At 12:30 noon, Director Li of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and his team were the first to arrive in Hong Kong Island and checked into a five-star hotel next to the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, they arrived at the Bank of China Building in a low-key manner and held talks with Yao Yuan and Zhou Chaoyang to prepare for tomorrow's negotiations with the United States.

At the beginning of the talks, Yao Yuan first introduced his judgment on the trend of the international financial market.

He said with certainty that a global financial crisis would come soon and many of Wall Street's top financial institutions, including Lehman Brothers and Fannie and Freddie Mac, would go bankrupt in large numbers!

The collapse of these top financial institutions on Wall Street will have a huge impact on the international financial market, leading to unprecedented and shocking losses, and will drag the world economy into the abyss of financial crisis!

As an important part of the world economy, this global financial crisis will also have a great impact on China's economy, with foreign trade being the first to bear the brunt!

But from another perspective, this is also a godsend opportunity for China's economy to take off!

Faced with such a godsend opportunity, both the country and Jiuye Investment Group must seize this opportunity firmly, otherwise they will regret it in the future!

The first opportunity is the Lehman Brothers Bank that Paulson has brought to his door. He must find a way to take over the remaining high-quality assets of Lehman Brothers Bank!

Even if you have to pay some price for it, or even bear a certain percentage of short-term losses, it is well worth it!

Following Lehman Brothers Bank, there are also top Wall Street financial institutions such as Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and AIG Group, all of which are targets that can be harvested!

Not surprisingly, Director Li and the others were all shocked by Yao Yuan's amazing appetite, and they were all amazed!

Fortunately, the number of people participating in this meeting is very limited and they can all be trusted!

Otherwise, once Yao Yuan's words spread, it would not only be Director Li and his group who would be shocked, but countless people around the world!

The result is that Wall Street will be highly alert to Yao Yuan and Jiuye Investment Group, and may even launch targeted attacks immediately!

Director Li and his colleagues agreed with Yao Yuan's accurate judgment that the global financial crisis was about to happen, without any objection!

In fact, due to Yao Yuan’s previous series of reminders and reporting materials.

Some time ago, the top leaders organized a group of the country's top economists and financiers to carefully study the situation in the international financial market.

The result is that this global financial crisis is imminent and is likely to break out in August!

As this conclusion was formed, everyone no longer had any doubts about Yao Yuan's accurate judgment, and paid more attention to each of his suggestions.

As senior figures in the domestic financial sector, Director Li and Chairman Dai are naturally insiders.

After deciding on the joint acquisition of the remaining high-quality assets of Lehman Brothers Bank, Yao Yuan determined the investment ratio of the two parties with Director Li and others!

Jiuye Investment Group accounts for 60% of the shares, and state-owned financial institutions such as China Investment Corporation and Social Security Fund account for 40% of the shares!

The funds used by these state-owned financial institutions for the acquisition all came from the investment profits made by the state-owned team led by General Manager Gu in the international financial market in the past one or two months!

In this way, after this heavyweight acquisition is completed, even if the US side suddenly turns against it and not a penny is left, it will not affect these state-owned financial institutions!

These state-owned financial institutions will not lose a single cent of their principal. At most they will lose a few months’ investment profits of Mr. Gu and his team, which is insignificant!

After agreeing on the investment ratio, Yao Yuan took out the list of high-quality assets to be acquired that his team had investigated and showed it to Director Li and the others!

Seeing the numerous high-quality assets on the list, Director Li and his colleagues were so greedy that they almost drooled on the spot!

Next, Director Li introduced the results of the talks with the US side over the past two days!

Just as Yao Yuan expected, the main purpose of Paulson's visit this time was to hope that China would not respond to Moscow and sell off the bonds of Fannie and Freddie!

During the talks, they vowed and promised with all their hearts that they would ensure the safety of the two housing agencies and the interests of their investors!

During the dinner held last night, Paulson bluntly told Vice President Wang privately that the US Treasury Department is ready to take full control of the two housing agencies at any time!

After receiving his series of assurances, we decided not to sell the Fannie and Freddie bonds for the time being.

We also hope that the US will honor its commitment and ensure the safety of the two housing investors.

In addition to the two housing issues, Paulson also made some demands.

All of these requirements are related to the cooperation between the two countries in resolving the financial crisis. Some of them have been agreed upon, some have not, and some still require further consultation and communication.

While Yao Yuan was meeting with Director Li, the US delegation led by Paulson arrived at the Hong Kong International Airport at 4 pm!

The Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong government and a deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region led a team to the airport to greet him, but Yao Yuan did not show up.

He only sent a vice president of the group to the airport to express his gratitude.

As we were talking, it was already 5:30 in the afternoon.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Yao Yuan left the Bank of China Building and took a car to Hong Kong Airport to meet Vice President Wang and Uncle Qiu and the others!

At the same time, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Government and the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority also set off one after another and rushed to the Hong Kong International Airport from different directions!

Dozens of minutes later, Yao Yuan was already at the edge of a runway deep inside the Hong Kong International Airport.

Standing side by side with him were the newly arrived President of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Mr. Ren, Director Gao of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the Chief Executive.

Director Li and Chairman Dai, who had attended the meeting with him before, did not come to pick him up at the airport!

But they also participate in evening meetings to prepare for tomorrow's negotiations.

We were all acquaintances, and after greeting each other, we started joking and chatting.

"Mr. Yao, I heard that the reason why Paulson led a delegation to Hong Kong Island this time was to meet with you to discuss cooperation matters."

"Can you tell us the real purpose of Paulson and his team coming to Hong Kong Island? I also want to know."

The Chief Executive asked in a low voice, curious.

Yao Yuan looked at the other person and gave an explanation with a smile.

"Of course, no problem, Mr. Secretary. The reason why Paulson came to Hong Kong Island to find me is because he was attracted by the huge amount of funds controlled by Jiuye Investment Group!"

"There is a huge problem on Wall Street, so big that it can no longer be solved within Wall Street, so Paulson came out and looked for someone to take over the business all over the world."

"It just so happens that our Jiuye Investment has a huge amount of funds and strong strength, so Paulson set his sights on me."

"It's a pity. I'm afraid he made a wrong calculation. He wants Jiuye Investment Group to be the buyer. It depends on whether they are willing to pay a huge price."

"Hahaha"

Everyone laughed and nodded.

Director Gao and Mr. Ren know Yao Yuan a little better and know that no one can take advantage of him, so they are not worried at all!

The Chief Executive, who knows relatively little about him, felt relieved when he said this.

After chatting for a few more sentences, Mr. Ren suddenly called Yao Yuan aside and whispered to him:

"Mr. Yao, the amount of gold stored in the HKMA's underground vault is now nearly 400 tons, which is a significant amount."

"I am worried that the US side will raise this issue during tomorrow's negotiations. How do you plan to respond?"

“More people in the HKMA know about gold-related matters than in the past, but they don’t know about building up gold reserves.”

Yao Yuan smiled softly and said in a relaxed tone:

"It's not a difficult matter to resolve. If Paulson brings it up, I'll tell him."

"All this gold is a means for our group to preserve and increase the value of its assets, and is the bottom line for the group's gold futures trading!"

"The current gold price is in the process of gradually bottoming out, which provides us with a perfect cover."

"From the outside world's perspective, our group is buying gold at a low price and preparing to sell it for profit when the gold price soars..."

As they were talking, an Air China charter plane suddenly appeared in the northern sky and headed straight for the runway.

No need to ask, that was the plane that Uncle Qiu and Vice President Wang were on!


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