chaos.

Today's situation is the result of a combination of factors, so solving the problem requires taking each of them into account.

The MOSS agreement between the United States and Neon in January is aimed at trade itself, and currency factors and exchange rate factors are also brewing at this time.

In particular, the currency speculation market has not focused on the United States and Japan for the time being.

And this window period is the best time for Shirakawa Holdings and Beidu Bank to quietly enter the market.

Taking advantage of the efforts of the past few months, Shirakawa Holdings is frantically opening trumpets under banks all over the world.

Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Res Bank, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Bank, etc., so the famous market that supports foreign exchange trading has a large number of accounts belonging to Shirakawa Holdings.

The purpose of this is to put on a vest to hide people's eyes and ears, and secondly, to dive under the surface of the water.

And when Shirakawa Feng was secretly in a position here, during this time in the spring of 85, Mi Guo was not idle.

In addition to opening negotiations with Neon in January, in order to exert pressure, the U.S. Senate officially listed Neon as an "unfair trading country" in April.

At the same time, the media further began to criticize Neon, and the newspapers were full of negative news about Neon.

In the two months leading up to June, the Senate and House of Representatives continued to put forward hundreds of plans to retaliate against Neon.

can make the Senate and the House of Representatives work together to unify the goal to the outside world, which shows that neon has indeed aroused the public indignation of the whole country at this time.

So for such a turbulent public opinion situation in the country of Daddy's country, what is Neon doing here?

(End of chapter)