The rising price of oil immediately caught the attention of other investors on Wall Street. At this time, rumors that oil might be able to be used to extract a cure for all diseases also appeared on the market inexplicably. Although a spokesman for McDonald Chemical & Pharmaceuticals, the largest pharmaceutical company in the United States, told the media in an assured interview on this issue that he had not heard of such a research project at the company. But he also did not deny the possibility of extracting drugs from oil.

"Oil has been used as a medicine for a long time." Sahaf, a spokesman for the McDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company, told reporters, "But later our research showed that the vast majority of the so-called medical records about the use of oil to cure some incurable disease do not stand up to scrutiny and cannot be verified in various realities." Moreover, the composition of oil is very complex, and it is not at all clear whether it contains some kind of ingredient with special medicinal value. So at the moment I haven't heard of companies that have plans to use oil to make drugs. ”

However, this statement did not completely curb this rumor, because the spokesman of McDonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company only said that he had not heard of such a plan, which does not mean that there is no such plan. So the rumors spread more and more magically, from curing all diseases to the ability to comprehensively enhance the ability to pop, anyway, the more it blows, the more outrageous, and the blowing is later, it is compared with the queen mother's peach and Zhen Yuanzi's ginseng fruit.

Such rumors have made the market more and more frenzied. In this frenzy, almost no one noticed the fact that Rockefeller's "Standard Oil" had gradually reduced its stocking. However, just because almost no one notices doesn't mean that no one notices, in fact, such a method can't hide the old foxes and little foxes on Wall Street at all.

"Rockefeller's mind is dark enough." J.P. Morgan told his new partner, Gutwin, "He wants to play with oil as a tulip." But it's definitely a chance to make money. As long as we grasp the right time, we can also take advantage of this opportunity to make a profit. Well, my dear friend, this is also a good opportunity for you to exercise. I'll give you a cap of $500,000 to mobilize funds and see how much money you can make from this tulip storm." ”

"Don't worry, the situation is already clear, I will definitely not lose." Gutwin smiled confidently.

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"John, it's time to start clearing our minds of manipulating this crisis." "We need to put a warning in the newspapers that the current inflated oil prices could be a repeat of the 'tulip mania.'" Remind the majority of investors to be sober and not blindly chase the wind. ”

"Won't this mess up our plans?" Rockefeller said, "Scrooge, you have a lot of influence right now, and if you say that, if they do back down, then our plan will be ruined." ”

"No, John. If you look at the changes in the current price, judging from such prices and volumes, the main force of the funds invested in it has long ceased to be us. Most of the jackals on Wall Street have joined in, and there are a lot of retail investors. Now we ask everyone to calm down, but we don't ship ourselves, and many people's first reaction will be to think that we actually want to curb the rise in prices and buy a lot of goods. Also, how many shipments did we buy in total? Scrooge asked.

"It's 40,000 barrels at the moment." Rockefeller replied.

"What is the average cost per barrel?" Scrooge asked.

"A little over sixteen dollars." Rockefeller replied.

"If we don't throw them all the time, but use them to make lubricants and kerosene, how much will we lose?" Scrooge asked.

"We won't lose, but when we get to the top, we can make a lot more money by throwing it away. I estimate that it is possible to rise to $25 a barrel in this shape now. We tossed them at the twenty-four dollar level and could have made an extra $320,000. ”

"John, listen to me." Scrooge said, "Three hundred and twenty thousand is a lot of money, but we can't make that money." You see, the number now, I dare say, tens of thousands of retail investors have thrown themselves into this gamble, and as prices go up, those Wall Street speculators will slowly and quietly leave, and then retail investors will hold more oil. When it comes to the crash, a large number of retail investors will lose their money, and there will be a large number of people who jump off buildings, jump into rivers, and lie on rails. Then, the newspaper would ask who had caused the catastrophe. If we also earn these 320,000, then all the blame will be very easy to focus on us. Then we will be the bad people that the thousand men refer to, and listen to me, John, in many cases, a white and unblemished reputation is worth a lot of money. If you still feel sorry for it, then I can deduct that share from my future dividends. ”

Listening to Scrooge's words, Rockefeller smiled wryly.

"You're right, I ignored this a while ago, so my reputation is much worse than it was a few years ago. Unlike you, who has maintained a reputation for being white and flawless. You're right, an immaculate reputation is worth a lot of money. I feel it now. Of course, there is no need to mention what you pay for alone. The purpose of this operation itself is not to make money, but to bring down more refineries and wells. Now, many refineries have stopped production. There are quite a few refinery owners who are already crying and shouting to sell their factories to me. So that the money from the sale of the factory can be gambled in the crude oil market. Correspondingly, there is now less and less oil sold on the market. Although production from all the wells has risen, they are stockpiling up and waiting for prices to go higher. And as far as I know, most of them put their money into drilling new oil wells. When it crashes, we can easily take down the oil wells from them. In addition, in order to maintain our reputation, we can declare after the crash that we are willing to buy oil from retail investors at a relatively reasonable price. lest these retail investors suffer big losses and go to a dead end. Well, we're going to put that into the warning you said as well. Saying this now, people will definitely understand that we are trying to suppress the price of oil in order to buy it. ”

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"Neuer, Neuer!" Emma came running over in a panic and said, "I've heard that Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Rockefeller said in the newspapers that the prices of oil are inflated now, when in fact the oil is not worth so much money. So their acquisition was temporarily stopped. They also advised everyone not to be too fanatical. He also said that if the price crashes in the future, they will buy the $200,000 oil from the retail investors at a price of ten dollars a barrel, and each retail investor can only sell them a maximum of three barrels of oil. Does that mean we should sell the oil right away? ”

"Huh? I'll take a look and ask about the prices in the market. Neuer was taken aback and said to Emma, "You are optimistic about the home, and you are optimistic about our oil." I'll go back as soon as I go. ”

After explaining his wife, Neuer hurried out the door and ran towards the oil well. As soon as he turned the corner, he saw old Carl walking back out of breath.

"Mr. Karl, have you heard? Both Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Rockefeller said that oil prices were too high and that they had stopped buying oil. Did you know? Neuer hurriedly grabbed old Karl and asked.

"I know, I just went to the oil well to inquire." Old Carl gasped.

"How? Mr. Carr? Neuer hurriedly asked.

"Hey, you let me catch my breath and wipe my sweat." Carl Sr. said.

Seeing Old Carl's appearance, Neuer breathed a sigh of relief, if the shape was very poor, Old Carl didn't have such an important posture.

Old Karl gasped, wiped his sweat with the placket of his clothes, and then said: "There are still people waiting in line outside the oil well to buy oil, and the price is still rising." The people in the oil wells said that in fact, Standard had not bought oil from them two days ago, but oil was still in short supply. The standard is just trying to scare everyone so that the price of oil comes down and they are buying. ”

"Why is Standard Oil so black-hearted!" "I used to think that Mr. MacDonald was an honest and good man," Neuer said. ”

"Of course Mr. MacDonald is a good man, but he's also a businessman, isn't he?" Carl Sr. said.

"Thank you, Mr. Karl! You have made me breathe a sigh of relief. Neuer replied.

"You're going to go to the mud well to see what's going on, right?" "No need to go now." Don't worry, oil will continue to rise. ”

"I'm going to go to the Wanhe oil well to have a look, so that I can be completely relieved." "After all, it's a lot of money. ”

"There aren't many young people who are as cautious as you," laughed old Karl, "it's a good habit to be cautious, but the river is a little far away, and you must hurry, or you won't be able to make to-day dinner." ”

"Mr. Karl, I'll go first." Neuer said.

"Okay, goodbye, Neuer. Well, you're back, tell me about what you've learned! ”

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"What was the impact of that article of ours?" Scrooge said to Rockefeller with a smile.

"As we expected, the price is still far from reaching the point where no fool can take the plate, so our warning, although it caused a little turmoil in the market, did not change the general trend, and the price of oil rose again today." Rockefeller laughed, "If it collapses in the future, no one can blame us." What's more, we don't dump oil when it crashes, and even collect oil specifically for the poor to reduce their losses. When the time comes, we will point out another article to accuse the speculators, and maybe those tens of thousands of retail investors will still be grateful to us. ”

"Well, I hope so." Scrooge said with his trademark harmless smile on humans and animals.

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