Chapter 740 The Curtain Opens (1)

  Manhattan, Central Park.

On the chess table provided for passers-by to play, several seemingly ordinary white men are playing chess leisurely. Around them, there are a few burly men in suits scattered around, just feeding Pigeons playing in the park.

Morning jogs, dog walks, fitness... All kinds of passers-by pass by here, and they don't realize that these people who are playing chess are the top hedge fund managers on the planet, and their net worth is close to 100 billion US dollars , and manage funds of more than 200 billion US dollars.

   In other words, this seemingly casual group of people is actually a group of super rich.

   "The car king changes positions!"

  Ray Delio pondered for a long time before switching the positions of the rook and the king. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with lingering fear, "There is no threat for now!"

   "Promotion!"

  As soon as Delio’s voice fell, Paulson, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, moved the “Little Soldier” to the bottom one, and then announced that it would be upgraded to a “Queen”, proudly announcing again, “As general!”

   "Eliminate general!"

  As soon as he saw Paulson make this move, Delio was overjoyed, and directly took his "king" to eat the opponent's "queen", and said triumphantly, "What I'm waiting for is your move!"

"and many more!"

Paulson's expression remained unchanged, without the slightest panic, he pointed to the "King" on his side and said, "General Zhao, it's my turn to go!" "Take it!

   "..."

   After a long silence, Delio picked up the chess pieces and threw them on the board, "Enough, I won't play anymore."

   "Hey hey..."

Seeing that the other party was in a panic, Paulson smiled triumphantly, and without being annoyed, he slowly set up the chessboard and shouted to the person next to him who was concentrating on playing chess, "Who else is going to challenge me? Just let it go!" Bar!"

  Seeing Delio's distraught expression, the expressions of the others changed, and they shook their heads in unison. It can be seen that none of them considered Paulson's opponent.

   "Why isn't that kid here yet?"

  Dairio looked at the complacent Paulson, couldn't help feeling angry for a moment, stood up angrily, and looked towards the entrance of the park, "What did this kid see in Europe?"

   "Relax, my friend!"

Paulson was in a good mood. At this time, he didn't mind whether Zhongshi would arrive on time. He couldn't help teasing Delio again, "Since we have to wait, why don't we play another game of chess? Anyway, today is the weekend, so we can't Sitting here is boring."

  Dairio's face immediately wrinkled, curled his lips, and walked outside.

   "Hey... Hey, why are you going?"

   Paulson shouted behind him, "Come back, it's about to start!"

   "Damn it, I won't continue with you anymore!"

Delio immediately quickened his pace and replied without turning his head, "I'm going to the bathroom!" But he muttered in his heart: "I have lost three games of chess, and I will play with you again. Do I have a tendency to be abused? ?”

  After solving the physical problems happily, when Delio came back, he found that Zhongshi had arrived and was still playing chess with Paulson.

  No one played the other chess games, and everyone sat around the two of them, watching their games.

  Zhongshi used the ancient Indian classical defense system. After the car king was swapped, he placed the "king" on his left side, in an airtight protection net.

   Paulson, on the other hand, chose a very aggressive offensive strategy. The three "soldiers" all chose two-way jumps, and rushed towards Zhongshi aggressively.

  As soon as the two sides started the game, it was a scene of unrequited love!

  When the people around saw this scene, their breaths were suffocated, as if they felt the drastic changes on the chessboard, they invariably lowered the sound of their breathing, for fear of disturbing their thinking.

  Dairio also tiptoed over and stood quietly aside, thinking about the tactics of both sides.

The chess game soon entered the fighting stage, and the two sides began to exchange pieces frequently, but at this stage, both sides were still restrained, and all the opponents were eaten were "pawns", such as "bishops", "rooks", "horses" and so on. The "Queen" and others are constantly changing positions, threatening the opponent at all times through dazzling tactics.

After exchanging for three "soldiers", Zhong Shi suddenly changed his tactics, moved the car out, opened the "elephant" road at once, and at the same time faintly threatened one of Paulson's "soldiers", the overall style Suddenly changed, he wants to switch from defense to offense!

   Aware of this change, the breathing of the crowd became tighter, and they also realized that the situation might be entering the most intense part.

  As Zhongshi’s opponent, Paulson felt the most intuitive and true to this change. After a long time of contemplation, he decided to make another exchange.

   Both sides lost a "soldier" each, and Zhong Shi's "horse" crossed the confrontation line and penetrated into the opponent's hinterland, posing a faint threat to the "king".

   The balance of victory and defeat began to slowly tilt towards the side of Zhongshi!

"eat!"

Under heavy pressure, Paulson decided to give it a go, exchange his "car" for the opponent's "queen", and at the same time get a chance to "take the lead", but he also knew very well that the opponent's "car" was in the Next to him, so the next opponent is the "elimination general".

   Seeing this move, the onlookers gasped. To know such a move, it is undoubtedly a move that kills one thousand enemies and hurts oneself eight hundred. You must know that so far, although both sides have the same number of "pawns", Zhongshi's "pawns" are closer to Dige, that is, he is very likely to be transformed into a "queen" before Paulson, so At least from this point of view, Paulson's tricks are open to question.

   Realizing this, Paulson frantically hunted and killed the "pawns" of the bell stones on the chessboard. After killing two in a row, he breathed a sigh of relief.

  The price he paid was that an "elephant" was killed by the opponent's "car".

  With a large number of exchanged pieces, there are fewer and fewer pieces left on the board, and the situation has entered the endgame stage.

Paulson's "queen" was dispatched. When he realized that his important chess pieces had fallen behind the opponent, he used his final weapon and desperately took out a "pawn" of the opponent. As a result, his side lost A "horse" exchanged a "rook" of the opponent, and after his "rook" was eaten by the opponent's "bishop", he was left with only a "horse" and a "queen".

   Defeat is set!

After Paulson's unreconciled "following the general" was easily dealt with, Zhongshi's remaining chess pieces began to be dispatched. First, he used the "horse" to "eliminate the general", and then threatened the opponent with a diagonal line of "bishop". "Running around, when the encirclement became narrower and narrower, he used the last trick.

  A "soldier" goes straight to the bottom corner, transforms into a "queen", and after "shooting" the opponent, he uses two "horses" to completely surround the opponent to death.

   "Defeated!"

  Looking at the chessboard for a long time, Paulson bitterly dropped the chess pieces he had been playing with for a long time, and said in a dejected manner.

   "..."

  Zhong Shi was about to say a few words of politeness, and who would have thought that there would be bursts of cheers from the surroundings. The onlookers were all very happy about Paulson's deflation. Of course, this is a typical gloat. Among them, Delio laughed the most happily.

"How is this going?"

  Zhong Shi and Jiang Shan looked at each other, looking at the cheering crowd, and didn't understand what was going on for a while. But when their eyes fell on the flushed Paulson, the two of them suddenly realized and laughed at the same time.

"OK OK!"

  Laughed for a long time, and finally Paulson couldn't stand the awkward atmosphere, and said angrily, "Let's talk about business, don't waste everyone's time!"

  His state of embarrassment was just like his defeated opponent just now. Of course, it was rare for him to be embarrassed, so everyone didn't listen to him, but continued to stare at him and laugh at him wantonly.

   "Okay, let's talk about business!"

  It wasn’t until Zhong Shi stood up that the farce really came to an end. Everyone didn’t listen to Paulson, but they had to listen to Zhong Shi. So when Zhong Shi spoke, the surroundings immediately became quiet.

   "How is the situation in Europe?"

  Ackerman and the others immediately packed up the chessboard, and a large open space was cleared in a short time. Everyone surrounded the bell stone, and Paulson was the first to ask impatiently.

"how to say?"

   After pondering for a moment, Zhong Shi pouted, "For them, the situation is very bad, but for us, this is definitely a godsend opportunity!"

  The tense faces of everyone immediately disappeared, and they all showed relaxed expressions.

   "Let's talk about Greece first, this country is the most typical among the countries I visited this time!"

Looking around, Zhong Shi made sure that no other idlers would hear him, and then he began to say, "Greece's economic situation is very bad. As one of the pillar industries, the shipbuilding industry is facing high wages and competition from Asia. The double risk of rivals snatching orders, even the ships under construction, is also facing the risk of being canceled at any time. The industrial base of this country is already weak, so the crisis of the entire industry may break out at any time."

"Let's talk about the Greek government. If you don't experience it yourself, it's really hard to imagine. The corruption of the whole country has gone deep into the bone marrow. It's not a matter of which political party is in power, but the whole society and systemic corruption. This kind of corruption brings The serious consequence is the general dissatisfaction of voters, including the opposition party, who are criticizing this matter, but it seems that the opposition party cannot solve such a difficult problem. This is a political risk, and basically it cannot be resolved within a few years. So when they have a crisis, no matter which political party, it may be impossible to solve the corruption problem.”

"The rest is their financial situation. Following the above topic, because of corruption, tax evasion and tax evasion are very serious. Almost everyone is using various methods to evade taxes. From this perspective, if the corruption problem does not It is simply impossible for them to obtain more sources of funds by expanding or strengthening tax sources. And if they cannot raise more funds, their debt crisis cannot be resolved. Several other powerhouses in the eurozone can be turned to for help.”

  “These are real problems, and without more than five years of policy stability and strong implementation, it is impossible to solve them.”

Zhong Shi said sharply, "Another thing to consider is their tourism industry, but because of the current external environment and their domestic political instability, for this part of their income, they can maintain the same income as last year. It’s already pretty good, but it doesn’t help their situation in the slightest. Because their debts are about 1.3 times the entire GDP, they can only exchange part of their old debts for new ones to pay interest and maintain their credit. But we all know that this method is just a way to quench thirst with poison. And when the creditworthiness of this part of the deferred debt is hit, the creditworthiness of the entire country will be ruined!"

   "So I think our first step is to find ways to reduce the Greek national debt and even the creditworthiness of the government!"

  Finally, Zhong Shi gave his own strategy, "If S&P, Moody's, and Fitch are downgraded together, the effect can be maximized!"

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