Chapter 1301: Real Business Wars Are About Waiting for Opponents to Be Stupid

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Regarding real business wars, Miss Luo Quan can only say that they are far more interesting than those described in novels.

Business wars in novels are all about the protagonist being like a military strategist, planning strategies, as if they only need to rely on superior calculation ability and pre-emptive intuition to get things done.

The people around them are panicked, as if the company is about to go bankrupt immediately, but the final ending is that everything is under the protagonist's control.

Such business wars, as long as the script is not particularly brainless, should be willing to be watched by many people when filmed into TV series. After all, pretending to be forced and slapping faces is one of the attractive themes in both novels and TV series.

But in reality, where are there so many business geniuses with open eyes? There are just various outrageous operations that make people feel intellectually suffocated.

For example, the US stock market a while ago, several large venture capital companies on Huaerjie planned to short a game company to make money.

Everything was normal at first, and it was about to enter the harvest stage, but suddenly the form took a sharp turn for the worse.

The reason is that this game company was once a childhood memory for many young Americans. Many people's first game console and first game card in their lives were bought from this company.

As everyone knows, childhood memories are the most sacred and inviolable, and men are teenagers until they die. Even if they have experienced so many ups and downs in society, they will still have some romanticism left in their hearts.

So retail investors don't want to see this company, which carries their childhood memories, go bankrupt like this by those bloodsuckers who manipulate the stock market.

So, retail investors united, and no matter how many stocks those bloodsuckers sold, they bought them all.

And with such a mess, the stock price of that company climbed upward like a rocket, instantly becoming the most beautiful boy in the stock market.

Here, I need to introduce what short selling is.

The so-called short selling is that the capital side estimates that the stock price of a company will fall sharply in the future, so it borrows the company's stocks from the stock exchange and sells them.

After the stock price falls sharply, buy stocks to return them, so as to earn the difference.

The stock market is sensitive. When a company starts to sell a large number of stocks, other shareholders will definitely follow suit, trying to sell the stocks in their hands to return blood before the limit falls.

This leads to a vicious circle of lower and lower stocks, so once a company is targeted by a venture capital to short, it is likely to appear in a situation where the stock price collapses.

However, if the company has sufficient cash flow, it is another result.

There are only so many stocks in a company. After buying what others sell, you have to pay more to buy.

Once you add money, everyone knows that the company's stock sells well, and the stock price naturally goes up.

Once the stock price starts to skyrocket, for venture capital institutions that are shorting, it is definitely a nightmare among nightmares.

When you borrow stocks, no one cares how much you sell.

But when the time comes, you must return all of them according to the number when you borrowed them plus interest.

Even if the stock price was 100 when you borrowed it, and it became 10,000 when you returned it, you must return it according to 10,000.

Therefore, once you encounter a big bull who is richer than yourself when shorting, losing your family fortune becomes a high-probability event.

Originally, these retail investors could not compete with venture capital institutions by their own strength.

Even if Americans have money, an ordinary retail investor can take out more than 100,000 US dollars to speculate on stocks.

As for venture capital institutions, which one doesn't have hundreds of millions of US dollars in cash flow?

However, when retail investors all unite, the situation is different.

One person is more than 100,000 US dollars, one hundred is tens of millions, and ten thousand is more than one billion!

And the cash of a venture capital institution is mostly thrown into the stock market waiting for ups and downs, and it is absolutely impossible to raise so much money in a short time.

If the venture capital institution finds that someone is sniping itself at the beginning, it decisively gives up shorting and bleeds to return the stock, then it won't have much loss.

But human nature is greedy. The institution thought it was a peer, and it was also very capable, so it wanted to fight with the other party, so it invested a lot of money.

Ordinary peers see them so determined, and the probability is that they will give up directly.

However, this opponent didn't flinch at all, and immediately threw more money than these capitalists.

The result was that the stock price of this game company skyrocketed dozens of times, far exceeding the value it should have originally possessed.

And this abnormal price increase also attracted the attention of many passers-by. After knowing that this was a battle between ordinary people and Huaerjie capitalists, countless ordinary people chose to join the battle.

They want to use their scattered savings to become a puzzle against capitalists.

Perhaps they don't necessarily get rich overnight, but it is also very relieved if they can make capitalists lose their family fortune. 【1301-42

After all, in the stock market, ordinary people like them had always been the ones harvested like leeks by capitalists. Now that they finally had a chance to strike back, how could they possibly let it slip by?

Consequently, the matter grew bigger and bigger, eventually escalating to the point where more than half the world knew about it.

The game company's stock price soared all the way up, while that venture capital firm attempting to short it became deeply mired in the mud.

They didn't have the resolve to cut off their own arm to save their life at the start, and now it was too late to withdraw. If they admitted defeat, they would lose everything, and the entire institution would suffer a grievous blow.

In order to continue fighting against these retail investors, the firm's CEO borrowed a great deal of money from other institutions to fill the hole.

However, as the old saying goes, there is strength in numbers.

As tens of thousands of "leeks" contributed their savings, ordinary people finally saw the hope of defeating the capitalists.

If the stocks continued to trend like this, one would soon see many, many "trapeze artists" appearing on Huaerjie.

Yet, a dramatic scene occurred: after considering countless ways to save themselves, this venture capital firm finally chose the simplest and crudest one—pulling the internet cable.

Yes, literally pulling the internet cable.

They contacted the stock exchange and, citing server failure as an excuse, directly cut off the retail investors' access to purchasing stocks, thereby successfully escaping unscathed.

Once this move was made, public opinion in the global financial circle was in an uproar.

The stock industry is inherently about gains and losses; since you wanted to short a company and bring it down, you had to be prepared for the backlash.

Now that retail investors were fighting back for the sake of childhood memories, all their actions were reasonable and legal. Yet, you shameless losers couldn't afford to lose and actually pulled the cable—where is your integrity?

The most important thing in business is integrity. With the situation having reached this point, the reputation of this venture capital firm was completely ruined.

Moreover, even after pulling the cable, the initial capital invested could not be fully recovered. One could only say they avoided bankruptcy, but they still suffered massive losses.

On the other side of the story, the American retail investors defended the dignity of the "leeks" through this battle, while also telling all capitalists that "leeks" are not so easy to harvest. As long as we unite, we can defeat all you financial crocodiles with deep pockets.

As for what kind of lesson this story teaches, Miss Luo Quan feels there is no need to elaborate.

That is, when doing business with Americans, one must keep their guard up, because the other side likely has no bottom line and no moral principles.

If everyone can make money or cooperate happily, that's fine; but if they can't make money or are even losing money, they will likely start using underhanded tactics.

Of course, similar examples actually exist in China, and they can often be seen in the news.

For instance, chairmen leading the charge to steal public documents from rival companies, chairmen poisoning their competitors, or chairmen being sidelined by the board and confronting the company's security guards with their own subordinates, and so on and so forth.

From these news reports, one can see that in domestic business wars, company bosses love to lead from the front.

They don't care about whether it's legal or not; when something happens, they truly go for it, not even bothering to spend money to hire others to do it for them.

And the final entertainment value produced is enough to be recorded in the history of Chinese internet absurdity—a case that makes one laugh and cry at the same time.

Compared to these cases with comedic effects, there are, of course, heavy cases as well.

Just now, a fan mentioned something about the "Wolf of Lujiazui" to tease the new movie she was going to film.

In reality, there really was a nationally renowned private equity fund manager in Shanghai who passed away unexpectedly.

A private equity fund, in layman's terms, is a group of wealthy people who don't like to be in the spotlight, handing their money to a manager to invest.

If money is made, everyone shares the fortune.

But if money is lost...

Anyway, it is rumored that the manager who passed away unexpectedly had lost most of the money in his hands a while ago, and everyone said he was going to flee abroad.

As it turned out, not long after, he was fished out of the Huangpu River.

Surveillance captured him going out for a night run at eight or nine in the evening, and the autopsy result was an accidental drowning.

A manager holding hundreds of millions in funds, not sleeping at night, not accompanying beauties to discuss the meaning of life, but going for a night run in the biting cold wind of under ten degrees—what kind of sportsmanship is this?

Another thing is, the streetlights in Shanghai really need to be repaired.

If it weren't for the streetlights malfunctioning and not being lit, a grown man wouldn't have ended up running into the Huangpu River in the dark.

Netizens actually know the truth about this matter: it's about managing money for big shots. When he was making huge profits before, he was famous, and nicknames like "God of Stocks in China" could be placed on his head.

But once money was lost, how could the big shots let him off?

Since he couldn't pay back the money, he could only pay with his life. The big shots sent people to "take care of him."

If he had really dared to flee, the outcome would have been his whole family being "taken care of."

Now that only he died, it can already be considered the final outcome.

In the world of adults, once some decisions are made, one needs to bear the corresponding price.

So, just how deep the water in the financial circle is can be seen from these few cases.

Miss Luo Quan is going to film *The Wolf of Huaerjie* this time, and many people will definitely be "cued."

They might be dissatisfied, but they certainly won't be able to come up with any good solutions.

Because Miss Luo Quan is in China, where the emperor is far away, and they simply can't touch her.

Of course, attacks in public opinion will definitely not be lacking; after all, when the previous *Wolf of Huaerjie* was released, it was also severely criticized by the elites of Huaerjie.

After all, in the movie, those elites who manipulate the stock market were almost all portrayed as scammers who only know how to run pyramid schemes.

Although that might indeed be the truth.

"If everyone wants to see a plot about a financial genius getting rich by constantly buying stocks, then you're likely to be disappointed."

Seeing the trend in the comments discussing this, Miss Luo Quan immediately said: "This is actually a story about a bad guy. As for the specific plot, it's a bit like a less funny *Selling Crutches* trilogy."

What is the *Selling Crutches* trilogy?

That is a pinnacle of Chinese sketches, a very rare sketch turned into a series on the Spring Festival Gala, with the same characters appearing on stage every year to develop a coherent plot.

And the plot of the *Selling Crutches* trilogy can be summarized in two words: "hoodwinking."

"Does Luo Bao mean the protagonist of this movie is a big hoodwinker?"

"I guess he relies on a silver tongue to bewitch people."

"Now that you put it that way, I'm even more looking forward to it. I really want to see how Gao Liang becomes a big hoodwinker."

"It's been a long time since I've seen Gao Liang show his acting skills. Recently, the movies he's acted in are all about him playing a cool, domineering CEO. I beg Luo Bao to give him a chance to show his real strength."

"Indeed, such a young Best Actor playing cool every day—although he is indeed very cool, he can't keep wasting his talent like this."

"I can see you all have gender bias. If it were Miss Luo Quan dressing up beautifully in the movie wearing a sports vest and ultra-short shorts every time, would you refuse?"

"Then I wouldn't have the heart to watch the movie anymore."

"Sure enough, people are all double-standard."

"Nonsense, Gao Liang's female fans are all on Weibo. Of course, they prefer to see Gao Liang playing cool. It's understandable for us male fans to want to see his acting skills, right?"

"Indeed, this is just like Miss Luo Quan's female fans on Weibo wanting to see her career continue to flourish. The more awards Miss Luo Quan wins, the happier they are."

………………

I have to say, the fans' arguments are sometimes quite reasonable.

Miss Luo Quan also knows clearly what they want, so she nodded and said: "Don't worry, everyone. This movie requires the protagonist to contribute a performance with extreme tension."

"So those fans who want to see explosive acting skills will definitely get their wish this time."

"I guarantee you will see a dramatic scene that will make you call it satisfying. As for how satisfying it is, wait until the movie is released and everyone can witness it for themselves."

The comments immediately scrolled rapidly:

"Good, with your words, I can rest assured."

"I hope Gao Liang can win another Best Actor award this time, so that the number of his distant honors will be the same as Miss Luo Quan's."

"Both siblings are double Best Actors, right?"

"Best Actor and Best Actress, and two of each—how amazing it would be if these two collaborated on a movie."

"Thinking quite beautifully, but it's probably very difficult to achieve."

"So the question is, when will *The Wolf of Huaerjie* be released?"

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Can Luo Bao reveal a little?"