[Gone with the Wind] Miss Margot

The development of Atlanta's real estate industry tends to be stable and healthy, and the progress of various public facilities is gratifying. Schools and hospitals are listed as the first investment sequence and some of them have been put into use.No matter how you look at it, the situation in Atlanta is very good.Especially this year, George and Margot participated in the ribbon-cutting everywhere. It seemed that Georgia was developing gratifyingly, but only a few people close to Margot knew about Margot's worries behind the scenes.

Petroleum, chemical industry, machinery, when the United States' own funds are still active in land and land-related industries, the United Kingdom has already reached out to these industries, especially when seeing the reports of those oil products, the Sichuan on Marg's forehead Words can't be erased.

Scarlett was very strange: "Margo, why do you keep reading these reports? Some newspapers don't have them at all, so you send private detectives. You even buy a lot of stocks that are useless in my opinion."

The stock curve chart is said to be a sharp tool used by the noble and even His Majesty the Queen Mother to analyze the stock market. Half a century has passed, and it was only seen in Buckingham Palace. I learned it secretly, and then traveled across the ocean to the United States.

As an accountant for the Bank of Atlanta, Scarlett had learned this specifically.She could also draw such charts, and she could analyze stocks, but she couldn't see at all what was the use of the stocks Margot bought.

Margot replied: "Scarlett, have you ever thought about it, if one day, everyone no longer takes rickshaws or horse-drawn carriages when going out..."

Karin yelled first: "How is it possible? It's impossible for the train to reach the door of the house! Not to mention the chimneys, even so many people are enough."

"Don't be silly! Before the war started, we never thought we would lose! Nothing is impossible in this world." Scarlet interrupted his little sister impatiently, and asked again: "Margo ,what are you worried about?"

Margo replied: "I'm worried about only one, energy."

"energy?"

what is that?

Scarlett was bewildered.But she knew that Margot had always been sharper than her, and since Margot had noticed, it was definitely not a small problem.

Scarlett is already a mature woman.

She is no longer that little girl.She can think and listen to other people's opinions. This past her is completely different.In the past, she was not so easy to accept other people's opinions. In the original book, she only accepted Rhett's opinions, but now, she has long been unconsciously paying attention to every move of Margot.

Just like those who regard Marge as the God of Wealth and try to find out from Marge's every move that Marge's dominance in the stock market causes wave after wave of stock price fluctuations, so that they can make a fortune along with it.

Margo took out a document and said: "Actually, you can know it by looking at the history of Britain. Before the rapid development of the textile industry, people used firewood for heating, and weaving machines were also manpower. But soon, water-powered looms appeared. , and before water-powered looms became popular, fire-powered looms also appeared."

Karin nodded immediately: "I know this! Coal is a very important strategic material! Without coal, the train can't even run, let alone transport materials."

Once, as a child, Karin hated the dust in Atlanta. Later, she learned that it was the dust after coal was ignited, and she hated coal very much.But after the war ended, she gradually realized that it was because the South sent steel workers and coal workers to the battlefield that the South's arms could not keep up, resulting in the South's disastrous defeat in the end.

From that time on, Karin knew that the prosperity of the country cannot be separated from coal.

Scarlett said: "So, you mean, next, oil will become an extremely important strategic material?"

Margo replied: "Not only oil, but also electricity."

"Electricity?" Scarlett was puzzled, she only knew one: "Lightning?"

"It's similar." Mag said, "It's essentially the same thing, but the lightning voltage of nature is too high to be controllable at all, but the laboratory has initially mastered the method of artificial power generation."

No one can understand the impact on Scarlett. In fact, after leaving Margot's office that day, Scarlett and Karin both showed a strange floating state, like wandering spirits.

This worried their families very much.As an unmarried daughter, Karin naturally has Gerald and Ellen to worry about, but Scarlett, she was scared out of her wits by Charles.

Because Charles proposed that they have another child, it was too poor for little Webb to have no siblings.

Poor Scarlett was still full of new vocabulary such as electricity, hydroelectric power generation, and thermal power generation in his head at that time, and he didn't react at all. He just sat in the living room in a daze, and replied instinctively: "Ah ?What did you say?"

It has to be said that this is completely different from Scarlett in the past, so that Charles mistakenly thought that Scarlett agreed to his proposal.

Charles was very happy: "Honey, it's really good of you to think so. I always thought that it was really hard for you to give birth to little Weibo. This time, we want a little princess, and I will love her, As long as I can do it, I can pluck both the stars and the moon for her!"

"Don't be stupid! Who can pick off the stars and the moon!" Scarlett finally realized, "What did you just say?"

Charles said: "Of course it was Xiao Weibo who gave birth to a younger sister. When you gave birth to Xiao Weibo, you were frightened by the war. I can understand that after the war, you were so busy. Fortunately, everything is back on track now... ..."

"But that doesn't mean that I just want to have a baby!"

Thinking of all the fuss about giving birth to her son, Scarlett became irritable.

She didn't see Charles' face darken all of a sudden, let alone noticed that this was another effort Charles was making for their marriage.

Scarlett only grasped Charles' collar and said, "Do you even know? Britain, Britain is ahead of us again! Oil! Machinery! These are all in the hands of the British! We want a A better spinning machine must rely on imports! This is equivalent to saying that the fabrics that we, the United States, can produce are all decided by the United Kingdom!"

Charles was taken aback.

He thought that Scarlett didn't want to have children with him, that Scarlett didn't care about their marriage at all, but he didn't think that Scarlett was worried about this!

After all, Charles is a man, that is, he used to be a naive boy, but the world of men determines that his way of thinking and vision will always be better than most women in this world.Mrs. Whiting and the others may not be able to understand such words, but Charles can understand them.

Charles said cautiously: "So after the real estate crisis, is the UK planning to start an energy war?"

Although he didn't quite understand the true meaning of these two words, Charles still hit the nail on the head.

Scarlett said: "No, you don't understand, Charles, Margot and I both suspect that Atlanta, no, it should be that the real estate industry in the United States is booming, but it is actually because of the chaos behind the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom hopes that the United States will vigorously develop the real estate industry. , Concentrate all funds on the real estate industry, ignoring other, more important things! Now, the United Kingdom has controlled the oil, chemical industry, machinery, etc., many industries in the United States. In addition to plantations and real estate, the United States now , and the low-end textile industry, and nothing else!"

If Scarlett was still the original Scarlett, if Scarlett didn't know so much, maybe she would really continue to move forward as she did in the original book.Just like a horse puts on a blindfold and can only see ahead, Scarlett in the original book only sees the money in her hand, and she only knows that it is absolutely impossible to have no money, so she loves money, so she After returning to Atlanta, every step is a struggle for money, even if she is married to the rich man Ritter.

But now, Margot not only allowed her to see the front clearly, but also allowed her to see the surroundings, just like Newton in his later years, because he knew the truth and the vastness of science, and because he discovered his ignorance and powerlessness, Newton finally devoted himself to theology embrace.

Now Scarlett, like Newton, is taken aback by the vast differences between Britain and America.

Charles didn't understand Scarlett's fear, but he still chose to hold his wife in his arms, comforting Scarlett clumsily like a child:

"Okay, okay, my dear, it's useless to worry. You see, our strength is too small to change the world for the time being. All we can do is to do our best and do our best. By the way, this Who told you that? I think, Margot? Well, dear, Margot is thinking about it, and if she doesn't show it, I'm sure she's got it all planned out. You've got to trust Margot, she's very sharp!"

Because of Charles' nagging, Scarlet calmed down unexpectedly: "Yes, since Margot has noticed this, she will definitely take action."

The couple clung to each other and talked, forgetting that they were not in their own bedroom, nor in the study, but in the living room where people came and went, and there was an old lady in the Hamilton family, who was like a child. Old lady, Aunt Pittpat, aka Miss Jane Hamilton.

Like many women who have never grown up, Jane Hamilton grew up under the careful care of her family, and like her peers, as an unmarried lady, Jane's range of activities is very small, even her daily clothes She had to listen to Uncle Peter, the old black man in the family, to dress up, just as Uncle Peter had decided at what age she would enter society and be able to attend dances.

Jane has another shortcoming, that is, she can't hold the door.

Although in her own view, she is just sharing the good news with her friends, not everyone is as naive as she is.Soon, the old citizens of Atlanta and southern families began to pay attention to stocks. Countless people came to Clark's house, or visited Rhett, hoping to get advice from Margot or Rhett.

Following the hot real estate, the US securities market also ushered in the spring.Of course, with the influx of funds into the securities market, the real estate industry in the southern United States, especially Atlanta, has become healthier.

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