Manhattan Reborn 1978

new York.

09:30am.

Wall Street, Stanley [-]th Floor.

Sam Rogers stood at the door of his office, seeing off three expected visitors.

Mu Brandes, who had been silently paying attention to the activities in Sam's office, walked into the office with a smile, glanced at several large folders on the table, and asked.

"they are..?"

"Well~ they are here to deliver... You can see for yourself!"

With that said, Sam pushed a few folders in front of Brandes.

Brandes looked through the folders one by one. In addition to the suppressed surprise, there were more puzzles and doubts in his eyes.

ten minutes later.

Sam, who had been staring at the coffee cup on the table silently, seemed to have recovered from a certain state.

He took a deep breath and pointed at a few folders.

"The ones selling us physical gold are... Morgan Stanley, Citibank, Chase, First Boston, Mellon, Wells Fargo and Bank of America..."

"There is also the Bank for International Settlements (bis) which we are not very familiar with!"

"..." Brandes took a deep breath, organized all the folders, sat back in his chair, and asked in a low voice with a serious expression.

"bis?"

"Did those people just introduce it to you?"

"Yes~"

Sam reached out to pick up the coffee cup, took a sip, gathered his thoughts, and said.

"The Bank for International Settlements (bis) was founded in January 1930, after the Hague Conference in the Netherlands."

"It was originally founded to deal with business issues such as Germany's reparation payments and related international financial settlements after World War I."

“So, it is an international international organization jointly established by the central banks of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and island countries, together with banks representing the interests of the U.S. banking industry, such as Morgan Bank, New York Citibank, and Chicago Citibank. Financial Institutions."

"Its headquarters is located in Basel, Switzerland."

"Switzerland issued a CCB charter to bis, and the charter stipulated that bis has international legal personality and is tax-free!"

"The Swiss government cannot levy, seize or confiscate any property of bis, and allows bis to freely import and export gold and trade foreign exchange, and enjoy diplomatic privileges and immunities."

"Its funds mainly come from three aspects: gold francs paid by member states when the bis was established (Note 1) + borrowings from central banks of various countries + gold deposits of central banks of various countries and commercial bank deposits."

"More specifically, the business scope of bis includes but is not limited to... accepting gold or currency deposits from the central banks of member states, buying and selling gold and currencies, and buying and selling securities available for listing."

"As well as extending loans and absorbing deposits to the central banks of member countries, or conducting similar business with some commercial banks and international financial institutions of member countries~"

"But bis is not allowed to provide loans to governments or open current accounts in their names!"

"So, many central banks in the world currently store some gold and various hard currencies in international banks, and use this to obtain corresponding interest."

“After World War II, its main business became the agent of exchange guarantees of the central banks of the member states of the Economic Cooperation Organization; the principal of the European Payments Union; the principal of the European Coal and Steel Union; and the monetary cooperation established by various European member states. IMF agents, etc.”

"At the same time, it also undertakes the international settlement business of a large number of central banks in various countries."

"So in essence, bis is a means for the United States to control Germany's finances, and the issue of European debtor countries' repayment of U.S. debts is placed under the supervision of bis..." (Note 2)

. . .

After Sam finished this paragraph, he sighed with a wry smile and continued.

“In December 1969, the Bank for International Settlements revised its charter. Its purpose was to promote cooperation among central banks in various countries in international settlement, provide them with more conveniences in international financial business, and act as trustee in international settlement business. or agent.”

"The capital of bis has correspondingly increased to 15 billion gold francs, divided into 60 shares, with each share worth 2500 gold francs."

"Four-fifths of the shares are in the hands of the central banks of each member state, and 4/5 of the shares have been transferred to private individuals by the central banks of each member state and are held by private individuals."

"But these private controlling shareholders do not have the right to participate in the shareholders' meeting."

"The gold sold to us... was part of the gold deposits kept by bis private shareholders in the bank..."

"...I understand!" Mu Brandes took a few deep breaths, and his eyes gradually brightened when he looked at Sam~

"I just saw...there are some supplementary terms attached to it?"

"Yes!"

Sam tilted his neck back, drank the coffee in the cup, felt the aroma and bitterness in his mouth, and shook his head slightly.

"Additional additional terms that give them priority to repurchase the gold."

"Forehead.."

"That is to say...if we want to sell these gold spots, we must first ask them...?"

"That's right!"

"But... what about the price?"

"Is there any specific agreement in the repurchase terms?"

"Have!"

"They will buy it back at the market price."

"market price?"

Mu Brandes repeated the word suspiciously, frowned and whispered.

"Then...what do they want to do?!"

"I don't know~"

"We don't need to know!"

Sam Rogers stood up slowly, with his hands spread out and resting on the table, his whole body appeared. .He looked at Brandes aggressively and whispered.

"Otis Parker taught me..."

"If we don't want to be kicked out of New York, kicked out of the United States..."

"Better not have too much curiosity!"

"If we should know, someone will tell us."

"Just like...the ones just now..."

"We must stay away from things that we shouldn't know."

"Even if someone wants to tell us... we have to cover our ears + sing loudly..."

"..Sing!?"

"Haha~" Mu Brandes laughed dryly with a complicated expression, raised his hands and said.

"Ok!"

"Feel sorry.."

"I understand everything~"

"It's just that I couldn't control... my intense curiosity."

"I promise!"

"Absolutely, there won't be a next time!"

"..." Sam nodded silently, put away all the folders on the table, and locked them in a cabinet behind him.

----

Manhattan.

66th Street, FBI headquarters in New York.

The person in charge, Harold Stone, read a confession record in his hand, frowned and looked at Linde Vercello, the head of the FBI's New York Anti-Gang Unit, and said.

"That's all you asked?"

"Um.."

"Can.."

"I know!"

"The copy you are looking at is to be submitted to the headquarters..." Linde Vercello said with a smile without any worry.

"..." Harold made a big-eyed expression on his face and asked in a slightly low voice.

"Why did you tell me?"

"Hehe~"

"If I didn't tell you, wouldn't you guess it?"

"..."

Linde Wiccello crossed his legs, shook his toes and smiled.

"It's my turn...what's the next step?"

"You should tell me now, right?"

"What do you mean?" Harold stopped joking and asked pretending to be confused.

"Hehe~"

"Ok!"

"Since you don't want to say it, I won't ask~"

"You should be busy first and contact me if you have anything else."

"..OK!"

. . .

Lynde Vercello, gone.

Harold Stone read the transcript again and carefully read it again. After confirming that there were no problems, he let out a sigh of relief.

Follow-up. .plan?

What kind of bullshit follow-up plan is there!

He just takes it one step at a time. .

----

Near noon.

In front of a hotel in Queens.

Francisco Barone, the Brooklyn gang leader, had just walked into the hotel lobby when he heard rapid footsteps behind him.

He heard the sound and looked back, only to see a short middle-aged black man approaching him.

Superintendent Oston, the head of the Auxiliary Police Office, took out his ID from his coat pocket and said.

"Mr. Barone, this is NYPD..."

"We suspect that you are involved in multiple injury cases, drug trafficking cases, smuggling cases and..."

"Please cooperate with us and return to the bureau to assist in the investigation!"

"...?!" Mr. Barone frowned, raised his hand to stop the two men's urge to touch the gun, and stared at Superintendent Alston closely as he asked.

"Can I call my family?"

"Of course~"

"but not now!"

"Please follow us back to the police station first."

"..." Mr. Barone glanced at the people following Auston, turned to a close associate, and silently walked out of the hotel.

----

On the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii.

Early morning~

398 Corudilla Avenue, Honolulu Island.

Feeling a headache, Giles got up from the bed and walked into the bathroom.

A combination of dry mouth and dizziness made Giles sit on the toilet for a long time before regaining some energy~

Last night, he was tricked again by two bad friends, David and Bloomer. .

In particular, there were three people, Zina, Elena, and Jane Fonda, who were assisting Blumer and David. Giles lost completely in several game sessions and was immediately beaten by several people. Fell~

. . .

After half an hour.

Giles walked out of the room and went to the dining room downstairs.

Cui Yingying and the maid Chasida smiled in surprise when they saw that the first person to come down was Giles.

Giles didn't know what they were both laughing at, so he rubbed his belly and asked tentatively.

"Have you...had breakfast?"

"Not yet~"

"You're the first one over for breakfast!"

"..ah?!"

"My first?"

"Where are they? Haven't they gotten up yet?"

"Can't...right?!"

Cui Yingying took a breakfast from the kitchen, put it on the dining table, and smiled at Giles.

"Please have breakfast first~"

"I specially prepared some hangover soup for you."

"It will definitely help you..."

"Um...Okay, thank you!"

Giles smiled and thanked Cui Yingying, took the napkin and cutlery from the hands of the maid Chasida, looked down at the hangover soup, and tried to take a big sip.

. . .

Honolulu International Airport.

A flight from Los Angeles landed slowly on the runway.

Donald D. Klein stood near the exit of the passenger passage, constantly looking for familiar shadows in the crowd.

After a few minutes.

Four figures, three men and one woman, appeared in Klein's sight.

He smiled and waved to the four people and shouted.

"Hey~"

"Welcome to Hawaii!"

"Hahaha~" All four of Klein's old friends burst out laughing at his joke.

Of course Hawaii will welcome them!

Because they were born here!

Ps:

Note 1: The gold franc (France franc, English goldfranc) is a currency unit with a long history.The franc was born in the 14th century and became the currency of the First French Republic in 1795.

1803年3月28日（法国共和国11年芽月7日），法国制定金币法郎法律，因此又称“芽月法郎”。

In 1834, the franc truly became France's only currency.

After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, in order to adapt to the needs of the war, the participating countries banned the export of gold and stopped the exchange of currencies for gold.

After the First World War, the world economic structure changed. France changed from a creditor country to a debtor country. The franc still maintained its legal gold equivalent value in name, but in fact it had already depreciated, and the originally issued gold coin franc was no longer circulating in the market.

However, there are still some international organizations that continue to use the gold weight and fineness standards of the 1803 "Georgio Franc" as the currency unit of accounting for international settlements, and are specifically called "gold francs" to distinguish them from the depreciated French franc. .

1924年，第8届万国邮政大会就在万国邮政公约中明确规定：万国邮联的标准货币是重10/31克、含金率为0.900的金法郎。

The Bank for International Settlements, founded in Basel, Switzerland in May 1930, also stipulated the use of the gold franc as the unit of account.

. . .

Note 2: After World War I, the German war reparations matters in the Versailles Agreement were originally implemented by a special reparations committee.

According to the "Dawes Plan" at that time, starting from 1924, Germany paid 10 billion gold marks in the first year, and then increased year by year, and continued to pay compensation for 58 years.

By 1928, Germany's compensation increased to 25 billion gold marks. Germany claimed that there was an economic crisis in the country and was unable to pay compensation, and asked for a reduction.

The United States agreed to Germany's request, and the "Young Plan" was planned and formulated by Owen D. Young.

In order to implement the "Young Plan", the Allied Powers decided to establish the Bank for International Settlements (bis) to replace the original Reparations Commission to implement the distribution of reparations to Germany and supervise German finances.

another:

After World War I, the Weimar government in Germany collapsed, the domestic political situation was turbulent, and the economy fell into the most serious inflation crisis in human history. .

In 1921, the exchange rate between the US dollar and the German mark depreciated by more than 600 billion times!

In 1923, five years after the end of World War I, severe inflation in Germany had made it impossible for most German people to survive~

At that time, one meter yuan could be exchanged for 4 trillion marks. When people went to the streets to buy goods, they needed to bring several bundles of marks. .

Because it costs 1000 billion marks to buy a loaf of bread and 3000 billion marks to buy a liter of milk.

The German mark has devalued to the point where even those who robbed it are disgusted.

The German government has fallen into a cycle of terror where the more money it prints, the more it loses. .

Therefore, in 1924, the United States agreed to Germany's revision of the reparations treaty and transferred a lot to Germany, either explicitly or covertly. .Material assistance for the benefit of all parties.

But~

In 1928, the German economy had not yet recovered, and the Great Depression struck again in the United States. .

In 1931, nearly 60% of the German labor force was unemployed, and a large number of non-state-owned enterprises and factories fell into a wave of bankruptcy. .

Therefore, there will be a grand appearance of the mustache of the "era fierce man"!

He was indeed a "hero" who gave the Germans at that time "hope"!