The end of July and the beginning of August should be the busiest period of the year, with all kinds of major international events taking place frequently.
Every item picked out will have a profound impact on all walks of life around the world and even the international situation, but they all happened at the same time.
First, at the end of July, Nokia joined hands with KPN Telecom of the Netherlands to launch a 2G communications pilot plan in Rotterdam, the second largest city in the Netherlands.
As soon as the news came out, it grabbed the headlines around the world, and companies from lighthouse countries once again led the technological revolution.
The headlines were not yet in the spotlight. One day later, the Tokyo government announced an increase in export tariffs on domestic products.
They have now woken up. They have only technology and no force. If they dare to dump European and American products, they are seeking death.
Therefore, they took the initiative to raise tariffs, restrict the development of the domestic semiconductor industry, and begged their father to forgive them for their ignorance when they were young.
Just ogling a blind man.
His father was not free, because in the early morning of August 2nd, a major event that attracted worldwide attention occurred. Iraq launched Operation Kuwait and actively invaded Kuwait.
The war started too suddenly, the five gangsters were treated as decorations, and it ended extremely quickly.
The Kuwait operation started at 2 a.m., and the Iraqi army launched an invasion with 100,000 troops. In just four hours, they successively captured the radio station, surrounded the palace, blocked the airport, railway terminal and other strategic targets.
At 12 o'clock at noon, the tenth hour after the war started, the capital of Kuwait fell completely. Members of the royal family, celebrities and dignitaries could only escape by helicopter to a US warship.
At one o'clock at noon, one hour after capturing the capital, Saddam held a press conference and declared that Kuwait has been a province of Iraq since ancient times and established an interim government in the country's capital.
Western forces, led by the United States, expressed strong condemnation and forced Iraq to stop the war and withdraw from the capital of Kuwait, otherwise they would intervene with force to help the members of the Kuwaiti royal family restore...
"What was supposed to come has come."
Zheng Yaoyang turned off the TV that was playing the news and was not concerned about the aftermath of the incident.
Because there will be four months of rhetoric, the United States intends to let the price of oil soar for a while.
When the negotiations break down in mid-January next year, the US military will teach the world step by step what modern warfare is.
If you are poor, you can use tactics to intersperse, if you are rich, you can cover it with firepower.
Directly using a large number of stealth fighter jets to plow through major cities in Iraq several times created a one-sided situation and also told the world that technological crushing is massacre.
Not long after, Zheng Yaoyang received a call from a group of people, including Rogers, Zheng Weijian, and Wade.
Rogers sounded excited and said that the two countries were really at war, and international oil prices skyrocketed.
After all, the Gulf region accounts for 60% of the world's oil exports. Iraq's invasion of Kuwait directly turned the entire Gulf region into a military martial law zone.
The United States followed suit and treated Iraq just like Cuba, imposing a comprehensive blockade on light and heavy industrial products, as well as rice, flour, grain and oil.
As soon as the news came out, crude oil prices skyrocketed.
Since the start of trading in the early hours of last night, a barrel of oil has risen from US$13.5 to US$27.27, an increase of 102%.
They made a lot of money.
Rogers didn't know how much Zheng Yaoyang bought, but he held $1.22 billion in oil contracts.
In just one night, it more than doubled.
He personally enjoys a 2% commission on net asset income and earned approximately US$26 million.
And this is just the beginning, $27.27 per barrel of oil is definitely not the limit of this rise.
After all, the head-to-head confrontation between the third powerful country and the first powerful country will not end if it does not take a year and a half.
Speculators love war the most. Even ordinary supplies can multiply several times during war.
Zheng Yaoyang pondered for a moment and then ordered: "Don't be in a hurry to sell, wait for my news."
They can hold it for a period of time and wait until countries are in short supply of oil and the U.S.-Iran talks break down before selling, so as to maximize their profits.
Zheng Yaoyang made billions of dollars easily in one night. He was very lucky to have invested in the communications industry.
Investments of hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars at every turn have kept him thirsting for wealth.
Otherwise, like now, it is too easy to make money, and it is easy to lose oneself and the direction of struggle.
Immediately afterwards, Zheng Yaoyang received a call from his father. Zheng Weijian was in a good mood and informed him of the current profits.
His cost was about 15.5 US dollars, the total investment was only 300 million US dollars, and he only made more than 200 million US dollars.
Zheng Yaoyang smiled: "As long as you make money, don't be too greedy. If you wait for a while, you can almost sell off the oil contract in your hand."
Zheng Weijian nodded. If he was greedy, he would not have invested only 300 million U.S. dollars and left 400 million U.S. dollars untouched.
The investment of US$300 million was also the confidence given by Zheng Yaoyang, otherwise he would have originally planned to invest US$100 million.
Finally, there was a call from Wade, informing them of their current profit situation and asking about follow-up arrangements.
Their entire $3.5 billion bet on oil doubled overnight, and Wade didn't know what to say to express his excitement.
Zheng Yaoyang had no choice but to repeat what he told Rogers and continue to hold it until he notifies him.
Almost the whole morning, Zheng Yaoyang was answering various phone calls, and the influence of the Gulf War began to spread, until Zhou Huimin came back from work.
She changed her slippers at the entrance and saw that Zheng Yaoyang's shoes were still there. She was surprised and said, "You haven't gone out today?"
Zheng Yaoyang put down the satellite phone, stretched out and lay lazily on the sofa, looking up at her: "Do you really hope that I can leave?"
Zhou Huimin paused, with an awkward but polite smile on his face: "No...there is no such thing."
After spending more than a year with Zheng Yaoyang, she has been highly praised by the Huanyu Group and her career is going smoothly.
In the past year and a half, he has released three solo albums, two of which have become platinum albums.
It has also spread a word among the new generation music circles in Hong Kong.
The male is Jacky Cheung and the female is Zhou Huimin.
But as her fame grew, she also became more and more disgusted with Zheng Yaoyang's identity as his underground lover.
There is nothing she can do if she is disgusted. If she leaves Zheng Yaoyang, she doesn't know where to go and her career will be in ruins.
The entertainment industry is the most resource-intensive industry. No matter how good a person's voice (acting skills) is, if no one writes songs (invests), it will only be lost to everyone.
Zheng Yaoyang reached out and patted the empty space on the sofa, and Zhou Huimin immediately sat down next to him obediently.
Zheng Yaoyang reached out and brushed her hair: "My girlfriends in Xiangjiang are not only you, but also Li Jiaxin and Gigi Lai. Do you know why I like to look for you?"
Zhou Huimin was stunned and slowly shook his head.
Zheng Yaoyang had a faint smile on his face and touched her cheek: "Because I like you or not."
Zhou Huimin believed in religion, but violated the teachings.
She obviously enjoyed the career resources he gave her and became a first-line singer, but she was unwilling to accept the status quo and always wanted to escape.
To put it bluntly, I just pick up the bowl to eat, then put the bowl down and curse my mother. How can there be such a good thing in the world?
If she can be as willing as Li Jiaxin and Gigi Lai, maybe Zheng Yaoyang will get bored soon.
Because she doesn't like it but has to accept it, that's why Zheng Yaoyang has been looking for her recently.
Zhou Huimin was silent for a long time, and suddenly she knelt on the ground and almost begged: "Can you please let me go?"
"I hate seeing women cry the most."
Zheng Yaoyang helped wipe away his tears, raised his chin, and said with a smile: "Are you sure you have thought it through?"
Zhou Huimin was stunned and her eyes stopped crying: "So you agree?"
Zheng Yaoyang's smile did not fade and he smiled lightly: "Why don't you agree? I don't like forcing others to make things difficult."
He patted Zhou Huimin's little head, walked to the entrance and put on his shoes, and said with a smile: "Let's start from today."
He was tired of playing this game.
In his opinion, Zhou Huimin was too pretentious, and his honor and wealth were too easy to obtain, so he was not severely beaten by society.
It's also time to let her out and suffer severe beatings from society, so that she will realize that everything is not easy.
He had given Zhou Huimin a chance to regret it, but she didn't seem to care at all, so so be it.
Zhou Huimin looked at the direction he left, sitting on the ground with a dull look on his face, his face full of disbelief.
It turns out that getting rid of Zheng Yaoyang is so easy, all it takes is one sentence, and the deliberate avoidance in the past was like a joke.
After a while, the home phone rang.
Zhou Huimin received a call from her agent, and Huanyu, as well as many of the brands she endorsed, all terminated their contracts with her. Fortunately, the company will bear all the breach of contract fees.
The agent was silent for a long time and said: "Although I don't know what happened, I have to transfer him. Vivian, you should do a good job in the future."
Listening to the busy signal from the phone, Zhou Huimin felt empty. She finally got her wish today and got the freedom she had longed for for a long time, but she couldn't feel happy.