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late winter.

Outside the window, the howling cold wind blowing from the Arctic Ocean, mixed with some rustling snowflakes, brought a biting chill. Although it was still early, the thick shade of the trees in the courtyard was turned into a dark patch by the sky. The windows were wide open, welcoming not only the wind and snow blowing into the room, but also the biting chill.

An exquisite and clear Italian crystal table lamp stood on the table. No one turned it on. It looked like a slender black silhouette against the window screen fluttering in the wind and snow. The air in the room was silent and lonely, and the chill and twilight were increasing at the same time.

The whole person was sunk in a large sofa. The mobile phone in his hand had slipped onto the sofa at some point. Li Zicheng's eyes were looking at the window unconsciously, letting the dusk wrap around it. Since the snow started falling in the afternoon, the weather has become colder, but I am sitting in the house and unwilling to go out, but I always wear relatively thin clothes, even though it is already very cold.

Although the window was open and the cold wind was biting, Li Zicheng had no intention of moving or adding clothes. He just sat on the sofa, deep in thought, looking out the window with his brows furrowed, as if he was thinking. What.

Looking at the snowflakes flying outside the window, Li Zicheng felt as if he could hear the sound of firecrackers coming from Chinatown. Today is February 17, 1912. For Americans, this is an ordinary day, but for the Chinese After all, this day is the most important day of the year.

Today is New Year’s Eve!

During the festive season, I miss my loved ones even more! But what about my own relatives?

He hid his body in the sofa and picked up the phone again. Li Zicheng looked at the phone screen with his eyes. Although there were many photos in the phone, there was only one photo with his parents, and that was all!

The only one! I zoomed in on the photo from time to time and looked at the serious father and kind mother in the photo. Tears slid down my cheeks from time to time. Did they know that they had a plane crash? Did they... miss their loved ones? Li Zicheng's whole expression looked extremely decadent.

"Why……"

Li Zicheng, who was lying on the sofa and trying to "bury" himself in the sofa, looked at the ceiling and sighed. This villa in the Upper East Side cost tens of thousands of dollars, but it didn't feel like home at all. .

"Maybe I'm too bored!"

Thinking about it, I seem to be really bored recently, especially after the initial busy period. The days of doing nothing, eating and waiting for hunger have almost driven me crazy.

After taking out a 1.35 million pound bond mortgage loan from 18 banks in New York, he took Ah Si to Miami and bought a sailing yacht. He spent a month learning to drive the sailing yacht. For the past two and a half months, I drove the yacht alone like ants moving every day, transporting boxes of gold, bonds in the submarine, and film in steel drums to the warehouse in Miami.

It took two and a half months. He swept away the treasures in the submarine and even the computers, mobile phones, and books in the plane. Finally, he wrapped the gold in lead ingots and transported them to New York by train. From then on , it seems that I have become more relaxed. To be precise, my life has become more and more boring.

Especially after hiring Thomas Lee's cargo ship a week ago and spending four days taking away the "goods" left on the desert island, I became extremely bored, eating nothing and waiting for hunger all day long, even though I went to

The East Side is a rich man in New York. Even though he bought this mansion, for the nearby residents, it is impossible for a yellow man like himself to integrate into the circle of the Upper East Side of New York.

In this kind of boredom, in order to find something for myself, I spent $6,000 to "purchase" a law degree at New York University. To be precise, it was in exchange for the opportunity to take the bar exam.

Thinking of this, he looked towards the framed New York State Lawyer's Certificate on his head. Before coming to this time and space, he also had a California Lawyer's Certificate. Even when the company hired him, he also had a California Lawyer's Certificate.

Because of this reason.

"You don't want to be a lawyer anymore!"

Thinking about it, it is impossible for Americans in this era to accept a Chinese lawyer to defend them, and the Chinese do not have the habit of hiring lawyers. With my lawyer qualification certificate, I can only... Well! Take a look!

"Why!"

After sighing, Li Zicheng stood up and walked straight to the bedroom and toward the basement. The most important reason why he bought this villa was because of the wine cellar of more than 200 square meters, and the wine cellar was directly in-depth.

Going underground, after two months of renovation, the underground wine cellar became an underground vault. The cellar was divided into two halves by a steel safety door, which penetrated into both sides of the granite cellar.

This safety door was installed by an insurance company in New York two months ago at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars. The former wine cellar has been completely transformed into a solid safe, made of thick reinforced concrete and an inner two-inch thick steel plate.

, coupled with the safety door opened by a dial-type fully mechanical password lock, make this safe extremely strong.

After taking out the key from his neck and entering the password, Li Zicheng opened the vault door. Pushing open the vault door, the first thing that caught his eye was the rows of "lead ingots" in the vault. At first, he moved like ants on a yacht.

After the gold was transported to Miami, in order to bring the gold smoothly into the United States, the gold was cast and coated with a layer of metallic lead on the island and used as ballast to transport to the port. Later, it was brought to New York. Even now, I

The gold was not removed from the lead sheath.

On both sides of the underground vault, 186 steel barrels are neatly placed on double-layer barrel racks. What is contained in the waist-high barrels made of stainless steel is the real wealth, a country's decades or even hundreds of years of technology.

The microfilm of patents and drawings is lying quietly in a fully sealed steel drum.

"Maybe... I could start a company?"

Counting the German nouns on the steel barrels and standing in front of a steel barrel marked "Chemical Products", Li Zicheng couldn't help but think about it. The dye industry in the United States is now very backward. Almost all chemical dyes in the world have been used.

Germany has a monopoly. If you open a dye company yourself, you might be able to...

"Can……"

Thinking of himself as a Chinese, especially the discrimination against Chinese by Americans, Chen Moran smiled helplessly. Even his villa was purchased through Zhi Gong Tang by a compatriot with American nationality, and then he and him

After signing a permanent lease agreement, as a Chinese, I don’t even have the right to purchase real estate, let alone start a company!

"Am I going to be like this every day in my life, sitting in a mansion eating and waiting to get hungry?"

Standing in the vault with his arms folded, Li Zicheng sighed helplessly.

As a Chinese, I finally realized the "difficulty" of being a Chinese abroad. I couldn't open a company, run a factory, or buy a house. In short, the rejection of Chinese in American society kept telling me the fact that I was Chinese.

People cannot stay in the United States.

As long as I stay in the United States for one day, the American Chinese Exclusion Act forces me to live a life of eating and waiting for hunger. Do you think I have to live like this doing nothing for the rest of my life?

"Maybe... maybe I really should go back to China!"

When this idea came to his mind, Li Zicheng couldn't help but be stunned. Returning to China, maybe returning to China is a good choice. It is now 1912, and the First World War will start in two years. Isn't the First World War the development of China's industry?

Is it the best time? If you return to China, maybe you can use the technical data in these steel cylinders to do something.

You can produce textile machines, spinning machines and even various machinery. In that case, maybe you can do something for this troubled country in the past few decades. Maybe you don't have the ability to change history.

But it can make the country's industry stronger within its capabilities. In that case, twenty-five years later, the war of resistance may not be won so hard and the sacrifices will not be so heavy!

For the first time, Li Zicheng found that he had finally found the value of life. He no longer needed to waste time doing nothing. He could do many things and even become an industrial tycoon. By then maybe...

As he imagined the future, Li Zicheng couldn't help but feel excited. This... this is an opportunity! God has his intention in everything he does. Maybe, maybe this is his mission in this era.

Looking at these steel barrels filled with patents, drawings and development data microfilms in front of me, it is like seeing my own future. What will these bring to me? Wealth, status... Countless thoughts are surging in my mind.

But that doesn't seem to be the most important thing.

"money!"

After pondering for a long time, a word suddenly burst out from Li Zicheng's throat.

If you want to return to China to start a career, you will need a lot of money, but how to solve the money problem? Walking towards the depths of the vault, looking at the dozens of thin steel boxes painted with gray paint, these

Most of the boxes contained bonds and jewelry.

"1913,1914,19..."

A few minutes later, looking at the somewhat messy bonds that he had opened in front of him, his eyes were full of disappointment. The number of bonds that could be redeemed was far less than he imagined.

"Five million, five million..."

After leaving the vault, Li Zicheng kept mumbling this number. This is the number of bonds that can be used to mortgage loans, which is only a pitiful five million pounds.

"At 90%, there are only more than 4 million pounds left, and one pound is worth 4.5 U.S. dollars..."

While muttering about his "assets" in his heart, he unknowingly walked into the yard. At this time, there was light snow in the sky, and the biting cold wind blew in the face, which only made people clear their minds and breathe.

There is some cool air.

Stretching out his hand and looking at the snowflakes falling on his palm, Li Zicheng could feel the meaning of life for the first time. But... he had no money!

No, I have to find a way to get money, get a lot of money! Without money, it is impossible for me to flourish in the country. Without money...

He walked from the snow to the balcony and sat on a chair under the balcony. A newspaper that he might have seen a few days ago and thrown on the table caught Li Zicheng's attention.

"Charlie Swaber becomes president of U.S. Steel with a million-dollar salary!"
Chapter completed!