Chapter 34 The World Cup

"Zhong Sheng, are you really sure?"

Land Rover clenched the money in his hand and said to Zhong Shi worriedly. What he has in his hand is a year's salary that he has worked hard to save up. Land Rover doesn't spend much on weekdays, and the money he got was deposited in the bank, Liao Chengde persuaded him to invest his money in the stock market several times, but Land Rover just smiled, for this kind of risky thing, he couldn't believe it in his heart.

It was already 1986, a year after Bell Shek's last visit to Hong Kong.

Since the last time Zhongshi made a big profit in the futures market, he has put all the cash on hand into the Japanese stock market. Not surprisingly, Japan's fiscal and monetary policies have developed exactly as Zhong Shi predicted, with a large amount of international capital flowing into Japan, Japan's capital market quickly coming out of the trough after a brief downturn, and the real estate market is also showing a thriving trend, with Tokyo's low prices hitting new highs.

Zhong Shi and Liao Chengde also made a lot of money invested in the Japanese stock market, and with the appreciation of the yen, both of them had about doubled their income, which made Liao Chengde even more convinced of Zhong Shi's ability to make money.

Last time, Manager Luo, who had a task, wandered around Hong Kong for more than half a month, and learned about Liao Chengde's name and net worth from various financial magazines, so he clearly realized Mr. Liao's status among Hong Kong businessmen. What puzzled him in every way was that Mr. Liao, who was so famous, Weishenme, respected a child from a small county town in the mainland so much that he didn't even condescend to greet him in person?

But these don't matter, since Liao Chengde came to the top in Jiangzhong Province and visited all parts of Jiangzhong Province for investment, all the bigwigs of the provincial party committee have settled down. And his old classmate Secretary Liang also showed his face in front of the big guys, and it is said that the No. 1 in Jiangzhong Province intends to arrange him to be the second-in-command in a prefecture-level city below.

As the saying goes, both losses and all prosperity, with the relationship between Luo Zhiqiang and Secretary Liang, it is difficult not to classify him into this faction.

After more than half a year of rest, Zhong Shi's family came to Hong Kong again, and everything was the first time, and the following things were much easier. This time it was summer vacation, and even Zhong Xiaohui came with him. However, he stayed at Yenching University to be busy with various related matters, and after a year of thorough preparation in Zuihou, he completed his studies with excellent grades and applied for postgraduate studies at HKU as he wished.

Hong Kong's universities have been recruiting postgraduate students from the mainland since the 80s, and it will be 20 years before they recruit undergraduates.

Zhong Xiaohui has been successfully admitted to the county high school, which makes the Zhong couple very happy, you must know that Zhong Yi was admitted to Yenching University from the county high school.

Zhong Jianjun vaguely knew that his youngest son made a lot of money, and it was not clear how much, but being able to go to Hong Kong twice in less than a year was obviously not something that ordinary people could do.

This time, Zhong Shi came to gamble, and by the way, he went to Macau to have a visit.

Last year, he promised Liao Chengde that he had taken on the bank's debt of 20 million, and the reason why he dared to say this was because 86 years coincided with the Shijie Cup.

The Shijie Cup in 86 was held in Mexico in South America, and the 32 Shijie Cups from all Shijie went through the group stage to fight each other and finally decide the king of Shijie.

In this Shijie Cup, the Argentine team from South America passed five hurdles and six generals, and finally defeated the West German team in the final, winning the second Hercules Cup in the country's history.

And Diego. Maradona also shone at this year's Shijie Cup, scoring the "Hand of God" and the famous six-man goal against England respectively, completely establishing his status as the king of the ball.

The final of this tournament was reached by Argentina and West Germany, with Argentina narrowly missing a 3-2 win over West Germany, while England striker Lineker won the Golden Boot with six goals.

Zhong Shi was naturally aware of this result, but he didn't dare to tell Land Rover that. For Land Rover, he is undoubtedly a little guilty, this former soldier has been conscientious since he followed Liao Chengde, not only adapted to the habit of driving on the left side of Hong Kong in the shortest possible time, did his duty as a good driver, but also in a gold shop robbery incident, desperately blocked a bullet for Liao Chengde. Fortunately, the "big circle" that robbed the gold store was Land Rover's old acquaintance, so his subordinates showed mercy and spared Lu Rover and Liao Chengde's life.

Liao Chengde previously complained that Zhong Shi hired such a person for no reason, and he was even more dissatisfied with putting it by his side, but after such a cycle of life and death, he realized the importance of Land Rover. Liao Chengde privately asked Zhong Shi to transfer the Land Rover to him, but Zhong Shi refused with a smile.

Liao Chengde, who is not dead, started the idea of Land Rover's comrades-in-arms, and in the past year, he asked people everywhere, and finally recruited three former Land Rover comrades-in-arms, and Land Rover together formed the "Four King Kongs".

"I found that there is a pattern that whenever the Shijie Cup is held in South America, it will be the South American team that wins. If it's held in Europe, then it's going to be a European team that wins! For Land Rover, although Zhong Shi sent a lot of money to his hometown, he never went to Chuandu, so he always felt a little guilty in his heart. Since there is a chance to make a fortune this time, let's pull him along.

"And then?"

Land Rover scratched his head and asked puzzled.

"Right now, there are only two teams in South America that can win the title, one is Brazil and the other is Argentina. We only need to bet on two teams to have a fifty percent chance of winning. ”

Zhong Shi was not annoyed and patiently explained. He also had to find a reasonable explanation for the future of the ironclad matter, which made him very difficult.

"Is it Brazil or Argentina?"

Land Rover still looks incredulous, gambling on football is even more unreliable for him than playing stocks.

"There's a bit of luck involved! I found out that Argentina fought a war with England in '82, which is what we call the Battle of the Falklands, and Argentina was defeated at home, and the country's fortune was not good! ”

In addition to this, Argentina has also repeatedly erupted in infighting before this, and it is said that the president of the Argentine Football Federation, Grondona, is dissatisfied with the head coach Bilardo and wants him to step down. Do you know what this means? ”

Zhong Shi rolled his eyes and whispered to Land Rover.

"Infighting? When a big war comes, will there be discord? This is a taboo in the use of soldiers! It seems that you can't buy the Argentine team to win the championship! ”

Land Rover frowned and said to himself.

"What an elm head!" Zhong Shi slapped his head, a little helpless.

"On the contrary, this is called 'mourning soldiers must win' in ancient China, think of the star-studded Argentine national team, and they are all in the year of play, it is said that those who play in Europe are very disgusted with the Argentine Football Federation and Grondona, isn't this a prerequisite for the toast?"

"But ......"

"There's nothing more to it than that! I've decided to invest 10 million in Argentina, and the odds for Argentina are the most optimistic at the moment, around 1 to 7, and the other favourites are just worse than Argentina. It's up to you to vote! ”

After talking for a long time, seeing that the elm head of the Land Rover had not yet been opened, Zhong Shi couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and he didn't speak very politely.

"This ...... This...... In case Zuihou Argentina doesn't win the championship, then the money is not ......"

Land Rover cried with a sad face, and asked Zhong Shi cautiously, and he also heard the dissatisfaction between Zhong Shi's words.

"Damn, there are so many ifs! If Zuihou loses, I will pay out of my own pocket and personally make up for your shortfall! Zhong Shi snatched the money from Land Rover's hand and said with some disdain.

Seeing that there was no room for things to turn around, Land Rover was no longer entangled in this, took a betting ticket, and filled it out carefully.

They are betting on the periphery, in Hong Kong ball is called "wave", betting on the ball is betting on the wave, although it is not legal, but under the rule of the British, ordinary Hong Kong people have also become interested in British football games, gambling ball also came into being, not to mention the three major gambling cities of Shijie across the sea Macau.

The gambling industry in Southeast Asia is extremely developed, and in Hong Kong it is legal to bet on "Mark Six" and betting on horses, while in Macau, gambling is even a major industry, and it is very easy to bet on bookmakers in Europe.

However, the bookmaker was a little surprised to receive more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars in bets. Generally speaking, gamblers will bet more or less on different teams in order to spread the risk, so that they will not lose their money. The gambler is either young or inexperienced, and as for manipulating the outcome of the game, this is not in the bookmaker's mind at all.

If you want to operate the results of the Shijie Cup, it is not much different from the difficulty of assassinating the President of the United States!

In the days leading up to the Shijie Cup, a large amount of gambling money has been remitted from Southeast Asia, and the bookmaker has made a lot of money, but also carefully adjusted various handicaps, hoping that Zuihou will always win himself.

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Regarding the matter of gambling, Zhong Shi never told Liao Chengde from beginning to end. For Liao Chengde, who is an old man, the less he knows about him, the safer he is. You know, Liao Chengde doesn't simply think that Zhong Shi is the kind of genius or something that is not born in the world.

Moreover, Zhong Shi also has his own considerations, in addition to tying Liao Chengde to his chariot, he must also maintain a sufficient sense of mystery, so that Liao Chengde will not have two hearts. As the saying goes, "you can't have the heart to harm others, and you can't do without the heart to prevent people", that's what we say.

As expected, after more than a month of competition, the Argentine team reached the top without any suspense, which allowed Zhongshi to make nearly 80 million Hong Kong dollars from it. (I hope that friends who like this book can recommend the recommendation, the collection that can be collected, xiexie)

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