On the morning of February 23, Zhou Ming was playing a game console in the underground air raid shelter at the Presidential Palace. After Cubar's defeat, the United States began a retaliatory attack on Iraq. It started at 6 o'clock in the morning and was almost five o'clock in the afternoon, and the air strikes had almost never stopped.

God knows how many bombs were dropped in Iraq during this day. Zhou Ming felt the vibrations of the violent explosions in the whole room from time to time, which really made him feel like he was back to the war era.

Suddenly the door of the room was opened, and Acting President Majid hurried in, and kept talking crazy.

Zhou Ming put down the game console and looked up at him meaningfully and asked: What a crazy American bombing? I told you a long time ago that victory comes with a price. We destroy his 6,000 infantry regiment in Gubal. They will definitely take revenge. After all, this is a failure they have never had since the war started. How could they give up?

But Majid shook his head and said: No, Mr. Zhou Ming, of course I am mentally prepared for the American air strikes. I have arranged all troops to avoid the air strikes and minimize the losses. I am not talking about air strikes, but oil Mr. Zhou Ming. Do you still remember the fact that you asked me to use my family's wealth to invest in international crude oil futures before?

Zhou Ming thought about it and did ask Majid to invest in oil futures before the killing operation, with the purpose of being able to pick up some arms expenses from him.

Although the Saudi royal family still has no arms expenses, it is not so much for an irrelevant country to pay this military expenses. Of course, what is more important is that if you have the opportunity to get a lot of money from Iraq, it is not unacceptable. How can you say that you are fighting to the death for the Iraq war here, and it is not too much to ask for some money.

Under this idea, Zhou Ming nodded and said: There is indeed such a thing. According to the time difference, the US futures market should open.

Regarding this question, Majid nodded like a chicken pecking at rice and said: The market had already opened an hour ago, and oil prices have been rising since the opening. Until now, the increase has exceeded 30%. I listened to the analysis of New York Financial Radio and said that it is possible to create a super increase of more than 50% per day

This is really good news, so how much money did you or your family invest in it? Zhou Ming asked.

Billion dollar Majid answered happily.

It's really good. If you analyze the super increase of more than 50% per day according to the comments you have heard, you will be able to earn more than 500 million US dollars today, and this money can at least pay a part of the arms cost. Zhou Ming said.

Zhou Ming's words were like a basin of cold water poured directly on his head, which made him feel a little awakened from the ecstasy of making money. Indeed, his investment was not discovered by himself, but Zhou Ming told himself specifically to ask for arms costs. The money earned in the international crude oil futures market was basically paid to him as arms costs.

Seeing that Majid was a little sluggish, Zhou Ming continued: But now that the futures price of international crude oil has reached this level, as a major oil producer, is Iraq still worried about not having money to make money?

Seeing that Majid was still confused, Zhou Ming had to explain: The so-called oil futures actually refer to a special contract of an exchange. Simply put, I want to acquire oil now, and you want to mine oil. After we sign a contract between us, which is oil futures, which is oil futures.

Of course, the specific operation steps and methods in futures have their own specific methods, but in general, this is what it means. Zhou Ming said.

Facing Zhou Ming's explanation, Majid seemed to understand a little, and he asked blankly: Mr. Zhou Ming, do you mean I want to use the oil I produce to conduct this kind of futures trading?

Zhou Ming smiled and gave him a thumbs up: That's right, that's what I mean. After all, no matter how futures change, they must be delivered in physical form in the end. For this reason, I believe that when oil prices fell before, many oil companies secretly bought back many futures contracts in order to get the oil they want at low prices in the future.

So since futures are finally delivered in physical goods, then now, you have physical goods, and the current surge in futures prices, I think there will definitely be someone who will be willing to help you turn physical goods into futures. Zhou Ming continued, so in this way, as long as you turn oil into futures and sell it, will the money be naturally earned?

Majid nodded desperately and said yes, but then he asked in confusion: But now Iraq is in a sanctioned stage, who can help me?

You don't have to worry about this, as long as you can prepare oil that meets the standards.

After Zhou Ming finished speaking, he asked Majid to leave his room. Then, when the US air strike stopped for a moment, Zhou Ming moved to the ground and took out a satellite phone and dialed Lin Muqing's number.

The phone was immediately connected, and then Lin Muqing's voice came: Is it Zhou Ming?

Although Lin Muqing had deliberately concealed her emotions, Zhou Ming could still hear the concern behind this ordinary question.

Zhou Ming nodded to her and said yes. Lin Muqing's concern immediately came: Zhou Ming, what are you doing now? I heard that the United States launched a large-scale retaliation against Iraq. In a day, it dispatched more than 2,000 aircraft and launched more than 300 missiles, nearly one-third of which were targeted at the capital Badina. You were not injured in the attack.

Perhaps it sounds like Lin Muqing is very anxious to say these words, and even many of them are illogical. If something really happened to Zhou Ming, how could he call her? But when people care about it, they can't think about so much logic.

And Zhou Ming not only heard Lin Muqing's voice on the phone, but also heard Tang Ran's voice. It was obviously them together. When Tang Ran heard that it was his own phone, he also followed Lin Muqing to speak to the phone.

Thinking that there were two women who were thinking about her so much on the other side of the earth, Zhou Ming felt very warm, so Zhou Ming first reported her safety to them: Don't worry, Sister Mu Qing and Ranran, I'm fine here, there is no problem at all, today the American bombing was fierce, but I am now in the Presidential Palace, and there are underground air defense facilities here, and I have been hiding underground, so I'm just calling you now.

After hearing Zhou Ming say this, Lin Muqing and Tang Ran were relieved, and the heart she had been holding was finally let go.

At this time, Zhou Ming said again: I am calling you through a satellite encrypted phone number outside. I don’t know when the next round of bombing for the Americans will begin. I’m just saying a long story short. I’m calling you this to ask you how the crude oil futures price is on the New York Commodity Futures Exchange now.

It surged like crazy. Lin Muqing replied that the intra-market bidding on the exchange has only started for more than two hours, and the price of light crude oil futures has increased by more than 40%, and it broke through the 30 dollar mark a quarter of an hour ago.

So Sister Mu Qing, do you think this increase is a bit wrong? Zhou Ming asked.

It was very wrong. Lin Muqing answered without hesitation. Indeed, the failure of this Gulf War will prolong the time of the Gulf War and will also have a great impact on international crude oil futures prices. But the increase of 40 percentage points in two hours is really exaggerated. This is simply impossible to achieve based on our ability alone. There must be other hot money coming in to push up the price.

Lin Muqing then expressed her thoughts: I suspect it was the Adams family and the Rockefeller family, because first of all, they had such strong financial resources to promote it. At the same time, they also had many contracts to sell, which could support them to make a lot of money in this surge.

There is no way to do this. After all, they are a family of old consortiums in the United States, with very strong resources in their hands. Due to the particularity of the war, the news came out in the early morning of the United States, and they had enough time to adjust. Under this premise, it was impossible for them to not benefit from market changes at all. Zhou Ming then said, but we can play with them once.

Regarding Zhou Ming's statement, before Lin Muqing could express his opinion, Tang Ran came over and said: OK, I hate the most that someone dares to make money by using Brother Ming's ideas. Then how do we play with those bad people? Brother Ming, you have prepared your next plan. Is it that we will sell oil futures and reduce the price of oil?

I don’t have the ability to hedge against the global market. Zhou Ming said with a smile, but I can cause some trouble for those people.

Zhou Ming then asked: I have an idea now, which is about Iraqi oil. Sister Mu Qing, do you see if any consortium has the ability to help Iraq transport oil under the sanctions of the US embargo?

Lin Muqing was a little puzzled by Zhou Ming's thoughts: I don't understand why you did this, and there is a war there, so there is probably no company willing to do such a thing.

I think we can try Edward and the others. I think they will be willing to help. Zhou Ming said.

After saying this, Zhou Ming hurriedly hung up the phone and followed it back to the underground air-raid shelter. When the door was closed less than five minutes later, several bombs fell into the yard of the Presidential Palace, and several mushroom clouds were blown out.

In the villa in San Francisco, Lin Muqing and Tang Ran looked at each other. Tang Ran asked: Sister Muqing, why did Brother Ming do this? Is it to compete with Rockefeller for the oil market?

This is definitely impossible. Rockefeller is an oil tycoon all over the world. It is impossible to compete with him for the oil market. Lin Muqing thought for a while and said, and Zhou Ming had said just now that he just wanted to play with them and would not really compete with the Rockefeller family for the market.

What is the purpose of Brother Ming's arrangement like this? Tang Ran asked strangely, but he didn't plan to answer this question. She continued, "Oh, don't care." Anyway, it's the plan proposed by Brother Ming, and he won't lie to us, so we can help him realize it quickly.

Lin Muqing looked at Tang Ran helplessly.
Chapter completed!