In the early morning, a ray of warm winter sunlight shone into John's bedroom, and the aroma of coffee filled the air. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info housekeeper Susan opened the door, "Mr. Vanderbilt, breakfast is ready." John had already gotten up an hour earlier. Such a big change happened overnight, and no matter how good the psychological quality is, people will not be able to sleep soundly. In fact, John had slept for less than four hours last night, and he was constantly dreaming. At this time, he was battling with soap bubbles in the bathroom in the inner room. It's 1937, and there are no electric shavers that you were used to in your previous life. John found a set of Gillette razors in the bathroom, but couldn't find shaving cream, so he had to make soap bubbles by hand from memory. "I don't know if the electric shaver has been invented now, but maybe it's a good business." John thought as he shaved his beard over and over again.

After washing, John took a closer look at himself in the mirror. He is about 180-185cm tall, thin, and has gauze tied on his forehead, which should be the mark left by this "magical" car accident. The newly shaved chin was slightly blue, and his eyes looked a little haggard because he hadn't slept well. John fastened the belt of his brown dressing gown and turned to walk downstairs to the dining room.

"Good morning, Grandma Susan!" John sat down at the table and picked up a cup of coffee. The aroma of coffee and freshly baked bread lifted his spirits. Susan, the housekeeper, was a chubby old lady of Irish descent who served John's father when they were children. Her son, Robert, is now the steward of the farm. Compared with his socialite mother, who has long since remarried, John can be said to have been raised by Grandma Sushan. After his marriage, John lived in Cincinnati for work and did not return to the farm very often. But every time John came to the farm, even if he was old, Susan would personally prepare three meals for him.

John took a satisfied bite of the sandwich, and the taste was much stronger than that found in the fast-food restaurants of later generations. "How is Philip doing now, is the injury serious? Thanks to him this time, it would have been really dangerous otherwise. John went back to the farm to pick out a birthday present for his daughter, Ella, a two-month-old beagle. In order to catch Ella's birthday, John insisted on driving back to Cincinnati in the rain, and if Susan hadn't been worried about letting Philip, the farm truck driver, drive him, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"He's fine, just a little bruising and a little cold." Su Shan said as she handed John the raspberry jam she had made herself, "I called my wife, and now that the railway has been cut off by floods, I asked her not to rush over." ”

"I'll call home in a moment, poor little Ella, how sad it must be that I didn't get my birthday present." After saying that, John finished breakfast in two bites and went back to the study to make a call.

In the study, it took John more than half an hour to coax his daughter and Adele, who was a little emotional, and called the company to ask for half a month's leave. Now is the time to think about where the future goes.

John lit a cigarette, pulled out a notebook, and began to organize his assets. The farm left by his father, several properties in New York, Boston, and Cincinnati, John has no plans to cash in for the time being, so he can put it aside for the time being. As an adult, John, under the guidance of his cousin Harold, made a lot of investments with the original $2 million trust fund, and now he needs to sort it out.

John combed through the dozen or so investments with his posthumous memories and found that only one stock of about $600,000 in AeroCalifornia Industries could certainly appreciate in value. In the 38th year, that is, next year, President Roosevelt would put forward a plan to expand the scale of the aviation industry through Congress, and the initial plan seemed to be 15,000 planes to deal with the development of the situation in Europe and arm Britain and France against the expansion of Nazi Germany. Anyway, the world war is approaching, and the stocks of military enterprises will definitely rise sharply, so not only can this stock not be sold, but it should also find an opportunity to buy more. There were more than a dozen other companies, except for Coca-Cola, which he had never heard of in later life. However, the Coca-Cola stock in John's hand is only $30,000, and it doesn't matter if he sells it or not, so he can consider leaving it to Ella as a dowry. The remaining corporate bonds and shares can be cashed out about $1.8 million.

Of course, there is some money in this that John will not use. Of these, $150,000 was Adele's dowry, and although Adele was relieved to hand over the money to John after marriage, John did not plan to use the money. Then there is the large sum of money left behind for Ella's education fund and future dowry. For a family like Vanderbilt, it costs money to raise a socialite, and even more so for a dowry. When John's cousin, Consuelo Vanderbilt, married Duke IX of Marlborough (cousin of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II), the dowry was enough to cause a sensation in London. As a result, the Marlborough family was able to return from the brink of bankruptcy to the wealthy ranks. Consuelo's marriage was later adapted into a famous British drama "Downton Abbey".

In addition to these, John sets aside a sum of money for his annual routine charitable donation. John's father donated most of his life's fortune to the New York Public Library, Columbia University, and the American Society of Fine Arts. This was especially true of several uncles, and even the family financed the establishment of Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Hospital, and St. John's Cathedral, which would later become famous. John himself donated at least $100,000 a year to universities, hospitals, libraries, and churches as an adult.

Of course, in John's view, charity is not a loss in this life or in the past. In later generations, a Hong Kong tycoon looked for schools everywhere to build buildings, which is the reason. It seems to be real money to buy a false name, but in fact, when the school gets this money, it can apply for land from the local government, apply for supporting facilities from the education department, and then increase jobs. And the government is also willing to approve it, because it can save money to build a building, and they will also have political achievements. Then the tycoon can establish enough interests with all kinds of characters. When a person establishes a strong enough interpersonal network and relationship buffer channels with the cultural, intellectual, and religious circles that have the right to speak in society, it is much easier to do things. If there are good things, someone will take the initiative to come out to cheer, and if there are bad things, someone will take the initiative to come out to defend the whitewash, so John can't save this money no matter what.

After careful calculation, John has about $1 million to $1.2 million to operate, which is quite a high starting point. What the hell is going on, whether it is in his past life or in this life, John is dealing with transportation. The Vanderbilt family has enough connections in both railways and shipping, and John knows the most about the development of later generations in this area, so it is undoubtedly the most advantageous to engage in the logistics industry.

John's first thought was the UPS company he worked for in his previous life. Regarding the development history of UPS, I learned it when I joined the company in my previous life. UPS was founded in Seattle back in 1907. Founders Jim Casey and Claude Ryan started by delivering letters and delivering packages to retail stores. By 1937, UPS had reached all of the major western cities and developed the world's first mechanical parcel sorting system. Just as John was considering the possibility of acquiring UPS, he suddenly thought of its competitor, FedEx. The company, which had grown rapidly by seizing the air cargo sector, was founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1971. John also has a lot of stocks in the aviation industry in his hands, so he should simply start his own business. However, now logistics and transportation are still dominated by railway shipping, and road and automobile transportation has just emerged. John was a little undecided, and after thinking about it, he took the phone on the table, ready to ask his most trusted cousin, Harold, for his opinion.