After coming to the Bis Stock Exchange, which is known as the largest in London, Yan Guang realized that he really underestimated the finance of this era.

More than 100,000 pounds, equivalent to more than 900,000 US dollars, more than 2.7 million silver dollars, converted into 07 years of renminbi is nearly 200 million yuan.

In this era, with this money, no matter what country you are in, you can be called a rich man, but just now, in this so-called largest securities exchange in London, there was not even a small float.

"Sure enough, am I just a poor man?" Carrying a suitcase full of stocks in his hand, looking at the busy exchange, Yan Guang said words that would make countless people envious, jealous and hateful.

After buying all the just-released rubber stocks equivalent to 900,000 US dollars, Yan Guang only had more than 30,000 US dollars left in his hands to live. More than 30,000 US dollars, according to the exchange rate of this era, it is close to 100,000 silver dollars, as long as Yan Guang's life is not too luxurious in the next year, it is no problem to live on this money.

What's more, not all of the more than 100 inventions that Yan Guang sold in the United States were sold directly, and there were also some patents that could receive dividends, and Yan Guang could also receive thousands of dollars in dividends every year by relying on these patents alone, and there will be more and more in the future.

If he is just content with a life of abundance, then it is enough to eat dividends every year. And by 09, even if his more than 900,000 US dollars could not be increased by ten or twenty times, five, six, seven or eight times would be no problem at all.

It's just that...

"Yellow people? How can there still be a yellow person here? ”

"You say it's me? Or the Chinese? ”

"Chinese, it's rare for Ben to grow so tall."

"Chinese? Then why doesn't he have braids? ”

Feeling the strange gaze around him, Yan Guang put all the stocks in his suitcase and left the stock exchange.

Yan Guang could clearly tell which of these gazes were contemptuous, which were curious, and which were full of malice, but so what?

No matter how much money you have, if your country is only a second-class country, your own nation is only a second-class nation, and your skin color is only a second-class color, then your own rich man is just a second-class rich man...

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After returning to the hotel in a carriage similar to a taxi, the innkeeper standing at the front desk greeted Yan Guang.

"How? Is it still going well? The innkeeper, who only had money in his eyes, was not bad, and he had heard from Yan Guang that he had come to London to buy rubber stocks, so he asked casually after seeing him return.

"It's going well." As he spoke, Yan Guang took off his special mask. "Just wait."

As an Englishman, as a Londoner who is proud of the fog in London, the innkeeper has always been a little unhappy with Yan Guang wearing a mask, but as the person who is most interested in money, he is most interested in the rubber stock now.

"Is that rubber stock you going to buy really making a lot of money?" As the world's financial center and the largest city, it is definitely not bad to open a hotel business in London, but the income is a little unsatisfactory. So after hearing that rubber stocks can make a lot of money, the boss thought about whether to invest the spare money in hand, just like the shareholders in later generations.

"At the beginning of the year, rubber on the market could be bought for only two shillings, but now it has risen to three shillings, and you say you can make money." Seeing that the innkeeper looked moved, Yan Guang continued. "But this kind of thing can only be used for fun, and if you make enough, you have to withdraw in time, otherwise it will collapse one day, and you won't even have a chance to cry."

This sentence has been set an example by countless predecessors floating on the Huangpu River, and Yan Guang feels that when it collapses in 10 years, the predecessors floating on the Thames River will definitely not be less than those on the Huangpu River...

Yan Guang said these words only because the innkeeper was a good person, although his attachment to money was a little terrifying, but he didn't look at himself with contempt (looking at the gaze of gold coins), so he said this.

However, it seems that the innkeeper did not listen to Yan Guang's advice, and Yan Guang could only pray that there would be no boss in the floating corpses on the Thames two years later.

Now that the stock is in hand, he just has to wait for the money to be collected, and he will be back to China in two days, but he still has some things to think about before then.

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As soon as Yan Guang returned to his room, the innkeeper had already begun to inquire about the rubber stocks. After learning that the rubber stock has been booming lately, and that some people have made money from it, the innkeeper gives the business to the shopkeeper and immediately takes all the spare money he has to go to the stock exchange.

At this time, Yan Guang was lying on the bed, thinking about his own affairs.

It had been almost half a year since he came to 1908, and because he was surrounded by foreigners, he also had a deeper understanding of the status of the Chinese. That is, not every foreigner discriminates against Chinese, but more just curious, just like China in the nineties, when a foreigner suddenly appeared, everyone around him would look at him like a giant panda.

But if foreigners regard the Chinese as being on the same level as them, it is absolutely impossible. When Yan Guang was in the United States, he had several fights with his neighbors, and several of his partners in the United States mocked him as a Chinese monkey behind his back, and he even almost threw a British passenger who provoked him off the ship on a passenger ship to London, and finally received a serious warning.

In such an era of white supremacy, yellow people will never get the same opportunities as white people. And even Caucasian people have status differences, just like the well-known Titanic, Yan Guang still remembers watching this movie when he was a child, when the Titanic was about to sink, the first to board the lifeboat were the old and young women and children, but in fact, this was the rule that was formulated after the Titanic incident, and at that time, the first to board the lifeboat were the passengers of the first and second class, and then it was the turn of the third class.

Another example is the children in the movie, in which the children and their families can be given priority to board the ship, but in that shipwreck, there were 32 children in the first and second class, and only one died, while there were 75 people in the third class, but 55 people died, just because although they were children, they were children in the third class. This is true between the same race, let alone a rich man in a second-class country?

If your country can't become strong, then no matter how much money you have, you will only be a second-class rich man, and you may even become a fat sheep in the eyes of some people. There is only one way to change this, and that is to make your country stronger.

But the question is, who will make China strong? The alliance led by Sun Yat-sen and others? Or the Beiyang controlled by Yuan Shikai? As for the Qing court controlled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it has been directly ignored by Yan Guang, whether it is before or after the crossing, Yan Guang hates braids, if you want him to bring braids for a lifetime, it is better to give him his own gains, let him give himself a blow.

So the question now is, whether it is Sun Yat-sen's alliance, or Yuan Shikai's Beiyang, or...

Do it yourself?