Chapter 77: Intimidate with virtue

'Do you think this Chinese guy Zhou Ming really has the means to control tens of billions of rubles or even more? It is true that everyday necessities are very scarce here in Krisko, but can this really control the money of a country? This is not some small country in South America, but a superpower. [Top][Click]Novel'

Meta asked David and William, who were sitting opposite him, now that they had finished their conversation with Zhou Ming and left Hotel No. 1, returning to the courtesy car.

Facing this question from Meta, neither David nor William answered. It wasn't that they were afraid to answer, but neither of them knew how to answer.

If it had been a week ago, they would have answered without hesitation that it was impossible. The reason was simple: they lacked money. Nothing fell from the sky. Whether it was speculation or investment, no matter how powerful the financial means, they must be based on sufficient funds. Otherwise, no matter how eye-catching the financial means are, they are just empty talk. The so-called empty-handed white wolf is just a myth that deceives oneself and others.

If not, at the beginning of his rebirth, Zhou Ming would not have desperately tried to make money with treasury bonds, and he even brought in the local director of the Agricultural Bank to join in the partnership to make money together. The goal was to raise enough money before the Hong Kong stock market crash, because he knew very well that without this money, no matter how good a speculator he was in this stock market crash, he would only be standing around with his eyes wide open.

As the saying goes, money can do anything, and without money, nothing can be done. The same is true of speculation in Northern Russia now. It sounds like Zhou Ming can control the ruble through the sale of daily necessities, and in turn become an influential figure in both the political and economic circles of Northern Russia. However, there is a very important problem here. Since Zhou Ming's goal is to control the ruble, it means that these daily necessities are investments that will not be able to recover their costs for a long time.

So the question is, everyone knows that overseas trade is a risky and high-investment business, and now it is clear that the investment cannot be recovered. Gangcheng has not yet recovered from last year's stock market crash, so how much money can they invest in this?

In addition, there is another more important point. Even if the Gangcheng consortium strongly supports Zhou Ming and will do whatever it takes to implement Zhou Ming's plan, the problem of the goods themselves arises again.

Because ocean trade takes a lot of time, it takes at least two months to transport 10,000 tons of goods from Gangcheng to here. But now the situation in Northern Russia is changing rapidly, so obviously it is impossible to transport goods from Gangcheng or Southeast Asia. The only option is to purchase them from Europe nearby, but Europe's production capacity is not abundant either. How many 10,000-ton goods can support Zhou Ming? Even if there are, with his way of purchasing, what kind of price fluctuations will it cause?

If there is a problem with the price, the governments and local consortia in these European countries are not vegetarian, and they will definitely use very drastic measures, which is not what the Kong City consortium wants to see.

These are all very real problems that lie ahead, and it is these problems that make Davie and William have to doubt and deny.

This is impossible, but Zhou Ming is good at creating impossible miracles. At the beginning, Zhou Ming came to Krisco alone, with nothing, and no one took him seriously.

But then, whether it was persuading Nikolayevich to give a speech outside the White House, or uniting Northern Russian businessmen to follow him in getting a share of the Tower Project, or now persuading the Harbor City consortium to ship in 10,000 tons of daily necessities to help him control the ruble, every single thing can be described as a miracle. Then what else could happen to someone who can create miracles? This is the fundamental reason why Davier and William dare not draw a conclusion.

Seeing that neither Davier nor William answered, Maita shook his head gently. He knew that these two Western financial elites had already begun to doubt their own lives and judgment because of Zhou Ming's incident.

'This incident may be true or it may be false, but we are not scientists. We don't need to solve this Schrödinger's cat equation. We just need to execute our established strategy.'

Maita finally made his position clear: 'Yesterday, Nikolayevich paid a visit to this Chinese Zhou, and today we are here too. No matter how much we deny it, he has already become an important force in Northern Russia, so we must take him seriously.'

Hearing Maita's position, Davier and William both breathed a sigh of relief, because they were really afraid of making a decision regarding Zhou Ming. After all, nothing good would come from anything related to Zhou Ming.

At this time, Mata continued, 'There is one more thing. If Northern Russia is really preparing to issue a new ruble, then we must also be prepared in advance.'

Davier and William were silent once again. After a while, Davier said, 'Mr. Mata, do you really think that the President of Northern Russia would tell such an important matter to that Chinese person, and that he would tell us about it?'

The importance of currency is undeniable to anyone who understands economics. It can be said that currency is the centre of a country's economic centre. It is precisely for this reason that Zhou Ming's mastery of the ruble through the trading of daily necessities has caused such a big reaction from both the President of Northern Russia, Nikolayevich, and Mr. Mata, that they have both spared no effort to personally visit him.

Since currency is so important, the issuance of a new currency by a country to replace an old one must be kept secret, otherwise it would be too easy for someone to tamper with the old currency before the new one is issued.

In addition, Nikolavich has just moved into the Kremlin, and whether it is the political situation at the top or the economic situation after the privatisation reform, it has not yet stabilised. Even a fool can see that what is needed now is stability, not the issuance of new rubles. Naturally, Nikolavich is not stupid enough to do that.

So if a new ruble is really going to be issued now, there is only one reason for it, and that is that Zhou Ming's control of the ruble has also made the president of northern Russia feel scared.

Of course, the chauffeurs of the limousine are all professionally trained, but there is still an unavoidable tremor when starting. As the car started, Maita glanced over at Hotel One before finally replying to Davier, 'Zhou Ming is a smart man, he won't joke with us about this. It seems that our Project Talisman has encountered a real problem. This Chinese person is a formidable character, we underestimated him.'

'But the contest has only just begun. Mr. Maita, the final victory will surely still be ours, won't it?' William asked Maita unconvinced.

Maita withdrew his gaze from the train window and replied with a smile, 'Of course, no one can defeat us!'

Maita did not particularly emphasise anything in this reply, but his words gave David and William a lot of confidence. It was just that when they were facing the pressure from Zhou Ming, they were very troubled. In the hotel café, Zhou Ming, who was standing by the bed, watched their courtesy car leave, but he let out a sigh of relief.

'Finally got rid of them.'

Li Cheng and Tong Gang, father and son, walked into the coffee shop together. It was none other than the future richest man in China, Li Cheng, who spoke, while Tong Gang said with emotion, 'I didn't think it was really that Mr. Meta!'

This made Zhou Ming feel a little surprised: 'Why does Chairman Tong also know Mr. Meta?'

Tong Gang nodded and said, 'I met him once in the United States. He is no ordinary person. He is employed by the US government and is a secret financial warfare expert directly responsible to the president. Many economic plans against the Soviet Union came from him. Another thing is that before he was employed by the US government, his resume was very ordinary, so ordinary that it was almost blank.'

Everyone here is smart, and everyone can hear the unspoken meaning in Tong Gang's words. No one was surprised by the first half of the sentence. After all, as the overall person in charge of the Dota Project, no one would believe that he did not have the backing of the US government.

As for the latter half, the fact that this person's resume before being hired by the US government is so ordinary is obviously problematic, because how can a financial warfare expert who is directly responsible to the president and directly targeting a superpower be ordinary? That is just a blindfold to deceive people.

Li Cheng said at this time, 'I admit that this Mr. Maita is indeed very unusual, but it doesn't matter anymore, because didn't he get tricked by our Mr. Zhou Ming today? This proves that there is always someone better, and the wisdom of the sons and daughters of China is superior to these Americans!'

Tong Gang laughed happily, and Zhou Ming said to Li Cheng, 'Chairman Li, you are still so eloquent, but you are also praising me too highly, aren't you?'

'I think Chairman Li is being modest, because what you did today was truly eye-opening!'

This time it was Tong Gang who spoke, and he reached out and patted Zhou Ming on the shoulder, saying very seriously, 'To be honest, when you first said that you wanted to use the sale of daily necessities to control the entire North Russian rouble, it really scared me, because we don't have that kind of money. Even if we did, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to find that many daily necessities, let alone ship them here in time.'

Tong Gang's words directly hit the nail on the head. In fact, this is the same point that Meta and the others had thought of in the car. They simply did not have enough money, and it was impossible to completely rely on selling daily necessities to control all or most of the rubles.

After hearing Tong Gang's point, Li Cheng glanced out the window and said, 'If Mr. Meta comes to his senses, I'm afraid we'll be in trouble. We have so much rubles in our hands, but we can't really control all of it.'

'That's why I said that Zhou Ming is amazing, he fooled Mr. Maita,' Tong Gang said.

However, at this time, Zhou Ming said, 'I don't think so. Mr. Maita, Davier, and that William, they are all very smart, so I think they have already thought of it. It's just that what I did made them unable to believe it. And one more important point is that I told them about the news that North Russia will soon issue a new ruble, and they will now pay more attention to this.'

'So is the government of Northern Russia really going to issue a new ruble?' Tong Hua asked Zhou Ming.

'Whether it's true or not, the next meeting at the Kremlin should give us the answer,' said Zhou Ming.