On Wednesday, August 1, 90, Wharton Insurance Company welcomed several special guests, at seven o'clock in the morning, Tong Gang Li Chengcheng hurried to the company, but Zhou Ming had already waited here, and at the same time waited here with Zhou Ming, in addition to Lin Muqing, there was also a Northern Russian, his name is Ilbedov, the richest man in North Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, controlling the United Bank and automobile companies in North Russia.

Ilbedov was also called to Brighton by Zhou Ming, after all, he has a trillion yuan of capital in his hands, and in the face of the Gulf War that will inevitably break out this time, wouldn't it be too stupid to invest only a few hundred million yuan in it and let other money rust in the bank? Therefore, Zhou Ming must mobilize as much capital as he can control, even if there may be an accident this time, and Ilbedov is sent by Karelina as a representative of himself and the financial oligarchs of North Russia.

Zhou Ming saw that Tong Gang and Li Cheng had arrived, and immediately got up to greet him: "Chairman Tong, Brother Li, you are here, this is Mr. Ilbedov from North Russia, he has been in Brighton for more than a week, I believe there is no need for me to introduce him more." ”

Indeed, Ilbedov arrived at Brighton very early, which Zhou Ming requested, for the simple reason that he was afraid that the situation in the Gulf would change.

Zhou Ming is no longer an ordinary person before he was reborn, he knows that the Gulf War is not an accident, but a war controlled by overseas capital, especially one of the controllers is the Brighton consortium.

Now that he has offended the core members of the Addams family, he also asks Caitlin, the implementer of the Gulf Plan, to take revenge on him, although Zhou Ming does not believe that the Brighton consortium will change such an important plan at will because of the love and hatred of a naïve child, and at the same time, Caitlin is also unwilling to help him out of his own self-esteem, but Zhou Ming still can't put the treasure on their IQ, what if there is an accident?

No matter how impossible this thing is, there is no need for Zhou Ming to gamble, and besides, there is nothing wrong with preparing early.

In this way, Zhou Ming called Irbedov from North Russia a week ago, Karelina was originally going to come together, but Zhou Ming thought that the situation on the North Russian side had not yet been decided, and Lin Muqing was here, if Karelina came over again, if something went wrong, she would be unlucky in the end, so Zhou Ming had to ask her not to come over first, or the matter on the North Russian side was more important.

However, it turns out that a small probability event is always a small probability event, and a person's personality and IQ will never affect most people, especially when the person is not in power.

During the week that Ilberdov came to Brighton, nothing unfavorable happened in the Gulf except for Iraq's continued border deployment and pressure on Kuwait, and negotiations continued, with the active mediation of the United States and the Arab League, and negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait also continuing, and all stories were happening on the right track until July 30.

Originally, after a week of worrying, it finally came to the critical moment, and it stands to reason that Zhou Ming could relax his mood, but Zhou Ming did not have this idea, but instead tensed his nerves.

Tong Gang came over and nodded and smiled to Ilbedov to say hello, and then asked Zhou Ming directly: "Little brother Zhou Ming, did you call us over so early today?"

In the past week, the contract between Zhou Ming and Tong Gang and Li Cheng has also been signed, although the terms given by Tong Gang and Li Cheng to Zhou Ming are still very loose, but compared to before, the current contract is already very strict, at least there are no ambiguous clauses, and all the terms that may cause disagreements have been explained, and now this contract is that Allen's lawyer can't find any problems.

For Tong Gang's question, Zhou Ming did not answer directly, but pressed the remote control in his hand a few times, Tong Gang and Li Cheng found that a large color TV was placed on the desk in the office, and the volume of the TV gradually increased with Zhou Ming's control.

"Good morning, viewers, thank you very much for watching the news on time, according to the latest news received by this station this morning, at 4 p.m. Kuwait time, the fourth round of negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait on the border issue was declared a failure, and the US special envoy expressed regret for this, and said that the United States will continue to actively follow the situation in the Gulf......

Listening to the news broadcast by the beautiful female announcer on TV with her beautiful voice, Tong Gang and Li Chengdu frowned, obviously remembering something, Li Cheng turned his head and asked: "Little brother Zhou Ming, you are showing us this news, do you want to say that the negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait have failed, and the Gulf War will break out soon?"

Zhou Ming nodded yes, and Li Cheng said: "But don't you think this is a bit too hasty? Do you think that Iraq will start a war as soon as the negotiations break down?"

"If this is in another country, or if the Iraqi system is not a dictate of the president, I would believe that even if Iraq were to retaliate against Kuwait with war, the war would not start immediately, but for Iraq now, it is very possible. Zhou Ming added, "Especially when all this is still being manipulated by capital." ”

Li Cheng wanted to ask something, but this time Tong Gang asked first: "Then little brother Zhou Ming, when do you think the war will break out?

"As a country that has only ended eight years of war, they have a lot of combat experience, and if my estimate is correct, they will attack at one o'clock in the morning when people are most tired, that is, around five o'clock in the afternoon in Brighton, just today!" Zhou Ming said with great certainty.

"So we're going to enter the futures market right now, short all crude oil futures, and wait for a war that could break out at any time, right?" Tong Gang asked.

Regarding the answer to this question, Tong Gang and Li Chengdu thought that Zhou Ming would only nod, but they didn't expect that Zhou Ming actually gave another answer that they couldn't imagine.

"There will be some foreplay before every big drama, so I believe that the Gulf plan is the same, so I don't think that a single breakdown of negotiations will cause a big shock in the international crude oil futures market, and even for some reasons, I think that the international crude oil price may have some rise. Zhou Ming replied.

This answer shocked Tong Gang and Li Chengcheng, and they subconsciously set their eyes on Lin Muqing, the chairman of the fund company, Lin Muqing smiled and nodded to them, and they remembered the relationship between Lin Muqing and Zhou Ming.

Should they be trusted?

This is what Tong Gang and Li Cheng thought in their hearts, this is not out of any distrust, because if they don't trust, they will directly reject Zhou Ming's idea, and they will not have such doubts;

However, at this time, whether it was Tong Gang and Li Cheng, who were confused, or Lin Muqing, who unconditionally supported Zhou Ming, they did not expect that in a castle-like villa north of Brighton, another thing was happening.

This villa is the property of the Addams family, and Caitlin, the royal princess of Harusburg, is directing the Bay Project in the study, although this room is called the study, but in fact the area here is quite large, the size of half a basketball court, but now this room has bookshelves and several tables, which fills the whole room.

Caitlin sat under the windowsill, the sun shining in behind her, setting her like a proud empress, on the table in front of her were several special line telephones and an up-to-date LCD television that had not yet been sold in the laboratory, with the news playing, and on the other tables in the room was a group of busy accountants.

The only thing that was very discordant in the whole room was Robert Adams, who was still sitting in the doorway yawning and cursing all day long.

"Damn, if I had to get up so early, wouldn't I have slowed down the Iraqi pigs?" Robert muttered.

Caitlin frowned disapprovingly, but said nothing in the end, knowing full well that nothing she said would be useful.

At seven o'clock in the morning, when the news about the breakdown of the negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait came out on the LCD TV, Robert immediately jumped up for joy, and he said to Caitlin: "Dear Princess Lady Harusburg, now that the most important news has come out, we can start acting immediately, right? Give that Chinese a little unexpected foresight, let him lose a lot of money!"

Caitlin's brow furrowed even deeper, and she felt as if she hadn't had a day since she arrived in Brighton, especially now that she had to deal with such a naïve person as Robert.

Caitlyn didn't get angry, she just took a deep breath to calm down and asked, "Robert......, are you sure you want to do this?"

Before Caitlyn could finish her words, she was interrupted by Robert very savagely: "I said Miss Caitlin, you don't think that if I call you a princess, you will really become a princess, right?"

Robert smiled very contemptuously and then said to Caitlyn, "My Royal Highness, do you know that my surname is Adams, and I am the direct heir of the family, and I also have control over the Gulf Project. ”

"And," said Robert, pointing at Caitlyn, "don't warn me about my father, for this is a thing that I hate the most, unless you want to annoy me." I can tell you that I'm a very impulsive person, and if you do make me angry, I can't guarantee that I'll do anything, even if your royal family still exists. ”

In the face of Robert's aggressive words, Caitlin did not say a word, she felt very aggrieved, but even so, she still clenched her silver teeth to prevent herself from crying.

Robert looked at Caitlyn like this and laughed happily: "Why are you so unconvinced? Then you can come and beat me and scold me, and you can hack me to death with a knife, but you don't think about what will happen to your father, your mother, your siblings, and your family." ”

"Don't threaten me with these words all the time!" Caitlyn exclaimed.

Robert was taken aback by Caitlin's sudden outburst, and then he felt that he was embarrassed in front of the woman, and quickly took two steps forward and slapped her table, and scolded angrily: "Don't yell in front of me, hurry up and do your thing, I'm not your fiancé, I don't care what you think, I just want to tell you, if you don't do the task I gave you, I will definitely be angry, I promise." ”

Caitlyn almost gritted her silver teeth, she closed her eyes and took several deep breaths before finally compromising and said, "I see, I'll do it." ”

"That's right, you said it would be nice if you cooperated like this earlier?"

Robert said satisfied, and reached out to pat Catelyn's delicate little face, but Catelyn raised her hand to open it.

Caitlin looked at Robert with an angry face without fear, and said word by word: "I still want to tell you that I am the proud princess of Harusburg, not your retainer, and I will do the same today, but I will also record all of them in my work log, if there are any other problems, it has nothing to do with me." ”