Chapter 1064 Harvest Season
On the evening of September 11, 2001.
Liu Tao was on the top floor of the Hong Kong Bank headquarters, with a large table full of seafood, fruit juice drinks and wine.
It was past eight o'clock, and the nightlife in Hong Kong had reached its peak.
There were tall buildings everywhere, and traffic was everywhere. Cruise ships and speedboats were carrying passengers on a night cruise in Victoria Harbor, a prosperous scene.
Liu Ziyu, Qian Zhenguo and others were talking and laughing.
Liu Tao chatted with them casually while constantly browsing the news.
Finally, at nine o'clock in the evening of Beijing time, which was nine o'clock in the morning of New York time, news appeared on the Internet. The first news was that two Boeing planes crashed into the World Trade Center Building 1 and Building 2, like a doomsday scene.
Liu Tao finally smiled.
Sure enough, everything happened.
This time, at least 10 years of national destiny can be achieved. National destiny is really something that cannot be stopped.
The Americans will lose their minds, fight and kill everywhere, and constantly show off their powerful military force.
You can decide when to start a war, but you cannot decide when to end it. It is not something you want to end.
Just like Nanyang, it has been 4 years since 1997, and there are still gunshots from time to time.
The same is true for Americans!
As long as the Americans start a war, it will not end when they want to.
Liu Tao no longer pays attention. In a good mood, Liu Tao picked up a crab and ate it with big mouthfuls, and even drank a few more glasses of wine.
Tonight, he is in a particularly good mood.
After planning for so long, it is finally time to usher in another big harvest.
In 1999, he took advantage of the Kosovo War to make a fortune.
Now it is finally time to make another fortune.
Large amounts of funds are shorting the global stock market. These funds are huge, and many are in offshore islands, as well as in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, etc.
It is difficult to trace them.
Liu Ziyu, Qian Zhenguo and others were very surprised. Why did Liu Tao suddenly feel so good? However, it did not prevent them from feeling better.
The next day, Liu Tao woke up and logged into the news website as usual.
Sure enough, all the major portals reported the 911 incident.
Xiangjiang Satellite TV also reported urgently and opened a special program to report.
CCTV International Channel 4 also opened a special program to report and tracked it 24 hours a day.
Watching the news, Liu Tao secretly marveled that the damage to Americans this time was much greater than in the original time and space.
The ruins and the screams of fear and despair all showed the huge damage to Americans caused by this incident.
The psychological impact of this incident on the American people was extremely far-reaching, and the American people's sense of economic and political security was severely weakened.
Liu Tao was not sentimental about this incident and worried about the Americans.
He was starting a harvest journey this time.
Even if the Americans announced that the stock market would be closed for 4 days, plus the weekend, the market would open on Monday, September 17, the following week. At 9:30 a.m. New York time, the New York Stock Exchange opened, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted directly, falling 684.81 points throughout the trading day, a drop of 7.13%.
After the incident, American stockholders began to panic sell stocks, causing the stock market to continue to plummet. Within a week, the Dow Jones Index, the Nasdaq Index, and the S\u0026P Index fell by 14.3%, 16.1%, and 11.6%, respectively. It is estimated that US stocks have shrunk by 1.4 trillion US dollars.
Although the US government has injected a large amount of funds into the stock market, panic selling is still unavoidable after the market reopened on September 17, and major stock indexes continued to fall to the lowest point in 3 years.
Not only the US stock market is falling, but major stock markets around the world are falling. The US closed for 4 days, but other stock markets did not close. During those days, the Tokyo stock market fell by 4.8%, London fell by 6.2%, Paris fell by 11.4%, and Frankfurt fell by 12.3%.
After the U.S. stock market reopened on September 17, the U.S. stock market fell by 14.56% for the whole week, and the global stock market continued to fall.
The stock prices of the airlines that were most affected fell even more. Basically, every airline fell by more than 30% in the first few days of the week.
After September 24, except for the U.S. stock market, which was still falling, the stock markets outside the United States began to rebound and rise.
After all, the initial panic has passed.
As early as September 21, Liu Tao began the final handover.
Not making the last penny is Liu Tao's philosophy.
In this incident, countless investors around the world, as long as they have a little experience, have shorted and become short sellers. Countless investors around the world are scrambling for various short-selling investment targets, including shorting individual stocks with securities lending and shorting stock index futures. Of course, some people choose to buy short-selling ETFs.
When the whole world is choosing to short, Liu Tao chooses to withdraw and take the money.
A large amount of funds will be used to produce more weapons and equipment, build more production lines, and further invest in domestic infrastructure.
When Liu Tao returned to Beijing to prepare for the upcoming National Day celebrations, the United States announced the death and loss figures. Such a large-scale casualties shocked Liu Tao.
Not to mention the huge amount of wealth evaporated from the US stock market, the direct economic losses alone exceeded 3 trillion US dollars!
A large number of casualties, these are only the casualties directly caused by the incident, not including casualties of rescue workers, police and other aspects.
Liu Tao seemed to see that the giant of the United States was furious and wanted to vent the raging fire.
After the incident, troops across the United States entered the highest state of alert. Although the Taliban issued a statement that the incident had nothing to do with Bin Laden, the US government did not buy it at all.
When George Walker announced to the world that the US military would fight a very special anti-terrorism war in Afghanistan to completely eliminate the mastermind behind the 911 incident and its ally, the Taliban armed forces, Liu Tao knew that Afghanistan, the "graveyard of empires", would work again.
In China, the National Day holiday began, and the whole country ushered in a 7-day long holiday.
The Chinese people, who are getting richer and richer, chose to travel during the seven-day long holiday. Tourist attractions such as Qiongdao, Ludao, and Yun Province welcomed a large number of tourists.
Liu Tao didn't have a vacation this time. First, he had to visit old comrades, and second, he needed to attend some meetings.
The impact of this incident is very far-reaching, even for China, it also has a huge impact.
Liu Tao's advice is: build high walls, store up food, and slowly become king!
Take advantage of this time point to practice more internal skills, increase efforts to promote the revitalization strategy of the old industrial base in Northeast China and the development strategy of the central and western regions, further tap the domestic market, promote the domestic consumer market, and reduce the proportion of foreign trade in national economic development.
At the same time, it is to further consolidate the "10+1" strategy with ASEAN and the "13+1" strategy in South Asia, further consolidate China's relations with Middle Eastern countries and China and the Arab League, and further consolidate China's cooperation with African countries and the African Union.
Even Latin America should strengthen cooperation, further consolidate achievements and deepen cooperation in economic, trade and political aspects.
He even proposed to do some ideological work on Pakistan in private so that the United States can enter Afghanistan smoothly.
As for the fact that weapons, equipment and ammunition grow from a tree or a cave in the mountains of Afghanistan, that is the law of nature.