It took Henry three days to finally read "The Rise of Great Powers: The United States". Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the original version, "The United States" devotes a lot of space to analyzing and describing the economic crisis and the aftermath of World War II and its aftermath, which is obviously impossible for Zhou Hexuan to do, because it is something that has not happened.

"The next presidential election in the United States will inevitably end with Hoover's victory and Smith's defeat. The two presidential candidates, both from civilian backgrounds, one worked as a salesman and the other as a miner. But Hoover's advantage was that he was a Protestant, while Smith was a Catholic. All of our presidents in charge of the United States, from Washington to Lincoln to Coolidge now, have three things in common: male, white, and Protestant. While U.S. law doesn't dictate what kind of candidate can be president, traditional Americans don't seem ready to vote for a Catholic......

If Hoover is elected as the next United States, he will be one of the lucky ones. Born into a poor working-class family, he lost his father and mother at an early age, and only had the opportunity to go to university under the sponsorship of his uncle. He rose from the bottom of the miner to an engineer, then to a successful business and into politics. This kind of inspirational story of a poor man from the bottom to the pinnacle of life by his own struggle, I will call it the American Dream ......"

Reading this, Henry couldn't help but laugh, he liked the phrase "American dream". He is living his American dream, he has to rely on his own efforts to support his mother and younger siblings, and he will have a wonderful career in the future.

But as Henry continued to read, he suddenly frowned:

"Hoover was lucky, but he was destined for tragedy, and I dare predict that he would be the unluckiest president of the United States, and there was no one.

The world war 10 years ago reversed the Eurocentric world pattern, and the international status of the United States increased rapidly. The same was true of the American industry, which took advantage of the war in Europe (there was no such thing as a "World War I") to make a lot of money from American businessmen and to develop from light industry to heavy industry. But the war in Europe was over, the European countries were re-developed, and coupled with the competition from Japan, the supply of industrial products in the United States began to exceed demand.

In recent years, U.S. industrial output has been experiencing stagflation, and the number of unemployed in the U.S. has been increasing. In stark contrast, the stock market in the United States is abnormally prosperous. I predict that by 1929 at the latest, there will be an economic crisis. Like the economic crisis of 1857, this one will be world-wide, originating in the United States and affecting the world......"

World economic crisis?

Henry is not yet 30 years old, and he has no memory of the world economic crisis of decades ago. But he is a great admirer of the author of the book "The Rise of Great Powers", and according to the analysis in the book, it seems to make sense.

Is the U.S. stock market really going to collapse next year?

Henry found various financial newspapers to read, but the newspapers were full of good news. There are even various interesting stories, such as a housewife who used her pocket money to speculate in stocks and bought a car in half a year.

In the past, Henry would have been stimulated by the news and rushed into the stock market even more feverishly. But now he is extremely calm, even afraid, and when the whole country is in a frenzy, that is a red flag in itself.

However, the stock windfall still attracted Henry, and he was reluctant to exit now.

Half a year, yes, buy stocks for another half a year. Within half a year, the stock market should still be safe, Henry comforted himself.

At this moment, in an office in New York, Jesse Liefemore is flipping through "The Rise of Great Powers" and says, "It's an interesting book, but the author is too pessimistic about the U.S. stock market." ”

Lee Faymore is a legendary figure who started as a schoolboy wiping a blackboard in his trumpet and rose to become the most active speculator in the U.S. stock market. Twenty years ago, he shorted each share and made a big profit of $3 million, which caused a crash in the US stock market, and even the financial tycoon J.P. Morgan sent someone to beg him not to short again.

The way to make a lot of money is not by stock price fluctuations, but by market fluctuations -- this is the wise quote of Lee Femore, who is now waiting for a big swing in the US stock market.

Just as Zhou Hexuan predicted in "The Rise of Great Powers", Li Feimore also feels that the US stock market is going to collapse in the past two years, and he is always ready to play a big deal.

Of course, Lee Fermore only believed that the US stock market would collapse, but did not believe in any economic crisis. His talk of the so-called economic crisis is regarded as nonsense, and when the stock market crash comes, he will use the money he earned from shorting to buy potential stocks on a large scale.

Well, the historical Lee Fay Moore made more than $100 million when the U.S. stock market crashed. Then he bought stocks at the bottom, thinking that the stock market crash would end within a year, and after this time, the potential stocks in his hands would make a lot of money again.

So, he was trapped, and the end was bankrupt.

"Jesse, have you read the book I recommended?" Marcus walked into the office.

Lee Femore laughed: "Now that I've seen the American chapter, I agree with some of the author's views. But when he said that there was going to be an economic crisis in the United States in 1929, I think it was a big joke, and this author must have not been very sober when he wrote the book. ”

Marcas, a professor of history at Harvard University who was invited by the publisher to write the foreword to "The Rise of Great Powers," said with a serious expression: "I think that Mr. Zhou Hexuan's narrative in the book is very reasonable. So, I advise you to be cautious. ”

"Haha, I'm just waiting for this stock market crash," Li Feimore said, "Don't worry, you are my old friend, and I will definitely bring you with me to make money." ”

Marcus shrugged, he would only play with Lee Femore until the stock market crash came, and he would retreat after making a small amount of money.

This major stock market crash in the United States was expected by many people of insight. Even they are still trying to promote, the US government keeps calling on shareholders to calm down, but these guys are preaching that the US stock market can prosper for another four years, just to make a lot of money for the shareholders.

But no one expected that the stock market crash would be accompanied by an economic crisis, and these greedy vampires would eventually push themselves into the grave.

Professor Marcus walked into the classroom with "The Rise of Great Powers" in his afternoon, and said to his students after the lecture: "I recommend an after-class book, it is written by a Chinese scholar called "The Rise of Great Powers". I hope that after reading this book, you can choose a random article to write a post-reading testimonial. This is a job that needs to be completed within this month. ”

As soon as Marcus left, Harvard history students were talking:

"World history books written by Chinese? Haha, I heard you right. ”

"Professor Marcus must have gone crazy to let us read a book that didn't have any reputation."

"That is, what good things can the Chinese write? They can't even read a map of the world. ”

"I know China, where people have pigtails on the back of their heads."

"This is the homework assigned by the professor, do you dare not read it? Let's go, let's buy books together. ”

“……”

Faced with the cynicism of the American students, Chen Rongjie left the classroom with a grim face. A graduate of Lingnan University, he received his master's degree from Harvard last year and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy, but he also attends history classes regularly.

Americans have no understanding of China, and their hearts are full of discrimination. This kind of discrimination deeply pierced Chen Rongjie's heart, and he had already made up his mind to introduce the hundred schools of thought in English and conquer the Americans with traditional Chinese thought.

Chen Rongjie came to the off-campus bookstore to buy "The Rise of a Great Power", but was told that there was no such book, and he went to three bookstores in a row to buy it.

Buying books and returning to the dormitory, Chen Rongjie couldn't wait to open and read, but as soon as he read it, it was dawn, and he actually watched it all night.

"It's actually written by us Chinese, what a masterpiece!" Chen Rongjie couldn't help but sigh.

At the weekend Harvard University Chinese alumni gathering, Chen Rongjie specially held "The Rise of a Great Power" to participate. When he entered the door, he met Liang Sicheng and couldn't wait to recommend: "Brother Sicheng, I got a masterpiece a few days ago, written by us Chinese!" Take a look. ”

Liang Sicheng couldn't help but smile when he saw the title of the book: "I know this book, my father mentioned it in the letter." The author, named Zhou Hexuan, is still the president of Peking University. ”

"Really? When I return to China after graduation, I must visit Peking University for advice! Chen Rongjie said.

At this moment, Jiang Zehan also came in with a book, and when they met, he said: "Brother Liang, Brother Chen, I have a good book to recommend to you, called "The Rise of a Great Power", written by Chinese. I studied it in China last year, but I didn't expect the English version to be published in the United States. ”

Liang Sicheng and Chen Rongjie glanced at each other, and then laughed.