Chapter 2466
Worth a Gamble
When people reach a certain status, some of the immediate pleasures gradually diminish without them even realizing it.
This could be interpreted as He Yuzhu becoming hypocritical.
But it's also because he knows that in one's lifetime, there can be many people or things that one can be involved with.
A person's energy is limited.
It is not easy to take good care of a person or do a good job.
Too much involvement will only make things a complete mess.
Putting everything else aside, Liu Ting and Lou Xiao'e probably both harbor some resentment towards him now.
This is the result of his infidelity in relationships.
People can still maintain some semblance of decorum.
When they all get older, the three of them together will probably be thinking of ways to torment him every day.
The thought of that possibility sent shivers down He Yuzhu's spine.
Therefore, he truly doesn't want to be involved in any more emotional 'tragedies' in his life.
Now He Yuzhu is more willing to focus on major issues.
And from studying those big events, one can discover some so-called 'high-level' pleasures.
For example, Armerica experienced stagflation and interest rate hikes. From 1979 to 1982, Armerica had already raised interest rates to 20 percent.
The US dollar index continues to appreciate, but the trade deficit is also widening.
The world is cyclical.
This scene is strikingly similar to the antics that the Americans later caused us.
Of course, ordinary people don't have the same confidence as us to stand up for ourselves.
Even we, in the beginning, could only surrender and lose half the battle.
All I can say is that our family is large and powerful, so we can afford to lose.
But not for ordinary people.
Therefore, their fate was already sealed.
In May, the Williamsburg Economic Summit was held.
For the first time, developed countries have reached a principled consensus on the need for intervention in exchange rate imbalances.
This made He Yuzhu feel very amused.
When later generations study the appreciation of the Japanese yen, they always bring up the Plaza Accord two years later.
But for He Yuzhu, that agreement was nothing more than an arrow that had already hit the target.
The launch of the bowstring began at this conference this year.
Amarekara and his gang took advantage of our neighbor's predicament, as they were preoccupied with their own family and unable to attend to anything else.
They are already thinking about setting new rules for the operation of the world economy.
Of course, it seems that América is not directly targeting Xiao Rizi.
Instead, he set rules for all his underlings.
However, the information that He Yuzhu, in his position, can obtain is different from that of ordinary people.
He can see the essence of many things.
Countries like Hans and Canada have seen their trade surpluses with Armenia increase year by year.
But these two are different.
The Hans family focuses on high-end industrial machinery and chemicals, which effectively complements America's consumer-oriented industrial exports.
The Canadian family, on the other hand, is primarily engaged in energy exports.
Furthermore, Hans is, after all, part of a unified Europe, and has allies.
In this matter, their small-scale lifestyle is still inseparable from the inherent weaknesses of their small country and sparsely populated population.
He's destined to be a lackey, yet he always dreams of swallowing an elephant whole.
In the fields of electrical appliances, automobiles, and machine tools, it's trying to steal its own father's job.
So it was quite normal that they were punished later.
Even without his past life's knowledge, He Yuzhu knew that his life was definitely going to be in trouble.
This put his worries at ease, and he chuckled to himself.
As long as he's having a run of bad luck, he'll be happy regardless of whether he gains anything or not. At this time, He Yuzhu was unaware that Lou Xiao'e had made a huge gamble.
Lou Xiao'e was a bit too eager for quick success in this matter.
She was determined to achieve everything in one fell swoop, hoping to earn a comfortable life for her children and grandchildren all at once.
Actually, this is also He Yuzhu's fault.
When Lou Xiao'e last visited Beijing, He Yuzhu told her about the appreciation of the Japanese yen, and he remarked with a touch of melancholy, "This is the last major event I can clearly see."
It was probably this statement that made Lou Xiao'e feel a sense of crisis.
Was He Yuzhu wrong in saying that?
There's nothing wrong with it.
His understanding of the world economy from his previous life was limited, and the appreciation of the Japanese yen was truly the last major event he remembered.
Next came our enterprise reforms and the return of Hong Kong and Macao residents to their homeland.
As for the economic crises around the turn of the century,
He Yuzhu really didn't feel anything; he didn't even know the reasons behind those financial crises.
The key is that it doesn't affect his miserable life in his previous life.
So he really didn't know much about those things.
He has already spoken several times about what he knows and can say about Lou Xiao'e's future industrial plans.
In those matters, Lou Xiao'e did her best.
Now, the seeds of all of the Ho Group's business plans have been sown, and they are just waiting to blossom and bear fruit.
It's understandable that Lou Xiao'e would feel anxious at this critical juncture.
Lou Xiao'e was naturally also paying attention to the Williamsburg economic conference.
After seeing the meeting results, the woman happily performed a striptease in her office.
She wished she could have flown straight to Beijing right then and there and offered herself to He Yuzhu.
But she's going to be a grandmother soon.
Of course, it can't be that unreliable.
So she simply sent a telegram to He Yuzhu, which contained only four words: "Another happy event."
Since the Williamsburg Economic Summit, all the tycoons have unanimously invested their money in their daily lives.
They're just waiting for their daily savings to appreciate so they can reap the rewards.
This seems a bit hard to understand, since currency appreciation should be beneficial to the domestic economy.
If our own money has become valuable, how can it be exploited by foreign capital?
To give a simple example, let's say someone who used to run a foreign trade business for many years and made a lot of money from outsiders.
This amount of money is finite.
In other words, the amount of foreign exchange available to individuals is limited.
They're being targeted by the boss now, and their foreign trade can't grow.
Therefore, the only option is to focus on boosting domestic demand.
In the 1980s, housing prices in several major cities quadrupled.
So now, if Lou Xiao'e invests one US dollar, its value in the small-life market will increase three or four times. Even if she seeks stability, it will at least double.
Then wait for the Japanese yen to double in value, then exchange it for US dollars and withdraw from the money.
That one dollar became four dollars.
Making money is that simple.
The fund that Lou Xiao'e has partnered with a certain bank to establish has already invested two billion US dollars in the small daily market.
As long as the economy continues to improve and the dollar rises as expected, then when Lou Xiao'e withdraws this money...
After deducting all profit sharing and handling fees, Lou Xiao'e can at least double her profit.
Such exorbitant profits are worth the gamble for Lou Xiao'e.
In later generations, people would easily amass fortunes in the hundreds of billions or trillions.
But in reality, if Lou Xiao'e's plan succeeds this time, she can ensure that the He family's assets firmly reach tens of billions of US dollars. (End of this chapter)