Chapter 1562: What Does It Have to Do with Zhou Andong?

"What did you say?" Qian Zhendong didn't seem to hear clearly and asked again.

The young man couldn't help but laugh again. "The foreign exchange account has an extra 1 billion US dollars for no reason."

"1 billion US dollars!"

Even though Qian Zhendong was the Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange of the Ministry of Finance, when he heard the number of 1 billion US dollars, his heart beat violently and uncontrollably.

But he quickly calmed down; there was no such thing as a free lunch in the world, it should be that the information was delayed.

That is to say, this sum of foreign exchange definitely existed, but the higher-ups hadn't had time to notify them yet, and the money had arrived in the account.

"Where was the money remitted from?"

"Xiangjiang!" The young man still looked very excited. "The specific remittance unit is being verified, and there should be results very soon. What I want to say is, no matter whose money this is, once it's in our hands, it absolutely cannot be spat out again. If they come to ask for it, let them exchange it for RMB."

Qian Zhendong glared at the young man. "Did you not sleep well last night, and you're still confused? Such a huge sum of funds, how could such a low-level error as remitting to the wrong account occur?

Even if a certain financial staff member was negligent and really remitted to the wrong account, it's impossible to remit to the wrong place in Xiangjiang, all the way to the country. And it was so precise, directly to the account of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange."

Qian Zhendong's words were like a basin of cold water poured over his head, finally lowering the young man's rising body temperature.

"No matter where this money came from, in short, in the first quarter of this year, we can have an easier time. We won't be blocked at the office door, facing you with a smiling face, but cursing our ancestors behind our backs."

"I warn you." Qian Zhendong's face immediately became serious. "Before there is an explanation for this money, no one can move it. Whoever comes to ask for money cannot be given it, do you hear me?"

This time the young man's body temperature completely dropped, and his originally smiling face became miserable.

Because of the tax system problem in the past, the Ministry of Finance was the poorest, not even as rich as the local finance.

There were even a few times when they were so poor they had to borrow money from the local government, and at that time, they were truly aggrieved.

On January 1st of this year, the tax-sharing reform began to be implemented, and the entire Ministry of Finance was truly jubilant.

With money, they naturally held their heads high, but they hadn't been happy for a few days before they couldn't laugh anymore.

In early February, the reform had been implemented for a month, and it happened to be the end of the year, and there was only a week left before the New Year.

Good heavens, local governments across the country, as if they had discussed it, all ran over to ask for money.

At the beginning, as long as people came, gave a reason, they would approve some.

After just three or four days, they found something wrong; this tax-sharing system had only been implemented for a month.

The money collected from various places wasn't much, and in just a few days, more than half of it was asked back.

Look at the entrances of various offices, and the corridors, not only did the people not decrease, but they were getting more and more.

If they gave it all, even if they gave a little less, the money collected from the local government would not only be insufficient, but even the old family foundation would have to be hollowed out.

The leadership urgently held a meeting and decided that without a proper reason, without a plan, without a feasibility project research report, no funds would be allocated.

This poked a hornet's nest. You collected the money from the Ministry of Finance, and it's the end of the year, exactly when money is needed, and you actually don't allocate funds.

Entering the office to ask for money, they were all smiling, but if you refused, they would turn around and curse your mother and ancestors, not even behind your back.

The young man said aggrievedly, "In the past, when there was no money, we were scolded. Now that the tax-sharing system is implemented and there is money, we are still scolded. This life is really not for humans."

Qian Zhendong picked up his tea cup and took a sip. "Local fiscal and tax revenue is collected by the central authorities, it's normal for local governments to be unhappy and run over to ask for money to add trouble to us."

Speaking of this, Qian Zhendong was also helpless. "It's the beginning of the year, there will be more people asking for money. Wait, the time to be scolded is still ahead."

The young man sighed. "I just thought of this possibility, so I suddenly found that the account had an extra 1 billion US dollars, so I ran over to report to you. Thinking that with this money, we could be scolded less in this quarter."

"You don't need to think about this, this money..."

Qian Zhendong lowered his head and picked up the newspaper on the side, and suddenly saw the news he had just read about developing a navigation system on his own.

He knew that because of this matter, the higher-ups had studied it for several months, and it was because there was no money that they hadn't made up their minds.

Today the news of the project launch was reported, and the account suddenly had an extra 1 billion US dollars, would this have any relationship?

"Ding-ling..."

Just as Qian Zhendong was deep in thought, the phone on his desk rang.

Qian Zhendong came back to his senses, grabbed the phone, and the voice of Minister Liu Huansheng came from the receiver.

"Zhendong, did you receive a remittance of 1 billion US dollars from Xiangjiang?"

"It came!" Qian Zhendong said in his heart. "The people below just reported to me, I am pondering where this money came from."

Liu Huansheng said, "500 million US dollars of this is a loan, and 500 million US dollars is investment profit."

"Hmm?"

Qian Zhendong didn't quite understand; he could understand the loan, but he didn't know about the other 500 million US dollars in profit, did the ministry have investments outside?

"Minister, do we have investments outside?"

Liu Huansheng laughed. "In October last year, I asked you to remit 50 million US dollars to an account in Xiangjiang. At that time, you were still crying poor to me, saying there was no money."

Qian Zhendong naturally remembered such a big thing, and this money was a special matter handled specially and approved specially. Liu Huansheng, the boss, approved the slip, and he also signed it. The most critical thing was that he was the second person responsible, but he didn't know what the money was for.

Now he finally knew that the money was invested, but this made him even more confused. What kind of business could get a tenfold return in just four months?

"Minister, what kind of business has such a generous return in such a short time? If we could do it long-term, we wouldn't have to worry about money."

"Speculating in futures."

Liu Huansheng was also very moved. At first, he was also skeptical, but Jian Lao personally called him to communicate, and he had to give this face.

He had already prepared for the 50 million to be lost. But he never expected that in the end, not only did they not lose money, but they made money, and it was a bloody profit, which was truly a huge surprise for him.

"You should know Zhou Andong, right?"

Qian Zhendong was stunned. "Zhou Andong from the Imperial Tribute Group?"

"Yes!" Liu Huansheng said. "We were able to earn this 500 million US dollars, including that 500 million US dollar loan, thanks to Comrade Zhou Andong."

Qian Zhendong asked suspiciously, "What does this have to do with Zhou Andong?"

He naturally knew that Zhou Andong was very rich; he wouldn't doubt it at all if he said he lent 5 billion RMB to the country.

But where did this 500 million US dollars in foreign exchange come from? And wasn't this money remitted from Xiangjiang?

In addition, there was speculating in futures; he couldn't connect it to Zhou Andong at all. Does Zhou Andong also understand this?

And he even earned 500 million US dollars back for them? This sounded very fantastical no matter how he listened to it.