Chapter 512 Oil War
Lin Hao remembered that in the original history, White Snake fell accidentally during the filming of "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang".

Later, when she was sent to the hospital by Zheng Shaoqiu, unscrupulous media took photos from an angle and said that she was being sent for a prenatal check-up, which led to the subsequent scandal.

You have to know that this was the rising period of Bai Suzhen's career. Her career had just reached a small peak, and she experienced all this innocently.

In addition, due to work reasons, there were rumors about her before, which caused conflicts in her emotional life with her husband.

When White Snake married her husband, besides her yearning for love, it was also because her husband was a doctor and had a higher social status than an actor, otherwise her mother would not have thought this marriage was a good one.

But after getting married, White Snake discovered that family life was not as good as she had imagined.

Her husband is a bit chauvinistic and is already quite dissatisfied with Bai Niangzi being an actress. It's not like he can't afford to support Bai Niangzi. Why can't she be a full-time housewife at home? Why does she have to go out and show her face in public and cuddle with other men?

But Bai Niangzi herself does not want to be a full-time housewife, she is also somewhat career-oriented.

The success of her career has not brought success to her family. On the contrary, it has led to more conflicts in her family.

White Snake’s current husband is a doctor. Although he is not a wealthy man in Hong Kong, he still has some status.

After being married for more than three years, feelings came and went as they pleased, and love seemed to have left the couple without any regrets.

Originally, in Bai Suzhen's heart, she may have resentment and reluctance towards her husband, but under the constraints of her children, she had to continue with this marriage even though it was unfortunate.

The current scandal is even worse. She was slapped on the set, and when she got home her husband not only did not comfort her, but scolded her and even abused her.

After hearing about Bai Suzhen's experience, he realized how much harm his small action had brought to her. This was not what Lin Hao wanted.

Originally, Lin Hao was full of possessiveness towards Bai Niangzi, but he suddenly felt that it was meaningless. With his own charm, he could get any woman he wanted, so there was no need for him to use such a despicable method to get her.

Although he knew that she would still have encountered all of this even without his intervention, Lin Hao still felt somewhat guilty.

However, this feeling of guilt came and went quickly, and returned to normal in the blink of an eye. After experiencing so many worlds, my character had long been tempered to be as hard as a rock.

Besides, it wasn’t his fault. This was a conflict caused by Bai Niang’s own profession and her husband’s self-esteem. What did it have to do with Lin Hao?

However, White Snake had already made up her mind at this time, which was to let nature take its course. If there was a chance, she would certainly not miss it, but if there was no chance, she would not force it.

At this time, Dibola patted the White Lady's hand and said:

"Then what are you going to do now?"

White Snake wiped her tears and then said:
"If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being too young back then. You didn't really get to know this person, and you married him on impulse. I didn't expect it~!"

"Don't worry, maybe there is still room for recovery, it's not that bad!" Dibola looked at Lin Hao expectantly and asked:

"Husband, is there any way you can help Zhizhi?"

Lin Hao thought about it, then said:

"The key issue in this matter is not us, but what you think, Yazhi. Should you break off all ties and escape from the suffering, or swallow your anger and maintain this family?"

"It's easy to escape from the sea of ​​suffering. My company has one of the most powerful lawyers in Hong Kong. With him on the scene, all of this won't be a problem. If you're willing, you can even bankrupt Mr. Huang."

"If you are willing to swallow your anger and continue to be a good wife and mother, then no matter how good our methods are, they will be useless!"

Lin Hao's words made Bai Niangzi silent, because she was very confused now. Just like Lin Hao said, before she made up her mind, no matter how good Lin Hao's method was, it would be useless.

Dibola also wanted to understand the key to the problem, so she comforted the White Snake who was a little dazed at the moment.

Lin Hao came to the balcony and did not continue to listen to the whispers between the two girls. He focused his mind on other things.

The second oil crisis will break out by the end of this year, and the reserves previously built in the United States, China, Africa and other places are nearing completion.

Therefore, Lin Hao cooperated with the Bao family, the shipping tycoon of Hong Kong Island, to purchase large quantities of oil from the Middle East and stored them in the reserve warehouse prepared by Lin Hao.

Therefore, Lin Hao gathered large amounts of funds from the three groups: the Island Country Group, the Chinese Powers, and the Hong Kong Island Group, and prepared to purchase a large amount of spot oil.

就这样一直持续到1978年12月26日，当时石油储量约占世界1/10的伊国爆发“伊兰革命”，石油出口全部停止。

In addition, member countries of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) once again coordinated to significantly increase oil prices.

As a result, the price of oil began to soar rapidly from $13 a barrel.

At the same time, a 100,000-ton oil tanker was preparing to sail to the island country through the Malacca Strait.

However, at this moment, several small fishing boats rushed towards the tanker from an unnamed island. When the people on the tanker reacted, the people on the fishing boats had already boarded the tanker.

At this time, the fishing boat no longer pretended and directly displayed the pirate flag, then quickly occupied the tanker and locked up the crew.

Then he opened the inner cabin of the tanker, took out a string of beads, and quickly transferred the oil on the tanker into the space beads.

Through this method, 100,000 tons of oil disappeared. A few days later, the people who were imprisoned by the pirates carefully came out of the cabin, only then did they discover that the oil they had transported was missing.

This kind of thing keeps happening on both sides of the Malacca Strait. As a result, all oil tankers on the entire waterway will be robbed.

This group of pirates did not hurt anyone, they only robbed oil. However, no one has figured out where so much oil went.

The news then spread quickly to all parts of the country, and the already soaring oil prices were further fueled. The price of oil, which was originally $13 a barrel, was quickly pulled up to $15 a barrel.

As expected, oil prices will continue to soar, and because Lin Hao had made arrangements in advance, he got a taste of the soup and also bit off a big piece of fat meat.

But Lin Hao hadn't celebrated yet. The Eagle Sauce and a group of European guys were celebrating with smiles on their faces, as if they had everything under control.

Because the two countries that triggered the oil crisis were originally instructed by the Eagle Sauce, but they did not expect that there would be such a pirate who robbed an oil tanker.

But this did not affect them. They took advantage of this crisis to make huge profits. Later, the price of oil was in the hands of this group of people and Lin Hao.

After only one month, the price soared to US$22 per month, and all the "visionary" financial companies continued to buy large quantities of stocks and futures.

What they didn't know was that Lin Hao was already shorting oil stocks and futures. After completing the position building, Lin Hao immediately ordered all the oil reserves to be supplied to the outside world. At the same time, the pirates at both ends of the Malacca Strait suddenly disappeared, and the Malacca Strait was restored to normal.

Lin Hao began to sell the oil stored in various places directly in the United States, while the reserve warehouses near Africa were continuously sent to Europe, and the reserve warehouses in China were shipped and sold to various Asian countries.

This sudden and large-scale sell-off caused oil prices to quickly break through the market, directly bringing the rapidly rising oil prices to the ground.

The price of oil was pushed down from US$24 a barrel to US$16 a barrel step by step, and the price continued to plummet.

Therefore, securities firms that had previously been long on oil watched their own companies go bankrupt because the oil price fell below $11, and everything was wiped out.

Not only that, after the price of oil was suppressed, Lin Hao also made great profits in futures.

When the price hit a low point, Lin Hao turned around and went long, and used the money he had just earned to buy low-priced oil.

At the same time, Lin Hao stopped supplying oil. Then, because of Lin Hao's massive buying spree, oil prices continued to soar, and then they were sold again to complete the second round of harvest.

The futures market has a delivery period. Futures are like everyone passing the parcel with a contract. After all, the essence of finance is fraud.

What Lin Hao did was to defraud the world's money, but Lin Hao didn't think so. After all, Lin Hao's oil was real oil, not a piece of paper, so he could buy when he wanted and sell when he wanted.

After Lin Hao completed several rounds of harvesting, his actions naturally attracted the attention of the group of Youtai and European vultures.

At this time, in a castle in Europe, a group of people who called themselves gentlemen sat around a table with a world map on it.

"Where did all this oil go?"

"Haven't you found it yet?"

"Those damned Japanese people, they bought all the oil!"

“They must be sanctioned!”

There was a large group of people sitting around the table, and everyone looked unhappy at the moment.

The war that was planned with great difficulty caused oil prices to rise, but suddenly there was no oil on the market!

By the time they reacted, they discovered that a lot of their oil reserves had already been bought out.

After some investigation, we found out that it seemed to be done by a group of suspected Japanese people, possibly a certain consortium.

Although it has not yet been found out which consortium did it, it cannot be ruled out that several consortiums were involved. Therefore, we can only vent our anger on the island country oil merchants who can be found out.

"The island nation consortium has seriously threatened our layout in the island nation. I heard that the newly rising Sakura Consortium seems to have been buying oil recently. And there is also the legendary Sakura Society. Do you think it could be them?"

At this time, another fat and big-eared gentleman said:

"I heard that the Sakura Society is extremely brutal, and countless people die at their hands every year, but many of their businesses are extremely popular!"

"Of course, there are more wealth that has been plundered by them. The key is that this group of people is not very particular. Once they find you, they will find a way to send you to Africa to carry bricks and mine!"

"Do the islanders dare?" A noble Utai man sneered, while another descendant of pirates said:
"Even if they really dare, at worst we can let our soldiers kill them a few more times, and then they will behave themselves!"

Another elite said disdainfully:
"Stupid! What era is this? They still use the old colonial thinking. In modern times, of course they have to use financial means to reap the benefits. Sending soldiers won't cost them military expenses!"

"If you have the ability, go find a rabbit and practice with him!"

The pirate descendant curled his lips and said:

"It's not like everyone is like a rabbit, knowing how to kick an eagle!"

When they heard about rabbits, everyone's faces became a little serious. This was indeed a very serious topic.

After all, not everyone is like a rabbit, who can take down all 17 gangs by himself.

"Okay, stop arguing and let's talk about oil first. How much profit or loss did we make this time?" said another steady elderly man.

An old Yutai said:
"How can we lose money? But our profits have been greatly reduced. According to the original calculation, we can get at least 300 billion in profits."

"But now it's only 12 billion, which is totally disproportionate to our hard work!"

A group of people frowned, the original profit of 300 billion yuan was now only 12 billion yuan, which was indeed too little and not enough for them to share. Profiting less was almost equivalent to losing money, which meant they had worked in vain.

"What's the reason? The reason that caused all this!"

The one in front asked, there must be a reason for this!

"As for the price of oil, we were slow in acquiring oil on the market and were always beaten to it by others. When we started to make plans, we found that more than 80% of the oil on the market had been bought by others.

And when the price dropped, we tried to buy at the bottom, but someone else got there first, as if everything was under their control. Moreover, they acted very decisively and ruthlessly, and even without lowering the price, they took over the total oil export volume of several countries!"

"What's even scarier is that I suspect they will continue to manipulate oil prices. I just discovered that they are starting to go long again. We don't know their purpose yet, so we dare not act rashly!"

The current oil price is still within an acceptable range given the significant impact of the global economy.

But the problem is that they have too little oil. Once they sell the oil at this price, what if the other party wants to buy it?
"At present, they have the ability to manipulate oil prices in the short term with the oil in their hands. We dare not take any other actions!"

Damn it, don't let me find this little mouse or I'll tear his ass apart!
They have been planning for so long, hoping to make money from oil, which is the economic lifeline of the future.

But the problem is, this money is earned by others, can they be happy?
If Lin Hao encountered such a thing, he would definitely not be happy and would try every means to kill the other party, but this group of people had no way to deal with it.

Unless they can convince the Eagles to increase their oil exports, which is obviously impossible.

Although the United States is one of the world's largest oil producers, the problem is that the United States also needs to use these things itself and it is impossible for it to release more.

Even if they did, it would be using resources from other countries, so they came up with a solution!
(End of this chapter)