1928: The rise of giant merchants

Ye Luo didn't lie, he did have an appointment tonight.

After the wedding banquet in the hotel, Livermore dragged his exhausted body back to the presidential suite early to rest alone.

Their temporary wedding room was on the top floor. Because the wedding was rather embarrassing, the relatives and friends present left quickly after finishing the banquet.

Huixin, who didn't even have a decent bridesmaid around her, returned to her new house early alone.

The long wedding skirt is dragging on the ground, and she wears a tiara inlaid with silver diamonds on her head. She wears light pink lipstick. The snow-like wedding dress is quite fairy-like. From a distance, she looks like a woman walking out of a painting. Elf.

Her chest was turbulent, and her bright white melons were heavy, swaying up and down as she walked, looking elegant and proud against the backdrop of the crystal lamp.

Huixin is waiting for the real groom for the first real wedding in her life.

As time passed by, her heart began to become a little anxious and uneasy.

Even though she and Ye Luo had spent many days and nights like an old married couple, facing a beautiful woman like Lin Ruxian, she always felt that she couldn't hold her head high and was not worthy of him.

The inferiority complex has not changed with the rise in status, but has become even more panicked.

Because all of this was brought to him by him.

This means that everything that is extremely attractive to others is nothing more than that to him.

Even if he is willing, he can knock himself back into the dust with a flick of his finger.

Huixin felt extremely uneasy, so she resolutely left Li Siye, who was just born, in the Republic of China and the Ye family.

Si Ye carries all her feelings for Ye Luo and is also her root in the Ye family.

Just when Huixin was thinking wildly, the door opened.

Ye Luo, tall and handsome in a neat suit, walked over with a smile.

He stayed downstairs for a long time. He was just chatting with Fairbanks and others, but unexpectedly he met the boss of American Medicine again.

The fat white man had a sad face at this time. When he thought about rejecting Ye Luo's offer of 5 million US dollars, he wanted to slap himself in the face.

Nowadays, American medicine has long lost its status as a high-priced stock. It has plummeted and is stuck on the verge of delisting. It relies solely on relief from the White House and the Treasury Department to survive.

Such companies, similar to state-owned enterprises, are indeed staggeringly large in size, but their internal problems are also equally terrifying.

In peaceful times, when the economy is on the upswing, everyone flocks to companies like this. It is very easy to make money there, and there is no need to worry about financial deficits.

After all, the government will monopolize the best businesses and hand them over to you.

But during the Great Depression, everything was different.

Internal conflicts broke out step by step, stock prices collapsed, market value evaporated, and then there was a huge hole that could not be filled by massive layoffs.

This is a bottomless pit.

Of course, the United States will not let such a state-owned enterprise fail. As long as it holds it, there will always be high returns in the future.

But this future is too far away for Ye Luo.

After finally driving out the fat white man who was arguing, Ye Luo finally arrived at the new house.

"Second Young Master, here you are, I'll give you some water." Huixin was wearing a wedding dress and sitting pretty on the bedside. She had reapplied her makeup, and her face still showed the delicacy and arrogance she had when facing other people.

But such a proud woman was willing to humble herself into dust in front of Ye Luo.

"I brought wine. We won't come home until we get drunk tonight." Ye Luo shook the red wine glass and red wine in his hand, smiling broadly.

"Well, I won't come home until I'm drunk!" Huixin looked at his smiling face and suddenly felt very warm.

He is still the same person.

Just like when I first saw it.

After a night of hangover and fighting, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon when Ye Luo got up.

Huixin next to her was sleeping soundly.

Today is November 5th.

He still has a lot of finishing things to do in the United States. The first step is to make a list of the technologies and resources that need to be acquired and collected as quickly as possible, and find a way to get people from Hongmen to help negotiate prices.

During the trip to the United States, what Ye Luo valued most was the interests of this period.

Countless large companies were on the verge of bankruptcy, and many technologies were sold at bargain prices in the market. The advantages gained by the United States' comprehensive development after World War I were once ruined. Hoover did not want to be missed like this, but he could not cover up this decline at all. .

Ye Luo bid farewell to Hui Xin and drove back to New York.

Xu Wenqiang drove the car and saw the slightly depressed scene around him. He was a little emotional and a little scared.

If it were any later, he would be like these homeless people who set up tents and live their lives on the streets and under overpasses.

"Isn't it just a few pieces of paper? Why has it become so serious?" Among the people, the one who least understands stocks is Shi Jianqiao. She has the shadow of an out-and-out ordinary Republic of China person.

She couldn't understand why the speculators who waved their bills on the New York Stock Exchange became paupers overnight. She couldn't understand how the second young master could make hundreds of millions of dollars in the United States with just a few words!

A total of 3 billion!

Converted to oceans, that's 15 billion.

Now she can go to the best restaurant in New York and order a table of dishes without spending $1,000.

15 billion oceans is enough for her to eat three meals a day in this most upscale hotel, and it will last for 3,000 years and she won't be able to spend it all!

Can last for more than ten lifetimes!

While Shi Jianqiao was in shock, the car passed by an office building. Many people gathered there, and suddenly there were waves of exclamations.

Ye Luo and others looked up and found a figure standing on the top of the building.

The man was holding a wine bottle in his hand and was swaying. He looked down several times, but he always stepped back out of fear.

"Are you going to jump off the building?" Shi Jianqiao's eyes widened.

Xu Wenqiang couldn't help but stop the car.

Just when Shi Jianqiao asked the question, the man on the roof suddenly took two sips of wine, took a step forward, and jumped off the rooftop.

boom!

It hit the ground head first and exploded like a watermelon, with a mixture of red, white and yellow colors pouring all over the place.

"Another one!"

someone in the crowd shouted.

"Oh no! That bastard Fisher should be allowed to jump off the building! I lost all my money just because I listened to his predictions on the stock market!"

"Me too, all my savings are gone!"

The crowd roared.

He didn't become panicked because of the dead person, as if jumping off a building was very common.

They are more cursing the stock market, economists like Fisher, and short-selling groups like Livermore who took away their hard-earned money.

Because of this stock market turmoil, Irving Fisher, who was once so famous that he even booked a page in the history of American economics during his lifetime, plummeted.

He is one of the most famous economists, mathematicians, and econometricians in the United States, a professor at Yale University, and a true expert in the minds of countless people.

The experts of this era were not as incompetent as the "brick experts" of later generations.

Irving Fisher made great contributions to the field of economics. He proposed the principles of monetary theory and was the first scholar to reveal the relationship between inflation expectations and interest rates.

However, he is such a powerful and coaxing person who has been vigorously promoting the stock market for several years.

Do you think he did it on purpose? He also invested in it, poured all his savings into it, and even filed for bankruptcy.

What does this mean?

Even true experts cannot make money from the stock market.

The stock market is a sinkhole.

"Before I went out just now, for fear of forgetting, I made some lists. According to the descriptions on the list, you go to the bosses of these companies to acquire their technologies and companies."

Ye Luo gave them several lists.

The Great Depression came so quickly, and he was afraid that these people would jump off the building and commit suicide before he could wait for him. In this case, the company would be taken away by the state.

To take these companies away from Hoover must have cost more than negotiating with these bosses.