Rebirth: Rising Hong Kong

Chapter 1267 1267 [Your opponent is Buffett! 】

"This is our Kung Fu tea from Chaoshan. Please taste it slowly, Mr. Soros." Shi Zhijian, dressed in white, sat on a chair, pointed to the teacup on the tea table leisurely, and invited Soros.

Soros was full of anger, "I'm sorry, Mr. Shi Zhijian, are you? I'm not here for tea!"

The fat boss next to him was cooking tea. Seeing Shi Zhijian and Soros facing each other **** for tat, he didn't understand the grievances between the two.

"Why are you doing this?" Soros suppressed his anger and sat opposite Shi Zhijian. "Is it because I don't want to see you?"

"That's true." Shi Zhijian said, "I didn't expect it to be so difficult to meet you. I have no choice but to let you come to see me!"

Soros laughed angrily: "So now, I'm here, so what about you?"

Shi Zhijian took a sip from the teacup and looked up at Soros: "I sincerely invite you to join our Longteng Fund, but I don't know if you are interested?"

"Hehe!" Soros sneered twice, "Sorry, I'm not interested in any of your funds!"

"Can you ask why?" Shi Zhijian looked at Soros with a half-smile.

"The reason is very simple." Soros looked contemptuously. "Isn't there an old saying in China that you would rather have a chicken head than an oxtail! Let me ask, I am in control of the Quantum Fund, why should I go to work for you?"

"Is there no reason to convince you?" Shi Zhijian pushed the other teacup towards Soros.

Soros looked at Shi Zhijian: "Yes! Unless your Longteng Fund is acquired by me!"

Shi Zhijian shook his head: "I can't meet this condition!"

"Then there is nothing to talk about! Then I hope you and I will never see each other again!" Soros got up and wanted to stand up.

Shi Zhijian suddenly said, "How about I give you another reason?"

Soros sneered: "Another reason? You can tell it and listen to it, and see if it can impress me?"

Shi Zhijian turned the teacup: "Honor, can you get it?"

"Uh? What? Honor? Hahaha!" Soros laughed loudly, picked up the teacup in front of him and drank it down, squinting Shi Zhijian and said, "Am I still lacking in honor? You can ask, do I have any honor in Wall Street?" The most powerful investor?"

Shi Zhijian: "Really? But how did I hear that the most powerful investor on Wall Street in the United States is not you, but Warren Buffett? And people who like him respectfully call him 'Stock God'!"

The corners of Soros' mouth twitched twice.

For Soros, Buffett will always be a thorn in his heart!

In the last time and space, there was a saying in the financial world: "Buffett in a prosperous age, Soros in a troubled age.

This sentence fully describes Warren Buffett and George Soros as two of the most influential investors in the world, their strong appeal to the market and their completely different investment styles. In the ups and downs of the financial market in the past few decades, the two are one of the few survivors and even speculators.

If it is said that Buffett's value investment philosophy allows him to be good at dancing in the "prosperous times" of finance, then Soros is a "financial vulture" who made a lot of speculative wealth in the "troubled times".

In 1992, Soros used his "quantum fund" of US$10 billion to short-sell the British pound, while the British government used nearly US$30 billion in foreign exchange reserves to maintain the exchange rate of the pound to fight back. As a result, the British government suffered a disastrous defeat and was forced to withdraw from the European exchange rate system.

Soros not only made a profit of nearly 1 billion US dollars, but also became famous in the international financial circle. Since then, the Quantum Fund under Soros has repeatedly repeated the old tricks and made a fortune from the "currency war". In 1997, Quantum Fund sold the Thai baht, triggering the financial crisis in Southeast Asia. In 2012, Soros successfully judged the large-scale depreciation of the yen, and shorted the yen to earn at least US$1 billion.

Fighting against an "economy" with one's own strength and making a lot of "national wealth", Soros's success seems to always be accompanied by crises—the US "Wall Street Journal" commented on Soros as "the bad boy of the global financial community", and the British "Economics" The Scholars called him "the man who broke the Bank of England", and former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir directly denounced him as "the arsonist of the Asian financial crisis".

However, Soros did not think that he was making a lot of "national wealth". Instead, he pointed out that "there are huge gaps in the international financial system that can be exploited, and the seemingly impregnable national financial defense system is actually vulnerable", claiming that his speculation was only for Making money, but also revealing the "loopholes" in the financial system for the "blocked" countries.

No wonder there are comments that almost everyone likes Buffett, only a small number of people like Soros.

The same is true in this era!

Soros's bloodthirsty nature makes many people daunted, while Buffett sticks to "value investing", but has many fans.

Therefore, Buffett will be honored as the "God of Stocks" by many believers!

But Soros can only be called a "financial executioner"!

Shi Zhijian had a panoramic view of Soros' expression at the moment, and gave the fat boss a wink.

The fat boss hurriedly picked up the teapot and poured another glass of water into Soros's empty teacup.

Soros took a deep breath, and he sat down again when he wanted to get up and leave, then looked at Shi Zhijian and said, "What do you mean?"

"What I mean is very simple!" Shi Zhijian glanced at the fat boss. The fat boss knew that the two of them were about to whisper, so he smiled and bowed away immediately.

Soon, only Shi Zhijian and Soros were left in front of the entire tea table.

Shi Zhijian said: "This time, our Longteng Fund is going to fight against Donny Rothschild's financial company! The general sent by Mr. Downey is Warren Buffett!"

Soros' eyelids twitched.

Shi Zhijian continued: "And my side lacks a general to fight, I think the only person in the world who can confront him is you, Your Excellency!"

Soros sneered: "You think highly of me!"

Shi Zhijian: "Don't you have the desire to win? Don't want to play against Buffett once to see who is the real stock god?"

Soros pinched the teacup, fingers hard, but did not speak.

Shi Zhijian smiled: "Of course, if you are really not interested and don't want to fight against a master-level figure like Buffett, I can understand it. After all, reputation is the most important thing. If you lose to Buffett in this battle, Then your Soros reputation will be ruined, don’t talk about recruiting believers at that time, even if you teach courses, it will be very difficult to sell your financial management courses!”

Soros narrowed his eyes like a falcon: "Are you trying to provoke me?"

"Forget it, are you motivated?" Shi Zhijian asked back.

Soros froze for a moment, as if he didn't expect Shi Zhijian to be so frank.

"To be honest, although I have seen through your tricks, I have to admit that I am already tempted by your proposal..." Soros said.

"It's better to act than to be moved!" Shi Zhijian said with a smile, "If you don't agree now, then I will find another person! My Dragon Fund does not lack traders, let alone generals! As the saying goes, there are three bad guys Cobblers are worse than Zhuge Liang! Even if they are not as good as you, having more people can give you an advantage!"

Soros took a deep breath: "To be honest, Mr. Shi Zhijian, I really don't like you! You are a very calculating person, but I can't refuse you!"

Shi Zhijian smiled, "To be honest, Mr. Soros, I don't like you very much either! Because you are a bloodthirsty financial executioner! In comparison, I admire that Mr. Warren Buffett more! Unfortunately, now you and I We can only stand on the same front!"

Shi Zhijian stood up while speaking, stretched out his hand and said, "If you have no objection, then happy cooperation!"

Soros also stood up, glanced at Shi Zhijian's outstretched hand, and slowly shook it: "Only this time! You and I cooperate! After I defeat Buffett, maybe we will soon become enemies!"

"I'm very happy to have such a strong opponent like you! Of course, everything will be discussed after you really win this battle!" Shi Zhijian let go of Soros' hand, "The stronger the opponent, the more I like it!"

…

In the next few days, Shi Zhijian signed an assistance contract with Soros through his lawyer, and formally hired Soros as the head of Longteng Fund.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused an uproar across the United States.

As we all know, Soros is a well-known financial tycoon. To put it bluntly, he is a rebellious figure. It is absolutely surprising that such a figure should be hired by an "unknown" Chinese.

For a while, "Soros became a Chinese wage earner", "Soros helped the Chinese run a fund", and "the secret that Soros and the Chinese Pete Jian had to tell" became topics all over the United States.

Many media who like gossip news released all kinds of speculation and broke the news, saying that Soros's Quantum Fund encountered difficulties, and now helping the Chinese manage the Dragon Fund is a curve to save the country.

Others think that the reason why Soros is willing to lower his status to work for others is because he owes Peter Jian a debt of favor.

What's more, Soros once traveled to Hong Kong and met Shi Zhijian while traveling in Hong Kong, and the two became close friends.

In short, the media's nonsense and arrangement in the newspapers have given the American people some entertainment.

…

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

The boss and wage earner procedures between Shi Zhijian and Soros have been completed.

Shi Zhijian officially appointed Soros as the head of Longteng Fund. On the day of the appointment, Shi Zhijian told Soros his big plan for the future, which is to go long on oil futures!

Soros was taken aback when he heard this, and felt that Shi Zhijian was courting death.

It turns out that from 1950 to 1973, the price of crude oil has been kept artificially low by the seven major companies, with an average of about US$1.80 per barrel, which is only about half of the price of coal.

After OPEC's struggle, it did not rise to $2.95 a barrel until January 1973. Oil-producing countries are very dissatisfied with the old capitalist oil system, especially the low price. The demand for oil in the western world is growing rapidly, but western oil companies are unwilling to make concessions to the price increase demands of developing countries that mainly produce oil, because rising oil prices will increase their purchase costs, and the two sides have a huge conflict as a result .

Since Soros is making a living on Wall Street, of course he is well aware of the current situation of oil prices.

To be precise, Soros received definite news that the United States, including the United States, is teaming up with other Western countries to lower the price of oil imports again!

That is to say, at $2.95 a barrel of oil, it is very likely that the price will fall again instead of rising!

"Dear Shi, since I am the head of your fund, I still want to remind you that your decision may be wrong!" Soros said, "The United States, Britain, France, Germany and other countries are formulating some policies. And plans to lower the price of oil, but now you want to do more, isn’t that a dead end?”

Shi Zhijian smiled: "Do you think oil prices will continue to be controlled and kept down by capital countries like the United States?"

"Of course!" Soros said without hesitation, "The United States is a superpower! All the oil countries in the Middle East will act according to the face of the United States! What's more-"

Soros paused and said: "What's more, in my opinion, the United States only needs to sneeze this time to make those small countries in the Middle East automatically lower their oil prices!"

Shi Zhijian smiled: "Mr. Soros, I invited you here to implement my plan, not for you to raise objections! You have to understand that what I value is your execution ability, especially your excellent skills in hedging, So you just have to carry out my plan!"

Soros shrugged and said indifferently: "Okay, I'll listen to you! But I have to make one thing clear: if you lose the battle this time, you will lose more than two billion US dollars, while I will only lose face! in addition--"

The corner of Soros's mouth reveals a trace of rebelliousness: "Before I implement your plan, I hope you can settle the senior management of Longteng Fund first. After all, I am an outsider, and there may be many people who oppose your plan..."

"You can rest assured about this," Shi Zhijian said confidently, "I have already called them, and these people will rush to the United States immediately, and then I will introduce you to them!"

Soros nodded, "Very good! I'd love to meet some new friends!"

…

It was raining like a torrential rain outside, and the furious thunder was like a tide.

The top executives of Longteng Fund who rushed to the United States overnight from Hong Kong and the United Kingdom are now gathering in the meeting room on the fifth floor of the Hilton Hotel in New York~www.readwn.com~ It is raining outside, but the room is not affected by the outside, and everyone sits on their own On the seat, or drinking coffee, or smoking a cigarette.

Sitting in front of the conference table were two of Shi Zhijian's former capable officers, one was Shen Bi, the president of Hong Kong HSBC Bank, and the other was Saipan, the boss of Hong Kong Standard Chartered Bank.

The two have special identities. As the founders of Longteng Fund, they have a high status in the company, so they are qualified to sit in the boss-level seats. Others look up to them.

But at this moment, Shen Bi and Saipan's mood was as bad as the heavy rain outside.

The reason is very simple. Shi Zhijian actually appointed Soros, a Wall Street financial tycoon, as the new head of Dragon Fund. That is to say, whether it is Shen Bi, Saibai, or others, he must obediently listen to Soros. work under the command.

Shen Bi and Saibai looked at each other and smiled wryly at each other, which seemed to mean abandoning the past.