376.Chapter 376: Return to London

Before selling the assets, Tang Ning suddenly had an idea to put j. p怂 Morgan called to London, and this time he was really going to use his financial talents.

In recent years, Downing has rarely returned to his London home in Situo Garden, and there is a little strangeness and nostalgia here, so he met Morgan in this famous garden.

After some small talk, Tang Ning finally got to the point: "It's not good to deal with the British, let's give them some soft, there is nothing softer than finance." I came up with a financial product that could make the British Yankees miserable. ā€

j怂 p怂 Morgan laughed, "Yes! How good it is to replace physical war with financial war, it is better not to waste money and people, and it is better to talk and laugh than a million soldiers. Please advise. ā€

Tang Ning looked at him so confidently and asked, "Do you already have any ideas yourself?" ā€

Morgan: "Of course, we took advantage of the competition between the United Nations and the Entente to severely suppress the national debt of the other side, like the Rothschilds performed in the Anglo-French war, relying on intelligence to profit, I believe that there is no other intelligence more accurate than ours, because we are participants in the war, we can fight if we want, and we will not fight if we want to!" ā€

Tang Ning smiled: "Well, there can be, but it's not ruthless enough, I want to invent a leverage mechanism to make the blow more terrifying, and let the oldest capitalist power taste the true power of capital." ā€

How smart Morgan was to get to the point at once: "Futures? ā€

Futures is a well-known leveraged trading system, which was born with the intention of allowing the risk of price fluctuations of industrial and agricultural raw materials to be avoided by expiring contracts, for example: the two parties agreed that the purchase price of iron ore is xx per ton, and at that time, no matter how the price fluctuates in the market, everyone must trade at the price of xx.

However, in real trading, some financial players have found an interesting phenomenon, the two sides of the futures transaction are agreed, but what should they do if they default? If the deposit is confiscated, how much is the deposit? If 100% is paid, it is not good for both parties to the transaction, because it will reduce a lot of production capital, so often only a deposit of 10% of the transaction amount is stipulated.

As a result, some players use this 10% deposit to play leverage, and at most default on the date, they can actually use 10 times the leverage to trade futures.

Tang Ning smiled: "Correct." By expanding futures trading, not only foreign exchange can be traded in futures, but also stocks and stock indexes, and such financial commodities can be issued for such noble reasons as avoiding currency fluctuations and stock fluctuations, thus sucking away a large amount of investment from British investors and causing a financial crisis in the Entente countries headed by Britain. ā€

The UK is the place where the financial market is most developed, and it will also be the place where this financial weapon can come in handy.

Morgan praised the plan. It's good to have talent, don't talk nonsense, just send a master to handle it, and Downing himself can continue to wander around London sentimentally, nostalgically, and leisurely.

Everyone's eyes are on war and diplomacy, and almost no one notices that financial players led by the Bank of Zurich are promoting foreign exchange, stocks and stock index futures, and a terrible financial black hand is reaching out to the most financially developed land of England.

Well, while Britain is still calm now, go to visit relatives and friends, the first to visit Darwin at the British Museum, he is 62 years old, but he is actually in good spirits, Downing said in surprise: "If I am not mistaken, you are healthier and more energetic now than you were a few years ago!" ā€

Darwin smiled: "It's all thanks to you, I've been in poor health since I was a child, I really didn't expect to be normal when I get old, didn't you read what I said in an interview with the BBC?" ā€

Tang Ning said embarrassedly: "No, I've been busy lately." What's wrong? "Of course, being too busy is just an excuse, and recently I have been practicing Huanxi Zen in Seoul, or double cultivation.

Darwin: "Didn't your wife run the mini-ranch that provided dairy products to students in Japan and India on a large scale, and you said that Asian vegetarians have a high rate of lactose intolerance, so you added a lactose removal program to the milk, and gave it a better choice for the children who had diarrhea after eating ordinary milk."

After I saw this paragraph, I thought about my own symptoms carefully, it seems that my body always starts to feel uncomfortable after eating, and it is often because I eat dairy products that I am more strict, and my heart moved, could it be that my old man is also lactose intolerant. Then I asked my wife to buy some lactose-free dairy products to try.

This is a terrible try, my God, all my symptoms are gone, it turns out that my lactose intolerance is stricter than anyone else! Now I'm all right, no problems at all, and I'm healthier than when I was younger. Later, I thought this lactose intolerance is genetic, right? My children and a few of my closest relatives had similar problems to me, so I advised them to try lactose milk and the results were ...... All of them have improved their health.

Alas, on their behalf, I thank you for this product, great, for us. ā€

Tang Ning was not happy to hear this, but shocked: "What? With your keen observation, you haven't found out that you can't drink milk for decades? What's going on? ā€

Darwin's old face flushed: "This ...... We're all used to drinking milk, everybody eats like this, who knew there was this genetic defect, my decades of youth......"

Downing: "This ...... It's really hard to imagine, it turns out that lactose intolerance can be so strict, I thought it was just diarrhea. ā€

Soon, Windsor Hospital invented a term specifically for Darwin's constitution: systemic lactose intolerance.

Tang Ning came to Darwin to see his old friend, but when he saw him so lively, he couldn't help but love his talent and lure him to work in Beijing with cutting-edge biotechnology.

As soon as Maxwell heard about the linear accelerator, he went to Tianjin, and in order to invite Darwin, he naturally had to come up with a corresponding powerful project. Peking University is already an Asian DNA sequencing center, which has laid a good foundation for the further development of biology.

The next step is to systematically study the genes of model organisms, so this project is called the "Model Organism Genome Project".

The so-called model organisms refer to organisms that have been studied extensively. There are many reasons for this, some of which are easy to feed, such as the melanogaster. Some are very easy to handle, such as Xenopus laevis, their embryos are huge and easy to handle.

The choice of model organisms for research also needs to be studied, so it is necessary to invite Darwin to participate in the identification of model organisms, which may improve the efficiency of the entire genome engineering.

Peking University is now making a big deal, and has invited a master scientist, Darwin, to be a professor, and has set up a Darwin Institute for him, just like Pasteur's treatment.

Another old friend, Wallace, was not so lucky, this guy didn't know what kind of "empty snake" magic trick he had bluffed, and he actually recently suspected biological evolution, believing that human consciousness could not evolve, preaching creationism, and insisting that there was a supernatural phenomenon.

It's crazy, Downing wanted to expel Wallace from the British Museum, but was persuaded by Darwin, who admired Wallace for not thinking of himself as the founder of evolution because he first published a paper on evolution, so he was always nostalgic.

Even so, Wallace's promotion at the British Museum has been blocked, the big donor Windsor is not happy, and the British tech community is disappointed with Wallace's recent appearance.

Downing's next old friend went to see Prince Albert, the unlucky prince, and every time they met they were mainly to talk about his condition, and the Stomachless Prince had been going to Windsor Medical School a lot lately to see how his own stomach was growing.

It turns out that in vitro organ culture has reached a new level, and the stomach, one of the most differentiated human organs, has become one of the most successful in vitro culture targets.

On the one hand, the prince wanted to transplant this stomach, which belonged entirely to his own cells, into his body, but he was afraid that the operation would fail, so he never made up his mind. Even if Downing says this, it's up to you.

Finally, the prince decided to do the removal of the stomach cultured in vitro with the removal of cancer cells back into his body, which would be the first case of human beings, and the celebrity name surgery became a famous medical event, of course, which was not made public until it was successful.

If successful, the operation would shatter the confidence of all of Windsor's competitors to compete with Windsor.

Windsor Hospital in London dispatched the best doctors for this operation, and made excellent preparations, and finally, the era of autologous organ transplantation began.

According to the current practice in the UK, all large-scale real yĆ n surgery must be done first by Windsor Hospital, otherwise it is illegal, which shows the hegemony of Windsor Hospital in the industry.

No matter how awesome the Entente countries are, they can't launch any decent challenge to the Windsor medical empire in terms of medical care, and France is still outsourced to Windsor hospitals even for universal health insurance, and no French parliamentarian dares to propose to end this matter, otherwise I don't know how many people will die, and there will be riots.

Downing does not intend to withdraw the hospital at any time, in addition to humanitarian considerations, there are also reasons for the global evolution of pathogenic bacteria, if there is another large-scale abuse of antibacterial drugs in the Entente countries, it will involve the United Nations, in this regard, the global human race is both prosperous and loss.

After France's fiscal revenue plummeted due to the withdrawal of Windsor companies, 10% of their income medical expenditure can no longer support the current universal health insurance, but Windsor hospitals are still trading at a loss, which is the above reason.

That night, Queen Victoria suddenly called and excitedly told the Duke of London, who was alone in the garden: "The operation was successful!" Looks like there's no problem. ā€

Tang Ning laughed dumbly, the queen was too impulsive, at least let that stomach eat something before jumping to conclusions