After arranging these things, Zhao Yi turned his attention to the upcoming Plaza Agreement. For Zhao Yi, who holds a large amount of US dollars in his hands, this agreement must be paid attention to.
If some arrangements are not made in advance, after the agreement is signed, it is estimated that the US dollars in Zhao Yi's hands will depreciate massively, and they will not be as valuable as they are now.
Moreover, at that time, international capital wanted to exchange the U.S. dollar for currencies that were about to appreciate. It would be better if the size was small, and the operation was relatively simple and very convenient.
However, it is definitely not an easy task to convert hundreds of billions of dollars of currency into Japanese yen, British pounds or German marks, and the conversion losses will be relatively large at that time.
The essence behind the birth of the Plaza Accord was the imbalance of international trade in hawker paste. The trade deficit continued to expand. At the same time, the government's finances ran a budget deficit.
Under the influence of these twin deficits, the government raised the domestic basic interest rate and introduced international capital to develop the economy, resulting in a continuous inflow of foreign capital and the continued appreciation of the US dollar.
The continued appreciation of the US dollar has dealt a huge blow to the export competitiveness of hawk sauce. This vicious cycle has expanded into a foreign trade deficit crisis.
In the previous life, Japan's trade surplus with eagle sauce increased year by year, so it was given priority in the Plaza Accord, and Japan also intended to increase the yen exchange rate to promote the transformation and upgrading of domestic production enterprises.
Therefore, Japanese financial officials are actually very happy to see the results of signing the Plaza Accord, but they do not seem to realize that once the currency appreciates, it will enter the inertia of appreciation, and it will be difficult to balance it in the short term.
As everyone knows, the appreciation of the yen suddenly became too strong and could not be stopped, causing a serious bubble in Japan's domestic assets. At that time, buying, buying, buying was a true portrayal of Japan.
It’s just that a bubble is a bubble after all. Once it bursts, it will cause huge internal damage to the national economy. When the previous excitement dissipates, what is left is a pile of chicken feathers.
Of course, Japan has not reaped any benefits from this currency appreciation. At least they have the money to acquire and purchase properties abroad, giving Japan another name as Japan overseas.
These are the experiences of the previous life. In this life, due to Zhao Yi's strong rise, a large amount of the Japanese market was taken away, so that the current Japanese economy is not as fierce as in the previous life.
Not to mention other things, in the automotive field, Shenlong Automobile Company has put huge pressure on Japan's automobile export business, making this pillar industry of theirs less brilliant than in its previous life.
Of course, although most of Zhao Yi's semiconductor companies compete for the market of Yingjiang Semiconductor Company, especially in the field of logic chips, they maintain a state of self-sufficiency in the field of memory chips.
This was Zhao Yi's deliberate move, which was to allow some Japanese industries to form a strong position in the hawk sauce-related fields, expand Japan's trade surplus with hawk sauce, and spread the hawk sauce's attention to our country.
However, as Polaris' personal computers continued to sell well, even with this self-sufficient sales model, Tianxing Semiconductor's memory chips still occupied a large share of the world market.
Fortunately, this part of the market is an incremental market. In the previous life, this part of the market was not large, so the impact on Japan's trade surplus with hawk sauce was not that big.
It’s just that now our country has become the second largest economy in the world, and it has definitely attracted the attention of the world. I don’t know if this Plaza Accord involves our country. After all, our country is no longer transparent, and it is already difficult to be invisible. .
Moreover, in recent years, my country's export business has grown year after year, forming a huge trade surplus with most major countries in the world. This is also the reason why my country's exchange rate continues to remain high.
Government departments also know that lowering the exchange rate is conducive to exports. However, my country's high-tech product exports have already formed a huge trade surplus. If the exchange rate is lowered again, the whole world will probably not agree.
Even the current exchange rate of RMB 2:1 against the U.S. dollar is maintained by our government's efforts. Now there are international voices saying that our country's exchange rate is still too low and there is still room for appreciation.
To be honest, Zhao Yi feels that the RMB can no longer appreciate. Now it has reached a point where, except for his companies, either the products are high-tech, or because of the scale effect, the unit cost has been reduced, and exports have relatively strong competitiveness. .
Other domestic companies, especially low-end production companies, have gradually lost their advantage in exporting and can only sell domestically, and their operating difficulties will become increasingly severe.
As the country's opening up to the outside world increases, when imported products become even cheaper than domestic products in the future, those low-end manufacturing industries will face a huge blow and have to move production lines to countries with lower labor costs.
This is the current economic situation our country is facing, and the government is very clear about this. Even so, it is impossible for the government to give up its export advantage of high-tech products and choose those low-end manufacturing industries.
But if we just give up, it will still cause a big blow to our country's economy, because our country has not yet become wealthy and does not have the willful ability to let low-end manufacturing run its course.
It was against this background that the reform of state-owned enterprises began. Otherwise, it would be impossible to persuade the government to take action on huge state-owned enterprises with just a few words from Zhao Yi. At most, his words were just an introduction.
The best reference for the reform of state-owned enterprises is Zhao Yi's Hualong Apparel Company. The general clothing manufacturing industry is also considered a low-end industry, and it is also one of the ways for many developing countries to accumulate capital through this industry.
It is this kind of low-end manufacturing industry in the eyes of outsiders that makes Hualong Apparel Company run a great business. It is extremely competitive in terms of employee treatment, sales scale and profit margin.
It is precisely because of the example of Hualong Apparel Company that the government has not given up on treating these low-end manufacturing state-owned enterprises, but hopes to develop these state-owned enterprises into enterprises like Hualong Apparel Company.
This is also one of the reasons why the senior minister said last time that he hopes to inspect Hualong Clothing Company. They hope to find some panacea from Hualong Clothing Company to save these state-owned enterprises.
Regardless of whether these state-owned enterprises can provide a large amount of tax revenue for the country, at least they have a large group of people who work for them. If they are abandoned rashly, what will happen to these workers? The government must solve these problems.
Based on the above thinking, Zhao Yi felt that this time the Plaza Accord might be different from the previous life. As for what was different, he was not able to know.
Although this life may be different from the previous life, the general trend has not changed. The appreciation of the yen, pound, and West German mark is inevitable. As long as this judgment is made, it does not make much difference to Zhao Yi whether it is earlier or later. .
Zhao Yi needs to make arrangements in two aspects. The first is the disposal method of personal funds. The method is much simpler. In the previous life, the yen appreciated the fastest and the most, so his own funds flowed into the yen market first.
Now investment companies are increasing their investment in the Japanese real estate market, and Hong Kong real estate developers are also entering the Japanese real estate market on a large scale. Now Zhao Yiyi needs to let the investment companies increase their investment in Japanese real estate.
In this case, the US dollar currency in your hand can be converted into Japanese yen currency in large quantities. In addition to making a lot of money on the exchange rate, it can also push up the real estate prices in Japan. When the time comes, you can also make a fortune on Japanese real estate. Pen.
The remaining U.S. dollars that can be converted into Japanese yen can be converted into Japanese yen, and then invested in the Japanese stock market. The appreciation of the currency will definitely boost the market value of the stock market, because international capital will participate.
It is impossible to hold cash in the hands of Japanese yen exchanged, they will definitely make some investments, and the financial market, especially the stock market, is the most convenient, fastest, and largest market, whether entering or exiting Very fast.
It is particularly suitable for international hot money and speculative capital. This will also be the most important Japanese yen investment method for investment companies. Moreover, if the Japanese stock market has not yet risen, if you enter the market in advance, the future benefits will be very large.
If you do it more ruthlessly, you can borrow a large amount of yen from the Bank of Japan, and then repay the principal and interest in US dollars, and then use the money to invest in the stock market or real estate. It is simply a waste of money. No trading.
The profits obtained in this way will definitely be higher, but if you do this, the target is a bit too big. If the scale of lending is very large, then the borrowing banks in Japan will probably lose money and go bankrupt.
Although it was a bit cruel to do so, Zhao Yi did not know how to be kind to women. Anyway, it was not his own country that was harmed, and as the bridgehead of Eagle Sauce in East Asia, there was no psychological pressure to trick them.
Regarding Yingjiang's minions in Asia, Zhao Yi pursues the goal of weakening them as much as possible so that they are unable to become Yingjiang's accomplices.
This is also Zhao Yi's tit-for-tat layout in the industry from the beginning, running on the Japanese automobile industry in the automobile market, occupying the high-end market, and then letting Japan compete with the automobile industries of European countries such as Eagle Sauce and West Germany.
This is especially true for the semiconductor industry. Not only has it taken over Yingjiang's job, but because of necessity, Japan was previously allowed to make a difference in the field of memory chips. Now Zhao Yi has also begun to let Tianxing Semiconductor Company compete with Japan's semiconductor industry.
In the previous life, Japan's semiconductor industry, especially memory chips and liquid crystal display technology, were the reasons for the development of South Korea. Now that Zhao Yi is involved, there will be nothing wrong with South Korea in the future.
Not only that, in the field of shipbuilding, it is now also an important industry in Japan, bringing a large number of export orders to Japan. Later, South Korea also became another pillar industry of South Korea by grabbing Japanese shipbuilding orders.
How could Zhao Yi let such a good field go, and Zhao Yi has already begun to deploy the shipbuilding industry. Now Haiyan Shipbuilding Company can independently manufacture 300,000-ton oil tankers, and has begun to compete with Japan and South Korea in the shipbuilding field.
In the future, they will continue to work hard in the field of manufacturing LNG ships and try to reduce their competitiveness in the field of shipbuilding. With Zhao Yi's technical advantages, he is very optimistic about the future of Haiyan Shipping Company.
Of course, a developed shipbuilding industry will definitely enhance the country's R&D and production capabilities of naval military equipment. The Western Pacific is too small, and Zhao Yi does not want this small place to allow other people's warships to come and go.
Such competition will inevitably have a huge blow to the shipbuilding industry of Japan and South Korea. It will also curb the development of their naval military equipment, and it will also enhance my country's development of naval military equipment.
Since he has already damaged Japan and South Korea's future in many fields, Zhao Yi does not mind causing greater damage to them in the financial field, so Zhao Yi follows this idea and asks investment companies to implement relevant investment plans.
Zhao Yi did not talk about the Plaza Accord. This matter was still in a secret stage. Except for the parties involved, it was impossible for outsiders to have access to it. If he spoke about it, wouldn't he be causing trouble for himself
And with his brilliant record in the past, Peter now obeys Zhao Yi's investment plan and will not raise any questions about Zhao Yi's plan at all.
The capital in the hands of the investment company, as well as the idle capital collected by Zhao Yi from its various companies, is still very large. It is unrealistic for so much capital to enter the Japanese market alone.
Therefore, Zhao Yi also asked investment companies to invest in Germany. However, the appreciation of the West German Mark was very limited compared to Japan. Zhao Yi was not satisfied with the profits earned. In addition, the German financial market was not very active, and speculation Opportunities are rare.
Therefore, Zhao Yi mainly asked investment companies to hoard land on a large scale near the Berlin Wall. In his previous life, due to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the appreciation of land near the Berlin Wall was terrifying.
This matter also needs to be planned in advance, otherwise it will be too late. If you wait until the matter becomes clear and then follow up, you will only be able to drink some soup and water, which will have very little appeal to Zhao Yi.
After arranging these things, Zhao Yicai set off to Tengger City, where Tianji Dairy Company's headquarters and production base are located, to prepare to assemble the unmanned milk production line that had arrived.
That's right, the current location of Tianji Dairy Company has been upgraded to Tengger City, because the layout of Tianji Dairy Company is different from that of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company in Mu Us Ranch.
In addition to the cow breeding sites scattered in various locations, Tianji Dairy Company also has other dairy processing industries concentrated together, resulting in an originally deserted location with a current population of more than 900,000.
The number of employees working in and processing dairy products has reached 400,000, and the rest are the family members of the employees and those engaged in commercial service industries.
So many people gather together, and when it was first built, it was built according to the city, so all kinds of commercial facilities are very complete.
Moreover, since Tianji Dairy Company provides employees with very high salary levels, it has injected vitality into the development of the city, and business prosperity is a matter of course.
Due to the large population, developed commerce, and pillar industries, there was no need to worry about the future development of the city. The government took advantage of the situation and upgraded this stronghold to a city, and its jurisdiction was the entire Tengger Ranch.
If you include the population of the various dairy farming bases below, the total population of Tengger City will reach more than 2 million, which is almost the same as an ordinary prefecture-level city. In addition, the area under its jurisdiction is more than 40,000 square kilometers, which is more than The area of general prefecture-level cities is much larger.
Zhao Yi's special plane landed at the airport in Tengger City. This airport was independently built by Tianji Dairy Company. It covers a small area and has only one runway, but it facilitates business contacts with the outside world.
Otherwise, if Zhao Yi wants to come here, it will not be that simple. It takes a long time to go back and forth. There is only one highway connecting Xi'an on land, and the main purpose is to transport products out.
To be honest, after the initial processing of milk, the cost is actually not high, but when it is sold all over the country, the transportation cost is very large, especially the transportation of fresh milk.
In order to solve this problem, Zhao Yi provided Tianji Dairy Company with a set of fresh milk concentration technology, which processes fresh milk into powder, which can greatly reduce transportation costs and extend the shelf life of milk.
This technology is different from milk powder. It completely retains the nutritional content of fresh milk after being made into powder form. After being transported to filling plants across the country, this powder can be used to perfectly restore the taste and nutrition of fresh milk. Element.
Without this technology, transporting fresh milk to all parts of the country would incur huge costs, which not only increases the price of end-sales products, but also significantly reduces the profit margin of Tianji Dairy Company.
When Zhao Yi took his exclusive car and got out of the special plane, he saw Qin Xiangqin picking him up not far away. Zhao Yi quickly drove the car here and invited Qin Xiangqin to get in the car and go to Tianji Dairy Company together. Headquarters.
After Qin Xiangqin got into the car and settled down, the driver started the car and followed Qin Xiangqin's car out of the airport.
"Mr. Zhao finally has time to come here. We have created such a huge situation, and we don't even have a chance to show off to you." Qin Xiangqin said with a smile.
"I know the situation of your company from the reports. I have wanted to come and take a look for a long time, but I have been busy with business. I just came here whenever I have free time." Zhao Yi also said with a smile.
When the car came to the city, we looked out the window at the tall buildings and modern buildings everywhere. Even the billboards on the roadside used Polaris' giant LED screens on a large scale.
Judging from the outside scene, the degree of modernization here, at least the degree of architectural modernization, exceeds that of Kyoto. The clothes of the people coming and going are all very fashionable. When you see their expressions, you can tell that they are living a prosperous life.
"Looking at the scene on the street, it was much more shocking than the report given to me." Zhao Yi turned his head and said to Qin Xiangqin.
“We are starting from scratch and drawing on a blank paper. It is much simpler to build a new city. The buildings here, except for government departments, all belong to Tianji Dairy Company.
To be honest, I can’t believe it now. A dairy company turned into a real estate company and became the largest landowner in Tengger City. "Qin Xiangqin also said with emotion.
"This is good. Judging from the clothes and mental outlook of the pedestrians on the road, the residents here should live a pretty good life." Zhao Yi said.
When he originally planned to build a new city, Qin Xiangqin asked Zhao Yi for money on the one hand, and also asked about the management model of the new city on the other.
The Tengger Ranch covers an area of more than 40,000 square kilometers, equivalent to a quarter of Jiangxi Province. Without a central city to manage the entire area, it will be very detrimental to the development of Tianji Dairy Company in the future.
First of all, it is very troublesome to apply for relevant documents. If you want to have a place for entertainment and consumption, there is no place. Moreover, when the number of people gathered reaches a certain level, the conditions for building a city will inevitably be met.
Therefore, Zhao Yi agreed to Qin Xiangqin's city construction plan and allocated 20 billion yuan specifically for urban construction.
This amount of money may seem small, but for a city with a population of less than 1 million, it is already quite a lot. The per capita urban construction scale has reached 20,000 yuan.
After giving Qin Xiangqin the funds, Zhao Yi decided that the new city would operate according to the operating model of the Hong Kong Housing Company. Zhao Yi planned to carry out the role of landlord to the end.
The purpose of this is that Zhao Yi is optimistic about long-term returns. Although he will not earn as much as buying a house in the short term, it is a one-time deal.
Second, if employees now invest a large amount of their savings in real estate, it will cause insufficient consumption capacity in the city, seriously affect the development of industry and commerce, and be very detrimental to the development of new cities.
The third is to prevent the vacancy rate of houses from being too high. In the future, when you have money, you will buy a house desperately. In order to reduce housing prices, you need to build houses desperately, resulting in many houses that are simply unoccupied, resulting in a huge waste of land and capital.
If houses are not built, housing prices will remain high, young people's consumption desires will be suppressed, and their sense of happiness will be greatly reduced, which will have a negative impact on the city's subsequent development momentum.
Whether it is for Zhao Yi's long-term interests or for the long-term development of Tengger City, leasing is very beneficial.
If someone else does it, or if there are many real estate developers doing leasing services, rent prices will definitely skyrocket in pursuit of short-term profits.
However, the land here is in the hands of Tianji Dairy Company, and the houses are also built by Tianji Dairy Company. Even if the rent is reduced a lot, it is still profitable overall.
Although the rent for residential housing is extremely low, the rent for commercial real estate can be increased appropriately, and the overall income is still very good.
Of course, this is the case with Zhao Yi, a conscientious capitalist. Otherwise, if someone else had this monopoly power, the residents would probably be miserable.
Looking at the bustling scene outside, Zhao Yiyi was even more convinced of his idea. If the bicycles or motorcycles outside were replaced by cars, it would look exactly like the streets of a first-tier city.
"Most of the credit for urban construction must be attributed to the designers of the Hong Kong Housing Company. If we hired domestic designers to do it, the construction would definitely not be so fashionable.
It's a bit funny to say that every time I look at the bustling scene outside by the window, I feel a sense of pride, which is much more than the sense of accomplishment in building Tianji Dairy Company. "Qin Xiangqin said.
"Normally, I feel a sense of pride now, let alone you, a personal participant." Zhao Yi said with a smile.
Along the way, neither Zhao Yi nor Qin Xiangqin talked about the operation of Tianji Dairy Company. When they saw special buildings, they discussed and commented together. When they saw interesting signs, they pointed them out to another person with interest.
Sure enough, compared to those boring company operations, this kind of direct high-rise buildings makes people more excited. This may be the gene buried in the bones of the Chinese people. (End of chapter)