Game within game: chess player

A month later, South Africa's WBHO Construction Group quietly announced that it had been acquired by a mysterious buyer. WBHO Construction Group is South Africa's largest private construction company and has been established for more than 30 years. After the company was acquired, it immediately increased its capital and shares, with the total registered capital reaching one billion US dollars. Subsequently, WBHO Construction Group quickly acquired more than [-] companies in South Africa, including planning, design, construction and installation, and quickly became a giant construction company in South Africa. Engineering contracting company.

Pang Hongfei, chairman of the company's board of directors, came out freshly and immediately led the team to the base for on-site inspection. When everyone came to this unknown island between Africa and Oceania, on the one hand they were shocked by the beautiful scenery of the island, and on the other hand they were also shocked by the beautiful scenery of the island. I was shocked by the immense scale of the project.

Pang Hongfei looked at this beautiful barren land and thought that only people like Ye Fang had the courage to invest such a huge amount of money to rebuild this island. No other country would ever do such a thankless task. things.

The entire team stayed on the island for a full month to make geological exploration and mapping. When Pang Hongfei brought these people back from the island, everyone was almost like a savage.

When Pang Hongfei finally compiled all the information into a book and brought it to Ye Fang, it was already three months later.

"Mr. Ye, this is the rendering of the first phase of the project. Take a look." Pang Hongfei placed the exquisite album in front of Ye.

Ye Fang looked at Pang Hongfei, who was tanned and even a little thin, and comforted him, "Thank you for your hard work, Comrade Pang!"

"Serving capitalists means squeezing out the last drop of surplus value. I am already ready for this." Pang Hongfei replied.

Ye Fang smiled and motioned for Pang Hongfei to sit down, then looked at the renderings of the base seriously, nodded while looking, and said, "Not bad, it's what I imagined. It basically implements what I said."

"The entire first phase of the project is expected to be at least ten years, which is much longer than our estimated construction period. After the completion of the first phase of the project, the construction process will be accelerated. This is mainly because the completion of the base port will greatly speed up the efficiency of cargo ship transportation. Now in the early stage The infrastructure also needs to lay a submarine optical cable, but the current construction level of communication facilities in South Africa cannot meet our design requirements. Of course, it is not impossible if it is forced to be constructed by South Africa, but the efficiency of network communication will be greatly reduced. In other words, It will definitely not be able to achieve your network traffic efficiency," Pang Hongfei said.

Ye Fang shook his head with certainty and said, "This will definitely not work. If the network cannot meet the requirements, the entire base will lose an important foundation for its operation."

Pang Hongfei knew that Ye Fang's three bases all planned to build information processing centers. This center was not only Ye Fang's financial trading center, but also an intelligence information processing center. Relying on the defender system, it could collect all kinds of information from all over the world, so While the security of network equipment must be ensured, the efficiency of network peers is also extremely high.

"We can purchase communication equipment from European and American countries, but for the erection of submarine optical cables, only a few big countries currently have such design and construction capabilities. I know that domestic mobile companies have recently established a branch in Cape Town, South Africa. We can cooperate with China Mobile The company cooperated and entrusted them to install this submarine optical cable." Nanyi added on the side.

Ye Fang nodded, then shook his head. Nan Yi saw it and asked, "What, is there something wrong?"

"I am not opposed to cooperation, but I am worried about information security issues. In order to ensure communication security, this communications company must be our own." Ye Fang said.

"But the mobile company will definitely not agree to our investment. Even if it agrees to our investment, it will definitely not be controlled by us." Nan Yi said.

Ye Fang smiled slightly and said, "Of course we won't be allowed to hold a controlling stake. We can set up a communications company ourselves to manage the data of this submarine optical cable. We can let mobile companies take shares, and they can be responsible for technical support."

"But leaving technical support to mobile companies also cannot guarantee safety." Nan Yi said.

"Of course not. After the optical cable is installed and debugged successfully, we can directly recruit the technicians from the mobile company. Then won't they become our own people?" Ye Fang replied mischievously.

"You are so cunning!" Nan Yi said sincerely.

Pang Hongfei is now accustomed to Ye Fang's method of setting up a company if he doesn't agree or wielding a financial stick to slash his head. There is no way to succeed in China Mobile's strategy of cooperating first and poaching later.

A new communications company was soon established in South Africa. This company was jointly funded by Mobile Communications Company and WBHO Construction Group. WBHO Construction Group had absolute control and later handed over the submarine optical cable construction project worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Mobile Communications Company South Africa. branch. Three years later, when the base's communication project was partially completed and could basically meet Ye Fang's needs, Pang Hongfei immediately spent a huge amount of money to recruit all the employees of the South African branch of the mobile communications company to his own company.

This move immediately shocked the top management of domestic mobile communications. After several rounds of negotiations and compromises, in the end, in order to ensure its business share in South Africa, the mobile communications company had to turn the South African branch into a joint stock company, and Ye Fang absolutely controlled it. , this is also the only exception among overseas companies of mobile communication companies.

Since this incident, domestic mobile communication companies have signed supplementary contracts for core technical personnel and management, completely plugging the loophole of poaching and job-hopping.

In October 2002, the first blast from the base completely kicked off the construction of Ye Fang's independent kingdom, and Ye Fang has been in South Africa for nearly half a year. This semi-secluded life gave Ye Fang time to be serious. I thought about the path I would take in the future.

In the past six months, Zhou Kai has established a financial trading center in the oil town of South Africa, which is almost a perfect replica of Lu Jiaming's previous trading center. Lu Jiaming has transferred all the trading teams to South Africa to prepare for the layout of the international oil futures market. . Ye Fang is now very clear about his own path to wealth growth, taking full advantage of his resource advantages to make full use of the international capital market for financial arbitrage, and then use the funds returned from arbitrage to feed his global real industry.

The huge profits created by the real industry can further replenish the capital market arbitrage bullets, thus forming a closed loop. This is also the current method used by European and American capital, especially the United States, to shift from real to virtual and control the world through the capital market. This is Ye Fang has accumulated experience from dealing with international capital for such a long time.

The American capital tycoons are harvesting the world through dollars and oil. Ye Fang is using his innate resource advantages to harvest American capital. In other words, he is not harvesting American capital, but grabbing food from the mouths of American capital in order to benefit his own interests. maximize.

Now Ye Fang is holding a piece of paper with information about three people. These three people are the three Japanese spies lurking in the country that Miyazawa Kiichi confessed.

"The identities of these three people have changed several times, especially the identity of the first person is now no longer trivial. It took more than half a year to basically find out." Nan Yi stood next to Ye Fang and whispered.

Ye Fang's eyes slowly slid over the first person's information, and finally landed on the man's shoulders in the photo, and said coldly, "These worms!"

"The first person is suspected of leaking military secrets, and the second person leaked confidential information about my country's nuclear industry. As for how much damage it has caused to the country, we cannot make an assessment. The third person who leaked information about the work of the Foreign Affairs Office was all political and economic information. , should be the least harmful among the three people." Nan Yi said.

"Let's find a way to mail this information to Xiang's family through secret channels and let them investigate and deal with it. We can't get involved in this matter," Ye Fang said.

"Okay, I'll find someone to do it." Nan Yi agreed.

Beijing, an unknown building in the city.

A black car slowly parked in front of a building. Xiang Jia, the top person in charge of the security department in the Beijing-Tianjin area, got out of the car. The entire building was reserved for the security department. To the outside world, it was just an inconspicuous building. .

"Xiang Bureau, there is a private express for you." The front desk staff handed a courier to Xiang Jia's hand.

Ye Fang's incident did not affect anyone in the Xiang family. Although the Xiang family brothers did not believe that Ye Fang would betray their motherland, they could do nothing but endure it in the face of the increasingly severe situation. After Ye Fang's accident, Xiang's family only thought that Ye Fang was just missing. No one wanted to learn about Ye Fang's life in the worst possible outcome.

"Oh, my courier?!" Xiang Jia was very surprised. Usually private couriers would not deliver to the building where he works. After returning to the office, Xiang Jia opened the express delivery and pulled out a piece of information. After reading the information in detail, Xiang Jia's face immediately became serious.

"Ask the leaders of three, three and four groups to come to my office for a meeting." Xiang Jia hung up the phone and looked through the information carefully. The details of the information were completely written by professionals, narrating the past and present life of the three people. It was extremely detailed. At first glance, it was clear that it was not a frame-up, but a very clear-cut reporting material. It was very professional.

"Who could it be?" Xiang Jia carefully read the letter and then the envelope, but found no clues. I even sniffed Xiang Jia out of professional habit, but found no clues.

Soon his office was opened, and three team leaders specializing in investigation walked in one after another and stood in front of Xiang Jia's desk.

"Look at this letter." Xiang Jia handed the letter in his hand to the three of them.

The three people immediately realized the special nature of this case. The investigators inside were different from previous case handlers in terms of official positions and seniority.

"To the bureau, you should ask your superiors for instructions on this case, right? The level of the target task is too high. Without authorization, problems may easily arise." One of the team leaders said.

"I will go through the process. Each of your three groups will be responsible for one person, and we will immediately launch a basic investigation on the above content!" Xiang Jia said solemnly.

"Yes!" the three team leaders replied in unison.

After the three team leaders left, Xiang Jia repeatedly considered how to handle this case. Once it was reported, the superiors would definitely inquire about the source of the report. Without identifying the source of the report, Xiang Jia did not want to reveal the contents of the letter so quickly.

"Check first and then talk." Xiang Jia said in a deep voice.

In a blink of an eye, it was the end of 2002. Lu Jiaming's trading team immediately got into work as soon as they were in place and began to buy crude oil in batches in the capital market. As of now, Ye Fang is the largest bull in the world. This huge force made it impossible for the crude oil price to fall any further after it reached 2000 US dollars a barrel. As long as it exceeded [-] US dollars, Ye Fang would instruct Lu Jiaming to buy in large quantities. As of now, Ye Fang's long crude oil orders have reached [-] US dollars. [-] billion US dollars, and it is still adding positions.

Pang Hongfei led tens of thousands of workers to drive piles at the construction site day and night for several months, rapidly advancing the construction of the base, and spending money every day. The cost per day would be much higher if it weren't for the low cost of South African workers. Now Ye Fang is eager to have a hearty battle in the capital market and use this battle to replenish base construction funds.

Based on Pang Hongfei's inference, Ye Fang used the Defender's monitoring network to continuously monitor the US military in Afghanistan. There are now various signs that the US military is dividing its forces and gathering towards the Iraqi border. According to this area, the US attack on Iraq is likely to be carried out in the next few years. It will be put into action within a few months.

At this time, Ye Fang had to admire Pang Hongfei's foresight. Based on the preview of the future US war against Iraq, Ye Fang asked Han Hui to further reduce oil exports. At the same time, Ye Fang told Zayed and others to pay close attention to changes in international oil prices and reduce daily oil production. Zayed and others have almost formed a conditioned reflex to Ye Fang's words. Everyone's first reaction is that the United States will suffer another terrorist attack?

This time Ye Fang did not hide it from Zayed and others, but expressed his speculation that the United States was likely to attack Iraq. These little princes in the Middle East have not yet taken over the political power of their respective countries. Naturally, they have limited knowledge of international intelligence information. Everyone is not yet able to see the harm to the Middle East from the larger perspective of the US actions against Iraq.

But this does not prevent these people from taking advantage of this opportunity to make arbitrage in the capital market. This kind of arbitrage is much faster than making money from selling oil from the ground. This time, a few little princes have invested more than 500 billion US dollars in bullish positions in crude oil. .

"Mr. Ye, we have been monitoring the crude oil market in the past few days and found that large American capital has entered the market again. They are also long. Now the international crude oil market is all bullish, and almost no one is bearish." Lu Jiaminghui reported.

"This is not a good thing!" Ye Fang said.

"If a war breaks out, the national crude oil price is expected to exceed one hundred US dollars immediately." Lu Jiaming judged.

Ye Fang nodded and said, "Sell out all positions if the price exceeds one hundred dollars!"