Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 58: Cutting the Leeks of the American Empire

After meeting with Deng Chao, Li Qiutang disappeared. It was understandable that he couldn't be found. The director had just finished filming a movie and needed a rest. Maybe he went on vacation somewhere. There was still time, so there was no rush.

Where did Li Qiutang go? She went to Hong Kong.

The Yankees coming to town to see the world? Not really.

Li Qiutang went to the city to reap the benefits of the American empire.

Li Qiutang is not a professional financial practitioner, but he is familiar with some basic financial knowledge. After all, when he was unhappy in his previous life, he also dreamed of getting rich overnight. He had played with futures, foreign exchange, and virtual currency. He had made some profits and some losses, but was finally trapped by the A-share market.

He did not have a deep impression of the subprime mortgage crisis and only remembered some very basic information: the collapse of the US real estate market, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, etc.

But this information was enough for Li Qiutang to make a fortune.

If you don’t have time to apply for a visa to the United States, the same is true for opening an account in Hong Kong.

Don't forget that the copyright of "Comet" sold overseas for more than 600 million US dollars. This money is still in the overseas account temporarily opened by Li Qiutang and has not been transferred back to China. Unexpectedly, the negligence at the time would come in handy at this time.

600 million US dollars, in this financial tsunami, can't even make a splash, but Li Qiutang didn't want to make more money. He was just a small shrimp, and just wanted to follow the giants and get a little share of the profits.

Li Qiutang doesn't speak Cantonese, the stock broker doesn't speak Mandarin, and Li Qiutang can only speak a rough outline of the professional English of the stock market.

After wasting some time, the stockbroker finally understood what he meant.

Short sell AIG, the world's largest insurance company, and Lehman Brothers!

The stockbroker who opened his account thought this Yankee was crazy.

What is the size of these two companies? Are you shorting them?

AIG! The oldest company in the insurance industry! Even if the US collapses, it won't collapse! It has fallen a little recently, but the stock price is still strong. Why is this northerner shorting it?
Not to mention Lehman Brothers, one of the largest banks in the United States and even the world, a century-old company, short selling?
But what does this have to do with stock brokers? If the client wants to do it, he will do it. Whether he makes a profit or a loss, it will not affect his commission.

When the stock broker saw that there were more than 600 million US dollars in Li Qiutang's overseas account, he felt that this northerner was a big spender and a sucker. He could have used the money to buy a house and date girls instead of playing with stocks?

According to Li Qiutang's request, the stock broker arranged the positions for him, shorting Lehman Brothers and AIG for 18 months with a leverage of 4 times.

As for the leveraged stock broker, he felt that this northerner was crazy. It was ok to short sell such a giant, but he also added leverage?

After finishing all this, it was almost time for the market to close in the afternoon.

Now that we are in the city, let’s go for a walk.

Li Qiutang had never been to Hong Kong before, but his first impression of Hong Kong was not good. This was Li Qiutang's intuitive feeling as a filmmaker, who had already formed a favorable impression of Hong Kong through the filter of movies.

Locals generally have a sense of superiority over mainlanders, and this sense of superiority is often accompanied by contempt - I'm better than you, you country bumpkin.

Including when Li Qiutang was discussing cooperation with the stock broker just now, he could clearly feel that the other party looked down on mainlanders and was unwilling to do business with mainlanders, but his attitude became much better after seeing that Li Qiutang had 600 million US dollars.

As a director, Li Qiutang not only looks at the city from a tourist's perspective, but also observes it from a film perspective.

The narrow streets and towering buildings all squeeze people's living space. According to Li Qiutang's brief observation, most of the pedestrians on the road are in a hurry and rarely smile. When they see Li Qiutang looking around, they judge that he is from the mainland, and their expressions change and they don't want to interact with him.

Li Qiutang stayed in Hong Kong for only one day and one night, and left the next morning. Shopping paradise? No, I won’t buy anything! What can’t be bought in Yanjing and Shanghai that must be bought in Hong Kong?

As soon as Li Qiutang returned to Beijing, she received a call from her mother: "Your father and I are in Yanjing!"

This gave Li Qiutang a surprise. Li Qiutang said, "Okay, I'll pick you up. Are you coming by train or plane?"

"What? Your dad drove here, and we're almost getting off the highway. Where are you? We'll drive right over here."

Li Qiutang was shocked by this operation: "9 hours, you don't feel tired." "No, he likes driving. He said he won't feel tired even if he drives back now. I'm tired of sitting." Mom complained on the phone.

"If he likes to drive, let him drive." Li Qiutang said with a smile, "Get off the highway and go to Sifang Bridge, then take East Fourth Ring Road South. There is a XX Northeastern cuisine restaurant on the side of the road. Wait for me there and I will pick you up."

There were no electronic navigation systems back then, so Li Qiutang had to give directions to her parents verbally for fear that they would get lost.

After hanging up the phone, Li Qiutang set out to pick up her parents.

Li Qiutang arrived first, parked his car on the side of the road, and sat waiting at the door of the restaurant.

Twenty minutes later, a black Passat with license plate number Liao A drove over. Li Qiutang took a few quick steps and waved to her parents.

After the car stopped, Li Qiutang asked, "Why did you come here so suddenly? You didn't even tell me in advance."

"It was your mother's idea to give her son a surprise." Dad said, "What kind of surprise? If you miss your son, just tell him directly."

Li Qiutang was quite happy to hear this and prepared to get in his car to lead the way: "Why is there such a big cut? Who did it hurt?"

The new car I bought during the Chinese New Year has only been used for half a year.

"What's the scratch? It was scratched by someone." My mother gets angry when she talks about this. "You left on the fifth day of the New Year, and your car was scratched on the sixth. I don't know which bastard is so jealous of others."

"Don't be angry, we can make up for it later." Li Qiutang didn't want to ruin the atmosphere of the family reunion, "I'll lead the way, Dad, just follow."

The Land Rover led the way, and the Passat followed behind, turning left and right, and finally arrived at the destination.

"Do you live here?" Mom confirmed again.

"Yeah, what's wrong with that?"

"What's so good about that? No decent person would stay in a hotel."

After moving out of the studio at school, Li Qiutang has been living in Kerry Apartments, a long-term lease, 2 bedrooms, 22 yuan a year, with hotel-style management.

"It's nice to stay in a hotel," the family parked the car, and Li Qiutang took her parents to their room. "You don't have to take care of the cleaning yourself. You can use the meal card provided by the hotel for meals, which is basically free. The chefs in five-star hotels are very skilled. The hotel's swimming pool, court, and parking lot are also free to use.

"You also know that my job is more about privacy. Hotels attach great importance to the privacy of their residents."

Despite all the conveniences, her parents still couldn't understand why Li Qiutang didn't live in a hotel when she had a house: "If you have money, just buy one. If you don't have money, just rent one. It's not nice to live in a hotel for a long time."

"This is no different from renting a house. We're here." A family of three came in carrying large and small bags.

Sure enough, his mother brought him a lot of specialties from Northeast China.

"Can you cook for yourself when you live here?"

"Why not? If you're tired of eating out, just cook for yourself. I have a kitchen here with pots, pans, and everything else." Li Qiutang said.

The mother went to the kitchen and took a look and knew that her son didn't want to cook.

"I just finished filming a movie and I've been away for three months. What should I do?"

Li Qiutang packed their luggage while her mother was nagging her. In the evening, Li Qiutang took her parents out for dinner, and the family had a great time together.

　Just writing for fun, not professional.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)