Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 790: Trials and Tests

The main purpose of Lu Shaohua's coming to Africa this time was gold futures and oil futures. It was also because of these two major purposes that Lu Shaohua took action against seven countries and took control of the seven countries. Now that the seven countries have been recovered and fell into Lu Shaohua's hands, he must of course return to the original and start his initial plan.

It is worth mentioning that the establishment of mining companies in the five recovered countries to cooperate with Phoenix Group had already been finalized, but it has not been implemented yet. This was also caused by Lu Shaohua's temporary change of plan.

There was no other way. There were unstable factors in the recovered countries, and those presidents were not as quiet as they seemed. So Lu Shaohua had to postpone it. Only now that it was completely under control did Lu Shaohua start to implement the plan.

With the experience from last time, cooperation is much easier now. Phoenix Minerals in Hong Kong has been operating for such a long time and has become much more familiar with the business. Now there seems to be no problem with mining cooperation in four more countries.

This is actually a problem, and part of the reason why Lu Shaohua decided to postpone the plan. Lu Shaohua is a human, not a god, and the elites of the Phoenix Group in Hong Kong are not omnipotent either. Even if some experienced elites are recruited, there will inevitably be some discomfort.

If a newly established company has not yet reached that level of tacit understanding, it would be obviously unwise to expand suddenly, which may eventually destroy the company. This is also a problem that Lu Shaohua had to consider. Therefore, Lu Shaohua fully considered it when making the change plan and finally decided to postpone it.

Now, Phoenix Minerals Company has been operating for more than a month, and all aspects have matured. It should be able to cope with cooperation with five countries at the same time without causing any discomfort to the company, and Lu Shaohua's plan can also be implemented.

However, before that, Lu Shaohua must notify Liu Mingzhang and let them make adequate preparations. Otherwise, once Lu Shaohua gives the order, the gold price may suddenly plummet, which will definitely be a fatal blow to Phoenix Financial, which is buying on the rise.

Of course, the Saudi Arabian royal family also needs to be notified. They are in the same boat with Phoenix Financial and are one of Lu Shaohua’s important partners. Lu Shaohua cannot harm them.

So, after Lu Shaohua finished calling Liu Mingzhang and finalized the date for liquidation, he called the second prince again.

The call was quickly connected, and Lu Shaohua was not in a hurry to tell the purpose, but exchanged pleasantries with the second prince and chatted for a while. When the two of them had no more topics to talk about, Lu Shaohua adjusted his tone and said, "Well, I called you for something serious, about gold futures."

The second prince knew that Lu Shaohua would not come to him for no reason, but he could not guess that Lu Shaohua came for gold futures. He originally thought that Lu Shaohua came for oil, but he miscalculated.

"Oh?" The second prince was obviously stunned, then said, "I thought you came here for oil. What a mistake."

While speaking, the second prince felt a pain, the reason was very simple, the price of gold was skyrocketing, and with Lu Shaohua's advance notice, the second prince had drawn a large sum of funds into the company, and he had made a lot of money so far.

And Lu Shaohua called now and mentioned gold futures, which was obviously a sign of selling. How could the Second Prince not be heartbroken? After all, that was money, huge amounts of money.

Lu Shaohua is also a money-loving person. He certainly understands the Second Prince who is like him. He smiled lightly, but did not continue the topic. Instead, he got to the point and said, "Start selling the gold futures in your hands after a week. Well, the selling time is three days, which adds up to ten days. Well, after ten days there will be a period of relief, about five days, and then the price of gold will plummet."

Lu Shaohua explained the process one by one. This was also the date he and Liu Mingzhang agreed on. They would wait for a week to allow the gold price to continue to rise, and then start selling after a week, which would take three days, and then there would be a five-day rush-and-hold period, which would add up to half a month. Yes, half a month was correct, and half a month later was the date when gold would flood into the market.

However, if one is careful, it is not difficult to find that there is a loophole in Lu Shaohua's words, that is the 'five-day deferral period'. Lu Shaohua came up with a deferral period for no reason. Isn't it worthy of suspicion?

Don't forget that Lu Shaohua is very smart. In addition, time is precious now and Lu Shaohua does not want to waste any time, so the five-day grace period definitely has a purpose.

Indeed, Lu Shaohua did have a purpose. The five-day grace period was used for a new round of investment, that is, after selling the bullish gold futures and switching to bearish ones, Lu Shaohua wanted to make money in both directions, one buying bearish and the other buying bullish, in a cycle.

The second prince seemed to have not noticed the loophole in Lu Shaohua's words. After a pause, he said, "I will have my subordinates prepare it. We will start in a week and finish the sale."

The second prince really wanted to let Lu Shaohua stay for a while, but he finally resisted the temptation because he knew that Lu Shaohua would not make such a decision without a purpose, and if he let Lu Shaohua stay for a while, it might destroy Lu Shaohua's plan.

The Tiger Roar Base has a good relationship with the Saudi Arabian royal family, and the Second Prince himself has a good personal relationship with Lu Shaohua. However, the Second Prince knows Lu Shaohua very well, and Lu Shaohua is not the kind of person who can tolerate others ruining his plans. Therefore, the Second Prince did not dare to ask Lu Shaohua to maintain the relationship for a longer period of time.

The second prince even assumed that if he asked, Lu Shaohua would refuse without hesitation, and then abandon the Saudi Arabian royal family and continue to implement his plan, regardless of the life and death of the Saudi Arabian royal family's investment.

Yes, this situation is absolutely possible, and Lu Shaohua's personal relationship with him will no longer be able to be maintained. It will break down in an instant and they will be strangers in the future.

This was the reason why the second prince did not dare to ask Lu Shaohua to stay for a while longer.

In fact, wasn't Lu Shaohua also testing the second prince?

Lu Shaohua knew the Second Prince very well. He was an ambitious man, but sometimes he attached too much importance to money. Lu Shaohua deliberately did not say that those five days were the time to switch to short selling in order to test whether the Second Prince could resist the temptation and make a request to him.

Now seeing that the second prince has passed this test, Lu Shaohua did not intend to continue and said, "The first ten days are the end date of the sell-off, and the last five days are the dates for new investments. This time, buy-short, well, that is to say, after the sell-off, you must invest in buy-short as soon as possible. It has to be fast, there are only five days, otherwise it will be difficult to enter the market."

I have to say that listening to Lu Shaohua talk is also a kind of exercise, which tests whether your nerves are tough and your ability to accept things is strong. If your ability to accept things is weaker, you will probably get a heart attack.

Who says it isn't? When Lu Shaohua first said he wanted to sell, it was like falling from heaven to hell. Then he said he would use the five-day grace period to invest again, which was like returning from hell to heaven. It was an up and down experience. If you don't have a strong ability to accept it, you really won't be able to react.

Obviously, the second prince had a strong ability to accept things. After a moment of hesitation, he laughed happily and quickly stated that they had arranged everything.

However, after talking about gold futures, Lu Shaohua did not end the call with the second prince, but moved on to the next topic, which was about oil.

"We have made a lot of money from gold futures trading, but I think this is far from enough. We need to do something big, so it is urgent to put oil futures on the agenda." Lu Shaohua sighed.

Regarding oil futures, although the initiative is in Lu Shaohua's hands, the second prince represents the Saudi Arabian royal family and is also crucial. Without their cooperation, it will be difficult for Lu Shaohua to perfectly implement his plan.

The second prince also knew that Lu Shaohua was going to take action on the two major futures of gold and oil. He had already taken action on gold futures more than a month ago. The second prince guessed that it would be close for him to take action on oil futures as well. Sure enough, Lu Shaohua finally brought it up.

To be honest, when Lu Shaohua first proposed the plan, the second prince felt extremely uncomfortable, thinking that Lu Shaohua did not consider the interests of their Saudi Arabian royal family. But later Lu Shaohua convinced him, and the second prince agreed.

However, that was a helpless agreement, not a sincere one. He was still worried until he made a fortune in the gold futures market. Only then did the second prince feel relieved. Now he was eager for Lu Shaohua to take action as soon as possible so that their royal family could also make some money and achieve success on two fronts.

"I have received the plan sent by Li, but there are some details in it that I cannot understand clearly..." The second prince dragged out a long tone, and after a moment of silence, he continued. "How about this, I will set off for Africa in three days and visit your base by the way, how about it?"

As early as three days after Lu Shaohua left Saudi Arabia, Li Zhijie, as instructed by Lu Shaohua, delivered a plan to the second prince. It was a plan on controlling the volume of oil exports.

According to what the second prince is expressing now, there seem to be some things he cannot understand. He wants to come to Africa to communicate with Lu Shaohua in person, hoping to better complete Lu Shaohua's plan.

Of course, this cannot rule out the possibility that the Second Prince took this opportunity to visit the Tiger Roar Base. After all, the reputation of the Tiger Roar Base spread far and wide, but not many "outsiders" could come in. Well, it should be said that very few people could come in, so the Second Prince was very curious.

There are many secrets in the Tiger Roar Base, but the important secrets are underground, and no one knows them. So even if someone comes to visit, they can't touch the core secrets. Lu Shaohua is not worried that the second prince will find something when he comes to visit, so Lu Shaohua said without thinking. "Okay, I'll wait for you in Africa."

"Ok."