My Age of Investment

   Chapter 833 Blue Blood Aristocrat

  Farewell to Silicon Valley, Xia Jingxing took a private jet to New York.

  As soon as he walked out of the airport corridor, he saw the convoy coming to greet him.

  "Jingxing~"

   Liu Hai was standing next to a car, and when he saw Xia Jingxing appear, he walked over with a smile on his face.

   "You are so busy at work, you don't need to pick me up in person." Xia Jingxing smiled and patted her bangs on the shoulder, then the two walked towards the car side by side.

   Liu Xiaoduo, Zhang Chenguang and several bodyguards followed behind them.

  After getting in the car, Xia Jingxing smiled and looked at her bangs, and asked, "How is the situation lately?"

   "The wind is calm."

   Liu Hai thought for a while, then added: "But I feel like the wind is about to rise."

"How to say?"

   Liu Hai replied: "Mr. Bellan Kefan has been contacting us recently, all kinds of side-by-side attacks."

  Xia Jingxing narrowed her eyes, "That old fox must smell something."

   "Well, Goldman Sachs has flourished branches, and even the Treasury Secretary has served several times."

  Xia Jingxing nodded, "Yes, so there is a reason why they can escape every time."

   Liu Hai said, “I just don’t know how big this storm can be? It doesn’t feel small.”

  Xia Jingxing smiled, but did not answer.

   "Oh, yes, is the banquet ready?"

   "All are ready."

   "That's fine."

  …………

  Goldman Sachs’ headquarters is located at 200 West Street in Manhattan.

  At the entrance of the building, a vice president warmly greeted Xia Jingxing and his party and led them into the building.

  Seeing this scene, the staff in and out of the hall could not help but stop, looking at the group of extraordinary Asians.

  Take the elevator to the top floor. The vice president of Goldman Sachs brought Xia Jingxing and Liu Hai into Bellan Kefan’s office, while the rest waited in the reception room outside.

  "Dalun, long time no see, I heard that you recently built a nice car, a nice phone, congratulations!"

  Beilan Kefan smiled and shook hands with Xia Jingxing, and carefully looked at the young man in front of him.

  Not seen for a few months, Darren Xia made a new move.

  Even if he is a high-powered CEO of Goldman Sachs, he has to admire the young man in front of him. He is really talented and full of business talents and skills.

  Xia Jingxing smiled, "Thank you! In the future, mobile phone and car companies still need Goldman Sachs' help."

  Beilan Kefan understood what this implies and smiled, "Goldman Sachs will definitely provide you with the most considerate service."

   After a few words of greeting, Belankefan greeted Xia Jingxing and Liu Hai to sit down, and asked the secretary to bring coffee, and the three of them drank coffee and chatted.

   "Dalun, everything you entrusted to Goldman Sachs has been done. There will be a large group of VIPs at the banquet tomorrow.

  At the banquet, you still need to say a few more words, so that Goldman Sachs will match up the business for you in the future. "

  Xia Jingxing nodded, "No problem."

After chatting for a while, Xia Jingxing left after confirming that the banquet tomorrow was fully prepared.

   Then he went to Morgan Stanley again and met with McJin Heng.

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  The next day, in the evening.

A manor villa on Long Island was brightly lit, and the door was full of luxury cars. A brightly-dressed guest got out of the car. Among them were men in suits and leather shoes, and women in **** evening dresses, but without exception, All white people.

  Xia Jingxing, dressed in a well-cut suit, greeted the guests who came to the banquet one by one, accompanied by two generals, Belan Kefan and Mai Jinheng.

   "Mr. Forbes!"

   "Mrs Winthrop!"

   "Miss Cabot!"

  ……

  Hum Ha Er will whisper to Xia Jingxing on the family background of each guest.

  "Forbes called it a big family in the United States. Before coming to the United States, it was a great nobleman in Scotland.

  In the United States, not only the Forbes family, a financial media group, but also John Forbes Kerry, who ran for commandership with Bush Jr. a few years ago.

In 1996 and 2000, Steve Forbes, the head of the Financial Media Group, also paid 67 million US dollars to participate in the nomination of the leader of the elephant party in 1996 and 2000..."

  Listening to Bellan Kefan’s introduction, Xia Jingxing nodded in response from time to time.

  Eagle sauce is this virtue, politics and business are not separated.

  It is not a delusion that Steve Forbes can be elected as the chief commander. This is how a businessman became the chief commander more than ten years later.

  At this time, Mai Jinsheng said: "The Forbes family started through trade with China more than a hundred years ago.

  After obtaining enough capital in China, this family entered into the railroad, oil, real estate and retail industries in the United States. At the same time, it generously funded Harvard, Yale, and Princeton University. It looked like a “cultural plutocracy”. "

  Xia Jingxing did not speak, the Forbes family came to China for trading more than 100 years ago? What trade do you do? Pull a boat of opium when you come, and a boat of porcelain and tea when you leave.

  In fact, many of the so-called “blue blood nobles” in the United States made their fortunes through the opium trade with China. For example, Roosevelt’s grandfather was an opium dealer.

  According to statistics, there are at least 33 U.S. chiefs who are related to the Qichang Foreign Company, who is engaged in the Chinese opium trade, and Oguanhai is among them. It is the ancestor who came to China to sell opium.

  Many Chinese people think that the United Kingdom is the culprit in the opium trade, but the United States also followed behind and drank a big mouthful of soup.

  The huge profits of the opium trade created the prosperity of Boston in the 19th century. The descendants of opium dealers all became blue-blooded nobles, and two hundred years later they were still enjoying their ancestor Yu Ze.

  At that time, the United States had just become independent, and it was very poor, while China in the 19th century was economically strong.

  Americans exchange opium for tea, leveraging on China’s economic development, the opium trade is a way for the United States to transfer China’s economic power to the American Industrial Revolution.

  In addition to the descendants of these opium dealers, many of the colleges and dormitories of universities such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are named after the opium dealers.

  Because they donated the profits of the opium trade two hundred years ago to these prestigious schools, and their descendants went to these prestigious schools to study, and the solidification of the class was just like the family of elite families in the Han and Tang Dynasties of China.

  In addition, these opium profits were also invested in the construction of hospitals, railways, and factories to help the rapid growth of American national strength. The World War I directly attracted the attention of the world.

  Berlankfan said: “John Murray Forbes, the ancestor of the Forbes family, went to China to pan for gold in his early years and became one of the main partners of Qichang Foreign Bank.

  At that time, he also got the help of Wu Bingjian, a thirteen tradesman. In the mid-19th century, he returned to the United States to invest in railways and real estate, becoming a railroad tycoon and bringing Wu Bingjian's funds to the United States for investment.

  You can go to the Forbes Museum another day. There is also a portrait of Wu Bingjian. "

  Xia Jingxing smiled lightly, a comprador, you even told me to pay respects, I pay respect to a hammer.

  "The cooperation between the United States and China has a history of hundreds of years, and it almost runs through the history of the United States.

  Dylan, we have to strengthen cooperation more in the future. Maybe it will be a good story in a few decades or a hundred years. "Mai Jinheng said.

  Berankfan nodded in agreement, "Yes, look at these families, through cooperation with China, they have been active at the top for hundreds of years. The cooperation between the two countries gives birth to unlimited business opportunities."

   "Yeah! That's too right! It's time to cooperate more!"

Xia Jingxing looked at the two with a smile. He had already made up his mind to build a family museum in the future, and also to hang up the portraits of the two CEOs of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, telling future generations how the CEOs of the two investment banks helped Your ancestors shorted subprime mortgages and searched for the anointing of the American people.

  Two hundred years in a cycle, retribution is unhappy!

  If he used to think that short-selling subprime loans was not so benevolent, then he has no psychological burden now. The Chinese are still too kind, and they are always restricted by the rules of benevolence, justice and morality passed down for thousands of years.

  Selling subprime mortgages only indirectly leaves the American people without houses to live in. The main culprit is the United States itself, and it does not want human life.

  The opium trade, how many people’s lives have been hurt, and how many people have been destroyed.

A few decades later, it doesn’t matter that his reputation in the United States has become a mess. The reputation of those opium dealers is also bad in China, and Internet writers are organizing them, but in the United States, they are great benevolents and donors to well-known universities. , The descendants of Gonghou Bandai...

  Reading history makes people wise. It seems that he should also learn from Forbes opium dealers, make friends with the rich and powerful in the United States, share profits, and then drain the American economy to develop new technologies in China.

  The more Xia Jingxing thinks about it, the more he feels that this is a big deal.

  "These early wealthy business elites who engaged in trade with China formed Boston's business aristocracy.

  Their family members went to the same university to study, worshipped in the same church, intermarried each other, and were closely intertwined through blood, in-laws, religion, and business, which profoundly influenced American history. "

  Belankfan looked at Xia Jingxing, and said: "Developing to this day, the members of these big families include scientific and cultural elites, industrial and commercial plutocrats, many American leaders, a large number of congressmen, judges, governors, and so on."

  Xia Jingxing nodded, this is the origin of the "Boston Brahman".

  Below these people are the white middle-class and white garbage.

  The white middle class is divided into high, middle and low classes. Basic-level civil servants, company employees, and teachers are considered low-end people; high-end mainly refers to doctors and lawyers as well as various financial elites, prestigious university tenured professors, and so on.

  White trash is divided into several layers. The homeless people are at the lowest level. It is slightly better to engage in lower-end jobs. Many of them are not full-time or deliberately not looking for full-time jobs to meet the criteria for receiving government subsidies.

  "I’ll tell you one more gossip. John Forbes Kerry’s paternal line is actually a descendant of German immigrants. The original surname was "Cohen", with a strong Jewish color.

  Later, in order to better integrate into the mainstream American society, Kerry's grandfather changed "Cohen" to "Kerry".

  Look at Kerry’s long face, he looks very Jewish.

  Later, Grandpa Kerry, who made a fortune in the American gold rush, paid special attention to the education of Kerry's father.

  Dad Kerry, who is not an outstanding elite with "blue blood", as a successful diplomat, it took great effort to marry a young lady from the "Boston Blue Blood Family".

  So, after marriage, Ms. Kerry did not want to give up her noble Forbes surname, but used it alongside her husband’s surname, and passed it seriously to her son John Forbes Kerry. "

  Xia Jingxing smiled and asked, "Does the Forbes surname bring any benefits to Kerry?"

  Bellanckfan chuckled, "Benefits? Helped him successfully join the Skull and Bones at Yale University when he was in college in the last century, and accumulated a lot of contacts for his future political career. Is this considered a benefit?"

  Xia Jingxing nodded slightly, this is Democratic America.

  Since the Shang Yang Reform and the implementation of the system of counties and counties in China, there was a system of judging talents, which later became the imperial examination system, and it was very early to get rid of the feudal system of imperial family and aristocracy.

  The constitutional monarchy and royal privileges retained by European countries are the remnants of feudalism.

  The blue-blooded aristocracy in the United States is also a remnant of feudalism, that is, the collusion of property and marital power.

  From the perspective of political civilization, China’s political system is much more advanced than Western political systems.

  Berlankfan grew up in a low-rent housing district in New York. His father was a mail sorter. He had no affection for the blue-blooded nobles who showed superiority from time to time.

  Mak Jinheng is the second generation of Lebanese immigrants, who suffered discrimination since childhood.

  So, the two people complained about the blue-blooded nobles without any pressure.

  Xia Jingxing is also happy to listen to some upper-class American gossip.

  In this pleasant atmosphere, the three people quickly completed the greeting work.

  (End of this chapter)