The Birth of the Hong Kong Island Family.

Chapter 295 [Another Life]

I bought stock on Monday,

Tuesday I became a millionaire,

Lived in a luxurious house on Wednesday,
Sitting in my carriage on Thursday,

Arriving at the Opera House on Friday,
Saturday came to the ghetto.

This popular song in the United States expresses the crazy gambling nature of buying short and selling short and making huge profits in the stock market of capitalist countries.

Lin Zhichao came to Wall Street in New York again to experience the taste of "stock god" and see the dynamics of leeks.

On Broadway in New York, there are row upon row of high-rise buildings, and people follow these high-rise buildings to form a "canyon"; when you walk to Wall Street, you can see a building with a Corinthian-style colonnade on the corner. This is the world-famous New York The seat of the stock exchange.

Walk into the door, go through the long and narrow aisle, go up the stairs or take the elevator to the second floor.Standing in the spacious corridor, you can see the situation of the trading floor at a glance.

There are often one or two thousand people who carry out paper transactions on the trading floor, including the staff on the floor, so there is always noise and chaos.

Some people in the hall were whispering to each other, some were shouting hoarsely, and some were walking in a hurry, but no one ran, because the regulations of the exchange prohibit running in the hall, and a fine of fifty dollars will be imposed.

The hall is roughly composed of two interconnected halls, the so-called wide hall and corridor hall, but it is actually just a market.There are nineteen trading desks in the hall, which are shaped like a horseshoe, so people in the industry also call it a "horseshoe-shaped building".

Each trading platform is numbered, and there are market signs on the platform.Among these trading desks, there are twelve trading desks with an average of more than 30 kinds of common stocks, and six trading desks with more than 240 kinds of stocks.There is another trading desk called "No. 100", which is actually a small room specially set up in the corridor, specializing in more than [-] kinds of preferred stocks, with ten shares as a trading unit (the New York stock generally Transactions are made in units of [-] shares).

During the trading hours (five hours a day), there are constant calls in the hall. In order to make it easier for callers to find brokers to listen to the calls, there are two signal boards on the walls on both sides of the hall. , as soon as the signal light is on, the broker can be called.

The transportation of documents in and out of the hall is carried out by pneumatic pipes installed underground using air pressure.This kind of equipment is available in nineteen trading desks, and each trading desk is in direct contact with eighteen telephones.

In addition, behind each trading desk, there is another transmission pipe leading to the "quote room", which is convenient for the trading desk to notify the "quote room" of the transaction price, transaction amount, etc., and then the "quote room" uses the "automatic notification device" to "Outgoing.

It takes about 24 seconds to transmit a transaction.

Only members can trade in the hall. The exchange currently has 360 members. They are divided into four types: commission brokers, binary brokers, expert brokers and odd-lot brokers.

Commission brokers specialize in buying and selling on behalf of clients and charge commissions on transactions.Most of them are partners or capital owners of stock firms.The scale of this kind of commission stock firms also varies, with the largest being called a telephone stock firm, which has branches or correspondents at home and abroad.

Binary brokers specialize in trading under the entrustment of commission brokers when trading is busy.

Specialist brokers are also commissioned by commission brokers to operate their business, but they are different from binary brokers.They don't run to any trading desk like binary brokers, but they are stationed at a certain trading desk, specializing in research and waiting for the market fluctuations of the stocks they entrust, so that they can meet the entrusted situation.

Odd-stock brokers use the word "zero stock" to refer to the transaction of one to 99 shares, that is, less than [-] shares.

"Boss, the S&P 500 has fallen by 20% in more than four months. This time it is really a big drop! Everyone calls this big drop the 'Kennedy Cliff', especially the steel 'big blue chip' stocks , Almost all fell off a cliff." Chris said adoringly beside Lin Zhichao.

Your own boss is the real "Wall Street elite". He can make money when the market is good, and he can also retreat before the market plummets.

Lin Zhichao nodded, and said: "We can just hold back, and maybe we will take action at the end of the year. After all, although buying bottoms can make more profits, I prefer a stable environment, or the market and its panic scenes. Obviously, now is not the time."

Chris said: "Well, everyone usually sorts out some materials at work, or recharges themselves."

The implication is that everyone is waiting for you to show your talents, but don't dismiss everyone.

Lin Zhichao said with a smile: "Relax, I don't have too many demands on everyone. You know, I am a long-term investor who likes to speculate in blue-chip stocks. As long as you do what I explain and abide by the employer's confidentiality guidelines, you are OK." gone."

The salaries of these foreigners are very high, not lower than that of local financial institutions in the United States. Generally, the annual salary of a financial employee has reached as high as 3 US dollars; and the annual salary of Chris has reached 8 US dollars, which is not inferior to that of Global Shipping. Vice President.

This is because Lin Zhichao wants to support this group of people with high salaries to make them more loyal.The so-called loyalty means keeping the information of the employer confidential and protecting the safety of funds.

Chris said with a smile: "Earning the salary of the boss, I am so happy!"

Lin Zhichao patted him on the shoulder with a smile, and said, "I also earn money from you Americans!"

Chris replied: "The U.S. stock market is open to people from all over the world. If you want to make money, you have to be as capable as the boss. Perhaps more is to keep the funds in the United States."

The two chatted casually. This time Lin Zhichao came to New York to deal with the matter of the "Yangtze River Investment Fund". First of all, he transferred 5800 million of the original 1800 million US dollars, leaving only 4000 million US dollars for October. Buy the bottom.Secondly, 2200 million US dollars were mobilized from Hong Kong, together with the 1800 million transferred away, and injected into Audrey Investment Company.

Chris didn't think too much about Lin Zhichao's reduction of funds. After all, after making money, it is normal to take part of the funds to develop other businesses.

"Hey, Mr. Lin, Mr. Chris, we meet again!"

Just as Lin Zhichao and Chris were about to leave, they met Cai Zhiyong, the "Chinese Wall Street stock god" again, and he still greeted them warmly.

It turned out that after he went back last time, he investigated Lin Zhichao, and he suddenly felt astonished.It turns out that Hong Kong has already produced such a wealthy tycoon, even the US President Kennedy has a relationship with him.

Such rich people are naturally his potential high-quality customers.

"Mr. Cai, stay safe!" Lin Zhichao greeted with a smile.

In any case, Cai Zhiyong is the most famous Chinese person on Wall Street in later generations. It is said that when the stock market crashed in 1968, he sold his funds to insurance companies, made a huge profit of 3700 million US dollars, and successfully retired; Gold was only 1965 million, but at that time public funds raised 200 million US dollars, creating a historical record on Wall Street, which has not been broken by later generations.

"Don't be safe. Last time, Mr. Chris said that he was going to retreat bravely. Now it seems that I made some mistakes. The facts are exactly as Mr. Chris expected. The US stock market has plummeted in recent months."

Chris said without changing his face: "It's just luck!"

Lin Zhichao naturally wouldn't say that he instructed him, so let Chris get this honor!

However, Chris didn't need Wall Street's reputation, so he didn't need to show off, so he didn't talk much to Cai Zhiyong.

After chatting for a few words, we separated.

Lin Zhichao keeps a respectful distance from Wall Street financial people, unless he can use it for himself.

Because this kind of person is often a powerful person who drinks human blood, and no one is easy to get along with.

And if Lin Zhichao speculates in U.S. stocks, naturally, the lower the profile, the better.

In late May, Hong Kong.

Sitting in Cheung Kong's office, Lin Zhichao was in a very good mood. As a rich man at his level, coupled with the memory of his previous life, it is difficult to experience business setbacks, and he can always go smoothly.

Of course, it is undeniable that Lin Zhichao has learned too much in these years; there is also a cheating place, that is, Lin Zhichao's brain has undergone a second major development.

Sometimes he is thinking about one thing, assuming that after time travel, he doesn't want to work too hard, relying on real estate speculation and stock speculation, his future achievements will definitely be at the level of hundreds of billions.However, it must be a very long development experience, and the early stage must be very hard.

And suppose—another kind of life, he didn’t remember the time and place of the crash (1947.1 Beacon Hill).

Then, Lin Zhichao can only make his first pot of gold by working part-time as an intermediary at the newsstand—an intermediary that specializes in house sales and leasing.After all, Lin Zhichao has knowledge and insight, plus he was willing to work hard at the time and put down his face, so he should be able to save 5000 Hong Kong dollars in one and a half years.

In the following 1948, Lin Zhichao could only follow Lee Shau Kee's example and speculate in gold.At that time, I believed that he had actually accumulated some social contacts by virtue of his career as an intermediary, at least he would not be deceived and slaughtered.

He has been speculating in gold for a year and a half. Although he does not have the convenience of Lee Shau Kee having an older brother in Omen, he understands the changes in the situation in the mainland. In this way, the value of gold will more than triple, and Lin Zhichao may earn about 5 times.

Before September 1949, Lin Zhichao already had a deposit of nearly 9 Hong Kong dollars, so it was natural to exchange it for U.S. dollars and wait for the pound to depreciate; in this way, his wealth should be upgraded to 2.8 Hong Kong dollars.

At this point in the matter, it has only been eight or nine months since Li Jiacheng established the plastic factory, and Li Jiacheng still has 5 Hong Kong dollars (a lot of borrowing), while Lin Zhichao has less than [-] Hong Kong dollars.

Of course, if Lin Zhichao had been working in the real estate agency, he might be able to reach a wealth value of 1948 Hong Kong dollars; after all, if the agency continued to work in [-], the money he earned could continue to be speculated in gold and exchanged for US dollars.

So at the end of 1949, Lin Zhichao had 4 Hong Kong dollars, maybe it was not a problem.

So, the question before Lin Zhichao came, a mere 5 Hong Kong dollars, even if a friend can make up [-] Hong Kong dollars by then, is Lin Zhichao going to open a plastic factory like Li Jiacheng?

With his brain, maybe he won't lose to Li Jiacheng, after all, Li Jiacheng in this era may not be very powerful.But Lin Zhichao, a traveler, must not accept the hardships of this kind of fake factory for a long time.

In this day and age, real estate speculation is not very profitable, and stock trading is a little strange, there is simply no shortcut!

So, assuming that Lin Zhichao didn't remember the matter of dropping the gold, it would take Lin Zhichao three years to be on the same starting line as Li Jiacheng!
He would definitely not choose to open a plastic factory, because if his factory went wrong, there would not be a rich uncle to rescue him.

Then, what should we do next?
Run a newspaper, take the lead in starting the new era of martial arts, and then write some editorials and the like—for example, Hong Kong’s resolution of the crisis.I believe that in this way, I can still earn tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars every year, and it can also improve my social status and relationship network.

After running a good newspaper, I will enter the plastics industry at the right opportunity, study hard for two or three years, and plan for the production of plastic flowers.One step ahead of Li Jiacheng, he went to learn plastic flower technology from a teacher. In this way, he might earn millions of dollars in 1957.

The important thing is that by 1958, he had the strength to enter the real estate industry to buy bottoms, and the land and properties plummeted by 70% were like treasures.

It seems that when Lin Zhichao was 30 years old, he had reached the level of Li Jiacheng in his previous life.

In fact, it is not the case, and there is a huge difference in the distance:

First, newspapers can give Lin Zhichao enough social contacts and influence, and he can even earn hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars a year, making him No. 1 in the newspaper industry.

Second, the plastic flower can bring more profits to Lin Zhichao half a year or even a year in advance, which can be used to buy real estate in 1958.

Third, it is estimated that in 1958, it would be no problem to spend 500 million yuan to buy 2 residential properties and 1 industrial site. If it is not enough, it can use bank loans, or even a joint venture with friends.

In this way, by 1959, Lin Zhichao had become a home buyer, using plastic flowers to continuously provide funds for home purchases, and newspapers could provide Lin Zhichao with contacts and social status.

After a few years of stable development, it has greatly surpassed the four major families in the previous life.

In the office, Lin Zhichao couldn't help laughing.

As a time traveler, his survivability is still very strong. Of course, Lin Zhichao dared to say that his personality is not a problem because of his current success.

The lack of development in the previous life was due to the lack of goals and direction when young, and the allocation of social resources has ended, and the class is almost fixed.

The goal and direction of the traversers are very clear, so success is very easy.

No doubt, maybe the next one is you!

Lin Zhichao picked up the "Ming Pao" on his desk, and quickly understood how "Ming Pao" became a bestseller.

It's not because of Jin Yong's series of martial arts novels, that's just one reason to stand firm; the reason why "Ming Pao" really sells well is that since May this year, it has written about what happened on the "border", but other newspapers are silent At that time, only "Ming Pao" began to report on the development of the border on May 5, and started donation channels and methods, etc. Citizens bought "Ming Pao" one after another because they were Chinese.

But "Ming Pao" did something like this, and it offended the Hong Kong government a little bit, so just like the later generations, it began to change its direction a little bit and published - a small Hong Kong can't bear too much population, once it increases too much, it will be disastrous Yes, from the perspective of the Hong Kong government
Jin Daxia is a good scholar, but he is definitely a powerful businessman.

"These compatriots are so pitiful!" Tang Caiyun's voice came from the side, she was always kind.

This is a good thing, even Lin Zhichao is very kind.

Kind-hearted people, on the contrary, are more likely to achieve great things; of course, the kindness here is not the Holy Mother, a better representative, of course, is Li Jiacheng in the previous life, and Lin Zhichao in this life.

Although people with a bad heart can achieve great things, their height is definitely limited; because such people do not pay attention to credibility and conscience. Although they may be successful for a while, they will never be successful for the rest of their lives. Because you have no credibility, others will let you down at most. Make money once.

Lin Zhichao buckled up the newspaper, meaning not to read it, it would only add to the sadness.

"At this time, don't be too kind. How many people do you think a small Hong Kong can support? If you raise fish in a small pond and the density is too high, you will end up with all your belly. Therefore, the Hong Kong government is That's right. Because of this, I haven't expressed my position or acted so far."

Tang Caiyun was no longer a little girl, so she quickly realized and said, "Well, you're right!"

In her eyes, her husband is absolutely kind-hearted, but also a very sensible person, a very powerful man who can do great things.Therefore, every sentence is naturally also the truth.

"After the incident, Oxfam will help those people settle down, and then we will donate a sum of money to Oxfam."

"oh, I understand now!"

Lin Zhichao nodded. At this time, the "Oxfam Club" was still labeled as "Lin Zhichao" because Xu Caiying succeeded Ge Mulian as the president in 1957.

At the same time, the influence of Oxfam Hong Kong has not lost to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and Po Leung Kuk, and it has become a major charity organization in Hong Kong.

According to the logic, this year or next year, London should also award Lin Zhichao a 'jazz title'.

After all, Lin Zhichao has made great achievements: the "boss" in the shipping, industry, and real estate circles, and the "boss" in the charity world.

If you only support the founding and development of Oxfam, you can actually be awarded a knighthood, not to mention solving the work problems of more than 2 people in Hong Kong.
If you don't give it, it will look a little stingy!

(End of this chapter)