On May 17, 1926, long-distance telephones from Shanghai to Wuxi and Suzhou were opened.

Lin Zixuan tried to make a call to the Lin family's old house in Wuxi, although it had to be transferred by the telephone bureau and had to wait for a lot of time, the signal was very good, and the voice was very clear.

This made him quite emotional, after so many years, he finally had a sense of modernization.

In later generations, mobile phones were connected all over the world, the Internet was popularized, and the information age made it quick and convenient for people to communicate with each other.

During the Republic of China, the main contact information of ordinary people still relied on letters, and only large households would install telephones.

It took Lin Zixuan a long time to adapt to this slow-paced life.

In the future, long-distance telephones to Nanjing, Beiping and Guangzhou will be opened, and distance will no longer be a problem.

With this comes a change in people's lifestyles, and news that used to take days to wait for is now known in minutes, and will have a significant impact on all walks of life in China.

It's called technology changing lives.

However, long-distance phone calls did not solve the problems faced by Lin Zixuan, and his problem was a lack of money.

It's not that there is a shortage of money now, but that there will be a shortage of money in the future.

In this society, if you want to really do something practical, you can't do it without money, most of his industries are slow-burning, talking about a trickle of water and a long stream, and only the film industry can be regarded as a huge profit.

But even if the movies shot every year can be a big hit, the speed of making money is still too slow.

If you want to get rich overnight, you can only make waves in the financial market.

Lin Zixuan is not thinking about the financial market in Shanghai, but the financial market in the United States.

His graduation thesis at Columbia University was about the Great Depression of 1929 in the United States.

On October 24, 1929, the New York stock market fell sharply in one day, and the Great Crisis began.

This was followed by bank failures, declining production, factory bankruptcies, workers losing their jobs, and the United States fell into an economic crisis that has since spread across the globe. A worldwide economic crisis was formed.

Although Lin Zixuan studied economics, he is not proficient in the operation of the stock market.

He has seen the stock market crash in later TV dramas, such as the classic Hong Kong TV series "The Great Era", and there are many plots of reborn people taking advantage of the stock market crash to make huge profits in many reborn online articles.

As a traverser, he occasionally fantasizes about the stock market.

It's just that the reality is more cruel, and this is during the Republic of China. Without a globally networked computer, all transactions on the exchange need to be handwritten by humans, and the transfer of funds is not so convenient.

Everything is so primitive.

What's more, it's the United States, and there are strict restrictions on Chinese investment.

How his funds enter the U.S. market, how to operate, how to launder the money after making money, and how to transfer the money back to China unknowingly all require careful planning.

Otherwise, once the U.S. government finds the anomaly. Accounts can be frozen at any time, and even people can be arrested.

To this end, Lin Zixuan consulted the elite in the financial industry, that is, the general manager he recruited.

Because there are many things, he has long ceased to manage the specific business of Lin's Commercial Bank, and only the bank's major decisions need him to make decisions.

Shanghai is the financial center of China, and there are many financial talents who have returned from studying abroad.

The person he was looking for was called Xi Deshan, who was introduced by Song Ziwen.

He was born in 1892. He studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked in finance after returning to China. Although he did not major in finance, he was born in the Xi family in Shanghai.

The Xi family is similar to the Lin family, originally from Dongshan, Suzhou, and moved to Shanghai to start a business after the opening of Shanghai.

After decades of development, it has become a top family in Shanghai's financial industry.

The Xi family produced a large number of influential bankers and industrialists, who worked as managers, assistants, and assistants in major foreign banks on the Bund. There were more than 30 people before and after.

Many of the families and friends who are related to the Xi family also came to Shanghai because of the Xi family, forming a special group centered on the Xi family.

The comprador group in the financial world is the "Dongting Gang".

Over the years, relying on family marriages, the Xi family, the Shen family, the Hu family, and the Wang family have controlled half of Shanghai's financial industry.

Because they are all from Jiangsu. The Lin family and the Xi family are also close to each other.

Xi Dezhi was very surprised by Lin Zixuan's idea of making money in the U.S. stock market, and he felt a little whimsical.

There is nothing wrong with saying that Shanghai is China's financial center, but compared with the stock exchange in the United States, it is a drop in the bucket, and if you rashly enter an unfamiliar market, you will not only not make money, but will lose money.

It also involves U.S. laws and financial market rules.

Lin Zixuan thought about it, with his energy, I am afraid that he will not be able to make money and wash it safely.

He had already let go at that time, but now he had a higher pursuit in life, and if he wanted to do something for society, he needed to take a risk, try to swing a small hoe, and dig into the corner of imperialism.

He didn't plan to go it alone, it required extremely careful planning and a gathering of elites in the financial world.

That is, he is going to play a big handful.

He wants to rely on the power of the state to disrupt the financial markets of the United States with the financial elite of the entire country.

He set his sights on Song Ziwen.

At this time, Song Ziwen was the finance minister of the Nationalist Government in Guangdong, and when the Northern Expedition was successful, he controlled China's finances.

Time was running out, and the period from 1926 to 1929 was only three years.

These three years are a period of preparation, and funds and personnel can be transferred to the United States little by little, waiting for the opportunity, and we must also start preparing for the way back, so that the US government cannot detect it.

This time, not only in the financial field, but also in the cooperation of the foreign and intelligence services, it is a financial war between the two countries.

The only question is how he convinces Song Ziwen to play this crazy game with him.

It is useless to just talk about friendship, and once it is discovered by the United States, it will affect the diplomatic relations between China and the United States.

However, Lin Zixuan can be sure of one thing, that is, the new government established after the success of the Northern Expedition will be very short of money.

Fighting a war always costs money.

What Lin Zixuan had to do was to convince Soong that there would be an economic crisis in the United States in 1929, and then let Chinese financiers analyze the possibilities and formulate corresponding strategies.

Of course, it may be that Song Ziwen doesn't believe it at all, and just thinks that this is the story of his new novel.

Then Lin Zixuan had no choice but to play casually by himself.

He planned that he would invest in the Wall Street stock market through film companies in the United States, and the money he earned would be used to shoot movies in the United States, launder the money through the box office of the movie, and then transfer it back to China.

It is estimated that such a small fight will only earn millions of dollars at most, and the advantage is that it will not attract the attention of the US government.

He still decided to talk to Song Ziwen first, this was a rare opportunity after all.

Before that, he had to prepare a theoretical basis for convincing Song Ziwen.

He would sort out some of the information he could come up with in his mind, and write an essay on the impending economic crisis in the United States in light of the economic situation in the United States and Europe.

Whether you want to do a big job or not depends on Song Ziwen's courage. (To be continued.) )