What?!"

A shout of surprise was not from Wu Qian, but Minister Ross, who was standing by the floor-to-ceiling window, couldn't help but shout, I don't know what news he heard, with a look of disbelief on his face.

Minister Ross knew that he had lost his temper, he smiled awkwardly at Wu Qian's side, expressing his embarrassment, and then listened to the phone with a grim face.

Seeing that Minister Ross continued to listen carefully to the phone, Rosalind then whispered: "According to the reports in the media, the negotiation between Maozi and Baipao has completely collapsed, and in the face of Maoziguo's production increase, Baipao's side is also angry, I am afraid that the situation will develop further, do you want to ...... it?"

Rosalind meant to remind the boss to contact a friend on the Saudi side for details.

However, before Wu Qian could answer Rosalind, the personal cell phone in his pocket rang.

Satmuqi was very righteous, and after the negotiation failed, he wanted to talk to Wu Qian, but unfortunately he couldn't find a suitable opportunity, and he finally found a quiet environment, so he immediately started calling.

Wu Qian made a silent gesture to Rosalind, then stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window farthest from Minister Ross, and pressed the answer button.

"Wu, did you disturb your rest. ”

Satemuqi didn't know what time zone Wu Qian was in the world now, so he asked politely.

Wu Qian smiled and said: "Sat Muqi, don't be so polite, I'm in New York, it's not time for dinner, listening to your tone, it seems to be a little excited, is the negotiation successful?"

Satmuzi held his forehead with his hand, and succeeded in a wool, is it okay if something is wrong......

"Wu, on the contrary to what you said, Mao Ziguo does not accept the idea of reducing production, not only that, but also to increase production on the basis of the original output, which is a terrible ending, and the international crude oil price may ......"

"To tell you the truth, I don't even dare to look at international crude oil prices now. ”

Wu Qian covered the microphone, hooked his fingers at Rosalind, and then said softly: "What is the price of WTI and Brent now?"

Rosalind hurriedly called up the real-time information from the tablet.

Brent Crude Oil: 34.56.

WTI：32.87。

Wu Qian was shocked when he saw this price, he clearly remembered that when he got off the plane at JFK Airport, he also glanced at the market, and the price of crude oil in the two futures markets was still above forty dollars, and after a while, twenty percent was gone!

Even though he was now sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars, Wu Qian still felt a parchment of mouth, and he thought that if Woodward and Barbara had carried out his orders accurately, then they would have made a profit of more than $20 billion!

As if knowing what the boss was thinking, Rosalind immediately called up the page for monitoring trading accounts, and the amount of profit on each account was extremely terrifying, and a long list of numbers was so tempting.

Wu Qian glanced at it roughly, forced his composure in his heart to let go of the hand holding his mobile phone, and said: "Satmuqi, I am very sorry for this matter, fortunately, I didn't buy much crude oil from you at the beginning, and the loss was not big, thank God." ”

"By the way, since Mao Ziguo's attitude is so resolute, what is the attitude of your country and OPEC member states?"

This is the information that Wu Qian is most eager to know at this stage, and the attitude of those countries will directly affect what he will do next in the United States.

Satmuqi pondered for a while and said, "Wu, the current situation is very unoptimistic, I think...... I think...... I don't know how our country will respond to this incident, but prepare for the worst, it looks like I'm going to have the hardest Christmas of my life. ”

It would be early November, a little more than a month before Christmas, and what Satmuzi meant by that the difficult days would probably last for a long time.

The energy war is on the verge of breaking out!

Wu Qian accurately grasped this important message, and he comforted: "My friend, fortunately, your own affairs have been taken care of, if you feel unhappy, welcome to Long Island, New York, I will live here for a while." ”

Satemuzi politely thanked Wu Qian for his kindness, and the two sides then chatted a few words that were not salty or light, and then ended the call.

However, at the same time that Satemuzi hung up the phone, his assistant hurriedly came to report that the king had made a decision to increase the amount of mining as well, to increase the production of all mining machinery at full capacity, and to increase the production by three million barrels per day!

Syllable.

The news frightened Satmuzi's mobile phone to the ground.

"This ...... This...... This is preparing for a price war, and the energy war has begun!"

Satmuzi muttered to himself, he did not call Wu Qian again, because he believed that if the news was true, it would not take more than ten minutes, the media around the world would report it, and Wu Qian would also know.

If a commodity produces 80 products a day, and there are 100 people in demand, the price can be maintained in a stable range, but if the production capacity is increased and the output is increased to 15, if the demand does not increase, then the price will inevitably fall.

The price of a commodity depends on the needs of the people and the labor required to obtain the item.

It can be seen that the Saudi king is determined, this is to be tough with Mao Ziguo to the end, and completely set off an energy war that sweeps the world!

Generally speaking, the cost of extracting crude oil in Maoziguo is higher than that of Saudi Arabia, and increasing production will inevitably reduce international crude oil prices, which will not benefit Maoziguo at all in the short term.

But Mao Ziguo has no other choice, if he wants to occupy today's market in the future, he must endure the pain of today.

Mao Ziguo did not agree to reduce production, and Saudi Arabia naturally could not let its market share be occupied by Mao Ziguo, and had no choice but to increase production capacity to confront.

Originally, the two sides negotiated to reach an agreement to cut production to stabilize global oil prices, but now it has become a 2 million barrel per day increase in production in Maozi and 3 million barrels per day in Saudi Arabia.

The extra 5 million barrels of crude oil per day are already equivalent to the output of half of Maozi in the past, how amazing!

Before the Saudi king made the decision to increase production, it can only be said that the energy war is about to break out, and now it has begun, according to the current situation, OPEC members are not comfortable, and will inevitably follow the trend to increase production, just see how much it increases.

The call on Wu Qian's side ended, and so did Minister Ross's side.

When the two returned to the table again, the words "absent-minded" were almost written on Minister Ross's face, even if there was a liquid on the table now, Minister Ross was not in the mood to taste it.

The content of the phone call he received just now was exactly the same as Wu Qian's side, that is, the result of the negotiation between Mao Zi and Bai Pao.

Although he is not a big leader in the energy sector, the fluctuation of international crude oil prices will affect too many fields, such as chemicals, refining, vehicles, military industry, etc., which will have a very big impact, how can you ignore it.

The bad news made him lose his appetite, and he even felt sick to his stomach when he smelled the delicious food, which was a precursor to anorexia.

Wu Qian pretended not to see, he smiled and said, "Minister Ross, I don't know when the handover of Dawen Energy Group can start, and how are the preparations over there?"

"Hmmm......"

Minister Ross put on the napkin with both hands mechanically, and agreed perfunctorily, and then suddenly remembered the current scene, suddenly came back to his senses, and said: "Oh, Mr. Wu, did you say that Davin Energy Company? The directors over there have already begun to prepare, and everything will go very smoothly." ”

If the result of the negotiation is that Mao Ziguo agrees to reduce production, then Wu Qian's acquisition may be slightly blocked, after all, it will be good news for the shale oil market in the United States, but unfortunately it backfires, and the reality is contrary to the dream.

Wu Qian waved his hand to signal the maid to pour wine, and he said, "Haha, this is simply great." ”

Seeing Wu Qian's happy appearance, Minister Ross even had a hint of dissuade Wu Qian's acquisition of Davin Energy Company, because taking over a company that was destined to lose money would probably affect Wu Qian's next investment in the United States, which would outweigh the losses, but he really couldn't say it.

"Minister Ross, try the wine I brought from Vaughan Romani in France, I hope you will like it. Wu Qian said.

Minister Ross frowned as he watched the pale golden white wine pour into his glass, even if he was as powerful as him, he had only tasted the white wine three or five times in his life, and it would be nice if he could taste it quietly when he was in a good mood.

"Come, Secretary Ross, cheers, and I wish us a great time to work together for a while to come. ”

Wu Qian raised his glass very boldly and stretched out to Minister Ross three or five meters opposite.

The long dining table is very magnificent, but it is not easy to really clink glasses, even if Yao Ming and Garnett sit at both ends, they can't do it if they want to clink glasses, they just need to raise their glasses, and it is regarded as clinking glasses.

However, just as Minister Ross raised his glass full of fine wine, his damn cell phone rang again.

Minister Ross stood up with his glass in hand, his expression embarrassed.

Wu Qian said very generously that it didn't matter.

"Mr. Wu, I'm really sorry. ”

As he spoke, Minister Ross took out his mobile phone with the hand that didn't hold the wine glass, intending to walk to the side to answer it, but just as he put the phone to his ear, before he was three meters away, the wine glass in his hand slipped from his hand.

Boom.

Delicate crystal wine glasses fall on the carpet and mellow wine flows from the glasses.

Just this glass of wine, it is no exaggeration to say that in the United States Football Team, you can change to a treasure code II series wagon, and it is nothing to spill it like this, because the carpet on the ground is more precious.

The huge carpet laid in the restaurant is a carpet specially ordered by the Morgan family from the Turkish company LoomArt ten years ago, tailored to the area of the restaurant, the carpet of more than 80 square meters weighs 400 kilograms, and the price was $3.8 million ten years ago, which is a masterpiece that took 16 master weavers to complete in four years!

Minister Ross looked at the wine stains soaked at his feet, and his heart was almost annoyed, what happened on the phone made him anxious, and accidentally soiling the owner's luxury carpet also made him depressed.

As Satmuzi thought, the Saudi king's momentous decision spread almost instantly, and although the media had not yet had time to report it, the high-ranking minister Ross had his sources.

"I got it......"

Minister Ross hung up the phone, tried his best to adjust his mood, turned his head and smiled embarrassedly: "Mr. Wu, I'm really sorry to stain the expensive carpet, I'll order someone to clean it up tomorrow, that ...... Suddenly there is something urgent to deal with, and it is really ...... It's ......."

Wu Qian was actually surprised in his heart, Minister Ross made a gaffe for the first time, he could judge that he must have known the result of the negotiation, but he didn't even hold the wine glass just now, it was really a bit excessive, what was the important thing that made this long-established big man so disgraced?

"Minister Ross said something, just spilled a little wine, not in the way, not in the way at all......"

As he spoke, Wu Qian stood up and walked towards Minister Ross, and said, "Although I look forward to having a good chat with Minister Ross, I am also embarrassed to interfere with official business, but I haven't even eaten a meal, which is really rude." ”

Wu Qian knew that if it wasn't for an extremely important matter, the first meal of the first meeting, Minister Ross would not take the initiative to say goodbye anyway, but he didn't even drink a sip of wine, and he hadn't started talking about business at all!

The two walked towards the door together, and Minister Ross waved his hand again and again, and said, "Mr. Wu is serious, it is not Mr. Wu who is degrading and derelicty, but me, today is really ...... It's really ...... Things are a little urgent, and after these two days, I specially invited Mr. Wu to dinner. ”

Several of Minister Ross's subordinates sat in the small dining room to eat, and when they saw the leader walking out of the restaurant, they quickly got up and wiped their mouths, and their hearts were full of doubts, why did this dinner just start and end?

They mixed better than the leaders, and ate at least half of their stomachs of food.

Wu Qian beckoned to Bauer and said: "Eating is all idle business, work is the most important thing, Minister Ross, where are you going to tell Bauer, he will drive a helicopter to see you." ”

Minister Ross had planned to stay on Helios Island tonight, but he didn't expect his reception to be unruly, and after repeatedly expressing his rudeness, Minister Ross and his party stepped onto the helicopter.

Suddenly, the helicopter took off, and Wu Qian waved his hand to Minister Ross and his party in mid-air.

In the blink of an eye, the helicopter flew in the direction of Midtown New York, disappearing into the half-dark night, leaving only the sound of the propeller turning in the distance.

It's really a hurry to come and go, but it's a pity that Minister Ross in a hurry didn't even fill his stomach.

When the sound of the helicopter slowly faded away and the peace on the Sun God Island returned, Rosalind walked up to Wu Qian with a tablet in one hand and said, "BOSS, I guess Minister Ross left in a hurry, it should be related to this news." ”

The corners of Wu Qian's eyes jumped slightly, and he took the tablet from Rosalind's hand and looked at it, a text message from an authoritative media in the United States, which was very brief.

"Negotiations broke down, and the Saudi king decided to increase production by three million barrels per day. ”

"Haha, hahaha, let's go, let's finish eating, everyone will eat together tonight, regardless of priority!"

Wu Qian laughed and walked towards the villa, Minister Biros was full of sadness, he was full of spring breeze, but he didn't know that there were two people in the city of London on the other side of the Atlantic, waiting for the order to go crazy.