Five people who will determine America's path have gathered in the Oval Office of the White House to discuss future policies.

The security adviser repeated his report.

As he spoke, no one interrupted, but listened carefully to his explanation, thinking carefully about what it contained.

"Immediately strengthen our defense budget!"

As soon as the words of the security adviser ended, the representative of the Pentagon immediately spoke.

"For their development, we should take a tough approach!"

The secretary of state's attitude was more mild, and he immediately retorted: "The military budget is already enough, so much that Congress is disgusted, be tough on them, how to be tough, are you preparing for war?" Fight a nuclear war? ”

The vice president, who is also a hardliner, took over and said: "Of course, we are not going to start a war, no one will lose their mind and go to war with a nuclear power, but we should change the existing policy, and their rise is not in the interests of the United States or the interests of the West." ”

"So, we should unite Europe and contain them."

"Ahem!"

The security adviser coughed: "There are still means of containment, for example, we can do it in Southeast Asia, island countries. form a ring encirclement and build a missile defense network in large numbers"

The Secretary of State stood up and said in horror: "You are crazy, this is war!" ”

"Of course not!"

The security adviser said slyly: "As long as someone else takes the initiative to let us go, it is not a war, in short, it can slow down their economic development." ”

"Also, on the Indian and Pakistani sides, we can also intervene as mediators, which in turn increases their military burden from the west."

"There are multiple aspects, and they will be distracted and consume a lot of money anyway."

The representative of the Pentagon chimed in: "Oil! We control more than 70% of the world's oil, and through the increase in oil prices, their economy can plummet, and if they want to continue to develop, they will have to carry a heavy burden! ”

The vice president also smiled weirdly: "The whole American consortium has not coveted their wealth for a day or two, if a large amount of hot money pours into their stock market and real estate, this kind of arbitrage opportunity, the consortium will definitely be very happy." ”

The security adviser smiled knowingly: "Leaking this report through the media, and then we have an ambiguous attitude, neither admitting nor denying it, think about it, what will Europe think?" What will Southeast Asia, island countries, and South Korea think? Can we sell more of our arms? ”

"Not bad! After the Cold War, Europe and us drifted apart, a strong East is not in the interests of the United States, and a strong Europe is not in our interests! ”

"It's time for the Western world to reunite – the manufacturing of the East, which has closed down a large number of European factories, and they are gnashing their teeth, we can stir up the new Europe, and then influence the old Europe, and make Europe rally again under the banner of the United States through Britain." The representative of the Pentagon, who understood it by heart, expounded his views endlessly.

The Secretary of State was dumbfounded and muttered, "You're crazy, you're crazy!" I want to start another cold war! ”

He is different from the president, he has a calm mind.

The statements of these people are for the sake of the United States, but as soon as he hears these suggestions, he knows that there are true and false.

The ultimate goal is profit!

These people represent the interest groups behind them, and the arms dealers want to sell arms to the world through a new round of JS competition.

Oilmakers want to raise prices and make bigger profits.

The consortium took a fancy to the huge wealth of the East and wanted to harvest their money in the same way that they harvested the island countries in the nineties.

What American interests, it's all a joke!

He sat up straight and said coldly: "They are not the Soviet Union, they are more cunning, and your attempt will not succeed at all!" ”

"The other party will not confront us, even if you force him, he will forbear, but they will put their anger in their hearts, you are playing with fire by doing so! Is in the future of overdraft America! ”

After listening to it for so long, the president also had a big head, so he had to say, "Okay! That's it! If their ambitions are not stopped now, there will be no future for the United States! ”

In the end, he made a decision that was in the interests of the interest groups, in accordance with their ideas.

However, the game is that both sides are playing chess, and unlike the game given by the United States, the other side of the Pacific has its own development plan, and they are not destined to put the chess pieces in the position that others want.

Chen Weidong also has his own chess to play, although he doesn't know how effective this move is, but he still wants to give it a try.

2007, 29 May.

Not surprisingly, the Shanghai Composite Index hit a new high again, standing above the 4,300-point mark in one fell swoop, reaching a maximum of 4,335 points!

In Shanghai and Shenzhen, the single-day trading volume has also been enlarged simultaneously, exceeding 500 billion!

If you count from 998 points in 2005, in less than two years, the market has risen by as much as 326%.

During this period, the irrational and crazy rise of most stocks made the vast majority of shareholders who entered the market early earn huge wealth that they can't usually earn at work.

The government has issued a series of warnings and measures to this end, such as raising interest rates, raising reserve requirements, and so on.

It's a pity that none of these policies have been able to stop the crazy rise in the stock market.

There is still a long queue to open an account within the brokerage, and all kinds of people flock to the market, walking on the street, you can hear someone talking about the stock market frantically at any time.

However, at this historic moment when all shareholders were jubilant and experts were shouting that 10,000 points were expected, late that night, the Ministry of Finance issued an announcement: it is expected that the stamp duty rate on stock transaction fees will be increased from 1% to 3%.

The next day, May 30th.

In the collective bidding stage, the market revealed a strange atmosphere, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Baosteel shares, Huadian International. A number of heavyweights opened sharply lower.

The Shanghai Composite Index opened 247.51 points, or -5.87%, directly below the previous trading day.

The market was in an uproar.

However, half an hour after the opening of the market, the Shanghai Composite Index relied on strong market sentiment and stubbornly attacked, gradually rebounding to 4275 points.

At this time, the broad market index fell by only 60 points.

Countless people thought that this time it would be like the previous adjustment to open low and go high again to pull out the long white line, who would have thought that the stock market would continue to fall after ten o'clock, all the way down.

By the end of the day, the two markets had plummeted by more than 6%.

A total of 853 stocks were pressed to the down limit, of which 508 were in the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

The vast majority of stockholders, including institutions, believe that this is just a small technical adjustment on the way to 10,000 points in the stock market.

However, no one expected that in the next four trading days, the Shanghai Composite Index continued to fall, plummeting from a high of 4,335 points to a low of 3,404 points, a staggering 21.7% decline!

As for individual stocks, they can only be described in four words: miserable, small-cap stocks are all kinds of down limits, down limits and then down limits, and stocks that eat 3 or 4 down limits are everywhere.

For a time, corpses were everywhere, like the end of the world.

On the afternoon of June 5, after the stock market closed.

Chen Jie grabbed a copy of "Securities Times", broke into an office in a hurry, and shouted before closing the door: "Ah Wei, can this stock market still be good?" (End of chapter)