"In response to high inflation since the first quarter of this year, the Federal Reserve plans to raise the federal benchmark interest rate to 21% early next week, the second rate hike this year—"

At 10:45 a.m. on June 13, 1980, Zheng Jianguo glanced at the Patek Philippe gold watch on his wrist, and he deeply felt the energy of the Harvard Club.

"Raise the call rate to reduce the demand for oil—"

The original benchmark interest rate was 19%, and now it has increased to 21%, and the money on the market will further flow to the bank, and the interest of 10,000 yuan is 2,100 yuan, which is only one step away from the 24% usury with a monthly interest rate of 2 cents.

There is no money in the market, and the interest rate for speculative purposes will also rise with the rise of the benchmark interest rate, which will lead to an increase in the interest rate on borrowing, further reducing the consumption in the market, and people and enterprises will not have the support of cash flow in their hands, they will control the expenses around them, for most ordinary people, it is that the car cannot afford to drive-

"But this will lead to insufficient business start-up and higher unemployment, and President Carter is going to be cold-"

A sudden realization flashed through his mind, and after Zheng Jianguo came back to his senses, he found that the news on TV was still continuing: "-- A consortium of nine major banks led by Paine Square Bank has decided to provide a loan of $3.8 billion to Petroleos Mexicanos for the development of oil in the South China Sea, which has proven reserves of 4.2 billion tons and geological reserves of more than 15 billion tons.

In addition, according to reports from Britain, after five years of development, the North Sea oil field has been officially put into operation, which has proven reserves of 4.7 billion tons and a daily production of 500,000 barrels.

"Now that oil is valuable, let's increase the development of oil fields together, and then we won't be afraid of falling?"

Amy said and appeared next to her, Zheng Jianguo turned his head to look at her and smiled: "Director Amy is also concerned about the oil economy?"

"I'm concerned about you, congratulations, I went to your office and didn't find you, so I heard Catherine say you're here. ”

Handing out the magazine in her hand, Amy's gaze swept over Zheng Jianguo's unchanged face, and then said, "This is the first paper in your lab, remember to take them to celebrate." ”

"Okay, Director Amy, will you come too?"

Retracting his gaze from the catalog of the "Cell" magazine in his hand, Zheng Jianguo was not surprised by this result, this article on the comparison of Helicobacter on culture and biopsy, in his opinion, was original enough, but the professionalism was a bit lacking, but no one thought of it before: "It also reflects the center's attention to the laboratory." ”

"I didn't expect you to care about the hospital's attitude-"

Amy said and looked around, but as two doctors walked out of the elevator, she nodded and said, "Then don't run around during work hours-"

"Okay, I'll go back. ”

Seeing that Amy's voice had not fallen, Zheng Jianguo looked at the news on the TV again, and turned around with the magazine in his hand, and found that the little nurse in front of the appointment desk was looking at it, so he smiled and waved his hand and turned to leave, knowing that what he had done in the past two days was a bit too much, but fortunately, there were not many people who could say that he was on the side of the digestive center.

If it was in the emergency room, I'm afraid Pliny would have to say a couple of words.

After a few steps to the elevator, Zheng Jianguo picked up the magazine in his hand and looked at it, he didn't plan to tell anyone that this magazine was his own, after all, that would make people feel that this magazine was not authoritative enough, think about it, the research in your laboratory was sent to your magazine?

Just think about it to know what the consequences are.

"Zheng, Director Amy came to you before—"

Just entered the door of the laboratory, Catherine, who was talking to the two researchers about something, saw him, and quickly said hello, Zheng Jianguo nodded and said: "I've seen her, our last article was sent, you ask where they want to go at night?

"Really? You can go anywhere?"

The male researcher next to him subconsciously said, Zheng Jianguo's gaze moved from his face to Catherine's face, and the latter quickly glanced at the researcher and said, "Bedi, do you have any good suggestions?"

"There's a disco bar in the next block, and I heard them say it's very good, right across the street from the western restaurant—"

Bedi shrugged his shoulders and looked at Zheng Jianguo and said, the latter looked at Catherine noncommittally, and found that she was reading a magazine, so he said: "Then you go back and discuss, it's best to ask everyone's opinions-"

"Okay, then let's go back and discuss it, and tell you before we get off work in the afternoon. ”

Catherine withdrew her gaze from the magazine, she didn't expect Zheng Jianguo to put herself and Esther behind his name, and she couldn't help but feel a little excited in her heart, but with the appearance of this rare heartbeat, she also had other ideas: "This "Cell" magazine is not famous, if it is "The Lancet" or "New England Medicine"-"

Of course, when this thought came to her mind, Catherine was not idle, but when she returned to the laboratory to find Esther and tell her about it, she didn't seem surprised that the two appeared on the first author: "Well, Zheng is really a good person-"

"Is he a good guy?"

The thought flashed through her mind again, and Catherine felt that she could barely be considered a good person just because she didn't erase the efforts of the two of them: "Well, Zheng is not bad—"

Seeing that Catherine didn't notice her abnormality, Esther, who quickly adjusted her mentality, also found an opportunity before eating and walked into Zheng Jianguo's office: "Catherine also made a deal with you?"

"Deal? no—"

Zheng Jianguo thought that Esther was talking about the oil contract, but just looking at the other party's big eyes and the exaggerated white coat, he understood what she was talking about: "I won't deduct your contribution from this kind of article, but only the content of your respective responsibilities below will reflect the differences and differences-"

"I thought you'd give me what I was going to do - I didn't have anything in there. ”

Subconsciously said half a sentence, Esther's big eyes were bent into crescents, and her round goose egg face showed an ambiguous look, and then turned around and left: "Bedi wants to go to that disco bar, I remember you don't drink, so I ordered a big meal in the Western food ugly across the street from the emergency room, and you don't have to thank me considering that you are going to break the bank——"

"Okay—"

Speechless as he watched Esther's small back disappear, Zheng Jianguo couldn't help but itch his teeth, but considering that the other party could still remember that he didn't drink, he didn't take the cost of inviting all the laboratory staff to a big meal, although he threw all the proceeds and Yang Na's 50 million into the oil contract, but the fraction left in his bank card alone was several million.

Zheng Jianguo is a person who doesn't like to waste, and he doesn't like to treat himself badly, he usually doesn't go out to eat if he has nothing to do, if he wants to eat, he will eat in the fast food restaurant in the hospital, or the cross-bridge rice noodles on the edge of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Otherwise, if you really have to care, then you have to consider that even the cost of eating a fast food is enough for the whole family to spend in China for half a month, but Zheng Jianguo is not so hypocritical, so he ran to the western restaurant at noon to book a place, and he didn't want to go to work in the afternoon Not long after the phone on the table rang: "Zheng Jianguo, we will go to Boston in the evening, you wait for us at home, it's best-"

"Who are you?"

looked at the microphone and thought about the voice, Zheng Jianguo was stunned before asking such a sentence, the voice was standard Mandarin, and he couldn't hear the regional characteristics, but as he finished asking, he also had a little guess, and sure enough, the voice on the phone came hard: "Didn't Zhao Liangliang call you?"

"I've been a little busy lately, and I don't know if he called me, anyway, I didn't get it, who are you?"

Zheng Jianguo hadn't heard such tough words for a long time, but since the other party had mentioned Zhao Liangliang, he also had a few guesses, so he only heard this person continue to speak: "I am Cui Yu who replaced Zhao Liangliang, the third secretary of the embassy, I will accompany Tian Mi to visit you tonight, we will leave for the airport immediately, due to the busy itinerary arranged, it is best if you can come and pick us up——"

"I don't know when this research will be completed, since your schedule is so busy, don't come, and I don't have time to receive you. ”

Holding the phone and blinking, the reason why Zheng Jianguo let the other party say so much was because he was stunned before he reacted, and immediately after speaking, he listened to no movement over there, so he continued to speak: "Then so be it." ”

Hung up the phone with a click, but Zheng Jianguo didn't show a relaxed look on his face, but looked at the phone and thought that the other party would call soon, but he didn't expect that there would be no phone from the embassy until he got off work, so he watched Catherine, who was wearing a denim skirt, arrive at the door, and turned off the lights and walked out of the office: "Everyone is here, right?"

"When we arrived, we just did a culture experiment, and then came back after a big meal to observe. ”

Esther said with a smile, Zheng Jianguo also glanced at the seven or eight people behind her, and then at the five or six people behind Catherine, so he led a large army out of the digestive center, looked at the slanting sun that was still hitting the heat wave and said, "Let's go separately?"

"Those who have a car drive, those who ride a bicycle, boss, if you don't want to drive over first, I'll walk with them." ”

Esther looked left and right at the situation, some of these people went back directly after eating, and some came back after eating to continue working, so he said to Zheng Jianguo, who nodded and said: "Okay, I'll go to the front station first, and you guys walk slowly on the road to pay attention to safety." ”

"No problem~"

Catherine nodded in response, Zheng Jianguo went to the parking lot and drove his Plymouth car, forced himself out of the parking lot with the oven-like car, and drove to the door of the western restaurant, but he didn't expect to hear a voice next to him: "Drive such a broken car to eat in a high-end restaurant?"

Subconsciously glanced at the other party, and found that three or four young people wearing two-tendon vests looked at each other with unkind faces, but Zheng Jianguo didn't think about provoking the other party, but turned around and entered the restaurant, and vaguely heard someone behind him say: "Haha, timid yellow-skinned monkey-"

"Woo~Wow~"

"Sir, are you in any trouble?"

Inside the closed door of the Western restaurant, the waiter in long sleeves just asked, and Zheng Jianguo heard an alarm outside, so he subconsciously said and turned to look: "No, a group of hormones are on it-"

"Well, the police are coming—"

Zheng Jianguo's words were only half a sentence, and he and the waiter saw a police car parked in front of those young people, and as the door opened, the female policeman in the driver's seat got out of the car, and found that Yuna looked at the door of the restaurant and walked towards a few people, and a speechless male policeman O'Briel came out of the co-pilot, and he realized that he had forgotten his name.

"Yuna is looking for trouble with these people?"

Seeing Yuna walking directly towards a few people, Zheng Jianguo's brows immediately furrowed, and it was only with the thought that came to his mind, not wanting that one of the young people reached the back of his hand, he was stunned: "It's not good-"

"Hands up!"

Just when Zheng Jianguo blurted out, Yuna, who was already close to several people outside the door, also saw this person's movements, and immediately reached out and pointed at the other party, and at the same time opened his mouth and scolded loudly: "Raise your hands, hurry up, hurry up and raise your hands, I'm going to shoot!"

"Oh, Shet!"

The young man who reached the back of his hand quickly raised his hand, and then Yuna raised the gun in her hand again, glanced at O'Briel who had already arrived next to her, and said: "Squat down and lie on the ground with your head in your hands, hurry up, lie on the ground!"

“OK，OK~”

Finding that the companions next to him had already squatted down with their heads in their hands as requested by the police, the young man had to squat down in front of the muzzle of the black hole, shaking his head and cursing in his mouth: "This is over, this is over, I still have goods on me that have not been handed over——"

"What's that?"

O'Brier, who had been approaching quickly, raised his hand next to several people, and then handcuffed it in pairs, and at this time Yuna had already reached out to the side and threw his handcuffs to him, so he handcuffed the four of them together, and then reached out to the young man's lower back, not wanting to find the bag in the pocket behind his buttocks: "Oh, Shet-"

"Is this a one-of-a-kind product?"

Yuna, who was holding the gun, had a dull face, but she originally asked this subconsciously, but she didn't expect that the young man who was pressed to the ground by O'Briel had already said with a crying face: "You all know, you already knew, you are ambushed here, it's not my responsibility, you must know about this deal-"