In 1719, France established a company called the Mississippi Company. The company's main business was to develop colonies in the Lower Mississippi Valley in central America. If this task was successful, it would ensure the kingdom's huge interests in the Americas. In order to obtain
To fund the plan, the company, which has deep ties to the kingdom's court, sold its shares on a trading house.
And the big shots who probably represented the court, out of various considerations, trumpeted the company's stock. This caused everyone in the kingdom to have great confidence in the company's stock. In May 1719, the company's stock was listed.
At that time, the stock price was still 500 livres. On August 1 of that year, the stock price increased more than five times. By August 30, the stock price exceeded the 4,000 mark.
This surge lasted for 13 months. At its peak, the stock price of Mississippi Company was more than 20 times the price when it was listed.
But when the sense of crisis hits, people whose confidence is shaken begin to sell their stocks.
What followed was an avalanche of irreversible events. The Mississippi Company's stock price plummeted for 13 months, and the entire kingdom's wealth evaporated like spring snow.
This incident greatly damaged the financial credit of the royal court. At that time, the king's chief accountant, John Law, was a rare banker genius. He used alchemy-like skills to surpass Isaac.
The gold standard system created by Newton established the world's first credit currency system guaranteed by the state in the Kingdom.
However, no matter how this little genius used his skills, he could not save the kingdom. To be precise, the financial credit of the royal family collapsed.
Xiang Shan looked at Bernard and waved his hands in front of him unconsciously: "Lao Di, let me tell you this... I will pay you a salary, but that doesn't include letting you fool me, okay?"
Bernard Dubois' expression remained unchanged: "Just chatting about historical topics."
"But you are obviously biased in your choice of arguments." Xiang Shan shrugged: "Although the kingdom does not respect economic laws at all, the Brita Empire across the sea from it is not much better. In 1720, ah
Just one year after the 1719 you mentioned, a worse 'South Sea Bubble' occurred in the Britan Empire. In order to get rid of the huge national debt, the Britan Empire blew an even bigger bubble domestically.
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Bernard nodded: "I didn't expect you to be so familiar with historical topics."
"That's not true." Xiang Shan nodded his glasses: "It's just that I can skillfully use an external thinking organ. So even if I don't know anything about history, I can still temporarily look for information on the Internet."
Bernard smiled: "Gee, for an old man like me, this is really an evil machine - it makes all the experience advantages I have over young people disappear. Having said that, retrieval is so easy.
Something about that?”
"Ah, that's not the case. But as a scientist, I am still familiar with the life of Sir Isaac Newton. I probably remember his experience of losing money in stock trading again. Sir Isaac Newton scolded me, 'I can calculate the movement of celestial bodies, but I can't
It is impossible to calculate the madness of mankind'."
Isaac Newton is world-famous as a physicist and mathematician. But this is only part of his life. This genius was also a theologian and was very knowledgeable about the textual research of the Bible. He also served as a minter
Factory director, contributed to the "gold standard" system in financial history.
This is not a scenario where "a foolish young scholar enters the stock market".
However, at that time, everyone in the British Empire was going crazy. In early 1720, a colonial company in the British Empire called the "South Sea Company" reached a deal with the Imperial Parliament. The company subscribed for a large amount of national bonds, and the Empire
He reciprocated the favor and gave the company many operating privileges.
In short, it is almost a replica of what happened on the other side of the continent last year. A large amount of money poured into the company, causing the stock price to skyrocket, and then the bubble burst.
"If we want to say it's bad...well, from the perspective of financial history, most scholars think that the South Sea Bubble might be a bit worse. If empires and kingdoms are worse, empires are obviously better."
"The reason why the Britan Empire was able to overwhelm the Kingdom of France in the subsequent journey was obviously because... first of all, John Kaye was an imperialist; secondly, James Hargreaves was an imperialist; and then, James
Watt was an Imperial man; and finally, George Stephenson was an Imperial man. It’s over.”
John Kaye, the inventor of the flying shuttle. James Hargreaves, the inventor of the jenny loom. James Watt, the improver of the steam engine. George Stephenson, the inventor of the steam train.
These key inventions kicked off the first industrial revolution in the Britan Empire.
As a result, the Britan Empire became a huge empire that "the sun never sets on its land".
Bernard smiled: "You mean, are you Watt?"
"Ah, maybe I am George Stephenson?" Xiang Shan smiled: "Yawgmoth or Anatole are more qualified to be 'Watt' than anyone else."
"'Finance' is something that exists 'intersubjectively' after all. The principles of thermodynamics and mechanics contained in the 'steam engine' are closer to 'objective laws'. I think the latter is still closer than the former.
Powerful."
At this time, the intercom in the car was turned on again, and the assistant said: "Mr. Xiang, Mr. Dubois, the park is almost here."
Then, the intercom turns off.
In the car, the two looked at each other for a few seconds.
"Although I can probably understand that those of you in management positions also have certain demands and opinions on corporate development. But here, please don't use such words. To me, this is a minus point.
"Xiang Shan said: "'We' believe that this is the right track. If you think this development direction has no future... Tsk, I don't want to say anything too hurtful to friendship. Do you understand?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! A natural smile appeared on Bernard's wrinkled face: "I can't jump out of the car at this time, boss. I really firmly believe that you can become the new
The 'Watt' of the times. Only by following you can we make a fortune in the next wave of industrial revolution."
Xiang Shan sighed and looked out the window.
This is the "Transhumanist High-tech Park" located in Daxing District. It was officially built the year before last and officially put into use last year. It has only completed the first phase of the building. The main user here is Xiang Shan
As well as the R&D institutions owned by his friends, as well as the supporting companies of these R&D institutions.
In addition, with the help of local scholars such as Xiang Shan and Chen Feng, the park has also established deep ties with Qingbei and other universities.
Of course, the most important thing is the items inside it.
The whole world knows that in this park, two projects with the themes of "human prosthetics" and "medical genetic modification" are being developed. Over the years, this place has simply become a "geek mecca." Even the core part of the park
Entry is prohibited, and there are still technocrats from all over the world who come here to be reincarnated.
However, after nightfall, the most frequent visitors are Internet celebrities who host live broadcasts.
These people wear clothes with LEDs and say something into their mobile phones.
Bernard looked out the window with great interest: "Let's see if there are any attractive girls this time - but these people are really weird. In their eyes, does putting LED lights on clothes count as 'cyberpunk'?
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"Who knows."
Xiang Shan muttered. He was still thinking about Bernard's attitude just now.
From a personal point of view, Lao Di is a good person, charitable, compassionate and tolerant. He is one of the few professional managers who can tolerate the radical tendencies in Xiangshan's team - after all, in this industry, conservatives can
Too common.
However, his business philosophy has nothing to do with his personal morality. As an operator, Lao Di is just a "personalized capital" - the manager's professional ethics requires him to achieve "growth" for the entity of capital. Regardless of
Whether he is a good person or a bad person, as long as he runs a business according to the instinct of "capital", he is contributing to the "inequality" of the world.
Whether he is a good person or a bad person, in that position, he has no choice but to choose actions that are more beneficial to the appreciation of capital. Otherwise, "capital" will flow to other people who can perform this duty.
——Is that just a simple chat? Does he want to influence me in this subtle way? Or is it a statement?
——Among the managers, how many people hold this idea? Is there any intention to form a force?
Xiangshan has never been a very suitable person to think about this kind of thing. But he at least knows that the things developed by people like him will change human history. As developers of technologies, they have the responsibility to control the impact of these technologies.
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The car stopped for a moment in front of a gate. After checking the documents, the people at the gate let him go. These people were veterans who had retired from the elite troops. Some of these people were secretly connected with the National Security Bureau. They ensured that the idlers were safe.
I cannot enter the core park.
Soon, the commercial vehicle parked outside a ten-story building.
Xiang Shan pushed open the door and walked out. Bernard waved to him: "Happy New Year's Eve, boss."
Xiang Shan nodded. After he stepped into the door, the VR glasses immediately displayed a group of "documents to be processed" in the upper left corner of his field of vision. Some of them even had a countdown behind them.
On the left side of the field of view, a small row of avatars is also revealed. These avatars are "frequent contacts" that he often comes into contact with at work, currently have no important tasks and are still in the park.
Xiangshan returned to his office with his computer bag under his arm. This office was also in a minimalist style, without much decoration, and the desk was not made of common solid wood, but made of stainless steel.
Xiang Shan turned on his computer and first sent a piece of code he had written in his spare time to the laboratory for testing.