In June 2013, several california lawmakers joined forces to submit a bill to name the western section of San Francisco's Oakland Cross-Sea Bridge, commonly known as the Gulf Bridge, to former San Francisco Mayor Willie Lee. Brown named. Originally, these councillors only wanted to lick the respected Mayor Willie, but what they didn't expect was that a few people slapped their asses on the ant honeycomb! The bill was handed over before waiting for the echo, the people of San Francisco did not do it first, in the face of this bill, the people of San Francisco collectively ran away, saying that this is a ruse of a monarchless and fatherless courtier, what is Willie Brown? Ann dares to be so arrogant! The Gulf Bridge, even if it were to be named, would never be named after a courtier, it could only belong to our supreme Emperor of the United States, His Majesty Norton I!
Norton I
The 1820s were not a good year for Britain!
In 1815, the victory at the Battle of Waterloo led the British to completely destroy Napoleon and establish the status of the world's leader. But brilliant moments everyone has, don't take a moment as permanent! In order to overthrow Napoleon, the British also took their own half-life.
After the war against France, Britain won a crushing victory, the family wealth accumulated over the years was almost empty, the domestic economy declined, the unemployment rate reached a new high, and the lobster soldiers who retired from the European front (Britain's military uniforms dressed like a crayfish) had no job and were holding on to trouble all day!
Some people want to crack down on the system, and some people want to crack down on the inequality from the physical point of view. Fortunately, Marx was still a bare-ass kid at that time, otherwise the October Revolution would have been a hundred and eighty years earlier!
In 1816, the English Spaphirlards rioted.
In 1817, Pentrich revolted.
In 1819, Petru massacre.
At the end of February 1820, the owner of a café in London felt that the English Cabinet Full TM was a bunch of bugs! I wanted to get rid of the cabinet, but the proposal to do so was so popular. This [Cato Street Conspiracy] almost turned into the British version of 226.
So in the 20th century, then British Prime Minister Robert really couldn't stand it! The British were lawless, and in the British tradition of messing up others rather than destroying themselves, the British began to systematically evacuate their native population to the colonies.
Beginning in April 1820, more than four thousand British immigrants took boats to the Cape of Good Hope. They were known as the settlers of the 1820s, and this group later became an important part of white South Africa, and among the settlers in this group was a pair of John. The Nortons, unlike other immigrants, were not poor at all, and they went to South Africa just to develop a bigger career. They took their young eldest son, Joshua. Abraham. Norton set sail for South Africa. They didn't know that their trip was a mistake in the thousands of ancient characters.
After arriving in South Africa, John. Norton's career has grown by leaps and bounds, selling not only various goods, but also buying many plantations. Constantly expanding inland, only his son Joshua. Norton did not have a good relationship with him, and when he grew up, he left South Africa and went to England and the United States to do trade.
In 1848, John. Norton died. As his only heir, Joshua. Norton returned to South Africa to inherit the family property. Then he was surprised to find that after years of operation by his father, the legacy left behind was not only a family fortune, at least it could be said to be insolvent! In his letters, Little John scolded his father for not being angry, and all his savings in England for several years had been paid off to his father! Only a few broken plantations were exchanged.
In October 1849, the desperate Norton sold all his assets in South Africa, exchanged them for $40,000 and embarked on a steamer, arriving in San Francisco, where he was loyal, on November 23 of that year. Norton first came to San Francisco just to do business here, and with the mining of gold mines in the western United States, San Francisco flooded with gold diggers. The feeling of vitality and the excitement of all things is still in front of you. However, Norton did not come here to pan for gold, but to make money for gold diggers. After he came to San Francisco, he provided accommodation, food, and tools to the local gold diggers. Achieve your own wealth freedom by helping others to be free of their wealth.
In those days, gold panning was a matter of luck, and gamblers may lose, but bookmakers will always win. Two years on, the bookmaker Norton won, and the $40,000 he brought to San Francisco that year was rolled into $250,000. It was a huge sum of money in that year, and then it entered the high society properly.
But when capital expands to a certain extent, it is bound to go to speculation, and Norton, who has capital in his hands, unfortunately also embarks on this road.
The story begins in December 1852, when Norton heard the news that on the other side of the ocean in China, there was a buddy named Hong Xiuquan who had a little unpleasant quarrel with the emperor of China, and there was a little friction between the two sides. Norton did not understand what the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was, but what he knew was that all the rice in San Francisco was imported from China at that time, and the Qing Dynasty would stop all grain exports.
In fact, judging from the later results, china's suspension of grain exports at that time was not a big deal for San Francisco, because rice was mainly Chinese food, not the most purchasing power of white people. And rice is not a scarce resource, and many countries produce it. Although it is not a big deal in itself, some people fart and smash the pit to create rumors!
In a panic, a crowd of people began to hoard, and the price of rice in San Francisco rose from 4 cents per pound to 36 cents. You see where there is rice now, you are too expensive and I am too expensive! At the rising price of rice, he collected all his cash, mortgaged all his assets, and bought rice from Peru to San Francisco at 12.5 cents per pound, ready to make a fortune on poor information.
As a result, before Norton's Peruvian rice reached the San Francisco docks, someone imported more than 70 ships of rice from Japan. The price of Rice in San Francisco went from 36 cents to 3 cents. By the time Norton's rice arrives in San Francisco, it will have already lost all its money!
In this way, the monopoly capitalist Norton lost his coffin. Remembering his father who drove the crane to the west, Norton longed to sit in the co-pilot himself.
Due to the complete rupture of the capital chain, in August 1856, Norton officially went bankrupt and the bank took all his assets. Hong Xiuquan estimated that he never dreamed that the butterfly effect produced by his own butterfly could fan an American on the other side of the ocean.
After bankruptcy, Norton not only withdrew from high society, but also basically withdrew from human society. He was taken away from the house and disappeared into everyone's field of vision. No one knows where he went or what he went through. There was no shortage of people in San Francisco, and Norton disappeared from everyone's sight.
Until one day in the future, he will return like lightning!
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