Time passed day by day, and it was getting closer and closer to February 16th.

In order to make the wedding atmosphere stronger and to let the Hong Kong people share a joy.

In summer, people were specially ordered to deliver wedding cakes on the street for free. Any Hong Kong people can receive a wedding cake card worth 99 yuan with their ID card. With this card, they can go to the cake shop to exchange wedding cakes of equivalent value.

Once the event was launched, it immediately caused a sensation in Hong Kong.

The population of Hong Kong exceeds five million. If each person has a wedding cake card, it will cost more than 500 million Hong Kong dollars together, and even if it is 20% off, it will cost more than 400 million Hong Kong dollars. Getting married, it costs so much money to just give wedding cakes, and summer is really generous.

Compared to the general public's admiration, summer feels ordinary.

This time he spent less than 500 million Hong Kong dollars on wedding cakes. It was a lot to ordinary people, but to him, it was just a piece of cake.

His current net worth is estimated to be more than one trillion Hong Kong dollars, and taking out 500 million Hong Kong dollars. For him, it is as ordinary as shopping with 10,000 yuan and spending five yuan to buy a bottle of drinks.

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The wedding cakes delivered in summer add a touch of joy to Hong Kong during the New Year.

It also gave Hong Kong people, who were suffering from the economic crisis, a little comfort.

However, the people far away in the Middle East are suffering from war at this time.

The air strikes have not stopped since the coalition forces began to carry out the "Desert Storm" on January 16th.

All military facilities, government agencies, major traffic arteries, etc. in Iraq were crushed into powder under the coalition's large firepower bombing, with heavy casualties.

In contrast, its counterattack was weak and powerless.

On February 9, an armored brigade and a motorcycle infantry battalion of the Iraqi army launched a sneak attack on Sat from the Kosha border. However, it was repelled by an infantry battalion of a US Marine Corps. Not only did it lose ten tanks, but four people were captured.

The US military sacrificed eleven people and scrapped two light armored vehicles, and the losses were quite serious. It was a bit embarrassing that the US military's losses were not caused by the Iraqi army, but by the accidental injury of friendly forces.

This time, the coalition forces fought together in a total of nine countries. Although they were nominally dispatched by the US coalition command, the countries were actually doing their own things. Therefore, in the battlefield with complex situations, it is easy to cause accidental injuries to friendly forces.

However, although this battle result is a bit embarrassing, it is actually exciting.

If the Iraqi army was beaten by the coalition before, it was because its air force was too poor. In this army battle, Iraqi army was not behind its opponents in terms of weapons and equipment and military numbers, but it did not gain any advantage. This makes people see clearly the Iraqi army's fierceness and weakness on the inside, and strong on the outside but do not have any advantage.

The air force is not good, the army is not good, and the navy is not even good... Iraq, which was the fourth largest military power in the world before, was suddenly extinguished because of this battle, which greatly boosted the morale of the coalition forces.

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There is basically no suspense when the war is over here.

The most worthy army in Iraq is not able to resist in front of the coalition forces, so it is certain that it will be defeated.

So after this war, the futures markets in the world rose in several major stock markets around the world.

Even Hong Kong stocks show signs of recovery.

Because many people think that once the war is over, the HSBC will be able to recover its oil wells. At that time, it will avoid losses of tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars, and it will also make a good fortune while the oil prices are rising now.

So they are optimistic about the future of the HSBC group and want to buy at the bottom while HSBC's stock price is low.

But before they could take action, news broke out.

It turned out that long before the war began, the HSBC sold all the oil wells in its hands.

So even if the coalition forces repelled Iraqi and conquered Kovit, the oil wells had nothing to do with them.

After learning the news, the people were disappointed and cursed the HSBC team for being short-sighted.

It is obvious that if you persist for another half a month, you will be able to make a lot of money, but you just let it go before there is a chance. It is so stupid.

"I also said I could do business, but I missed the business opportunity in vain!"

"In ancient times, people bought boxes and returned pearls, and now HSBC sells oil wells. They are all stupid things that are not-sighted."

"They have been holding those oil wells for more than half a year. It's about to turn around, but they just let go at this time. It's really a waste of time!"

The people mocked.

In fact, this incident made the HSBC very depressed.

Before the Gulf War broke out, who would have thought that the war would develop like this?

What they expected was that the Iraqi army would have been in a stalemate with the coalition forces in the desert for several years, relying on not too backward military equipment and a huge number of troops.

Even if they lose, they will retreat step by step and use scorched earth tactics to deal with the coalition forces.

In the end, Kvit was beaten to the point where there was only one ruin.

So they were willing to sell oil wells at that time to prevent Iraq from really implementing scorched earth tactics, so that they would get nothing in the end.

And their view was also mainstream at that time.

Even American military experts predicted the outcome of the war before the war.

But unexpectedly, after the war started, the Iraqi army had no backhand power under the attack of the coalition forces, which was far beyond everyone's expectations and was shocked.

So, now these people mock them for being short-sighted, which is actually just hindsight and fired afterwards.

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But then again, no matter what, they were all suffering this time.

The oil well bought for HK$60 billion and sold for HK$15 billion, which is definitely a big loss.

To be honest, it really makes them feel distressed by losing so much money.

"If I had known that the result would be like this, I really shouldn't have sold it at the beginning." Bao Yugang said in annoyance.

"It's too late to say this now, so there's no need to mention it." Li Jiacheng waved his hand and said, "Say some good news. I received a reply from the mainland. They welcome us to invest."

"Has Xia Tian made no statement?" Guo Desheng asked curiously.

They also have friends in the mainland and received some news. They knew that the director had concerns about their investment in the mainland. The biggest concern was that Xia Tian would object.

Because Xia Tian is not only the most invested foreign businessman in the mainland, but also has a great influence around the world, the mainland does not want to lose Xia Tian's "good friend" because of them.

"Xia Tian expressed her opinion, saying that her grudges with us will be resolved by ourselves and will not deal with the mainland, so that the mainland will be stuck in the middle and it will be difficult to do it." Li Jiacheng said again.

"Good boy, he knows how to advance and retreat." Guo Desheng and Bao Yugang couldn't help but exclaim.

With summer's influence on the mainland, if he is arrogant and asks the mainland to refuse the three of them to invest, the mainland will definitely agree.

But he did not do it, instead he did not make things difficult for the mainland. He knew how to advance and retreat and knew how to behave. It can be seen that Xia Tian did not become arrogant and arrogant because of getting rich, and was still very self-controlled.
Chapter completed!