Rebirth of the big era of online games
Chapter 424 You are trying to be a demon!
Chapter 424 You are going to be a demon! (New Year's Day is limited to free of charge)
(This chapter is a collection of cut-down versions of Chapters 428 and 429)
There are actually very few people who can really figure out that Fang Jie is hiding things in the dark, and they are just speculations without any evidence.
Because everything is a conspiracy, after Fang Jie laid chess pieces in the car manufacturing industry and the online car-hailing industry, the entire chessboard has its own operating logic, and it will naturally evolve into what it is now.
This may be the pattern and judgment that naturally arise after reaching a certain position and having a certain amount of capital.
But to say how awesome this pattern is, it’s not enough.
Because on a bigger chessboard, it is his main battlefield.
For example, the international financial market is a bigger chess game.
Over the past few years, Citigroup has opened up its money printing machine, flooded it with water, and bought a lot of money internationally with pieces of paper, and the currency interest rate has also continued to decrease.
After all, the printing cost of a US dollar banknote is only US$0.55. That is to say, for Citigroup, any commodity with a manufacturing cost higher than US$0.55 or products with low added value is not worth producing, because it is not as good as Print money to buy directly!
But when the time came to 2005, Laomei had almost bought everything she should buy, so she began to raise interest rates and shrink the balance sheet. This was originally a basic recycling operation for wool.
They did grab the wool of the whole world, but they accidentally made a big oolong.
In 05, interest rates began to be raised, and the water released before was to be recovered. This is the basic operation of fleece, and the euphemistic name is: control inflation and prevent systemic financial crises.
But they overlooked one thing: too much water is released, and the domestic economy is also overheated!
For example, domestic housing prices have also skyrocketed!
The thing that all the old Americans recognized before is that real estate is the best investment target!
As a result, countless old Americans bought houses, and bought houses with loans if they had no money. If their credit was not up to standard, they bought houses with subprime loans.
Originally, buying a house with a subprime loan was fine. After all, housing prices have been rising, and the value of the house is enough to repay the mortgage. Even in the first half of the year, I can make a lot of money.
But the Fed began to raise interest rates, the dollar began to tighten, and things changed in an instant.
The interest rate increase means that the interest rate of subprime loans is also increasing, and the cost of repaying the loan is higher. Then the epidemic is becoming more and more tense, and there is not as much money in the market as before.
If there is less money in circulation, then there will be deflation, and commodities will become "worthless", such as houses.
The house is worthless, and the price has not increased or even decreased, but the interest on the loan has increased. As a result, assets have been inverted, insolvency, and subprime loans that were originally healthy and healthy have suddenly become bad debts.
Furthermore, Citigroup's financial crisis triggered by subprime loans broke out, and countless banks and real estate companies, including banks in developed countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany, also suffered greatly from it and encountered a great crisis.
Usually, financial institutions are short of money, and when they encounter a short-term crisis, they just borrow funds from each other, but now everyone has encountered problems and is facing a huge risk of default, so all kinds of self-cleaning, various debt collections, and various applications bankruptcy protection.
Internationally, these incidents began in the middle of 06, and in January 07, they basically could not be concealed and broke out completely.
For a while, the Federal Reserve, the central bank of Citigroup, was in a state of desperation. It didn't expect that it would shoot itself in the foot, so it had to stop raising interest rates, cut interest rates instead, and started to open the floodgates frantically again.
Anyway, for Citigroup, there is no problem that cannot be solved by printing money. If it is not solved, it means that the printing is not enough, so print again!
After more than ten years in her previous life, Lao Mei still operated like this, but she became a little hysterical, but she was still alive and well.
This is also the deep-seated reason why Fang Jie's overseas charitable foundation has doubled several times from the principal of 30 billion US dollars in just a few years, reaching a scale of more than 100 billion.
These are all internal reasons, not how powerful he, the "Wolf of Wall Street", invests, but because Lao Mei has printed too much money, so much money that there is still no place to go except to destroy other countries, so he entered The real estate market was blown up, and the stock price was pushed up, bringing the myth of the Nasdaq bull market that lasted for 1 to 20 years since the Internet bubble!
In this big game, Fang Jie's personal power and funds are negligible, and he can't really stir up the situation. Moreover, Citigroup had an accident less than three years after raising interest rates, and had to cut interest rates again. The operation should be to still hold the securities assets and sit still, and continue to wait for the money to be counted.
But this is just a routine operation, and Fang Jie is very short of money now, so he has to do some unconventional actions to earn some cash.
Yes, even though he is now the third richest man in the world, he is still very poor.
For example, in the launch of the domestic online car-hailing layout, although many methods have been thought of to avoid asset inversion, there are still big holes to be filled.
Not to mention abroad, Fangzhou International is spending a lot of money in all aspects, and the human beings in Arkworld have temporarily stabilized, and the income of "resurrection fees" will not be high for a while, so the hole is even bigger.
The so-called third richest man in the world, most of his net worth is brought about by share valuation. It is impossible to sell the stocks of Tencent, 51mai, Baidu, and NetEase, right?Isn't that a fool?
Various domestic industries have indeed made some money. If the cash flow is all concentrated, there will be 1 to 2 billion yuan.
Otherwise, where does the more than 10 billion real money subsidies that Boiling Travel spends every month come from?Where does the 1 to 20 billion donated to the Hope Project come from?
Moreover, he has long sworn not to do anything in the domestic financial market, and this unconventional move must be done abroad. It is a matter of principle to collect the money of ordinary people in the country, and to win glory for the country if it is collected from foreigners. question.
There is another point: RMB has been appreciating since 05. If you exchange domestic RMB into US dollars to do business abroad, and earn US dollars abroad in the future, and then exchange it into RMB, the rate of return will be greatly reduced. It may even be earned without much depreciation.
If you have the time, it is better to do the opposite, to exchange all foreign money into RMB in the foreign exchange market, and after a few years to exchange it into US dollars, it will naturally "increase".
Therefore, domestic money cannot be moved, and it is not worthwhile. It also involves capital supervision issues, and there are a lot of troubles, so there is no need to think about it.
At present, the large sum of money he can really use is actually only the more than 100 billion US dollars of overseas charitable foundations.
This money seems to be a lot, but if it is thrown into the international financial market, it may just cause a little wave, and other investors are not stupid, and the inflow and outflow of large sums of money will definitely startle the snake.
For example, short or long foreign exchange, futures index, tens of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions of dollars in the past, if you do it, it will not attract everyone's attention, but you throw in 100 billion...
Do you think Wall Street capital is an idiot?Don't you know what you want to do?
Your money is not too much, but it is not too little. In the eyes of Wall Street capital, you are a delicious little fish!
If you stay honest and follow Buffett's example of value investing, then we really can't do anything about you, but if you want to engage in unconventional operations and seek short-term huge profits, then they will never mind big fish eating small fish, and take the opportunity to make money. You swallow it, after all the rules are set by others, you can do whatever you want!
So if you want to do something, don't kill yourself, it's almost the same!
So, in order to deceive the world, Fang Jie did a "stupid thing" that no one could understand - he threw away 100 billion worth of securities, and then bought all of them subprime loans!
Fuck it!
Buy subprime!
Investors all over the world are in an uproar!
Now the whole world knows that subprime loans are worthless garbage!
Why did countless banks and financial companies have to declare bankruptcy?
It is because the subprime mortgages in everyone's hands are thundering, and now not only are they not valuable bonds, but they have become debts owed money!
But the richest man in China, the third richest man in the world, took out a worthless subprime loan with 100 billion funds?
Fool?
But it doesn't matter, this guy is rich, and his worth is estimated at more than 600 billion...
No, in the "Forbes" rich list at the end of 06, the announced net worth has exceeded 700 billion US dollars, so it is nothing to lose 100 billion.
At this time, Fang Jie wanted to refute an old saying in his heart: When you treat others as idiots, you are the biggest idiot!
Subprime loans, um, are worthless, even hot potatoes. Whoever owns this thing will suffer huge losses.
but……
The subprime mortgage crisis, it was just a credit default crisis, not a fact that actually happened.
The immediate cause of the subprime mortgage crisis was the plummeting housing prices and the insolvency of the housing, which created the risk of loan default.
Note that it is the risk of default, not the actual default.
Then banks and financial institutions found that there was a lot of risk of default. Once there was a thunderstorm, the bank would go bankrupt and owe a lot of debt, so they panicked and lost their positions.
At this time, those who responded quickly began to sell subprime loans, and those who reacted slower, although they did not sell, they did not dare to buy subprime loans anymore. As a result, the market was full of sold subprime loans, but no one bought them. .
What if no one buys it?
Sell at a discount!
9% off, 8% off, 5% off!
1% off sale!
In short, if these subprime loans are kept in the hands, they are worthless and still lose money, but if they are sold, even if they are sold at a discount of 1 yuan, they originally lost 100 yuan, but now they only lose 90 yuan, and they can always be recovered. Some loss!
But everyone is sold at 1% off, what should I do?
Then we don't need any money, give it away for nothing, and transfer it by agreement, right?
No one is a fool, the situation is like this, if you give it to us for free, we dare not take it!
What's more, we also have a lot of junk debt in our hands!
Therefore, under the stampede effect, the subprime loan was so thunderous. Banks and financial companies with subprime loans in their hands realized that the only way out was to file for bankruptcy in advance, so at least the risks were controlled. If it spreads further, at that time we will lose all our wealth and leave the house, at least it will not hurt our wives and children, right?
But, did subprime mortgages really default?
Yes, but also no.
It is because, according to the current housing price loan interest rate, the house is indeed insolvent, and if it is only settled on paper, it is indeed a breach of contract. This is predictable and certain.
No, because the vast majority of subprime loans have not yet matured, they just have huge risks!
When it is due, the buyer really cannot repay the loan, and that is the actual default!
In fact, there are indeed a small number of house buyers who have not been able to repay their loans at this time, but most of them have not yet reached the "execution date". If they want to jump off the building, if the bankers don't apply for bankruptcy in advance, they will jump off the building too. That's why the run and stampede happened, and the subprime mortgage crisis broke out.
This process is like in the stock market. A listed company suddenly finds that its business is very likely to turn from making a lot of money to losing a lot of money due to some policy reasons, so it issued a risk warning to investors, and then the investors were frightened and sold one after another. The stock market crashed, but in fact, at this time, the company did not lose money, and even made money. It was the black swan expectation that caused the stock price to plummet, rather than it has become a fact.
Therefore, things have not yet landed, and it is not yet possible to say that subprime loans are junk bonds.
At least in theory, it is still valuable, and it can even be said to be a high-quality asset!
The word "subprime" in subprime loans does not actually mean "defective" or "very rubbish", but refers to loans that are second only to the primary financial market, which are relatively high-quality debt assets, but it was translated from China in previous lives It changed my taste, thinking that subprime loans are special "substandard" loans, and they are extremely risky junk bonds.
This is not the case.
Taking a step back, even if subprime loans are extremely risky junk loans, so what?
Did these subprime mortgages eventually default?
At least not in previous lives.
Why not?
The central bank of Citigroup, the Fed has the bottom line!
If the Federal Reserve does not cover the bottom line, will it be possible to drive so many home buyers across the United States to sleep outside the house to receive relief?
These people are all voters, many of them are middle-class, and they all have families. They hold a lot of votes in their hands!
Unless you don't want to be the president, the congressman doesn't want to mess around, the governor wants to dismiss get out of class, the mayor is waiting to be pointed at his head with a gun, a national parade, a national riot, otherwise, you have to take care of this matter!
Therefore, for the prosperity and stability of the country, this matter has to be covered by the Federal Reserve!
The way the Federal Reserve handled subprime loans in the previous life was that other people’s children would go bankrupt as soon as they should, and their own banks and financial companies would print money to keep them alive, ensuring that they would have enough funds to pay compensation when subprime loans defaulted.
If they can't eat it, the central bank of Citigroup and the Federal Reserve will take over the whole thing in person!
You must know that the central bank of Citigroup is not an ordinary central bank. It is an unlimited money printing machine, and countries all over the world still recognize it.
So subprime loans are waste paper?
Really not, this was bought by the Federal Reserve "spending money". How can it be called waste paper!
Not only is it not waste paper, but it is also very valuable!
For the sake of social prosperity and stability, and to ensure that the people of Citigroup have houses to live in, and the people cannot repay their loans, our government will help everyone repay their loans!
Anyway, what we print is the money recognized by the whole world, to help our common people repay a loan, sprinkle water, even if it is for votes, if the Fed refuses to agree to this matter, the president, congressmen, and governors of various states will take turns to come to the door to argue , Don't be afraid of not giving in!
Then, at this time, an interesting result will appear: subprime loans have changed from junk loans to extremely strong high-quality assets, and they are the hard currency second only to the US dollar!
Because the subprime loan has not defaulted, the loan has been repaid!
And it's the World Bank's Federal Reserve, who used the dollar to help repay it, and it's all covered!
What is a dollar?
Under the current monetary system, it is gold!
Unless the whole world does not recognize the US dollar and Citigroup collapses, the money printed by the Federal Reserve is money, and the loan repayment is real money!
Therefore, regarding the subprime mortgage crisis, on the surface, Citigroup shot itself in the foot with a rock, and it was in a mess for a while, but the result is that people have once again squeezed the wool and sold the subprime loans that banks all over the world have lost. Bought it all at the floor price, and then turned it around, this thing is so valuable again!
So those people on Wall Street are not stupid at all. They are all the ancestors of finance. If they want to bite off a piece of meat from them through conventional means, it will definitely end up stealing chickens and losing a handful of rice. With Fang Jie's funds If you want to do something, you can only go slant. It is not as simple as most people imagine.
Therefore, he seeks wealth and insurance, and buys subprime loans!
Fortunately, it's done!
Then a simple arithmetic question: How much money did you make in the end with the "junk bonds" bought at the floor price of 100 billion U.S. dollars?
When Fang Jie was doing this, he made his plans relatively early. In the middle of 07, the domestic stock market just started to plummet from 6124 points, and it started when the bulls turned into bears. The Federal Reserve announced that it was the middle of 08 that the boots fell to the ground. .
The reason why he didn't buy the bottom at the lowest price was mainly because Wall Street financial predators were not fools, so how could they give him the opportunity to buy the bottom when the situation came to an end?
Such a good thing, the Wall Street giants who run the Federal Reserve at home, won’t buy it themselves, and wait for you to buy it?
So things have to be done in advance, subprime loans have to be bought in advance, so there is still some cost to acquire these subprime debts, not much, 1-2% off, that is to buy 100 billion US dollars of subprime loans with an original value of 800 billion US dollars .
When the Federal Reserve repurchased it, in order to cash out as soon as possible, he discounted it and sold it for 700 billion. After all, printing money also costs money, such as electricity, ink, paper, etc., right?
That is to say, it only took 100 year to invest 1 billion US dollars, and the final rate of return was 600%, and a net profit of 600 billion US dollars came back!
600 billion...how much?
A bit much.
But this is doing business with the "world central bank" that can print unlimited money, so it's really not much. In the eyes of the Federal Reserve, this is just to let the money printing machine work for a while, so there is no need to make a fuss...
However, except for the Fed, all other investors were shocked!
You must know that in the middle of 07, when Fang Jie was buying bottoms, it was also the time when everyone was in a panic. When he came out to scan the goods, he was scolded by global investors as a big fool with his head caught in the door.
There are also those who are grateful, the ordinary people of Citigroup, those who buy houses, including the Citigroup government and the media, praised Fang Jie very much, and they almost took him to the sky, saying that he is comparable to Don Quixote in the financial market, with compassion, compassion and compassion. Tragic and fearless chivalry!
The Wall Street Journal, the most authoritative newspaper in Citigroup's economic field, commented on him in this way: At the beginning of the Nasdaq stock market crash, he was the one who, under the ridicule and ridicule of countless investors, took out 30 billion US dollars to "rescue the market", and then Nasdaq Gram is alive!
Now, it is him again, when the people of our country are about to fall into homelessness, he donated 100 billion U.S. dollars without asking for anything in return to save the housing market of Citigroup!
Although, what we can be sure of this time is that this money is absolutely impossible to solve the subprime mortgage crisis that is spreading all over the world, and even lose everything because of it...
However, he, our MR.fang, has done everything he can do, we can't expect anything more, we just want to say: He is our good friend of Citigroup, always has been, and will always be!
As a result, one year later, Fang Jie not only won the favor of Citigroup from all over the country, but also greatly increased his popularity and popularity in Citigroup. The richest man is only one step away...
Of course, these are all for later.
Looking back, in the middle of 07, Fang Jie spent only a small amount of energy on these matters. He called the Foundation for about 10 minutes, explained a few words, and then put these things away. Forget it.
After all, in another three months, the first batch of Boiling cars will come off the production line, and many things related to Boiling Travel online car-hailing are waiting for him to deal with, not to mention that after half a year of fermentation in Ark World, there have also been some "gratifying things" ", how could he have the time to stare at subprime loans all day long...
(Happy New Years Day everyone)
At the end of July 2007, the richest man in Huaguo was scolded again because of the news of buying subprime loans, and was scolded by the domestic public opinion as a traitor.
The groups who scolded him before were mainly parents of students, Internet addiction experts, and traditional literary circles. This time, it was the general stock investors who led the rhythm.
After all, there was a stock market crash, an avalanche, everyone suffered a lot, and they were in a bad mood, so it's normal to complain.
Fang Jie didn't come forward to explain, nor did he block these public opinions on the Internet.
If you scold him, you can scold him, and you won't lose half a catty. Anyway, the more people scold him in China, the less suspicious Citigroup will be, and the more they will praise him to win him over. In the future, it will be easier for him to operate overseas. This is called a bitter plan, which is very good!
In his previous life, he also suffered a lot from subprime loans, and he dumped the subprime loans at the floor price. In this life, after Fang Jie’s analysis, he is not so stupid. He pretended to sell some of them and keep some , the risk is within the controllable range.
Based on this, no matter how unfavorable the public opinion is against him, nothing will happen to him. On the contrary, he has been greatly praised by the relevant departments behind his back, not to mention that many of his industries have been or will soon be donated to banks, telecommunications, power grids, automobiles, etc. Many large state-owned enterprises such as enterprises have brought rich returns, and the background behind him is not small.
To put it bluntly, this route is to directly deal with the immediate boss and take the upper-level route. As long as the buttocks are straight, then the remaining problems will not be a problem. He has always done this, and it is also the secret that his father Fang Wanxing gives face-to-face every year during the Chinese New Year. the result of.
By the way, Fang Wanxing was promoted to the vice president of the head office last year, and officially entered the leadership team of the head office. Now that he is at the deputy department level, the level of contact is different, and the structure is naturally different. In front of his son, he still Can give a lot of constructive comments.
The uncles in the family are also promoted now, and those who get rich get rich.
The eldest uncle joined the municipal education committee as a leader, the third uncle was already the leader of the official regiment, and the younger uncle was quick-witted, so he gave up the temptation of being promoted by the dean, and also resigned from the position of the director of the facial features department of the hospital, and went directly to the sea to start a business. The dental clinic has already opened three branches in the city, with an annual income of over one million, and is preparing to open a branch in the provincial capital.
Only the second-generation and second uncle of the official family with the best background, who is too honest and the worst, is still an ordinary doctor in the hospital.
Fang Jie basically didn't ask much about these matters in the family. They were the responsibilities and jurisdiction of his father and the eldest son of the family, Fang Wanxing.
Of course, he will definitely help those who need his help. The problem is that everyone is a bit capable, and they are all doing well. If they have difficulties, they will not shamelessly come to him, a junior, for help. At most, they will find Fang Wanxing. above will be resolved.
So different from other families who are intriguing, many things in the Fang family, such as family differences, comparisons, arguments, caring, etc., are basically blocked by Fang Wanxing, so that Fang Jie can develop his career with peace of mind. Worry about these trivial things.
This is probably the so-called old family is like a treasure, Fang Jie has achieved today, and his father Fang Wanxing has a lot of credit for it!
As for his girlfriend Li Qing, she was not clingy and did not cause Fang Jie any trouble.
Last year, Li Qing graduated from Shanghai University of Drama and was directly recommended to graduate students majoring in dance. She also took over almost all the management of Boiling Entertainment and JYP Entertainment.
Now in the entertainment industry, she can be regarded as a big shot who can cause an earthquake by stomping her feet. On the contrary, the aura of "the richest man's girlfriend" has faded a lot, and "the first super girl runner-up" is hardly mentioned anymore.
The two don't even live together now. One has been working in Shanghai for a long time and manages companies, and the other has been staying in Jiangcheng for a long time to study for a doctorate and control the entire business empire. They miss each other. During the 08 Olympic Games, I got the certificate. Anyway, it was a matter of course, so there is nothing to say.
And Li Qing's cousin, Li Yi, has joined the Internet security department as in the previous life, so Fang Jie doesn't even need to make trouble online, as long as he doesn't violate the principle, Li Yi can easily settle it. In the stage of casting the net, after all, maybe there are bigger fish behind some people?
Not to mention these bullshits and the length of the family, just say that Arkworld has gone through 1 internal tests in a year, and now there have been many interesting changes.
In reality, 1 year is equivalent to 60 years in the world of Ark, but what will human civilization look like in 60 years on the primitive planet?
At this time, the total number of players in Ark World has exceeded 600 million.
But everyone is still just a primitive village, or it is more appropriate to describe it as a primitive tribe, and the technological civilization has not developed much.
A tribe is slightly larger than a village, forming a tribe composed of multiple villages with a large scale of human gatherings and a large range of activities. It has its own small group inside, but it is consistent with the outside world.
Its formation process is not bloody, on the contrary, it is extremely peaceful. For future rule and hegemony, the tribal leaders promised various preferential conditions and welfare policies in the early stage to attract a large number of players to join their forces.
For casual players, of course, it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree. When entering the Arkworld, of course, choose a village that already has a guarantee of survival and become a part of it.
However, some small villages that have been established nearby, such as villages or small groups established by relatives, friends, colleagues and classmates, will talk to those powerful tribes who want them to join because they have certain capital, at least human capital. Conditions, which naturally also include the right to speak, management and resource allocation of the tribe in the future.
This will inevitably lead to some intrigue, but the problem can basically be solved, and it will not rise to the level of armed conflict. After all, no matter how bad it is, there is a place where there is no one left here. The earth is so big and there are so few human beings. At worst, let's replace it with no one. The birthplace continued to develop, so large and small tribes were formed in this way.
But the decisive factor for the formation of these tribes was not interest, but distance.
Because the number of players is large, and almost all of them will choose the area suitable for survival as their birthplace, there will be some cases of clustering together, and the distance is close. Unless you give up this area suitable for survival as your birthplace, it will be either you annex me or me To annex you, you have to join the tribe.
If the distance is too far, no matter how big the chips are, they will not ignore you, and it is impossible for you to win them over, because there is no need.
Therefore, the organizational structure of this kind of tribe is very loose, there are many intrigues inside, and it is a test of the leadership and personal charm of the leader of the tribe.
And how to reflect the ability of a leader?
That is not to be able to manage a tribe with as few as dozens or as many as hundreds of people if you know how to coordinate, manage, and build relationships. There is an objective problem that must be solved by leading everyone: the development of technological civilization and related issues. Resource acquisition!
If a tribe is still in the Stone Age of slash-and-burn cultivation, but others have already begun to live in the Bronze Age, it means that your tribe is not good, and this is the responsibility of the leader.
But it is not easy to develop a technological civilization.
Players are indeed modern humans, who know all kinds of dimensionality reduction and combat knowledge, and it is not a problem to DIY some technological products by themselves, but knowing the method does not mean that they can do it.
For example, everyone knows how to make matches, but if you really don’t know, Baidu will know.
But the question is how to obtain those raw materials, such as wood, sulfur, and white phosphorus?
You can't always drill wood to make fire, can you?
So this further involves resource acquisition, or resource occupation.
At the beginning, players, like Mr. Pei, just thought about how to survive, but after returning to the highlands and surviving, they discovered: Oh, the development of technological civilization requires various resources, and the nearest sulfur mine is how far away from the place of birth. Ten kilometers away, this is because the Yorkshire Highlands happen to be volcanic highlands, otherwise there are no such rare resources in general areas.
Not to mention, the phosphate rock is in the other direction, hundreds of kilometers away!
So, everyone had to commit suicide and start over again, or relocate collectively, regardless of other things, at least get the place of birth near the sulfur mine, and let’s talk about occupying a mine!
It is not enough to conquer the sulfur mines, but also to conquer the phosphate mines.
But the question is, with so little manpower, is it possible for your family to dominate two mines, separated by such a long distance?
Will other player tribes also come to dominate the mine and grab it from you?
Therefore, it is not bad to be able to occupy a mineral resource at present, and it is good to hold it here. The next step is to exchange information with other player tribes that have occupied the phosphate mine. It's a big deal!
As for whether there is intercommunication between these hundreds of kilometers, the first question is: Do the villagers transport minerals by themselves?How to ensure safety along the way?
Besides, the civilization development of a tribe does not only need this kind of resource, but also all kinds of resources, such as iron ore, copper ore, leather, salt... and a series of production and living materials, how can we take care of it?
So after more than ten years of survival and development in Ark World, after everyone stabilized and formed a tribe, someone had a whim: Is it possible to set up a caravan in this world, specializing in transportation and trade between tribes, and even integrate resources to sell products? ?
The so-called demand, there is a market, and there is money to be made. This is also called a professional person who does professional things.
Some people really did this, and it was quite formal. In reality, a company called "Ark International Trade" was established, and it spent money to recruit workers, specifically to find people to enter the game to engage in transportation trade.
This person is Fang Jie, and the company is one of the subsidiaries of Fangzhou International Operations Department.
The Ark International Trading Company’s money-making routine is very simple. First, find a tribe with wood, and directly use US dollar cash to buy some player-made handcarts as transportation tools, and then buy some logs as raw materials.
Then open up wasteland to explore the road, push the small trolley to the player tribe with sulfur mines, and talk to them: You sell me sulfur mines, a large amount, and I will buy them with "resurrection times", which is equivalent to real gold and silver, and negotiate a good deal Price, we can start this business.
After hearing this plan, the villagers of the Sulfur Mine Tribe were of course overjoyed. Isn't this just exchanging the resources in the game for the number of resurrections in the game, then they will not be afraid of death in the future, which is equivalent to free games!Sell, of course sell!
The leader was also happy, and privately approached the salesman of Ark International Trade: Well, as the leader of the tribe, I control all the resources produced by the tribe, so you have to give me kickbacks!
Okay, unspoken rules, just give it to you, is 10% of the transaction amount enough?not enough? 15%, it can't be higher, and it can be converted into US dollars and transferred directly to your PALPEL account!
So the transaction is completed, and everyone is happy!
Turning around, Fangzhou International Trading Company found the Phosphate Rock Tribe, and used the same routine to buy their special products with the number of resurrections or US dollars.
Not to mention how much difference was made in the middle, just said that with these materials, I found a place where no one was around, set up a match processing workshop, recruited workers to produce matches, and by the way, improved the "match making" skill level of these accounts to higher and higher , Production efficiency and quality are continuously improved.
In the end, Fangzhou Trade took the current "most advanced civilization products" produced by itself and ran to various tribes to start business.
See no, matches in the world of Ark!
high-tech products!
Isn't it awesome?
Awesome!
Do you want to buy it?
Of course I want to buy it!
After the fire is convenient, the productivity will be greatly improved, and fools will not buy it!
But... matches are now a high-tech product. The price of a box of matches is 1 cubic meter of sulfur ore. If the sulfur ore you produce is not enough to pay, you can transfer the number of resurrections or cash for transactions.
What?so expensive?Profiteer!Grab money!
We also have to dig 1 cubic meter of sulfur mine for a long time, okay? If you are in a modern society, we dig with stone picks!
Do not buy!We can drill wood to make fire, we can make fire with flint, not necessarily matches!
Well, free trade.
But don't blame us for not reminding you: other tribes have already bought it, and they will develop faster than you. When they come to fight, they only need to light a batch of rockets and shoot them over. The houses of your tribe will be destroyed. You use drilling wood to make fire, how can you fight with others?
This... yes, I have to buy it!
However, we are not stupid, we can also make such simple technological products as matches, don’t think that we don’t know that you produced matches with special products from several tribes!
So the next time you come to trade, bring us some phosphate rock and sulfur, we can buy them in cash, and then we will produce matches ourselves, and we will never be tricked by profiteers like you again!
Okay, no problem, I understand, do it yourself and have enough food and clothing!
Ever since, the trade between tribes was gradually formed under the help of Fangzhou International Trading Company.
Even if the matches cannot be sold in the future and the tribe can produce them, there are still countless "high-tech" commodity markets waiting to be developed. After all, it is impossible for a tribe to produce everything.
However, Ark International Trade, a trading business that is half production and half transportation, is actually just a small business. At least for Fang Jie, his vision is definitely not so small.
The real impact of this incident is: Once the trade within the Ark World is formed, it is tantamount to activating the financial system of this world and establishing a currency trust mechanism.
The general equivalent of this financial system, or currency, is the number of resurrections, which is also the dollar, the real currency!
And since the currency in the game is actually real currency, then the props and resources in the game have real value!
The Ark World has value, and the human beings in this world, driven by real interests, will trigger a series of chain reactions.
For example, the exploitation and competition of resources will definitely become very crazy!
Because these resources can be "sold for money"!
Even stones can be sold for money!
Because mining requires a stone pickaxe, right?Logging requires a stone ax, right?
Before mining sulfur ore, the stone must be made first, otherwise where will the sulfur come from?
Let’s not talk about resource competition. There will definitely be wars, and the number of games will definitely be consumed. It’s just that in order to quickly mine resources, is it necessary to drive at full speed, crazy technology, explosive production capacity, and increase productivity?
To increase production and burst production capacity, do we need to exchange more resources?
Will it activate more caravans, producers, and processors to participate in this financial game?
And as a player tribe, is it necessary to recruit more subordinates, or even recruit workers in reality?
Perhaps, the player villagers don't care about the little money, but the tribal leaders do!
Because they can fill their own pockets, the resources they control are huge, and every batch of goods is sold out, and the kickbacks are quite a lot, which may be several times higher than the real salary!
Even if they don't rely on filling their pockets, as leaders, they already have the right to control and distribute resources.
Even, some capital with a keen sense of business, relying directly on Fangzhou International, has established a special virtual tribe company and trading company, which specializes in making money by operating player tribes or trading in Ark World!
At this time, after one year of evolution, the Arkworld is like this.
Numerous small workshops, player studios, and trading companies relying on Ark World have sprung up like mushrooms.
At first, this matter did not attract everyone's attention, so the number of players entering the Ark World showed a downward trend every month.
Games, it’s impossible for them to remain popular all the time. Even if there are plenty of gimmicks in the early stage, they will of course go downhill after absorbing existing users.
However, in the past two months, under the effect of "making money", the number of online users in Ark World has begun to rebound rapidly. From less than 50 people per month, it has risen back to 80, and it is still heating up !
After all, even many companies have participated in it, let alone ordinary players. They heard that they can make money, and even if they can become the boss in it, they can make a fortune.
But there is a problem: everyone gets rich, so who loses?It's impossible to make money all the time, right?
Maybe some people didn't make any money in the game, but invested a lot of money and didn't get back their money. They lost money, but even so, it's impossible to fill such a big hole with this little money.
Many people began to suspect: Fangzhou International is not playing some kind of Ponzi scheme, tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, right?
As the voice of public opinion, the media will certainly not ignore such issues. Some media people themselves are players in Arkworld, and they also have such doubts.
Recently, the "Wall Street Journal", which praised Fang Jie as a good friend of Citigroup due to its sweeping subprime loans, asked such a question by the way.
Fang Jie responded like this: "I don't know if I can make a lot of money in Ark World. What will happen after that, and how it will evolve, is entirely the result of the free choice and joint action of countless players."
"Recently, we have indeed noticed that the human civilization in Ark World has entered the era of small-scale peasant economy based on tribes."
"Due to the different distribution of product resources, human beings have derived trade and transportation business activities between tribes, and also formed some commercial tribes in the nature of collective communes, and spontaneously formed a currency system with the number of resurrections as the general equivalent."
"As we all know, the process of human civilization in reality is actually dominated by commercial civilization. Some economists believe that without the emergence of business and companies, our human civilization may still remain in a self-sufficient primitive society. Although the primitive society There is also economic activity, such as transactions between acquaintances, but only within the tribal economy."
"One of the essential differences between humans and animals is to engage in economic activities. Before ancient civilizations, the open market evolved by bartering. After the birth of currency, it means the establishment of a credit system. The economic activities we engage in They are all carried out under the premise of trust mechanism, such as reputation, company, brand, values, and legal system are the basic elements of trust mechanism.”
"Then back to the question of whether it can make money, I think it is precisely because ARKWorld has established such a commercial credit mechanism that it has investment value."
"The money everyone is earning now should be the funds invested by some investors in the early stage under this credit system."
"For example, Fangzhou International has invested about 2 million US dollars to hoard resources in Arkworld. I believe that many insightful people must have participated in this kind of investment."
"You may ask: The resources in Ark World are obviously virtual, why are they worth investing in? What is the basis of this currency trust mechanism?"
"Let's put it this way... everyone must first understand one thing: the natural resources in the world of Ark are not infinite, but limited, and the total amount is constant. Therefore, it is actually a kind of non-renewable scarce resource. As long as Ark The world has always existed, so from a certain point of view, it is not fundamentally different from real natural resources, such as gold and silver, precious metals."
"Give me a chestnut: wood resources. Now there are forests in the Arkworld, and the wood is worthless. Just cut down a few trees to make a set of materials for wooden furniture. But as humans cut down, it will become more and more expensive. Less, then after a few years, if you want to get a whole set of wooden furniture to put in your home in Ark World, you may need to spend tens of thousands or even 10,000+ dollars to buy it.”
"If someone asks: Why do I spend so much money on furniture in a virtual world? Then I can only answer you: Because you are a dick and don't understand the pretentious life of rich people. You can ask me this question, why not ask Ask those rich people in reality why they buy flashy luxury cars, mansions, luxury furniture, donkey bags..."
"All in all, wood is just an example. All resources in Arkworld are limited, including the land inside. Just like commercial real estate in reality, they will become more and more scarce, and even they are more 'valuable' than real money. "
"After all, the resources in Ark World cannot be copied. It is a fixed value. In reality, currency can be printed infinitely. The global financial crisis caused by subprime loans recently was caused by the excessive issuance of currency. In the world of Ark, this situation does not exist, resources are constantly decreasing and increasing in value, and will not depreciate."
"And in order to ensure that the data in Ark World cannot be modified artificially, I said earlier that the server will be thrown into the deep sea, and no one can change the data."
"Even once the quantum communication technology is mature, I will launch the server to the moon, Mars, or even beyond the solar system to float in space. Before humans enter the interstellar civilization, no one can change the server data, including myself! "
Seeing this in the news interview, everyone was stupid again.
Fuck it!
In the past, he said that he was going to throw the server into the sea, which was amazing enough, but now it is even more outrageous, and he actually claimed to launch it into space!
Crazy, so crazy!
However, full of gimmicks!
The point is, if the server is really launched into space, then the credit system in Arkworld will be really established, and the resources will be really valuable, because they are absolutely non-renewable, cannot be copied infinitely, and cannot be artificially cheated, and their value is indeed higher than reality. The currency that is spammed in China is even stronger!
The logic of this may not be understood by many people at the moment, but if it is a random person in the previous life, they will be able to understand the truth in an instant-isn’t this the set of credit logic of Bitcoin!You are trying to be a demon!
(End of this chapter)
(This chapter is a collection of cut-down versions of Chapters 428 and 429)
There are actually very few people who can really figure out that Fang Jie is hiding things in the dark, and they are just speculations without any evidence.
Because everything is a conspiracy, after Fang Jie laid chess pieces in the car manufacturing industry and the online car-hailing industry, the entire chessboard has its own operating logic, and it will naturally evolve into what it is now.
This may be the pattern and judgment that naturally arise after reaching a certain position and having a certain amount of capital.
But to say how awesome this pattern is, it’s not enough.
Because on a bigger chessboard, it is his main battlefield.
For example, the international financial market is a bigger chess game.
Over the past few years, Citigroup has opened up its money printing machine, flooded it with water, and bought a lot of money internationally with pieces of paper, and the currency interest rate has also continued to decrease.
After all, the printing cost of a US dollar banknote is only US$0.55. That is to say, for Citigroup, any commodity with a manufacturing cost higher than US$0.55 or products with low added value is not worth producing, because it is not as good as Print money to buy directly!
But when the time came to 2005, Laomei had almost bought everything she should buy, so she began to raise interest rates and shrink the balance sheet. This was originally a basic recycling operation for wool.
They did grab the wool of the whole world, but they accidentally made a big oolong.
In 05, interest rates began to be raised, and the water released before was to be recovered. This is the basic operation of fleece, and the euphemistic name is: control inflation and prevent systemic financial crises.
But they overlooked one thing: too much water is released, and the domestic economy is also overheated!
For example, domestic housing prices have also skyrocketed!
The thing that all the old Americans recognized before is that real estate is the best investment target!
As a result, countless old Americans bought houses, and bought houses with loans if they had no money. If their credit was not up to standard, they bought houses with subprime loans.
Originally, buying a house with a subprime loan was fine. After all, housing prices have been rising, and the value of the house is enough to repay the mortgage. Even in the first half of the year, I can make a lot of money.
But the Fed began to raise interest rates, the dollar began to tighten, and things changed in an instant.
The interest rate increase means that the interest rate of subprime loans is also increasing, and the cost of repaying the loan is higher. Then the epidemic is becoming more and more tense, and there is not as much money in the market as before.
If there is less money in circulation, then there will be deflation, and commodities will become "worthless", such as houses.
The house is worthless, and the price has not increased or even decreased, but the interest on the loan has increased. As a result, assets have been inverted, insolvency, and subprime loans that were originally healthy and healthy have suddenly become bad debts.
Furthermore, Citigroup's financial crisis triggered by subprime loans broke out, and countless banks and real estate companies, including banks in developed countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany, also suffered greatly from it and encountered a great crisis.
Usually, financial institutions are short of money, and when they encounter a short-term crisis, they just borrow funds from each other, but now everyone has encountered problems and is facing a huge risk of default, so all kinds of self-cleaning, various debt collections, and various applications bankruptcy protection.
Internationally, these incidents began in the middle of 06, and in January 07, they basically could not be concealed and broke out completely.
For a while, the Federal Reserve, the central bank of Citigroup, was in a state of desperation. It didn't expect that it would shoot itself in the foot, so it had to stop raising interest rates, cut interest rates instead, and started to open the floodgates frantically again.
Anyway, for Citigroup, there is no problem that cannot be solved by printing money. If it is not solved, it means that the printing is not enough, so print again!
After more than ten years in her previous life, Lao Mei still operated like this, but she became a little hysterical, but she was still alive and well.
This is also the deep-seated reason why Fang Jie's overseas charitable foundation has doubled several times from the principal of 30 billion US dollars in just a few years, reaching a scale of more than 100 billion.
These are all internal reasons, not how powerful he, the "Wolf of Wall Street", invests, but because Lao Mei has printed too much money, so much money that there is still no place to go except to destroy other countries, so he entered The real estate market was blown up, and the stock price was pushed up, bringing the myth of the Nasdaq bull market that lasted for 1 to 20 years since the Internet bubble!
In this big game, Fang Jie's personal power and funds are negligible, and he can't really stir up the situation. Moreover, Citigroup had an accident less than three years after raising interest rates, and had to cut interest rates again. The operation should be to still hold the securities assets and sit still, and continue to wait for the money to be counted.
But this is just a routine operation, and Fang Jie is very short of money now, so he has to do some unconventional actions to earn some cash.
Yes, even though he is now the third richest man in the world, he is still very poor.
For example, in the launch of the domestic online car-hailing layout, although many methods have been thought of to avoid asset inversion, there are still big holes to be filled.
Not to mention abroad, Fangzhou International is spending a lot of money in all aspects, and the human beings in Arkworld have temporarily stabilized, and the income of "resurrection fees" will not be high for a while, so the hole is even bigger.
The so-called third richest man in the world, most of his net worth is brought about by share valuation. It is impossible to sell the stocks of Tencent, 51mai, Baidu, and NetEase, right?Isn't that a fool?
Various domestic industries have indeed made some money. If the cash flow is all concentrated, there will be 1 to 2 billion yuan.
Otherwise, where does the more than 10 billion real money subsidies that Boiling Travel spends every month come from?Where does the 1 to 20 billion donated to the Hope Project come from?
Moreover, he has long sworn not to do anything in the domestic financial market, and this unconventional move must be done abroad. It is a matter of principle to collect the money of ordinary people in the country, and to win glory for the country if it is collected from foreigners. question.
There is another point: RMB has been appreciating since 05. If you exchange domestic RMB into US dollars to do business abroad, and earn US dollars abroad in the future, and then exchange it into RMB, the rate of return will be greatly reduced. It may even be earned without much depreciation.
If you have the time, it is better to do the opposite, to exchange all foreign money into RMB in the foreign exchange market, and after a few years to exchange it into US dollars, it will naturally "increase".
Therefore, domestic money cannot be moved, and it is not worthwhile. It also involves capital supervision issues, and there are a lot of troubles, so there is no need to think about it.
At present, the large sum of money he can really use is actually only the more than 100 billion US dollars of overseas charitable foundations.
This money seems to be a lot, but if it is thrown into the international financial market, it may just cause a little wave, and other investors are not stupid, and the inflow and outflow of large sums of money will definitely startle the snake.
For example, short or long foreign exchange, futures index, tens of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions of dollars in the past, if you do it, it will not attract everyone's attention, but you throw in 100 billion...
Do you think Wall Street capital is an idiot?Don't you know what you want to do?
Your money is not too much, but it is not too little. In the eyes of Wall Street capital, you are a delicious little fish!
If you stay honest and follow Buffett's example of value investing, then we really can't do anything about you, but if you want to engage in unconventional operations and seek short-term huge profits, then they will never mind big fish eating small fish, and take the opportunity to make money. You swallow it, after all the rules are set by others, you can do whatever you want!
So if you want to do something, don't kill yourself, it's almost the same!
So, in order to deceive the world, Fang Jie did a "stupid thing" that no one could understand - he threw away 100 billion worth of securities, and then bought all of them subprime loans!
Fuck it!
Buy subprime!
Investors all over the world are in an uproar!
Now the whole world knows that subprime loans are worthless garbage!
Why did countless banks and financial companies have to declare bankruptcy?
It is because the subprime mortgages in everyone's hands are thundering, and now not only are they not valuable bonds, but they have become debts owed money!
But the richest man in China, the third richest man in the world, took out a worthless subprime loan with 100 billion funds?
Fool?
But it doesn't matter, this guy is rich, and his worth is estimated at more than 600 billion...
No, in the "Forbes" rich list at the end of 06, the announced net worth has exceeded 700 billion US dollars, so it is nothing to lose 100 billion.
At this time, Fang Jie wanted to refute an old saying in his heart: When you treat others as idiots, you are the biggest idiot!
Subprime loans, um, are worthless, even hot potatoes. Whoever owns this thing will suffer huge losses.
but……
The subprime mortgage crisis, it was just a credit default crisis, not a fact that actually happened.
The immediate cause of the subprime mortgage crisis was the plummeting housing prices and the insolvency of the housing, which created the risk of loan default.
Note that it is the risk of default, not the actual default.
Then banks and financial institutions found that there was a lot of risk of default. Once there was a thunderstorm, the bank would go bankrupt and owe a lot of debt, so they panicked and lost their positions.
At this time, those who responded quickly began to sell subprime loans, and those who reacted slower, although they did not sell, they did not dare to buy subprime loans anymore. As a result, the market was full of sold subprime loans, but no one bought them. .
What if no one buys it?
Sell at a discount!
9% off, 8% off, 5% off!
1% off sale!
In short, if these subprime loans are kept in the hands, they are worthless and still lose money, but if they are sold, even if they are sold at a discount of 1 yuan, they originally lost 100 yuan, but now they only lose 90 yuan, and they can always be recovered. Some loss!
But everyone is sold at 1% off, what should I do?
Then we don't need any money, give it away for nothing, and transfer it by agreement, right?
No one is a fool, the situation is like this, if you give it to us for free, we dare not take it!
What's more, we also have a lot of junk debt in our hands!
Therefore, under the stampede effect, the subprime loan was so thunderous. Banks and financial companies with subprime loans in their hands realized that the only way out was to file for bankruptcy in advance, so at least the risks were controlled. If it spreads further, at that time we will lose all our wealth and leave the house, at least it will not hurt our wives and children, right?
But, did subprime mortgages really default?
Yes, but also no.
It is because, according to the current housing price loan interest rate, the house is indeed insolvent, and if it is only settled on paper, it is indeed a breach of contract. This is predictable and certain.
No, because the vast majority of subprime loans have not yet matured, they just have huge risks!
When it is due, the buyer really cannot repay the loan, and that is the actual default!
In fact, there are indeed a small number of house buyers who have not been able to repay their loans at this time, but most of them have not yet reached the "execution date". If they want to jump off the building, if the bankers don't apply for bankruptcy in advance, they will jump off the building too. That's why the run and stampede happened, and the subprime mortgage crisis broke out.
This process is like in the stock market. A listed company suddenly finds that its business is very likely to turn from making a lot of money to losing a lot of money due to some policy reasons, so it issued a risk warning to investors, and then the investors were frightened and sold one after another. The stock market crashed, but in fact, at this time, the company did not lose money, and even made money. It was the black swan expectation that caused the stock price to plummet, rather than it has become a fact.
Therefore, things have not yet landed, and it is not yet possible to say that subprime loans are junk bonds.
At least in theory, it is still valuable, and it can even be said to be a high-quality asset!
The word "subprime" in subprime loans does not actually mean "defective" or "very rubbish", but refers to loans that are second only to the primary financial market, which are relatively high-quality debt assets, but it was translated from China in previous lives It changed my taste, thinking that subprime loans are special "substandard" loans, and they are extremely risky junk bonds.
This is not the case.
Taking a step back, even if subprime loans are extremely risky junk loans, so what?
Did these subprime mortgages eventually default?
At least not in previous lives.
Why not?
The central bank of Citigroup, the Fed has the bottom line!
If the Federal Reserve does not cover the bottom line, will it be possible to drive so many home buyers across the United States to sleep outside the house to receive relief?
These people are all voters, many of them are middle-class, and they all have families. They hold a lot of votes in their hands!
Unless you don't want to be the president, the congressman doesn't want to mess around, the governor wants to dismiss get out of class, the mayor is waiting to be pointed at his head with a gun, a national parade, a national riot, otherwise, you have to take care of this matter!
Therefore, for the prosperity and stability of the country, this matter has to be covered by the Federal Reserve!
The way the Federal Reserve handled subprime loans in the previous life was that other people’s children would go bankrupt as soon as they should, and their own banks and financial companies would print money to keep them alive, ensuring that they would have enough funds to pay compensation when subprime loans defaulted.
If they can't eat it, the central bank of Citigroup and the Federal Reserve will take over the whole thing in person!
You must know that the central bank of Citigroup is not an ordinary central bank. It is an unlimited money printing machine, and countries all over the world still recognize it.
So subprime loans are waste paper?
Really not, this was bought by the Federal Reserve "spending money". How can it be called waste paper!
Not only is it not waste paper, but it is also very valuable!
For the sake of social prosperity and stability, and to ensure that the people of Citigroup have houses to live in, and the people cannot repay their loans, our government will help everyone repay their loans!
Anyway, what we print is the money recognized by the whole world, to help our common people repay a loan, sprinkle water, even if it is for votes, if the Fed refuses to agree to this matter, the president, congressmen, and governors of various states will take turns to come to the door to argue , Don't be afraid of not giving in!
Then, at this time, an interesting result will appear: subprime loans have changed from junk loans to extremely strong high-quality assets, and they are the hard currency second only to the US dollar!
Because the subprime loan has not defaulted, the loan has been repaid!
And it's the World Bank's Federal Reserve, who used the dollar to help repay it, and it's all covered!
What is a dollar?
Under the current monetary system, it is gold!
Unless the whole world does not recognize the US dollar and Citigroup collapses, the money printed by the Federal Reserve is money, and the loan repayment is real money!
Therefore, regarding the subprime mortgage crisis, on the surface, Citigroup shot itself in the foot with a rock, and it was in a mess for a while, but the result is that people have once again squeezed the wool and sold the subprime loans that banks all over the world have lost. Bought it all at the floor price, and then turned it around, this thing is so valuable again!
So those people on Wall Street are not stupid at all. They are all the ancestors of finance. If they want to bite off a piece of meat from them through conventional means, it will definitely end up stealing chickens and losing a handful of rice. With Fang Jie's funds If you want to do something, you can only go slant. It is not as simple as most people imagine.
Therefore, he seeks wealth and insurance, and buys subprime loans!
Fortunately, it's done!
Then a simple arithmetic question: How much money did you make in the end with the "junk bonds" bought at the floor price of 100 billion U.S. dollars?
When Fang Jie was doing this, he made his plans relatively early. In the middle of 07, the domestic stock market just started to plummet from 6124 points, and it started when the bulls turned into bears. The Federal Reserve announced that it was the middle of 08 that the boots fell to the ground. .
The reason why he didn't buy the bottom at the lowest price was mainly because Wall Street financial predators were not fools, so how could they give him the opportunity to buy the bottom when the situation came to an end?
Such a good thing, the Wall Street giants who run the Federal Reserve at home, won’t buy it themselves, and wait for you to buy it?
So things have to be done in advance, subprime loans have to be bought in advance, so there is still some cost to acquire these subprime debts, not much, 1-2% off, that is to buy 100 billion US dollars of subprime loans with an original value of 800 billion US dollars .
When the Federal Reserve repurchased it, in order to cash out as soon as possible, he discounted it and sold it for 700 billion. After all, printing money also costs money, such as electricity, ink, paper, etc., right?
That is to say, it only took 100 year to invest 1 billion US dollars, and the final rate of return was 600%, and a net profit of 600 billion US dollars came back!
600 billion...how much?
A bit much.
But this is doing business with the "world central bank" that can print unlimited money, so it's really not much. In the eyes of the Federal Reserve, this is just to let the money printing machine work for a while, so there is no need to make a fuss...
However, except for the Fed, all other investors were shocked!
You must know that in the middle of 07, when Fang Jie was buying bottoms, it was also the time when everyone was in a panic. When he came out to scan the goods, he was scolded by global investors as a big fool with his head caught in the door.
There are also those who are grateful, the ordinary people of Citigroup, those who buy houses, including the Citigroup government and the media, praised Fang Jie very much, and they almost took him to the sky, saying that he is comparable to Don Quixote in the financial market, with compassion, compassion and compassion. Tragic and fearless chivalry!
The Wall Street Journal, the most authoritative newspaper in Citigroup's economic field, commented on him in this way: At the beginning of the Nasdaq stock market crash, he was the one who, under the ridicule and ridicule of countless investors, took out 30 billion US dollars to "rescue the market", and then Nasdaq Gram is alive!
Now, it is him again, when the people of our country are about to fall into homelessness, he donated 100 billion U.S. dollars without asking for anything in return to save the housing market of Citigroup!
Although, what we can be sure of this time is that this money is absolutely impossible to solve the subprime mortgage crisis that is spreading all over the world, and even lose everything because of it...
However, he, our MR.fang, has done everything he can do, we can't expect anything more, we just want to say: He is our good friend of Citigroup, always has been, and will always be!
As a result, one year later, Fang Jie not only won the favor of Citigroup from all over the country, but also greatly increased his popularity and popularity in Citigroup. The richest man is only one step away...
Of course, these are all for later.
Looking back, in the middle of 07, Fang Jie spent only a small amount of energy on these matters. He called the Foundation for about 10 minutes, explained a few words, and then put these things away. Forget it.
After all, in another three months, the first batch of Boiling cars will come off the production line, and many things related to Boiling Travel online car-hailing are waiting for him to deal with, not to mention that after half a year of fermentation in Ark World, there have also been some "gratifying things" ", how could he have the time to stare at subprime loans all day long...
(Happy New Years Day everyone)
At the end of July 2007, the richest man in Huaguo was scolded again because of the news of buying subprime loans, and was scolded by the domestic public opinion as a traitor.
The groups who scolded him before were mainly parents of students, Internet addiction experts, and traditional literary circles. This time, it was the general stock investors who led the rhythm.
After all, there was a stock market crash, an avalanche, everyone suffered a lot, and they were in a bad mood, so it's normal to complain.
Fang Jie didn't come forward to explain, nor did he block these public opinions on the Internet.
If you scold him, you can scold him, and you won't lose half a catty. Anyway, the more people scold him in China, the less suspicious Citigroup will be, and the more they will praise him to win him over. In the future, it will be easier for him to operate overseas. This is called a bitter plan, which is very good!
In his previous life, he also suffered a lot from subprime loans, and he dumped the subprime loans at the floor price. In this life, after Fang Jie’s analysis, he is not so stupid. He pretended to sell some of them and keep some , the risk is within the controllable range.
Based on this, no matter how unfavorable the public opinion is against him, nothing will happen to him. On the contrary, he has been greatly praised by the relevant departments behind his back, not to mention that many of his industries have been or will soon be donated to banks, telecommunications, power grids, automobiles, etc. Many large state-owned enterprises such as enterprises have brought rich returns, and the background behind him is not small.
To put it bluntly, this route is to directly deal with the immediate boss and take the upper-level route. As long as the buttocks are straight, then the remaining problems will not be a problem. He has always done this, and it is also the secret that his father Fang Wanxing gives face-to-face every year during the Chinese New Year. the result of.
By the way, Fang Wanxing was promoted to the vice president of the head office last year, and officially entered the leadership team of the head office. Now that he is at the deputy department level, the level of contact is different, and the structure is naturally different. In front of his son, he still Can give a lot of constructive comments.
The uncles in the family are also promoted now, and those who get rich get rich.
The eldest uncle joined the municipal education committee as a leader, the third uncle was already the leader of the official regiment, and the younger uncle was quick-witted, so he gave up the temptation of being promoted by the dean, and also resigned from the position of the director of the facial features department of the hospital, and went directly to the sea to start a business. The dental clinic has already opened three branches in the city, with an annual income of over one million, and is preparing to open a branch in the provincial capital.
Only the second-generation and second uncle of the official family with the best background, who is too honest and the worst, is still an ordinary doctor in the hospital.
Fang Jie basically didn't ask much about these matters in the family. They were the responsibilities and jurisdiction of his father and the eldest son of the family, Fang Wanxing.
Of course, he will definitely help those who need his help. The problem is that everyone is a bit capable, and they are all doing well. If they have difficulties, they will not shamelessly come to him, a junior, for help. At most, they will find Fang Wanxing. above will be resolved.
So different from other families who are intriguing, many things in the Fang family, such as family differences, comparisons, arguments, caring, etc., are basically blocked by Fang Wanxing, so that Fang Jie can develop his career with peace of mind. Worry about these trivial things.
This is probably the so-called old family is like a treasure, Fang Jie has achieved today, and his father Fang Wanxing has a lot of credit for it!
As for his girlfriend Li Qing, she was not clingy and did not cause Fang Jie any trouble.
Last year, Li Qing graduated from Shanghai University of Drama and was directly recommended to graduate students majoring in dance. She also took over almost all the management of Boiling Entertainment and JYP Entertainment.
Now in the entertainment industry, she can be regarded as a big shot who can cause an earthquake by stomping her feet. On the contrary, the aura of "the richest man's girlfriend" has faded a lot, and "the first super girl runner-up" is hardly mentioned anymore.
The two don't even live together now. One has been working in Shanghai for a long time and manages companies, and the other has been staying in Jiangcheng for a long time to study for a doctorate and control the entire business empire. They miss each other. During the 08 Olympic Games, I got the certificate. Anyway, it was a matter of course, so there is nothing to say.
And Li Qing's cousin, Li Yi, has joined the Internet security department as in the previous life, so Fang Jie doesn't even need to make trouble online, as long as he doesn't violate the principle, Li Yi can easily settle it. In the stage of casting the net, after all, maybe there are bigger fish behind some people?
Not to mention these bullshits and the length of the family, just say that Arkworld has gone through 1 internal tests in a year, and now there have been many interesting changes.
In reality, 1 year is equivalent to 60 years in the world of Ark, but what will human civilization look like in 60 years on the primitive planet?
At this time, the total number of players in Ark World has exceeded 600 million.
But everyone is still just a primitive village, or it is more appropriate to describe it as a primitive tribe, and the technological civilization has not developed much.
A tribe is slightly larger than a village, forming a tribe composed of multiple villages with a large scale of human gatherings and a large range of activities. It has its own small group inside, but it is consistent with the outside world.
Its formation process is not bloody, on the contrary, it is extremely peaceful. For future rule and hegemony, the tribal leaders promised various preferential conditions and welfare policies in the early stage to attract a large number of players to join their forces.
For casual players, of course, it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree. When entering the Arkworld, of course, choose a village that already has a guarantee of survival and become a part of it.
However, some small villages that have been established nearby, such as villages or small groups established by relatives, friends, colleagues and classmates, will talk to those powerful tribes who want them to join because they have certain capital, at least human capital. Conditions, which naturally also include the right to speak, management and resource allocation of the tribe in the future.
This will inevitably lead to some intrigue, but the problem can basically be solved, and it will not rise to the level of armed conflict. After all, no matter how bad it is, there is a place where there is no one left here. The earth is so big and there are so few human beings. At worst, let's replace it with no one. The birthplace continued to develop, so large and small tribes were formed in this way.
But the decisive factor for the formation of these tribes was not interest, but distance.
Because the number of players is large, and almost all of them will choose the area suitable for survival as their birthplace, there will be some cases of clustering together, and the distance is close. Unless you give up this area suitable for survival as your birthplace, it will be either you annex me or me To annex you, you have to join the tribe.
If the distance is too far, no matter how big the chips are, they will not ignore you, and it is impossible for you to win them over, because there is no need.
Therefore, the organizational structure of this kind of tribe is very loose, there are many intrigues inside, and it is a test of the leadership and personal charm of the leader of the tribe.
And how to reflect the ability of a leader?
That is not to be able to manage a tribe with as few as dozens or as many as hundreds of people if you know how to coordinate, manage, and build relationships. There is an objective problem that must be solved by leading everyone: the development of technological civilization and related issues. Resource acquisition!
If a tribe is still in the Stone Age of slash-and-burn cultivation, but others have already begun to live in the Bronze Age, it means that your tribe is not good, and this is the responsibility of the leader.
But it is not easy to develop a technological civilization.
Players are indeed modern humans, who know all kinds of dimensionality reduction and combat knowledge, and it is not a problem to DIY some technological products by themselves, but knowing the method does not mean that they can do it.
For example, everyone knows how to make matches, but if you really don’t know, Baidu will know.
But the question is how to obtain those raw materials, such as wood, sulfur, and white phosphorus?
You can't always drill wood to make fire, can you?
So this further involves resource acquisition, or resource occupation.
At the beginning, players, like Mr. Pei, just thought about how to survive, but after returning to the highlands and surviving, they discovered: Oh, the development of technological civilization requires various resources, and the nearest sulfur mine is how far away from the place of birth. Ten kilometers away, this is because the Yorkshire Highlands happen to be volcanic highlands, otherwise there are no such rare resources in general areas.
Not to mention, the phosphate rock is in the other direction, hundreds of kilometers away!
So, everyone had to commit suicide and start over again, or relocate collectively, regardless of other things, at least get the place of birth near the sulfur mine, and let’s talk about occupying a mine!
It is not enough to conquer the sulfur mines, but also to conquer the phosphate mines.
But the question is, with so little manpower, is it possible for your family to dominate two mines, separated by such a long distance?
Will other player tribes also come to dominate the mine and grab it from you?
Therefore, it is not bad to be able to occupy a mineral resource at present, and it is good to hold it here. The next step is to exchange information with other player tribes that have occupied the phosphate mine. It's a big deal!
As for whether there is intercommunication between these hundreds of kilometers, the first question is: Do the villagers transport minerals by themselves?How to ensure safety along the way?
Besides, the civilization development of a tribe does not only need this kind of resource, but also all kinds of resources, such as iron ore, copper ore, leather, salt... and a series of production and living materials, how can we take care of it?
So after more than ten years of survival and development in Ark World, after everyone stabilized and formed a tribe, someone had a whim: Is it possible to set up a caravan in this world, specializing in transportation and trade between tribes, and even integrate resources to sell products? ?
The so-called demand, there is a market, and there is money to be made. This is also called a professional person who does professional things.
Some people really did this, and it was quite formal. In reality, a company called "Ark International Trade" was established, and it spent money to recruit workers, specifically to find people to enter the game to engage in transportation trade.
This person is Fang Jie, and the company is one of the subsidiaries of Fangzhou International Operations Department.
The Ark International Trading Company’s money-making routine is very simple. First, find a tribe with wood, and directly use US dollar cash to buy some player-made handcarts as transportation tools, and then buy some logs as raw materials.
Then open up wasteland to explore the road, push the small trolley to the player tribe with sulfur mines, and talk to them: You sell me sulfur mines, a large amount, and I will buy them with "resurrection times", which is equivalent to real gold and silver, and negotiate a good deal Price, we can start this business.
After hearing this plan, the villagers of the Sulfur Mine Tribe were of course overjoyed. Isn't this just exchanging the resources in the game for the number of resurrections in the game, then they will not be afraid of death in the future, which is equivalent to free games!Sell, of course sell!
The leader was also happy, and privately approached the salesman of Ark International Trade: Well, as the leader of the tribe, I control all the resources produced by the tribe, so you have to give me kickbacks!
Okay, unspoken rules, just give it to you, is 10% of the transaction amount enough?not enough? 15%, it can't be higher, and it can be converted into US dollars and transferred directly to your PALPEL account!
So the transaction is completed, and everyone is happy!
Turning around, Fangzhou International Trading Company found the Phosphate Rock Tribe, and used the same routine to buy their special products with the number of resurrections or US dollars.
Not to mention how much difference was made in the middle, just said that with these materials, I found a place where no one was around, set up a match processing workshop, recruited workers to produce matches, and by the way, improved the "match making" skill level of these accounts to higher and higher , Production efficiency and quality are continuously improved.
In the end, Fangzhou Trade took the current "most advanced civilization products" produced by itself and ran to various tribes to start business.
See no, matches in the world of Ark!
high-tech products!
Isn't it awesome?
Awesome!
Do you want to buy it?
Of course I want to buy it!
After the fire is convenient, the productivity will be greatly improved, and fools will not buy it!
But... matches are now a high-tech product. The price of a box of matches is 1 cubic meter of sulfur ore. If the sulfur ore you produce is not enough to pay, you can transfer the number of resurrections or cash for transactions.
What?so expensive?Profiteer!Grab money!
We also have to dig 1 cubic meter of sulfur mine for a long time, okay? If you are in a modern society, we dig with stone picks!
Do not buy!We can drill wood to make fire, we can make fire with flint, not necessarily matches!
Well, free trade.
But don't blame us for not reminding you: other tribes have already bought it, and they will develop faster than you. When they come to fight, they only need to light a batch of rockets and shoot them over. The houses of your tribe will be destroyed. You use drilling wood to make fire, how can you fight with others?
This... yes, I have to buy it!
However, we are not stupid, we can also make such simple technological products as matches, don’t think that we don’t know that you produced matches with special products from several tribes!
So the next time you come to trade, bring us some phosphate rock and sulfur, we can buy them in cash, and then we will produce matches ourselves, and we will never be tricked by profiteers like you again!
Okay, no problem, I understand, do it yourself and have enough food and clothing!
Ever since, the trade between tribes was gradually formed under the help of Fangzhou International Trading Company.
Even if the matches cannot be sold in the future and the tribe can produce them, there are still countless "high-tech" commodity markets waiting to be developed. After all, it is impossible for a tribe to produce everything.
However, Ark International Trade, a trading business that is half production and half transportation, is actually just a small business. At least for Fang Jie, his vision is definitely not so small.
The real impact of this incident is: Once the trade within the Ark World is formed, it is tantamount to activating the financial system of this world and establishing a currency trust mechanism.
The general equivalent of this financial system, or currency, is the number of resurrections, which is also the dollar, the real currency!
And since the currency in the game is actually real currency, then the props and resources in the game have real value!
The Ark World has value, and the human beings in this world, driven by real interests, will trigger a series of chain reactions.
For example, the exploitation and competition of resources will definitely become very crazy!
Because these resources can be "sold for money"!
Even stones can be sold for money!
Because mining requires a stone pickaxe, right?Logging requires a stone ax, right?
Before mining sulfur ore, the stone must be made first, otherwise where will the sulfur come from?
Let’s not talk about resource competition. There will definitely be wars, and the number of games will definitely be consumed. It’s just that in order to quickly mine resources, is it necessary to drive at full speed, crazy technology, explosive production capacity, and increase productivity?
To increase production and burst production capacity, do we need to exchange more resources?
Will it activate more caravans, producers, and processors to participate in this financial game?
And as a player tribe, is it necessary to recruit more subordinates, or even recruit workers in reality?
Perhaps, the player villagers don't care about the little money, but the tribal leaders do!
Because they can fill their own pockets, the resources they control are huge, and every batch of goods is sold out, and the kickbacks are quite a lot, which may be several times higher than the real salary!
Even if they don't rely on filling their pockets, as leaders, they already have the right to control and distribute resources.
Even, some capital with a keen sense of business, relying directly on Fangzhou International, has established a special virtual tribe company and trading company, which specializes in making money by operating player tribes or trading in Ark World!
At this time, after one year of evolution, the Arkworld is like this.
Numerous small workshops, player studios, and trading companies relying on Ark World have sprung up like mushrooms.
At first, this matter did not attract everyone's attention, so the number of players entering the Ark World showed a downward trend every month.
Games, it’s impossible for them to remain popular all the time. Even if there are plenty of gimmicks in the early stage, they will of course go downhill after absorbing existing users.
However, in the past two months, under the effect of "making money", the number of online users in Ark World has begun to rebound rapidly. From less than 50 people per month, it has risen back to 80, and it is still heating up !
After all, even many companies have participated in it, let alone ordinary players. They heard that they can make money, and even if they can become the boss in it, they can make a fortune.
But there is a problem: everyone gets rich, so who loses?It's impossible to make money all the time, right?
Maybe some people didn't make any money in the game, but invested a lot of money and didn't get back their money. They lost money, but even so, it's impossible to fill such a big hole with this little money.
Many people began to suspect: Fangzhou International is not playing some kind of Ponzi scheme, tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, right?
As the voice of public opinion, the media will certainly not ignore such issues. Some media people themselves are players in Arkworld, and they also have such doubts.
Recently, the "Wall Street Journal", which praised Fang Jie as a good friend of Citigroup due to its sweeping subprime loans, asked such a question by the way.
Fang Jie responded like this: "I don't know if I can make a lot of money in Ark World. What will happen after that, and how it will evolve, is entirely the result of the free choice and joint action of countless players."
"Recently, we have indeed noticed that the human civilization in Ark World has entered the era of small-scale peasant economy based on tribes."
"Due to the different distribution of product resources, human beings have derived trade and transportation business activities between tribes, and also formed some commercial tribes in the nature of collective communes, and spontaneously formed a currency system with the number of resurrections as the general equivalent."
"As we all know, the process of human civilization in reality is actually dominated by commercial civilization. Some economists believe that without the emergence of business and companies, our human civilization may still remain in a self-sufficient primitive society. Although the primitive society There is also economic activity, such as transactions between acquaintances, but only within the tribal economy."
"One of the essential differences between humans and animals is to engage in economic activities. Before ancient civilizations, the open market evolved by bartering. After the birth of currency, it means the establishment of a credit system. The economic activities we engage in They are all carried out under the premise of trust mechanism, such as reputation, company, brand, values, and legal system are the basic elements of trust mechanism.”
"Then back to the question of whether it can make money, I think it is precisely because ARKWorld has established such a commercial credit mechanism that it has investment value."
"The money everyone is earning now should be the funds invested by some investors in the early stage under this credit system."
"For example, Fangzhou International has invested about 2 million US dollars to hoard resources in Arkworld. I believe that many insightful people must have participated in this kind of investment."
"You may ask: The resources in Ark World are obviously virtual, why are they worth investing in? What is the basis of this currency trust mechanism?"
"Let's put it this way... everyone must first understand one thing: the natural resources in the world of Ark are not infinite, but limited, and the total amount is constant. Therefore, it is actually a kind of non-renewable scarce resource. As long as Ark The world has always existed, so from a certain point of view, it is not fundamentally different from real natural resources, such as gold and silver, precious metals."
"Give me a chestnut: wood resources. Now there are forests in the Arkworld, and the wood is worthless. Just cut down a few trees to make a set of materials for wooden furniture. But as humans cut down, it will become more and more expensive. Less, then after a few years, if you want to get a whole set of wooden furniture to put in your home in Ark World, you may need to spend tens of thousands or even 10,000+ dollars to buy it.”
"If someone asks: Why do I spend so much money on furniture in a virtual world? Then I can only answer you: Because you are a dick and don't understand the pretentious life of rich people. You can ask me this question, why not ask Ask those rich people in reality why they buy flashy luxury cars, mansions, luxury furniture, donkey bags..."
"All in all, wood is just an example. All resources in Arkworld are limited, including the land inside. Just like commercial real estate in reality, they will become more and more scarce, and even they are more 'valuable' than real money. "
"After all, the resources in Ark World cannot be copied. It is a fixed value. In reality, currency can be printed infinitely. The global financial crisis caused by subprime loans recently was caused by the excessive issuance of currency. In the world of Ark, this situation does not exist, resources are constantly decreasing and increasing in value, and will not depreciate."
"And in order to ensure that the data in Ark World cannot be modified artificially, I said earlier that the server will be thrown into the deep sea, and no one can change the data."
"Even once the quantum communication technology is mature, I will launch the server to the moon, Mars, or even beyond the solar system to float in space. Before humans enter the interstellar civilization, no one can change the server data, including myself! "
Seeing this in the news interview, everyone was stupid again.
Fuck it!
In the past, he said that he was going to throw the server into the sea, which was amazing enough, but now it is even more outrageous, and he actually claimed to launch it into space!
Crazy, so crazy!
However, full of gimmicks!
The point is, if the server is really launched into space, then the credit system in Arkworld will be really established, and the resources will be really valuable, because they are absolutely non-renewable, cannot be copied infinitely, and cannot be artificially cheated, and their value is indeed higher than reality. The currency that is spammed in China is even stronger!
The logic of this may not be understood by many people at the moment, but if it is a random person in the previous life, they will be able to understand the truth in an instant-isn’t this the set of credit logic of Bitcoin!You are trying to be a demon!
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