Seeing the 600,000 gold coins spent, Katya's expression remained calm, but cold sweat broke out in her palms, and she couldn't help but suffer from gains and losses: if Roland's news was wrong, or something happened on the battlefield at sea, all the bills worth more than 10 million gold coins would become waste paper, and the only thing waiting for the Yangbo family was bankruptcy was the most tragic ending. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Also feeling the benefits and losses of the status quo is Jonathan.

The impetuous fat man sometimes stood up and walked around, sometimes rubbed around on the sofa, and finally couldn't help but ask Campbell: "The 600,000 gold coins are about to run out, what kind of trick do you think Katya will do next?" ”

Campbell crossed his arms over his chest, stared fixedly at the bleak sunset outside the window, and after a long time spoke: "Jonathan, guess where these 600,000 gold coins came from." ”

"...... from the airship"

"Where did the airship come from?"

"Uh...... Presumably borrowed money from other city-states. Jonathan scratched his head.

"Under such circumstances, which city-state is willing to lend such a huge sum of money to Baiou Harbor, and it is not afraid of being lost?"

"That's it......" Jonathan thought in thought, furrowing his brow.

Campbell pulled the corners of his mouth, and a hint of expression appeared on his ice-like cold face that could barely be regarded as a smile: "Since Baiou Harbor can still borrow money, it means that the situation is not incorrigibly bad, wait and see, I am sure that there will always be a turnaround." He stood up, "I'll go out for a cigarette and we'll talk later." ”

"Well, I'm relieved to hear your analysis like this." Jonathan retracted into the couch and lifted his legs to continue flipping through the newspaper that didn't have anything new.

Private Lieutenant watched Campbell's back disappear into the staircase leading to the rooftop, hesitated, and finally made up his mind to tell Jonathan the truth.

Jonathan is his old commander, and after retiring, he did not change his sailor style, he bragged about himself on weekdays, loved wine and gambling infinitely, and always looked complacent, but he was a warm-hearted and good man, and he had nothing to say to his friends, and there was no man in the world who was more righteous than him, so the "private" felt that he had an obligation to remind the old chief that he could not watch this good-hearted fat man be kicked into the crematorium.

He walked up to Jonathan, leaned over and whispered in his ear, "I am touched by the depth of your friendship with Mr. Campbell, sir, but may I remind you that is possible, even if it is only the slightest possibility, that Mr. Campbell is selling bonds behind his back, and is only fooling those who have been kept in the dark to take over?" ”

Jonathan looked up at him with disgust, "What nonsense are you talking about, Campbell is an honest man, I have confidence in him, even if it turns out that the bond in my hand turns into a pile of waste paper in the end, I will accompany Campbell to the end." ”

"How do you feel that Mr. Campbell was a successful stockbroker, and we all know that he managed wealth for several institutions at the same time, the largest of which came from the ruling families of the three city-states of Cold Spring, Tana and Rowa?" Traders are careful to give hints.

Jonathan smiled proudly, "My friend has won the favor of the nobles of various states with his outstanding talents, which proves that his investment vision is trustworthy. ”

The trader sighed, and reluctantly made a more explicit hint: "Listen to me, Mr. Campbell needs to be responsible to his three most powerful owners, who entrust him with a large amount of real money to buy and sell securities, and when he makes money, he will take a proportional commission, and if he loses money, he must pay a part of the compensation to those nobles in accordance with the terms of the contract, otherwise he will have to suffer lawsuits, and don't want to mix in this industry in the future, but you see, this hall is now full of countless selling orders, except for a few crazy people who are obsessed with money...... I don't mean you, of course, but I mean Miss Katya and the two college students, who come here once in a while, and spend an hour or two picking and choosing like an old woman buying vegetables at the market, and buying some of the lowest discounted bills, but it doesn't help at all, and people are eager to cash all the bills in their hands into gold, and I guess Mr. Campbell has the same concern, he has too many bills in his hand, and if the current situation continues to depreciate, he will have to pay his own money to compensate for the client's shortfall, which is a lot of money. It was enough to bankrupt him, so his biggest headache now was how to sell these hot potatoes as soon as possible. ”

Jonathan impatiently dropped the newspaper and glared angrily, "You bastard, can you be more refreshed?" What do you say all this nonsense have to do with me? ”

"Well, Mr. Jonathan, what else are you going me to say? If a man is in a hurry to cash in the bills in his hand, he certainly cannot tell his friends that these colorful pieces of paper are depreciating, on the contrary, he must coax others into believing that it is profitable to hold these notes, coax others to take these bombs from him that may explode at any moment, and the rest is left to me? ”

"Okay, you're a private, you've come full circle, don't you just want to say that Campbell is lying to me? Come on, I don't believe your nonsense, as Campbell said, the situation looks bad at first glance, but opportunities are always in danger, and now is the time to make a move, just wait for our fleet to defeat the pirates, and everything will change! ”

"What if our fleet is defeated by pirates and loses this war?"

"Bastard! How can you say that! Don't forget, you were once a glorious sailor! Jonathan jumped up in anger, and was about to teach this "private" a hard lesson, when the door of the trading hall was suddenly slammed open, and a man stumbled in, waving a newspaper and shouting hysterically:

"The pirates have retreated! Evening News Headlines! The Monster Island fleet has been defeated by our Coast Guard! ”

"What nonsense are you talking about, the evening newspaper was published at seven o'clock, and it's only half past six ......"

"Fuck a bunch of idiots! Do you still want to speculate at this point? Lao Tzu is the editor of the newspaper, and this is the copy of the evening newspaper in my hand! ”

There was a dead silence in the hall, and countless faces were stunned.

Katya let out a sigh of relief, a smile on her tired face. Now she is sure that the Yangbo family has survived, and has made a lot of money - all kinds of securities bills with a total face value of nearly 20 million have been recovered by her at an average price of less than two discounts, and where else in the world can there be a more lucrative deal!

The silent hall suddenly became commotion again, and everyone frantically called for traders to buy securities, but it was too late, and all the sell orders were emptied in an instant, and the blackboard, which had been as clean as a beggar's dinner plate a minute earlier, was quickly filled with buy orders, going from one extreme to the other......

Each speculator seems to be rational and clever in speech and demeanor, but when they gather, the overall level of intelligence will drop bizarrely and dramatically, and degenerate into a single-celled animal called the "rabble", large and sluggish, unable to think calmly, only blindly responsive, unwilling or afraid to answer the question: what is the point of doing this kind of following the herd now, and who else can be expected to complete the transaction with you?