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Paa-
“Aww-!”
I was terribly startled by the sound of a 10-ton truck horn in my ears.
But what caught my eye was a luxurious suite like a luxury hotel in the 1900s.
I wiped my surprised chest.
Then, luxurious pajamas and soft hotel bedding took hold of me.
It was a luxurious nightgown I had never worn before.
heh heh heh heh heh
“Isn’t he… dead?”
I thought I’d see King Yeomra.
An old-fashioned, luxurious hotel room that looks like a scourge instead of an evil spirit. And luxury pajamas that I had never worn in my life confused my mind.
The interior was as quiet as a mouse.
is it a dream
He messed up his frizzy hair.
“Write. What is it… I need to wash my face first.”
flutter.
I removed the blanket to go to the bathroom.
But the moment I got out of bed and put my feet on the floor of the hotel, I sensed a tingling feeling of incongruity rising up through my five senses.
Sum 🤩
‘This body, something is wrong…’
Slowly clenched and extended toes.
I couldn’t feel it properly because I was in a panic state before, but the sense of alienation with my existing body is considerable.
When I took off my pajamas, my skin, which should have been 44 years old, was firm, and I knew for sure that I was younger as I saw the strength boiling all over my body.
The stomach, which should have been bulging, had strong muscles.
‘this. It’s never a 44-year-old body.’
Suddenly, when I looked in the mirror on the dressing table in the hotel, a handsome black-haired American was staring at me.
If you look closely, it’s an American who looks strangely Korean.
‘You have possessed someone else’s body…!’
Fortunately, there was little confusion.
While working on Wall Street in the United States, he enjoyed reading chaebols and big-time novels on Korean web novel platforms in his spare time. In light of my reading experience, this was the so-called circle of circles.
I opened my eyes and looked into the mirror.
‘What the hell is this…..’
As I was looking around in confusion, I heard the sound of running from the next room with a bang.
“young master! Are you all right!”
The door opened wildly, and a middle-aged man and a doctor rushed in.
I looked up at the middle-aged man.
“who……?”
A stylish black suit with dark all-white hair.
In my experience of dealing with the wealthy of the upper classes at hedge funds for a long time, everything from the black suit worn by a middle-aged man to one accessory was a luxury item.
In my mind, I quickly matched my existing investors and my contacts on Wall Street, but it was a face that I couldn’t remember.
‘What the hell is going on?’
thick-
Let’s think about middle-aged men. Suddenly unfamiliar memories flooded his head, and a piercing pain came rushing through his head, and he tore his hair with his fingernails.
“Okay!!!”
“young master!!!”
my personal assistant. butler. childminder. elite.
In the flooding of memories of another ‘me’, the memory of a middle-aged man came to mind.
The middle-aged man’s name, personality, biography, relationship with me, habits, inclinations, and even information on ideology.
He raised his head and made eye contact with the middle-aged man.
‘I remembered.’
“Heh heh… heh heh…James?”
“Yes, Master Morgan. That’s James. How’s your body? Have you been suffering from a high fever for the past few days and have had nightmares?”
“Nightmare, nightmare. It was a terrible nightmare.”
The nightmare of New York Wall Street collapsing.
But more than a nightmare, the castle of ‘Morgan’, this five-star hotel, and an all-back man named James were making me more confused.
‘Let’s restore the memory of James. The memory of ‘I’ is as clear as a blank, but of James it comes to mind quite clearly.’
I opened my lips.
“……James. A personal assistant assigned to me. After graduating from Oxford with excellent grades, he moved around the London financial district, got a job at JP Morgan Bank, and was active in the IB sector for 10 years, attracting the attention of the Chairman of JP Morgan.”
“young master?”
“James, be quiet for a second. My memory is fuzzy right now, so I’m recovering.”
“……!”
“At the request of the Chairman of JP Morgan, I have been appointed to the Secretariat of JP Morgan Bank. After that, I was promoted to chief secretary and took over as my personal assistant and butler… Do I remember right?”
“It is correct.”
James put on a look of surprise.
‘It has to be so. Because the fragmented information was listed in chronological order. It seems that James was trying to hide personal information in his own way, but it’s not too hard since it caught on me.’
James’ information was roughly grasped by this.
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Of course, there was a gap in information until he graduated from Oxford and got a job at JP Morgan Bank, but a ‘personal assistant from London’s financial elite’ would be enough to figure out James right now.
‘The problem is information about the possessed ‘I’…’
This is the real problem.
Another ‘me’ information was completely blank, beyond the level of a blur. Not a single piece of information could be retrieved.
I don’t even know the name.
“James. What is my name?”
“young master?”
“Let me know. I have memories of JP Morgan Chairman, James, and you, but the memories of ‘I’ seem to have completely evaporated.”
“Yes?!”
Rather, James panicked at my calm tone.
I took a deep breath and asked the doctor standing next to me about my condition.
“Teacher. Are you okay with me?”
“Mr. Detroit, I can’t say with certainty that I’m not a psychiatrist, but it was that high of a fever. Temporary loss of memory may come. But you will remember them all soon.”
The old doctor put his hand on my forehead.
“But the high fever is completely gone. If you can get your memories back, you can lead a normal life.”
The doctor smiled softly.
I took my eyes off the doctor and turned to James.
“Did you hear that? Can you tell me my name now?”
“…After that, the master’s name is Detroit, his surname is Morgan. He is the son of Chairman JP Morgan.”
“Detroit or Morgan? As far as I can remember, the only son of JP Morgan was Jack Morgan.”
“Don’t say such sad words. Although it has not been revealed publicly, you are still the son of President Morgan in name and reality.”
My mind cleared as if I had covered James’ words with cold water.
He is a son who has not been revealed publicly.
It means illegitimate.
‘Huh, illegitimate to JP Morgan. No, then did I possess JP Morgan’s illegitimate child?’
Judging from the fact that I suffered from a severe fever, it seems that I was possessed by Morgan’s body, who died from a serious illness.
‘JP Morgan, JP Morgan.’
King of Wall Street.
The giant of the century who dominated the American economy from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.
JP Morgan was a tycoon to the extent that it would not be strange to call the American economic history of this era Morgan economic history.
Even if he snorts, the US economy will falter.
‘A financial monster that once held 40% of America’s capital.’
He possessed the son of a great giant.
But he took a deep breath. There was a high possibility that it was meaningful only when it was the right person, and that it was meaningless for an illegitimate child or an illegitimate child.
“The title of ‘J.P. Morgan’s son’ is a title that doesn’t apply to me as an illegitimate child, right?”
“Master, not at all. President Morgan can only not reveal it to the public, but he has always told the Bocchan that he is attached to him and has an apologetic heart.”
James adamantly said no.
I don’t know if it’s real, but it looks like it’s not a child I abandoned.
“Is a hotel like this too much for an illegitimate child abandoned by the Hagin family?”
I glanced around the inside of the hotel.
When I looked at the name of the hotel brand written all over the interior of the hotel, I doubted my eyes.
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Built in 1897 when the Waldorf Hotel and Astoria merged, it was the largest hotel in the world at the time. The predecessor of ‘Waldorf-Astoria New York’ to be built in 1931.
The mere fact that you could stay at this huge hotel in Midtown Manhattan proved what James was saying.
He’s an illegitimate child, but he’s no ordinary guy.
“What date is it today?”
“It is November 10, 1897. You attended the opening ceremony of the hotel, but suddenly fell ill with a fever and has been staying for ten days. I couldn’t even move it to the hospital, so I brought a doctor with me.”
“is it.”
“The Groton School has a sick leave treatment. I will contact you to return to Groton School when you are well.”
“Grotten School, I see. Let’s go back when we get better.”
My ears were drawn to the familiar name of the boarding school.
Even in my previous life, I was a graduate there.
James said he would cut off the train and asked if he had any more questions.
I had a lot of questions.
“How is Jack Morgan these days? The memories of him seem to be coming to mind little by little.”
It’s a lie.
However, since I was born as the second son of JP Morgan, I have no choice but to continue to clash directly or indirectly with Jack Morgan. The scale of the struggle for succession was as bloody as the American chaebols were as fierce as the Korean chaebols. Inheritance dispute with JP Morgan Bank, which accounts for 30% of the US capital market.
It is an important matter of life.
James was taken aback by my question.
“I’m sorry, Master, but while you were in the hospital, there was no special message.”
“I have a vague memory of Jack Morgan especially hating me.”
This is the truth.
Because in the hazy memory, Jack Morgan was always frowned and even made a face that I hated.
James answered my question, which seemed like a borderline.
“I tell you, it’s not the master’s fault. Because the eldest son, Master Jack Morgan, disliked the Detroit Master, who is half-breed, and his wife who had overcome him, so it’s a big thing that they became an antagonist.”
“Mixed-yellow? Ha, Jack Morgan. He just hates me.”
I see.
It will be organized roughly.
Jack Morgan. That white, male, Republican, pro-British, Episcopalian bastard wouldn’t dare like a Yellow Monkey.
The number one person to watch out for was not my father, JP Morgan, but my brother, Jack Morgan.
If JP Morgan died 20 years later, he would have been the number one successor.
And the familiar characters in my middle name.
Detroit ‘Do’ Morgan.
‘I think my mother’s last name was Do. Do you become a Domogun if you read the Doo first?’
Domogun.
I laughed out loud when the name became more saucy than I expected.
***
“Hmm.”
Whoops-
I got out of bed and leaned back on the soft chair back.
As soon as I accepted the reality, my mind and body seemed to be a little more stable. Then, when he suddenly turned his head, he saw a metal globe on the small tabletop.
An old-fashioned globe filled with clever typefaces and lines. But the border was a little different from the one I knew before.
‘Is it the world of 1897?’
It’s time to hit the goal.
A time when the British Empire and Imperial Russia were playing a great game on a chessboard around the world.
In 1895, the year before, the Japanese Empire won the Sino-Japanese War and took the Liaodong Peninsula, and then vomited it back to the threat of the Imperial Russian Brown Bear.
This is the famous Three Kingdoms Intervention.
‘and……’
Korean Empire.
It was also the time when the Japanese Empire was working steadily to destroy Joseon’s national coat of arms through the Eulmi Incident and to devour Joseon.
frowned.
‘Late 19th century early 20th century. It is truly a time of tribulation. If I have future knowledge, I can help the independence of Korea, but since there is a dangerous person named Jack Morgan, I have to attach my lifeline first.’
If Jack Morgan commissioned the Pinkerton Detective Agency to kill me, no one would care.
In the first place, there is no reason for Anglo-Saxons to pay attention to something like Yellow Monkey.
You must protect your own life.
‘If I don’t want to die, I have to increase my weight first. Whether it was fame, money, or networking.’
I slowly raised my upper body.
The Pinkerton detectives who might come to kill me tomorrow are more frightening than the Russo-Japanese War that will happen in the future.
‘It’d be nice if I was born in Morgan House, investing in moderation, sucking honey, and living a leisurely life, but reality doesn’t leave me alone.’
took a deep breath.
But aside from Jack Morgan and JP Morgan Bank, from the moment World War I and World War II were scheduled, they had already said goodbye to the leisurely life.
‘J.P. Morgan’s illegitimate son, do you have some dollars? I’ve lived on Wall Street all my life, so it reminds me of dollars.’
Still, if JP Morgan’s illegitimate child was not a watermelon, it would be like a squashed pumpkin, wouldn’t there be a foundation for seed money?
I need dollars
In order to survive in the 19th century Wall Street jungle, which is worse than modern times, you have to have money in both hands.
“James. It’s sudden, but can you show me some of my fortune portfolio? Both a summary and a detailed list.”
“Are you talking now?”
James blinked his eyes in embarrassment at my sudden request.
“right now.”
“Please wait a moment.”
bang.
James closed the door and left.
About ten minutes later, the door opened and James entered.
Too fast?
“The master’s property list is always in his possession. The virtues of a Wall Street financier are, of course, information and speed.”
“…that’s right.”
bang-
James put a thick pile of papers on the table next to my bed.
‘Is that all a property list?’
It would be documents proving property, but even considering that, it was an unusual amount.
James took out a pen and wrote down the calculations diligently on a white piece of paper, then clicked and closed the pen cap.
I was nervous at James’ wretched face.
“To put it simply, $900,000 in real estate, $900,000 in bonds, $900,000 in stock, $900,000 in cash. When rounded to the nearest ten thousandth place, the master’s total assets are $3.6 million.
120 billion.
Converting 3.6 million dollars to the value of modern Korean Won, it comes out to about 120 billion dollars.
I spread my chin wide open.
Chairman, you are on a continental scale.
‘If it’s 120 billion won, I can turn a hedge fund using just my assets…’
But that’s a denial.
120 billion is because the initial capital was overwhelmingly insufficient to create the hedge fund I envisioned. You can complain that 120 billion is not enough.
I have no choice but to do so, my purpose was already set from the moment I took possession of it.
‘Defeating Jack Morgan in the succession struggle and taking over JP Morgan Bank.’
To be honest, it’s not that I didn’t even think about getting a job at JP Morgan Bank and driving Jack Morgan into an insider fight, but internal politics is not my specialty.
Rather, internal politics is Jack Morgan’s specialty, boasting a vast network of people.
‘My specialty is hedge funds.’
I made a big plan for the future.
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Of course, since the plan is literally a plan, it can be changed at any time, but it is easy to revise once the overall framework is laid out.
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One, I increase my weight outside JP Morgan Bank.
to increase internal influence by contacting JP Morgan Bank.
Third, gradually integrate through mergers and acquisitions.
Fourth, take control of JP Morgan Bank.
In addition, attacks and defenses against Jack Morgan must be made at all times.
‘A sober society where financiers talk in dollars. The moment I have enough dollars to stamp out Jack Morgan, that moment is the moment Jack Morgan loses.’
I read the summary again.
“Fortunately, we don’t have enough seed money, so there are so many that we pretend to eat.”
Whose dog’s name is 120 billion?
I felt like an idiot for worrying about how to save money for a moment, but the president’s financial treatment gave me a wrinkled forehead like Botox.
At least the worries about the mother-in-law were gone.
flutter-
At that time, a sheet of paper flew out of the window in the wind and came to me.
He reached out and grabbed a piece of paper.
“A list of bonds?”
“Ah, this is the list of bonds the master has. It will be easier to see because there are only big ones except for all the small things.”
a list of bonds.
I just got interested. When I was a hedge fund manager, it wasn’t the first time I played with bonds.
Rather, it felt closer to bonds than stocks.
‘There are a lot of railway companies and large banks.’
While checking the items one by one and reading the list of receivables all the way down, I stopped for a moment.
‘yes?’
A familiar brand name was shining brightly at the bottom of the list of bonds. It is a global company that modern people in the 21st century cannot know about, and its brand power is around the 6th place in the world.
To me, water is more precious than drinking water.
“……Coca Cola?”
Why is your brother here?
＜ Detroit D. Morgan. (1) > end
