game trailblazer

Chapter 223 Hong Kong Attack
After mid-August, the national speculators seemed to really leave Southeast Asia, and the currency exchange rates of Southeast Asian countries also temporarily stabilized. However, the storm did not go away, and the speculators only temporarily stayed on the sidelines, trying to find new opportunities to make a move. .It didn't take long for Hong Kong's peace to be broken, but it wasn't international speculators who came, but bird flu.

On this day, Zhang Lexing was staying in the office as usual, researching economic data on the computer, reviewing and approving some company documents, when suddenly the familiar "uh-oh" sound came from the computer speaker, and there was a message from ICQ. He skillfully pressed the Hotkey, the ICQ message window pops up, "Hi, good morning! ^_^".

Zhang Lexing glanced at the other party's name and number. It turned out to be Chen Zishan's message. He immediately clicked on reply, typed in his greeting and sent it back, "Shanshan, good morning."

"Le Xing, you'd better go out as little as possible in the near future!" Chen Zishan quickly replied.

Zhang Lexing was stunned for a moment when he saw the news, and casually made a joke: "What's the matter, is there a biochemical crisis in your laboratory?"

"Stop joking, I'm serious." Chen Zishan explained in detail on ICQ: "The situation is like this..."

About a few months ago, a three-year-old boy died in St. Paul's Hospital. This was a very common incident, but the disease developed so suddenly that the hospital could not find out the cause of the boy's death, because The patient had symptoms of dyspnea before his death, so throat samples from some patients were taken and sent to the Government Laboratory for testing.It turned out to be an influenza virus, but the virus data obtained by the laboratory is limited, so it is impossible to determine what kind of virus strain it is.

In order to find out which type of influenza virus it was, the hospital sent the samples to the Centers for Disease Control in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Atlanta, the United States. Chen Zishan's Institute of Biology also received a report because of its advanced equipment and complete information. samples from the hospital.It soon turned out that the throat sample contained the H5N1 bird flu virus, a strain of the flu virus that has never infected humans but only birds.

Chen Zishan studied microbiology at MIT. Although she did not directly study influenza viruses, she quickly understood the seriousness of the matter after hearing the explanation from her research director. Birds are people who often come into contact with, and the activities of certain birds The scope is also very large. Once bird flu can infect humans, it means that there will be many more sources of influenza infection in the world that can move and spread quickly. This is not good news for humans living on the earth.

Chen Zishan immediately reported the news to St. Paul's Hospital and the Hong Kong Center for Disease Control, but the other party did not believe it at all, thinking how could the bird flu be transmitted to humans.Fortunately, the Centers for Disease Control in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Atlanta, the United States also sent samples. As long as they get the results, they will know whether it is bird flu or not after comparing the results.But the news from the two places didn’t come either. Later, the director of St. Paul’s Hospital couldn’t help but call to ask. Only then did I know that when the samples were sent out, for some reason, they forgot to mark them as urgent. , As a result, the two samples were still lined up in the freezers in the two places, and it was unknown when it would be their turn.

The dean hurriedly gave a brief introduction to the situation. The Centers for Disease Control in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Atlanta, the United States also agreed to conduct tests immediately. The final results came out not long ago. They were all H5N1 bird flu viruses. Now St. Paul’s Hospital and Hong Kong Disease The control center panicked, and quickly sent someone to check whether the boy had been in contact with chickens or ducks before his death.Not long after, the US Centers for Disease Control also sent a team of scientists to Hong Kong to investigate the authenticity of bird flu.

At the end, Chen Zishan asked again: "Le Xing, you really have to be careful and go out as little as possible. If you must go out, don't go near chicken farms and other places with poultry, and don't go to crowded places. place!"

Zhang Lexing is still very grateful for Chen Zishan's kindness, but to be honest, the bird flu transmission between people is a matter of big and small, anyway, as far as he knows, it should not have spread on a large scale, but spread to infected people It must be very different, especially when there is no specific medicine to treat this.Thinking of this, Zhang Lexing suddenly realized that Tamiflu, the specific drug for bird flu, had not been officially launched yet, so he couldn't help but feel a little moved: "Maybe this is a good opportunity?"

Regarding the situation of Tamiflu, Zhang Lexing will definitely not foolishly ask Chen Zishan directly. Although her biological research institute is a bit close to this aspect, it is obviously impossible for everyone to know about Tamiflu before it is officially listed. Maybe even the pharmacist didn't know that it has a good therapeutic effect on bird flu. After all, bird flu has never been transmitted to humans before, and Tamiflu is not a veterinary drug.

Zhang Lexing decided to hand over the investigation task to Russell Market Research Company in the United States. After all, their information is relatively well-informed. Unfortunately, he was not from the pharmaceutical industry before, so he didn't know much about Tamiflu. I just remember that the developers seem to be Gilead Sciences of the United States and Roche Pharmaceuticals of Switzerland. In addition, the main ingredients of Tamiflu include shikimic acid extracted from star anise, and this drug is used to treat influenza.After emailing the situation he had recorded (of course he did not mention Tamiflu, he only stated that he wanted to investigate Gilead and Roche Pharmaceuticals) to Russell Market Research Company by email, Zhang Lexing could only continue to wait. In fact, he himself He didn't know the bottom line in his heart, and he didn't know whether Russell Company had the ability to find out the relevant situation, but this was the only thing he could do.

Chen Zishan was still worrying about the human-to-human transmission of bird flu in Hong Kong, and Zhang Lexing was also worried about not knowing the situation of Tamiflu, but soon his attention was removed from Tamiflu, because international speculators came , Hong Kong was attacked.

On the afternoon of August 8th, half an hour before the market closed, the computer that had been monitoring the stock market trading situation on the Internet issued an alarm. The rising Hang Seng Index quickly turned around and rushed down. Many heavyweight stocks were still green a moment ago, and immediately turned blood red following the changes in the Hang Seng Index.Immediately afterwards, the computer monitoring the foreign exchange market transactions on the Internet also issued an alarm. A large number of spot Hong Kong dollars were sold, and a large number of U.S. dollars were also bought in. The exchange rate began to fluctuate violently.Feeling that the situation was not good, Zhang Lexing immediately issued an order to activate the primary cloud network, which was still in the experimental stage, and officially connected supercomputers and computing clusters in places including Oriental Shenyun, Oriental Holdings, Dapu Research Park, and Chen Zishan’s Institute of Biology. Together, under the scheduling operation of the operating system between each other, it became the first "cloud" in the world, which was called the primary cloud by Zhang Lexing.

On August 8, noticing that the SAR government, which was extremely turbulent in the financial market yesterday, issued a declaration, Chief Executive Dong claimed that Hong Kong’s foreign exchange reserves were sufficient to ensure its status as an international financial center. Unfortunately, his words did not fully apply.

On August 8, many companies and individuals worried that the Hong Kong dollar would become the next target of speculators. They sold their Hong Kong dollars before the weekend and exchanged them for U.S. dollars. As a result, the U.S. dollar exchange rate began to rise wildly, and the market opened in the afternoon At that time, it had reached the 22 warning line of the Monetary Authority, and the Monetary Authority began to intervene in the market.

After receiving the news of the HKMA's move, the Hong Kong Defense Fund of 300 billion Hong Kong dollars (about 40 billion U.S. dollars) jointly established by Zhang Lexing and many Hong Kong tycoons also followed suit.At 7.495 o'clock in the afternoon, the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate slowly dropped to 10 under the intervention of the HKMA. Then within 5 minutes, there were five consecutive selling frenzys of 10 million Hong Kong dollars each, and the exchange rate that had just stabilized began to rise slowly again.At this critical moment, the Hong Kong Defense Fund made a move, and within 30 minutes, it used leverage to invest 7.495 billion Hong Kong dollars in one go, and the exchange rate fell back to [-] again.At the same time, the Hong Kong Defense Fund allocated some funds to buy a large amount of heavyweight shares in the Hang Seng Index, hoping to counteract the suppression of the Hang Seng Index by international speculators in many ways.

At 02:30 in the afternoon, after several days of online operation, "Junior Cloud" has completed the analysis of three days' financial data, and successfully found out the three largest speculative funds from the complicated data. The three speculative funds are respectively named Fund A, B, and C. Fund A is mainly active in the foreign exchange market, Fund B stays in the stock market tossing about stock index futures, and Fund C focuses on a few key stocks and suppresses them forcibly. Whether there is Soros or not, but he can't care so much now.

At 35:50 p.m., Zhang Lexing set up Base No. [-] in the Peninsula Hotel. The monitoring computer has successfully completed the monitoring of the accounts held by funds A, B, and C. It's time to fight back when it comes to your account with Standard Chartered Bank.

The one who can't bear it is still the speculator. Fund A continues to sell in the foreign exchange market, Fund B sells short in the futures market, and Fund C continues to forcibly suppress those key stocks.Due to the ups and downs of the previous market like a roller coaster, many people chose to wait and see. When they saw that the bears seemed to have the upper hand again, they began to move again.

At [-]:[-] p.m., with the help of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Hong Kong Defense Fund and Funds A, B, and C were inextricably locked in a stalemate. The exchange rate and the Hang Seng Index seemed to be sitting It seemed to be going up and down in an elevator, and many investors and investors who were not in good health almost had a heart attack because of it.

At 5:186 p.m., the stock market, which has been stagnant, suddenly started to wave again. Within 512 minutes, a number of super long orders totaling 5 billion Hong Kong dollars and [-] million lots were dropped. The traders in the stock exchange hall were stunned. Stopped, many people rubbed their eyes desperately. When they turned their eyes to the big screen again, the huge numbers from before were still clearly displayed on it, and the entire trading hall fell silent.The securities trading system also seemed to be shocked by this big order, and the numbers on the big screen froze at once. After a full [-] minutes passed, the numbers started to jump again, but this time it was no longer a seesaw, but as if sitting Like a rocket, not only the Hang Seng Index is rising, but most individual stocks are also rising.

Looking at the index that turned green again, the trading hall was noisy again. A trader couldn't help but stood up, clenched his fists, and shouted desperately to the big screen: "Up! Up!! Up!!!" Immediately after The second and third traders stood up and shouted, and gradually everyone in the hall shouted: "Up! Up!! Up!!!"

The Hang Seng Index seems to have sensed people’s beliefs. Following the rhythm of shouting, the Hang Seng Index rose step by step from the bottom of 14500 points, which was seen repeatedly.

……

"asshole!"

Accompanied by a muffled sound, a black keyboard was obliquely inserted into the screen of a monitor in an inconceivable gesture, followed by crackling noises, and a puff of blue smoke came out of the gap in the monitor screen.

An Asian man with a bearded beard was sitting on a chair, panting angrily. There were three or four young men sitting in front of the computer in the room, all of whom lowered their heads and pretended to be operating the computer. Make a sound.

Rendanhu man felt a sense of depression in his heart, which made him very uncomfortable.Originally, he was invited by Julian Robertson, the head of the Tiger Fund, to participate in the attack on Hong Kong. According to Robertson, besides him, there is another fund from the UK as an ally. Of course, the three of them must not be the only ones to join in the fun .According to Robertson, this attack on Hong Kong should be as easy as sweeping Southeast Asia, and the first two days seemed to be the case.However, the situation has been quite different since this afternoon. First, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority entered the market, and then there were many large and small funds to disrupt the situation. "Help", the two sides fell into a stalemate. Of course, the three families have not done their best at this time.

Just when the Rendanhu man felt that the time was almost up, and when he was about to strike out again from the stock market, he was frightened by the sudden large order.Before, it was vaguely revealed that the mainland government would support Hong Kong at the right time. At that time, no international speculators would believe this, but what does the sudden large sum of money mean? Could it really be the support from the government? Hesitant, I don't know whether to continue to follow up.Just when the Rendanhu man was hesitating, the market confidence completely reversed in this short period of time. By the time the Rendanhu man was forced to make a move, it was already too late, and people's confidence had already been established. Coupled with a large amount of funds to protect the safety, the Hang Seng Index's surge has been irreversible.

This is a tragedy for Mr. Rendanhu. He is not as big as Tiger Fund. The reversal of the Hang Seng Index not only gave up all the money he made before, but also lost about 7 to 8 million US dollars. He believes that he is also active in The British fund in the stock market may have suffered the same loss, but Tiger Fund should have eaten a lot of meat in the foreign exchange market.

When he thought of the people who came here with the same purpose, some people were eating meat, but he was about to be cut by others, Rendanhu man felt so angry that he couldn't help throwing the computer keyboard on his desk to someone else. A computer monitor in the distance.

(End of this chapter)