Chapter 58 The smell of gunpowder
Chen Zhihua had a very happy Chinese New Year, and was more pleasant than ever before. He surfed the Internet at home every day, or chatted with his grandfather and Zhang Li, or went to Qian Zhengke and his wife's house to play... Everything was so harmonious. If this kind of life could continue, Chen Zhihua felt it was enough.
After the New Year, Chen Zhihua returned to normal work. As the boss, according to the practice of Hong Kong and Guangdong, on the first day of the New Year, Chen Zhihua wanted to give red envelopes to employees of each company. Although it was the same as giving more and less, the red envelopes were indeed confirmed, so Chen Zhihua prepared many red envelopes, and gave them to each fifty people. On this day, he sent them from Hong Kong to Shenzhen and sent 50,000 out at once.
In the past few days, although it is the New Year of the Lunar New Year, there is no such festival in the Western countries, so various markets are also trading as usual. Chen Zhihua has been paying close attention to these markets during the New Year. The price of gold has risen again, and in LME, the copper price is also hovering in the rising channel, but it is very slow, completely gone from the hot rise in the previous few months, as if it makes people feel that it may fall at any time. Because of this, the "copper short" in the market is constantly rumored, and the copper market suddenly seems to become very dangerous. Several large investment companies have lowered their investment evaluations of copper futures by level. However, Chen Zhihua still firmly believes that the copper futures market must have some time to adjust because of the previous round of surge. Now it is in the stage of adjustment. As long as this stage is passed, the rising trend of copper futures prices will make great strides again.
That day he left Shenhui and was about to take a bus back to Hong Kong, but as soon as he walked out of Shenhui, he saw Ye Zhengyu waiting for him at Shenhui's door. Seeing him coming out, Ye Zhengyu immediately walked up and said to him coldly: "Can we talk?"
When Chen Zhihua saw Ye Zhengyu, he frowned slightly, but since he came to the door at this time, he had no choice but to say no. He said to Liu Hu, who had these alert expressions behind him, "You can wait here for a moment", and nodded to Ye Zhengyu and said, "Let's go!"
Ye Zhengyu led Chen Zhihua to a secluded place outside Shenhui, and then turned to face Chen Zhihua: "I am here to find you today, hoping that you can go to the hospital with me to see Mummy!"
Chen Zhihua shook his head and said firmly: "I won't go!" He paused slightly, and then said: "It was she who abandoned me first, so I will never recognize her as my mother again in my life... You should go back and take good care of her!" After that, Chen Zhihua turned around and was about to leave.
"Wait!" Ye Zhengyu quickly walked to Chen Zhihua and stared at him: "No matter what Mummy has done together, she has lived with you forever. No matter what you say, this cannot be changed. Now she is sick and wants to see you. Do you have the heart to refuse her request?"
Ye Zhengyu's words made Chen Zhihua's heart feel very weak and weak. The refreshing pain that followed suddenly spread to his entire atrium. However, after thrusting his nose, he smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Ye, I'm sorry, I really can't help you, please don't come to me again in the future!"
"If you do this, you will definitely regret it!" Ye Zhengyu said word by word. In addition to hatred, his eyes also had a threat.
"I won't regret it!" Chen Zhihua looked at Ye Zhengyu without any retreat, "If I went with you today, I would have no way to face my dead father!" After saying that, Chen Zhihua was no longer willing to say anything to Ye Zhengyu, and turned around and walked back in the direction of his car.
Liu Hu was a little worried, but when he saw Chen Zhihua coming back, he felt a little relieved. He quickly opened the car door and let Chen Zhihua sit in, and then he called the driver to try to go to Hong Kong...
Ye Zhengyu watched Chen Zhihua's car gradually moving away, his eyes slowly eased, and a feeling of powerlessness surged into his heart. This half-brother named Chen Zhihua had no intention of changing at all.
Since Mrs. Ye fainted at the cafe where she met Chen Zhihua that day, she was soon sent to a hospital in Hong Kong. Then Ye Zhengyu and Ye Nantian also received the news and rushed to Hong Kong together. During this period, Mrs. Ye told her relationship with Chen Zhihua to her husband and son. Ye Nantian knew that his wife had a son before, so she was not much surprised. On the contrary, Ye Zhengyu was very surprised after listening to her mother's story. He did not expect that he had a half-brother, and this brother was Chen Zhihua, whom he and his father had already begun to pay attention to.
Ye Nantian quickly transferred his sick wife back to a hospital in Singapore. Because Mrs. Ye had been concerned about Chen Zhihua during her illness and hoped to get Chen Zhihua's forgiveness, Ye Zhengyu, who understood his mother's feelings, took the initiative to stay in Hong Kong, hoping to convince his half-brother to forgive her mother and go to Singapore to meet her mother.
After two contacts, Ye Zhengyu's hope was obviously impossible to achieve. Although he felt a little sympathetic to Chen Zhihua's experience, Chen Zhihua's toughness also made him feel angry. He even wanted to be harsh on Chen Zhihua just now, but he still endured it. After all, their Lin family is a well-known family in Singapore. If this kind of thing is spread, it will have a great impact on the company's reputation and stocks, so he could only give up helplessly at this time.
Just as Ye Zhengyu returned to the hotel to pack up his things and was about to return to Singapore, the door bell suddenly rang. Ye Zhengyu opened the door a little strangely and saw a young man standing in front of the door. As soon as he saw Ye Zhengyuli, he said: "Mr. Ye, I am Li Zining from Hong Kong Longi Group, and I am very happy to see you!"
"Hong Kong Longi Group?" Although Ye Zhengyu is in Singapore, he also pays great attention to some economic-related developments in Hong Kong. He knows that Longi Group is a large real estate company in Hong Kong and can definitely compete with Cheung Kong and Huang and other giants. He also knows that the chairman of Longi Group is named Li, so he couldn't help but ask curiously: "How did Mr. Li know that I am here? Don't you know what Mr. Li wants to ask me?"
"Mr. Ye, why not... let's go in and have a chat!" Li Zining smiled and said calmly.
"Okay!" After thinking about it, Ye Zhengyu's curiosity finally made him make a gesture of invitation and let Li Zining into the room. "Mr. Li has any advice, just say it!"
"Mr. Ye, that's it..."
Chen Zhihua returned to Hong Kong in depression, and along the way, he kept thinking about the situation when he was talking to Ye Zhengyu just now. For him, he couldn't help but feel nervous when he heard the news that his mother was sick. Although this was not considered to be about caring about her, maybe this was the connection between mother and son! When he returned to Hong Kong, Chen Zhihua couldn't recover even when he was having a meal. It was not until he saw a message about the copper futures market in the evening that he felt a little happy.
The news is like this. A very famous survey company abroad released a message saying that China's demand for copper has surged due to its rapid economic development in recent years. Judging from the import volume of raw copper in the first two months of 2006, the import volume of raw copper in China this year will increase significantly compared with the previous year, and will increase by about 10%.
China is the world's largest copper consumer and the largest copper importer. Almost everyone in the market is staring at China. If China's copper imports increase again, then from the perspective of supply and demand, international copper prices will have a complete basis for an increase.
Since the beginning of the year, Chen Zhihua has been investing money in the maturing copper market. Because the trading contracts in the copper futures market are three-month periods, his funds will continue to roll back and forth between his own hands and the market. However, in general, his position remains at about 3,000 hands, which means about 5000 million funds are in the market. (Note, Shanghai copper futures are five tons per lot. If one ton is 5,000 US dollars, then Chen Zhihua just needs 5000 RMB. However, the copper market in the period has not yet been 5,000 US dollars per ton, so the position is not 5000 million, but futures are constantly delivered, just like flowing water, so Chen Zhihua actually still has 500 million funds to invest in the market)
In the company's investment plan, the two markets of gold and copper futures will be the end of today's Yuanheng investment. In these two markets, they each invested 500 million, hoping to take advantage of this round of upward trend in the metal market to allow the company to accumulate stronger strength. Only in this way can the company expand its business and make more bulk investments.
Over the past period of time, things seem to be moving in a smooth direction. The gold market and copper futures market are constantly rising, especially in the gold market. On February 4, the IAEA emergency meeting passed the draft bill submitted by France, Germany and Britain, and decided to report the Iran issue to the UN Security Council. However, on February 12, the Iranian government responded without any fear of this and ordered the restart of the uranium enrichment measures in Natanz... At the same time, in China... it should be said that the entire Southeast Asian country's consumption of gold increased significantly. These factors have made gold prices rise again, and Yuanheng Investment has made more than 50 million yuan.
It seems to be icing on the cake. News came from Li Yuanzhe, South Korea, that Zhongen Games Company has designed a new online game. Everyone in the company, that is, the former coordinate company, is working hard to make new games according to the design. I believe that in June of this year, the first version of the new game may be completed. However, when it will be launched, it depends on the speed of post-production such as testing, advertising packaging, etc.
Chen Zhihua gave Li Yuanzhe 30 million, but he didn't want to get too much return from the beginning. He understood the high risk of venture capital. Even if Li Yuanzhe made the game, whether he could sell money on the market would have to be accepted by the market. So when he heard Li Yuanzhe's words, he temporarily regarded it as if he had put the money into the pool and could hear an echo. He did not dare to hold too many expectations in it. He just waited for something to really gain in the future and then enjoyed this joy.
On the phone, Li Yuanzhe once again expressed his gratitude to Chen Zhihua. However, although he was full of confidence in the current Zhongen Company, he still seemed a little sad and lonely when Japan's Ida Investment had sold the Dragon City War to another online game company. After hearing this, Chen Zhihua quickly comforted him a few words and asked him to work hard to build a new game called Chaos War to restore the glory of the previous Dragon City War, which made Li Yuanzhe full of enthusiasm.
Chen Zhihua is not the only one who knows about the increase in copper demand in China in 2006. As far away as London, Mr. Gru and William both noticed the news. They were sitting in their offices and exchanging opinions on such good news.
"William, what do you think about this news?" Mr. Gru asked William's opinion first as always.
William thought for a moment and replied: "According to the usual practice of the Chinese government, they usually take two measures: one is to increase domestic raw copper production to alleviate the growth of demand; the other is to use some means to suppress the market, so that the copper price will fall slightly, and then maintain it at an ideal level that can satisfy them." After a pause, William smiled and said: "Of course, this first method cannot be used frequently. You must know that China's raw copper resources are far from meeting the current domestic production needs. Excessive mining can only make things worse in the future, so the Chinese government is most likely to adopt the second method."
"William, what do you mean is that Chinese people will find ways to suppress the market?" Mr. Gru frowned slightly and said, "What can they do to change the market? Unless..."
"Dear Mr. Gru, nothing is impossible in this world!" William seemed very confident in his judgment: "Their figures have not appeared in the market, and I believe this time is no exception."
Mr. Gru recalled some things in the market before and finally agreed with William's statement. After thinking about it, he asked: "William, then do you think we need to start doing something now?"
"Of course, we are going to hold a grand welcome ceremony for the Chinese!" William smiled proudly and said, "But before that, we still need to wait. Our American friends will definitely have the same ideas as us. Why don't we follow up without waiting for them to do it first?"
Mr. Gru was very satisfied with William's answer. After a smile, he also felt that things seemed to be interesting...
In New York, the American friends William said were gathering together, sitting in a lobby, listening to the podium, the elderly man who seemed a little fat was talking.
"You know, Mr. Green is one of the people I admire most in my life. His words are always full of philosophy. Imagine that there is still someone in this world who can make these people sit together so quietly, showing such a respectful expression, and listen to him talking?" The person who spoke was Rostin of the Atom Fund, and sitting next to him was Mr. Rance, the Canadian mining king.
Mr. Rance looked at the old man on the stage. It was probably because of his excessive brain use over the years. The old man's hair was white, his head looked a little bald, and his wrinkles were covered with his entire old face. However, Mr. Rance did not dare to underestimate the old man because of this, because the old man's brain was simply equivalent to the entire North America and even the economic center of the world. His wise eyes seemed to be able to penetrate all the fog, leading everyone to calmly get out of underestimation, and then enter glory. Just now, even the Rostin, who has always been considered unruly, said that he could not help but say the word "admiration" to the old man on the stage.
Today is Mr. Green's first public speech since he stepped down as chairman of the Federal Reserve. The content of his speech was about futures investment. It is precisely for this reason that almost all the fierce people in the investment community came to this lobby and listened quietly to the old people's speeches. You must know that the time of these people is extremely precious, and changes in the financial market every minute may involve millions of dollars in profits or losses.
"Mr. Rostin, do you have any opinions on the news that the demand for copper in China will increase today announced by the Forest Investigation Company?" In fact, Rance came here today for this matter. For him, the metal market was directly related to the interests of Nolan's large company, so he had to ask.
"Mr. Rance, this is a good thing. With this news, the price of copper will continue to rise!" Rostin glanced at the old man on the podium and said softly to Mr. Rance.
"But..." Mr. Rance said with concern: "According to China's previous practices, what administrative measures will definitely be taken this time, so that copper prices will be suppressed!"
Chapter completed!