Sunday's buffer has caused a lot of luck in the hearts of many unlucky people, yes, after falling so badly, there should always be a small rebound, right? At that time, throw it away quickly, maybe there will be a little capital left. A lot of people are comforting themselves in this way. However, if everyone is in this mindset, it is needless to say what the results will be.

By the opening of the market on Monday, there was really a small rebound as many people expected, and the price of railway stocks continued to rise, and there was some momentum to regain lost ground. But the good times were short-lived, but an hour later, the stock price fell again, although there were some ups and downs, and there was no avalanche like Saturday, but at the end of the day, the price of the railroad stock generally fell by 20 percent from the opening basis. More importantly, the ups and downs of this day ended in a sharp decline, which completely destroyed the confidence of most of the shareholders who continued to hold shares.

Nielsen still hasn't been able to sell its stock today. Although it is not that there is no opportunity to cut meat for sale, cutting meat does not mean much to him. He owes Mr. Vito a full two thousand dollars, and it is a loan shark, and by now, including interest, it is more than three thousand dollars. Even if you sell all the stocks in your hand, you will not be able to repay this debt. Nelson had heard something about Mr. Vito, and he knew that killing someone or something was really not a big deal for Mr. Vito. It is said that he once chopped his opponent into pieces and mixed it into concrete to build the bridge.

Nelson walked out of the exchange in a trance, and he didn't know where to go, so he walked like this, and unconsciously looked up and saw the towering New York Tower again.

"Perhaps...... It's the best relief. Nelson thought as a hand slapped him on the shoulder. Nelson looked back and saw Vito's wrinkled face. Behind Vito stood several big men.

"Mr. Vito, I ......" Nelson's voice trembled slightly.

"You've lost all the money I borrowed from you, haven't you?" Mr. Vito said with a smile and a very gentle tone, like an old friend greeting each other and saying "where are we going for a drink?" But such a tone scared Nelson to death. Because there has always been such a rumor, saying that "if you are not afraid of old Vito shouting, you are afraid of old Vito laughing". Old Vito was going to die when he laughed, even better than the dead. Thinking of this, Nelson trembled all over.

"Don't be afraid." Vito said, "I'm not going to do anything to you. I'm just here to help you. Well, let's go over there and talk. Vito said, pointing to a small park over there.

"Nelson, you still have a wife at home, well, a child, and you're still very young, and they're very cute, aren't you?" Vito said.

Nelson's heart shrank suddenly, as if he had been grabbed by a large hand.

"I sympathize with you, Nelson. But business is business, and the money you owe me is the money you owe me...... Don't get excited, I don't want to do anything to you or your family. I'll give you a way out, and if you're willing to do it, the arrears between us can be dealt with slowly. Think for yourself whether to do it or not to do it. ”

", I'm willing to do it. Thank you, Mr. Vito, you are such a magnanimous and good person. "It's like grasping at a straw when you're drowning," Nelson exclaimed.

"Be quiet, Nelson." Vito furrowed his eyebrows, "This is the park, be a little more vegetarian!" Well, why don't you ask me what I want you to do? ”

"Whatever it is, I'm willing to do it, even if it's to die. Mr. Vito. ”

"What I want you to do, though it's a bit dangerous, could be fatal—I'm not going to lie to you. But it's not inevitable to die. And if you really die, then the debt you owe me will be written off, and it will never involve your wife and children. You have to trust me about this, I, Vito, always talk and count. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Vito. Can you tell me what the hell is going on? ”

"I have a friend who runs a boat in Florida, and to put it more clearly, it's smuggling." "He's been doing a good job lately, and he needs more people who can work in Cuba." The number of routes they smuggled was such that the big ships would always stop on the high seas. The goods are transported by small boats. They need more people to steer the boats, to bring things over, to bring them over. Cigars were shipped from Cuba, but all that was shipped to Cuba was arms. You should be able to understand that the Spaniards naturally hate this kind of smuggling. It would be dangerous if the boat was blocked by the Spaniards before it went out to the open sea, and the Spaniards would even shoot directly at such a ship. Then, boom, there was no more...... How about it, dare to go? If you're willing to go, I'll give you twenty dollars first, and your wife can barely make it through the month." Then you have a monthly salary. For the first two years there, they will provide you with food and lodging, and give you five dollars of pocket money every month. They will give me all your wages. Two-thirds of it goes to me, and even if I pay back my money, I will give the rest to your wife, and this money is about the same to support her and the children. If you die, there will be two hundred dollars in compensation. I don't rob the dead of people's money, and every penny of this money will be given to your wife, and the debt between us will be written off, even if you die on the first day, and I don't get a penny from your salary. What do you think? ”

"Okay, listen to you, Mr. Vito, thank you so much for being a good man." Nelson said with some gratitude.

"Okay, here's twenty dollars, go home and say goodbye to your wife. Tomorrow morning, Short, well, that's him, he'll take you to the train and tell you how you found the guy over there. Well, that's how things are settled between us. I have a contract here, you can take a look, and if there is no objection, sign it. ”

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Affected by the collapse of railway stock prices, the real economy has also begun to react. A large number of railway companies declared bankruptcy, many of the railways that were still under construction were abandoned halfway, some had just laid the roadbed, and some of the tracks had just been half-laid, and the company suddenly went bankrupt, and the workers were all out of work, and the rails and sleepers that had been laid on the roadbed were dismantled and pulled to sell to recover the cost. After the Franco-Prussian War, a large amount of French capital, as well as capital from other European countries, poured into the American railroads, and most of them are now lost. In the week since that crash, the price of the entire railroad stock has fallen by nine-tenths. Considering that the price decline of these stocks is not average, the price of some high-quality railroads has not fallen too much, such as Scrooge's Pacific Railroad, which has only fallen by about a third of its price because of its beautiful statements, and some railways that have no profit potential at all have even fallen to even one percent. Europeans, on the other hand, have the largest share of this group of stocks.

For a time, New York was full of speculators who shot themselves, hanged themselves, jumped into the river, jumped into the sea, and committed suicide by jumping into the New York Tower. The New York Tower, in particular, was once a suicide mecca. In one morning, more than 20 people jumped from the tower in succession, and their blood stained the square below the tower red. So much so that Scrooge had to reluctantly announce the temporary closure of the New York Tower sightseeing project. Many years later, Chaplin also filmed a comedy called "Tower of New York" to reflect the situation at that time. Even American slang has phrases like "why don't you go to the New York Tower?" which means, of course, "Why don't you die!" ”

To be honest, those who are willing to commit suicide are honest people. There are also many people who are not willing to pay back the money honestly, and they are unwilling to die, so they do illegal things. When their money is robbed legitimately by those vipers and beasts. After the robbery, they took up arms and began to plunder. One of the most famous bandits is the clown mask with a whimsical smiling face with bared teeth. robbed those who had money, and even attacked banks, leaving a V-mark at the scene of the crime, and throwing the robbed money along the street to rob the rich and help the poor. The habit soon spread from New York to other cities. Mask gangs have also appeared in other cities, and social order is unstable.

President Grant has been extraordinarily incompetent in dealing with this crisis, and over the years he has put in key positions a host of people close to him but with little talent, who have only helped him when he needed to stabilize the situation.

Fortunately, the police and state militia in all the states were urgently mobilized. In New York, state militias are already patrolling the streets in full gear. In just half a month, the state militia in New York killed more than 100 "mask gangs", most of whom were Latins, Irish and blacks. Of course, it was also said that the militiamen carried ready-made masks in their backpacks, and the first thing they did when they killed someone was to put a mask on the corpse.

Later, the New York police set up a bureau to catch the real mask thieves and bring them to court, and the court also issued a verdict in just two days with rare efficiency, sentencing all the mask thieves to death. It is said that before their leader, a guy named Guy, was hanged, the judicial system was very kind enough to find him a priest for a final confession. But the legendary thief said to the priest:

"Beneath my mask there is not only the flesh, but also the thought against legitimate plunder. Father, the mind is immortal! So I don't need to do any deathbed confessions. ”