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The night was dark. The sea breeze with a bit of sea smell blew away the residual heat left behind by the hot sun all day.

"It's unbelievable!" Old Man Guo sat in the sea viewing pavilion, looking at the sea in the distance, remembering the news he had just seen, and couldn't help but sigh heartily.

Iraq has already massed troops on the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border, and the number is as high as 50,000, while the total area of Kuwait is only more than 10,000 square kilometers, which is not as large as the capital city of China, and the total population is only more than 1 million, and the army of 20,000 people is said to be completely negligible compared with the Iraqi army that fought in the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.

Although it has long been known from Fang Mingyuan's mouth, Fang Mingyuan believes that the Gulf region will continue to have turmoil after the ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq war, which will affect the price of Shijie oil, and Iraq is the source of turmoil. And Kuwait may well be the unlucky one. He still clearly remembered what Fang Mingyuan said in order to convince himself at that time.

Although those words made him feel very incredible at the time, he had to admit it. What Fang Mingyuan said has a certain amount of truth and is also in line with logical reasoning. Moreover, as time goes by, more and more information is gathered together, so that Fang Mingyuan's original guess is gradually becoming a reality. It also made Mr. Guo secretly glad that his decisiveness at that time made Guo's Shipping Group Company seize a rare development opportunity. Such an opportunity is not an exaggeration to call it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In just a few months, hundreds of millions of huge capitals may obtain an astonishing profit of not less than 100 percent, or even 1,000 percent, such an astonishing profit rate makes the old man Guo, who is used to seeing big scenes, can't help but be excited, and hides in this sea viewing pavilion alone.

"Hahahaha......" Old man Guo faced the sea breeze and shouted daxiao.

"Dad, what makes you so happy?" Guo Tianyu's surprised voice came from behind. He had just returned home from the company, and his butt had barely sat down, when someone told him that Mr. Guo asked him to go to the Guanhai Pavilion to find him after he came back from the company. Old man Guo's orders, Guo Tianyu naturally did not dare to slack off. But when he came to the Guanhai Pavilion, he heard Old Man Guo's daxiao voice from a distance.

Old Man Guo's laughter stopped abruptly, and he glanced back at Guo Tianyu and said, "You're back." ”

"I'm back. Guo Tianyu said respectfully.

"Well, sit down, I have something important to say to you. Old Man Guo pointed to the stone pier. Guo Tianyu immediately sat there obediently, but he kept muttering in his heart that he didn't seem to have done anything wrong recently. The old man doesn't seem to be dissatisfied with anything like this, is that something important?

"How is the company's recent operation?" Old Man Guo asked in a deep voice, "How much capital can be mobilized in a week?"

Guo Tianyu was startled and said, "Dad, what are you?" Old man, what are some good ideas for making money? But a week's time to raise funds is a little too urgent, right?

"No nonsense, time is urgent!" said Old Man Guo's glare.

"The company's working capital is about 400 million yuan, but we can still borrow a lot from the bank. Guo Tianyu hurriedly replied. Because Mr. Guo has withdrawn a large amount of funds and invested them in the futures market, the liquidity in Guo's Shipping Group Company has approached the limit, and it can only ensure the normal operation of the entire group company. As long as the old man is still in the day, Guo's Shipping Group Company is the old man's final say.

Old man Guo frowned, 400 million Hong Kong dollars, in Hong Kong, is already a lot of money, but when it is put into the Shijie oil futures market, it can't even make a splash. Moreover, this amount of money must be used to ensure the normal operation of Guo's Shipping Group Company, and it is easy to move. But I took a loan from the bank. Although it is the Guo family, it also takes a certain amount of time to go through the procedure. Especially if you don't need a small amount of millions or tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, but want to borrow a large amount of 1.8 billion, in this case, it will be even faster.

Guo Tianyu looked at Old Man Guo's tightly knit brows inexplicably, what the hell is going on? How could the old man be like this? But wasn't the old man still happy just now?

"I called you here to let you know a good news. Old Man Guo tapped his fingers lightly on the tabletop and said slowly. Guo Tianyu was even more confused in his heart, since it was good news, how did the old man look, his mood seemed very heavy. How could he understand that Old Man Guo was worried that he didn't have enough funds to expand the results of the battle. If Fang Mingyuan's guess is correct, if it is early, maybe at the end of July, or mid-August at the latest, the Gulf region will be plunged into war, and today is already July 22. "After August, there will be nearly 10 billion funds recovered, which will greatly enrich the company's cash reserves, I plan to use this money to purchase two more 10,000-ton ships, you go back and let the company's procurement department see, what kind of ship is the most suitable to buy. ”

Old Man Guo's words surprised Guo Tianyu, and he couldn't help but drag his mouth and say: "Dad, where did you get all this money?" He also thought that it might be the oil futures investment that Old Man Guo and Fang Mingyuan teamed up, but Old Man Guo, the funds withdrawn from the group company at the beginning were only 3.5 billion Hong Kong dollars. Among them, there is also a loan of 1.5 billion Hong Kong dollars to Fang Mingyuan. Although I don't know how they operate, in the near future, the price of Shijie oil is still falling and stable. He didn't see any chance of making a profit.

"Of course it's the investment income!" said Old Man Guo angrily. This son of his own, more than enough, is not enterprising. His two daughters and son-in-law are also such people, and they are not as good as their son, but their daughter-in-law Yu Qiuxuan, under the impetus of Fang Mingyuan's kid, now has a little bit of their own momentum. Mr. Guo sometimes has a headache, if he is a hundred years later, after the helm of Guo's Shipping Group Company becomes Guo Tianyu, will he slowly fall into mediocrity. This generation of talented people, no matter which industry, the competition is becoming more and more fierce, the company's performance does not advance means regression, Guo Tianyu if he can not have the courage to open up the market in the future, I am afraid ......

Guo Tianyu was even more surprised, as the only son of Old Man Guo and the orthodox heir, Old Man Guo would not deliberately hide any of his investments. But after thinking about it, he couldn't grasp the key to this.

"Of course, it's oil futures investment!" Old Man Guo's eyes widened, "Don't you kid watch the TV news? Iraq and Kuwait are about to fight! Iraq's troops are already on the Iraq-Kuwait border." In the Middle East, there is turmoil at the Shijie oil depot, do you think this will not affect the price of oil? How many times have I taught you to be sure to pay attention to Shijie current affairs......

"Dad, how can I have time to watch TV in the company during the day today, didn't you call me here again after I came back?" It's not that he doesn't pay attention to Shijie's big things, it's just that there are too many affairs in the company, and those things that have no direct impact on the company's business, he will stay until he goes home in the evening to watch them.

"Forget it, forget it. This person is old, and his memory is also poor!" Old Man Guo was stunned for a moment, waved his hand and smiled bitterly. He only got Guo Tianyu's son when he was about forty years old, and now in a blink of an eye, Guo Tianyu is nearly thirty years old, and he is also nearly seventy. Life has been rare since ancient times, and I don't know how many more years I can control this Guo's Shipping Group Company.

At this time, not only people like Fang Mingyuan and Mr. Guo, who had been following the changes in the situation in the Gulf region for a long time, noticed the sudden deterioration of the situation in the Gulf, but even those who didn't pay much attention to it in the first place also paid great attention to it because of Iraq's sudden build-up of troops to the Iraq-Kuwait border.

Among them, especially the high-level leaders of crude oil transportation companies, oil refining companies, and chemical plants, are most concerned about the changes in the situation in the Gulf, and the Gulf region, which has just calmed down not long ago, is now seeing the resumption of war, which is bound to have a direct impact on oil exploration and transportation in the Middle East. It is important to know that Iraq's oil reserves are second only to Saudi Arabia and are the most important supplier of Shijie in the oil market. Kuwait, on the other hand, has the fourth largest oil reserves and is also a non-negligible supplier in the Shijie oil market. And unlike Iraq, which has suffered a lot from Iraq's oil exports after eight years of Iran-Iraq war, Kuwait's oil supply has been fairly stable. Now that these two countries are among the top five ranks of Shijie oil reserves, there is a possibility of war, how can they not worry about it.

For a time, the Shijie oil market was turbulent, and the price of oil, which had been declining since January '90, began to stabilize on the day the news of the Iraqi army's build-up on the Iraq-Kuwait border came out, and there was a slight increase at the end of the day.

In response to the accusations and military actions taken by the Government of Iraq, the Government of Kuwait promptly refuted them, condemned Iraq's policy of threats and blackmail against Kuwait and urgently briefed all Arab Governments on Kuwait's position. Kuwait also informed the Secretary-General of the United Nations about the Iraqi-Kuwait dispute and ordered the Kuwaiti army to be on high alert, and relations between the two countries suddenly became strained.

War seems to be on the verge of breaking out......