Chapter 137 Li Changhe's True Purpose (Updated)
"Sit down, sit down, Changhe-san."

"I'm really sorry for what happened just now. It's mainly because my brother and I find it hard to believe that there are such coincidences in the world."

After Bao Yugang shook hands with Li Changhe, he warmly invited Li Changhe to sit down.

"coincide?"

Li Changhe also deliberately pretended to be surprised at this time.

Who can't act?

"It's like this, Changhe. Before you came, Qi Ran had just teamed up with someone to acquire shares in Wharf Holdings. The other party's condition was that Qi Ran help him acquire the shares of Hutchison Whampoa held by HSBC."

"Mr. Lu, what is it?"

At this time, Li Changhe pretended not to understand and asked Director Lu.

"Qiran is my alias!"

Bao Yugang explained with a smile.

"I see. That means Mr. Bao has already started to acquire Wharf Holdings. Similarly, someone has also set his sights on Hutchison Whampoa, which is owned by HSBC, and has made a deal with Mr. Bao using Wharf Holdings."

Li Changhe said at this time "suddenly realized".

Bao Yugang nodded: "That's right. In fact, from a business plan perspective, your plan is no different from his plan."

"Li Ka-shing's first target must have been Wharf Holdings, but then Jardine Matheson, the company behind Wharf Holdings, asked HSBC to step in. Li Ka-shing could no longer take over Wharf Holdings, so he passed it on to me and at the same time set his sights on Hutchison Whampoa."

"As for Ding Quan, I really didn't pay much attention to him before. Now that you mention it, I think Ding Quan is indeed a good direction for development."

Bao Yugang said seriously.

Just as Li Changhe said, whether it is solved by the British Hong Kong government or the mainland, Ding Quan, as a hidden bomb, is a valuable enough card.

Li Changhe smiled and didn't say anything else.

In fact, he really wanted to continue chatting with Bao Yugang at length, for example, about the many bugs that exist in Hong Kong Island today.

But after all, it is still 78, and the reform and opening up has not been clearly proposed, so some things should not be said too early.

In fact, if Bao Yugang could pay attention to Ding Quan, it would be enough for Li Changhe.

Many problems in Hong Kong Island in the future will be caused by high housing prices, and the root cause of high housing prices lies in land.

Hong Kong Island is famous for its small land area and large population, but if you look at the map, you will find that there is quite a lot of land in Hong Kong Island, and there are large tracts of land that can be developed in the New Territories.

However, the Hong Kong government has never developed the area because a large number of rights in the New Territories have been acquired by real estate companies.

Therefore, once the Hong Kong government develops the land in the New Territories, real estate companies can use the rights to exchange for the newly developed areas.

The most disgusting thing is that they only exchange commercial plots and leave public plots to the Hong Kong government.

The Hong Kong government also has to invest in the construction of schools, hospitals and other public welfare facilities.

However, profitable commercial properties such as shopping malls, residential properties and commercial shops are all taken away by real estate companies.

The person who likes to play this trick the most in later generations is Li Zhaoji of Henderson Land Development. He often asks to donate land to the Hong Kong government to build hospitals, schools, etc., and the Hong Kong government usually refuses decisively.

The reason is that Li Zhaoji donated the land just to ask the Hong Kong government to take supporting measures, and then once the supporting measures were completed, the surrounding real estate became popular.

Therefore, the reason why the Hong Kong government in later generations would rather reclaim land than develop the New Territories lies here.

The land obtained through land reclamation belongs entirely to the Hong Kong government and can be sold at a high price.

The commercial plots developed in the New Territories are occupied by real estate companies, and the Hong Kong government has to pay for the construction of public facilities.

From an economic perspective, it is obvious which one is more cost-effective.

Therefore, rather than letting real estate businessmen such as Li Ka-shing’s Cheung Kong Holdings, Sun Hung Kai Properties and Henderson Land Development take it away in the future, it is better to let Bao Yugang take it away.

At least in terms of patriotism and compliance with national policies, Mr. Bao and his son-in-law are much better than those real estate companies.

The wealthy people in Hong Kong can be said to be divided into several business groups. The Zhejiang businessmen or Ningbo business group headed by Pao Yue-kong and Cao Guangbiao, including Mr. Run Run Shaw, are among the best.

Then there are the Guangdong businessmen. Many of them, headed by Mr. Huo, are also role models of patriotism.

Only the Chaozhou merchants made Li Changhe feel that these people truly defined themselves as businessmen, and even charity was a business.

So now, Li Changhe really doesn't mind letting Bao Yugang go in and get a share of the pie.

Because as far as he knew, several real estate companies had already started to acquire Ding Quan, including Sun Hung Kai.

"Student Changhe, let's have a formal chat next. Why don't you tell me what you want to see Qi Ran?"

"Are you just asking Qi Ran to take a look at your business plan?"

Director Lu took the initiative to ask at this time.

They felt that Li Changhe should not simply let Bao Yugang take a look at the plan.

If this is the case, you only need to hand over the plan and it is not necessary to meet with Bao Yugang.

Since we are meeting, there are naturally things to talk about besides the business plan.

And now, Director Lu felt that they could get to the point.

Bao Yugang also nodded and said with a smile: "I also want to know, what is Changhe's real purpose in meeting me?"

When Li Changhe heard what they said, he knew that his plan had reached the most critical moment. He then took a deep breath and spoke seriously.

"Actually, the real reason I sought out Mr. Bao was for practice."

"This business plan is just a regional economic plan for Hong Kong Island that I wrote based on my economic geography class."

"I gave it to Mr. Bao, and I also wanted him to help us see from a businessman's perspective whether there is any deviation in the transformation of the knowledge we learned in school."

To put it bluntly, why did Li Changhe write this business plan when he knew that Bao Yugang had already started to acquire Hutchison Whampoa?

The purpose was to make a pledge of allegiance and get Bao Yugang to recognize his abilities first.

Then, Li Changhe had the opportunity to carry out the next plan.

"So, you have other areas of study?"

Bao Yugang can understand the elegant meaning of music by listening to it. He has become a world-class rich man, and his comprehension ability is definitely top-notch.

Hearing Bao Yugang's question, Li Changhe nodded: "Actually, what I am really interested in right now is financial securities in Europe and the United States."

“Although we are still critical of financial securities in China, in my opinion, financial securities are a powerful weapon in the European and American capitalist markets.”

"The impact and damage it can cause to the national economy and people's livelihood is far beyond imagination."

"At present, the research and cognition in this area in China are still in the stage of theoretical criticism, but my personal idea is to really participate in it."

"After all, practice is the only criterion for testing truth!"

"So, you want to try out the Hong Kong securities market through me?"

Bao Yugang asked with a smile at this time.

Li Changhe shook his head.

"I want to borrow Mr. Bao's help, but not Hong Kong Island."

"Not Hong Kong Island?"

Bao Yugang was a little surprised when he heard Li Changhe's answer. "So what do you want?"

"USA!"

Li Changhe slowly uttered two words.

Hey!
This time, not only Bao Yugang, but even Director Lu beside him couldn't help but gasp.

He originally thought that Li Changhe's desire to have some fun in Hong Kong Island was bold enough.

Unexpectedly, he still became smaller and more timid.

Li Changhe actually wants to practice directly in the United States?
"You want me to take you to America?"

Bao Yugang quickly calmed down and asked Li Changhe seriously.

"No, I can't go. I'm just a student and I still have to continue studying at Peking University."

Li Changhe didn't keep anyone in suspense.

"Mr. Bao, I can't participate in the stock market because it requires constant attention, but there is a model in the securities market that I think I can try."

“That’s futures!”

"The futures contract period of the Chicago Board of Trade is generally one year, which is more suitable for me."

"Futures trading?"

“This is even riskier than the stock market because it’s more of a gamble, a gamble on the future.”

Bao Yu just said this when he suddenly reacted.

Damn, the plan this kid just presented proved his vision.

So he targeted the futures market from the beginning?
"You already have a goal, right?"

Bao Yugang became interested at this time. Before he worked in shipping, he actually worked in banking. In the 1940s, he became the deputy general manager of the Shanghai Bank in Shanghai.

He had a close relationship with HSBC and even became a Chinese director of HSBC, which was closely related to his mastery of banking business.

Even his fleet operation model is similar to that of a bank. He does not pursue short-term profits, but rather long-term effects and steady growth.

At a time when all fleets signed short-term leases with Japanese businessmen so that they could raise prices at any time, he did the opposite and signed long-term contracts for each ship to stabilize the profits of the ship.

Then, he took the long-term contract for the ship to the bank for further loans, bought new ships and rented them out, while expanding his reputation and business scope, and eventually became the world's shipping king.

"Yes, there is an economics journal in the Peking University Library, but I didn't bring it with me because you are not allowed to take it out."

"There is a futures case in that magazine, which describes the case of the Hunt family, a wealthy American oil family, manipulating the silver market in 1973."

"The other party purchased a large amount of silver spot from the Middle East, and then continued to purchase silver futures contracts in the futures market, pushing up the contract price."

"If the Mexican government had not seen the profitability of silver spot trading and sold a large amount of silver in the futures market, the Hunt brothers would have made unimaginable profits."

"Before this, the two wealthy brothers also used the same method in the soybean market to make more than 100 million US dollars."

This was 100 million US dollars in the early 1970s!
"Mr. Bao, capital is profit-seeking. If you continue to be successful in this regard, do you think you will stop?"

Li Changhe asked softly at this time.

Bao Yugang understood what Li Changhe meant, then shook his head and said seriously, "No."

Just like his shipping business, his long-term contract model was a huge success and the scale of his business continued to expand.

Will he change his business model before reaching the top?

The answer is no!
He is now transferring to Wharf Holdings because his shipping business has reached the top of the world and can be expanded horizontally.

But in the financial market, there is no such thing as a peak.

"what do you mean?"

Bao Yugang understood a little at this time.

"I read some economic journals in the Peking University Library, which contained a brief introduction to the price of silver."

"From 1974 to now, the price of silver has hardly fluctuated!"

"For more than four years, the silver market, from futures to spot prices, has fluctuated within a stable range."

"Generally speaking, there are only two possibilities for this situation. The first is that for more than four years, the supply and demand relationship of silver has been balanced and there has been no change, so its spot and futures prices have not fluctuated."

"That's possible. Without a huge breakthrough in the silver consumption market, it's possible that the market will fluctuate very little."

Director Lu on the side said in confusion at this time.

He also made a lot of money in the futures trading in the Republic of China at that time. He once earned a huge profit of millions of dollars for the organization. He was also a business genius.

"Cousin, you are talking about normal circumstances, but the United States is abnormal because it prohibits spot gold trading."

"Since the dollar was decoupled from gold, the Chicago and New York exchanges only support gold futures trading, not spot gold trading."

"This means that gold futures trading in the United States is very troublesome because you have to find spot goods from overseas to hedge the risk."

"In this way, in terms of precious metals, silver is actually the most suitable precious metal futures trading object, because it can exist in both futures and spot trading markets, and the risk of merchants will be minimized."

"That is to say, silver should theoretically be a relatively active category in the U.S. precious metals trading market, but now its price fluctuations have stabilized."

"Do you think someone is controlling the situation?"

Director Lu asked Li Changhe in surprise.

Li Changhe nodded: "Yes, here, either the entire market is running smoothly."

"Or someone has been planning for several years and wants to play a super big silver futures game all at once."

"Based on the previous operations of the Hunt brothers, I think the latter possibility is very high."

"Even this time, considering the previous silver dumping by the Mexican government, the controlling party may not only be the Hunt brothers, but several companies may have joined forces to buy up most of the world's silver spot in recent years."

Li Changhe then calmly stated his "analysis"

In fact, what he was targeting was the largest futures manipulation case in the silver futures market that had never happened before and will never be repeated.

The Hunt brothers, oil tycoons from the United States, joined forces with the Saudi royal family. The two sides worked together for five years and acquired more than 70% of the world's spot silver.

Yes, not the United States, but the world!

Relying on this, they intend to pull out the entire US futures market of silver investors.

This silver futures case broke out in 1979!
This was the first pot of gold for the protagonist of the novel he wrote in his previous life, so Li Changhe naturally remembered it clearly.

But the difference is that in this life Li Changhe is just an ordinary person in the country, so he must find someone to help him.

The person Li Changhe finally chose was Bao Yugang.

In addition to the fact that he visited the mainland in 78, it is also because of his current world status.

Let’s put it this way, there are no more than five wealthy Chinese businessmen in the world who have enough financial strength to participate in this silver futures case, and Bao Yugang is definitely the most qualified one among them!
This is the real reason why Li Changhe must meet Bao Yugang.

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