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Bismarck was right, Europe broke out into war because of a fool in the Balkans. biquge.info His prediction was correct, but even he did not anticipate how terrible the First World War in human history would be.

The outcome of this war will have a direct impact on the world pattern for the next 100 years. However, this is still premature. Because the Entente led by Britain, France, and Russia, and the Central Powers, led by Germany and Austria, were confident in their own victory, and both were eager to give each other a good look.

As for Italy, this unpopular character is not to be mentioned.

Since the start of the war in Europe, the US stock market has been doing well?

Wrong! It's a big bad! A lot of people on Wall Street feel like the end of the world.

Because the Europeans are urgently withdrawing from the United States, they are going to pump the money back home and put it into domestic production. Otherwise, it is impossible to cope with the demands of war.

The British, the French, and the Germans were busy withdrawing their money from the United States, and the reaction was that the New York stock market was falling... Fall··· Fall...

This caused panic in the stock market, well, American investors believe that they cannot survive without European money. It is no wonder that the United States has such an idea, for a hundred years, the American economy has been booming, has been benefiting from the large influx of European capital into the United States, and the Americans have used European capital to complete the industrial revolution.

And in terms of trade, with the exception of a very small number of stocks, most of them were diving because of the war, because of the trade they were afraid of losing the trade of Europe.

Of course, there are pros and cons, most Americans have not realized their power for a while, but the major American conglomerates with a keen sense of smell are smiling in their hearts: European capital has withdrawn, and the gap left by the American conglomerates has not been filled?

This is precisely a God-given opportunity for American capital to get rid of Europe and become independent.

Well, the future of the U.S. stock market is bright, but the present is bad. Stocks are rolling down like dumplings in the water, even star stocks are no exception.

Seeing that the stock market crash is about to spread, Wall Street newspapers have already shouted that they want to ask Morgan to save the stock market.

Indeed, on Wall Street, a hundred words from the White House are not as convincing as Morgan has to say.

Well, even if Morgan has the intention to organize a bailout, it will take time, and before that, it is enough for Situ Nan to do a lot of things.

The U.S. government's regulation of stock market trading only began after the stock market crash of 1929, and now it's 1914, well, arguably the era of lawlessness.

The lack of regulation, coupled with the turmoil in the stock market driven by international trends, has given many speculators the opportunity to stir up trouble. Among them is Situ Nan and his gang, who are aggressively shorting the stock market with Robles!

They were able to leverage $900 million with $30 million and 30% leverage, and then use that money to short the stock market.

The result is naturally a big profit, but because of Situ Nan, the U.S. stock market is hurt more seriously than in history. Not only Situ Nan, but also a group of speculators are active on Wall Street, who are also the main force of short selling.

Fortunately, because Situ Nan's methods are relatively secretive, most people don't know that he once played the role of a supervillain in this incident, but instead pay attention to which speculators who have been famous for a long time.

Quietly drip into the village, don't shoot guns, Situ Nan is also happy to make money!

Countless funds in the United States have evaporated in this brief turmoil, but there are still many people who have made money, and Situ Nan is just one of them.

After a few more days, the situation has not improved, and the stock market has been falling, and some have already hit rock bottom. It was the time to go long with the backhand, so Situ Nan's butt was not hot yet, and he was busy entering the market again.

It is indeed difficult to distribute and manipulate so much money, but this reflects Robles's ability, because most of the planning this time was done by Robles, and Situ Nan was the one who gave the order, and it was far worse than Robles to say that the actual combat operation.

However, the cooperation of these two brothers is a bit similar to the effect of "Fang Mou Du Jian". Some potential star stocks such as the U.S. Steel Corporation, the Pacific Railroad Company, the DuPont Gunpowder Factory, the U.S. Aluminum Refining Company, the American Telegraph Company, General Electric, etc., bought on a large scale, but because of limited funds, in order not to offend the interests of those big conglomerates, Situ Nan mostly bought them evenly, so as not to touch the interests of those big conglomerates.

In fact, these consortia are also constantly buying back outstanding shares on the stock market, and once things improve, they can sell a penny again to make a profit.

As Situ Nan knows, taking advantage of the complete withdrawal of European capital from the US market this time, US consortia such as Morgan, Rockefeller, Mellon, and Citigroup can easily occupy the blank space after the withdrawal of European capital.

The stock market turmoil was short-lived, and when all of the U.S. conglomerates took over Wall Street, the stock market in New York began to slowly recover. Situ Nan found that the money in his account was bulging little by little, and his heart was happy, and the excitement was indescribable.

The depression of American industry was also short-lived. Because there is a super game in Europe, the warring sides did not expect that the material resources produced by their own countries could not keep up with the consumption of the front, so they had to purchase from the United States. That's when the spring of American industry came.

Especially in the steel industry and the military industry, the stock price soared like an aphrodisiac, and the rising momentum made Situ Nan have the idea of never wanting to sell.

Well, it's best to get something for nothing, but it's impossible. The tide rises and falls, there is a fixed number, people can only follow the trend, otherwise they will be punished for violating the law!

Before Situ Nan became a god, he had better adapt to the rules of the game.

After a few months, the U.S. stock market has returned to a normal level, and Situ Nan can also be very calm, these days he is excited, excited, and uneasy, and finally becomes numb, and after a long time, he also calms down.

and Robles secretly took stock of the results and achieved remarkable results.

$300 million!

Well, the hearts of the two of them began to beat rapidly again, which was really a shocking result.

The fly in the ointment is that the money scattered in hundreds or thousands of accounts cannot be taken out at once, and can only be cashed out little by little, so as not to attract the attention of others.

As for the cash-out work, Robles later did it two years later, but at that time the stock market in the United States had risen a lot, and if it weren't for Situ Nan's urgent need of funds to start his own industry, he would really want to take these stocks for dinner

In fact, the United States really has to thank Ferdinand that idiot, and thank that heroic Serbian youth, who put on a show that made the United States on the other side of the Atlantic have the last laugh.

Situ Nan knew that during the First World War, even China, thousands of miles away, ushered in the spring of national capitalism, let alone the United States, a powerful capitalist country.

What is the best investment? The ensuing prosperity of American industry will be a big plate of cake, which piece of it will you eat? Situ Nan thought to himself.

How can these 300 million dollars be used like this!?

It has become a headache for Situ Nan now.

After discussing with Robles, Situ Nan continued to hold shares of star military enterprises worth about $100 million, and did not cash out for the time being, and waited until the United States entered the war before selling. I believe that it should be able to sell for a good price at that time.

In particular, the U.S. Steel Company has been relatively sluggish in recent years, and Situ Nan spent $20 million to buy 2% of the shares of the U.S. Steel Company in one go, (which happened to be the price of cabbage at the time) and became the majority shareholder of the world's most bullish steel company, but for fear of attracting attention, Situ Nan instructed Robles to disperse the 2% shares of the U.S. Steel Company and never attend the shareholders' meeting.

Although this is a pity, it is also a matter of no choice, after all, these windfall profits from the stock market still need to be kept secret for a period of time, and it doesn't matter if they have a firm foothold in a few years. But now you have to keep a low profile.

The remaining 200 million will be cashed out slowly.

With the money taken out of the stock market, Situ Nan plans to invest 100 million in Occidental Petroleum (in fact, far more than that), and the remaining 100 million will be used to invest in his own industries, such as steel mills, food companies, zippo lighter companies, marine shipbuilding, munitions and explosives, and of course, very important bank securities.

How can you become a consortium without your own banking system?

However, there is still a long way to go to build your own banking system.

In addition to focusing on supporting the securities firm he and Robles partnered with: Robles Securities, he also prepared to acquire two small and medium-sized banks, one in San Francisco and the other in Houston, the National Bank.

Coupled with the previous Los Angeles Parker Bank, Situ Nan already has 3 banks, but they are not large, adding up to less than 10 million US dollars, which does not meet Situ Nan's mind of the "central bank", so he set his sights on a landmark bank in the west.

This bank, which made Situ Nan look up a hundred years later, has entered the standard range of Situ Nan, wait patiently, and in time, it will be hit with one blow.

However, he was busy investing in industry, and he did not have time to run the bank, and it was not until 1917 that the bank was consolidated and became a large bank that spanned several western states, including California and Texas.

It's still far away! Many things need to be implemented step by step, otherwise no matter how beautiful the dream is, it will still be a dream after all.

In addition to the meat product factory, Situ Nan invested in those companies that were not very large at the beginning, but these industries have good prospects, and Situ Nan believes that after the additional investment and expansion, they will develop one by one in the next few years and become a benchmark enterprise in their industry.

Of course, it is not good to earn so much money to reward the Robles team, and on the day that all the funds were settled, Situ Nan took out the $3 million he received from this operation to reward the Robles team.

Among them, Robles took 2 million US dollars, and some other stocks worth more than 1 million yuan rewarded by Situ Nan, adding up to 3 million, in addition to the shares of the upcoming Robles Securities Company!

This team was also the forerunner of Robles' securities firm that he and Situ Nan founded.

In fact, the value of those stocks is much more than the current price, so Robles smiled toothlessly, and money made the devil grind, and now Situ Nan said that the earth is square, and Robles will not say that it can't be said.

After this speculation, Situ Nan tasted the sweetness, so he set up a speculative fund called Hanniper Fund.

Inspired by the film that Situ Nan saw in his previous life, the cunning, wise, calm, and neat doctor in the play, Humberney.

All of the shares worth almost $100 million held by Situ Nan were put into the Hannipeg Fund, which was later merged into the newly formed securities company after the Lobos Securities Company was organized.

And Robles was the head of the new company. How can you get your hands on a $100 million fund and not get Robles excited?

He was touched by Situ Nan's trust. Although Robles is usually pretentious, he can handle huge investments at such a young age, and no one believes it.

After communicating with Situ Nan, Robles knew that Situ Nan was going to hold these stocks for a long time, and he didn't usually have to do any trading, and he could run out when the time was right.

Well, I'm a caretaker myself! After Robles finished getting excited, he immediately adjusted his feelings.

The stock market was left to Robles, who ran the Hanniper Fund, and he returned to Los Angeles in the west with Mary's mother and son, as well as He Wenxiu.

Situ Nan did not make a train, but took a boat. The short stay in Houston was mainly to invest part of the profits from this speculation in Occidental Petroleum and to repay the bank loan.

At the same time, the aforementioned National Bank of Houston was acquired shortly after Situ Nan's arrival, and was usually used to lend money to private oil explorers, (commonly known as wildcats), so that the Western oil industry smoothly mastered more oil reserves.

After huge investments, the pace of Western oil development accelerated, newly discovered oil fields were developed, new pipelines were laid, new refineries were added, and there were wharves dedicated to oil transportation, oil tankers.

The newly opened gas stations are like nodes on a map grid, taking root and sprouting like seeds, penetrating into the western and southern lands of the United States, and finally encompassing these places.

By the end of World War I in 1918, Occidental Petroleum was the most powerful oil company in Texas, and its branch in Los Angeles was second only to California's Standard Oil.

Hantec was almost smashed by this timely fund and fainted happily, this Situ Nan gave himself a huge surprise every once in a while, and the average guy with a little nervous really couldn't stand it.

Not only did he know that Situ Nan had so much money, but every once in a while, he would have to remit a sum of money from Eastern New York to the account of the Western Petroleum Company.

Without this steady stream of money, it would have been impossible for Occidental Petroleum to expand in the west and south in the shortest possible time.

Although Hantec's stake in Occidental Petroleum was diluted little by little by Situ Nan's huge funds, the company's booming development has made Hantec not care about other things.

There's nothing more appealing than starting a great business with your own hands to make Handar, who has long since been lifted out of poverty. And doesn't he benefit from it?

Hantec, which has received a lot of financial support, not only plans to exploit the Yates field on its own, but also builds a new oil refinery in Dallas.

Ambitious, yes, like a wild weed, and contagious like a virus, the top brass of Occidental Petroleum are ambitious and ready to build their own kingdom in the fledgling oil industry.

After this round of financing and share expansion, Situ Nan's shares in Occidental Petroleum will naturally increase, although he was originally the largest shareholder of Occidental Petroleum, but after this battle, there is no possibility that he can shake his position, not even God.

Although the shares of the other shareholders of the company were diluted, the total value of their shares increased because the company grew stronger, a visible monopoly.

Just as countless American businessmen hated Rockefeller and applauded the federal government's dismantling of Rockefeller's trust, but they all wanted to be Rockefeller.

Hantec has its own pipelines, its own oil refineries, its own wharves, and gas stations, as Situ Nan said, and Western Petroleum is no longer afraid of any opponents.

Although there is still a gap with the influence of the old oil giants, it is not enough to hurt the enemy, and it is enough to protect itself.

In Dallas, in Houston, in Los Angeles, in Salmento······ The construction of pipelines, refineries, and gas stations in large and medium-sized cities in the west has accelerated dramatically, and Western oil will be known to more and more Americans, even foreign companies.

It's just a little careless that everyone is fascinated by the company's expansion momentum, and they are a little blindly optimistic, so many projects are launched at once, and Occidental Petroleum's funds are splashed out like water every day, but these projects can only bring benefits in at least three or five months, and at most three or five years, so the seemingly abundant funds are diluted all at once.

It didn't take long for Situ Nan to regret it, because after launching a large number of projects, Occidental Petroleum's thirst for money had outweighed his monthly earnings from the stock market.

In order to maintain the progress of the project, the Western Petroleum Company had to raise funds, borrow money from banks, and solicit shares from local landlords in the western region.

A few years later, when Occidental Petroleum had the power to compete with Standard Oil, Situ Nan's stake had returned to normal levels, first a little more than half of what it was at the end of World War I, then to 40%, and finally to 30%, but it was decades later.

Now Situ Nan has not predicted the embarrassing situation of Occidental Petroleum in the next two years, after returning from New York, although he repeatedly warned himself not to be complacent, but the excitement in his heart could not be suppressed, well, some floating feelings.

After a brief stop in Houston, Stuart continued his boat north via the Panamanian Canal to Los Angeles, where he had been absent for almost two years.

Well, this is an inland river that is not on the map of the United States, but it is the United States, and it is a sign of American strength in the Americas.

Because of the Panama Canal, the U.S. fleet traveled 15,000 kilometers from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean without having to make a detour through South America.

It is self-evident that this is of great importance to the United States in safeguarding its geographical superiority over two oceans and one continent.

On the ship back, Situ Nan carefully calculated his current assets, and he couldn't tell the specific number, but he only knew a lot.

Now he has two funds in his hands, the Soros Fund and the Hannibal Fund.

The Soros fund has the most resources, and the largest oil company in Texas, Occidental Petroleum, is the holding company of the Texas Petroleum Development Company under the name of the Soros fund, and the Soros fund also controls the two largest oil fields in Texas. If it is converted into currency, there will be a billion and 800 million dollars, but it will be impossible to develop it without thirty or fifty years.

The Hannibal Fund was set up after Stuart Nan's frenzied speculation in the New York stock market and currently holds more than $100 million in stocks and other securities.

At the same time, with the support of the big money owner Situ Nan, the ambitious Robles also set up a speculative bank named after him, Robles Securities, and thus began his legendary career on Wall Street.

However, you can't become fat in one bite, and you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, Situ didn't care about it after admonishing Robles a few words, he still likes to invest in industry, but Robles has such a determination and is worthy of encouragement and support.

As long as there are no major problems, it's up to him to toss!

Situ Nan can't do dual-purpose work, and there is no doubt about employing people, so it is better to hand it over to professionals, although he himself has great potential in this area. (Can cheating have no potential?) ）

In addition, Situ Nan also owns a meat company in Los Angeles that specializes in the production of rations, canned food for the army. The market capitalization is about two or three million dollars.

There is also the Zippo company, which has a current market capitalization of less than a million, but the potential for development is known by the name, and its value cannot be explained by the current figures.

There is also an agricultural company that manages a large number of ranch farms, and although these farms are in the oil factory area, there is a lot of undeveloped land that can be used to grow crops.

There is also Houston Land, which is worth more than 10 million.

Well, the success of Houston Land has a certain exemplary effect, so it was also copied by Situ Nan to California.

There is also a steel mill in Los Angeles, a mortar factory under construction, and an insignificant western medicine factory. These three are very small, adding up to less than 2 million, which is the focus of Situ Nan's investment this time, for which Situ Nan has prepared a large amount of dollars.

Counting and counting, the lion's share is still on the side of the oil companies, and apart from the money from this speculation, the other industries add up to less than 20 million.

Situ Nan thought a little greedily. But also, Situ Nan relied on his own foresight and almost cheated to get the oil fields of astronomical value, he started by oil speculation, and in just two or three years, he frantically sought a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars. (Even billions and tens of billions of dollars, but it may not be possible to develop these oil resources until Situ Nan dies.) ）

It's a bit loud to say, but if you don't have any small achievements, as a reborn person, or a time-traveler, it's really nonsense, maybe the Time and Space Administration is so angry that it sends more people to catch him.

If you only count money, it seems that he is not bad for those super-rich people at all, but his money is just a pile of money, and before he has a strong enough industry, his influence cannot be compared with those big family conglomerates, at best he is just an upstart. Aristocrats need to be cultivated in three generations, and status, fame, fame, and influence also need time to accumulate.

In the past, I didn't know why many reborn people or time-traveling guests wanted to change history or something, no way, in another time and space, they were very easy to achieve achievements that were impossible to obtain in the original time and space, and people naturally felt that they were full of bullishness after success.

But what Situ Nan has changed is himself, and no matter how awesome the butterfly is, he is still a little butterfly. This is just his personal achievement, but in terms of the vast historical river, he is still an inconspicuous wave, which is not enough to change the general trend of the world.

Can Situ Nan's small waves roll up any big waves? Or there is, but Situ Nan, who was in it, hadn't discovered it for a while.

It wasn't until a few years later that the changes brought about by the butterfly's wings were captured by Situ Nan.

But now Situ Nan doesn't think that he is the butterfly, he just follows the trajectory of history to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and as for the general trend of history, it is not something he can interfere with.

Will he be able to stop the war? Can he change the outcome of the war?

No! Neither! Not yet! In the same way, he can't rid his home country of tragic memories, he can only make his life better, and the people close to him.

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