When Li Zhigao's money entered the market, it was early June, although the international financial speculators at that time were ready, but they had not yet officially entered, and the United States had not yet come out of the austerity policy, so although the international rubber price was not the highest, but it was still a good situation, many people were crying and shouting to buy a rubber stock, so at that time to buy down, even if the number is relatively large, even if the tricks are very naïve, it is still easy to be eaten by the rising market. A lot of people think that's a fool to give them money.

As Li Zhigao expected, when 5 million taels of silver was used as a margin, and 20 times the leverage was made through HSBC, that is, after the rubber futures worth more than 100 million taels of silver entered the market, it was easy to be taken over, but after all, the amount was a bit large, so such a large amount of short orders were made, and the rubber price in the London market immediately began to fall.

Such a large short single smashed down, did cause some people to be vigilant, but at this time people are generally chasing the rise of the ** is still very high, and because the rubber stocks continue to chase up for more than four years, everyone has a lot of confidence in rubber stocks, plus the plate of rubber stocks is not small, at this time it is one of the heavyweight markets second only to steel construction and other industries, so 100 million silver short orders smashed down, although the fluctuations are not small, but also within the range of everyone's psychological tolerance.

At this time, the short order is actually to buy down futures, but if the general environment is chasing up, then the money on the side that buys the fall is really a dish for the long side, which is a real zero-sum game.

Sure enough, within three days, the price of being smashed by 100 million silver short orders rose again, and it was higher than the price of Li Zhigao's empty order when he entered the market.

Then, with the introduction of the rubber tightening policy in the United States, there was a large amount of short orders in the market, and there were also large amounts of people who sold stocks, coupled with rumors flying, everyone's confidence was finally shaken, and they kept selling stocks, so that panic appeared, rubber prices could not be stopped, began to pour wildly, and finally collapsed, and the collapse of the British stock market naturally triggered the collapse of Shanghai's stock market.

The stock market has plummeted, and people who buy stocks at high prices and long futures naturally suffer heavy losses, but those who short in advance like Li Zhigao make a lot of money, because this thing is a zero-sum game, and those who lose money will naturally make money, and those who make money are those who short in advance.

Futures are nothing else, this thing has a time limit, if there is no willing to take over in the middle, then if it is time to deliver, no matter how much you lose, it must be delivered, so the greater the price change in the delivery time, the more profit will be for the party who profits.

When the stock market is plummeting, the more people who are long and the fewer people who are short, the more people who are short, the more money they make, which is actually no different from gambling.

It is now the end of July, the turmoil has passed, and the price of rubber has bottomed out, although it will not become a junk stock because of the demand for the surname, but the price is also ridiculously low, and because it consumes people's confidence, there is no possibility of explosion in the short term. At this time, Li Zhigao's batch of futures contracts also reached the delivery date, so that, excluding the handling fee, Li Zhigao easily earned more than five times, that is, a huge income worth more than 25 million taels of silver, which was much higher than Liu Runsheng's income from selling goods in Nanjing.

Only this time, the former agent Li Huade rose to fame and became a dazzling new star in the London stock market.

If Li Huade is an unexpected episode, then Wang Erbiao and Zhou Zhengbin are not, they are Li Zhigao who planned to be sent to Shanghai early on, but at first they planned to go with Li Zhigao, and later changed to accompany Li Huade, but when they arrived in Shanghai, they acted separately and did not belong to each other.

Wang Erbiao and their trip to Shanghai, in addition to escorting the silver and monitoring Li Huade, also had an important purpose, that is, to lurk and kidnap tickets, that is, to kidnap those fraudsters who were mainly wheat edges, and then extort them unconsciously.

Mai Bian is a British-Jewish businessman, he has a lot of companies, in addition to the famous leather bag company Lang Gezhi, in fact, he also has a lot of really useful industries, such as he has a Mai Bian foreign company that does import and export trade, and a Mai Bian steamship company, with six cargo ships, three passenger ships, which is quite a good foreign businessman.

In fact, at the beginning, he was also a legitimate trader, but then he couldn't help it, in 1903, he also learned to open a rubber company with others, but after a few years, there was no improvement at all, and he directly played a bloody game, and he was about to go bankrupt, no way, he began to engage in the tricks of the leather bag company, kept making fake data, kept advertising and boasting, took out some money to pay dividends, etc., and he was lucky, with the rubber foam **, his stock became more and more valuable, and his leather bag company came back to life.

However, Mai Bian is very smart after all, he soon noticed that the price of rubber is too high, so as early as May, he began to cash out by selling stocks one after another, and then increasing shares, etc., and kept indiscriminately issuing stocks to cash out, and by the time the bubble burst in July, he had cashed out more than 10 million taels.

That is to say, he quickly blew up the bubble by boasting about adding shares, etc., and then successively used cash, increased shares, cashed out, and then increased shares to cash out one after another, this method he has been doing since April, and finally when the bubble burst in July, he simply sold all the stocks, took all the money, disappeared overnight, and never found him again.

After he disappeared, the stock price of his company was worthless, and many people wanted to cry without tears, and countless suicides were committed, and before he fled, he had already sold his better enterprises, such as the foreign company and the steamship company, to himself.

In fact, in that turmoil, Mai Bian was not the only smart person, Mai Bian was just the earliest, most famous and most profitable person, and there were many people who learned from him, including Wei Tui and Eli Kadoorie of Huitong Foreign Company, Bai Kelfuzi of Xiangmao Foreign Company, etc., all of which were exactly the same as Mai Bian.

In other words, if there is no Li Zhigao in this rubber turmoil, then the foreign speculators led by Mai Bian are the ones who have benefited the most in China.

According to records, Mai Bian is just a person, he made more than 20 million taels of silver in that turmoil through Langezhi, a leather bag company, and became the biggest winner in the rubber storm, and can also be said to be one of the greatest stock traders or financial fraudsters in the twentieth century.

As for the others, although most of them didn't play and disappeared completely, they also made their fortunes thanks to this storm.

For example, Eli Kadoorie made his first pot of gold in this stock turmoil, after which he quietly went to Guangzhou to develop, used the money earned from the stock to buy a power plant, and finally went to Hong Kong, and finally developed the famous Kadoorie family.

The same is true of Xiangmao foreign firms, which were just a small foreign firm before, but because they made enough money in this turmoil, they developed into a behemoth, which occupied a pivotal position in the Republic of China era and became one of the five major foreign merchants in the Republic of China, such as Xiangmao brand soap, which later sold the largest in China.

By the way, according to the records, these people are all Jews, all of them!

Mai Bian and others are real frauds, premeditated actions, is to use the bag company to speculate stocks, and then slowly sell at a high point to cash out, and Li Zhigao suddenly entered the market to sell short orders differently, in terms of risk, it must be Li Zhigao's model is the most risky.

In other words, what Li Zhigao earns is actually the money of the London stock market, because only the London stock market can eat such a large amount of short orders from Li Zhigao, Shanghai has a small plate and chaotic rules, and he can't eat such a high leverage, while Mai Bian and others cheated the money of the Shanghai stock market, not by selling short futures to make a profit.

How can Li Zhigao let go of such a group of fraudsters? Even if it's not for anything else, for the huge amount of wealth they have hidden, they can't let it go.

However, considering that it is somewhat unsafe to kidnap multiple targets at a time, in the end Li Zhigao decided to target only a few people, and the final target was only for two families, that is, Mai Bian and Bai Ke Fuzi, who made the most money, and the others were temporarily spared.

Because the arrangements were made in advance, Wang Erbiao and Zhou Zhengbin took their special operations platoon to ambush around Mai Bian and Xiangmao Merchant early on, constantly monitoring Mai Bian and Bai Keer's house, and when Li Zhigao's empty orders began to enter the market, regardless of whether Mai Bian and Bai Keer sold all the stocks in his hand for money, they were directly kidnapped that night.

At that time, the turmoil of the stock crash had not yet begun, although Mai Bian and Bai Kel had sold a large number of shares in advance to cash out, but they were not conspicuous, except for the parties concerned, no one knew his tricks, that is to say, no one expected that someone would do anything to Mai Bian.

Although Mai Bian and Bai Keer both lived in the concession, the concession at this time was not a sleepless city, and the electricity supply was very small, and the lights were almost turned off at two o'clock in the middle of the night, and the whole city was almost dark. And the special combat team members all acted at half past three in the middle of the night, using night vision devices, and USP pistols with mufflers, plus the subordinates who had bought two houses before, and understood the layout of the two houses, so it was very easy to jump over the wall and arrest people in the middle of the night.

After arresting Mai Bian and Bai Keer's family that night, they immediately took people to the basement of the rented house rented by Li Huade, and then continued to stand guard for Li Huade as a bodyguard, looking like they didn't know what was going on, and they were very innocent.

Sure enough, the disappearance of Mai Bian and Michael's family overnight immediately caused a lot of turmoil, and the patrol room searched everywhere, but unfortunately there was no clue at all, after all, they were facing kidnappers equipped with high technology, not those petty thieves.

As for suspicion, it is also suspicious of others, such as their relatives and friends, or enemies, and they will never think of the Englishman Li Huade, who has never had any friendship with Mai Bian and others.

After that, Li Huade continued to engage in his stocks on the surface, continued to participate in his high-class social networking, and expanded his business circle, while Wang Erbiao and Zhou Zhengbin began to torture and extort confessions from the Maibian family and the Becker family in the basement.

During this period, Zhou Zhengbin and others, according to Li Zhigao's instructions, kept interrogating Mai Bian and Bai Keer, including the fatigue interrogation method of not letting him sleep, irradiating his eyes with kerosene lamps, and repeatedly questioning people in turns, the family threat method, the method of calming emotions, and even the use of high-purity drugs provided by Li Zhigao, in short, the means of coercion and inducement together, and finally broke Mai Bian and Bai Keer, and made them obediently write the asset transfer agreement and transfer check.

After that, Wang Erbiao found someone to take the check he wrote, went to the Ningbo branch of HSBC, and transferred the funds from the secret accounts of the two people in HSBC to a number of vest accounts opened by Li Huade in HSBC and Citibank.

You must know that at this time, foreign banks in China have a confidentiality system, you can run multiple accounts anonymously, anonymous deposits and withdrawals and anonymous transfers, the supervision is very loose, much looser than in later generations, and money laundering is not troublesome at all, but in this period, this method is mainly to provide a way for foreigners to evade tariffs.

Of course, it is definitely impossible for Mai Bian and Bai Kel to spit out all the money at one time, so coercion and temptation have been doing, squeezing his oil and water little by little, and every time they write a check, Wang Erbiao will change someone to do the transfer business in the bank, ensuring that no one will appear in the same bank repeatedly.

So far, 18 million taels of silver worth have been transferred from them to those secret accounts, and later found that they couldn't write new checks, and they didn't have any money to give, even if they killed one or two of their relatives in person, and even chopped off the fingers of their three left hands and didn't give money, Li Zhigao felt that the oil and water were almost over, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, so he gave an order to kill them all, burn them to ashes on the spot and bury them, and then let the special platoon come back. Keeping an eye on and defending Li Huade is for ordinary soldiers to do.

In this way, after Wang Erbiao and the others received the order, they cleanly let Mai Bian and Bai Keer's family disappear, and then swaggered back to Taiping Mansion by boat, and they not only came back by themselves, but also brought Li Li, who took the initiative to ask to come back.

However, it is normal for Wang Erbiao and them to come back on an errand, because there is a remote radio station to contact, and the whole operation can be said to be under their control, but why did Li Li also come back? Is it to get medicine? But his father still has some medicine, not to mention that he will deliver it on time, so why did she suddenly leave her father and come back?

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