Chapter Eighty-Five: Not an Obstacle, It's a Help
Amid the whistle of sirens, 10 cash trucks, escorted by a team of police cars, drove straight through Grad Avenue to the securities company.
People on the street stared at this scene, although today is the first day of the mandatory replacement of the new ruble, and there are many cash trucks going back and forth on the road in the morning, but as the day passes, all the banks designated to exchange huàn have also prepared enough new rubles, even if there is a gap, it will only be a small part, where will there be so many cash trucks speeding on the road?
After hearing Zhou Ming say that North Russian President Nikolavich might bring resistance to their plans, the new richest man in North Russia could not sit still, and he immediately loaded the old rubles prepared by Zhou Ming in the Cherv market into the car as quickly as possible, and then set off towards the securities company.
Li Cheng and Tong Gang sat in an Volga car in the middle of the convoy, Tong Gang took out a pocket watch and looked at it, he was born in the old society, which is also a habit he brought over decades ago, and it has not changed now.
"It's less than half an hour, this action is really fast, or Li Cheng, your vision is accurate, Zhou Ming has an unusual sensitivity to see things. Tong Gang said to Li Cheng that his eyes were always looking ahead when he spoke, because the car in which Zhou Ming and Ilbedov were sitting was right in front of them.
Li Cheng also nodded and said: "The most important thing is that he can make decisions in a very short period of time and dare to trust his own judgment, if it weren't for this, this one by one would not be the miracle he created." ”
Li Cheng's tone was quite emotional, because when he said this, he remembered Zhou Ming's analysis and judgment of this matter before this matter.
Forcing the exchange of the new ruble and setting up a quota barrier to the exchange of the new ruble may seem like a drain on our salary, but in fact it is the best chance for us!
This is what Zhou Ming said after they left the Mlin Palace, which made Li Cheng and Tong Gang stunned at that time, they didn't understand how Zhou Ming could make such a judgment, but then Zhou Ming explained to them that this was because Crisco was a big city, and the Republic of North Russia was a big country, and it was impossible to change all the rubles in a few days, so as long as it couldn't be exchanged completely, there was a lot of room for maneuver.
Li Cheng and Tong Gang are both excellent businessmen who crisscross the port city and even the world, and after Zhou Ming's reminder, they immediately reacted.
Indeed, when the old and new currencies are replaced, it is often also the time when speculative interests are maximized, because not everyone has the opportunity to go to the official designated place to exchange huàn according to the official exchange rate, and not everyone knows what the exchange rate is, and some people don't even know where to exchange huàn, and they will simply think that the money in their hands is going to be invalidated. This has been proven countless times around the world.
"If the North Russian government doesn't set up obstacles and doesn't limit the time for redemption, then we won't be in a hurry, the old ruble can still be used anyway, and if we set these up, we still have a lot of opportunities. ”
Zhou Ming said so at the time, and later Li Cheng thought that Zhou Ming would go to the black market in North Russia, but Zhou Ming thought that it was too slow, so he wanted to go directly to the foreign exchange market, find a way to sell the old ruble from the securities company, exchange the old ruble into other countries' currencies, and then buy the new ruble from the capital market, so that he could directly skip the obstacle set up by the North Russian government.
The only goal of this approach is to have the cooperation of the securities company, and coincidentally, one of the heads of the securities company is Ilbedov, who is the majority shareholder of the Union Bank.
Even ordinary people who don't understand capital understand that money must be moved to become more and more, and now that Zhou Ming and they have such a large amount of currency trade, how could Ilbedov, as a banker, not be tempted?
Later, the development of events was as Zhou Ming expected, and after listening to Zhou Ming's thoughts, Ilbedov immediately agreed, saying that he would definitely support him to the end, not only him, but the entire Northern Russian merchant alliance of Kristol would also support him, and then on the first day of the new ruble replacement, Ilbedov hurried to the Cherv market with his cash truck.
When Li Cheng and Tong Gang came back to their senses, the convoy had already arrived at the door of the securities company, but their expressions did not look relaxed, but frowned, just because the entrance of the securities company had been surrounded by police cars.
What's going on?
Li Cheng and Tong Gang looked at each other, and in front of them, Zhou Ming and Ilbedov had already stepped out of the car, and they could only get out of the car together.
"I'm the person in charge of a securities company, who can tell me what's going on here? Why are you surrounding my securities company for no reason?"
Ilbedov came forward to find the theory of the police who surrounded the place, but the police chief did not answer him, it was not the arrogance of the police chief, but the presence of higher-ranking officials here. I saw a fifty-year-old middle-aged man come out and say, "Hello Mr. Ilbedov and Mr. Zhou Ming, I am very presumptuous to wait for you here, please don't talk yet, let's go to the securities company together." ”
Zhou Ming recognized this person's identity at a glance: "Hello Director Kasia, is Mr. President inside?"
This middle-aged man was none other than Kasya, the chief of staff of the President of the Northern Russian Republic, who nodded and said to Zhou Ming: "Yes, Mr. Zhou Ming, please go in and a few gentlemen, Mr. President has something very important to say to you." ”
Ilbedov was a little stunned and asked, "Director Kasia, are you saying that Mr. President is waiting for us here?"
Kasia just smiled at this and didn't speak, and compared to Ilbedov, Zhou Ming nodded and said, "Okay, let's go in with you." ”
Kasia asked the police to get out of the way, and Zhou Ming walked in with Li Chengtong and Ilbedov.
North Russian President Nikolavich did not hide much, but stood in the trading floor of the securities company, although the trading hall has been emptied at the moment, but the big screen above his head is still not turned off, and the president is standing there looking up at the last information on it.
Kasia walked over and reported to him, Nikolavich retracted his gaze, he turned around and walked over to Zhou Ming, patted Ilbedov on the shoulder and said to him: "Our capital market has been established for a very short time, but you have achieved what you have achieved now, it is really not easy. ”
In the face of Nikolavich's encouragement, Ilbedov hurriedly said: "Mr. President has won the award, this is what I should do, and I have lived up to Mr. President's high expectations for me." ”
Nikolavich then looked at Zhou Ming, his eyes became complicated, and he sighed and said after a long time: "Mr. Zhou Ming, you still have such ideas, if I am not mistaken, you came to the securities company this time to convert all the old rubles in your hands into foreign currencies through the capital market, and then into new rubles through the capital market, right?"
Nikolavich's words made Li Cheng and Tong Gang who followed up stunned, they didn't expect Nikolavich to know about this, so the purpose of his coming here now is about to come out.
This kind of thought made Li Cheng and Tong Gang feel a little annoyed, although coming to the securities company is not the only way for them to get rid of the old ruble and exchange it for a new ruble, but it is the fastest and most efficient way, if it is blocked by Nikolavich like this, it is really annoying.
Zhou Ming spread his hands and said: "With Mr. President, you are here, no matter how good your ideas are, why are you here to prohibit me from doing foreign exchange trading this time?"
Zhou Ming's words made Li Cheng and Tong Gang silently give him a thumbs up in their hearts, because Zhou Ming's words sounded fine, but in fact they were hidden knives, because if Nikolavich nodded, then his practice of targeting a certain businessman would be a huge scandal for the entire North Russian Republic once it was exposed, and it would also become a laughing stock of other countries.
Therefore, Nikolavich can never say it, but if you shake your head, it is not to restrict Zhou Ming's trading, then what is the North Russian president doing here?
Nikolavich is not an idiot, he has been prepared for this, he replied to Zhou Ming: "Of course not, what we advocate in the Republic of North Russia is free trading, but now our capital market is not perfect, and we need to suspend business for a period of time, I know that Mr. Zhou Ming is a very powerful international financier, so please wait patiently for a while, okay?"
"Of course, like you, Mr. President, I would prefer to see a well-established North Russian Republic. Zhou Ming said.
Faced with Zhou Ming's relaxed answer, Nikolavich suddenly felt a little uneasy, but he couldn't imagine where this uneasiness came from, so he had to finally say: "Since Mr. Zhou Ming is so reasonable, it is very good." As for me, I admire Mr. Zhou Ming very much for an international businessman like you, as compensation for the closure of the securities company, I can give your Cherf market more policy support, what do you think?"
"That's great, on behalf of all the Chinese merchants in Cherf Market, thank you, Mr. President. Zhou Ming said.
"This is my responsibility as the president of North Russia. ”
Nikolavich left with such a sentence, and after Nikolavich left, Ilbedov came over and said to Zhou Ming angrily: "Mr. Zhou Ming, your judgment is accurate, Mr. President is really here, today's matter can only be done, but I can help Mr. Zhou Ming you contact the black market to improve the efficiency of the intermediate links as much as possible." ”
"I don't think the same way as you, Mr. Ilbedov. ”
Zhou Ming said something surprising: "I think that our Mr. President came to close this place today, which is the greatest help to me." ”