Giant of the times

After Li Zetian finished speaking, both Jobs and Wozniak were stunned for a moment.

Wozniak was very surprised and said: "Mr. Li, Motorola is the industry leader. If Apple develops mobile phones, it will be difficult to compete with it, right?"

Li Zetian smiled lightly and said: "If it is in the first generation mobile communication era, it is true, but in the second generation mobile communication era, this is an opportunity for Apple. It depends on you to seize it. I founded Qualcomm. The reason is to have the right to speak in the second generation mobile communications era. At present, the GSM standard in Europe is almost completed. I believe that it will take less than a few years for GSM to be commercialized. At this moment, if Apple can keep up At this pace, it can beat Motorola! As far as I know, Motorola is still full of hope for cellular phones based on analog technology, and is arrogant and completely unaware that a new communications era is coming..."

Jobs's eyes lit up and he said decisively: "Mr. Li, I think what you said makes sense! Apple has every chance of defeating Motorola!!"

Wozniak was not sure, but seeing that both Li Zetian and Jobs agreed, he had no objection.

At that moment, the three began to discuss how to start this mobile phone project.

Li Zetian said: "GSM is developing faster than CDMA, and it must be commercialized faster, especially in Europe. I estimate that GSM will be used. However, GSM still has shortcomings, such as poor call quality and small communication signal coverage. It needs to be established Multiple base stations can ensure communication. European countries are small in area and each country has its own telecommunications company, so it is more suitable to use GSM. But it is not suitable for the United States. The United States has a large area. If GSM is used, it will mean that telecommunications Business operators need to build a lot of GSM base stations, which is not cost-effective. CDMA has good call quality and a very wide communication range, which can greatly reduce investment and operating costs. Therefore, I think that although CDMA started slower than GSM, it will be the most Suitable for American conditions.”

After a pause, Li Zetian let the two of them think for a while, and then continued: "Therefore, Apple can first develop GSM mobile phones, then develop CDMA mobile phones, or even develop dual-mode mobile phones that support both GSM and CDMA networks. Give users better flexibility!”

"Yeah!" The two of them couldn't help but nodded, feeling that Li Zetian was right.

Soldiers are valuable and quick.

After Li Zetian left Apple that day, Jobs, as the company's CEO, flew to Europe with a technical team to contact the GSM organization, while Wozniak stayed in the United States and began recruiting mobile phone development engineers.

If you want to develop a classic mobile phone, it will definitely take several years.

Motorola took 10 years to develop the "Brick" mobile phone, which can be said to be "ten years of sharpening a sword". Even Li Zetian avoided its edge and did not dare to compete with it.

"Now we are waiting for the advent of the Internet and the second generation of mobile communications!"

February is approaching, the spring breeze is blowing, and the warm sun at noon shines on his face, which is very comfortable. Li Zetian is sitting on the balcony drinking coffee, smiling slightly, and looking forward to the future.

Over the years, Li Zetian's wealth has increased rapidly, and the cash reserves in the umbrella company's account have exceeded 30 billion U.S. dollars. This is only the company's dividend profits in the past few years. Li Zetian has not sold any shares.

Li Zetian knows where this money should be spent!

In the early 1980s, the U.S. fiscal deficit increased sharply, and its foreign trade deficit increased significantly. The United States hopes to increase the export competitiveness of its products through the depreciation of the dollar to improve the imbalance of the United States' international balance of payments. Li Zetian already has a certain degree of influence in the US government, and many officials are already considered Li Zetian's people. According to internal news, the United States is preparing to take action on RB. Now RB is very arrogant. Some businessmen even threaten to buy the United States. Moreover, RB's products are destroying American products and are one of the major factors in the United States' fiscal deficit!

In 1984, the US GDP was only US$4 trillion, while the RB GDP was US$1.3 trillion. Looking at the population, the US population is 240 million, while the RB population is only 120 million. The gap in per capita GDP is not too big. RB is not as big as a state in the United States, but it has to keep up with the GDP of the United States. It is extremely scary!

The United States obviously can no longer tolerate it, and the shearing time is about to begin.

As a time traveler, if Li Zetian doesn't even know about the famous "Plaza Accord", then he doesn't pay much attention to the financial economy.

In a previous life, on September 22, 1985, the finance ministers and central bank governors of the United States, RB, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom (referred to as the G5) held a meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York and reached an agreement that the five governments would jointly intervene in the foreign exchange market and induce the dollar to trade. An agreement for an orderly devaluation of major currencies to address the massive U.S. trade deficit. Because the agreement was signed at the Plaza Hotel, the agreement was also known as the "Plaza Agreement."

After the signing of the "Plaza Accord", the above-mentioned five countries began to jointly intervene in the foreign exchange market and sell a large amount of U.S. dollars in the international foreign exchange market, which in turn formed a selling frenzy among market investors, leading to a sustained and substantial depreciation of the U.S. dollar.

In September 1985, the U.S. dollar against the Japanese yen fluctuated around 250 yen per U.S. dollar. Less than three months after the signing of the agreement, the U.S. dollar quickly fell to around 200 yen per U.S. dollar, a drop of 20%. After that, the U.S. authorities represented by U.S. Treasury Secretary Baker and financial experts represented by Friedrich Bergsten (then director of the American Institute of International Economics) continued to verbally intervene in the dollar. It once fell to 120 yen per dollar. In less than three years, the U.S. dollar has depreciated by 50% against the Japanese yen, which means that the Japanese yen has doubled in value against the U.S. dollar.

Li Zetian knew in his heart that if this money was still placed in the umbrella company, it would definitely shrink severely and must be used before the Plaza Accord. Even if you convert all the U.S. dollars into Japanese yen now and convert them back later, the price will double. However, since we know the future development trend, it is very low-level to do this. Doubling it is nothing, it is not worth mentioning at all!

Right now, RB real estate is booming. Before the RB stock market crash in 1991, the value of real estate in Tokyo alone could buy the entire United States. Isn’t it scary?

Therefore, if you invest in RB real estate, you will definitely make money without losing money, as long as you get out in time.

In fact, Li Zetian has been investing in RB real estate. He also owns many branches in RB and earned a lot of yen. With the extra money, Li Zetian asked these companies to invest in real estate. Various companies also invested about 600 billion yen. If sold now, it would definitely exceed 1 trillion yen. This money belongs to these branches, and Li Zetian, as the major shareholder, will certainly benefit the most.

The umbrella company belongs to Li Zetian alone, and all the money earned from investing in RB Real Estate belongs to him.

30 billion U.S. dollars, Li Zetian left some as a backup, and had to spend at least 20 billion U.S. dollars to invest in RB real estate.

"After the Plaza Agreement was signed, Tian Shuai, Zhang Han, Bill Gates, Jobs, and Wei Xiuping were all called to invest in RB real estate. In 1990, all the real estate was sold, and then they walked away. This was a trap. Damn little RB!" Li Zetian couldn't help laughing evilly.