Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

July 1980, Yunlan City.

After Zhao Mancang came back, he continued to make large purchases.

This time, he will definitely make a lot of money by manipulating the gold market and controlling its decline.

At present, he has arranged for Lu Yangui to negotiate with Nasser, the eldest prince of the Saudi Empire, to resell the land that he had previously signed a contract with the other party to the latter.

After all, that is a gold mine with several thousand tons of gold. Once it is taken, Nasser and his country will no longer be short of gold.

Although the current price of gold is only over two hundred US dollars per ounce, which is not expensive, you must know that gold is the absolute hard currency and people all over the world like gold.

Therefore, the price of gold will definitely continue to rise in the future, and having more gold reserves can also be used as money.

The negotiation for the gold mine was handed over to the team in Yunlan City, while Zhao Mancang himself was preparing to go to Sam to purchase some food, arms, etc. from them.

Now he has many companies of his own, so he only needs to give an order, and his subordinates will naturally help him do the work, and he doesn't need to worry about these things.

For example, if it comes to food, Kabu Company can help him solve this problem.

Because Cabe acquired the food giant Bunge and privatized and delisted Bunge.

Zhao Mancang was able to purchase a large amount of food from Kabu Company alone.

Not to mention that he also has the Wanjia Supermarket Group, which has many farms under its jurisdiction, all of which are farms that grow large amounts of corn, wheat and other grains.

As well as the two companies, Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland Company, so if Zhao Mancang wants food, it is definitely a very simple thing.

In addition to food, there are also arms.

Arms were traded directly with the Persian Empire and the Date Empire, and were also divided into two parts.

One is to purchase some firearms that the Persian Empire urgently needs from Sam, mainly because they like them.

The other part is gas tank bombs, pressure cooker bombs and other weapons and equipment. These are produced in Beijiang City, then shipped from Beijiang Wharf along the Beijiang River to the sea, and then transferred to Kwai Chung Wharf in Hong Kong Island.

In short, no matter what Zhao Mancang wants, he now has a group of subordinates to command and can solve these small problems quickly.

However, just as Zhao Mancang loaded these arms and food into the system space and was about to go to the Persian Empire for trading, news came from Yunlan City that guests were coming.

After returning to Yunlan City, Zhao Mancang immediately met Ding Shoushun, who respectfully reported:
"Boss, the current situation is this: they have a team of fifty people, who passed through two days ago..."

This group of people are very stubborn. It has been more than two hours since they were caught, but they still refuse to give in. They seem to be "death squads". They are worried that if they give in, they will reveal their employer and their families and children will definitely suffer.

A group of people sneaked into Yunlan City through the sea, they must have bad intentions.

The entire Yunlan City and Mogadishu area has a long coastline. Even if the Black Cross troops patrol every day, it is difficult to completely defend it.

Another reason is that Yunlan City is currently short of warships. It’s not that Zhao Mancang has no money, but that he doesn’t trust the enemy’s equipment.

So he was waiting, waiting for Yunlan City to build its own shipyard, and then he would build it himself.

Under such circumstances, he could only deploy control at multiple levels and establish a relatively complete video surveillance system.

These video surveillance systems are relatively expensive and require the purchase of a large number of surveillance cameras, which is certainly not that simple.

"Then continue the interrogation until we determine who is behind this."

Zhao Mancang gave the order in a cold voice, and Ding Shoushun immediately nodded to show that he understood.

After staying in Yunlan City for two days, Zhao Mancang went to the Mesopotamian Plain to trade with the Persian Empire and the Date Empire, selling the food and arms he had.

At the same time, take away all their oil, gold, minerals, etc.

They are currently exchanging fire, and the fighting is very fierce.

They rely on the large amount of oil and minerals under the desert, so they are reckless. Even if their brains are beaten out, what does it matter?

If it weren't for Zhao Mancang's support behind the scenes, providing them with large amounts of food and ammunition, they would not have been able to fight for such a long time.

After all, without money and weapons, they can't fight at all, at most they will just confront each other.

After the transaction was completed, Zhao Mancang left this place of trouble.

After returning to Yunlan City, the interrogation results came out.

According to Ding Shoushun and others, this group of people are from Sam, an organization called Gyro Gate.

No one knows what this organization is.

Zhao Mancang frowned when he heard this.

What is Gyrogate?

They are so mysterious, it seems that this group of people are not honest.

"Gather them and interrogate them again to confirm the authenticity of the information. Once confirmed, send someone to Sam immediately. I need to find out what kind of organization this Gyro Gate is."

Upon hearing Zhao Mancang's order, Ding Shoushun immediately responded.

The matter was settled and Zhao Mancang no longer cared about it.

He came to the Yunlan City Gold Trading Market and asked what the current gold price was.

When he learned that it was $225 per ounce, he knew that he could now slowly buy gold.

However, try to buy from different places such as London and New York.

On the other hand, large quantities of gold were sold again from places such as the Rand Central Gold Mine.

In addition, orders for futures gold, paper gold, etc. are also increased to ensure that the price of gold continues to fall.

This kind of confusing market behavior will definitely make many people think that not many people are buying gold.

In short, the price of gold needs to be stabilized in the range of more than 200, and it cannot be allowed to grow rapidly.

In the future, the price of gold will definitely not be able to rise. It will only continue to rise after 1982.

Zhao Mancang knew the general trend of gold prices. He had already planned to buy when the price was low and sell when it was high, making a huge profit from the difference. Yunlan City currently held a large amount of US dollar cash, which they definitely couldn't keep in their hands forever. They needed to sell it off.

Exchanged for gold, oil, minerals, food and other materials.

The US dollar is just a currency. When the amount of money reaches a certain level, it actually becomes a competition for resources rather than a plunder of funds.

No matter how strong the US dollar is, or whether the US dollar depreciates and inflation is severe, these have little to do with Zhao Mancang. He will only use financial means to continuously maintain his wealth growth.

As long as more resources can be purchased, Yunlan City will surely be able to quickly leap forward and become a more prosperous area.

After coming out of the gold trading market, Zhao Mancang went to the Yunlan City Government Office Building.

Lu Yangui reported the current situation to him.

His Royal Highness the Grand Prince of the Saudi Empire finally agreed to give in. They were willing to exchange the land for 20 billion US dollars in oil and minerals.

This price is not low. After all, the actual gold reserves of this land are only about 6,000 to 7,000 tons of gold, worth more than 40 billion US dollars, not the trillions of US dollars reported in the news.

Now that the price has been determined, let's sign the contract and then hurry up to get the Saudi Empire to bring all the oil, minerals, etc. to Yunlan City.

With such good news, Zhao Mancang was naturally very happy.

But soon, he became unhappy, because Ding Shoushun had confirmed again and again that the group of people were sent by the so-called Gyro Sect, and they were the so-called family assassins.

In this case, the Black Cross Force should be dispatched. We can no longer sit and wait for death.

Zhao Mancang did not join in the fun, but just gave the order and let the Black Cross troops act.

The current Black Cross Force has surpassed the top level of international special forces in terms of both equipment and individual strength.

Especially in terms of high technology, the Black Cross Forces are armed to the teeth, with everything from the D21 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft at an altitude of meters to the smallest insect drones, which are simply impossible to defend against.

As long as you can achieve the ultimate in reconnaissance, you can obtain unexpected intelligence.

As the saying goes, know yourself and the enemy and you will be victorious in any battle.

Moreover, the Black Cross Force not only possesses these high-tech weapons and equipment, but also various other military equipment, so there is no problem at all in investigating the so-called Gyro Gate organization.

However, although Zhao Mancang did not participate in this matter, he did not completely ignore it. Instead, he would pay attention to it to prevent the development of the matter from exceeding his expectations.

Just as the Black Cross troops were heading to Sam to carry out their mission, the gold trading market in Yunlan City was once again in turmoil.

Yunlan City's self-operated financial company once again listed spot gold for sale, but the price was slightly higher than the market price by a few US dollars.

The market quickly got wind of the situation and began to speculate what was going on.
John Morgan was sitting in the most luxurious private villa room in Yunlan City. After listening to the report from his subordinates, he could no longer sit still.

"Are you sure they're putting the gold up for sale again? Has anyone offered to buy it?"

Such an abnormal reaction was indeed strange, so John Morgan was very surprised.

Logically speaking, Yunlan City had already sold more than 100 million ounces of gold, so there should be no more in stock.

But now gold is put up for sale again, even though the price is a few dollars higher than the market price, so what?
This is the official financial company operated by Yunlan City, and it represents the official Yunlan City.

Their own companies are all selling gold, which means that Yunlan City officials themselves have so much gold.

But this is very unreasonable. Where did Yunlan City get so much gold?
You know, the amount of gold in the world is limited and belongs to different major forces or countries.

For example, in India, the amount of gold owned by the people is much greater than the amount owned by the country itself.

Then the gold of Yunlan City can’t be purchased from the public, right?
That strength is too terrifying!

But if it is an acquisition like this, there will definitely be traces to follow.

It is probably impossible that the gold was purchased from the public, so it is very likely that it is the gold owned by the financial backers behind Yunlan City, or they have discovered a large gold mine.

Regardless of the reason, John Morgan believes that this time we should give it a try.

So John Morgan immediately ordered his subordinates to purchase 5,000 ounces every day, and to ask someone to help purchase it so that Yunlan City would not find out.

John Morgan has set up a branch in Yunlan City, but it seems that there are still too few employees, and some employees need to be transferred from Wall Street.

Like John Morgan, Clement Newman, Betley Rockefeller, Augustine Davis and others all did the same thing. They asked their employees to go to Yunlan City's official proprietary financial company to buy gold.

Not much, just a few thousand ounces a day, to test the waters and see how much gold reserves Yunlan City itself has.

After Zhao Mancang learned about this, he immediately laughed. These little foxes are really good at scheming.

But no matter how smart they were, they could never imagine how much gold Zhao Mancang had and where his gold came from.

Owning gold is one thing, but where the gold is purchased from is another.

Spot gold trading has also begun in many places such as London, New York, Frankfurt, Tokyo, etc., but the gold prices in these places are still not as high as in Yunlan City.

Because Zhao Mancang stipulated to those financial companies that they must be several dollars higher than the market price.

Although such a price difference is certainly very sensitive to many ordinary people, it is not worth mentioning to capital giants like John Morgan who want to test the depth of Yunlan City.

They will only end up shooting themselves in the foot.

From July to mid-August, more than a month has passed, and Yunlan City is still very stable in selling gold, but the price is always a few US dollars higher than the market price.

John Morgan and others who had already purchased more than 100,000 or 200,000 ounces of gold began to sense something was amiss when they saw that Yunlan City was still listing the gold calmly.

So they gathered together for a meeting to discuss countermeasures.

"Do you think Yunlan City really has that much gold? The combined gold we've acquired from Yunlan City has already exceeded one million ounces. They can't possibly have tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of ounces of gold, right?"

Hearing Clement Newman's words, Betley Rockefeller also frowned:
"I don't know. I sent my death squad to carry out the mission before, but they all fell into oblivion. I guess the Black Cross Army of Yunlan City is really as unfathomable as the rumors say."

John Morgan and the others fell silent, their brows furrowed.

Without understanding the specific strength of Yunlan City and the financial backer behind it, they dared not act rashly. (End of this chapter)