The journey starts from the Titanic

The door closed with a "bang", which also blocked Situ Nan's sight.

Looking back at Robles, he was already lying on the sofa in a disrespectful way, the wine bottle in his hand fell to the floor, and a lot of alcohol poured out.

Chapter 17-The Year of 1914

Bismarck was right, because a war broke out in Europe because of an idiot in the Balkans.His prediction was correct, but even he did not expect how terrible the upcoming World War I would be in human history.

The outcome of this war will directly affect the world structure in the next hundred years.However, this is too early.Because the Allies headed by Britain, France and Russia and the Allies headed by Germany and Austria both have confidence in their own victory, and they all want to show each other good looks.

As for Italy, it doesn't matter if this role is not popular.

Since the start of the European war, the US stock market has been doing well?

wrong!It's a big bad!Many people on Wall Street feel like the end of the world.

Because Europeans are urgently withdrawing capital from the United States, they have to withdraw funds back to their homeland and invest them in domestic production.Otherwise, it cannot meet the needs of war.

The British, French, and Germans are all busy withdrawing funds from the United States. The response is that the New York stock market is down...down...down...

This caused panic in the stock market. U.S. investors believed that they could not survive without European funds.It is no wonder that the United States has such an idea. Over the past century, the U.S. economy has been booming, thanks to the influx of European capital into the United States, and the Americans have used European capital to complete the industrial revolution.

And from the perspective of trade, with the exception of a few stocks, most of the stocks dived because of the war, because they were afraid of losing trade in Europe.

Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages. Most Americans have not realized their power for a while, but the major consortiums in the United States with a keen sense of smell laughed in their hearts: European capital has been withdrawn, and the void left by it has not been left by the American consortium. Fill it in?

This is a godsend opportunity for American capital to break free from Europe and become independent.

Well, the future of the US stock market is bright, but it is terrible.Stocks are rolling down like dumplings falling into the water, even star stocks are no exception.

Seeing that this stock market crash is about to spread, Wall Street newspapers have already shouted to ask Morgan to rescue the stock market. It seems that Morgan is more experienced and is a bit of an order in crisis.

Indeed, on Wall Street, the White House's 100 sentences are not as convincing as Morgan's.

Well, even if Morgan intends to organize a rescue, it will take time. Before that, Situ Nan was already enough to do a lot of things.

The U.S. government's supervision of stock trading and securities trading only began after the stock market crash in 1929. It is now 1914. Well, it can be said that it is an era of lawlessness.

The lack of supervision, coupled with the turbulence in the stock market caused by the international trend, has given many speculators the opportunity to make waves.Among them is Situ Nan and his group. He and Robles are arbitrarily shorting the stock market!

They used 30 million U.S. dollars to leverage 30% of financial leverage to leverage 90 million U.S. dollars of funds, and then use the funds to short the stock market.

The result is naturally a big profit, but because of Situ Nan, the US stock market has hurt more than in history.Not only Situ Nan, but Wall Street is also active with a group of speculators who are also the main short-selling force.

Fortunately, because Situ Nan's methods are relatively secretive, most people don't know that he once played the role of a super villain in this incident. Instead, they pay attention to the long-established speculators.

Quietly drip into the village, don't shoot guns, Situ Nan is also happy to make money!

Numerous funds in the United States evaporated during this brief turmoil, but many people made money, and Situ Nan was just one of them.

After another few days, the situation has not improved, the stock market has been falling, and some have fallen to the bottom.It was when the backhand was doing long, so Situ Nan's butt was still not hot, and he was busy entering the game again.

It is really difficult to distribute and manipulate such a large amount of funds, but this reflects Robes’ ability, because most of the planning this time was done by Robles. Situ Nan was the one who gave the order. If you want to talk about actual operations, Biro Perth is far behind.

However, the two brothers cooperated with the effect similar to "Fang Mou Du Jian".They bought backhands. Some potential star stocks, such as U.S. Steel, Pacific Railroad, DuPont Powder Factory, American Aluminum Corporation, American Telegraph, General Electric, etc., bought aggressively, but because of limited funds, they came to not Offending the interests of those big consortia, Situ Nan buys mostly on average, so as not to touch the interests of those big consortia.

In fact, these consortia are also constantly repurchasing tradable stocks in the stock market. Once the situation improves, they can re-throw a share of stock to reap benefits.

As Situ Nan knows, taking advantage of the full withdrawal of European capital from the US market this time, American consortia such as Morgan, Rockefeller, Mellon, and Citigroup can easily occupy the void after the withdrawal of European capital.

The stock market turmoil was short-lived. After the American consortium took over Wall Street, the New York stock market began to slowly rise.Situ Nan found that the money in his account was bulging up little by little, and his heart was joyful. The excitement was beyond words.

The depression of American industry was also short-lived.Because there is a super game in Europe, the two sides in the battle did not expect that the resources produced by their own countries could not keep up with the front-line consumption, so they had to purchase from the United States.At this time, the spring of American industry has come.

Especially in the steel industry and military industry, stock prices have soared like an aphrodisiac. The rising momentum made Situ Nan the idea of ​​never wanting to sell.

Well, getting something for nothing is the best, but it is impossible.There is a fixed number of tides and tides. People can only follow the trend, otherwise they will be punished if they violate the law!

Before Situ Nan became a god, he had better adapt to the rules of the game.

After a few months, the U.S. stock market has returned to a normal level, and Situ Nan can also be very calm. These days, he has been excited, excited, and uneasy, and finally became numb. After a long time, he also calmed down. .

Secretly counted the results of the battle with Robles, and achieved outstanding results.

300 million dollars!

Well, the hearts of the two men began to beat quickly again, which was an amazing result.

The fly in the ointment is that the money scattered in hundreds or thousands of accounts cannot be taken out at once, and can only be cashed out bit by bit, so as not to attract others' attention.

It took Robles two years to complete the cash-out work, but the US stock market rose a lot at that time. If Situ Nan was not in dire need of funds to start his own business, he really wanted to test these stocks for dinner.

In fact, the United States really has to thank the idiot Ferdinand a lot, thank the brave young Serbian, they performed a scene that made the United States on the other side of the Atlantic have the last laugh.

Situ Nan knew that even China, thousands of miles away, ushered in the spring of national capitalism during World War I, not to mention the capitalist power of the United States.

What is good about investing?The prosperous American industry will be a big cake. Which one will you eat?Situ Nan thought.

These three billion dollars are so used!?

It has become a headache for Situ Nan.

After discussing with Robles, Situ Nan continued to hold stocks in star military companies worth about 100 million U.S. dollars. They will not be cashed out for the time being and will be sold after the United States enters the war.I believe it should be able to sell at a good price at that time.

In particular, the U.S. Steel Corporation has been in a downturn in recent years. Situ Nan bought 2% of U.S. Steel Corporation's shares at a cost of 20 million U.S. dollars. (It happened to be the price of cabbage at the time) became the world's most powerful steel The company's major shareholders, but afraid of attracting attention, Stuart instructed Robles to diversify the 2% of U.S. Steel's stock and never attended the shareholders meeting.

Although this is a pity, it is also impossible. After all, these huge profits from the stock market still need to be kept secret for some time. It does not matter if you have a firm foothold in a few years and then jump out.But now I have to be a low-key person.

The remaining 200 million will be cashed out slowly.

Situ Nan plans to invest 100 million dollars in Occidental Petroleum (in fact, far more than this number) from the stock market. The remaining 100 million will be used to invest in his own industry after retaining 20 million US dollars in cash. For example, steel plants, food companies, zippo lighter companies, marine shipbuilding, arms and explosives, and of course important bank securities.

How to become a consortium without its own banking system?

However, there is a long way to go to build your own banking system.

In addition to focusing on supporting the securities company he partnered with Robles: Robles Securities, Stuart also prepared two small and medium-sized banks, one is the California Union Bank of San Francisco and the other is the National Bank of Houston.

In addition to the previous Los Angeles Parker Bank, Situ Nan already has three banks under its umbrella, but they are not large, and they add up to less than 10 million U.S. dollars, which does not conform to Situ Nan’s "Central Bank" mindset, so he put His eyes were standard for an iconic bank in the west.

The bank that Situ Nan looked up to a hundred years later had entered the standard range of Situ Nan, and he waited patiently, and given time, he hit it.

But to be busy investing in industry, Situ Nan never had time to manage the bank. It was not until 1917 that the bank was integrated, and it became a large bank spanning several western states such as California and Texas. .

Now that this is still far away!Many things need to be implemented step by step, otherwise the beautiful dream will still be a dream after all.

Except for meat products factories, those companies that Situ Nan invested in were not very large at the beginning, but these industries have good prospects. Situ Nan believes that after additional investment and expansion, Situ Nan will develop one by one in the next few years. A benchmark company in the industry.

Of course, it is impossible to reward the Robles team for earning so much. On the day when all the funds were settled, Situ Nan gave the $3 million from this operation to the Robles team.