Chapter 372 We are all slaves to power
Jiang Yiling was in the west house, turning on a small desk lamp, sitting by the bed, looking at the sleeping Jiang Shu.
She said that she didn't want Li Yuan to lead Jiang Shu astray, but she never stopped Li Yuan from playing with him.
The reason is simple, she is also a vulgar woman.
Who in the world is not ordinary? Money, talent, power, each one is irresistible.
She has never lacked money or power since she was a child.
But that's only judging from the people around her. After all, there's no one around her who is obviously more capable than her. Even if there's a slight gap, it's not big.
It's like only when people become rich will they say they don't like money at all.
Only when you have power can you say that you only want to serve everyone.
People are inherently double-standard, and the reason for this is their different standpoints.
Most people will reach their own ceiling, and even if they are unwilling, they will accept their fate.
She was a person who hit the ceiling since birth, and she had no resentment in her heart, and she lay flat completely in her own class.
She never thought about the future being better.
Generally speaking, no money or power can impress her except love.
If she was with Li Yuan in the beginning because she was psychologically twisted and needed the affection provided by Zhou Juan and Li Wanhe, then now... it was basically blind worship.
The worship of money and power.
She never thought that a person could achieve this on his own.
In this world, everyone can find a replacement, except him.
There are many rich people in this world, and some of them also have many female confidants.
But it is almost impossible for those confidantes to be sincere.
This is also human nature.
Women are not willing to give their men to others unless it is purely for money, or the man is powerful and they have to give in out of fear.
No matter what the people around Li Yuan were like at the beginning, basically no one is doing it for money now.
Otherwise, he would not have rejected the 50 billion.
After all, even if you stay with Li Yuan for your whole life, you may not be able to get 50 billion.
Song Jiajia? That was an exception, she got her own salary.
Some of Li Yuan’s equity transfers were operated by Lianhua Trust and had supplementary agreements signed, but that did not mean they could really get that much money.
Of course, it is definitely not because I appreciate Li Yuan’s talent or power.
Power? He had no apparent power at all.
As for talent, it has long been exhausted.
What really attracts everyone is desire and mystery.
The more I get along with Li Yuan, the more I realize that his inner desire is like a raging fire. Even at this point, it hasn't diminished in the slightest, but has instead grown bigger and bigger.
The future is full of mystery, just like opening a blind box, which gets better and better, and more and more exciting.
Now that he has a child, the energy that Li Yuan devotes to his child is something that most people don’t enjoy, which adds another buff to this blind box.
She went from being scared at first to being full of anticipation now.
She also has to open this blind box.
The material conditions are already full, and the spiritual conditions are also quite rich. When life reaches this point, there is still something to look forward to, which is the sense of mystery surrounding Li Yuan.
Everyone is playing this blind box game of life, and Li Yuan is the protagonist.
…
Li Yuan subconsciously opened the bedside table because he found what he needed inside.
However, after searching for a while, I found that it was gone.
He clearly remembered that there were still quite a few left.
At this time, he had already drawn the arrow.
Jiang Yiling must have hidden it. After all, a place that hasn't changed for so many years can't just disappear suddenly.
never mind!
rush!
…
When Jiang Yiling woke up, he found Li Yuan beside him.
It was just after six in the morning, and she hadn't slept well, but she sensed some movement.
When she saw it was Li Yuan, she rubbed against Li Yuan's arms and continued to fall asleep.
Li Yuan also fell asleep quickly.
It was not until ten o'clock in the morning that Li Yuan was awakened by Jiang Shu while he was in a daze.
Fortunately, he is not in a bad mood when waking up, otherwise he would have been angry after only sleeping for four hours.
Jiang Yiling just chased to the door, with a helpless look on his face: "He wanted to wake you up at around 8 o'clock, and I stopped him. But in the blink of an eye, he ran upstairs again."
Everyone in the family was on guard against Jiang Shu coming to call Li Yuan, and they even told Jiang Shu several times to stay on the first floor.
As a result, a child as old as Jiang Shu was lost by accident.
After Jiang Yiling discovered it, he hurried upstairs, but he was still a step too late.
Looking at Li Yuan with bloodshot eyes, Jiang Yiling felt distressed.
Li Yuan said: "It's okay, it's okay. I have to bear the consequences of my own actions."
After that, he picked up Jiang Shu with both hands and said, "Come on, Dad is going to wash his face and brush his teeth. Go call Zhou Mo first, and then we'll go out and play!"
"Dad, there's Qin Sheng too."
"Hmm? Is Qin Sheng still here?"
"Yes, his family moved here, and I helped him move a lot of things this morning. Am I awesome?"
"Great, great! Come on, everyone! I'll take the three of you skiing!"
There wasn’t much snow on the ground; it wasn’t falling heavily to begin with.
Moreover, it has been extremely cold these past two days, and the little snow that existed has turned into ice.
So, it’s not skiing, it’s skating.
Half an hour later, Li Yuan came back with a plastic basin. The three little ones were wrapped tightly in it, all wearing thick hats and gloves.
We found a slope and, with the help of a layer of ice on the surface, started a new day of activities.
"Dad, if I'm not careful while skating, will I hit my head?"
"Yes, no matter what you do in life, you have to be careful. But not today, because I'm here, and I will protect you."
"So we can't skate while you're away?"
"Who said that? You can skate when I'm not around, but at that time, you are the first person responsible for it. If something goes wrong, you will have to bear the consequences yourself."
"Then I don't want it. I don't have to get beaten when my dad is here."
"But Dad will be gone one day. Unless you never want to play such interesting activities again, you will have to face those difficulties sooner or later. When you encounter difficulties, the first thing you think of should not be to escape, but to overcome it..."
"Awesome?"
“???, that’s fine, no problem!”
No matter what your belief is, it's a good thing to stick to it.
"Then how can I overcome it if I don't want to learn?"
"Emm, I'm afraid this won't work. You have to defeat the feather duster in your grandma's hand, and even your father can't defeat that feather duster ..."
"Then if I surpass my father, will I have the strength to defeat that feather duster?"
"right……"
Li Yuan did not undermine his confidence.
In his opinion, even if Jiang Shu surpassed himself, it would be difficult for him to defeat the greatest artifact of all time.
Unless Zhou Juan is too old to lift a feather duster...
But by that time, no one will be able to defeat us.
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Just a few days after the Chinese New Year, what was supposed to happen finally happened.
This is the third black swan since 2020.
The first black swan was Xinguan, the second black swan was the plunge in crude oil prices, and the third... war.
This incident was not considered sudden, it can only be said that the timing was beyond everyone's expectations.
Either it will break out in 2017, or it will become an unknown.
The anchor point of the unknown chose this moment.
The whole world is shorting the ruble.
Li Yuan called Shen Anna and asked her to buy a large amount of rubles.
The foreign exchange market also involves counterparty trading, which is no different from futures.
Someone has to sell the ruble contract before someone else can buy it.
A large amount of ruble selling caused the ruble exchange rate to plummet.
In just one day, Shen Anna took over nearly 3 billion US dollars in rubles.
The entire market sold off tens of billions of dollars worth of rubles in one day.
The entire market was surprised. Who bought such a large amount of rubles?
Especially related personnel.
Li Yuan is not supporting Damao. In essence, the relationship between them and Damao is purely based on interests, and they have fallen out countless times.
It’s a matter of interest, what’s the point of talking about feelings?
So Li Yuan didn't pull too much, otherwise he could have taken all the more than 10 billion US dollars.
Only eating a part is to ensure one's own profit space.
The money used in this transaction was from the family fund, which is also the source of all the family fund's income this year.
At the same time, Bitcoin also began to plunge.
Obviously, Wall Street can no longer bear it.
For two consecutive days, Bitcoin fell by more than ten points.
The trading volume is not low, but judging from the market, not much money has fled from Wall Street.
At this time, the best thing for Wall Street to do is to contact those tens of billions of dollars of short orders.
Short positions require chips, and they have a lot of chips.
Be able to sell off the most chips at the lowest cost.
But no matter what, I just can't get in touch with him.
They are too familiar with this feeling .
There is no one in the world that they cannot contact, except Li Yuan.
Because Li Yuan will find an operator who doesn't understand English.
In mid-March, Wall Street finally called Li Yuan.
At this time, the price of Bitcoin has fallen to 30,000 US dollars.
At this point, all the remaining chips on Wall Street are locked up.
In addition, when the market was hit hard before, in order to stabilize the market, they bought nearly 20 billion US dollars at the 60,000 US dollars position, and these 20 billion US dollars have not yet been sold out.
It's equivalent to losing money.
They have to come out because the US dollar is about to raise interest rates.
It was a forced early interest rate hike, which happened in the next two days.
Only they know this action.
Li Yuan refused to answer the call and left the phone to Shen Anna.
He told her to wait for Wall Street to call again and she would be responsible for answering the call.
Let Shen Anna negotiate terms with the other party first.
Of course you have to take it. After all, holding such a large short contract requires paying a lot of interest, and the restricted margin is also very high.
Wall Street has no way to shut down Bitcoin unless it closes the channel for the U.S. dollar as the world currency.
It’s easier in the US stock market, they can cut off trading of certain individual stocks.
With a little effort, the brokerage firm can also restrict all accounts associated with Li Yuan's chips.
However, the project is too large and Li Yuan's financial accounts are very scattered, so it is only feasible in theory.
It's like installing an elevator on Mount Everest.
The conditions he asked Shen Anna to negotiate were very simple. He did not deliberately lower the price. He was willing to take it for $30,000.
After all, only if Wall Street loses less money will they dump the money at all costs, up to more than 10,000 US dollars.
His current short positions have reached 70 billion US dollars, with an average price of around 60,000 US dollars.
Ten billion dollars will be taken at thirty thousand dollars, and the rest will be taken at more than ten thousand dollars .
This operation as a whole did not involve much technical content or excessive bargaining. It was just that the needs of both parties were inconsistent and the other party did not expect things to suddenly get out of control.
If we give them another three months, they will definitely be able to make several hundred billion dollars, and they will not lose money overall, so there is naturally no need for them to come to Li Yuan.
Of course, there will definitely be other conditions to discuss, he must need ASML's most advanced lithography machine...
They definitely won’t give it to you…
Anyway, it doesn’t matter whether the conditions can be negotiated or not. What’s important is to tell others what you lack.
On March 15, Li Yuan had his first phone call with Beers in two years.
"Mr. Li, you finally didn't find an operator who doesn't speak English. If you need it, I can arrange an employee who is proficient in English for you, which will also facilitate our subsequent communication."
Biers had nothing much to talk about with Shen Anna, so he arranged for his subordinates to communicate.
The two sides conducted a few days of reconnaissance, and then the formal communication became less difficult.
"Thank you for your concern, Mr. Biers. If you could send a beautiful woman over, I would definitely be happy to do so."
"Of course, it will be a beautiful woman."
"Then I'll wait...wait for the operator to come over, and then we can communicate?"
"NO, NO, NO, Mr. Li's English is very good, there is no barrier between us."
Li Yuan doesn't even know how good his English is.
His English was typical of translation. After all, he worked as a handyman for ten years in his previous life and had seen a lot of relevant data.
"Could it be that Mr. Biers can't wait? If so, I will take the lead in this negotiation."
Li Yuan didn't say anything like they were going to raise interest rates tomorrow.
Make them believe there is a traitor among them? Make them suspicious?
This is not a good thing because they really have it inside.
Once it is found out, it will be a huge loss to China.
"Mr. Li, we really can't wait. The US dollar interest rate hike in May is something we can't wait for... Mr. Li's $70 billion short position will make a lot of money this time. Congratulations in advance."
Biers didn't mind others knowing their weaknesses at all, because he believed that Li Yuan also had a large amount of US dollars.
He must have more than the money placed in Bitcoin, what about other funds?
He was eager for Li Yuan to take action, and then take advantage of the interest rate hike cycle to slowly lock up Li Yuan's funds.
Anyway, no one can expect to make money in this cycle.
"Mr. Beers, you are wrong. I only have $40 billion in short positions. The rest is not mine. Since you even told me the time of the interest rate hike, it means we are friends. Thank you Mr. Beers for helping me recover my losses. I can enter the market with $10 billion today and take over the chips in your hands."
"Mr. Li, the news I brought to you is worth more than 10 billion US dollars."
"Of course...but I can only take out so much."
"Thirty billion dollars."
"You must be kidding me. Twenty billion dollars is enough for me to pay off all my short positions..."
"For 20 billion US dollars, I can open a US stock channel for you..."
"It's a market with an interest rate hike cycle. Does Mr. Beers want me to take over?"
Even if he goes in, he won't be able to enter under other people's surveillance.
"Mr. Li can go short..."
"I'm worried that one day the account will stop obeying me... Mr. Beers, let's talk about something meaningful. I can take out all the $20 billion, but I also need something else."
