New York is really a place where everything is easy to do if you have money, even if you apply for the registration of a stockbrokerage company, you need to go through as many as 13 procedures during the period, but only more than 10,000 US dollars in handling fees are used to pay out, and the agency that Bella found only took two days to complete all the procedures. The agency even recommended a number of rented office buildings, all of which are near Wall Street, and of course, if Adel wants to rent it, he will have to pay a commission in addition to the rent.

However, instead of choosing the bustling area of Wall Street, Adair chose the intersection of White House Street and South Street, next to the ferry terminal, and rented an old two-story building to start his stockbroking company.

It seems easy to apply for a company with the help of an agency, but when you actually start a company, it is more complicated. First of all, you need to buy a series of office equipment, tables, chairs and benches are still secondary, such as automatic quotation boards, stock machines and other things are the main head. Secondly, the company needs to recruit manpower, and it needs a lot of manpower, such as the quotation clerk who is resident in the New York Stock Exchange, this must have at least two, and the telephone clerk must have at least one, because they need to report the data of the stock exchange to the company in real time, and the company needs handymanship, operators, copywriters, etc., etc., and at least 20 people are needed to calculate. In addition, the company also needs to rent telephones and telegraph sets from the New York Stock Exchange, which needs to be negotiated with the stock exchange.

In the days that followed, Adair was busy with these things, of course, while busy with these things, he did not forget to continue to care about the stock market, and now, he has more than $700,000 in funds, although he is far from a big business, but he is not the kind of small fish and shrimp that have no sense of existence.

$700,000 in 1929 is equivalent to how much money in the 21st century? Factoring in inflation, this amount is about $5.2 million in the 21st century. It's not a lot of money, but it's a lot of money.

Adair has a cognition, that is, in the stock market, the more funds in hand, the more you need to be cautious, because the influx of large sums of money can easily cause abnormal fluctuations in the stock price of a certain stock, and once the crocodiles around are attracted by this fishy smell, this large amount of money may become someone else's.

Therefore, at this stage, Adair buys shares, no longer focusing on a single stock as in the past, but pegging several stocks to diversify its investment. In addition, he also increased his short-term operation, in a day, he may buy and sell several stocks, according to him, that is, he is not in love with war, not greedy, as long as he cuts the meat, he retreats, and sometimes, his operation on a stock may only last a few hours.

As a supernumerary shareholder, Bella has never seen such a stock speculation, at first, she didn't know what the value of Adele's operation was, but after a few days, she felt that the problem was, that is, every time Adel made a move, she could always make a profit. Of course, the income he earns per profit is not much, sometimes it is a few thousand dollars, sometimes it is more than a thousand dollars, and there are very few tens of thousands of dollars in revenue. But with such an income of more than 1,000 dollars, it can be combined in one day to achieve an astonishing profit, which is very telling, and this also greatly boosts Bella's confidence.

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As dusk fell on New York again, Adele, dressed in a black vest, came out of the company on the corner of South Street, and while telling the young security guard hired by the company to lock the door, he took out a new pocket watch from his arms.

It was exactly seven o'clock, but because of the long days and short nights, the sky was not very dark, and the sight was still very clear, and there were many people walking leisurely on the South Street Avenue near the bay, enjoying the cool sea breeze blowing from the sea.

Giving up the idea of hailing a taxi directly, Adair put back his pocket watch, put on his black top hat, and turned to walk across the street towards the ferry terminal, which was a ferry to the Hell's Kitchen pier, not a luxury ferry, of course, just a small tin cabin with a motor, slow but cheap.

Avoiding a speeding car, Adair crossed the road, and as he was about to step onto the side of the road, he inadvertently jumped into a figure in his sight. There was an instinctive pause at his feet, and Adair slowed his pace, while the person opposite smiled and took the initiative to meet him.

"Mr. Adelle, we meet again," Angelo smiled, and with his tea-gray coat, he looked very much like a polite gentleman, but who would have thought that this gentleman was working for Cole the mad dog.

"It's not a sign of good luck for me," Adair shrugged, took two steps to meet him, and shook his hand.

No matter how much he dislikes the other party in his heart, he must maintain a kind attitude, only in this way can he paralyze the other party to the greatest extent.

"I know Mr. Adel doesn't like me, so I'll try to keep the number of times I appear in front of you," Angelo didn't mind, he smiled and said, "Today, it's been exactly a week since we last met. ”

"I know what you're here for," Adair withdrew his hand, leaned into the lining of his coat, took out four checks from inside, and handed them to Angelo, "There are four checks in total, two from Citibank, and the remaining two from the New York Savings Bank and the National Bank of Manhattan, totaling $200,000, which is a lot of cents." ”

"You've done us a great favor, Mr. Adair," Angelo took the check, looked at it carefully, and found that there was no problem, before he stepped forward, turned half of his body, stood side by side with Adair, and said, "Actually, we always believe in you, so before I came today, Mr. Cole made a special explanation to me, saying that he wanted to meet with you and thank you personally." ”

"There's no need for that, is it?" said Adair, frowning, "You can tell Mr. Cole that I just did what I could do. ”

Cole the Mad Dog is also Irish, so Adel is not wrong to say that he is a fellow countryman.

"That's not going to work, Mr. Cole won't be happy if you don't see you," Angelo said with a smile as he put an arm on Adele's shoulder, "Let's go, we'll take the boat over, and I'll arrange for someone to take you to Hell's Kitchen Docks in a moment." ”

Adair was not surprised that the other party knew his whereabouts, and said that if he was a gang leader and lent someone $200,000, he would also arrange for someone to keep an eye on the other party.

"Alright," said Adel helplessly, hearing the tone of the other party's refusal, "but I hope Mr. Cole can help me prepare some food, I've been hungry for almost an afternoon." ”

Angelo smiled but didn't say a word, and he pushed Adel straight into the ferry terminal and boarded a tin boat.

The sailors on the cabin ship were supposed to be Angelo's people, and when they got on the ship, someone directly started the motor and drove the ship out of the port.

"And Mr. Adelle," said Angelo, who pulled out a black cloth bag when the boat was out of the dock, "you know, Mr. Cole has been in some trouble lately, and those Italian hillbillies are sniffing him around like mad dogs, so I need to blindfold you just to be on the safe side." ”

Adel shrugged and said it didn't matter.

Angelo was obviously very cautious, he put the cloth tape in front of Adel's eyes, it was very thorough, and the knot at the back of his head was so tight that Adel even felt a faint pain in his eye sockets.

His eyes were blindfolded, he couldn't see anything, and Adair was in no mood to speak, and there was no movement in the entire cabin in an instant, only the sound of the motor outside continued to come in, which made people feel impetuous.

At dusk, there was a wind on the surface of the upper New York Bay, and the waves, although not large, were enough to cause the boat to jolt. In the cabin that smelled of the sea, Adel didn't know how long he had been sitting, but after a violent jolt, someone was talking outside the cabin.

"Mr. Angelo, here we are," the man who spoke was supposed to be a sailor, "Lewis's car is on the dock, and we can go ashore." ”

As soon as the voice landed, Adel felt a gentle tap on the shoulder, and then Angelo's voice rang out: "Let's go, Mr. Adair, but you still need to bear with it a little longer." ”

After saying that, I heard him say to someone again, "Gauss, come and help Mr. Adel and get him into the car." ”

After a few seconds, footsteps were heard, and then, Adel felt his arm being grabbed, and at the same time, a hoarse voice said beside him, "Let's go, Mr. Adair, watch your step." ”

With the support of this Gauss, Adel disembarked and landed on the shore, and got into another car - not a car, but a box car, which was estimated to be used for pulling goods, and there was a strong sweet smell of milk in the carriage, which was probably used to pull milk.

The car started quickly, and from the rumbling engine noise, you could tell that the car was very worn. And when the car started to move forward, the bump was very strong, perhaps because his eyes were blindfolded for a long time, Adair's hearing and feeling were a little strong, he felt this bump, and listened to the sound of the wheels crushing the road in his ears, and judged that the car should be on a gravel road, and it was a cobblestone paved gravel road. Quite simply, he could hear rubber tires running over the road, and from time to time, some stones of different sizes would be crumbled out or bounced off, and when those bounced stones fell, they would make the characteristic clicking sound of cobblestone collision.

The cobblestone road was long, and it took nearly five minutes for the road to flatten out abruptly, and then the car drove forward for a few more minutes before it finally stopped, and almost at the same time that the car stopped, Adel heard a strange business coming to his ear drums.

It sounded like someone was striking iron, and it was very rhythmic and tinkling...... Dingdingding...... Ding Ding ...... The sound is from near to far, but it is not fast.

"Mr. Adel, we're here. As Adel struggled to guess what the sound was coming from, Angelo spoke beside him.