At four o'clock in the morning of Middle East time, in the presidential palace in Badina, the capital of Iraq, Iraqi Acting President Majid hurriedly walked through the corridor and finally came to the door of Zhou Ming's room.

Majid was taken aback by Zhang Lin who suddenly appeared, but he immediately reacted and said, "This Zhang Lin ...... Hello comrade, I'm Majid, I think you should know me, I'm looking for Mr. Zhou Ming, I have something important to report to him. ”

Majid speaks English, and Zhang Lin has been with Zhou Ming in the United States for so long, so he can naturally speak English proficiently, so he said: "Is it about the Desert Tiger Infantry Regiment?"

Majid nodded hurriedly: "That's right, just now, good news came from Basra, saying that in the Battle of Gubar, the Desert Tiger Infantry Regiment was completely annihilated!"

When he said this, Majid was so excited that his whole body trembled, but Zhang Lin over there had no expression at all, just replied coldly: "I know, I'll report to Mr. Zhou Ming, and ask the acting president to wait here for a while." ”

After saying that, Zhang Lin closed the door and went back to report the situation to Zhou Ming, and locked Majid outside, which made Majid dumbfounded at that time, what is the situation? He is the acting president of Iraq, and although he has not yet reached the height of Salm, he is also the first person in Iraq now, so how can he still be locked out of the door? Majid knew that Zhang Lin did not mean it, but his unintentional mistake made him mad even more than intentionally.

The reason is very simple, this is that they did not take him, the acting president of Iraq, seriously, but what made him feel devastated was that because the situation in Iraq was still in Zhou Ming's hands, he could only smile at Zhou Ming.

This feeling has already made Majid a little suspicious of life, whether he is under his feet now, or not Iraq, and he is still not the acting president of this country, how can he feel that the one in it is the real ruler.

After a while, the door of the room was opened again, and Majid was invited in, and saw Zhou Ming standing in the living room in a nightgown, and when he saw Majid come in, he smiled and invited him to come in and sit down. Majid stepped forward to shake hands with Zhou Ming in a sincere panic, and was about to say something, but Zhou Ming said first: "Don't be so anxious, let's sit down first, no matter what, you can talk slowly." ”

Saying that, Zhou Ming took Majid to sit down together, and then Zhou Ming asked him: "Can you come to me so late, if I guess correctly, it should be good news from the front, right?"

Majid nodded and said: "That's right, everything is the same as your initial deployment, the Qian army launched a battalion in Awali, and then went north with 20,000 prisoners of war, General Zou Yue cooperated with the prisoner of war army in Basra to attack, and wiped out the American Desert Tiger Infantry Regiment that retreated to Gubar!"

Zhou Ming raised his eyebrows: "This is really good news, with this victory, you can rest assured that President Majid is acting on the throne, then the next thing you have to do is to announce this news to the world." ”

Majid said that he would do it immediately, Zhou Ming then praised him a few words Majid got up and left, when the door of Zhou Ming's room was closed, Majid suddenly thought that his performance just now was simply the performance of his subordinates facing his superiors, but what Majid didn't understand was that he obviously didn't have such a performance in the face of Salm, how could he treat Zhou Ming like this, as if he had some unusual temperament.

Majid didn't delve into this question, he just sighed helplessly, and then went about his business.

Then, about a quarter of an hour later, Iraq's spokesman announced Iraq's victory to the world, and the news shocked the world as it spread through the media.

In the United States, the most influential New York Post commented: this is a conspiracy to be achieved through surrender. Iraq is a liar, they deceived the US military through the surrender of 200,000 people, successfully infiltrated the rear of the US army, and broke out of the rebellion last night, snatching guns from the US army's armory and stabbing the Desert Tiger Infantry Regiment in the back.

As the most loyal ally of the United States, the British Times commented mercilessly: the Iraqi army is a perfidious and despicable villain, and the desert tigers, no matter how brave they are, can never defeat the knife from behind.

Compared with Britain and the United States, AFP's commentary is much more pertinent: No matter what method is used, the Iraqi army slapped the proud Americans in the face through the first battle of Gubar, telling the Americans that they are the masters of the Middle East, and although the US planes can be unscrupulous in the skies over Iraq, when they return to the ground, Iraq will not stand still.

In the Arab world, their newspapers were vaguely ecstatic: it was a near-miraculous victory, and Iraq had finally won its first victory since the war began, thanks to its resilience and ingenuity, despite the fact that they had already been defeated on all fronts.

While the world was amazed at this incredible victory, the market reacted most faithfully: the price of crude oil futures rose wildly all over the world.

The news of the US failure spread around the world at the same time as the Singapore Futures Exchange began trading, but within an hour of the opening of the market, the price of sour crude oil futures from the Middle East rose by more than 20 percent. Countless investment hotdies are desperately buying up any oil futures contract they can see, and even on the black market, the price of oil futures contracts has risen by more than 40 percent.

New York, as a global financial and futures trading center, naturally cannot remain indifferent to such a big event.

Although it was still midnight in New York due to the time difference when the news of the annihilation of the Desert Tiger Infantry Regiment spread around the world, countless investors still gathered in front of the New York Mercantile Futures Exchange.

This is very incredible, you must know that according to the current regulations, the New York Mercantile Exchange implements an alternate trading system of on-exchange trading from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the day, and over-the-counter trading from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next morning, so when the Cubal fiasco happened, the New York Mercantile Exchange was not open for trading, but these investors still gathered here.

The reason is very simple, in terms of the network conditions of this era, over-the-counter trading is too restrictive, and the transaction cannot be completed in real time, and at the same time, shady transactions will be derived for various reasons, and not every investor has a computer, so more people would rather come to the door of the exchange and wait, and wait until the futures market opens to strive to be the first to rush in to buy crude oil futures contracts.

The big outdoor screen on the New York Mercantile Futures Exchange is also playing a news temporarily broadcast by New York Finance and Economics at this moment: Due to the defeat of the Desert Tiger in Cuba, it is foreseeable that Iraq still has the strength to defend and even counterattack, so that the time of the Gulf War will be extended indefinitely, and the international crude oil futures price will re-enter the trend of rapid growth after a period of decline, according to the commentators of this station, this time the growth may be more violent than before, and it is even possible to break through the 70 US dollar mark。

With the sonorous voice of the news host, the crowd in the square in front of the exchange was in an uproar.

"Conspiracy, this must be a perfect drama performed by the federal government and Iraq, the purpose is to push up oil prices again, it is said that the Walsh family is behind the oil consortium, so he launched this Gulf War and now the Cuban fiasco, all for the benefit of oil!"

I don't know who shouted in the square, and it immediately attracted countless approvals from the surrounding area: "That's right, the federal government is the lackey of those conglomerates, and they can sell their souls for profit! The undead of the American army who died on the battlefield of Gubar, please open your eyes and look at this ugly world, you are all just poor people betrayed by politicians and capitalists, go and kill them all!"

While these investors were scolding in the square, in the White Mountain Forest Manor north of Brighton, the patriarch of the Addams family, Christo, was also scolding angrily: "Bastards! Walsh and Normandy are the stupidest idiots in the whole world! I have already told them that Zhou Ming, a Chinese man, will definitely be the biggest hidden danger in this war, and if he is not successfully intercepted, he must be worried all the time, why does no one listen and no one believes him?"

At this moment he was sitting in his study, holding a special telephone in his hand, and on the other end of the phone was Karl, the patriarch of the Rockefeller family.

After listening to Christo's angry scolding, Karl also said: "No wonder since noon, the Tang family and the Kendini family have been desperately buying crude oil futures contracts, it turns out that they have long expected that Zhou Ming will bring them such a victory in Iraq? Although I believe this is the truth, it is also a little ridiculous." ”

"So those people are unreasonable lunatic!" Christo thought for a moment and said, "Hey Carl, do you think that Walsh guy would have done something too?"

"Do you think he deliberately orchestrated this Cubar fiasco? My friend, your imagination seems to have been a little too rich. Carl said.

Christo insisted: "Carl, don't forget, his family is also very related to oil, so even if he didn't plan it directly, he would at least connive at it, otherwise how could 50,000 prisoners of war be placed in a sensitive place like Awali, and why did the Desert Tiger Infantry Regiment retreat 20 kilometers a day? Isn't this all creating conditions for the Iraqi army?"

"My friend, I think you should be sensible now, and don't get too pushy, or you'll drive yourself crazy. ”

"And for us, it's not necessarily a bad thing for us that oil prices continue to climb right now," Carr advised. ”

Christo was surprised and asked why, and Karl replied: "It's very simple, because the root of our Rockefeller consortium is oil, and I am the one who holds the most oil, although I sold a lot of oil at the highest point before, but I still have a lot of futures contracts in my hands, and it is nothing to take this opportunity to sell some more." ”

This proposal made Christo's eyes light up: "Okay Carl, this time I will act with you, although our Addams family did not start with oil, but through this Gulf War, we also have a lot of oil, I will throw it!"

"Looks like you don't want to miss any chance to withdraw your earnings. Karl laughed.

"Of course. Christo continued, "That damn Zhou Ming, I will use practical actions to tell him who is in control of the oil, this futures market, not his little cleverness can be played, in the face of our absolute strength, his cleverness can only provide us with benefits!"