On May 17, 1926, a long-distance telephone number from Shanghai to Wuxi and Suzhou was opened.

Lin Zixuan tried to make a call to the old Lin family in Wuxi. Although it had to be transferred by the telephone bureau and had to wait a lot of time, the signal was very good and the sound was very clear.

This made him feel quite emotional. After so many years of travel, he finally felt a modern feeling.

In later generations, mobile phones were connected globally and the Internet was popularized. The information age made people quick and convenient to connect with others.

During the Republic of China, the main contact information for ordinary people was still based on letters, and only wealthy families would install telephones.

It took Lin Zixuan a long time to get used to this slow-paced life.

In the future, long-distance phone calls to Nanjing, Peking, and Guangzhou will no longer be a problem.

What follows is a change in people's lifestyle. The news that used to take a few days to wait for is now known in a few minutes, which will have a significant impact on all walks of life in China.

This is called technology changing life.

However, long-distance calls cannot solve the problem Lin Zixuan faces, his problem is lack of money.

It’s not that I’m short of money right now, but that I’m very short of money in the future.

In this society, it is not enough to do something real and have no money. Most of its industries are slow to heat up, and they are about long-term flow, and only the film industry can be considered huge profits.

But even if the movies shot every year can be sold, it is still too slow to make money.

If you want to get rich overnight, you can only make trouble in the financial market.

What Lin Zixuan is thinking about is not the financial market in Shanghai, but the financial market in the United States.

His graduation thesis at Columbia University talked about the Great Depression in the United States in 1929.

On January 24, 1929, the New York stock market price fell sharply within one day, and the big crisis began.

Immediately afterwards, banks collapsed, factories went bankrupt, workers were unemployed, the United States fell into an economic crisis, and then spread to the world, forming a global economic crisis.

Although Lin Zixuan studied economics, he was not proficient in the operation of the stock market.

He has seen stock market crashes in later TV series, such as the classic Hong Kong TV series era, and many rebirth-related online stories in which rebirth make huge profits by using stock market crashes.

As a time traveler, he occasionally fantasizes about the scene of calling the wind and rain in the stock market.

But the reality is rather cruel. During the Republic of China period, there was no global network computer, and all transactions on exchanges needed to be written by people. The transfer of funds was not that convenient.

Everything is so primitive.

More importantly, the United States is there, and there are strict restrictions on Chinese investment.

How his funds enter the US market, how to operate it, how to clean up the money after making money, and how he transfers the money to China without knowing it. This all requires careful planning.

Otherwise, once the US government discovers abnormalities, it can freeze the account or even arrest people at any time.

For this reason, Lin Zixuan consulted the elite in the financial industry, that is, the general manager he recruited.

Because there are many things, he no longer manages the specific business of Lin's Commercial Bank. Only major decisions of the bank require him to make decisions.

Shanghai is China's financial center and there are many financial talents who have returned from studying abroad.

The person he was looking for was called Xi Debing, which was introduced by Song Ziwen.

Xi Debing was born in 1892. He studied engineering at MIT and worked in finance after the Chinese People's Republic of China. Although he did not major in finance, he was born in the Xi family in Shanghai.

The Xi family is similar to the Lin family. They were originally from Dongshan, Suzhou. After Shanghai opened a port, they moved to Shanghai to start a business.

After decades of exhibitions, it has become the top family in Shanghai's financial industry.

The Xi family has produced a large number of influential bankers and industrialists. They are managers, managers and assistant managers in major foreign banks on the Bund, with more than 30 people.

Many families and friends who were intimate with the Xi family also came to Shanghai because of the Xi family's relationship, forming a special group centered on the Xi family.

The comprador group of the financial industry, "Dongting Gang".

Over the years, relying on family marriages, the Xi family, the Shen family, the Hu family, and the Wang family have controlled half of Shanghai's financial industry.

Because they are both from Jiangsu, the Lin family and the Xi family are also related to each other.

Xi Debing was very surprised by Lin Zixuan's idea of ​​making money in the US stock market. He felt that he was a little whimsical.

It is nothing wrong for Shanghai to say that it is China's financial center, but compared with the US stock exchange, it is a big deal. If you rashly enter a strange market, you will not only not make money, but you will lose money.

This also involves the laws and rules of the financial market in the United States.

Lin Zixuan thought about it and with his energy, he might not be able to clean up the money safely after making money.

He had already let it go at that time. But now his life has a higher pursuit. If you want to do something for society, you need to take a risk and try to wave your hoe and dig the corners of imperialism.

He did not plan to do it alone, which required extremely careful planning and gathered a group of elites from the financial industry.

In other words, he wants to play a big game.

He has to rely on the power of the country to disrupt the US financial market with the entire country's financial elites.

He set his sights on Song Ziwen.

At this time, Song Ziwen was the Minister of Finance of the Guangdong National Government. When the Northern Expedition was successful, he controlled China's financial power.

Time is endless, from 1926 to 1929, it only took three years.

These three years are the preparation period, and funds and personnel can be transferred to the United States little by little, waiting for the opportunity, and also starting to prepare for a way out, and not being noticed by the US government.

This time, not only in the financial field, but also in the cooperation of diplomatic and intelligence departments. This is a financial war between the two countries.

The only question is how he convinced Song Ziwen to play this crazy game with him.

It is useless to just talk about friendship. Once it is discovered by the United States, it will affect the diplomatic relations between China and the United States.

However, one thing Lin Zixuan can be sure of is that the new government established after the success of the Northern Expedition will be very short of money.

Wars always cost money.

What Lin Zixuan had to do was to make Song Ziwen believe that the United States would have an economic crisis in 1929, and then let Chinese financiers analyze the possibilities and formulate corresponding strategies.

Of course, it may also be that Song Ziwen doesn't believe it at all, and just thinks that this is the story of his new novel.

Then Lin Zixuan had no choice but to play around with it.

After he planned to invest in Wall Street stock markets in American film companies, he would make money in the United States, clean up the money through the box office of the movie, and then transfer it to China.

Such a small fight will probably only earn millions of dollars at most, and the advantage is that it will not attract the attention of the US government.

He decided to talk to Song Ziwen first, because this was a rare opportunity after all.

Before this, he would prepare a theoretical basis to convince Song Ziwen.

He would sort out some of the information that could be taken out in his mind, and combine the economic conditions of the United States and Europe to write a paper on the upcoming economic crisis in the United States.

Whether to do something big depends on Song Ziwen's courage. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!