Chapter 64: The War Resumes
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First of all, Zhou You's business operations are simply clear, and other rich people may still have the stain of capital accumulation, but Zhou You's way of making a fortune is clearly studied by everyone, and there is no stain.
Secondly, in the process of operation, Zhou You has nothing to blame, let alone forcible seizure. Instead, he used his interests to win over a large number of allies around him.
Even though some of his projects involve black and gold politics, no one can grasp his handle, let alone punish him, just by virtue of this.
Because in a powerful country, traveling around is never crooked. As for the small countries, no matter which political party uses them as the biggest bargaining chips to fight for, they will not and cannot afford to convict them of traveling around.
Just like this training camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, everyone knows that there is a transfer of interests between him and Kabila. But this is good for the country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and it is too late for the people to welcome it, so how can it be accused of traveling around because of this.
And no matter how good you are in the United States and how good the United Nations is, can you convict Zhou You for this? Of course not!
Although Zhou Yu is young, he is also relatively naïve politically. But after the Cuban incident, he has matured very quickly. Now he is much more tactful and calm than before.
He now deliberately downplays the political factor, highlights the economic factor, and promotes the economic factor. Coupled with his huge financial channels, no government dares to treat him as meat on the board anymore, and wants to nibble on two bites at will.
The largest bank in Spain, the largest bank in the United Kingdom, the largest bank in Singapore, four banks in the mainland, and three banks in the United States. Zhou You has almost wiped out the world's largest commercial banks, and the funds that can directly affect him exceed one trillion yuan, and his power is no longer something that a certain country or a certain force or a certain person can shake.
Perhaps, before he could shake Zhou You, he had already killed his opponent first.
On the surface, there is no way to deal with him now, but secretly?
Let's not talk about Zhou You's personal super skills, not to mention his many bodyguards, not to mention his security corps all over the world, just talk about his revenge fund that has been hanging on the dark web, which can make any force think about it again, whether it is worth it.
As long as his life is threatened in any way, the revenge fund on the dark web will be directly activated, and even the United States cannot stand the endless terrorist activities from all over the world, including the country.
Now, he has set up a special operations unit, which has added a layer of insurance to his safety.
All of a sudden, this training camp located in the primeval forest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo became the target of spies from all over the world, and the evaluation and exploration of the strength of this training camp formed an undercurrent under the calm surface.
It was also at this time that armed groups in Nkunda, in the Great Lakes region of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, raised the banner of independence and engaged in armed clashes with government forces in the Goma region, where the peace conference had just been held.
From sporadic clashes in early April, to large-scale confrontations in mid-April.
Although the Congolese army has a total of 150,000 troops, it is divided into 10 military regions, and in Kivu province, there are only three military districts, less than 50,000 people, and they are scattered across several hundred thousand square kilometers of land in two provinces, North and South Kivu.
This is a tropical rainforest, most of the area is uninhabited, and the government army in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is relatively backward in weaponry, except for a small number of gun-fired howitzers, tanks and other heavy weapons are almost non-existent.
However, Nkunda's armed forces have received financial and weapon support from foreign forces, and their weapons are no worse than those of the government army. And the government army is in the open, they are in the dark, and the government army is scattered on the defense, but they can concentrate their forces and attack any point wantonly.
More importantly, they are a local ethnic group with a deep mass base. As a result, in the early days of the war, the government army, which was outnumbered, was passive.
However, because the training camp of Zhou Youyou happened to be stuck in the choke point of the traffic of the Kivu provinces in North and South Kivu, the Nkunda armed forces also rushed to raise troops because the training camp of Zhou Youyou had not yet been officially opened. They also have a fear of Zhou You's strength, because Zhou You has countless funds to arm his training camp, and they don't dare to attack the training camp. Therefore, for the time being, the fighting is only in the north, and it has not yet affected other regions.
What Zhou You didn't know was that he had changed history in this regard. In its original history, six months after the signing of the peace agreement, Nkunda's forces did not get what they wanted, and only then did they start their army in August.
But in this life, with his existence, Nkunda was very taboo about his existence, so he hurriedly raised troops while the training camp had not yet produced results and was not armed.
Although he now has the advantage, after all, the number of people is too small. Nkunda is a Tutsi, the second largest ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but the population is less than 15 percent of the country's population, and it is still scattered, and not all Tutsis support him.
Although the number of people in the training camp was only 2,000, these were all veterans, unlike the people he carried, and the starting pistols were all soldiers.
What's more, Zhou You has a dense network of relationships in the world, and if he dares to do something to Zhou You's people, then the outside world's support for him may stop immediately.
No one will risk offending Zhou Yu to help him.
When the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was rekindled, Zhou You, who was signing an investment agreement in Germany, held a press conference as soon as possible. In front of hundreds of journalists from all over the world, he announced in a high-profile manner that in order to protect his investment and the 625 enterprises in the DRC, and to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of these enterprises in the DRC, Nanyang Security Company will send a security team of more than 3,000 people to the DRC, stationed in the capital Kinshasa and Katanga.
Second, he will distribute various weapons and equipment to his 2,000 trained security guards in the Kivu province where the war is taking place to prevent them from being involved in the war.
These countermeasures are reasonable, and Zhou You was very calm at the time, so the reporters did not find the hidden meaning of Zhou You's words.
The matter seemed to have calmed down, and the focus of the reporters was on Zhou You's negotiations for a controlling stake in the Frankfurt Mortgage Bank.
Although Frankfurt is not the sixth largest financial center in China, the Frankfurt Mortgage Bank is a small private bank, not to mention the scale of fund management in the world, even in Germany, it is only barely in the top ten.
However, Zhou You's investment team surprised everyone by choosing this bank as their investment target after comprehensively evaluating the bank in Germany.
Because the nine banks that Zhou You had invested in before were all among the largest banks in the world, but this time, they were unmoved by Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest bank, which had been secretly sending out trouble, but invested in a local bank.
Only Zhou You knows that Deutsche Bank is a big pit, a huge big hole that continues to collapse.
Last year, Deutsche Bank's stock price was $130 per share, but this year, it has fallen to less than $80 a share. However, this is far from the bottom line, because in 2016, when the tour was reborn, what was the share price of Deutsche Bank? Thirty dollars!
The reason why he remembered it so clearly was because at that time, HNA in the mainland had become the largest shareholder of Deutsche Bank with a controlling ratio of nearly 10 percent. Originally, Deutsche Bank's market capitalization was as high as $140 billion, but ten years later, it was less than $40 billion.
This is not the most taboo part of traveling, because market capitalization does not represent the strength of the bank and the scale of money management. But Deutsche Bank's ranking as the least resilient bank in Europe is worrying, as it means that the bank is in crisis.
Therefore, no matter how much Deutsche Bank flatters, Zhou Yi is not moved. Citing the fact that he controlled enough banks and lacked a private bank, he targeted the Frankfurt Mortgage Bank.
Moreover, the bank is no longer simply a shareholder, but a controlling shareholder. Zhou You not only wants to take a controlling stake, but also prepares a wholly-owned acquisition. Because he is ready to turn this private bank, which has a history of nearly 400 years, into his own personal asset management bank.
Now the assets of the tour have spread all over the world, and the scale of the funds is so large that everyone is afraid of it. With such a large scale of funds, it is no longer enough to rely on the people under him to manage it.
Now, there are two international accounting firms, two international law firms, and his own money management team managing his assets, but they are inefficient.
A private bank with extensive management experience can manage its own personal assets and corporate assets more effectively.
But with full control of a large private bank, Zhou You faces no small resistance. The biggest obstacle is not the government, but the bank's original customers. Although the Frankfurt Mortgage Bank has less than $2 billion of its own funds, it manages more than $40 billion of funds, and there are many world-class old families who have always let this bank help manage the family assets.
The first thing Zhou You wanted to do to buy the bank was to stabilize these customers, and now there are more than a dozen employees around the world with more than 2,000 employees to replace.
However, Zhou You's business ability is already obvious to all, and his acquisition has been proceeding smoothly and methodically.
Half a month after his press conference, when his weapons and equipment were loaded onto a cargo ship in Singapore, it immediately caused a sensation around the world, because the heavy weapons loaded on the ship far exceeded everyone's imagination.
On the sales list of the licensed industry, the number of light tanks and self-propelled howitzers alone exceeds 100, and there are more than 100 Mustang all-terrain combat vehicles, and the value of these arms alone is nearly 400 million US dollars, not counting all kinds of advanced individual equipment, grenades, and mines, according to estimates, the total value of Zhouyou's military purchases this time is more than 500 million US dollars.
This arms purchase is not a small amount for any country, but it is only a personal purchase for travel.
When the arms arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, President Kabila did not bother with the weapons and directly approved the entry of the cargo ship. And when interviewed by reporters, he sent an invitation to Zhou You, hoping that Zhou You's army in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could cooperate with the government army and jointly encircle and suppress Nkunda's forces.
However, Zhou You did not hesitate to refuse his request, solemnly stating that he would never interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, and his weapons were only to protect the investment of more than 600 enterprises led by him in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
This decision surprised everyone again.
However, Zhou You later announced that he would donate 20,000 AK47s and 10 million rounds of ammunition to the DRC government as a thank you for his care of Nanyang Security.
The Nkunda forces welcomed Zhou's decision and told reporters that their struggle was for the survival of the Tutsi people, and that even if they became independent, it would not affect Zhouyou's company's investment in the DRC and would protect their industry in the DRC.
When the cargo ships arrived in Moanda, they replaced the river boats, unloading about half of the weapons in Kinshasa, but carrying most of the heavy weapons along the Congo River, the second largest flow in the world, to Kisangani, a major city in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
From here, exactly 500 kilometers in a straight line from Bukavu, where the base is located, when people thought that these tanks and self-propelled howitzers would drive through the primeval forest to Bukavu, something shocked everyone again.
In order to deliver these weapons, Zhou You actually ordered two Mi-26 heavy helicopters from the Russian side in advance, and when these two helicopters were photographed by reporters, everyone was shocked by his generosity.
Just to deliver these weapons, to buy two helicopters, this is really money that has nowhere to spend. Instead of that, why not rent it?
But Zhou You didn't explain anything, and he didn't have to explain it to anyone. Nominally, he bought the helicopter for the delivery of these weapons, but in reality, he was preparing for a catastrophe ten days later.
Yes, it's already in May, and we're ten days away from that great tribulation. He clearly remembers how heavy the casualties were due to the landslide, the road was cut off, and the rescue machinery at that time could not enter.
Yang Bili made a clarification in front of the media on behalf of Zhou You, the two helicopters will not become weapons for the Congolese government army to deal with Nkunda's forces, and after completing this delivery mission, they will be driven back to Singapore, and will be donated to the Singapore Marine Police Force by Zhou You to undertake the rescue mission.
With these two helicopters, howitzer trucks and tanks, as well as various weapons, were transported to the training base in Bukavu in just five days.
After a day's rest, the two helicopters were hooked up with four fuel tanks, split into six sections, and flew back to Singapore.
This move also made everyone a little strange, because the most economical way to transport these two helicopters was by ship, or to rent a large transport plane and dismantle the propellers and transport them back.
The fuel consumption of helicopters is very terrifying, and the cost of driving back in this way is not only several times that of renting a transport plane, but also hundreds of times that of shipping, and it is also necessary to communicate with the airports of three countries, which is a lot of trouble.
However, Zhou You's explanation to the outside world is: use this long-distance training to train his own helicopter pilot.