At ten o'clock in the morning on May 27, a Buick sedan drove to the Fenway District Court, Zhou Ming and lawyer Allen got out of the car, and they came to a simple room, which only had the judge's clerk and the defendant's dock, which was actually a simple courtroom used to judge those cases that did not need to go through a complex trial, and in fact many simple civil or criminal cases were decided in this kind of courtroom.

The reason why Zhou Ming is here today is not because he was sued by anyone, but because of a public prosecution ruling, which is a ruling on Wharton's sell-off.

Just yesterday afternoon, Zhou Ming received a summons from the court, explaining the situation and asking him to attend the verdict on time at 10 o'clock this morning, so early this morning, Zhou Ming called lawyer Allen over and asked him to attend the trial with him.

In fact, for Zhou Ming, it is not surprising that he will have such a judgment, because his selling behavior is indeed very much like speculation, but what makes Zhou Ming feel strange is that this judgment came too late, as if he was a little hindsight. Could it be that Old Brooke was busy with something, so he was only a day late to get the news?

Zhou Ming thought so in his heart.

"Mr. Zhou Ming, is that right? The court found that your Wharton Insurance Company had a large-scale sell-off of stocks and bonds on May 26, and the court considered that such a move might be speculative, so the court ordered Wharton to immediately stop the sell-off and accept the investigation of the Financial Supervisory Commission, and further judgment will continue after the results of the investigation. ”

The judge said and handed a document to Zhou Ming: "This is the court's verdict, if you are dissatisfied with this judgment, you can appeal to the higher court afterwards, but you do not accept any objections, please sign it." ”

Zhou Ming took the verdict and handed it to his lawyer Allen, who quickly read it and returned the verdict to Zhou Ming and nodded to him, and Zhou Ming signed the verdict.

The judge took back the verdict, stamped it on it, and gave Zhou Ming a copy, he glanced at his watch and said: "Now the time is a quarter past ten, the judgment will take effect at half past eleven, and the court will give you an hour to stop all the company's selling." ”

Zhou Ming got up and thanked him, then left the courtroom, and returned to the dormitory a quarter of an hour later, after all, the selling continued before the verdict came into effect, and the dormitory had more computers than the company, so the students in the finance class were more accustomed to working in the dormitory.

Opening the door of the dormitory, all the students in the finance class subconsciously looked at the door, they all knew that Zhou Ming was going to the court, and they were all waiting for the answer that Zhou Ming brought back.

Zhou Ming held up the verdict and said: "The court's verdict is that we must immediately stop all selling, but the verdict will take effect at half past eleven, that is, from now on, you still have an hour, and after an hour, no matter what the result is, you must stop all selling, have you heard my words clearly?"

With Zhou Ming's words, there was a cheer in the dormitory, and Li Yang said to Zhou Ming with a smile: "Teacher, there is still one hour, enough for us to complete the task!"

Zhou Ming also smiled, and he said to Li Yang: "It's easy to say, I'll say it in front, although the next time is urgent, but you are not allowed to lower the requirements, you must complete the task on the basis of ensuring the loss rate, you know? After an hour, no more activities are allowed in any case, you know? For this reason, I will personally control all the accounts and funds, Li Yang, if you can't finish it by then, don't blame me for letting you be a convenience store owner for life." ”

Zhou Ming's words made Li Yang jump all of a sudden, obviously Li Yang is ambitious, his ambition is in the capital market, and he doesn't want to be a convenience store owner for a lifetime.

Seeing that the students in the finance class were all busy, Zhou Ming breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the sofa, Zhou Ming just said that not to scare them, but to do so, because he is in the United States, a country where the law is supreme, don't look at the court's judgment is a thin piece of paper, but every word on it is heavier than Mount Tai.

You can appeal the judgment to a higher court, but you must enforce the judgment before a new judgment is handed down, and failure to do so is contempt of court, which is a very serious crime in the United States.

You must know that someone was sentenced to half a year's imprisonment for contempt of court just by yawning when he heard the verdict, and his refusal to carry out the sentence would obviously only get worse, not to mention that there was an old Brooke behind the scenes, so it was better for him to be honest, and most importantly, didn't the court give him an hour to prepare? As Li Yang said, this time was enough.

Allen also sat down on the sofa, he first gave Zhou Ming a thumbs up, expressed his appreciation for Zhou Ming's leadership, and then said: "Mr. Zhou Ming, please forgive me, in order to avoid possible accidents, it is better to end the selling activity at 11:20 or 25, after all, if it is exactly half past eleven, it is easy to cause unforeseen consequences. ”

Zhou Ming nodded: "Lawyer Allen, don't worry, I will control the time." ”

But in fact, it didn't take an hour at all, only twenty minutes, and some classmates began to complete the selling task, and after forty minutes, everyone completed the selling task, and Zhou Ming stopped the operation of the account and assets. An hour later, after a quick calculation by Ye Ning and several classmates, the result of today's sell-off loss rate was 10.06 percentage points.

Hearing this result, Allen said that he was a little surprised, although Allen is not engaged in finance, he also understands that the loss of this temporary sell-off is very high, but the students in the finance class are a little frustrated, because their original goal is to be pressed below ten percentage points.

Looking at the annoyed expressions of his classmates, Zhou Ming smiled: "How is it? Usually you are all very powerful, now you know that doing things is not as simple as talking, right?"

All the students lowered their heads, but then Zhou Ming said: "But in general, your results are still very positive, you cashed out 60 million US dollars in two days, and the loss rate is maintained at 10 percentage points, compared to other financial and non-financial institutions, this is a great achievement, for this as a reward, I will tell you my next plans." ”

Zhou Ming's words immediately attracted the attention of all the students in the finance class, and everyone looked up at Zhou Ming with wide eyes, because this was exactly what they had been looking forward to.

However, Zhou Ming did not directly announce the answer, but asked them first: "Let me ask you a question, does anyone know about the bay, has anyone paid attention to the situation there?"

Regarding this question, Chen Shu, Ye Ning and Huang Ping first raised their hands, and finally Chen Shu and Huang Ping both signaled to let Ye Ning say first, and Ye Ning replied unyieldingly: "Teacher, I know that the Gulf is the Persian Gulf in the Middle East, which is currently the most important oil producing area in the world, and the current situation there is that Iraq and Kuwait have great differences on oil production and border issues, and are negotiating under the mediation of the international community. ”

Zhou Ming nodded and said, "It seems that you have really understood, and the situation there is indeed like this, so do you know what investment opportunities there are now?"

Ye Ning shook his head blankly, Zhou Ming turned his gaze to Chen Shu, and he replied: "Teacher, I think the most important investment in the Gulf region is oil, and we can invest in oil futures in the international market, but according to the current situation in the Gulf, unless a war breaks out, I don't think the price of crude oil futures in the international market will change greatly." ”

"Then you don't think there will be a war over there, do you?" asked Zhou Ming.

Chen Shu nodded and said: "Yes, after all, Iraq has just ended the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, owes a lot of foreign debts, and the international community is also actively mediating, Iraq is facing a lot of pressure, so I don't think war will break out." ”

After Chen Shu finished speaking, Ye Ning asked, "But teacher, your judgment is that war will break out?"

"Yes, I think Iraq will fight this battle, and it will most likely be in late July or early August. Zhou Ming said very firmly, "Of course, I will make this judgment not because I am a roundworm in Saddam's stomach, but based on my judgment of the situation." ”

"It has been said in the political textbooks of junior high schools in China that war is the best way to transfer internal contradictions, and a large amount of foreign debts, domestic sectarian and ethnic contradictions, and Saddam's dictatorship have all caused Iraq to be full of domestic contradictions, and to solve all this, a war is needed. ”

Zhou Ming then said to everyone: "Regardless of whether there will be a war in the end, the Middle East is a powder keg, and oil is the most important strategic resource in the world, so your next task is to pay attention to the situation in the Middle East at any time, I will assign a futures account to each of you, you can first try to buy international crude oil futures, understand the intermediate operation process, and wait for the outbreak of war, the big changes in international crude oil futures prices." ”

All the students in the finance class applauded happily, and then Zhou Ming let them move freely, only Ye Ning found Zhou Ming alone and said to him: "Teacher, go find Teacher Zyra, I believe she must have important news about the situation in the Gulf." ”

Zhou Ming was stunned for a moment, he knew that Ye Ning must have made a very big determination to say this to himself, because Ye Ning has always regarded Jie La as a rival in love, so now he wants to let his favorite person find his rival in love, which is tantamount to the most painful choice for a woman.

Zhou Ming thought so, then took Ye Ning's hand and said to her, "Thank you very much, I have wronged you." ”

With Zhou Ming's words, Ye Ning's tears immediately flowed out of her eyes, but because this was in the dormitory hall and there were so many classmates watching, Ye Ning didn't immediately throw herself into Zhou Ming's arms and cry.

After comforting Ye Ning, Zhou Ming returned to the room and dialed Zyra's number, which was a sign of respect for Ye Ning, although Ye Ning promised to make this call in front of her, wasn't it a lack of heart? Zhou Ming didn't even have this IQ.

After a few busy tones, the phone was connected, and Zhou Ming didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the point: "Hello Teacher Zyra, it's me Zhou Ming, I want to know the news about Tangren Bank and the bay, can you tell me now?"

"Zhou Ming, you finally called me, I've been waiting for you for a long time. Zyra said, her tone sounding a little choked, and then she added, "But it's not good to say it on the phone, I think you might as well come to me, there happens to be someone who wants to see you too." ”

After speaking, Zyra seemed to be afraid that Zhou Ming would misunderstand, and added: "I think this person should be Zhou Ming, your old friend." ”

Zhou Ming was a little surprised by this sentence, Zhou Ming thought for a while, and finally nodded and said, "Okay, no problem." ”