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The interruption between Hua Zhenxing and Locke fully reflects a kind of thinking, that is, you think about yours and I do mine, and grasp the main contradiction without letting go. No matter what ideas O'Haim wants to play in Fiso Port, their first thought is how to handle their own affairs and promote the policies of the Kelin District to the entire Fiso Port as soon as possible.

The few people chatted for a long time in the car. Luochaide personally sent the two of them to the hotel where the New Alliance team was staying. Before leaving, he specially left a piece of information for Hua Zhenxing, reminding him:

"After you watch it, you will understand why O'Heim is so anxious. He can't wait anymore. There are too many people in this world who can't wait and are thinking of various ways."

Locke did not return to the Fulgen Foundation's own manor, but came to the hotel specifically to "report work" to Yang Tehong and others. He also held a work meeting and formally proposed the suggestions he just made in the car.

Yang Tehong and several senior executives of Huanxiang Industrial all read the material provided by Luochaide.

Old Man Yang said expressionlessly: "Xiaohua, tell Dr. Luo later that you are ready to short the shares of Oheim Pharmaceutical Group. Whether he can take advantage of the opportunity to acquire this group depends on his own means and luck."

Hua Zhenxing, who had returned to his original appearance, asked: "What should Dr. Luo do?"

Yang Tehong: "What he should do is his own business. You don't need to worry about it. Regardless of success or failure, you just need to understand the process. Now you only need to send him a message."

Hua Zhenxing: "I understand. I will tell him later that it was your old man's reminder."

Hua Zhenxing knew Old Man Yang very well. He was always smiling. When he blew his beard and stared, he was not necessarily really angry. But when his face was expressionless, he was actually very unhappy.

The information provided by Rozchild also mentioned the impact of the epidemic in other countries. Hua Zhenxing could not believe it, but this was exactly the case.

The country has a population of 10 million. During these ten months, more than 12,000 people have died due to the epidemic. The mortality rate exceeds one in a thousand. An average of 40 people die every day, and it has reached a peak recently. The daily death toll is close to 200.

Is this really a prosperous and developed country? They look alike, but why are they so fragile?

There are 500,000 people in Fiso Port, which is one-twentieth of the population of the country. If this ratio is used, an average of two people will die every day due to the epidemic, but in fact they do not.

According to the information obtained by Huazhenxing, there is no epidemic in Fiso Port after the heavy rainy season. This does not mean that there are no other epidemic diseases in Fiso Port, nor does it mean that the medical conditions in Fiso Port are very good, but it is caused by a series of special reasons.

Fiso Port is a forgotten corner of the world, like an isolated island. In previous years, except for overseas tourists in the southern coastal area, almost no one else would come to this place.

Due to the worldwide epidemic this year, the number of tourists to the southern seaside of Fiso Port has been almost zero. Several hotels and rented manors have been closed. Huanxiang Industrial is planning to take advantage of this time to acquire the land as well.

The three-month long rainy season has naturally cut off external traffic, and there is very little movement of people between various blocks.

Since this year, almost all the visitors to Fiso Port can be counted on their fingers. First it is Teacher Dingqi, then "Feng Zibin" and his entourage, then Frick and Mr. Feng, and the Fulgen Foundation. Meet that group of monks.

Huanxiang Industrial also planned to transport several ships of people from Mande Kingdom and other places. Almost all of them were Chinese people of Eastern descent who encountered difficulties in the Black Wasteland like Huang Cansheng and Li Xiaoyang.

Old Man Yang came forward to guarantee that these people would not bring the epidemic. Since he said so, it can make people feel reassured. Moreover, Huanxiang Industrial has also adopted corresponding inspection and control measures on passenger ships. Within the scope of Kelin District, the implementation of all government orders has been unimpeded.

The epidemic once threatened the Dongguo-aided construction site, but after a heavy rainy season, the epidemic in Fiso Port has disappeared, at least in various neighborhoods. This is the conclusion reached by Mo Shangtong after a comprehensive investigation.

Is there still a virus in Fiso Port? There should still be some, maybe in the laboratory of the International Hospital.

Two people die every day, which is nothing in Fiso Port. People die here every day from various accidents, such as homicide, drug addiction, disease, malnutrition, injury and infection.

There are no accurate statistics on the annual mortality rate in Fiso Port, but it is definitely very high, and the birth rate here is also very high. Raising a child means giving food to the mouth, and there are almost no other costs of raising and educating them.

The high death rate and high birth rate have caused the population structure of Fiso Port to be too young. The average life expectancy here is only in early 30s, and the average age is less than 20 years old.

But in recent times, no one has died in Fiso Port from the latest epidemic in the world.

There is another data that Huazhenxing has. It is amazing. The death rate in Kelin District in the past three months is actually zero! In other words, in the past three months, there has not been a single death in the Kelin District with a population of more than 100,000. This is simply a miracle in the local area.

This miracle is caused by many factors and is also a coincidence. For example, the public security situation has improved. Kelin District vigorously promoted the "Love City Health Campaign" some time ago, collected weapons and expelled drug addicts, and the population structure is very young...

It seems that the average life expectancy of people in Kelin District will be rewritten from now on. Locke also pointed out at the meeting that by taking control of the municipal administration of Fisoport as soon as possible and fully implementing the policies of Kelin District, he is confident that the average life expectancy of people in Fisoport can be at least increased. Twenty years.

Only if you expect to live long enough can you make longer-term plans.

If none of the companions around a person live to be thirty, and he doesn’t even have a reliable elder, and he doesn’t think he can live past thirty, what reliable assumptions can you expect him to have about life? If everyone is like this, what hope does this place have?

Fisoport is ill, and was once hopelessly ill, but is now in the process of recovery.

On the other hand, other countries have had low mortality and birth rates for decades, and their population is aging seriously. Moreover, many of their own people are no longer willing to engage in so-called low-end labor, so they have begun to introduce immigrants, which has also led to a series of social problems.

It is not a good sign that the relative birth rate of the main ethnic group continues to decline. Over time, this country will definitely have problems. But the country is now facing another problem, unable to control the epidemic.

The mortality rate in this epidemic is higher, mainly among the elderly population with weak resistance and poor people with poor sanitary conditions. This has also given rise to many conspiracy theories, such as deliberately condoning the spread of the epidemic and engaging in social eradication plans to reduce the burden. So much.

But the so-called mortality rate is just a probability. Even for strong young people and successful people in the upper class, who can guarantee that they and their relatives and friends are absolutely safe? So it’s not that I don’t want to control it, it’s that I really can’t control it!

Hua Zhenxing and the others have been in Brussels for half a month, and three days ago was a clear dividing line.

When I first came here, it was almost impossible to see the impact of the epidemic. Except for people wearing masks when going out and trying to keep a social distance of more than one meter with strangers, everything else was as usual.

Three days ago, the country's government issued the latest round of strict control measures, requiring local residents to work from home as much as possible. Various restrictions were placed on going out, and all entertainment and leisure venues were closed.

At the beginning of the year, the country actually had such a wave of control, but it did not last long, and the actual situation proved that it was not really under control.

Regarding this round of control, if the actual situation does not change, the results should be the same as the previous round. Even Huazhenxing could foresee this.

For such an epidemic, there is no strict and thorough control, but some symbolic measures are taken. In fact, it is meaningless. It is more like a gesture shown by the rulers to the people and political opponents, indicating that they have taken action. .

If you want to be strict and thorough, you really can’t do it! The government cannot control all grassroots levels, and neighborhood governance in many places has been handed over to various private institutions and civil organizations. Even in places like Brussels, some neighborhoods are actually out of control.

The country is too small, and the process of integration and global trade liberalization has greatly increased the flow of people. It is difficult to prevent outside imports by relying on its own control alone, unless the borders are closed at the same time.

Even during the strictest control period, there are still people who do not comply with the epidemic prevention regulations, claiming that this is a conspiracy and a scam, going out without masks, and holding various rallies and protests.

As long as someone does this, most other people's efforts to comply with epidemic prevention regulations are actually in vain.

What causes this? Some people say it is individualism, liberalism and anti-intellectualism, while others say it is the government’s lack of control over the grassroots. These factors all exist, but they are not the essence.

What kind of individualism and liberalism can disregard the safety of others and think that one has the right to go to bars freely without wearing a mask? But does he have the freedom not to work for a capital group?

From an individual point of view, it seems that there is, as long as they choose not to work and wander on the streets, but in a normal society it is impossible for everyone to do this, and from a group perspective, there is no such freedom at all.

In these so-called modern countries, thrift is no longer a virtue. The media controlled by capital groups are pervasive and spare no effort to promote consumerism.

Its purpose is to allow people to overdraw their income at all times to consume products; and to sell their labor power at all times to produce products for capital groups.

People are always hungry for consumption, and every month they have to pay off last month’s and last month’s bills. Once they lose their jobs, they will immediately fall into a financial crisis, and everything they own may be taken back.

Capital groups don’t care whether someone is unemployed or struggling. What they want to create is a social state where everyone must work overtime to work for them. As long as they want to hire the people they need, there will always be enough social groups to choose from.

The proletarians, even those who already consider themselves to be the social elite, are trapped in this situation. They have no internal circulation ability to resist risks, so they have no other choice.

Such a social state is both what the capital groups hope for and what they deliberately create. However, once the entire society comes to a standstill, the price will be unbearable and no one will bear it.

Take Brussels as an example. Eighty percent of the city's employed population is engaged in the service industry, and consumerism has been baptized for many years.

If strict and thorough control measures are implemented, even for just one month, people who lose their jobs and lose their income will not be able to live even this month, let alone paying back last month's bills.

Private organizations that usually provide paid social services cannot mobilize supplies and distribute them to thousands of households. This kind of thing is neither profitable nor powerless for them.

Therefore, the most effective control and isolation measures from a medical perspective cannot be truly implemented, otherwise society will collapse before the epidemic disappears.

So in Hua Zhenxing's view, the world is sick.

Greedy people have been overdrawing the future, making it impossible to save the present. An epidemic that does not depend on human will has exposed many truths.

The wealth accumulated by capital is currency, and the method used is to control the pricing of assets, while more and more wealth is virtual. For example, the annual trading volume of gold futures in the world is a hundred times the actual gold production. Apart from wealth games, there is not much practical significance.

In the economics textbooks of universities in various countries, the capital market pricing method has been clearly stated, which is the discounted cash flow model. In principle, it means how much wealth it will bring in the future, so how much it is worth now.

But the wealth of the future does not exist yet. It needs people in the future to create it, and the current world is trading on this concept.

Hua Zhenxing thought of Rothchild again. He was once a social elite. When he was a doctor, he saved lives and healed the wounded. What was the end result? Today's Lord Rothchild has made a fortune investing in medicine, but has he ever developed or produced a medicine?

Rothchild did nothing, he only played with financial capital. Yang Tehong asked Huazhenxing to remind Rothchild that he was ready to short O'Heim Pharmaceutical Group's stock. Huazhenxing did not turn around for a while, but Tang Senzhi helped him analyze and understand.

Rothchild is already an important shareholder of Oheim Group. Can he still profit from the damage to Oheim Group's stock price?

On the surface, he may not sell his own stocks, but secretly he can go short on another seemingly unrelated account. He can also use financial leverage to maximize profits and make a fortune as long as the stock falls.

At the appropriate time, he used the money earned from short selling to purchase stocks at low prices, thereby achieving the purpose of controlling the group.

Can you still play like this? As long as you know for sure that the company's stock will fall, you can play this way! The modern financial market system is designed in this way, and a large number of financial derivatives are used for this purpose.

When everyone was discussing this material, Tang Senzhi opened his mouth to explain it to Xiaohua, which was regarded as a special lesson.