Chapter 748: Fishing with Reagan

In the next few days, Xia Yu spent almost all his time with the Chinese Business Consortium except when he was out sightseeing with Elena.

After all, he hadn't been here for a few months, and it was about time he showed up and made his presence felt.

During this time, Wu Hongyi also specially showed him the financial report of Huashang Bank last year, as well as the operating situation for more than a month this year. The data was very impressive, mainly due to speculation in gold futures and the US dollar/pound sterling, Huashang Bank was making a fortune and its strength had expanded considerably.

Afterwards, in the reluctant gaze of Elena, Xia Yu boarded the plane to New York.

The plane crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and eight hours later Xia Yu arrived in New York.

When Xia Yu arrived, Rey Dario was already waiting at the airport. Under his guidance, Xia Yu checked into the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Manhattan.

Early the next morning, Xia Yu threw himself into work, taking Li Wuming and others with him, buying a stack of financial newspapers and stepping into 18 Broadway, New York – the New York Stock Exchange.

As someone who made his fortune in finance and is also familiar with the power of the financial big stick, Xia Yu subconsciously looks for financial-related information wherever he goes.

And in New York, there is no place that can better meet his needs than the New York Stock Exchange.

Looking at the bustling crowd, Xia Yu's eyes filled with memories, and scenes of information about the New York Stock Exchange flashed through his mind.

Seeing Xia Yu in this state, Li Wuming, who was on close guard, was already used to it. He knew that every time this happened, Xia Yu was thinking, and accordingly, he would once again be on high alert.

After a long time, Xia Yu shook his head slightly and came back to his senses, and began to devote himself wholeheartedly to understanding the information.

Over the next five or six days, Xia Yu repeated this behaviour, which seemed boring and tedious to outsiders. More and more information entered his mind, and it also stimulated his memory to burst out with more valuable information.

In the evenings, Xia Yu learned about information other than finance.

While Xia Yu was in New York, a company that had been hidden offshore through extremely complicated means was established in San Francisco in the western United States.

North Star Capital!

This company would be Xia Yu's other overt reach into the United States, although he only had a 3% stake in it.

As for Julian Robertson's Tiger Fund and Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Fund, Xia Yu did not want to reveal his relationship with them.

North Star Capital will complete his layout in the three fields of high technology, biomedicine and energy!

However, the hunting targets are still under investigation and screening, so no action will be taken for the time being.

Before that, he still has one more important thing to do, the completion of which will determine his foundation in the United States in the next few years.

Just ten days after Xia Yu arrived in New York, he finally got the news he was waiting for.

'It turns out he's still fishing in Washington, D.C.! He's got some nerve! If I didn't know what he'd already achieved, I'd be fooled too!'

Xia Yu let out a low whistle as he put down the message in his hands, his eyes narrowing in the presidential suite of the Hilton Garden Inn.

It is now the end of February, and the primary stage of the new US presidential election has already kicked off in New Hampshire.

This year is an election year in the United States, and a new president will be elected this year.

The US presidential election process is long and complicated, and mainly includes the primary election, presidential candidate nomination, campaign, national election, Electoral College voting, and the inauguration of the elected president.

The primary election phase has the longest time span, lasting more than four months, starting from the third Tuesday in February and ending at the end of June.

During this process, the two major political parties in the United States, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, will select their respective representatives to participate in the party's primaries in most states across the country; in a small number of states that do not hold primaries, the state committees or conventions of the two parties will select the representatives.

Of course, because New Hampshire was the first state to hold the primary election, and its election results had a great impact on other states, the tension in New Hampshire was already rapidly rising at this time.

Instead, other states were watching, and people from both the Democratic and Republican parties were looking for resources to increase the hope of their goals.

Xia Yu was clear that this session would see Ronald Wilson Reagan take power, and he would eventually defeat incumbent President Jimmy Carter with an overwhelming majority.

He just didn't expect Reagan to have the leisure to go fishing. Xia Yu had a strange thought in his head: Could it be that Reagan had watched the Chinese movie 'Fengshen Bang'? Did he want to catch a few big fish to support him?

Xia Yu laughed, shaking off this ridiculous idea, packed his things, and set off for Washington.

I wonder if he, the fish, is of any interest to Reagan!

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Chilliwack Lake, the longest and largest natural lake in Washington State, has very long and narrow shores, up to 55 miles long, formed by a glacier-carved valley encountering a flood.

The Lake Chelan National Recreation Area in the St. Hilaire area at the northern end of Lake Chelan is a great place for hiking and water recreation.

On this day, three jeeps drove into the fishing area of the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area and stopped at the parking lot by the lake.

Xia Yu and his entourage got out of the car, and the bodyguards, carrying fishing gear, surrounded him.

Xia Yu was wearing a baseball cap and a tracksuit.

But the cold-faced men around him attracted the attention of those around them.

There was nothing he could do about it. Most of the people here were middle class, or at best, high-level white-collar workers, but it was really rare to see someone as high-profile as Xia Yu, with a whole bunch of bodyguards.

But that was exactly the effect Xia Yu wanted. How else could he attract Reagan's attention?

After searching with a hidden gaze, Xia Yu saw Reagan's figure. At the moment, the latter was sitting on a fishing box, quietly watching the buoys on the lake.

There happened to be an empty space next to him.

Xia Yu pretended to have chosen the seat next to him at random, skillfully opened the fishing box, took out the fishing gear and started to fiddle with it.

With such a large group of people following Xia Yu, it was difficult for him not to attract Reagan's attention even if he sat next to him. He looked at Xia Yu, who happened to look up at him and give him a friendly smile.

Reagan was taken aback, but then smiled and nodded in response.

After assembling the fishing rod and testing the water level, Xia Yu baited the hook and casted it.

At this time, the American water system was not yet dominated by Asian carp. These creatures that boosted the morale of the Asian people were still in various American aquaculture farms and fish ponds, and were almost invisible in lakes like Lake Chiran.

The bait Xia Yu used was for catching lake whitefish, also known as largemouth whitefish, a common freshwater fish species in North America with delicious meat.

Perhaps Xia Yu was lucky, as in less than twenty minutes he caught three fish, each weighing five or six catties.

Xia Yu's catch surprised Reagan, who was standing nearby. As he was interested in learning about Xia Yu's background, he praised, 'Sir, your technique is awesome.'

This was exactly what Xia Yu wanted to hear, and he smiled and said, 'Thank you. I guess I'm just having better luck today. Usually I can't catch even a few fish in a day.'

'How was your catch?'

said Xia Yu, putting down his fishing rod and walking over to see Reagan's fish basket.

When a fisherman tries to be impressive, he shows off his catch. Regardless of Xia Yu's status, they were both fishermen.

Therefore, Reagan pretended to be humble and said that there weren't many, but he took the initiative to mention the fish trap.

Suddenly, there was a splash of water, and Xia Yu was surprised to see a large pile of large-mouthed whitefish with black backs in the fish trap, including a pike.

Reagan's fishing skills were not bad, so it was no wonder that he came here to fish at this juncture.

Xia Yu praised Reagan in due course, making Reagan beam with a smile, but the latter also modestly said that he was lucky.

After chatting for a while, the two men gradually became familiar with each other and exchanged names.

Reagan casually asked, 'Mr. Xia, I often come here to fish and cultivate myself. I haven't seen you before, is this your first time here?'

Xia Yu reeled in the line and said casually, 'Yes, I came to Washington this time to visit a company I just acquired. I happened to want to relax a bit, so I came here.'

Reagan raised an eyebrow and asked, 'Oh? Mr Xia, you have a company in Washington? Can I know which one?'

Xia Yu gave a faint smile and said naturally, 'It's not a big company, just the Washington Star. I'm more interested in the media, so I bought a few newspapers to try my hand.'