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Chapter 319 On the eve of the Plaza Accord (4200+ chapters, please subscribe~)

There are two students in Class 78 assigned to Changying Film Studio. In addition to Yang Xiaodan who invited Wu Jianye before, there is also Wang Lianping, a student from the photography department.

Last year, Yang Xiaodan and Fu Yiwei made love for "The Magical Land", he was the photographer.

In the evening Fu Yiwei really came to their party with Yang Xiaodan, seeing the love between the two, Wu Jianye didn't say anything.

"Old Wu, this glass of wine is to congratulate you on your happy wedding. At the beginning, the factory couldn't get away from work. We didn't catch up with your wedding with Zhu Zhuo. What do you say about this glass of wedding wine now? You have to drink it!"

Yang Xiaodan and Wang Lianping said while holding wine glasses.

"If you say this, you'll be offended!" Wu Jianye clinked glasses with them.

"It's the two of you, it looks like a good thing is coming soon, when you make a phone call, the sky is high and the water is far away!" Wu Jianye said.

"Haha, your words are enough!" This time it was Yang Xiaodan and Fu Yiwei who clinked glasses to Wu Jianye.

The old classmates talked more about the interesting things in school when they met, but Zhao Fei, who was everyone's happy fruit, his story was brought out by everyone, and there was a lot of laughter.

The next day Wu Jianye chatted with Jiang Yun again, and asked him to go to his own court to have a culture after returning to Yanjing. Jiang Yun has always respected Wu Jianye very much, so naturally there is no problem.

Wu Jianye stayed in Spring City for a week. Firstly, he searched for locations and secondly, he discussed the shooting situation with Chen Jialin. Although Chen Jialin was not a member of the crew of "The Last Emperor", he is currently filming "The Last Empress". same theme.

Among them, Chen Jialin, like Wu Jianye, provided a very useful question.

Extra question!
"The Last Emperor" will involve a lot of big scenes, especially the scenes in Yanjing Forbidden City, lamas, rebels, these will use a lot of extras.

With this question in mind, Wu Jianye and the others returned to Yanjing!
After returning to Yanjing, Wu Jianye immediately held a meeting with the crew of "The Last Emperor". After everyone's discussion and research, he found that the extras of this drama will reach nearly [-].

This is not something that extras can gather, especially the lamas and rebel actors.

In the end, it was Zhao Ming who proposed that he should come forward to communicate with Mr. Wang Lanxi, and the matter of the army would be easily resolved if he came forward.

Old Mr. Wang Lanxi is an old revolutionary. He was also the first dean of the Academy of Film. Later, he also served as the head of the Ministry of Culture, and also had the experience of serving in the army.

That night, Wu Jianye and Zhao Ming went to Mr. Wang Lanxi's home. Although he has retreated to the second line now, his influence is still there.

In Mr. Wang Lanxi's home, Wang Lanxi also expressed his appreciation for Wu Jianye, who made Wu Jianye also a student who came out of the Film Academy.

"Take a good shot, we are very optimistic about you!" Mr. Wang Lanxi patted Wu Jianye on the shoulder and said: "As long as you have a heart for the country, you can come to me directly if you have any difficulties in the future, and you don't have to let these old guys be lobbyists! "

"Don't worry, the old dean, I will definitely not disappoint your expectations!"

Facing these characters who can be written into history textbooks, Wu Jianye showed great respect.

"We are all getting old, and Huaxia's movies will depend on you in the future!" The old director sighed.

With the support of the old dean, Wu Jianye naturally didn't have to worry about the military actors. As for the choice of the lama, it was still Zhao Lao and others who helped solve the problem.

This shows that Wu Jianye has the advantage of finding these teachers as film consultants. These people cannot be simply described as film practitioners. They are the characters of the older generation who came out with the liberation of China, and their relationships are intricate.

It is not comparable to the so-called old artists of later generations.

When I returned to the courtyard at night, it was past ten o'clock, but Wu Jianye saw that the light in his room was still on, and opened the door to see that Zhu Zhu was sitting on the sofa and reading a newspaper.

After seeing Wu Jianye, he showed a smile: "I'm back, I must be hungry, I'll cook a bowl of noodles for you."

"Ah."

While eating noodles, Wu Jianye said, "If it's too late in the future, don't wait for me!"

"It's okay, in case you are hungry, someone will cook noodles for you!"

Before the filming officially started, Wu Jianye had one more important thing to do, and that was the Plaza Accord.

Before the Plaza Accord, RB's development was as fast as plugging in a bazooka. At this time, RB people all had a sense of pride, thinking that RB's future was unparalleled.

The acquisition of Universal Pictures and Columbia Pictures was just a microcosm of the RB consortium at the time. After the Plaza Accord, RB proudly held the appreciated Japanese currency and clamored to acquire the entire United States.

Mitsubishi used 13.4 billion US dollars to acquire the Rockefeller Center, a national historical landmark in the United States. RB Life Insurance merged the Shasong Lehman Brothers of the United States, and the Bank of Tokyo acquired the United Bank of America. In addition, RB people are also investing in real estate in central cities such as LA, New York, and Hawaii. , RB people almost mastered nearly half of the real estate in downtown LA, which caused the real estate prices in Los Angeles to soar. By the end of the 80s, 10% of the real estate in the United States had become RB people's pockets.

During this period of time, the self-confidence of RB people is unprecedentedly high, and it seems that they have stepped out of the shadow of the United States, but the United States perfectly showed RB people that your father is your father after all, and it is because your father loves you. Don't hurt you anymore, you should spank when you deal with brats!

Now the exchange rate between US dollar and Japanese yen is about 1:245, and it will reach 1:250 at the highest point!After the Plaza Accord, the exchange rate between the dollar and the day will reach 1:120, an increase of more than two times. This is simply sending money to Wu Jianye.

It is not only the foreign exchange market that can be manipulated, but also RB's stock market and real estate market.

After the Plaza Agreement, RB’s stock market did usher in a period of skyrocketing. In 1984, the Nikkei index reached 10000 points. After the Plaza Agreement ended, the Nikkei average index reached 1986 points in January 1, and rose to 13000 points in September 1987. , Even in the 9 global stock market disaster "Black Monday" global stock market plummeted, the rising momentum of RB stock market has not been hindered!

There is also a little story here, which can fully illustrate how terrifying the real estate bubble of RB is in this era. In a school in Tokyo, an old man who is a janitor has served in this school for 40 years. Living a hard life, after retiring, he planned to return to his hometown from Tokyo to spend his old age, so he asked someone to sell a small house in Tokyo. As a result, this small house was sold for a high price of 800 million US dollars. The old gatekeeper became a rich man in an instant, and returned to his hometown full of wealth as a wealthy man.

Tokyo's housing prices can be seen here!
It's a pity that there are too few talents available in Wu Jianye's hands. If Wu Jianye can let Yanwen operate after the Plaza Agreement in RB's stock market, then RB's real estate market can only choose to give up.
".As of today, the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen is 238.7 yen to 1 U.S. dollar. Since we act relatively quickly, the average exchange rate should be 242 yen to 1 U.S. dollar. We use it with JP Morgan Bank and other banks in the United States. With 100 times the leverage and deducting the 10% deposit, we now have 585 billion U.S. dollars at our disposal, all of which will be invested in the international foreign exchange market to buy Japanese yen.”

America, New York!

For this Plaza Agreement, Wu Jianye deliberately asked for a leave of absence from China, expressing that he would come to the United States to discuss the investment of "The Last Emperor" with an investment company, so he came to the United States on purpose.

And the hotel where he lived was also the Plaza Hotel where the Plaza Agreement was signed.

Wu Jianye was sitting on the sofa in the hotel suite, and Yan Wen, who was sitting opposite him, was discussing the square agreement. After saying this number, Yan Wen could feel his heart beating violently.

With 585 billion US dollars in funds, it can be said that this is Wu Jianye's gamble.
The kind that bet their lives.

Wu Jianye sat on the sofa with an extremely serious expression on his face. Even knowing the trajectory of history, Wu Jianye still couldn't help but tremble a little.

As long as he succeeds this time, Wu Jianye will achieve corner overtaking in the international capital market, and at that time, Wu Jianye will have a strong flow of funds in his hands.
But at this time, Wu Jianye naturally can't let outsiders see his nervousness, not even Yanwen, now he is everyone's backing, he can't show a little panic: "Don't be nervous, just follow my Just do what you say, it’s just a matter of whether it’s a worm or a dragon!”

"By the way, have I asked you to find the team you're looking for?"

Yan Wen said in a deep voice: "The formation has been completed."

In order to deal with the Plaza Accord, Wu Jianye not only found Morgan Bank as an agent, but he also knew the truth that all eggs should not be put in one basket, and almost reached cooperation with several major banks in the entire United States. Jian Ye came to the United States and has been running for the past few days.

The number of people in charge of this team has reached 200 people, responsible for the operation of various foreign exchange markets around the world.

1985 9 Month 22 Day.

Today, financial magazines, investment banks, and countries all over the world are paying attention to the United States, Manhattan, and the G5 meeting.

This will be the first time in history that multinational cooperation attempts to intervene in the currency market, and all traders are like cats smelling fishy, ​​waiting to make a fortune on this feast.

At 10:45, which was supposed to be the start time of the conference, the journalists standing outside the Plaza Hotel also watched the finance ministers and vice ministers of various countries enter the Plaza Hotel.

Wu Jianye was standing on the top floor of the hotel at this moment, watching all this with cold eyes.

"Why hasn't America's treasury secretary, James Baker, shown up yet?"

When it was eleven o'clock, James Baker, the U.S. treasury secretary who was the host, hadn't shown up, and Yanwen couldn't sit still.

"Don't worry, you've waited for a year, are you still worried about this time?" Wu Jianye comforted with a smile.

"But." Yan Wen was also a little uncertain at this time, "Brother, the United States will not go back on its word, will it?"

"No, don't worry, on such a big occasion, James Baker will naturally show his importance by appearing last!" Wu Jianye continued to laugh.

The time passed by every minute and every second, until 11:30, James Baker was late, and the explanation he gave was that the plane was delayed due to weather problems.
"Fuck, it's so shameless!" Even Yan Wen, who had always been very calm, couldn't help cursing, obviously he was also under tremendous pressure.He is very disgusted with James Baker's behavior of showing off.

Originally, this meeting was a meeting of 15 finance ministers, deputy ministers and central bank presidents from the five countries, but there were three more people, namely Malfort of the United States, because he did all the contact work before the meeting. Without him, it would be easy to continue wrangling during the meeting.

The other two people are a bit interesting, because the meeting uses English, so these two are translators, RB people say they don’t understand English, French people don’t speak English, I am a permanent member of the United Nations, plus the history of France and the United Kingdom There are remaining problems, so the conference had to match them with two translators.

Sometimes negotiations between major powers are actually such nonsense
In fact, the five countries had already agreed upon it before, so the conference quickly confirmed the first item, which was "appreciation of non-dollar currency" instead of "devaluation of the dollar", and it was still an "orderly appreciation".

As for whether Germany should be tied up or not, the German deputy minister also readily agreed to the proposal. Anyway, just this time, it’s not like being tied up all day long. It’s a good talk for a friend. No one will know.

Then it was time to discuss these details, how much to pay, how to pay, and how to spend?
The entire operation given by the Americans lasted about six weeks, with a total investment of no less than 180 billion U.S. dollars. Generally speaking, everyone sold the U.S. dollar together and bought the Japanese yen or the Mark. France and England could also buy the franc and GBP.

It even mentions that Germany can purchase a certain amount of Italian lire, but this is not important, so I won't go into details, after all, it has nothing to do with Wu Jianye's plan this time.

Then the United States proposed a distribution plan of 180 billion US dollars, that is, the United States, RB, and Germany will each bear 25%, while France and the United Kingdom will share the remaining 25%.

However, this proposal was vetoed by the three European countries. We were originally playing with your two countries on this matter, so you should take more responsibility.

Therefore, the distribution plan proposed by the Europeans is the United States, RB will each bear 30%, and the remaining 40% will be borne by the three European countries, and internal distribution is not rigidly determined by country.

The United States agrees with the opinions of the Europeans, but everyone is out to play, so it is better to make the accounts clear, and the brothers will settle the accounts clearly.

So the final proposal is that the United States, RB each bear 30%, which is no problem, and the remaining 40% is 25% for West Germany, 5% for England, and 10% for France.

West Germany, the three European countries, is naturally a well-deserved big brother. France thinks that it only needs to surpass England. England is poor and short-sighted, and its horses are thin and long. Qin Qiong also sells yellow pussy horses, so he has no choice but to swallow his anger.

The internal wrangling of the five countries is naturally invisible on TV, but as the time came to 16:5, the G[-] meeting ended, and James Baker brought everyone participating in the meeting to the front of the reporter.

"Brother, can we start the operation in Tokyo tomorrow?" Yan Wen asked.

In order to maximize the benefits this time, Wu Jianye has layouts in all seven major foreign exchange markets in the world.

They are the New York foreign exchange market, the Paris foreign exchange market, the London foreign exchange market, the Sydney foreign exchange market, the Xiangjiang foreign exchange market, and the reason why there is New Zealand's Wellington foreign exchange market in addition to the Tokyo foreign exchange market.

(End of this chapter)