Berlin is about to usher in a new beginning.

At this time, Wang Weiyi also began his new journey to the United States. The first stop on his U.S. trip was New York.

The city of New York is all too familiar to him. Here, as "Mr. Moyol", he set off a financial storm that was feared by the whole United States and the world.

In this financial storm, except for the "New York Alliance" headed by him, everyone is a loser, even the US government.

That financial crisis hit the United States, and the Jewish consortium in particular, the hardest hit. The Wittgensteins, on the other hand, made a lot of money.

Now, the United States has emerged from the financial crisis, and New York has become the most prosperous economic center in the world. From this point of view, we have to admire the strong vitality of the United States.

From the first minute he set foot in New York, Wang Weiyi felt a different kind of long-lost feeling.

New York is more prosperous than ever, the streets are full of cars, and those who are in a hurry seem to be unwilling to stop for even a second.

What makes people even more curious is that Wang Weiyi can't find a decent hotel with empty rooms.

Are Americans so wealthy these days that they like to live in hotels? Or is there some big celebration in New York lately?

Wang Weiyi was a little confused......

Finally, he found a very small hotel in a very inconspicuous place on the corner, and the owner told him that there was a room in the back.

It's a little smaller, but I don't have to sleep on the streets. But when the boss told Wang Weiyi the price. He was taken aback again.

It costs $25 a night.

God, Wang Weiyi remembers that the per capita income of a family of four in the United States at this time was about 6,300 US dollars, and the money to stay in such a small and dilapidated hotel for a night was so heavy?

"Sir. Do you want it or not? The boss's attitude became noticeably impatient: "In less than ten minutes, the only empty room in this house will be booked." ”

"Ah, of course, it's a hundred dollars." Wang Weiyi paid the money and took out another ten-dollar sheet: "Can you give me a bottle of wine?" Ten dollars of wine. ”

The boss's attitude changed suddenly, and he took out a bottle of wine from the counter with a smile and gave it to Wang Weiyi.

"Give me two more cups."

The boss hurriedly took out two more glasses, and Wang Weiyi poured wine: "I like New York." I've been here in the past. Ah, I'll give you a few drinks. ”

The boss's attitude became more affectionate......

After a few glasses of wine, the two have become "friends" who talk about everything. And in this process, as the boss just said, at least three guests came to ask if there were any available rooms.

It seems that New York's hotel industry has boomed to a surprising point.

"Hey. Locke. Wang Weiyi already knew the name of the other party: "What room would be so tense for Lu?" Is there any major event in New York? ”

"Hey. Mr. Moyol, it's been a long time since you've been to New York. Locke said with great interest: "Now the whole world is flocking to New York. War is a good thing, and it has led to an economic boom in the United States as a whole, especially in New York. About a few months ago, housing prices in New York began to skyrocket, and many people joined the ranks of property speculators, which led to the whole of Europe and the whole world. New York became the economic center of the world. It's overcrowded everywhere. The hotel was full, and the price was increased without limits......"

A nerve in the deepest part of Wang Weiyi's heart was plucked at once......

Locke was still excitedly telling the other party everything...... Housing prices in New York have risen again and again. It has driven housing prices in the cities around New York to rise again and again......

Then came the boom in the market and the soaring stock price. Many Americans have given up their normal jobs and are committed to the ranks of property speculators or the stock market without hesitation.

Now it has even developed to the point that you don't have to look at the house at all, as long as you have a house deed. And specialized institutions have also begun to flourish, and they can keep the house contract on their behalf, and the buyer does not have to handle it at all. Often, a contract for a home bought for $2,000 changes hands in a matter of minutes, rising to $2,500. Then the new buyer will wait again for the next taker, again waiting for a huge profit.

The economy of New York and the United States has been boosted again......

Wang Weiyi's brows gradually furrowed...... Familiar, this scene is really too familiar to him...... He was tempted to tell Locke that this was definitely not a normal thing...... But if he really said that, Locke must have thought that the guest in front of him was crazy......

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New York Stock Exchange, January 1966.

The new year has just started without much time, but the boom on the stock exchange has reached an incredible point.

The crowd was crowded, the stock price continued to soar from the opening, and everyone's face was filled with excitement, as if countless money was flying in front of their eyes.

All this is still so familiar to Wang Weiyi...... At that time, "Mr. Moyol" once staged a "good show" here that stunned the whole world.

There's nothing particular about Wang Weiyi, and he's pretty sure the stock market isn't normal. It's a very irrational market. Maybe one day, the stock market will collapse as completely as it did in the past.

At that time, countless people will go bankrupt and countless people will jump from the highest floors.

He doesn't know exactly how all of this happened at the moment, but he knows that any abnormal behavior in the stock market is driven by a huge behind-the-scenes hand......

What he wants to find is this "black hand".

When out of the stock market. He found that there were many brokerage companies around, and these companies had only one business:

Buying and selling house deeds!

Curious, he walked in with a random company and found that it was no less lively than the stock market.

"Deed to the house at 296 Brasio Avenue in the Bronx. $60,000. ”

"$65,000!"

"70,000, I'll give 70,000!"

"80,000., hey, I'm out $80,000!"

The quotations were louder and louder, as if none of this was money.

Finally, the deed to the house at 296 Brasio Avenue in the Bronx was obtained by the guy who paid $80,000, and it was a middle-aged man. His face was filled with excitement. He paid $80,000 and signed a contract without even taking the one that was supposed to be his.

"Sir. Why don't you take the contract? Wang Weiyi came to the man and asked.

The middle-aged man looked at the young man in front of him like a monster: "Are you crazy?" Tomorrow, no, this contract will rise to more than $90,000 in the afternoon, why should I pay an extra fee? Yes. Youngster. You're probably coming to New York for the first time, and no one here is going to take the contract. ”

Wang Weiyi nodded.

At this time, he saw a woman in her 27s and 8s who had bought a house deed in a very poor location for $26,000, but the woman's face was also full of excitement. She rushed to a corner of the office and said to a little girl, "Hey, Alice, Mommy got it." We'll have money soon. ”

Her daughter has been waiting for her mother here for a long time, and she is only about five or six years old. A lonely man playing with a shabby doll. Hearing her mother's excited voice, she probably didn't understand what it meant: "Mom, I'm hungry." ”

"Ah, you wait for me a while, and I'll take you to eat after the formalities are completed." The woman left her daughter excitedly.

"Hello, Alice." Wang Weiyi came to Alice: "I'm Moyol, can I talk to you?" ”

"Hello, Mr. Moyol." The lonely Alice raised her head and looked at the stranger in front of her: "Of course you can, but what do you want to say?" ”

Wang Weiyi sat down beside her: "Look, is that your mother?" ”

"Yes, she's my mother, Xie Lisa." Alice smiled sweetly.

"And what about your father?"

"Ah, I've never seen my father."

"I'm sorry, Alice."

"It's okay, Mr. Moyol."

"Look, what does your mother do?"

"She danced, but she never taught me to dance."

Wang Weiyi nodded: "Are you hungry?" ”

"Yes, sir, I am hungry, and I have not eaten since morning." Alice had some melancholy in her eyes: "But I'm used to it, because in the past I also ate very little, and sometimes I didn't eat yet." ”

"Alice, I told you not to talk to strangers." At this time, Xie Lisha, who had completed the formalities, walked over, grabbed her daughter, and then looked at Wang Weiyi with vigilant eyes.

"I'm sorry, ma'am." Looking at the young mother, Wang Weiyi also stood up: "Your daughter is very cute, I can't help but say a few more words to her." ”

"Mom, this is Mr. Moyol."

The daughter's voice softened Xie Lisha's expression a little: "Alice, what do you want to eat at noon?" ”

"Madame, allow me to express my apologies." Wang Weiyi was the first to say: "I know that there is a good French restaurant near here, and if you can agree, I would very much like to invite you and Alice to go with me." ”

Xie Lisha was relieved when she heard this, she probably wanted to pursue herself again......

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With great food, good surroundings and romantic music, Silisa and her daughter have never been to such an upscale restaurant.

This is a young rich man, and it is a good thing to be favored by such people, better than those drunkards and gamblers who surround him all day...... Provided, of course, that he would be able to accept her daughter...... Xie Lisha thought quietly in her heart......

Alice didn't care about that, she was clearly more interested in these things than anything else......

Watching the mother and daughter gobble up their food. Wang Weiyi looked at them with a smile, and when they looked up from the plate with satisfaction, Wang Weiyi asked for dessert for Alice. Then someone served Xie Lisa a drink: "Madam, I just saw that you bought a house deed worth $26,000?" ”

"Call me Lissa." Speaking of this, Xie Lisha suddenly became excited again: "The location is not very good, but it will appreciate several times." Alice and I have money. ”

From the brief conversation just now, Wang Weiyi learned that Xie Lisha was a stripper in an underground nightclub, and she was a single mother, and her man broke up with her very early. Mother and daughter have always lived in great poverty. This made him a little curious: "Do you have $26,000?" ”

"Ahh It's not easy to get this money together. There was some pride in Xie Lisha's voice: "I sold everything in the family that I could sell, as well as a house left to me by my father. ”

"You sold your house to buy another house?" Wang Weiyi felt a little incredible.

"That house doesn't have much potential for appreciation." Xie Lisa felt that it was nothing: "In New York, many people do this and sell their houses. Go and buy a more valuable house deed. Of course, maybe the house we sell will go up soon, but it's nothing compared to what we get. Of course. Even so. I also had to borrow a large loan shark, but I'm sure I'll pay it off soon. ”

Wang Weiyi was silent, these people had completely lost themselves. He said slowly, "Xie Lisa, ah, and you, Alice, shall I tell you a story?" ”

Hearing that the story was to be told, Xie Lisha's mother and daughter were very happy. They listened to "Monsieur Moyol" say in a deep voice: "1593." A horticulturist named Clusius discovered a very beautiful flower in Austria, and he was very curious. So he took some of its seeds, and then Clusius moved from Vienna to the Netherlands, because the climate and soil of the Netherlands are very suitable for the growth of this flower, under the careful cultivation of Clusius, it did not take long to produce bright flowers, and some people named it 'Tuber1d' at that time, it is the tulip ...... that we know today."

He glanced at the mother and daughter who were listening with relish: "Because tulips were rare flowers at that time, and they were indeed very beautiful after flowering, they won the favor of the elite class and were sought after by dignitaries for a while. Speculators everywhere, witnessing this phenomenon, began speculative behavior against tulips. They first bought tulip bulbs at a high price, and then resold them to the nobles of the court at a higher price. Gradually, the frenzy brought about by this flower became a popular trend, and more and more people joined the ranks of buying and selling tulips, even the pawns of fish and vegetable sellers. They are willing to break the bank to buy a tulip bulb because they believe that someone will pay more than double the price for it. ”

Wang Weiyi took a sip of coffee: "In 1634, because a large number of foreign merchants heard that the Dutch tulip trade was very prosperous, they went to the Netherlands to participate in tulip speculation, which caused the price of tulip bulbs, which was already sky-high, to soar again. So far, this tulip mania has been going on for more than 30 years. In order to satisfy the frenzy of tulip trading, the Amsterdam Exchange has set up a special trading venue for this purpose. In the following two years, the price of a bulb of the most common tulip rose to 64 guilders, and that was in January 1637. Just a month later, the price of this tulip bulb became Rp 1,668, which is an incredible increase. However, to everyone's surprise, just two days later, the price of this tulip bulb was equal to about 0.15 dong......"

Wang Weiyi's voice became even lower: "What happened on February 4, 1637 is the biggest unsolved case in the financial history of the entire world, and there is no one. On this morning, in Amsterdam and elsewhere, the tulips were bought and sold as usual, with merchants craned their necks and buyers stepping out of their luxurious carriages, seemingly as usual. While all kinds of transactions were underway, God knows what was going on, and someone began to sell out their tulip contracts, and at this moment, the first domino of the tulip bubble was toppled down. Then came the rush to sell their tulip contracts, because no one wanted to be the last fool. The price market of Dutch tulips fell to freezing point in an instant, and all kinds of hysterical strange sounds were heard from the exchange, and the whole of Amsterdam was immersed in a kind of apocalyptic atmosphere, and the tulip bubble was burst. On April 27 of the same year, the Dutch government finally stepped in and ordered the termination of all tulip contracts. ”

"What is a contract sale?" Wang Weiyi smiled and said: "Since tulips themselves belong to plants, whether it is bulbs or flowers, it is impossible to leave the soil for a long time and be bought and sold in the trading market, it will die." So on the basis of physical transactions, in order to satisfy the frenzied speculation, merchants invented a method of trading with contracts instead of physical ones. A sells 15 tulip flowers to B at the current price, and after B confirms that A's inventory is true, the two parties sign a contract, B pays A the money for the 115 flowers according to the contract, A signs the contract to prove that he has transferred the flowers to B, and then B waits until the price rises again, and then takes the paid contract and goes to the next buyer. ”

Xie Lisha also laughed: "These people are really some fools, if it were me, they would never do this!" (To be continued......)