I am many years in the courtyard

Chapter 557, Tuition of million barrels of crude oil

In January 1986, the piers on Hong Kong Island were extremely busy.

Super cargo ships come and go, transporting many raw materials, equipment and other materials from overseas and returning to the cargo terminal on Hong Kong Island for unloading.

Then the goods that have been loaded on the dock are transported to the world.

In this time and space, Hong Kong Island’s cargo terminals are even busier.

Just because companies such as Huimin Supermarket and Apple have been established for many years. These companies have produced many high value-added products, such as mobile phones, MP3s, VCDs and DVDs.

These products are produced in factories in the mainland and then packed and shipped. They go out to Hong Kong Island from Xishui Village, Baiyun City and other places, and then from Hong Kong Island, the transfer station, the goods are transported to the world.

Those inland river freighters docked at the cargo terminal will also transport the raw materials, equipment and other materials from the terminal north along the Pearl River to Baiyun City, Beijiang County and other places.

Or even by train to places further north.

Last year's Plaza Accord made a lot of money for many years, and it is still making money one after another.

The money was turned into corresponding supplies and shipped back to the mainland.

How could this be without gold?

At first, Basemu and the others didn't pay much attention to this matter.

Maybe it was because of their overconfidence that even now, several months later, Basemu and the others still haven't found the reason why the gold mine disappeared.

Last summer, Basemu and the others personally verified it, and the technicians were all their own.

The role of these laboratories is not that simple. If there are top talents, they will be transferred to Hong Kong Island or Baiyun City as much as possible, so that these top talents can better serve for many years.

The conclusions they have drawn so far make their hearts go cold.

There are so many black technologies in the R&D center in Pok Fu Lam, which are not simply and easily obtained.

Then the mining workers discovered that there was less and less gold.

While he was frowning, far away in the Middle East, Princes like Basem were going crazy.

For more than a month, if there was any accident in the process, they would not be unaware of it.

In addition to purchasing supplies, part of the money is also used to invest locally, such as setting up laboratories to compete with top laboratories.

They have been staying in this gold mine for more than four months, but until this moment, their miners have dug many mine tunnels.

This shouldn't be!

Originally, there was a lot of gold ore powder in this area.

At the mine, Basemu and the others have circled this place many times and asked the technicians to conduct many tests.

"Where's the gold?"

Ahhhhh!

Basemu and the others are going crazy, roaring helplessly at the sky.

However, in fact, more than two thousand tons of gold were missing.

"But according to our analysis of underground rock formations, such mud should not appear."

It’s incredible!

However, this time, their God was not on their side, and the gold mine really just disappeared.

However, not long after the cargo ships sent over many years to transport the crude oil, strange things happened one after another.

After finishing the conference call with Wen Hongwen and Wolfgang, many years ago he rubbed his forehead.

A large part of it is the contribution of top scientists who have been poached from universities and laboratories around the world over many years.

Except for a small amount of gold ore powder about two to three meters below the surface of the mine site, there is nothing else at all.

He just knows the direction, but he doesn't understand scientific research, so he can only enrich himself in this way.

The income from the Plaza Accord seemed to be a lot, but in fact it did not exceed his expectations, and was even a bit low.

"So, someone must have dug away the original gold ore soil and replaced it with ordinary rock soil."

But it’s more to promote the tourism economy here. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be so idle for so many years?

Although most of his money was brought by the strong wind, he couldn't just throw it away like this, right?

It was tested more than once. Even when they sent people to transport the 16 billion U.S. dollars of crude oil many years ago, Basem and the others also ordered technicians to test it again and again.

Each region requires a lot of funds. For example, Turpan requires a lot of large-scale equipment, and many experts have been mobilized for research.

"There is no gold ore powder in the entire underground, and there is just ordinary soil."

There are still some parts that are the Peace Island back then.

There is a saying that it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them how to fish.

If Turpan cannot grow the high-quality fruits he wants, the money will definitely be wasted.

Just funding agricultural colleges and agricultural universities has cost more than one billion yuan over many years.

Because they don’t believe that someone has lied to us, or that someone could dig out all the more than two thousand tons of gold ore powder underground in such a short period of time and under the supervision of their people.

The royal family was so angry that they went crazy!

Needless to say, there are highways in the Kashgar area. It seems to be just for the convenience that he can drive by himself in the future and see the beautiful scenery in the Kashgar area.

"Oh Allah, this is impossible. But, this is the fact."

He has invested in a large number of projects in Kashgar, Longcanggou, Jiamusi, Turpan and other areas. These are gold-swallowing beasts.

Regarding these black technologies, I have not felt that they are very strange for many years, but on the contrary, they feel a bit slow.

Digging deeper, or digging in other directions, has no effect either.

The scientific researchers are also a little crazy, because this conclusion is obvious and cannot be achieved by human power.

If it wasn't man-made, then the mine they were looking at before was probably a conspiracy.

A conspiracy that has been organized here for many years.

However, how is it possible to do this over many years?

After all, there were many people present at the time of the transaction, and when supertankers were dispatched to transport the US$16 billion in crude oil many years ago, Basem and the others had conducted inspections more than once.

Probably more than five hundred times before and after.

It's a different position and depth every time. How could there be a misjudgment?

But if it wasn't a conspiracy that had been created here for many years, then what was going on?

What is the truth?

The royal family, in the magnificent palace.

At this time, Federer was negotiating with Noyce and Howard about oil prices.

After OPEC was established, it used various methods to challenge the status of multinational groups such as Mobil Corporation.

After all, the crude oil exploration rights, pricing rights, sales, etc. owned by Aramco should belong to the royal family.

Therefore, Federer, who was responsible for external affairs in this area, had already talked about it, but he still could not get vampires like Noyce and Howard to give in.

In fact, since the Plaza Accord was signed in September last year and the US dollar has depreciated, it stands to reason that crude oil prices should have experienced explosive growth.

As we all know, the depreciation of the US dollar will lead to an increase in crude oil prices. Crude oil has three points. First, the depreciation of the US dollar will reduce the purchasing power of crude oil producing or exporting countries.

After the Bretton Woods system, crude oil prices were priced in U.S. dollars. Crude oil-producing countries sold crude oil to obtain U.S. dollars, and then used the U.S. dollars to exchange for the currencies of other countries to purchase goods from other countries in the world.

As the dollar depreciates, the purchasing power of crude oil-producing countries decreases.

From this perspective, producing countries have the need to raise prices to compensate for the loss of purchasing power.

Second, the depreciation of the US dollar will increase the purchasing power of some oil-buying countries such as Europe and Tokyo.

Because crude oil prices in euros and yen have become relatively cheaper.

The depreciation of the US dollar has no impact on the purchasing power of crude oil in Bald Eagle and other countries that are bound to the US dollar exchange rate.

Therefore, from the perspective of the global market, the depreciation of the US dollar will boost global demand for crude oil.

Third, the depreciation of the U.S. dollar itself corresponds to the improvement of the global economy, especially the rapid development of emerging markets such as semiconductors in the past decade. The demand for crude oil is strong, and it is necessary for crude oil prices to rise.

On the other hand, as the dollar price of crude oil rises, oil-exporting countries have more dollars. When purchasing goods or services from other countries, they need to exchange them for other currencies such as euros and yen. This also boosts the currencies of other countries. , will further contribute to the depreciation of the US dollar.

The key to this situation not continuing forever is that other factors will prevent the dollar from depreciating in the first place.

For example, in order to curb inflation, the Bald Eagle continuously raises interest rates, thereby widening the interest rate differential with other currencies, attracting the currency to return, and the US dollar strengthens.

Or some kind of crisis breaks out around the world and investors' risk aversion increases, so they choose the U.S. dollar or U.S. dollar assets for safe haven.

Of course, now is the Plaza Accord stage, and Wall Street capitalists need to devalue the U.S. dollar to improve the international competitiveness of China's Bald Eagle export products.

But! ! !

The royal family, however, used means such as increasing production and price wars to abruptly reduce the price of crude oil from US$27 per barrel in 1985 to the current US$10 per barrel.

Horror!

This time the price war was triggered by OPEC's dramatic increase in production in order to regain market share and compete with non-OPEC oil-producing countries.

Even the depreciation of the US dollar has not been able to stop the downward trend of crude oil prices.

Therefore, from this aspect, we have been at a loss for many years.

why?

You know, last year, before September 1985, many supertankers were dispatched to transport crude oil worth US$16 billion from the Middle East at a price of US$27 per barrel.

Now, only a few months have passed, and the price of crude oil has dropped from twenty-seven dollars to ten dollars.

This means a loss of one billion barrels of crude oil for many years.

When the crude oil price was US$27 per barrel, only 590 million barrels of crude oil were shipped from the Middle East in many years.

On the contrary, if it is US$10 per barrel, then 1.6 billion barrels of crude oil can be transported from the Middle East over many years.

There is a difference of one billion barrels of crude oil.

Good guy, I can only say that these rich people in the Middle East are still very good at arithmetic.

It's a pity that they are still one step behind!

Federer sent away Howard, Noyce and other giants and returned to the royal family to report to their king.

Then he also met Basemu, and soon learned that there was still no gold found in the gold mine.

And the conclusions reached are mind-boggling.

"Damn, it must have been despicable and shameless for many years. It must be the bad thing he did as a villain."

Basemu's eyes were red and he said through gritted teeth.

His eyes were full of resentment!

He didn't have much contact with many years, but he knew that many years was by no means an easy person.

Originally, this gold mine incident was indeed the fault of the Middle Eastern royal family.

From the beginning, the cooperation between the two parties was full of cunning, conspiracy, and unknown risks.

As the richest man in Hong Kong Island for many years, a man who started from scratch and is now as rich as anyone in the country is definitely not a simple person. It is impossible not to see why they invited him to come here to open a mine in the Middle East.

Do you really think it’s just simple mining?

But no one expected that they would be so ruthless and defraud them of 590 million barrels of crude oil over the years.

As for the gold mine, Basemu felt that this might be a naked conspiracy.

The royal family, however, dove right in and are still complacent.

This is a loss!

So cruel!

Basemu's words made Federer and the others feel sad and a chill ran down their backs.

There is no doubt that he is definitely a dangerous person for many years and cannot have any more contact with him.

Perhaps before, the Middle Eastern royal family thought they could manipulate each other, but now it seems that it has not been easy for many years.

"Okay, let's end this matter!"

Their Muhammad, has spoken.

Basem suddenly showed unwillingness and shouted hoarsely: "Are we just going to give in? That's 590 million barrels of crude oil!!!"

No matter how unwilling you are, so what?

Can the royal family return the 590 million barrels of crude oil in many years?

Do not be silly!

"My children, this is a lesson. These 590 million barrels of crude oil are tuition fees. You all must remember it."

Muhammad spoke again and said this.

Like Bassem, Mohammed also wants to return those crude oil or more than 2,000 tons of gold in many years.

But this is impossible.

Even if they negotiate for many years, they may get bitten by the other party.

Or maybe someone has prepared the trap many years ago, just waiting for them to jump into it.

Some things can be done once or twice, but not repeated.

So the matter ends here.

When I lived in Hong Kong Island for many years, I didn't know what was happening in the Middle East. If I knew about it, I would definitely be very happy.

To be honest, the Middle East wanted to trick him this time, but they didn't expect that he would have such extraordinary abilities.

Haha, on the contrary, it made them miserable in the Middle East.

More than 2,000 tons of gold have not yet been fully refined, and it will take some time.

After being extracted, they can be deposited into Hang Seng Bank and Global Universe Bank respectively.

With so many more tons of gold, banks can do a lot more things.

Gold can only play a huge role in banks.

(End of this chapter)