Chapter 628: Deception Plan (I)
With these conveniences, Guthry immediately put them into the securities market. Now the state control is very strict, if you use skills to speculate, it is easy to be discovered by the state, and this time there is enough money, without skills can also make a difference. So Guthrie didn't make the slightest hype and threw these securities directly on the exchange.
With the invasion of the troops of the Boston Empire into the territory of the Cossack Empire for hundreds of kilometers, the domestic prediction of the war situation was quite optimistic, which also directly caused the financial market, especially the national public bonds, to be hot, so when Guthrie had not yet made a move, the market price of the 50 billion public bonds in his hands had actually increased by nearly 50 percent, and there was a trend of continuing to rise.
Guthrie sat on the trading floor, a slight smile on his face, and the extremely excited traders were running their stocks in high spirits, and many of them might choose to commit suicide in just a day's time.
Guthry is very experienced in financial speculation, so in order not to attract attention, he first hung up some small orders and slowly released the securities in his hand. The market of securities is tight, and few people will choose to sell, and when there are more than a dozen orders worth hundreds of thousands of yuan, they are immediately robbed.
Guthrie slowly put securities on the market, which caused a lot of people to go crazy, and under the stimulus of these pending orders, the price of the national public bond rose all the way, and soon the price of the securities rose by more than five percent in a single day, so that the traders were even more crazy, and they scrambled for the orders put out by Guthrie to push the price of these securities higher.
In one morning, Guthrie placed orders continuously, and he threw out nearly 10 billion securities in his hand, in exchange for nearly 16 billion wave of funds. As soon as the afternoon opened, Ge Si began to increase the number and amount of pending orders, in the morning because of the high price of the securities market, many people mobilized funds when the market closed at noon, especially many large consortia, so just opened in the afternoon, Ge Shi put out a total price of nearly 500 million 12 orders were directly subscribed, seeing this situation, Ge Si immediately put out 20 orders with a total price of 3 billion, also swept by a higher price.
Guthrie continued to spit out the securities in his hand, but gradually the idle funds in the market were absorbed, and the subscription trend began to decline, and some smart people noticed that something was wrong, and they began to wait and see. When Guthrie only had less than 9 billion securities left in his hands, a price correction of nearly 10 minutes had already begun. Guthrie then hung up all the securities in his hand, and he smashed the short sale order.
When there were securities listed on the market, continuous short selling orders caused panic, and some retail investors began to sell their securities to cash out so as not to suffer losses, and the public bonds, which had been rising for half a year, began to slide.
The drop in prices has caused more panic among people, and a large number of retail investors have come out of the market, and many companies have also begun to cash out. With the withdrawal of a large amount of money, the price of public bonds began to fall sharply, and finally even the big companies could not hold on, and at this time there was still a full hour before the market closed.
Due to the economic pull effect of the war, the Boston Imperial public bonds, which now represent the credibility of the country, are the backbone of the entire financial market, and its collapse caused a chain reaction, and the bonds, stocks and funds of the entire financial market began to decline sharply, and an avalanche of financial turmoil reappeared. When they learned of the market turmoil, the state government agencies immediately intervened and mobilized funds to take over the public bond offering to stabilize the price, but by this time it was too late, and the collapse of the financial market was inevitable.
Companies' stock prices have been affected and have begun to fall sharply, and people are selling not only bonds, but also stocks and fund shares. Although the economy of the entire Boston Empire has been transferred to the wartime track, in order to absorb private funds, the Boston Imperial Government has not closed the financial market, and this time they finally tasted the bitterness. Originally, they had strictly monitored the inflow of funds and kept the financial market stable, but no one expected that the Moss royal family would come to such a hand, and these securities would flow into the hands of the Chinese Empire, so an unexpected crisis was inevitable.
Fortunately, the stock market only dived an hour before the market closed, and the stock market closed before the decline exceeded 15 percent, but the Boston government knew very well that the country's money had been completely invested in armaments, and even if it wanted to protect the disk, there was nothing they could do, and those large companies were similar, and in order to make more war profits, they had invested all their money in expanding factories. Originally, in order to get some cash today, many large companies invested money in bond speculation, hoping to get more funds to continue to expand their factories, but the sudden collapse put them all into it, and now they can't do anything about the financial market.
Under all kinds of unfavorable factors, in order to maintain domestic stability, they had to declare an indefinite suspension of the market, the financial market of the entire Boston empire was completely stagnated, private funds were frozen, the flow of funds became slow, and even the construction of military industrial enterprises encountered difficulties.
As a result of the collapse of the state's bonds, the country's credibility plummeted, and the Imperial Government of Boston had to halt preparations for war bonds, because at such times, the bonds issued by the government would not be sold.
The national financial market could not continue to be allowed, and the Boston Empire had to let the country switch to a planned economic model, cancel the market regulation of the whole country, and rely on the overall planning of the state to regulate the operation of industry, so that the crisis was finally temporarily resolved.
It is true that a planned economy can stabilize the economy, but without the regulation of the market, the national economy can easily become unbalanced. Especially in the midst of the world war, the country's economy easily fell to military merit, and light industry and agriculture, which are related to the national economy and people's livelihood, began to shrink continuously, and the hidden danger of national collapse was unknowingly buried.
The economic problems in these countries were not the whole story, as the financial markets were frozen, many people's money was locked in the stock market, which created anti-government sentiment among the people, which led to an increase in crimes such as smashing and looting in the country, and finally the government had to send troops to maintain law and order, and at the same time declared a curfew, and the entire Boston empire began to develop in the direction of collapse.
Boston's top brass was anxious about this situation, and they were even more eager to defeat the Chinese Empire as soon as possible in order to end the war and restore the country's economy with the spoils obtained, so the Boston Ocean Fleet stepped up preparations for a decisive battle at sea.
Although some of the securities were not sold, Guthrie had already received close to 70 billion waves of cash, which will be covered up by special people, and after several changes of money laundering, they will be unwittingly entered into specific accounts for the next use of the Ministry of Business and Investment, and the tail that may follow him when he leaves the stock exchange will be cleaned up by someone from the Intelligence Bureau. The division of labor and cooperation among the various departments of the Chinese Empire was quite efficient, and everyone had their own responsibilities and could still cooperate effectively under the condition of keeping each other's identities secret.
In the following two months, the Boston Empire gradually strengthened the size of its fleet for maritime patrols, and placed most of the patrol tasks within the range that its own land-based aircraft could support, making the cruiser formations of the Chinese Empire somewhat constrained.
As a result of this situation, the cruiser fleet, although it cruised non-stop at sea, did not dare to penetrate too deep into the coastal areas of the Boston Empire, but did not achieve much success, and they only sank a small group of destroyers who went out to reconnoiter or patrol the distant seas, and if they continued like this, they would not be able to achieve a decisive victory in the eastern ocean.
Faced with this situation, Feng Ju decided to lure the snake out of the hole and make the other party think that he could annihilate all the Eastern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire. Only when the other party is sure will they be transferred out of their lair, so that the Eastern Ocean Fleet will have a chance to completely annihilate the other party, so a very strange plan was formed in the staff headquarters of the Eastern Ocean Fleet under Feng Ju's proposal.
On December 10, 926, the atmosphere on Oahu, which was approaching the New Year's Day, suddenly became tense because in the morning the Eastern Ocean Fleet suddenly declared that Pearl Harbor, which had been used as a military port, was under total martial law, and all nearby military installations and the high ground where it could be seen were designated as a military exclusion zone. This situation made the Boston spies operating on Oahu nervous, they did not know what the Chinese Imperial Eastern Ocean Fleet would do, and what kind of activities the main force of the fleet would carry out.
Because under normal circumstances, such a military blockade generally means that the fleet will have a big operation, and it is unwilling to let others know the time of their departure. After receiving this news, the Boston Admiralty also became nervous, and the entire west coast of the Boston Empire suddenly entered a state of alert, several military ports were under martial law, and all shore-based air forces were ready to be dispatched at any time.
The Bostonians were on the verge of a great enemy, and the Eastern Ocean Fleet was just as busy. Under the cover of night, a large group of black shadows moved frequently in Pearl Harbor, and a large number of ships of various displacements were extremely busy coming in and out, but because of the tight blockade around them, these actions were not detected by spies from various countries.
When the military lifted the blockade five days later, the Boston spies impatiently observed from a distance on the high ground, but they were surprised to find that everything in the harbor was as before, and all the main warships of the Eastern Ocean Fleet were well anchored in the harbor without the slightest movement, which made the Boston Admiralty who received the news puzzled.