Chapter 2040 - 2040: 2040

The stock market of the Wale Republic, thanks to its leader Liu Zhizhong's performance at the United Nations session, kept climbing step by step, perfectly in direct proportion.

Maybe it's not wrong to say capital is linked to civilization, right?

If capital is tied to dictatorship, then things could get "interesting."

In this United Nations seasonal meeting, the Great East Pot's whole experience was one giant face‑slap, while still pretending to look strong with a swollen face.

The direct effect on the Great East Pot itself showed up in its stock market: drop, drop, keep dropping, one straight week of limit‑down boards, with several days triggering the circuit breaker.

Countless retail investors got their positions cut, tears and blood everywhere, a scene of total misery that nobody cared about.

Even when the Great East Pot's own Pot Family Team stepped in, they still couldn't stop that kind of drop that was like yanking your pants down.

The Great East Pot's face really isn't a face anymore. What it is exactly, no one's quite sure.

Still, in the stock market world, there were "experts" jumping out, frantically calling on people to catch the falling knife and defend the market for the Pot Family: once it hits rock bottom it'll rebound, now is the best time to enter, build positions, even go all‑in and shove the whole stack, hahaha…

Experts are as many as cows, as many as dogs, yet you never see these so‑called experts making money in the market; they're actually pretty good only at harvesting leeks and grifting for clicks.

In the Great East Pot these days, can literally anyone call themselves "teacher," call themselves "expert"? Tell me, are you convinced or not?

However, the real killer stuff was still to come.

Because the last stage of the United Nations session is, of course, every country's discussions, voting, resolutions and so on about the war.

The Great East Pot's style—anyone who gets it is already familiar with it: either abstain, or oppose. Abstain on major issues, oppose on stuff that doesn't really matter. On the surface it looks like they offend no one; in reality they've offended everyone.

And just during this period, the Wale Republic announced a 39.5 billion dollar arms purchase, of course from the United States.

This was a scheme cooked up by Liu Zhizhong and Landen: anyway, a purchase totaling over a hundred billion, to support Kekistan's resistance, but carried out in batches.

At the same time, the United States also stated it would cooperate with Wale on military‑industrial projects, because for some of the ordered products, part of the components could be manufactured locally in Wale.

Once news like this came out of Wale, damn, you know what kind of effect that had?

Wale's own military‑industrial stocks immediately began to surge, charging toward new highs again.

Even the United States' military‑industrial stocks rose in sync.

By contrast, over in the Great East Pot, the whole category of military heavy‑industry stocks just fell and fell, three straight days of circuit breakers, and on top of that, a chairman of one big military‑industrial conglomerate, a real top dog, got knocked over and taken down. Miserable…

Put side by side, the Wale Republic once again stole the entire show at this United Nations session.

The Great East Pot could only sink to being the background board for this almost‑same‑type little country. Sigh~~~~

Their face was basically being rubbed into the ground.

Gu Changsha's feelings inside could only be described as pure agony.

Such a good son‑in‑law candidate!

Truly a fine son‑in‑law for me, I!

What's he messing around with all day? Making his father‑in‑law's stock market this miserable, is that fun?

Well, to be fair, in his heart he already treated Chi Zhongshui as a son‑in‑law.

But who knew this prospective son‑in‑law had no sense at all, turning every knife straight toward his father‑in‑law's home?

The father‑in‑law's heartbreak isn't something a bit of premium bluefin tuna can heal. And the wound keeps feeling like it's getting bigger, never recovering…

Want to cuss him out?

He's afraid it'll make his own "seat" look too crooked!

Don't curse, and he feels miserable inside.

Think about cutting off bilateral cooperation? But the cooperation is already showing initial results, economic benefits are starting to stand out.

Still, all this pent‑up frustration has to have somewhere to vent, right?

So in the end, in the United Nations segment on the war, the Great East Pot forcefully expressed its wish to stop the war, return to dialogue to resolve disputes, and its firm, consistent desire to safeguard peace; any form of support for war makes you the enemy of humanity, a fire‑stoker, a knife‑passer!

However, it was all empty big talk, boilerplate clichés; the delegates just treated it as fart‑talk!

What was even more humiliating was that when the Great East Pot's representative was speaking, the United States took the lead, and delegates started walking out.

Liu Zhizhong, on the other hand, never left, holding his ground in his seat with his staff and aides.

The Great East Pot's representative, in a cold, half‑empty hall, facing the few scattered delegates from other countries, forced himself, face flushed, teeth gritted, to finish reading the speech.

What greeted him was a thin, sporadic dribble of applause.

But in the Great East Pot's news broadcast, they actually used footage from another session, with a full house, and after the Great East Pot's representative finished speaking, "thunderous applause."

The basic audience swallowed this kind of news whole and happily fantasized about their own towering greatness.

If anyone dug up the real video from outside, brought it back and posted it on domestic platforms, they'd be nuked across the board. Some people were even charged with "fabricating rumors," with the incident labeled extremely vile and serious, prosecuted, with speedy trials, speedy sentences, and harsh ones at that!

On this matter, the fact that Liu Zhizhong didn't lead a walkout actually made Gu Changsha feel a tiny bit better.

Still, Gu Changsha had already decided privately that his daughter's trip to Wale would have to be postponed.

As things stand, Chi Zhongshui has his eye on Gu Yan and wants to marry his daughter. Heh, when the time comes I'll have conditions, I will, humph…

Because after the United Nations session, what immediately followed was the Great East Pot's grand "parade‑cake" ceremony, to commemorate that great war of national defense!

Didn't Liu Zhizhong also promise his father‑in‑law that he'd go up to that Gaoyan Gate tower to watch the parade?

To be clear, Wale was involved in that great war of national defense too, and paid in blood.

According to Liu Zhizhong's schedule, after the United Nations session ended, he would rest in the United States for two days and then have to fly directly by special plane to the Great East Pot to make it in time for this review ceremony.

The father‑in‑law was giving him face with that invitation; since he'd agreed, of course he had to go.

So by the close of the United Nations meeting, Liu Zhizhong already had the guest list for the parade ceremony. At the top, as was only "natural," was Comrade Pulalishi Jin.

Let's be generous and use his full name—Pulalishi Jin!

Liu Zhizhong understood this, and at the same time despised it.

The rest were all a bunch of poor brothers, plus some total trash, like that General Quan from Beicao Country, sigh!

Even over in Non‑Continent, those Black Pot Family states that had eaten the Great East Pot's grain, oil, and favors for so many years—some of them weren't even coming.

In contrast, some near‑bankrupt outfits—where the face value of their banknotes is counted in the billions—were actually brazenly listed among the parade guests. Were they here to get money, or to beg for food? Same difference.

Standing together with this whole crowd, Liu Zhizhong truly felt a deep sense of shame!

His brain‑trust was very depressed as well, but could only express understanding for their president.

He had to go, he still had to go!

What Liu Zhizhong didn't expect was that Gu Changsha already had a setup waiting for him!