I, Zhu Houzhao, join the US imperialist chat group

Chapter 302: Wall Street has the final say on whether America is in chaos or not! The states of America are loyal to the king!
night.

The New York Stock Exchange, brightly lit.

The New York Stock Exchange's first headquarters was a room at 1817 Wall Street in 200 that rented for $40 a month.

It was not until 1865 that the exchange had its own building.

However, this situation has changed slightly now.

The entire Wall Street became Zhu Houzhao's territory. Naturally, the New York Stock Exchange, the core of Wall Street, also rose in prominence and naturally had its own building.

Blah blah blah...

However, there was no trading on the stock exchange at the moment. Instead, there was the rustling sound of gold falling to the ground, and the ground was covered with gold.

The gold all over the ground made everyone's eyes dazzled.

"Thirteen thousand five hundred and thirty-six pounds..."

"Your Majesty, the gold reserves of all the banks, securities companies, and trust companies on Wall Street are currently here."

"And... there are more than 1.6 billion US dollars in banknotes in the room next door..."

Stillman, the boss of Citibank, looked at the gold with a painful look on his face. He admitted that there was no business in the world more profitable than Zhu Houzhao's robbery this time.

Zhu Houzhao's move directly hit the economic artery of America.

"What about the others... I remember Roosevelt said that the current trading volume on Wall Street has exceeded 6 billion US dollars. How come it's only this much?"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Roosevelt.

"Your Majesty, that is what you say, but transactions are transactions, and other things are securities, stocks, debts, deeds, company share contracts, etc.... which are equivalent to some intangible assets." Stillman explained helplessly.

"So? These don't count as money anymore?"

Zhu Houzhao didn't care about that. He glared and said arrogantly, "Go on. I want all the deeds, stocks, and securities of Wall Street. No, I want all the deeds, stocks, and securities of New York! The whole of New York is ours, and these things are all mine too! Do you still want to keep them to yourself?"

"The deeds to the entire New York..." Stillman and everyone at the exchange took a deep breath.

"Your Majesty, there are too many things. Even if I spend three days and three nights, I may not be able to finish sorting them out..."

"Moreover... you have terminated the trading of the exchange now, which is equivalent to... turning some stocks into waste paper. Your Majesty... you can take the gold and other things, but you cannot terminate the various transactions on Wall Street! This is the financial vortex of the United States, which can continuously absorb funds from the United States and the world..."

Stillman now felt like he was having a cerebral hemorrhage, and even wished Zhu Houzhao had killed him, because all of Zhu Houzhao's actions made him feel suffocated.

"Haha! Needless to say, I don't need this! My country doesn't need this either!"

"If you don't believe me, ask my people now, do they need Wall Street? Do they still need stocks? I am doing good things now, leveling the source of all evil!"

Zhu Houzhao refused to let these financiers get their wish, and instead mobilized other people around him to join in the fun.

"Yes! Your Majesty! Wall Street is so abominable! I used to be a rich man, but after being involved with Wall Street, it made me penniless! Wall Street is the dirtiest place in the world, no, the New York Stock Exchange, it is the dirtiest place in the world! It should not exist!"

Immediately, several homeless people nearby echoed loudly, and the other white people who had newly joined also echoed.

"Listen! These are the voices of the people! Be it three days and three nights, or thirty days! We in the Ming Empire do not want these evil things!"

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand again, and Stillman and others had no choice but to organize and collect some securities and stocks under the pressure of gunpoint.

"Roosevelt, where are the other rich people you were asked to contact..."

Zhu Houzhao continued to look at Roosevelt.

"Your Majesty, we can't contact the rich people. Some of them either left early or were beaten to death..." Roosevelt replied quickly. Now he finally realized that Zhu Houzhao and his men were complete traitors, and he was actually glad that some rich people left early.

"They're pretty quick..."

Escape, the more you escape, the better. The more you escape, the faster their big moves in New York will spread.

"Have you counted the factories... and stores throughout New York?"

Zhu Houzhao continued to care about other things.

"We are counting. Fortunately, Your Majesty sent people to protect the factories. Now some steel mills and food factories are still intact. It is estimated that this kind of statistics will not be completed until tomorrow morning." Roosevelt responded quickly.

"Okay, okay, okay! You guys keep busy... If you don't have enough manpower, continue to recruit some elite talents. You have to protect the factory and maintain the food supply... This is the foundation of our Mingmei Empire..."

Zhu Houzhao made arrangements in an orderly manner, and after everything was arranged.

He simply drove away the irrelevant people, and then openly put the gold into his own chat group space.

No matter how you look at it, he didn't lose out this time.

After doing all this, he contacted Jackson.

[Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao: Jackson, how is the situation over there? I think it's almost done here.]

【American Propaganda Emperor Jackson: I have almost finished here. The post office, police station, railway company, newspaper, etc. are all in our hands. Order has been restored in various parts of the city. In addition, Davis is not dead yet... and the governor, the British ambassador... I have also arrested ambassadors from various countries, and all the people in the New York political world have been captured by us in Trinity Church, the tallest building in New York.】

Jackson reported the latest situation directly in the group.

[Mei Yingzong Cleveland: What you did is too crazy and exciting! If I had known that I could do this, I would have come too! This kind of thing is simply too lawless! ]

Cleveland, who has been following New York's developments throughout the entire process, regrets not coming here, as it would have been possible to have fun like this!
Everyone is moved.

[Mercizu Lincoln: So... Your Majesty, what exactly are you going to do? If you do this, you will become the public enemy of the United States. ]

Lincoln, who was watching the whole thing, didn't know what to say.

【Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao: Public enemy of the whole United States? Not really! Lincoln, there are many grassroots people who support us! Don’t you know that Jackson and I only have 2,000 people, but now we each have 10,000 people under our command. These 20,000 people are all the grassroots people of you Americans who joined voluntarily. We don’t let them join, but they still don’t want to! In fact... now some of our people are already clamoring to liberate Philadelphia like this.】

【Meishezu Lincoln: ……】Lincoln was speechless.

[Messiah Roosevelt: Your Majesty, once these ideas of yours are spread, how will the lower-class citizens resist? ]

Roosevelt couldn't help but complain.

[Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao: They didn't resist, which means you didn't care about their lives at all! This is your problem, it has nothing to do with me. I just took the lead and showed them another possibility. ]

Zhu Houzhao unconsciously stood on the side of the American grassroots people.

【US Xuanzong Jackson: Okay, Your Majesty, stop provoking everyone! Lincoln, I think you need to hurry up. The harder Your Majesty and I are on these rich people and elites, the more they will support you. We will try our best to maintain order... However, as Your Majesty said, the lower-class people have already seen the power of this armed resistance, and some even want to go to Philadelphia. You need to hurry up, otherwise, this chaos will spread to the whole United States, and then it will really shake the ruling foundation of our America.】

[Mercizu Lincoln: I have stopped my march to the west... But I have to wait for news from you, and wait until you need me, Lincoln.]

[American Grandmaster Washington: Actually, I have received news of the dramatic changes in New York in Washington. Especially the financial groups, they are now as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and have urged us to send troops to New York as soon as possible. ]

[Emperor Jefferson: I have also noticed in Philadelphia that Philadelphia officials have stepped up patrols on major thoroughfares and even checked for suspicious persons.]

The telegraph had already been invented, so what Zhu Houzhao and his men did in New York could basically spread throughout the United States in half a day. What's more, Zhu Houzhao was targeting Wall Street and its various financial groups.

Hartford, Connecticut.

Morgan family.

The 28-year-old John Pierpont Morgan hurriedly arrived at the Morgan family villa.

When he arrived, although it was late at night, several important members of the Morgan family were already in the living room.

"Dad, it's bad! My bank on Wall Street was robbed!" As soon as JP Morgan saw his father Juniors Morgan, he told him the bad news.

However, this bad news obviously didn't matter to Juniors.

"Cousin, your Morgan Bank being robbed is nothing. There's a lot of gold and dollars in it, right?" The cousin said with a pained look on his face, "Do you know that all of our Morgan family's investments in Wall Street have gone down the drain? A full thousand pounds of gold!"

"Father, have you already known the news?" Morgan finally realized that if he could get the news, why couldn't his father and the others?

"Yes, we have received news. Even more accurate news... A yellow emperor from the East took advantage of our civil war to occupy New York in one fell swoop, trying to establish an empire belonging to the East. Now they have occupied... City Hall and all the resources of New York. Of course, this is nothing. The scary thing is... they are going to give dollars and houses to the poor unconditionally..."

"hiss!"

"What do they want to do? To stand up for the poor? To subvert America?"

Morgan immediately realized the horror of this.

"Yeah, who said it wasn't! How did these Orientals come to our America? Where did they get so many weapons?" My cousin was even more curious.

"None of this matters anymore! The governor has just sent someone to inform us to go to the City Hall for a meeting. We in Connecticut need to quickly gather 10,000 people to quickly drive out the New York bandits and take New York back."

"John, Jack... do you want to go to a meeting with me?" Old Morgan didn't chat and directly sought the opinions of family members.

"Meeting...Father, does the state government need our support?" Morgan hesitated.

"Support is for sure! Now that Oriental is doing this, the Confederacy is extremely kind compared to him. We cannot let America be occupied by outsiders, so... we must also provide the greatest support and build up our own armed forces! I heard that the poor people in various states have begun to have bad thoughts about the rich after hearing this news."

"So, Morgan...you don't need to go to the meeting, just focus on building our family's armed forces!"

Needless to say, when the news of the actions in New York came, rich people like Morgan had already felt their lives were threatened. They wanted to put down Zhu Houzhao's momentum as soon as possible more than anyone else. Otherwise, if this kind of liberation situation exploded across the United States, it would be the end of these rich people.

"Okay!" Morgan naturally didn't care about his small business. After all, his Morgan Bank had only been established on Wall Street for more than three years. Compared with big banks like Citibank, his bank was just a small shrimp. If it was robbed, it was robbed. As long as his family was still there, he had the possibility of making a comeback.

Cleveland, Ohio.

Rockefeller also received an invitation from the state government in the middle of the night and went directly to City Hall for a meeting.

"Everyone! America has reached the most critical moment..."

"During the day..."

Rockefeller was quite confused. After all, he was just a medium-sized refinery in the small town of Cleveland, and he had not yet founded Standard Oil. The financial industry in New York had not been affected so quickly, so he was a little shocked when he got the news.

"What? New York was occupied by Orientals!? Orientals want to establish a country in New York?"

"A third country has emerged in America?"

As expected, when the lawmakers announced the news, the business owners in Ohio were stunned.

"No way, has America come to this point? Wait... doesn't this mean that the war is not over yet and our oil business can continue to be prosperous?" Rockefeller heard the surprised voice of his partner Clark.

"Yes! It's good to have one more country! Isn't the Confederacy going to be defeated by the Federation... I thought the war was over! Now there's one more country? Ming Country, doesn't this mean the war will continue?"

After all, Ohio is dominated by industry. After being shocked, these bosses suddenly realized that their business would continue to be prosperous because of the ongoing war, and the shock turned directly into excitement.

"Everyone... you can be happy! But have you forgotten the third country we just talked about and what their philosophy is... they help the poor to share our riches! So, you think it's okay for Ohio to be far away from New York. But once the news leaks..."

"Are your factories exploiting enough workers?"

Ohio officials gave a cold reminder, and this reminder finally made everyone wake up.

"Yes! We can't let this evil Oriental man continue to be so arrogant on our American soil..."

"We need to send troops! Destroy them immediately!"

Faced with the threat to their lives, people including Rockefeller supported the state government's decision to send troops.

Connecticut, Ohio... In short, that night, because of the invention of the telegraph, after the news from New York was transmitted to other states, the measures taken by each state were basically the same. After being shocked, they decisively and quickly gathered their forces and prepared to go to war.

(End of this chapter)