Chapter 99

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Protagonist:

Lv Muzhi

Many years later, facing illness, President Roosevelt would still recall that afternoon when he and Lv Muzhi shared lunch......

Shanghai City, Huishan Wharf.

Only after Lv Muzhi's feet touched the soil of his motherland did his heart finally settle.

During last September's Black Thursday, four streams of mysterious Eastern funds poured into Wall Street.

After receiving Lv Muzhi's telegram reminder, Song Zhiwen observed for a while, then joined with a group of economists to conduct an analysis, finally deciding to commit funds to test the waters on the eve of the stock market crash, and also pulled in other prominent families.

The outcome was indeed as Lv Muzhi had predicted: Song Zhiwen's invested funds went crazy short-selling the Wall Street stock market, ultimately causing the principal to swell rapidly.

This anomaly soon attracted the attention of the United States authorities after the stock market crash, and the funds that could not be transferred in time were frozen in full to prevent capital flight.

After investigation, there were roughly four streams of mysterious Eastern funds that entered Wall Street and short-sold Wall Street stocks.

The mysterious Zhu Family, together with his Major General son-in-law, had frozen returns in the United States reaching up to 300 million US dollars.

The Song Family and its behind-the-scenes forces had frozen returns in the United States reaching up to 200 million US dollars.

Kong Family 250 million, Chen Family 50 million US dollars......

The United States froze a total of 800 million US dollars belonging to the East, and asked the Federal Court to rule on the ownership of these 800 million US dollars.

Only after the incident did the Principal hear this shocking news; he never expected that his wife and his younger brother-in-law had concealed such a huge undertaking from him;

The Principal's Wife's explanation was: Darling, you have many things to do, military matters still need you to handle them, my money is your money~

Since the Principal's Wife knew beforehand, the Principal himself could be considered to have known, so he immediately dispatched Minister Song Zhiwen, who was in charge of finance, to personally go to the United States for negotiations; Lv Muzhi, who had already been shuttling around Europe, was also summoned to court for negotiations.

After negotiations lasting a full month, Lv Muzhi and Song Zhiwen returned to the country together.

Squeak~

Eight black sedans stopped at the wharf.

Song Zhiwen and Lv Muzhi got into one of them, Lv Muzhi's wife Zhu Sanxiang and his confidant Zhang Fei took another, and the other security personnel boarded the remaining sedans to follow.

The motorcade headed toward Zhabei Railway Station; Lv Muzhi and Song Zhiwen were about to take a train to Jinling to meet the Principal.

"Muzi Ah, this time we two really made a big splash at the Federal Court; the United States finally agreed to gradually unfreeze our funds, that's a whole 800 million!" Song Zhiwen and Lv Muzhi sat in the back seat of the sedan; Song patted Lv's shoulder.

Lv Muzhi nodded: "Indeed worth celebrating, but the Americans still put shackles on these 800 million funds; the 800 million can only be consumed within the United States and cannot be taken back to Xia Guo."

"That's already pretty good; after negotiation, these 800 million will form the Pacific Foundation, and the fund's usage will be decided by the council; council members are currently negotiating with the United States, and the candidates have not yet been decided;

It's also thanks to you arguing forcefully at the meeting; the economic experts I brought were just so-so; you are far more useful than them."

"This has nothing to do with me; mainly they indeed need a broader market; the United States domestic market cannot consume the huge surplus production capacity of American industry; these 800 million frozen there are just a pile of waste paper; better to let them circulate, expand American product exports to Xia Guo, and it can also save some American enterprises."

"But...... I think most importantly, it's still New York State Governor Roosevelt backing us up, laying aside his governor identity, taking up his old trade again, holding high the banner of freedom, and defending us in the capacity of a defense lawyer."

Roosevelt's help to Lv Muzhi and the others was not free; the condition was that Lv Muzhi and the Zhu Family needed to provide campaign funds to help Roosevelt defeat Hu Fu in the election and take office as the next president.

However, Song Zhiwen knew the two probably had a transaction, but did not know the specific details; for the current Song Zhiwen, preserving those over 100 million US dollars was already enough to make him overjoyed.

The fund composed of those 800 million US dollars needed to be managed and drawn upon by a council composed of Xia Guo personnel, and the United States would also send personnel into the council to supervise fund usage.

Lv Muzhi recalled Governor Roosevelt's guarantee to him; the Zhu Family and Lv Muzhi would both enter the council and decide the usage of this fund.

"That's indeed true; I'm truly shocked that you actually know such a big shot."

Lv Muzhi smiled: "After I and Sanxiang stood firm, we went to visit Mr. Roosevelt; at that time he was campaigning for the New York State Governor position; I contributed some campaign funds to Roosevelt, and that's how we got to know each other."

"I think most importantly, it's still that President Hu Fu and Governor Roosevelt belong to two different parties; one is the Elephant Party, one is the Donkey Party; this might be an important reason he helped us." Song Zhiwen analyzed.

"Not necessarily; Roosevelt thinks President Hu Fu has no clarity at all regarding the crisis the United States is suffering; Roosevelt has his own unique views on solving this economic crisis, including devaluing the dollar and stimulating exports;"

"Rather than let these 800 million US dollars fall into the hands of Hu Fu's incompetent aides, it's better to let us consume openly in Xia Guo, stimulate American exports; this resolution received support from within the American Donkey Party."

"Hmm, not bad; that President Hu Fu thinks this economic crisis is just an objective law of capitalist society, adhering to laissez-faire ideology; I think we still need a big hand to control the economy."

Lv Muzhi nodded: "Minister Song, before long, the American people will completely fall into dire straits, and Hu Fu shacks will be everywhere in the United States."

"Living Buddha shacks? What's that?"

Lv Muzhi crossed his arms over his chest, leaning against the backrest: "The shelters President Hu Fu prepared for the American people."

Song Zhiwen laughed heartily after hearing this: "Just let the American common people suffer; the blame will be borne by President Hu Fu!"

The automobile arrived at Zhabei Station; the group boarded the train; everyone was very tired and decided to rest for a while on the train, to gather again after arriving in Jinling.

Lv Muzhi and Zhu Sanxiang were in one carriage; looking at this woman before him, after the US stock market crash, the two went to Europe, and held a formal wedding in the United Kingdom one month ago.

After the stock market crash, the white glove companies arranged by the two, after full operation, had already laundered 200 million US dollars to Swiss banks in advance, and another 80 million US dollars went into his old father-in-law's pocket.

The 300 million US dollars frozen by the Americans were discovered before they could be completely transferred, and were detained together with Song Zhiwen and others' funds.

Lv Muzhi went to the United Kingdom; besides getting married, he also visited the bacteriologist Fleming; Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928 and published related papers, but unfortunately it did not attract attention from the academic world; suffering from lack of funds, the research was forced to stop.

Lv Muzhi, from this bacteriologist, spent some money to buy the related papers and experimental data, and sent them to the United States; after the Pacific Foundation is established, he can spend money to have American pharmaceutical enterprises research it; subsequently he plans to find a way to share the patent; if that really doesn't work, he will buy all the stocks of this company!

As for the 200 million in Swiss banks, it was kept in full custody by Lv Muzhi.

After being together for three years, Lv Muzhi still suspected whether Zhu Sanxiang coming to his side three years ago was at the Principal's instigation, to monitor him?

But now it seems no longer important, because the Principal was obviously not sensitive at all about his investment behavior in the United States, completely unaware of this matter; even Song Zhiwen only decided to short-sell the US stock market after his reminder; if she was sent by the Principal to monitor him, then Zhu Sanxiang obviously failed.

At least Lv Muzhi had already grasped the money bag; Lv Muzhi no longer thought about these things; once the Pacific Fund is established, he will push forward the construction of War of Resistance preparations.