Manhattan Reborn 1978

Houston, Texas.

West of downtown, 19 Piney Point Village, Piney Point Village, Memorial District.

after dinner.

After David, Toby, and Ada had tidied up the dining table and kitchen, they remembered that the "foursome" hadn't come on time tonight. .

Instead, Marvin Pushk, short-haired Ada's brother, came over much earlier than usual and wanted to take his sister home.

David learned this while chatting with Marvin while standing by the sink skillfully washing dishes. .

Today is the weekend, and Marvin is going to get together with the friends he grew up with and have a party before the school season~

Marvin also enthusiastically invited David and Toby to attend together. .

Although David is only 22 years old physically, he is at an age where his energy has nowhere to vent.

But his mental age is far beyond his actual age of more than ten years, and he is not interested in happy parties where boys and girls gather together to drink.

So David handed over Toby Olga, who was somewhat moved, to Marvin.

Let him take care of his assistant tonight and let her have fun.

As for Ada. .

David wiped his hands with his apron, invited Ada to sit down in the restaurant, looked into her eyes and asked.

"I have two sisters at home, Salonia and Loisa."

"You and Salonia are about the same age."

"Tonight, if your mother agrees, you can go home with me and live with Salonia."

"Do you want to?"

Ada stood and thought for a moment, then turned to look at her brother Marvin.

"Uh..." Marvin scratched his head with his hand, saw the "anticipation" in his sister Ada's eyes, and smiled dryly.

"I need to call my mom and ask her..."

"Ok!"

David shrugged at Ada, smiled and stood up and walked to Toby, pulling her upstairs to say goodbye to his mentor.

. . .

After more than 20 minutes.

in the living room.

Toby deliberately touched up his makeup upstairs to make himself look more energetic and younger, and took the lead to leave with light steps.

Marvin pulled his sister Ada and stood at the door and whispered instructions. .

David led his mentor, Professor Bartley, into the living room, turned on the TV for him, adjusted the channel, and smiled.

"Today's evening news will be exciting."

"Hmm..." Professor Bartlet turned his head and glanced at him, waved his hand and smiled.

"Ada's mother, Barbara, said on the phone that she also has a cocktail party that she must attend tonight."

"Even if Marvin took Ada back, he would still be alone at home..."

David glanced at the door, smiled and sat next to his tutor, spreading his hands and saying, "I have called my family. My mother and Salonia will accompany my father to take Ada back."

"I will stay here with you tonight!"

"Accompany me?"

Professor Bartlet held back his laughter, tilted his head to look at him, and asked, "What are you kidding about?"

David felt himself chuckle, looked around, shrugged and said, "Do you remember... the Davis Leahy I mentioned?"

"Um... General Leahy's grandson?"

"Yes, it's him!"

Professor Bartlet suddenly had a bad premonition and frowned: "He is coming to find you?"

"Yes~"

David put away his joking attitude and said with a serious expression: "There were some minor problems in my cooperation with him in the island country."

"I want to quit and quit."

"But he couldn't help himself, so he had no choice but to end his vacation and talk to me in person..."

Professor Bartlet said nothing and looked at David quietly.

David looked directly into his mentor's eyes and said calmly: "Don't worry."

"Business matters will not affect the progress of my book writing."

"Because I believe in a saying: It doesn't matter how many resources there are, what matters is the people who use them!"

"Davis Leahy, he's in over his head."

"But I can move forward and retreat freely, and I won't get myself into trouble."

“I don’t care about what they see as a great opportunity that can’t be missed~”

"If they want to fight, I will quit and let them~"

"but!"

"If they want to coerce me into joining with some additional conditions..."

"I will let them know the price they must pay after being blinded by greed!"

"..." Professor Bartley stared at David for a while, then suddenly couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

"I have to say, you are so similar to the old Cherov I knew in this aspect!"

"Haha~Yeah!" David shook his head and shrugged.

"You did say that more than once."

"But I don't approve of the way he treats his children."

"Oh..." Professor Bartley responded casually, did not pick up the topic, picked up the TV remote control and said.

"Paul suggested that I sort out the manuscript you have written and send it to Harvard University Press for a few old friends to read, and then discuss internal publishing."

"What do you think?" David, of course, didn't know what was "troublesome" in it and asked his instructor directly for his opinion.

"I?"

"Aren't you the author of this book?" Professor Bartley deliberately amplified some of the TV sounds and looked at the TV news.

"Forehead.."

David resisted the urge to roll his eyes and smiled apologetically: "You are my mentor!"

"Whatever you tell me to do, I will do it!"

"Hehe~"

Professor Bartlet raised the remote control with interest: "Are you sure?"

"Sure!"

"Then wait."

"...Okay!" David pondered for a few seconds and nodded slowly.

"It's okay to wait two years."

"When I write more memos or research reports to the New York Fed and gain recognition and support from more people, publishing this book will be much smoother...right?"

The curve of Professor Bartley's mouth became wider and wider, his eyes were still fixed on the TV, and he was silent for a long time. It was not until Marvin Pushk left and Ada returned to the living room and sat down silently that he spoke.

"When my health gets better, when you finish writing this book, when the full picture of this crisis is slowly accepted by people, when your name is known to more people..."

"Waiting, in many cases requires more patience and character than doing it right away."

David sat back on the sofa, watching the news anchor on the TV talking about the changes that might be caused by the Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates slightly, and nodded slowly and continued.

"Waiting is to move forward better."

"Waiting allows me to free my hands to sort out what I have learned during the stage..."

"Waiting allows me to raise my head, change my perspective, and see everything around me clearly..."

"Waiting also allows me to re-examine my own shortcomings and shortcomings objectively, making time the greatest help in my life!"

"Time is a ruthless knife!"

"It can expose hypocrisy, verify lies, and reveal reality."

"Problems or difficulties are always there, everywhere~"

"Everyone will encounter various problems, and they cannot be avoided or escaped."

"So when we encounter a problem, the best way for us to deal with it is... to improve our ability to solve problems~"

"And find out the various important factors that affect its essential development from the problem, list the advantages and disadvantages respectively, and then formulate a plan objectively and rationally, and complete it step by step."

"..."

Professor Bartlett tilted his head and looked at David, who was suddenly "possessed by a philosopher". He was stunned for a while and asked with a strange expression.

"What books have you read?"

"Introduce a few books to Ada."

"Uh..." David touched his nose, looked at Ada with a hint of expectation in her expression, and said with an awkward smile.

"You can read any book, as long as you can learn something from it..."

"But you can't believe everything in the book~"

"You have to read books with your own thinking in order to find knowledge that is beneficial to you and turn it into your own knowledge, opinions or theories!"

"Just like when I read books such as The Wealth of Nations, Capital, and The Prince, I made a relatively systematic summary of the essence and complete system of many of them that can still be regarded as important ideas."

"For example: When I was reading "The Wealth of Nations", I found that Adam Smith summarized some of his own thoughts on how urban commercial development in different countries can make more contributions to rural production and improvement of life."

“As the number of cities with developed industry and commerce increases, the contribution they can make to the production and farming of surrounding rural areas can be mainly divided into three categories.”

“First of all, it provides a broader and more convenient centralized trading market for the agricultural products in the rural areas where it is located.” (For example: in the past few years, various wholesale markets located in the suburbs of the city.)

"Secondly, as the wealth of urban residents continues to grow and accumulate, they will hope to buy land or houses that can be resold to improve their quality of life or for investment."

“And most of this land is uncultivated land.”

"This gives businessmen, farmers and citizens who own these lands a very rare opportunity to increase their wealth."

(For example: dismantle the second generation...)

"Thirdly, in the past, rural areas did not have relatively complete external commercial channels, nor did they have the industry and manufacturing industry that could form a system."

"If they are adjacent to cities with relatively developed industry and commerce, they can rely on their own advantages to attract investment and produce various products with local characteristics."

(For example: Village collective factories and enterprises that have been prosperous for more than 20 years after the reform and opening up...)

. . .

Time flew by while David was "talking nonsense".

By the time old David arrived with his wives Sierra and Salonia, David had already drank two glasses of juice and was complaining to the somewhat confused Ada about the rumors that had been quietly spread in society in recent years. The theory of "the uselessness of reading". .

"Hey~Dad, Mom, Salonia!"

"Let me introduce to you~"

"This is my mentor, Professor Bartley."

"This is Ada Pushk I was talking to you about on the phone..." David introduced Professor Bartley and Ada to his family.

As the host, Professor Bartley invited the Coleman family to sit down and chatted politely with old David for a while.

David took his mothers, Sierra and Salonia, to Ada and introduced them again, hoping that everyone could temporarily eliminate some of the strangeness. .

After more than 20 minutes.

David stood on the side of the street, watching Ada follow the family car away, and sighed softly.

He turned his head and glanced at Mr. Tianniu not far behind him, and asked, "Are Davis and the others arriving soon?"

"Yes."

"I will take medicine with the tutor first, and then arrange for him to have an early rest."

"If they come, please entertain them in the living room for me."

"Okay!" Mr. Tai Niu turned to look at the still open door, walked to David, and whispered the latest news received in the afternoon and evening.

. . .

David arranged for his mentor, Professor Bartley, to take a break early, and Davis Leahy and a middle-aged man with a stiff expression also arrived.

David invited the two of them to sit down in the dining room from the living room, made a few cocktails by himself, and made some fruit platters.

After Mr. Tianniu handed David all the things he should do and the intelligence materials he should prepare, he left the house and went to the street, got into the car driven by One-Eyed Andres, and waited quietly.

One hour.

Two hours. .

Until nearly midnight.

Davis Leahy led the middle-aged man away.

Mr. Longhorn said hello to Andres, walked into the living room and saw David rubbing his forehead with a tired face, and asked in a low voice.

"Are we... going back now?"

"No~"

David glanced at the time, shook his head and sighed: "I've already called home and I won't go back tonight."

"I'll find a room upstairs to rest. You should go back and rest early."

The beetle tilted his head and glanced out the window, thought for a while and said, "We just discussed it and just sleep in the living room for the night."

"Um...that's not necessary!"

"You can still do it when you go back..."

"Haha~" Longhorn interrupted David with laughter, pointed out the window and whispered.

"Davis Rice and the one he brought... will probably attract some people's attention!"

"Otherwise you wouldn't have such a headache, right?"

"..." David nodded silently, smiled self-deprecatingly, and said.

"Is it true that all those guys have a kind of arrogance in their hearts... I am willing to come over and discuss cooperation with you, so I am very arrogant to give you face?"

Mr. Tianniu smiled and narrowed his eyes, walked to David and sat down, and whispered: "If you are saying this to Otis Parker..."

"He will definitely make that guy...never be arrogant again in this life!"

"Oh..."

David stared, rubbed his chin, shrugged somewhat thankfully and smiled.

"Then I will definitely pay attention in the future!"

"I won't give him an excuse to act as he pleases..."

"Haha~" Mr. Tianniu controlled his laughter and shook his head slightly.

"He sometimes does things very casually, and sometimes he is extremely cautious..."

David also smiled and shook his head, then continued: "The situation of the military in recent years has been very bad~"

"After the Vietnam War, in addition to the fact that the Navy was still able to get sufficient military funding from Congress, it became increasingly difficult to apply for military funding from the Air Force and Army."

"The lack of money makes the senior military officials who have developed the habit of lavish spending feel angry..."

"They thought that this political turmoil in Iran was a very good opportunity."

"But the new leader Khomeini can hardly conceal his disgust for the American military..."

"Oh?" Tianniu asked, frowning in surprise.

"Did he ask the US government to withdraw its troops?"

"Ok!"

David lay back on the sofa and sneered: "The original Shah of Iran and the government of Pahlavi I and Pahlavi II were very eager for the support and economic assistance of the United States."

"But this Khomeini, during his more than ten years in exile in Iraq, has publicly made remarks of rejection... and even hostility to the United States on many occasions."

After thinking carefully, Tienniu then answered with some confusion: "So, he deliberately sent a friendly signal to the US government in Paris~"

"After he successfully returns to China and takes control of power..."

David raised a few fingers with a calm expression: "The first step is to ask the U.S. government to send troops to intervene secretly to help his cronies take over full military power and stabilize the turbulent situation in the country."

"The second step is to gradually resume production activities in all walks of life so that ordinary people can live and work with peace of mind."

"The third step is to require the U.S. government to withdraw all domestic troops and obtain the most basic independent sovereignty and military power after the domestic situation stabilizes."

"The fourth step is to make various promises to the U.S. government and at the same time release some unclear signals to neighboring countries to lay the foundation and excuse for his subsequent action plan."

“The fifth step is to take advantage of the hostility and resistance of neighboring countries towards the U.S. government, continue to receive visiting envoys sent by them, and make a gradually awakening gesture. At the same time, the domestic oil industry can be helped and restored, and the domestic oil industry can be accelerated to earn foreign exchange. .”

"The sixth step is when he thinks he has enough chips to break up with the US government, the international crude oil market, which has been heated up by all parties, will once again usher in a wave of crude oil spot speculation!"

"The United States, as the world's largest crude oil importer, and European countries still cannot guarantee complete self-sufficiency in crude oil."

"Hehe~"

David shrugged with a hint of coldness on his lips, put down his fingers, and whispered.

“How many man-eating giant crocodiles are hidden underwater in the crocodile pool of the international crude oil market... Maybe only God knows?!”

Tianniu glanced at David with some confusion, and then asked with confusion in his heart: "Do you think, if it develops according to your prediction, how will they break the situation?"

"It's very simple~"

David pointed to the muted TV with an expressionless face and whispered: "War!"

"One year at the earliest and three years at the latest."

"One or more large-scale wars will inevitably break out around the world!"

"Chaos will be the theme of world development in the next five or ten years."

"Forehead.."

The beetle couldn't help but stare at David with wide eyes and asked: "Did you just tell them this?"

"of course not!"

"I'm just a coward, not a fool..." David glanced sideways at the beetle and complained.

"Uh...hehe~"

The beetle also felt that he had asked a "silly question" and asked with a smile: "Then what did you tell them?"

"I said.."

David pondered for a moment and said: "I said that future wars will be three-dimensional wars with high-tech equipment + multi-skilled soldiers + multi-arms cooperation."

"The widespread popularization and rapid development of computer applications will bring the whole world into an era of high-level warfare unprecedented in human history!"

"Satellites, radars, fighter planes, warships, tanks, and soldiers will all be equipped with the most advanced computer-aided combat systems, and with their precise positioning functions, they can target targets on the battlefield with an accuracy of ten meters... or even five meters. Strike!”

"So, the era when Xiong Daguo had millions of soldiers and used fully mechanized troops to form a torrent of steel to fight wars will be gone forever."

"In the new era, the U.S. military, fully equipped with high-tech, sophisticated weapons and auxiliary combat systems, will shock everyone around the world!"

"..."

After listening to David's "big pie", the beetle felt something was wrong in his heart, but he couldn't tell where he was wrong. .

David seemed to have guessed what the beetle was thinking, and he smiled and spread his hands.

“If you want to realize the plans and goals I just mentioned, you must first solve a very difficult problem.”

"money!"

"Without the U.S. government investing a lot of military spending, these plans and goals can only be talked about casually~"

"But our President Warren White has submitted a proposal to Congress to start cutting military spending..."

"...I understand!" The beetle stood up and walked to the TV, turned it off, and said with a smile.

“The president doesn’t want to give money, and Congress doesn’t want to give money either~”

"The military is in a hurry...!?"

"Hahaha~"

"Yes."

David stood up and walked to the long-horned beetle, put his right hand on his shoulder, and smiled.

"It was already discussed just now."

"As long as we can reopen the trade channel of the Nakhodka commercial port in the Far East."

"They will ensure the security and stability of this trade channel in the Western Pacific."

"However, this cooperation is purely commercial. We only serve as a middleman and charge some nominal commodity trade differences."

"My original plan to give young Yuri Orlov more exercise had to be abandoned."

"Contact the gardener and ask him to talk to Marat Poyezhnev."

"If he is willing to take the risk of this cooperation, I will not treat him badly."

The beetle nodded to show that he understood, thought for a while and asked: "Where is Kihara Nobunari?"

"He has arrived tonight, do you still want him to go back to the island country?"

"Hiss~ah!"

David slapped his forehead with his right hand and said with a wry smile: "I forgot about him just now..."

"so!"

"Ask him to come over tomorrow morning and I'll have a chat with him."

"Then we decide where he will go."

"ok~"

The beetle took a deep breath, walked quickly to the door, waved his hand and said, "I'll let Andres come in and rest."

"We'll see you tomorrow morning!"

"Okay~ Thanks, man!"

"..."

David watched the longhorned beetle leave in a graceful manner, and replayed the meeting with Davis tonight in his mind. After feeling that there was no big problem, he breathed a sigh of relief.

tomorrow!

Tomorrow, there will be an extremely difficult "battle" waiting for him.

And his opponent is. .The California tycoon that Professor Bartlet mentioned twice, Piro Jan Cherov!