According to reports, this story begins at an entirely unscientific moment: Zhou Ziye, a designer who rose from creating counterfeit mobile phones, suddenly time-traveled back to the year 1984.
...It all depends on how bold you are, or whether you have an economic analysis team behind you helping you plan and play.
After settling things over with the people from the desert country, Xing Baohua returned to his residence. He had a lot of plans, and the teams from both companies had helped him with a lot of analysis, including market news and data analysis on the oil situation.
Reports of future oil price declines are plentiful.
On average, prices fluctuate between 21 and 30 over three years.
This analysis comes from oil prices in the futures market. You know, these so-called experts are often unreliable.
Xing Baohua recalls that the price gradually and steadily increased three years later, largely in line with the expert team's analysis. The difference was about two or three yuan.
They had no idea that a war would break out three years later, causing oil prices to surge to a high point before quickly falling back down.
Xing Baohua remembered that the price of oil was over forty, but he didn't know the exact amount. It was definitely above forty.
There's no way to gamble on this; we can only use forty as a benchmark. Even if it goes up to fifty, Xing Baohua won't gamble on it. We can only keep it around forty.
Then there will be an average difference in the middle.
If war were to break out, Xing Baohua would quickly sell off his options at a high price.
One more person gets screwed over.
He only has forty days to sell it.
With a price difference of a dozen or so dollars per barrel, he could make billions by distributing one or two hundred million barrels of oil—it's just a matter of talking.
It's important to know that the oil the desert country provides is all-process crude oil, without any OPEC pricing involved, and the price they offer is lower than the market price.
Thinking about these values made Xing Baohua excitedly rub his hands together.
The next day, Xing Baohua personally went to the hotel to welcome Alwaleed and even had breakfast with him.
"My friend, I heard that your car has been successfully developed. When can I meet it?" Alwaleed said to Xing Baohua while eating breakfast.
"I'll arrange for someone to deliver it to you in the next couple of days. It'll be a special edition; you'll be pleasantly surprised," Xing Baohua replied.
Before the group from the desert country arrived, Xing Baohua had instructed the car factory to tell Overeicht to make several special edition cars.
They even asked Wei Laisong to help them apply for more than ten kilograms of gold.
Two special edition gold-plated Pegasus sports cars were made.
The entire car body, including the carbon fiber panels, is covered with a thin layer of gold plating, which is hammered out entirely by hand.
Everyone who sees it will be envious.
The only downside is that it's not resistant to bumps and knocks.
In order not to crush or trap the driver and passengers, this guy didn't dare to let any airbags be deployed.
Anyway, airbags in this era aren't very reliable.
In a high-speed collision, seat belts might save the lives of the driver and passengers, increasing their survival rate.
However, even with an airbag, the survival rate is only 5%-30%, which is extremely slim.
Xing Baohua got a special version, the kind only princes play with. The car accident was their own fault, but Xing Baohua absolutely didn't want to take the blame for being killed by the airbag.