The Storyteller and the Little Mute

Around 1900, Shanghai, as China's earliest stock trading market, was playing out myths about getting rich overnight. Prior to this, Hongfu, which was mass-producing Ford Model T sedans, the United States purchased rubber used to make consumables such as car tires, pipes, belts, etc. Rubber stocks around the world were growing at an alarming rate. In those years, no experts would tell you what a financial bubble was. No one will think carefully about why rubber that originally cost a few cents per pound has become more than ten dollars per pound in such financial calculations. Everyone feels that Americans are footing the bill. Those American "big fools" on the other side of the ocean are frantically purchasing rubber, purchasing things that are flowing every day in tens of thousands of acres of rubber plantations in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America. Finally, America's rubber lock-down policy came and rubber stocks collapsed. Subsequently, Shanghai began to stage the "first jump", "second jump" and "third jump" in China's financial history. None of these people knew that they were entering the annals of history in this way.