wild 1995

Chapter 90
After Sun Yansheng hung up the phone, Manager Wu immediately questioned Xia Fangfei in English, full of grievances: "Miss Xia, I have treated you like a gentleman these days, without any neglect. Why did you lie to me?"

"Manager Wu, let me introduce you again. This is my own brother. His name is Xia Jianwu. He has made more than a dozen phone calls to discuss chip prices with you. Each time, you only gave him 1 minute, and you only spoke Cantonese on purpose, and you called him an idiot."

After Xia Fangfei finished speaking, she took out a file bag and sneered, "I'll let you know who is the real idiot! Here are all the commercial secrets of C-Cube that you leaked. Now I give you two choices, either apologize to my brother and be our second or fifth child, or apologize to your company boss and wait to be fired and sued."

Xia Jianwu was both surprised and happy, and the resentment accumulated for almost a month was swept away, and he cheered happily: "Little sister, you are too good!"

Di Ye stared at Manager Wu for a few seconds, and saw that his face was ashen, with two warring faces, obviously a soft persimmon, so he said to Liang Botao: "Mr. Liang, let them settle their personal grievances here. Let's go for a walk and talk about investment matters by the way."

Liang Botao ignored Manager Wu's eyes begging for help, picked up his briefcase, and said with a smile, "Please do as you please, Mr. Di please."

"Please, Mr. Liang."

After walking a few steps, Di Ye turned his head and said to Xia Jianwu, "There are golf clubs in the bedroom. If Manager Wu doesn't want to apologize, just hit him until he apologizes."

"Okay, I've long wanted to try hitting someone with a golf club."

Liang Botao believed it to be true, and quickly persuaded him: "Mr. Xia, a gentleman uses his words but not his hands. Hong Kong is a society ruled by law. It will be very troublesome if you hurt someone."

Hearing this, Manager Wu seemed to have obtained some kind of magical blessing, and his momentum soared. He held his neck high and said, "That's right, Hong Kong is a place where laws are taught, not like your mainland..."

"Hong Kong is indeed a society ruled by law, but it is a society ruled by the rich. Mr. Liang has money, and I have money. Do you have money?"

Di Ye interrupted Manager Wu's yelling, took out a beautiful business card holder from his pocket, showed more than a dozen business cards of lawyers with various titles in it, and mocked: "Manager Wu, you like to talk about law, don't you? These are all famous barristers in Hong Kong. You can choose any, and I will arrange for them to come to you to talk about law next Monday."

The magic power that Manager Wu had just acquired disappeared in an instant, and he fell limp to the ground.

Liang Botao was a little embarrassed by Di Ye's phrase "a society ruled by the rich". After leaving the suite, he said in the elevator, "Mr. Di, with your financial resources and ability, if you want to invest in C-Cube, you can do so through normal channels. There is no need to go to such lengths to tease Manager Wu."

"Mr. Liang, do you know the price of the chip set by the C-Cube headquarters? One chip costs only $50. This manager Wu set the price on the ground and sold it to a mainland manufacturer for $70. He also brags to people that he is smart and calls mainlanders stupid."

After Di Ye explained, he said lightly: "It is my creed in life that you must be repaid. Since he is not benevolent, don't blame me for being unrighteous."

Liang Botao felt that Di Ye was making a fuss out of a molehill, and said, "Mr. Di doesn't have to argue with this kind of villain, the so-called harmony makes money..."

Di Ye laughed loudly and said, "Mr. Liang, money is just a number in my eyes. You can earn it by typing a few keyboards on the computer. Does the computer care if I am friendly or not?"

Liang Botao was speechless, speechless.

The Mandarin Oriental Hotel is located in Central. Apart from high-rise buildings, there are many gardens and green areas nearby, which are very suitable for walking. After walking aimlessly with Di Ye for a while, Liang Botao couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked, "Will Mr. Di still operate the yen next week?"

"Last night's market has proved that the data model I studied before has begun to fail. If I continue to do this next week, it is very likely that I will lose all the money I earned, so I will not operate again."

Before the journey, Di Ye once helped a friend to check the historical data of the yen exchange rate. Since April 1995, 4 was the highest point in the history of the yen exchange rate, he took a look at it at that time. As a result, he saved the daily highest price, lowest price, closing price, and opening price in the three months of March, April, and May into his memory, which was retrieved by Xiaohonghua.

Foreign exchange trading is non-stop for 24 hours. There is no so-called opening price and closing price. However, due to the huge influence of the New York foreign exchange market, its opening price is used as the opening price and the closing price is the closing price by default. This is why Diye chooses to operate at night.

According to the data in his memory, Di Ye used the opening price and closing price to judge the trend, and used the highest price and the lowest price to formulate trading strategies, so he made a lot of money, but now he has too much money, which has reached the point where it can interfere with the market, and it is not suitable to play in this way anymore.

Liang Botao was not surprised by Di Ye's answer, but was very interested in the "data model" and asked, "Can exchange rate fluctuations really be predicted by computer simulation?"

"Theoretically, it is possible, but it requires a very large amount of calculation. The current computer performance is too weak, and it is difficult to predict accurately. I calculated it through mental power. I can only estimate the market for two or three days, and it will not work any more."

"Two or three days is already remarkable."

After Di Ye fooled Liang Botao, he turned to small talk and talked about the imminent business war between Cathay Pacific and Hong Kong Air China.

There were originally two airlines in Hong Kong, one was Cathay Pacific Airways established in 1946, and the other was Hong Kong Dragon Airlines established in 1985. Due to its inherent deficiencies and the overt and covert suppression of the British Hong Kong government, Dragonair was in trouble in 1990. Cathay Pacific took the opportunity to acquire 35% of the shares and take over the operations, thus dominating the aviation industry in Hong Kong.

At the beginning of 1995, Hong Kong AVIC, a subsidiary of China Airlines, increased its investment and purchased several Boeing 747 passenger planes, preparing to apply for an aviation operating license, intending to break the monopoly of Cathay Pacific.

Hong Kong is one of the cities with the most frequent flight departures and landings in the world. Therefore, the competition between the two has attracted widespread attention from the government and the public. A few days ago, AVIC poached Cathay Pacific executive Lew Roberts.

Liang Botao is very concerned about this matter, and analyzed it from an investment perspective: "Although Cathay Pacific has taken over Dragonair, it is only the second largest shareholder. CITIC Hong Kong is the largest shareholder, owning 38.3% of Dragonair. Both CITIC and AVIC are state-owned enterprises, so AVIC's intention is obvious. It wants to take over Dragonair and resume independent operations, so as to ensure the stability of Hong Kong's air traffic after 97. After all, Cathay Pacific is controlled by the British."

Dragonair was re-operated under the banner of AVIC in 1996, and was bought back by Cathay Pacific in 2006, and finally ceased operation in 2020. The consequence of Cathay Pacific's dominance is that there are endless moths and poor reputation.

Di Ye has no interest in airlines, and is too lazy to manage the life and death of Dragonair. From a more macro perspective, he analyzed: "Now Hong Kong's transportation, energy, food and many other fields are controlled by the mainland, and the situation is becoming more and more stable. Capital likes a stable environment. The equity competition between AVIC and Cathay Pacific may help the Hang Seng Index return to above 10000 points."

恒生指数1993年12月份第一次突破10000点大关，之后由于末代港督彭定康的各种折腾以及怡和洋行迁移注册地等不利因素影响，从12200点的高位一路跌到了1995年初的7000点，最近几天则一直在8000点左右徘徊。

"Mr. Di intends to go long on the Hang Seng Index?"

"I have this plan, but not now. I came here with a single-entry business visa. I can only stay in Hong Kong for 7 days. I will go back to the mainland in a few days. I will try again when I come next time."

Liang Botao was a little surprised when he heard that, and said kindly: "If Mr. Di needs it, our company can help you apply for a business visa for multiple visits to Hong Kong... One-way permits are also available."

The one-way permit is a residence permit for mainland residents to go to Hong Kong. It was very valuable in the 90s. For example, Zhou Beifang, the assistant general manager of the Shougang Group, bribed two officials of the city government 120 million Hong Kong dollars in order to obtain a one-way permit for his wife and daughter.

Shougang Group was the leading super-large state-owned enterprise in China in the 90s. In 1992, it cooperated with Cheung Kong Industrial Co., Ltd. and established four listed companies in Hong Kong at one go. It is regarded as a model of reform and opening up. Even the executives of such a large group have to pay bribes for one-way permits, which shows how popular they are.

Di Ye had many ideas about Hong Kong, but he was not interested in settling down. He said, "Thank you, Mr. Liang, for your kindness. I am still a student at school, and it is not convenient for me to come to Hong Kong often for the time being. Let's talk about it later."

　Historically, c-cube Hong Kong dealers have indeed slaughtered mainland manufacturers.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)