Rebirth 1980: Marrying my sister’s best friend at the beginning

An hour later, when Li Yi came out of Citibank, a loan agreement worth US$80 billion had been signed.

Although it will take a few days for the funds to arrive, the contract has been signed, and Li Yi is not afraid that they will regret it. After all, the liquidated damages are quite high.

After coming out of the bank, Sandy looked at Li Yi and said, "Boss, where are we going now?"

"Take me to the Royal Bank. I want to do a big business with their person in charge!" Li Yi said.

Sandy was stunned for a moment, then said: "Boss, you don't want to mortgage the remaining company shares for a loan, do you?"

"It's a loan, but the collateral is not the company's shares!" Li Yi said.

Sandy is not a person who likes to get to the bottom of things. When Li Yi said that he would not continue to mortgage the company's shares, he stopped talking.

Then, he took Li Yi straight to the Royal Bank!

The Royal Bank ranks first in the British Isles in the legal person, personal and overseas banking industries, and ranks second in the retail banking industry and private car insurance industry. It is a proper super bank!
Due to the huge influence of Sandy and the Henry family behind him, Li Yi easily met the head of Connoisseur Bank.

An hour later, when Li Yi and Sandy came out of the Royal Bank headquarters, he had another agreement in his hand.

According to the content of this agreement, all the US$80 billion worth of funds he loaned from Citibank will be converted into pounds and deposited in the Royal Bank.

At the same time, Li Yi borrowed HK$600 billion from Royal Bank using the deposit certificate of this fund as collateral.

After some fooling around, Li Yi and Sandy strode away from the Royal Bank in the eyes of senior executives of the Royal Bank who looked at them like fools.

Back in the car, Sandy looked at Li Yi and said, "Boss, do you think the pound is going to appreciate?"

"See it?"

"Well, if you borrow US dollars from Citibank but you have to exchange them for pounds to deposit, obviously the pound is going to appreciate, but"

"Just what?" Li Yi asked with a smile.

"It's just that it's too risky for you to do this. Now that you have made two loans with one fund, you have to pay interest twice, and the cost of using the funds will reach 12.5%. If the pound's appreciation is not large by then, we will have to You've lost a lot of money!" Sandy said worriedly.

Li Yi raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and then said: "Just based on the word "we" you just said, I will tell you a news!"

"what news?"

"The government will adjust the exchange rate of pounds to U.S. dollars in the near future to significantly increase the value of pounds, with an appreciation rate of at least 50%!" said Li Yida.

Sandy was directly shocked by Li Yi's words. After a while, he said: "Boss, how is this possible? Considering the economic situation in the empire, it is already good that the pound can maintain the current exchange rate. How can it still appreciate? And Is the rate of appreciation still that high?”

Li Yi smiled and said: "I won't explain the specific reason to you. You can tell your father the news. I think he will know what to do!"

Hearing this, Sandy fell silent.

He wanted to continue asking, but he thought of the news he had just received this afternoon: the plane made a successful emergency landing on the island, and no one died.

At the same time, the cause of the plane crash was also investigated, and it turned out to be due to volcanic ash.

It is reported that a volcano on the way the plane must pass has just finished erupting, and the resulting volcanic ash was blown to an altitude of 13000 meters. When the plane passed through the volcanic ash cloud, the volcanic ash rubbed against the fuselage for a long time, eventually producing a discharge phenomenon. .

What's even more frightening is that the plane's engine also inhaled volcanic ash, causing the internal temperature to rise sharply.Moreover, volcanic ash also found its way into the fuel tank, eventually causing the oil pipeline to become blocked and the engine to lose power and stall, thus causing the crash.

There is no human sabotage, no mechanical failure, and naturally there is no such thing as human manipulation.

But the mysterious Eastern boss in front of him can accurately predict the approximate time, course and outcome of the disaster, which is enough to subvert Sandy's world view.

Thinking of this, he did not continue to ask, but thought about whether to follow Li Yi's lead!
Looking at Sandy's thoughtful look, Li Yi smiled and then asked the driver to start the car!
It is an ironclad fact that the pound has appreciated, and he also knows the reason. In fact, this is directly related to the Falklands War.

The British Empire's finances were in trouble before the war broke out. A series of signs of economic crises such as inflation and unemployment began to appear. The shadow of the Great Depression once again enveloped the country.

Although the war temporarily diverted people's attention, the funds consumed by the war further dealt a heavy blow to the national finances.

In order to alleviate the increasingly severe financial and social problems, the government decided to carry out economic reforms. One of the most important decrees was to sell state enterprises to private enterprises.

Although this reform has huge drawbacks, it has alleviated the government's financial problems to a certain extent and given this big country that has been in decline for decades a chance to breathe and regain its health.

Another major measure of economic reform was to increase the exchange rate of the pound. The exchange rate of the pound against the U.S. dollar dropped from 1980 in 2.45 to 1.54. This not only helped import goods from abroad, but also indirectly controlled inflation.

Stimulated by this series of policies, the British Empire's economy, which had been in recession for many years, miraculously recovered.

到1988年，其国民生产总值已达到3847.78亿美元，通货膨胀率也从1978年的18.1%下降到4.4%；失业人口数下降至200万以下；劳动生产率每年平均每年增长5.5%；人均年收入增长率约为3%，创造了连铁娘子本人都震惊的经济奇迹。

Because of this, when Li Yi made money in the futures market, he did not cash out immediately and left the market. Instead, he made a desperate move and invested most of his funds in Sheffield Company and spot steel.

It's not that Li Yi doesn't know the risks involved, but because he knows very well that it won't be long before the Iron Lady at No. 10 Downing Street makes adjustments to the sluggish economy.

By then, a large number of high-quality state-owned enterprises will be sold to private parties, and at this time the value of the pound will be greatly increased.

If we can acquire a group of high-quality companies here at this time, it will really be a bloody profit.

Therefore, his initial plan was to directly use the shares of Sheffield companies as collateral and then use loans to acquire high-quality companies.

By then, if you run it yourself or sell it after the economy fully recovers, the profit may be several times, or even more than ten times.

But he didn't expect that the gang of ghosts would go to Hong Kong Island to steal his home without moral ethics, so he could only adjust his strategy and borrow a sum of Hong Kong dollars to deal with the emergency.

After some operations, he now has 600 billion Hong Kong dollars plus 4 million pounds of emergency funds on hand, and he also has a mortgage of 52 billion pounds in the bank.

When the pound appreciates, even if the 52 billion pounds is not used for investment, but is converted into U.S. dollars, it will be worth more than 127.4 billion.

One in and one out is a profit of 47 billion US dollars, and the mere 12.5% ​​cost of capital use is simply water.

Now everything is ready for Li Yi, just waiting for the funds to be in place.

As long as the funds are in place, he can return to Hong Kong Island and have a peak showdown with those ghost guys.

But what Li Yi doesn't know is that the entire stock market in Hong Kong is panicked because of the appearance of these ghosts.

Especially for the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, it seemed as if a disaster was imminent, and even the hearts of the people began to float.
(End of this chapter)