"It's different. Brother Hu, you are purely speculating, but I am just doing it for fun. Look over there." Nan Yi pointed to an empty lot in front of him. "There will be a few simple houses built there to store steel bars. When the price goes up, I will keep the ones I use and resell the extra ones."
"The area is not small. How much steel bars do you plan to store?"
Hu Guanghua looked at the open space that Nan Yi pointed to and said.
"It's hard to say now. We haven't figured out how much we'll need. We'll just pull as much as we can. Domestic steel is in such short supply, the city can't approve too much steel for us."
"That's right. It's hard to get approval for steel bars now. If you don't have a valid reason, you can forget about getting it. You want to pull more, but it won't be much more. Three or four thousand tons is a lot."
"Three or four thousand tons is already a lot. There is no trouble. Any extra profit is just picking up."
Hu Guanghua nodded. "That's right. Your reason is very valid. You are afraid that it won't be enough, so you take advantage of the cheap price to bring more back as a backup. No one can say you are wrong."
Nan Yi leaned over and pulled out a dogtail grass from the roadside. He played with it in his hand for a while, then turned to Hu Guanghua and said, "Brother Hu, how is your group's color TV business doing?"
"Not bad, I earn about 800,000 to 900,000 every month."
"That's great. The Chinese New Year is not too far away. I plan to hold a lucky draw at the end-of-year party this year. The prizes will be color TVs. I'll go to your place, Brother Hu, and get a few cheap ones."
"That's easy. Just come and get it whenever you want it."
"become."
Nan Yi accompanied Hu Guanghua for lunch, and then the two separated.
After the 13th, the construction site of Dream Town was in full swing. Other projects could be delayed, but the Biopharmaceutical Industrial Park could not be delayed, so the project started from the Biopharmaceutical Industrial Park. Buer Pharmaceuticals also sent a supervisor named Ye Cangju.
Cangju is a relatively common Chinese medicinal material. The fact that Ye Cangju has such a name obviously shows that some of his ancestors were practitioners of Chinese medicine. Ye Cangju’s grandfather was a Chinese medicine practitioner, and so was his father. He also learned Chinese medicine in his family’s Chinese medicine clinic since he was a child. It was just that when he grew up, he accidentally studied architecture. However, he still worked as a Chinese medicine practitioner after graduation. He was forced to come to the construction site to work as a supervisor, because he was the only person in Buer Pharmaceutical who understood both medicinal materials and architecture.
As excavators and bulldozers worked busily, various problems arose.
There was marine sedimentation and everything underground, including shells, quicksand, silt, chalk, cultivated soil, and even a few fish fossils. This was incredible, so they quickly called the cultural relics department to come and take a look. But when they came, not only did they not give Nan Yi a certificate, they also rolled their eyes at him.
"If you ignore me today, don't grab the black wood when you dig it up tomorrow."
Complaints aside, work still needs to be done. The situation underground is so complicated that, according to Du Tiangong, it is difficult to use it as a natural foundation. But they only plan to build a one-story factory building on it, and driving reinforced concrete piles is not cost-effective. The technical staff of the Real Estate Department discussed it with the people from Jingjun Construction for two days and looked through books for two days but still could not find an answer.
Finally, a technician talked about how the hundreds of years old houses in Shanghai used Casuarina piles, which means that the piles were driven into the ground and soaked in mud and water so that the wood would not rot.
To stimulate discussion, some people mentioned Shanghai, some mentioned Venice. Later, we sent a technician to Shanghai to check the local chronicles and seek advice from several old construction workers. After nearly half a month of hard work, the foundation problem was finally solved.
When it came to January 1991, Nan Yi was going to Longkunxia Village for dinner when his pager rang. He saw that it was Ma Mengyu calling him, and Nan Yi became worried.
Recently, whenever Ma Mengyu visits him, it's usually nothing good.
After returning the call and hearing the news that an ancient tomb had been dug up, Nan Yi hurried to the construction site. When he arrived at the site, Ma Mengyu took Nan Yi to the side of a pit dug by a bulldozer.
There were several earthenware jars lying in the pit, one of which had been broken, with dozens of round, shiny silver coins scattered outside.
As soon as he saw the silver coins, Nan Yi felt relieved.
"Old Ma, have someone move the clay pot out."
Upon hearing this, Lao Ma called out to two or three workers, who went down into the pit. After a short while, they carried out four good earthenware jars and one broken one, and also picked up the scattered silver coins and brought them up.
After taking a look at the silver coins, Nan Yi retreated far away and asked the excavator to crush the four intact clay pots. As the bucket pressed down, the four clay pots broke with a click, and silver coins flowed out from them.
Having someone bring him a pair of gloves to put on, Nan Yi went forward to pick up a bank note: "One dollar, one yuan, do you see the English letters? This is something made during the Xuantong period, not more than two years earlier than Yuan Datou. Keep digging. Damn, I was almost scared by you."
"Boss, what should we do with these silver dollars?"
"Everyone who sees it gets a share. If you like it, take a few. I want to tell everyone that this thing is not valuable now, but it may be valuable in the future. If you can keep it, keep it for now. If you can't, you can exchange it for cigarettes or alcohol."
"good."
Nan Yi took off his gloves and said to Ma Mingyu in a gloomy voice: "It's enough to dig up the silver coins. Don't dig out anything more valuable for me."
"Boss, what if it is really dug out?" Ma Mingyu said in a low voice.
Nan Yi looked at Ma Mingyu with a playful expression and said, "Do you want me to give you a written order as a talisman?"
Hearing Nan Yi's words, Ma Mingyu's face turned awkward, "Boss, that's not what I meant."
"I know. It's best not to dig out an ancient tomb that's too old. It's too troublesome to deal with. Okay, you go ahead and I'll leave first."
After the surprise at the ancient tomb, the project continued on schedule. Half a month later, Ma Mingyu rarely visited the construction site, and the work on the site was handed over to the engineering department with Zhou Jina as the core.
While managing the construction site, Zhou Jina was also recruiting staff in the engineering department, including structural engineers, budgeters, site managers, electrification staff, etc. These people were hard to find in Coconut City, so Zhou Jina could only start with her former colleagues and then introduce talents through acquaintances.
At that time, the domestic construction circle was still relatively narrow, and everyone could be connected through an intermediary.
It was almost the end of the year, and even if someone was going to come, it would be impossible for them to arrive so quickly. The construction of the engineering department would have to wait until after the new year. Nan Yi did not have any requirements for the speed of the construction of the engineering department. It did not matter if it was a little slow. If he wanted it to be fast, he would make arrangements in advance and would not wait until Zhou Jina's quality was tested before starting.
One day, Zhou Jina was inspecting the construction site when she saw a block of soil collapse where an excavator had dug, revealing a thick black line in the soil.
Seeing the thick line, Zhou Jina immediately panicked. She waved at the excavator and shouted, "Stop, stop immediately, stop quickly."
Fortunately, the excavator operator did not slack off, and the bucket mysteriously stopped above the thick black line, just one or two centimeters away from hitting it.
Zhou Jina patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay, it's okay ."
After she recovered, Zhou Jina ordered all the excavators and bulldozers on the construction site to stop, and then ran quickly to the command post of the construction site.
In less than an hour, Ma Mengyu arrived, followed by Nan Yi. He walked straight to Tang Jiangong and asked, "Boss Tang, is this the National Defense Cable?"
"Yes, fortunately, fortunately, it would be troublesome if it was dug out. If we encounter a state of combat readiness or a telephone conference, it will not only be a matter of losing money." Tang Jiangong said with lingering fear.
"Yes." Nan Yi nodded, "Should the National Defense Cable Force keep this secret from the local authorities?"
"No, the information about the underground cables here must be filed in the Municipal Archives Bureau."
"Is it up to us to ask for it, or are they obliged to provide it?"
Tang Jiangong thought for a moment and said, "It's hard to tell the difference between responsibilities and powers. To be honest, we have the greater responsibility."
"If it is dug up, how much will be the minimum compensation?"
"It's hard to say. It depends on how long the communication is interrupted. But even if it's less, it won't be much less. At least 30,000 or 40,000."
"Thanks."
After Nan Yi thanked them, he immediately walked to Zhou Jina and Ma Mingyu and asked sternly, "Do you know the consequences of digging it up?"
"Know."
"Um."
"Lao Ma, you are from the Land and Resources Bureau and you are a local, why didn't you think of it?"
"I... was negligent." Ma Mengyu said stutteringly.
Nan Yi looked at Zhou Jina, "What about you, have you ever encountered this situation before?"
Zhou Jina nodded.
"I just asked Mr. Tang, and he told me that if the hole is dug up, the minimum compensation will be 30,000 or 40,000 yuan. I'll calculate it as 30,000 yuan. The company will bear half of the management responsibility for this matter, and you, Old Ma, will bear 80% of the remaining half. Twelve thousand yuan will be deducted from your bonus, and Mr. Zhou, you will have 3,000 yuan deducted from your bonus.
This is the first time our company has encountered such a thing, and I hope it will be the last time. I don’t want to see it a second time, understand?”
"clear."
"clear."
"Lao Ma, go to the Municipal Archives Bureau to get the information."
"yes."
Ma Mengyu didn't mind the deduction of money, but Zhou Jina felt a little upset.
That day, after getting off work, she immediately took off her disguise, returned to her residence in Longkunxia Village with a sour face, took off her work clothes and lay down on the bed.
Du Tiangong, who was cooking, saw his wife like this, and immediately lifted the lid of the pot to check the food in the pot. To make sure it wouldn't get mushy if he left it for a while, he walked to the bed and asked with concern, "Lao Zhou, what's wrong?"
"Don't bother me. My money was stolen and I'm upset." Zhou Jina twisted her body and said impatiently.
"Ah! Stolen? Where was it stolen? Is anyone safe?"
When Du Tiangong heard what Zhou Jina said, he immediately began to examine Zhou Jina's body.
"I'm so annoyed. Stop touching it. It wasn't stolen. I was fined three thousand yuan."
"It was seized? You drove the company's Little Tyrant back? You are so brave, driving without a license. Do you want to settle it publicly or privately? No, a private settlement won't cost that much money."
"What? It was deducted by that jerk Nan Yi."
"What's going on?"
Zhou Jina spat out four words: "National Defense Cable."
Du Tiangong slapped his forehead as soon as he heard it, "Ah, I actually neglected it and never told Boss Nan about this."
"Don't bother me anymore. I won't eat today. I'll eat when I save up the 3,000 yuan." Zhou Jina turned over and said, "Don't bother me anymore. I won't eat today. I'll eat when I save up the 3,000 yuan."
"Okay, okay, don't be angry. Lie down for a while. I'll call you when the meal is ready." Du Tiangong patted Zhou Jina and returned to the stove.
…
Nan Yi called Su Meng and told her that he would not be back for dinner that night, then pressed the intercom, "Zhang Min, come in."
Suddenly, Zhang Min opened the door and walked into Nan Yi's office. "President Nan, what can I do for you?"
Nan Yi handed a piece of paper to Zhang Min, "Type out the information above and bring it in for stamping. Do you have an appointment today?"
Hearing Nan Yi's question, Zhang Min's face lit up, "No."
"Accompany me to socialize tonight."
"OK."
"Go print it first. We'll leave when you're ready." Nan Yi waved his hand to let Zhang Min go out.
Forty minutes later, Nan Yi took Zhang Min to Nanhai Restaurant.
It was still the familiar private box reserved for Hu Guanghua. When Nan Yi and the others arrived, Hu Guanghua was already sitting in the box, and there was a young man in his twenties talking to him.
Nan Yi walked up to Hu Guanghua, patted the back of the chair and said, "Brother Hu, did you ask me to come over for dinner today because you have something to say?"
"The restaurant has brought in a few flying dragons for you to try. I'll also introduce you to a younger brother." Hu Guanghua said, pointing to the young man next to him, "Zhai Yuying, my younger brother, is now doing real estate business in Zhucheng, Guangxi Province; Nan Yi, you call him Brother Nan, you may not have heard of his name, but you know Asia, it was your Brother Nan who did it."
After Hu Guanghua introduced Nan Yi, he started bragging about Nan Yi to Zhai Yuying.
"Haha, Brother Hu, please stop praising me too much." Nan Yi said to Hu Guanghua, and then said to Zhai Yuying: "Hello, Nan Yi."
Zhai Yuying stood up and said to Nan Yi in a slightly flattering tone: "Hello, Brother Nan."
"You're welcome. Please take a seat."
Nan Yi sat next to Hu Guanghua on the left, and called Zhang Min to sit on his right.
"Xiao Zhai, how is the real estate market in Zhucheng?"
"The market is pretty good. There are more than 600 real estate companies there now, all of which are looking for the government to obtain land to build houses," said Zhai Yuying.
"Oh, how much is an acre of land over there?"
"17,000."
“It’s not cheap.”
Hu Guanghua: "Nanyi is certainly not comparable to your dream town. 500 acres of land only costs more than 2 million."
"Brother Hu, there is no comparison. What I got was raw land. I had to do the land acquisition myself, the three connections and one leveling myself. There were so many things that required money, such as electric poles, electric wires, water pipes, culverts, etc. It cost millions to get these done."
"That's right, the market in Zhucheng is indeed good, do you want to go over and take a look?"
Nan Yi waved his hand, "Not this year, I have to keep an eye on it. You don't know, we almost got into trouble on the construction site today. It was just a few millimeters away from the national defense cable. If we dig deeper, we will be in big trouble."
"Haha, Nan Yi, if you dig it out, you'll be in trouble. You won't be able to escape a good scolding." Hu Guanghua nodded at Nan Yi and picked up the bottle of wine on the table, "Come, have a drink to calm your nerves."
Hu Guanghua poured wine for Nan Yi and said to Zhang Min, "Beautiful lady, can you drink?"
"Brother Hu, forget about her. I asked her to come here to take care of me. What should I do if you get her drunk?"
"You boy, please be gentle and considerate to women." Hu Guanghua smiled ambiguously.
Nan Yi didn't explain, but just smiled back.
As soon as the dinner started, Hu Guanghua told Nan Yi about the relationship between him and Zhai Yuying. It turned out that they were both from the same compound. When Hu Guanghua was a child, he liked to go to Zhai Yuying's house to play, and he and Zhai's father were kind of close friends regardless of age difference.
Then he instigated Zhai Yuying to toast Nan Yi, implying that he wanted Nan Yi to take care of Zhai Yuying, and said that if Zhai Yuying needed help from him in the future, he should help him.
Nan Yi said a few polite words, and the atmosphere of the dinner reached a climax.
Zhai Yuying was not a good drinker and after a few drinks he started reciting poems non-stop.
"The red eagle spreads its wings and soars into the sky, and Pingjin will surely dominate."
"Eagles soar in the sky, fish swim in the shallows, and all creatures in the frosty sky compete for freedom..."
When he got tired of reciting poems, Zhai Yuying pointed at Hu Guanghua and Nan Yi and said drunkenly: "I am smarter than you, smarter than you, I am the smartest person in the world."
"Brother Hu, Xiao Zhai is drunk." Looking at Zhai Yuying's crazy state, Nan Yi said softly to Hu Guanghua.
"This boy has a terrible drinking habit, Nan Yi, don't mind it."
"It's okay. I think it's about time. Brother Hu, Zhang Min and I will leave first."
"Okay, we'll meet again next time."
Putting on his coat, Nan Yi took Zhang Min out of the Nanhai Restaurant. A cool breeze blew on their faces, and the foul air in the box was instantly swept away, making them feel much lighter.
"Zhang Min, where do you live?"
"New South China."
"I'll take you back first."
This night was very dull, and nothing worth writing about happened between Nan Yi and Zhang Min.
In the next two or three days, Nan Yi thoroughly understood the business procedures of various agencies in Coconut City, completed all the necessary procedures for building houses and repairing roads, purchased a batch of "pig heads" from Asia, and visited all the temples that needed to be worshipped.
After burning the temple gate, Nan Yi studied the distribution of villages around the Dream Town for a while, thinking about asking Ma Mingyu to go to the worship pier.
There was nothing they could do. The newly built wall at the construction site was covered with shit, and the safe at the command post was pried open. Not only were several thousand dollars inside taken away, but a note with the number "10,000" and a dagger drawn on it was also left behind.
Not only did he take the money, he also planned to extort another ten thousand yuan from Nan Yi.
"Changqing Village, Dingliu Village, Shangaotou Village, Zhenlong Village, Lao Ma, go visit the village cadres of these four villages. The upper limit is 50,000 per village per year, and ten jobs. I don't care how the money is distributed. I just hope that people from these four villages will not show up at the construction site in the future. Also, find out who the bad guys are near the construction site, and take time to invite them for a drink and have a good chat."
"Boss, isn't the price we pay to the village too high?" Ma Mengyu said.
"It doesn't matter if it's a big deal. Let's cut the Gordian knot. We shouldn't waste our time on them. It's almost the end of the year, so we should be polite and bring some gifts."
"Boss, there is something I don't know whether I should say or not." Ma Mengyu said after a moment of hesitation.
"There's nothing you shouldn't say. Just say it."
"Boss, to deal with those villagers, you can't just give them benefits, you also have to use some tricks to intimidate them. It's more effective to use both kindness and force."
“I understand this principle. There are good and evil methods. When the right way can solve the problem, try not to take the evil way. Dream Town is a dignified and upright golden sign. It’s just four villages. There’s no need to smear the sign.
Two hundred thousand and forty jobs are insignificant compared to the entire Dream Town. I don’t know how many two hundred thousand a year it will cost to entertain visitors who come to inspect, study and exchange in the future. Go ahead and do it. I will give a heads up to Director Ma. You can withdraw money at any time. Solve these problems before the New Year so that you can have a quiet year next year.”
"Okay, I'll fix it as soon as possible."
"Well, thank you for your hard work."
As soon as Ma Mengyu left, Nan Yi started rubbing his temples. It was too difficult to manage the construction site. There were too many trivial things to do. If Ma Mengyu was not doing most of the work, Nan Yi would not be able to handle it even if he devoted his whole body and mind to the construction site.
Now it is only the Beijing Army that is building the structure on the site. The personnel are all former engineers and are easier to manage. When a few makeshift teams are added next year, the trivial matters will increase exponentially.
While Nan Yi was worrying about the construction site, he didn't know that his research subject Cheng Hainan had already made great strides forward, leaving his research progress far behind.
In Nan Yi's estimation, Cheng Hainan should still be relying on smuggling color TV sets to the mainland to increase the thickness of his capital, but in fact, Cheng Hainan has long looked down upon the profits of color TV sets. He has now started making game consoles, and not ordinary game consoles, but slot machines and Apple machines that can eat people.
At this time, Cheng Hainan was negotiating a deal with a pair of brothers, Liu Guanghan and Liu Guangwei, who came from Hanzhou, Wuchuan, at the freight terminal.
"Brother Cheng, can you make it cheaper? My brother and I have just started this business and we only have a little capital. You are selling it too expensively. We can't afford it."
"Hey, Brother Liu, the price I'm giving you is already very cheap. Go out and ask around to see if you can find a slot machine for 4,500 yuan. Others are selling it for 6,000 yuan, so mine is already 1,500 yuan cheaper."
After the birth of arcade machines, horse racing machines were soon invented by the Japanese. However, horse racing machines had no market in Japan where pachinko was the dominant game. Instead, they accidentally entered the Taiwanese market and became popular.
Later, in order to enrich the product line, slot machines, Apple machines and other products were launched, and various gambling machines became popular in Taiwan.
After a long time, the Taiwanese people thought that they couldn't let the Japanese take away their money. Anyway, there were many electronic talents in Taiwan, so they could find a group of people to study it thoroughly. They did it right away. After disassembling and imitating, the Taiwanese people were able to produce various gambling machines by themselves soon.
With the production capacity, the market could not be limited to Taicun, and soon, gambling machines entered Xiangcun.
The people of Hong Kong were not stupid. After being profited by the people of Taiwan for half a year, the folk scientists in Yau Ma Tei copied the machine and made some innovations. For example, the wire drawing machine was an improvement on the horse racing machine. After placing a bet, you can press the start button to know whether you have won or not. If you didn't, the horse will run out smoothly. But if you won, the picture will freeze, like wire drawing.
In the past two years, gambling machines have appeared in mainland China, but the operators only knew how to open stores secretly and make a lot of money. They have no R&D spirit at all, and no one thought about investing money to develop their own machines.
Just last year, Cheng Hainan, who made his first fortune by smuggling color TVs, discovered the gambling machine as a money-making tool. After making two re-export trades, he started to smoke and held a ritual to invite the senior brother to possess him.
It's no wonder that Cheng Hainan was a rare genius. Not only did Tesla and Edison come, but Newton, who was dizzy from being hit by an apple, also came to join in the fun. When Da Vinci saw that his three partners had left, he simply followed.
Possessed by the four great gods, Cheng Hainan easily copied slot machines and Apple machines. The machines he sold were the ones he secretly produced. The production scale was not large, so the cost was high. At 4,500 yuan per machine, he could only make 3,800 yuan.
Liu Guanghan handed Cheng Hainan a cigarette and said, "I know, but Brother Cheng, your price is still too expensive. Four thousand two hundred. I want thirty."
Cheng Hainan took the cigarette and lit it. "Brother Liu, it's impossible to get a discount of 300. You have to be sincere. 4,350 is the cheapest price."
Liu Guanghan and Liu Guangwei looked at each other, then said to Cheng Hainan: "Brother Cheng, erase the fifty."
"Okay, you guys are happy. I won't waste any more time. Just four thousand and three."
Cheng Hainan was thinking in his heart that another 180,000 yuan had come into his account. He was so happy that he did not forget to think about Nan Yi - just wait, sooner or later I will make you kneel down and beg me.
“A-choo!”
Nan Yi sneezed, rubbed his nose, and boarded the ferry at the passenger terminal.
After more than ten hours of sailing against the wind and waves, Nan Yi got off the ferry in Shencun, then passed through the customs and entered Xiangkeng.
Last year, Iraq invaded Kuwait. In addition to wanting to default on his debts, Saddam also had the idea of ​​controlling the economic lifeline of the Western world. Kuwait's oil resources rank fourth in the world, while 19% of the United States' oil imports, 35% of Western Europe's, and 70% of Japan's all come from the Gulf region. Middle Eastern countries represented by Kuwait are the main oil suppliers to Western countries.
Saddam's plan worked well. The invasion and annexation of Kuwait not only solved Iraq's economic crisis, but also allowed the expansion of territory . More importantly, it allowed the control of the economic lifeline of Western countries through oil resources, thereby achieving the goal of dominating the Middle East.
Iraq's inflated ambitions were obvious, and Saddam's greed was too ugly. How could Western countries tolerate him? The United States could no longer hold back.
On the one hand, the United States took the lead and mobilized the international community to impose comprehensive sanctions on Iraq; on the other hand, the United States stepped up its military deployment against Iraq.
At 2 a.m. on August 7, 1990, George H.W. Bush formally approved Operation Desert Shield, marking the beginning of the Gulf War.
In the eyes of many people, Iraq is the number one military power in the Middle East and ranks fourth in the world. Since the 1950s, the United States has fought several very poor wars in succession, which inevitably makes people underestimate the US military strength . The just-concluded Afghanistan war also made people underestimate the so-called "superpower". The already forgotten method of spiritual victory has become a magic weapon for military management.
Fourth, versus first, people are not optimistic about Iraq's victory, and they speculate that it can only last three to five years at most, and then fall into difficult street fighting. The Iraqi National Guard is broken up into small units and uses harassment warfare, toilet warfare, bet you have no bullets warfare, gas cylinder warfare, and various guerrilla warfare to drag the United States into the quagmire of war. Unable to bear the casualties and expenses, the United States withdrew its troops in disgrace, and Iraq ended up with a victory that was not a victory.
In fact, the United States was also a little nervous. Many officers in the U.S. military believed that attacking Iraq would cause huge casualties to the United States. Some estimated it to be 15,000, some estimated it to be 30,000 or 40,000, and the more optimistic ones guessed the number to be at least 5,000.
Precisely because the forecast for the war situation was not optimistic, the United States made sufficient preparations before the war officially broke out. Various international coalitions were naturally involved. For the treatment of wounded soldiers, the United States prepared 46,000 combat-ready beds, 220 medical helicopters, and more than 1,000 ambulances in the Gulf and on the mainland. C130 transport aircraft flew more than 30 times for medical duty every day, and the Logistics Department even quietly ordered 15,000 body bags.
Taking inventory of Iraq's various equipment and troop numbers, and watching the various actions of the United States with a cold eye, all these things provide a theoretical basis for the possibility of a fierce battle between the United States and Iran.
As long as the war situation becomes stalemate, the price of oil will soar. Therefore, many oil futures speculators around the world are bullish on WTI oil. Some more cautious and thoughtful speculators have also taken into account the possibility that the United States may suppress oil prices, but the suppression will only cause temporary price fluctuations. The decisive factor still depends on the development of the war. Prepare a little more margin. As long as you can survive a few shocks, there will be a smooth road ahead.
In order to get insurance and share the expenses, a number of allies were pulled into the chariot voluntarily or involuntarily; on the Iraqi side, although there were no volunteers to help, countless people around the world prayed to the National Guard. From the gods of ancient Babylon to various wild fox Zen, all of them were prayed to by the speculators to bless Iraq.
Nan Yi was not idle either. As soon as he arrived at Fang's Manor, he put his lead pot on his head and used his energy to connect with the universe. In the depths of the sky, a faint voice told Nan Yi: "Believe in science."
After receiving the five-word mantra, Nan Yi, who wanted to eat an apple, was caught in a dilemma. Some science says that apples should be peeled, while other science says that apples should not be peeled. After hesitating for 749 microseconds, he decided to squeeze the apple into juice.
After the juice was poured into the cup, Nan Yi did not forget to pour some aged vinegar into the cup, turning the apple juice into vitamin-rich apple cider vinegar. Nitrite was naturally indispensable. If he didn't add more of this stuff, Nan Yi would cough while eating it.
Nan Yi put one spoonful, two spoonfuls, three spoonfuls of melamine in it and stirred it. He then sat in the living room holding the cup.
News about the talks between the United States and Iraq is being broadcast on TV. Iraq still insists on not withdrawing its troops from Kuwait. Today is January 12th, and this is probably the last meeting. Then it’s time for the battle to begin.
The Middle East is now a hot topic for television stations in various countries. Nine screens are all reporting and discussing Iraq. Nan Yi actually saw a Croatian TV station predicting and analyzing the direction of the war between the United States and Iran. They are really idle. Their own country is in chaos, yet they still have the leisure to pay attention to others.
"Dad, has the fight started?"
Nan Ruoyin, who had just returned from outside, walked up to Nan Yi and asked.
"Not yet. The negotiations just broke down. How much did you buy?"
"I placed a short order of 5,000 lots."
"You little girl, you are quite rich. You can easily mobilize hundreds of millions of dollars."
"No, I don't have that much spare money to use 50 times leverage." Nan Ruoyin sat next to Nan Yi, "Dad, you know, most of my money was used to buy a house."
"Oh, you are the only one in the family who owns the most houses. Tell dad, how much rent can you collect per month now?"
"Not much, less than 1 million." Nan Ruoyin said with a turn of her eyes.
"I'd never trust you, little girl. You're becoming more and more dishonest. I'm going to settle accounts with you someday."
"Hehe, it's really not much, less than 1 billion."
"Next time, just say it's less than 1 trillion. It will sound more impressive."