Break out of the courtyard

Just as the US's top executive was puzzled by the unusual mobilization of the mainland's military and supplies, news of the brief intrusion and control of satellites belonging to various countries finally reached the US's top executive's desk.

The unusual activity of the military, supplies, and satellites led the US's top executive to wonder, "Are they worried about the city being bombed?"

The blond, buzz-cut middle-aged man asked疑惑地问道：“Who would bomb their city?”

"Impossible!" the US Grand Administrator exclaimed, contradicting himself. "That plan to bomb mainland cities was abandoned long ago; it wasn't signed off on by me..."

"Could it be the Northern Soviet Union?" The US chief executive looked at the middle-aged male and female secretaries in the office, then dismissed the idea, "That's impossible! Their internal conflicts are so serious..."

The blond, buzz-cut middle-aged man frowned and asked, "Is it possible that their satellites also malfunctioned, and they then thought that we and the Northern Soviet Union might be planning to attack them?"

The US's top executive, influenced by preconceived notions from satellite anomaly reports, assumed that anomalies in satellites from various countries were caused by peaceful space activities, and never considered that satellites launched by mainland China might also experience anomalies.

Inspired, the female secretary interjected, "Could it be that aliens interfered with our satellites, causing misunderstandings on the mainland?"

The US chief executive frowned in thought, recalling the Area 51 report he had seen before, which mentioned a lot of research on extraterrestrials.

In particular, there was that strange tree called "Jianmu" that greatly helped with the moon landing and came from the mainland!
"Call their embassy and find out what's going on!" The US's chief executive officer made a relatively rational decision first, then added, "Summon the think tank for a meeting!"

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The US CEO couldn't understand the mainland's baffling behavior, and the European and American financial giants, led by Wall Street, were also bewildered by something as soon as they woke up.

The Peace Group actually withdrew all its investment from Japan last night, despite the potential losses!

Last month, the Peace Group withdrew 10 trillion yen from Japan Island, a move welcomed by Japan Island and various European and American capital groups.

Because if this money doesn't leave, the yen will be unable to maintain its appreciation after a large amount of foreign currency is bought.

This is something that neither Japan nor various European and American capital groups want to see, because the appreciation of the yen will exacerbate the deterioration of the profits of export-oriented Japanese companies and will also reduce the amount of yen that European and American capital groups can exchange to help the market.

Therefore, Peace Group's withdrawal of investment last month was not only supported openly by Japan Bank, but also by covertly by Euromag.

But this time is different!
First, some European and American funds withdrew from Japan and moved to offshore accounts, then secretly entered the Japanese stock market, causing the yen exchange rate to fluctuate.

Then Hong Kong capital suddenly withdrew and sold off yen, causing the yen exchange rate to depreciate from 125:1 to 133:1!

With the Peace Group abruptly withdrawing its investment today, the yen exchange rate has been driven down to 149:1!

The key point is that the Peace Group's stepmother investment company has 5.5 trillion yen waiting to be exchanged for foreign currency.

The Japanese government, on the other hand, actually wants the yen to depreciate, increase the export price advantage of Japanese products, and thus regain its leading position in international trade.

The Japanese government could only think about it before, and dared not actually devalue the currency, otherwise, which foreign investors would be willing to invest in the Japanese stock market?
However, ever since Euromag Capital followed Hong Kong funds in shorting Japanese stocks for three consecutive days, driving the Nikkei index back to its 1980 level, the Japanese government and Euromag Capital have become estranged!

When the Japanese government discovered that Omega Capital was secretly buying up Japanese company stocks at low prices, it abandoned its plans to continue cooperation.

But it's easy to invite a god but hard to send him away. European and American capital have come to the Japanese stock market to plunder Japanese companies' shares. As long as they don't violate Japanese laws, the Japanese government has no right to expel them unless it directly intervenes in the stock market.

Just like the Peace Group, which has thoroughly mastered Japanese law, they always operate on the fringes of Japanese law, like lurking wolves, occasionally rushing into the Japanese stock market to tear off a large piece of meat, and then quickly disappearing, not giving the European and American capital wolf pack a chance to surround and kill them.

Yes, Omega Capital's joint entry into the Japanese stock market has another purpose: to target and eliminate the Peace Group's massive funds in Japan.

In their plan, as long as they can keep the Peace Group's yen funds, coupled with the joint statement of 33 countries restricting the Peace Group's product sales and the Peace Group's various investments in mainland China, they can significantly reduce the Peace Group's cash flow.

Once the Peace Group's cash flow is cut off, European and American countries will have the opportunity to gain access to the related technologies within the Peace Group!

For example, the development of the latest longevity potion!
They were quite self-aware, so they took the opportunity to release the 10 trillion yen from their stepmother's investment account, thus easing the pressure on themselves.

Once they have wiped out most of the remaining 9.7 trillion yen held by the Peace Group in Japan, the Peace Group will definitely mobilize funds to return to the Japanese stock market to provide relief.

This would inevitably lead to a world-shaking financial battle that would attract global attention!

It will also leave a significant mark on financial history, and then spawn countless versions of memoirs of the financial war.

This was a beautiful vision painted by the former Japanese Ministry of Finance to the European and American people. It was later improved through discussions among various European and American financial magnates. Unfortunately, there were bad people within the Japanese government, allowing Zhang Heping to receive the inside information in advance.

Therefore, as soon as this unprecedented financial war began, the besieged side withdrew from the encirclement early on, choosing to stand aside and wait to see how the Japanese government, which had let the wolf into the house, would end up.

According to Zhang Heping's plan to hollow out Japan's industries, with the entry of European and American capital, Japan's funds will not be needed as much, so 10 trillion yen was withdrawn first.

When Zhang Heping remembered that there would be another major flood this year, he no longer wanted to deal with the plans for Japan Island. Returning to China to acquire land for post-disaster reconstruction was the priority!
In this way, they gained both fame and money!

However, after the remaining funds of the Peace Group began to withdraw, various funds from Omega became restless!

In addition, the Japanese government deliberately relaxed exchange rate controls, causing the yen, which was being sold off in large quantities, to depreciate continuously, resulting in a continuous shrinkage of the European and American funds still in Japan.

Then some small-capital investors couldn't hold on any longer and wanted to cash out and make a move!
With the Peace Group no longer a target for attack, and smaller internal investors defecting and withdrawing, this loose financial alliance collapsed in less than a day.

Following closely behind the small capital outflows were the medium-sized capitals. The large capitals of Europe and the United States did not act immediately; they were still waiting for their home countries to put pressure on the Japanese government to restore the yen exchange rate to its previous level.

However, the Japanese government lured these European and American funds to the Japanese stock market with no intention of letting them withdraw.

Therefore, the yen exchange rate continued to fall in the following days, and the Japanese government responded to those European and American big capital by saying that since the yen exchange rate was so low, they might as well buy shares of Japanese listed companies to avoid the risk of further exchange rate decline.

How much has the Peace Group suffered in the past few days, withdrawing its investment at all costs?

Last month, 10 trillion yuan of capital was withdrawn, which translates to about 800 billion US dollars in exchange.

The 9.7 trillion yuan withdrawn this month, calculated at last month's exchange rate, should be around 776 billion US dollars.

However, the Peace Group actually withdrew only 645 billion US dollars, and lost 131 billion US dollars from the exchange rate difference alone, a loss of about 17%!

This demonstrates just how significant this fluctuation in the yen's exchange rate has been!
According to calculations by economists in Japan, the Japanese automotive industry can accept a maximum yen exchange rate of 1 magnesium dollar to 155 yen. The Japanese electronics industry can accept a maximum yen exchange rate of 1 magnesium dollar to 170 yen.

The limit for shipbuilding in Japan is 1 magnesium dollar to 175 yen.

The limit for the Japanese textile and steel industries is 1 magnesium coin to 180 yen.

When the yen exchange rate fell to the level of early 1986, that is, 1 magnesium dollar to 182 yen, the Japanese government reluctantly intervened to stabilize the exchange rate under pressure from European and American countries.

At this point, the yen exchange rate was 31.3% higher than the rate at which the Peace Group exited the market last month, resulting in a significant paper loss.

The Japanese government believed that returning to this exchange rate would revitalize the export business of Japanese companies and deter European-American Capital from investing in Japanese listed companies due to the 31% capital loss.

Unfortunately, things are unpredictable.

Just as Omega didn't expect, the Nissan cars they hated the most were actually the Japanese industry most able to resist the appreciation of the yen.

The Japanese businessmen never expected that various European and American capital giants would transfer their financial risks to banks in Japan through commodity futures such as gold, oil, and metal raw materials, as well as equity pledges and asset pledges, thereby transferring their funds in Japan.

Therefore, when the Japanese islanders approached the representatives of Omega Capital again to renegotiate various preferential policies for foreign investment in Japanese companies, the Omega representatives did not give them a friendly look.

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While the Japanese stock, real estate, and foreign exchange markets suffered severe setbacks, Zhang Heping was attending a representative conference of the China Association for Science and Technology in the capital.

Qian Xuesen and others nominated Zhang Heping to serve as the new chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology, but Zhang Heping declined due to his Hong Kong identity and only accepted the title of honorary chairman.

This title was also bestowed upon Qian Lao.

Zhang Heping's trip to the capital to attend the meeting was merely a cover; his real purpose was to share the space-based early warning system with the Capital Aerospace Group and the military aerospace forces.

As the brief intrusion and control of satellites from various countries came to light, Hua Lao and others, who were well aware of the situation, first urged the space agency personnel to come to Shenzhen to back down and apologize for their previous refusal to cooperate.

Next, we began to study the feasibility of building a space-based early warning system together, as well as the future allocation of satellite resources.

During the initial communication phase, the military aerospace forces, who were reaping the benefits without any input, had the least say and were the most content.

Because Zhang Heping gave them up to 100% satellite access during wartime, while during peacetime access was allocated in tiers according to needs.

The space agency is the most troublesome, because they actually want to give their subordinate space groups a share of the commercial market!

Zhang Heping's plan was for the space agency and the space group to conduct research and development and receive dividends, but they didn't appreciate it, which angered Zhang Heping so much that he simply kicked them out and refused to talk to them anymore!

However, when Jiangsu Province encountered rare floods in mid-May, the space agency and the space group were under tremendous pressure.

If Zhang Heping doesn't involve them, they won't be needed to launch any satellites, let alone weather satellites.

Of course, their worries are unnecessary.

After some of the management who were only concerned with political achievements were transferred, Zhang Heping was finally willing to sit down and renegotiate with the newcomers at the space agency.

Finally, it was decided that the Peace Group would have exclusive commercial rights to the space-based early warning system, the Aerospace Group would participate in system maintenance and research and development, and the military aerospace forces would have the privilege of allocating resources to the space-based early warning system at different levels, with the maximum being 100% of the satellite access rights.

As for the space agency, let them continue with their administration and just watch from the sidelines.

In fact, Peace Group's current commercial satellite business relies entirely on communication satellites, navigation satellites, survey satellites, and space capsules launched by Peace Aerospace itself.

The space agency allowed the space group to get involved in commercial satellites, to which Zhang Heping retorted in his own words: "Why should we?"
Furthermore, Zhang Heping's space-based early warning system is not yet perfect; there are also plans for space cloud computers, space cloud servers, space stations, and lunar bases, among others.

He's invested so much; how could he let others reap the rewards?
"Advisor Zhang, is it really because of this space-based early warning system that Peace Aerospace Company can predict floods in Jiangsu Province?" A young man in military uniform with a buzz cut asked curiously as Zhang Heping rapidly typed code on his computer.

Zhang Heping casually replied, "This system is not yet perfect. The actual flood disaster prediction is done by the expert group at the satellite monitoring center. Based on the data monitored by the satellite, they calculated that the probability of the disaster occurring is very high."

“That’s still impressive!” another young man in military uniform chimed in. “At the beginning of the month, some people were complaining that this flood control and disaster relief effort was a waste of resources and manpower, but now they’ve all shut up.”

"I almost hope they've miscalculated!" Zhang Heping said calmly. "Unfortunately, the cloud cover is getting bigger and bigger. I wonder how the flood prevention and control work is going?"

Several aerospace experts who were observing from the side exchanged glances, then looked at one of the old men.

Then, the old man said, "At the beginning of the flood prevention and control work, many people were resistant."

"After all, some places didn't even see a drop of rain."

"However, as the rain in Jiangsu Province intensifies, flood prevention and control efforts have received greater attention, and no one dares to take them lightly!"

Zhang Heping looked at the clean-shaven old man with surprise. "How did you know, Elder Qi?"

The elderly man surnamed Qi was an engineer at the aerospace group. Zhang Heping couldn't understand how someone who was engaged in scientific research knew about the recent frontline work.

Old Qi said helplessly, "A few days ago, I was seconded to the flood control and disaster relief headquarters to provide technical support, and I heard some things there."

"Oh!" Zhang Heping finished speaking, moved the mouse a few times, and began to speak to the group of young men and women in military uniforms standing behind him:
"This space-based early warning system currently only has communication, navigation, surveying, space defense, and monitoring functions."

A tall, thin young man asked doubtfully, "Advisor Zhang, didn't the commander say that this system also has laser weapons to intercept missiles?"

"No!" Zhang Heping denied with a serious expression. "The space agency has an agreement with the Americans that our satellites will not carry laser weapons."

"Therefore, our satellites do not carry laser weapons, only laser calibration devices."

"You can set this device to the lowest power for practice normally. Unless it's at the highest level of combat readiness, don't set it to the maximum power, understand?"

...(End of chapter)