Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 223 Park

In 1719, France established a business called the Mississippi Company.The company's main business was the colonization of the Lower Mississippi Valley in Central America.If this task is completed, it will be able to guarantee the kingdom's huge interests in America.To finance the scheme, the company, which has strong ties to the kingdom's court, sold its shares in the trading house.

And the big figures who can probably represent the court boasted about the company's stock out of various considerations.This has led everyone in the kingdom to have great confidence in the company's stock. In May 1719, when the company's shares were listed, the share price was still 5 livres.On August 500 of that year, the stock price rose more than five times.By August 8, the stock price broke through the 1 mark.

And such a surge lasted for 13 months.At its peak, Mississippi's stock price was more than 20 times its listing price.

But when the sense of crisis hit, people with shaken confidence began to sell their stocks.

What happened next was irreversible like an avalanche.The stock price of the Mississippi company plummeted for thirteen months, and the wealth of the entire kingdom evaporated like snow in spring.

And this incident greatly hurt the financial credibility of the royal court.At that time, John Law, the king's treasurer and treasurer, was a rare banker genius.With alchemy-like magic skills, he surpassed the gold standard system created by Isaac Newton, and 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, it was the collapse of the royal family's financial credit.

Xiang Shan looked at Bernard, and waved his hand unconsciously in front of him twice: "Old Di, let me tell you this... I don't include letting you fool me when I pay you."

Bernard Dubois' expression remained unchanged: "It's just a chat about history."

"But you are obviously biased in the choice of arguments." Xiang Shan shrugged: "Although the kingdom does not respect economic laws at all, the Brittany Empire across the sea is not much better. In 1720, ah Just one year after 1719, the Brittany Empire had a worse "South Sea Bubble" - in order to get rid of the huge national debt, the Brittany Empire blew a bigger bubble in the country .”

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 the external thinking organ. So even if I don't know anything about history, I can still look for information on the Internet temporarily."

Bernard smiled: "Tsk tsk, for an old man like me, this is really an evil machine-it makes me lose any experience advantage over young people. After all, retrieval is so easy thing?"

"Oh, that's not true. But as a scientist, I am more or less familiar with the life of Sir Isaac Newton. I probably remember his experience of losing money in stocks again. Sir scolded, 'I can calculate the movement of celestial bodies, but Human madness cannot be calculated'."

Isaac Newton is world famous as a physicist and mathematician.But that's just part of his life.This genius is also a theologian who has done a lot of research on the textual evidence of the Bible.He also served as master of the mint and contributed to the "gold standard" system in financial history.

This is not a plot of "stupid young scholars entering the stock market".

It's just that at that time, the Brittany Empire was like crazy. At the beginning of 1720, a colonial company named "South Sea Company" of the Brittany Empire reached a deal with the Imperial Parliament. The company subscribed for a large amount of national bonds, and the empire reciprocated, giving the company many operating privileges.

In short, it is almost like a replica of what happened in Europe on the other side last year. A large amount of funds poured into this company, causing the stock price to skyrocket, and then the bubble burst.

"If you want to say something bad... Well, from the perspective of financial history, most scholars think that the South China Sea bubble may be a bit worse. If the empire and the kingdom are worse, the empire is obviously better."

"And the reason why the Brittany Empire was able to overwhelm the Kingdom of France in the follow-up expedition is obviously because... first, John Kay is an imperialist; secondly, James Hargreaves is an imperialist; secondly, James Watt was an imperial man; lastly, George Stephenson was an imperial man. It's over."

John Kay, inventor of the "Pod shuttle".James Hargreaves, inventor of the spinning jenny.James Watt, improver of the steam engine.George Stephenson, inventor of the steam locomotive.

These key inventions kicked off the first industrial revolution in the Brittany Empire.

The Brittany Empire has thus become a huge empire where "the sun will never set on the land".

Bernard smiled: "You mean, are you Watt?"

"Ah, I might be George Stephenson?" Xiang Shan smiled: "Yawgmoth or Anatoly are more qualified to be 'Watt' than everyone else."

"Finance, after all, is a thing that exists in the 'intersubject'. The thermodynamic and mechanical principles contained in the 'steam engine' are closer to the 'objective laws' than it. In my opinion, the latter is still more important than the former. Strong and powerful."

At this time, the intercom in the car was turned on again, and the assistant said, "Mr. Xiang, Mr. Dubois, the park is coming soon."

Then, the intercom turns off.

Inside the car, the two looked at each other for a few seconds.

"Although I can probably understand that you people in management positions also have certain demands and have your own views on enterprise development. But in my case, please don't use such words. For me, this is a minus item. "Xiang Shan said: "'We' think that this is the right track now. If you think this kind of development direction has no future... Tsk, I don't want to say something that hurts friendship too much. Do you understand?"

A natural smile appeared on Bernard's somewhat wrinkled face: "I can't jump out of the car at this time, boss. I do firmly believe that you can become the 'Watt' of the new era. Only by following you can you develop in the next wave of industrial revolution. Big fortune."

Xiang Shan sighed and looked out the window.

This is the "Transhumanism High-tech Park" located in Daxing District, which was officially put into construction the year before last and officially put into use last year.It has only completed its first phase of construction.The main users here are the research and development institutions under Xiang Shan and his friends, as well as the supporting companies of these research and development institutions.

In addition, under the guidance of local scholars such as Xiang Shan and Chen Feng, this park has also established a deep connection 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 prosthesis" and "medical genetic modification" are being developed.Over the years, this place has become a "geek mecca".Even if the core part of the park is forbidden to enter, there are still technocrats from all over the world coming here to survive.

It's just that after nightfall, the Internet celebrities who came to live the most were the Internet celebrities who started live broadcasts.

These people are wearing clothes with LEDs and saying something into their mobile phones.

Bernard looked out the window with great interest: "See if there are any attractive girls this time—but these people are really strange. In their eyes, is putting LED lights on clothes considered 'cyberpunk'? "

"Who knows."

Xiang Shan muttered something.He was still thinking about Bernard's attitude just now.

From a personal point of view, Lao Di is a good person, generous, sympathetic, and tolerant. He is one of the few professional managers who can tolerate all kinds of radical tendencies in Xiangshan's team-after all, in this industry, conservatives can It's all 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 realize the "proliferation" of the capital entity.Regardless of whether he is a good person or a bad person, as long as he operates a business according to the instinct of "capital", he is contributing to the "inequality" of the world.

Whether he is a good guy or a bad guy, in that position, he has no choice but to choose actions that are more beneficial to capital appreciation.Otherwise, "capital" will flow to others who can fulfill this role.

——Is that just a simple chat?Is he trying to influence me through this subtle form?Still a statement?

——Among the managers, how many people hold this kind of thinking?Does it mean to form a force?

Xiang Shan had never been the type to think about such things.But at least he knows that the things he researched will change the history of mankind.As developers of technologies, they have a responsibility to control the impact of these technologies.

The car stopped for a moment before a gate.After checking the documents, the gatekeepers let them go.These are veterans of elite troops.Some of these people also secretly have connections with Guoan.They ensured that idlers and the like could not enter the core park.

Soon, the commercial vehicle was parked outside a small ten-story building.

Push the door out of the mountain.Bernard waved to him: "Happy New Year's Eve, boss."

Xiang Shan nodded.After he stepped into the gate, the VR glasses immediately displayed a group of "files to be processed" in the upper left corner of his field of vision.Some of them are followed by a countdown.

And on the left side of the field of vision, a small row of head portraits also appeared.These avatars are all "frequent contacts" that he has frequent contact with at work, has no important tasks and is still in the park.

Xiang Shan returned to his office with his computer bag between his arms.This office is also minimalist, without much decoration, and the desk is not the common solid wood, but made of stainless steel.

Xiang Shan turned on his computer, first sent a piece of code that he had written outside to the lab, and asked the lab to arrange a test.

(End of this chapter)