At the moment when the three major exchanges opened on Monday, all the stocks related to the Song Consortium fell to varying degrees, especially the "Trigem Heavy Industry," the most important enterprise of the Song Consortium, fell by more than 5 percent, and tens of millions of funds evaporated from the stock market in less than three minutes after the opening, which can be described as a heavy decline.

Tri-Prongs is the largest investment company of the Anthem Foundation and the Capet family, and Tri-Prongs produces a wide range of civilian vehicles, from sedans to trucks to agricultural vehicles, and they sell them in almost all categories of civilian vehicles. Before this incident, Trident Heavy Industries' products were selling fairly well in the market, because the price was relatively close to the people, and many middle-class families who did not have much budget in their pockets would target these vehicles.

In the low-end segment of the Imperial civilian car, they can be ranked in the top three.

As for why they are rated as good value for money at a relatively low price, it is all due to the fact that they smuggle in large quantities of cheap engines from the Federation. This is almost a secret that is not a secret in the industry, the low-end engine of the federation can ensure continuous output while the performance is stable, and there are some new patented technologies in it, which has basically mined the value of the low-end engine to the maximum, and the key is cheap.

Instead of spending tens of millions to develop a similar engine, and then using tens of millions to build an assembly line and factory dedicated to producing engines, it is better to smuggle it directly from the Federation. There are tens of millions of R&D and construction funds, which are enough for them to earn hundreds of millions of funds, so the Song Consortium has never considered taking the road of its own research and development, but at the same time, it is limited by the technology in the hands of others, in order to avoid malicious business practices, they acquired 20% of the equity of the engine manufacturer of the Federation, becoming the party with the largest number of shares.

The federal side needs to take high taxes on the export of high-tech products, and it is difficult to artificially manufacture high-tech products into the empire, like the Pentium III engine they use, and the federation, which holds the imperial tariff power, directly gives a high tariff of 500 percent.

Imported directly from regular channels, maybe the products of Trident Heavy Industries will not be recognized by the people, they can only smuggle these things around the continent on the sea, through the Eye of God Strait between the Great Road and the Eastern Continent and the west coast of the empire, and finally unload the goods in the port of Yongdong.

The continuous decline after the opening of Trident Heavy Industries has also triggered the decline of some other companies, because capital is never a cage, capitalists will not let their funds be trapped in one place, they will turn their funds into a network, connect more people together. Therefore, when there is an uncontrollable fall of a node with sufficient weight and status, the whole net will be pulled to fall together.

"We need to curb the continuous decline of the current stock price, otherwise we will lose more money and lose more social image!", in the conference room on the top floor of the Song Building, the main figures of the consortium gathered together, speaking the current CEO of the consortium, Mr. Eggers, a forty-four-year-old middle-aged man in the prime of life, who is at the peak of a man's energy and wisdom.

Sitting in the conference room were the representatives of the interests of various families and enterprises in the Song Foundation, and even the heads of the companies.

The Capet's lawsuit with Durin cost them a lot of money, and after the formation of public opinion in society, their reputation deteriorated rapidly, and some people already regarded the Song Consortium as the property of the Capetian family. This perception is obviously very ignorant, the Song Consortium was originally established by seven nobles after signing an agreement, and its business scope covers four major fields: heavy industry, light work, agriculture and animal husbandry, and daily necessities. Its business model adopts the method of group resource sharing operation, with the Shengsong Foundation as the "helmsman", which is fully responsible for the development and overall plan of all enterprises under the consortium.

Eggers looked at these representatives and leaders and gave his own solution, "We need to pull the stock price back up, give more investors firm confidence, let them know that everything is just normal volatility at the moment." Therefore, we need to quickly repurchase the shares circulating in the stock market, which needs to mobilize a part of the group's capital as support, which may affect our plan for the next two years or so. If you have a better solution to our current predicament, you can also raise it now. ”

Buying back shares is one of the easiest and safest ways for almost all listed companies to face abnormal stock price fluctuations. To put it bluntly, stocks are a digital supply and demand market, when demand exceeds supply, stock holders' expectations of stock prices will increase, and stock prices will increase. But at the same time, this is not the best way, because these stocks will eventually flow back into the hands of the consortium, forming an imaginary value that is much higher than the actual value, which is not necessarily beneficial to the development of the enterprise.

There is no change in the expressions on the faces of these people here, but their psychology is moving frequently, and the Capet family alone has caused everyone to suffer losses, and they also need to lose some of their liquidity to pay for the mistakes of the Capet family, which is by no means a thing that can make everyone happy. But they also knew that this was the most effective and fastest way to temporarily recover their losses, and they all nodded in agreement.

Eggers is very satisfied with everyone's choice, "Then we have decided that the group company will mobilize no less than five million funds for the repurchase of shares, and the proportion of capital contribution will be raised according to the proportion of everyone's equity, if anyone has any objections to this, they can raise ......", he paused, and said: "In addition, we need to divert the public's attention from us, so I have a plan." ”

The news released by the Anthem Consortium immediately created a wave of counterattack on the stock market, and the continuous repurchase of shares quickly pulled the share price of Trident Heavy Industries back to a slightly lower price than Friday's closing price, and the decline has returned to 2%. At the same time, stocks that have a partnership with Trident Heavy Industries and a partnership with the Anthem Consortium have also begun to heat up rapidly, and on Xie Lisi Street, those stockbrokers began to preach that this is a good opportunity to buy the bottom of Trident Heavy Industries.

And they also imply that investors who may not know anything about stocks have already made enough money to buy the bottom, and if they don't keep up now, the huge returns have nothing to do with them.

There are many investors in the stock market of the empire who really don't know anything about stocks, and they don't know what the rise and fall of stocks represents and what affects the formation of stock prices. But they are also willing to put their money into the stock market, and the myths of wealth in the stock market are the best means to lure them into the water. Everyone thinks they can't be a loser, which is why Shellis Street is considered by some to be a giant farm.

Because these investors and investors are just a little stupid!

At the same time, a newspaper reported on the shocking scandal between the three film and television stars who are currently popular, and for a time the impact of this incident even exceeded the influence of the Doolin assassination. The scandals of movie stars, which are accepted by a wider range of ordinary people, are more interesting than the actions of politicians.

At this time, an unexpected thing happened again.

At this time, along the coast of the west coast, three freighters were moving slowly along the coastline. The speed of these three freighters is not very fast, and there is no rush at all, and this batch of cargo only needs to be delivered to the designated place at the end of this month, that is, within ten days.

It is not easy to make a living on the sea, and in addition to the unpredictable climate of the sea, there are also those hateful pirates, either of which is highly likely to cause irreparable damage. Fortunately, the owners of these ships have a good relationship with the navy on the west coast, and every year a sum of money is handed over to the navy under various names, so that the navy becomes a shelter for them to carry goods on the sea.

Today, no different day, the captain glanced at the recreation room and returned to his room with the sailors who were gambling for money. He had been staring at the changes in the sea for a while, and now that the first mate was staring at it, he had to rest for a while.

The captain, who has spent almost all his life on the ship, is not as energetic as before, and when he has saved enough money to buy a ship for another two years, he will retire completely.

Most people like them will spend their lives saving up one or two boats to run the sea in the shipping company where they work, and they can provide them with a large amount of economic income every year, enough for their descendants to enjoy good living conditions.

The captain's eyes had been closed for less than thirty minutes, and the old man, who had slept lightly, was awakened by a sharp knock at the door, and he opened his eyes and looked at the lampshade directly above him for a few seconds before he turned over and sat up, and drew his pistol from under his pillow.

"What's wrong?", his voice didn't change, and he looked out through the round window as he put on his clothes. Since he got older, few people would disturb his rest, everyone took good care of his age, if it wasn't for something that the first mate couldn't solve, he must still be resting.

The voice of the first mate outside the door was a little anxious, "The navy stopped our ship and asked to inspect the cargo hold, I explained to them for a long time, but they said that this is a task that must be performed!"

The captain was startled, inserted the pistol into the holster in his arms, and then quickly opened the hatch, and the first mate spun around the door. He glanced at the first mate with some reproach, such a terrible thing should have called him up as soon as possible, there must be something wrong with the first mate's words that would make the navy embarrassed them.

The captain quickly walked out of the cabin and stood on the deck, five warships had been deployed on the surrounding sea, and what made him even more shocked was that the gun barrels of these five warships were all aimed at this side! You must know that the artillery is very precious, and it needs careful maintenance, the sea breeze is not only damp but also salty, and the artillery usually not only needs to be smeared with a thick layer of dragon whale grease to protect those metals, but also completely covered with a kind of sealed cover, which will only be lifted when used.

"You're the head of the fleet?"

The words of the two navies on deck brought the captain back to his senses .......