After mid-August, the national speculators seemed to have really left Southeast Asia, and the currency exchange rates of Southeast Asian countries have temporarily stabilized, but the storm has not gone away, and the speculators have only temporarily withdrawn from the sidelines, trying to find a new opportunity. It didn't take long for Hong Kong's calm to be shattered, but it was not international speculators, but bird flu.

On this day, Zhang Lexing was staying in the office as usual, studying the economic data on the computer, reviewing and reviewing some company documents, and suddenly the familiar "uh-oh" sound came from the computer speaker, ICQ came to the news, he skillfully pressed the hot key, and the ICQ message window popped up, "Hi, good morning!" ^_^

Zhang Lexing glanced at the other party's name and number, it turned out to be Chen Zishan's message, he immediately clicked on the reply, entered his greeting and sent it back, "Shanshan, good morning."

"Lexing, you'd better go out as little as possible these days!" Chen Zishan quickly replied.

Zhang Lexing was stunned for a moment when he saw this news, and casually made a joke: "What's the matter, is there a biohazard in your laboratory." ”

"Don't laugh, I'm serious. Chen Zishan explained in detail on ICQ 1510: "The situation is like this......"

About a few months ago, a three-year-old boy died in São Paulo Hospital, which was a very common event, but the disease progressed so suddenly that the hospital could not find out the cause of the boy's death. The test results were found to be influenza virus, but the virus information available in the laboratory was limited, and it was not possible to determine which virus strain it was.

In order to find out which influenza virus it was, the hospital sent samples to the disease control centers in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Atlanta, USA, respectively, and Chen Zishan's biological research institute also received a sample from the hospital because of its advanced equipment and complete information. Soon the results came in, and the laryngeal samples contained the H5N1 avian influenza virus, a strain of the influenza virus that has never infected humans but only birds.

Chen Zishan studied microbiology at MIT, although she did not directly study the influenza virus, but after listening to the explanation of her research director, she quickly understood the seriousness of the matter, poultry is often in contact with everyone, and the range of activities of some poultry is also very large, once bird flu can be transmitted to people, it means that there are many more flu infection sources in the world that will move and spread quickly, which is not good news for humans living on the earth.

Chan immediately reported the news to St. Paul's Hospital and the Hong Kong Centre for Disease Control, but they were not convinced at all, believing that bird flu could be transmitted to people. Fortunately, the Centers for Disease Control in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Atlanta, USA, also sent samples, and as long as they tested the results, they would know whether it was avian flu or not. Later, the director of St. Paul's Hospital couldn't help but call and ask, only to know that when the samples were sent, I didn't know why I forgot to mark them urgently, and as a result, the two samples were still in the freezers in the two places and lined up, and I don't know when it will be my turn.

The dean hurriedly gave a brief introduction to the situation, and the disease control centers in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Atlanta, the United States, also promised to test immediately, and the final results came out not long ago, all of them were H5N1 avian influenza viruses. Not long after, the US Centers for Disease Control also sent a team of scientists to Hong Kong to investigate the authenticity of the avian flu.

In the end, Chen Zishan instructed again: "Lexing, you really have to pay attention, try to go out as little as possible, if you must go out, don't go close to chicken farms and other places with poultry, and don't go to crowded places!"

Zhang Lexing is still very grateful for Chen Zishan's kindness, but to be honest, the transmission of avian flu is said to be big and small, anyway, as far as he knows, there should not be a large-scale epidemic, but the feeling of being spread to the infected person must be very different, especially when there is no special medicine to treat it. Thinking of this, Zhang Lexing suddenly realized that Tamiflu, the special drug for avian flu, seemed to be not officially on the market at this time, and he couldn't help but feel a little moved: "Maybe this is a good opportunity?"

Regarding the situation of Tamiflu, Zhang Lexing will definitely not ask Chen Zishan directly stupidly, although her biological research institute is a little close to this aspect, but when Tamiflu has not yet been officially listed, it is obviously impossible to make everyone know, maybe even the pharmaceutical prescription does not know that it has a good therapeutic effect on avian flu, after all, avian flu has never been transmitted to people before, and Tamiflu is not a veterinary drug.

Zhang Lexing decided to hand over the task of investigation to the Russell market research company in the United States, after all, their news is still relatively well-informed, but unfortunately he was not from the pharmaceutical industry before, so he didn't know much about Tamiflu's situation, only remembered that the developers seemed to be Gilead Sciences in the United States and Roche Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland, and the main ingredients of Tamiflu include shikimic acid extracted from star anise, and this drug is used to treat influenza. After emailing the situation he remembered (of course, he didn't mention Duffy, only said that he wanted to investigate Gilead and Roche Pharmaceutical) to Russell Market Research Company, Zhang Lexing could only continue to wait, in fact, he didn't know whether Russell had the ability to find out the relevant situation, but he could only go so far.

Chen Zishan was still worried about the spread of bird flu in Hong Kong, and Zhang Lexing was also worried about not knowing what was going on with Tamiflu, but soon his attention was taken away from Duffy, because international speculators came and Hong Kong was attacked.

On the afternoon of August 20, half an hour before the market closed, the computer that had been monitoring the stock market trading situation on the Internet issued an alarm, and a large amount of money was shorted on the Hang Seng Index futures. Immediately after that, the computer that monitored the foreign exchange market transactions on the Internet also issued an alarm, a large number of spot Hong Kong dollars were sold, and a large number of US dollars were also eaten, and the exchange rate began to fluctuate violently. Zhang Lexing felt that the situation was not good, and immediately issued an order to start the primary cloud network that was still in the experimental stage, including Dongfang Shen Yun, Dongfang Holdings, Dapu Research Park, Chen Zishan's biological research institute and other places, including supercomputers and computing clusters officially connected together, and under the operation of the operating system between each other, it became the world's first "cloud", which Zhang Lexing called the primary cloud.

On August 21, noting that yesterday's unusually volatile financial market issued a declaration by Chief Executive Tung, Chief Executive Tung claimed that Hong Kong's foreign exchange reserves were sufficient to ensure its status as an international financial center, but unfortunately his words did not fully play a role.

On August 22, many enterprises and individuals were worried that the Hong Kong dollar would become the next target of speculators, so they sold their Hong Kong dollars before the weekend and exchanged them for US dollars, as a result, the US dollar exchange rate began to rise wildly, and by the time the market opened in the afternoon, it had reached the HKMA's warning line of 7.75, and the HKMA began to intervene in the market.

After receiving the news of the HKMA's move, the HK$30 billion (about US$4 billion) Hong Kong Defense Fund, which was jointly established by Zhang Lexing and many Hong Kong tycoons, also took action. At 2 p.m., the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate slowly fell to 7.495 under the intervention of the HKMA, followed by five consecutive selling frenzy of HK$500 million each in 10 minutes, and the exchange rate, which had just stabilized, began to rise slowly. At this critical moment, the Hong Kong Defense Fund made a move, and within 10 minutes, with the help of leveraged operations, 3 billion Hong Kong dollars were smashed in one go, and the exchange rate fell back to 7.495 again. At the same time, the Hong Kong Defense Fund has withdrawn some funds to buy a large amount of Hang Seng Index weighted stocks, in order to resist the suppression of the Hang Seng Index by international speculators in many aspects.

At half past two o'clock in the afternoon, after a few days of online operation, the "primary cloud" has completed the analysis of the financial data for three days, and successfully pulled out the three largest speculative funds from the complex data, Zhang Lexing named the three speculative funds as fund A, B, and C, fund A is mainly active in the foreign exchange market, fund B stays in the stock market and tosses stock index futures, and fund C is pegged to several key stocks for forced suppression, although I don't know whether there is Soros in this, but he can't take care of so much.

At 2:35 p.m., Zhang Lexing's No. 2 base in the Peninsula Hotel has successfully completed the monitoring of fund A, B, and C's accounts, and the $5 billion in funds Zhang Lexing has withdrawn from the Montara Foundation has also arrived in the account opened at Standard Chartered Bank, and the time has come to fight back.

Fund A continues to sell in the foreign exchange market, Fund B sells short in the futures market, and Fund C continues to forcibly suppress those key stocks. Due to the ups and downs of the market like a roller coaster before, many people chose to wait and see, and when they saw that the bears seemed to have the upper hand again, they began to move again.

At 2:40 p.m., with the help of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Hong Kong Defense Fund and Funds A, B and C were inseparable, and the two sides fell into a stalemate for a while, and the exchange rate and the Hang Seng Index went up and down as if they were sitting in an elevator, and many investors and foreign exchange people who were not in good health almost had a heart attack.

At a quarter past three o'clock in the afternoon, the stock market that has been stuck suddenly made waves again, and in five minutes, a number of super orders totaling up to 18.6 billion Hong Kong dollars and 5.12 million hands were smashed down, and the traders in the securities trading hall were stunned, and many people rubbed their eyes desperately. The securities trading system seems to have been shocked by this big order, the numbers on the big screen have frozen, and after a full five minutes, the numbers began to beat again, but this time it is no longer a see-saw, but as if riding on a rocket, not only the Hang Seng Index is rising, but the vast majority of individual stocks are also rising.

Looking at the index that turned green again, the trading floor became noisy again, and a trader couldn't help but stand up, clenched his fists, and shouted desperately at the big screen: "Up, up!!!!" Immediately after the second and third traders stood up and shouted, and gradually most of the people in the hall shouted: "Up, up!!, up !!"

The Hang Seng Index seems to sense people's beliefs, and with the rhythm of shouting, it rises step by step from the bottom of 14,500 points that has been repeatedly sawed, and rises by 1,400 points before it is still slightly adjusted, and finally the stock market closed at 15,855.67 on the same day.

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"Bastard!"

With a muffled sound, a black keyboard slammed into the screen of a monitor in an uncanny motion, followed by a crackling sound, and a puff of green smoke came out of the crack in the monitor screen.

An Asian man with a Ren Dan Hu sat in a chair, gasping angrily, and there were three or four young men sitting in front of the computer in the room, all of whom lowered their heads at this time, pretending to operate the computer, and did not dare to make a sound.

The man felt a sense of depression in his heart, which made him uncomfortable. Originally, he was invited by Julian Robertson, the head of the Tiger Fund, to participate in the attack on Hong Kong, and according to Robertson, in addition to him, there is another fund from the United Kingdom that is an ally, and of course there must be more than three of them who come to join in the fun. According to Robertson, the attack on Hong Kong should be as easy as the sweep of Southeast Asia, and that seems to be exactly what happened in the first two days. However, since this afternoon, the situation has been very different, first the Hong Kong Monetary Authority entered the market, and then there were a lot of large and small funds to disrupt the situation, but with the close unity and close cooperation of the three, coupled with the "help" of other funds, the two sides have fallen into a stalemate, of course, the three have not done their best at this time.

Just when the man felt that the time was almost up and was about to strike again from the stock market, the big order that suddenly smashed down scared him. When Chief Executive Dong spoke before, he vaguely revealed that the central government would support Hong Kong at the right time, and no international speculator would believe this at that time, but now what does the sudden large amount of money mean, could it really be the support of the central government, Ren Danhu man hesitated for a while, not knowing whether to continue to follow up. Just when the man of Ren Danhu hesitated, the market confidence was completely reversed in this short period of time, and when the man of Ren Danhu was forced to make a move, it was too late, people's confidence has been achieved, coupled with a large amount of money to protect the voyage, the Hang Seng Index has risen irreversibly.

The reversal of the Hang Seng Index, not only did he spit out all the money he had earned before, but also lost almost $7 or 800 million, and he believed that the British fund that was also active in the stock market might have suffered the same loss, but the Tiger Fund should have eaten a lot of meat in the foreign exchange market.

As soon as he thought of the person who came with the same purpose, someone was eating meat, but he was going to be cut by others, the man felt angry, and couldn't help but throw the computer keyboard on his desk to a computer monitor not far away.

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