"This is our Chaoshan Kung Fu tea. Please take your time, Mr. Soros, to taste it." Shi Zhijian, dressed in white, sat on a chair, pointing leisurely at the tea cup on the tea table, and invited Soros.
Soros' face was full of anger, "Excuse me, Mr. Shi Zhijian? I'm not here to enjoy tea!"
The fat boss next to him was making tea. He saw Shi Zhijian and Soros confronting each other and wondered what the grudge between the two was.
"Why are you doing this?" Soros suppressed his anger and sat opposite Shi Zhijian. "Is it because I don't want to see you?"
"That's true." Shi Zhijian said, "I didn't expect it to be so difficult to meet you. I have no choice but to let you come to see me!"
Soros laughed angrily: "So now, I'm here, what about you?"
Shi Zhijian picked up the tea cup and took a sip, and looked up at Soros: "I sincerely invite you to join our Longteng Fund, but I wonder if you are interested?"
"Haha!" Soros sneered twice, "Sorry, I'm not interested in any of your funds!"
"Can I ask the reason?" Shi Zhijian looked at Soros with a half-smile.
"The reason is very simple," Soros said with contempt in his eyes, "Don't you have an old saying in China that you would rather have a chicken head than an ox tail! Let me ask you, I control the Quantum Fund well, why do I have to go work for you?"
"Isn't there any reason that can convince you?" Shi Zhijian pushed another tea cup in front of Soros.
Soros looked at Shi Zhijian: "Yes! Unless your Longteng Fund is acquired by me!"
Shi Zhijian shook his head: "I can't meet this condition!"
"Then there's no need to talk! Then I hope you and I will never meet again!" Soros stood up and tried to stand up.
Shi Zhijian suddenly said: "How about I give you another reason?"
Soros sneered: "Another reason? You can tell me and see if you can impress me?"
Shi Zhijian turned the tea cup: "Can I win the honor?"
"Uh? What? Honor? Hahaha!" Soros laughed, picked up the tea cup in front of him and drank it all in one gulp, his eyes squinted and Zhijian said: "Do I still lack honor? You can ask, am I the right person on Wall Street?
The most powerful investor?”
Shi Zhijian: "Really? But how come I heard that the most powerful investor on Wall Street in the United States is not you, but Warren Buffett? And people who like him even call him the 'Stock God'!"
The corners of Soros' mouth twitched twice.
For Soros, Buffett will always be a thorn in his heart!
In the past time and space, there was a saying circulating in the financial world: "Warren Buffett in prosperous times, Soros in troubled times.
This sentence fully describes Warren Buffett and George Soros, as two of the world's most influential investors, their strong appeal to the market and their very different investment styles. The ups and downs of the financial market in the past few decades
Amid the ups and downs, the two of them were the few survivors and even profiteers.
If Buffett's value investment philosophy allowed him to thrive in the financial "prosperity", then Soros is a "financial vulture" who made a lot of money from speculation in the "troubled times".
In 1992, Soros used his "Quantum Fund" of US$10 billion to short-sell the pound, while the British government used nearly US$30 billion of foreign exchange reserves to maintain the pound exchange rate to fight back. As a result, the British government suffered a disastrous defeat and was forced to withdraw from the European exchange rate system.
Soros not only made a profit of nearly 1 billion U.S. dollars, but also became famous in the international financial community. Since then, Soros's Quantum Fund has repeatedly repeated its old tactics and made a lot of money from the "currency war". In 1997, Quantum Fund sold the Thai baht, triggering
The Southeast Asian financial crisis. In 2012, Soros successfully judged the large-scale depreciation of the Japanese yen and shorted the Japanese yen, which earned him at least US$1 billion.
Using his own efforts to fight an "economy" and make a lot of "national wealth", Soros's success always seems to be accompanied by crisis - the US "Wall Street Journal" evaluated Soros as "the bad boy of the global financial community", the British "
The Economist called him “the man who brought down the Bank of England,” and former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad directly angrily denounced him as “the arsonist of the Asian financial crisis.”
Soros, however, does not believe that he is making a fortune from the "national crisis". Instead, he points out that "there are huge gaps in the international financial system that can be exploited, and the seemingly impregnable national financial defense system is actually vulnerable." He claims that his speculation is just for the sake of
To make money, it also revealed "loopholes" in the financial system for countries that were "blocked".
No wonder some commentators say that almost everyone likes Buffett, and only a small number of people like Soros.
The same is true in this era!
Soros's bloodthirsty nature scares many people, while Buffett sticks to "value investing" and has many fans.
Therefore, Buffett will be respected as the "Stock God" by many believers!
But Soros can only be called a "financial executioner"!
Shi Zhijian had a clear view of Soros's expression at this moment and gave the fat boss a wink.
The fat boss hurriedly picked up the teapot and poured another glass of water into Soros's empty tea cup.
Soros took a deep breath. He originally wanted to stand up and leave, but sat down again. Then he looked at Shi Zhijian and said, "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is very simple!" Shi Zhijian glanced at the fat boss. The fat boss knew that the two of them were going to whisper, so he immediately bowed and left with a smile.
Soon, only Shi Zhijian and Soros were left in front of the tea table.
Shi Zhijian said: "This time our Longteng Fund is going to fight against Downey Rothschild's financial company! The general sent by Mr. Downey is none other than Warren Buffett!"
Soros' eyelids twitched.
Shi Zhijian continued: "And I lack a general to challenge you. I think the only person in the world who can challenge me is you!"
Soros sneered: "You think highly of me!"
Shi Zhijian: "Don't you have the desire to win? Don't you want to compete with Buffett once to see who is the real stock god?"
Soros squeezed the teacup, exerted force with his fingers, and said nothing.
Shi Zhijian smiled: "Of course, if you are really not interested and don't want to play against a grandmaster-level figure like Buffett, I can understand it. After all, reputation is the most important thing. If you lose to Buffett in this battle,
Then your reputation as Soros will be ruined. Let alone recruiting followers, even if you start teaching courses, it will be very difficult to sell your financial management courses!"
Soros narrowed his eyes like a hawk: "Are you trying to provoke me?"
"Even if it is true, are you offended?" Shi Zhijian asked back.
Soros was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect Shi Zhijian to be so honest.
"To be honest, although I have seen through your tricks, I have to admit that I am already tempted by your proposal..." Soros said.
"It's better to act than to have a heartbeat!" Shi Zhijian said with a smile, "If you don't agree now, then I will find another person! My Longteng Fund does not lack traders, let alone generals! As the saying goes, there are three stinkers. The cobbler is worse than Zhuge Liang! Even if they are not as good as you, they can still have an advantage if they have more people!"
Soros took a deep breath: "To be honest, Mr. Shi Zhijian, I really don't like you! You are a very accurate person, but I can't refuse you!"
Shi Zhijian smiled, "To be honest, Mr. Soros, I dislike you very much! Because you are a bloodthirsty financial executioner! In comparison, I admire Mr. Warren Buffett more! Unfortunately, now you and I
We can only stand on the same front!"
Shi Zhijian stood up as he spoke, stretched out his hand and said: "If you have no objections, then happy cooperation!"
Soros also stood up, glanced at Shi Zhijian's outstretched hand, and slowly shook it: "Only this time! You and I cooperate! After I defeat Buffett, maybe we will soon become enemies!"
"I'm very happy to have a strong opponent like you! Of course, everything must be said after you actually win this victory!" Shi Zhijian let go of Soros's hand, "The stronger the opponent, the more I like him!"
…
In the next few days, Shi Zhijian signed an assistance contract with Soros through his lawyer, and officially hired Soros as the head of Longteng Fund.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused an uproar across the United States.
As we all know, Soros is a well-known financial tycoon, and to put it bluntly, he is an unruly and unruly figure. It is absolutely surprising that such a figure was hired by an "unknown" Chinese.
For a time, "Soros was reduced to a Chinese wage earner", "Soros helped the Chinese run funds", and "The secret that Soros and the Chinese Pete had to tell" became hot topics across the United States.
Many media outlets that like gossip have even released various speculations and reports, saying that Soros's Quantum Fund has encountered difficulties and now he is helping the Chinese manage Longteng Fund to save the country.
Others believe that the reason why Soros is willing to lower his status and work for others is because he owes a debt of gratitude to Peter Jian.
What's more, it is said that Soros once traveled to Hong Kong and met Shi Zhijian while traveling in Hong Kong, and the two became close friends.
In short, the media told nonsense in newspapers and arranged it, but it also gave the American people some entertainment.
…
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
The formalities between Shi Zhijian and Soros as boss and wage earner have been completed.
Shi Zhijian officially appointed Soros as the head of Longteng Fund. On the day of the appointment, Shi Zhijian told Soros his big plan for the future, which was to do long oil futures!
Soros was shocked when he heard this, feeling that Shi Zhijian was looking for death.
It turns out that from 1950 to 1973, the price of crude oil has been kept artificially low by the seven major companies, averaging about US$1.80 per barrel, which is only about half of the price of coal.
After OPEC's struggle, it rose to US$2.95 a barrel in January 1973. Oil-producing countries were dissatisfied with the old capitalist oil system, especially the low prices. The demand for oil in the Western world increased sharply, but Western oil
The company is unwilling to make concessions to the price increase demands of developing countries that mainly produce oil, because rising oil prices will increase their purchase costs, causing huge conflicts between the two parties.
Since Soros is making a living on Wall Street, of course he is well aware of the current situation of oil prices.
To be precise, Soros has received definite news that the United States, including the United States, is joining forces with other Western countries to prepare to lower oil import prices again!
In other words, if oil currently costs US$2.95 a barrel, the price will most likely fall again instead of rising!
"Dear Shi, now that I am the head of your fund, I still want to remind you that your decision may be wrong!" Soros said, "The United States, Britain, France, Germany and other countries are formulating some policies.
You have a plan to lower the price of oil, but now you want to go long, isn’t that asking for your own death?”
Shi Zhijian smiled: "Do you think oil prices will continue to be controlled by capital countries such as the United States and continue to be depressed?"
"Of course!" Soros said without hesitation, "The United States is a superpower! The oil countries in the Middle East all act based on the face of the United States! What's more -"
Soros paused and said: "Besides, it seems to me that the United States only needs to sneeze this time to make those small Middle Eastern countries automatically lower their oil prices!"
Shi Zhijian smiled: "Mr. Soros, I invited you here to implement my plan, not to ask you to raise objections! You must understand that what I value is your execution ability, especially your excellent hedging skills.
So just carry out my plan!"
Soros shrugged and said indifferently: "Okay, I listen to you! But I have to make it clear that if you lose this battle, you will lose more than two billion US dollars, but I will only lose face!
in addition---"
There was a trace of unruliness on the corner of Soros's mouth: "Before I implement your plan, I hope you can deal with the senior officials of Longteng Fund. After all, I am an outsider, and there may be many people who oppose your plan..."
"You can rest assured on this," Shi Zhijian said confidently: "I have already called them, and these people will rush to the United States immediately. I will introduce you to them then!"
Soros nodded, "Great! I'd love to meet some new friends!"
…
It's raining heavily outside and thundering like waves.
The top executives of Longteng Fund, who rushed to the United States overnight from Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, are currently gathering in the conference room on the fifth floor of the New York Hilton Hotel.
Raindrops were falling outside, but the room was not affected by the outside world. Everyone was sitting in their seats, drinking coffee or smoking cigarettes.
Sitting in front of the conference table are two of Shi Zhijian's former right-hand men, one is Shen Bi, the president of HSBC Bank in Hong Kong, and the other is Saipan, the boss of Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong.
The two have special status. As the founders of Longteng Fund, they have a very high status in the company. Only then are they qualified to sit in boss-level seats. Others look up to them.
But at this moment, Shen Bi and Saipan were in as bad a mood as the heavy rain outside.
The reason is very simple. Shi Zhijian actually appointed Soros, the Wall Street financial tycoon, as the new head of Longteng Fund. This means that in the future, whether it is Shen Bi, Saibai, or others, they must obey Soros.
work under the command of
Shen Bi and Saibai looked at each other and gave each other a wry smile, somewhat abandoning their previous suspicion.
