Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 44: Reading Letters from Home
Subtitle of this chapter: The stock market is risky, so be cautious when investing.
After reading "Jerusalem Territory", Yuan Yan couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. This novel is really... indescribable. Which magazine can I submit my work to?
Thinking of submitting the article, he then remembered that there were still a few letters on the table that he hadn't read. Master Yuan picked up the letters and flipped through them. The others were fine, but there was one family letter from Shanghai instead of Wuxi, and the sender was Yuan Yanshu's father.
He slapped his forehead. He was so confused these past few days that he even forgot to write a letter to his family asking for tuition. Instead, he received a letter from home first.
Yuan Yanshu opened the letter and saw the following words: My son Yanshu Qinglan...
If it weren't for the classical Chinese foundation that his great-great-uncle had laid when he was a child, he really wouldn't have been able to read this letter. But before he finished reading, Yuan Yan's face suddenly changed drastically, and his fingertips trembled so much that he couldn't even hold the letter and it fell to the ground!
He really didn't expect that, and of course he didn't remember at this point in time, his great-grandfather, um, now his father, actually... became rich!
In his double memory, Mr. Yuan, who had obtained the title of Juren in the Qing Dynasty, had only a head full of stereotyped contemporary essays and a belly full of inappropriate thoughts.
What was his biggest grudge in life? Two words: foreigners! In his opinion, without foreigners, the Qing Dynasty would be fine, so he hated everything related to foreigners, including Western medicine.
What was his greatest wish in life? Two words, to become a Jinshi! It was precisely because of the troubles caused by foreigners and fake foreigners that the Qing Dynasty abolished the imperial examination, so that he, a juren, could not become a Jinshi and embark on a real official career, and lost the opportunity to revive his family business.
What is his biggest wish in life? Two words, publish a book... well, establish a reputation! Confucian disciples like Mr. Yuan always think about "establishing virtue, establishing merit, and establishing reputation" until they grow old. The two requirements of establishing virtue and establishing merit are too high, so he only asks for the last one, establishing reputation. It's a pity that no one reads contemporary literature now, right? So he can only "become a good doctor if he can't be a good prime minister", and he has been tinkering with a medical book in his hometown of Wuxi for many years.
This typical feudal landlord and backward old man who should have been swept into the garbage dump of history actually caught up with the trend of the times overnight and started... speculating in stocks!
At the beginning, Mr. Yuan was not so trendy. It was only at the beginning of this year that he invested a few hundred dollars to test the waters under the persuasion of his father-in-law Zhou. However, this test gave birth to an investment genius, and within a month, the few hundred dollars doubled.
Don't be surprised, it was so easy to make money in the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 1920. Just like... there are too many similar examples to mention.
Mr. Yuan finally realized that he was not only talented in Chinese studies and medicine, but also had talents in finance that were beyond the reach of ordinary people. What else could he say? He immediately opened a small stock company with his father-in-law Zhou, and made a lot of money. Having finally found his second spring in life, he now wanted to do something big, and recently he opened a trust company with several old friends and fellow villagers.
Don’t be surprised, as ten trust companies could be opened in a week at that time.
Actually, the letter is quite normal up to this point, but there is a small problem. The name of this company is Hengtaihao...
The three words "Hengtaihao" really scared his son and great-grandson Yuan Yanshu, because the name was so loud that he could not forget it.
Our Master Yuan remembered that among the shareholders of this company there was "China's No. 1 Strange Man"", Zhang Jingjiang, one of the four great elders of the party and the country, Dai Jitao, the biological father of Patton's mentor, the pioneer of armor, and Chen Guofu, the future leader of the CC faction and one of the four great families. In addition to these well-known figures, there is another one who is even more famous... Chuan Lin Beitui!
Sefosa... well, damn! It turns out that our Yuan family is also part of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang financial group! !
Oh my, look at those Apple fans who came from poor peasant families for eight generations and have fought for the party and the country until the 21st century, and then look at myself, the five black categories...
At this moment, Yuan Yanshu had only eight words in his mind - Be kind to Apple fans, starting with me!
He calmed himself down, picked up the letter and continued reading. However, his hands began to tremble and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
How could a trust company jointly invested with others satisfy Mr. Yuan’s ambition? He planned to become a real banker with a few friends and set up an exchange!
Don't say it's impossible. These days, opening an exchange is not much more difficult than opening a restaurant. By October next year, there will be more than 140 stock exchanges in Shanghai, which is more than the number of Western restaurants in Shanghai at that time.
So Mr. Yuan mortgaged most of his family's land. And he really had "talent in finance that ordinary people could not match", and he actually knew how to raise funds from the public without any guidance!
The targets of this private fundraising are naturally the relatives and friends of the Yuan family.
The purpose of writing this letter was, on the one hand, to "announce the good news" to his son and show off his "achievements"; on the other hand, to tell Yuan Yanshu that there is "plenty of money" in Shanghai and "stupid people" in the stock market, so he should finish his doctorate and "come here" as soon as possible, so that they can work together to build a financial empire...
The emperor is your master, the country is your mother!
It's not disrespectful to the ancestors. Yuan Yanshu really wanted to curse. He finally understood. No wonder his family moved from the countryside of Wuxi to the Magic City in the 1920s, and Yuan Yanshu himself joined the bank opened by his father-in-law. This was clearly due to the stock market crash at the end of the next year. As the saying goes, "Yesterday's Tao Zhu, today's beggar", he lost most of his family's ancestral property due to stock speculation failure, and at the same time, he cheated his fellow villagers. In the end, he couldn't even stay in his hometown!
No, this is absolutely not possible!
Our Master Yuan was extremely anxious, so he picked up a piece of paper and wrote: Father, please accept my praises...
“Pika Pika…”
Yuan Yan, who had just written these six words, threw the Parker gold pen in her hand onto the table and said, "Master Ball, stop being so rude. I understand."
He took out a cigarette, lit it, took two deep puffs, and then asked leisurely, "Master Ball, how should I write so as not to exceed the warning threshold of the S value?"
This time, the light on the Master Ball flickered as if it was calculating something. After a while, it said, "Regarding stocks, the host can only write ten words at most."
"Ten words... Master Ball, it can't be those ten words, right?"
"The host is really smart, it's those ten words. "
As expected, it would be a miracle if this broken system really allowed me to change history.
Yuan Yan frowned and thought for a long time, and finally came to his senses when the cigarette butt burned his fingers. He slowly asked, "Master Ball, I can't stop my father from speculating in stocks, so can I suggest that my brother buy a house?"
He is not bragging about his real great-grandfather. Compared with his great-grandfather who loved to trade stocks and his great-great-uncle who didn't like to read, Yuan Hongjian's direct great-grandfather, Yuan Yanshu's second brother Yuan Yanmou, is much more reliable.
