Ruoke Restaurant is a self-operated restaurant in the Ladder Building. At noon, Zhou Ming and Lin Muqing came to Ruoke Restaurant for lunch. They had just finished their meeting with Tong Gang and Li Cheng and Ilbedov. The reason why they didn't go together was that they needed to take care of their own ideas at the meeting just now.

Lin Muqing helped Zhou Ming to order two dishes with very domestic flavors, but despite this, she still felt that Zhou Ming seemed to be frowning, so Lin Muqing couldn't help but ask worriedly: "Zhou Ming, isn't the situation in the Middle East always developing as you expected? Why are you so worried now? Aren't you the most confident all the time?"

Zhou Ming smiled bitterly at this. Logically speaking, he should indeed have confidence. It is not because the situation in the Middle East has been developing as he expected, but based on his memories of his previous life, the situation should have developed in this way. b Novel r />

On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, and the Kuwait War broke out. On that day, all military bases near the Gulf entered a state of first-level combat readiness. Then the United States began to operate the "Desert Shield" and the United States began to urgently increase troops to the Gulf region and establish defense lines to prevent Iraq from continuing to invade Saudi Arabia. It secretly formulated a "Desert Storm" plan to operate at any time.

Since then, the United States and the Soviet Union have reached a consensus, requiring Iraq to withdraw its troops from Kuwait unconditionally, fully restore Kuwait's sovereignty, legitimate regime and territorial integrity, and at the same time stop all weapons and military aid to Iraq. On the same day, the Arab League also demanded that Iraq withdraw its troops immediately and jointly pass Resolution 661 aimed at condemning and imposing economic sanctions on Iraq.

When the US Secretary of State and Iraq's Foreign Minister met in Geneva, but both sides believed that there was no room for compromise and the talks did not achieve any results, the multinational forces led by the United States began to bomb Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, and the Gulf War officially broke out.

This is the Gulf situation in Zhou Ming's memory. Although Zhou Ming does not remember the time of various war events very clearly, there is one thing that Zhou Ming can be sure of. Even if this process still happens, even if it has its own influence and Robert Adams interferes, the conspiracy plans of the two major consortiums cannot make fundamental changes because of the willfulness of a young man, even if this young man is an important figure in the Adams family.

In this way, with the continued deterioration of the Middle East situation and the subsequent outbreak of the Gulf War, the continued rise of oil prices is certain. In my memory, oil prices once broke through the forty-dollar mark, reaching a maximum of 45 US dollars. This is not the price of forty-dollar crude oil in the new millennium. The price of forty-dollar crude oil has become an astronomical figure, because the price rose from the fifteen US dollars before the Kuwait War.

That is to say, as long as you seize the right opportunity to place a price increase order before the war, you can reap twice the benefits after the war is over, just as you did before the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Crowd.

If I had just come out of China, just reborn or didn't know so much, I would definitely place an order and wait for the collection of accounts. But the problem is that I am no longer the one I was three years ago.

Zhou Ming still deeply remembered that he didn't know anything at that time. He only remembered the exact time of Black Friday. He dragged the loan of 400,000 yuan and arrived in Port City early with Lin Muqing, and waited for the Black Monday to happen.

Thinking about it now, Zhou Ming felt that he was really ignorant and fearless at that time. He didn't understand why Black Monday happened, and what was hidden behind him. He just bet all his belongings and gambled on him. He never thought about what would happen if Black Monday didn't happen.

But I had no choice at that time. Anyway, I was poor and empty-handed. Even if I started over again, I would still be gambled.

But the situation is very different now. Even if you hold huge assets, you can live a happy life and be a happy prodigal son. Therefore, there is no need to bet like this. Now you use the Gulf War to buy crude oil futures. It is just based on the principle of having money but not making a bastard. You want to increase your assets in the United States more, not just three years ago.

In addition, what is more important is that I have learned some of the inside stories behind the Gulf War.

First of all, the Gulf War was not an accident that I originally thought, but a conspiracy carefully planned by American capital; secondly, he offended Robert, a person from an important family in the consortium, who also had the ability to partially manipulate and influence.

This is very important because after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Gulf War did not break out immediately, but waited for four months.

These four months are for the US government to coordinate global relations and prepare for war. At the same time, who can say that it is not giving capital time to adjust the market? Although Zhou Ming can't remember the specific matters clearly, Zhou Ming clearly remembers that after the outbreak of the Kuwait War, oil prices had fluctuations and even had counter-growth during the period.

Perhaps for most people, as long as the crude oil price market is generally rising, it would be enough. Zhou Ming would definitely think so if he was three years ago. However, with these three years of experience, especially since he studied at Harvard for half a year, Zhou Ming has learned more. Real investors will never see this way. In addition, the futures market will never have any good faces to such lazy investors.

A very simple truth is that in the capital market, whether it falls first and then rises first and then falls, the result that investors will eventually suffer losses.

Since there is a closing price problem in the securities market, the real-time price is not so obvious. However, both futures and foreign exchange markets have real-time prices, which means that if the price rises, you will make money immediately, and if you lose money immediately, the money will disappear immediately. The fun is just a heartbeat.

It is precisely because of this reason that investors generally keep a lot of reserves when investing in futures and foreign exchange to deal with this situation. Otherwise, if the price fluctuates dozens of times a day, any investor will lose to death. But this time, Zhou Ming has set the time in advance and invested all the funds and did not leave any reserves. If there is a fluctuation, he will not know how much he will lose.

Of course, you can also keep enough reserves like other investors so that you can deal with price fluctuations, but if you do this, why bother to ask Tong Gang, Li Cheng and Ilbedov to invest together? Wouldn't it be enough to just prepare hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in? Anyway, according to the price increase and some operating methods, it is okay to make tens of millions of dollars by yourself.

Since they have been asked to come, they must invest all their funds. You must know that charity is all about maximizing interests, let alone being serious speculative. You can't do anything more merciful than charity, right?

However, now someone must have dug a hole in front and waiting for him, and the problem becomes complicated.

Yesterday, when the negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait broke down, Zhou Ming deliberately invested 10 million to face the market when the entire market began to panic. Zhou Ming did indeed try the waters. However, Zhou Ming's test was not to test the waters in the entire oil futures market, but to test Robert's waters to see if he has the ability to affect the market.

It was because of the final result that Zhou Ming had to worry more and he looked very unconfident.

Under these complicated thoughts, Zhou Ming finally sighed and said, "Sister Mu Qing, I want to be more confident, but I have to consider these key issues. Now what is in front of us is already so complicated, and I don't know how many problems we don't know behind it."

"So Zhou Ming, you said that just now?" Lin Muqing asked.

Zhou Ming nodded helplessly and said, "That's right, we can't go all the way to the dark. When we encounter problems, we always need to change our thinking."

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At the same time, in another restaurant, Tong Gang and Li Cheng were also sitting together discussing the issue. Their brows were frowning and the food in front of them was almost not moving, which showed that what they were thinking was not that easy.

"Brother Tong, do you think the matter is as serious as Brother Zhou Ming said?" Li Cheng asked.

Tong Gang shook his head and said, "It's hard to say this. After all, what Zhou Ming has said so far is his guess. Nothing can prove this guess. Even if the sudden drop in oil futures prices yesterday, it's hard to say that it was specifically targeted at him. After all, it's too unreasonable to have a naive young man who can influence such a big plan. I believe that the Adams family can exist for more than 300 years, and it shouldn't be like this."

Tong Gang suddenly changed his subject and continued, "But one thing, do you remember what I said when we commented on Zhou Ming? We believe in Zhou Ming, and we believe that he will definitely bring benefits to us."

"So we should completely believe him? At least on this issue." Li Cheng asked.

"If you don't doubt people, don't doubt people. Although Zhou Ming is not a subordinate, even if we are only a collaborator, I think we should believe him, otherwise we might as well leave as soon as possible and do our own things." Tong Gang said.

Li Cheng nodded silently: "I understand Brother Tong. I will explain this to the company's board of directors."

Tong Gang waved his hand and said, "No, I think I would say this kind of thing myself would be better. After all, this time the company has many temporary investment customers, and only what I said is the most convincing."

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Almost next door to Tong Gang and Li Cheng, Ilbedov was sitting there speaking and speaking on the phone while speaking Russian. Several northern Russians also sat here, watching Ilbedov call without eating.

One of these people was a very young Northern Russian, whose name was Vanisha, who was brought from Northern Russia by Ilbedov. However, because he was too young, Ilbedov did not take him into the conference room.

At this moment, Wa Niosha was sitting there leisurely cutting his steak, while listening to Ilbedov's phone call as if he was absent-minded.

"That's right, Mr. Zhou Ming said that today. He is worried that direct investment will cause certain risks, so his suggestion is to change his ideas. I personally think that his idea is very good. Tong Gang and Li Cheng are both Chinese, and I believe they will definitely support this idea. So I call you now, which is a way out. Didn't you always say that you missed the last opportunity? Then now the second opportunity is here, I will call you as soon as possible. Can you seize it and see it yourself?"

After saying that, Ilbedov hung up the phone and said in a angrily way: "These damn guys want to make money and are afraid of risks, they are really a bunch of eggless bastards!"

Wa Niosha, who had been concentrating on competing with the steak, then raised his head and said to Ilbedov: "What the teacher said is that they are all a group of greedy demons, but in my opinion, Mr. Zhou Ming from China is the real demon king because he can perfectly control the desires of these demons."

Ilbedov shook his head and said, "Wa Niosha, you are wrong. What Mr. Zhou Ming is really powerful is his ability to restrain desires. Even though the situation in the Middle East is obviously bad, he can give up oil and change his thinking. This is the most rare thing."
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