Chapter 1368: A loophole in the foundations of the empire

'Honey, you're home.'

'I have a present for you!'

That morning, Xia Yu had just returned home from work when he saw Cindy smiling at him, her hands behind her back as if she were hiding something.

Xia Yu embraced Cindy in his arms and said with a smile, 'What is this mysterious gift?'

'Look,'

said Cindy, gently struggling out of Xia Yu's embrace, putting her hands in front of her back, still holding something in her hands, and looking expectantly at Xia Yu.

A pregnancy test! (Note: invented in 1956)

A smile of surprise appeared on Xia Yu's face. He took the pregnancy test and looked at it for a while, unable to stop laughing.

'Cindy, did you just find out this morning?'

Xia Yu asked, delighted, as he helped Cindy sit down on the sofa.

Seeing the look on her lover's face, Cindy couldn't contain her joy either. She nodded lightly and said, 'Mmm!'

'Honey, Cindy tested at 10 o'clock this morning and has been waiting for you to come home!'

At that moment, Sumitomo Kumiko walked down the stairs with a graceful gait and said to Xia Yu with a light smile,

'I wanted to call you, but I wanted to surprise you, so I didn't tell you right away,' Cindy said softly, leaning her head on Xia Yu's shoulder, while subconsciously stroking her own belly. Her eyes seemed to have a kind of radiance.

Xia Yu gently placed his hand on Cindy's hand, carefully against her belly, and said tenderly, 'Cindy, thank you, this is the biggest surprise I've received this month.'

'Meeting you two is the luckiest thing in my life,'

Xia Yu hugged Sumito Kumiko, who had come up to him, and said affectionately to the two of them: 'Meeting you two has been the luckiest thing in my life.'

A happy smile appeared on the faces of both women.

In a short while, Elena and the others also came downstairs one after the other from the upstairs or the garden to the living room on the first floor, and the living room suddenly became lively.

Cindy was actually the third one to become pregnant.

The second to become pregnant after Li Qian was Elena, and she found out on 29 August that she was pregnant.

In this regard, Xia Yu naturally also played fair, and he also hoped that his children could grow up together at the same age, so that the relationship between siblings would be better.

Less than half a month after Cindy also became pregnant, during a regular check-up, He and Sumitomo Kumiko also found out that they were pregnant.

This made Xia Yu's home lively.

Of course, Xia Yu also managed to fall to an all-time low in terms of family status. No matter how much power he wielded outside the home, he took personal responsibility for serving his wife in some matters, even if there was a maid in the house, and even if the early stages of pregnancy did not affect a woman's normal activities.

It can only be said that this is only human nature.

These days, Xia Yu is smiling every day, not hiding his emotions at all, so much so that his subordinates are quietly discussing what great news has befallen their boss.

However, on the 25th of September, Xia Yu's good mood was ruined by a piece of news.

The news came from the Jiuding News Agency.

On the 23rd of September, a vicious incident occurred in eastern Australia. The house of a Chinese family was set on fire by their neighbour in the night, and all three members of the family died. Then the official investigation determined that the neighbour, a man, was mentally ill and was forcibly sent to a psychiatric hospital.

However, according to an investigation by the Jiuding News Agency, the man was actually a typical fanatical supporter of the 'White Australia Policy' and, in the final analysis, a racist.

Australia's 'White Australia Policy' was the first law introduced by the Australian government in 1901, the Immigration Control Act. However, after continuous struggles, it was not until 1978 that the Fraser government's suspension of the immigration law finally completely abolished the policy of selecting immigrants according to their country of birth.

The 'White Australia Policy' was only abolished legally, but to eradicate it from the hearts and minds of the people, it will take at least a few decades until the current generation of Australians, who have been severely poisoned by the 'White Australia Policy', gradually withdraw and a new generation of Australians becomes the mainstream of society.

And it must be ensured that similar ideas will not continue to emerge in the next few decades.

However...

Xia Yu couldn't help but think about the future Australia, which is typically a lackey of the UK and the US and a hardcore anti-China country.

How could Xia Yu feel good when he thought about this?

What's more, he liked to plan ahead, and he thought about the longer term.

His business empire had not been completely exposed yet, but as time passed, one day, the top echelons of the world would get a clear picture of his strength.

His Bright Foundation and Polaris Capital had already begun to tie in with the forces in the United States, so even if a force hostile to him came to power, it would be difficult for them to take action against his consortium.

However, hostile forces can meddle in countries other than the UK and the US, especially countries like Australia and Canada, which are the best places to meddle.

Even Southeast Asia, which Xia Yu regards as an established foundation, is also the most easily provoked because of its diverse countries and numerous ethnic groups.

Each of these will affect the foundation of his economic rule and seriously erode his business empire.

'It seems that we need to find a permanent solution...'

Thinking is doing, Xia Yu immediately asked Huo Jianning to notify the three heads of the Jiuding Think Tank: Wang Liming of the Jiuding Political Research Institute, Xu Wen of the Jiuding Social Research Institute, and Lin Shanyuan of the Jiuding Business Research Institute.

After a careful afternoon of communication, the three returned with their mission and immediately gathered their people to brainstorm.

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New York time, the morning of September 28, location New York Plaza Hotel.

The five people, the US Treasury Secretary James Baker, the island country's finance minister Takekami Noboru, the West German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg, the French Finance Minister Pierre Bergé, and the British Finance Minister Nigel Lawson, as well as the governors of the central banks of the five countries, a total of ten people!

A meeting was held at the Plaza Hotel in New York, and an agreement was signed for the five countries to jointly intervene in the foreign exchange market through policy, causing the US dollar to be lowered in an orderly manner against major currencies.

The Plaza Accord was signed six days later than it should have been, but its core principles remained the same.

Before the Accord was signed, Xia Yu had already made the necessary preparations.

Funds from all countries and markets had been released and were just waiting to make a profit.

Sure enough, after the Accord was signed, West Germany was the first to act, selling $1.2 billion of foreign exchange the next day.

The UK, France and the island countries followed suit and sold dollars.

The US bought 225 million West German marks, 317 million yen and 270 million pounds in the last two days of September.

The West German mark, pound, franc and yen began to appreciate, while the dollar entered a downward trend.

By mid-October, the central banks of the island country, West Germany, France and the United Kingdom had sold a combined total of 7.9 billion US dollars, and other central banks in the Group of Ten countries had also sold more than 3 billion US dollars.

The US dollar fell 9.7% against the yen, 8.9% against the mark, 8.2% against the pound and 7.9% against the franc.

It is expected that the initial adjustment target of 10% to 12% will be achieved by the end of October.

As for Jiuding Intelligence, after nearly 20 days of research, a plan has finally been released.