In the past two years, relying on excellent quality, or overwhelming quality, the stockings, perfumes, clothing, and leather bags produced by Daming are all in short supply.

Han Yun became a popular luxury brand in high society in Europe.

No matter how anti-Ming people are, it is difficult to control their wives from buying Daming's stockings.

In France, Denmark, Austria and other places, protests against Ming goods have broken out before.

Desperate local artisans, small entrepreneurs, and simply loath-disgusting white supremacists took to the streets.

They point out that the evil dividend-sharing piglet is a sign of Ming imperialism, a fangs that the Yellow Peril shows to the Western world.

They burned the Ming Dynasty's sun and moon flags on the streets, and burned clothes, school bags, and uniforms printed with the Peggy symbol.

But when they set fire to the stockings, they were met with a head-on attack from the women's rolling pins.

His Majesty Zhu Fugui, Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, also made a speech to the fans of Europe through the airwaves, pointing out that the narrow nationalist concept of some Europeans is a violation of the universal values of all mankind, a low-level and uncivilized behavior, and an act that only increases hatred.

The world is big enough to accommodate both the East and the West.

The beauty of the world allows us to connect with each other beyond skin color, language, and ethnicity.

I do it myself, and I am always connected.

Those who incite hatred and tell right and wrong make my heart ache very much, and my heart is about to break......

Let us join hands with more tolerance and understanding, and never allow the flower of evil to bloom in the rich land of Europa.

……

Zhu Fugui's speech was a success.

It's just that after reading the speech, Zhu Fugui turned his head and went to inspect the new equipment of the Ming Royal Army.

As long as there are the hardest guns and the most ruthless tanks, then Winston Churchill, who is full of feces and preaches racial vendetta everywhere, can also become a great statesman and be recorded in the annals of history in the name of the liberator of mankind.

Zhu Fugui felt that according to his usual remarks about the little angel of peace, there should be no problem in being named the first benevolent king of the ages after his death.

If there is a Nobel Peace Prize, if it is not won for forty or fifty consecutive terms, the real number selection committee will suppress me.

·

A woman's money is easy to make.

Historically, the primitive accumulation of Japan's rise, in addition to Meiji Hime's voyage to the South Seas to earn foreign exchange, was the export of raw silk to the United States, and then made into silk stockings and sold all over the world.

Today, some of the raw silk produced in the Japanese island is also used in the stockings of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has replaced the United States and become the world's stocking factory.

In fact, since last year, the sales of Daming stockings have surpassed that of tractor chassis.

Of course, tractor chassis are only exported to a small number of countries such as Germany and Ottoman, while stockings are exported to the whole of Europe and even the world.

The sales volume of the two is not in the same order of magnitude at all.

It's just that the premium of the chassis sold by Daming to the Germans is too much, which is close to the total amount.

Luxury and feminine products are very important to Daming, but this time Julie's visit to Europe to attend the opening of the Hanyun Brussels store is actually just a cover.

This financial genius girl's goal this time is not just a woman's money.

·

James Bond stepped out of the ferry and looked up at the sky.

It's rare that London hasn't rained, but the weather is still overcast.

"Sir, Canary Wharf has arrived, and the ferry fee is twopence."

"Okay."

Bond pulls two coins out of his pocket and hands them to the sailor.

Straightening his tie and wiping his boots, Bond walked towards the building in front of him.

City.

In London, there are two worlds in the City and outside of the City.

In the financial city, there are no dirty, scrawny workers, no poorer people.

A patrolman with a big belly will beat anyone who tries to beg on the side of the road with a stick.

Every minute and every second, new millionaires are born, and bankrupts jump off rooftops.

This is the reality of the Kingdom of Goa, the paradise of the world's capitalists and bankers, and the dream of the old man who cannot see the suffering of the poor.

Whether it is New York, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, or even Fengdu, the importance of the game of global financial capital cannot be compared with here.

As a clerk at the London Patent Office, Bond knew he wasn't in a much better position here than a dog.

British civil servants, including the police, are the dogs of the big capitalists.

Of course, veteran civil servants who are in powerful departments, capable, and intertwined with their networks can also talk and laugh with bankers.

For Bond, he was just a small clerk, but he didn't have any fear of these fat guys in his heart.

I'm a vicious dog, but not a vicious dog that you raised, and my dog food comes from Minglijian.

Every day in the dead of night, Bond would check between his buttocks with a kerosene lamp and a mirror to make sure the white hound's tattoo was still visible.

As a brocade guard, he has been lurking, waiting for the day when the motherland needs him.

And this day has come......

·

Because of the emergence of the Ming Dynasty, today's London is more progressive than in 1871 in history.

The most obvious is that there are nearly 13 cars on the roads of the Financial City.

The high-lead water pipes aided by Daming arrived a few months ago.

Naturally, the Financial City was one of the first premium users to enjoy it.

So there are traces of excavation everywhere on the road, causing a lot of traffic congestion.

"Damn, is old Eventon demented? Didn't he know that more than 150,000 people come here every day to work? ”

"yes, it's maddening!"

"Bear with me, these pipes are buried, and you won't have to dry your mouth when you stare at the stock in the future."

"Hopefully, if old Eventon still had a little brain, he should have connected the damn subway while burying the water pipes......"

……

White-collar workers who have given up their cars or horse-drawn carriages are like clockwork ants, walking briskly through all kinds of earthwork and stones.

As they complained, more than 3 per cent of London's population commutes to work in this area of just one square mile.

Because the average salary here is 10 times higher than elsewhere.

And this small area also produces nearly 3% of the GDP of the United Kingdom.

Of course, in this era, there was no concept of GDP, but the total output value of industry and agriculture, especially the output of grain and steel, was used as the standard of national strength.

But there's no denying that the City is extremely important to the UK.

Carrying a briefcase, Bond shuttled between the headquarters of Standard Chartered Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Bank of England, Baocheng Insurance Company and other financial giants.

Except for stopping to look at Princess Sissi's huge stocking billboard for a while, he didn't have any nostalgia.

It wasn't until a seemingly unremarkable three-story building appeared in front of him that Bond stopped.

London Stock Exchange.

Founded in 1773, this ancient institution has tens of millions of pounds of money every day, in the form of stocks and bonds, where transactions are settled.

The best mathematicians, or problem-solvers, in Europe gather here, calculating massive amounts of data and earning sky-high salaries.

Data from the stock exchanges of Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Dublin will all be brought together here.

And thanks to the long-term reliable operation of the Atlantic Cable, the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Montreal Stock Exchange, both under the London Stock Exchange, can also complete real-time transactions within 15 minutes.

It can be said that the communication capability of the stock exchange is much stronger than that of the British Navy and Army.

"Sir, the exchange will open promptly at nine o'clock, so please be patient for now."

Bond, the high-end suit purchased with special funds made the doorman smile kindly.

He pulled out his credentials from his briefcase and said, "I'm a James examiner at the London Patent Office, and I received an invitation from Mr. Jonathan to sign a document. ”

"Oh, it's you!"

There was no compliment in the doorman's tone, and he said indifferently, "Mr. Jonathan has explained that you should go to room 4 on the second floor to find him." ”

Bond nodded, then pulled out a £5 note from his bosom and handed it to him, "Thank you!" ”

Looking at Bond's distant back, the doorman was surprised to pick up the banknote and compare it with the sun.

It's a real pound, and the reliefs of Queen Victoria come to life.

"Are the little clerks in the patent office so rich?"

He shook his head with a wrench, "Maybe it's just a particularly generous gentleman!" ”

The stock exchange has not yet opened, and there are only a few staff members inside who are debugging equipment, or calculating data.

In his second-floor office, Bond met Jonathan, head of equipment management at the London Stock Exchange.

He was reading the newspaper with relish, and every now and then he let out a pig-killing laugh.

The Neue Berliner Zeitung is banned in London and is not allowed to be published publicly.

But for the executives of the London Stock Exchange, nothing is forbidden.

Even if it is "Daming Times", it is also an internal reference to understand the enemy's situation.

Corrupted by Ming imperialism?

Inexistent.

Today's Neue Berliner Zeitung is particularly thick.

There is a special supplement, "Exclusive Analysis and Digging Deeper: The Friendship between the Churchill Brothers and the Prince of Wales - The Story of the Young Lady Mary".

"Charlie Churchill's Eton College did not do well, but he must have been admitted to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst......"

……

Jonathan started reading half an hour ago and was immediately hooked.

It's so wonderful, it's really addictive.

After leaving Bond aside for a while, Jonathan reluctantly put down the newspaper in his hand.

"You're the clerk sent by Jules?" Jonathan asked.

"To be exact, I am the auditor, sir, Deputy Director Jules has asked me to review the originality and usability of the 'new Conca Calculation and Analysis Machine', and ask you to sign the document and issue the certificate." Bond said with a blank look.

Such an answer made Jonathan frown.

You know, the computing equipment of this era is a behemoth, and naturally it is impossible to display it in the patent office, so you can only submit drawings and patent introductions.

After these paper materials are reviewed and accepted, the patent office will send someone to conduct an on-site review.

With the relationship between the stock exchange and Deputy Director Jules, the on-site audit is just a process.

Generally speaking, it is enough to sign the documents directly for the record and get the patent certificate, after all, the high-quality stocks recommended to Jules by their side are not one or two.

I didn't expect the clerk he sent this time to be so old-fashioned and have to look at the machine.

It was a high-tech invention of Mr. Babbage, a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge and a member of the Royal Society.

You are a small civil servant, can you understand?

But Director Jonathan, who just wants to break people apart and continue to read Churchill's short story, doesn't want to argue about this.

He called his secretary and took the keys to accompany Bond to the equipment audit.

·

The "new Conca Calculation and Analysis Machine" takes up half the room.

Bond paid bribes to get the job, not to destroy the machine.

While studying at the Orphanage of the Suppressor Division, Bond had access to computing devices that were a hundred times more powerful than this one.

However, the kind of thing called a scientific calculator can only be equipped with technical arms such as artillery and naval artillery, and generally even regimental-level cadres may not have it.

So anyway, Bond doesn't like this huge, steampunk-laden machine.

In order to ensure that the task was completed and that there were no complications, he did not do anything to the machine.

It's like a nerd, referring to the application form at a glance, checking the data and usage methods of each part.

Jonathan's secretary still had to answer all questions at first, but he didn't even bother to be perfunctory later.

This machine has more than 3,000 parts, so he won't be full of food and go to accompany the fool to consume it!

Seeing that the trading time was approaching, the secretary explained twice and hurriedly walked away.

"Damn, run into an idiot!"

"Fortunately, it didn't delay me to make money, hehe, I really don't know how much Alufer can rise today!"

……

The secretary was referring to Alufer Aluminium in Birmingham.

In this era, securities trading was not standardized, and stock exchange staff could buy and sell stocks.

Whether it was that secretary, or the director of Jonathan, or even the guards who looked outside, the deputy director of Jules of the patent office, almost everyone held more or less shares in Alufer.

Over the past year, Alufer Aluminium's stock has gone through a long rally, and today, it has risen an insane 300 times.

Not only Alufer Aluminium, but also aluminium-related companies in Germany and France, the United Kingdom, Canada, India. The upstream bauxite mines of the United States (North) have all experienced a crazy spike in the value of the company's shares during this time.

All this is closely related to the progress of electrolytic aluminum technology and the practical trial production of aluminum alloy related products, such as electrical aluminum alloy 1050.

Although the output and quality are far from being comparable with Daming's products, these companies all have infinitely bright growth expectations.

After all, according to the relevant research of scientists from the Department of Chemistry of the Royal Academy of Sciences and the famous chemist Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev of friendly countries, although aluminum is a rich metal element in the earth's crust, aluminum ore resources with real mineable value are scarce.

Moreover, although the price of electrolytic aluminum has caused the price of aluminum to fall from the altar, its production cost is still high.

At the same time, aluminum alloy has the characteristics of low density, good mechanical properties, good processing performance, non-toxic, easy recycling, excellent electrical conductivity, heat transfer and corrosion resistance, and has amazing potential in the marine industry, chemical industry, aerospace, metal packaging, transportation and other fields.

Therefore, aluminum, high value, broad future, although the Ming Kingdom has technological advantages, but due to mineral restrictions and can never dump in large quantities......

These concepts have become a broad consensus in all walks of life.

In fact, for national defense considerations, Zhu Fugui has never exported high-quality "imported" aluminum alloy products to Western countries, and only exported aluminum products produced by Daming itself, such as aluminum pots, aluminum pots, aluminum forks and so on.

It is also true that its production is limited.

Based on such expectations and facts, countless people and countless funds have frantically flocked to aluminum concept stocks, pushing these stocks to new historical highs.

The whole financial world is going crazy.

The whole of London went crazy.

Even the capitalists of the whole of Europe went crazy.

As if money will make money infinitely, as long as the money, gold is constantly invested in the stock market, and into aluminum-related stocks, you can get ten times the profit.

Even many people have borrowed usury and increased several times the leverage stud on this stock.

After all, even a loan shark merchant in Paris doesn't make money as fast as he does in the stock market!

Layers of splendid bubbles of wealth are piled up, as if they will never burst.

Indeed, as long as those aluminium production lines can be put into operation as scheduled.

As long as the cost is not too high, too many local aluminum products can be produced, even if it relies on government subsidies to occupy the market, all investment expectations will be fulfilled.

Then the bubble is no longer a bubble, but real money, a thriving aluminum products trading market.

However......

What they don't know is that as early as two years ago, when Aluvre and other aluminum stocks were just listed on the London Stock Exchange, there was a mysterious force that was building positions at a low level.

In the process of the crazy rise of stocks, it is also this mysterious force that continues to fuel the flames.

That force is none other than the internal treasury of His Majesty Zhu Fugui, Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

And the operator of this pig-killing plate is Zhu Fugui's royal financial butler Julie.

She worked for two years, caring for these Europa leeks like a gardener, not to be a shareholder of Aluvre, but to wait patiently for the day of harvest.

James Bond in London, Vanderbilt Jolie in Brussels, and King Hung Tao VI in Guinea, West Africa, raised their wrists almost at the same time.

A fine Ming-style mechanical watch glistens in the sun, and the hour hand points to the last week of May 1871.5 at 2:15 p.m.

The most famous, most terrible, and most devastating stock market crash in the world's modern history, the Black Friday incident of the ninth year of Dewu, has officially begun.