Chapter 434 A complete change of circumstances
Mr. He continued to close his eyes and rest without saying anything.

Mrs. He sighed secretly in her heart, adjusted her sitting posture, and looked out the window at night. It was no longer the same as before.
A few days later, Wang Deming secretly took a plane to Chicago, the center of the US commodity futures trading.

Not oil, not gold, but silver!

In the 70s, the most active futures market was silver futures, and the market makers were the Hunt brothers.

The Hunt family originally started out in the oil industry, but later discovered that finance could make money quickly, especially when the Bretton Woods system collapsed in 71, when global capital sought opportunities for precious metals and other hedges.

Manipulating silver futures, the price of silver increased from US$1 per ounce to US$2.

A later movie called "Silver Empire" describes this family.

However, the Hunt brothers were too greedy. They made money with two exchanges at the beginning, but later they started to keep the profits to themselves. In order to avoid being shared profits by other oligarchs in the United States, they even dragged in oil tycoons from the Middle East.

This really irritated Ma Fengfeng, and he was attacked by many people. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange increased the margin for silver contracts from US$1000 to US$6000; the newly appointed Federal Reserve Chairman Olcker drastically tightened money supply and reduced bank loan quotas.

The Hunt family holds US$50 billion in silver futures, and the margin they need to pay is US$1.5 million, and the other debts add up to US$10 billion.

No matter what era, those who control the rules and power are the top ones.

3月27日当天，白银期货的价格就从1月份的50美刀，狂降到10美刀
The Hunt family invested nearly 60 billion US dollars in silver futures, which was eaten up in an instant.

Wang Deming followed behind, quietly, and in the New York and Chicago futures markets, through the trading seats of HSBC, Sumitomo, and Citibank, he took a big chunk of the profits, a full 13 billion US dollars!

Without the financial support from the U.S. financial futures, Wang Deming would not have been investing and making contributions in China at this point in time.

Then continue to plan oil futures.

Wang Deming stayed in the United States until the end of August, and only returned to Hong Kong after clearing out his oil futures and investing all his funds in gold futures.

After arranging the next plan with Niu Bijian and others in Hong Kong, he returned to the mainland with Zhang Shouchun and others.

September in Beijing is still scorching hot, so Wang Deming's children have come back to spend their summer vacation.

No. 11 Yongkang Hutong finally became lively again. The eldest student, An Ning, even brought several classmates who could not go home because of the long journey to visit our home.

Wang Deming took time out to chat with them and asked for their opinions on the policies of that year.

At the end of August, the people passed a resolution to establish special economic zones in Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou in Guangdong, and Xiamen in Fujian.

These students are a little confused and feel that the world is changing too fast?
It feels like everything is getting more expensive now. I was in college and received an 18 yuan monthly living allowance. I had been thinking of sending some money home to ease the financial burden.

But now I have to spend at least 10 yuan a month on food, and I dare not order meat.

The only way to improve life in school is to have that pot-fried tofu.
What most shattered the three views of An Ning's classmates was An Ning's family conditions, which were really beyond their imagination.

These students did not know Wang Deming's identity, and An Ning had never mentioned her family situation to them.

It’s just that they had previously guessed that An Ning’s family conditions would be very good, and the reason was very simple. Although An Ning’s clothing styles always followed the trend.

But the material used to make the clothes was obviously different from theirs, and it was extremely soft. They longed to have a Dacron shirt, but An Ning advised them that the material was not good, not breathable, and would be uncomfortable to wear.
It’s good enough if the clothes don’t have patches, why bother about the material?

Another thing is that although An Ning usually eats in the cafeteria, she was very picky at the beginning.

Braised pork in red sauce, four-happiness meatballs, such delicious food, she didn't want to eat after a few bites, and asked them for help.
There was always a supply of snacks in the cupboard, and they had never seen any foreign chocolate.

Originally, they didn't want to visit An Ning's home, but An Ning had to nag them for several days before they decided to come.

This visit was definitely a shock to their worldview.

How could someone live so well?

This house is no different from a garden. No, this house really has a garden. They truly understand what "the courtyard is so deep" means.

They can't help but feel inferior.

After meeting Wang Deming, they were shocked. They had previously wondered whether An Ning's family was of a leading level, but An Ning replied that it was not, and they still didn't believe it.

They thought that An Ning's father must be from the most popular generation and must be a white-haired old man now.

But when I met Wang Deming, although I called him uncle, I felt unbelievable in my heart.

Isn't this classmate's father too young? He is the same age as my parents, but he looks similar to them.
It's okay to call him brother, but what makes them upset is that An Ning's father actually has three wives.
Well, he came back from Hong Kong, where polygamy was allowed before.

Even so, their worldview was overturned.

At their age, they are looking forward to love, and love is no longer pure in their hearts.
There were so many surprising things, even An Ning's family had a specially hired chef to cook for them.

The resting rooms arranged for them were also magnificent in their eyes: shiny wooden floors, carved ceilings, and antique wooden furniture. Every room even had its own TV, air conditioning, and a shower.
The emperors of the Qing Dynasty didn’t have as comfortable a family as theirs, right?

For dinner, Wang Deming specially arranged two tables and two rooms, and the other children ate in another room.

To show his respect, Wang Deming brought his three wives to invite An Ning and her classmates to dinner.
This time, they really saw what capitalists are and what different classes are.
They have a deeper understanding of the education they received in that special era.

"An Ning." One of the female classmates was a student union cadre of Peking University. She had been married in her hometown and had two children.

What she saw and heard today had the greatest impact on her spiritual world. She couldn't help but ask An Ning: "Who is your father?"

"How can I live in such a nice place? I'm so dazed today, it feels like a dream?"

The other female classmates did the same, saying, "Yes, An Ning, I never thought you were the eldest daughter of a capitalist family!"

"We are not of the same class."

“If it were a few years ago”

(End of this chapter)