On August 31, after the Hong Kong SAR government terminated the support action, the Hong Kong stock market plummeted 7.1%, and the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index fell 554.70 points to close at 7257.04 points, with a total turnover of only 6.6 billion Hong Kong dollars, less than one-tenth of last Friday's record high of 79 billion Hong Kong dollars. A very small number of investors had predicted that the index might plummet

Although the decline is large, it is still less than the so-called market elites expected, they have predicted that after the loss of the Hong Kong SAR government's disk protection action, the Hong Kong stock market will fall by at least 12%, but it is clear that the reality has given them a slap in the face, they underestimated the confidence of many retail investors in the Hong Kong stock market in the government, and this confidence is the government took action to give them two days ago.

After careful analysis, the international hedge fund predators represented by Soros believe that the Hong Kong SAR government has invested about 100 billion Hong Kong dollars in the Hong Kong financial market, which cannot be supported for a long time, so they decided to transfer the short-sold stock index futures contracts from August to September, preparing to fight a protracted war with the Hong Kong government.

Starting on August 25, speculative capital was heavily shorting the September contract at the same time as the August contract was unwinded.

At the same time, the Hong Kong government took advantage of the victory on the basis of the profit from the liquidation of the August contract, making the price of the September contract 650 points higher than the settlement price of the August contract. \\\\\\ this way, speculative capital has to pay more than 30,000 Hong Kong dollars for each contract rolled.

Investment capital was completely lost in the battle for the August contract.

At this point, the battle between the two sides has finally come to an end, and Zhang Lan can also divert his energy from the financial defense of Hong Kong: the money he earned from the Russian stock market and the European and American stock markets has entered the account of Alice Commercial Bank, and the wealth from the wedding dress made by Soros and the bosses behind him is not a small amount, but this short-term speculation. earned nearly half a year's income from the entire Alice Group. Zhang Lan also knows that in the Hong Kong stock market, the third more fierce confrontation between Soros and the Hong Kong SAR government will not start until a few days later.

Now that the second meeting is over, the most important thing for me now is not to pay attention to the Hong Kong market, but to pay attention to the formation of my own team: although the team members are all in place, the modification of the car is nearing completion. But right now, those 10 logistical support vehicles are not yet in place.

The 10 logistics support vehicles ordered from Mercedes-Benz are also being modified at AMG, Mercedes-Benz's royal tuning manufacturer. When asked by AMG how far these trucks need to be modified, Zhang Lan asked AMG that even if these logistics vehicles are allowed to participate in the Dakar Rally truck competition, these cars can be fully competent!

As soon as these words came out, not only the staff who helped Zhang Lan contact the Mercedes-Benz AMG modification company sweated, but even the people of the Mercedes-Benz company also sweated! What is the level of modification that can be used in the truck class competition? That's nearly $800,000 per car to make. Coupled with the cost of buying a car, the cost of each car is as high as more than a million dollars, and ten cars are more than ten million dollars!

Alice Group is really rich! I've seen what I can toss for the Dakar Rally, but I've never seen anything like this. You must know that many private small teams participating in the Dakar Rally can have a fraction of the land price of the ten cars purchased by Alice Group, and the entire team can be purchased! Even if the Mercedes-Benz team participated in the Dakar Rally back then, there was no toss like Alice Group that took money and didn't pay for it!

For example, AMG is an international super-first-class car modification manufacturer, naturally it is impossible to be like Xiao Chenxi and Alice, except for some not very important accessories, the rest are all processed on CNC machine tools, they not only have the most advanced modification line, but also have a good cooperative relationship with the world's first-class car modification parts company. They themselves are one of the top suppliers of spare parts for retrofitting

Although for the Dakar Rally, there are many fleets that ordered trucks for modification at Mercedes-Benz. But that's not too much of a problem for AMG, unless they want to come up with a top-of-the-line modified flagship model as their capital to show off their technical prowess. Otherwise, it really won't take their time to modify such a race model: who makes us have strong technical force plus rich experience and manpower!

At the beginning of September, 10 logistical support vehicles were finally in place. Zhang Lan is too lazy to go to the country, if he goes to the country, maybe it didn't take long for him to come in here, he just finished the vehicle adaptability exercise, and he will soon get out to participate in the competition: just these ten cars are in and out, and the freight is not cheap!

Although he is not short of money, there is no need to toss back and forth for these money that can be spent or not, so he directly ordered the Alice Group branch in Germany: "Those modified cars will be put there for you first, and we will send someone to take over before the competition." \\\\\\”

Well, for the sake of insurance, Zhang Lan still asked Alice's personal assistant: the beautiful little Jill to go to Germany instead of himself to inspect the ten cars: although the Germans have always been known for their rigor and responsibility, and it is unlikely that Mercedes-Benz top modification manufacturers like AMG will fool themselves, but there is always nothing wrong with being careful, not afraid of 10,000, just in case, in case something goes wrong in the process of modification?

The Shu Qi "smashing Daben" incident that occurred on the land of China told Zhang Lan that even if the credibility is good, it is not completely trustworthy, even if it is known for its high quality. There are some things, you can only rest assured if you see it clearly and understand, foreign devils, foreign devils, how can you be called devils if you don't have ghosts?

Although Jill's model is not as advanced as Xiao Chenxi and Alice, it is still a piece of cake to deal with such a scene, check whether these modified trucks have hit Zhang Lan's requirements, and whether the accessories specified by Zhang Lan are the corresponding models and quality grades, this kind of simple thing, even sending Arnold or Schwa, two who are similar to Brother Bajie, have no problem in the past, not to mention Jill who is half a model more advanced than Arnold and Schwa?

Zhang Lan is very satisfied with the situation that Gil fed back, although there was a "smashing Daben" incident in history because of the quality problems of Mercedes-Benz, but this time the Germans did not fool themselves, and the effect of these truck modifications as logistics support vehicles is very ideal, and all their requirements have been realized. ,

Mercedes-Benz's century-old reputation is really worthy of a small trust, unlike the impetuous mood that is now permeating the shopping malls in China, everyone is unwilling to start down-to-earth, everyone is eager to take advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity, as long as there is an opportunity to pit people, it will never let go.

As for the credibility of this thing, this has been believed by the ancestors in the country for thousands of years, the ancestors in each other when doing business with each other even as long as they high-five as long as they can strictly abide by the promise, even a contract does not have to be set when the time is gone, the ancestors said: "a mouthful of spit a pit, men speak like steel nails" The ancient admonition has long been forgotten by these losers who only know money in their eyes after the reform and opening up in the past two years.

In the eyes of these guys who only know how to speculate and deceive them, credibility? What is this? Can it be used as money? If you can sell it for money, that's great! Since he can't exchange it for money, what else do you need him to do?!

Zhang Lan can't manage so much, although there is a lack of credit in the society as a whole, Alice Group has always adhered to its own commitments, as long as it is its own promise, it must be done. Zhang Lan also knows that these guys who only want to make small profits in front of them will not have too long-term development, just like a duckweed in the tide, in the tide of economic development, a small wave can sweep these guys away.

Today when you are complacent about deceiving others, maybe tomorrow there will be a more clever liar who deceives you and you are bankrupt and penniless. This is probably also the traditional Chinese idea of cause and effect: "good is rewarded, evil is rewarded, it is not that it is not reported, the time has not come", although there is some superstition, but I have to say that this statement is sometimes very effective.

While Zhang Lan was paying attention to Hong Kong and his upcoming team, there was also good news from the British branch of the Alice (USA) Group in distant Europe: the Vickers Group was very interested in the cooperation proposed by the Alice Group, but if it could, the Vickers Group would prefer to package and sell Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Cosworth, its three subsidiaries to the Alice Group.

Now all European and American countries know that Alice Group is rich, very rich!

At the same time, a piece of information came along with this news, and Zhang Lan finally understood why the Vickers Group wanted to sell these three companies known as the pride of the British Empire's automobile industry: now the Vickers Group is in financial crisis and urgently needs a fund to reverse the current unfavorable situation. And Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Cosworth, which have suffered serious losses for more than ten years, have also become the heaviest burden of the Vickers Group. Then, if you can get rid of these three burdens, and then exchange the burdens for a sum of money to reverse the financial crisis of your group, it is obviously more in the interests of the Vickers Group.

To be honest, the directors of the Vickers Group did not initially expect that the Alice Group would be interested in the three companies they were about to sell before the Alice Group approached them.

At the Vickers Board of Directors meeting, shareholders analyzed that the two car manufacturers were most interested in – and that Cosworth was once again glamorously ignored – should be the Volkswagen Group or the BMW Group, which were ambitious and ready to make a big push into the top luxury car industry.

As for the Alice Group, they really hadn't thought about it.

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