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Chapter 175: Bull Market Returns? (Seeking Subscriptions)

The village chief's phone call immediately made Chen Jue serious and attentive.

Despite wielding a large amount of capital to ambush Rizhao Port in the stock market, continuously buying large shares in batches, and enjoying the thrill of being a "ten thousand lot man."

In reality, both the flow of funds and the increase in shares were under the watchful eye of the village chief.

After all, the A-share market was the village chief's territory; what data fluctuations could escape his notice?

However, when Chen Jue thought that he, a nobody from the countryside who had just risen to prominence, was already able to deal with such high-level leaders, he couldn't help but feel a little fortunate: "I've finally connected with the higher-ups!"

However, he didn't express much, but instead let Lao Shang, the MC [profiteer], start his personal show.

"Village chief, the reason why Hongxing Trading is constantly increasing its holdings in Rizhao Port's stock is not only because we are optimistic about Rizhao Port's operating conditions in the long term, but also because of our own strategic development considerations."

"Moreover, the purchase of stocks is done through block trades and the secondary market, and the funds are legal, so it shouldn't have a big impact, right?"

As he spoke, Lao Shang briefly described the deep integration of Hongxing Trading's soybean import business with Rizhao Port.

After all, the 'Far East Non-GMO Soybeans' that Hongxing Trading ships into the country are all landed at Rizhao Port.

Although each ship has a net profit of more than 50 million, a lot of port fees have to be paid every time it docks.

If it could become a major shareholder of Rizhao Port, giving its soybean business a little preferential treatment and some discounts would also be a good reason.

The village chief pondered for a moment after learning about this relationship: "The A-share market naturally welcomes value investors from all over the world! However, Hongxing Trading, you are buying, but splitting multiple accounts to hold shares below the threshold for disclosure already carries the risk of suspected stock price manipulation. I still have to remind you about this first."

Lao Shang quickly responded upon hearing this: "Stock price manipulation? Village chief! That's a misunderstanding! After Hongxing Trading completes its accumulation of shares, it doesn't plan to sell any shares to profit, but to hold them strategically for the long term until Rizhao Port completely collapses."

"As for the operation of Rizhao Port, Hongxing Trading doesn't want to interfere. At most, we will send a member of the board of directors to get some convenience in port affairs."

The village chief smiled with relief upon hearing this. Now, the listed companies in the A-share market are basically all the same.

They reduce their holdings at high positions as soon as they are listed, or engage in insider trading, treating the entire A-share market as their personal ATM.

There are countless entrepreneurs who don't operate their companies properly, but sell the company to shareholders and then take the money to live a carefree life abroad.

The sudden emergence of a private enterprise that invests billions of cash to increase its holdings in A-share stocks is a very rare case.

What does this indicate?

It shows that the boss of this Hongxing Trading has a great vision and is optimistic about the prosperous development of the domestic capital market in the long term.

So, in the phone call, the village chief first gave a small verbal warning, and then gave Hongxing Trading a reassurance: "In that case, Hongxing Trading, you can directly make a disclosure announcement after Rizhao Port resumes trading! I will consider those sub-accounts of the northbound funds from Hong Kong as acting in concert with you."

The so-called acting in concert refers to joint acquirers when acquiring a listed company. Simply put, it means partners who pool money together to buy stocks.

When disclosing shareholder composition to the public, they are bundled together.

In this way, Hongxing Trading is exempted from the suspicion of 'suspected stock price manipulation'.

Of course, in addition to this, the village chief also pointed out a clear path for Lao Shang, which was to let him attend the A-share market boosting briefing in a few days.

Taking this opportunity, the village chief will introduce the management of Rizhao Port to Hongxing Trading to explain the recent change of major shareholders.

After all, during this period, Chen Jue had already used leveraged funds to buy 40% of Rizhao Port's shares, becoming the largest shareholder of Rizhao Port, only a little short of 51% absolute control.

However, according to the village chief, it is impossible for key enterprises such as Rizhao Port, which are related to grain imports, to easily hand over absolute control to private capital for operation.

Being able to let Hongxing Trading occupy the position of a major shareholder and receive a certain amount of dividends every year is already giving a lot of face.

Thinking about taking the idea of absolute control is destined to end up in a small dark room.

Chen Jue also secretly breathed a sigh of relief after learning about this result.

Attracting the attention of the higher-ups through the operation of the capital market is definitely a risky move.

However, it seems that the current result is good, and it also indirectly proves that the 'series of traps' that Lao Shang thought of does have hope for implementation.

Of course, Chen Jue didn't expect it either.

It was precisely because of this whimsical operation of investing in Rizhao Port that it turned out to be the fuse that triggered the transformation of the entire A-share market from a bear market to a bull market in the future.

Countless trapped stockholders and securities companies shouted the classic sentence: "Folks, the bull market is back with a vengeance!"

Attracting countless naive young people born in the 90s and 00s to join this crazy account opening and speculation in the A-share market around October.

… …

Let's rewind the time by half a month.

After experiencing the thrill of being a "ten thousand lot man" in the A-share market on the first day, Chen Jue and Zhang Chengcheng and his party took a business car and successfully arrived at the Sowa logging yard in the Amur Oblast from Hassan District.

The original muddy dirt road leading to the mountains was paved into a hardened concrete road under the tireless work of a team of iron golems.

On the winding mountain road, semi-trailer trucks loaded with logs drove towards the Heihe port one after another.

Because Lao Zhao and his group ordered more than 600,000 cubic meters like livestock, they directly emptied the inventory of Zarubino Port.

The remaining shortage had to be supplemented from the logging yard.

Of course, in addition to discussing business on this trip to the Far East, the entertainment projects naturally cannot be missed.

So, taking advantage of the opportunity to actually inspect the forest area, Chen Jue led everyone to a wooden house in the logging yard with a warning sign with a 'Bear Appeared' pattern.

With a "beep~" sound, the iron fool in charge of guarding blew a loud whistle into the wooden house.

Immediately afterwards, everyone saw a large brown bear with shiny fur poking its head out of the wooden house.

"Ah! It's a bear!"

"There's a bear! Run!"

Lao Zhao and his group of timber merchants were taken aback, almost softening their legs and wetting their pants.

Although they had been informed in advance that there would be particularly thrilling and exciting tourism projects before coming, experiencing an adult brown bear without any protection is not a surprise, but a fright!

After all, they are all ordinary people, not as courageous as the Far Eastern Russians who drink vodka all day long. They will instinctively feel scared when they see such ferocious beasts.

However, to Lao Zhao and the others' surprise, the brown bear did not show its teeth and claws at them at all after it appeared. Instead, it trotted up to Chen Jue with a flattering expression.

It rubbed its furry head against Chen Jue's arms in various ways.

That kind of well-behaved and clingy posture immediately aroused the curiosity of the two girls in the team.

"Wow! It's so well-behaved! So cute!"

"Chen Jue, is it your pet? It's not afraid of strangers at all." Zhang Chengcheng and Zhang Ruonan, two girls, had shining eyes. Seeing that the brown bear was not aggressive at all, they mustered up the courage to reach out and stroke it a few times.

Chen Jue explained with a smile: "It's called Misha. I rescued it. Feel free to touch it. Don't be afraid!"

Under the temptation of MC's roasted chicken and the heavy fist education of the iron golems, this female bear Misha has completely shed its wildness and settled down in the logging yard.

Including the cubs it produced, they are also rolling and playing in the small nest piled with weeds in the wooden house at this time.

For this reason, Chen Jue also specially asked Lao Shang to apply for a special breeding license from the Russians and legally adopted it.

The purpose is to be able to pet the bear and take photos when he comes to the Far East for vacation in the future.

Some tycoons in the Middle East like to raise lions and tigers. There is no reason why Chen Jue can't raise a bear to play with.

Unexpectedly, this time, when he brought a group to purchase logs, this Misha came in handy.

Seeing it lying on the ground with its belly open for people to touch at will, everyone's hanging hearts were also relieved, and the fear on their faces when they first saw it turned into excitement of petting the bear.

Taking photos and checking in.

They even asked Misha to bring out a few cubs and hold them in their arms for a group photo.

Although it is not as precious as the national treasure giant panda, it is still a bear family after all. There is absolutely no problem in attracting a wave of likes by posting it on Moments.

Big stars like Zhang Ruonan even enthusiastically posted the group photo with the sentence 'Beauty and the Beast' on their social accounts, attracting a large group of fans to like and forward it.

"Real · Beauty and the Beast!"

"Living is not as good as a bear (covering face)"

"I also want to be hugged by Nannan like this (crying)"

Sand sculpture fans made up various jokes to grab hot comments.

Of course, Chen Jue did not spend too much time playing with this group of outsiders.

After sending Misha to distract the timber group, he found an excuse to let Lao Shang stay and be responsible for entertaining everyone, while he quietly slipped into the secret passage of the logging yard.

Switching to Steve mode, he went down to the branch base along the [ladder].

The Far East branch base has taken shape after a period of development, and several one-way tunnels leading to various directions have been dug out.

Although the distance is still a bit short, and it will take several months to connect to Chen Village and the Magic Cube factory in China, some economic minerals similar to the previously discovered [serpentine asbestos] are constantly being discovered with the continuous digging of the iron golems.

After all, the Far East is a treasure trove, with extremely developed resources and countless minerals buried underground. During the excavation, the Iron Golem team had already mined a lot of useful ores, all of which were packed into neatly arranged MC [Chests] awaiting Chen Jue's inspection.

When Chen Jue right-clicked to open the [Chests], the dense array of various raw ores almost blinded his 24K titanium alloy dog eyes.

From coal, iron, and silver to tungsten, tin, and so on, everything was available.

However, what caught Chen Jue's attention the most was a [Chest] in the corner filled with stacks of pixelated blue and white minerals, several slots × 64.

[Crushed Diamonds: Rare ore, produced from small diamonds in a real environment, can be used to synthesize MC diamonds, and is one of the essential materials for making advanced armor, tools, forging templates, and enchanting tables.]

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