As soon as the Human Emperor Banner came out, I became the Lord of the Old Ones

Chapter 284 Buy Low and Sell High
What benefit would it bring to create an "accident" deep within a mine that still has exploitable value, causing it to disappear from the books?

Jean-Jacques said, "After decades of hard work, all the low-hanging fruits have been picked clean. In the next few decades, even if Liming Heavy Industry can continue to operate, costs will inevitably increase day by day, profit margins will definitely decline, and the financial market will become increasingly unfriendly to this declining traditional enterprise. It may even face unexpected dangers, which is unacceptable to the entire management team."

"The management of Liming Heavy Industry could no longer tolerate the hard work of earning profits bit by bit from deep within the earth. Their greed grew day by day, and they wanted to make quick money easily."

"In this world, the industry where it is easiest to make quick money is finance."

"The secret to finance is simple: buy low and sell high."

"The four major spirit card companies that currently control the alliance did make their fortunes from ancient exploration and spirit card manufacturing, but what truly made them rich and expanded them into behemoths that could control the fate of hundreds of millions of people was the financial industry based on manufacturing."

"Unfortunately, Dawn Heavy Industry is too small in scale and too shallow in foundation. Moreover, its headquarters are located in the border area, so it cannot imitate the four major Lingka companies located in the core area, which can make waves in the financial market and turn the tide."

"The only information they can manipulate is the company's own information."

Even so, there are still far too many opportunities to profit, especially for a particular manager.

"To give a simple example, this guy Sheikh Krat has accumulated tens of millions of ill-gotten gains through swindling and cheating in recent months. But when he wants to transfer these black assets out, he can only go to the Golden Iris Entertainment Center to exchange them for portable Ancient Dragon Radiance Crystals. The actual value of these crystals is far less than half of his black assets, or even only a third."

"In other words, Sheikh Krat risked his reputation and even paid the ultimate price to deceive countless ordinary citizens of Dawn City and made ill-gotten gains. He could only keep a third of it himself at most, while the remaining two-thirds were transferred to Hess Belad's pocket through my hands."

"The question is, why would Sheikh Krat do this? Shattered Star Club is already one of the three high-end spirit card clubs in Dawn City. Over the past twenty years, he has had a good reputation in the industry and is basically a legitimate businessman with a good business reputation."

Why would he risk twenty years of business reputation in one fell swoop, choosing this short-sighted approach to make his last pot of gold?

"Isn't it because he believed the false information spread by Hess Belad, mistakenly believing that the underground resources of Dawn City were really on the verge of depletion and that Dawn Heavy Industries was about to collapse completely? That's why he wanted to sneak away first and ended up falling into the trap."

"Do you understand now? Without such false information, legitimate businessmen like Sheikh Krat would never become major clients of the Golden Iris Entertainment Center—how much could they possibly spend on food and drinks at our place?"
"But now, Sheikh Krat sacrificed everything, and the one who got the biggest slice of the pie wasn't the guy who stole all the Ancient Dragonstone Coins he carried with him, but Hess Belad, who sat steadily behind the Golden Iris Entertainment Center."

"This is just one example."

"In the vast schemes of the BlackRock family, Sheikh Krat is just a tiny, insignificant fish."

"Countless other sheep were also deeply shocked by the news of resource depletion, and were running around in circles like headless flies."

“To protect their wealth and leave this dangerous place as soon as possible, they might believe even the most foolish lies, and they would do even the most dangerous and evil things without hesitation.” Jean-Jacques told Snake Girl that Dawn Heavy Industry’s stock performance in the financial market had been unsatisfactory recently.

But to some extent, this is manipulated by management.

First, release negative news to drive the stock price down to its lowest point, thus weeding out ordinary investors and weak-willed minority shareholders.

The BlackRock family could then acquire these shares at minimal cost.

Then, news was released that Dawn Heavy Industries had discovered a brand-new mineral vein with astonishing reserves, instantly driving the stock price to a level that others could not catch up with. This also allowed the entire Belad family to obtain a massive amount of wealth that they might not have earned even after half a century of hard mining, making them one of the most influential and truly powerful families in the Heroic Spirit Alliance.

This is BlackRock's plan.

"So, the things Dawn Heavy Industry promoted before the opening match of the Dawn Cup—the discovery of a new mineral vein and the construction of a future mining town—were not entirely false?"

The Snake Princess seemed lost in thought.

"The truth and the falsehood are both manipulated in the hands of the company's management."

Jean-Jacques said, "The underground resources around Dawn City have not been exhausted to the point of depletion. It is still possible to find a few veins with barely adequate reserves."

"If we were to secretly transport all the raw crystal ore that the Belad family has intercepted over the years into these mines, and with a little manipulation, we could create the illusion of astonishing reserves and extremely low mining costs."

"They can even deliberately mix in some rare crystal ores to create the illusion that a super rare mineral vein has been discovered."

"As far as I know, Hess Belad has a plan to take advantage of the abandoned mine that I was in charge of back then, which he blew up."

"After more than a decade of exploration, he has roughly grasped the direction and development of the vein. He plans to start from the other end of the vein, fill it with a large amount of high-quality Gulongite ore, and then 'accidentally' discover this amazing existence. In the end, he will exaggerate the expected reserves of Gulongite by three to five times. Just imagine what kind of turbulent waves such news will cause in the financial market once it is released?"

"Of course, this is a long-term plan. There are too many risks and obstacles to overcome. Before it is implemented, the majority of the shares must be firmly controlled by the BlackRock family to ensure that the BlackRock family becomes the true and unique master of Dawn Heavy Industry!"
"So, what Hess Belad is releasing now is all half-true and half-false information, including the discovery of new mineral veins and the construction of a future mining town. As long as you investigate carefully, you will find that it is all fabricated and full of loopholes. By the way, recently a well-known war correspondent named Kelly Gracie has come to Dawn City for some reason. She is most likely investigating this matter and trying to make a big news story."

"Heh, the investigators, including Kelly Gracie, would never have guessed that the so-called loopholes they uncovered were deliberately presented to them to suppress the stock price. In this matter, Hess BlackRock had already predicted their and the entire market's reaction. BlackRock is the player, and everyone else is a pawn!"

(End of this chapter)