On September 3, the gold market in Hong Kong Island was as hot as yesterday.
As soon as every gold shop opens, the door will be crowded with people who want to buy gold.
The reason why these people are so excited about buying gold is not entirely because Li Yi took the lead in sweeping gold shops on Hong Kong Island.
More importantly, people have noticed one thing, that is, the price of gold has risen by about 70% from the beginning of August to now.
In other words, if you invested 100 Hong Kong dollars to buy gold at the beginning of last month, you would now have a profit of 70 yuan. This investment rate of return is simply more attractive than grabbing money.
In addition, the risk of investing in gold is relatively small. Unlike the stock market, once the stocks bought back are locked up, they will be a pile of waste paper.
But when you invest in gold, what you buy back is real gold. Even if the price drops temporarily, it may still rise back in the future.
This is consistent with the idea of Chinese aunts buying up Wall Street thirty years later. As long as you have low-price gold, then we dare to buy it.
Therefore, even though major gold stores have successively increased their selling prices by 10% to 15%, they still cannot resist the enthusiasm of investors.
There are still many people waving banknotes and buying gold.
Of course, these gold merchants and banks on Hong Kong Island are also happy to see this happen.
After all, compared with the selling price in Hong Kong Island, which has reached 110 Hong Kong dollars per gram, the international price of gold is only US$500 per ounce, which is only 87 Hong Kong dollars per gram.
The soaring gold prices have made gold shops and banks on Hong Kong Island a lot of money. While they are frantically selling high-priced gold to the Hong Kong Island market, they are trying to find ways to mobilize more low-priced gold from outside.
For them, one flip is 30% of the profit, which is simply a money grab, and only fools would not do it.
Some banks even took out all their gold reserves. They had no choice but to make the gold price in Hong Kong Island too high.
As long as the international gold price does not rise significantly and as long as enough gold can be mobilized from the outside, they will not take any risks.
However, while all the residents and financial institutions on Hong Kong Island were reveling in the ultra-high gold price, the Woolly Bear Alliance in the north gave a great gift to the people of the world - the "Western" military exercise began.
The "Western" military exercise, now commonly known as the "81 Military Exercise," set many records. It is the largest military exercise in human history and a large-scale military mobilization in Europe during the Cold War era.
Regarding this military exercise, we can only rely on the past to reflect the present. It was even hailed as "the furry bear alliance's last punch to the West before its disintegration."
In terms of scale, this military exercise mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops. The Army, Navy, Air Force, and Strategic Rocket Forces coordinated operations. In Eastern Europe, Western countries, led by Thief Eagle, served as imaginary enemies. The exercise was conducted by the Woolly Bear Alliance Army to break through West Germany, The war for control of Western Europe.
On September 4th, the Soviet army took up its posture. The army's mechanized infantry regiments and tank units alone were equipped with more than 4,000 tanks and armored vehicles. All three-generation main battle tanks, T64, T72, and T80, appeared, and the BTR80 armored vehicle also appeared for the first time.
In order to achieve the effect of deterring the "enemy", before the military exercise began, the Woolly Bear Alliance government sent an invitation to all foreign envoys in the territory, asking the ambassadors to bring observers and reporters to visit the exercise.
Except for the confidentiality of the missile unit, other weapons and equipment were photographed casually.
Therefore, when the exercise began, the reporters' cameras swept across the several-kilometer-long phalanx of armored troops. The Soviet army's "iron torrent" made observers from various countries terrified.
The military exercise lasted for eight days, and the military exercise on each day would make the headlines in most countries around the world the next day.
In just 8 days, the Woolly Bear Alliance silenced the entire world with its powerful military strength.
Whether they were the "enemies" of the Woolly Bear Alliance or those neutral countries, everyone couldn't help but sweat when they saw the endless tanks, armored vehicles, and self-propelled guns in front of them, and they didn't dare to take a breath.
In particular, Thief Eagle and his followers in Europe seemed so weak in the face of such a torrent of steel. The Furry Bear Alliance used this high-profile "greeting" to make them sleep and eat uneasily.
Faced with such a direct display of muscles by the Furry Bear Alliance, everyone in the world felt the aura of war coming towards their faces.
In addition to worrying, the foresighted people could not help but start preparing for the possible start of war.
As a result, some people quietly exchanged their cash or deposits for hard currency such as gold, while others built shelters in their yards or in the forest and stocked up a large amount of food. .
It can be said that the whole world is frightened by the power of the Furry Bear Alliance.
Therefore, before the exercise is over, the price of gold around the world has started a "surge" mode.
On September 4, the day the exercise began, the international gold price was only US$509 an ounce, but by September 5 it had risen to US$520.
On September 6, it became $535...
On September 9, this number had soared to $552 per ounce.
By the time the exercise ended on September 11, the international gold price had reached US$575 per ounce.
In other words, in just 8 days, the international gold price soared by US$66 per ounce, which was more than doubled from a month ago. The whole world was shocked by the soaring gold price.
But this does not include Li Yi!
He knows that although the current international gold price is already very high, it has not reached its peak this year.
At the end of October, the international gold price will reach a high of US$599, almost exceeding US$600.
But then it plummets all the way to $270 an ounce.
However, for Li Yi, such a price allowed him to implement his later plan to kill with a borrowed knife, because this price was enough to prevent the Li family and the British group behind him from obtaining low-price gold from other places.
After all, the price of gold around the world has soared to this price. No matter where and who buys it, it will only be more expensive than the international gold price, not cheaper.
Once the Li family and the British group can't get so much gold, it will be their turn to be unlucky.
Therefore, he is closing the net!
At that moment, Li Yi did not hesitate and immediately went to the Li family manor and talked secretly with Li Futiao for several hours.
Early in the morning on September 12, the citizens of Hong Kong Island woke up to a piece of news that shocked them: the Lai family's gold shop no longer had any gold.
The news was reported by the famous "South China Morning Post" on Hong Kong Island. This news only said that the 36 branches of Lai's Gold Store in Hong Kong had no gold to sell.
If that's all, it's okay. The scary thing is that this news also provides a detailed analysis of the future gold price.
According to the author's analysis, the current gold price has far exceeded the normal price and is close to the historical high. Therefore, investors are advised to sell their gold as soon as possible and let the money they earn be safe.
Because the analysis was reasonable, everyone who saw the news was shaken.
In addition to the South China Morning Post, various gossip tabloids on the island also reported on this matter, but compared to the more credible South China Morning Post, these gossip tabloids were more explicit.
They directly analyzed the possible crisis behind the Li family's gold store and believed that the Li family had absorbed hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars from investors through the "Thousands of Gold Accumulation Plan" when prices were low. Now that gold is at such a high level, once investors If gold is sold or withdrawn on a large scale, the Li family may face great pressure.
After all, when investors invested in gold, they bought it at a low price, but now they have to sell it at a high price, and the Li family needs to pay the difference.
According to the speculations of these tabloids, the Li family had previously absorbed at least HK$500 million in funds, and now needs to pay at least HK$1 billion for this money.
From the current point of view, it is really difficult for the Li family to come up with so much money, and there is a huge possibility of breach of contract.
When dozens of gossip tabloids reported such news at the same time, the people of Hong Kong panicked and flocked to Lai's Gold Store...
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