Chapter 159: Prepare for the rainy days

On the airport highway in the capital city of Yan Jing, several police cars are parked here, strictly interrogating passing vehicles. Every car passing here must stop for inspection before being allowed to pass.

'Comrade policeman, what is going on here? There are so many cars stuck here, and you are causing trouble for the capital's traffic!'

The capital city of this era was not what it would become thirty years later, with roads crisscrossing the city. Therefore, there were many vehicles on the airport highway, and many drivers complained about such inspections.

Facing the complaints of these drivers, a team leader said, 'What are you yelling about? If it weren't for the pressure from above, do you think we would like to do this? Just cooperate with our inspection, don't ask questions you shouldn't, and don't say things you shouldn't, or we'll arrest you all!'

'Comrade policeman, I really have something to do today, and I am also a law-abiding citizen. Just let us go.'

Seeing that complaining would not work, someone immediately changed their face and begged, but it was useless. The team leader said, 'You are not the boss of who you are. You have to be inspected whether you have anything to do or not. You will cooperate with our work quickly. If you all don't cooperate like this, it will only be delayed. You all decide for yourselves.'

After a while of back and forth between the police officer and the driver, the horn of the car suddenly honked twice. The team leader frowned in dissatisfaction, 'I told you to wait here, why honk the horn? Everyone is looking for trouble, is it that you won't feel comfortable unless you catch a few people today?'

The captain said, and walked up to the car that honked its horn. It was a black Hongqi sedan, which looked very ordinary from the outside. But as soon as the captain walked up to it, his face changed and his eyes widened. Then he ran up to the side of the car, stood at attention, saluted, and shouted, 'Hello, Chief!'

The window of the Hongqi sedan was lowered, and a young face poked out: 'I'm not some kind of leader, I'm just a businessman. But I have an urgent matter that requires me to go into the city right now. I wonder if the comrade policeman can be flexible?'

Hearing this, the captain, who had just had a tough attitude, immediately changed his tone: 'Of course there's no problem, I'll clear the road for you right away!'

'Thank you, officer.'

The young man in the car said this and rolled up the window, while the team leader immediately organised his men to start organising the cars in front of them to make a path for the two cars to pass first. This immediately caused dissatisfaction among other drivers, and even the police under him were puzzled: 'Boss, you just said that you must accept the inspection, but now you are making an exception. This is not good, is it?'

But as soon as he asked, the team leader slapped him back: 'Cut the crap, do you know what kind of car that is? That's the central government's car!'

After hearing this, the others had nothing more to say, and they all hurried to get back to work. Soon they gave way to the two Hongqi cars, and the team leader and the other policemen saluted as they watched the two cars drive off.

'I've heard that the old police in the capital have the ability to tell a car apart from its driver. Today I've finally seen it with my own eyes.'

In the second red car, a man asked the person in the front passenger seat, and the young man in the passenger seat shrugged and said, 'I would say that this is all forced. After all, the capital is a place where dragons and tigers hide. If you catch some royal relatives, the fun will be great.'

'So today I took advantage of your Du Shao's reputation and also took advantage of the tiger's prestige,' the man in the back said.

'Forget it, I didn't send this car today, and if anything, I'm taking advantage of your reputation, Boss Zhou,' the person in front said.

'I want to say that Du Peng, what you did wasn't taking advantage of someone else's reputation, it was taking advantage of someone else's power,' the girl sitting behind him laughed, which made the young man in front suddenly look miserable.

The three people who spoke were none other than Zhou Ming, Du Peng, and Su Han, who had returned from Northern Russia. Kareina and ** also returned, but they were arranged to go in the car in front.

The trip back from Northern Russia was still very smooth. It is worth mentioning that Nikolayevich, the president of Northern Russia, also hoped that Zhou Ming would leave quickly, and he actually sent them fighter jets for escort all the way to the border, so that they could also enjoy the treatment of national leaders.

The flight route was the same as before, taking off from Krisko, transiting to Siberia, and finally arriving in Yan Jing.

Since it was the call of the national leader to summon Zhou Ming back to the country, naturally after he arrived at the airport, arrangements were made for a car to pick him up. This car not only had the license plate of the central department, but also the pass of each department of the central government, so how could the ordinary police not be nervous? This is how the previous scene came about.

The car drove directly into Zhongnanhai and arrived at the Sui'an Room in the north. The supreme leader Yang Dingguo and Chairman Du Zhongyuan were both waiting here. Due to their special status, only Zhou Ming and Du Peng were allowed to enter, and everyone else was kept outside. Not only did they include the foreign-looking Kalelina and the criminal **, but even Su Han, who had already entered Zhongnanhai and met with the supreme leaders a long time ago, was the same.

It is not difficult to guess the importance of the matter. Zhou Ming and Du Peng came to the two elderly people. Before they could say anything, Yang Dingguo said, 'You have finally arrived. Come and sit down.'

Since the old man had said so, they could only obey. After sitting down, Yang Dingguo said, 'Zhou Ming, I have heard about what you did in Northern Russia. Not only did you cause the collapse of the Soviet Union, but you also took advantage of the chaos to loot along with the Western countries, plundering more than 100 billion US dollars of wealth from our big brother. You have done a lot, and now you are a super capitalist!'

It is difficult to have any real feelings between countries. Although Yang Dingguo still calls the Soviet Union his big brother, he would probably be happy to have the opportunity to bite this big brother.

However, even so, Zhou Ming still said very modestly, 'Mr. Yang, you are embarrassing me by saying that. In fact, all those things that happened to me were just coincidences, whether it was the dissolution of the Soviet Union before, or later on, when I joined forces with other wealthy Northern Russians to plunder their wealth.'

'Not being arrogant despite your achievements is not an easy thing for young people to do.'

Yang Dingguo praised Zhou Ming before saying, 'So you have returned from Northern Russia and experienced so many things there. What are your thoughts?'

'I don't understand what kind of thoughts you are referring to, Mr. Yang.'

Zhou Ming asked this not because he was deliberately acting dumb, but because the proposition given by Yang Dingguo was too broad, and for a moment, Zhou Ming didn't know where to start answering.

Yang Dingguo could see Zhou Ming's true thoughts, and he gave the answer directly: 'Of course it's about financial capital. Zhou Ming, you said that there is a Project Tower in the United States. It took the United States more than ten years to prepare, and it fought a financial war with the Soviet Union. Is that right? Is financial capital really that powerful? Can it defeat a country without shedding blood?'

Zhou Ming nodded and said, 'This is absolutely true, Mr. Yang. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the money I later made in Northern Russia are good proof.'

Zhou Ming continued, 'And what happened before was just a warm-up. The 100 billion US dollars I left in Northern Russia, and then used the Dota Project to storm the Northern Russian market, is where the true horror of financial warfare lies. A conservative estimate is that I can make ten trillion, while Northern Russia's direct and indirect losses will reach one hundred trillion. This loss will prevent the country from recovering for twenty or even thirty years.'

Although Zhou Ming had reported all this to the mainland over the phone, when he heard it now, it still made the two elderly men gasp. After all, the figure was astonishing, especially since it was a superpower that had been defeated. No one could remain calm.

But Yang Dingguo was Yang Dingguo after all. He just took a deep breath and calmed down, at least on the surface. Then he asked Zhou Ming, 'So what do you think would happen if such a financial war broke out in our country? Would we be able to withstand it?'

Zhou Ming thought for a moment and replied, 'If they don't open up channels for foreign capital to enter, then they won't be able to wage a financial war. On the contrary, if they do open up channels for capital, then given our current domestic financial environment, I'm afraid we would collapse even faster than North Russia, and the losses would be even more severe.'

This answer was expected, but Yang Dingguo and Du Zhongyuan still sighed.

'Chairman Yang and Chairman Du, I don't think we need to be pessimistic at all. I think we can still start in time. Right now, the target of the US financial war is locked on Northern Russia, and they won't pay attention to our side for a few years. As long as we can develop a complete financial system and system during this time, I think we can completely withstand the impact of the financial war.'

Zhou Ming spoke with great confidence, because as a person who had returned from the dead, he had seen the economic strength of the country in the afterlife. Despite the many detours along the way, the general direction was correct. Neither the Southeast Asian financial crisis nor the subsequent hot money shorting of China, nor even the subsequent global economic crisis, had been able to bring down the Chinese economy. The entire country had always been growing at a perverted pace.

'So do you know why we were in such a hurry to call you back?' Yang Dingguo asked.

Zhou Ming was at first taken aback, then tentatively said, 'If I'm not wrong, what you're saying is that we should prepare for the future and train domestic financial capital talent as soon as possible to meet the challenges of the future, right?'

Yang Dingguo applauded happily, praising him as clever. Zhou Ming smiled modestly and continued, 'Yang Lao, you should do this, and I also strongly support the country's approach, but there's no need to invite me back, is there? It is true that I have made a lot of money in Northern Russia, but that was more down to luck. When it comes to understanding the financial capital market, I still have a lot to learn.'

'I'm not trying to avoid it, that's the truth,' Zhou Ming added, emphasising the point.

'We of course understand that, and we're not asking you to come back as a professor, but there are other arrangements,' Du Zhongyuan said.

'What arrangements?' Zhou Ming felt very puzzled.

Yang Dingguo, however, played hard to get: 'You'll understand when you get there tomorrow.'

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