Ikeda Xiaoye opened her big, bright eyes and was obviously stunned.
Ikeda Sakurako gently held the teacup and said, "Why not? Gentlemen's agreements are for gentlemen! I'm just a hypocrite."
"That's what I said, but isn't that a little too cunning?!!"
"Xiao Ye, are you feeling sorry for that guy?"
"How could such a thing happen? It's just a gentleman's agreement. If you don't abide by it, it will definitely affect your reputation, young lady!"
Ikeda Koye's eyes were panic-stricken, and she was evasive, and it was obvious that she was saying one thing and thinking another.
In Sakurako Ikeda's eyes, this reaction was no different from a child lying to an adult.
It feels weird.
It tastes a bit sour.
In fact, during this period of time, she had already discovered that something was wrong with Xiaoye. He was often distracted, dazed, and easily lost his temper. He had even chopped several wooden men into pieces.
Even Ikeda Koba herself was not aware of her emotions.
Trapped in the cage of the Wu family, she had never come into contact with many people in her life. Apart from the sword, there was only life and death.
But how could Sakurako Ikeda not see that Xiaoye was ignorant and had learned to argue with men and even deceive herself.
after all!
It’s better to be a man!
But what's the point of eating! Isn't it what I want to see? Yuki is pretty good.
If we exchange them, the straight guy would probably be happy too!
Finished!
I was dying, and I couldn't stop my perverted heart! I drank a cup of tea.
Put it down again.
Ikeda Sakurako stretched beautifully.
At this time.
A woman with a charming, graceful and tranquil temperament walked over.
See her.
Ikeda Sakurako stood up and shouted, "Mother!"
"Mr. Nakamura is gone?" Tokugawa Yukina said lightly. Even though she was speaking as a daughter, her temperament was so indifferent that no special emotion could be seen.
Ikeda Sakurako did the same, and said politely, "If mother wants me to persuade him, I'm sorry, it seems I can't do it."
"Oh! So that means you can't control him?!"
"I think you might be disappointed, mother. From the beginning, I never intended to control him!"
"Sakurako, you really disappoint me!"
"sorry!"
"Apologies are meaningless! Please don't forget your mission and responsibility!"
“.”
Snap!
Snap!
The clogs went away.
Once again, only Ikeda Sakurako and Ikeda Koba were left.
Looking at the back of the head of the family.
This time.
Ikeda Xiaoye was really anxious.
"Miss! The master of the family is angry, what should we do?!"
"wait!"
"Still waiting! Does he have a chance of winning?"
"This guy's fate is very strange. So, I can't figure it out!"
"Ah! If he loses, then he's doomed!"
“Although I couldn’t predict his fate accurately, he was right.
When the sky is murderous, the stars will move and their positions will change. When the earth is murderous, dragons and snakes will rise from the land. When people are murderous, heaven and earth will turn upside down. When heaven and people are murderous together, the foundation of all changes will be established.
"What does this mean?"
"The so-called heaven and earth are nothing more than the two poles of yin and yang. The moon and the sun drive the tides of the sun and the moon. Gold, wood, water, fire and earth determine the birth and death of the five elements.
Therefore, there are clever and clumsy natures, which can be hidden. Fire is born from wood, and disaster will be overcome. Treachery is born in the country, and it will be defeated when it moves. Heaven gives birth and Heaven kills, this is the principle of Tao.
Night is for the moon, and the rise in crude oil prices is also for Sumao.
But where there is killing there must be life, and where there is life there must be killing.
Su Mao is in the last moments of his life at this time, so he will surely be killed with lightning speed!
Perhaps, we will soon see a vast thunder that will shock the world."
“.”
at the same time.
USA.
Wall Street.
On the huge central area screen.
Crude oil prices are fluctuating at a speed that is difficult to capture with the naked eye.
43.28 43.38 43.78 densely packed buy.
In just two hours, crude oil prices rose by more than one percent.
As a result, Goldman Sachs' large position in crude oil saw its profits increase by several hundred million dollars.
But such growth is not enough to make people happy, especially after receiving the call from the villa, even John Weinberg felt the seriousness of the problem.
An emergency meeting was immediately convened.
Warren Buffett, Henry Paulson and several other senior partners rushed over immediately, including former president White Hate who had joined the Treasury Department.
It's already midnight.
Warren Buffett yawned and frowned, saying, "What happened? You called everyone here at this time. John, don't you know that disturbing people's rest is a sin?"
"Sorry! Something very serious has happened! I just received a call from the Intelligence Department. There is a very serious uncertainty on the Sumao side?"
"Su Mao?"
"Yes." John Weinberg nodded and signaled his secretary to turn on the projection equipment in the conference room. "Crude oil prices are out of control and rising wildly today. Therefore, the Soviet-Maoist left-wing forces may become uncertain."
“Isn’t it the company or other consortiums that are pushing up the oil price?”
"No. Apart from Kuwait, today we were mainly affected by Japan. Someone signed a large crude oil agreement with the Sumitomo Group, a huge bet of up to 1,000 barrels of oil per day."
Since the beginning of the Cold War.
The Eastern and Western camps formed economic and ideological barriers. With the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Warsaw Pact and Western countries divided the entire earth into two halves, yin and yang.
For quite a long time.
Both the Soviet Union and Mao were at an absolute disadvantage and had to win over neighboring countries to fight against the West.
It was not until the 1960s and 1970s that Soviet-Maoist Russia entered its best period of economic status - huge oil and gas fields were discovered in Siberia, and the "Third Baku" was officially born.
During the 1973 oil crisis, international oil prices increased several times.
At that time, every time the Soviet-Maoist government invested 1 ruble in the Siberian oil fields, it could make a profit of 30 to 40 rubles within 3 to 4 years.
Stimulated by such high returns, the Soviet Union's oil production increased again and again: in 1960, the Soviet Union's oil production was 147.9 million tons, accounting for 14.4% of the world's total production; in 1980, the total annual production of the entire Soviet Union was 603.2 million tons, accounting for 19.5% of the world's total production.
As oil prices rose and oil production increased, the Soviet Union accumulated a huge amount of wealth in a very short period of time.
During this period.
There is a movie called "The Crew", which reflects the living conditions of the Soviet Union and the Maoists in the 1980s: at that time, for the Maoists, their most fashionable lifestyle was basically through purchasing foreign daily necessities - Japanese high-tech tape recorders and televisions, Western European clothes and cigarettes.
In order to maintain this "high quality of life" of the people, the proportion of Soviet oil exports in production was increasing: 25.8% in 1970, 27.7% in 1980, and 29.1% in 1987.
This "everyone is happy" situation sends the message that oil prices will continue to rise and will stabilize after reaching a certain level.
This is equivalent to telling people that a good day will never end.
Since exporting resources can bring huge profits, why do we still need to farm or engage in other industries?
So Su Mao got a disease - Dutch disease.
During this period, Soviet-Maoist industry adjusted towards heavy chemical industry. With inexhaustible oil, other heavy industries such as steel, automobiles, electronics and aerospace made great progress.
But at the same time, light industry was abandoned, and as for land, it was even more dispensable.
It is so hard to work facing the black soil and with your back to the sky. Anyway, you have money to buy food, so why bother farming!
It is in this context.
A strategy of encirclement and suppression from all sides was launched.
The first strategy is the reverse oil shock strategy.
In 1985, the Reagan administration reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia.
Before the agreement, Saudi Arabia's oil production had remained at less than 2 million barrels per day. After the agreement, daily production quickly soared to 9 million barrels.
Kuwait is also one of the United States' allies. It ignored OPEC's quota restrictions and increased production on its own, and its daily production capacity quickly increased to 8 million barrels per day.
At the same time, America's own oil production capacity was rapidly stimulated.
In 1970, the United States' oil production was 3 million barrels. After Reagan came to power, the production increased day by day. Now, the United States' oil production has increased to 8 million barrels.
Then the Plaza Accord was launched.
Japan has always relied on its cheap yen to sustain its strategic position in the Pacific, especially since the Russians all love Japan's Toyota, Sony, Toshiba and Canon.
Cameras, tape recorders, cars, televisions.
Become a necessity.
The ruble lost the light industry market and the yen appreciated. As the second largest economy and neighboring Russia, it immediately came under tremendous exchange rate pressure.
On the other hand, as a large amount of oil was injected into the international market, international oil prices have been falling, which is a heavy blow to the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong, which are already completely dependent on oil exports.
In just one night, the Soviet Union lost $10 billion.
Even worse, if the price of a barrel of oil drops by $1, Moscow Oil Company alone will see its annual revenue drop by $500 million to $1 billion.
The sharp drop in oil prices also caused natural gas prices to start falling, and the Soviet Union lost billions of dollars in natural gas exports.
But the second killer move of the United States was the Plaza Accord.
Japan and Germany have strong economic strength and can take over the current US economy that is on the verge of collapse. In this way, the United States can use quantitative easing to stimulate the economy while also weakening the purchasing power of foreign exchange held by the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union.
Two-thirds of foreign exchange earnings come from oil, which is mainly used to import advanced Western technology, equipment and food.
Suddenly, income was cut in half and the purchasing power of foreign exchange depreciated sharply, which immediately caused serious economic problems.
There is a shortage of food, high-tech products, daily necessities, and even toilet paper has become extremely scarce.
Lost land.
It's hard to pick it up again.
In addition to Ermao's family, there are also people who farm and own a large amount of black soil, but food has become scarce.
Major state-owned stores had rubles but could not buy bread, and the adage that the economic base determines the superstructure became a reality.
But now.
Iraq's war on Kuwait caused crude oil prices to soar.
If Japan continues to add fuel to the fire at this time, it will undoubtedly make the fire burn more and more fiercely.
If this continues.
The Russians are reviving thanks to oil exports, and the influence of the left is expanding. God knows what will happen.
"Oh my god! Are these little Japanese sick again?!!!"
Henry Paulson screamed.
The faces of the other people present were also very unhappy. John Weinberg said with a dark face: "You all know the character of the Japanese. These idiots only know how to buy, buy, buy!"
"Damn it! This must be stopped!"
"How can we stop them? These guys are frantically buying coal and rare earths for land reclamation in China. Some time ago, they even wanted to buy the Statue of Liberty to fill the sea. We have no reason to stop them from buying oil reserves."
"Walter? Buying the Statue of Liberty and using it for land reclamation? God! Have these bastards gone this far?"
"Let's not talk about this annoying thing. No other country can produce 10 million barrels of oil a day except Russia. So we must find a way to stop them. We must not let them buy oil from Russia, otherwise things may go beyond everyone's expectations."
White Hatter frowned and said that as a senior official in the Ministry of Finance, he knew the seriousness of the matter better than anyone else present.
Because once the balance is broken, things will become out of control.
"Selling a thousand barrels of oil, what kind of background does this guy have? He is so crazy and ruthless, even the major Japanese financial groups don't have the strength to do this!"
"He is a director of Nihon Ibo. By the way, I heard that he has become the president of Nihon Ibo Kansai Region. His name is Nagano and he seems to be the heir of the Nakamura family."
"Nagano? The guy who cooperated with Japan Life Insurance on the Nikkei Bearish Waiver project was called Nagano. He should be this guy!"
"That's great! Warren, are you sure you can convince him?"
"This guy is a Japanese who doesn't look like a little Japan. I don't feel any patriotism from him during my conversation with him. So, I can only try my best! But this guy is a bit profit-driven. He is betting against Sumitomo in the hope of making money."
“.”
Japan.
Hokkaido.
The autumn weather is clear and crisp.
It's perfect weather for fishing.
Nao Nagano sat on a small stool, holding a fishing rod, leisurely waiting for the fish to bite.
"grown ups!"
"Crude oil has risen another 2% today. You need to think of a solution!"
Seto Shinnosuke was spinning around in panic.
As the saying goes, success or failure depends on relationships. In Japanese society, he is where he is today because he followed the right people.
But if something goes wrong with the person you follow, it will definitely be worse than death.
Ten million barrels of crude oil are imported every day.
This terrifying amount is enough to make people tremble with fear just by thinking about it.
Even a fool knows that.
If the bet with Sumitomo fails, Nagano Nao will be abandoned by the family.
By then, all kinds of problems including corruption, abuse of power for personal gain, and false transactions will be exposed.
He has someone to protect him.
At worst, you'll be put in jail for ten or eight years.
There is no god behind you, so you can't do anything if you come out to take the blame.
But now, with such an urgent matter at hand, this guy actually still has the leisure to go fishing!
Shh! Nagano Nao was getting annoyed by the nagging.
Made a gesture.
Seto Shinnosuke immediately got angry and knelt down with a plop: "Sir! Please! My life and worth are in your hands!"
Damn it!
Kneeling down is so easy.
Don't you want to order something like Bilian? "Seto, let me be honest with you. I can't get any oil right now, so I can only go fishing."
"What?"
"Hush! The fish is hooked!"
At this time.
Kurata Himiri ran over quickly with the phone in hand.
Nao Nagano answered the call, and Warren Buffett's voice immediately came from the other end.
"Hello, Mr. Nagano, I'm Buffett!"
"Oh! It's Mr. Stock God. Long time no see. How are you feeling lately?"
"It was fine, but today I heard about Mr. Nagano's big move, and my blood pressure rose."
"Haha. Mr. Stock God, you really know how to joke."
"NONONO. This is no joke. Ten million barrels of daily production, four hundred million US dollars. No, now it is four hundred and forty million US dollars. Mr. Nagano's huge generosity is really awe-inspiring!"
"Mr. Stock God, you really know how to joke. Speaking of this matter, Nagano wants to ask you for help!"
"Oh! I wonder how I can help Mr. Nagano?"
"It's like this, Mr. Buffett, you must know that 10 million barrels of oil is a very large number. A beautiful woman named Yulia Efimova has taken a fancy to me.
But I have very high moral standards and don't like people coveting my body.
So, I hope Mr. Buffett can help me borrow some oil. I really don’t want my body to be defiled.”
"Hey, hey, hey!"
"Mr. Stock God, are you listening?"
"Hello, hello, hello"
"Is there no signal?"
"Damn it! The signal at the seaside is so bad!"
“.”
Talking to himself.
Nagano Nao hung up the phone and continued fishing.
Seto Shinnosuke picked up the phone and looked at it, then said in confusion, "Sir, the signal is still there!"
“.”
at the same time.
Buffett held the phone with a confused look on his face.
Beautiful woman is greedy for your body?
What does this have to do with me calling? What the hell is going on?
But suddenly, Buffett's face changed drastically.
Yulia Efimova! Isn’t this the daughter of the general manager of the oil company in Ermao’s family whom the United States has been trying to win over but has not yet chosen a camp?
Damn it!
How did this guy get hooked up with the daughter of the Odessa Oil Company?
FUCK!
This guy knew I would call! Realize this.
Buffett's face looked even uglier.
Since he knew that I would call, that meant that this bastard was threatening me! Damn it! Thinking of this.
Buffett didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
What a beautiful woman who covets his body.
It is obvious that he is telling himself to ask the United States to help solve the problem of 10 million barrels of daily production, otherwise, he will go to the Russians to sell oil and sell his body.
How could there be such a shameless guy! He even came up with such a reason!
Discussed with several partners.
"This guy seems to be waiting for my call!"
"But this is also a good thing for us. We can make these 10 million barrels into a new underlying contract!"
"Then help him borrow oil?"
"Of course we have to help. It's better than letting him go to Maozi. Besides, we can make a lot of money."
"Why does it feel like this guy is teaming up with us to screw over his own people?"
"Didn't I say this? This guy doesn't look like a Japanese at all. He was the first one among the major Japanese financial groups that we bought the put option for."
"Isn't this a Japanese rapist?"
“. (End of this chapter)