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

As the Sassoon and Henry families bowed their heads and surrendered, this business war officially came to an end.

Whether it was commercial gains or non-commercial battles, Li Yi made a lot of money, while the Sassoon family suffered unprecedented losses.

However, Li Yi, who had won a great victory, did not pursue the victory, nor did he kill Dolson as a prisoner. Instead, he turned his attention to attracting investment for Pengcheng.

Li Yi is very clear about Jiang Longyin's current situation. At this time, he is standing in front of the supreme opportunity like the chosen one. As long as he finds the right way to open it, he can soar into the sky.

He has to help him with this!

Therefore, after signing the contract with Dolson and others, Li Yi, escorted by Yan Guangming and others, personally went to Pengcheng from Zhongying Street.

After some discussions with his second brother Jiang Longyin and his partners, Li Yi returned to Hong Kong Island with the "imperial edict".

After arriving, Li Yi immediately convened a meeting with members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

The content of the meeting was not known to the outside world, but on July 7, just after the meeting, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce issued an announcement saying that they had received an invitation from the Pengcheng City government on the other side for an investment inspection. After joint discussion and decision by all members of the chamber of commerce, they agreed to accept Pengcheng City. Invitation from city government.

Subsequently, under the leadership of Vice Chairman Charter King, an inspection team consisting of more than 200 people was quickly established and officially went to Pengcheng for investment inspection.

Neither Li Yi nor Li Futiao went together, but they were still very concerned about this matter. After all, this investment inspection was the thread they jointly held.

The delegation stayed in Pengcheng for three days. After three days of contact and negotiation between the two parties, before the delegation returned to Hong Kong Island, a total of 17 companies and enterprises signed investment agreements with the Pengcheng government.

Although the combined investment of 17 companies is less than US$[-] million, this is a crucial matter for Pengcheng.

Because this means that Pengcheng has finally taken an important step in opening up to the outside world, and has initially established the reform spirit of "dare to be the first in the world".

They say everything is difficult at the beginning. As long as you take the first step, the rest will be much easier!

And just in the past few days when the inspection team was inspecting Pengcheng, a lot of big things happened on Hong Kong Island!

First, the British-owned group issued a public statement. In view of the fact that peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation are in the interests of both parties, the two parties jointly decided after consultation to extend the previously signed non-aggression agreement.

Immediately afterwards, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce also responded to this matter and acknowledged the extension of the agreement.

Once the news was announced, it quickly aroused heated discussions among the people in Hong Kong and even caused a small shock in the stock market. Hong Kong stocks rebounded on a large scale that day.

Although the rebound was not large, it still greatly increased the confidence of investors.

At the same time, the Hong Kong Island Police Department also officially issued a statement, saying that the investigation of the assassination case of mercenaries and killers a week ago had been completed, and it had been found that Gusta and the entire team had indeed paid for the murder, so The police officially decided to arrest these people and transferred the case to the Procuratorate for prosecution.

Shortly after the police department's statement was released, Gusta immediately published a letter of apology to Li Yi in mainstream media such as the South China Evening News and Oriental Daily.

This kind of personal admission of buying a murderer has a huge impact. Not only the Sassoon family has been reviled and scorned by the people, but also those in the British-owned group have been affected.

After all, the method of paying to kill someone is really too bad, and it has exceeded the bottom line of business competition.

At the same time, everyone is also rejoicing. Fortunately, this time they are dealing with Li Yi, who has a profound background. If it were anyone else, they would most likely succeed. Therefore, the calls for severe punishment of Gusta are getting louder and louder.However, Li Yi did not participate in these matters. First, he accepted the benefits from others and did not want to bear the reputation of going back on his word.

Moreover, he was busy mobilizing funds during this period and really had no time to get involved in such bad things.

While Li Yi was waiting for funds from members of the chamber of commerce, he asked Zhao Xinlan to personally take action and frantically apply for loans from major banks in Hong Kong Island.

As for the loan, he would accept it as long as the interest rate was reasonable.

Of course, since the amount of his loan was very large, he naturally could not rely on his face to get the loan. For this reason, he did not hesitate to use some of Genting One, Hang Seng Bank and New Territories Warehouse's shares as collateral.

After a lot of work, Li Yi directly borrowed 180 billion Hong Kong dollars from various banks.

Counting what the company can mobilize and what members of chambers of commerce raise, he has a total of more than HK$940 billion in funds.

After getting the money, Li Yi did not hesitate and immediately converted all the money into pounds.

Naturally, such a big movement could not be hidden from the big forces. After learning about Li Yi's move, both the British-owned groups and the Sassoon family were shocked.

Just when everyone was nervously speculating on Li Yi's intention, Li Yi quietly let people know that he would go to London for a second round of investment.

After the news spread, many forces began to take action.

Some people planned to follow Li Yi to drink soup, while others had other plans.
Just when the situation was a bit turbulent, another important thing happened in Hong Kong Island, that is, the Hong Kong dollar depreciated again, and its exchange rate against the US dollar fell to an unprecedented 9.6:1.

This exchange rate directly created the lowest exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar against the US dollar, and also caused many people to have huge doubts about the Hong Kong dollar's confidence.

You must know that the Hong Kong dollar has been depreciating rapidly since the stock market crash last year. In just one year, the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate against the U.S. dollar has dropped from 5.06:1 last year to 9.06:1 now, a decline of almost half.

In other words, in the past year, as long as you have Hong Kong dollars in your hands, the value has dropped to about half.

As a result, many people saw this situation and exchanged their Hong Kong dollars into US dollars or British pounds.

As a result, more Hong Kong dollars flow to the market, and there is a serious shortage of US dollars and pounds, which directly leads to a further increase in the exchange rates of these foreign currencies, forming a vicious circle.

Fortunately, Li Yi knew this result a long time ago. After making his first money last year, he converted all the funds into U.S. dollars and deposited them in Citibank.

Now that the exchange rate has fallen to its lowest point, and the one-year deposit period has expired, Li Yi immediately asked the financial department to settle the money immediately.

Since it is a deposit, settlement is very simple.

On July 7, when the US$20 billion in funds was successfully settled, Li Yi knew it was time to leave for New York.

Before leaving, Li Yi asked Zhao Xinlan to exchange 14 billion US dollars into pounds, and the remaining 5700 million US dollars was transferred to the account of Green Brothers.

Then, after leaving the two children in the care of their mother-in-law and eldest sister, Li Yi and Jiang Xue, escorted by several bodyguards, boarded a flight to New York with team members such as Li Yunbao, Pang Feiyan, and Liang He! (End of chapter)