Dumei Point Manor.

After dinner, Jennifer directed the waitresses to pack up the restaurant, took a look at the six little guys at home, and then took a document to the study room on the basement floor of the Shell Villa.

Jennifer was once a assistant to Simon for a long time.

Simon and Janet were standing together in front of a large world map on the study wall, discussing something, occasionally lifting their pen to outline the map.

Standing next to me and looking for a while, Jennifer signaled the document in his hand: "This is the list of guests for Thursday luncheon. Simon, do you see if there is anything that needs to be adjusted?"

"You can do it," Simon said, instead of receiving the documents, he reached out to the female assistant, signaled to the world map in front of him, changed into Chinese, and said with a smile: "Look, this is the country I have built for you."

Over the years, Jennifer's Chinese is no worse than Janet. He is obviously unable to understand the joke Simon said, thinking that the man was making fun of him, and gave him a blank look, but he still leaned against the man and continued to look at him.

On weekdays, Jennifer and a few confidant female servants were personally responsible for cleaning and tidying this private study. She naturally knew about the world map in the study that had been painted by a man for a long time. She quickly identified some of the changes and pointed to some additional annotations on several routes extending to Africa: "What does the battery mean?"

"This is the inspiration I got when chatting with Goldman Sachs at a New York cocktail party a few days ago," Simon said with a smile. "You know, I have paid a lot of attention to battery power in recent years, but after Paulson's unexpected reminder, I found that my layout was far from enough."

At last week's cocktail party, Simon and Paulson accidentally talked about the future of the automobile industry. Paulson came to the judgment that "those who get the battery win the world". After that brief conversation, Simon actually came to the same conclusion.

Before that, frankly speaking, Simon's attention to the battery industry is more about the Westeros system's electronic products business, such as Tinkobaier's series of main projects, such as Nokia's mobile phones, etc.

Other things, Simon really hasn't considered it too long.

After that conversation, Simon, who was unexpectedly awakened, suddenly felt that he could indeed make more layouts in advance.

The opportunities brought about by the spread of Asian financial storms around the world are also very suitable for layout.

Hearing the man's words, Jennifer asked, "What does this have to do with Africa?"

Simon pointed to the KMT region in central Africa: "According to the current exploration results, there are a large number of important minerals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt that can be stored in the future that can be recharged."

As he said this, before Jennifer asked again, Simon took the initiative to add, indicating three lines on the map that extends from Africa, mainly pointing to the east coast of the United States, Ukraine and China in the hinterland of Europe: "Africa provides raw materials, after primary refining, transports them to North America, Eastern Europe and China for refining, and then, further, process them into the batteries we need, very, very many batteries."

Jennifer bent her lips and was like a supporting actor: "What do we need so many batteries for?"

"Make a car," Simon said: "Imagine how many batteries are needed for billions of internal combustion locomotives around the world now replaced with electric cars?"

Even though he had been a housewife for several years, Jennifer's head turned without slowing down at all, and soon his mouth grew slightly.

Of course she could imagine it.

If the scene depicted by Simon is truly realized, the role of batteries in the future will probably be equivalent to current oil. If you master the lifeblood of the international battery industry, it will be equivalent to master the lifeblood of the global "energy".

Janet was also excited on the other side of Simon at this time, saying, "Maybe, in the future, there will be some wars around the core industries related to batteries, the first battery war, the second battery war, haha."

Jennifer felt Janet's excitement when talking about the war and glanced at him: "The third time is the world war, everyone will destroy it together."

"I've been looking forward to it."

Jennifer didn't have so much time to talk crazy with the two guys here and said, "I'll go up first, don't be too late."

After saying that, he kissed the man and turned around and left the study.

Before the female assistant disappeared, Janet held Simon's arm while lifting the pen that had just been holding in her hand, and then marked it in Latin America, saying: "I will talk to my elder brother more recently. Since that's the case, Australia, not just Africa, we should increase the exploration and merger of minerals related to the battery industry around the world."

Simon nodded and said, "It doesn't need to be done too obviously to avoid arousing the vigilance of others. We can spend ten years slowly making arrangements."

"Ten years, so long?"

Simon smiled and said, "In the next ten years, we need to continue to consolidate our current advantages in technology fields such as the Internet, and also explore emerging markets such as China. After doing this, we just need a new growth point and the electric vehicle plan can be implemented."

Janet thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

The two discussed a few more words on the map, and went to the large desk beside the window. Simon sat down on the leather chair. Janet did not pull up another chair, but sat directly on Simon's lap and looked through today's briefing on the financial situation in Asia.

Janet remembered another thing and leaned back slightly: "Dear, since that's the case, I think we should make some layouts in the automotive field in advance, which is considered technical accumulation, right?"

Simon put on the woman's white and tender face and kissed her, "Not only can we not do this, but we should minimize the relevant layout as much as possible."

Janet blinked.

Simon reminded: "Think about why the cheaper and more efficient railway system in North America is so difficult to develop?"

Janet thought about it for a moment and realized it.

Benefit-driven.

Of course, North America does not lack railroads, but compared with aviation and highway systems, the US railway system seems backward and dilapidated.

Why?

Because the huge system of interests in aviation and highways does not allow it.

Boeing does not allow it, the aviation union does not allow it, General Motors and Ford does not allow it, and the truck driver union does not allow it...

To extend it a little more, why are the public transportation systems in major American cities scarce? Some world-class metropolises have not been repaired for decades. Or is it the same reason? Public transportation is too developed, so there are fewer people buying cars?

Therefore, it is not because there is no money, but because there are too many people who do not want to see such results.

Because it will affect their interests.

Let’s talk about the Westeros system. If the investment in traditional internal combustion engine cars is too large and electric vehicles are developed in the future, even if Simon is willing to sacrifice the interests of the traditional automobile business to eliminate himself, there will be too many interests that will involve delays and stop Simon from doing so.

Even if the Westeros system develops controllable nuclear fusion, it will definitely encounter various conceivable obstacles in the future, which must come from traditional fossil energy interest groups.

In any case, at least in order to minimize the obstacles that may be encountered in his own system, Simon will not get too involved in the traditional automobile industry.

Janet thought about this and stopped pursuing it and looked at the briefing in front of him with the man.

Last week, the New Taiwan dollar abandoned the restrictions on exchange rate fluctuations, and today's Monday, the Asian stock market, bond market and foreign exchange market continued to be in turmoil.

Under everyone's tacit manipulation, Hong Kong stocks were once again the first to be hit. The Hang Seng Index fell sharply from 11,392 points last Friday to 10,561 points at the close with a single-day 7.3%. Except for a few informed groups that were secretly planning, almost no ignorant bystanders did not think that the Hang Seng Index would inevitably fall to less than 10,000 points.

Since no one took over the Hang Seng Index short contract with a target of more than 10,000 points, a large number of speculative capital can only place bets within 10,000 points, and this part of the shorts were almost accepted.

The next two days, to be precise, the trading day and a half before a press conference was released at 2:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday. If nothing unexpected happens, the Hang Seng Index order will be tacitly cut into the 9,000 point range, or to be precise, it will be around 9,500 points, attracting the last wave of short speculators who have self-invested.

Then close the net.

After reading the relevant data from Hong Kong, Janet looked up again: "The Hong Kong government has prepared $15 billion in funds to actively support the market, which is equivalent to giving up the free market rules that do not interfere with financial fluctuations. I wonder if other countries will follow suit, such as South Korea. If we do this, some of our layouts will not be so easy to implement?"

Simon praised Janet's insight a little.

In history, in August 1998, Hong Kong gave up the principle of non-interference in the market and actively invested funds to support the Hang Seng Index. This was a very risky move because it may destroy the reputation of Hong Kong's free market. However, the result proved the correctness of this move.

After the Hong Kong financial defense war, international speculators finally stopped, causing Hong Kong and the entire mainland behind to calm down.

Seeing the positive effect of Hong Kong's active intervention in the market, a month later, Malaysia began to actively intervene, and even later Russia, it became even more ruthless and directly played a big stake, avoiding the complete destruction of its own financial system, while also cheating a leading industry hedge leader in the United States called long-term capital management company, which directly liquidated. Because the position of the long-term capital management company was very large, it almost caused a systemic financial crisis in the United States, which led to the Federal Reserve being forced to actively intervene.

Therefore, it can be said that Hong Kong's active intervention in the market can be said to have extinguished the first cold water of the Asian financial crisis that lasted for two years and affected the world.

This time, the Chinese authorities made a certain decision a year in advance, and there is obviously a possibility of imitating it.

Simon considered it and said: "At least South Korea has no chance, because the situation in South Korea and Hong Kong is completely different. Hong Kong has sufficient foreign exchange reserves, a good economic structure, and almost no foreign debt. Although the operation method this time is a bit bad, it is also considered a game within financial rules. South Korea is different. South Korea's main problem is foreign debt. If the South Korean government wants to intervene, it is just to cheat completely ignoring the rules, enforcing foreign exchange controls, specifying exchange rates, and even prohibiting capital outflows. As an export-oriented country, after doing these, it may stop bleeding for a while, but at the same time it means that South Korea has completely abandoned its own country's economic future."

After hearing Simon say it, Janet narrowed her eyes: "I don't think so, this world is always forgotten."

Simon thought for a while, but still had to admit that Janet's judgment was still correct.

Although Russia once cheated on it, it was later after internal changes and the surge in oil prices in the early new century, and once returned to the top ten world first-tier economies in the global GDP.

There are also other countries or regions such as Malaysia and Indonesia that have adopted regulatory measures in the Asian financial crisis. Although they were later criticized by various economists for their long-term negative impacts, if you look at the GDP rankings of these countries, in addition to the short trough after the storm, the timeline will be extended. In 1997, 2007, and 2017, there are almost no changes, and there are even those that have not decreased but increased.

This world is indeed very forgetful.

However, Simon quickly said: "I don't care about the rest. At least, South Korea dares to let my plan fail. I will make them have no future."

This time Janet did not refute anymore, yes, lit his head, and twisted his face and rubbed Simon's jaw.

In fact, at first, Janet was a little confused about why her man wanted to hold on to the little Korean.

Of course it is clear now.

The core is still semiconductor.

Simon wanted to enter the semiconductor industry very early, but he had never had the right opportunity before.

This is a chance.

In fact, after suppressing Japanese semiconductors, the strength of the US semiconductor industry is not weak, and the problem lies in the production link. The US semiconductor industry has been rapidly transforming into a wafer-free system in recent years. The more it goes, the production shortcomings will become more and more serious. With Simon's prophet advantage, it is clear that the production of the semiconductor industry will be increasingly turning to Asia.

In Asia, Japan will only rely on its old capital for a long time in the future. Taiwan only needs to win TSMC, and South Korea is very comprehensive. Moreover, compared with Japan, which is too large in economic size, it also has protectionism, taking advantage of this financial crisis, the weakest South Korea happens to be able to eat the whole market.

Therefore, of course we must take decisive action.

In addition to semiconductors, of course, there is also LCD screens.

Simon will also eat this point while also balancing it properly to avoid South Korea's dominance in the future.

Then there are South Korea's construction, machinery, shipbuilding and other aspects.

Anyway, they are all fat.

What's more, behind this scenes means control of an entire country.
Chapter completed!