Hong Kong Island.
After experiencing the terrifying "Silver Massacre," a spectacle worthy of being recorded in financial history, the entire city was plunged into a bizarre frenzy and panic.
The panic is felt by the British trading companies that once held sway over Hong Kong for a century.
The fervor was felt by all the media and citizens.
The next morning.
All the newsstands were sold out again.
"Extra number! Extra number!!"
"British capital collapses! Jardine Matheson, Swire, and Wheelock go bankrupt overnight!"
"A century-old enterprise destroyed in an instant! Niu Bijian's blood splattered on the Jardine House!"
"The ultimate secret behind the Silver War! Who is the final, mysterious winner?!"
The Asia Daily's front page headline, in a striking blood-red color, reported yesterday's financial earthquake:
"Jardine Matheson's Twilight! Newbikin's high-stakes gamble on silver shorting fails, resulting in a 'short squeeze' by a mysterious giant! The alliance suffers billions of dollars in losses, and the century-old Jardine Matheson... goes bankrupt and is liquidated!"
The Sing Tao Daily, a newspaper that has always sided with British capital, is now reporting in an almost fearful tone:
"Financial tsunami! The British consortium has been completely wiped out! Swire and Wheelock, dragged down by Jardine Matheson, were taken over by banks overnight! Hong Kong Island... is about to change!"
Ming Pao, on the other hand, conducted an in-depth and rational analysis:
Who is the "shrew"? A retrospective of the silver war, from the bankruptcy of the Hunt brothers to the collapse of the British consortium... Who was the mysterious buyer who swept up all the spot goods at the $10 price level and then squeezed out all the short sellers at $50?
According to our estimates, their profits from this operation... could exceed 10 billion US dollars!!
Tens of billions of US dollars!
This number is simply unimaginable for ordinary people.
This news immediately exploded in the hearts of all Hong Kong Island residents!
"My God... 10 billion... US dollars?!"
"That's enough to buy the entire Jardine Matheson and all the British-owned companies!"
"Who is it? Who has such terrifying strength?"
"I don't know! It's too mysterious! It's like gods fighting!"
"I guess...I guess it's...Kobayashi again?"
"Shh! Don't talk nonsense! Isn't Mr. Lin in London? Besides... hasn't all his funds been exhausted? Didn't you see how low Hongkong Land Group's stock price fell? He spent a lot of effort and money to push it up, where would he get the money to trade silver futures? That's not something that can be done with a few hundred million Hong Kong dollars, it would take at least several billion US dollars..."
This caused a huge sensation not only in Hong Kong Island, but also in the global financial industry.
Everyone is wildly speculating about the identity of the "mysterious buyer" who could have made billions of dollars in profit.
Although the impact of this silver price war on Hong Kong Island is currently negligible on the surface, British companies that were deeply involved in shorting silver have gone bankrupt and been liquidated as a result.
This is something that seems like a dream to the citizens of Hong Kong Island, which has been dominated by British companies for over a century.
How could those large, indestructible British companies be so... fragile?
The collapse of British-owned companies such as Jardine Matheson and Swire also meant that the century-long colonial economic rule of British capital over Hong Kong Island was completely broken on this day!
This was a bloody beginning of the transition between the old and new eras, but fortunately, the blood that flowed was the blood of British capital.
But what they didn't know was that in this battle of capital, the true victor was right now...
But then it flew to London, thousands of miles away.
...
London, the headquarters of Leyland Motors in the UK.
It was still in that oak conference room filled with the smell of cigars and a musty, stale odor.
Although the entire Leyland Corporation is in deep crisis, these executives can still receive high salaries and enjoy their lives.
Anyway, Leyland doesn't belong to them personally. The British government and those officials will help them out and find a way out.
Yes!
The once mighty British Empire is now permeated with this stale atmosphere, and its pirate-like ambition and aggression to plunder at sea are being worn away little by little.
Sir Humphrey, CEO of Leyland Corporation, and Lord Davis, a director, were lounging in their chairs, holding... surprisingly, a copy of last week's The Sun.
The atmosphere here can be described as quite pleasant.
"Haha, Humphrey, look at this."
Lord Davis pointed to the cartoon in the newspaper, "Yellow-skinned monkeys want to swallow our 'Land Rover'!", and laughed so hard that the ash from the cigar he was holding fell onto his expensive vest.
"This comic is so lifelike!"
Sir Humphrey smiled, picked up another copy of the Financial Times from a few days earlier, and said:
"I prefer this one. The silver market has crashed, and market speculators may lose everything."
He read the headline with a smug look on his face. Although the report did not specify the identity of the speculator, they knew very well that it was referring to Kobayashi Tenno and the Hunt brothers, these capitalist sharks who attempted to monopolize silver and raise its price.
“Davis, I have to say, that Kobayashi Tenno is the most arrogant and stupid gambler I’ve ever met.”
"Haha! That arrogant Eastern kid, he's probably bankrupt by now!"
"Didn't he dare to put on airs in front of us last week?"
"He even said he wanted to acquire us? What does he have to offer now? His Harry Potter manuscript? Yes! I admit his Harry Potter is very well written, but that only proves that he is an excellent writer who makes a living from his imagination."
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