Winner Takes It All, Resurrection 2009

Chapter 715: There are always people carrying the burden
On the occasion of the visit of representatives from Southeast Asian economies, at the invitation of the foreign affairs department, the head of the foreign affairs department of Babuti led a delegation to visit the University of East Asia in mid-July.

At the same time, the European Meng special business delegation arrived in Big Cat.

One of the two most powerful economies, one in the East and the other in the West, began to make moves on their energy layout at the same time.

The White Elephant also made full use of its influence to actively lobby major oil-producing countries in secret.

Everyone knew that this time, they had no way out.

Anyone can see the decline of the US dollar. Since the economic crisis in 08, the Federal Reserve has lost at least one-third of its international credit basis. Now it relies entirely on the big cats and chickens in the East, as well as the resources of oil-producing countries to support its superficial prosperity.

If the United States wants to reverse its decline, it must swallow up the development dividends of a major economy on a global scale to supplement itself. It can be a chicken in a basin or a European Meng.

The only one that can’t be is Tokyo University.

This is the most superficial truth that everyone understands, because without the huge supply of low- and medium-end productivity from the University of Tokyo, the global hegemony of the US dollar will collapse immediately.

In reality, even at the most tense moment, when the formations and air forces of both sides are engaged in the most dangerous and fierce confrontation.

On the major shipping routes of the Pacific Ocean, cargo ships loaded with all kinds of goods continue to travel from major eastern ports to the west coast of the United States.

This has to be said to be a very ironic thing, but reality is often so illogical that its operating rules only follow the most primitive considerations of interests.

For major economic practitioners, they will make choices based on what is profitable. Even if two economies issue warnings at the same time and require companies to cooperate, what use will that be?

One is that if they don't do business and make money, they will go bankrupt and lay off tens or even hundreds of millions of jobs, causing the entire manufacturing system to collapse.

On the other hand, if cheap goods are not imported to maintain huge domestic demand, the US dollar system will lose its basis for survival. Wall Street can of course choose to use US dollars to purchase substitutes from third parties that are three to five times more expensive.

But can the quantity keep up with consumption?

Doesn’t it take time to release production capacity, supply raw materials, produce and transport new equipment, and recruit and train industrial workers?

Even if American capital is willing to risk losing all its money and spend money with its eyes closed, in the next few years, severe inflation is bound to occur. Can the US dollar withstand the pressure?

If it can’t hold up, is there any need for it to exist?

Even if the whole world is willing to share the pressure in the early stages, the plummeting real purchasing power of the US dollar will bring about a new round of global storm that is ten times more powerful than the 08 financial crisis.

Who can escape unscathed?

American capital is very clear that without cheap industrial products from the East, the US dollar will become worthless. Even if it has the most powerful rumbling power, it will gradually wither away without living water.

The University of Tokyo also knows that if it cannot support the world trade system dominated by the US dollar, its industrial chain will quickly fall into decline, because the University of Tokyo’s strength is not enough to replace the United States.

The creator of the new world order can only be Ou Meng!
Europe (mainly Hans Gaul, Switzerland and Northern Italy), which has high-end precision manufacturing and more than half of the global market share, has replaced American capital to become the global economic and trade leader with its technological and economic advantages.

Soon, a cluster of low- and medium-end industrial chains will be established in Eastern Europe and Southern Europe (south of the Alps and southeast) to replace the Eastern University.

They have the strength, the will and the foundation for development. Except for the traditional European powers, the European countries have an industrial foundation, a large number of industrial workers, and many well-educated talents.

There is also a super consumer market that is envied by the whole world. It is no exaggeration to say that once American capital collapses and Tokyo University fails to fully complete its development strategy and gain a competitive advantage.

Then its industrial upgrading process would be instantly interrupted by Ou Meng's violence, and it would lose the possibility of completely becoming the world's economic hegemon.

Europe will rely on the three major economies and Switzerland's finance, high-end manufacturing in Switzerland and northern Italy, and mid- and low-end manufacturing in Eastern Europe and Southeastern Europe (plus the two countries of Spain).

Central and Eastern Europe's agriculture, which was already ahead of the world in terms of scientific and technological productivity, R&D capabilities, and military R&D productivity, has rapidly become a super economy without any shortcomings.

What is even more terrifying is that when Ou Meng completely integrates its advantages, it will move a little bit eastward to the Big Cat Energy Supply Area, expel American capital in the southeast, and Tuhachi, the bridgehead between Asia and Europe, will not dare to continue to make trouble.

At this time, the land and sea routes leading to West Asia, the world's most important energy supply area, are unobstructed!
By then, the whole world will crawl at Ou Meng's feet and be dominated for another two hundred years, or even longer.

Because traditional Europe's R&D and production capabilities in the industrial field are more than ten times that of today's American capital.

Therefore, Ou Meng has every motivation to provoke American capital while using many benefits to win over Dongda, the white elephant.

As for the basin chicken, Ou Meng just throws some bones to it and it will take the bait obediently, because the high energy costs are rapidly undermining the industrial competitiveness of the basin chicken.

It itself must come forward to help Ou Meng and suppress the energy hegemony of American capital.

Moreover, there is a bigger hidden worry for Jiaobenji, that is, once the American capital can no longer bite Europe and cannot kill Dongda, then Wall Street will seek to protect itself.

Who will be the next lucky target?

So Jiaobenji quickly adjusted its strategy, secretly and frantically showing goodwill to Dongda and investing in South America, right?

We need land to grow food, we need to build a major transportation artery that runs through the Amazon, and we need to leverage the influence of Chicken Capital in the three largest international mining companies to establish a stable copper, iron and aluminum supply chain.

Everything can be discussed.

As long as the University of Tokyo can give it a helping hand at a critical moment and avoid becoming a prey for American capital.

Everyone can clearly see the current international situation: American capital is developing shale oil technology at all costs in order to regain the power to set energy prices.

Because the oil-producing countries in West Asia are not obedient. The most obvious example is that the big oil producer Aramco broke away from the control of American capital with the support of Europe, White Elephant, Dongda, and Foot Basin Chicken.

With the support of Europe, Venezuela is also drifting away, not to mention Big Cat. If American capital leaves it alone, it will completely fall into the arms of Europe in the next second. It even wants to join the North Atlantic Treaty. It's really weird.

Unable to seize the initiative, American capital blatantly ignited the European debt crisis. Taking advantage of the golden opportunity when Europe's main attention was diverted, it quickly took the initiative to attack around the world, using its strength to crush oil-producing countries and force them to cut production capacity.

By guiding a large amount of global hot money to flow into Dongda, it has pushed Dongda to create a new industrial development miracle, especially in chemical energy and internal combustion engine drive equipment (automobiles, etc.), completely loosening the restrictions on Dongda.

As an economy of 14 billion people developed, the whole world saw its economic engine and its huge demand for energy.

On the one hand, production capacity is being cut, and on the other hand, demand is surging. The supply and demand relationship is completely messed up. In addition, Wall Street is using its financial hegemony to push up prices and go long. It would be strange if international crude oil and natural gas prices did not rise sharply.

The skyrocketing energy prices, in turn, have stimulated the shale oil market into an unprecedented period of prosperity. Once American capital completely controls the market pricing power of energy exports, all economies will have no choice but to be dominated by the US dollar for another 30 to 50 years.

This is the true meaning of the game between major economies. All major strategies are played openly. There is no so-called secret development, and there is no so-called superiority in skills.

What we have is just a naked, direct and simple exchange of interests to the point of being outrageous. Whoever offers more chips can attract more economies to provide support. The more friends you have, the stronger your own strength and the more voice you have.

Excess profits will continue to flow in, strengthening the economy with a larger voice and helping it to continue to grow stronger.

American capital, European capital, and Chinese companies have all deployed their forces and rolled up their sleeves to fight according to their respective best interest strategies.

As for the White Elephant, it plays badly as usual. Maybe it is really serious, but it is an old tradition. No matter how good a hand is, it will always make a mess of it.

At this stage, it doesn’t matter whether you have it or not.

Dongda was originally a potential ally of the US capital. Although it was interrupted by the US capital in its continuous layout from 09 to 14, it is still the US capital that is strong and has a large number of groups cheering for it. Moreover, the US capital has fatal hidden dangers (most people have been advocating that the two sides can complement each other's strengths and there is no need to fall out. Although the US capital wants a lot, Dongda is a big company with a big business, and it will not hurt to give it to them. Why should we confront each other and affect everyone's interests?).

Ou Meng has no obvious weaknesses, so there is no need to say who to deal with first.

But now the situation is completely different. The first round of industrial upgrading has been successfully completed (after cleaning up internal financial capital and gaining the right to speak in mobile Internet, resistance has been reduced), and the most lacking semiconductors and lithography machines have caught up.

Dongda, whose strength has more than doubled, has the ability to do things completely according to its own will for the first time, and then it makes a move.

Southeast Asia, and even the whole of Australia, have long been regarded as traditional spheres of influence, and American capital must respect this reality.

The economic influence from Central Asia to Eastern Europe (this line is the most important for the future), the big cat must give in so that the Eastern University can strangle potential competitors in the cradle one after another.

Actively cooperating with American capital to promote greater changes in Ermao, completely breaking the possibility of the union of Oumeng and Damao, and taking the opportunity to completely bury the entire Oumeng, so that it will forever lose the potential to compete with Dongda, this is the top priority.

However, in the actual implementation process, the core interests of Dongda and American capital are different. American capital hopes to win over big cats and large customers by maintaining high energy prices for a long time.

The underlying logic of making Dongda Industry pay for the cost of American capital layout and earning an extra thirty to fifty dollars per barrel of oil is here. Dongda pays hundreds of billions of dollars in additional costs every year.

More than half of it was taken away by American capital, which was used to fill its internal cesspool and tie up the lifeblood of Dongda University, so that the latter was always under the control of American capital and prevented from becoming too powerful.

Wall Street doesn't want to defeat Europe and then have to fight another face-to-face battle with an entire economy. That would be a nightmare.

Unfortunately, while Wall Street was focusing its main energy on suppressing Ou Meng, it relied on Qingyun, a key chess piece, and cleverly connected the most important capital groups in the country together through it.

Then, taking advantage of the negligence of American capital and its inability to react, they launched a surprise attack on the two largest buyout groups: Jiangsu and Zhejiang capital headed by the Zhongxin Group and Hong Kong capital headed by Chaozhou Zhou.

It all started back in the day with Liu Sen’s assassination plan against Li Zehua. In fact, the Guo family’s (not a typo) security department had already gotten involved at that time and pushed it behind the scenes.

Otherwise, Mr. Liu of Sichuan Province's Hanhuang Group would not have made a huge strategic misjudgment, and foolishly stepped into a trap, and then was counterattacked by the power behind the Qingyun Group in a fierce confrontation.

The higher-ups who were in the planning seized the opportunity to wipe out certain entities in Sichuan and Chongqing in one fell swoop.

What followed was a major war for agricultural futures. Thanks to the full cooperation of the State Reserves Bureau, the various brother groups, after receiving clear instructions from above, cooperated with Qingyun at all costs.

Even the Western Regions, which were busy putting out fires at the time, allocated millions of acres of land in one go and sold or gave it away at a very low price to help Qingyun produce millions of tons of cotton.

At a time when international hot money and capital from Jiangsu and Zhejiang were frantically going long, the Northwest Governor's Office and the five northwestern provinces directly mobilized all available transportation forces, even strategic transportation units for war preparedness.

They all came in quietly to help, and eventually, in the fastest and most secretive way, millions of tons of cotton, cash crops, ginger, garlic and other important agricultural crops were transported to the designated area.

In order to prevent the final frenzy of the competitors, at the most tense moment, the warehouses storing the decisive materials were all strictly guarded by the thundering forces armed to the teeth.

When things took a turn for the worse, the American capital attempted to use forces beyond the rules to launch physical destruction on Qingyun. It was Dongda that stood up decisively to withstand the pressure, and ultimately the American capital was defeated after a fierce game.

After this battle, Qingyun completely destroyed the Taishan Sect and the Minsheng Group behind it, both physically and psychologically, obtained Minsheng Financial Holdings, and used this as a basis to enter the fast lane of development.

Later, Qingyun seized the operational loopholes of Tengda and Aunt Wang, and fought against the Chaozhou Porridge Group behind it. Dongda seized the opportunity and launched a surprise attack on Li Bancheng and his wings.

Under the siege of many large Dongda capital groups at great expense, Li Bancheng didn't even dare to stay in Hong Kong, because Dai Ying of Dongda, who had fallen out with him, was really angry at the time.

Outside Victoria Harbor, there were rumbling formations from the entire Southern Ocean at the time, and in the sky there were combat bombing forces whizzing by.

Dai Ying also gathered all the ships that could be mobilized in the country, put together an unprecedented fleet and set off in a mighty force. Unfortunately, before they could leave the Mediterranean, Hong Kong capital surrendered.

(More than a year later, Dongda Capital rescued Daiying Capital and helped it win the battle to defend the pound exchange rate. This shows the eternal truth between economies: profit is king!)

Because of a series of assassination attempts, Li Zehua sent out all the forces that Qingyun Clan could mobilize at the time, with an attitude of fighting to the death. During this period, more than a dozen Hong Kong tycoons were involved.

All kinds of accidents happen without anyone noticing.

When the competition was most intense, the major groups of Southeast Asian economies chose to take sides out of their own interests. In the end, Southeast University relied on its advantages in mobile Internet, finance and manufacturing.

It has successfully obtained the support of most of the groups that have close ties with Hong Kong Capital. After receiving the Asian financial center status promised by Dongda and sharing the benefits of a large number of high-quality resources including HSBC.

They quickly changed their stance from trying to mediate and mediate to jointly suppress Hong Kong capital.

The result is obvious. Li Bancheng fled to England, and the second young master fled to Australia and only managed to escape with his life.

With the change of ownership of HSBC, the closure of Tengda, the construction of Hong Kong Future Science and Technology City, 100,000 public housing units and the cross-sea bridge and other landmark events, everything has been settled.

Recently, there has been a huge fight over industrial raw materials. The Jiangsu and Zhejiang capital represented by Zhongxin has finally lost its last chip and was forced to hand over even the controlling stake of Zhongxin Bank. Rong Zhijian has been officially appointed as the new chairman of Zhongxin Financial Group.

The internal situation has been cleared, and the next step is to expand overseas in a big way.

In this life, Dongda has sufficient chips in its hands, and the external environment in 2012 is better than ever before!

Helping South America, influencing South America, controlling South America, and preventing it from becoming a new industrial base for Europe and the United States in the future is one of the established strategies of the University of Tokyo.

The major transportation artery is just one of the test conditions. Once successful, the Eastern Great Rumble Force will use it as a base to maintain a long-term presence in South America.

Venezuela's plan to rely on Europe, resist American capital, introduce Eastern capital to compete with American capital, and achieve a win-win situation for Venezuela and Europe, and reap the benefits, is probably in vain.

Because Todai only wants to use its huge industrial advantages to crush the above three people.

The first step is to unite with Europe and force Venezuela to compromise and agree to a large-scale increase in production. Anyway, it is European companies that will pay the bill, so if the United States wants to impose sanctions, they will be the first to act.

One of the core strategies of Dongda Capital is to bring down the price of crude oil to avoid being harvested by American capital, further hit the American shale oil industry chain, and force it to hand over the right to set energy prices.

Anyway, with Ou Meng and Jiaobenji taking the pressure in the front, Dongda can make a fortune in silence. No matter how incompetent and furious the American capital is, they dare not be the first to attack Dongda since they don't have to take responsibility.

There is nothing to be afraid of. Qingyun’s first 10 billion US dollars has already entered the energy futures market and has begun to slowly accumulate funds.

Banks also began to buy a large number of long-term bearish options. In short, the US capital must give up the excess profits reaped by the University of Tokyo by manipulating high oil prices.

Fight, the harder you fight, the more the crude oil price falls, the angrier the US capital will be, and it would be great if its shale oil industry chain collapses.

The greater the loss they suffer, the more fiercely and cruelly the U.S. capital will retaliate against the two cats, and the big cats affected by the plunge in oil prices will inevitably be implicated.

When all the major competitors around are affected to varying degrees, it is a godsend opportunity for the University of Tokyo to roll up its sleeves and do its best.

Competition among economies has always been based on stances. It doesn't matter if the means are cruel, or if it is done openly or secretly. The only thing that matters is winning.

Only if you win can you continue to enjoy a good life...

Now, it is the stage where everyone has their own ulterior motives, is wary of each other, plays their own cards, and strives to gain allies.

(End of this chapter)