Winner Takes It All, Resurrection 2009

Chapter 707: The trend is irresistible

"Do you think it'll be alright if you don't speak up?
Haha, 400 billion is such a huge hole that you can’t afford it, and neither can the people behind you.”

In a special hotel room, the interrogator, who was fully prepared, threw a large stack of evidence in front of Cai Ping, the former director and deputy general manager of Zhongxin Group.

"Just based on these, even if you don't say a word, it's enough to chop off a hundred of your heads.

We have repeatedly warned against cooperating with U.S. capital in manipulating the raw materials market. Yet you are only afraid of chaos in the world and are openly stirring up trouble in the financial futures market.

He also used his connections to encourage more than 200 copper-using enterprises to illegally buy copper from the State Reserve Bureau’s warehouses, causing the country’s stock of finished copper to be lost rapidly…”

During the whole process, Cai Ping didn't say a word, just looked at him with a sneer.

But soon he stopped laughing.

"Are you still daydreaming that the people out there will save you at all costs?"

The interrogator threw out explosive information one by one, "Don't be silly, Zhong Xin just officially reported the case to the Six Gates of Yanjing, saying that you tried to take Zhong Xin's core secrets and a large amount of funds to escape.

You are just the chess piece that fell into the water after crossing the river and was discarded. If you want to live, just tell the truth..."

Unfortunately, he was still greeted by silence.
Seeing this, the interrogator didn't waste time talking to him and directly destroyed his fantasy with facts. Then he stood up and opened the door. "Only five minutes. Don't make it difficult for me."

A man who had been waiting outside nodded with a smile, "Five minutes is enough."

"What do you want to do?"

Cai Ping's expression finally changed. Looking at this strange face who obviously didn't look like an insider, he shouted, "Someone, help me!"

"Save your energy and relax. I won't touch you."

The visitor smiled and sat down at the table, watching his performance with interest. When Cai Ping finally calmed down, he spoke again, "But not touching you doesn't mean these people will be safe."

As he spoke, he took out a few photos from his bag, walked forward and lowered his body and said, "You should know that this is a life-and-death stage.

Don't think you'll be alright if you don't speak up. If we don't get what we want, all the people in these photos will be buried with you."

Cai Ping stared at the photo intently. How could he not know that the other party came well prepared? After all, huge interests of hundreds of billions were involved. To put it bluntly, human life meant nothing.

As long as you are in the game, it is difficult to escape.

When he thought of this, his original decision to remain silent was shaken.

"You heard me too. I only have five minutes. Otherwise, it will be hard to explain to everyone. So, should I just sit here with you for five minutes, or should you tell me to do something and everyone will be happy?"

The visitor was too lazy to waste time talking to him. "I guess you have heard these threats countless times, and I am too lazy to say more. If you don't get what I want in five minutes, you and your whole family will go down together.

Don't worry, I promise it won't be painful and it will be quick."

"Why should I trust you?"

No matter how stupid Cai Ping was, he didn't dare to make fun of the people in the photo, because there was a freshly stamped time and date on it, which showed that it was taken just now.

The most important thing is that, apart from his wife and children, two other people whom even his close confidants didn't know were there, along with their children. They were all taken away at the same time, and no one could escape.

In another photo, he was in his parents' house thousands of miles away, and his elderly parents were busy in front of the house. If he saw this photo at other times, his fragile heart would definitely be touched.

But now, there is only deep fear and despair.

The person who came did not disappoint him. He took out the number he had dialed long ago and turned on the speaker. "Don't play tricks. You can ask the person on the other end to find the person who took the photo to answer the phone and confirm your guess."

Faced with the well-arranged script, Cai Ping almost lost all his resistance when he heard the voice of a third person on the phone that belonged to his mother.

All the instructions from the offensive and defensive alliances came to naught. Nothing is more important than keeping family members alive.

"I want a definite guarantee. No one knows the horror of those people better than me. Even mobile phones that use American electronic products cannot escape their clutches.

It seems like I can't escape this disaster, but it doesn't matter, I've gained enough over the years.

But children and the elderly are innocent, as long as they can live well, I will do anything."

"Just tell me everything you know, and don't say you don't have some backup plans. Hand it over, whether it's a diary or a recording or video.

As for your family, they will regain a complete new identity and live safely in an inland city in the future."

The visitor was very satisfied with his attitude, and immediately took out a notebook and said, "Write down everything you know, and do it quickly so that you can transfer safely as soon as possible.

Only if you survive can you have a chance to reunite with your family, right?"

"You mean I can still live?"

Cai Ping's defenses were instantly broken, and he immediately took out a pen and paper and began to write...

"Don't move for now, secure all the evidence and wait for orders!"

Li Zehua hung up the phone and made another call, "Two days, I'll give you two days, use all the connections you can to make our CEO Chang feel the pressure of the collapse of the building.

Only when you move will your flaws be revealed!

OK, I will wait for your good news."

After hanging up the phone, he said to Liu Ziliang: "Go and ask Mr. Rong to come over and have a seat."

While waiting, he was not idle. He called Ma Jun who was far away in Peru, South America, and asked, "How is the wind in the South American rain forest? Is it moist?"

Ma Jun didn't dare to joke with him, and said respectfully: "Boss, more than 40 white faces have already integrated into the local area, and three other teams that applied for special flora and fauna surveys have already obtained passes in advance.

According to your and the group's instructions, the date has been changed to the end of 11 or the beginning of 12, and their equipment, communication devices and drone equipment are all ready.

Next, according to the plan, the group will recruit a local scientific expedition team for backup...

The people sent by Samba have also been contacted, but according to the information sent back by the insider, there are many and diverse teams active on the southern border of Colombia, and each of them has special support from unknown financial backers.

Do you think it is necessary to arrange for a clean-up in advance? ! "

"Don't use old thinking to deal with things in South America. After all, it's not our base there. Without the local foundation in Southeast Asia, it will be difficult to calm down once something happens. We should expand in a low-key manner in the early stages as much as possible."

Li Zehua hesitated slightly and said, "We should proceed step by step. As long as Venezuela and Samba don't have any major problems, there is nothing to worry about. Even if Colombia wants to intervene, they have to consider the reaction of the surrounding countries.

Let's slow down for now and transfer as many reinforcements as possible from Samba. Also, keep a close eye on those on the list and contact the Samba elite forces immediately if there is any change.

At this stage, they are absolutely trustworthy. I will discuss with Mr. Lula to expand their scale a little, and reserve some resources. You can arrange your own people who are trustworthy to go in. Remember, you can cooperate with people controlled by Jiaobenji Capital for the time being, but you must not trust them, let alone leave your back to them, understand?"

Ma Jun nodded in agreement, and then reported some important daily work to him. After hanging up the phone, Li Zehua touched his forehead and fell into thought.
After all, South America is inferior to Southeast Asia in all aspects. Not to mention that Qingyun has the cooperation of more than 40 large business groups controlled by Chinese and overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia.

Even local core forces such as the Siamese royal family and the Lijiaopo government chose to cooperate with Qingyun out of comprehensive interest considerations. With the strong support of Dongda behind them, they were not afraid of being bullied at home.

But South America is too far away and the foundation is too shallow. Although the power of COSCO Shipping, China Merchants Group, some mining companies and Chicken Capital is very strong, the core interests of both parties may not be consistent.

Apart from having certain advantages in Samba, Qingyun only maintains a basic presence in other economies (mainly seeking local cooperation for Internet startups).

The most crucial thing is that the local European and American forces have taken root and influenced the area for two hundred years. Both economically and culturally, the area is closer to Europe and the United States, especially since the United States is just to the north. Once there is a change, they can even directly send out mold.

In a head-on confrontation, Qingyun has no chance of winning. Unless the Five Military Commandery successfully breaks through the blockade and drives the 055 into the Venezuelan port, Qingyun will have a chance to defeat the American capital head-on.

The reason why the construction of the main transportation artery from Venezuela to Peru was started in a hurry was entirely due to the reality that Qingyun's investment could fail or even be wasted.

However, the network of relations between Venezuela and Peru through Samba must not go wrong, especially holding on to Samba, one of the BRICS countries, which is particularly important for Southeast Asia to resist the invasion of American capital.

At a time when European capital is about to enter a period of global contraction and is then forced by American capital to get on board and make compromises, the expansion of American capital is no longer under control.

If we just focus on improving our internal strength as we did in the original time and space and do nothing else, then the American capital, which will take the opportunity to coerce the entire world, will surely pounce on Todai with the most ferocious attitude.

If it could be stopped in the original time and space, then the University of Tokyo, which is much more powerful in this life, can certainly stop it. But how can we make up for the missed best historical opportunity?

Are we going to go through the same old path again after ten years?
Industrial upgrading can be completed three to five years ahead of schedule, and the production capacity of Dongda's manufacturing industry is about to explode at an unprecedented rate. Can it afford to wait?
According to data from the first half of 2012, Dongda's foreign trade imports and exports, especially in home appliance manufacturing, low- and medium-end semiconductors, hardware products, agricultural equipment and many other fields.

Dongda has successfully ranked first in the world. Under the impact of Dongda's unified sales channels, after-sales maintenance, and high quality and low prices, the home appliance industry has been defeated in Southeast Asia one after another.

Dongda's smartphone industry chain, bicycles, electric motorcycles, and traditional fuel motorcycles have successfully entered the vast markets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, bringing back more valuable raw material supply contracts and foreign exchange income for Dongda.

No matter how you look at it, East Asia will replace Hans as the world's largest trade surplus country before 2015, maybe this year, maybe in 2013.

In this life, Dongda does not have so many small enterprises that can be closed down, merged or transferred. If it wants to take the opportunity to hide its own strength and pretend to be harmless, it needs others to be willing to believe it.

What's more, Qingyun's Bohai Rim Economic Belt, semiconductors and photolithography machines, electrolytic aluminum and copper, and photovoltaic industries are being developed in full swing, and the demand for electricity is almost endless.

The State Grid Corporation of China is taking an active approach to adding power generation facilities in the central and western regions as much as possible, even to the Yarlung Zangbo River and Lancang River dam projects, for which it had been hesitant (for fear of overly stimulating its many neighbors in the south).

They have all begun to be included in the formal site selection, project establishment and construction plan!
As for economic development, often before the top-level planning is finalized, small and medium-sized enterprises and local enterprises below are eager to take the lead and generate electricity in reservoirs that were originally driven by the State Grid with great difficulty.

The small and medium-sized thermal power stations that were selected by the carbon neutrality plan and were about to be dismantled and eliminated immediately resumed power generation as soon as they saw that it was profitable. They also received strong support from the local government and were preparing to expand the scale of power generation.

When we sent someone to investigate, we found that they were still making excuses. They said before that there was overcapacity in electricity production and that thermal power generation was not environmentally friendly. They were responding to the country's active call and even accepted it even if it affected local economic development.

In fact, at that time, there was also a lack of funds for upgrading and renovation in various places, and the electricity generated had to be sent to the east via the State Grid's ultra-high voltage transmission network.

The local enterprises and government offices whose lives are controlled by them had no choice but to agree. After all, the local area cannot consume so much surplus electricity, and it would be a waste if it cannot be connected to the grid, so they agreed reluctantly.

But now the wind has completely changed. Influenced by Qingyun, the country has transferred many military industries and large-scale industries with high energy consumption to the southwest in one go. Wow, when the locals saw it, they saw taxes and jobs.

Isn't this delivered to your door?

In addition, the State Grid has planned a large number of new hydropower facilities, which clearly indicates an intention to expand the supply of electricity resources indefinitely. Otherwise, why are so many photovoltaic industries being approved and launched at an accelerated pace everywhere?

Oh, the State Grid is making big profits, always clamoring to increase power generation by at least 100% in the next five years, and to increase electricity kilowatt-hours to 10 trillion in one go, but the local governments are not allowed to get a share of the profits?
I don’t know about other things, but the power grid branches in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces are going crazy. How can they use up so much of the grid-connected power generation capacity that has been applied for at once?
For large projects of the state and Qingyun, even if the funds are allocated today and construction starts tomorrow, it will still take more than half a year to complete construction and be put into use, so it is during this stage that backward production capacity should be eliminated.

Inland provinces, especially those with large power generation capacity, will be the first to stop doing it!
In this way, combined with the additional productivity brought about by the systematic industrial upgrading, the effect is simply explosive. This is not just reflected in a certain industry, but benefits more than 100 major items in the entire industrial system!

This involves the vital interests of hundreds of millions of people in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain (including related service industries). Dongda Capital dare not gamble, and Qingyun cannot gamble either!

There is an active volcano right under our butts now. People from all walks of life are eager to make a living. Whoever prevents them from selling their products will be their sworn enemy!
The domestic circulation economic circle is striding forward at an astonishing speed, and everyone is happy with it. After all, having an additional internal reservoir of industrial consumer goods is always better than capital flowing into a certain industry.

Because the former is in endless supply, while the latter is consumed all at once and will have to be overdrawn for the next twenty or thirty years!

If the hot economy can be controlled with just a single adjustment of the country's economic strategy, what about the verification that M2M3 is free from the US dollar anchor?
Why should we break away from the US dollar and issue credit as currency?
It is because this anchor can no longer truly reflect the current state of Dongda’s economic development that more than 50 trillion RMB can no longer meet the needs of economic and social development.

In order to avoid being easily harvested by American capital, the central bank and the finance department continue to inject new liquidity into the banking system while also testing the market reaction.

Unexpectedly, the effect was surprisingly good.

Everyone is busy expanding production scale, and marvels at the qualitative leap in Dongda's manufacturing technology. At the same time, it has gained competitive advantages in semiconductors, consumer electronics, home appliance manufacturing, heavy machinery and equipment, and mid- and low-end chips.

It happened that the banking system received trillions of liquidity supplements, but they still had to pay interest to the central bank. In line with the principle of maximizing profits, they were forced to open the floodgates to the market.

In the original time and space, this huge amount of funds directly caused the stock market, a certain industry and Internet finance to collapse, and also cleaned up the bond market and foreign exchange market. Ordinary people were stunned.

Even Ali and Jack Ma were led astray, and were delighted to think that the good era of consumption upgrade had arrived ahead of schedule. However, they never expected that it was just a false alarm. Any company that actively embraced this economic miracle.

At the very least, a broken waist was sustained, while at the worst, the patient was blinded. It was not uncommon for the patient to misjudge the situation and make many radical moves, and eventually be swallowed up.

But now, the stock market is being suppressed by Qingyun Group, Zhongxin Group and more large local groups, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and European and American capital, leaving no chance for it to rise.

Dongda Capital does not want to miss this opportunity to release real demand and take the opportunity to upgrade the industry, while foreign capital understands that this feast of wealth is far from starting.

Needless to say, a certain industry is somewhat overheated in large and medium-sized cities, while other places are still lukewarm. Especially after the introduction of the policy of levying taxes on second homes and standard areas, investors who were keen on hoarding properties for the purpose of value preservation have also disappeared.

Without the motivation of interests, who would be willing to buy so many houses for no reason? They can't even eat them. The key is that banks now don't recognize the real value (human intervention). Not only are the down payment requirements strict, the interest rates are also high, and the key mortgage only gives 7%.

If there is no profit, who will pay the bill?
But the funds ultimately have to go somewhere, so the Ministry of Finance, the central bank, and the Development and Reform Commission finally discussed and decided to increase subsidies for key industries to stimulate trade imports and exports, and the effect was immediate.

As a result, the manufacturing industry was fully embraced by financial capital for the first time. As long as it could expand the scale of imports and exports, get involved in new industries, and develop new technologies, money would be given.

Then, as expected, the production capacity exploded again. With such a large-scale industrial productivity, how big a consumer market would be needed to support its appetite? !
At this time, do you want to stop and eliminate backward production capacity?
With the ability to borrow money and the support of the overheated economy, everyone is actively upgrading equipment and introducing technology. There is no need to eliminate them at all. Everyone just wants to reach out for the market.

Otherwise, there will be a crazy internal expansion, with only giants left in any industry, and then all industries will wither and the economy will regress.

Either we actively explore external markets, or we work hard to expand external markets until our competitors around the world have no chance of survival and we occupy the vast majority of the consumer market.

Decision makers have no choice at this point. In the past, they could take a step back and pretend to be harmless, but now that they are almost the largest in the world, how can they pretend?
The key is to get others to believe in you!
So there was no other way but to actively go global and seize the golden opportunity brought by the shrinking European capital to seek consumer markets for Dongda products.

For this reason, we are not afraid even if we face direct competition with American capital.

On the other hand, it actively provided convenience for the development of the Five Military Governor's Office, especially completely loosening the constraints on the construction of naval and air forces.

Because when Dongda’s capital goes abroad, it will inevitably infringe on the market share of old economies and offend American capital that is also expanding all over the world. At critical moments, only the power of thunder and rumble can safeguard Dongda’s core interests!

The world has changed, but Zhongxin Group is still stuck in the old mindset and is trying desperately to hold itself back. No wonder everyone is attacking it!
(End of this chapter)