Reborn in the red age

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the conference room was stunned and stared at Li Qingfeng blankly, not knowing what to say.

At this time, the Japanese stock market situation is confusing. A small number of people are bearish in the long term, while most people are still bullish in the short term.

It would be an unwise choice to withdraw funds from the stock market directly and short Japanese stocks now.

Who knows whether Japan's stock market will be pulled to a historical high in the short term? After all, Japan's bull market has lasted for fifteen years.

Zhan Peizhong, who was frightened by Li Qingfeng's idea, temporarily forgot about the friction between him and Fang Wanzhen, and hurriedly persuaded: "Chairman Li, now is not a good time to short Japanese stocks. I expect Japanese stocks to rise for at least another two or three months. If you short now, there is a high possibility of heavy losses."

"Yes, Mr. Zhan is right. This is indeed not a good opportunity. Mr. Li, please think twice." Zhuo Haiping also quickly agreed.

Without waiting for the remaining Fang Wanzhen and trader Ying Mingquan to persuade him, Li Qingfeng simply waved his hand to stop them from saying anything.

He narrowed his eyes and glanced at everyone, then said in an unquestionable tone: "I have made up my mind, just go down and do it."

There were four filthy people in the room before today. After hearing Li Qingfeng's words that could not be refused, they looked at each other and nodded helplessly.

Under the strong push of Li Qingfeng, Zhuo Haiping ignored the basic rules of running away in the stock market and directly placed a huge sell order of 5% of the total estimated value in just 40 minutes before the lunch break.

Given the size of Lemon Company's capital in Japan, even if it only sold off 5%, it would still be an astronomical figure.

Such a large sell order appeared out of nowhere, instantly stopping the upward climb of the related company's stock price, and even dropped the stock price by several points at once.

This action caused the stock market makers to curse loudly and talk about the ancestors of the person who crashed the market one by one.

No matter how much they curse, in order to keep the stock price stable, they still have to hold their noses and transfer funds to take up all the huge sell orders.

The morning sell orders had just been completed and the stock market opened again at 12:30. Without giving the market makers a chance to react, another huge sell order was thrown out.

Given the current hot stock market, although this amount of funds is large, it still did not attract the attention of the market makers and was swallowed up in one gulp.

The same thing happened the next morning. Three consecutive large sell orders attracted the attention of some investment institutions, but they quickly ate up the orders.

"Who on earth are these people? They have been selling stocks on a large scale four times in two consecutive days. What do they want to do?"

In a high-end office building somewhere in Tokyo, a middle-aged man with a hairline receding behind his ears, after listening to the report from his subordinates, angrily slammed the table and started cursing.

"Minister, we have launched an investigation and I believe there will be news soon." Facing the angry leader, the trembling subordinate bowed deeply and responded quickly.

"Useless, complete rubbish! This is the fourth time you don't have any information about that group of people."

"Ha Yi, it's my fault." After bowing and apologizing again, the subordinate raised his head cautiously: "Minister, should we take this money?"

"Baga, eat it, you must eat it"

"Ha Yi"

The fourth round of large-scale selling caused a stir in Tokyo's capital market, and everyone began to investigate who was behind it.

Li Qingfeng did not pay much attention to the situation outside. He asked Fang Wanzhen to convert all the company's investment capital and income in Japan into US dollars, and quickly asked Zhan Peizhong and others to short the Nikkei Index.

Such a big move by Lemon Company could not be kept secret. Not long after the fourth sell-off, it was thoroughly investigated.

As a world-renowned high-tech company, its crash and run in Japan made many foreign investors aware of the danger and hesitated whether to follow Lemon Company.

However, they soon found that they didn't need to hesitate because someone had already run away.

As the fastest-running investment bank in the financial circle, Goldman Sachs and Li Qingfeng sold off their shares one after another, and most of their funds have already fled.

When Goldman Sachs saw Lemon Company dump its shares and run away, it cursed inwardly and quickened its own pace of escape.

However, Goldman Sachs was afraid of causing panic and did not dare to crash the market like Li Qingfeng did. It could only maintain a reasonable speed and run away quickly.

As the Tokyo financial circle was turbulent, Goldman Sachs' actions naturally could not be hidden from others.

A large number of Hong Kong-based funds, including HSBC, also began to flee.

Word of the news spread from one person to ten and from ten to a hundred, causing panic selling, which eventually turned into a market crash and a run.

The originally strong Japanese stock market suddenly felt shaky.

After the situation in Tokyo was reported to America, America was also confused. We just started to be bearish on Japan, and the "Nikkei Index Certified Put Warrants" have not been sold for two days. The big move to reap the benefits of Japan has not been launched yet, and you are all running away?
How can this be tolerated? If you all run away, who will I harvest? So I also speed up the harvesting process.

With the full force of the United States, the Japanese stock market could not even hold on for ten days. At the end of January 1990, it began to plummet more than a month earlier than the previous year.

It plunged 5 percent that day, and by the first weekend of February, the Japanese stock market had plunged 30 percent.

However, the decline did not stop at 30%, and it is still falling slowly.
Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel, Li Qingfeng shook a glass of red wine and looked at the crowd queuing up to make dumplings on the rooftop of the high-rise building opposite with a smile on his face. He felt indescribably happy.

Aren't you little devils crazy? Didn't you claim that you could buy America by selling Tokyo? Even an ordinary Japanese woman dares to look down on me and other Asian countries.

Why are they all running to the rooftop to party? Why aren't they playing music and dancing?

"Director Li, I've discovered a strange phenomenon. Although the Japanese stock market has plummeted, it has not affected the property market. The properties we started selling last year are now being bought up in large quantities. The prices have not fallen, and have even risen slightly." Fang Wanzhen, who was standing behind Li Qingfeng and could not bear to look at the group of people jumping off the building opposite, tilted her head slightly and reported to Li Qingfeng the news from below.

After hearing Fang Wanzhen's report, Li Qingfeng, who was watching people jumping off the building with great interest, didn't even turn his head. He just said casually: "This is natural. Many Japanese fled the stock market crash this time. The Japanese who have been crazy will not put their money in the bank to earn interest."

"They will also choose an investment channel. Since the stock market is not doing well, they will invest their money in the real estate market, which they are more optimistic about."

Fang Wanzhen thought for a moment and said, "That shouldn't be the case. Japan's stock market has already plummeted, and it will soon affect the property market. The Japanese are so smart, I don't think they will fail to figure it out, right?"

"It's very simple. The upper class of Japanese society needs the real estate market to remain prosperous. When the upper class sells off all their properties, the real estate market will plummet. This opportunity will take about a year."

Li Qingfeng, who knew the future development direction, pretended to be a master of economics and gave Fang Wanzhen a profound analysis.

"I see. I was worried about the property market because I hadn't sold anything yet. Now it seems that my worries were unnecessary."

Speaking of the property market, Li Qingfeng thought of something. He finally turned his gaze away from the group of people jumping off the building opposite him, looked at Fang Wanzhen and said, "By the way, has Japan's foreign exchange been drained by international capital now?"

"Yes, the amount of international capital in Japan is too large. Two weeks after we successfully fled, the capital that fled had exchanged all of Japan's foreign exchange. During this period, the funds that fled could not be exchanged for sufficient foreign exchange. Japan is currently negotiating with them to postpone the repayment."

The corner of Li Qingfeng's mouth twitched. He didn't expect that he had let Zhuo Haiping crash the market and run away, which actually attracted other international capitals to follow suit. Wall Street launched a strike against Japan in advance, which completely kicked off the collapse of the Japanese stock market.

The country's foreign exchange reserves were wiped out, and the Japanese suffered a great loss. They were definitely going to vent their anger.

The Japanese don't dare to hate European and American capital, but now they must hate the Lemon Company that took the lead
Li Qingfeng said that he didn't care about this matter. Even if there was no early start this time, when investigating afterwards, the Japanese would find out that he had turned around and shorted Japan with large funds.

Anyway, we have made mortal enemies. It doesn’t matter whether the Japanese hate us more or less. Too much debt won’t worry me, and too many lice won’t itch me.

"It's okay. We don't need to convert the funds in real estate into US dollars in a hurry. We can just keep them in Japan. A large number of companies will have their capital chains broken this time. Let the investment department keep an eye on them. After they stabilize, we can appropriately purchase some high-quality assets."

"Okay, I'll let them know later." After noting down Li Qingfeng's request, Fang Wanzhen reminded him, "Huaxin has already completed its inspection at NEC in Japan. Do you think we should go and take a look?"

"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about it. Let's go and see the results of our investigations these days."

As he spoke, Li Qingfeng put down the sip of red wine he had not yet drunk, glanced reluctantly at the Japanese man on the rooftop opposite who was hesitating and not daring to jump down, then turned around and followed Fang Wanzhen out of the hotel.

Arriving at the hotel where Huaxin was staying in Shinjuku, Li Qingfeng glanced at the lobby of the three-star hotel and felt resentful in his heart.

I booked a hotel for you in advance, but you thought it was too expensive and wanted to find a cheaper one yourself. I thought you found a small hotel, but it turned out to be a three-star hotel.
"Academician Wang, how was your rest at this hotel? Was there anything uncomfortable? There are so many hotels in Tokyo, we can change hotels at any time."

In the hotel's conference room, Li Qingfeng pretended to be concerned about them, but in fact he was satirizing them and felt relieved in his heart.

Humph, do you really think that I, Qingfeng Li, am magnanimous? I haven't forgotten the time you pointed your fingers at me and spit on me in China.

Academician Wang naturally heard the sarcasm in the words. He coughed and pretended not to hear the sarcasm. He said awkwardly: "Fortunately, fortunately, how can such a high-end hotel be uncomfortable?"

"That's fine, that's fine. If you don't get used to it, you can always stay in the four-star hotel you booked in advance."

“No, three stars is fine.”

After hearing all the sarcasm and seeing the embarrassment on the faces of a group of uncles, Li Qingfeng felt relieved.

Soon, the meeting on introducing the 1.5-micron production line officially began. Li Qingfeng sat in the main seat and listened carefully to the negotiations between everyone and various Japanese semiconductor companies during this period.

Listening to the reports from everyone with glowing faces, Li Qingfeng couldn't help but shake his head: "Sixty million US dollars, they really dare to ask for it. They dare to ask for such a high price for a production line that is already outdated internationally, and it's second-hand equipment. Why don't the Japanese just go and rob it?"

"There's nothing we can do. This is the result of our repeated price cuts. The Japanese are just bullying us because our relationship with the United States has recently broken down, so we can only import chip production lines from them," Academician Wang said angrily.

Ni Guangnan, who came with him, echoed: "These little devils, although they are polite when speaking and bow when they meet, they will bite a big piece of flesh off you as soon as they open their mouths."

"It's useless to say all this. In the final analysis, we are still inferior to others in skills. They can't control us however they want," said Sun Kangmei, who came secretly and pointedly.

Li Qingfeng just felt a headache. Importing equipment from Japan was indeed the best choice, but Japan was now clearly trying to take a big bite out of Huaxin.

Sixty million US dollars was nothing to Qingfeng Li now. It was just a drop in the bucket. After all, he had just earned an unimaginably huge sum from Japan.

However, having just cheated the Japanese, Qingfeng was about to be cheated again by the Japanese. He felt uncomfortable no matter how he thought about it.

"The Japanese stock market is plummeting and many companies are going bankrupt. As far as I know, the Japanese semiconductor industry has not had an easy time in recent years. Is it possible that some smaller semiconductor factories will go bankrupt in this stock market crash?"

Just when Li Qingfeng was hesitating whether to accept the Japanese offer, Fang Wanzhen, who had come along for the ride, made a suggestion that immediately opened up the minds of Li Qingfeng and the others.

Li Qingfeng slapped his thigh hard and said excitedly, "Yes, it's second-hand equipment. It doesn't matter who you buy it from. Buying from these companies whose capital chains have broken down and gone bankrupt will definitely be cheaper than buying directly from these big companies."

"That makes sense. You can give it a try. It's not the latest technology anyway, so there's no need to rush." ​​Academician Wang thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

With the nod from the technical leader of Huaxin, the opinions of others are not that important.

Li Qingfeng immediately made arrangements and instructed the Japanese branch of Lemon Company to find out as soon as possible about the semiconductor companies near Tokyo that could no longer operate.

This kind of thing was not difficult to investigate, and soon a detailed investigation report was delivered to Li Qingfeng's desk.

There are a lot of company names on the paper documents, all of which are small and medium-sized semiconductor companies that are in debt crisis. (End of this chapter)