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Chapter 269: War, expansion. Zhang Shuo: The world will be shaken!
For three consecutive months, domestic banks have continued to reduce their holdings of physical gold.

It's not just the reserves that are being reduced, but also other banks and financial institutions, which are constantly selling physical gold, and selling it on a large scale internationally.

With the policy support of some institutions, various gold sales activities are constantly organized.

Domestically, more gold is sold internationally, and physical gold is also used to exchange for other precious metals, energy resources, etc.

There is never a shortage of buyers for physical gold, especially spot gold denominated in currency, which will be bought directly.

The physical gold sold domestically to the international market is almost completely absorbed. With both buyers and sellers and the deliberate purchase of international capital, the international gold price has not been affected.

Many financial professionals do not understand why large quantities of spot gold are being sold in China, but this does not affect their buying of it with their eyes closed, because if they do not buy it, other institutions will buy it.

Against the backdrop of the international community competing to increase gold reserves, it seems like buying gold is a good deal, because you can sell it later, but if you don’t buy it, you won’t even have the chance.

Throughout history, gold has always been a hard currency and has not changed for thousands of years.

In just three months, the country's gold reserves were reduced by more than 230 tons.

International finance is paying close attention to this, and there are many discussions in the public opinion. Many professionals want to know why physical gold is being sold on a large scale in the country.

They couldn't figure out the reason at all.

By the next month, there will be many new actions in the country. They have introduced a series of policies to suppress gold prices, added various tools and means such as currency, interest rates, exchange rates, and financial regulation, and introduced a series of policies including gold mining, gold refining, and gold ore imports.

When these actions are analyzed together, the purpose is very clear——

Suppress gold prices!

It is not just ordinary suppression, but seems to be a large-scale suppression involving the entire financial system and monetary policy.

A professional economist stood up and said, "The introduction of a series of policies clearly shows that they are using their own economic strength to fight a financial war."

"Gold is just a means and platform to start a war!"

"Gold futures, funds, stock markets, and all types of related companies and upstream and downstream industries are actively or passively involved..."

"And gold has become the main battlefield!"

This is already a clear sign.

The domestic actions are obviously to suppress the price of gold by various means.

There are many voices in domestic public opinion that believe that under the influence of policies, the price of gold will inevitably be drastically affected.

Of course, there are also many pessimistic voices, because the global economy is linked together, the price of gold is not determined domestically, and international capital will not allow a sharp drop in gold prices.

With the domestic intentions made clear, many professional financial personnel also understood it, and they also thought they understood why gold should be the main battlefield.

China's gold production ranks first in the world, accounting for about 15 percent of the global share.

Gold is the main battlefield, and China has the advantage of "source".

If the country can win the war, it may have a large part of the pricing power of gold in the future, and it will also affect all aspects of finance.

“They are here to expand the influence of the financial direction.”

"This is the ultimate goal, gold pricing power. China has an advantage because they know more than half of the gold."

"But the problem is that they also have disadvantages, and their biggest disadvantage is their reserves..."

The country's total gold reserves are only more than 2000 tons, ranking outside the fifth place in the world, while the number one country, Beautiful, has more than tons, and several other countries have higher reserves than China.

Many top financial institutions, including the beautiful Wall Street Research, believe that the gold war is a very good opportunity.

They can use this as a breakthrough point to influence the domestic economy, which has been stable.

At the same time, as long as they can win the gold war, they will be able to reap a heavy harvest from the domestic economy.

Over the past few decades, international capital giants have hoped to do this several times, but ultimately failed to achieve their goals.

Now is the best opportunity in history.

Driven by huge profits, a large amount of international capital joined in.

The gold war quickly spread to all aspects of finance, leveraging countless amounts of funds.

The war has expanded.

……

The ion cannon research and development base has become a golden production base.

Mr. Zhou, who is in charge of economics, brought a team of leaders to the base for a visit and inspection. The second-in-command among them was Mr. Zhao.

Against the backdrop of the Golden War, Mr. Zhou’s itinerary is very important.

Zhang Shuo is here too.

He accompanied the leadership team on a tour of the base and took a look at the changes that had taken place over the past three months.

Liu Xu is the protagonist.

He is the head of the ion cannon research and development base and is also responsible for the manufacturing of gold.

Three months ago, when Teacher Zhao and his team came to the base, Liu Xu was very confident.

Now I am a little nervous because I feel that things have gotten out of hand.

Although he led the team to complete the research on gold manufacturing and was directly responsible for the production of gold, and knew that it would have a major impact in the future, given the current international situation, gold manufacturing is the foundation for "winning the war."

Liu Xu felt that he had become the person at the center of the vortex and could even directly decide victory or defeat. The capital involved was so huge that it made him terrified just thinking about it.

He pays attention to the international gold price every day because the fluctuation of gold price is the main battlefield.

In the past, slight fluctuations had little impact at all.

A little bit of fluctuation now makes a whole different story.

In fact, it is similar to the stock market. The fluctuation can be 5000% with a trading volume of 1 billion, and the fluctuation can still be 1% with a trading volume of trillion, but the amount of funds involved is completely different.

The amount of funds involved in the international gold price has now increased ten or twenty times compared to before, and its influence has also spread to other financial fields.

No matter in which field, domestic mainstream capital is short-selling, while international mainstream capital is long-selling.

If you understand this kind of game involving huge amounts of money, you will know how terrifying it is.

Most people in the world believe that international capital will ultimately win, while domestic forces will eventually have to give up.

Because one of the most important ways to support the decline of gold prices domestically is to continuously sell physical gold.

However, gold reserves are limited after all.

As long as international capital continues to absorb this physical gold, there will come a day when the country will no longer sell it abroad.

Once physical gold is sold, it is very difficult to buy it back, and even if you do, you will have to pay a higher price.

If a bank's reserves lack gold, the country's currency may be affected and its credit rating may decline.

At the same time, the country will lose an important financial regulatory tool.

However, Liu Xu was confident of winning because he was responsible for gold manufacturing and was very clear about the gold production capacity.

When talking about the production capacity of the base, Liu Xu raised his head again, "Now the new technology has stabilized, and we can produce about 83 kilograms of gold each time on average." "The number of ion cannon equipment in the base has increased to five, and the sixth one is also being assembled and debugged."

"Now we can produce more than 150 times a day, but we can only produce more than 5 tons of gold per day on average, mainly due to the limitation of refining capacity."

"So I applied last month to ship the materials out and allow other institutions to participate in the refining work..."

Liu Xu began to introduce it seriously.

There is absolutely no problem in gold production. With more than 150 launches per day, more than 12 tons of gold can be produced.

But the problem is that production can keep up, but the refining speed cannot.

The R&D base has been expanding the refining center. The raw materials they produce are much easier to refine than gold ore. This is mainly because the gold in the raw materials is in small particles. Materials with high gold content can be extracted by intensive screening.

However, because too much gold material was produced, the refining speed could not keep up.

Five tons per day is the result of the refining center's ever-expanding staff working overtime.

The refining center operates 24 hours a day, and many people who come to support are busy and overwhelmed.

After Liu Xu finished speaking, Teacher Zhao also talked about the issue of refining the application.

"Secrecy is very important."

Teacher Zhou set the tone, and then said, "Under the current situation, the news must not be leaked. If the raw materials are shipped out and other institutions or factories are allowed to participate in the refining work, it will be difficult to maintain complete confidentiality."

"Yes, that's not ore. The raw material is obviously problematic."

"Those raw materials, with lots of mercury or lead, simply cannot occur naturally."

"The production here can be kept completely secret, otherwise the news will spread to other places."

"The news must not get out now."

The group kept talking and had arrived at the refining center.

The current refining center has been expanded into a "super large factory". Most of the factory is obviously newly built and many of the machines are brand new.

Many people are constantly screening raw materials in the factory, and a large pile of gold granular materials can be seen on the side.

This gold particle material has been screened once, but the purity has exceeded 90%, and further refining is required.

The group walked for a long time before they walked out of the refining center.

Teacher Zhou looked at Liu Xu's red eyes, patted his shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work!"

Liu Xu almost cried when he heard this.

In recent months, he has indeed been very busy, managing such a large research center, and there are many experimental tasks.

Gold manufacturing requires even more work.

As the base continues to expand, the refining center continues to expand. The affairs of a refining center alone are extremely complicated.

Although there are other people assisting in the work, he is the person in charge of the base and there are still many matters that need to be dealt with.

Teacher Zhou said, "How about this, transfer a group of people from the military to be responsible for refining and production. Team leader Liu, you will still be the overall person in charge of the base, and the others will help share the work."

"Yes!"

Liu Xu immediately saluted.

Teacher Zhou asked other people to come and do management work, which sounds a bit like decentralization, but Liu Xu doesn't care about that, as long as he can share his work.

No one else can share the credit for technological research.

He was originally in charge of the research of high-end technology, and managing a large manufacturing base was a bit mismatched with his expertise, and the workload was too huge.

Once gold manufacturing is truly stabilized, his work will certainly be adjusted.

So it doesn’t matter at all.

After Mr. Zhou finished talking about personnel work, he also commented on the gold production capacity, "This scale is almost enough, more than 5 tons per day..."

"If possible, we should continue to expand the scale of refining. Production cannot be restricted by this."

His words were addressed to Teacher Zhao and also to Zhang Shuo.

After chatting with Mr. Zhao about scale issues, Mr. Zhou asked Zhang Shuo, "Can the gold manufacturing technology be improved? I'm talking about efficiency."

Then he added, "I heard that you have done many experiments. Is there any room for improvement in subsequent efficiency?"

Zhang Shuo replied, "There is definitely room for improvement, but it won't be too big."

"I won't go into the theoretical stuff, but I think the upper limit is probably between 100 and 200 kilograms, which is related to the reaction rate of the elements."

"I took a few sets of data last time, but after the experiment, the highest was only 113 kilograms. However, because the demand for raw materials is higher, the current situation is meaningless."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Liu Xu.

Liu Xu nodded and added, "The restriction now is not on production, but on refining."

"If the refining scale can keep up, the manufacturing capacity will be greatly improved. In the future, it will be easy to exceed 10 tons a day, and it can also reach tons or tons."

Teacher Zhou nodded.

After this gold war is over, the scale of gold production can be expanded. There will be no restrictions on any research we do, and of course there will be no problem in improving efficiency.

There is not much point in talking about this now.

He asked Zhang Shuo about his research, and Zhang Shuo talked about his research on strong analysis. "This research is ready to be published, and the paper has been written."

“One will be submitted for evaluation at that time.”

Teacher Zhou talked a few more words about the topic of research, and then talked about the experimental research on the chaotic force field. "I know that you have always wanted to do experiments in this area. Is it related to the follow-up research?"

"In a few months, we will strongly support experimental research in new physics directions, and it will be no problem to set up a large-scale chaos force field project team."

"When the time comes, Professor Zhang Shuo, you will be the project leader, and all research and funding support will be no problem."

Teacher Zhou said it with certainty.

Zhang Shuo became somewhat excited after hearing this, as he also knew about the ongoing "Golden War".

This was the first financial war that was initiated proactively.

We have been on the defensive for the past few decades, and this is the first time we have taken the initiative.

There are various financial means to maintain a stable gold price in China, or even to slightly reduce it, but the most important one is to sell physical gold to the outside world every month.

In the past three months, we have already seen over 200 tons, and this number will only increase in the future.

The international community believes that the country's gold reserves have decreased by more than 200 tons. In fact, judging from the production capacity of the R&D base, the gold reserves have only increased and not decreased.

However, more and more international capital will participate in the future.

When it reaches a certain scale, it is almost time for the final battle.

Made of gold, the final word will definitely cause a huge shock to the world!

(End of this chapter)