Chapter 207 The Last Calm Before the Storm

On August 10, WTI crude oil futures closed at a price of 33.0 meters per barrel.

The 10.32% drop on this day caused countless long investors to be eliminated instantly. Even Kurosawa Hiroshi, who entered the market at a low price of 26.5 meters per barrel, broke out in a cold sweat.

Kitahara Sosuke's chic departure that day was a slap in the face to everyone at the Gekko Manor gathering. Looking around the world, there were not many people who shorted oil during the Gulf War. All the heavyweights in Japan's financial circles were probably involved in the government and the Big Six. The chariots of consortia and the few scattered short-selling speculators cannot stir up any waves.

Xu Yongzhong's liquidation incident quickly spread in the circle. Although Kurosawa Hiroshi and others tried their best to suppress the further development of the situation and used the oral message from Takeshita Noboru as an excuse to persuade those collaborators who were beginning to waver, the drop in oil prices Still caused a small panic in Osaka.

That night, Kitahara Sosuke received a call from Tatsuya Kadani. Tatsuya diligently told him all the inside story of Xu Yongzhong's 16 billion yen, and his words were full of gloating.

It turns out that Xu Yongzhong's 16 billion ingredients are mixed, and many of them come from some young men and eldest ladies of the Takeshita family.

The Takeshita family in Tokyo is a long-standing wealthy family in the political world. The older and middle-aged generations of the family occupy a large number of seats in Japanese politics. A few years ago, Takeshita stepped down due to the Liculut incident, and the Takeshita family restrained themselves. Those idle young men and elders The lady thought about making money through investment all day long. In order to flatter them, Xu Yongzhong accepted a large amount of their cash and invested it in crude oil futures in batches.

This wave of liquidation losses made him instantly in debt.

Kitahara Sosuke is worried about Xu Yongzhong's escape from Japan, and the sudden and terrifying 10.32% drop. According to the average, if there is no rise in the future, the total drop should not be that small.

He is also a speculator who devotes all his money. If there is a rebound and shock, and Kitahara Sosuke is forced to lose his position, he will really screw himself to death.

Fortunately, Kitahara Sosuke received a call from Miyamoto Twelve the next day. The Miyamoto Police Department, who was always paying attention to Oyodo Construction and Hamaka Taro, did his duty. After hearing about Xu Yongzhong's liquidation, he drove overnight to guard Xu Yongzhong in the suburbs of Osaka. villa, beware of him escaping at night.

Miyamoto, who had been guarding all night, called Kitahara Sosuke shortly after dawn and told him that Xu Yongzhong had not escaped.

The two made an appointment to meet at Youhe Commercial Building.

Looking at Miyamoto Twelve with big dark circles under his eyes, Kitahara Sosuke held back his smile and talked with him while walking in the shopping mall.

"Is there any progress in that matter recently?" Kitahara Sosuke asked while biting the dorayaki.

Miyamoto Twelve sighed and replied with a dark face: "After the Hehehe Village incident, Xu Yongzhong has obviously restrained himself a lot. He even stopped the business of transporting famous paintings, let alone that! There is a serious shortage of manpower and insufficient evidence. I can only arrange Several of my trustworthy subordinates acted together. People from the Peninsula are very cunning and it is difficult to take advantage of them."

"That means there is no progress." Kitahara Sosuke smiled. In fact, Irie Masaru and Kikujiro were also investigating. He just wanted to see if Miyamoto Twelve would conceal and deceive him about the progress of the investigation.

This police department with a strong sense of justice is quite honest.

"Yes." Miyamoto Twelve nodded again with a dark face. He really tried his best. The other party was too cunning and very organized and disciplined. If he didn't start the investigation without alerting the snake when there was a serious shortage of manpower, he could only Make it this far.

I really wanted to give up, but when I thought about those outrageous things, Miyamoto Twelve clenched his fists and couldn't swallow this breath.

It is these corrupt politicians and businessmen who have torn this country into pieces!

"I have some interesting things. You can take them back and look at them. They might be useful." Sosuke Kitahara pressed a large paper bag on his chest and pushed it gently. "Goodbye, Miyamoto Police Department, in advance." I wish you success."

Watching Kitahara Sosuke striding away, Miyamoto Twelve had a complicated expression. He grabbed the paper bag and felt that he couldn't see through this young man at all.

He is not a good person in the traditional sense. After all, he is also a philistine of a businessman, cunning of a politician, and cunning and profit-seeking of a consortium. But in many things, he is more righteous than many people.

Various jokes about Kitahara Sosuke have been circulating recently. Miyamoto Twelve, who had a close relationship with him, sneered at those jokes. From the first time they met, he decided that this young man was the most difficult to mess with. Criminals are the ones who give police officers the most headaches.

He won't do anything stupid!

Returning to the police headquarters as quickly as possible, Miyamoto Twelve opened the paper bag and a lot of information, newspaper clippings and other things fell out.

The suicide case of Inoue Hiko's family, the case of slandering Kitahara Sosuke after a certain Tosan loan customer was killed, and the violent murder case of Tomoka shopping mall. These are all major cases that he is familiar with, and then there are also the transportation of famous paintings and the trafficking of girls that they investigated , and at the end is a complicated diagram of character relationships. This information is more detailed than what he compiled. It can be seen that Kitahara Sosuke still has some key information that he does not know.

At the end there was a piece of white paper with an address attached.

"Inoue Hiko's mistress lives here. If you want to know the truth, you can go to her and ask her face to face in seven days."

Xu Yongzhong did not escape because of the liquidation. He was saved by Takeshita Noboru.

When I received the news, seven days had passed since the liquidation.

On August 17, 1990, twelve days had passed since the start of the Gulf War. The horrific drop seven days ago made many investors want to quit. However, in the seven days that followed, oil prices were indeed as stable as Takeshita Noburu said. Living.

There are ups and downs, but the range never exceeds 1%.

Kitahara Sosuke carefully studied the history of the Gulf War in his previous life. From the information he could find, he remembered that oil prices continued to fall during the Gulf War and only began to rise after Saddam announced that he would accept a ceasefire.

He didn't know whether there had been any small fluctuations. Anyway, there was no very scary increase.

But it had reached a point where it had reached a point where he had been feeling relaxed and nervous again.

Could it be that the butterfly effect caused some deviations in historical events?

He used 20 times leverage, and a 5% increase would cause his position to be liquidated. This must be made clear.

Kitahara Sosuke called Victoria and reminded her to pay attention to this. If the situation goes bad, let Luo Meng directly close the position, make a profit and leave.

At the closing price on the afternoon of August 17, oil prices reached 32.7 meters of gold per barrel, which was still a drop of 0.3 meters of gold per barrel compared with seven days ago, but this was within everyone's acceptance range.

Takeshita Noboru's words are accurate. The big guys seem to be really clearing out those long retail investors and want to centralize their interests. After clarifying this point, starting from the afternoon, the futures market ushered in a new batch of capital investment.

It’s time to make money!

People who have nothing to do with the Gulf War are more concerned about the sluggish domestic stock market and the resurgent real estate market. The construction speed of the Juliana Tokyo project is extremely fast, and the public can already see the prototype of the entire nightclub in the Shibaura area of ​​Minato City.

It is exciting to think about building such a large entertainment venue in the port area where land is at a premium.

Most of the houses in the hands of the six major consortiums have also been sold, turning from real estate into funds, as the government and consortia invest in the oil market!

From a God's perspective, Kitahara Sosuke always feels that this is a trick of the Americans to boil frogs in warm water. They are waiting for Japan to drain the domestic economy and then harvest them all in one wave!

It is worth noting that after several phone calls with Victoria, Kitahara Sosuke basically concluded that this girl did not understand futures at all. She and Aman had probably set up a trap long ago and were waiting for him to take the bait, indicating that Aman expected to use this A wave of gains returned home, then emerged during the collapse of the Soviet Union.

But they never thought that the Gulf War would end soon.

It seems that the father and daughter are slowly planning everything.

In Dongsan, just like the real estate market that is gradually becoming less hot, the new loan quota has gradually declined. Without the momentum that started in early July, most of the leeks that should be harvested have been put in place, and the staff's work focus has once again Back to bad debt treatment.

But occasionally when walking around the branch, Kitahara Sosuke would hear some employees whispering about their investments, whether it was the unfinished project or real estate purchase. Seeing their excitement, Kitahara Sosuke couldn't help but look forward to it. From the moment the war ends.

42 days, August 5, 1990 - September 16, 1990.

On September 14, Saddam will announce his acceptance of the ceasefire.

It's been less than a month since that day.

These days, Saeko Sakurai stayed at the Kitahara Logistics Headquarters to handle matters. After breaking through the relationship with Sosuke Kitahara, she was a little embarrassed to face Kyoko Kobayashi, so she secretly left for a few days.

On Kitano Ran's side, Kithara Animation has successfully absorbed three studios, and is currently planning the next animated film "The Fairy Tale of Time" at the request of Kitano Sosuke.

It's just that "The Fairy Tale of Time" tells a rural story, which is relatively Buddhist, and completely inconsistent with the overall hot atmosphere in Japan at the moment. It always feels out of place to make this kind of movie during this period.

But the three studios are now funded by Kitahara Investment and become a club. Kitano Ran is their boss and Kitahara Sosuke is the big boss. The big boss said so, so they can only do it.

Anyway, with ample funds and good enough animators, it would be no problem to make a customized animated film according to his needs.

Boom, boom, boom!

There was a knock on the door.

Kitahara Sosuke was still dealing with the business issues of Kitahara Human Resources and Lily Human Resources. Without raising his head, he shouted: "Please come in."

"President, President"

"Stop it, something bad happened again?" Kitahara Sosuke couldn't laugh or cry. Now every time he sees Fujiwara Norika who is extremely anxious, he is a little scared.

This girl was like an alarm. The first thing she said when she rushed over was "President, President". It was almost likely that something big had happened!

"No, no, I, I just wanted to ask, there is a new hot pot restaurant over there in Shinsaibashi, do you want to eat together tonight?"

Fujiwara Norika smiled sheepishly with her cheeks flushed.

Yes, I came here to eat and drink.