Material Empire

Sure enough, the news provided by Wang Zheyi made Qin Hai feel a serious crisis.

Meson Fund is an important financial speculative fund in the United States. Its operating characteristic is to constantly find economic flaws in various countries, and then participate in disrupting the situation with strong cash flow, and maximize the benefits in the chaos. When the country is tossed to the brink of death and there is no more oil and water, the Jiezi Fund will float away and look for its next prey.

The debt turmoil in South America and the catastrophe before and after the disintegration of the Soviet Union can all see the black hand of Meson Fund. Especially during the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Meson Fund obtained billions of dollars of income by manipulating the ruble, which caused the long-term downturn of the Russian economy.

This time, the news that the Chinese government will loosen control over the means of production reached the ears of Jiezi Fund executives. They are very sensitive to realize that this is another good opportunity to turn the clouds upside down. The Soviet Union and China are the two largest planned economies in the world. When the former collapsed, Western brokers made a lot of money. Although China is not collapsing this time, in the process of transitioning from a planned economy to a market economy, flaws will definitely be found. Such a huge empire, just scratching a little bit of skin, is enough for the fund tycoons to have a fat year.

The Jiezi Fund has a very powerful research department. They are working hard to collect all kinds of data on the Chinese economy, and even used economic spies to go to China to learn some secret matters. Based on the information from all parties, Jiezi Fund concluded that if it can invest 10 billion US dollars in the Chinese market and at the same time encourage local Chinese speculators to participate, the price of production materials in China will be completely out of control during the process of system change.

Changes in the prices of means of production will inevitably fluctuate in the prices of consumer goods. At that time, China will experience hyperinflation as high as 50% or even 100%. If it works properly, in this process, Meson Fund will be able to reap a huge profit of no less than 10 billion US dollars.

In this plan, the researchers took into account a variety of factors, including the fact that the Chinese government may borrow high interest rates from abroad in order to import materials to fill the balance between supply and demand when it is unable to stabilize prices. Jiezi Fund is also profitable in this matter, because when the Chinese economy is in chaos, the Chinese government can only grit its teeth and accept foreign debts with high interest rates.

Pittston came to China with such a plan. It was he who brainwashed Sun Zhenjiang and asked Sun Zhenjiang to gather as many cronies as possible to participate in this large-scale material hype. Of course, if the hype is successful, Sun Zhenjiang and others will indeed be able to earn a large amount of profits. Jiezi Fund does not mind supporting a group of parasites in China, because their shearing action against China will definitely not be the last time.

Of course, what Wang Zheyi learned could not be so comprehensive. She nominally works as a department manager in a Chinese-funded institution in Peru, and is actually responsible for important intelligence collection work. The informant she developed in Peru revealed to her the fact that the Meson Fund is shrinking funds around the world, and introduced the situation obtained by talking to some people in the fund who have access to high-level secrets.

Wang Zheyi has a deep family background and is very sensitive to national macroeconomic issues. In addition, in several phone calls, she once heard her father talk about the reform of the means of production system. Combined with the information of the informant, she I guessed the truth of the matter at once.

According to normal procedures, Wang Zheyi reported to his superiors after synthesizing the information. The superior was aware of the importance of this matter and also knew about the relationship between Wang Zheyi and Wang Hongsheng, so at the same time Wang Zheyi notified Wang Hongsheng of the matter directly. After Wang Hongsheng heard the news, he directly told his daughter Qin Hai's phone number, and asked her to explain it to Qin Hai in detail.

Wang Hongsheng did not choose to convey the matter to Qin Hai himself, but hoped that Qin Hai would think of some problems he hadn't thought of, and then ask Wang Zheyi for verification. In fact, Wang Hongsheng's consideration was indeed correct. After listening to Wang Zheyi's narration, Qin Hai asked some questions about the characteristics of Jiezi Fund's operation in South America. Fund's provocation to make a targeted counterattack.

"Zhe Yi, thank you, the information you provided is very timely. If we don't know about this situation, they are in the dark and we are in the open, maybe we will suffer a lot." Qin Hai said with a grateful tone.

"Yo, so our President Qin still says thank you." Wang Zheyi said in a strange way.

"Always will." Qin Hai said with a smile.

The two chatted a few more gossips, and Wang Zheyi hung up the phone. Overseas long-distance is indeed quite expensive, and Wang Zheyi used the public phone number in the work unit, so I am really embarrassed to say more. What's more, we are already separated from each other, and if we say more words, it will only cause sadness.

Putting down the phone, Qin Hai sat at his desk in a daze for a while, then picked up another phone and notified the front desk to invite Ning Zhongying and Song Hongxuan to his office again.

"Finished the phone call?" Song Hongxuan walked in with a teasing smile on his face.

"Is it Director Wang's daughter?" Ning Zhongying asked, pretending not to notice.

Qin Hai knew what they were thinking, and he didn't want to explain too much, after all, some things are getting darker and darker. He pointed to the sofa, asked the two to sit down, and said, "Director Wang asked her to call. She informed me of a very important situation, which will have a great impact on us."

After that, he introduced what Wang Zheyi said to the two of them. Considering that Ning Zhongying didn't understand what Jiezi Fund was and what international hot money was, he explained a few more words.

"The Americans want to get involved in this matter?" Song Hongxuan was no longer in the mood for joking, his eyes were wide open, and he looked at Qin Hai and asked. Back then, people were still a little afraid of the United States. They always felt that the United States was extremely powerful, and it could be thicker than the waist of the Chinese by pulling out any hairs. As long as the Americans intervene in anything, China will be in trouble. Rao is Song Hongxuan, who is well-informed and knowledgeable, and he is unavoidable on this issue.

"Yes." Qin Hai said lightly, "This is called financial hegemony, and it bullies countries with weak economic foundations like us."

"I still don't believe in this evil." Ning Zhongying said with a stern face, "We are such a big country, how can they be defeated by their fund?"

"It's not enough to defeat, but if they intervene, things will become complicated." Qin Hai explained, "When I discussed with Director Wang, I only considered the behavior of some domestic speculative companies, and did not think of the international financial forces. Intervene. The funds of domestic companies are always limited, and it is not easy to raise billions of RMB. It is too late to speculate on steel products. But if American financial funds intervene, the situation will be different. It will be able to organize tens of billions of dollars of funds, and once it enters the Chinese market, it will definitely have the effect of making waves.”

"But can't our country supervise the inflow of such funds?" Song Hongxuan suddenly thought of this question.

Qin Hai shook his head and said, "In terms of regulations, we are a country with foreign exchange controls, and foreign funds cannot enter and exit at will. However, institutions like Meson Fund, which specializes in international financial speculation, have various means to evade supervision. .The country can control part of it, but it is impossible to control it completely. Especially when there are domestic institutions that cooperate with them internally and externally, this kind of supervision is even more difficult."

"What does Director Wang mean?" Song Hongxuan continued to ask.

Qin Haidao: "Director Wang just asked Wang Zheyi to report the news to me. He also just got the news, and he probably hasn't had time to report to the central leadership, let alone any specific countermeasures. However, since he asked Wang Zheyi to call me Judging by the phone, he hopes that we will make some preparations."

Song Hongxuan said: "This kind of matter should be decided by the state, right? What can our company do?"

Ning Zhongying said: "The country will have national considerations, and we should also have our own considerations. My opinion is that since the Americans have intervened, this is no longer a simple question of making money and losing money, but a question of how to resist the United States. The issue of aggression. At this time, as a Chinese company, we should stand up and protect national security. Xiao Qin, Xiao Song, do you two think what I said is right?"

Qin Hai and Song Hongxuan looked at each other and laughed. Qin Hai said: "At critical times, the old comrades are still more enlightened. Hong Xuan and I are thinking about how to protect ourselves, but Director Ning has thought of the issue of national security. It is really admirable."

"You boy, don't flatter me!" Ning Zhongying cursed with a smile, and then said: "Since you agree with me, let's think about how to cut off the black hand of the Americans." Let him regret having been to China. In order to achieve this, even if our group suffers a little loss and loses some money, we will not hesitate."

"Director Ning is right. As the chairman, I can make a decision now. At worst, I will lose 1 billion or 2 billion. I absolutely cannot let the United States go back." Qin Hai said through gritted teeth.

"Okay, since both of you have such great determination, then I will be responsible for the specific implementation." Song Hongxuan said, "I'll go and sort out the situation of our several steel factories to see where we can dig out. Some potential to come.

I thought about it just now. In fact, the matter of Jiezi Fund is not a big threat to us. Even if they can invest 10 billion U.S. dollars in the Chinese market, it is impossible to use all of them on steel. After all, the steel market is limited. If they hoard too much steel, they have to consider how to ship it. In this way, as long as we can increase the supply by about 5 million tons, it will be enough to cope with this new variable. "