The Son of Finance of the Great Age

  Chapter 726 Conspiracy Appears

   "What? It's impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Mboweni couldn't hide the horror on his face, and resolutely vetoed, "God, do you know what you are doing? Not to mention that we are a company listed in London, even if we are listed in South Africa, it is impossible for us to do this. Know that it is against the law, gentlemen, and the consequence is imprisonment!"

   "In my opinion, nothing is impossible in this world!"

Paulson unhurriedly lit up a cigar and handed it to Mboweni. After seeing the other party waving his hand to refuse, he didn't take it too seriously. He smiled and stuffed the cigar into his mouth, and said slowly, "Does the SEC know?" ? As long as the preparations are made in advance, even if they can't find it. Even if they find it, even if it is based on the principle of suspicion, what can they do to me?"

"To tell you the truth, I have done a lot of violations. So far I have not been caught. Of course, I am also prepared. If I am caught, I will apply for a settlement with the procuratorate. You know The cost of reconciliation can be far lower than the profits obtained from illegal operations. If you don’t believe it, you can ask the person next to me.”

   "By the way, you may not know who he is. Now, let me introduce you solemnly. This is Mr. Zhong Shi, from Hong Kong. He founded the famous Tianyu Fund."

  Pointing to the expressionless Zhongshi, Paulson said proudly, "Perhaps this gentleman has experience in the London market, which you can learn from."

"he?"

  Although he knew that Zhongshi was not an ordinary person, Mbowini still showed a surprised expression on his face. In his limited understanding of the financial market, there was never such a concept as Tianyu Fund, "Sorry, this is not offensive, but I just don't know if this gentleman can be compared with Mr. George Soros, who's Will it be more famous?"

   "Soros?"

Paulson's expression was slightly astonished at first, and then he burst out laughing, "Mr. Mboweni, you are so funny that you even compared this. Hahaha, to tell you the truth, Soros can compare with me. Compared to this one? Hahaha, this is really funny."

  Mboweni immediately looked ashamed, but fortunately, he was dark-skinned and couldn't tell it at all.

   "Okay, that's enough!"

Zhong Shi shook his head slightly, still with an expressionless expression on his face, but after he stopped drinking, Paulson suddenly stopped laughing like a duck being choked, "Mr. I'm a lot older, but...hehe..."

  He smiled lightly and didn't continue, but the implication was already obvious.

   "Mr. Zhong, tell me something about what happened to you in the London market?"

   Seeing that Zhong Shi refused to say more, Paulson on the side urged, "I don't know some things, why not tell us today to open our eyes."

   "Yes, yes, I am also very interested in this, Mr. Zhong, please give me your advice!"

Mboweni also echoed, "Forgive my previous presumptuousness, this is really interlaced, I don't know enough about your financial industry, I am very sorry. If possible, please Mr. Zhong can give me a better understanding of you." Chance."

   "Really say?"

Looking at the sincere expressions of the two, Zhong Shi began to hesitate, and asked after a while, "What do you want to know? But the first thing I want to tell you is that everything I say from now on is strictly forbidden to be leaked." , but if someone else knows, I will definitely not admit it."

   "Of course!"

  Paulson agreed without hesitation, and then he looked at Mboweni, signaling that the other party should also express his position quickly.

   "Mr. Zhong, you can rest assured that I will never reveal a single word."

  In order to express his sincerity, Mboweni even stretched out his palm and swore, "In the name of my company and my family, I, Tito Mboweni, swear to God..."

   "Okay, don't be so serious."

Zhong Shi waved his hand to stop the other party, and then said in a relaxed tone, "Actually, the supervision of the British stock exchange is not as strict as you imagined. At least in my opinion, it is almost equivalent to nothing. It is not like Like the SEC, they will bother you for everything.”

   "I believe you all should be aware of the Sumitomo copper incident. Yes, I did that!" Zhong Shi said lightly.

"what?"

  Mboweni is better, he has no idea what the Sumitomo copper incident is. For Paulson, the news was like a thunderbolt in his ears, and he jumped up on the spot, looking at Zhongshi in shock, "My God, how is this possible?"

   Paulson, who is now in Japan, even though he was just a hedge fund manager at the time, how could he not understand this event that caused a sensation in the entire financial industry? At that time, in the March copper market in London, Hamanaka Tainan, who could be said to cover the sky with his hands, was forced to choose to cut his position under the attack of several forces. About 1.4 billion U.S. dollars, Sumitomo Corporation lost a total of more than 4 billion U.S. dollars in copper futures positions.

   At that time, the world public opinion conducted in-depth digging on Hamanaka Tainan’s opponents, but the reports came and went, and in the end there was only a conclusion that was similar to speculation, that is, the Quantum Fund might be deeply involved. But anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is impossible for the Quantum Fund to invest such a large-scale position in it, that is, it must not be one of their forces participating in it.

  Who else will follow up, no matter how hard the media digs the ground, they have never found traces of other forces, not even the rumored reports. After a long time, when the enthusiasm faded, the whole thing finally died down.

   This is not what shocked Paulson the most. Judging from Zhong Shi's current age, he was less than twenty years old when he got involved in this matter, which made Paulson feel the most incredible.

"At that time, the bond market was experiencing a big crash, because some hedge funds urgently needed an opportunity to recover their losses, so they focused on London copper. I also focused on London copper at that time, but the difference was that , I always hide behind them."

Regarding Paulson's reaction, Zhong Shi just smiled lightly, and continued, "There is no need to say more about the process, it is just like the media reports, we did not hit Mr. Copper seriously several times. In the end, we still went through some media reports. The release of the wind was first started from the United States. Hamanaka Tainan was so conceited that he thought of manipulating the price of copper futures in the US market. This time they caught the handle, and the SEC quickly followed up and asked the UK to The parties jointly investigated, and Sumitomo Corporation was completely panicked at this time, so they dismissed Hamanaka Yasuo from his position in a hurry, and directly declared failure."

"In the whole matter, no matter how Binzhong Tainan manipulated the copper futures price, the London side always ignored it. They didn't plan to really intervene until the US side intervened. From this we can see that the supervision of the London market is What kind of mess. Of course, I don't know what the situation is now."

  Zhong Shi narrated it lightly, and when he looked at the two of them again, he found that both of them had their mouths wide open, unable to utter a word for a while.

  Mboweni is okay, he just captured information about the loose regulation of the London market. For Paulson, everything Zhong Shi said was something that shocked his soul. He absolutely did not have the courage and guts to do such a thing when he was twenty years old.

   "So, Mr. Zhong, can I ask you, how much money did you make in that transaction?"

   After being stunned for a while, Paulson asked with a wry smile, "I'm really sorry, but I'm really curious."

"this…"

Zhong Shi lowered his head and pondered for a moment, before he said uncertainly, "It seems to be half of their loss, right? It's been too long, and I'm not sure, but I remember that during the fight with Binzhong Tainan, Quantum Fund and the others I retreated several times, and I took over the empty orders. After three or two downs, my position on hand accounted for one-third of the entire short market. Combined with the information disclosed later, I determined the position It should be about half of the bulls in Binzhongtai.”

   "So you made at least $2 billion?"

   Paulson's eyes were about to sparkle like stars, "God, this was almost twenty years ago. God, how did you do all this?"

"what?"

Mboweni, who was originally only surprised by Zhongshi’s participation in the London market, was also shocked. He looked at Zhongshi in disbelief and asked repeatedly, “Two billion dollars, my God, what kind of concept is this? If I If I remember correctly, when Soros defeated the Bank of England, he only made $1 billion?"

  At this time, he realized why Paulson laughed so unscrupulously when he compared Soros with Zhongshi.

  At this moment, Mboweni realized that he was a frog in a well.

  Aside from other things, the 2 billion US dollars alone is enough to alleviate the current dire predicament AngloGold is facing. And the opponent was able to do this more than ten years ago, and now he doesn't know how far it will expand. It's no wonder why Paulson bowed his knees in front of him.

   Almost at this moment, Mboweni made up his mind.

"Two gentlemen, I don't have any problems with the cooperation. At the same time, I also assure you that I will try my best to persuade you about the board of directors." He said forcefully, "But I don't know if you two have thought about it. The company is the third largest gold producer in the world, ahead of us are Barrick Gold Corporation and Newmont Mining Corporation, even if we spread some news, if the two companies do not cooperate, the effect will not be very good !"

  The original condition for Paulson's shareholding was to ask AngloGold to cooperate with him in making an announcement, so as to influence the price of gold in the world market. This is naturally regarded as an act of manipulating the market, so Mboweni hesitated before, but under the black and white temptations of Paulson and Zhongshi, he quickly chose to give in.

   "Don't worry about this, my colleagues are already working on this!"

Paulson waved his hand and said proudly, "This one is a Canadian company, and the other is an American company. Although it is very difficult to convince them, except for Newmont's difficulty, other problems are fine. It will be very big, after all, no one will have trouble with money, will they?"

   "So everything has been arranged?"

  It was only then that Mboweni suddenly realized, but he was terrified in his heart. He didn't know what the consequences would be if he didn't agree, but fortunately, he made the right choice.

"your colleague?"

  Zhong Shi was keenly aware of the information revealed in Paulson's words, "What do you mean? Before I came, you didn't tell me this?"

  He faintly noticed that the whole matter was not as simple as Paulson said.

  Seeing that the two seemed to have different opinions, Mbowini stood up very wisely, walked straight out, and said to himself: "I'm hungry, I'll go order food!"

   "What's going on here?" After Mbowini left, Zhong Shi said to Paulson sternly, "You didn't tell me the truth, are you lying?"

   "No, boss!"

Paulson categorically denied it, but he changed Zhong Shi to a new name, "In a few days, you will naturally know, please forgive me, before this period of time, let me keep it a secret. But you can be very Rest assured, the whole thing is definitely a huge benefit, no, it may be bigger than the sky!"

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