Li Guangyu chatted with Thatcher for an hour and a half before seeing Thatcher off together with Cao Weiqing.
There were many topics discussed this time, including Hong Kong, England, and Eastern Europe.
Any disputes between the two parties in this regard were discussed in one sentence, and there was a long period of communication where they could cooperate.
Especially regarding cooperation in Eastern Europe, Thatcher strongly supported the Lee Group's active participation in it, and Britain was willing to provide it with necessary support and assistance.
After Li Guangyu and Cao Weiqing returned to the room, Cao Weiqing said: "Guangyu, it seems that our Prime Minister wants you to be the pioneer to intervene in the Eastern European market, but their British capital is hiding behind and waiting to take advantage. She thought, but it's good
of,"
Cao Weiqing didn't believe in the pie that Thatcher had painted. If there was a real problem, the British side would at best issue a statement. It was probably impossible for them to come in and try to help the Li Group.
Now that the situation in Eastern Europe continues, Eastern Europe is even more mixed behind the scenes. Intelligence agents from all parties are operating there, and the supporting forces are also different. If the Li Group jumps out at this time, it will only become a target for all parties.
Li Guangyu said: "The situation is complicated now. We can only pay more attention and at the same time enhance our own strength. In the past, we lacked opportunities to develop military force, but Bentley Island has given us such an opportunity."
Li Guangyu never thought that the strength of his Bentley Island could compete with the armed forces of the United States, Britain, France and other countries. The military force of Bentley Island was used to intimidate major financial groups.
To put it bluntly, the armed personnel on Bentley Island are the private army of the Lee Consortium, and they are also legal private armies. The British personally handed him the key to developing the private army.
He also understood the British plan to do this. The existence of Bentley Island would give the Lee Consortium more confidence to say no to some forces, and it would also be able to sow discord between the Lee Consortium and the North.
The Lee Consortium is originally a large-scale monopoly consortium. It also has a base like Bentley Island externally, as well as a private army of several thousand people in the sea, land and air. Such an existence will be regarded as such no matter what the Lee Consortium does or states.
An extremely dangerous bomb.
It is said that the butt determines the head. From the standpoint of the Li Consortium, Li Guangyu must strengthen his own force, so that he can better protect the interests of the increasingly large Li Consortium. The Li Consortium without any counterattack power will only be a weak force.
Lamb to the slaughter.
Li Guangyu will never pin his own life or death on a certain force. That would be irresponsible to both the Li Group and his allies.
Cao Weiqing also understands that the Li family is no longer the small family it was when Li Guangyu took over more than ten years ago. After more than ten years of rapid development, the Li Family Group has now become a behemoth, with thousands of registered companies and more than 100 employees around the world.
Ten thousand.
Even excluding the market value of Tianyu Financial Group, the total market value of other groups and independent companies is estimated to have exceeded 600 billion U.S. dollars. Even excluding some of the shares reduced by some listed groups, the estimated value of the shares independently controlled by the Li Group has exceeded 5,000.
billion dollars.
As for the valuation of Tianyu Financial Group, there are not many ways to calculate it. Now the cash in Tianyu Investment Company’s account has exceeded 70 billion US dollars, and Tianyu Bank’s profits in the past two years have all been in gold. Currently, Tianyu Bank’s
There are already 300 tons of gold in the vault at the Xiangjiang headquarters, worth US$4.2 billion.
Such a gold reserve is greater than that of most countries in the world, and only a few major countries have exceeded the gold reserves of Tianyu Bank.
After the disintegration of the Bretton System in the 1970s, gold and the US dollar were decoupled, and the importance of gold became less important.
To be honest, some people at the top of the Li Group raised objections to using money to buy gold. After all, the profit from buying gold to maintain its value is too low. If the price of gold goes down, you will still lose money. It is far less profitable than investing in other industries.
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However, this objection was suppressed by Li Guangyu. This gold is not used to make a lot of profits, but to buy insurance. Any currency may become a piece of waste paper, but gold will become the most important thing when necessary due to its special characteristics.
Hard currency payment items.
Cao Weiqing is also aware of Li Guangyu's inner plan, which is that the Li Group will reserve a cash reserve of US$500 billion in the future to cope with various crises.
It was hard for her to imagine that if Li Guangyu really completed this plan, what force would dare to target Li's consortium in the stock market? The huge amount of cash would prevent any consortium from using financial means.
It is precisely because the Li Consortium is now on par with the top ten consortiums in the United States and the six major consortiums in Japan, so it attracts attention, and Li Guangyu now wants to increase his strength so much to protect his own safety.
The Li family is the Li family and will not become the next Hu family, let alone the next Shen family. Li Guangyu is not Hu Xueyan, let alone Shen Wansan. When the Li family and the Li consortium are seriously threatened, the Li family will surely fall.
He fights to the end, even if his body is shattered to pieces, he still wants to bite off a piece of flesh from his opponent.
The British government and the royal family gave them such a platform, allowing them to establish conventional force that is legal around the world. Bentley Island has the power to independently develop force and will not be criticized or interfered by any country or region.
Although the United States is now exerting pressure, it has not had much effect. Li Guangyu does not care about their pressure now. Anyway, the American consortium has targeted him not once or twice. You must know that Bentley Island is a British territory, and the United States has not yet
He's so arrogant that he can attack this place casually.
Once the United States really takes action, the United States will lose its allies in Western Europe. Such a loss is absolutely unbearable by the United States.
You must know that France in Western Europe has been opposed to the United States intervening in Western European affairs since the days of Charles de Gaulle. Germany would not be of the same mind as the United States if it were not for the pressure from the Soviet Union. It is impossible for Italy to have much favorable impressions of the United States.
The United States relies on the British to truly check and balance Western Europe. Many matters involving Western Europe are meddlesome by the British. The European Community was proposed by West Germany and France, and it is these two countries that really promote the European Community.
Therefore, the United States is not willing to offend Britain too much unless it is absolutely necessary. Once the Western European countries really unite, the United States will be in big trouble. The Western European countries are not afraid of the United States in terms of technology. As long as they unite, whether it is economic or military, the United States will
Everyone will have a headache.
You must know that after World War II, France once proposed that the countries of Western Europe be unified into one country. Unfortunately, Britain did not agree. If the two countries had agreed at that time, Western Europe would have been a huge country.
Now the European Community is similar, and the United States is increasingly worried about it. Once the Soviet Union falls, the European Community and even the European Union, which is already on the agenda, will become one of their biggest competitors.
In order to increase pressure on Western Europe, the United States has already decided that the Soviet Union can be weakened, but its main body will remain, making it a certain threat so that Western Europe cannot get rid of its military dependence on the United States.
At the same time, the three major carriages of the European Community are divided internally, especially the British side. Compared with Germany and France, the British side is more suitable for them to win over.