Contrary to Vito's thoughts, the next day, the stock market still did not crash. Yiqiē seems to be normal, the stock price continues to rise, and then closes down slightly, but overall, it is still up a little. For more than two years, the continued boom has made many people forget about the dangers and even take the rise in stocks for granted. Well, Scrooge once mocked such a guy at a family party with such a malicious story:

"There's a bunch of chicks and they've found a pattern. That is, every certain time, a peasant woman will appear, and then delicious corn will fall from the sky. Day in and day out. They all felt that it was just a normal rule, so one day, the time came again, and the peasant woman appeared again, and then, there was an extra roast chicken on the table at the peasant woman's house. ”

But at least for now, the chicken hasn't been brought to the table. I'm still alive waiting for new corn.

"Damn it! Why haven't you collapsed yet! Vito looked at the stock price that had just risen slightly after a round of so-called shocks, and scolded viciously in his heart. The stocks in his hands have already been sold, and he has already earned him more than 30,000 dollars in pockets, which is simply faster than digging for gold in Alaska. Now Vito has taken half of it, or almost $16,000, to short the railroad. It's very risky, and if the crash doesn't happen within the time he was intended, he could lose about $7,000 with the current increase, which is not a small amount for Vito even now.

……

"Mr. MacDonald, now the need for your name has been thrown." Joshua said to Scrooge.

"Ah, Joshua, are you going to start shorting?" Scrooge asked.

"Not yet, there's still a little room for appreciation." Joshua said.

"So you haven't withdrawn your funds yet?" Scrooge said, "Joshua, I admire your skills very much, but it is not a good habit to go too far in pursuit of total annihilation or something when you have already won. There are always some forces in the market that are outside of our control. ”

"You're talking about Morgan, right?" "I've noticed that they've been withdrawing money lately. They may be ready to start shorting. Some of my funds have already been withdrawn, and even if I lose all of them now, it won't break my bones. Moreover, the part of the money I withdrew has already started to be shorted. In this way, if the decline is really too fast for the rest of me to withdraw and incur losses, then the gains I made in the short part of the plunge are more than enough to make up for these losses, and even make me a lot of money. ”

"You'd better sell all your long stocks before the end of the month, because there will be good news coming out next month, which could lead to a decline in railway stocks." Scrooge said quietly.

"What kind of 'good news'?"

"Keep it secret for now, and ......," Scrooge smiled, "the content of this news is too professional, well, forget it, you'll know in a few days." ”

……

"Look, Mr. John, here's a very groundbreaking manuscript, and his first author is Mr. Scrooge 61 MacDonald!" Jack, the assistant editor, handed a thick copy to the editor, Mr. John.

"Scrooge 61 Mr. MacDonald's Manuscript? I thought he had given up on research. John, the editor of The Lancet, turned around a little in surprise and laughed again when he saw the manuscript in Jack's hand, which looked as thick as a book: "Ah, Mr. Scrooge's old habit of 61 Mr. MacDonald has not changed, and he has got another book, and wants us to publish a new special issue?" Let me see ......"

Since the last time Scrooge published what is widely regarded as the beginning of an era, his lengthy paper, "A Study of the Causes of Some Infectious Diseases and the Therapeutic Effects of Certain Chemicals," has not published any new articles in The Lancet, despite several requests from Scrooge. Later, everyone learned that Scrooge had become a rich man, so most of the editorial staff thought that Scrooge had probably given up scientific research and was bent on making money.

John opened the manuscript and first saw the title of the paper, "A Study of the Hypothetical and Actual Results of a New Organism Caused by Yellow Fever, and the Discussion of Its Pathogenesis, Transmission Methods, and Prevention and Treatment Methods"

"Ah, Mr. MacDonald's name for his paper is still horribly good." John said as he flipped through the text, and gradually, his face became more and more stern.

After several hours, John finally finished reading the paper. He looked up at the wall clock, it was already time to get off work.

"Gee, it's only thirty minutes, we have to go see Mr. Poole right away and let him see this before we get off work." John grabbed the manuscript and rushed out of his office, sprinting toward the editor-in-chief's office on the third floor.

The editor-in-chief, Dr. Poole, was already packing his things and getting ready to go home from work, and today was his wife's birthday, and he was rushing back to celebrate his wife's birthday. At this moment, the door was pushed open.

"John, what's the matter?" Poole looked at John, who was running out of breath, in amazement.

Dr. Poole...... There's a new paper...... "John gasped," said "Scrooge's 61 Mr. MacDonald's, I...... I think it'...... Its quality is no less than his previous one. ”

"Show me?" Dr. Poole said, well, the average paper, a little flip through the paper, you can roughly know what the quality is, it doesn't take much time. At least that's what Dr. Poole thought. Besides, Dr. Poole has always been very confident in his reading speed, and although it is close to the end of work, a cursory look is still fine.

After receiving the paper from John, Dr. Poole realized that the article was thick enough that it was probably too late to read it. But now that you've got it and haven't gotten off work yet, let's take a look first......

……

"John, it's a pity that we can't repeat this right now, it's a high-level paper. Unfortunately, it is a pity that this new microorganism, which Mr. MacDonald named 'virus', is not yet visible with a microscope. It can only be confirmed in some relatively indirect ways, but Mr. MacDonald's real design is very, very invasive...... Ah, John, turn on the lights for me, damn it's so dim here......"

In this way, Dr. Poole looked at the paper and discussed the contents with John, discussing when to arrange the verification and how to arrange the layout. It didn't take long for John's stomach to make a "grunt" sound, and then Dr. Poole's stomach joined the chorus.

"Gee, it's been a long time since you got off work, right?" Dr. Poole suddenly remembered that it seemed to be his wife's birthday, so he couldn't help but change his face and said, "Damn, it's Anne's birthday, and I promised her that she would come home on time." Ah, John, I can't talk to you about this anymore, I must get home at once, or I'll have to spend the night on the balcony tonight!" Lord...... Dr. Poole put down his thesis, and didn't care about his demeanor, so he spread his legs and ran out.

"By the way, John, put the paper away, this paper is extremely important!" Dr. Poole's voice reached John's ears with the sound of hurried down the stairs.

……

"There's a lot of money that's starting to go short, and it's mostly Scrooge and Joshua." A banker said to Morgan.

"Are there any statistics? Show it to me. Morgan said.

An assistant immediately handed Morgan some materials. Morgan took the materials and looked at them carefully. After a few moments, he frowned.

"It's true that there's a lot of money out there, but looking at the amount, it's not quite like Scrooge and Joshua, who are pushing a lot more. Could it be that they didn't use all the profits to short? Well, it's also very likely, although Scrooge started out as a short-seller, but when playing finance, he actually has very little guts. And he has a lot of ways to make money, maybe he found some more reliable way to make money, so he used that money to other purposes, right? What is the new use? Did he discover some gold again like he did in Alaska? Morgan thought.

"The amount of money is not small, but it is much smaller than what we know of Scrooge and Joshua when they first invested in the stock market. This is probably just Joshua's money, not even all of Joshua's money. However, according to these figures, Scrooch's funds should have been profitably exited. But his money was not put into shorting. What does he want to do? Morgan asked.

"Perhaps, perhaps, like the last oil crisis, Scrooge wanted to clear himself for the sake of fame." It was said.

"No, that crisis was entirely initiated by Scrooge. And not this time. And this time he could have let the Jews do it. Morgan said, "He must have some new plan to make money, but unfortunately, we don't know." Otherwise, you can make a lot of money from the past. ”

……

"Scrooge, you can definitely make a lot of money by shorting the railroad right away, why don't you do it?" Dorothea asked.

"Because you can make a lot of money by going long on another industry right away, and it won't be as hated as shorting railroad stocks and crashing the whole economy." Scrooge said with a smile.