Chapter 214: Pre-Fever (Ch 824330592)

Jiang Miao took a look at the actions of Quantum Fund and estimated that it would launch a general offensive on the first trading day after the Spring Festival.
So he immediately sent an email to the New Century Fund headquarters under a disguised identity.
At this time, in the office of New Century Investment Fund in Central, Hong Kong, CEO Zhong Liwen was also looking at the trading data of Hong Kong stocks.
Suddenly, a prompt message popped up in his personal mailbox. When he saw the sender’s name, he immediately sat up straight and clicked on the email.
At the same time, he took out a copy of Dream of the Red Chamber, compared it with the numbers on the email, and wrote down the deciphered contents in a small notebook.
As he wrote, Zhong Liwen’s hands began to tremble slightly.
“This boss has a strong intelligence capability!”
Even though he had witnessed the mysterious boss’s intelligence capabilities before, Zhong Liwen was still shocked, and at the same time, he dared not even think about resisting.
After all, he has been working in the financial circle for more than 20 years and knows a lot of unknown things.
Based on the mysterious boss’s intelligence methods, Zhong Liwen guessed that this mysterious boss must be a large organization, and it would be easy for such a large organization to kill him.
After Zhong Liwen interpreted the content, he deleted the email and browsed through the contents of the notebook again.
There is a lot of content above, a total of 47 pieces of information, all of which are related to the Quantum Fund, and the last part is the instructions from the mysterious boss.
“Haha… I see. Closing the door and beating the dog?” After reading this information, Zhong Liwen knew what his boss was thinking.
In addition to secretly preparing to short sell and blow up that bank, Quantum Fund also accumulated shares of 17 other small and medium-sized financial institutions, preparing to trigger a large-scale financial run in Hong Kong by spreading false information and short selling after blowing up that bank.
At this time, Hong Kong’s fiscal reserves have dropped from 1.1 trillion Hong Kong dollars in 2022 to 449.3 billion yuan, and have decreased by hundreds of billions almost every year in recent years.
There is another reason why Quantum Fund chose to take action after the Spring Festival. That is, before the Spring Festival, Hong Kong will distribute a lot of benefits, which will further reduce its financial reserves.
Perhaps many people are not aware of the welfare situation in Hong Kong.
Take the Old Age Allowance and Old Age Living Allowance as examples.
The Old Age Allowance, commonly known as “fruit money”, is for seniors aged 70 or above, who can receive HK$1,135 per month without undergoing asset and income tests.
The Old Age Living Allowance is a monthly living allowance of HK$3,915 for seniors aged 65 or above who meet the income and asset requirements. Applicants aged 70 and above can also receive an additional HK$1,385 per month in old-age allowance.
At this time, Hong Kong’s population is seriously aging, with people over 65 years old accounting for 21%. Its total population is 7.5 million, which means there are 1.575 million elderly people.
Although not all elderly people can receive this allowance, according to official data disclosed by Hong Kong, the expenditure on this allowance in 26 years has reached 41.9 billion Hong Kong dollars.
Coupled with other miscellaneous expenses, and at a time when Hong Kong’s land finances were drastically reduced, the situation of expenditure exceeding income resulted.
Since the Spring Festival is the peak period for the issuance of various subsidies, Quantum Fund saw this good opportunity and prepared to launch a general attack on the Hong Kong financial system starting from the first trading day after the Spring Festival.
Zhong Liwen was not concerned about the Quantum Fund’s offensive. He carefully studied the 47 pieces of intelligence, 26 of which were about the 17 small and medium-sized financial institutions.
He knew very well that at this time, Quantum Fund and many of its international speculative capital partners had secretly acquired many shares of these financial institutions, ranging from 15% to as much as around 27%.
Once these stocks are sold at a concentrated level, a stampede will inevitably occur. In addition, these financial institutions are targeted because they have a lot of black material that is held by Western capital. Once these black materials are exposed, the effect of the financial run will be further amplified.
Zhong Liwen’s strategy was very simple. After Quantum Fund launched the general attack, the day before the other party was about to detonate those financial institutions, he quickly reported to the Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission that these financial institutions had major violations, and that Quantum Fund was trying to manipulate these financial institutions to blow up the Hong Kong financial system, thereby triggering an emergency suspension.
As long as the stocks of these financial institutions are suspended, the stocks purchased by Quantum Fund and international speculative capital will be frozen for trading, and they will then face the embarrassing situation of being unable to detonate.
With so much information, if the Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission still cannot defeat Quantum Fund, then Zhong Liwen can only say one thing to the other party: Go home and grow sweet potatoes!
As for that key mid-sized bank, New Century Fund could quickly buy up these low-priced stocks.
According to Zhong Liwen’s estimation, if everything goes well, their various offshore accounts can at least follow Quantum Fund and take up 20-30% of the shares. Combined with the 13.9% they already hold, the size of their holdings will soon reach the controlling stake requirement.
At that time, Zhong Liwen will use other negative information in his hands to force the remaining major shareholders of the bank to sell their shares to him, thereby increasing the total shareholding ratio to 90%, thus triggering the ratio for forced delisting.
Although becoming a major shareholder through stock speculation was not in line with the concept of financial speculation, Zhong Liwen could not disobey his boss’s orders.
After sorting out his thoughts, he quickly convened the company’s management to arrange various tasks.
Soon, in the turbulent Hong Kong financial market, the tentacles had quietly penetrated into quantum funds through various channels.
Moreover, Zhong Liwen was not limited to the Hong Kong financial market. He also used other intelligence to make a comprehensive layout of the stocks and futures invested by Quantum Fund and its partners.
When the Hong Kong stocks that Quantum Fund speculates in are frozen, New Century Fund will launch a full-scale offensive and use its intelligence advantage to severely damage Quantum Fund’s investments in other financial markets, making it impossible for them to obtain financial replenishment from other financial markets and instead having to pay out part of the funds.
The New Century Fund could make hundreds of millions of dollars from it.
The reason why it is hundreds of millions of US dollars is mainly to avoid being conspicuous. After all, if too much money is made at one time, the target will become very large and it will be easy for local financial regulatory agencies to discover problems.
The purpose of the New Century Fund is very simple, which is to use its intelligence advantage to guide other Western financial institutions to attack the Quantum Fund and its partners, letting them fight each other.
After all, Western capital forces are not a monolithic entity. When they see that Quantum Fund is in trouble, they will most likely not provide timely assistance, but will choose to add insult to injury.
Over the years, Quantum Fund has offended many financial institutions in the global financial market, and these financial institutions will definitely not help Quantum Fund.
All the arrangements are being made silently.
Just wait quietly for the prey to walk into the trap.
…
As the Spring Festival approaches.
The New Year atmosphere in Shanmei is becoming more and more intense.
The streets and alleys are lined with stalls selling Spring Festival couplets, blessing stickers, red envelopes and New Year flowers.
Young people who had returned to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year holidays also came back from other places one after another.
Taking into account the need for professional management, the eel rice business of the Hailufeng specialty store on Ermalu was transferred to the Jianghai Restaurant diagonally opposite since June last year.
At this time, the manager of the specialty store was receiving a batch of aquatic products that had just been shipped from the Shiomachi farm.
These include eels, Egyptian catfish, blue crabs (locally called crab roe), whiteleg shrimp, lobsters, and salt-machi oysters, which are all aquatic products that can be supplied continuously.
The store manager counted the quantity and weight with the staff, and then took out the reservation list sent by the headquarters. These customers all lived in the urban area. He first sent a notification text message to the customers who placed the order on the APP, asking them to come to the store to pick up the goods as soon as possible.
As for those customers who made reservations through other channels, he needed to call them one by one to notify them.
After a while.
A Land Rover was parked on the side of the road not far away.
Two middle-aged men walked straight into the store.
“Who is Manager Luo?” one of the middle-aged men with slicked-back hair asked with a smile.
The store manager immediately stopped talking on the phone and said with a smile, “Hello, I’m the store manager. Are you here to pick up the goods? Do you have a pickup code?”
“Here…” The middle-aged man took out the QR code saved in his mobile phone.
The store manager scanned it and printed out the list: “10 jin of oysters, 5 jin of crab roe, and 5 jin of lobsters. Is that ok, Mr. Chen?”
“That’s the number.”
“Xiao Fang, pack for the guests.”
“OK.”
Arriving at the aquatic area, the middle-aged man looked at the aquarium, which only had a few types of aquatic products. He asked, “Don’t you have hairy crabs? Why don’t I see any?”
“The hairy crabs are not in season yet, so we may have to wait a few more months,” Xiao Fang said as he scooped up oysters.
Another middle-aged man who came with the middle-aged man with the slicked-back hair picked up an oyster and said, “Old Chen, is this oyster really delicious?”
“You’ve eaten foreign food in Pengcheng, and now you look down on domestic products?” Old Chen joked.
“I’m kidding. I run a Japanese restaurant. Domestic oysters are indeed not as good as those from Gaul and Australia when eaten raw. I have also tried oysters from several domestic production areas, and they are basically not very good.”
“Waiter, do you have any lemons?”
“Would you like to try some food? Yes, please wait.”
After a while, the waiter Xiao Fang came over with a small food cart with tools for opening oysters, as well as lemon, wasabi root and soy sauce.
He skillfully opened a few oysters and cut a lemon: “Sir, please!”
“You also provide wasabi root?” The Japanese restaurant owner was very surprised.
“After all, it would be a waste of such good oysters if they were served with just ordinary mustard sauce.” Xiao Fang answered with a smile while quickly grinding the wasabi root on a small grinding wheel.
Old Chen patted his friend on the shoulder and said, “Mr. Lin, give it a try!”
“Okay.” Boss Lin picked up an oyster and sucked the water from the shell. The taste was the same as sea water, but not as strong and direct as sea water.
Then he sucked the oyster directly into his mouth without dipping it in anything and savored it carefully.
But Lao Chen ignored his friend. After seeing Xiao Fang grind some wasabi paste, he squeezed a little lemon juice on the oysters, dipped them in a little wasabi paste, and then put the oyster meat into his mouth.
“Very good! The taste is a bit like Namibian oysters from South Africa.”
Namibian oysters are mainly cultivated in the Walvis Bay area of ​​Namibia, where the Benguela Current comes ashore. Due to the low water temperature and rich nutrients, the oysters in this area are very sweet, with a unique taste, no fishy smell, and a sweet taste of fruit wood. The meat is plump, but most of them are only available seasonally.
Boss Lin had eaten this kind of oysters when he went to work in Africa.
As for Gallic Belon oysters and Australian rock oysters, not everyone likes them because these two types of oysters have a strong metallic taste and many people can’t get used to them.
The oysters that are currently more popular among domestic oyster lovers are Gallic Ginado oysters and New Zealand Bluff oysters.
“Not bad, Mr. Lin?” Old Chen picked up another oyster.
“You’re really quick.” Boss Lin quickly picked up the remaining oyster, squeezed some lemon juice into it, dipped it in a little wasabi paste, and put it into his mouth. It had a completely different flavor.
After a while, Boss Lin asked quickly, “Waiter, can you deliver this oyster to Pengcheng?”
Xiao Fang replied with a smile: “This customer, it can be delivered to Pengcheng. You can make an order on our company’s APP and then specify to pick up the goods at the franchise store in Pengcheng.”
“I know.” Boss Lin had purchased live eels and white truffles at the Hailufeng specialty store before, and knew that Hailufeng Company had stores in Pengcheng, one of which was less than two kilometers away from his Japanese restaurant.
As for the price of 100 yuan per kilogram, this price is actually not expensive, especially for this kind of top-grade oysters that can be eaten raw. Imported goods generally cost more than 200 yuan per kilogram. Even if you buy in bulk from wholesalers, the price is at least 150 yuan per kilogram.
What’s more, he only runs a Japanese restaurant, not a seafood restaurant. He can’t take much goods at one time. If the purchase volume is not increased, wholesalers will not give too much discount.
After the two tasted the oyster.
Boss Lin looked at the crabs that Lao Chen had packed and said, “Lao Chen, are you going to pickle these crabs?”
“yes?”
“Give me a few when the time comes.”
“That’s wishful thinking. I want to give a few to my father-in-law, and my eldest aunt’s family also wants a few. How can I give them to you?” Old Chen refused directly.
“Come on, we’ve been brothers for decades, and you treat me like this?”
Old Chen didn’t believe the other person’s lies: “Haha, if you want to eat, buy it yourself, don’t try to take advantage of me all the time.”
“I can’t buy it?” Boss Lin also wanted to buy crab roe, but the waiter said that all the crab roe have been reserved by customers and can only be reserved now, and the reservation period is already scheduled until March.
Boss Lin, who loves to eat raw pickled crab roe, looked at his good friend Lao Chen.
Faced with his good friend’s persistence, Lao Chen could only helplessly say: “I really can’t do anything to you. There are only two. When you pickle them yourself in the future, you have to return me four.”
“good.”
Boss Lin turned around and picked up his mobile phone, ready to place an order on the APP. Suddenly he stopped and looked at Lao Chen eagerly.
Old Chen felt uncomfortable being looked at by him, and asked speechlessly: “If you have to fart, do it now, don’t waste time.”
“Haha, Lao Chen, you know that my own raw pickling skills have never been good. How about this, I will give you money to buy crab roe, and then let Auntie help me pickle more than ten kilograms.”
“You old man really know how to order people around.”
“Old Chen, you have a share of my crab roe. If I make mistakes with the pickling, don’t regret it.” Boss Lin reminded with a strange smile.
Old Chen immediately realized that he had been tricked by this old man. However, when he thought about the other party’s pickling method, he was indeed worried. He had been poisoned by this old man’s raw pickled crabs several times before. He could only reluctantly agree:
“Okay, can’t I help you?”
At this time, other customers who came to pick up their goods also arrived one after another.
Soon a queue formed in the seafood area of ​​the Ermalu specialty store.
The crabs, oysters, crayfish and whiteleg shrimp were sold out in less than two hours, and a lot of Egyptian catfish, eels and other products were also sold.
Although Egyptian catfish were not popular in the past, high-quality Egyptian catfish, especially the small Egyptian catfish recently launched by Hailufeng Company, which weighs 0.25∽0.3 kg each, tastes almost the same as the native catfish in Lingnan. Many people buy them and eat them as native catfish, after all, the taste and size are similar.
This small-sized Egyptian catfish costs about 20 yuan per kilogram. Compared with the price and yield of the native catfish, it will soon replace the native catfish.
noon.
While eating, the store manager Luo Weimin looked at the backend data and his mouth curled up involuntarily.
Today their branch sold a total of 200 kilograms of oysters, plus white shrimp, crab roe, and crayfish, the sales of the entire aquatic product category reached more than 90,000.
This means that their branch received more than 900 yuan in performance bonuses today just for seafood. Although it was shared by four store employees, each person received almost 200 yuan.
Of course, this surge in sales of aquatic products basically only lasts for about twenty days before the Chinese New Year, and can last for about a week after the Chinese New Year, with a peak season of almost one month in total.
At other times, only during the Mid-Autumn Festival or wedding banquets can the daily turnover reach over 100,000.
However, this is just Luo Weimin’s own estimate. He did not calculate that Hailufeng Company will subsequently launch various products such as salmon, salmon roe, Arctic sweet shrimp, king crab, giant conch, square-spotted conch, splendid lobster, mantis shrimp, hairy crab, etc.
With more product categories, the overall turnover will naturally increase, even in the off-season.
To cultivate the market.
The physical business unit squeezed out nearly one-tenth of its production capacity and sent products to the Pearl River Delta region.
As the supply is very limited, the specialty stores in the Pearl River Delta region have not received the goods, and customers who have made reservations can only pick up the goods at warehouse supermarkets in the suburbs.
However, the fame of Shiomachi oysters has also spread.
At least after oyster lovers in the Pearl River Delta region have tasted it once, they generally believe that the quality of Shiomachi oysters is very good. Many high-end restaurants have also smelled the delicious food and quickly placed a large number of reservations with Hailufeng Company.
After all, the feeding program that Jiang Miao customized for the Shiomachi oysters is to make them more suitable for the tastes of domestic consumers, rather than making them like the Belon oysters, which have a metallic taste in the mouth. This strong taste is difficult for many people to accept.

Người mua: Newking, 21/01/2025 11:19