If the pound is allowed to continue its upward trend, its status as an international settlement currency will cause countries that use the US dollar to lose trust in it. They will either have to settle in their own currencies or use a stable third-party currency.

The Americans certainly wouldn't watch this unfold, so they could only resort to suppression to prevent the hawk from becoming too unruly.

So those who shorted Xing Baohua were just blindly following along, without understanding the underlying issues.

Those who see through it will be troubled, unable to distinguish the true nature of the contradiction, and unable to decide between going long and short.

Those who followed Xing Baohua in shorting the pound sterling had no way of getting information except through the media.

So some people suggested that Hong Kong's financial media go to Tai Ying to report in real time, and even those who couldn't get the news could go to Tai Ying in person, because the news there might be faster.

Xing Baohua's worst fears didn't come true. Instead of rushing to cut losses, he kept nagging at people's hearts on the verge of doing so.

If you cut your losses, you'll feel relieved, at least you'll feel more at ease. But until you reach that point, it always keeps you on edge, making you anxious as the market fluctuates.

Xing Baohua is fine, but he can make those traders live in fear with just a few words.

Secretary Dong reported to Xing Baohua that Andrei had asked Xing Baohua to go to Er Mao's place.

"Did they say what they were going to do?" Xing Baohua asked.

"I told you the goods I prepared are ready. For safety's sake, it's best to do the transaction over there."

“Tell him to bring the things to Pengcheng, and I’ll wait for him there.” Xing Baohua was still haunted by her previous visit to Er Mao’s house.

Fighter jets escorted them without even a greeting; who could stand such intimidation?

So we still have to send Andrei to run errands. Why go to Pengcheng? Pengfei has a lot of engineers who understand airplanes!

Let them see if the blueprints they bought for 500 million are genuine. Don't let a few missing blueprints for crucial parts cause trouble later on.

Following Xing Baohua's instructions, Secretary Dong went to inform Andrei.

Half an hour later, Secretary Dong came over to Xing Baohua and said, "I just told Andrei that I was going to Pengcheng. He said he might not have explained it clearly. He asked you to go and see the goods to check the quality of the scrap iron parts. It's not the paper items. Those will take time to work with the Tu family."

"Iron parts?" Xing Baohua suddenly remembered that he also needed some machine tools, scrapped vehicles, and T-series equipment.

In fact, many of the equipment were still in service, but in order to sell them as scrap metal for money, they applied to scrap many of the active-duty items.

As a result, those eight-wheeled and ten-wheeled tractor trucks that were 80% new were decommissioned as scrap vehicles.

Not only these, but also many T34, T54, T64 and so on, and even more outrageous multi-barreled Katyusha rockets are among them.

In any case, a single 20,000-ton roll-on/roll-off ship cannot carry it all. At least seven or eight loading ships would be needed to transport it all.

Xing Baohua didn't care about these things. They were just some junk. As long as it was good steel, he would buy it.