Winner Takes It All, Resurrection 2009

"Pay? What money? This is our business. Talking about money will hurt feelings, right?"

After the cooperation was agreed upon, Li ate and took bribes in one go and finally finalized the purchase of the first batch of equipment for more than 50,000 people.

He was just feeling happy, but when He Zhongping suddenly asked for money, he immediately changed his expression, acting like a rogue who didn't have the money and wouldn't give his life either.

He Zhongping was confused. "What do you mean by own business? With such a large purchase order, they don't even give me a penny and are planning to make money for nothing. If I agree, I'll be a fool."

Everyone present here knows Qingyun's background well. With a series of large investments recently, various financing and loans were required (it's not that there is no money, they all have a use). Even the money for ordering cargo ships and oil tankers was moved from banks. How could there be any money left?

But He Zhongping doesn't care about all this. The current situation of Libao Group is that it is the most difficult to develop among the five major groups. It really has no money. It is not responsible for production, but only for purchasing and selling.

The Governor's Office will not give him equipment worth tens of billions at once and ask him to sell them all before settling the bill. It's difficult to do business these days!

Seeing that trouble was about to break out, Ye Jingming hurried out to smooth things over and advised He Zhongping to look at the long term. After all, with Li Bao's exclusive engineering company set up, he was bound to receive a lot of projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America in the future.

This is also a form of resource exchange. There is no need to be obsessed with the immediate petty profits.

He also advised Mr. Li, "You are not very particular about your work. Give him a little bit, at least 10 or 800 million to report to the boss!"

“The landlord’s family doesn’t have any food left!”

Li Zehua counted on his fingers, "...Look at all these big projects, the follow-up funding gap is more than 50 billion, and I'm still worried about where to get the money.

Let alone 100 million or 800 million, I can't even come up with 100 million right now, how about you guys please be kind and each of you can come up with 180 billion to solve this urgent problem?"

When everyone heard this, they looked around and talked about other things, pretending they didn't hear it.

It’s not that Qingyun has a bad reputation, nor are they worried that it won’t be able to pay back the money. The key is that all of them are short of money. Qingyun has a big strategy to pursue, and Nandian Runhua is recruiting investors. They are also on the eve of a big business explosion, and each is trying to find ways to make money.

The most crucial point is that Qingyun is desperately short of money. It is a piece of cake for everyone here to give a guarantee of 1 billion or 800 million, but the problem is that it is short of 100 billion or 800 million. Who can bear this huge hole?

Li Zehua was truly in a difficult situation, not pretending to be. He had no choice in facing the current predicament. For example, the real estate company had a large net investment value, but he had to set an example and support the rectification of a certain industry with practical actions.

Therefore, not only can we not continue to expand the scale of financing, but we must also find ways to raise funds to reduce the debt ratio and deleverage.

According to the original plan, the group would be able to be provided with tens of billions of financing support, but now it has to pay tens of billions of additional funds. As a result, liquidity has become even tighter.

As for the domestic part of the industrial fund, it has long been overdrawn, and the actual debt ratio has long exceeded the 70% bottom line. Fortunately, the group's various businesses are developing well, otherwise the growth of the stock market alone would not even be able to cover the interest.

Not to mention the overseas part, now is not the good old days after 16 when the US stock market was loosened and the stock market surged by 20% a year. Qingyun certainly relied on Li Zehua's personal vision to cheat and buy a large number of high-quality corporate stocks in bulk.

Excess profits were earned in the form of mortgage refinancing, which was then used as collateral for large-scale investments in other places. However, the problem was that the asset promotion plan in Southeast Asia required a large amount of foreign exchange as start-up capital and guarantee in the early stages.

Qingyun scraped together the money and finally managed to come up with 60% of the share (the rest was borne by local allies). After finally catching its breath, it was faced with a new round of large-scale overseas expansion. Its capital chain had been stretched to the limit, and it was difficult to pay even a penny more.

He Zhongping could understand it, but he also had a bunch of people waiting for a meal under him. What's more, Qingyun came up with a procurement package worth tens of billions in one go, but in the end not a penny was spent and it was all empty talk.

It doesn't make sense to put it anywhere.

Qin Xiangli couldn't bear to watch it any longer and said, "You said your family also owns a bank. If it doesn't work, go to Weifuzhi and Minsheng Bank and borrow some money from them internally to cover the cost."

"Forget it, I don't know if I haven't checked the almanac recently, and I'm attracting bad people!"

Li Zehua explained with a bitter face, "During the meeting this morning, someone reported that a lot of foreign investors were questioning this matter, saying that the authority was unclear...

In short, he was full of sarcasm, and he almost pointed at my nose and accused me of embezzlement and disregarding all rules.

I know that some people are jealous. Pengcheng Tengda has also asked people to come forward to discuss industry norms. Damn, they were doing well at the beginning, but now they can't do well and they start to fan the flames, fearing that Qingyun will develop well.

But there is a large group of people behind them waving flags and cheering. In the end, aren’t they just eyeing the control of Qingyun’s purse?
It’s now difficult for me to supplement my balance by issuing some money funds through the micropayment platform.”

"Being targeted is something you should be careful about. It's never wrong to be cautious. In this special environment this year, it's never too cautious."

Ye Jingming said something with hidden meaning, "Don't forget, you beat down his right-hand man. No matter how generous he appears on the surface, he is still angry inside."

Li Zehua wanted to cry but couldn't say much, after all, there was still a whole year to go until 13.
But seeing that He Zhongping insisted on having money, he had no choice but to put forward the proposal of setting up a layout for big investors.

“Will the camel owners listen to us?”

He Zhongping was stunned when he heard Jiandan's words. "Don't try to fool me."

"Can such a big strategic shift be influenced by me alone?"

Li Zehua curled his lips and said, "The cost of shale oil in the United States is frighteningly high. The initial cost starts at 45 US dollars per barrel. I am not making this up, but the real data from the comprehensive evaluation of the industry.

The cost of participating in international trade transactions in the later stage will double on this basis (in reality it is not that high).

Think about it, to whom do the big farmers sell their oil?
The majority of the sales are in Europe, and a part is sold to East Asia and Southeast Asia. Originally, the sales relied mainly on volume, but now the Americans are forcing us to raise prices, and the key difference is taken away as protection fees.

Oh, I didn’t make any money, but I got beaten up a lot, how can the big guys be happy about that?”

There is no need to explain the reason in detail, everyone here understands it.

Big oil producers were originally happily reaping huge profits from energy. The cost of extracting and transporting a barrel of oil to the port was only around $10. In the past, they sold it for $25-60, making a fortune.

But now they are forced by the Americans to sell at $90-120 per barrel. Ordinarily, they should be happy. The key is that Wall Street is not a human being. It has come up with a lot of harsh conditions, forcing big companies to pay the excess as protection fees.

Ou Meng and Bangzi, who bought energy at a high price, and Jiaoben Chicken, agreed with their godfather and said that the high price was good because it would help reduce carbon emissions and protect the environment, and contribute to building a beautiful global village.

But in private, he curses louder than anyone else. Not only does he impose all kinds of restrictions on big investors, but he will also kill them if he gets the chance!
The big investors are the typical ones who neither get to eat the meat nor miss the beating. In addition, the bad checks issued by Wall Street are not cashed, so they suffer heavy losses and are in a difficult situation.

Only Big Cat is happy. He made a lot of money in this round of energy price surge (he has an agreed supply price with Hans, which is very low).

Li Zehua is so smart, he knows all the dirty deeds between the big players in the original time and space and the Americans, and even knows every inside story of the hundreds of billions of dollars that were later lost by the big players.

It would be a miracle if he didn't take the opportunity to poach people.

"Even if what you said is true, it's useless. The big guys have so many pledges of allegiance in the United States that they can't change their allegiance in a short time. What's more, Ou Meng's strength is still there. Even if the big guys want to buy insurance.

It’s impossible to find us, right?”

Ye Jingming has a very accurate assessment of his own strength. The current Dongda is not the great existence that will dominate the world with its industrial power in a dozen years. Two years ago, Dongda surpassed China and became the second largest economy.

But the lack of hard power is not a little bit. Not to mention compared with the old brands of America, Big Cat, Hans, and Chicken, even Dai Ying, Gaul, and South Korea may not be able to compare with them.

This is mainly because we owed too much debt in the past, and we have just achieved results by staying up late to make up for the basics, such as Gou 20, 16, Beidou global positioning, Gou , new materials, new radar detection and other new systems.

They are still in the process of intensive verification and small-scale production. It will take at least two to three years before they can be put into service on a large scale to form combat effectiveness. These are top secret and outsiders can only get a rough idea of ​​them.

Believe it or not is another matter.

How desperate must the big investors be to come and curry favor with someone at this time?

Li Zehua doesn't think so. "It's impossible to completely rely on them. They are not stupid. Unrealized development potential is the same as no development potential. The key is that Ou Meng is now in trouble, and the big households are dissatisfied with being manipulated by the Americans. Don't forget that the crossroads of the Mesopotamian Basin and Central Asia are still controlled by the Americans.

No one will believe you if you say you don't have a sense of urgency and crisis.

After all, who among those who can become the big brother of a region is a naive idiot?
Since we are required to change, more strength means more possibilities for the future. Although the University of Tokyo looks a bit shabby now, the foundation it laid in the beginning is still there.

Besides, we don't ask for much. It's not too much to take advantage of the turmoil in the energy market between Europe and the United States to give us some extra benefits, right?"

Then he briefly outlined his overall plan, and it was really very simple.

To put it bluntly, they are making money from the price difference by taking advantage of the fact that the Americans are trying their best to raise oil prices in order to buy time for the development of their own domestic shale oil (a trump card to compete with Europe for influence in oil-producing areas).

Because Ou Meng will not surrender easily, he will inevitably frantically suppress oil prices. This is the general trend and cannot be reversed by human power.

Since 06, driven by the strong economic growth demand in Southeast Asia, the international crude oil price has seen six consecutive increases, reaching the $12 mark in February 2.

This high price has already caused great suffering to major economies, so there is a general trend of uniting to short crude oil around the world, but no one has dared to take the lead in challenging the United States before.

Now that the European debt crisis is getting worse, Europe can no longer bear it and is forced to take the lead. With this firepower point as cover, everyone is secretly ready to move~
"Europe, Tokyo, Japan, Korea, India, and a bunch of Southeast Asian countries with real needs have joined forces to launch a crackdown on high oil prices.

We don’t even need to do much preparation. As long as we can get the admission ticket and participate, we can earn more than half of the short-selling difference profit at the highest price.”

Li Zehua couldn't remember the highest price between February and March, whether it was 110 or 120 US dollars, but he was very clear that the collective will of all countries had brought the oil price down by more than one-third.

By the second, third and fourth quarters, oil prices had remained around $80 for a long time, and spot crude oil (including long-term supply prices) had reached a historic low of around $65.

This has made Wall Street furious. If the shipping price is lower than $90, the country's shale oil will be doomed. The United States cannot force everyone to buy its high-priced oil when there are no other options outside.

It is impossible for domestic companies to purchase support in full, otherwise the extra production costs will reduce the competitiveness of domestic products. Therefore, Wall Street is desperately attacking European debt to force Europe to give in.

Then the price of crude oil went up and down like a roller coaster.

Oil prices are high, Ou Mengdong and Dajiaobenji are not satisfied and are frantically short selling. Wall Street is obviously unable to cope with the challenge of taking on the whole world on its own.

So it started to attack Wei to save Zhao. Ou Meng took the lead in shorting crude oil, and Wall Street focused on European debt, further triggering the economic risks of the five European pig countries. Ou Meng had to give in if he couldn't bear it.

But Ou Meng's lifeline is in the hands of others, Dongda and San Ge are still there, especially Big Cat, who is making money without doing anything. He is just short of setting off firecrackers to celebrate the high oil prices so that he can take a breath. This has caused Wall Street to be very conflicted.

Keep raising the price. Hanscat is a strong alliance and they have an agreement on low-price supply. Even if the crude oil price explodes, the industrial products produced by Hans will still be highly competitive.

Instead, a large number of American companies that were forced by Wall Street to use expensive shale oil went bankrupt one after another due to the high costs (even General Motors went bankrupt), which dealt a heavy blow to the already poor industrial sector.

Everyone knows the final result. Wall Street was defeated and turned the table over and stopped playing, directly cutting off Europe's cheap crude oil from the source.

Poor Ermao, he was originally collecting the commission for crossing the border, but suddenly he was not allowed to collect it. He even lost his home and fur...

“Therefore, shorting crude oil is to save ourselves. Once the crude oil price remains below $90 for a long time, the probability that Wall Street will take a risk and overturn the table will be greater!”

There is nothing wrong with Li Zehua using the results to reverse the process. The main point is that the more related parties are involved and the larger the database is, the less room there is for each party to maneuver.

When the sunk cost of an investment reaches a certain amount, it will force the major groups behind it to make choices that are beneficial to themselves. Just like whoever blocks Qingyun's overseas strategy will be the biggest enemy.

The higher-ups will support this strategy with all their might, otherwise they are doomed to suffer heavy losses, because the country cannot afford to support such a huge group, and if they do not work hard to go global, they must ruthlessly eliminate its threat.

This also makes sense when applied to Wall Street. High oil prices protect domestic shale oil. If domestic shale oil survives, it will increase its voice in the energy industry and enhance the competitiveness of domestic companies.

With low oil prices, Hans Cat will make greater profits, which in turn will suppress American capital. The losses will be more than trillions of dollars. More importantly, the pricing power and voice in the industry will be lost, which will shake the foundation of American capital's leadership in the world.

Wall Street has no choice. If it can't win, it will overturn the table and eliminate this possibility at the source.

Ou Meng, Dongda, San Ge, and Jiaobenji have no choice. If they continue to ignore high oil prices, the competitiveness of their domestic companies will decline and they will lose their influence in the industry. They can only allow American capital to run rampant in the future.

Who can bear it?
What's more, with Europe behind the scenes, it is impossible for American capital to spare the time to deal with them, so everyone is working together to suppress oil prices.

Big players also understand the principle of slow and steady wins the race and harmony brings wealth. High oil prices will only make all parties hate it. Most importantly, the excess profits earned are all taken away by American capital in the name of protection fees.

It has no share in making money and eating meat, and it cannot escape being beaten in the future, so it just goes with the flow and increases production to bring down oil prices.

It can be said that the Americans are one family against thousands of families. No matter how strong they are, they will be beaten into a daze by countless unreasonable punches.

"How long the oil price can last after being pushed down depends entirely on how long Europe can hold out. The continued bleeding of European debt has become inevitable. If it holds out, we can enjoy long-term peace.

But there is a paradox here, that is, the longer Europe resists, the more severe the bleeding of European debt will be, and the more crazy American capital will become, and in the end, they will overturn the table at all costs. "

Li Zehua's eyes were playful, full of unwillingness and anger. This was the law of survival in the jungle for the weak (Ou Meng was not a complete body). Because he was fat and weak, he was destined to be beaten.

If the weak insist on resisting, they will suffer even greater disaster. For example, Ou Meng is caught in a paradox where the longer he persists, the harder he is beaten and the faster he dies.

Fortunately, he is a student of the University of Tokyo, and with the support of a strong motherland, he will soon no longer have to experience this fatalism that he is powerless to change.

"Dry!"

Ye Jingming had a clear idea in his mind. In the past, no single company was strong enough to take on such a big piece of cake. Now, there are five major groups: Qingyun, Runhua, Nandian, Libao and China Merchants.

With the combined strength of their allies, they cannot be ignored in the world. They also represent the core interests of the University of Tokyo and can get support from all parties if anything happens.

In addition, with various core data to prove it, why not do a business that is sure to make a profit?
He Zhongping, Qin Xiangli, and Fu Yuning also spoke up to express their agreement.

“We will go and negotiate with the big customers, and try to get a quota of several hundred million barrels, which we will use as trading chips in Lijiapo. Then we can intervene in the European, American and domestic markets on a large scale.

I had some funds for shorting gold there before, and it’s time to put it to rest. It shouldn’t be a big problem to get together and withdraw tens of billions of dollars of funds~”

Before Li Zehua finished speaking, He Zhongping scolded him, "Just now, I asked you for more than 10 billion RMB, but you didn't have the money. Then suddenly, you took tens of billions of dollars back from the Lijiaopo Gold Trading Market.

Are you kidding me?

Li Zehua laughed and said, "How can they be the same? The former is a company cooperation, and the latter is my personal funds. If you don't believe me, ask Boss Ye. He also has a share of this money.

Oh, Mr. Qin's share is also 15 billion US dollars. How about Mr. He investing a large sum of money to try it out?"

Ye Jingming smiled, almost bursting into laughter, "What do you mean by personal? I am just managing it on your behalf. Billions of dollars are nothing."

"Ahem, actually, China Merchants Group doesn't mind keeping some for you. Count me in for a share."

Fu Yuning looked left and right, so he was the poorest one?
He immediately waved his hand and subscribed for a large investment share in the name of the group company.

He Zhongping was left confused. Where could he get billions of dollars in start-up capital?

But it’s hard to say it out loud. After all, everyone here is a big boss with a net worth of hundreds of billions.
So, he turned to look at Fu Yuning, "Old Fu, I remember that China Merchants has a bank, right? Can you help me by mortgaging Qingyun's purchase order and borrowing 1 billion US dollars for emergency?" (End of this chapter)