In the United States, New York, an American metropolis founded in 1624, was busy with traffic and high-rise buildings even in 1929. In the bustling city, people in suits and leather shoes can be seen rushing to and fro, and although the high-paced life is very stressful, everyone is full of hope for life.

The streets are full of car horns, and in New York in the early morning, the sound of horns is already unbearable, and as far as the eye can see, often a street is crowded with cars, and drivers keep honking their horns. There is a bloated and old-fashioned A-type car, even if it has been driven for more than ten years, the owner has no money to replace it. There are also wealthy people who drive the latest cars, which are said to be Chinese cars made in Hong Kong, the East. It's just that many Americans don't understand why the American businessman chose such an oriental name, but the car is really good, but unfortunately ordinary people can't afford it.

At least on the streets, the Chinese car has become a symbol of wealth, and the car factory is like a spoof, and even the car horn is stronger than other miscellaneous cars.

Old Wall Street, an old street built in the Anglo-Dutch period, is now the largest securities center in the United States, home to the famous New York Stock Exchange.

Even if it was still early in the morning, there were already many neatly dressed securities traders, carrying leather bags, hurrying into this paradise of wealth and dreams.

"Kenneth, I have a quarter of an hour left, and the stock market is about to start."

Across Wall Street, an elegant café for the middle and upper class of Wall Street, at this time there were few customers, but there were two Yankees, one old and one middle, sitting by the window, watching the rush outside the window, drinking morning coffee.

Older Americans, with messy hair and no ties, lined with a baggy suit lined with a white-washed collar. In another place, others will definitely think that the old man in front of him is either a bankrupt household or an urban sanitation worker, however, it is the opposite.

"My dear uncle, you are already a rich man compared to them. Didn't you find out? Kenneth slowly sipped his coffee and came from San Francisco to New York, except for the boss's big business, this uncle was a personal matter.

John Sr. was an old worker, who originally lived in the western United States, and borrowed money from John Sr. to do business. As a stubborn old man, John Sr. always thought that Kenneth of their family was a great guy who could do great things. So, when Kenneth went to China to pan for gold, he even mortgaged his house to raise a sum of money for Kenneth. And the unlucky Kenneth almost lost Old John's pension house, if it weren't for Zhang Shusheng, Old John's family would have lived in the slums ten years ago.

After retiring from General Motors, he fished and cut the lawn at his home in the west, and like most old American men, he crossed his fingers to calculate how much pension money he had and where he expected to go.

Until one day, when Kenneth, his own nephew, who had not heard from him for two or three years, returned, John Sr's life changed. The nephew not only gave him a cheque for 10 times the amount of his debt that year, but also ransomed Old John's house from the bank.

From his own nephew, John Sr. knew that he had opened a small company in San Francisco and had become a good trader. Old John, who was very relieved, saw that his most important nephew had a successful career, so he turned his mind to other things, such as how to spend this huge amount of money. After buying everything the women and children in the family wanted, he finally found a way to spend the money.

Old John, who had money in his pocket and was not feeling well, bought shares in his old employer, General Electric, on the stock exchange. As a result, in the past ten years, John Sr.'s wealth has grown faster than his blood pressure, and compared with his nephew's status as a "small trader in San Francisco", John Sr. is more like a successful businessman, with a special driver in and out, and the car he drives is also the most luxurious version of the Zhonghua luxury version of the S-type car.

This old billionaire who appeared on the millionaire list in the year of the sixtieth year, and even appeared in the local gossip tabloid many times, becoming the envy of many old men and old ladies, and what is even more amazing is that under the leadership of this "old man of the western stock market", many old men and old ladies in the United States of the same age as him have made money in the stock market. Unknowingly, John Sr. has become a well-known local stock market hero.

"Oh, Kenneth, look at your car, it's still the cheapest Zhonghua car, I'll go back and ask my agent to help you contact Dodge and ask them to send you the latest version of the Zhonghua car." Old John knew very well what his nephew was going to say, and since he knew that he was speculating in stocks, he was very opposed, and repeatedly wrote letters to let him sell the stocks, however, he had already earned a fortune that was the envy of most old men, how could he be willing to sell. "If you are short of money, wait for my stock to rise a little more, and 100,000 dollars is not a problem."

For this nephew, he has always loved him, even more than his own son, strange thinking.

"No, no, uncle, I mean, since we are already rich, we shouldn't take any more risks, the stock market is too risky, you know what I mean, you see your general stock, it has risen to a frightening height, if you don't sell it again......" Even the closest uncle, killing Kenneth will not tell him that his boss is already in action, that Oriental Superman, is always right, at least, his uncle, who has some precursors of Alzheimer's, is definitely not as wise as him.

"Kenneth, you have disappointed me so much that even the famous Mr. Keynes and Mr. Hall think that the stock market will continue to rise, and you should think that my stock will go wrong. You are questioning a brilliant stock market speculator. Old John was a little upset, scooping the sugar into his coffee cup, "Kenneth, you know, when I sold my General Motors stock, our family was the richest group of people in America, and this number is very scary, more than the George family you envied when you were a child, they only have a broken car repair shop, and our money will be enough to buy a car company." I am confident that it will go up again. ”

Kenneth was a little discouraged, Li Chunyang was right, it was he who gave his uncle too much money at the beginning, which led to today's tragedy, an old man who is addicted to stocks, an old man who may be about to go bankrupt, what can he do to save him?

"Actually, uncle, I need a sum of money......"

"Money? Oh, Kenneth, you may not know that in my will, you will inherit more than 80% of your wealth. Even after deducting the damn inheritance tax, you can get a very substantial sum of money. In his will, John Sr. left 80 percent of his after-tax wealth to his nephew, who was not around, and only 20 percent to his wife and son.

"No, it's not, uncle, you actually misunderstood me." Today's Kenneth, wearing ordinary tattered clothes, drove a Dodge Chinese car, which made Old John a little sour at first glance, thinking that his nephew was too bad. "Actually, my company is facing a huge funding gap, and if I don't get an emergency loan, it will go out of business next month. Uncle, you know, I don't really want to open my mouth to you, but in this world, I can only ask you for help. Those damn banks, they only lend money to the stock market, but they won't lend it to me......"

Seeing Kenneth's poor loser look, Old John's brow furrowed tightly, and he did not speak for a long time, until the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange rang and he was awakened from his trance.

"Kenneth, my dear nephew, you should know that if I don't gamble anymore, I won't be willing to die." Old John took the last sip of his coffee and stared at his depressed nephew.

Kenneth sighed in his heart, it's over, it seems that his uncle still can't escape the doom of bankruptcy. Perhaps, I should have told him in advance that he was not short of money, even a rare rich man, but all this was contrary to the boss's business.

Is it really like Li Chunyang told himself, the old saying of the Chinese, loyalty and filial piety are difficult to achieve?

Looking at his uncle's posture, even if he swears that there will be a big problem in the stock market, he will not believe it. He is so similar to himself, one used his uncle's mortgage to go to China to pan for gold, and the other used the money returned by his nephew to speculate in stocks until the eve of the big crisis.

"But......" Old John tidied up his messy hair, his mind was full of stocks all day long, and he ignored the matter of dress and hygiene, and picked up the old suit, and looked back at his poor nephew, "I can sell half of the stock, Kenneth, and you will be the best!" ”

"Thank you, uncle."

When Kenneth reached middle age, he felt choked up when he didn't come, and Li Chunyang usually scolded himself for being heartless and lungless, and did not understand the family affection and loyalty and filial piety that the Chinese admired, but today, he personally felt that his uncle really loved himself.

In New York, a young man in a slum is coming out of a low house, followed by a beautiful girl, the two are very intimate, like a newlywed man and a woman.

"Billy."

"Vivien."

Two young men and women kiss affectionately in front of a filthy and chaotic slum. It took a long time for the beautiful blonde girl to let go of her Billy and straighten his suit for him, as he was about to leave for a place full of hope: the stock exchange.

"Vivian, believe me, as long as the stocks go up a little more today, I'll sell them all, and then we can buy a better house, the kind with a small garden and lawn, so that you can take care of them quietly and live the life you have envied for a long time." Billy said with confidence, the stock is rising every day, every time he starts too late, this time, he sold Vivien's dowry, sold one of his ancestral oil paintings, and finally made up a sum of money, and today, he will sell this stock that has risen very high depending on the situation. ”

"Well, I'll wait for you to come back, and we'll definitely have a good life."

"Well, trust me, when I sell the stock, let's buy the house in installments first, then the car, oh, preferably a Zhonghua car, haha, let my Vivian also sit in the most beautiful car."

-- A similar situation is played out in many places, some are old people sending their children out, some women are sending their husbands out, and some are the whole family acting together, for nothing else, just for the sake of the stocks that are rising every day, and everyone is looking forward to the man going out happily and bringing home the news that the stock is rising again, so that the family's wealth will increase a lot.

Lots and lots of housewives are calculating how much they had yesterday and how much they have today. With a little more property, they will think that maybe they should buy something in installments again, or buy some appliances in full payment, and I heard that there is a rainbow brand color TV that is very good, maybe they should buy one. Some have also heard that there is an imported Hai ear washing machine that is good, better than that produced in the United States, with many functions and strong strength. I don't know where these imported things are made, I heard that they are Hong Kong, the quality is really good, but they don't accept installment payments, which makes many Americans feel helpless.

On October 1, 1929, the New York Stock Exchange, as usual, the securities managers were well-dressed and full of fighting spirit, on the contrary, most of the stock speculators were unkempt, and the so-called American gentlemen were very dilapidated at this time, and the people who could come to the exchange were all big investors, and everyone was talking about one thing: how much the stock would rise today.

In the trading floor, Keynes's seat is very conspicuous, and next to him, there is a rugged man with a big belly, covered in jewels, a thick gold necklace, a dazzling diamond ring, obviously, a rough appearance can not hide his full wealth, this big capitalist who once owned a mine sold his mine, came to the New York Stock Exchange, and bought the seat next to Keynes at a sky-high price of 625,000 US dollars.

Keynes, as a free-trade theorist, was very sought after by the nouveau riche former mine owner, and the monthly on-site consulting fee paid to him alone was a large sum, and correspondingly, the fate of the two was similar, and the stocks they held were all the way up, multiplying several times, and even Keynes became a tycoon.

The market is about to open, looking at the speculators who are coming and going, the two also began to talk to themselves.

"Mr. Keynes, I bet the stock market will rise to 400 points today." The nouveau riche Marne sits on a huge Cuban cigar and looks forward to today's stock market.

"Mr. Marne, last Friday was 390 points, to rise to the height you said, you need to rise 10 points today, which is a big number." It seems to be a rebuttal, but in fact, Keynes has already had an optimistic smile on his face, and he got the news late yesterday that the Morgan consortium will inject up to 10 million dollars into the stock market today. Many people should have received this good news, and what we need to do today is to watch the price of the stock jump up again.

"Hey, Mr. Marne, who do you think that?" Keynes suddenly saw several people walk into the hall, the first one he knew, John Sr., one of the oldest stock winners on the stock exchange, but the person behind him had not seen it, but it seemed to have been seen in some economic newspaper.

"If I'm not mistaken, it was a Westerner who opened an international trading company and did a lot of business, but it was said that the profitability was very poor, and he didn't even go public and issue shares." Before Marne's stock speculation, he was a real big mine owner, and in his eyes, in addition to the stones of the mine, there were only stocks.

"I remember, Kenneth, president of Pan American Cannese International!!" Unlike Marne, a nouveau riche miner, Keynes is a real expert in economics and has a good understanding of the economic figures in the United States, especially Kenneth, who is low-key, but his Pan American Cannes International Trading Company is a major supplier of Hong Kong and Asian commodities that are now popular in the United States. It is reported that even the Zhonghua brand cars of Dodge Automobile Company are also from his big money.

"Kenneth? Haven't heard of it. ”

John Maynard Keynes: "I participated in a survey of the Pan American International by the American political axe, and it didn't work. It's the first time I've seen a real person. This Kenneth has considerable energy in the entire American political arena, and there are quite a few congressmen who are on his side, and there are even rumors that his energy is enough to shake the entire American West. He put forward some new ideas on international trade, arguing that opening parts factories in the poorest countries in Asia is conducive to proximity to the origin of raw materials and the hiring of cheap labor, and finally shipped back to the United States for assembly, a series of actions that reasonably avoid many trade barriers. ”

"Keynes, the dollar is all that matters, isn't it? You see, even Kenneth, who has not shown up all year round, shows that he has also begun to covet the violence of the stock market? Sit back and wait for the good news. ”

The two stopped talking, but Keynes had a faint bad premonition in his heart, that there were indeed some problems with the Pan American International at that time, but they were solved almost perfectly in the subsequent political axe investigation, and even many experts, including him, could not prove that the Pan American International trade practices were illegal.

Kenneth greeted his uncle's seat, then led Li Chunyang to the seat he had bought, and began to wait patiently for the big storm planned by the boss to hit. In his words, he will be a witness to history, witnessing how those greedy and damned American speculative capitalists went bankrupt and even jumped off buildings.

Of course, my uncle doesn't count, the boss is about to conquer the whole of China, maybe going to China to retire is better than in the United States. He has to go on vacation for a month every year, and Kenneth prefers China, which has a deep history, to the United States. And everything about himself is also because of China, because of the boss, when he was still a "law-abiding American citizen", he was not even as good as a pig and a dog.

"Lao Li, you don't seem to be nervous at all." After working together for almost ten years, Kenneth's title for Li Chunyang has also changed from "Chinese Li" to Lao Li, which is really a local custom, a mouthful of Chinese, if you don't hear it in person, no one will believe it.

Li Chunyang took out a Chinese cigarette and lit it for himself very chicly, comfortably feeling the taste of the smoke flowing into his body, and the face behind the cigarette curtain actually showed a rare hideousness, "It's been ten years, you say I'm nervous." Kenneth, let's witness the miracle together. ”

When the electronic automatic display board lit up, the entire New York Stock Exchange was boiling, and everyone was looking forward to it, but some were expecting it to rise, and some were expecting it to collapse.

(To be continued)