With Zhongshi's research report, NYMEX was temporarily settled, but out of consideration for the risk of default, the exchange added a margin of $200 per lot to all short positions, which reduced Zhongshi's account by more than $20 million.

On November 17, the price of crude oil futures in New York rose by $0.32, or 1.83%, on the news of the margin call, but in the following days, the bears continued to suppress, pushing the price below $17.00 before Thanksgiving, and the international crude oil price to $16.95 on November 24.

And all this, there is a difference of at least $1.50 per lot from the price of $18.50 that Zhongshi opened on average, making the floating profit of his positions close to $200 million, just because the number of hands he holds is too large to close the position at once, so the money earned can only stay on the books.

However, even so, this yield of nearly 100% is enough to staggering the world, and with such a large amount of funds, such a yield can only be achieved in the ultra-highly leveraged futures market.

It's just that in the past few days, Zhong Shi has no heart to pay attention to the futures market, because a person of unknown origin passed through Liao Chengde, saying that he wanted to see him and wanted to talk to him about some things. According to Liao Chengde, the person who accompanied him was a senior reporter from the China Associated Press, and when he left, he also found a suitable opportunity to tell Liao Chengde that the background of the visitor was very hard, and it was best not to offend.

"Even this kind of supreme body in Hong Kong does not dare to offend, what kind of background will that be? Could it be the intelligence services? Zhong Shi, who got the news, frowned and thought for a long time. Didn't come up with a clue either. In this year, the political situation in the country is really a little chaotic, and Shili on either side is far from being able to offend the current Zhongshi.

Since the uninvited guest came to visit, Liao Chengde has been like a frightened bird, and he can't be in fear all day long. Although he has the background of the mainland military, he also knows that this talisman is not omnipotent, not to mention those international organizations that have stipulated the arms embargo, and it is said that one day the British government in Hong Kong wants to move him, and out of diplomatic considerations, it is inconvenient for the mainland government to come forward to help him.

Therefore, Liao Chengde has bet all his magic weapons on Zhong Shi. Hence everything that happened to Zhongshi. He was always paying attention to Liao Xiaohua, and after such an incident, he was even more anxious than Zhong Shi.

"You say, are we going to call the police?" Liao Chengde also lost his square inch for a while. He even said something like calling the police. He didn't want to think about it either. If someone in the mainland wants to move him and Zhong Shi, how can the Hong Kong police protect them with just that little liliang? Those mighty royal cops on the screen can't even deal with the old boys on the streets!

"Call the police?" Zhong Shi knocked on the table in the study and asked with a mocking look on his face. "Do you think it works? Let's wait and see, if I'm not mistaken, it shouldn't be a big deal. ”

"I hope so!" Liao Chengde sighed deeply, rubbed the teapot in his hand for a long time, poured a big sip hard, and then choked on the already cold tea and coughed for a long time.

This is Liao Chengde's study, the bookshelves against the wall are full of large heads, Zhong Shi took a cursory glance, and found that many of them were books like the Twenty-Four History, as well as a few reference books thousands of pages thick. Zhong Shi took out a copy and opened it, and couldn't help but smile dumbly, only to see that the pages were clean, and there was almost no trace of being flipped, it seems that these expensive books were just bought by Liao Chengde to decorate the façade, not really used for reading.

Liao Chengde's old face turned red, so he turned his face and pretended not to see anything, and tasted tea by himself.

Half an hour later, I finally waited for the person who came to meet him, who was not tall and ordinary, wearing a shirt that had been washed a little yellow, and a pair of slightly wide camouflage pants on his legs, which looked very nondescript.

What attracted Zhong Shi's attention was that the neck of the comer was very thick, almost as wide as his head, in addition to this point of being different from ordinary people, the waist of the comer was extremely straight, and he walked with a tigery wind, and a terrifying momentum came to his face, which made Zhong Shi and Liao Chengde suddenly feel an invisible pressure.

As soon as this person entered the study, he glanced around the environment under the surprised eyes of Zhong Shi and Liao Chengde, and then seemingly casually flipped through the books on the shelves, walked to the window and opened the blinds to look out the window, and then tightened the curtains, nodded to the stunned Zhong Shi and Liao Chengde, and shouted outside: "No problem, you can come in!" ”

The Land Rover who followed him in kept a distance of two steps from him, his hands clenched into fists, and his eyes did not leave the person who came in for a moment, looking like he was facing a great enemy, and only after the visitor came out of the study did he nod to Zhong Shi and Liao Chengde, and also followed.

Seeing such a big jiashi, Zhong Shi and Liao Chengde glanced at each other, and they both saw the doubts in each other's hearts. Liao Chengde sighed lightly, and sat down a little depressed, looking like a man for a knife and a fish for me. Zhong Shi was very eager to try, and seeing that the security work was so comprehensive, he was looking forward to the content of the upcoming meeting and conversation.

It didn't take long for a young man in a light gray suit and a pair of wide-framed glasses to walk in, unlike the grim-faced person who came in before, this person looked smiling as soon as he came in, and before he walked to Zhong Shi, Lao Yuan stretched out his hand: "Hello, you must be the young and promising Mr. Zhong Shi Zhong, right?" I'm Zheng Xi, hello! After shaking hands with Zhong Shi, he nodded to Liao Chengde on the side: "Mr. Liao, let's meet again!" ”

"Mr. Zheng came to visit this time, I don't know what you are doing?" As soon as the two sides sat down, Zhong Shi asked in a pretentious voice. He is so straight to the point, he just wants to grasp the initiative in the conversation.

Although Zheng Xi is not very old, he does things well, he first glanced at Liao Chengde who was sitting on the side quietly, and then said slowly: "Mr. Zhong, what I want to talk to you about ......" looked like he wanted to talk and stopped, obviously because he didn't want the content of the conversation to be known by Liao Chengde.

Liao Chengde is also a human spirit, and when he heard this, he snorted haha: "Hehe, as soon as this person is old, his energy is not as good as before, and he is sleepy after sitting for a while, you talk first, forgive me for not accompanying this old man!" After that, he got up and left, and his legs and feet were so fast that he could see that he was a little lacking in energy.

After the door of the study was slammed shut, Zhong Shi's face turned straight and said very seriously: "Who are you?" How did you find this place? Don't you know that the person who just left is now doing things for the country? ”

Judging from everything that happened just now, this "Zheng Xi" in front of him is very big, and he can even invite a senior reporter from the China Associated Press to be a lobbyist, and what he is about to say is definitely not simple, so in order to protect himself, he has to give the person in front of him a dismissal.

Zheng Xi was not annoyed, and said with a normal face: "Mr. Liao is a patriotic businessman, we naturally know this." But as far as we know, Mr. Zhong, you don't seem to have anything to do with the country, right? Now there is a good opportunity for Mr. Zhong to show his strength, and it is also a good opportunity to serve the country, I believe that a young talent like Mr. Zhong should not refuse, right? ”

"Serving the country?" Zhong Shi's pupils shrank, and he thought that this day had finally come. "A small character like me, who is soft-spoken, although he also has the heart to serve the country, he really doesn't know what he can do. Why, Mr. Zheng is here to invest? ”

Zheng Xi smiled, picked up the cup on the desk and took a sip, and then said slowly: "If you want to attract investment, I won't make a special appointment with Mr. Zhong today, you must know that there are still quite a lot of businessmen in Hong Kong who do business." Mr. Zhong, we don't talk darkly, I came today to use your professionals to take care of a fund for us. ”

As he spoke, he took out a stack of thick documents from the leather bag he brought with him, and slowly pushed them in front of Zhong Shi: "Mr. Zhong, here are some of the information we have found. Take a look first, what's missing? ”

Zhong Shi glanced at Zheng Xi who was smiling suspiciously, picked up a piece of paper casually, and saw that his age, place of origin, family background and other contents were recorded in detail on it, Zhong Shi was shocked, and then looked down at this stack of information, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, these materials recorded in detail his trading records when the Japanese stock market plummeted, the stock market crash in 87, etc., and even the Hong Kong stocks he bought later have clear records.

Fortunately, these are only records of Zhong Shi's transaction records when he put the funds in Avery Brokerage Company and other Hong Kong stock brokerage companies, and there are no transaction records after Zhong Shi transferred the funds to HSBC, presumably because HSBC has a British background, and Zheng Xi in front of him will not be able to find out for a while.

"What the hell do you want to do?" After Zhong Shi read the information, he felt a chill behind him. Supposedly, this information is confidential, at least to some extent, difficult for ordinary people to find. But the young man in front of him not only got it, but even checked the information of Zhongyi, Land Rover and others very clearly, which made Zhong Shi shudder a little. Since the visitor had made such a lot of effort, Zhong Shi naturally had to ask him about his intentions.

Although the information does not write about the Liao family, Zhong Shi has no doubt that Zheng Xi may already know the details of the Liao family, otherwise it would be impossible to find the Liao family first through the relationship of the Hualian Press. Since he knows the relationship between the Liao family, but he still has this fearless appearance, the background of the person who came is very famous.

"I wonder if Mr. Zhong has heard of the Zheng family in eastern Yuedong?" Zheng Xi picked up the teacup and asked Zhong Shi without answering. (To be continued......)

PS: It's so lonely today...... Run Run Shaw went to pay his respects......