Manhattan Reborn 1978

Island country, Tokyo.

Early morning~

Tokyo Imperial Hotel, 1-1 Uchisuki-cho, east of Hibiya Park, Chiyoda-ku.

In a luxurious suite on the ninth floor of the hotel.

David woke up from his sleep with a dry mouth, squinted his eyes and looked to his side, then closed his eyes again and reminisced about the indulgence and excitement last night. .

Brotney Mecia didn’t lie, she did prepare a big surprise for David~

Elena Mesa + maroon European-style palace evening dress = midnight soul-sucking witch!

Emm. .

To say that David has never had any illusions about a beautiful woman like Elena is pure fart!

But he still never dreamed that he could experience this kind of immersive and absurd satisfaction from Elena, "from now on the king will never go to court early"~

. . .

Half past eight in the morning.

David quickly filled his stomach, and with two light black circles under his eyes, he walked into Kanes' room with a folder, waved to several people and smiled.

"Hi, morning everyone!"

"What a fart!" Kanes, who was talking to Xina Osevia, rolled his eyes.

David glanced at the "melon-eating crowd" Bill and Little Peter, scratched his head and laughed, walked to sit down next to Zina Olivia, put his arm around her shoulders, and whispered in her ear.

"Why did you run away last night?"

Zina put down the folder in her hand and kissed David generously under the gaze of several people: "You guys can continue talking, I'll go see her first."

"Okay, let's go have lunch together at noon."

"Yes!" Zina stood up, smiled politely and nodded to the three of them, then turned and left.

Karnes tilted his head and looked at David with a smirk on his face, and said sharply: "Did you eat late night snacks until the early morning last night?"

"So I've always underestimated you?"

"Your idol must be Hollywood libertine Howard Hughes!"

"nonsense!"

"My idol is Jesse Livermore!"

"Bullshit Livermore..."

"He was deceived by women until his death. How can he be your idol?"

"If he were still alive, you would be his idol, right?"

"Haha~" David didn't feel embarrassed at all. Instead, he felt very happy and pointed at Carnes and laughed.

After the two of them laughed and joked for a while~

Bill raised the information in his hand and pointed to the long table that was specially moved next to him, and asked David: "Should we continue the topic from last night and continue the conversation?"

"Okay." David walked to the long table, picked out a piece of information, and looked at little Peter.

He had less contact with little Peter, and he did not joke about him as casually as Carnes. He raised a few pieces of information in his hand and said.

"Have you read the information I had people compile last night?"

"Yes."

Little Peter, who was wearing a black slim-fitting suit, glanced at Bill and smiled.

"You are not the only one who has prepared for this meeting in advance!"

"When Bill was about to go to Xiangjiang, he had already asked someone to conduct a thorough investigation of the petrochemical industry on the island country."

"Oh?" David walked over to Carnes and sat down, deliberately ignoring him, asking for a document from Bill's hand, and asked.

"Have you all finished reading?"

"Would you introduce me to it?"

Bill suppressed a smile, nodded and said: "Actually, when we were preparing to invest in the international crude oil spot market, I had already begun to conduct a very large-scale investigation into the development status of the crude oil and petrochemical industries, so that we could make more accurate decisions when shipping. Find some powerful big customers.”

"The basic raw materials of petrochemical industry generally refer to alkynes (acetylene), olefins (ethylene, propylene, butylene and butadiene), aromatics (benzene, toluene, xylene) and synthesis gas."

"These basic chemical raw materials can be used to prepare various important organic chemical products and synthetic materials."

"These include synthetic resins, synthetic rubber, and synthetic fibers, which are currently in high demand for industrial production in the world."

"According to the research data I obtained, the raw material reserves of petrochemical companies in European countries are generally controlled at around 25 to 40 days."

"In other words, if we count from the day we buy crude oil spot, in the next 25 to 35 days, the crude oil reserves of these petrochemical companies will enter a low inventory state, and we must find lower-priced crude oil from the market as soon as possible. Source of goods for purchase.”

"And in the upstream of these chemical companies, the crude oil storage capacity of petroleum refineries is generally only about 15 to 20 days."

"Even some of them, foreseeing that oil prices may continue to rise, bought a large amount of crude oil as reserves for their own refineries in advance."

"They will definitely let their products follow market price fluctuations and raise prices after oil prices continue to rise!"

"This will cause the entire petrochemical industry chain to be in the same situation as a few years ago after the international crude oil price rose, and it will play a huge role in promoting the continued rise in international oil prices!"

"Um.."

"Did you sell those crude oil spot stocks you sold a few days ago to them?" David stopped flipping through the information, cast an appreciative look at Bill, and asked.

"Yes!"

Bill did not show an overly complacent look on his face and continued: "The time when we bought crude oil spot happened to be the short price adjustment period after the first round of sharp rise in oil prices."

"So I tried to contact a number of petroleum refining companies and petrochemical production companies, and signed several agreements of intent with them."

"Is this a commodity exchange cooperation intention?" David looked through the records in the document and asked in surprise.

"In order to sell them crude oil spot, you also specially found customers in the lower reaches of the industrial chain who are in urgent need of replenishing raw material inventory?"

"That's right!"

Bill glanced up at Carnes and Little Peter, motioned them to turn to the last few pages of the information, and said.

"My idea came from the great migration of manufacturing in the United States that David once mentioned."

"In the 50s and 60s, due to the gradual increase in production costs of the domestic manufacturing industry in the United States and the weakening of price competitiveness in the international market, many companies had to come to Asia to find more rational cities as overseas production bases."

"The island country, which has a very suitable geographical location and geographical environment, gradually became the most favored overseas production base for low-end and mid-range products by the American manufacturing industry at that time."

“Especially during the term of President Lyndon Johnson, the scale of U.S. military input in the Vietnam battlefield was expanded, which allowed these companies in the island country to enter an even more exaggerated period of growth.”

"Because it was during this period that many island countries completed the assimilation of industrial production technologies from the United States and gradually developed more market-competitive export products based on these technologies."

"For example, cars, freighters, large engineering machinery, precision instruments and household appliances, etc."