Manhattan Reborn 1978

new York.

Early morning~

In front of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital building in Washington Heights.

Cui Yingying was standing on the street with a small bag in her hand. When she saw Susan and Black Mike driving from the far corner, she waved to them happily.

After a few minutes.

The driver, Black Mike, looked in the rearview mirror at Susan and Cui Yingying who were sitting in the back seat chatting "hotly" and smiled.

"The breakfast shop opposite the bar has been mostly renovated..."

"Did you all forget about it?"

"Um..." Susan and Cui Yingying looked at each other, smiling with a hint of embarrassment in their expressions.

Black Mike winked at the two people in the rearview mirror and joked: "Have you been focusing on having children all day long and not caring about business?"

"Hahaha~" The two girls laughed and hugged each other at his slightly sour teasing.

Susan leaned into Cui Yingying's ear and smiled: "The way he looks now, you can say that he is envious of David, but don't use the word envy."

"Because no matter who it is, anyone who is told that they are jealous...will jump up like a cat whose butt is burned!"

"Hahaha~" Cui Yingying leaned forward and saw Black Mike's face getting darker, covering her mouth and laughing.

Susan shook her head proudly and deliberately "provoked" Black Mike in the rearview mirror: "Are you right?!"

"Haha~" Black Mike slowed down the car, looked at Susan in the rearview mirror, rolled his eyes, and changed the topic.

"Last night, another person was found dead on East 39th Street."

"That's not the Sidrich family there...?" "No~" Black Mike shook his head.

"There, Ludi and the others have sold it to Francisco Barone, a gang leader in Brooklyn, at a low price."

"Um...is that Mr. Barone who likes to give out gold business cards to people that Mike White mentioned?" Susan was attracted by this topic and glanced at Black Mike with some confusion.

"Yes, it's him."

"Recently, he was targeted by the Eastern District District Attorney because several of his men were involved in the Lufthansa robbery."

"I heard that the prosecutor is actively collecting evidence and looking for witnesses, and will go to court at the end of next month to charge him with multiple crimes."

"Ah...oh..." Susan tilted her head, recalling the rumors about Mr. Barone in her memory, and shrugged.

"He is going to face charges. Does it have anything to do with 39th Street?"

"Of course!"

Black Mike saw Cui Yingying looking curious in the rearview mirror and explained: "Mr. Barone and old Malkin are both Italian immigrants."

"He also has a strong aversion to his staff being involved in drug and human trafficking, as well as businesses that involve direct confrontation with police or law enforcement."

"Although he is not from Sicily, old Malkin also recognized him very much."

"Rudi sold the area on 39th Street to Mr. Barone at a low price. Mike Bai said that the old Malkin did not want the area near 42nd Street to become a drug-infested place."

"so.."

Susan continued with some concern: "So Mr. Barone is facing charges, and his men will definitely act more cautiously?"

"do not know.."

"Then our bar won't be targeted by drug dealers, right?"

Black Mike stopped the car at the intersection signal, turned to look at Susan and smiled.

"Our bar has almost no customers. Are you still worried about drug dealers?"

"..." Susan curled her lips speechlessly and turned to look out the window.

Black Mike smiled again: "Did Erica tell you her thoughts?"

"What? She didn't say anything~"

"Then you really should listen to the great ideas she comes up with."

"Maybe she can really improve the bar's business."

"I'll ask her..."

"But in recent days, the bar will be temporarily lent to the crew for filming. Even if Erica has a good idea, she will have to wait for a few days."

"Okay~ You are the boss lady, you have the final say."

"..." Susan patted Black Mike's shoulder hard, but her eyes couldn't hide the joy in her heart.

Cui Yingying silently watched the familiar behavior of the two people, and she also showed the most relaxed smile in recent times.

----

Wall Street, Stanley [-]th Floor.

Sam Rogers was sitting in the office, looking at his old friend Mu Brandes, and asked: "What Bernard Madoff said...is it true?"

"Absolutely~" Mu Brandes shrugged and spread his hands.

"My friends just heard some rumors about that group of people while chatting with their clients..."

"We have to wait until you contact them to determine the specific situation!"

"..." Sam nodded, thinking silently.

Mu Brandes looked at Sam's young face, considered it carefully, and decided to speak out.

"I think your personal attitude towards Bernard Madoff may be..."

"Huh?" Sam quickly guessed what his old friend wanted to say and couldn't help laughing.

"You should know that my attitude and views towards him are not what everyone sees on the surface..."

"Because he has worked hard to build his own personal image for many years. In my opinion, he is completely deceiving himself and others, and has even gone astray~"

Seeing a trace of surprise on his old friend's face, Sam patiently explained: "My boss once told me that he has three greatest advantages: being Jewish, starting a business relatively smoothly, and being smart and cautious."

"The biggest shortcoming I summarized for him is that he is too utilitarian and too vain, making it difficult for people to fully trust him!"

"The boss helped him get a job at Nasdaq and asked him to join Pioneer with a large investment."

"But he and his friends have been trying to make money from the boss... by taking advantage of the situation?!"

Sam gave a disdainful sneer: "The last time Mr. Pine and I went to meet Peter Peterson, he also told me during the chat that he didn't understand why the boss was so indulgent to Bernard Madoff. "

"You have also worked on Wall Street for many years. What will the people here do to a guy like him who always wants to get benefits from all parties and always wants all parties to treat him as one of their own?"

Mu Brandes smiled and shrugged: "Are you a little too extreme?"

"Didn't the boss also say... Since you have chosen to use him, you can't just look at the present and the present!"

"We need to take a longer view."

"Haha~" Sam smiled noncommittally, tilted his head to look out the window, and changed the topic.

"I'm going to Chicago tomorrow to see Leon Hoffman."

"I don't want to leave all my investments in the Chicago currency futures and commodity futures markets to Bernard Madoff."

"So during the past few days when I am away, you will be in charge of the company's affairs for the time being. If you have any questions, we will contact you in time."

"Okay!" Seeing that Sam had made up his mind, Mu Brandes said no more.

----

Texas.

Houston International Airport.

Marat Poyezhnev and Yuri Orlov followed the sparse flow of passengers out of the airport hall.

With red eyes, Marat took off his coat that he had not yet had time to change, and waved to a taxi in the distance.

Yuri, who also had red eyes, took off his coat and raised his arms in the bright morning light of Houston, trying to get rid of the fatigue all over his body and cheer up. .

A few hours ago at midnight.

After receiving the call from the beetle, the gardener immediately went to Marat and told him about the latest news he had received, regardless of whether the time was right.

Marat, who had been a little uneasy in recent days, heard the news from the gardener and immediately realized that this was the biggest opportunity in his life and he must not let it go!

So, he comforted his wife overnight, found Yuri Orlov, and explained his thoughts while dragging him to the airport to buy a red-eye flight ticket.

Yuri, who was in a dazed state, suddenly woke up as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on his mind after hearing Marat's "crazy" plan. .

Because he asked himself that he could not do something as "crazy" as Marat anyway.

. . .

Marat and Yuri were sitting in a taxi, and they asked the driver to turn around to the busiest business district in downtown Houston, and then drive to the Memorial District in the west of the city center.

on the way.

The two of them saw the skyscrapers towering in the downtown business district, as well as many busy skyscraper construction sites under construction, which made them clearly feel the huge difference between this city and New York.

vitality!

Yes.

This city is full of the vitality that New York has lost~

Especially the young people walking together in twos and threes on the street!

Although their clothes are not as "conspicuous" and individual as those of young people in New York.

But the youth and confidence they exude, and the relaxation and joy on their faces are hard to see on the faces of young people in New York. .

Marat looked at it silently and thought about it.

When the taxi entered Pine Forest Avenue, he said to Yuri with emotion.

"I want my children to move here from New York and live here."

"Uh..." Yuri tilted his head and looked at Marat's serious expression, not knowing what to say.

Marat knew the "crazy" plan he was going to carry out, which frightened him a little. He shook his head and said nothing.

After the two got off the bus, they left a 20-meter tip to the "enthusiastic" taxi driver.

One-eyed Andres, who had been waiting here for a long time, waved to the two of them and said with a smile: "Welcome to Houston!"

"Hahaha~"

"Last time we were in Honolulu, we heard similar words..." Marat stepped forward and grabbed the one-eyed Andres affectionately, teasing.

Andres shrugged: "Sorry~ I wasn't the one who said this to you last time."

"Hahaha~ It doesn't matter!"

"I'm sure you will hear me say something similar to this in the future~"

"Oh?" Andres tilted his head and glanced at Yuri, who was in a daze, and shook his head slightly.

"The boss didn't go back yesterday. At this time, he was talking to Kihara Nobunari alone inside."

"You guys go to my car and rest for a while."

"ok~"

Mala pulled Yuri into the car and sighed in a low voice while taking off his heavy clothes.

"That kid Nobunari Kihara is so lucky!"

"..." Yuri closed the car door, followed Marat's example and took off his close-fitting sweater, feeling his whole body let out a sigh of relief, and continued.

"Actually, it's not just him... we are all lucky."

"That's right!"

Marat "transformed" a wooden comb and a bottle of hair oil from his bag, raised his eyebrows at Yuri and smiled.

“It is very important to us to maintain a better personal image at all times!”

"Unless you no longer have to worry about your personal appearance in front of anyone..."

"Otherwise, it will be a required course that you have to study hard throughout your life!"

"Um..." Yuri scratched his "chicken coop" with his hand, imagining himself with red eyes and shiny, untidy hair, and his expression gradually became weird.

. . .

After about half an hour.

No. 19 Pine Forest Avenue, in the living room of the small villa where Professor Bartlet rests.

David was surprised when he saw Marat and Yuri, who had arrived from New York overnight, and asked them to sit down.

"Why are you rushing here in such a hurry...?"

Marat, who had a sleek slicked back hair, knew that the young boss across from him just wanted to hear his answer, so he simply spoke directly.

"I want to go to Nakhodka Commercial Port as a middleman to discuss business cooperation for continued trade."

"Oh?"

David turned his head and glanced at the expressionless Kihara Nobunari, and said with a smile: "Both of you, do you both want to go?"

"..." Marat looked at the silent Kihara Nobunari in surprise, without showing any "anxious" emotion on his face, and smiled.

"We both have pros and cons in every aspect."

"But in your heart, you should already have someone to implement this plan...right?"

"Haha~" David nodded with a smile, glanced at Kihara Nobunari and Yuri Orlov, and said.

"Yuri, here in the United States, I am responsible for helping you purchase and prepare trade materials from home and Europe."

"Kihara Nobunari, in the island country, is responsible for the various countries in Southeast Asia."

"Marat!"

"You go to Nakhodka Commercial Port...you bear the greatest personal risk!"

"So, you will be solely responsible for this trading company that is under Yuri's personal name and execute this cooperation plan."

"Davis Leahy's side, Mag Ludwig's side, Mr. Gardener's side, I'll say hello to them all."

"but!"

David changed the topic, looked at the micro-expressions on the three people's faces, and said seriously: "You haven't been back from the island country for long."

"You know better than me what the specific situation is over there."

"Order, rules, tasks, responsibilities, business, interests, etc..."

"They are all based on the identity and positioning I gave you!"

“We are only intermediate traders.”

“Some people are buying and selling, and we will match them up for transactions.”

"We don't do business that requires guarantees."

“We don’t do business that requires us to fulfill our responsibilities!”

"Because it's not important to me to make money from this collaboration."

"The most important thing is that I want the three of you to find working methods that can quickly adapt to your respective identities and positions, make extensive connections, form your own reliable team, and accumulate strength and experience for more opportunities you may encounter in the future."

David saw that the three of them were frowning and thinking, so he lowered his voice and spoke faster.

"Petroleum, as the blood of world industrial development, will surely be an important strategic resource that all countries will pay close attention to in the next few decades."

"And when we open the Nakhodka commercial port trade channel this time, it's not just for oil trade!"

"The Bear Country is a big country, although its permanent population in the Far East is not that large..."

"But after all, it is the country with the largest land area, the richest natural resources, and the largest army in the world."

"At the same time, it is also a country with a very uneven development of its own industrial system!"

"The development of its light industry, agriculture and heavy industry in the past 20 years is almost an era apart..."

“Especially agriculture!”

"The Great Bear Country has a vast territory and a small population, but it cannot guarantee its self-sufficiency in agricultural products."

"This has laid a time bomb as powerful as an atomic bomb for the economic transformation that must be carried out in the country in the future!"

David took a long breath, waved to Mr. Tai Niu who was "hiding" in the restaurant, and said.

"Here is some public information and intelligence that I asked Austin Parker to collect before. I will give it to you to go back and read carefully."

"Crude oil spot trading seems to be hugely profitable..."

"But it itself is a strategic resource. Making quick money through speculation can only be temporary, not long-term~"

"The bulk commodities and grains that all countries need for economic and industrial development are the trade areas I want the three of you to focus on!"

"In my future business landscape, the three of you will be responsible for each other..."

"Yuri is mainly responsible for bulk commodity trade in the United States, Canada, South American countries, and Africa."

"Kihara Nobunari is mainly responsible for the Asian region with the fastest economic growth and the most complex social situation in the future."

"Marat, you are mainly responsible for the trade exchanges between countries in Eastern Europe. With the assistance of the two of them, we will build our own trade network and safe transportation channels."

David saw the corners of Yuri's mouth twitching slightly, as if he had something to say, and smiled.

"That's right!"

"You heard that right."

"I want the three of you to build a commodity trading company in the next ten or 20 years that is comparable to the Swiss Vitol Company and the American Philip Brothers Company!"

"But the two trading companies that we have had contact with are not our competitors yet, but partners."

"You must understand this in your mind so that you can move forward better and more steadily."

David put the file bag handed over by Mr. Tianniu on the small table, spread his arms and whispered.

"Since I've told you so much... I might as well say a few more words~"

"From my personal perspective, the Cold War between the United States and the Great Bear has been going on for decades. After the outbreak of the oil crisis, it will enter a new stage that no one can imagine!"

"The theme of this stage is...chaos and war!"

"Chaos, mainly caused by the long-standing conflicts and problems between the United States and the Great Bear, will explode in the next ten years~"

"for example.."

David looked at Marat, who had immigrated from Bear Country, and said, "You should know best that all classes in Bear Country have become almost solidified in recent years."

"There are only so many locations..."

(Note: I can’t write any more here, as it can easily be distorted and misinterpreted by others. Please make up your own mind.)

"Yeah..." Marat nodded heavily and responded.

David added: "The banking and financial industries in the United States will also enter a new era of breaking free from shackles and gradually regaining freedom."

"The bloodless financial war and trade war will appear on the main stage of the times in a brand-new manner that the world has never seen before!"

"..." Yuri Orlov, who had never gone to college, heard David say these two words and couldn't help but glance at Marat and Kihara Nobunari, and silently wrote them down.

Kihara Nobunari, who majored in sociology in college, felt a little vague about the other meaning that was not expressed in David's words.

Marat, who holds two master's degrees and has rich social experience, couldn't help but feel huge waves in his heart after hearing David's words. .

New phase?

New Era. . ?

Who wins and who loses? Will the result also be determined?

Maybe. . !

David has seen it. .?

Marat decisively suppressed the slowly rising emotions in his heart, took a deep breath, and looked at David with hot eyes.