Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

Chapter 435 Prelude to the Rapid Appreciation of the Yen

"Xiao Li's flying knife has become an absolute success, and Chu Liuxiang has never been seen in this world."

At 18:6 pm on September 21, 1985, Gu Long, a generation of martial arts masters who were only 48 years old, passed away. Walking so hastily, so pitifully, so chicly, so magnanimously, without any burden, and without any memory of the world.

News of Gu Long's death quickly spread across Taiwan and overseas through newspapers, radio, and television. Major newspapers in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau all published Gu Long's sad news in a prominent position.

Knowing that Gu Long was gone, Xu Cun also sighed! Xu Cun even thought of writing an elegiac couplet for Gu Long himself.

pity--

Xu Cun, who has little talent and little learning, tried to write several times, but in the end he failed to come up with an elegiac couplet worthy of Gu Long.

Later, Xu Cun called Zhou Liang Shuyi and asked Fenghuang TV to turn all today's programs into black and white broadcasts to show his condolences to Gu Long.

On the second day after Gu Long passed away, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the former Federal Republic of Germany, and Japan began to jointly intervene in the foreign exchange market. Countries began to sell the dollar, which in turn formed a frenzy of selling by market investors, which in turn led to a continued sharp depreciation of the dollar.

It is said that at the square meeting, Japanese Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita stated that Japan is willing to assist the United States to intervene in the market to lower the exchange rate of the dollar, and even said that "a 20% depreciation is OK."

After that, the U.S. government authorities headed by U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker and experts represented by Fred Bergsten (then director of the U.S. Institute for International Economics) continued to verbally intervene in the U.S. dollar. , indicating that the US dollar exchange rate level at that time was still on the high side, and there was room for it to fall. The dollar continued to fall sharply against the yen on hints of a hawkish stance from the U.S. government. The "Plaza Agreement" opened the prelude to the rapid appreciation of the yen.

Xu Cun breathed a sigh of relief when the Plaza Accord was held as scheduled and the changes in the currency market—before that, Xu Cun had been worried that the Plaza Accord would not happen or would not happen as scheduled because of his large-scale acquisition of yen. Fortunately, the Plaza Accord finally happened as scheduled!

actually--

Xu Cun was also worried.

In the last life, there was an unconfirmed statement that it was not the U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker who proposed to hold this square meeting, but the then Japanese Minister of Finance (Finance Minister) Noboru Takeshita (arrived in 1987 He also served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1989), US Secretary of the Treasury James Baker just chose the specific meeting place. In 1995, an influential Japanese economic journal "The Economist" published a report in which Noboru Takeshita himself admitted the above statement.

One piece of evidence that Takeshita took the initiative to participate in the preparation of the square meeting is the time when the meeting was held—September 22, 1985. It is a practice for governments of various countries to choose Sunday to announce major news, because financial markets are closed, and announcing news at this time can give the market sufficient time to react. September 23rd is the autumnal equinox, which is a public holiday in Japan, while Europe and the United States do not rest. According to Tomomitsu Ohba, the financial officer of Japan’s Ministry of Finance who participated in the Plaza meeting at the time, Bayer, the president of the West German Central Bank who attended the meeting on behalf of West Germany at the time, thought that Japan was the first country to face the market after the “Plaza Agreement”. Because the Tokyo foreign exchange market is in the easternmost time zone. It was later learned that the next day was a public holiday in Japan, so West Germany became the first market to open for business. Peer's face was full of displeasure, thinking that he had fallen into a trap laid by Japan in advance.

Even if Akira Takeshita did not take the initiative to propose a square meeting, he was the one who attracted the most attention at this meeting. One detail is that among the G5 with various countries, the media specifically refer to the United States and Japan as G2. Before and after the square meeting, there were too many episodes surrounding Noboru Takeshita. For example, in order to keep secret before the meeting, Takeshita made an appointment with someone to play golf at a golf course near Narita Airport before going to the United States. The governor of the Bank of Japan, who was on the same plane, wore a large mask to prevent identification by the media. At the press conference after the announcement of the agreement, a reporter asked: "Why does Japan tolerate the appreciation of the yen?" Noboru Takeshita replied: "Because my name is 'Teng'." ("Teng" and "Sheng" Homophone in Japanese).

As the Minister of Finance of Japan and the Prime Minister of Japan two years later, how could Noboru Takeshita allow the yen to appreciate sharply for no reason? In fact, the sharp appreciation of the yen has provided a good opportunity for Japanese companies to go global and expand overseas on a large scale, and has also promoted the adjustment of Japan's industrial structure, which is ultimately conducive to the healthy development of the Japanese economy. Therefore, Nobori Takeshita and the Japanese government vigorously promoted the Plaza Accord.

The orderly lowering of the US dollar against major currencies can solve the huge US trade deficit, so US Treasury Secretary James Baker and the US government are also vigorously promoting the Plaza Accord.

The question is, the two most important countries are vigorously promoting the Plaza Accord, so how could the Plaza Accord not be signed? How can it not be implemented?

After paying attention to the currency market for more than ten days in a row, Xu Cuncai turned his attention to the filming of "The Matrix".

In the end, the cast list of the first part of "The Matrix" selected by Xu Cun is as follows:

Lee Kwok Ho as Neo

Yang Ziqiong as Trinity

Zhou Run Hair Accessories Murphys

Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith

Will Smith as Tank

Whoopi Goldberg as Prophet

Oh Jin Woo as Cypher

Except for Agent Brown, the rest of the agents and crew are black and white. In order to take care of the emotions of the Japanese audience, Xu Cun specially let Yasuaki Kurata play Agent Brown, and planned to add some action scenes to Yasuaki Takuta.

The reason why Xu Cun took such good care of Yasuaki Kurata was not only because he had to take care of the emotions of the Japanese audience, but also because of Yukari Oshima’s face—after all, Yasuaki Kurata was Yukari Oshima’s master, and Yukari Oshima gave Xu Cunsheng not long ago a son.

Hugo Weaving is the actor who played Agent Smith in the original "The Matrix".

Will Smith is not yet an actor, let alone the little black who almost became an Oscar winner twice-he is still just a rapper.

Whoopi Goldberg is the black actress who played the psychic Otta in "The Ghost".

In order to prevent the replacement of actors in the sequel of "The Matrix", Xu Cun asked Jeffrey to sign an agreement with Hugo Weaving, Will Smith, and Whoopi Goldberg that they must participate in the sequel of "The Matrix", and set The maximum penalty for breach of contract.

In addition, in order to prevent "The Matrix" from becoming sour, Xu Cun also deliberately hired the Wachowski brothers who are currently doing woodworking, drawing comics, and conceiving "The Matrix" as assistants to himself as a director.

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