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In the afternoon of the same day, the Hong Kong government held a press conference, and in order to grasp the last initiative, the chief executive did not attend, but three people from the financial and economic line attended: Donald Tsang, who is the financial secretary, is in the center, Yam Chi-kong, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, is on the left, and Hui Shiyan, secretary for financial services, is on the right.

The three announced the news of the government's entry into the stock market and the futures market, and said that they would use all means to fully meet international speculators in stocks, futures indexes and stock borrowing channels [note: refers to lending short], especially to support the stock market, and will never let international speculative capital make money through bearish futures indexes.

As soon as these words came out, the scene "buzzed" loudly.

In the face of the subsequent criticism of many reporters, Tsang Yam-kuen said: "There is no way to avoid this battle, it must be fought." Saving Hong Kong is more important than some conventions, Hong Kong is gone, is it still useful?"

The speech shocked the audience, and the outside world later realized that the most active technocrat of the time was not Yam Zhigang, but Tsang Yuen-kuen. Zeng was the most positive of the troika, Ren was relatively positive but neutral, and Xu was more neutral but did not disagree with the opinions of his colleagues. He even believed that even if the central government did not support it, the Hong Kong government should do something. In 2005, the former chief executive resigned for health reasons, and he was re-elected as the chief executive.

The press conference ended quickly, but then the opposition rang out:

The Democratic Party's argument that the fundamental problem with international speculators attacking the government lies in the linked exchange rate system itself, not in the stock market and futures market, which is actually implying that the linked exchange rate system should be abandoned – which is tantamount to following in the footsteps of other Southeast Asian countries.

Another group of scholars who study economics, such as Lei Dingming, director of the Economic Development Research Center of the University of Science and Technology, and Zhang Renliang, professor of finance at the City University of Hong Kong, believe that Hong Kong has always pursued a free market economy, and this action has set a bad precedent.

Their logic lies not in this bailout, but in the impact of this action: If the government can actually save the market, then everyone can rest assured that they will speculate, and if it collapses anyway, the government will support it! If the stock market can be saved, then the housing market should also be saved, but if it is not, then the people will protest, demonstrate, and march -- the economic aspect, especially the real estate sector, will become a situation in which it can only rise but not fall, and the entire real estate economy will kidnap the whole of Hong Kong.

These words seemed a bit bookish in 1998, but later they became a proverb - otherwise how did the Hong Kong people march come about six years later?

As a result, the Hong Kong government, which learned its lesson, no matter how much it fell in the global financial crisis 10 years later, will no longer bail out the market, and the chief executive at that time is the chief executive who is now a strong advocate of bailing out the market.

Therefore, human nature is often a matter of time and time.

However, strategically speaking, the timing of the Hong Kong government's entry into the market has been carefully chosen: the next 2 days, August 15-16 is a weekend, and August 17 is the anniversary of the victory of Hong Kong's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression [Note: arranged on the third Monday of August, the holiday is clearly stipulated by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Preparatory Committee of the National People's Congress in 1996, but it is not included in the public holiday after Hong Kong's official return], the Hong Kong market has been closed for 3 consecutive days, and the government has relatively more time to mobilize positions, and at the same time do a good job of explaining to all parties to buffer and dissipate some of the reaction forces.

But for Chang Tianhao, he is not concerned about Hong Kong's response during the market break, but about the assets on his books. At the close of trading on Friday, Gao Yang had not appeared in the big room, and on Saturday and Sunday, although he was in the library thinking about and sorting out the article on the medium- and long-term forecast for the next 10 years, he always had a vague feeling that something was wrong in his heart.

So on Sunday afternoon, he couldn't bear it anymore, and went directly to the bank to swipe his passbook to see if the money account was there: according to the settlement management, the unsettled Hong Kong dollars of more than 200,000 yuan last time and the 675,000 Hong Kong dollars on Friday should be settled, and his handling fees and interest should be deducted at the same time.

But after swiping the passbook at 3:30, he found that there was no entry record on it at all, and he suddenly became a little nervous: the last settlement was entered at noon, and this time it was 3:30 in the afternoon, why not?

He had the heart to go to the new century to have a look, but he didn't find anyone working, and he felt even more strange. After thinking calmly for 2 minutes, he summarized 3 possibilities:

First, the Southern Company did not bring in the money, whether intentionally or unintentionally;

Second, the money has reached the new century, and the company has not yet had time to make payments;

Third, the company doesn't want to make payments.

The second option may not matter, just wait a while, but if it's the first or third, it means you're in trouble.

I wanted to call Gao Yang directly, but remembering Gao Yang's faintly flickering eyes at noon and the weirdness of not showing up in the afternoon, he forcibly resisted the impulse and dialed Xiaoqin's phone: "Sister Qin, can I ask you something?"

"What's wrong?"

"The Southern Company didn't transfer the money to my account, did the money go to the company?"

"This ...... I don't quite know. Xiao Qin paused, "I'll go to work tomorrow to help you ask about the finances, and you should transfer in this afternoon as usual." ”

Chang Tianhao didn't tell the other party that he had been to the new century, and he didn't find anyone in the finance at all, and of course, the company was closed on weekends, and he couldn't get in.

He hesitated for a while and said, "Did you say last time that you had a classmate who worked as a teller in the company's account bank, could you help me inquire?"

Xiaoqin nodded in agreement: "Then you wait for me, and I'll call you back in 20 minutes." ”

Most of the students who graduated from the banking college have entered various banks as tellers, and if Xiaoqin hadn't been temporarily taken a position, she would have been a member of the tellers.

15 minutes later, Xiaoqin came back on the phone, and her tone was very strange and solemn: "My classmate told me that there was indeed a sum of nearly 900,000 yuan from the Southern Company this morning, and it was also transferred to the company's account, but then it was transferred away at noon...... Could it be that they made a mistake?"

Xiaoqin was very careful when she inquired, and did not reveal Chang Tianhao's relationship, nor did she ask why it was not transferred to his account, only that the company had any money in the account. The settlement process was first transferred from Southern Company to New Century Company, and then transferred to Chang Tianhao's escrow account. The classmate knew that she worked in the company and asked about the public account, so she told the situation, but she wondered why it wasn't the finance to ask, and she made up a reason to prevaricate.

"Do you think it's a mistake?"

Xiaoqin bit her lip: no sound.

It is impossible to make a mistake, and if the 900,000 pairs of public accounts are wrong, it will be a big problem, but she can't continue to ask where to transfer. Ask if there is a payment to the account has broken through the convention, this is a loss of classmates or the era of online banking has not developed, occasionally inquire about the public account and understand the explanation, if it is the era of online banking, tellers are not birds at all, you want to know, go check the company's online banking yourself......

"Well, do you have time to come over now, and I'll invite you to dinner in the evening?"

"Okay, where can I find you?"

"Just the company. ”

Half an hour later, Xiaoqin arrived at the company to open the door, and her face was also very anxious.

The company was empty, but Chang Tianhao had a hunch that someone should have come at noon, he knocked on Gao Yang's office, but no one responded, and opened it again and found that the door was unlocked......

There was nothing unusual in Gao Yang's office, but after a closer look, Chang Tianhao's eyes narrowed as if they had been pricked by a needle: the ashtray on the desk was full of cigarette butts, no need to count, at least 15 heads!

Xiaoqin also saw this scene and was silent.

The air seemed to freeze.

After work on Friday, the cleaner will at least clean the boss and the conference room, and if it is a cigarette butt left on Friday, it will never be piled up like this.

These cigarette butts were either smoked on Saturday or today......

Chang Tianhao knew that Gao Yang had come to smoke and drink, but he usually smoked cigarettes and was not fierce, why did he leave so many cigarette butts in the office this time?

"Mr. Gao?" Xiaoqin's face was a little flustered, and she could see that something was wrong.

Chang Tianhao shook his head: "It's okay, let's eat first......"