When Anderson pulled out his "big gift" for John from his bag, John didn't pay much attention to it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info because, these are just a couple of old notepads that look a little old.

At first, John thought it was some kind of "antique". However, when he got these notebooks in his hands, he immediately denied this speculation. John was no stranger to the style of these notepads, which were most commonly found in New York in the sixties and seventies. His father, George, used these notebooks as a child, and there are still several of them in John's study.

Why did Anderson give him a bunch of old notebooks that weren't even "antiques"? John opened one of them in confusion, and was stunned as soon as he read the first page.

"What is your relationship with Mrs. Henrietta Green?" John asked in amazement, "How do you have her diary?" ”

"My wife is Mrs. Green's niece. A few years ago, she had inherited a house from her aunt in New Bedford. I found these diaries from there. Anderson also knew that these diaries were not trivial, so he explained them to John.

"Has your wife read these diaries?" John asked.

"No, no." Anderson hurriedly said: "This is all I found from the bookcase when I was tidying up the study. No one has seen it but myself. ”

"That's good." John put away the diary, "I'll take care of Richard's business." As for the rest, I'd suggest you forget about it as soon as possible. ”

"I understand, I understand." Anderson nodded repeatedly, he knew very well that there were some things that a little person like him should know. Even if you do, it's better to forget about it as soon as possible. "Don't worry, I will do what you say, and Richard will ask you to take care of me in the future."

After Anderson said goodbye and left, John sat alone in the study, groping with his hand for the rough cover of the notepad, and his heart could not be calm for a long time.

In his eyes, this notebook is like a "Pandora's box", full of temptation. It's hard to predict what this record will bring him. It may provide a huge boost to the take-off of his career, or it may bring him flying disasters and catastrophes.

John was distracted by the rest of the Christmas party, and the image of Henrietta Green, dressed in a dirty, old black mourning dress, kept coming to mind.

Speaking of which, although John only met Henrietta Green a few times when he was a child, he was extremely impressed by this "Wall Street Witch" who was known for being stingy. In the circle of America's top rich, Henrietta Green's reputation has always been quite bad. Behind the scenes, everyone despises her as a person and is keen to laugh at her various door-slamming behaviors.

For example, the richest woman in the United States at the time had a hernia but did not have surgery because she was reluctant to pay as much as $150 for the operation. For example, she turned a blind eye to her son's leg injury and hoped that he would heal on its own, which eventually led to an amputation. Another example is that she has lived all her life without a fixed home, and is always moving between various cheap apartments, just to not pay taxes to New York State, and so on.

From an early age, John often listened to the ladies of the families talking about Henrietta Green behind their backs. In their opinion, this rich lady, who inherited a total of tens of millions of dollars from three relatives when she was a minor, is really stupid to the extreme, knowing only how to pursue money, but not knowing how to enjoy life.

Of course, these ladies only dare to talk behind their backs. Their father and brother were both terrified in the face of Henrietta Green, a ruthless female financier. At the end of the last century, Henrietta Green was the only woman who could play the Wall Street game, and she created a fortune that rivaled that of J.P. Morgan. Many of her competitors who had been contemptuous of her were forced to go bankrupt by this ruthless, unscrupulous old witch.

After Henrietta Green's death in 1916, there were rumors in New York that her two children had inherited less than 30% of the "Wall Street witch's" assets during her lifetime, and that nearly 100 million dollars of her fortune had "mysteriously disappeared."

Some say that Henrietta Green secretly ran a large number of illegal loan shark businesses during her lifetime. Since the heirs and lawyers did not find the IOUs and ledgers after her death, the money could never be recovered. It is also said that Henrietta Green teamed up with some Wall Street bigwigs to do some shady "secret business", and as a result, after her death, the money was privately divided by those partners, and so on.

Now that Anderson had so solemnly handed over Henrietta Green's diary to him, John believed it must have been a record of earth-shattering secrets.

When John returned home in the evening, he hid in his study alone and rummaged through the notebooks, and he finally understood why the heirs of Henrietta Green did not dare to let them see the light of day. The inside story of the various conspiracies recorded in the diary made John, an outsider, tremble when he saw it.

For example, in 1861, Henrietta Greene teamed up with Edwin Morgan of the Morgan family, the governor of New York at the time, to illegally force the New York City government to borrow $4.5 million from him, and charged a hefty interest rate of 6% (1% higher than the bank's interest at the time).

Another example is Henrietta Green's conspiracy with a major Boston bank to use "demand loans" (loans corresponding to stock collateral) to put the famous stock trader Edison Cammack in trouble, squeezing $400,000 out of him, and so on.

What surprised John even more was that Grandpa William's attempt to invest in the Cincinnati-Denver-St. Louis railroad line failed, and there were actually this "Wall Street witches" and the Rockefeller family behind the trouble.

No wonder Anderson sent these diaries to him. The things recorded in this are not only useless to him, but a "hot potato". If outsiders had known about the existence of these diaries, Anderson would have ruined his family.

Even John did not dare let anyone know that he was in possession of the diaries. Because the shady scene of this record involves almost all the top predators on Wall Street, not to mention John, even the entire Vanderbilt family can't bear it.

Fortunately, the greatest effect of these diaries on John was not the specific information contained in them. After all, this is all decades old, and John is not a prosecutor, so he can't go through those old accounts.

In his opinion, these diaries are more like a textbook, showing all kinds of embarrassment and intrigue of the top Wall Street predators in front of his eyes. Many of these tricks and tricks that outsiders simply can't imagine have benefited John immensely.

After all, as John's career gets bigger and bigger, one day he will personally enter this top "gladiatorial arena". Even if he didn't plan to learn from Henrietta Green to plot against others, but after understanding the various ways of this, he was not afraid of being calculated by others in the future.