Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 339 Analysis, Good News, and Meeting

The question that Lu Shaohua was concerned about was obviously not an ordinary question, and it was also a question that Lu Shaohua had to ask Liu Mingzhang. After all, hiding a question without getting an answer always makes people feel awkward, especially for someone with Lu Shaohua's personality. Asking him to hide a question without asking it out loud would be more uncomfortable than killing him. It was precisely because he didn't want to hide the question that Lu Shaohua thought about finding the answer in Liu Mingzhang.

"What's the outcome for Soros?" Lu Shaohua asked.

Originally, what kind of result Soros got was none of Lu Shaohua's business, but Lu Shaohua couldn't help but ask. The reason was that Soros, the international speculator, was related to some things in the future, so Lu Shaohua would pay attention to him.

Lu Shaohua has been paying attention to Soros' every move for a long time. Although Liu Mingzhang doesn't know why, he knows that Lu Shaohua must have a reason for doing so. Over time, Liu Mingzhang also started to pay attention. Just like this time, after finishing his work, Liu Mingzhang resolutely chose to stay in the UK and wait for the development of things.

"I don't know the figures Soros obtained, but his operation route is exactly the same as that 'document' you gave me." Liu Mingzhang's voice became more and more excited.

Liu Mingzhang was telling the truth. He did not know the figures Soros had obtained. Because this was a top secret, Liu Mingzhang was not an insider of Soros, so he naturally could not know it. As for the so-called operation route, Liu Mingzhang could know it.

After saying that, Liu Mingzhang did not wait for Lu Shaohua to speak, and continued, "According to my observation, this time Soros has openly built a large warehouse of 10 billion US dollars, and on September 15th, he shorted a large amount of British pounds, which made the British pound even worse."

Yes, it was adding insult to injury. According to Lu Shaohua's understanding, the fall of the British pound was not caused by Soros alone, but by many people. The British pound had already begun to fall a few days ago, but the speed of the fall was not so fierce. Soros's large-scale short selling of the British pound on the 15th made the British pound worse, turning the slow decline into a sharp fall.

Lu Shaohua nodded to show his understanding, and then said, "Soros's $10 billion warehouse is certainly not small, but it cannot cause the British pound to plummet. There is another hidden reason."

Lu Shaohua's words sounded a bit mysterious at the end, and after a moment, he continued, "Have you ever thought about what's going on here?"

Hearing this, Liu Mingzhang nodded slightly, his face became more serious than ever, and said, "I did a careful analysis afterwards and thought there were two possible factors. The first is that Soros has more than just that one $10 billion position, and he should have another large position behind the scenes."

"Haha!" Lu Shaohua laughed, looked at Liu Mingzhang with approval, and corrected him. "It's not that he should, but that he must. For a financial tycoon like Soros, it would be impossible for him to succeed without a bright and a dark side."

The so-called one in the light and one in the dark, means one is in the light and the other in the dark, isn't that exactly the case with Lu Shaohua. In addition to the open traders of Phoenix Financial, he also has Liu Mingzhang leading a team hiding in the dark. As for the offshore company managed by Li Zongen, Lu Shaohua calls it a secret army, but the essence is the same, it is also a team hiding in the dark, but this team is hidden deeper.

"Hmm!" Liu Mingzhang did not refute. He was 100% sure of what Lu Shaohua said, and continued, "Although Soros may, oh, definitely has a secret team, but this time it is not enough for him to succeed, because no matter how hard Soros tries, he can't raise a large amount of funds, so I think the second possibility also accounts for a certain factor."

Liu Mingzhang finished speaking, took a breath, and continued, "That is following the trend. According to my observation, there are many passers-by involved in the interception of the British pound. Although they did it very covertly, it is not difficult to find their traces from some small details."

Every time a financial or currency crisis occurs, there are always international speculators. They are like police dogs with extremely strong sense of smell. Whenever something happens, they rush in and take advantage of it, exacerbating the crisis.

Lu Shaohua agreed with Liu Mingzhang's statement and continued, "The fact that you can think of this proves that you have observed carefully. Just like the stock market crash in 89, if those international speculators hadn't taken advantage of the situation, the ending would not have turned into a tragedy. The same is true for the attack on the British pound this time. The British government's decision was wrong, but if it weren't for the help of those people, Soros alone would not have been able to play the role of the creator of this crisis."

Lu Shaohua has always been a great figure in Liu Mingzhang's mind, and Liu Mingzhang is completely convinced by Lu Shaohua's words. Of course, Liu Mingzhang is not the kind of person who believes everything he hears. He also has his own thoughts. If Lu Shaohua's words are unreasonable, he will refute them. However, this time Lu Shaohua's analysis just proved what he thought, so he chose to believe it.

"Oh! I am still too timid. If I had shorted the British pound a little later this time, I could have made more money." Liu Mingzhang said with a sigh.

Lu Shaohua waved his hand and shook his head. "Everything has its pros and cons. It is a good choice to short the British pound early and stand aside to watch the show. After all, we have too much funds to mobilize. If we short it a day later, we may lose everything. So, sometimes courage is important, but don't be blind, because sometimes blindness will pay an immeasurable price."

Regardless of whether Lu Shaohua was comforting him or teaching him a lesson in disguise, Liu Mingzhang accepted it humbly and said sincerely, "I understand."

"Well, that's it. You go back and arrange the follow-up matters first, and then take a few days off." Lu Shaohua said.

Now that the question in his mind had been answered and Liu Mingzhang had been taught a lesson, Lu Shaohua thought it was time to end this topic. Thinking of Liu Mingzhang and those traders who had participated in the battle and not receiving commissions or red envelopes, Lu Shaohua issued an order to expel them.

Needless to say, there were still a lot of follow-up things to do, and Liu Mingzhang had no time to spare, so he stood up, said goodbye to Lu Shaohua, walked out the door, and left.

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Liu Mingzhang left. Lu Shaohua was bored, so he flipped through the data Liu Mingzhang had just sent over and read it carefully.

It doesn't matter if you don't read it, but once you start, you will be addicted to it. It took Lu Shaohua an hour and a half to finish reading the data which was only a few pages long.

After checking the time, he found that it was already past three in the afternoon. Lu Shaohua shook the data in his hand and was about to find a place to put it, but unexpectedly, God played a joke on Lu Shaohua, a joke that was a bit of a prank.

Just as Lu Shaohua stood up and walked towards the stairs to listen, with one foot on the first step and the other foot about to step up, the phone on the table rang.

Helpless, Lu Shaohua could only turn around and walk to the phone and pick up the receiver.

"Hey!"

"Hello, I'm Xie Jianwei." Xie Jianwei's voice with a hint of coldness came from the phone.

"Oh!" Lu Shaohua was stunned, then said, "It's me, is there something wrong?"

"Well, the steel issue has been completed." Xie Jianwei's tone was straightforward without a trace of impurities.

"Steel?" Lu Shaohua was stunned again, then he thought about it and suddenly remembered that last time he asked the African base to study the extraction of explosion-proof and bulletproof steel so that he could build an iron barrel-shaped car for himself as a vehicle.

With this kind of steel, Lu Shaohua's personal safety was further improved. He couldn't help but feel excited and impatient, and said hurriedly on the phone, "Get it to Shenzhen as soon as possible. Oh, I'll tell them everything. You just need to send the refining method to me."

"I understand." Xie Jianwei said, and without asking Lu Shaohua if he had anything else to say, he hung up the phone.

Lu Shaohua, holding the receiver, smiled bitterly. He understood Xie Jianwei's character deeply and knew that he had brought the style he had in the army to the present and had brought it to the fullest. He said no more, hung up the phone, and ignored the matter of those pages of data. He simply picked up the phone and called Chu Lei.

You don't need to guess what the content of the call to Chu Lei is, it's nothing more than building an explosion-proof and bulletproof car. Of course, Chu Lei was a little puzzled by Lu Shaohua's new action, but when Lu Shaohua said that it was prepared for his own car, Chu Lei didn't say anything else.

"By the way, is that car model going to be produced like a normal car model?" Chu Lei asked.

"Oh!" Lu Shaohua patted his forehead. He forgot about it in his excitement and added, "How about this, I'll redesign two models. Um, you can receive them tomorrow afternoon."

Lu Shaohua decided to redesign the car model. After all, it was his own car, and Lu Shaohua had to save face, so how could he not make it cooler? As for why he designed two models, it was of course prepared for Yang Yang and others who were trying to play the role of his bodyguards.

"Okay, once everything is ready, I will arrange people to make it as soon as possible." Chu Lei said seriously without any nonsense.

"Well, that's it." After saying that, Lu Shaohua hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Shaohua leaned his head on the sofa, looked at the ceiling, and exhaled heavily. Then he remembered those pages of data. He stood up again, looked around, and finally found the data on the ground. He picked it up, flicked it with his fingers, and prepared to take it upstairs.

As the saying goes, once there is a first, there will be a second. When Lu Shaohua was about to go upstairs, the phone rang again, making Lu Shaohua a little amused and he secretly sighed that maybe God was playing a trick on him.

Helpless as he was, Lu Shaohua still returned to answer the phone, because not many people knew the phone number of his villa, and everyone who could call was someone Lu Shaohua paid attention to, so he had no choice but to answer the phone.

Picking up the receiver, Lu Shaohua said directly in a very stiff tone. "I'm Lu Shaohua, who is this?"

"Hey! What's wrong with you? The line is always busy when I call."

A familiar voice of Lu Shaohua came from the other end of the phone. Who else could it be but Ho Ying-tung?

"Oh, it's you. I was just talking on the phone with someone in Shenzhen, so I talked a little longer," Lu Shaohua explained.

"Oh!" Huo Yingdong said, then got back to the point and said, "It's urgent. I have to go to the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce for a meeting. I have notified the other directors, except you."

"Is there something you want?" Lu Shaohua asked.

"Well, it's about..." Huo Yingdong stopped talking halfway and continued, "Let's talk about it in the meeting."

"Okay, I'll be there right away." Lu Shaohua knew that Ho Ying-tung couldn't stay on the phone, so he didn't waste any time. He just answered and hung up.

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