Chapter 597: Secret Hostage Incident
(Thanks to the atmospheric 1888 reward of "elopement ★", bow!) I'm going to drink wine tomorrow, and I can only watch two more. )
Louise quickly noticed Zhuang Wenjun's movements, this time she was a little confused, and after a moment of silence, Louise got up and went to the hanging garden on the top floor.
William Pitt was feeding the goldfish in the pool, and when he saw Louise coming over with a solemn look, William Pitt spoke first: "Louise, is there something abnormal?" ”
Louise nodded and reported what she had discovered, and William Pitt couldn't help but wonder when he heard it: "What does the other party want to do?" ”
Louise made her assumptions: "The other side may have figured out how to disrupt our position, and then seized the opportunity to really make a move, and let us suffer heavy losses." ”
William nodded and said, "En...... Probably so, Louise, you have to keep an eye on them, don't let them get their hands on them, my father's side will act quickly. ”
Louise nodded and stepped back.
Not long after, the U.S. stock market suddenly experienced a massive shock.
At first, people were not aware of the possible consequences of this shock, but soon some people discovered the severity of the situation, because in just half an hour, the stock price of Motorola Communication Technology Services, which is part of the Cleveland consortium, fell by 10 percent, which is obviously a very abnormal situation.
The financial analysts of the Cleveland consortium analyzed it and reported the situation to Mrs. Cleveland, who was drinking coffee with Mr. Mellon, and Mrs. Cleveland heard that someone had started a malicious financial war against her company. She couldn't help but be stunned.
Mr. Mellon, who was sitting opposite her, smiled when he saw this: "Madam, if you don't mind, you can learn from me and directly privatize this company." In this way, the stock price will be manipulated, which will have a negative impact on the operation of the consortium. ”
Mrs. Cleveland thought for a while, and then smiled slightly: "It's okay, anyway, the consortium still has a lot of money on its books, so I'll just privatize Motorola." ”
Mrs. Cleveland soon gave her orders to privatize Motorola, just as Motorola's stock price was falling, leaving the Cleveland consortium with a lot of money.
It didn't take long for this to happen. The stock price of IBM, which belongs to the Morgan consortium, also began to fluctuate abnormally, and I don't know if it was influenced by the Cleveland consortium, which also launched a privatization process for IBM in due course.
The people who did it secretly didn't seem to have imagined that their actions would have such consequences. So he simply stopped acting.
After about an hour, the U.S. stock market suddenly had an extremely violent shock, and this time the other party attacked all the enterprises under the top ten consortia in the United States, and the total number of enterprises was as high as hundreds!
This is very strange to the people of the top ten conglomerates in the United States. Everyone couldn't figure out who the other was. Just as the top ten consortia were about to snipe at each other, the gang suddenly disappeared without a trace.
After a short period of intense volatility, the U.S. stock market slowly calmed down as if nothing had happened not so long ago, which has puzzled many people.
What everyone doesn't know is that not long before the US stock market stopped being volatile, many currencies in Europe were subjected to a prolonged period of harassment, which stopped for a few minutes. The volatility in the U.S. stock market also stopped.
Feng Xiaotian noticed the anomaly in the global stock market, and he couldn't figure out why this happened in the U.S. stock market. But since this matter had nothing to do with him, he didn't think much about it.
Zhuang Wenjun's guilla warfare for most of the day has thrown the exchange rates of many currencies in Europe into a mess. Due to the previous financial crisis in the UK, the nerves of investors in European countries are very fragile, and as long as there is a little wind in their own country, these people will immediately start to protect themselves. At this time, the so-called national interests are all forgotten by everyone, and everyone should protect their own interests, no matter what the country becomes, as long as they do not suffer losses.
Louise arranged for people to fight Zhuang Wenjun for a few short periods of time, because Zhuang Wenjun's whereabouts were uncertain and he shot extremely fast, so in general, Louise suffered a little loss. According to post-war statistics, Zhuang Wenjun's side earned $1.5 billion, while Louise's side lost more than $20 billion, because the European people also participated in the battle, and judging from their cousins, they helped Zhuang Wenjun a lot.
Originally, Zhuang Wenjun wanted to play with his opponent for a while, but Feng Xiaotian called him to retreat, Zhuang Wenjun was very puzzled by this, it stands to reason that his side has an advantage, why not take this opportunity to make a little more?
However, since it was Feng Xiaotian who spoke in person, Zhuang Wenjun had to obey the order, and he quickly withdrew all the funds.
After statistics, Zhuang Wenjun made a total profit of nearly 10 billion US dollars in this operation, and Feng Xiaotian quickly returned the principal of the three major Japanese consortia to them, and gave each of them a profit of 2 billion US dollars.
The $2 billion was earned in just three days, which is not without horror based on the investment-to-income ratio. The leaders of the three major consortia were very satisfied with this, and several people sat down for a drink that night, and the next morning, Kenjiro Mitsui and others took a special plane back to China.
Feng Xiaotian sent away the people of the three major Japanese conglomerates, and at the same time he had a general understanding of the strength of the opponent, thinking of the terrifying financial strength of the opponent, Feng Xiaotian felt that he still needed to develop in order to fight with him.
In the days that followed, financial markets gradually recovered, and after the battle, Britain suffered heavy losses, the country's already sluggish economy irreversibly deteriorated, and rising unemployment put Prime Minister Tony Blair under great pressure.
At this time, the most effective way is to divert the attention of the people in the country through certain incidents. Prime Minister Tony Blair thought about it, and finally asked the MI5 people to secretly plan a small matter, and he figured out that Guò would attract the attention of the people in order to relieve the pressure he was facing.
This matter may not be very big for him, but it is definitely very strict for some people, and some people here refer to Wang Qianqian, Feng Xiaotian and Jujug.
Blair made MI5's plan simple - to secretly kidnap his own people, and preferably to kidnap people from other Western countries, such as Americans.
If this matter is handled properly, it can help him solve his current predicament, at least the pressure on him will be reduced a lot.
Prime Minister Tony Blair's secret henchmen at MI5 received the order and began to plan carefully, and finally they chose a very special place as the place where the event was carried out, this place in the Middle East, to be precise, Saudi Arabia in the Middle East.
First of all, the Middle East has always been a dangerous region, and nothing happens here that makes people suspicious. Secondly, the choice of Saudi Arabia as a specific target has an even greater sensational effect, since the Saudi government has American troops stationed there, and anything that happens here will be amplified by the Americans.
Because such a thing is tantamount to challenging the authority of the United States, how can the Americans sit idly by? As long as the Americans act, then this matter can be magnified, and then it will be very cleverly charged within a certain range, without worrying about the consequences of triggering a very strict zhòng.
This is of course Blair's wishful thinking, in fact, if it were not for the mistakes of his men in this incident, then the matter would have been successful according to his expectations, but unfortunately his men made a small mistake, and it was because of this mistake that the matter changed qualitatively.
Specifically, this mistake was that the MI5 people arrested a person who should not have been arrested when they carried out the kidnapping operation, this person is a Chinese national, and his name is Wang Jianguo.
On the evening of September 3, an ordinary minibus drove on the road outside the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, and all the people on board were devout Islamic believers who had come to the holy city of Mecca for pilgrimage.
Among these were three British, five Americans, two Germans, four French, and two Chinese.
Except for the two Chinese, all the others are Islamic believers, and among the Chinese, there is Wang Jianguo.
Wang Jianguo has been on business in Saudi Arabia for more than a year, and his main job is to help the Saudi military upgrade the missiles it has purchased from China. Wang Jianguo has led a large number of people to work for more than a year, and there is still a month to finish his work in Saudi Arabia and return to China.
He is not an Islamist, and he is not going to Mecca by car today to make a pilgrimage, but to call home to say that he is safe. There are telephones at the military base, but they are military lines and cannot be used for personal use, otherwise Wang Jianguo would not have traveled so far.
Wang Jianguo calls home every month, and his wife Liu Weihong is now home alone, and he, as a husband, is away all the year round, and it is inevitable that he will feel guilty after a long time.
When the car is driving on the road, the people in the car are basically asleep, and no one knows what will happen to them next.
At the foot of a hill at a bend in the road, more than two dozen armed men in Arab attire with AK47s in their hands gathered to closely monitor the situation on the road. After a while, I heard one of them speak: "Don't hurt the hostages after the operation begins, we will transport the hostages safely to Jiaofu and hand them over to the people over there to complete the task, do you understand?" ”
More than 20 people all nodded in agreement, and after waiting for about five minutes, they saw a minibus coming from a distance, and the leader took out a photo to compare it, and then said, "This is the car!" Attention all! As soon as the car approached, we went according to the plan! ”
The men replied in unison, "Understood! (To be continued......)