Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 484: 40.3 tons of gold and can’t hide it anymore
The next afternoon, Chu Xiangqian once again sold the 6.8 tons of gold stored in the Xinshou Village warehouse.

Unexpectedly, when the London futures market opened that night, these 6.8 tons of gold were thrown into the market without even a splash.

Chu Xiangqian gritted his teeth and sold the 20 tons of gold that had been urgently shipped to Hong Kong Island and deposited with Standard Chartered again the next day, which brought the London gold price to US$40.2.

And Chu Xiangqian's move was equivalent to giving the Americans bullets to suppress the price of gold.

U.S. officials, who were still considering how much it would cost to suppress gold prices, only needed to take advantage of the situation and announce to the public that the Federal Reserve planned to sell 20 tons of gold into the market in a planned manner.

This completely destroyed the confidence of investors in the market who were worried that the price of gold would rise again, or speculators who were waiting for the price of gold to rise again.

Before ordinary investors could react, some large institutions that were hoarding gold did not hesitate to sell gold, planning to take advantage of the opportunity to make the last profit.

This time there is no need for administrative intervention policies at all, and ordinary people are already panicking.

In less than 5 days, the price of gold has fallen back to US$35 per ounce, and once fell to US$34.

The Americans had to start planning to buy back gold, but Chu Xiangqian would not let go of this opportunity.

The dollars that were sold for gold entered the market in a big way.

The 34.148 tons of gold that was deposited into Standard Chartered and sold was bought back before it was handed over to the bank from which it was purchased.

Then he bought gold again in large sums.

After going in and out, 34.148 tons of gold were sold first and then bought. At the final settlement, the gold in Chu Xiangqian's hand directly turned into 40.3 tons of gold.

Standard Chartered naturally tried its best to persuade Chu Xiangqian to deposit all 40.3 tons of gold in their bank.

But Chu Xiangqian was stupid to put so much gold in a bank.

Besides, what is deposited in the bank is gold, but what the bank gives is a gold deposit certificate.

To put it bluntly, this document is just like a dollar bill, just a piece of paper.

Having physical gold in your hands is the real wealth.

Of the 40.3 tons of gold settled, Chu Xiangqian took 30.3 tons directly from Standard Chartered.

Then I deposited 7.5 tons in Standard Chartered and continued to deposit 2.5 tons in Hang Seng.

Of course, the 10 tons of gold stored in these two companies and the remaining 6.125 tons of gold still need to be transported back to Hong Kong Island from other banks by Standard Chartered and Hang Seng.

But according to the accounts, Chu Xiangqian did deposit a total of 10 tons of gold in Standard Chartered and Hang Seng.
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It took Chu Xiangqian a full five days to transport 30.3 tons of gold onto the yacht in batches, and went to sea at night to collect it in the Novice Village warehouse.

Fortunately, the specific gravity of gold is 19.32 tons per cubic meter.

You don’t have to worry about the yacht not being able to load it, but you have to worry that the yacht doesn’t have such a large load capacity.

This also made Standard Chartered understand very well that the 20+6.8 tons of gold that Chu Xiangqian took out for the third time might really come from China.

In the past, Chu Xiangqian chose Standard Chartered as the settlement bank for several of his companies because of its excellent relationship with China.

There is a high probability that he will not have any inappropriate thoughts about this batch of gold.

Of course, it's not that the capitalists are kind-hearted, but that Standard Chartered can gain a lot of benefits from China.

However, the supervisory attitude of the person at the helm of a company also determines the position of a company.
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Chu Xiangqian put a lot of effort into the safety of this batch of gold, but fortunately everything went smoothly.

After all the gold was collected in the Novice Village warehouse, Chu Xiangqian felt relieved and at the same time, he was extremely satisfied that Standard Chartered and Hang Seng were able to not spread any news about the gold transfer within 5 days.

Chu Xiangqian was able to easily obtain 26.8 tons of gold from China, which also made Standard Chartered pay more attention to him.

Of course, in fact, out of the 26.8 tons of gold, 6.8 tons belonged to Chu Xiangqian.

But Chu Xiangqian would not say anything about this misunderstanding, and even wished that people would misunderstand that all the gold was shipped back to China.

This way no one will stare at you.

The 10 tons of gold left in Standard Chartered and Hang Seng meant that in the eyes of the two banks, Chu Xiangqian earned a total of 2.652 tons of gold this time.

In the eyes of the two banks, the returns are extremely generous.

When Juan from Standard Chartered and He Zanyuan from Hang Seng attended the small banquet held by Chu Qianqian at the mountaintop villa, they kept pulling him to hint that if there were projects in the future, the two banks would not only provide financial support.

I hope to join more.

Chu Xiangqian naturally agreed to this. If he wanted to obtain more shares in the two banks, the best and most direct way was to make money with them.

Otherwise, why would people sell their shares to you?

If you can't get more shares, even if your influence in the two banks will become bigger and bigger, this influence is a bit empty.

Of course, Chu Xiangqian was not that stupid to directly let two banks participate in his project.

This matter still needs to be carefully considered, so Chu Xiangqian didn't mention the project directly.

Instead, I started mentioning the trolley bag company.

In the past three months, not only has the factory been completed, but the machinery and equipment have been debugged.

Previously, Chu Xiangqian provided a large amount of cowhide, sheepskin, fox skin and shark skin to the luggage company, which came in handy. The only trouble was that there was still a shortage of skilled workers.

However, the bags have just begun to be sold to England, and the initial sales volume will not be large.

It does give the factory enough time to expand production scale.

When He Zanyuan heard about a factory that sells bags, he sold 2000 bags to England this month and had a sales of 6 pounds. He was immediately envious.

According to this sales data, annual sales exceed one million pounds. Not only Chu Xiangqian is confident, but Standard Chartered, Hader, and Ge Bai are also confident.

Juan knew that Chu Xiangqian deliberately told He Zanyuan, probably because he was thinking about Hang Seng's shares.

But this is actually a good thing for Standard Chartered.

Although the two banks are not equal in size, there are many opportunities for cooperation.

With Chu as the link, cooperation will naturally go more smoothly.

By the way, the more shares Chu Xiangqian acquires in Hang Seng, the greater the influence Standard Chartered will have on this bank established by a wealthy local businessman.

Of course, without HSBC, its biggest competitor, Standard Chartered would not be cooperating with Hang Seng. Instead, it would try its best to swallow up this bank and even more banks established by wealthy local businessmen.

The competition between Standard Chartered and HSBC gave banks established by wealthy local businessmen room to exist.

However, looking at ten or thirty years, the more than 30 small and medium-sized banks on Hong Kong Island are actually the nourishment of the two large banks.

Facts have also proved that any local bank on Hong Kong Island that has some strength will basically end up being owned or even controlled by two major banks.

When the local banks are small, the two big banks will ignore you.

If the guarantees are insufficient, these small banks will collapse or have to be sold to other banks.

But when the strength develops to a certain level, suppression will begin.

Even if there is no opportunity to annex or acquire shares within a year or three to five years, an economic crisis that occurs once every ten to eight years on average will definitely create opportunities for the two major banks.

That’s why it’s important to have a lot of cash on hand.

Gold is a wealth that is more stable and more valuable than cash, and is more accepted and recognized by investors.

When I think about the early 70s, the international gold price exceeded US$100 per ounce. In the late 70s and early 80s, when the international gold price exceeded US$500 per ounce, Chu Xiangqian felt that the 40.3 tons of gold in his hands might become an important bargaining chip for him to defeat any potential opponents.

At around 9 o'clock in the evening, after seeing off the guests who came to attend the banquet today, Chu Xiangqian put his arms around Xue Jinglan and said, "Would you like to walk together on the mountain road?"

Xue Jinglan nodded hurriedly. It has been 10 days since she came to Hong Kong Island, and she has never been around the villa.

Moreover, there are many street lights installed near the villa, firstly for lighting, and secondly to prevent people from sneaking around the villa at night.

Chu Xiangqian whistled into the villa, and soon Da Zhuang and Hong Niu ran to the two of them, wagging their tails.

Xue Jinglan is very fond of the two hunting dogs now.

Not only can they accompany and protect themselves, Da Zhuang and Hong Niu are so smart that Xue Jinglan feels that they can understand what she is saying.

In addition, Chu Xiangqian had said before that two dogs had accompanied him on a tiger hunt, and it was only the two of them who released the tiger in advance that enabled him to escape the disaster.

Under the love house and the black girl, Xue Jinglan is naturally very close to Da Zhuang and Hong Niu.

After playing with the two hunting dogs for a while, Xue Jinglan stood up and hugged Chu Qianqian's arm, and walked together on the cement road in the mountains.

Behind them were Zhang Tianzhi and Zhou Billy.

Tony and Yuan Hua have always been professional killers and professional killer managers. Chu Xiangqian does not intend to let them appear around him too much when it is not necessary.

With Zhang Tianzhi and Zhou Bi, who is also very powerful, even if ten or twenty killers with sticks and knives appear, they may not be able to pass the test.

Not to mention that Zhang Tianzhi is now accustomed to carrying guns and daggers. It is impossible for three or five gunmen to kidnap Chu Qianqian and succeed.

Holding Xue Jinglan's hand, Chu Qianqian asked with a smile, "It's been so many days here, are you still used to it?"

Xue Jinglan nodded without thinking. As long as Chu Xiangqian was there, it didn't matter to her whether he lived in Hong Kong Island or the capital.

Chu Xiangqian felt relieved when he saw that his daughter-in-law didn't look like she was lying.

"I will take you out to have some fun these two days. We will return to the capital the day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Then we will take the master, the master's wife and the three uncles with us, fly to Los Angeles, and play in the ranch for a while.

By the way, I'm going to handle business in the United States. "

Xue Jinglan nodded indifferently, and then asked with a thought, "Brother Xiang, my junior wife told me that your junior sister is also in Hong Kong Island.

Why didn't I see you visiting her, or her coming to the house to sit and sit? "

Chu was stunned and thought to himself that this little girl must know something, right?

"Hong Kong students are usually very busy. I'll call her tomorrow to ask when she is free and come to my house for a meal."

Xue Jinglan curled her lips and secretly thought she wanted to lie to me.

However, when I think about the past few days in Hong Kong Island, it is probably due to the pressure of gold speculation and the excitement after making a large amount of gold. In short, Chu Xiangqian has a lot of needs in that area recently.

Xue Jinglan is now a little afraid to sleep in the same bed with him.

Otherwise, this girl would never take the initiative to mention Hong Kong students.

But without help, Xue Jinglan felt that she could hardly bear her man's demands.

At the same time, when I thought of Chu Qianqian's suppressed discomfort, I felt that I had failed to shoulder the responsibility of my wife.

She doesn't even want to see her man in pain.

However, if she couldn't get along with the Hong Kong student, Xue Jinglan would not insist on pretending to be very good friends with the Hong Kong student.

He would not even let her enter the Chu family.

Of course, Xue Jinglan's thoughts are actually related to his grandfather Xue Xueli.

The old man had hinted that Chu Xiangqian had a woman outside.

However, Old Man Xue also said that this was for work.

Then on the wedding day, after the second elder came to the door in person, Old Man Xue told about Margaret.

In Xue Jinglan's mind, Chu Xiangqian approached Margaret just for work.

In this case, with one more junior sister, Xue Jinglan would naturally be more accepting.

"Brother Xiang Xiang, how about we eat out at noon tomorrow and invite Hong Kong students to meet us, okay?
In case you go back to the capital and see your master, master's wife, and master's uncle, you will ask us if we have seen your junior sister.

In the end, I found out that the two of us who are senior brothers and sisters-in-law have never even met our junior sister, which is not good. "

Chu Qianqian rolled his eyes at his wife, unable to see the little girl's little thoughts.

However, it was only a matter of time before Lan Lan got to know Hong Kong Sheng, Feifei, and even Margaret.

Since she wants to meet Hong Kong students, she should meet them first.

"Okay, I'll call and ask tomorrow morning. But as your sister-in-law, you take the initiative to invite her. Even if you are really unavailable, Hong Kong students will make time to see you.

Lest you, my sister-in-law, not only not want to see her, but also won't let her come to our house. "

"Nonsense", Xue Jinglan suddenly became angry, "How can I be as bad as you say?"

Early the next morning, a call was made to Fujin Building. The Hong Kong student, who was having breakfast with Feifei, felt completely unwell after answering the call.

When Feifei saw this, she couldn't help but asked worriedly, "What's wrong? Who called?"

Hong Kong came to his senses, grabbed Feifei's arm nervously and said, "Senior brother said, let me go to the racecourse in the morning and meet my eldest sister."

"Eldest sister?" Feifei asked in confusion before she could react, "Is your eldest sister coming to Hong Kong Island?"

Hong Kong student shook his head hastily, "I didn't kiss the eldest sister, no, I didn't kiss the eldest sister either. She is my senior brother's wife, the wife of the Chu family. Sister Feifei, your immediate boss."

Feifei was shocked after hearing this. This is the person who can decide her own destiny.

If a man is not good, even if he is a man, he will not abandon himself.

But in terms of his own status, he is naturally inferior to the wife of the Ming Media.

If the wife of the wife causes trouble for him, it would be better to just give him a beating.

If you cry in front of your husband and gain sympathy, you might be more favored.

But if the wife of the wife uses conspiracy, there are many ways to punish and suppress herself, and even the man can't accuse his wife.

"What else did your husband say to you? Did you also ask me to see my wife?"

Hong Kong Sheng shook his head, "Senior brother told me to go to the racecourse and take my eldest sister and me to dinner at noon."

When Feifei heard this, she couldn't help but pouted with dissatisfaction.

Why should I meet this little girl from Hong Kong first, but not go meet my wife myself?

However, she was not happy at all, so Feifei still felt that it would be a good thing for her to let Hong Kong students meet the eldest lady first and feel her temper.

He hurriedly pulled the Hong Kong student and started to teach her how to deal with the troubles made by the first wife.

(End of this chapter)