The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

Affected by the Mexican financial crisis, the European stock market index fell 1% in January 1995, the Far East fell 6.5%, and the world stock market index fell 1.7%.

As a neighbor of Mexico, the United States was hit hard. The US lost tens of billions of US dollars in its 20 billion US dollars of stocks in Mexico. With the depreciation of the peso, the loss exceeded 15 billion US dollars.

Soros's "Quantum Fund" reaped a great harvest and was in its heyday. Soros held a celebration banquet in the most luxurious hotel in New York. The whole world was reporting on Soros and the "Quantum Fund". Many investors handed their money to the "Quantum Fund" for management.

Liu Tao, on the other hand, made a fortune in silence.

He did not make the last penny. With a 50-fold leverage of 10 billion US dollars, the net profit reached 76.3 billion US dollars.

In addition, many mines, farms, and ranches in Latin America became under his control under this wave.

His personal money also increased by more than five times.

If it was one account with so much money, it would be impossible to hide it.

But it was divided into thousands of accounts, so it was not so easy to track it down.

Especially there are a lot of offshore islands here, which makes it even more difficult to track down.

It is difficult for the United States to track down, let alone Mexico.

If Mexico wants to track down, I am afraid that most countries will ignore Mexico, let alone offshore islands.

International hot money is still making waves, and Liu Tao has already secured his gains.

Liu Tao is very happy with the rich gains, but what makes him more excited is that he can control more mines, farms, ranches, and energy resources this time.

For Latin America, Liu Tao regards it more as a place to import raw materials and sell goods, but it can only be ranked in the third echelon.

It’s not that there is anything wrong with Latin America, but because Latin America is too far away from China and too close to the United States.

The United States has a strong influence in Latin America, and there is no problem in saying that it is the back garden of the United States.

In fact, many countries in Latin America have a complicated view of the United States. They hate the United States, but they also yearn for the United States. All the rich people transfer their assets to the United States, buy properties in the United States, and send their children to the United States to receive American education and live in the United States.

It just so happens that Latin America is a place where the left and the right are constantly exchanging and interacting, and the stability is much worse.

This makes it easy to manipulate the situation.

In addition, there is no strong country in Latin America, which makes it even more vulnerable to the United States.

Therefore, in recent years, Panshan Group's business in Latin America, in addition to some arms accidents, is to import ores, crops, beef and mutton from there.

As early as several years ago, for these reasons, Panshan Group became an international mining giant and an international grain trader.

Except for the grain imported from the United States, all other grains imported by China are imported by Panshan Group.

As China's steel mills continue to increase their production capacity, the demand for iron ore is huge. In addition to domestic mineral mining, there is also a part of imports.

And this part of the imports is supplied by Panshan Group.

Panshan Group has various mines in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

Of course, the same is true for oil imports.

Now China's oil is divided into two parts. Huaxia Petrochemical Group is China's local oil and natural gas, while Huaxia Petroleum Group is the imported oil and natural gas outside the mainland. In addition to supplying the mainland, it is also responsible for supplying Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, and most countries in South Asia.

China's development requires stable energy and minerals, and Panshan Group is doing this.

In addition, in recent years, Panshan Group has organized a large number of workers to go overseas to mine, build roads, farm, and extract oil.

There are hundreds of thousands of Panshan Group's workers who have gone out from the mainland, and perhaps it will soon exceed one million.

Some of these workers who have gone out have chosen to bring their families over to settle in the local area.

In addition, the conscious support for overseas Chinese has enabled many Chinese families to grow rapidly and become a force that cannot be ignored.

Moreover, many Chinese families, after learning from historical lessons, have mastered private armed forces, ranging from dozens to thousands of people, and the equipment is purchased from Panshan Group without exception. The weapons may not be very advanced, but they are definitely advanced in the local area.

For example, the Type 59 tank is already a backward tank in China, but in most countries, they don't even have tanks.

Even now, many developing countries still use weapons from the Second World War or even the First World War.

Many countries don't have tanks or airplanes!

The development gap in this world is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

In the past decade, Chinese people have become more and more common in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, and the number of Chinese people is also increasing.

On the one hand, it has also prompted the continuous strengthening of the power construction in protecting legitimate rights and interests.

The location of the Three Gorges Dam.

The cofferdam project has been completed, the diversion project has also been completed, and the entire Three Gorges construction has entered the fast lane.

For water conservancy projects, the most favorable construction time is from September to April of the following year, about half a year, because this half year is in the dry season, with fewer rainy days and less rainfall, which is convenient for construction.

As a "century project", the Three Gorges Project can be said to have the most stringent construction requirements and the most stringent time node control.

It can be advanced, but it cannot be postponed.

Construction here does not disturb the residents. When conditions permit, construction can be carried out in three shifts a day.

Here, there is no night for many construction projects, because the lights on the construction site are bright at night.

More and more construction equipment are mobilized here.

With the completion of the resettlement project, the focus now is on the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.

Liu Tao arrived at the construction site at night, and the helicopter landed in an open space on the construction site.

At this time, it was bright daylight on the construction site.

The workers were working hard, and even in winter, the construction was in full swing.

A large amount of construction materials arrived at the Three Gorges Dam construction site every day.

After entering September, the construction site started working in three shifts.

On the premise of ensuring the quality of construction, the construction of the Three Gorges Dam is being accelerated.

Panshan Group put the funds in place early, and the funds were used for specific purposes. In addition, a large amount of manpower, material resources and financial resources were mobilized, making the construction of the project much faster than originally scheduled.

Liu Tao inspected the construction site and participated in the construction. During the construction process, he quietly repaired some problems that were difficult to rework.

It is obviously impossible for such a large project to have no problems at all.

Every time Liu Tao came to inspect, in addition to checking the progress, he would clean up and solve some problems to ensure the construction quality of the entire Three Gorges Project.

Seeing the workers sweating profusely, no one complained of being tired. It would be a lie for Liu Tao to say that he was not moved, because it was this generation that inherited the will of their ancestors and continued to build the motherland.

So far, it is inevitable that the total investment of the Three Gorges Project exceeds the original budget. In addition to the increase in construction materials, another important reason is the increase in labor costs. So far, the workers' wages have tripled compared to the beginning.

Liu Tao approved the increased investment without hesitation because of this group of people.

Most of these people will work here for seven or eight years or even longer!

There are even many college graduates who have just graduated, and they will leave their best time here.