The Overall Plan
It wasn't the first time Black Mamba was shocked by Zhao Kuang's flawless plan. Although there were some flaws in his plan every time, it was proven that Zhao Kuang had left these flaws on purpose.
"Uncle Allen, you have to know that any plan must have a flaw in order to be the most perfect plan.”
Black Mamba still remembered his answer when he questioned Zhao Kuang.
Just like now, Zhao Kuang had forged a perfect death certificate and used China's powerful special forces as the best witness.
In one fell swoop, he solved the trouble brought by the leaking of information in Vladimir. Of course, there were still flaws in this matter.
However, it was enough to deal with other underground organizations.
"Young Master Kuang, your plan is perfect. However, I don't think we need to buy The Times at all to cooperate with our operation.”
"Black Mamba, there's an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. There are many ways to achieve our goals, but spending money is the least laborious and least eye-catching way.”
Black Mamba did not comment.
The Times was a comprehensive daily newspaper in Country Ying. It was a newspaper that had a huge impact on the world's politics, economy, and culture.
It was currently part of Rupert Murdock's News Corporation. For a long time, it had been regarded as the number one mainstream newspaper in the Ying country and was known as the "loyal recorder of the Ying country's society". He played an important role in the country's domestic politics and international relations.
When the media giant Murdock bought The Times, it cost 12 million pounds.
The acquisition was in 1981.
We can roughly calculate his current valuation.
Looking at the exchange rate first, the exchange rate between the British pound and the US dollar in 1981 was 0.45. At that time, the lowest price of gold was 391.25 US dollars per ounce. 12 million pounds was equivalent to 5.4 million US dollars, which was equivalent to 15,000 ounces of gold at that time.
Looking at the price of gold, the price of gold today fluctuated around 1300 US dollars per ounce, so the total purchase price at that time was equivalent to 20 million US dollars today. Of course, this was not taking into account the situation of inflation.
Then, we have to calculate the rate of inflation. From 1981 to the present, the highest rate of the US's inflation was 15%, and the lowest was 3%. We can calculate that the average is about 5%.
If we take a 30-year cycle, the rate of inflation from 1981 to the present is 9.31 times.
Therefore, the overall result was that the purchasing power of Murckart's purchase of The Times was equivalent to less than 200 million dollars today.
Now, Zhao Kuang bought The Times for 20 billion USD, a 100 times premium.
The net worth of the entire Murkado Group was only 40 billion.
Zhao Kuang had bought The Times with twice the value of Murckart and half of Murckart's money. No wonder Murckart was so happy and immediately signed the contract with Zhao Kuang.
One had to know that the valuation of traditional newspapers had always been downward because under the impact of the Internet industry, there was the possibility of bankruptcy at any time. As for the emerging media, China's Weibo and the US's Twitter, their current market value was only about 20 billion US dollars.
Black Mamba had reason to believe that Zhao Kuang could buy Weibo and Twitter.
Zhao Kuang's answer was very Zhao Kuang's.
Zhao Kuang sipped his coffee as he raised his head and smiled playfully."After all, I have money."
Black Mamba was speechless. He felt that he had to re-evaluate Zhao Kuang. It seemed that the profligate young master's ability to earn money was not to be underestimated.
As the butler of K2, Black Mamba naturally knew the financial situation of the organization. However, compared to Zhao Kuang's small treasury, it was like a drop in the ocean. Black Mamba completely suspected that during the time Zhao Kuang disappeared, he had obtained the treasure of the Tsar the Great.
The Tsar's collection referred to the last Tsar Nicholas II. At that time, he and General Golchak, who led the Russian army, had paid about 500 tons of gold to foreign countries in advance since 1914, totaling 1600 tons of gold. The gold paid to Japan was worth billions of dollars. However, a civil war broke out in Russia, and Nicholas II was overthrown by the rebels before he could bring back weapons from Japan.
Rumor had it that the Tsar's 1600 tons of gold had been loaded onto a train by the White Army commander, Alexander Gorchak, and sunk to the bottom of Lake Baikal. Since Lake Baikal was hundreds of meters deep, no treasure hunter had ever found a piece of gold from the last tsar in Lake Baikal.
If Zhao Kuang knew that Black Mamba was thinking of him, he would probably laugh his head off. If the current international gold trading price was 1300 US dollars per ounce, then 1600 tons of the last tsar's gold was only worth more than 70 billion US dollars.
It was only equivalent to Zhao Kuang's 7 Villain Points.
Of course, Black Mamba had reason to suspect this, because Birdman Ye Cunxin had just completed his mission and returned from Lake Baikal.
All of Zhao Kuang's plans had been completed.
Now that the first step of the plan was in place, the only thing they could do now was to wait for Jiang Taigong to take the bait.
The first update was here. Ye Cunxin had officially returned. She weakly begged everyone, flowers, reviews, and everything.
The climax is coming, please be patient…
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