Manhattan Reborn 1978

Tokyo.

A quarter past nine in the morning~

Tokyo Imperial Hotel, 1-1 Uchisuki-cho, east of Hibiya Park, Chiyoda-ku.

David stood by the bed in the living room, overlooking Hibiya Park bathed in the warm spring sunshine, yawned, and said lazily to Maggie, the little secretary sitting behind the typewriter.

"Almost everyone knows now that the internationalization of the rice dollar today can be said to be entirely due to gold."

“In that chaotic era that had just taken a breather from the smoke of war, Keynes proposed the issuance of a world currency, which actively promoted the formation of the Bretton Woods system. It can be said to be one of the consensuses reached by various countries after many games. "

"Stablize!"

“As the country with the most powerful military and the largest gold reserves in the world at that time, the United States proposed to link gold to the rice dollar and make it a currency popular around the world. One of its main purposes was to achieve stability.”

"So in the decades since the establishment of the Bretton Woods system, there has been no international gold market that ordinary investors or banks can participate in, let alone financial market turmoil caused by gold price fluctuations."

"But~"

“The Bretton Woods system made the rice dollar the value expression of gold, but it took away the right to speak of the international gold price from the London Gold Room.”

(Special note: The office at Rothschild's headquarters in London is commonly known as the Golden House.

Starting in 1919, the five major gold merchants sent representatives to the gold house to conduct price fixing twice at 10:3 and p.m.

Rothschild, as the pricing moderator, usually stops market trading for a moment before setting prices.

At this time, each gold dealer will also suspend quotations first, and the chief representative of Rothschild will set an appropriate opening price based on the New York gold market price after the London market closed the night before.

Other companies will have a small British flag on the table in the gold room. After receiving the pricing, they will immediately send it back to their company headquarters, and then collect their respective transaction orders to see whether they are buying long or selling long.

If there are no buyers in the market, the chief representative will lower the price; if there are no sellers, the price will be raised to reflect the supply and demand relationship of gold.

If several gold merchants have no more transactions, they will lower their flags. This round of pricing will not end until all gold merchants have no more transactions and lower their flags.

Otherwise, the pricing will be constantly adjusted based on these business transactions.

This process can take as short as 1 minute or as long as 1 hour.

Only when the ordering business is completed will the representative of Nohill Company announce that the transaction is completed.

The final price is the transaction price.

And this price has just begun to be transmitted to various gold markets.

This is the general process of opening and pricing of the daily world gold market after World War I and before World War II.

Later, as Xiangjiang's position in the international financial market gradually increased, the Gold House would not only refer to the gold prices in the London and New York markets when setting prices, but also refer to the gold prices in the Xiangjiang gold market to set an appropriate opening price. )

. . .

Maggie, the little secretary, "dropped" them on the paper through the typewriter in David's deliberately slowed-down voice.

ten minutes later.

David, who finally finished the finishing touches, walked to the sofa next to Maggie and sat down on the sofa, rubbing his temples and asked.

"Have you written it all down?"

"Yes, do you want to see it?"

"No, just proofread it, then give it to the long-horned beetle, and then forward it to my mentor, Professor Bartlet."

"Ok."

Maggie put together the dozen or so pages of the report she had just typed, and quickly checked them from beginning to end, looking for spelling errors and omissions. .

"Dang Dang Dang~"

"Please come in"

A knock on the door interrupted David's short rest.

Little Peter appeared at the door alone, looked at David and asked with a smile: "Are you done?"

"Yes~ Please sit down."

David and little Peter had never had the opportunity to meet and get along alone, and they didn't know much about each other.

So~

David, who felt a little tired, looked at little Peter with a calm face and a faint smile on his lips, and said.

"I basically didn't have any special hobbies. I just occasionally played with the guitar, read the music scores, and tried to play them."

“But when I went to work in New York, I slowly became obsessed with bartending.”

“Because I find that every time I make a rich, flavorful cocktail, I always get a sense of satisfaction.”

"What about you?"

"What are your usual hobbies?"

"Mountain climbing, skiing."

Little Peter pointed to his left leg and smiled: "I was skiing in the Alps once and broke three ribs and this leg."

David asked in surprise: "Isn't this too dangerous? Is cross-country skiing really so attractive?"

"Yes."

"Almost everyone who loves wild snow skiing hopes to stand on a mountain top after a snowstorm, look at the white, deep and soft snow under their feet, and conquer it in one breath!"

"Oh."

"What about this winter? You didn't give yourself a holiday?"

"No.."

Little Peter crossed his legs and sighed helplessly: "There have been too many trivial things in the past few months, and I don't have time."

"How was your vacation trip to Hawaii with Kanes? Did you have fun?"

"Great!" David glanced at his secretary Maggie who quietly walked up to him, waved his hand directly without taking the file.

"Go and do your work."

"Okay!" Secretary Maggie smiled and nodded to little Peter, then took the documents and left.

When David saw little Peter watching Maggie walk out the door, a cold joke suddenly came to his mind and he said.

"Do you think... I look like a Nabob?"

"...?" Little Peter blinked and was stunned for a few seconds. He quickly got what David wanted to express and said with a smile.

"I don't think you look like a Nabob!"

"You're not married, so it's normal to have more women around you."

"Hahaha~"

David smiled and moved Nuo, found a more comfortable position for himself, and said with a smile.

“When I first started using the word Nabob, I didn’t quite understand whether it meant good or bad~”

"Later, my good friend Giles explained to me that Nabob first became popular as a derogatory term to describe the employees of the East India Company in London who continued to squander and show off after returning home from India with great wealth."

"Haha~"

Little Peter seemed to be "touched" by David's self-deprecating joke. He slowly relaxed and smiled.

"Many people today often confuse the London East India Company with the Dutch East India Company."

"The British East India Company (BEIC) was established in 1600. Queen Elizabeth I of England granted the company a royal charter, giving it a 21-year monopoly on trade east of India."