On a certain island, Charlie and his sister were holding the news from the Federation from the previous day, somewhat in a daze.

The money they earned from silver was enough to buy a private island and turn it into a fortress.

This was their last guarantee of safety!

The expressions on their faces were strange as they stared at a not-so-conspicuous article from the Federation’s Financial Times which mentioned that the Federation Government and the Financial Management Committee believed there were certain "fraudulent" operations in the current market.

Using some technical and unconventional means, pushing certain prices to very high levels, which made the risks enormous, hoping any investor would be cautious and thoughtful when investing in such products.

The entire report did not name the investment project as silver, but anyone could see that it was talking about silver. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

"This signal... is somewhat dangerous," Charlie (brother) bit his nails, a habit he had when nervous.

Charlie (sister) nodded, "I have to make a call to figure it out, or else I might not be able to sleep tonight."

Charlie (brother) agreed with her idea, then picked up the phone himself, dialing a Federation investor he knew.

"I read the news two days before, what does the Financial Supervisory Commission mean, why are they targeting us?" His voice was filled with anger, but more so with fear hidden behind the anger.

Personal actions, market behaviors, are always at the lowest level, national actions govern everything.

If the Federation, such a powerful country, stood up at this time to issue some damn policy, it would be devastating for their actions.

The investor on the other end of the phone was also troubled, "I’ve been trying to figure out these things in the past two days too, you’d better calm down, I’ve invested a lot of money myself, I won’t watch it go down the drain!"

"Also, you should think whether there’s something wrong with your plans..."

This Federation investor has invested over tens of millions in silver, not counting the leverage from financing; he raised this amount through various means from society, not his own.

In other words, he is responsible for this money, and a lot of it too.

He is now like Charlie and his sister, like ants on a hot pot; if silver has problems, jumping off a building would not be the end!

Charlie (brother) found he could not get anything out and slightly eased his tone, "Try to inquire for me, send someone to ask the Financial Management Committee, the expenses are on me."

He is very wealthy now, but lacks a sense of security, if money can buy security, he doesn’t mind spending a little to make himself at least more comfortable.

Finally, he reiterated his point, "Even if something happens that we can’t change, it doesn’t matter, at least we need to find out what we are facing."

"Only in this way can we be prepared, do you understand what I mean?"

After hanging up the phone, Charlie (sister) also came over from another room, shaking her head as well, "Couldn’t find out anything, just heard it’s related to the Black Disc..."

Charlie (brother) furrowed his brows, the Black Disc... very troublesome.

The Black Disc is a market unrelated to formal trading; in the Black Disc, people can also buy and sell, just that the settler is no longer other traders, investors, but the founder of the Black Disc.

The ones who can manage the Black Disc are not usually the gangs doing it, but people with major influence, ordinary people cannot manage this thing, nor attract people.

Many times "exploding" refers to the Black Disc banker, but for these Black Disc bankers, they don’t care.

If indeed exploded, they would just embezzle and abscond.

If not exploded, investors lost; those funds all enter their pockets.

So, regardless, the Black Disc always does profit without loss, and this becomes a fuse for some problems.

Someone made huge money, but the banker absconded; they would surely report to the Financial Supervisory Commission, and upon reporting, comes investigation, bringing out lots of issues.

An investor persuaded by a stock broker opened an account in the Black Disc to trade silver; now silver insanely skyrocketed, and the investor planned to reclaim their investment.

According to their own calculations, they should gain 200,000 to 300,000, but not only couldn’t withdraw the money, those people also disappeared.

"We got implicated, I will find a way to contact that guy and have him drop the lawsuit," Charlie (sister) sighed, "This time we got involved."

Knowing the cause of events, Charlie (brother) breathed a sigh of relief; as long as it’s a problem solvable by money, it’s no problem.

He thought for a moment, "Give more, get him to drop the lawsuit and shut up soon, our plan also needs to accelerate!"

Later, the Silver Alliance announced to the world the establishment of the Silver Alliance Council, whose roles include coordinating trade among member countries and having military items listed.

As soon as this news broke, silver’s price rose again; before the market closed at night, it had reached eighteen dollars and seventy-seven cents, just one dollar and twenty-three cents away from the "threshold" of twenty dollars.

All institutions believe that tomorrow, silver’s price will surely break nineteen dollars and accelerate towards twenty dollars in a short time.

The market is irrational, yet possesses commonality; simply put, when investors don’t think silver can rise to twenty dollars, they would retain some rationality and shoot at a time deemed appropriate.

This constitutes market prosperity.

But when silver really might rise to twenty dollars, investors’ rationality would decrease, reducing turnover volume, steadily raising the price.

Everyone thinks so, then they wouldn’t sell the silver in their hands, meaning a market shift.

Buyers, unable to buy silver at the current price, can only raise the price, also being one factor causing price fluctuations.

The Silver Alliance is extremely cunning, especially their council, where coordination is key.

In their own words, they can help members coordinate various aspects, including technology.

This has little appeal to countries like the Federation but is highly attractive to backward or developing countries.

Some smaller countries submitted membership applications overnight, all becoming a driving force for silver’s rise!

Lynch also saw the brief; due to limited information transmission ability in this era, local reporters used telegrams to send the briefing back to the Federation, first landing on newspapers, magazines, and other media, before having more detailed reports.

But just such a briefing made Lynch realize Charlie and his sister sensed danger.

Once silver exceeded twenty dollars, billions of capital might escape, leaving a group of ordinary people to take over.

He sat in his room thinking for half an hour, then made a call to Mr. Truman, explaining the situation.

"If we act now, it would be at least half a month earlier than our estimated time..." The estimated launch time being the end of May or early June.

He also teased Lynch once, "Your previous plan was not very successful."

He said it was the informant, silver rose too fast, Lynch wanted it to slow down, thus arranged a script.

But Charlie and his sister might have sensed danger, starting to accelerate unexpectedly, catching Lynch unprepared, one of his few misjudgments.

Facing Truman’s inquiry, Lynch’s response was calm and powerful, "I’m ready, you just need to do some thought work with the President."

"There won’t be any other issues, we can operate while preparing; everything is under control!"

Then Mr. Truman, after being silent for about half a minute, agreed, "Then let’s start!"

On Friday of the second week of May, news of the Silver Alliance Council was spread nationwide, silver soared to nineteen dollars and eighty-three cents; while everyone started celebrating in advance, a Federation message shattered people’s beautiful dreams!

"The largest open-pit silver mine in human history has been discovered!"

Almost all mainstream media were broadcasting this news, accompanied by various colored images.

Printing colored content on black and white newspapers increases costs significantly, not just due to ink, but due to several additional processes.

Process means cost, but they did it anyway.

Meanwhile, major TV stations started broadcasting the news, providing more than simple images on newspapers.

Not only were there field inspections by exploration teams, there were aerial shots as well; they discovered a silver mine with astonishing reserves within Mariluo.

According to the Federation Geological Survey’s results, once all silver was developed, it would exceed the currently circulating silver quantity in the market.

This bullshit sounds fake; the market-circulating silver has been extracted and refined over many years from many different silver mines.

How could one mine produce so much?

But the issue is, lies, or exaggerated statements always have a filtering mechanism; just like scammers’ lies easily screen those who won’t fall for them.

The exaggerated facts do the same; it wants only those who believe such overly exaggerated descriptions!

This occurred on Friday, the market wouldn’t open on Saturday and Sunday, but price fluctuations wouldn’t cease!

Sitting in the trading room, Lynch personally observed Lime prematurely ending his shorting gold transactions, switching to shorting silver, while starting to gobble up gold spot.

No restrictions in the frantic gobbling of gold!

Once silver collapses, gold will regain its dominance in currency benchmark status; Lynch knew, the Federation would establish a whole new "Golden Empire," gold would not just represent wealth as a precious metal, it also carries deeper political value!