Chapter 201

While Su Ran worked against the clock and made intense preparations for countermeasures, an economic storm meticulously concocted by foreign powers in collusion with international financial groups struck the Great Qing like a ferocious, overwhelming tsunami. The first to bear the brunt of the devastation was the Great Qing's energy industry. Leveraging their manipulation of the international crude oil market, foreign forces deliberately drove oil prices up sharply. Overnight, domestic oil prices in the Great Qing skyrocketed like a rocket, causing transportation costs to soar drastically. This not only bogged down the logistics industry under immense pressure, but also brought untold misery to numerous manufacturing enterprises dependent on petroleum energy, whose production costs shot up in a straight line. Under this heavy burden, many small and medium-sized enterprises could no longer cope and successively issued production suspension warnings, resembling crumbling buildings swaying precariously in the wind. Meanwhile, in the seemingly calm yet undercurrent-churning international financial market, a malicious short-selling campaign targeting the currency of the Great Qing was quietly unfolding. Relying on their formidable capital advantages, international financial groups went on a frenzied selling spree of the Great Qing currency in the foreign exchange market like hungry wolves, attempting to incite market panic and thereby cause the currency to plummet like an avalanc…