Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

September 3, 1987.

It's autumn again.

Zhao Linlin and Zhao Leyong are both twelve years old this year and are in the second year of junior high school. They will be in the third year of junior high school soon.

They entered school a little earlier than other children.

They also have better learning abilities.

A few days ago, they held a family meeting, which the two siblings also attended.

"Little sister, are you really going to hand over all your money to your older brother to manage?"

"Zhao Leyong, you're not going to chicken out, are you?"

“I’m your brother, you should call me brother, you know that? You’re calling me by my full name, Zhao Linlin, let me tell you, watch out or I’ll beat you up.”

Upon hearing this, Zhao Linlin rolled her eyes and said:
"You're not even as tall as me, and you think you can beat me up? Pfft!"

The two siblings are clearly twins, but at this age, Zhao Leyong is not as tall as his sister.

Because girls develop faster and better.

Although they are already twelve years old this year, Zhao Linlin is already 1.63 meters tall, but Zhao Leyong is only 1.5 meters tall.

Actually, Zhao Leyong isn't considered short among his peers.

Unfortunately, his sister was even more stunning, which made him lose face.

"Hmph, I'm just a gentleman. A good man doesn't argue with a woman!"

An angry Zhao Leyong could only utter a polite remark before leaving.

However, after returning home that night, he found Zhao Jinshi and asked his older brother to help him increase the leverage by ten times.

"You're going to leverage that much? You already have five hundred million dollars, if you leverage it tenfold, that's five billion dollars! If you lose it all, you'll lose all five hundred million."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jinshi was immediately surprised.

Investing $500 million in the stock market is a very courageous move for Zhao Leyong.

Now things have gotten even worse; we need to leverage it tenfold.

This means that we need to negotiate with the banks for $4.5 billion.

The bank will oversee this investment in shorting US stocks.

If the unrealized loss exceeds the baseline and Zhao Leyong does not continue to invest funds to increase the margin, the bank will force liquidation.

In this way, the $500 million that Zhao Leyong had previously invested would all be lost.

Losing all his wealth would not be a good thing for Zhao Leyong.

The little one might not be able to handle it and could even have suicidal thoughts.

"Big brother, I know, I believe Dad wouldn't lie to a child like me."

At this moment, Zhao Leyong spoke with exceptional seriousness.

In reality, his own inner thought was to surpass his sister Zhao Linlin.

Previously, his allowance was almost the same as Zhao Linlin's.

Now is the time to widen the gap.

Since he cannot surpass his sister in height.

Then let's surpass her in terms of wealth.

To prevent his sister from being disrespectful and always calling him by his full name.

"Alright, but I think you should still talk to your second mother, otherwise I won't dare to increase the leverage for you directly."

Zhao Jinshi said helplessly.

"Big brother, I've already talked to Mom, and she's very supportive. She's even willing to lend me $100 million so I can replenish my funds whenever I need to."

Hearing this, Zhao Jinshi knew that the kid was well-prepared and understood the rules of leverage very clearly.

In that case, let's help him leverage his resources.

Thinking about this, Zhao Jinshi suddenly felt a headache coming on.

A few days ago, his older sister, Zhao Huijun, borrowed three billion US dollars from him.

It's obvious that his older sister also wants to expand and strengthen the business.

The same applies to Zhao Leyong now.

However, Zhao Jinshi only invested 10 billion US dollars in cash, without using any leverage.

Thinking about this, Zhao Jinshi felt that if he wanted to consolidate his position in the family...

It seems he needs to talk to relevant institutions about the transaction, and he's going to increase his leverage.

However, he certainly wouldn't increase it by five or ten times; he would just increase it by three times.

So the next day he took his private plane to Great Britain.

He immediately contacted HSBC, hoping to borrow money from them.

They then approached Barclays Bank, asking them to invest funds to short US stocks.

At the same time, leverage is tripled.

Zhao Jinshi spent the first ten days of September in this busy state.

Meanwhile, Zhao Huijun had already combined the three billion US dollars she had borrowed with her own 1.5 billion US dollars.

They invested it all in the stock market.

Her father had said that it would be best to find a trustworthy organization to help with the process.

If we're talking about trustworthy institutions, without a doubt, the Hong Kong Development Bank Group, under their father's control, is the most trustworthy.

Hong Kong Development Bank also has many securities departments.

So you can't go wrong by asking them for help.

The total amount was US$4.5 billion. However, when Zhao Huijun proposed to the head of Hong Kong Development Bank that she wanted to increase the leverage by five times, the head of the bank's eyes widened in surprise.

"Ms. Zhao, you've leveraged this fivefold, totaling two hundred and twenty-five billion US dollars."

"And once the unrealized losses exceed $4.5 billion, and you don't have enough margin, then you will definitely lose it all."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Huijun fell into deep thought.

After thinking for a while, he said:
"Okay, please wait for me a moment, I'll go out and make a phone call."

To everyone's surprise, the person in charge said he would go out first and that she could use the VIP room to make a phone call.

Anyway, this room is very private and safe, so there's no need to worry about anyone eavesdropping.

Soon, Zhao Huijun dialed her father's satellite phone from her room.

Zhao Mancang, who was attending a meeting in Yunlan City, never expected to receive a call from his daughter.

In fact, Zhao Huijun is not his biological daughter with Lin Wan, but rather the orphan of Lin Wan's elder sister.

However, ever since Zhao Mancang married Lin Wan, he has always treated Zhao Huijun as his own daughter.

So when I received her call this time, although I was a little surprised, I was still very happy to chat with her.

Who would have thought that the little glutton of yesteryear would be so bold now?

He asked to borrow 10 billion US dollars right off the bat.

They really don't value money.

However, Zhao Mancang still lent her the money.

"Thank you, Dad. I love you!"

Zhao Huijun was overjoyed.

That's ten billion dollars, not a hundred dollars.

The fact that her father was willing to lend her so much money shows how much he trusted her.

Twenty-one years have passed since Zhao Huijun came to Hong Kong Island to study in 1966.

During her years living on Hong Kong Island, she had heard quite a bit about the intrigues and power struggles within wealthy families. Mutual distrust was just the tip of the iceberg; the real issue was the open and covert power struggles between family members.

It was truly a bloody and brutal affair.

However, Zhao Huijun did not feel this way at the Zhao family home; on the contrary, she felt an unprecedented warmth.

For example, their family has so many children, whether it's Zhao Huijun, who isn't their biological child, or Liu Baochan, who was born to their stepmother.

Zhao Mancang treats everyone equally, and everyone can live together peacefully.

Although the assets of each of the fifteen children are different, their basic capital is roughly the same.

Moreover, everyone is willing to help each other.

She borrowed $10 billion directly from her father, bringing her current financial situation to roughly the same level as the fourth son.

Therefore, after this, Zhao Huijun's net worth will definitely be more than that of the fourth brother.

In Yunlan City, Zhao Mancang chuckled and hung up the phone.

He knew his kids would definitely fight it out and make a killing during this stock market crash.

But he didn't expect Zhao Huijun to be so bold.

However, he doesn't intend to get involved in this matter.

As the saying goes, the bold get rich while the timid starve.

Even if Zhao Huijun didn't borrow money from him, she had other channels to get loans.

As for whether the outside world will know about the actions of those children this time.

Zhao Mancang has even less to worry about.

The Wall Street giants on Sam's side are extremely greedy.

Any short selling or long selling from the outside is just 'nutrients' for their capital.

Wall Street capital has long since developed a relatively effective global harvesting strategy.

They certainly wouldn't reject any inflow of external funds; in fact, they would welcome it.

Furthermore, compared to other international capital investing in the US stock market, this indicates a bullish outlook on the US stock market.

George Bush and his ilk would prefer more capital to drive down the US stock market, which would cool down the overheated US economy.

This can also be seen as giving money to Wall Street capital.

After all, everyone knows that the market is currently dominated by bulls, and the US economy has been in a bull market for a long time.

If there is a large amount of capital available for short selling, things will be much easier; we can simply crush these short sellers and reap their profits.

"You should make the necessary preparations, as there may be unexpected events on Sam's side later this year."

Inside the conference room of the municipal government office building, Zhao Mancang looked at Lü Yangui, Chen Guohua, Zeng Zhaoshun, and others, and spoke solemnly.

"According to my plan, the US stock market will experience a crash in September or October this year. This crash will be unprecedented and terrifying, and its impact will inevitably shake the global economy."

"The stock market crash will inevitably come no later than December, so we must be prepared and not let this disaster impact our economy."

To be honest, the economy in Yunlan City is a bit special.

It cannot be considered an export-oriented economy, much less an import-oriented economy.

However, price fluctuations in the international market will inevitably affect the economy of Yunlan City.

Maintaining price stability in Yunlan City will inevitably come at a price.

But these are all necessary things.

Meanwhile, the financial companies within Yunlan City also participated in this stock market crash.

Therefore, even if a stock market crash occurs afterward, causing economic imbalances inside and outside Yunlan City and resulting in significant losses, these losses can be compensated through the financial company.

Zeng Zhaoshun and the others nodded repeatedly.

"Boss, we understand. Just you wait and see, we definitely won't let you down."

Lu Yangui patted his chest and said confidently.

Previously, he was the only one supporting Yunlan City, but now with six experienced colleagues, the burden on his shoulders has been greatly reduced.

No matter what happens this time, he will definitely be able to handle everything well.

Zhao Mancang nodded, made the arrangements, and then left Yunlan City.

With the help of people like Chen Guohua, Lin Dehong, Zeng Zhaoshun, Gu Zhenan, Shou Jiangang, and Lu Shengwen, Zhao Mancang no longer needs to worry so much about Yunlan City.

Preparations for establishing Yunlan City as a nation have already begun.

Once they have arranged all of this, they will be able to initiate the process of establishing a nation and then move the entire Yunlan City into a better management system.

At that time, Zhao Mancang will have even less to worry about Yunlan City.

In the town of Gobadole, near the Katanga copper mining belt in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zhao Mancang arrived at the super dollar factory.

"Little Bear, how many US dollars have been printed so far?"

As the person in charge of the super dollar factory, Xiong Licheng is very familiar with everything here.

He immediately reported the truth to Zhao Mancang.

More than $300 billion in super dollars has already been printed.

Some of these funds have already been invested in the market.

These super-sized US dollars are so realistic that they could be mistaken for genuine dollars and used as such.

Therefore, Zhao Mancang was very satisfied.

The anti-counterfeiting technology of the new US dollar is practically useless.

Zhao Mancang quickly cracked the code.

"Good, very good. Continue printing, but you need to speed it up even more. However, there's no need to rush to issue so many super-dollars during this period."

Zhao Mancang nodded and gave instructions to Xiong Licheng.

The reason he did this was because he needed to wait until Black Monday in the US stock market before Zhao Mancang would let Xiong Licheng and his team handle it.

A massive amount of US dollars was injected into the market.

This would further exacerbate the collapse of Sam's economy.

Of course, Zhao Mancang didn't care about any of that; whether the Sam economy collapsed or not made no difference to him.

Even if it really collapses.

With Sam's immense wealth, overcoming such a crisis is not a problem.

Moreover.

In the four or five years around the 1990s.

That was a global era.

Therefore, the US economy is bound to experience a real boom after the stock market crash.

In short, Zhao Mancang is not worried that the US economy will collapse due to the massive amount of US dollars he has injected into the market.

After all, it's important to know that in the original timeline's history, hundreds of trillions of dollars of base currency were injected into the market.

The global economy hasn't collapsed.

It can only be said that the dollars printed by the super dollar factory have squeezed out a portion of the Federal Reserve's dollar share.

For Zhao Mancang, making the Federal Reserve hesitant to act was a success, and that's the significance of the super dollar factory.

"Okay, boss, I'll make the arrangements. If there are any changes, please let me know at any time."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Mancang nodded in satisfaction, patted Xiong Licheng on the shoulder, and continued:

"Is there anything wrong with your factory right now?"

"Please rest assured, sir. Since the factory moved to the town of Gobadolai, it has indeed become much safer. There's no sign of any Americans here, and they won't come to this godforsaken place."

Xiong Licheng said with a smug look on his face.

Because this place is indeed very chaotic, even more so than the Rand Central Gold Mine in southern Africa. (End of Chapter)