"Good morning, John."

"Good morning, Grandpa."

On the morning of the third day of the elder Huntlaar's arrival in Berlin, the grandfather and grandson exchanged a bland good morning and sat down at opposite ends of the table. Before Hans had prepared breakfast, Johann poured a cup of coffee for old Huntelaar and asked with a smile, "Grandpa, how was your rest yesterday?" ”

"Not bad."

Raising his head a little sluggishly, old Huntelaar replied lightly.

As an old man in his seventies, the fatigue of a long journey could not disappear after a day or two of rest, but after two nights of good sleep, old Huntelaar's face was no longer that obvious tiredness, and a healthy flush slowly climbed back on his cheeks.

In general, the old man is still in quite good health.

After a couple of conversations, Hans, the butler, came out with Henry, both of them carrying a large plate full of all kinds of food—from the first night of old Huntlaar's arrival in Berlin, the food at home became as rich and even a little extravagant as if it had returned to New York.

Even so, after seeing the breakfast prepared by Hans, old Huntelaar still frowned and said: "John, I still think you should hire a chef here, only a hearty and delicious meal can keep you full of energy throughout the day, Hans is our butler, and is not suitable for the work of a chef." And...... What happens if a guest arrives? ”

"It's all right, sir."

Without waiting for John to answer, the butler hurriedly opened his mouth to explain.

John didn't care about this, shook his head casually and said, "Grandpa, just the two of us, there's no need to make so much trouble." And when there are guests, Mr. Elber will ask the hotel people to come back and help......"

John was still a little unaccustomed to the life of a wealthy man at the end of the 19th century.

For example, before John came to New York from China, there were four servants in the house, in addition to Hans and Henry the coachman, there was a cook and a maid, and four men served him. In John's opinion. This can no longer be simply described by the word luxury!

But in old Huntelaar's view, this is a matter of course.

So John didn't think to convince his grandfather at all, so he casually changed the topic and said, "Grandpa, I came back late yesterday and haven't talked to you about the shares of the bicycle company...... Who did the bicycle company sell its shares to? ”

"Sir, feel free to call me if you need anything."

Hearing John talk about a sensitive subject, the cautious butler Hans immediately bowed slightly and led Henry out of the dining room.

"Sold to a guy with the surname Morgan."

Putting down the cup in his hand, old Huntelaar said lightly: "He is a very courageous person. When I carefully arranged the competition, I did not hesitate to give the highest price, and scared the three competitors back at once, hehe, a very interesting person, acting very decisively! ”

"Otherwise, it wouldn't be so fast!"

John smiled and said happily.

Originally, he thought that if these shares were to be sold, it would take at least two or three months. After all, the amount of money involved is too large. Millions of dollars are equivalent to hundreds of millions of dollars in the 21st century for Americans in this era. Naturally, it's not something that can be done in a short period of time. But John never imagined that after the old Huntelaar sent a telegram of interest, it would be sold in just a few days!

And......

"This is a very powerful guy!"

After taking a deep breath, old Huntelaar said with a solemn face: "I just broke the news that I wanted to transfer the shares, and Morgan quickly sent someone to the door, and in one breath made a condition that I couldn't refuse: to acquire all 29% of the shares. And it's a cash payment! A total of $1.9 million in cash was taken out within 10 days of signing the contract...... I have to say, this is a very powerful guy! ”

One million and nine million dollars, cash!

Although the answer has been known for a long time, after hearing this number at this time. John's heart couldn't help beating violently, and his breathing instantly became heavy.

Don't look at the earlier 11% of the shares that were sold for 200,000, that's because considering that Joshua is his friend, John gave a discount, but now the 29% shares are real, but the sale of 1.9 million dollars in one go still makes John a little overjoyed!

This has exceeded his expectations by a lot.

If this ratio is followed, the total value of the entire Flying Pigeon Bicycle Company exceeds six million dollars, and even if some price water is removed, it is not a big problem to reach five million dollars, and this figure is almost half of the current value of Carnegie Steel!

In just four or five years, the investment is only two or three hundred thousand dollars!

Such a brilliant record made John once again realize the power of the traverser, and introduced a future mature technology to the end of the 19th century, no matter how poor the economic level is, he can still create a huge amount of wealth for himself!

"If you can fully transfer the patent, it's no problem to double that number!"

Speaking of patents, old Huntelaar sighed with regret.

From the very beginning, John was sure that there would be no transfer of patent ownership, and this was stated several times in telegrams to old Huntelaar. This was a rather unwise decision in the eyes of old Huntelaar, because the ownership of this patent was worth at least a million dollars! And John had no other meaning, and had already privately promised Joshua that he would never authorize a second bicycle company......

John could only smile at this and did not say anything more.

There is nothing wrong with licensing patents, but there is such a thing as ownership that John will never sell. Although John does not plan to license a second company to produce bicycles because of Joshua and others, if you consider the cars that will appear in a few years, John naturally has to hold patents such as pneumatic tires in his hands!

He didn't like accidents at all, and he didn't like the feeling of things being out of his control.

So even if he will lose millions of dollars in income because of this, John doesn't think there is anything unacceptable, 1.9 million, plus Joshua's 200,000, is enough for John to squander in the past few years. By the time the money was spent, his pharmaceutical factory would be a different story. So in that sense, the fact that I was able to sell for so much money was already thanks to Mr. Morgan......

Hey?

Wait a minute!

At this moment, John's gaze suddenly froze, and he suddenly raised his head and asked, "Grandpa, who did you just say about that buyer?" Morgan? What is his full name? ”

"Well, John? Pierponte? Morgan, have you heard of him? ”

Seeing John's surprised look, old Huntelaar was not surprised. Come to think of it, John was known to people like Carnegie and Tesla, let alone Morgan, a well-known figure in New York.

"Goo-dong!"

After getting his grandfather's confirmation, John couldn't help but swell sharply while being dumbfounded.

Morgan?

The Morgan who single-handedly founded the Morgan consortium and later swallowed Carnegie Steel?

That Morgan known as the emperor of Wall Street?

"Just finished dealing with Carnegie and sold your shares to Morgan?"

found that in just two or three months, he had dealt with two American economic giants at the end of the 19th century, and at the same time reached a cooperation with a scientific genius Tesla, even John the traverser could not accept such a huge stimulation, and his brain was completely messed up for a while......

……

Today's two chapters are very irritating.

The first chapter is Kavin, and the second chapter is really a layman for the economy, and the numbers are very unrealistic. (To be continued......)