In mid-July, tickets for Chen Qiming's "97 World Tour" officially went on sale.

Originally, Chen Qiming thought that due to the impact of the financial turmoil, the ticket sales of this round of concerts would be affected.

As a result, what he didn't expect was that after the ticket sales for this round of concerts opened, it was sold out directly in only 20 days.

All 150 concerts around the world were sold out.

And in just twenty days.

This amazing result directly shocked the media.

"Chen Qiming's Global Tour Concert Tickets Sold Out in 20 Days"

"The financial turmoil did not affect Chen Qiming, and concert tickets are hard to find"

"Chen Qiming is already a true international superstar"

When the media reported the news about Chen Qiming's concert, Chen Qiming had already entered: a state of retreat, either in the rehearsal room or at home every day.

Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, it was September.

On September 1st, "Chen Qiming 97 World Tour" officially started.

The first stop is Treasure Island.

Five games in a row, with an average of 37,000 people attending each game.

The second stop is the Hung Hom Sports Centre in Hong Kong.

The same five games, with a total of 170,000 people on the spot.

Among them, in several concerts in Hong Kong, Chen Qiming invited Lin Zixiang, Li Ming, Ye Qianwen, and Xu Zhian to help.

After five concerts in Hong Kong, Chen Qiming began to move to the mainland.

With the economic take-off of the mainland in recent years and the increase in consumption levels in major cities, Chen Qiming directly held 30 concerts in the mainland in this round of concerts.

Five in Shanghai, five in Shenzhen, five in Chongqing, five in Beijing, five in Chengdu and five in Xi'an.

In each game, Chen Qiming invited heavyweight guests to help.

Xie Xiaodong was invited by Shenzhen, Andy Lau was invited by Shanghai, Liu Huan was invited by Chongqing, Wei Wei was invited by Beijing, Tu Honggang was invited by Chengdu, and Zhou Huimin was invited from Xi'an.

A large number of heavyweight guests, coupled with the popularity of Chen Qiming himself, made this round of concerts directly top the first in history, creating a concert with the largest number of attendees, the largest guest lineup, and the most stars in the audience.

How popular is Chen Qiming's concert in this round?

Let's just say that in order to watch his concert, many actors and singers in the mainland traveled thousands of miles to his concert site.

This round of concerts is also the one where Chen Qiming takes the most photos with others.

In addition to taking photos with some of the most popular celebrities in the mainland, there are also several celebrities who will be very popular in the future who came to the scene as fans and took photos with him.

For example, the future actress Zhang Ziyi, the emperor Hu Ge, and the actor Chen Kun.

These stars, who are still in school and will become popular in the future, all came to Chen Qiming's concert site, and waited directly in the backcourt passage to take photos with him after the concert.

After the concert in the mainland, Chen Qiming flew to Singapore non-stop.

Five in a row in Singapore and three in Malaysia.

This was followed by Japan, South Korea, and Thailand.

After Asia, there is the United States.

Chen Qiming also held 30 concerts in the United States.

Influenced by the album "Baby", this concert can be called extremely popular.

The venue was full.

Moreover, this round of concerts in the United States also set a record that directly followed Michael Jackson's concert.

At the concert in Los Angeles, nearly 50 people fainted directly at the scene that night because they were too excited and were taken away by ambulance.

After the concert in the United States, Chen Qiming went non-stop to Canada, Australia and then Europe.

Even, in Africa, Chen Qiming also held 20 sessions.

However, compared to other regions, concerts in Africa are not full.

There's no way, it's too poor here, and the cultural industry is underdeveloped, so it's already awesome if you don't lose money.

And when Chen Qiming held concerts around the world.

In October, Hong Kong entered a cold winter.

After more than two months of spreading, the financial turmoil, that is, the economic crisis, finally reached Hong Kong.

International speculators, led by Soros, began to set their sights on Hong Kong.

October 20th.

Guo Dongqiang turned on his computer early and waited for the Hong Kong stock market to open.

Today is a special day, 10 years ago today, it was the "Black Monday" of the Wall Street stock market in the United States.

Now the joy of the return has not yet dissipated, but people are already feeling the tension of danger and turbulence.

Anyone with the slightest sense of smell knows that a storm is coming.

Southeast Asia's financial markets have been battered by a storm in recent months.

In early July, the Bank of Thailand was forced to announce a floating exchange rate system, abandoning the 13-year-old exchange rate system in which the Thai baht was pegged to the US dollar.

On the same day, the Thai baht fell by 20%, on July 29, the governor of the Bank of Thailand, Luncha Malaka, announced his resignation, and on August 5, the Bank of Thailand decided to close 42 financial institutions, so that the Thai baht finally fell completely.

Immediately afterwards, the Philippine peso, the Malaysian ringgit and the Indonesian rupiah fell sharply against the dollar.

The violent financial turmoil has smashed these countries to the bottom at once.

On August 5, a crisis-ridden Thailand was forced to agree to accept the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) standby loan program and package with stringent conditions.

For many Southeast Asians, a fortune they once had was wiped out in an instant.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in an interview: "The economic system we spent 40 years building was suddenly destroyed by this idiot with a lot of money. ”

Who is this idiot?

There is no doubt that this idiot with a lot of money is George Soros.

The financial turmoil in Southeast Asia has made Guodongqiang clearly feel that while Southeast Asia has won a big victory, the next coveted target of the Soros Fund and the Tiger Fund is definitely Xiangjiang.

Soros is about to attack Xiangjiang.

On the 20th, this day was the most anxious day for Guodongqiang, and the Xiangjiang stock market began to fall.

It's Black Monday again.

The atmosphere of terror began to spread in Xiangjiang. On the other side of the world, investment analysts on the other side of the globe are celebrating.

The Dow Jones rebounded 74 points on the day after falling 210 points in a week.

On 21 October, the Hang Seng Index fell another 765.33 points, and on 22 October, it continued its momentum by 1,200 points.

Shortly after the close of the Hong Kong stock market that day, Guoqiangdong was worried about the financial markets of Hong Kong and Hong Kong.

A mysterious phone call reached the special line on Guo Dongqiang's desk.

"Yes, I am Guodongqiang." As soon as he picked up the phone, Guo Dongqiang immediately heard the other party's voice.

Hearing this voice, Guo Dongqiang was uncharacteristically humble: "My analysis is: After three days of preparation, these international speculators are about to launch a general offensive. ”

Guo Dongqiang paused slightly, gave himself a moment to think, and then continued: "Please tell the Xiangjiang side to pay attention to the foreign exchange market." The strategy of international speculators is to short the currency and at the same time short the stock market, forcing interest rates to rise, causing the stock market to fall, and reaping double profits from the foreign exchange market and the stock market. Their methods of sniping at the Hong Kong exchange rate, Hong Kong stocks, and futures index will be quite cunning. ”

Guo Dongqiang tucked the phone between his shoulders as he tapped the keyboard at a rapid pace. "Beware of their use of OTC options contracts to disguise their sniping deployments, so that the sniping can achieve a surprise and stormy effect. The feint to attack the Hong Kong exchange rate is actually to win in the speculation index. ”

Looking at the data called up on the computer screen, Guo Dongqiang briefly made some technical explanations. "Okay, we're here to help."

After hanging up the phone, Guodongqiang breathed a long sigh of relief. After just a few minutes of calling, his forehead was already sweating.

He was under a lot of pressure, this time the form was very dangerous, and he couldn't imagine what would have happened if he had dealt with a mistake.

Silently smoking a cigarette, he began to think of a way to deal with it.

Half-ringing, he had a clue.

At this moment, only by going head-to-head with the other party will you have a chance to win.

Otherwise, Hong Kong may repeat the fate of Thailand.

And if you want to be tough, your own side must have sufficient funds.

If this war does happen, it will be a protracted war.

If you don't have enough money, everything will go for naught.

Therefore, for this time, it is to let the Hong Kong banks prepare the funds.

At the same time, as much as possible, contact the wealthy businessmen in Hong Kong and ask them to lend money for support.

As soon as he thought of it, Guo Qiangdong immediately called Xiangjiang and told them what he thought.

The stock market has fallen sharply in recent days, and the Xiangjiang side has already noticed it, so after using it as a bridge and handing over the task of blocking the attack to Guoqiangdong, the Xiangjiang side immediately began to fully cooperate.

In addition to their own funds, banks in Hong Kong have begun to actively contact billionaires, companies and groups from all sides.

Chen Qiming is also one of the people who have been contacted.

During this period of time, Chen Qiming's large amount of funds could not be concealed from the management agency at all.

The bank clearly knows that Chen Qiming currently has a large amount of liquidity.

So, the phone was called to Chen Qiming.

After receiving the call, Chen Qiming did not hesitate, Chen Qiming still had a clear grasp of this matter related to the country's economy.

When the other party just asked if he could help, Chen Qiming agreed and lent 1.7 billion Hong Kong dollars to the bank with the liquidity he had.

The reason why he did not lend all of them was because Chen Qiming saw a new investment target.

In October, ATV's chairman, Lin Baixin, who holds the largest shareholding, was caught up in a land case in Baodao and was detained on Baodao.

Coupled with poor management, the current ATV has a loss of hundreds of millions, so the Lin family intends to sell their shares.

Chen Qiming is very interested in ATV's shares and plans to take ownership of the TV station.

Therefore, he left himself 500 million Hong Kong dollars. (The protagonist has 1.4 billion yuan, which is about 2.2 billion when converted into Hong Kong dollars)

However, even if he did not take out all the funds, Chen Qiming's 1.7 billion yuan of funds was also in the forefront of all the Chinese-funded, red-chip, and blue-chip funds that were supported, and because he was willing to help the SAR government help tide over the difficulties, he also successfully made Hong Kong feel good about him.

Only the day after he agreed to help with 1.7 billion yuan, he received news that his settlement in Xiangjiang was done.

Not only that, but he was promised that he would be awarded a medal.

Obviously, the state will not treat him badly to people like him who are willing to help the country in times of crisis.

On October 23, Hong Kong's linked exchange rate system was sniped by international financial speculators for the first time. They dumped Hong Kong dollars in large quantities to exchange them for dollars.

Hong Kong's monetary authorities have also begun to use their huge foreign exchange reserves to absorb Hong Kong dollars.

At the same time, the interest rate will be raised and the monetary policy will be tightened.

On the 21st, the Hong Kong interbank interest rate, which was only about 7%, once soared 300 times.

In this market atmosphere, Hong Kong stocks suffered a fourth consecutive setback, falling by 10.41%.

The Hang Seng Index and the Futures Market Index fell by more than 1,000 points.

Hong Kong SAR Financial Secretary Donald Tsang said on the same day that he did not think it was a stock market crash.

Hong Kong's fundamentals are good, and the decline in the stock market is mainly due to temporary speculation in external factors, so investors do not need to panic.

In any case, he said, the SAR Government should first and foremost defend the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar.

Although there had been speculation in the Hong Kong dollar the previous evening, the speculation had subsided.

Meanwhile, Hong Kong's Monetary Authority Chief Executive Joseph Yam also made a speech claiming that the HKMA had repelled speculators the night before.

On the 24th, after falling sharply for four consecutive trading days, the Hong Kong stock market rebounded strongly on this day, with Chinese and foreign funds similar to Chen Qiming's funds entering the market, and 24 blue-chip and red-chip listed companies repurchasing shares from the market, pushing the market up.

The Hang Seng Index rose by 718 points, or 6.89%.

The Hong Kong dollar has stabilized amid a strong rebound in the stock market.

At this point, this thrilling battle to defend the Hong Kong dollar has come to an end for the time being, and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has won with great difficulty.

In this campaign, speculators sold a total of more than 40 billion Hong Kong dollars, and made a profit of 1 billion Hong Kong dollars in the securities market.

However, although the matter has come to an end for the time being, it is not over.

Including Chen Qiming, many discerning people know that this defense battle has just begun.

Because, when the stock market war broke out on the Hong Kong side, there was also a vicious circle of general sharp declines in stock markets around the world.

On October 27, the Dow Jones index in New York plunged nearly 554.26 points, the worst day on record, resulting in an automatic one-hour halt in the middle of the process.

The Tokyo stock market fell more than 800 points after the market opened. On the 28th, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index plunged more than 1,400 points, down 13.7%, reaching a low of 8,775.88 points for the day, closing at 9,059.89 points, the largest drop in history.

However, this has nothing to do with Chen Qiming for the time being.

He didn't know much about finance and couldn't do anything other than give financial support.

He can only choose to believe that the SAR government can win this victory.

Of course, he is very sure that Hong Kong will be affected in this financial war, but it will definitely be won.

It's just that this war may go on for a long time.

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