Due to the time difference, when Guan Qiu and the two arrived in New York, it was 4 a.m. local time.

New York, located in the northeast of the Atlantic coast of the United States, is the largest city and largest port in the United States, and is also the world's largest economic center, known as the world's capital.

For more than a century, New York City has been the world's foremost business and financial center, and has a direct impact on the media, politics, education, entertainment, and fashion worlds around the world.

There is a very famous line in the TV series "BJ in New York": If you love him, take him to New York, because it is heaven, and if you hate him, take him to New York, because it is hell.

It is this line that evokes a generation of Chinese's beautiful reverie about New York.

Getting out of JFK International Airport and taking a taxi to the center of New York, Guan Qiu browsed the streets of New York in the early hours of the morning through the car window.

As a human being in two lifetimes, it is the first time to go abroad, and it is the largest metropolis in the world, Guan Qiu's mood goes without saying.

According to relevant data, by the end of 2003, New York directly or indirectly controlled more than 30% of the world's wealth, making it the world's largest financial center.

The New York Stock Exchange has the world's largest total market capitalization of listed companies, with a global market capitalization of $11.5 trillion, and 65 of the world's top 500 companies are located in New York.

And he, the man who crawled out of the mud, stumbled into this capital of wealth, and even he couldn't even imagine it, it felt like a dream.

"What time is it in China now?" In fact, Guan Qiu knew, but he didn't have anything to say, and by the way, he soothed his excitement.

"New York is about thirteen hours slower than Kyoto. Because of the long-distance flight, Pu Ruo's spirit was a little sluggish, and he replied with his head next to the window and his eyes closed.

"Oh~" Guan Qiu said and looked at the building outside with interest.

As a reborn person, he saw a lot of skyscrapers in his previous life, so the buildings towering on both sides of the street did not give him a sense of shock. It's just that I was accustomed to the Chinese scenery under the sky in 2004, and suddenly came to New York, which had developed more than ten years ahead of time, and reminded me of my previous life.

In my previous life, I lived for more than 30 years, and I have been struggling at the bottom of society, and many times I don't even dare to think about it, what are those who live at the top of the wealth pyramid like?

When he grew up, he understood that he could not imagine the happiness of rich people.

There was a time when he regretted that he didn't study hard in junior high school.

Three years of presumptuousness, in exchange for a life of humility.

I remember that the old man of the Zhou family asked him why he didn't study hard, and he said at the time that he was not the material for reading.

Bullshit, what's not the material for reading, it's just playful.

If his previous life gave him a chance to start over, even if his head was cantilevered, he would climb into college.

It's a pity that when I understand, it's too late.

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After crossing the Hudson River, the whole city suddenly brightly and dazzlingly, the skyscrapers that have been seen in the background of movies, television and news many times, and the names that they have heard suddenly come to mind.

The majestic Empire State Building, the magnificent Pennsylvania Station, and the fashionable and romantic Manhattan Times Square are all crossed in front of you.

Finally, the taxi stopped and came to the door of a hotel with a long English name.

The white waiter at the door of the hotel came up to help with the luggage, Pu Ruo and the taxi driver paid the bill, and Guan Qiu followed and watched, he didn't know what he was doing.

After entering the hotel lobby, Pu Ruo communicated with the front desk in fluent English, and then went upstairs with the room key.

The hotel is booked by Pu Ruo, this woman will not treat herself badly, the hardware facilities are absolutely first-class, the environment is also quite beautiful, the front and Manhattan Times Square share the prosperity, and the back listens to the Hudson River flowing.

Of course, such rooms are expensive, $180/day for a single deluxe room.

At this price, you can live in a five-star hotel in the country.

When he arrived in the room, after the waiter put down his luggage, Guan Qiu thought that when he came, he heard that he was going to tip here, and then took out a $10 exchange in advance from his pocket and gave it to the other party.

The white waiter was so happy that he said "thank you" again and again.

After the waiter left, Pu Ruo said: "All service industries here basically have to tip, so don't give too much, just $1 to $2 each time." ”

"You didn't say it earlier. ”

Pu Ruo retorted: "You didn't ask. ”

Guan Qiu stopped fighting with her. He doesn't know English, and without Pu Ruo it's like being blind, and if she annoys her, she'll really leave him alone.

"Alright, rest early, I'll go to the dealer at 9 o'clock." After saying that, Pu Ruo drove him to his room.

As soon as he got off the plane, and he was on the other side of the Atlantic, Guan Qiu couldn't sleep under the excitement, so he walked to the window and looked.

New York is about the same latitude as Kyoto, at 43°N, and the seasons are similar, so it's the hottest time of the year.

At five o'clock, there were already people walking around in the square in front of the hotel, in addition to the sports crowd, there were actually people pushing the breakfast stall, but I don't know if it was a hot dog burrito or fried dough sticks soy milk?

"Hey~"

Guan Qiu smiled proudly, then closed the curtains and lay down on the bed to watch TV for a while.

It's a pity that it's all in English, and he can't understand the twitter.

After walking around the room for a while, I felt slimy and went to the bathroom to take a rose bath.

It's a real rose bath. There are a lot of rose petals in the bathroom tray, as well as bubble milk, which is not used in vain.

After taking a shower, sleepiness hit, and finally I couldn't help but fall asleep.

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Futures investing is wonderful and cruel, it's essentially a business, but it's not an ordinary business!

In Pu Ruo's words, any investment is risky, but the risk will not come as quickly as futures.

The investment cycle of a real estate project may take years to know the result, but futures investment may only take a few days or even hours to reveal the mystery, and in extreme cases, it only takes a few minutes to make you die.

In terms of excitement, there is no industry like the futures market that can make you experience the legend of a lifetime in the shortest possible time!

Pu Ruo didn't know that Guan Qiu was a person holding the "Wang Bang", in her opinion, he was a gambler with a lot of gambling, and he had a bright future, but he came to the futures market to "try his luck", which was stupid.

She's not a good person at persuasion.

Don't say good things twice.

Since he didn't listen, tell him with practical actions how stupid and irrational his decision was.

Thursday morning on the 19th.

After a series of preparations, Pu Ruo took the $30 million borrowed by Guan Qiu to enter the international crude oil futures market.

In less than half a month, the price of light crude oil for delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange has risen to $38.46 per barrel in the final session, an astonishing increase of 11.12% from the previous $34.19.

Pu Ruo first bought 1,000 lots to test the water, 14 times the leverage, close to 3 million US dollars, and smashed it in, but there was no reaction at all.

And then......

And then there was no then.

Let's just wait.

Whether it is a bicycle turning into a motorcycle, or a suit comes in and pants go out, everything depends on the market trend.

Guan Qiu took advantage of his free time to learn some detailed rules of futures trading from Pu Ruo.

As a reborn person with "two kings + four 2 + four A", of course, he does not want to make money by futures, just to understand how capital works.

In two years' time, the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States will begin to appear, and by 2007 it will begin to sweep the world......

He didn't know anything else, anyway, as long as he shorted real estate and bank stocks......

Pack to earn!

At the close of three o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, crude oil stocks rose by 2 percentage points, and both Pu Ruo and Guan Qiu were unimpressed.

Now it is only a test of the waters, not to mention that the funds are only one-tenth of the market, and even the leverage has remained at a normalized level.

So the next thing is to wait.

At noon on August 21, local time in the United States, it is the traditional Chinese Qixi Festival.

In this romantic time, Guan Qiu dragged Pu Ruo to go shopping.

This woman is not interested in the glitzy city of New York, and her mind is full of numbers, stocks, futures, and bonds.

When Guan Qiu took the fried potato balls from the roadside stall and put them to her mouth, Pu Ruo's eyes were full of murderous aura, as if as long as he dared to advance another centimeter, she would use her eyes to kill Ling Chi.

Guan Qiu felt the murderous aura, although he didn't care, but he didn't have to move an inch, grabbed her hand, and put the paper bag in her hand, "You can taste it, it's really delicious." Even though you're a turtle, I guess you've never eaten one. ”

Pu Ruo, who had a tense face, didn't know why, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, she was really afraid that Guan Qiu would stuff the potato balls in her mouth, so she didn't know how she was going to react?

Guan Qiu smiled and continued to walk forward in the bustling crowd.

New York's food culture is very diverse, influenced by many immigrants, and the bustling commercial streets are lined with food vendors, many of which are run by immigrants, such as croquettes, octopus balls, lamb kebabs, ice cream omelets, seaweed salad dressings, and more.

In addition to street vendors, New York City is also home to high-end restaurants, such as Italian, French, Spanish, Russian, British, Greek, Moroccan, Chinese, Brazilian and Japanese.

Finally, Guan Qiu saw a little girl selling flowers.

Because he was a yellow race, he thought it was Chinese, but after asking, he learned that it was a new immigrant from Japan. Maybe the main customer is also Chinese, the little girl's Chinese spoken language is actually very good.

After asking about the price, a rose was $2, and there was just not much left, so he gave Bao Yuan and gave $100.

The little girl bowed ninety degrees to him and ran away happily.

Pu Ruozheng was watching stocks and current political news with his mobile phone with his head down, and under the sun, his soft and beautiful hair was sprinkled down, and he was pure and charming.

Guan Qiu handed the roses to her and said with a smile: "Happy Qixi Festival!"

Pu Ruo didn't know that today was Qixi Festival, looked at the bright roses in front of him, and then looked up and saw Guan Qiu's serious face, his face unexpectedly showed a panicked look......