Han Huaiyi went on to explain to him the benefits of this idea.

"This is an important new model of print media that can be passed on to future generations and become a historical reference," he said. ”

"Then at the end of each year, you can also select this year's Person of the Year according to the cover character of the year's impurities."

"You can also add to the wealth list, the charity list, and so on."

"Wherever there's news, there's Hearst reporters. If you want to know anything, look at Time Magazine! ”

After Han Huaiyi finished speaking, he specially nodded: "Mr. Hearst, this will increase your political influence, isn't this what congressmen like the most?" ”

Everyone around him is a very smart person, and after carefully pondering his advice, they are all impressed.

Hirst was the first to grasp the essence of this magazine model and the prospect of what he was sure to be a sensation.

Hearst had to say, "Charlie, your idea is too grand, what else do you need me to do?" Otherwise, I'm too embarrassed to accept him. ”

Han Huaiyi said: "I don't believe you are embarrassed to accept him, I think you can't wait to start arranging him now." ”

Everyone laughed at Hearst's embarrassed face, and Han Huaiyi snapped his fingers: "The first cover character of Time Magazine must be Nikola Tesla!" That's my only request. ”

Hearing him say this, James and the others couldn't help but be moved.

Because he had been giving for his friend, and Ford was proud of such a brother, he decided to go back and talk to the magician, about what Charlie had done for him.

Hearst couldn't help but become serious: "Charlie, I apologize to you for my past behavior, and I will stand firmly with you from now on." ”

"It's also my pleasure." Han Huaiyi stretched out his hand.

After they had completely dissolved some of the previous mustards, Morgan quipped on the side, "Is it my turn?" ”

But he doesn't think Charlie can give him any financial advice, although he thinks Charlie is good.

For Morgan, Han Huaiyi sighed: "The idea I gave you will open a terrible magic box, maybe you have this idea but you don't know how to do it, in addition, I emphasize that this matter of yours is inseparable from the help of everyone present, so we must also have a gentleman's agreement first, that is, if you agree, we must have the qualifications to share." ”

He looked left and right: "This is not the place to talk about things, let's go back to the study." ”

After everyone looked at each other, they could only follow him back to the manor's study.

After arriving there, Han Huaiyi also took care of Tom to arrange for the White Russian guards to be near the study, so that no one could approach, and announced that the dinner would be postponed for 1 hour.

He was so solemn that Morgan was a little confused.

Because at the level of what he thinks is Charlie today, if he does this, it means that what he will come up with is extraordinary.

Otherwise, wouldn't he have made himself a joke?

Ten minutes later, Marcheno, Tom was also invited to join.

Han Huaiyi and the others all arrived before he said: "Okay, the people here are, the vice chairman of the Military Council, the congressman newspaper tycoon, the leader of the Morgan consortium, the tycoon of the Ford Motor Industry, the leader of Las Vegas, the legal adviser of New Rome, and me. ”

"None of them are outsiders, so I can be honest with Mr. Morgan about one of my ideas."

Han Huaiyi first took a pen holder and a piece of US dollars and silver coins, and said, "This is oil, this is US dollars." ”

Then he used a ZIPPO to represent the goods.

"I call this idea the petrodollar system, but before that, I think Mr. Morgan should have thought of a model a long time ago, which is to pegge the dollar to gold, and let the currencies of various countries be pegged to the dollar, right?"

Morgan was surprised and said, "Yes, how do you know?" ”

"The coinage and issuance rights of the French Concession were in New Rome, so I was still a relatively successful financier." Han Huaiyi said unashamedly.

The crowd couldn't help ...

But then he said: "This model is possible, but he has a fatal problem." ”

"What's the trouble?" Morgan pulled his chair closer to him, an attitude that illustrated Charlie's words to his heart.

"A long-term deficit will lead to excess solvency, and the dollar will depreciate, and it will not be able to reasonably maintain the official price of it and gold, but if you want to maintain a surplus in the balance of payments, it will lead to a shortage of dollars."

James asked Morgan, "Is that so?" ”

"Yes, it's possible, it's a paradox." Morgan's demeanor was now extremely serious, he completely put away his previous suspicions about Han Huaiyi, and he asked seriously: "Charlie, can you solve this problem?" ”

"Yes."

"How is that possible!" Morgan suddenly went crazy: "We haven't even done the first step yet, and you actually say that you can solve this problem?" ”

"That's because Mr. Morgan, although you are very great personally, you have neglected the strength of these friends around you, this great cause cannot be solved by a consortium, he needs strong support from the military and the press. That's why I've called you. ”

"How to fix it?" Morgan couldn't wait, he understood that Charlie wasn't a man of words, but he felt it was too much.

He couldn't think of a way, Charlie actually saw the last three steps.

Ford also urged: "Charlie, then you can say it quickly." ”

"Okay."

Han Huaiyi knows that it is too annoying to be pretentious.

He immediately came up with his own thoughts: "As I said at the beginning, put an insurance policy on top of gold!" What about linking him to energy? ”

"It's better to change the soup and not the medicine." Morgan wondered.

But Han Huaiyi's next words left him completely speechless.

"If we can make the world's oil trade settled only in dollars, then all countries in the world will have to reserve dollars in the future," Han said. Second, in addition to satisfying their own needs, the surplus money earned by oil producing areas must be invested in US Treasury bonds. ”

He asked Morgan, "So the dollars that are flowing out of the oil trade will flow back to the United States, right?" ”

Morgan had to say, "Yes! ”

His expression was a little inexplicably excited, and others couldn't understand the subtlety of Han Huaiyi's idea at the moment, so James was thoughtful.

Han Huaiyi went on to explain, saying, "Once we work together to push for this rule, a very wonderful thing will happen. ”

1 U.S. dollars are made in the U.S. and goods from various countries are purchased.

2 Countries use the dollars they earn from exporting commodities to buy oil, because oil is already an indispensable industrial energy source.

3 Oil exporters invest in U.S. Treasury bonds with the dollars they earn.