Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 335: Unhappy Things
October 1, 1973, Beijing.

There was no military parade on National Day this year, but Zhao Mancang still brought Zhao Huijun and several other children to Tiananmen Square to watch the flag-raising ceremony.

There was no military parade, but there was a flag-raising ceremony.

The fighting and death in the Middle East are all Middle Eastern affairs, and Zhao Mancang will not stay there forever.

He returned to Hong Kong Island on September 28th, and on the morning of September 30th, he brought Zhao Huijun and the other children back to Beijing.

There is only one chance every year to watch the flag-raising ceremony. If you don’t come to participate in this event at this time, it will be even more impossible to do so at other times.

The key to many things is persistence. Patriotism is not just talk. If you can participate, then participate.

After all, Zhao Huijun and others have been staying in Hong Kong Island for many years, and their thoughts have long since changed.

Especially now that Zhao Huijun has already stepped half a foot into the entertainment industry.

Even though Zhao Mancang had already made it clear to her, asking her not to be deceived by this big dye vat, he himself was trapped in it.

But there are many things that are beyond Zhao Mancang's control.

You can't let Zhao Mancang control the little guy's thoughts, right?
No one can do it, not even Zhao Mancang.

Therefore, the only way to influence the thoughts and behaviors of children like Zhao Huijun is through observation and exposure.

After the flag-raising ceremony, Zhao Mancang took the little one back to his home on Zhongguancun South Street.

At this time, there were already quite a few wolf-blue dog descendants left by Dahei and Xiaohei at home, but Dahei and Xiaohei left on their own in September.

They were reluctant to leave, but they had to.

For animals like dogs, it is generally very good if they can live for about ten years.

Dahei and Xiaohei have lived from 1958 to 1973, which is a very long lifespan. It is definitely the peak of a dog's life.

After all, many dogs don't live to this age.

Zhao Huijun and the others played with the puppies, while Zhao Mancang went into the house to see Lin Wan.

Hu Xiaohua was busy running around, and she was considered the little mistress of the family.

Usually, there are only two children, Xiao Pangdun and Zhao Siyu, at home, and it is very quiet. Today, Zhao Huijun and her family came back, and the house suddenly became much more lively.

Lin Wan's health condition is not very good, mainly because she refuses to accept her old age and insists on working.

Although Zhao Mancang only went to the Middle East for less than a month, she was not very obedient, which made Zhao Mancang very worried.

After reminding her several times, Zhao Mancang gave Zhao Huijun and the others a look, asking the children to persuade her.

After walking out, Zhao Mancang pulled Hu Xiaohua aside and asked her to help take care of Lin Wan.

Hu Xiaohua nodded repeatedly. She was very grateful to Zhao Mancang. If it weren't for Zhao Mancang thirteen years ago, the four siblings might have starved to death.

What's more, Zhao Mancang later found jobs for her two sisters so that they could live and work in peace.

After arranging these things, Zhao Mancang stayed at home for two days, and then sent the four siblings Zhao Huijun, Xiao Taozi, Xiao Baozi and Xiao Shitou back to Hong Kong Island.

He himself did not stay in Hong Kong Island for long, but went directly to Sam.

Now that the first oil crisis has broken out, the price of crude oil has risen from three dollars a barrel to seven dollars a barrel, and this price will continue to soar.

The reason why Zhao Mancang did not continue to go to the chaotic center of the Middle East was because Sam had more important things to do.

In a luxurious office in a high-rise building in the bustling city center of Manhattan, New York, Zhao Mancang was listening to a report from Benjamin Sharer, the head of Aucma.

"Boss, we've already started selling off our previous crude oil orders on a small scale. Based on the previous purchase price, our current floating profit is 28.9 million."

From three US dollars to the current seven US dollars, the increase is more than four US dollars, but the floating profit is only this much?
Zhao Mancang didn't say anything because this was just a small-scale test.

There are certainly many such transactions throughout the New York Stock Exchange, and there are already quite a few hedge funds.

One of the favorite things these hedge funds do is risk hedging.

We are not fools and certainly will not foolishly bear such a huge risk. Therefore, the hedge fund model can ensure that everyone's profits will not be lost a lot at once.

From Aucma to Stratton to other Wolf of Wall Street financial companies.

The oil crisis brought endless profits to these companies.

However, in order to ensure these profits, they still need to put in a lot of effort, otherwise, it will only be floating profits.

After staying here for more than a week, Zhao Mancang went to Los Angeles.

"You're finally back. I'm pregnant. What should I do?"

In the living room of a luxurious villa in Los Angeles, Zhao Mancang had just returned when he heard Maggie tell him a "good news".

"you are pregnant?"

Zhao Mancang frowned immediately, and without saying a word, he put his hand on the other person's wrist. The next moment, he raised his hand and slapped her in the face.

"Didn't I tell you that you can't go out and find food by yourself? You stinky bitch, am I not good to you?"

"why?"

Maggie’s acting is very good. After being beaten, she was still confused and asked why.

Seeing her expression, Zhao Mancang directly exposed her:

"Did you sleep with someone last week? In mid-September, did you sleep with someone again? You thought you were doing a good job, didn't you? You thought I didn't notice you, didn't you?"

After hearing this, Maggie panicked, but on the surface she remained calm and tried to deny these facts.

But Zhao Mancang's next words made her face turn pale:
"Your understanding of me is limited to Manny. Besides loving money, you also love to play. You think you can do whatever you want just because you have money, but you have to know that all this money is given to you by me."

"I may not have told you that I used to be a Chinese medicine practitioner. My medical skills are top-notch in the industry. I only need to feel your pulse to know what you've been doing recently and what bad foods you've eaten. Your pulse will tell me all this information."

"Haha, no one can deceive me. You think you are perfect, but in fact, I just trust you. I just didn't expect you to be so vulnerable to the test."

After saying that, Zhao Mancang stood up, took out a phone, and called someone in to deal with Maggie.

Instead of killing her, they sent her to faraway Alaska and let her stay in the "cold palace" by herself.

Zhao Mancang would not kill such a person, nor was he too lazy to kill him.

Although the other party cheated on him, Zhao Mancang would not kill her, but he would definitely make her suffer worse than death.

Doesn’t she like to play?

Sure, just go to that desolate hellhole in Alaska and be on your own, enduring the endless loneliness.

Want to come back?

Haha, with Zhao Mancang's strength, it is impossible for her to return to Los Angeles.

Zhao Mancang's mentality has changed a lot now. If he had not accepted Maggie at the beginning, perhaps he would not be so cold-blooded now.

And deep down, Maggie was just a 'tool' for him to deal with his physical desires, and she had no feelings at all.

Maybe that's why the other party is so "bold".

Without mentioning Maggie, Zhao Mancang left the villa and headed to the Robot Computer Company.

"Starting a research project to miniaturize supercomputers will be very difficult, but I hope all of you will work towards this goal."

After entering the conference room, Zhao Mancang began to hold a meeting.

"Today's supercomputers can only perform 50 million operations per second. They're still too backward. Integrated circuit chips are still not advanced enough, and all aspects of technology are still not up to par."

"You can definitely carry out other scientific research projects in a more in-depth manner and tackle various technical challenges, such as memory technology, processor technology, etc."

After hearing what Zhao Mancang said, all the experts in the conference room frowned.

Obviously, these techniques are not that simple.

For example, integrated circuit chips must have better lithography machines, otherwise everything we say is fake.

If you want to integrate more transistors into the chip, you must require the lithography machine to have more advanced technology.

Therefore, Fairchild Semiconductor must come up with more advanced lithography machines before this matter can be resolved.

After they finished speaking, Zhao Mancang nodded and said:

"You're right, but since you haven't developed photolithography technology yet, don't you have any other options? From what I understand, processors, distributed computers, parallel computers, and so on can all improve computing power. Why don't you give it a try?"

"Our company invests 32% of its profits into research every year. You've indeed produced a number of patents that have advanced the technological development of our robotics company. However, is this huge investment in R&D truly proportional to the research results you produce?"

After these words were spoken, everyone fell silent.

The scientists on Sam's side are all very valuable, and their salaries are not low.

With the same income as a researcher at the University of Tokyo, they could have produced more scientific research results long ago, because the income of one researcher at Sam is equivalent to the income of five researchers at the University of Tokyo.

I can only say that this is the market situation on Sam's side.

As a capitalist, Zhao Mancang must "exploit" them, otherwise he would be unworthy of his identity as a capitalist.

After giving this group of scientific research experts a tight rein, Zhao Mancang increased the intensity for the senior executives.

The reason why Robot Computer Company has been firmly in the leading position in the Sam computer industry is that Zhao Mancang has always been pushing it behind the scenes and has provided a lot of technology.

It can be said that this is Zhao Mancang's achievement. However, these executives all believe that they have also made great contributions, so they want to rest on their laurels and enjoy their retirement.

Haha, that’s totally wrong.

Competitors such as IBM are still eyeing the situation, and if we are not careful, the throne of Robot Computer Company may be overthrown.

The times are developing very rapidly. If you are not careful, you may really be defeated.

The emergence of the oil crisis was a real major reshuffle.

Perhaps starting from this time, the global economic landscape will slowly change, and the wild era of the Internet is about to come.

In order to welcome such an era, Zhao Mancang will of course take the initiative to push the companies under his name forward.

If he was abandoned, wouldn't all his previous efforts be in vain?

After leaving the Robot Computer Company, Zhao Mancang thought about it and decided to change his name and re-establish Apple Company.

The emergence of Apple is a backup plan and also a spur for the existence of robotics companies.

For him, it is quite simple to set up a technology company now.

There are still many talented people in Los Angeles today. Fairchild Semiconductor, Robotics Computer Company, etc. are all located in Los Angeles, and there are even many computer industry-related companies here.

Therefore, there is an ample talent pool, and if you want to start a company, all you need is money.

If you don’t have money, you must have technology. Otherwise, even if it is a garage business, it will not last long.

Many people don't pay attention to Apple, and no one pays attention to this company.

Zhao Mancang didn't care much about it because Apple had just been established, so there was no rush.

After driving to Hollywood, Zhao Mancang stayed there for a few more days and then went straight to Medford.

After arriving in Medford, he inspected companies such as Wanjia Supermarket, Mario Airlines, Stephen Farm Group, and Aviation Engine R&D Center.

It was not until early November that Zhao Mancang returned to New York.

In New York, the entire market is in a frenzy.

Before October, the price of crude oil in the market was three US dollars per barrel, but now it has become fifteen US dollars, which is an astonishing increase.

Moreover, the Middle East is still unwilling to lift the embargo, and seems to want to fight Sam to the end.

Zhao Mancang certainly knew what was going on, because he received news from the Middle East almost every day.

In the Black Cross troops in the town of Iskushuban, except for one team that stayed at the headquarters to guard the base camp, the other teams were sent out to carry out missions.

According to the feedback from Pang Zimo and others, the radical faction led by Razag Mejid and others holds a strong position and is unwilling to give in.

In fact, their king has also been balanced. Perhaps it was the deal that Zhao Mancang had made with them before that made them become a lot more arrogant.

Some members of the Grumman family also traded arms with Razag Magid and his men, which was one of the reasons for their arrogance.

After knowing these circumstances, Zhao Mancang was also happy to see it happen.

Oil at three dollars a barrel is indeed ridiculously low.

All I can say is that Sam and his group of capitalists completely disregard other people's feelings.

While they were printing dollars in large quantities, they were also frantically suppressing other people's oil prices, and they took all the benefits.

The greed of capital was fully demonstrated at this moment.

In fact, the reason why Sam had not sent troops to settle the matter at this time was not because Richard Milhouse was cowardly, but because he was in danger himself at this time.

The Washington Post is still desperately trying to dig deeper into the details of the Watergate break-in.

A newspaper certainly doesn't have that much power, but what if it was Richard Milhouse's mortal enemy, the donkey, who made the fuss?
Now that’s understandable!

You know, the reason behind the Watergate scandal was that Richard Milhouse wanted to be re-elected as class president.

Richard Milhouse arranged for his subordinates to install eavesdropping devices at the Watergate Building, and then learned the campaign theme of Donkey's opponent.

After finding this information, we can prepare in advance and then launch a counterattack.

Roosevelt and many other former squad leaders did the same.

Otherwise, how could it be so easy for many squad leaders to be re-elected?
But Richard Milhouse's subordinates never expected that they would be so careless, and then something terrible would happen.

Now that something has happened, we can only find a way to solve it.

However, the donkey would not give up and would attack desperately when it saw this opportunity.

So it was difficult for Richard Milhouse to deal with those things calmly.

The oil crisis has already occurred and public discontent is rampant, so what?

As international crude oil prices skyrocketed, gasoline prices within Sam's territory naturally also took the opportunity to rise.

It's like an exchange, with prices rising and falling in real time.

Zhao Mancang is very clear about all of this and can see through it all.

So, when the price of crude oil rose to $15 a barrel, he was the happiest one.

The order he gave to financial companies such as Aucma was to sell off all of their stocks at fourteen or thirteen dollars a barrel.

It's not just the financial company, even the Nolinasun Group, which had previously stockpiled a large amount of crude oil, can now sell it.

In the city of Tokyo, the Norinasun Group has reserves of nearly 30 million US dollars worth of crude oil.

The previous price was only three US dollars, plus shipping costs, etc., it was only three and a half US dollars per barrel.

However, the current price is twelve dollars a barrel, and it can be sold out in a very short time.

After all, the international price of crude oil is already fifteen US dollars a barrel, and the Norinasun Group sells it at twelve US dollars. For many companies, this is a timely help.

You know, since the Middle East imposed an embargo at the end of September, oil shortages have begun all over the world.

Sam is in the most urgent need of it because the country is heavily dependent on crude oil.

Whether it is chemical and other related companies or industries such as automobiles, they are all highly dependent on oil.

Therefore, the oil processing companies under the Nolinasun Group and Wanjia Supermarket have all stored large amounts of crude oil.

Taking the Port of San Francisco as an example, the Norinasun Group has stored 120 million barrels of crude oil here.

Based on the cost of $3.6, it is now sold for $12, so the difference is $8.4.

120 million barrels of crude oil, the price difference is 1.008 billion US dollars.

How many times of transportation does it take to earn such a high profit?

Other cities, such as the Port of New York, also had oil reserves of around 100 million barrels, all of which were sold off.

For a while, it seemed that the crude oil supply in Sam was no longer so scarce.

Why do financial companies make such huge profits?
This is one of the reasons, because they do not create any value themselves, but can make a lot of money easily.

It is completely about making money by taking advantage of information asymmetry, making huge profits with only investment.

A high-end evening party is being held in a super luxurious hotel in Manhattan, New York.

Zhao Mancang also attended the party. Harlan Nicholson, the second largest shareholder of the First Citibank Consortium, gave him a pair of beautiful twin girls with extremely high looks and great figures.

"What do you mean?"

There is no doubt that the two beauties sent by Harlan Nicholson are indeed rare and top-notch, but what kind of beauties has Zhao Mancang not seen?
What's more, he had just dealt with Maggie recently, and he didn't believe that Harlan Nicholson, with his information channels, would not be unaware of his recent bad temper.

Seeing Zhao Mancang frowning, Harlan Nicholson laughed and said:
"I don't know if you want to quit masturbating, but brother, these are original products that I have kept for a long time. I guarantee that no one has touched them."

"How about making friends?"

Zhao Mancang frowned, looked at the two beautiful women beside him, waved them to sit down, and then asked Harlan Nicholson:

"Tell me what you want to do. If you don't want to tell me, forget it. I've taken the benefits and I won't give them back. You should believe that I have the ability to do it."

The latter's heart suddenly skipped a beat, as if Zhao Mancang had seen through him.

In Wall Street, there are many powerful people, but there is only one outsider like Zhao Mancang who can take root in Wall Street for so many years and yet remain outside the influence of Wall Street.

It is rare to see Zhao Mancang participate in activities, and today is a rare opportunity, so Harlan Nicholson personally came to meet with the former.

But in the first confrontation, Harlan Nicholson was at a disadvantage and his intentions were discovered.

Fortunately, this is normal. After all, there is a reason why Zhao Mancang can be so successful in a place like Wall Street.

After calming down, Harlan Nicholson forced a smile and said:
"Friend, I certainly believe you are very strong, but fighting alone is not a good idea. Only by uniting together can we unleash greater strength. What do you think?"

Zhao Mancang interrupted without hesitation:
"Stop playing dumb and just tell me what you want. I don't have time to beat around the bush."

Harlan Nicholson was about to get angry when these words were spoken. No one had ever been so rude to him before.

Even if Zhao Mancang is a newcomer, Harun is also a local tyrant on Wall Street, and a super boss at that. Shouldn't he be given any respect at all?
However, thinking about his purpose, Harlan Nicholson also thought about how powerful the companies under Zhao Mancang's name had become in the past period of time, so he had to suppress his anger and said:
"Friend, we would like to invite you to join us and become a member of our brotherhood so that we can stand together in the future."

Zhao Mancang couldn't help but sneer when he heard this.

(End of this chapter)