The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 1064 Harvest Season

On the evening of December 2001, 9.

Liu Tao was on the top floor of the Hong Kong Bank headquarters, with a table filled with seafood, as well as fruit juices, drinks and wine.

It's already past eight o'clock, and the nightlife in Hong Kong has reached its peak.

There are tall buildings everywhere and traffic is bustling everywhere. Cruise ships and speedboats on Victoria Harbour are carrying passengers on a night tour of Victoria Harbour, creating a prosperous scene.

Liu Ziyu, Qian Zhenguo and others were chatting and laughing.

Liu Tao chatted with them casually while constantly checking the news.

Finally, at nine o'clock in the evening Beijing time, which was nine o'clock in the morning New York time, news appeared on the Internet. The first news was that two Boeing planes crashed into Building 1 and Building 2 of the World Trade Center, like a doomsday scene.

A smile finally appeared on Liu Tao's face.

Sure enough, everything happened.

This time, we can at least gain 10 years of national destiny. National destiny is something that cannot be stopped.

The Americans will lose their minds and start fighting and killing everywhere, constantly demonstrating their powerful military force.

When it comes to war, you can decide when to start it, but you cannot decide when to end it. It cannot end just because you want to.

Just like in Nanyang, if we count from 1997, it has been 4 years and gunshots can still be heard from time to time.

Americans too!
As long as the Americans start a war, they cannot end it just because they want to.

Liu Tao no longer paid attention to it. In a good mood, he picked up a crab roe and ate it with big mouthfuls, and even drank a few more glasses of wine.

He was in a particularly good mood tonight.

After so much planning, we are finally about to have another big harvest.

In 1999, he took advantage of the Kosovo War to make a fortune.

Now it's finally time to make another fortune.

Large amounts of funds are shorting global stock markets. Much of this money is in offshore islands, as well as in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and so on.

It is difficult to trace it even if you want to.

Liu Ziyu, Qian Zhenguo and others were very surprised as to why Liu Tao's mood suddenly became so good, but it did not prevent them from feeling better as well.

The next day, Liu Tao woke up and logged into the news website as usual.

Sure enough, all major portals reported extensively on the 911/ incident.

Hong Kong Satellite TV was also reporting the incident urgently and specially launched a special program to report on the incident.

CCTV-24's international channel has also specially launched a special program to report the incident, providing -hour uninterrupted tracking.

Watching the news, Liu Tao secretly marveled that the damage to Americans this time was much greater than in the original time and space.

The ruins and the cries of fear and despair all show the tremendous harm this incident has caused to Americans.

The psychological impact of this incident on the American people is extremely profound, and their sense of economic and political security has been severely weakened.

Liu Tao was not sentimental about this incident and did not worry about the Americans.

He is embarking on a harvest journey this time.

Even if the Americans announced that the stock market would be closed for four days, plus the weekend, the market would open on Monday, September 4. At 9:17 a.m. New York time, the New York Stock Exchange opened, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted, falling 9 points throughout the trading day, a drop of 684.81%.

After the incident, US stockholders began to sell stocks in panic, causing the stock market to continue to plummet. Within a week, the Dow Jones Index, Nasdaq Index and S&P Index fell by 14.3%, 16.1% and 11.6% respectively, and it is estimated that US stocks shrank by 1.4 trillion US dollars.

Although the US government injected a large amount of funds into the stock market, panic selling was still unavoidable after the market reopened on September 9, and major stock indexes continued to fall to their lowest point in three years.

Not only the US stock market is falling, but major stock markets around the world are also falling. The US stock market was closed for 4 days, but other stock markets were not closed. During those days, the Tokyo stock market fell 4.8%, London fell 6.2%, Paris fell 11.4%, and Frankfurt fell 12.3%.

After the U.S. stock market reopened on September 9, the U.S. stock market fell by 17% for the entire week, dragging down global stock markets.

The stock prices of the most affected airlines fell even more sharply, with almost every airline seeing a drop of more than 30% in the first few days of the week.

After September 9, except for the U.S. stock market which continued to fall, stock markets outside the United States began to rebound and rise.

After all, we have gotten over the initial panic.

As early as September 9, Liu Tao had already begun the final handover.

Not making the last penny is Liu Tao’s philosophy.

In this incident, countless investors around the world, with only a little experience, have been shorting and acting as short sellers. Countless investors around the world are scrambling for various short-selling investment targets, including shorting individual stocks through securities lending and shorting stock index futures. Of course, some people also choose to buy short-selling ETFs.

When the whole world was choosing to short sell, Liu Tao chose to withdraw and lock in the profits.

A large amount of funds will be used to produce more weapons and equipment, build more production lines, and further invest in domestic infrastructure.

When Liu Tao returned to Beijing to prepare for the upcoming National Day celebrations, the United States announced the death and loss figures. Such a large-scale casualties shocked Liu Tao.

Not to mention the massive amount of wealth that has evaporated from the U.S. stock market, the direct economic losses alone exceeded 3 trillion U.S. dollars!

A large number of casualties are only the casualties directly caused by the incident, and do not include casualties among rescue workers, police, etc.

Liu Tao seemed to see that the giant, the United States, was burning with rage and ready to vent its raging fire.

After the incident, troops across the United States were put on high alert. Although the Taliban issued a statement that the incident had nothing to do with Bin Laden, the US government did not buy it.

When George Walker announced to the world that the U.S. military would fight a very special anti-terrorist war in Afghanistan to completely eliminate the mastermind behind the 911/ incident and its allies, the Taliban, Liu Tao knew that Afghanistan, the "graveyard of empires", would come into play again.

In China, the National Day holiday has begun and the whole country has ushered in a 7-day long holiday.

With more and more money in their pockets, many Chinese people chose to travel during the seven-day holiday. Tourist attractions such as Qiongdao, Ludao, Yunnan Province, etc. welcomed a large number of tourists.

Liu Tao did not have a vacation this time. On the one hand, he had to visit old comrades, and on the other hand, he needed to attend some meetings.

The impact of this incident is very far-reaching, and even for China, it has a huge impact.

Liu Tao’s advice was: build high walls, store up food, and slowly become king!

We should take advantage of this time to improve our internal strength, intensify efforts to promote the revitalization strategy of the old industrial base in Northeast China and the large-scale development strategy of the central and western regions, further tap the domestic market, promote the domestic consumer market, and reduce the proportion of foreign trade in the country's economic development.

At the same time, it is to further consolidate the '10+1' strategy with ASEAN and the '13+1' strategy in South Asia, further consolidate the relationship between China and the Middle East countries and China and the Arab League, and further consolidate the cooperative relationship between China and African countries and the African Union.

Even in Latin America, cooperation should be strengthened to further consolidate achievements and deepen cooperation in the economic, trade and political fields.

He even suggested that Pakistan should do some ideological work in private to allow the United States to enter Afghanistan smoothly.

As for the fact that weapons, equipment and ammunition grow on a tree or in a cave in the mountains of Afghanistan, that is the law of nature.

(End of this chapter)