1982 Started from Hong Kong

Chapter 145 Crisis Resolved
The statement released by the white officials of the Financial Secretary in the news was published in various newspapers the next day.

Compared with this, the little gossip that Zhai Yuan heard during his walk was nothing.

The release of this statement was like adding insult to injury, causing the fragile Hong Kong dollar to wilt faster and continue to plummet, causing an uproar in the news media.

The direct consequence is that the prices of rice, canned food and non-staple food have doubled, land prices have fallen by more than 60%, pedestrians on the street have no expression on their faces, and the stock exchange has received an endless stream of calls asking for inside information...

Zhai Yuan drove his seven-seater pickup truck and hung around the police station for more than a week.

Four million U.S. dollars were all consumed at an average exchange rate of 12.3:1.

In exchange for nearly 50 million Hong Kong dollars.

"Brother Yuan, I read the news and the Hong Kong dollar doesn't seem to be going up."

Chen Jiale was worried. He believed Zhai Yuan's words and exchanged his wife's capital back into Hong Kong dollars. He was worried every day and would be awakened by dreams at night.

Thirty thousand US dollars for more than three hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars. When has Chan Ka Lok, a young man from a housing estate, ever gambled such a big sum?
"No hurry, go home and rest first."

Zhai Yuan deposited all 50 million Hong Kong dollars into HSBC Bank and breathed a sigh of relief: "Let the bullets fly for a while."

1983 10 Month 15 Day.

Hong Kong Governor Youde, who had been pretending to be dead for almost a month, made his first appearance and slapped his colleague the Financial Secretary in the face with his own hands.

In addition to taking the initiative to express its support for stabilizing the Hong Kong dollar, it also urgently took over Hang Lung Bank, from which nearly 40 million US dollars had been withdrawn.

This is the first time that foreigners have taken the initiative to save the banking industry since the founding of the port.

At the same time, HSBC sold more than ten billion foreign currencies and began to buy back Hong Kong dollars and real estate on the market at low prices. When the recovery was almost complete, the Hong Kong government immediately announced a new policy, pegging the Hong Kong dollar to the US dollar at a fixed exchange rate of 7.8:1, finally stabilizing the situation gradually.

"You guys are still the best at making money!"

Zhai Yuan pieced together a complete timeline from scattered reports from television news and various newspapers, and couldn't help but sigh.

He just said that he couldn't control the market trend in the previous second, but after making enough money, he immediately controlled the market perfectly in the next second.

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Zhai Yuan thought about the small difference he made with great fear, which was not even as much as the tip of a hair on HSBC's leg. He was so angry that he performed a set of military boxing on the spot.

In addition to HSBC, some capital giants also made a fortune.

For example, an unknown real estate tycoon named Li built a super-large residential garden on an industrial land in the early 28s. However, if he wanted to convert the industrial land into commercial land at that time, he had to pay a difference of 4 billion Hong Kong dollars, so he just left it there and did nothing. Then, taking advantage of this year's wave of falling land prices, when he went to negotiate again, he only spent less than million Hong Kong dollars to change the land qualifications.

When Zhai Yuan saw this news, tears of envy flowed from the corners of his mouth.

But I earned this money by cheating, so I would like to ask all the capitalists, where did you get the inside information?
But no matter what, the Hong Kong dollar crisis that lasted for more than a month was finally resolved after the Hong Kong dollar and the US dollar exchange rate were pegged.

The matter has come to an end.

Zhai Yuan exchanged the 50 million Hong Kong dollars he had been trading for half a day into US dollars at HSBC, and then repaid the 700,000 he had borrowed from HSBC.

After some calculations, the current assets total US$5.7 million, which is approximately HK$45 million.

"In just over a week, the principal has more than doubled."

Zhai Yuan felt somewhat unwilling, especially when he saw the big guys eating with oil dripping from their mouths while he only drank a little soup.

Fortunately, he has a stable mentality.

Those old guys are already in their 40s. What’s the use of making money? They are too powerless to have a threesome!
But I’m only eighteen years old this year, and I can turn the wheel twice!
The day after the Hong Kong dollar crisis was resolved.

It was December 10th.

The film "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace" has officially finished filming.

This movie was released for a total of 29 days at Zhaoshi and Zuozuo Cinemas, and the final local box office statistics showed a total of more than million Hong Kong dollars.

Among the movies released this year, this result is second only to "The Lucky Stars" in August, ranking second on the box office list.

On October 10, Li Hanxiang pursued the victory.

"The Last Emperor" is officially released.

"Director Wu, how's the filming going on your side?" Director Li's great success at the local box office has given Zhai Yuan more confidence, and he can't wait to release his own movie.

"Uh, we are catching up on the progress and should be finished soon."

Wu Yusen's voice sounded unconfident.

Judging from Zhai Yuan's experience, saying this is like your girlfriend telling you that she has gone downstairs, but in fact she is still putting on makeup.

"Cut a trailer for me first."

Zhai Yuan felt that he couldn't just wait like this, he had to do something first: "Edit out the mountaintop scene and a few civil and military scenes. I'll wait for you in the editing room."

It was around six o'clock in the afternoon in the editing room of the production company under Yindu.

Wu Yusen arrived late with the film he had taken.

Also accompanying them was Peng Jiayan.

Zhai Yuan ignored Peng Jiayan's expression as if she had seen a ghost when she looked at him.

He stared at Wu Yusen and asked, "Now tell me honestly, how long will it take to make the movie?"

"I think half a month should be about right."

"If you can't submit the finished film in half a month, your director's fee will be deducted in half."

"Two months, two months at most, it will definitely be done!"

Wu Yusen quickly changed his tone after hearing this, and said with a wry smile, "I'm just thinking about you, boss. Two months from now, it will be the Lunar New Year holiday around Christmas time. There's actually no point in filming it in advance."

Since he could even say such shameless words, what else could Zhai Yuan say?
"Let me see the finished film first. It would be best if you could cut a trailer today so I can give it to the theaters."

Zhai Yuan sighed helplessly. When he was a screenwriter and director, he often delayed submitting manuscripts. Now the retribution has come back upon him.

"It's not that easy to get a Lunar New Year slot. This time, in addition to Lianhua Cinemas, I also need to contact Uncle Six's Zhao's Cinemas. Although they are not making movies now, they will definitely not give us such a good slot easily."

The origin of Hong Kong's Lunar New Year box office can be traced back to the movie "The Fortune Glory" released in the 1930s. It tells the story of a family who lost a lottery ticket before the Spring Festival and finally found it. Since the box office of this movie broke the historical record, the concept of Lunar New Year films screened during the Lunar New Year has been established.

There is no need to say much about the importance of screening schedules to movies. Basically, the top ten Hong Kong box office movies every year are from the summer and Lunar New Year schedules.

The value of the Lunar New Year period is obviously higher than that of the summer period.

The Lunar New Year holiday season starts on Christmas Day and ends on the Lantern Festival, spanning New Year's Day, the Spring Festival and Valentine's Day. It is definitely a battleground for the film market.

The rough film began to rotate in the projector, and the filmed movie scenes appeared on the screen.

There is no background music at all, and because of problems with the sound equipment, the overall sound of the film sounds very noisy, and requires post-production dubbing.

Wu Yusen's scenes were shot in fragments, but they still totaled nearly an hour. The main missing parts were a few literary scenes that required group performances and the battle at the dock at the end.

It’s okay, at least it proves that he didn’t slack off.

Zhai Yuan went through all the filmed clips as if checking his homework and nodded.

"That's enough. Let's discuss how to edit the trailer."

He had not seen the original trailer of "A Better Tomorrow", but he watched a lot of short videos back then and knew how to use the movie's highlights to lure the audience into the theater.

After discussing with Wu Yusen for about ten minutes, the two had finalized the first version of the editing ideas.

When Wu Yusen took the rough script and started cutting the film with the editor.

For the first time, Zhai Yuancai set his eyes on Peng Jiayan, who had been sitting on the bench and listening silently for a long time.

With his face deliberately squeezed into a gnashing look, Zhai Yuan stared at Peng Jiayan and spat out two words viciously:

"Compensate!"

(End of this chapter)