Chapter 530 The Spirit of Heaven

  London’s largest Polo Market is located next to London Bridge. There are not only fresh vegetables and fruits, but also seafood and international delicacies. Shopping here is like treasure hunting, and you may find surprises at any time.

   "Severus, look!" Pomona immediately waved to him excitedly when she saw something sold at a stall.

  If the Veron oyster is the king of oysters, then Gina Duo is the queen of oysters. It is a super brand of French oysters. Every genuine oyster from the French company Gilardo has a unique G-shaped seal on the oyster shell.

  The best way to eat this kind of oyster is to eat it raw with your eyes closed, so that you can taste the ultimate taste.

Vision is the most important human sense, because more than 80% of the various information people receive from the outside world are obtained through vision. Once the eyes are closed, other sensations will become sharp, and the blind’s sense of hearing and touch is higher than that of ordinary people. In many cases, people's sense of taste will become sharper after closing their eyes.

  When kissing, people will involuntarily close their eyes. Although the flushed face of the other person will be charming, in order to avoid embarrassment, the shy person will always close it subconsciously. At this time, the sense of touch and taste will become more sensitive.

  Pomona never thought about kissing him in the public. The vendors didn’t care about them at all, and even smiled friendly.

  A song is playing on the market broadcast.

  AreyougoingtoScarboroughFair. Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

  Parsley, sage, rosemaryandthyme. Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme

  Remembermetoonewholivesthere. Say hello to a girl there for me

  Sheoncewasatrueloveofmine. She used to be my lover.

The mixed smell of the various scents in the market was driven away by the smell of sage on his body. For a moment, she thought she was back in the Middle Ages, and she couldn’t figure out whether the person she loved was a wizard. Still a Viking.

   "Oh, my goodness." When the kiss was over, she was a little dizzy and said, she suspected that she had been cast a Confusion Charm.

  Severus smiled triumphantly, and then bargained with the vendor.

  In Maupassant’s short story "My Uncle Yule", oysters are mentioned:

  Suddenly he saw two male passengers inviting two fashionable female passengers to eat oysters. An old sailor in ragged clothes pried open its shell with a knife and gave it to the male passengers, who followed and gave it to the two female passengers. They ate with a graceful gesture, holding up the oysters with a beautiful handkerchief, and stretching their mouths forward so as not to leave marks on the dress robes. Then they drank the juice of the oysters in a very quick little motion, and threw the shells to the surface of the sea. My father was undoubtedly seduced by the elegant behavior of eating oysters on a moving sea boat. He thought it was good-looking, elegant, and noble.

  Perhaps she is born a weird person. Others pay attention to the enjoyment of oysters. What she thinks is how much it cost.

  If you go to a restaurant, a relatively high-end restaurant can enjoy 1 bottle of red wine, 1 soup, three dishes, 1 dessert, and unlimited bread for 2 francs. Therefore, it can be seen that two and a half gold francs are really a lot of money, and they only ate four of them.

  Oysters were high-end items in France in the past, but they still are. Eating Ginadu oysters is a luxury.

  The old sailor who found the oyster was reluctant to eat the gift given to him by God, but sold it to the rich to eat. This nobleness and elegance contrasted sharply with the old sailor’s desolation.

"Come, take it." Severus happily handed her an oyster. It had just been pried open, and the juice smelled of sea water. The white meat seemed to be very appetizing, but she didn't. Any appetite.

  When he was young, Yule was squandered, and was deprived of money and man. He was regarded as a "disaster" and ended up being swept out of the house. He went to America and made a small amount of money. Two years later, he made a fortune and became everyone's "lucky star." The Philip family are eager for the return of rich Yule. The second sister also found her fiancé. The family was very happy. They went abroad to Jelsey Island. They saw a poor oyster seller who resembled Jules on the boat. Mr. Philip got terrible things from the captain. Confirmed. Not only did the dream of making a fortune vanish, but the dream of entering the upper class became a futile, and now the second daughter's marriage is also in jeopardy. In the end, the whole family calmly changed to return by sea vessel.

  Yule went to the United States to pan for gold. There are only a few people who have made a fortune like Molly Brown, and most people’s dreams of getting rich are broken.

  Prosperity and squandering, pursuit and adventure, ambition and desire, strength and ingenuity, hope, struggle, camping, frustration, collapse, and disillusionment, the development of the western United States is closely related to the gold rush.

  In January 1848, carpenter James Marshall found something shining while inspecting the river in a sawmill in Southern California. Upon closer inspection, there was a metallic object shining at the bottom of the river. He realized that he had discovered a gold mine, so he told his employer the good news, John Sutter, the owner of the land.

  Sutter and Marshall tried to conceal the news, and they completely own the gold mine. But the paper could not contain the fire, and the news that there was gold in the American River soon spread.

  Gold prospectors quickly flocked to Sartre’s land. They not only panned for gold, but also stole tools, food, livestock, and other people’s gold. Sartre, who thought he would become the richest man in California, became worried and was busy guarding his property all day long.

  Gold prospectors discovered that gold is mainly stored in an area 120 miles long and 60 miles wide between the Feather River in the north and the Tuolumne River in the south. The first gold prospectors usually only collect the surface gold, and then move to the next place. They don't even bother to mine the gold in the lower layers.

  Thousands of people have come to California from the United States and all over the world to inject vitality into the region’s economy. California has become a land of hope, a land of dreams, and a land of greed and sin. People with different accents are looking for "flashing particles that can change fate" here. They are also robbing, fighting, gambling, drinking, and cursing each other here. Gunshots fill the air.

  At first, when gold was easier to find, California did not have so much violence. After the gold became harder and harder to find, gold prospectors started shooting each other, shooting Indians, taking their land, and taking their women and children away.

   Few people pay attention to an economic crisis in the United States before 1848, just like gold prospectors only look for the surface layer and do not go deep into the digging.

  The Second War of Independence broke out in the United States in 1812. From 1812 to 1815, the U.S. Central Bank was closed down at this juncture when the U.S. needed the Central Bank to raise funds for the war.

  The Second Bank of the United States controlled by the Rothschild family was established by Congress in 1816, and the license period was also 20 years. It created a unified national currency, once became the largest and best banknote issuer in the United States, and made outstanding contributions such as the creation of a single exchange rate. Its capital is twice as much as the fiscal expenditure of the US government. It owns 20% of the country’s currency in circulation. It has 29 branches in each state and controls the state’s finances.

   paper money also began to appear at this time.

In the mid-1820s, considering that many state banks were rushed to legislate and many state banks had many hidden dangers in their operations, the Second Bank maintained its own stability by refusing to accept bills from banks that it considered poorly operated, which weakened the public. Confidence in the second bank, because people prefer state banks with loose credit and less stringent requirements, many people no longer accept the second bank.

  In 1829, Andrew Jackson was elected as the seventh president of the United States. He believed that the credit problem of the Second Bank had affected the development of the American economy. Some opponents from the private and political circles believe that this bank represents the interests of a few wealthy people, and because foreigners have too many deposits, it has brought hidden dangers to the stability of the young republic.

  In order to free the American economy from its strict control, Jackson decided to close the Second Bank. As part of the strategy to destroy the Second Bank, Jackson withdrew government deposits from the bank and deposited them in state banks. These banks were quickly called "favored banks" by Jackson's political opponents.

  Unexpectedly, the crisis arises. Because of the increased deposit base, state banks that do not pay attention to credit policy can issue more bank bonds and issue more loans with real estate as a guarantee, and real estate is the most illiquid of all investments. In this way, the policies implemented by President Jackson, who hates speculation and paper money most, unexpectedly triggered the first huge speculative bubble in the United States caused by paper money.

  In this bubble, a lot of land was sold by the federal government to residents or speculators. The total land sales of the government's land office in 1832 were 2.5 million U.S. dollars, and by 1836 this figure reached 25 million U.S. dollars.

  At the same time, the United States promulgated and implemented the Free Banking Act. The Free Banking Act allows anyone with a minimum capital of US$100,000 to establish a bank without any other requirements; and the application procedures in each state have also been greatly simplified. Banks have sprung up like mushrooms, and the hasty establishment of banks has led to rampant fraud and low-quality banking services.

  Jackson’s response is to cut off speculation. He signed the "Minting Circulation Order" as an administrative order, requiring that, except in very rare cases, all future purchases of land must be paid for with gold or silver coins. Jackson hopes that his measures will stop speculation across the country, but the effects of these measures are far more than that.

  In 1836, Congress decided to withdraw most of the precious metals from the Second Bank and transfer them to various state governments. Jackson also ordered the Treasury Department to withdraw $9 million from the Treasury's deposits in the Second Bank every quarter starting in February 1837, and to distribute it to each state in proportion to the population of each state.

  All of Jackson’s measures were just to improve what he thought was the financial industry, but the final result surprised him.

  Due to the surge in demand for coinage, holders of bank notes began to require bank notes to be exchanged for gold and silver coins. Banks have insufficient storage of precious metals, and in order to raise much-needed money, they have to withdraw their loans as soon as possible. Due to the lack of sufficient precious metals, the banks were unable to redeem the currency issued and had to be postponed repeatedly. The economic panic in the United States began to emerge.

Because the Second Bank had issued too many banknotes before, the huge amount of redemption requests almost exhausted its resources. At the same time, the bank’s extension application was rejected by President Jackson and was forced to shrink into a state bank and stopped. Some loans are issued. This panic also severely weakened the state banks. Many weaker banks went bankrupt because of their low gold reserves, and the banks that did not fall also "rogue": that is, they refused to repay their loans.

  At the end of 1937, all banks in the U.S., at least those that hadn’t gone bankrupt, terminated the payment of gold coins.

  In order to prevent gold from flowing out of the country, the Bank of England began to raise interest rates, which led to a decline in British cotton imports and further affected the US economy. Moreover, because the domestic interest rates in the UK have risen, British investors are no longer willing to invest money in American securities, which undoubtedly makes the Wall Street securities market worse. The United States was in a situation where the circulation of "man-made" currency was severely reduced, which eventually triggered the Great Economic Panic in 1837.

   On January 2, 1837, the U.S. Treasury Department withdrew $9 million from major banks in New York. Within a few days, panic and a series of bankruptcies occurred, and riots broke out in the streets. The real estate market has entered a vicious circle that is forced to sell, a large number of banks go bankrupt, and many other industries are the same.

  Wall Street stock prices began to fall as if revenge, bankruptcies quickly spread to all industries, 90% of factories in the United States closed, unemployment was extremely high, and thousands of people lost their land. When the state governments of several states tried to refinance their debts, they found that no one in the market was willing to buy their bonds. Although the government's revenue reached 50.8 million U.S. dollars in 1836, it was only 24.9 million U.S. dollars in 1837. Jackson's vision of not owing debt to the federal government is gone, and the United States has entered a depression for the first time in history.

  James Gordon Bennett, the editor of the Herald, wrote in his way in an editorial in March 1837:

  The United States has never been in such a dangerous situation as it is now. We are now surrounded by business panic. This panic is sending out a huge threat. It is going to destroy all the affairs of our society-to destroy our entire country, to turn large areas into ruins, and to take half of our banking institutions from the ground. Erasing it, we must ignite the most impetuous enthusiasm, and create mutations, which will eventually stagnate the country.

The economic depression caused by this financial panic lasted until the huge San Francisco gold mine was discovered in California in 1848, and the U.S. economic situation began to improve. Yule only went to the gold panning when he heard that there was gold in the Americas, but he eventually became a shabby The sailor was recognized by relatives who were also full of dreams of getting rich, and the dream was broken, and then he turned around and left as if nothing had happened.

  If you don’t have money in “heaven”, it’s like living in hell. You found the oysters, but you can’t eat them. What a bad mood to see you can’t eat them.

  The vicious circle of medicine is hopeless, and the financial bubble is like a black hole that swallows the real economy. All loose policies that can stimulate the economy have little effect because of the money-making effect of the financial market.

  The fall of the Red Giant on December 31, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed.

  Plaza Agreement Japan’s economy collapsed.

  These two economies have injected huge amounts of capital fleeing into Europe and the United States, relying on the unprecedented scale of banknotes to get rid of the recession, and ended a Jugella cycle without any surprises.

  Only waiting for others to fall can they stand on their own. For the United States, only the collapse of economies such as China and the European Union is enough to obtain enough resources to make it through the cycle.

  For China, only the disintegration of economies such as the United States and the European Union can remove obstacles to the country’s economic transformation and rise.

  The life of a capitalist is the death of others, even if he is already covered with sarcoma and pustules, and the stench of corruption, he still wants to continue to live.

  This is not the case with the earth in the farming era. The earth now looks like a mirror in people’s hearts. California native oysters were eaten extinct by gold prospectors after the gold rush. In the future, even rich people who want to taste the taste of oysters can only find out from the description of others.

   "Go on." Severus urged Pomona in a daze.

  She feels very contradictory. Although she likes food, she only makes ordinary ingredients delicious. She rarely uses such expensive ingredients. If Albus knew she was so extravagant, she would be disappointed.

   "The money has been paid, and if you throw it away, it will be a waste." He coaxed and said to her.

   So she hesitated and took over the expensive oyster, and finally ate it as if she had swallowed medicine.

   "How is it?" he asked expectantly.

  The mouth is full of fishy and metallic flavors, which is not delicious at all!

  She wanted to answer him that way, but she still smiled and nodded.

   "It will taste better with a little lemon juice." The peddler said as he cracked another oyster. They were dressed well, and Severus could afford it.

  After all, he is no longer the poor boy who grew up in the garbage dump in the slum. After struggling for so many years, it is time to enjoy it.

  It’s just that she really can’t learn the elegance of the ladies eating oysters in Maupassant’s novels.

  She ate to make Severus happy. Every bite she ate made her feel guilty because she felt that she was also a member of the "capitalist family."

  (End of this chapter)