What made Zhou Hexuan regretful was that Montague Norman directly rejected the prince's invitation to the ball because he didn't like it being too lively. Prince Albert couldn't express his dissatisfaction yet, let alone him, even the British
When the old king was rejected by Norman, he could only laugh it off.
From the late 1920s to the early 1940s, Montagu Norman possessed unimaginable power and prestige. He was recognized as the most influential central banker in the world, and the New York Times called him an "invisible empire."
"The King of Finance", and economic publications described him as the "King of Finance".
Montagu Norman was not from a traditional British aristocracy, but his father, uncle, grandfather, and grandfather... were all bankers. Not only did he inherit the family bank in the UK, his grandparents had invested decades ago.
The U.S. banking industry maintains inextricable ties with major U.S. conglomerates such as Morgan Stanley.
The myth of the Rothschild family only remains in fantasy works, and Montague Norman was the money bag of Britain at this time.
The world economic crisis in 1929 was also inseparable from Montague Norman. This man held an extremely conservative attitude in the economic field and was crazy about gold. In 1926, he returned Britain to the gold standard (during World War I, the pound had already been compared with gold).
decoupling), leading to lower interest rates in the UK, further fueling Wall Street’s irrational exuberance.
The plan to invite Norman through Prince Albert failed, so Zhou Hexuan could only submit his invitation directly. Unexpectedly, he got an invitation from Norman.
Of course, the only invitee was Zhou Hexuan, and Song Ziwen was blocked from the door.
This famous financier is 64 years old, but he still remains single, and his residence seriously does not match his identity. It is just an ordinary two-story cement house, next to "Holland Park", and lives in the house.
Norman and his seven servants.
The butler was very old, at least in his 70s, with folds on his face that would trap mosquitoes, and some terrible age spots. He bent slightly to salute, and said with a serious smile: "Mr. Zhou, come with me."
"Thank you." Zhou Hexuan smiled.
The old housekeeper, still expressionless, led Zhou Hexuan straight to the door of the house, and then led him to a living room.
This dilapidated concrete house didn't even have wall tiles, and there were no exotic flowers or plants in the garden. It only contained some ordinary plants. It wasn't until he entered the concrete house that Zhou Hexuan discovered that there was something special inside. The decoration inside the house was extremely weird, or rather
Unconventional, there is even an oil painting about hell hanging on the wall of the living room.
Montague Norman appeared on crutches. Seeing Zhou Hexuan staring at the oil painting, he smiled and explained: "That is a scene from Dante's "Divine Comedy"."
"Very interesting." Zhou Hexuan could only comment like this.
Montagu Norman personally poured a cup of black tea for Zhou Hexuan, and suddenly asked without warning: "I've heard of you, the mysterious 'Far Eastern Wizard', are you really good at divination?"
Watfak?
Zhou Hexuan looked confused. He had never expected that the controller of the central bank of the British Empire would ask such a strange question when they met.
Montagu Norman smiled and said: "I have studied gypsy divination and am also very interested in the mysterious witchcraft of the East. Can you help introduce some secrets about Eastern witchcraft? In return, I can guide you
Visit the mummies.”
"Mummy?" Zhou Hexuan was a little dizzy.
Montague Norman proudly said: "They are real mummies, dug out from the Egyptian pyramids. I have three mummies in my collection, two of them belong to pharaohs, and the owner of one is a cat."
Zhou Hexuan only has "my grass" in his heart. No wonder some people say that Norman is neurotic. How can he not be neurotic if he studies this kind of thing all day long?
"Mr. Norman, actually, I don't know much about Eastern witchcraft." Zhou Hexuan said.
"No need to be modest," Montagu Norman suddenly took out an English version of "The Goddess" and said with a smile, "Mr. Zhou, I am your loyal fan. This book "The Goddess" is so well written, Dragon King
, river gods, land, city gods, mandrills, fox fairies... Oriental mysticism that makes people obsessed. After reading this book, I want to go to China in person. It would be better if I could see the Dragon King."
Nima than!
I call this realistic magicism. Is it good to use magic to insinuate reality? You actually regard it as a popular book on mystical science.
Zhou Hexuan felt that this old guy really had some mental problems, so he could only say: "Then you missed a good opportunity. Last year, a dragon fell to death in Northeast China. There were thousands of witnesses. Now the dragon's body is in a collection.
In a school showroom.”
"Really? A living dragon?" Montague Norman became excited.
Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "Of course it is true. Many newspapers in China have reported it. People call it the 'Yingkou Dragon Falls Incident'. The place where the giant dragon fell to its death is called Yingkou."
Zhou Hexuan really didn't talk nonsense. "Chasing the Dragon in Yingkou" has always been an unsolved mystery.
Decades later, CCTV's "Discovery" column even ran a special feature that forced a scientific explanation of the incident and believed that the dragon was a beached whale. As a result, people across the country were furious, and some eyewitnesses from that year wrote to
CCTV requires the "Discovery" column to give an explanation.
CCTV finally gave in. When it produced a related program for the second time, it did not dare to draw conclusions easily. It could only say: "Because there is no real object, it has become a historical mystery."
The "Yingkou Dragon Falling Incident" happened two months before Xiao Lingjun entered school. The dragon appeared twice in total.
The first time was in early July, someone found a live dragon lying on the bank dying. People used straw mats to build a shelter for it, carried water to water the dragon's body, and asked monks to perform rituals and pray for it every day. It lasted for several days.
After the heavy rain stopped, the dragon disappeared.
The second time was in early August, when a giant dragon descended from the sky, capsized three boats, damaged a factory building, and overturned a train, killing nine people. A few days later, the dragon that caused the accident disappeared again.
It was found in Yingkou, but it was already dead and in a semi-decomposed state.
Many newspapers, including "Shengjing Daily" and "Northern Morning News", have related reports, and also published a photo of the skeleton of a giant dragon, with two huge dragon horns faintly visible in the photo (the dragon's body is about 10 meters long, and the horns are
About 1 meter long). Rumor has it that the giant dragon is now collected in a normal school in Liaoning for teachers and students to dissect and study.
If Yingkou hadn't been occupied by the Japanese, Zhou Hexuan would have really wanted to see it. After all, this thing is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Montagu Norman was very interested in this and kept asking Zhou Hexuan for details. This guy was already interested and even considered spending money to buy the dragon bones back to London for collection. He was indeed extremely obsessed with this mysterious phenomenon.
There are even legends that Montague Norman was proficient in witchcraft and could become invisible through walls at will...
Well, if this guy doesn't become a banker, he should be able to become a competent wizard and do funny things.
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