Chapter 1282 - 1154: Taking a Chance

Chapter 1282: Chapter 1154: Taking a Chance

Without waiting for Zhou Jiao to make a decision, Zhang Guoqing waved his hand, "Get in touch with Heizi, call them immediately and tell them to use as much leverage as possible."

"Are you sure?"

Zhang Guoqing squinted and looked at the desk again, where an open notebook of Zhou Jiao listed major historical events.

——In the autumn of 1980, the spot market crude oil price rose sharply from $31/barrel before the war to $40/barrel in early December.

By the end of the year, crude oil prices had dropped to $35.5 per barrel and then continued to decline. By July 1981, crude oil prices were only 5% higher than pre-war levels, and this price level continued to maintain...

He sighed to himself: This silly wife! What’s wrong with taking a gamble with such a good opportunity?

"After all, I’m not abroad, so forget about Da Yi’s funds. If it really..."

Zhang Guoqing exuded confidence, "What are you afraid of? At worst, we’ll just return their principal. The most important thing now is the margin, do you think they feel any pressure?"

Zhou Jiao smiled brightly, "There’ll definitely be no problem with the margin, otherwise Xiao Ming wouldn’t ask if we should activate it. But, brother, if we lose, the debt we have to repay won’t be small."

She had calculated; the gold in the space couldn’t be sold, the domestic market probably couldn’t handle it, and overseas? Hmph, there’s no point in adding reserve funds for those other countries.

However, if the situation abroad falls out of her control and there are losses, she can still bear it.

Not to mention the boxes of foreign currency cash in the space, just those paintings she collected abroad back then, after nearly twenty years, should be worth quite a bit.

Zhang Guoqing tapped her nose and laughed, "It’s no problem, at most I’ll retire and take you on a trip abroad, and we’ll do some rob-the-rich-to-help-the-poor as a couple."

Zhou Jiao’s eyes sparkled as she looked at him. How come she found herself falling more in love with the man in front of her?

With his words, she felt even more confident. Like he said, what are you afraid of? Earlier, she might have considered the opinion of the Miao Family.

But now, let’s first hear what Miao Tianming has to say.

If she had to go abroad just to pay the margin, that would be impossible.

So, the next day she and Heizi got in touch with Miao Tianming again. On the phone, Zhou Jiao didn’t ask how much her total funds were up to now.

As soon as the call got through, she asked, if she activates futures leverage, how much margin is needed, and what is the maximum amount of leverage?

"Sister, that’s not a problem. My dad said, with the little money you have, he doesn’t even need to inform Uncle, 400 times is no problem. Are you in or not?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Jiao massaged her forehead, damn rich people!

If even he says it’s not a problem, then what is a problem? Since even he has said so, any more hesitation would be too petty.

Zhou Jiao readily agreed to activate the leverage.

As for losses, she didn’t say, and he didn’t mention. Zhou Jiao gave herself a mental thumbs-up for her character. Of course, the Miao Family probably made a killing during these rounds.

"Sister, regarding this operation, do you have anything else to note?"

"Remember, from the current $31 per barrel, the highest forecast value is up to $40 per barrel. Set the time period to December 5th first, and I’ll call you that day."

"Okay, I’ve noted that this round is still going long."

Zhou Jiao laughed silently.

This cheeky kid is pretty smart, he even picked up the hint to short next.

As soon as they exited the post office, Heizi looked at her with sparkling eyes, "Sister Jiao, which language did you use this time? Tianming is something, he can speak everything now."

Zhou Jiao was stunned upon hearing this, "Hah, I hadn’t really noticed. This guy can speak at least four languages now. But it’s not surprising since the country he’s in now uses a mix of four languages."

Heizi opened his mouth in surprise, "I thought just English would be enough, what kind of weird country is that?"

Zhou Jiao let out a chuckle and quickly pulled Heizi to the side to avoid someone about to bump into him.

"Think of it like this, doesn’t our country also have many local dialects? It’s just like that. English, abroad, is like our Mandarin, so keep learning."

"I don’t even want to learn. Learning it is useless."

Zhou Jiao glared at him, "How is it useless? If you go to Tianming’s place, are you going to have to gesture non-stop?"

Heizi burst into laughter, "I’m not going, Tianming even said last time that luckily we sent him chili, otherwise he would have wanted to run back."

Zhou Jiao rolled her eyes, and as she turned, she just happened to see foreigners on the street and quickly signaled for Heizi to look over.

Quietly, she reminded him, "See that? As our country continues to develop, more foreigners will come, and can we afford to lose face by not even understanding a foreign language?"

Heizi glanced into the distance and uncertainly replied, "Can they understand English? Last time I encountered someone in Friendship Store who only knew how to say hello."

Zhou Jiao was choked by his reply and glared at him, "So, are you going to learn or not?"

"Alright, alright, I’ll learn. Maybe I just met the dumb one. But Sister Jiao, have you noticed something?"

Zhou Jiao shook her head, who knows what idea he cooked up again.

Heizi looked around and lowered his voice, "Foreign exchange coupons are very valuable now. Many go-betweens simply use English to chat with foreigners to acquire foreign exchange coupons. They don’t even need to be fluent, just ’hello’ and a gesture is enough."

Since the overseas Chinese exchange coupons changed to foreign exchange coupons in early summer, Zhou Jiao knew how valuable these tickets were, but she hadn’t realized that in a few short months people had already discovered the business opportunity.

Wasn’t this supposed to trend in the mid-1980s?

It shows there are many smart people in Beijing.

Watching the sincere Heizi, Zhou Jiao cautioned him, "Don’t get involved in that, let me know if you’re short on anything."

"I won’t, I’m too timid."

"That’s good, although smuggling has its huge profits, safety must be the priority. Unless you reach a point where you can’t even keep the pot on the stove, don’t take that route."

"I understand. Life’s good now, but if anything happens, it could all end."

With her around, it won’t end, but Zhou Jiao truly doesn’t approve of reckless actions. These days, Heizi is no longer the orphan who lost his only grandmother.

He has a wife, a son, and a daughter, a small courtyard house, and both he and his wife have stable jobs, with occasional financial support from Miao Tianming; life is smooth.

If he really got involved with those overly sharp go-betweens, she’s worried Heizi would get taken advantage of, leaving nothing behind.

Then she and Zhang Guoqing would be letting down that elderly grandmother who had begged them on her deathbed to take care of her little grandson.

After parting with Heizi, Zhou Jiao completed a big task and waited for Miao Tianming’s actions.

This time using futures leverage, after much consideration, she and Zhang Guoqing decided to keep it from her father, Zhou Xiaozheng.

His intuition is too sharp, even a little disturbance might make him guess.

Might as well tell him after some profits, or if they lose?

If they lose, she wouldn’t say a word, lest it distract him from state affairs and worry about her.