Chapter 25: Crises and Opportunities
On October 1, Li Ping'an quietly came to New York, where there was not much else on Wall Street, and he was engaged in finance. Li Ping'an temporarily hired more than 60 traders, each of whom Li Ping'an signed strict contracts and confidentiality agreements, and of course the remuneration was extremely generous. But Li Ping'an was still not at ease, and transferred more than 150 bodyguards from Blackwater International, all of whom were Chinese who had just completed the trial training of Blackwater International's Asian branch, nominally to carry out protection duties, but in fact to monitor these traders.
In addition to Li Ping'an, who was in charge of the United States, Xiangjiang and Tokyo were handed over to Cao Zhiming and Fang Menghua, and London was coordinated by Zhao Yazhi, Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao, and Li Ping'an was in charge of the world economic crisis caused by the oil crisis. It took nearly a week to build a warehouse in four places, and Li Ping'an also began a relatively long wait, ready to wait for the opportunity.
The course of history did not change with Li Ping'an's sudden intrusion, and on October 6, 1973, Egyptian and Syrian armies attacked the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights, which had been occupied by Israel six years earlier. The Ethiopian-Syrian coalition prevailed in the first day or two of the war, but then the tide of the war reversed. After Egypt's resounding victory in the Sinai Peninsula, there was an extremely serious tactical mistake: they did not take advantage of the victory, giving Israel a respite. Israel received a large amount of American military aid, and concentrated its forces to contain the Syrian offensive, and at the same time used the satellites provided by the United States to apply to the war, they observed that there was a gap between the Egyptian Second and Third Armies, and soon, the Israeli army used this gap to break into the Suez Canal, which led to the siege of the Egyptian army (Third Corps), the tide of the war was reversed, and in the second week, the Syrian army withdrew from the Golan Heights, and the war was finally fought because of the Soviet Union. The inaction of the United States and the United States have not only failed to achieve the goal of the war, but also suffered huge losses.
This war made the Arab countries understand that they could not defeat Israel militarily, but it also made all the Arabs have a huge antipathy towards the big hooligan of the United States, especially the stupid Damu who was looking at the banks of the two rivers, although he had not yet assumed the presidency of Iraq, but he already had real power, he began to negotiate with the Arab brothers, preparing to completely eliminate foreign forces, nationalize the oil fields, and re-price the oil.
Just entered the middle of October, the Israeli army entered the counteroffensive stage, Li Ping'an began to command everyone to put 150 million US dollars into the futures market in batches to speculate in oil, this time Fang Menghua raised a total of 320 million US dollars, almost emptying the mother and son's family funds. On December 3, the Arab members of the OPEC group announced that they had formally withdrawn their right to price crude oil and raised the price of their benchmark crude oil from $3.011 to $10.651 per barrel. As soon as the news was released, the international oil price rose from $3.11 to $11.65 per barrel in a short period of time.
The oil weapons of the Arab countries have dealt a heavy blow to the world economy, which is heavily dependent on oil. U.S. oil imports fell by 2 million barrels a day in an instant, and many factories were shut down. The United States**, which is suffering from an energy crisis, had to declare a national "state of emergency" and adopted a series of tight measures to save oil and electricity, including reducing the number of flights, limiting the speed of vehicles, rationing heating oil, closing gas stations nationwide on Sundays, banning and restricting outdoor light advertising, and even turning off electric lights on the top of the White House and around the United Nations building. President Nixon also ordered a reduction in the normal speed of presidential plane flights, canceling the escort planes for his weekend trip.
The U.S. Congress passed a bill authorizing the president to implement a national ration of all petroleum products. Almost half of the normal oil supply to the US Department of Defense was disrupted, and the US forces in Europe and the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean had to tap into their wartime oil reserves.
The oil crisis was the last straw that crushed the U.S. stock market, and economic crises around the world erupted.
With accurate information to back him up, Li Ping'an commanded everyone to turn the tide in the futures and stock markets, and although he had kept a low profile enough, the capital predators in Europe and the United States still noticed him. Rothschild, Morgan and other traditional financial families began to send people to investigate Li Ping'an's capital operation, but Li Ping'an's funds were too scattered, and most of the funds returned were deposited in Swiss banks.
According to the analysis of Wall Street elites, although Li Ping'an must have earned money this time, the amount will not be too much, because Li Ping'an has neither hired analysts nor recruited good traders this time, and the traders hired by Li Ping'an are all perennial low-level and nameless metrics. But those at the top of the major financial forces in the control of the people do not think so, they feel that this time Li Ping'an into his arms will not be less than three billion US dollars, originally wanted to find out the specific value, but unfortunately Li Ping'an withdrew very cleanly, all the accounts involved in the transaction have also been cancelled, as if never in the futures and stock market.
This made the financial predators grit their teeth with hatred, and wanted to verify it from the bank, Li Ping'an collected most of the funds to the Swiss bank, and the secrecy level of the Swiss bank at this time can be called world-class.
As for how much money Li Ping'an made this time, Bush Jr. also knocked on the phone. Li Ping'an directly told Bush Jr. that he had earned a total of more than $3 billion this time, but the actual situation was that Li Ping'an had earned a total of $1.22 billion this time, which can be said to be the final decision of World War I.
Time into March 1974, after half a year of busy, Li Ping'an returned to the villa in the middle of the mountain again, just rushed back from London Zhao Yazhi, Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao three daughters are very excited, although I don't know the specific detailed figures, but through the London stock market correspondent bank accounts three women can also know that this time Li Ping'an earned a huge amount of money.
After dinner that night, Fang Menghua alone summoned the three girls to drink tea in the side hall.
Fang Menghua waited until the maids serving the tea had left, and then spoke first, "It's hard for you this time, I've been busy with our mother and son for so long, but you have to keep your mouth shut about what happened in the stock market this time, which will reduce a lot of unnecessary trouble for you and Andy!"
Lin Fengjiao made a promise on behalf of the three sisters, "Aunt Fang, we will not talk about everything that happened in the stock market as anyone, please rest assured, we all understand." ”
Fang Menghua nodded with relief, "Tomorrow, none of you will bring 500,000 Hong Kong dollars to your family, and you will not be allowed to give more to protect your family, and in the future, the number of bodyguards you will travel will increase to three." As long as you live up to Andy, I will not let Andy give up on you, next year I will pick a day for you to officially pass the door, although I can't give you anything legally, but I, a mother, will definitely treat you as a daughter-in-law. ”
After hearing Fang Menghua's words, the third girl immediately blushed, although the husband was a little unwilling, but let the third girl find other men would definitely be even more unwilling, after all, in the eyes of the third woman, Li Ping'an is the best man in the world.