Chapter 182: The Iran-Iraq War Breaks Out

It's just that Huaxia Bank also completely offended Yang Xia because of this successful blackmail. After that, Yang Xia almost no longer dealt with Huaxia Bank, especially after Huaxia allowed foreign banks to enter the mainland, Yang Xia made a comeback and almost squeezed Huaxia Bank into bankruptcy. And those who advocated high interest rates back then have also borne a heavy psychological burden since then.

In later generations, when someone with a heart broke the news of this secret, Ge Qianqian, the former director of the Education Department of Nanshu Province, who had retired at home at that time, laughed again at his children and said: "Shun Yang Zhechang!" ”

In the process of carrying out these capital operations, Yang Xia also smoothly completed the academic completion examination of the undergraduate degree of Xiangcheng Port University, paying attention to the "academic qualifications" rather than "academic qualifications", after all, Yang Xia did not stay in the University of Hong Kong for so much time, of course, the three words "graduation certificate" and the degree certificate of "Bachelor of Arts" did not seep water at all.

It's just that Yang Xia, who has completed her undergraduate education, has no books to read for the time being, because the graduate admission of HKU is the same as that of undergraduate freshmen, but the exam time is much earlier, and Yang Xia finally missed the graduate school entrance exam because of a whim.

However, this incident gave Yang Xia a chance to reflect, is it necessary to study for a so-called master's degree and doctorate, aren't there many successful people in history who have never entered college, Lian Bill. Gates and that guy have dropped out of Harvard, is it better to be a reborn than a Harvard college student? And most Harvard college students are not as good as a Bill Gates!

Yang Xia felt that he seemed to have gotten into some kind of dead end and did not come out. Such as. I care more about that doctorate or master's title, but, like a great man, who cares that he didn't go to college? For example, Nanshu once was the richest man in China, Liu Shihao, who cares that he is just an undergraduate?

Entering university by yourself is nothing more than learning knowledge. But his academic ability has long been recognized by the world, and the college entrance examination score with a difference of 1 point is definitely unprecedented, which has made him famous enough. What kind of name do you want to come up with?

If you really want to do academics. Immerse yourself in it; If you really want to be a writer, just bury your head in writing; At this time, he is not bad for fame and level. Not bad ability. So why do you have to get that diploma?

Maybe. The traditional glory of the ancestors is very important, but Yang Xia is not enough to honor the ancestors at this time? Obviously, Yang Xia's status is not much different from the so-called champion in ancient times. It's even stronger.

Thinking of this, the ideas of the past have been completely discarded.

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In mid-August, Hantang Investment began to take stock from the Xiangcheng Port stock market, even some related companies that Yang Xia was particularly optimistic about because of the oil crisis, Yang Xia took the way to withdraw all of them.

By the end of early September, the total assets of Hantang Investment's account in Xiangcheng Port were less than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars. In addition, Yang Xia borrowed all the funds he earned by various means, including 100 million rice knives from Huaxia Bank and 50 million Hong Kong dollars from HSBC, and 222 million Hong Kong dollars from the previous funds plus 69 million Hong Kong dollars earned in two months, which was converted into a total of 142.62 million rice knives and transferred them to 200 accounts opened on Wall Street.

After the Iranian hostage crisis, the global oil price has increased from 13 meters a barrel to a maximum of 20 meters a barrel, at this time, when Yang Xia intervened, the impact of the hostage crisis has faded, and the price of oil futures for delivery after half a year is generally 17 meters a barrel. However, Yang Xia knew that after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, oil futures would eventually rise to a high price of 34 meters.

At the end of early September, all the traders of Hantang Investment in Xiangcheng Port have been transferred to the United States, and all about 20 traders have been allocated to nearly 200 accounts, each with a capital of about 700,000 meters.

Investing in futures generally requires a 10% margin, which means that you can generally take 10 times leverage.

On Thursday, September 11, Yang Xia decided not to wait any longer and decided to start eating oil futures with 10 times leverage, Yang Xia asked for Thursday and Friday, half of all the funds were eaten, because Yang Xia couldn't figure out when the Iran-Iraq war broke out, only that it was the middle or late of the year.

Because of the investment of tens of millions of meters, the price of oil futures fluctuated by 0.5 meters slightly, but because the overall market was too large, the price fluctuated for two hours, and it tended to be stable.

On Thursday and Friday, Yang Xia ate 64 million meters of oil futures, which were settled by 10 times leverage, equivalent to 640 million meters, and calculated at 17 meters per barrel, with a total of 37.7 million barrels of oil futures on hand. What is this number? It is only equivalent to 5.3 million tons of oil, which is less than the amount of oil reserves in the country for 10 days.

Therefore, one or two hundred million meters of gold cannot make any waves in the oil market.

On September 15th, at the beginning of a new week, Yang Xia decided to speed up the plan and surprise at half the rate of each day, that is, half of the remaining position on the 15th, and half of the remaining position on the 16th, so that there will always be a remainder. Of course, it is up to the trader to decide which accounts are advanced and which are backward, because each trader has 7 million meters of knives in his hand.

On September 17, Iraq unilaterally tore up the Algiers Treaty, and the media in the United States only reported it briefly, and no one thought it was an important signal, but Yang Xia understood that the war was about to begin.

What is the Treaty of Algiers? This has to start with the border between Iran and Iraq.

The Iran-Iraq border is more than 1,200 kilometers long, and the Shatt al-Arab border issue before the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war was the main trigger for the war.

The Shatt al-Arab is formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in Iraq, and the downstream section of about 100 kilometers is the border between Iran and Iraq. In 1847, 1913 and 1937, the two countries signed three river boundary agreements, and the basic pattern was that the border between the two countries was the middle of the main shipping route on the river, that is, the two countries divided half of each country. On 15 March 1975, under the good offices of the President of Algeria, the two sides signed the Algiers Agreement, which established the national border as the center of the Shatt al-Arab. Since the Shatt al-Arab is Iraq's only access to the sea in and out of the Persian Gulf, it is of great importance to Iraq, and Iraq considers the Algiers Treaty to be unequal to Iran if it wants to divide the Shatt al-Arab waterway equally with Iran.

In addition, the islands of Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb and the Lesser Tunb in the Persian Gulf are also the object of contention between the two countries. The islands were originally owned by the British, who handed over their control to Sharjah after the 60s, but the United Arab Emirates, which Sharjah and other countries were not yet independent, could not establish de facto control in these areas. After the withdrawal of British troops in November 1971, Iran sent troops to occupy these areas. The islands' proximity to the Strait of Hormuz has raised concerns in Iraq as Iran has expanded its control capabilities in the strait area. Iraq believes that Iran should return the islands to the UAE.

This is the border dispute, which can be regarded as the direct cause of the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, in addition, there are also religious and ethnic issues. In short, the contradictions between the two countries have intensified to a certain extent, and it is impossible not to fight a war.

On Saturday, September 20th, the war did not break out, and Yang Xia did not speak, and directly invited all employees of the company, including Henderson of the Mountain Eagle Fund, to go to Chinatown to eat Chinese food, and then each person was given 1,000 meters of gold, listening to concerts and watching movies, etc., which was equivalent to a small reward after seven consecutive days of operation.

On Sunday, September 21, the war still hadn't broken out, but Yang Xia was silently thinking, it's close, it's close, maybe it's about to break out!

"Whatever he does, let's sleep peacefully." Yang Xia couldn't wait for the war, but made himself tired, so he went to bed at 10 o'clock at night.

However, Yang Xia felt that he had not slept for long, and a phone ringing woke him up, which turned out to be Song Mingzhao's transoceanic call: "In the early morning of local time on September 22, 1980, Iraq mobilized a large number of aircraft to carry out air strikes on 15 cities and air bases including Tehran, the capital of Iran!" The Iran-Iraq war you were looking forward to has officially broken out! ”

"Thank you, thank you, Song Da Beauty, I can finally sleep peacefully." When the war broke out, the general trend has been decided, what are you worried about, and it can be said that this game is already absolutely sure, but it is just settled in the end, and you can earn more and earn less.

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When the war broke out, it was the morning of Beijing time.

While the chief was working in his office, he suddenly saw the secretary holding a telegram from the news agency's Baghdad correspondent station about the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, and while marveling at Yang Xia's "magic stick," Huaxia also immediately held a news conference in accordance with the pre-agreed procedures, expressing concern for the warring parties and calling on the two sides to return to the negotiating table and resolve the dispute between the two countries through the guò government.

However, when the press conference was being held, two vice ministers of foreign affairs of the same rank had already visited the embassies of the two countries in China, expressing sympathy for Iran's statement and hoping that Iran could do its best to drive out the aggressor. In addition, on behalf of the government, the deputy minister also announced the assistance of 100,000 meters worth of medical equipment and related medicines to Iran.

Iran immediately announced China's aid, saying that it had received a lot of help. Of course, Huaxia must be the first country to help, after all, at this time, Europe and the United States are still in the dawn of the day, even if you want to help, you have to wait for work time.

As for Iraq, the tone is to express understanding, Huaxia has no intention of condemning anyone, you are all Arab brothers, Huaxia has an old saying, it is difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs, so we really understand, and at the same time are willing to maintain closer relations with Iraq in commerce and trade.

The situation of the Iran-Iraq war is very peculiar, Iran is supported by Red Russia at this time, so Iran has a lot of Red Russian standard equipment, of course, these equipment can also be docked with China's military equipment.

Iraq, on the other hand, was supported by the United States, including Al-Qaeda, which was also supported by the United States at this time, so at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war, the two superpowers were behind it. (To be continued......)

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