I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

The sales of the two are not at the same order of magnitude.

It's just that the chassis premium that Daming sold to the Germans was too much, which made it close to the total amount.

Luxury goods and women's products are very important to Daming, but this time Julie's visit to Europe to attend the opening of Han Yun's Brussels store is actually just a cover.

The goal of this financial genius girl this time is not just women's money.

……

James Bond stepped off the ferry and looked up at the sky.

It's rare for London to rain, but the weather is still cloudy.

"Sir, we're at Canary Wharf. The ferry fare is twopence."

"Ok."

Bond took two coins from his pocket and handed them to the sailor.

After tidying up his tie and wiping his boots, Bond walked towards the building-lined place ahead.

London, City of Finance.

In London, there are two worlds within the City and outside the City.

In the financial city, there are no dirty, bony workers, and no poor people in poor clothes.

The paunchy patrolmen would beat out with a stick any poor man who tried to beg on the side of the road.

Every minute and every second here, new millionaires are born, and bankrupts jump off the roof.

This is the reality of the Kingdom of Goa, the paradise of the world's capitalists and bankers, and the dream land of the old man who can't see the poor suffering.

Whether it is New York, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, or even Fengdu, their importance in the game of global financial capital cannot be compared with that of this place.

As a junior clerk at the London Patent Office, Bond knew his place here was no better than that of a dog.

British civil servants, including the police, are dogs raised by big capitalists.

Of course, veteran civil servants who are in a powerful department, capable, and have a well-connected network can also chat and laugh with bankers.

For Bond, although he is just a small employee, he has no fear of these fat guys in his heart.

I am a vicious dog, but not the vicious dog you raise. My dog ​​food comes from Minglijian.

Bond checks between his hips with a kerosene lamp and a mirror every day in the dead of night to make sure the white terrier tattoo is still visible.

As a Jinyi Wei Tiqi, he has been lurking, waiting for the day when the motherland needs him.

And this day has come...

……

Because of the emergence of Ming Dynasty, today's London is a bit more advanced than it was in 1871 in history.

The most obvious is that nearly 1/3 of the cars on the streets of the Financial City are cars.

The high-lead water pipes aided by Daming arrived a few months ago.

Financial City is naturally the first batch of advanced users to enjoy.

Therefore, there are traces of excavation everywhere on the road, causing a large congestion of vehicles.

"Damn it, is old Evanton demented? Doesn't he know that more than 15 people come to work here every day?"

"Yeah, this terrible road condition is simply driving people crazy!"

"Be patient, these water pipes are buried, and you don't have to be dry when you stare at the stocks in the future."

"I hope, if old Evanton has any brains, he should take advantage of the water pipe to be connected to the damn subway..."

……

The white-collar workers who have given up their cars or carriages are like clockwork ants, walking quickly between various earthworks and stones.

As they complain, more than 3% of London's population goes to work in an area of ​​just one square mile.

Because the average salary here is 10 times that of other places.

And this small area also produces nearly 3% of the GDP of the UK.

Of course, there was no concept of GDP in this era, but the total output value of industry and agriculture, especially the output of grain and steel, was used as the benchmark of national strength.

But it is undeniable that the City of Finance is extremely important to the UK.

Bond carried a briefcase and shuttled between the headquarters of Standard Chartered Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Bank of England, Prudential Insurance and other financial giants.

Except for stopping to look at Princess Sissi's huge silk stocking billboard for a while, he didn't have any nostalgia.

Bond didn't stop until a seemingly ordinary three-story building appeared in front of him.

London Stock Exchange.

This ancient institution, established in 1773, has tens of millions of pounds of funds every day, in the form of stocks and bonds, where transactions are settled.

The best mathematicians in Europe, or problem solvers, gathered here to calculate massive amounts of data and earn sky-high rewards.

Data from the Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Dublin stock exchanges will all be brought together here.

And thanks to the long-term reliable operation of the Atlantic cable, the Toronto Stock Exchange under the London Stock Exchange, the Montreal Exchange, etc., can also complete real-time transactions within 15 minutes.

It can be said that the communication capabilities of the stock exchange are much stronger than those of the British navy and army.

"Sir, the exchange will open on time at nine o'clock, please wait patiently now."

On Bond, the high-end suit purchased with special funds made the doorman smile kindly.

He took out his documents from his briefcase and said, "I am James Auditor of the London Patent Office. I have received an invitation from Mr. Jonathan to sign a document."

"Oh, so it's you!"

There was no compliment in the doorman's tone, and he said indifferently, "Mr. Jonathan told you to go to Room 4 on the second floor to find him."

Bond nodded, then took out a £5 note from his pocket and handed it to him, "Thank you!"

Seeing Bond's back in the distance, the doorman picked up the banknotes in surprise and compared them to the sun.

It's a real pound sterling, and it's embossed with Queen Victoria in vivid relief.

"Are all the petty clerks in the Patent Office this rich?"

He shook his head grumpily, "Maybe it's just a particularly generous gentleman!"

The stock exchange has not yet opened, and there are only some staff inside who are debugging equipment or calculating data.

In his office on the second floor, Bond met Jonathan, head of equipment management at the London Stock Exchange.

He was reading the newspaper with relish, and from time to time he laughed like a pig.

The New Berliner Zeitung is considered a banned newspaper in London and is not allowed to be published publicly.

But for LSE executives, nothing is off limits.

Even the "Daming Times" is an internal reference for understanding the enemy's situation.

Corrupted by Ming imperialism?

nonexistent.

Today's Neue Berliner Zeitung is particularly thick.

There is a specially added supplement, "Exclusive Analysis and Deep Digging - The Friendship between the Churchill Brothers and the Prince of Wales - The Story of the Young Woman Mary".

"Charlie Churchill's grades at Eton College were not satisfactory, but he was admitted to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst after all..."

……

Jonathan started reading half an hour ago and was immediately fascinated.

It's so beautifully written, it's really addictive.

After leaving Bond aside for a while, Jonathan reluctantly put down the newspaper in his hand.

"Are you the clerk sent by Jules?" Jonathan asked.

"To be precise, I am the auditor, sir. Deputy Director Jules asked me to review the originality and usability of the 'New Hole Card Calculation and Analysis Machine', and please sign the document and issue the certificate." Bond said sternly said.

Such an answer made Jonathan frown.

You know, the computing devices of this era are huge, so it is impossible to display them at the patent office, so they can only submit drawings and patent introductions.

After these paper documents are reviewed and accepted, the Patent Office will send personnel to conduct an on-site review.

With the relationship between the stock exchange and Deputy Director Jules, the on-site review is just a process.

Generally speaking, it is enough to sign the documents and get the patent certificate directly. After all, the high-quality stocks recommended to Jules by myself are not one or two.

I didn't expect that the clerk he sent this time would be so rigid, and he would go to see the machine.

That is high technology, it is the invention of Mr. Babbage, a professor of the Lucas Department of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and a member of the Royal Society.

Can you, a small civil servant, understand it?

But Director Jonathan, who just wanted to distract people and continued to read Churchill's short story, was unwilling to argue about it.

He called his secretary, took the key and accompanied Bond to review the equipment.

……

The "New Hole Card Calculation and Analysis Computer" took up half of the room.

Bond hadn't bribed the job specifically to destroy such a machine.

While studying at the Zhenfusi Orphanage, Bond was exposed to computing devices that were a hundred times more powerful than this calculator.

However, the so-called scientific calculator is only equipped with technical arms such as artillery and naval artillery, and generally even regiment-level cadres may not have it.

So anyway, Bond doesn't like this huge, steampunk machine.

In order to ensure that the task was completed without any side effects, he did not do anything to the machine.

As if a nerd, referring to the application form one by one, checking the data and usage method of each component.

Jonathan's secretary was eager to answer questions at the beginning, but he didn't even bother to perfunctory later.

There are more than 3000 parts in this machine, so he won't spend too much time with the idiot when he's full!

Seeing that the trading time was approaching, the secretary explained twice and hurried away.

"Damn, met an idiot!"

"Fortunately, it didn't delay my making money. Hehe, I really don't know how much Alufur can go up today!"

……

The Alufur mentioned by the secretary refers to the Alufur Aluminum Company in Birmingham.

Stock trading in this era is not yet standardized, and a staff member of the stock exchange can also buy and sell stocks.

Whether it was the secretary, Director Jonathan, or even the guard on the sidelines, Jules, the deputy director of the patent office, almost everyone held more or less shares in Alufur.

In the past year, the stock of Alufur Aluminum has experienced a long rise. Today, it has risen more than 300 times.

Not only the Aloufer Aluminum Company, but also aluminum-related companies in Germany and France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and India.The upstream bauxite mines in the United States (North) have all experienced a crazy surge in the value of the company's stock during this time.

All of this is closely related to the progress of electrolytic aluminum technology and the practical trial production of aluminum alloy related products, such as electrical aluminum alloy 1050.

Although the output and quality are far from comparable to Daming's products, these companies all have infinitely bright growth expectations.

After all, according to the relevant research of the scientists of the Department of Chemistry of the Royal Academy of Sciences and the famous chemist Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev of the AIA, it is agreed that although aluminum is a metal element abundant in the earth’s crust, it is really Minable aluminum resources are scarce.

Moreover, although the price of electrolytic aluminum has dropped from the altar, its production cost is still high.

At the same time, aluminum alloy has the characteristics of low density, good mechanical properties, good processing performance, non-toxic, easy to recycle, excellent electrical conductivity, heat transfer and corrosion resistance, etc., and is widely used in the marine industry, chemical industry, aerospace, metal packaging, Areas such as transportation have incredible potential.

Therefore, aluminum has a high value and a bright future. Although the Ming Dynasty has technological advantages, it is absolutely impossible to dump it in large quantities due to restrictions on mineral production...

These concepts have become a broad consensus in all walks of life.

In fact, for the sake of national defense, Zhu Fugui has never exported high-quality "imported" aluminum alloy products to Western countries, and only exported aluminum products produced by Daming himself, such as aluminum pots, aluminum pots, aluminum forks and so on. .

Its output is indeed limited.

Based on such expectations and facts, countless people and funds frantically flocked to aluminum concept stocks, pushing these stocks to new historical highs.

The whole financial world went crazy.

All of London is crazy.