Chapter 603: Layout

Li Changjiang didn't fully believe Yang Qing's words either, after all everyone is shrewd; whether it's a trap must be carefully considered.

After some probing, he learned clearly the details of the deep cooperation between Yinglian people and Daxia.

In fact it's no secret; a determined person can easily find out.

Moreover, Yingjiang and Daxia are still in a honeymoon period, with no resistance.

Li Changjiang easily seized the opportunity.

Although it's deep cooperation, not every Yinglian person has the chance or connections to join this feast.

This is his chance.

Li Changjiang quickly tidied things up, then took his people to Yinglian to conduct research.

The impressive thing about Yang Qing is right here: the matter is real, but the purpose is impure.

Once Li Changjiang joins this cooperation, his ties with Daxia will become very close.

He will no longer be the kind of speculator seen in history.

Over in Gangdao.

After handling the HSBC matter, Yang Qing let major companies use the 2 billion USD to gradually start investing in industries that are doing well for the modest living.

(Many novels claim to profit from currency speculation using this chance, but it's actually hard; without Yingjiang backing major financial institutions, you can't leverage to the modest living and borrow that much money.)

(Without a yen borrowing channel, how can you trade futures?)

(Today's futures market is still very conservative, far from the later foreign exchange futures market; it requires several major settlement banks to open futures contracts, which were rare in the 1980s.)

Yang Qing's method is to take the USD to exchange for yen, then invest the yen in industries thriving for the modest living, and then use the invested assets to obtain financing loans.

Then he reinvests the borrowed money, and the resulting industries are loaned again…

In fact it's a chain loan.

The modest living didn't restrict this chain loan until the 1990s, when financial risk control began.

Daxia only began addressing chain loans in the early 2010s.

At that time, Daxia, whether real estate firms or property speculators, used this method.

This tactic only requires finding continuously stable‑growing industries to keep playing.

And the leverage adds up to dozens or hundreds of times.

If you're unsatisfied, you can refinance the company as the main entity.

For example, using chain loans you inflate the company's market cap to a billion, then you can refinance another few hundred million under the company's name.

To illustrate, if you have one million, it's easy to consolidate assets into a hundred million; if the market grows steadily, that hundred million can easily become a billion, after which you can refinance again.

It's not over yet.

You can also list the company; a ten‑billion market cap can be turned into several times that value.

In other words, with one million, if you go to the extreme, you could create industries worth tens of billions, even hundreds of billions.

This is the terrifying aspect of finance.

And in this world, only real estate can meet this condition.

In an era where a single capital could buy all of Yingjiang, how huge the wealth opportunities would be?

Unimaginable.

Of course Yang Qing can't put all the money into real estate, or the market would collapse.

The first and second options are unavailable, leaving only the old and the small.

This is the secret to earning money.

Otherwise, even if you earn the money, others aren't stupid; on what basis can you speculate in real estate?

The remaining money, Yang Qing mainly invests in the stocks of several major conglomerates.

Yang Qing's investments appear huge, but when viewed under the guise of the Yang Group's continuous business expansion for the modest living in recent years...

Everything becomes less abrupt.

Over in Gangdao.

Through Yang Qing's relentless hostile takeovers and poaching.

Finally, in June 1995, Yang Qing seized control of Gangdao Telecom.

Subsequently, Yang Qing directly injected capital, promoting the development of mobile services and the construction of the information superhighway.

And announced a global tender for backbone network construction.

(In 1983 the TCP/IP protocol matured, and the DNS system also appeared that year: entering a URL to navigate to a webpage. This shows the foundational internet era has arrived.)

Yang Qing's actions are not commercial at all; they are purely a tech charity event.

They attracted the attention of many researchers.

This is a huge technological testing ground.

Yang Qing's goal is not to earn money but to cultivate internet talent.

It's simply that he has money to spend with nowhere to put it.

This experiment couldn't be run with just a few hundred million; tens of billions are unmanageable.

No one understands Yang Qing's actions.

Yang Qihang and Yang Fan both returned home and asked Yang Qing for the reason.

Because Yang Qing's behavior was too bizarre.

Yang Qing didn't hold back and explained directly.

"Because I want to build a platform, a testing ground for the world's top internet talent."

"Gangdao's reserves in this area are almost zero; since we can't join the formulation of these standards, why not set up a table for them."

"To cultivate this atmosphere for Gangdao."

This group of top talents, even the little things they leak out can become our nourishment, helping us cultivate related talents.

Your computer isn't in need of programming talent?

Your game console isn't in need of related gaming talent?

This is a great opportunity for talent cultivation; those near the water get the moon first.

(Historically, Gangdao has done nothing in this regard, and is even worse than the Mainland.)

Then Yang Qing looked toward Yang Fan.

You can use the technology of your industrial computer to create a general-purpose computer platform.

For this internet experiment, provide various communication driver services.

You might be able to seize the opportunity to enter the civilian computer market.

Then he looked toward Yang Qihang again.

You can also try to move the game platform onto computers, computerizing various games.

Future computer games will also be an important topic; doing preliminary exploration now is exactly the right time.

Good partner, there are still his own matters in this, but he is very worried.

Dad, if you do this, won't you make Yingjiang unhappy?

After all, this thing originally started as military technology.

Nowadays, all countries are just tinkering in laboratories.

You suddenly doing this— isn't it obvious you want to seize the results?

How will Yingjiang view you?

The bird that sticks out gets shot; doing this is very dangerous.

Yang Qihang has been around Yingjiang for so long, he's quite clear about their underhanded tactics.

Even the president dares to kill them; you're snatching their cake— isn't that courting death?

Dad, how much have you drunk? You're overreaching yourself.

Yang Qing has thought about this matter.

He's tinkering with this, not making any money, purely a sucker; they produce things, he neither says he wants them nor dares to take them, only wanting to pick up what they don't want, to cultivate related talents.

What he does is not excessive at all; it's just helping out for free.

They have absolutely no reason.

Moreover, he provided a platform for others to trial and error; after the trials, the benefit still goes to them.

He's a pure, big sucker— does he even need to be targeted like this?

Moreover, Gangdao's huge market can't even support subsequent development; they have no worries at all.

No matter how you think about it, there won't be any problems.