Cyber Heroes

In 1917, France established a company called Mississippi Company. The company's main business is to develop colonies in the lower Mississippi valley in central America. If this task is accomplished, it will be able to guarantee the kingdom's great interests in the Americas. In order to obtain funding for this project, the company, which has a close relationship with the royal court, sold its shares at the trading house.

And the great character that can represent the court, out of various considerations, brags about the company's stock. This has led everyone in the kingdom to have great confidence in the company's stock. When the company went public in May 1719, the stock price was still 500 livres. On August 1 of that year, the stock price rose more than five times. By August 30, the stock price had broken through the 4000 mark.

And this kind of skyrocketing lasted for 13 months. During the Peak period, the stock price of the Mississippi company was more than twenty times the price when it went public.

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

The next thing is as irreversible as an avalanche. The Mississippi Company’s stock price plummeted for 13 months, and the wealth of the entire kingdom evaporated like spring snow.

And this incident greatly damaged the financial credibility of the royal court. John Law, the king's accountant minister at that time, was a rare banker genius. He used alchemy-like magic to surpass the gold standard system created by Isaac Newton, and established the world's first credit currency system backed by the state in the kingdom.

However, how this young genius used his skills 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 will pay you, but it does not include making you fool me. Okay."

Bernard Dubois's expression remained unchanged: "Just talk about history topics."

"But you are obviously biased in your choice of arguments Well." Xiang Shan shrugged: "Although the kingdom does not respect the laws of economy at all, the Brittany Empire facing him across the sea is not much better. In 1720, ah, it was just a day away from what you said in 1719. In 1991, a worse “South China Sea bubble” occurred in the Breta Empire-in order to get rid of the huge national debt, the Breta Empire blew a bigger bubble in the country."

Nader nodded: "didn't expect you are so familiar with historical topics."

"This is not." Xiang Shan clicked on his glasses: "It's just that I can use external thinking proficiently. Organs. So even if I don’t know anything about history, I can temporarily search for information on the Internet."

Bernard smiled: "tsk tsk, for old people like me, this is really evil. The machine-this has wiped out my experience with the youngster. Anyway, is retrieval such an easy task?"

"Ah, that's not the case. 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 once again. Jazz cursed,'I can calculate the movement of celestial bodies, but I can't calculate the madness of mankind'."

Isaac Newton is well-known as a physicist and mathematician. But this is only part of his life. This genius is also a theologian, who has studied the textual research of the Bible. He also served as the director of the Mint and contributed to the "gold standard" system in the history of finance.

This is not a bridge stage for "stupid young scholar to enter the stock market."

It's just that at that time, the Brittany Empire was like crazy. At the beginning of 1720, the "South Sea Company" of the Breta Empire reached a deal with the Imperial Council. The company subscribed for a large number of state bonds, and the Empire gave the company many operating privileges.

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

"If you want to say bad things...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 than the empire, it is obviously an empire. It’s even better."

"The reason why the Brittany Empire was able to overwhelm the Kingdom of France in the subsequent journey was obviously because...First of all, John Kay was an empire; second, James Hargreaves is an empire; then, James Watt is an empire; finally, George Stephenson is also an empire. That's it."

John Kay, the invention of the "flying shuttle" By. James Hargreaves, the inventor of the Jenny Textile Machine. James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine. George Stephenson, the inventor of the steam train.

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

As a result, the Breta Empire became the Great Empire of "When will the sun not fall from the land".

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

"Ah, I might be George Stephenson?" Xiang Shan laughed: "Yoggmov Or Anatoly is more qualified to be a'Watt' than everyone else."

"'Finance' this thing, after all, is a thing that exists in the'subject'. The place of the'steam engine' The underlying thermodynamics and mechanics principles are closer to the'objective law' than it is. I think the latter is stronger and more powerful than the former."

At this time, the intercom in the car was turned on again, and the assistant opened the mouth and said: "Mr. Xiang, Mr. Dubois, the park is about to arrive."

Then the walkie-talkie turned off.

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

"Although I probably understand that you people in management positions also have certain demands and have your own development for the development of the enterprise. But here, please do not use such words. For me , This is a sub-item." Xiang Shan said: "We think that this is the right track now. If you think that there is no future for such a development direction...Tsk, I don’t want to say too hurtful words. You know, right? "

A natural smile appeared on Bernard's wrinkled face: "I can't jump off the car at this time, Boss. I really believe that you can become the'Watt' of the new era. Follow Only you can make a fortune in the next wave of industrial revolution."

Xiang Shan sighed, looking out the window.

This is the "transhumanist high-tech park" located in Daxing District. It was officially put into construction the year before and put into use last year. It has only completed the first phase of the building. The main users here are the R&D institutions under Xiang Shan and his friends, and the supporting companies of these R&D institutions.

In addition, with the help of local scholars such as Xiang Shan and Chen Feng, this far away has also established a deep connection with Qingbei and other universities.

Of course, the most important thing is the items in it.

The whole world knows that in this park, two themed projects of "human prosthesis" and "medical genetic modification" are being developed. Over the years, this place has become a "geek Holy Land". Even if the core part of the park is forbidden to enter, there will still be technocrats from all over the world here.

It’s just that after nightfall, the most popular Internet celebrities are from various live broadcasts.

These people are wearing clothes with LEDs and talking to their phones.

Bernard looked out the window with interest: "Look to see if there are any seductive girls this time-but these people are really weird. In their eyes, even if you put LED lights on your clothes," Cyberpunk' has it?"

"Who knows."

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

From a personal point of view, Lao Di is a good person, kind, compassionate, and tolerant. He is one of the few professional managers who can tolerate the radical tendencies in the Xiang Shan team—— After all, conservatives are too common in this industry.

However, his business philosophy has nothing to do with his personal character. As a manager, Lao Di is just a "personalized capital"-the manager's professional ethics requires him to "proliferate" the entity of capital. Regardless of whether he is a good person or a bad person, as long as he runs the enterprise according to the instinct of "capital", he is adding to the "inequality" of this World.

Whether he is a good person or a bad person, in that position, he has to choose actions that are more beneficial to capital appreciation. Otherwise, "capital" will flow to other people who can perform this duty.

—Is that just simple chat? Does he want to influence me through this subtle form? Or a statement?

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

Xiang Shan has never been a good person to think about this kind of thing. But he knows at least that the things that people like himself have researched will change human history. As technology developers, they have the responsibility to control the impact of these technologies.

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

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

Xiang Shan opened the door. 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 view. Some of them are accompanied by a countdown.

On the left side of the field of vision, a small line of portraits are also revealed. These avatars are the "frequent contacts" he often contacts in his work, and he has no important tasks now and is still in the park.

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

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