Manhattan Reborn 1978

(Not finished yet, still writing)

new York.

Wall Street, Stanley [-]th Floor.

Otis Parker left, and David had something to eat outside. After filling his stomach, he returned to the office.

He sat in his chair and stared at the phone for a while, then slowly leaned back and began to review the news brought by Mr. Parker.

Someone investigate him! ?

This is not surprising ~

Ever since he decided to embark on this path, he had gradually become accustomed to things being carefully investigated with a magnifying glass.

Take it for granted. .Not to mention.

At least I won’t be as nervous as before~

For this, I would also like to thank Old Morgan and Pine for teaching David a valuable lesson.

So. .To London?

Will old Morgan call?Is he going to tag along?

If before, David wanted to cling to the big tree of the Morgan family and use the prophetic advantage in his memory to slowly develop. .

Then this time, if he agrees to go to Europe and London with Old Morgan, it means that he will completely stand with the Morgan family and Old Morgan~!

The benefits are obvious~

The Morgan family will invest more resources in his various plans, greatly shortening his wealth growth cycle until he can step into the legendary top circle. .

There are of course many disadvantages.

If David followed old Morgan to attend various cocktail parties, parties and other important occasions, people would not think that he was just a little follower. .

Morgan’s friends don’t think so, and neither do enemies~

This is an important reason why David is so troubled now.

He had no idea who Morgan's enemies were or who they might be. .

but. .

Compared with struggling alone in the United States and the international capital market, with the power of the Morgan family behind him, for David now, it is not an exaggeration to say that he has struggled for 20 years less ~

A mixed bag?

no~!

The advantages outweigh the disadvantages~!

. . .

After a while.

There was a knock on the door.

"Please come in~"

David's secretary, Maggie, opened the door and walked in and said, "Mr. Larry Allison and the others are here."

"Invite them in~"

"Wait a minute Maggie, is there any good news from the conference room?"

"Not yet~"

"Okay, please get us some coffee."

"Ok."

After Secretary Maggie goes out.

The future founders of Oracle, Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Edmund Oates, walked into the office in suits and ties.

After adjusting his mood, David smiled at the three of them and said, "Please sit down wherever you want, guys."

"Have you already thought about coming this time?"

Bob Merlin and Edmund Oates both looked at Larry Allison.

Larry held his briefcase on his lap and smiled: "Yes~"

"However, we have a condition~!"

David raised his eyebrows, took out the checkbook from the drawer of his desk, and said with a smile: "You say~"

“We want to have the same priority for financing as you do.”

"If...we don't have enough money, I hope you can give us some help to raise money to purchase additional shares so that our shareholder order remains unchanged."

While listening, David wrote a check for twenty thousand dollars, tore it off, put it on the table, thought about it and said.

"The help you mentioned...are you asking me to lend you money to buy shares for you?"

Larry Allison explained with a very sincere expression on his face: "We all know that our company is not worth $20~"

"You are willing to invest in us, largely because you think that my friends and I can develop in the software industry~"

"So, we also hope that no matter how many times we raise funds in the future, this company will always maintain the status of the four of us on the board of directors."

"Of course, please rest assured that we will do our best..."

"Hehe~ That's okay Larry."

David smiled at the three of them and said, "I can agree to your conditions."

"It will be written into the additional terms of our contract, and as long as you can help the data center do software development work, this term will take effect immediately."

"Gentlemen, I am very optimistic about the abilities of the three of you and the future development of this company."

“But you also have to give me a product that proves yourselves, right?”

He pointed to the check on the table: "Larry, take it and find a lawyer to draft a contract, and then ask the lawyer to add all the terms we negotiated."

"For the subsequent $[-], I will write you another check after the contract is signed."

Larry walked to the desk, picked up the check and looked at it. After taking two deep breaths, he extended his right hand to David and smiled.

"I didn't expect... you would trust us so much, David!"

"Thank you!"

David stood up, shook hands with Larry, and said with a smile, "I hope you can give me good news as soon as possible."

"Hahaha~ Definitely!"

Bob Miner and Edmund Oates, who had been silently enjoying the whole process, also stood up, with expressions of surprise, excitement and joy on their faces at getting the check from David so easily. . .

. . .

The trio from Future Oracle are ready to leave.

David called his secretary Maggie over and asked her to follow up on the software company's follow-up work, and then introduce some good lawyers to Larry Allison and the others.

When David finished the matter and was about to go around the conference room, Mag Ludwig, who had attended the meeting in the morning, came back.

David looked at Mag in surprise, pulled him into his office, and asked: "What did Mayor Lynch say?"

Mag smiled and waved his hand, explaining: "Don't get me wrong, things are going very well!"

"Lynch is very supportive of your plan~ He will hold an emergency meeting of the city hall this afternoon to determine the official attitude towards the parade and formulate a theme for this year's event~!"

Mag saw David let out a sigh of relief.Relax and find yourself a relaxing position to sit down.

"However, the TV shopping plan... I briefly discussed it with Lynch, and we both felt that it would not be easy to implement."

"Have you ever thought about... the difficulties it will encounter?"

David did not immediately give an answer to this question. Instead, he walked out of the office, found Leon in the conference room, and asked him to tell the good news to everyone in the morning meeting.

After David turned back, he closed the door of the office, sat next to Mag and asked, "I have seen some information about President Nixon in the library these days."

“他在72年连任竞选中，拿下了49个州、512张选举人票，只有马萨诸塞州的14张选票和华盛顿特区的3张选票没有拿到。。”

"Man, he set a new historical record in the United States!"

“The last president who ran for re-election better than President Nixon was President Roosevelt in a wheelchair.”

"You were on the campaign team helping President Nixon, right? How did you do it?"

When Mag heard David suddenly mention this past incident, he was silent for a few seconds and shook his head.

"What we do and what we can do...is no different~"

"You asked about this...are you interested in politics?"

David shook his head and smiled: "I have no interest in politics itself, I just don't want to look like a novice and know nothing about politics."

"Can you give me... some popular science?"

Mag Ludwig opened his mouth, smiled bitterly, and said, "What do you... want to know?"

"Whatever, whatever comes to your mind, just say it~"

"Um..Okay~"

Mag lowered his head to consider for a while, then asked David with a smile on his lips.

“Do you know Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.?”

"..I know~"

"Haha ~ Georgetown in Washington, D.C., is home to many government cabinet members, members of both houses of Congress, intelligence agency officials, retired officials, ambassadors and other politicians, as well as many reporters from the media."

"The demographic composition of Georgetown is so special. It is destined that they will have more social needs."

"For example: everyone gathers together to exchange political information, promote their own ideas, expand their network of contacts, form alliances, etc."

"You may not believe it, but many of the political decisions of the Washington government are made at the dinner table in Georgetown."

"It's busier than the Oval Office."

David is very interested in this kind of political gossip~

He happily found a comfortable position for himself and motioned for Mag to continue speaking.

Mag rubbed his nose, shook his head, and continued with a smile.

"When it comes to the current Georgetown faction, its formation was both accidental and inevitable~"

"After World War II, many officials and politicians living in Georgetown fully realized the importance of intelligence information during the war and wanted to find a channel through which they could stably obtain first-hand information."

"These people spontaneously hold various small-scale private drinking parties at someone's home or club to exchange information and learn from each other."

"At that time, the owner of the Washington Post, Phil Graham, who came from a family of senators, was very keen on this type of social activities and turned his home into a famous social drinking place in Georgetown."

"Graham once participated in World War II, and he is familiar with many military and CIA officials."

"So, by virtue of his identity as a newspaper owner, he built a bridge between politicians, intelligence personnel, and the media..."

"Guests at the reception at Graham's house included senior CIA officials, current U.S. ambassadors to foreign countries, members of both houses of Congress, etc."

"Later, the President of the World Bank, John McIlroy, and the then government's Minister of Defense, Minister of Finance, and others also began to frequently visit Graham's home for cocktail parties, turning this originally inconspicuous small circle into a It’s a coveted high-end social fixture in George Town.”

"Once upon a time, President Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline, who were assassinated, were frequent guests at Graham's cocktail parties~"

"The Kennedys also have a very close relationship with the editor-in-chief of the Washington Post, the Bradleys."

"And the sister of Bradley editor-in-chief, according to legend, was one of President Kennedy's secret lovers..."

"Wow~Really? Haha~"

"So this Graham...is he still active in Georgetown?"

David was particularly excited to hear this kind of gossip and gossip about presidents and celebrities. .

Mag glanced at the excited David with a strange expression, then remembered David's age, smiled with relief, and continued.

"No~"

"He committed suicide the year President Kennedy was assassinated~"

"what?"

David's eyes widened and he asked in disbelief: "Why did he commit suicide?"

"Could... he be related to the assassination of President Kennedy?"

"Well... as far as I know, there shouldn't be..."

"The time of his suicide was earlier than the time of President Kennedy's assassination."

"Oh~"

"That...you continue, continue..."

Mager shrugged and said: "For most of the 50s, Georgetown was home to dignitaries and dignitaries, and it was very suitable for agents to use various identities to contact politicians and officials that they had never been able to touch in the past, so the C.I.A. Georgetown is under covert surveillance.”

"Of course Hoover, who was the director of the FBI at the time, would not miss such interesting things."

"He also arranged for a group of FBI agents to go to Georgetown and spy on each other with CIA agents. They had a lot of fun~"

"Why President Kennedy was assassinated and who was the mastermind behind it, I don't know."

"However, Graham's suicide actually had many precursors."

"Graham has a high IQ and charisma, but he suffers from a family hereditary mental illness, and he himself has a bad habit of alcoholism."

"As early as two years before Graham committed suicide, his psychiatrist believed that he had serious suicidal tendencies."

"And in the last year of his life, he also did a lot of things that made people feel stupid."

"For example: He publicized all the private matters that were not humane to outsiders to all his CIA friends and politician friends, which caused the dissatisfaction of countless people. They wished that he would shut up that stinking mouth and die immediately. .”

"Another example: He wanted to seize the equity of the Washington Post into the hands of himself and his lover, and contacted a lawyer, leaving two thirds of his estate to his lover."

"But the Washington Post itself is not the business of the Graham family, but the family of his wife, Katherine Meyer."

"Therefore, the marriage of Graham and Catherine was, for a long time, a joke that everyone in the Georgetown social circle would not talk about publicly, but knew it well."

"After Graham committed suicide, he did these disgusting and weird things, which brought unreasonable disaster to his wife Catherine."

"Many people suspect that Graham's death was a trap set by Catherine Weiwei to regain the family property."

"However, his death also brought an opportunity to Catherine!"

"After her husband's death, Catherine continued the family tradition of hosting social gatherings and took it to a level that astonished everyone."

"By the late 60s, when President Nixon was running for the first time, the gatherings held at Catherine's house had become a hidden status standard in the vanity fair of Washington politics."

"If someone has not been invited by her, they have not truly entered the core area of ​​power in Washington."