When American shipping giant "Captain" Vanderbilt's stock of Haller's parent company was being shorted, the biggest player in the short selling finally surfaced - the Mellon family.

On November 23, 1868, the Mellon Group invested $100,000 to publicly buy and sell the Hudson Railroad short.

After that, on the 24th and 25th, another US$400,000 and US$500,000 were invested respectively, a total of US$1 million in short selling.

In this regard, Vanderbilt took advantage of the situation and allowed rumors to spread freely. He asked his broker to persuade several brokers to give up and sell the stock.

After this news spread quickly to the market, the entire United States and Europe were shocked.

"I've seen shameless people, but I've never seen such shameless people."

"A soldier never tires of deceit. Do you, a stock player, still think that people will use scheming every day to make you see through their trump cards?"

"Seriously dissatisfied. Vanderbilt is committing fraud and defrauding friendly shareholders of the entire Commonwealth of America out of their hard-earned money."

"Vanderbilt is indeed a giant who has infiltrated the American capital industry. He is a master of this skill."

...

London, England.

Lionel Rothschild was also shocked when he first heard about it.

He asked the Mellon family to go ahead and deliberately suppress the stock of Haller's parent company, which was taken over by Vanderbilt, and let Vanderbilt take care of the company's stock price decline and loss of dividends. In this way, he wanted to prevent Vanderbilt from falling in the market.

The stock of the Hudson Railway was in the pocket. I originally thought that this approach of surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao and attacking itself to rescue the periphery was quite satisfying.

However, what he didn't expect was that Vanderbilt, an old fox, would borrow a straw boat to buy a large number of short-sold stocks in his own company, using the great reputation of the Mellon family to attract stock traders with financial ambitions.

Entered the company's short market and successfully used a Harle parent company to attract all short-selling tickets.

Vanderbilt then acted like a magnet, attracting short sellers who were hostile to him into the fishing net he designed, and finally closed the net and harvested a huge catch.

While eliminating the opponent's gunpowder in one fell swoop, he also made a lot of money.

Lionel Rothschild is even more frightened until now. This time with the Meilong family, he was shaken by more than 500,000 US dollars, although this is a drop in the bucket for the Rothschild family in London.

But this money didn't just fall from the sky for free. What you eat is spit out, which goes against the usual practice of taking money for your own use.

At this moment, his financial steward hurriedly walked in. Suddenly, he brought him a lot of news, which even shocked his calm mood.

"Vanderbilt, how dare you play with me? Damn it"

Immediately, Lionel Rothschild's blood pressure surged and he fainted. The financial steward hurriedly called for help.

.....

Paris France.

James Rothschild was received by Napoleon III at the Palace of Versailles.

James's face has always maintained the aristocratic etiquette of respecting Napoleon III since he came in.

And Napoleon III also gave the Dutch financial controller enough face.

Accompanying him to meet James was French Prime Minister Olivier.

"Your Majesty seems to be in good spirits recently," James greeted first.

Napoleon III laughed and said, "I can't help it. Things are going well. I feel so good."

James Rothschild smiled and said: "Yes, although the French Empire is currently making slow progress in the Far East, due to your majesty's strong management, it is currently progressing smoothly. It is said that it has encroached on three-quarters of Cambodia's territory. After that,

Soon, the eastern territories of the Kingdom of Siam will be taken over. By that time, France owns Cambodia, South Vietnam, and North Vietnam, which is attacking. Its colonies in the Far East will immediately surpass Spain's Philippines, becoming second only to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

The existence of empire"

He said with longing on his face: "At that time, the French Empire will really become a colonial power in the Far East and show itself to the world."

Napoleon III said with a trembling heroic voice: "You are right, but at present, the war seems to have entered a bottleneck. You know, as long as you stand in the war, you need a lot of things."

James Rothschild said with a heartbroken look: "The factories owned by the Rothschild family are willing to help France produce 5,000 firearms and supporting ammunition for the large army."

Napoleon III said helplessly: "You know, 5,000 guns are only enough to fight North Vietnam. The Siamese army in Cambodia has been transformed by Western weapons and is no longer what it used to be."

James Rothschild changed his gentlemanly smile and looked at Napoleon III dissatisfied: "Your Majesty, is this really the case?"

Under his glare, Olivier, who had been extremely quiet next to him, suddenly helped Napoleon III out and said: "Your Excellency James, Your Majesty has always been most concerned about the development of the country, so he is the most accurate in grasping the size of the country's needs, so Your Majesty is also working hard.

Be careful"

James Rothschild seemed unwilling to give Prime Minister Olivier a look, and then reluctantly compromised: "There are 20,000 guns in total. In addition, we are supporting 200,000 pounds as France's military expenditure."

200,000 military expenses?

Napoleon III's quick thinking was enough to add more than 5,000 recruits to the French army. This was not a small number. However, this was all child's play and was not the focus of today's meeting with James Rothschild.

He winked at Olivier.

Olivier understood that this was allowing him to make the more "excessive" request.

If you ask your subjects to die, they will have to die.

"Your Excellency James, France currently has more than 100,000 people fighting in the Far East. Military expenditures are needed every year for food, drink, and diarrhea, while more than 400,000 people in the mainland are waiting for military supplies. So in terms of military expenditures, should we provide more?

Support, don’t get me wrong, we are referring to interest-bearing government bonds.”

James's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he looked at Napoleon III's expression of "I believe you can be a good man" and Olivier's eager look.

James sighed: "It's not that we can't help."

Napoleon III suddenly showed a happy look on his face when he saw that James was so knowledgeable, but he quickly put it away. When he saw that Olivier was thoughtful and looked at James with caution, he instantly understood that this was

Made a request?

When Olivier saw that Napoleon III came to him again, he could only stand up and said: "Is there any difficulty for Sir James? Maybe our government can help you solve it."

James pretended to hesitate, and after sighing at the end, he slowly and reluctantly said openly: "We have some business in the United States. You know that when we didn't give them New France, our family had many businesses in Louisiana, the United States.

The business there is now ruled by the Dutch, so I feel that it is necessary to break the Dutch monopoly and regain the interests of the Rothschild family there. To this end, my nephew Lionel in the UK has contacted the Dutch several times.

We have failed in our attempts, so in order to not stop at the last moment, I think His Majesty can help us with this."

Napoleon III and Olivier looked at each other, and that was exactly what they meant.
Chapter completed!