novelinnhs Chapter 007 This damn world is just this rotten.
Chapter 007 This damn world is just this rotten.
On March 23, Su Nan was planning to fly to South Korea.
He had just hailed a taxi when he heard his pager go off. After checking it, he told the taxi to leave first and then called back from the hotel.
"Sister Zhi, so early?"
This is a page from Rosamund Kwan; leaving a little later won't be a big problem.
Rosamund Kwan laughed and said, "I hope I didn't bother you, Brother Nan. Our money laundering crew needs to meet up."
"Master Yuan has had some bad luck these past few years, so he's taking this project very seriously."
"Let me recommend you, Brother Nan? Try being an assistant director once filming starts; it should be fine."
"This is also the kung fu film that our Chinese entertainment industry excels at."
"From project preparation to production, Mr. Yuan's process is much faster and more efficient than the usual one."
Su Nan was taken aback. "Thank you, Sister Zhi. I'm away on a business trip today. I'll treat you to dinner when I get back in a while."
"I'll ask you for recommendations later."
Whether he's making a live-action version of "Monkey King: Hero Is Back" or other martial arts films, he's always been involved.
I need to be involved in matters related to stunt work and action direction.
Yuan Heping's Yuan Family Team, including its martial arts choreography capabilities, is one of the targets he very much hopes to collaborate with.
This is Lao Yuan, who participated in many projects a few years later, including The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kung Fu Hustle, and The Grandmaster.
He also really wanted to hijack The Matrix, but he didn't have enough money!
Rosamund Kwan laughed and said, "Okay, then I'll wait for you to treat me to dinner. I wish Brother Nan a successful business trip and prosperous business."
Su Nan exchanged a few more polite words and ended the call.
As he set off on his journey abroad, he remarked that traveling to South Korea and Moscow for business trips is no longer a hassle.
At most, it might lead to a gunfight if someone tries to double-cross someone else.
Will I go to Hollywood in the future to achieve world-class CG special effects?
The problem there is that they take your money but don't put in the effort; they charge you 100 points for the project but only provide 50 points of technical skill to fool you.
Or they might invite you to some parties to pledge your loyalty.
It was only the early 90s, but it was the beginning of the Purdue Pharma Sackler family's rise to prominence in painkiller addiction.
This was also a mid-to-lower-tier year when insurance groups frequently increased their refusal to pay for medical insurance.
You can get a doctor's appointment done in a few days.
There are no fentanyl folds everywhere.
But it was indeed the beginning of the Judas's more than 30-year-long rampage of inhumanity, coinciding with the disintegration of the Great Bear.
……
March 27, Moscow.
After finishing a dinner with a middle-aged man in Su Nan, he gave him the delivery address and received US dollars from the other party.
A single transaction can cost hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, or tens of thousands of US dollars, and this is still in the early stages of development.
The middle-aged man, Da Mao, smiled and shook hands with him, exchanging pleasantries. "Su, your shipment volume is too small. Why don't you use freight wagons on the Sino-Soviet railway?"
"I think your team can be scaled up."
"By the way, after you arrived here yesterday, three Hong Kong Island residents who followed you asked about you."
"Would you like to meet him?"
Su Nan lit a cigarette and smiled, "Then I'll meet you, thanks."
"If you want me to use rail freight, you'll have to get a gift first. I'm still waiting for your technical drawings."
The middle-aged man, Fedorov, is a key member of a Moscow mafia family.
When Su Nan first came here, he looked for someone on the street who could speak English to talk to.
When he hired translators, he could hire one for several days with just a can of meat and even give them a pistol and bullets for free.
He got his hands on the weapon, practiced shooting, and rapidly became a master thanks to the genetically enhanced body.
Then slowly talk to the black market leaders, because the local gangs are impolite and want to exploit each other.
Then they flexed their muscles in a gunfight, and eventually made a deal while fighting.
After several collaborations, Fedorov only complained that the shipment volume from southern Jiangsu was too small.
During this period, there were not many Chinese middlemen in Moscow; it was usually the Muscovites who bought the goods from abroad and traded them.
Large European and American capital is involved in foreign exchange futures trading and the banking industry.
However, in January of this year, the first McDonald's in Da Mao Xiong officially opened.
Business is booming.
After collecting the US dollars, Su Nan, led by Fedorov's henchman, entered a downtown casino.
Soon, they met three Hong Kong people in an underground space.
Two thugs from Hutchison Whampoa plus an English translator.
One of the Russian underlings, who understood English, chuckled and asked, "Su, what are you planning to do with these three?"
"With spring in full bloom, many brown bears have ended their hibernation and are ready to eat."
He spoke English, which the Hutchison's younger brother couldn't understand, but the translator did!
The Hong Kong translator immediately knelt down, pleading, "No, Mr. Nan, please! I have elderly parents and young children to support; I'm just being forced to be a translator."
As he spoke, he immediately began to kowtow.
Su Nan laughed and said, "Forget about translation, you can send the thugs from Hutchison Whampoa to fight brown bears instead."
The young bear grinned. "How about we have the translator be the photographer?"
Letting a translator go is fine, but we must preserve some evidence to prevent him from making false statements.
The Hong Kong Island translator nodded repeatedly, "I can film, no problem!"
Su Nan took out a pack of cigarettes and a small glass bottle of Erguotou (a type of Chinese liquor) from his satchel and handed them to Mao Xiong's younger brother.
The other party was so excited that he gestured wildly, "Leave it to me, I'll personally lead the team and guarantee that you'll have all the recordings by the time you come next time."
Speaking of which, Ivanov was also a graduate student.
Now you're making a living off the Mafia? This damn world is so rotten.
Many top scientists and research teams don't even know where their next meal will come from after they've eaten their last meal.
A pack of cigarettes and a small bottle of liquor could give Ivanov plenty of motivation.
The 900 million permanent residents here are desperately short of daily necessities.
For a normal university graduate, a job with a monthly salary of 200 rubles is not considered low.
But nowadays, you can't even buy a pair of jeans for 300 rubles on the black market.
Various forms of panic buying and hoarding have created a massive wave.
Otherwise, the official exchange rate wouldn't be 1.8 rubles to 1 US dollar, while the black market rate would be 1 to 20 rubles.
If you have supplies, you can trade not only pistols and AKs, but also tanks and Mi-8 helicopters.
The Su-27 is now a fourth-generation fighter jet!
Of course, Ivanov knew that Su Nan's current transaction volume was tens of thousands of US dollars at a time.
It's far from enough to buy Mi-8 and Su-27 aircraft, unless he charters a train car to transport them directly from China.
How many railcars of supplies are needed to discuss those matters?
……
On March 30th, Su Nan appeared at a decent restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui.
He soon met Sister Guan, and she treated him to dinner to thank him for recommending him to Yuan Heping as the director's assistant.
Sister Guan's face? She's Hong Jinbao's junior.
The production team behind the "Yuan Heping (money laundering)" drama was produced by Hong Jinbao's Debao Investment!
After entering the private room and ordering food and drinks, Su Nan exchanged a few polite words.
Rosamund Kwan raised her glass and laughed, "Brother Nan, may I ask what you did to Ni Zhen?"
"I heard he hasn't left the house for over ten days, and he's even stopped chasing after Vivian."
"There's been a lot of gossip circulating about the cast and crew of The Deadly Duo."
Su Nan shook her head, "I'm not taking the blame for this, it has nothing to do with me."
According to publicly available news reports, the exact year in which Vivian Chow and Joe Nieh officially began dating is uncertain.
However, it was in early 1991 that Amin officially announced her breakup with Chen Dezhang.
Old Chen is Zhou Huimin's current boyfriend, while Ni Zhen is trying to steal her away.
Seeing this, Rosamund Kwan didn't dare to ask any more questions. "So, Brother Nan, did your business trip go smoothly?"
Su Nan smiled and nodded, "It's alright. It's difficult to make big money; you can only do more errands."
"If it weren't for the Japanese government's strong crackdown on short selling of the Nikkei index..."
"Making money through Nikkei is the real way to make a fortune; it's all about big European and American capital robbing people and getting rich."
"A nobody trying to get in will easily get wiped out."
Rosamund Kwan, "???"
What's so sophisticated about shorting the Nikkei? But she does remember the 1987 stock market crash three years ago.
The sentiment expressed by Su Nan is genuine; alongside the collapse of the Russian bear, the bubble burst on the Japanese side as well.
The Nikkei index collapsed, reaching a high of 38957 points on December 29 last year.
It didn't fall to 14309 points until August 1992.
Super-capital tycoons throw money into the game, and can make tens of billions with a few hundred million in capital through leverage.
However, the Japanese authorities are also making various rule changes to crack down on short sellers.
For example, with 10x leverage, you can leverage 1 million to turn a 10 million bet into a 10 million bet. But as you play, the official system will directly ask you to increase your margin to 3 million.
If you don't add more money, they will force you to liquidate your position, leaving you with nothing. This is a tactic used to suppress short sellers.
Multiple official interventions triggered multiple rebounds during the sharp drop, resulting in the liquidation of numerous short positions.
The official's death throes have inadvertently killed off tens of thousands of small players.