章節 1134: Chapter 1134: Earning a billion-dollar-plus in pocket money
'...Brother Situ, congratulations... You're welcome... I don't plan to go to the United States anytime soon, but I appreciate your kindness. I'll let you know in advance when I go to the United States next time.'
'Okay, you go ahead with your work, and we'll talk again when you have time!'
'Click!'
In the office, Xia Yu hung up the phone after chatting with Szeto Boshan in a light-hearted tone.
Although the smile on his face had subsided slightly, it had not disappeared.
He and Szeto Boshan had not been in contact for a long time, and this time it was Szeto Boshan who had taken the initiative to call. He mainly told him two things.
The first thing was that Situ Nan, Situ Bo's son, had successfully run for office in the San Francisco councilor elections this month and become one of the city's councillors, the first Chinese person to ever serve in that capacity.
It can be said that Xia Yu was inextricably involved in Situ Nan's successful election. If Xia Yu had not arranged the work long ago, Situ Nan would never have made it.
This time, there was a lot of resistance during the election, but there was always someone there to help at critical moments, and they pushed Situ Nan to the top.
After Situ Nan took this successful first step, it also meant that the Situ family had officially entered American politics, and Xia Yu and Situ Boshan began the plan to make the Situ family the banner family of Chinese politics in the United States.
That was why Situ Boshan had come to thank Xia Yu.
The second thing was to talk to Xia Yu about the situation of the Panda Express fast food restaurant, which the two families were running together.
A year and a half ago, he invested ten million US dollars and took a 60% stake in Panda Express, which quickly grew under the Situ family's management.
The right business model, combined with the appeal of the Chinese General Union to the Chinese community, has enabled Panda Express to expand rapidly but steadily, and it has easily become the largest Chinese fast food chain in the United States.
Currently, Panda Express has 69 directly operated stores, with more than 1,000 employees. The employee training system has also been fully established. Since the company was established, total sales have exceeded 40 million US dollars, and the development momentum is still very impressive.
Now there are already more than ten Chinese fast food chains in the United States, but they are all following in the footsteps of Panda Express and are struggling to catch up.
Although Xia Yu thinks that Panda Express is still a small company, it has a big influence. With more than 1,000 employees, it involves more than 1,000 Chinese families.
When it continues to grow and has tens of thousands of Chinese employees, its influence will be huge.
Apart from these two things, there is actually another thing related to Stuart that is worth mentioning.
As expected of a capable and ruthless man, after being warned by Situ Boshan, he got rid of Zhou Tianlong, who had been stirring up trouble in the Zhi Gong General Hall, and consolidated the power of the Tong, almost turning the Zhi Gong General Hall into a one-man show for the Situ family.
Then he began his path to launder his money. Situ Boshan did not take the initiative to tell him this news, but he learned it from the intelligence that had been caught in the net.
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Over the next half month, Xia Yu went to the Galaxy Fund every day to find out the progress of each team and deal with any problems as they arose to ensure that the plan was implemented.
Xia Yu didn't waste any time either.
He spent it watching the World Cup again.
In fact, the World Cup had started on 13 June, the day of the opening match in Spain.
Xia Yu couldn't remember the results of the group stage, though. There were 24 teams, and they played each other so many times that no one could remember the results.
What he can remember is some of the results of the semi-finals and finals, especially this year's World Cup champion, Italy, which beat the favourite West Germany national team by a strong score of 3-1.
Before the start of the tournament, the odds of Italy winning the championship were very high, at 1 to 11.
Xia Yu then asked Luo Wang's staff to divide his $200 million into smaller amounts and place bets all over the world.
In fact, Xia Yu had not ruled out the possibility that his actions in European football last year and this year might have caused changes in the World Cup.
He was also not sure whether his butterfly wings would blow away Italy's World Cup trophy.
But after some thought, Xia Yu decided to place his bet anyway, because the potential gains far outweighed the risks.
Even if he lost all of the 200 million US dollars, it would not hurt him, and since the money was spread across the rankings and scores, there was no way he could lose all of it.
As the tournament schedule progressed, the time finally came on 11 July, the day of the world-famous final at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid.
As in the previous life, Italy played against West Germany.
However, this time, the fate of the West German national team seemed to have been swayed, as they scored two goals!
Fortunately, the West German national team did not defy the heavens, and they ultimately lost to Italy, and missed out on the Cup by a score of 3-2.
Although the bet on the wrong score resulted in a loss of tens of millions of dollars, the bet on Italy winning the championship was correct.
In addition, he had also bet on the scores and rankings of France, Poland and other countries before, and although some of them were wrong, he had more correct bets.
In the end, Xia Yu took out his original $200 million and got back more than $1.364 billion, a net profit of more than $1.164 billion.
He had snatched a big piece of the pie from the spinach giants and underground casinos, and was full of joy.
As a result, Xia Yu's meagre coffers, which had originally been drained of US$5.1 billion and only contained a paltry US$500 million, were suddenly replenished and now stood at nearly US$1.7 billion.
With his wallet fuller, Xia Yu was in a good mood and felt more confident. Not only did he go out more often at night, but he also became slightly more aggressive in his approach to the sovereign debt crisis in Latin America.
After the gambling, Xia Yu began the wait for the announcement of the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike policy.
However, as time passed, the Fed's interest rate hike policy had not yet been announced, but instead, news of the French parliament passing the Audiovisual Communication Act.
The French media industry had once again opened a big window, and although the television industry was still under control, the establishment of private radio stations was permitted.
After George Berkeley reported the good news to him, he ordered George Berkeley to immediately ask the Mirror Group to set up a radio company specifically to apply for a national radio licence. In addition to launching a national radio station, it was also necessary to launch radio stations in various cities in France simultaneously, as long as the policy allowed.
For this reason, Xia Yu also found the right time to use a satellite phone to personally talk to François Mitterrand and got a clear answer from the latter.
For François Mitterrand, it didn't matter who was given the radio licence, but it would be better if it went to someone close to him.
His economic reforms were having some difficulty, his days were a little hard, and the road to power was overshadowed, making him have to plan ahead.
And Xia Yu's influence grew, so that he could give him stronger support than before at the next re-election, ensuring that he could be re-elected successfully!
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July 21st.
A sunny day.
A piece of news broke from Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., USA, and instantly formed a hurricane, first heading towards New York, and then rapidly spreading across the globe.
The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates again!
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