To Zhou Hexuan's regret, Montague Norman directly refused the invitation to the prince's ball, on the grounds that he didn't like to be too lively. Prince Albert couldn't express his displeasure yet, let alone him, and even if the old king of England was rejected by Norman, he could only laugh it off.

From the late '20s to the early '40s, Montague Norman had unimaginable power and prestige. He is widely regarded as the world's most influential central banker, with the New York Times calling him "the monarch of the invisible empire" and economic publications describing him as "the king of finance."

Montague Norman was not of traditional English aristocratic origin, but his father, uncle, grandfather, and grandfather ...... All bankers. Not only did he inherit the family bank in the UK, but his grandparents invested in the US banking industry decades ago and maintained inextricable ties with Morgan and other large American conglomerates.

The myth of the Rothschilds remained only in fantasy works, and Montague Norman was the British money bag at this time.

The world economic crisis of 1929 was also inseparable from Montague Norman. This gentleman's ultra-conservative attitude in the economic sphere, his crazy superstitious belief in gold, brought Britain back to the gold standard in 1926 (the pound had been decoupled from gold during World War I), led to lower interest rates in the United Kingdom, and further fueled the irrational exuberance of Wall Street.

The plan to invite Norman through Prince Albert failed, and Zhou Hexuan could only submit a letter directly, but he didn't expect to get Norman's invitation.

Of course, the only invitee was Zhou Hexuan, and Song Ziwen was blocked from the door.

The famous financier is 64 years old, but he remains single, and his home is seriously inconsistent with his status. Just an ordinary two-story cement house, next to the "Holland Park", where Norman and his seven servants lived.

The housekeeper was very old, looking to be at least 70 years old, and the folds on his face were even more mosquito-trapped, and there were some terrible age spots. He bowed slightly, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, come with me." ”

"Thank you." Zhou Hexuan smiled.

The old housekeeper was still expressionless, and took Zhou Hexuan straight to the door of the house, and then led him to a living room.

This broken concrete house has not even been tiled, and there are no exotic flowers and plants in the garden, and some ordinary plants are casually loaded. It wasn't until he entered the cement house that Zhou Hexuan discovered that there was a hole in it - the interior of the house was very strange, or non-mainstream, and there was even an oil painting about hell hanging on the wall of the living room.

Montague Norman appeared on crutches and saw Zhou Hexuan staring at the painting, and he explained with a smile: "That's the scene from Dante's Divine Comedy. ”

"It's funny." Zhou Hexuan can only comment like this.

Montagu Norman personally poured a cup of black tea for Zhou Hexuan, and suddenly asked without warning: "I have heard of you, the mysterious 'Far Eastern wizard', do you really know divination?" ”

Watfak?

Zhou Hexuan looked confused, he didn't expect that the central bank controller of the British Empire would ask such a strange question when they met.

Montague Norman laughed: "I have studied the divination of the Gypsies, and I am also interested in the mystical witchcraft of the East. Can you tell us some secrets about Eastern witchcraft? In return, I can take you on a tour of the mummy. ”

"Mummy?" Zhou Hexuan was a little dizzy.

Montague Norman proudly said: "It is a real mummy, dug out of the Egyptian pyramids." I have three mummies in my collection, two of which belong to the pharaoh and one whose owner is a cat. ”

Zhou Hexuan only has "my grass" left in his heart, no wonder some people say that Norman is neurotic, can he not be nervous when studying this kind of thing all day?

"Actually, Mr. Norman, I don't know much about witchcraft in the East." Zhou Hexuan said.

"Don't be modest," Montague Norman suddenly took out an English version of "The Goddess" and said with a smile, "Mr. Zhou, I am your loyal book lover." This "Goddess" is wonderfully written, the dragon king, the river god, the land, the city god, the mandrill, the fox fairy...... The obsessive occult of the East. After reading this book, I want to go to China in person, and it would be better if I could see the Dragon King. ”

Nimabi!

Lao Tzu is called reality magicalism, is it good to use magic to insinuate reality, you actually regarded it as a popular science book of occultism.

Zhou Hexuan felt that this old guy really had some mental problems, so he could only say in passing: "Then you missed a good opportunity, last year there was a dragon that fell to its death in Northeast China, there were thousands of witnesses, and now the dragon's corpse is stored in a school showroom." ”

"Really? A living dragon? Montague Norman got excited.

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "Of course it's true, many newspapers in China have reported it, and people call it the 'Yingkou Occasional Falling Dragon Incident', and the place where the giant dragon fell to death is called Yingkou." ”

Zhou Hexuan really didn't talk nonsense, "Yingkou Chasing the Dragon" has always been an unsolved mystery.

Decades later, CCTV's "Exploration and Discovery" column also published a special feature, forcibly using science to explain the incident, and also believed that the dragon was a stranded whale. As a result, the people of the whole country were furious, and some witnesses wrote to CCTV one after another, demanding that the "Exploration and Discovery" column must give an explanation.

CCTV finally admitted, and when it produced related programs for the second time, it didn't dare to draw conclusions easily, so it could only say: "Because there is no physical object, it has become a historical mystery." ”

The "Yingkou Falling Dragon Incident" occurred two months before Xiao Lingjun entered school, and the dragon appeared twice in total.

The first time was in early July, when a living dragon was found on the river, lying on the shore and dying. People build a pergola for it with straw mats, carry water to water the dragon's body, and ask monks to pray for its practice every day. It rained for several days, and when the rain stopped, the dragon disappeared.

The second time was in early August, when the dragon came down from the sky and overturned three small boats, swept up the factory house, and overturned the train, killing nine people. A few days after the dragon disappeared, it was found in Yingkou again, but it was dead and in a semi-decomposed state.

Many newspapers, including Shengjing Daily and Northern Morning News, have reported on this, and also published a photo of the skeleton of a giant dragon, faintly visible in the photo of two huge dragon horns (the dragon body is about 10 meters long, and the dragon horns are about 1 meter long). Legend has it that the dragon is now in a normal school in Liaoning Province for teachers and students to dissect and study.

If it weren't for the fact that Yingkou had been occupied by the Japanese, Zhou Hexuan really wanted to see it, after all, this thing was a once-in-a-lifetime event.

Montague Norman was very interested in this and kept asking Zhou Hexuan for details. This guy was already intrigued, and even pondered paying to buy the dragon skeleton back to London for collection, and he was indeed extremely obsessed with this mysterious phenomenon.

There is even a legend that Montague Norman was proficient in witchcraft and could stealth through walls at will......

Well, if you don't work as a banker, you should be able to be a competent wizard - manual funny.

nt

Set yourself a small goal first: such as collecting:. Mobile version URL: m.