Chapter 62 (1/2)

A person possessing 300 million dollars would only be ranked 250th on the Chinese Forbes list. On the world list, the bottom line was one billion dollars. Huang Xuan was one of the unknown magnates.

Anyway, owning 300 million dollars at the age of 16 was dramatic enough to give play to one's fancy.

The banks couldn't stop guessing where Huang Xuan's wealth had come from. Undoubtedly, it was related to the Huang Family Funds. Somebody even thought that it was the means the family used to launder money.

However, it didn't matter. Although the bank was universally thought to be the most authoritative inst.i.tution, the bankers could definitely be counted as the most shameless people in the world. Money laundering didn't go to the banks not because the bankers were too honest but because n.o.body could stand their greed. To attract more customers, they chose to let out depositors' information. Although it didn't happen a lot, betrayals of their customers were not rare. To the Jews in Germany, the infamous United Bank of Switzerland was a killer. While working for the bankers, Charles Dutoit was dreaming that one day he also could exploit others. To make his dream come true, he was working hard. Evil capitalism!

Dutoit had found opportunities from Huang Xuan's case. ”This is a successful teenager, who must like talking and acting surprisingly. If I want to earn enough money to support myself after my retirement before 40, I can realize it step by step. But if I want to become an evil capitalist, I have to take some risks and sacrifice.”

Having deliberated, Dutoit was convinced that Huang Xuan indeed intended to buy a great deal of goods on hand in a short time. He thought that his only advantage over the other two banks was that he held more free capital.

Charles Dutoit bought 100 units of Brent oil delivered in July with 9.2 million dollars and came to Sao Paulo with a plan and a futures agreement.

Huang Xuan met Charles in his newly-rented office of Hexin Industrial, next to the Square of the Republic and near the busiest street in Sao Paulo. Although the office was as big as over 5,000 square meters in area, here were only two employees and one temp. One of the employees was the receptionist slash the secretary, while the other one took care of the contact with Huang Xuan and other firms and the decoration. When Huang Xuan had come here, the office had been half decorated.

There were four of them, Huang Xuan, Charles, an interpreter, and a lawyer, but there were only three chairs. At last, the interpreter gave up the chair.

The small episode didn't affect Charles' mood. He had been focusing on the briefcase in his hands. If Huang Xuan didn't approve of the price of the crude oil futures he had bought, he had to close the position before the trading day. And his acts were possible to be regarded as embezzlement, which would pull him off the steps of becoming a capitalist.

Charles took out the materials he had prepared seriously. Since there was no desk, he handed them directly to Huang Xuan.

”Mr. Huang, these are the 100,000 barrels of crude oil I have bought at your request, which are $92 each. It is the trading day the day after tomorrow. You need to present the relevant doc.u.ments and offer the locations of the trading spot or the warehouse if you decide to transact goods on hand.

Huang Xuan took over the materials, surprised. Having read only the first page, he already knew that he had bought the futures with private capital, which was against what they had agreed on and meant that it was the bank, not the agent, that had bought the futures and sold them to Huang Xuan. Although Huang Xuan had just started studying commercial activities, he was able to tell the enormous difference.

It seemed that what Charles had done was extremely stupid. Huang Xuan kept looking at him for a long time. However, he was also glad that Charles had so actively completed the entrustment. The normal procedure would have taken at least one or two weeks, during which, something worse could have happened. Hence, hearing that the transaction could be completed within four days, Huang Xuan nodded merrily without even looking at the price again. Compared to Rolin, this money was trivial. Charles had won Huang Xuan's preference at the cost of a little risk. It had to be admitted that he had done well.

Charles exhaled deeply. To him, Huang Xuan's approval was half success. Actually, it was true. He handed the agreement to the lawyer carefully, collected himself and then said, ”Mr. Huang, this is the purchase scheme our bank has made for you. Please have a look.”