Wall Street stocks rose slightly and fell sharply, and Zhang Meng continued to short US stocks and earned huge profits from them.

But there are many people who buy US stocks to rebound. They think every day: US stocks will definitely rebound tomorrow. But they will still fall again tomorrow, so they hope to rebound the day after tomorrow.

As they waited day by day, they unknowingly lost more and more stocks in their hands, and the holes were gradually forming bottomless holes, but they were even more reluctant and had to continue borrowing money from banks to fill the holes.

Zhang Meng's New York Branch of Datang Bank buys low-priced stocks every day, then continues to short sell, then sell and cash out, then buys lower-priced stocks, and then continues to short sell and cash out, earning huge profits of the price difference.

I got the exact information from Haynes Arms. California's largest aircraft manufacturing company, Glenn-L-Martin, has been affected by the continuous decline in US stocks. Several of the company's major shareholders are currently interested in selling their shares.

Since the company was a member of Zhang Meng's plan to be annexed, Haines immediately called Zhang Meng to remind him.

At this time, the three archipelagos of the Tang Empire had planned airport projects.

In particular, Zhang Meng knew that in the future Pacific War, the threat from the air would be much greater than that at sea. Therefore, in order to strengthen the national defense power of the Tang Empire, Zhang Meng planned twelve military airports on three archipelagos. Among them, two large airports were planned on Tarbu Island, the main island of the Tabu Island (Dang Tang International Airport in the north and Chang'an Airport in the south) to protect the air security of Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Empire. Among them, Datang International Airport is a dual-purpose military-civilian airport, and the others are military airports. Next to the main island of Tabu is the second largest to Aiwa Island. Zhang Meng named it Daxing Island and planned the Daxing Air Force Base on it. At the same time, four spare small and medium-sized airports were planned on four small unmanned islands around the Tabu Islands. Once the main island airport is destroyed during the war, the backup airport emergency will be activated.

The main island of the second island group, Wawawu Islands, has a large military airport, located in the Yanjing Air Force Base. There are more than 30 unmanned islands around the Wawawu Islands. Zhang Meng also chose two flat hidden islands as backup airports.

On the main island of Hapai, the third island, Zhang Meng planned the Jinling Airport, which is located in the Jinling Air Force Base. Only the main island of Jinling in the Hapai Islands is inhabited by people, and most of the nearby islands are coral reefs. Because the area is very small, Zhang Meng only chose a slightly larger coral reef and planned a backup airport.

For the national defense and security of the Tang Empire, the navy and air force must be taken seriously, so Zhang Meng has already begun to hire a large amount of pilots in mainland China. At the same time, he also needs a large aircraft company to fill the gap in the Tang Empire's aviation industry.

For Zhang Meng, he knew only a handful of famous airlines, and Locke Martin deserves to be one of Zhang Meng's most concerned targets.

In the late 1920s, there was no Rock Martin Airlines, but its predecessor was already very famous.

Glen-L-Martin is an aircraft company founded by Glen-Luther Martin on August 16, 1912.

In its early days, Martin manufactured military trainers in Santa Ana, California. In 1916, it merged with Wright to become Wright-Martin aircraft company. However, Martin later left and founded the second Glen-L-Martin company on Clive Island, Ohio on September 10, 1917.

Martin's first successful product was a biplane bomber called the MB-1. The U.S. Army ordered the aircraft on January 17, 1918. By 1924, Martin received an order for the SC-1, a reconnaissance bomber designed by Curtis, and the aircraft eventually produced 404.

In 1929, Martin believed that the sharp rise in the US stock market was a good opportunity for listing financing to expand production. So Martin went public and immediately raised $10 million. He immediately moved the company away from Clive Island, established a new factory in the River Centennium area northeast of Baltimore, Maryland, and expanded its scale.

Martin originally wanted to expand the company's scale and do a big move, but in September, US stocks continued to fall. Martin's company was still a small and medium-sized company and was believed to have gone bankrupt if it could not last long, so its stock was immediately sold out, and Martin's market value evaporated by $10 million within two months.

Zhang Meng knew that if he didn't take action at this moment, Martin's stock would be acquired by Marietta. However, if he bought Martin's stock, he would have to lose tens of millions of dollars in the next three years.

Zhang Meng thought for a long time and finally decided to acquire Martin's shares immediately. Marietta cannot get half of Martin's equity. Otherwise, with Marietta's strength, they will persist until the end and never give up Martin's equity. In that way, Zhang Meng will have no chance.

However, Zhang Meng chose a method of best of both worlds. On the one hand, he ordered Haynes as a representative to invest $3 million to purchase half of Martin's stocks, and on the other hand, he negotiated with Martin separately, persuading Martin to agree to withdraw the company from the stock market.

Martin was also completely deceived by the stock market at this time. After Haines' persuasion, Martin also agreed that the stock market is a casino, and the risk of losing nine out of ten bets is too high, and delisting is indeed a safe way.

However, Martin needed a huge amount of funds because he had signed a contract with the US military to produce W3 seaplanes for the US Navy and develop B-10 bombers for the Army. At the same time, he also developed and produced famous Chinese Clippers seaplanes for the Pan American Airlines' San Francisco-Manila route and other businesses.

If delisted, the evaporated more than 10 million US dollars of funds will not be recovered, and Martin will be unable to fulfill the contract, and the liquidated damages will be as high as 10 million US dollars.

Haines immediately asked Zhang Meng for instructions. Zhang Meng agreed to inject another $10 million in Martin's company, but asked Martin to transfer his other half of the equity to Zhang Meng.

After many rounds of repeated negotiations and bargaining, Martin finally saw that there was no hope of rebounding in the US stock market, and it became more dangerous to drag it down, so he agreed to Zhang Meng's conditions. In return, Zhang Meng agreed that Martin would continue to serve as the company's general manager, and the company's employees and treatment remained unchanged. However, Martin was required not to change jobs within 20 years to start a new job. The final right of explanation belongs to Zhang Meng. Regarding this overbearing clause, the only thing Martin could do was to raise his middle finger.

Damn the final right to explain!

In this way, Martin fell into Zhang Meng's hands, and Zhang Meng also renamed it Raptor Airlines.

What made Zhang Meng overjoyed was that McDonald and Bell, two employees of Raptor Airlines, were still at work.

Zhang Meng knew the power of these two guys well. McDonald was a graduate of MIT and the founder of the future MacDonald Aircraft Company. In 1928, McDonald once left Martin and established MacDonald and his partner company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He wanted to build a personal plane for family use, but as soon as he invested all his money, he encountered continuous declines in the US stock market, which broke his plan. His company's stock turned into waste paper overnight and forced him to go bankrupt. He returned to Martin with shamelessness.

Due to McDonald's outstanding talent, Martin accepted him again, but in order to prevent him from changing jobs again, Martin signed a ten-year contract with him and was not allowed to change jobs within ten years, otherwise he would pay a penalty of $10 million.

But Zhang Meng knew that McDonald had left Martin again after the ten-year contract expired, and formed the McDonald Aircraft Company himself, and made great achievements in the field of jet aircraft. Representative jet fighters such as F2H, F3H Devil, F-101, and F4 Ghost have become the weapon of the US Navy.

Zhang Meng attached the most importance to naval aviation, knowing that it was a weapon of future maritime hegemony, so he attached more importance to McDonald.

To this end, Zhang Meng revised the contract between Martin and MacDonald. He knew that this guy would leave in ten years, so in order to keep him, Zhang Meng directly signed a thirty-year overlord clause with him.

MacDonald hated Zhang Meng to death, but he owed the bank a lot of debts, and finally had to bow to Zhang Meng and agree to his overbearing terms.

However, Zhang Meng also had to soothe MacDonald's wounded heart. Zhang Meng appointed him as one of the chief aircraft designers of Raptor Airlines and awarded him the title of academician of the National Science Laboratory of the Tang Empire, allowing him to enjoy double the favorable treatment.

Another chief aircraft designer is Bell. This is also a super talented man and the founder of the future helicopter field.

At this time, Bell was planning to leave Raptor Airlines to work in a unified aircraft in Buffalo, New York. Zhang Meng suddenly appointed him as one of the chief aircraft engineers and gave him the same generous treatment as McDonald, while promising him to go to the National Science Laboratory of the Tang Empire to develop the aircraft he likes without the conditions of funding restrictions.

Bell was immediately attracted by this treatment. He didn't care about his title or salary. He just wanted to realize his dream and develop the aircraft he designed instead of co-producing with others, so he chose to change jobs. However, thinking that he had to start from scratch to the Uni-Aviation Company, he might not have the privilege of freely developing aircraft. Since Zhang Meng allowed him to develop freely in the National Science Laboratory of the Tang Empire without being restricted by funds, he immediately canceled his contract with Uni-Aviation Company and stayed with Raptor Airline.

However, if Bell wants to develop his own aircraft, he has to go to the Tang Empire. Fortunately, he doesn't care where he works, so he immediately applies to go to the Tang Empire.

However, Zhang Meng's National Science and Technology Laboratory has not been completed yet, so he just asked Bell to be Tesla's assistant and assist Tesla in building the National Science and Technology Laboratory together. Bell has long admired Tesla's name and was even more happy to learn that he was working with him.

After Zhang Meng comforted these two most awesome employees, he immediately assigned a mission to Martin. He knew that during World War II, Maryland bomber, A-22 Maryland bomber, B-57 Canberra night bomber and other famous bombers, so he immediately started to develop bomber projects.

Zhang Meng agreed that the R&D location will be temporarily carried out at the US headquarters of Raptor Airlines, but after the National Science and Technology Laboratory of the Tang Empire is completed, the R&D location will definitely be moved back to the Tang Empire.
Chapter completed!