The Central Bank of Russia announced on 17 August that it would expand the fluctuation range of the ruble against the US dollar to 6.0~9.5:1 this year, postpone the repayment of foreign debts and suspend the trading of state bonds.

The ruble depreciated by 70% in half a month. All this has caused the Russian stock market and foreign exchange market to fall sharply, triggering a financial crisis and even an economic and political crisis. The sudden change in Russia's policy has greatly damaged the international speculators who have invested huge sums of money in the Russian stock market, and has brought about an all-round and violent fluctuation in the foreign exchange markets of the stock markets of the United States and European countries.

Solo's last glimmer of hope was dashed, and he could only watch as Zhongtian and the Hong Kong Island government began to clean up the battlefield......

Since late August, the Zhongtian system and the Hong Kong Island government have invested funds to start intervening in the market, investing nearly 10 billion yuan per day, collecting a large number of blue-chip stocks and promissory notes, and at the same time raising the overnight interest rate of banks, and attacking international speculators, so that the Hang Seng Index rose rapidly at a rate of hundreds of points per day, and soon returned to the level of 8,000 points, and continued to rise......

On August 28, more than 6 million Hong Kong Island residents were spotted on the Stock Exchange and the Futures Exchange in Central, Hong Kong Island. Because August 28 is the settlement date of the Hang Seng Index futures contract in August, it is also the first decisive battle between Zhongtian and the Hong Kong Island government to crack down on the manipulation of Hong Kong's financial market by international travel capital groups with hedge funds as the main body.

Just five minutes after the market opened at 10 a.m., the stock market turnover exceeded HK$6 billion. Half an hour later, the turnover exceeded HK$20 billion, and by the time the market closed in the morning, the turnover had reached HK$60 billion.

After the market opened in the afternoon, the selling pressure continued unabated, and the trading volume climbed all the way. However, the Hang Seng Index and the Futures Index are always above 8,400 points. As the bell rang at four o'clock in the afternoon. The constantly beating Hang Seng Index, Futures Index, and turnover on the display screen are locked at 8,426 points, 8,952 points, and 97 billion yuan respectively.

So far. The Hang Seng Index rose from 6,600 points at the close of trading on August 13 to 8,400 points on the 28th, and forced speculators to settle and deliver August stock index futures at high prices, and raised September stock index futures.

Prior to this, speculators led by Solo had built a large number of short positions in August futures indexes, so that even if they transferred positions, the cost was very high, once the positions were closed. Huge losses are inevitable!

Solo's fiasco and heavy losses in Russia and Hong Kong Island, although it will not be to the point of losing all his money, but there is nothing left.

Don't forget one thing - of the funds he holds, 30 billion of them are borrowed from Zhongtian, and in addition to repaying the principal, he also has to pay high interest!

This means that after Solo liquidates the losses, the remaining funds will be paid to Zhongtian after the principal and interest. Not even enough for him!

The financial decisive battle of the century has finally come to an end......

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Celebration banquet. Wu Tian's mood was not happy.

Because there are no winners in this big war.

Not to mention Solo's fiasco, the Hong Kong Island government is actually not a winner, and Dingtian can only be regarded as a winner.

The winner means that the other side is not defeated, and the Hong Kong Island government has nothing to win, even if the final solution is the defeat of Solo, but how can the economy of Hong Kong Island not be affected?

Even if Hong Kong Island's stock market is temporarily preserved, don't forget that the surrounding countries are in a depression, how can the isolated Hong Kong Island continue to grow and develop?

Affected by the financial turmoil, the foreign exchange market and stock market in Southeast Asian countries and regions have been in turmoil. Comparing the exchange rates at the end of March '98 and the beginning of July '97, the stock markets of all countries shrank by more than one-third. The exchange rate of currencies against the US dollar fell by more than 10 to 70 percent, and the Thai baht, the Korean won, the Indonesian rupiah and the Singapore dollar were hit the hardest, which depreciated by 39 percent, 36 percent, 72 percent and 61 percent respectively. In '98, the yen was volatile, falling twice to 146.64 yen against the dollar in June and August, causing turmoil in the Western foreign exchange market.

The financial crisis and recession in Southeast Asia triggered the financial crisis in Russia and spread to other countries. Brazil fled a large amount of capital, Colombia's currency depreciated sharply, and then caused violent shocks in global financial markets, and the stock markets of Western Europe and the United States fluctuated sharply, slowing down economic growth.

The breadth and depth of the spread of the financial crisis was unexpected, and it clearly surpassed any post-war economic and financial crisis, and its negative impact on the global economy was unexpected, and the regional crisis truly evolved into a global problem......

This qiē can be described as the sin of Solo, which can be described as the sin of financial players......

And Zhongtian can't be considered a winner.

Although almost all of the money earned by Solo's sweep of Southeast Asia this time was spit out, not all of the money went into Zhongtian's pocket. The only place where Zhongtian occupies the light is to take the opportunity to acquire some bankrupt companies.

However, at the same time, Zhongtian also has a lot of losses, for example, Hong Kong Island real estate has shrunk sharply due to the impact of this storm, and some of Zhongtian's investments in Southeast Asia have inevitably shrunk sharply and so on.

After the whole calculation, although Zhongtian made a lot of money in the early stage, it also lost a lot in the later stage, and there was no surplus.

Wu Tian smiled bitterly, such a war with no winner is simply!

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Just arrived, the battle for defense came to an end. The flood fight is also coming to an end.

Mid-September. Wu Tian took a plane back to the capital. Looking from above, the river has gradually returned to calm, and it is impossible to see how the land has been raging.

According to preliminary statistics, a total of 29 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) across the country were hit by floods of different degrees in this flood, with an area of 318 million mu and 196 billion mu affected, with 223 million people affected and 3,004 people killed. 6.85 million houses collapsed, and the direct economic loss amounted to 166.6 billion yuan.

In order to provide disaster relief, the state mobilized more than 200,000 troops and police, and after more than two months, it finally achieved the final victory!

The flood of the Yangtze River in '98 and the flood of the Yangtze River in 31 and 5. The four years were the same, basin-wide floods, but the flood inundation and the death toll were much lower than the previous two:

-- The flood area is small. In the past three years, more than 300 dry embankments have burst, and almost all of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have been flooded. In the 54th year, more than 60 dry embankments breached, and the Jianghan Plain and many major cities were flooded, and the flood area was 3.17 million hectares (47.55 million mu). The Beijing-Guangzhou railway was interrupted for more than 100 days. In 98, only one of the main embankments of the Yangtze River broke in the Jiujiang embankment, and the plugging was successful within a few days. Cities and transportation arteries along the river were not flooded. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake and Fanyang Lake have a total of 1,075 floods, with a total inundation area of 321,000 hectares (4.82 million mu), 197,000 hectares (2.95 million mu) of cultivated land, and a population of 2.29 million people.

- The death toll is low. In the three major floods that occurred in the Yangtze River basin in this century, 145,000 people died in 31 years, 33,000 people died in 54 years, and 1,562 people died in the five provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin in 98 years, and most of them died from flash floods and mudslides in the mountainous areas.

I have to say that this is a victory, but it is also a victory that cannot be laughed at.

The natural disasters in the mainland, coupled with the man-made disasters on Hong Kong Island, made the triumphant Wu Tian have no joy at all......

Arriving in the capital, facing his father, Wu Tian had a feeling of sadness - to know that when he was fighting the enemy on Hong Kong Island, his father was equivalent to staying in the capital as a hostage......

"Dad......" Wu Tian couldn't hold back his excitement and shouted at his father.

"Well done, well done this time!" Wu Jianguo patted his son's shoulder heavily and said in an affirmative tone.

Wu Tian couldn't help but feel a little hot in his eyes, maybe this affirmation was enough to make Wu Tian feel satisfied with his efforts in the past year......

What is the pursuit of rebirth in a lifetime? Maybe at the beginning I want to make some money and enjoy it, maybe I want to let my family and friends live well, but with more and more money, my influence is getting bigger and bigger, and I can really do something tangible for the country and the people......

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"I haven't seen you this year, how do you feel like you've matured a lot all of a sudden?"

In the living room of Xishan Villa, Liu Xinyu said with a smile.

Wu Tian smiled. But unconsciously there are a bit of vicissitudes. But open your mouth to say the words. But it made Liu Xinyu cry and laugh......

"Of course, don't forget that I'm a college graduate now, so I'm a serious adult, okay?" Wu Tian said with a serious smile.

"I really doubt how you got this diploma, you haven't entered the school gate for a year." Lin Su quipped on the side.

"There's no way, who let us open the school ourselves, we have to enjoy some special treatment." Wu Tian said with a smile.

In fact, Wu Tian's graduation is not entirely the result of special treatment, at least Wu Tian's graduation thesis was written by himself. It was also specially recommended by the school to be published in the school's self-run and publicly issued journal "Tiandao".

"Speaking of graduation, do you have a job arrangement? What are you going to do? Liu Xinyu asked.

Speaking of work problems, Wu Tian can't help but have a big head.

According to my mother's meaning, of course, I want to arrange a formal job for myself, and enter the system like an old lady to serve an iron rice bowl.

This plan is very supportive by many people, such as grandma and aunt, who strongly support it, and even Liu Wencheng hopes that Wu Tian can enter the system and be cultivated as the future successor of the faction.

But fortunately, my father did not strongly ask Wu Tian to take this path.

Wu Jianguo means respecting Wu Tian's own choice. Especially after the battle to defend Hong Kong Island, I have deeply seen the influence of finance. Wu Jianguo believes that no matter what he does, as long as it can benefit the country and the people, it doesn't matter.

As a result, Wu Tian has his own path and the freedom to choose himself, but the problem is that he himself has not figured out what he should do......

Wu Tian didn't bother to make money anymore, so he didn't mention it when he was doing business or something. can be said to be an official, but Wu Tian knows that his casual nature can't adapt to so many rules and regulations in the system.

Suddenly, Wu Tian found that he had no pursuit, and he didn't know what kind of life to live.

Therefore, so far, Wu Tian's idea is to eat and wait for death, accompany his girlfriends every day, and enjoy the life of a fairy......

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At the end of September, a complete victory in the fight against floods was declared today.

The victory of the battle does not mean that it is all over, just like the victory in the defense of Hong Kong Island, but it is not a short matter of time to recover Hong Kong Island from this battle, and the reconstruction work after the flood is not an easy thing......

"The task of post-disaster reconstruction is quite heavy, and we must choose a person with strong ability and a strong sense of responsibility to undertake this heavy task......," Mr. Hong said, "Comrade Jianguo, I think you are suitable!" ”

Before Wu Jianguo could say anything, Wu Tian shouted: "Uncle Hong, my dad didn't offend you, right?" How can you arrange such hard work for him......"

"Little God!" Wu Jianguo hurriedly shouted.

"Hehe......" Mr. Hong waved his hand at Wu Jianguo, signaling that he didn't have to mind that Wu Tian didn't pay attention to what he said. Said with a smile. "How can revolutionary work be picky? I want your dad to go over, mainly from the perspective of ability. ”

"I don't think it'......" Wu Tian pouted and said, as for the reason, he could only muttered in his stomach......

Mr. Hong asked his father to go to the disaster area to be responsible for the reconstruction work, but in fact, he didn't take a fancy to the financial resources behind him? As long as Dad accepts this task, how can he not spend money to help him? This old man doesn't look upright, but he doesn't bend around......

Mr. Hong ignored Wu Tian's muttering, and only asked Wu Jianguo: "Jianguo." At present, this is just my opinion, whether you want to accept this task or not, you can go back and think about it. ”

After finishing speaking, Mr. Hong sighed again and said: "The people in the disaster area are very bitter, and they urgently need a capable and responsible leader to help them rebuild their homes......

Wu Jianguo, who was still a little hesitant, heard this, but his eyes became resolute, and Wu Tian suddenly secretly said badly. Now I'm afraid that my father will definitely go to Hunan Province......

In fact, having said that, Wu Tian did not disapprove of his father going to Hunan Province. At Wu Jianguo's current level. If you go down, you can only be a vice governor first, and then seek progress, so whether you go to Hunan Province or go to other places, the work is the same, at least speaking, the environment of Hunan Province is not bad, although it is not as developed as the coastal provinces, but it is a few points stronger than Shannan.

Coupled with the post-disaster reconstruction work, it is actually easier to make achievements in Hunan Province in the short term.

The only thing that Wu Tian is not very satisfied with is actually that Tie Sanshao also asked Wu Jianguo to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the same vice-provincial position, but the difference is that Wu Tian is quite clear that in the next few years, the development opportunities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are far stronger than those in Hunan Province!

Wu Tian didn't believe that Mr. Hong didn't know about the Tie family's mention at all, but he mentioned that his father went to Hunan Province, obviously for the reconstruction of the disaster area, and ignored his father's future in vain, and only focused on the public and the people, and did not talk about half of his personal feelings......

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Wu Tian didn't think that he could convince his father to make a choice, so he simply let himself discuss with his grandfather and Liu Wencheng, he couldn't see it and couldn't see it, so he simply flew back to the mall.

After a year's absence, returning to his own chassis, Wu Tian felt full of relief for no reason.

However, at this moment, the office of Tiandao University has been abolished - Wu Tian has already graduated, and there is no reason to continue to occupy the school house. So after "graduation", Lin Qiuer moved her office to the villa in the forest park.

Anyway, Wu Tian's office didn't need to be used to meet guests often, so he simply renovated his villa, using the first floor as an office location, and the second floor as a rest.

"I don't know if this arrangement will work, you see if there is anything that needs to be changed, and I will go back and arrange someone to rearrange it." Lin Qiu'er blushed slightly and said to Wu Tian.

"Of course it's okay, Qiu'er, you arranged it, can I still be satisfied?" Wu Tian lay on the big sofa chair in the study with a big grin and said with a smile.

In fact, the layout here is similar to the layout of the office on Tiandao's side, but the difference is a little more exquisite, obviously from Lin Qiu'er's handwriting.

"Well, if you like it." Lin Qiu'er said happily.

"Qiu'er, did you miss me?" Wu Tian hadn't been serious for half a minute before he began to tease Lin Qiu'er.

Say this year. Lin Qiu'er had also gone to Hong Kong Island to see Wu Tian a few times. Even Yang Xiaoya deliberately avoided suspicion and lived in the company for a few days. However, compared to the original daily mess together, how can we be satisfied if we only see each other a few times this year? At the very least, Wu Tian's thoughts were quite intense.

"Don't mess around, I haven't told you a lot of business......" Lin Qiu'er tried to break free from Wu Tian's clutches, but how did she exert half of her strength? I was quickly stirred up by that guy, and I sat on his lap helplessly.

The gasp grew sharper, and the dodge turned into pandering, but at this moment. A head poked in at the door of the study, and Su Xia smiled and shouted, "I'm sorry to disturb the two of you on good things......

"Su Xia......" Lin Qiu'er shouted in disobedience, and just jumped up from Wu Tian's arms.

"Sister Su, you're too rude, don't you knock on the door when you come in?" Wu Tian also shouted speechlessly.

"You're not closing, okay?" Su Xia smiled, "Okay, I didn't bump into it for the first time, what are you shy?" ”

Lin Qiu'er was even more ashamed and angry when she said this, and she stomped her feet hatefully. A posture that I can't wait to go up and fight with her. Wu Tian was super thick-skinned and smiled: "It's cheap for you, let's say it." What's the matter? ”

"There are guests coming to the door, do you want people to come directly?" Su Xia smiled, "It's a beauty." ”

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It was indeed a beautiful woman who came to the door, but fortunately it was not Wu Tian's girlfriend, but Wu Tian's sister.

Wu Yuan has left the Youth League Committee at this moment, and before leaving, he has naturally solved the treatment of the main department, and now he has been sent to Damiao Town as a deputy mayor of the main department, but he is also the parent official where Wu Tian is located at the moment.

When the parents came to the door, Wu Tian had no choice but to respectfully invite the elder sister to sit on the main seat, and he sat down with a smile on the side, listening to the elder sister's reprimand honestly.

"You're okay, don't say you want to call me in advance when you come back, you have to tell me Qiu'er?" Wu Yuan said angrily.

"It's not that I'm afraid that the leader will be busy with work, so I thought that when you get off work in the evening, I will visit you in person." Wu Tian said with a poor smile.

"Phew, no matter how busy I am, can I have you busy? I've been busy on Hong Kong Island for more than a year, and I haven't said that I've come back to see me, so I really forgot about your sister, right? Wu Yuan said.

Wu Tian could only listen to these words with a wry smile, you must know that it was not that he didn't want to come back to see, he really couldn't come back. It's not that the war on Hong Kong Island has been tense in the past year, but because of the problem of trust, I really want to leave the battlefield without permission, but I am afraid that I will not know what to think.

In fact, when I think about it, I am so tired and tired to do this work by myself, and sometimes I really want to just leave it alone.

"Alright, you're in for dinner in the evening!" Wu Yuan didn't embarrass the elder brother too much, but ordered, "Find a good place, you Brother Lu will also come, as well as District Chief Sun and Hou Bureau, they will come and give you the wind." ”

Wu Tian couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

In the past year, Sun Yulong has relied on his achievements in land transfer, and he is the head of the district when he is re-elected, and Hou Xiaoyong is still in the city bureau, in front of his deputy director - this guy is too unofficial, that is, he is a deputy position. In addition, Yi Qingshu has also taken the position of mayor of the mall, and Zhao Jiacai has also successfully promoted to the position of secretary of the central capital......

In the year of the change, while the reserve forces of the Shannan Liuwu Department were progressing, the older generation of Xia Tieshan, Secretary Song and others also retreated, and the situation could not be said to be much better or worse, but it also felt that it was not what it used to be......

The reception banquet was naturally placed in the Changtian Hotel, but I didn't see my cousin Zhang Ye in the past.

Now Changtian is developing at a high speed in accordance with the plan formulated by Wu Tian at the beginning. At an average rate of opening a new store every three months. It is being deployed throughout the country. Zhang Ye has been busy as a trapeze artist all day, and he rarely has time to stay in the mall all day.

The only thing that made Wu Tian feel relieved was that a group of old people sat together, their enthusiasm was not diminished at all, and they were not unfamiliar when they pushed the cup and changed the lamp, even Bai Jie drank several glasses, not to mention Hou Xiaoyong and others, who had always been very arrogant, and they were almost drunk when they left......

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Returning after a long absence. Wu Tian is not ordinary busy.

Several old leaders have retired, so they naturally want to visit them one by one, especially the master Yang Baoxin, who died not long ago, and they have to go to pay their respects.

There are also Yi Qingshu and Zhao Jiacai, not to mention going to visit - with their current status, it is naturally not suitable to change cups with Wu Tian and the others, and Wu Tian can only come to visit.

Hou Xiaoyong, Sun Yulong, these friends in the system have already drunk together, and Jia Ming, Jia Liang, glasses, buns, as well as Yang Xiaohui and Zuo Xiaojun, a group of friends who take out cheap brothers-in-law, are naturally indispensable to get together.

That's all. The biggest headache for Wu Tian is that the girlfriends. That's the problem......

Fortunately, Wu Tian was prepared, and brought back a lot of all kinds of jewelry from Hong Kong Island, and saw one at a time, sending diamond rings that had a relationship with him, and sending necklaces and earrings if he had no relationship......

Before Wu Tian could breathe a sigh of relief, his father's work arrangement had already come down - as Wu Tian expected, Wu Jianguo finally chose to go to Hunan Province......

"Dad, when are you going to take up your duties?"

At this point, Wu Tian didn't talk nonsense, and asked straight when he opened his mouth.

"It's over next week, and it's already handover here." Wu Jianguo said.

"Well, then I'll go over and help you find out the truth first?" Wu Tian said.

"Do you need it?" Wu Jianguo said with a smile.

"Why not? I heard that the situation in Hunan Province is also very complicated. Wu Tian said, "Besides, the investigation of the situation is also so that you can do your best to carry out your work after you pass, so that you can start doing something practical earlier." ”

Wu Jianguo smiled, but he didn't agree with Wu Tian's suggestion, but he didn't object, he only changed the conversation and said, "I decided to go to Hunan Province this time, but your Uncle Liu doesn't agree with it......"

Wu Tian couldn't help but sigh, this was actually what he expected.

Although Liu Wencheng has many advantages, he also has his flaws, that is, the goal of doing things is too clear, which seems to be a bit utilitarian.

In the two copies given by Mr. Hong and the Tie family, there is no doubt that the Tie family is better, not to mention that the conditions in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are much better than those in Hunan Province, and the most important point is that the pressure on Mr. Hong in the capital is far heavier than that of the Tie family.

Even, in the eyes of many people, Mr. Hong's current situation is very likely to become a loner, and while the Tie family is low-key, there is also the invisible influence of the old man Tie. In the long run, the risk of supporting Mr. Hong is naturally far greater than that of forming an alliance with the Tie family.

Wu Jianguo's stubborn temper is that he doesn't think about these issues at all, and just thinks that he can do some practical things for the people, which is enough......

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Only Chu is talented, and Yu Si is prosperous.

Star City, the capital of Hunan Province, as one of the most luxurious hotels in Star City, has just opened in the presidential suite on the top floor of Changtian Hotel, Wu Tian has a bird's-eye view of this historic city through floor-to-ceiling windows.

At the end of the nineties, Star City was actually not very prosperous, and it was even slightly inferior to the mall - after all, the mall in this life, with the support of large enterprises such as Fengyun and Huatian, the development speed was much stronger than that of the previous life.

However, in terms of popularity, Star City is far more famous than the mall, and the most critical point is actually because of the TV station.

At least for Wu Tian, he first knew the city in his previous life because of Mango Channel's "Base Camp" program. After the CCTV entertainment program became weaker and weaker at the end of the 90s, the launch of "Base Camp" quickly stole a large number of viewers, this kind of revolutionary entertainment program is very popular with young people, and its weight is increasing day by day, and even after many years, the star wants to gain exposure, the first choice is not CCTV, but Mango TV.

I have to say that this has a huge role in promoting the development of a city - in this year, popularity means more opportunities.

"Tianshao, Vice Mayor Zhao has arrived." Fan Xiaojian reported, pulling Wu Tian's gaze back from the city's night sky.

This time, he came to Star City in advance to help his father "step on the point", but Wu Tian brought Fan Xiaojian over.

Mr. Fan's current style and popularity are a trump card knocking on the door, if you want to understand the situation here, you must always contact the leaders in the local system, and you need a good stepping stone.

"Well, let's go down, we're new here, we can't let the leader wait for a long time, hehe......" Wu Tian said with a smile.

Fan Xiaojian was naturally happy, after all, the relationship between Vice Mayor Zhao and him was not too familiar, in fact, he was just introduced to him by the partner of Tongguò Tianjian Investment. Tianshao is willing to give him face, which is naturally the best.

Wu Tian, Fan Xiaojian, and Hao Yu went down to the restaurant on the second floor together, but saw that Vice Mayor Zhao had already sat in the private room, and seeing the three of them coming in, Vice Mayor Zhao quickly stood up and smiled: "Mr. Fan, I am fortunate to be ......."

Fan Xiaojian also smiled and said coldly: "Vice Mayor Zhao is polite, I missed the welcome, please forgive me......"

"You're welcome, you're welcome, Mr. Fan, please sit down, hehe......" Vice Mayor Zhao said quite enthusiastically, I don't know the situation, I'm afraid I still think that it was Vice Mayor Zhao who invited me tonight.

Wu Tian couldn't help but smile slightly, being able to achieve such a self-cultivation as Vice Mayor Zhao, obviously this person has just taken the position, and the original mentality of serving people has not been reversed. Of course, Vice Mayor Zhao is in the habit of attracting investment, but I am afraid that it also accounts for a lot of reasons...... (To be continued......)