Manhattan Reborn 1978

Tokyo.

Dawn~

Tokyo Imperial Hotel, 1-1 Uchisuki-cho, east of Hibiya Park, Chiyoda-ku.

David, who only slept for about five hours last night, quietly left the sleeping Zina, put on his nightgown and walked into the bathroom. After rubbing his cheeks with warm water a few times, he looked up at himself in the mirror and slowly Come to your senses.

ten minutes later.

David opened the door to the room and invited Mr. Longhorn, who had been busy all night, to come in. The two sat next to the smallest lamp in the living room, looking at each other and laughing silently.

Mr. Tianniu showed no signs of fatigue on his face, stared at David with burning eyes, and joked in a low voice.

"A gardener once said to me that the closer people are to you, the more clearly they can feel...how amazingly fast you grow!"

"Haha~" David rubbed his dry eyes with his hands, shrugged and smiled.

"If you were familiar with the growth speed of bamboo, you wouldn't be so surprised~"

"bamboo?"

"yes.."

"By the way, there seems to be no bamboo in Europe."

"Bamboo is mainly distributed in central and southern Asia, Africa and South America. In the United States, bamboo can only be found in Florida and Mexico."

David pointed to his feet and said, "This is also one of the hometowns of bamboo."

"It is a fast-growing herbaceous plant. In seasons with abundant rainfall, you only need to give it four or five months to grow to a height of tens of meters!"

"Bamboo fiber has good air permeability, water absorption, wear resistance and other properties, and can be made into various furniture, daily necessities or handicrafts."

"So for thousands of years, islanders have always had the traditional habit of using bamboo to make furniture or use it as building materials."

"Oh..." Mr. Tianniu nodded, looking at David who still had some tired look on his face, and felt that strange "strangeness" again. .

David stood up and walked to the side, took a pot of hot water and a cup from the waiter, poured a cup for the beetle, and asked.

"What's the latest news from New York?"

"Yes!" The beetle lowered his head and glanced at the steaming glass of water, quickly regained his composure and whispered.

"Mag Ludwig, there is news through the gardener~"

"The presidential candidate you support, Astaire K. Wood, has recently been closely associated with people at Goldman Sachs..."

"Peter Peterson, who temporarily served as CEO of Goldman Sachs some time ago, officially announced his departure from Goldman Sachs yesterday."

"leave?"

David frowned, took a deep breath, and asked after thinking for a moment.

"I never understood why Peter Peterson, who took over as chairman of CFR, as the CEO of Lehman Brothers, would go to Goldman Sachs...?"

"Did you tell these two pieces of news together because they are somehow related?"

"Sorry, I don't know." The beetle pursed his lips and shook his head.

"This is what Odis Parker specifically asked the gardener to tell you..."

"He also asked me to tell you something~ Those greedy and shameless bastards successfully squeezed out Sidney Weinberg's son, White Weinberg."

“The Sidney Weinberg era at Goldman Sachs is over.”

"He said ~ you should be able to understand what he means."

"..call!!"

After David heard this sentence, all the memories related to Sidney Weinberg flashed through his mind~

Sidney Weinberg was born into a poor Jewish immigrant family. He dropped out of school at the age of 13 and sold newspapers at the ferry station at the age of 15. At the age of 16, he entered Goldman Sachs and became a janitor's assistant. .

He used the opportunity of running errands to deliver documents to meet several Goldman Sachs executives, and also attracted the attention of Paul Senx.

Paul Senx admired the young, diligent and sensible Weinberg very much, and transferred him to work in the communications room where he had access to many company business documents.

Later, Paul discovered that Weinberger was doing all the work in an orderly manner in the communication room with complicated and trivial work. He thought that Weinberg was a genius and spent his own money to send him to college.

After Weinberg graduated, Paul stayed with him to teach him carefully, and soon made him a junior partner at Goldman Sachs. .

After the financial crisis broke out in 1929, 38-year-old Sidney Weinberg took over as CEO of Goldman Sachs and created a 40-year-old company. . Weinberg era!

In 1932, when Franklin Roosevelt ran for president, Wall Street almost did not support him. However, Weinberg was very optimistic about Roosevelt and became the member of Roosevelt's campaign committee who raised the most funds.

Roosevelt won the election, and Goldman Sachs naturally won.

Roosevelt wanted to dismantle J.P. Morgan, and Weinberg, as the head of Goldman Sachs, also made great efforts behind the scenes. .

After the Great Depression and the outbreak of World War II~

Due to the huge changes in the domestic situation, Goldman Sachs CEO Weinberg served as assistant to the chairman of the War Production Committee to help Roosevelt coordinate wartime production.

When the American army was in trouble in the European War and the Pacific Theater, he came forward to actively mediate between Morgan and other established Boston conglomerate families and President Roosevelt, quietly reaching a reconciliation for both parties, and became the ultimate winner. .

After the victory in World War II, he met Ford II.

In 56, because of Weinberger's long-term and dedicated service to Ford, when Ford II decided to list the company, he did not hesitate to choose Goldman Sachs as the sole underwriter of its stock issuance, and created the largest fund at that time. IPO financing record.

10 years!

Goldman Sachs, led by Sidney Weinberg, served Ford almost free of charge for 10 years before receiving generous rewards from Ford II.

It is precisely because of this that when David said that free is the most expensive. . After these words, Pine, Giles, Lilith and others couldn't help but think of Sidney Weinberg.

But~

Sidney Weinberg, who led Goldman Sachs through forty years of ups and downs, passed away in 69. .

He led Goldman Sachs to insist that loyalty to customers is the best way to develop, and the company's spirit of implementing this spirit into customers' private lives began to slowly change. .

Thinking of this, David picked up the hot water cup, crossed his legs and took a sip, looked at Mr. Tianniu and said slowly.

"In 1968, Nixon was successfully elected as President of the United States."

"In the same year, the New York Central Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company merged and were renamed the Pennsylvania-New York Central Railroad Company (referred to as: Penn Central Railroad Company)."

"After the two companies successfully achieved the goal of strong alliance, they have become the largest railway company since the founding of the United States, with more than 10 employees and a weekly salary of more than 2200 million yuan."

"The company's board of directors quickly set development goals in line with Carnegie, Rockefeller and Morgan...these famous monopolies in history."

“To achieve this goal, Penn Central decision-makers decided to pursue a no-bottom financing plan!”