Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 318, heavy losses, hell on earth!

In July of this year, Sam's Club urgently stopped exchanging dollars for gold.

In other words, European countries could no longer exchange dollars for gold from the Federal Reserve. This was the seventh dollar crisis.

Both the White House and the Federal Reserve are extremely worried and unable to sleep at night.

On August 15th, Richard Milhouse announced the implementation of a new economic policy in the White House, which would stop foreign governments or central banks from fulfilling their obligation to exchange US dollars for gold from Sam.

In other words, Sam is going to withdraw from the Bretton Woods system.

Of course, it’s not a complete withdrawal yet.

But even so, the global market responded immediately.

With the rise of economies such as Europe and Kimura, the strength of the Sam economy has been weakened relatively, so the global stock market, futures market and gold market have been shaken.

Financial companies such as Aucma are about to have a bumper harvest.

After Richard Millhouse announced that he would no longer fulfill his obligation to exchange dollars for gold, Europe, Kimura and other places immediately began to sell off large quantities of dollars.

In the global foreign exchange market, a lot of US dollars appeared at once.

The European central banks, led by Great Britain, France, Germany, etc., wanted to use US dollars to buy gold, oil, etc., which caused the US dollar to plummet and depreciate significantly.

At the same time, gold prices skyrocketed, and other commodities such as oil also experienced explosive growth.

Therefore, financial companies such as Aucma began to slowly ship out their goods because they held too much gold and other goods.

With both in and out, the profit earned is certainly not small.

Companies like Aucma did not hold on to the US dollars they received, but instead used them to purchase other assets, such as US dollar stocks.

Sam's stock market fluctuated and even fell, but some high-quality assets will still rise.

Therefore, the US dollars you earn must not be kept in your hands forever, but must be spent.

In this way, the global stock market changed dramatically, but for Zhao Mancang, this was a good opportunity to make money.

Of course, the Federal Reserve is also ready and is about to start the printing press and begin printing money on a large scale.

No matter how the Federal Reserve prints money, Zhao Mancang will first reap this profit.

Sam owns many steel companies, mining companies, etc., many of which are listed companies. Zhao Mancang directly asked the Wall Street wolves to buy these high-quality assets.

Sam's Club of this era still has many high-quality assets, which can be purchased directly.

Anyway, as long as it is a high-quality asset, just buy it without hesitation.

While the stock market, gold market, foreign exchange market, and futures market were experiencing major shocks, "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" had already topped the box office charts in film history. Before August 15th, the total box office had reached 1.7 billion US dollars.

The unprecedented strength left many people completely stunned.

No matter what, this incident will leave a heavy mark in film history.

After the 15th, the film market also entered a recession, and it seemed that everyone had suddenly entered a cold winter.

In fact, this is not the case. It is because movies such as "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" and "Jurassic Park 2" have already exhausted their box office potential, and the newly released movies are not strong enough, which makes the outside world have the illusion that the summer season is over.

It’s not that the newly released movie is not good enough, but its box office performance is far worse than that of movies like "Mr. Vampire 2". These movies broke the million mark in two days or one day, but the newly released movie broke the million mark in three days.

How to compare?
There's no comparison!

Paramount Pictures booked the most luxurious hotel in Los Angeles today to hold a grand celebration party, and most of the Hollywood stars were in attendance.

The success of "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" made Paramount proud. Although it was an accident, it was more of a result of its strength.

Not only did it make a comeback at the box office, but the movie's peripheral products are also not to be underestimated.

However, there is still a big gap compared with 20th Century Fox.

Because 20th Century Fox owns all the copyrights to "Jurassic Park", the dinosaur-related peripherals of this movie are selling very well.

On July 4, 1968, "Jurassic Park" was released on a large scale, and dinosaur-related products began to sell well on a large scale. The sales data is really mouth-watering.

According to incomplete statistics, after three years, the revenue from dinosaur peripherals has reached nearly 20 billion US dollars.

If it weren't for such strong revenue figures, 20th Century Fox would not have been able to invest 2 billion US dollars to build a dinosaur theme park in a place like Hong Kong Island.

Paramount still has a long way to go if it wants to reach the heights of 20th Century Fox.

What Paramount didn't expect was that MGM also got a new movie script, which was said to be a science fiction blockbuster.

Surrounded by wolves, it's difficult to deal with.

What's more, we don't know how long the current economic crisis will last and what impact it will have on the film market.

Zhao Mancang appeared at the celebration banquet. He came here today to affirm Paramount's achievements and to hold a meeting with the management to discuss the next series of actions.

A big war has already started on Wall Street and it will not calm down in a short time.

However, for companies like The Wolf of Wall Street, the battle is almost over and all they need to do is reap the profits.

Therefore, there was nothing happening to Zhao Mancang next.

Zhao Mancang took away part of the money earned this time, exchanged it for resources, and took it away with him.

Most of the remaining funds remain in the hands of companies such as The Wolf of Wall Street because they still need to acquire those high-quality assets.

After Richard Millhouse announced his withdrawal from the Bretton Woods system, Europe strongly opposed it and began to sell off the US dollar on a large scale.

Next, the Federal Reserve will print a large amount of US dollars on a large scale, accelerating the depreciation of the US dollar.

Zhao Mancang already knew that in the Middle East, all oil transactions had been forced to be settled only in US dollars.

In the short term, European countries still have a lot of US dollar cash in their hands, so they are not worried about not having money to buy oil.

What they are selling are just the extra US dollars because they don’t want the US dollar to depreciate and end up in their hands.

The entire world pattern began to change, and the gears of fate also began to shift.

So many things also need to be adjusted.

From Paramount to Universal Pictures, to 20th Century Fox, and then to MGM, the pattern formed by the four Hollywood giants made Zhao Mancang realize that it was not impossible to hide behind the scenes and control everything.

From now on, we may be able to further promote Chinese culture.

So, in the high-level meeting room at Paramount headquarters, when Zhao Mancang took out a movie script of "The Qin Empire", the executives were dumbfounded.

This is a fucking Chinese historical drama. Can Paramount make a good film like this?

"I don't care if you can make a good film or not. If this movie loses money, then you can expect to be laid off!"

At the main seat in the conference room, Zhao Mancang looked at the management and said loudly:

"This movie is not just a Chinese movie, it's also a special effects movie. I know many of you can't understand it, but you just need to follow the script and shoot it."

"Regarding the costumes for the film, I have already made clear regulations on how to proceed. You only need to refer to them."

"As for the related music, etc., you all need to find relevant professional teachers. If you can't find one here at Sam's, you can go to the mainland of Dongda University across the street to find one."

At this point in August 1971, Richard Milhaus's subordinate Kissinger had already gone to the University of Tokyo the previous month.

The outside world doesn’t know this news yet, but Zhao Mancang knows it very well.

So it won’t be long before Richard Milhouse goes to the University of Tokyo, and then the whole world will know about it.

"The Great Qin Empire" is a great gift. Whether Paramount's top management is willing or not, all this is beyond their control.

"Boss, what if the movie doesn't do well at the box office?"

One white executive raised the question cautiously.

Paramount has been performing very strongly over the years, with many of its films being profitable, or even very profitable.

But the butt determines the head, and white executives still hope to be able to shoot some science fiction blockbusters, rather than being involved in these political causes and effects.

Besides, the movie "The Great Qin Empire" tells the story of the great empire in the history of mainland China. For many ordinary people on Sam's side, they have no impression of it at all.

It is not a good idea to rashly shoot a movie like this.

"Oh, I remember when I was about to start filming 'ET the Extra-Terrestrial', you seemed to be against it as well, right? Didn't you imagine that 'ET the Extra-Terrestrial' would have such an impressive box office performance?"

After hearing what Zhao Mancang said, the white executive's face turned pale and blue, and finally he had to sigh and shut up.

Regardless of whether they object or not, Zhao Mancang must launch the movie "The Great Qin Empire".

In order to prevent them from working without putting in their effort, Zhao Mancang continued:

"If you try to be cunning or perfunctory, then you won't get your year-end bonus. 'The Qin Empire' is Paramount's next big project, and it's only the first installment in this film universe. If the box office performs well, more projects will be launched later."

"Aren't you envious of 20th Century Fox's dinosaur movie merchandise? Have you ever considered that the merchandise for The Qin Empire will be even crazier?"

Immediately, Zhao Mancang announced a detailed reward and punishment system with severe punishments and generous rewards.

Although they are a group of executives whose heads are determined by their butts, Zhao Mancang believes that they can make extremely correct choices under the drive of carrots and sticks.

Paramount will become the vanguard of Chinese culture. In Zhao Mancang's view, it is a very good thing to let this giant take up the banner of promoting Chinese culture.

No matter what the outside world reacts to, it’s just a matter of fighting back when the enemy comes and covering up when the water comes. It’s that simple.

After finalizing this matter, Zhao Mancang prepared to return to the capital.

But at this moment, his phone rang. It was Kang Junhao, the captain of the second team of the Jiaolong Army.

"Leader, we are now in a small wood outside Moscow and are under attack by the enemy."

Kang Junhao called for help, because the situation this time was indeed serious, and it was in a place like Moscow, so it was even more dangerous.

"Okay, wait a moment, I'll be there soon." The Jiaolong Army is the spearhead of the Jiaolong Comprehensive Organization, and Zhao Mancang certainly cannot ignore their call for help.

But judging from the current situation, they really don't seem to be doing well.

Zhao Mancang was impressed that something could go wrong while carrying out a mission in Moscow!
Taking off from Medford Airport, Zhao Mancang crossed half the globe and arrived in Moscow at the fastest speed.

In the suburbs of Moscow, Zhao Mancang found Kang Junhao and others, but he was stunned to see that they were surrounded by thousands of soldiers.

"Have they stirred up a hornet's nest?"

After careful observation, Zhao Mancang discovered that many of these thousands of soldiers were KGB agents.

Because Zhao Mancang often dealt with KGB agents, he was quite familiar with them.

The Second Squad of the Jiaolong Army is really powerful. It took so many KGB agents to deal with them, and there were thousands of soldiers surrounding them. No wonder they asked for help.

However, Zhao Mancang did not launch a counterattack. Instead, he used an extremely concealed insect drone to look down from a high altitude to check the current situation of Kang Junhao and others.

But the effect is not very good, because it is night and the vision is somewhat obstructed.

In addition, Kang Junhao and the others hid indoors and did not show up, so it was difficult to find out the situation.

As for calling Kang Junhao, it was not a good idea because the fighting was extremely fierce. So after thinking about it, Zhao Mancang could only set a trap from the outside, and then let the enemies in Moscow run into the trap during the chaos, so as to defeat the enemies as much as possible.

Inside a dilapidated stone wall, Kong Liyang held an automatic rifle, firing fiercely and reaping the lives of the enemy.

But Kong Liyang himself was already injured, and now he was just holding on.

On the other side, several of his comrades did the same.

Inside the house, several comrades were already lying dead.

This time they came to Moscow, they suffered heavy losses. It can be said that this was the heaviest loss ever suffered by their second team. I don't know what kind of punishment their leader will impose on them.

Boom!

Suddenly, at this moment, Kong Liyang and his men discovered that the enemy position two or three hundred meters away was bombarded by artillery, and a huge explosion erupted.

"Reinforcements are coming?"

Kang Junhao was immediately overjoyed, and Kong Liyang and the others were almost in tears.

After being isolated and helpless for such a long time, I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

While they were excited and delighted, they were also a little confused: How could the reinforcements arrive so quickly? Could it be fake?

But immediately, the second and third bombs exploded one after another. These were not ordinary bombs, but 155mm howitzers.

Kong Liyang and his group of Jiaolong Army members were already top soldiers in the army before joining the army, and were no strangers to the 155mm howitzer.

Of course you can tell that the explosion is from a 155mm howitzer.

And the movement a few hundred meters away also illustrates this point.

In fact, it was Zhao Mancang who really took out the howitzer barrel and aimed it at the group of people from Moscow. With a few loud bangs, many of them were knocked down.

There are several cannon barrels in three directions, so just shoot left and right.

Soon, along with Zhao Mancang's bombardment, Moscow immediately launched a counterattack.

Petrovikov was furious at this time. He pointed in the direction of Zhao Mancang and demanded that Zhao Mancang be wiped out.

"Did you all grow up eating shit? The enemy is right behind us, and no one knows?"

Anyone who was touched from behind so lightly and then shot would be angry.

What's more, the KGB had been fighting for more than 24 hours in order to capture Kang Junhao and his group. They made dumplings out of these people and were waiting to put them in the pot and eat them.

As a result, at this moment, someone behind him actually fired at him?
What do scouts eat?
What are the other soldiers doing?
Is that how vigilant you are?

What a fuck!
No matter how angry Petronovich was, the serious matter now was to organize forces to fight back.

However, Zhao Mancang did not confront the opponent head-on, but took the shells and slipped away.

A small force of several hundred people was chasing after Zhao Mancang.

Then, by chance, he fell into a trap.

So, Zhao Mancang decisively pressed the remote control and sent them to see God.

Hearing such a huge explosion, Petro Novikov was instantly furious. This was too much!

He personally led people there and took away more than 300 people. Now there are only about 500 people left, and it is difficult to surround Kang Junhao and others.

When Petronovikov came to within a few hundred meters of the trap, he had already seen the tragic scene of hell on earth.

Everyone's scalp began to tingle.

They didn't know how many people the enemy had sent, nor did they know what preparations they had made.

But being able to kill hundreds of their soldiers with just one explosion is truly incredible.

"This is a trap, retreat!"

Petronovikov was very angry, but at this time, he had to remain calm, otherwise, the soldiers under his command would suffer a lot of losses.

Only by preserving our manpower can we cope with all the challenges that will come.

Zhao Mancang sneered. Will everything be fine if we retreat?
Gunshots rang out, and Zhao Mancang, holding the Gatling heavy machine gun, fired wildly and worked hard. In just a few tens of seconds, he had killed dozens of soldiers.

Many soldiers who failed to react in time died.

Another hell on earth has been created.

At this time, Zhao Mancang was still very confused. What were Kang Junhao and the others doing?

Why has Kang Junhao and his men not launched a counterattack even though he has attracted so much firepower?

Have things changed?
Zhao Mancang doesn’t know yet whether there are any changes.

Seize the time to kill more enemies, that is what he should do now.

Bang!
Suddenly, Zhao Mancang was hit by a bullet and he immediately became angry.

The bullet hit his thigh, where he was also wearing bulletproof equipment, and the equipment he was wearing was the most advanced bulletproof equipment, which was a product of the system.

Although the bullet did not injure him, his thigh became numb after being shot, and he also suffered internal injuries from the shock wave.

So he was very angry.

Fight back!

Kill these people.

So he took out more small pineapples from the system space and threw them out madly.

There were three Gatling machine guns in front of him. He controlled them with ropes to make them fire automatically, while his own hands kept throwing small pineapples.

Many small pineapples exploded before they even hit the ground, and some were even hit by bullets and exploded in mid-air.

When Peter Novikov saw this scene, he was terrified to the extreme.

What is the situation with the enemy? Why can it deal such strong damage?
Devil!
Before Petronovikov could continue to retreat, someone else came up behind him.

Now, there were only more than 200 people left besieging Kang Junhao and his team.

There are now two positions, one on Zhao Mancang's side, and another on Kang Junhao and his team's side of the encirclement.

At present, Zhao Mancang's side is still stronger, because Zhao Mancang's firepower is very fierce, making it impossible for Petrovikov and his men to advance.

Not only was he unable to cause any harm to Zhao Mancang, but he was beaten to a pulp by Zhao Mancang.

It’s just because Zhao Mancang has too many little pineapples.

As more and more pineapples were bombarded, Peter Novikov and others had to retreat, otherwise their people would suffer more casualties.

They retreated and Zhao Mancang advanced.

Until they had nowhere to retreat and were defeated by Zhao Mancang, Zhao Mancang finally reunited with Kang Junhao and the others.

"Why didn't you fight back?"

After asking, Zhao Mancang did not receive a reply from Kang Junhao and the others, because they were all silent with their heads down, holding their guns and trying hard to shoot at the Moscow soldiers.

"Are you all mute? Don't you know how to answer my questions?"

Zhao Mancang immediately became angry and yelled. Kang Junhao then said reluctantly, "I'm sorry, boss. I've failed you."

Snapped!
Seeing the other party like this, Zhao Mancang walked up and slapped him loudly.

Even amidst the hail of bullets and the roar of artillery fire, the slap was still very loud.

Kong Liyang, Yu Liangcai, Luo Hongchang and others were all stunned, only to see Zhao Mancang angrily pointing at Kang Junhao and cursing:
"Fuck you! How can you be a captain? What did you promise me before? So many people are dead now. How many lives do you have to pay for it? Stop crying and start picking up your gun and beating them up. Do you still need me to teach you?"

At this time, Zhao Mancang had already seen that there were quite a few people lying behind Kang Junhao and the others.

Next to Kang Junhao and the others, there were hardly any people who could stand up.

Even Kong Liyang and his companions were fighting with injuries, and Kang Junhao was also injured.

So when such a strong ominous premonition came to his mind, Zhao Mancang could no longer control himself and slapped Kang Junhao directly.

Fight back!

(End of this chapter)