Chapter 0860: Preparing for War

About the losses of the USSR are still being calculated, and new data will come every day.

It is not uncommon for material warehouses to be forcibly occupied, and for employees to be beaten when they stop them.

For this reason, Li Zitao personally called the Soviet headquarters and asked all employees to put their own safety first, and to take the food and supplies they wanted.

When the news of the war came, Li Zitao was ready to bear the loss.

In fact, no matter who it is, they will not let go of the Golden Arches and Hualian's reserve warehouse.

There was a large amount of daily necessities and food that were in short supply at the moment, and the Soviet army would not sit idly by and watch these materials fall into the hands of the German army.

The Germans would not let go of these ready-made supplies that did not need to be transported, unless Li Zitao could now turn them all back into the United States.

He has earned enough over the years, and good things can't always happen to one person.

Li Zitao should be 'ruined and avoid disasters,' as long as no one is harmed, things will be lost!"

After comforting himself, Lawrence could only use this reason to comfort himself.

It's just that about the news from the Soviet Union, both of them chose to ignore it, as if they didn't see it.

The scandals about the rich countries and Mobil have been growing like weeds lately, but the public's attention has declined.

After all, World War II had already broken out, and the United States had decided to enter the war.

The first benefit of America's entry into the war was that the 'Concession Act,' which had been discussed earlier, was passed with unprecedented speed.

The passage of this bill has two advantages, one is that the United States only needs to fund materials, and does not need to be put into the European theater as soon as possible.

The second is to exchange old and obsolete models for the trust of the allies and the goodwill of the people, so that they can have confidence in future victories.

Since the United States itself has come to war, it is decided to go to war, and the victory of the side must be guaranteed.

Now Washington needs to free up its hands for a formal military rearmament, signaling the addition of a large number of veterans and civil defense troops to the army.

In addition, a large number of domestic enterprises have transformed, focusing on the production and manufacturing of military supplies.

The War Department frequently visited various enterprises to begin inspections, and then one invitation after another appeared on the business owner's desk.

Meeting!

Li Zitao will naturally not be absent in this prosperous era, as the most powerful arms giant in the United States, how can he be missing from the war.

However, when she saw Lilith and the nanny who accompanied her in Washington, Li Zitao's expression as her father was quite exciting.

"Baby, why are you here?" stepped forward to pick up his daughter in a princess dress, and Li Zitao walked towards the White House.

"I'm here for the conference, and we are one of the most important food suppliers to the military. Lilith wrinkled her nose proudly and said with excitement on her face.

Attending this kind of thing gave her a sense of accomplishment, especially being able to have a meeting with her father, which seemed to her like a fairy tale come true.

"What about your management team?" Li Zitao frowned, he didn't want his daughter to be exposed to business at such a young age.

Business was not a haven of peace, full of deceit, cunning, lies, and betrayal, which were too cruel for her.

"I let them go back, and I can do this kind of thing. As if sensing her father's displeasure, Lilith shrank her head into his arms and rubbed it.

Then he looked up at his father with pitiful eyes, and muttered, "Lilith is okay." ”

"......" touched those big watery eyes and pouted with a cute mouth, Li Zitao didn't have the slightest power to fight back.

Surrender!

Li Zitao had no choice but to hold high the white flag and bow down under his daughter's pouting and cute stunts.

Presumably, the management team also knew that he would be there and that he would not watch his daughter suffer, so they would be relieved to let her come here with the nanny.

"After entering, listen more, watch more, and talk less, understand?" Before entering the door of the conference room, Li Zitao squatted down and told his daughter.

"En. She nodded obediently, and as her father got up and pulled her inside, a hint of cunning flashed in Lilith's eyes.

Wouldn't that be too boring if that were the case?

As soon as "Charlie ......" entered the gate, someone came up to greet him.

No matter how he is evaluated internally and externally, who will give him some face when he is in person, which is the impact of Li Zitao's own strong strength.

Lilith obediently followed her father's side, and when he introduced herself, she lifted the skirts on both sides and bowed her knees, showing her grace.

In fact, Lilith's status as illegitimate daughters is not contemptible at all, because they have no qualifications at all.

"If an illegitimate daughter could get what she had, I'd rather be a wild seed!" said someone in his heart full of jealousy.

"Lilith, sit here. Sitting in his place, Li Zitao patted the chair next to him.

That position originally belonged to Curtis's new chairman of the board of directors, and it just so happened that he didn't dare to sit very much, so he hurriedly changed to another place when he saw this scene.

His predecessor, Curtis's founder, was killed by order of the man in the seat, and the entire conference room was hornetically trapped.

The corpses were already rotting during the transportation process, and it was no wonder that the successor was afraid.

The meeting was chaired by Secretary of State Cordel Hull, Secretary of the Treasury Hunter Morgenthau Jr., and Chief of Staff George Marshall, who decided to resign and was resolutely left behind by Roosevelt.

When Marshall, chief of staff, decided to join the war, the first thing he did was to make a list of officers who "needed" to retire, including himself.

These officers are not incompetent, but because they are too old, their thinking is solidified, and their understanding of war is still stuck in the First World War, which is very unfavorable to the war that is about to begin.

In Marshall's view, it is time for the US military to spit out the old and embrace the new, and as the proposer of this plan, he himself is a 61-year-old man, so he is naturally on the list.

However, due to the president's trust and his 'correct' political leanings, his position has not been affected in any way, and he still holds the post of chief of staff.

For the war effort, Marshall needed a cadre of energetic, young officers to fill the void created by his retirement.

At this time, Marshall's habit of recording outstanding cadets in his personal files at the Benningbo Infantry School played a big role.

He identified many outstanding young officers from the archives and made a second evaluation of their performance after entering the army, thus promoting many outstanding military talents.

Among them were Eisenhow, who was about to be idle, George Patton, a future famous general, and a large number of excellent mid-level officers.

In fact, Marshall is very busy now, and the number of people working under him has increased from the initial 12 to almost 300 recently.

The entire War Department was mobilized for the war, and he had to keep abreast of Allied movements, the situation in the war, enemy plans, the president's ideas, and the U.S. military's military operations around the world.

I was able to take the time to attend this meeting in person because it was equally crucial to the war effort.