Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 410 Dialogue with the Taipan King

   Another half hour passed. .

   After the Hang Seng Index fell below 1,800 points, Yang Chen turned his head to look at He Chaoqiong and said, "Aqiong, you are watching here, I have something to do, I'm going to talk to the king."

  He Chaoqiong: "You go, I'm here to help you watch."

   Now that the Hang Seng Index has fallen, even if it rebounds next, as long as it does not exceed 1,800 points, there will be no danger.

   Now Yang Chen is just looking for Taipan Wang, not leaving HSBC, so she naturally has nothing to worry about.

   Leaving Chen Aiguo behind, Yang Chen led Junzi and Tietou directly towards the office of the Taipan King.

   "Yang Sheng" saw Yang Chen suddenly appear, and the secretary of the Taipan King hurriedly got up from his seat.

   Yang Chen asked, "Is the Taipan King inside?"

   "Yes, the president has explained that if Yang Sheng comes up, he can go directly to his office."

After   , the secretary looked at Junzi and Tietou, as if he wanted to remind something.

   Yang Chen saw this and waved at Junzi and Tietou, "Just wait here for a while."

   "Ok, boss"

  dong dong—

   "Please come in"

   Hearing the knock on the door, Shen Porridge responded without looking up, and continued to work on the work at hand.

   Hearing the voice of the Taipan King, Yang Chen opened the door of the office and walked in.

   Seeing the king of the big class sitting at the desk busy with work, Yang Chen didn't bother, and was going to sit in the rest area for a meeting.

   Didn't hear the secretary's voice, Shen Cong looked up suspiciously.

   "Yang Sheng" Shen Porridge was a little surprised.

   "Mr. Shen, good morning" Yang Chen smiled.

   Taipan Wang put down the pen in his hand and got up from his chair, "Yang Sheng, why did you come up so early? I thought you would come up to me until noon."

   Yang Chen said unexpectedly: "Mr. Shen knows that I'm coming up?"

  Shen Conge said with a smile: "Guess, I'm not very sure, but even if you don't come up, Yang Sheng, I will find you."

   "Please sit down. If you need something to drink, I'll ask the secretary to prepare it for you."

  Yang Chen: "Drink tea, don't drink coffee in the morning."

   "Wait a moment" Hearing that Yang Chen wanted to drink tea, Shen Porridge got up from the sofa and walked to a counter in the office.

   Soon, Shen Porridge came back with a closed wooden teapot. The outside of the small teapot seemed to be wrapped with a layer of gold foil, which looked very precious.

   Seeing Yang Chen's curiosity, Shen Conge said with a smile: "This is what the charter king left with me, Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao. He likes to drink tea when he has nothing to do. It's the same when he comes here."

   It is said to be stored, but in fact, it is no different from giving Shen porridge. Anyway, as long as the Chinese bigwigs come to him and like to drink tea, he will use this tea to entertain.

  If he doesn't have any tea here, the charter king will bring it again when he comes next time.

   Looking at Shen Porridge's skillful tea-making movements, Yang Chen asked casually, "Mr. Shen just said, if I don't come up, you will also look for me. I don't know why Mr. Shen is looking for me?"

  Shen Conge grinned and said, "It's not a big deal, I just wanted to ask Yang Sheng how he guessed that the Hang Seng Index would fall."

As far as he knew, on the afternoon of July 17th, Yang Chen started shorting the Hang Seng Index. At that time, the news of the interest rate hike by the Banking Association had not yet come out, which made him very curious. The Hang Seng Index will fall.

   "If I said, I didn't guess, just bet again, don't know Mr. Shen's letter?"

   "Betting?" Shen Cong's hand moved for a while, and an imperceptible scrutiny flashed in Yang Chen's eyes.

   Yang Chen's face was pale: "Yes, betting that the weakness of the Hong Kong dollar continues, even if the Banking Association raises interest rates, it cannot be saved."

   Hearing this, Shen Cong became a little uneasy, frowned and said, "Is Yang Sheng so sure that the Banking Association's move is useless?"

   "If at any other time, whenever the Association of Banks raises interest rates, it can change the situation. After all, there is no problem with the Hong Kong economy itself."

   Hearing Yang Chen's words, Shen Cong smiled bitterly. Indeed, the Hong Kong dollar was weak, and everyone transferred their funds to foreign countries for interest. In addition to the interest rate difference, the other one was that they were worried about the future ownership of Xiangjiang.

  Many people are not really trying to make money there, but more because the British consortium has heard some news from London and learned that London has little confidence in Hong Kong.

  Under the influence of a group of British capital, everyone also has a tacit agreement to transfer property, and this is just the beginning. Most people think that the weakness of the Hong Kong dollar is due to everyone's arbitrage.

   Actually, that's just one of the reasons.

   Arbitrage, as long as the bankers raise interest rates, they can stop it.

   It's just that the Hong Kong dollar continued to weaken in later generations, which made Yang Chen see more than others, but he couldn't say these things in front of the Taipan King.

   "Then what's Yang Sheng's plan next, is he going to follow the trend, or bet again?"

   HSBC, as the bank with the right to issue banknotes in Hong Kong, Hong Kong can be said to be the main base of HSBC, anyone can leave, but HSBC alone cannot.

  Once HSBC Bank leaves and loses the right to issue banknotes, HSBC is no different from ordinary banks. Moreover, with the current economic development in Asia, HSBC can only be regarded as a medium-to-upper-scale company internationally at most.

  The reason why HSBC has become a major international bank in later generations is mainly due to the development of Asia. HSBC has deployed in many developing countries in advance, and has enjoyed the dividends of economic growth with many developing countries.

   Yang Chen now holds nearly 10 billion in cash, which is not a small sum. Anything he does next will have a big impact on HSBC.

   Therefore, Shen Conge really wanted to know what Yang Chen's plans would be next, whether to learn from others to leave, or to be optimistic about the next development of Xiangjiang and invest heavily.

   This is a gamble of the century, winning meat and losing without soup.

  In the continuous turmoil of the situation, the British capital that occupied Hong Kong for decades, and finally gave everything that he had operated for decades to the Chinese capital.

   It can be said that in the next negotiation between China and the UK, it is not the Chinese capital but the British capital that will suffer the most.

   "As a Xiangjiang person, no matter what happens next in Xiangjiang, I will not leave, because here is my root, I will only expand the foundation here, and will not leave for any reason."

   "I believe Mr. Shen and HSBC are the same as me."

   Hearing that Yang Chen didn't leave, Shen Cong couldn't help sighing in relief.

   "Yang Sheng can rest assured that the foundation of HSBC is also here. No matter what happens next, HSBC will stick with the people of Hong Kong."

   "Haha" Yang Chen smiled and nodded.

   However, I don’t mind this. Capitalists can only believe half of it. If you really believe it all, you won’t know how you will be fooled to death.

  The reason why HSBC did not leave was not that it did not want to, but that it could not leave at all and could not escape.

   HSBC, which holds the right to issue Hong Kong dollar notes, and Standard Chartered Bank are the economic pillars of Hong Kong. Not to mention the inland, even the Governor’s Palace does not allow HSBC and Standard Chartered to leave.

  Xiangjiang, as the center of Asia, has a great impact on every move. The departure of HSBC Bank is equivalent to breaking its deployment in Asia for many years.

   Whether it is itself or above, HSBC is inseparable from the place of Xiangjiang.

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   (end of this chapter)