Chapter 53: Driving the Tiger and Devouring the Wolf
Drunk all day long, I suddenly heard that spring was strong and mountaineering.
Because of the words of the monks in the bamboo courtyard, I had to live for half a day.
Although Shen Jiannan is not drunk in dreams all day long, he is not as good abroad as at home, his skin color and wealth make him in a tense mental state almost every day, entangled in the game of various capital and countries, and the invisible crisis oppresses every pore of his body.
The feeling of being so excited all the time that he barely had any time to breathe.
But returning home is different, the border is guarded by millions of troops, surrounded by rustic and identical faces, and even the land exudes a familiar and safe smell.
After a few days in a row, the comfortable environment finally allowed him to find a leisurely effort.
The river flows gently and cleanly, and the yellow poplar leaves fall on the water, and a breeze blows, and the leaves flutter with it like sailboats.
Leaning on a bamboo recliner, Shen Jiannan held a fishing rod and stared intently at the fish float on the water, and when the fish float sank and pulled violently, the crucian carp more than three inches long jumped up from the water.
The fish are not big.
But Shen Jiannan is like a child, with heartfelt joy on his face, as if he picked up money on the road when he was a child, full of surprise and happiness.
Lu Xinyue and Aso Oriyue looked at each other and smiled, they never knew that this big villain actually had such a childish side.
Unconsciously, the sun gradually tilted, and the six crucian carp and three grass carp also fell into the bucket, got up from the recliner and stretched a lazy waist, Shen Jiannan glanced at the red sun, and a faint nostalgia crossed his eyes.
When the sun rises again tomorrow, he will have to stay away again.
Lu Xinyue's heart was as careful as a hair, and she instantly felt the reluctance in Shen Jiannan's heart.
As a core member of Jiuding, she knows very well what kind of obstacles and difficult crises the Jiuding inheritance plan wants to promote, and the profits of oil can only rank third in front of the pharmaceutical industry and the food industry, but even so, the Middle East has fallen into war again and again, and I don't know how many people have died.
Jiuding wants to tear a hole in the industry that has been laid out by major families in the United States for a hundred years, and its difficulty is no less than ascending to the sky, and even the slightest carelessness may end up being shattered.
Sometimes, Lu Xinyue really can't understand why this man has everything, but he has to chase those unrealistic things, or whether this man was born with a wild horse and just wants to run towards the sun.
She's just a woman.
She didn't want anything more, and since she was reluctant, why should she leave.
The family and the country are all over the world, and the nation is inherited.
There are others, Jiuding has done enough!
Lu Xinyue wanted to say something, but when she saw that familiar back bathed in the sun with a layer of golden glow, for a while, the whole person was stupid.
I don't know when, the reluctance in Shen Jiannan's eyes has dissipated, and he stands by the river with his hands behind his back and looks at the sun in the sky, like an upright spear, silently revealing a resolute confidence that wants to compete in the heart of heaven.
Struggle with the sky, the joy is endless! Struggle with the earth, the joy is endless! Struggle with people, the joy is endless!
Suddenly, Lu Xinyue truly understood what this sentence meant.
Shen Jiannan turned his head with a feeling in his heart, and met Lu Xinyue's dark eyes, and between the eyes met, he no longer needed too many words.
Holding Lu Xinyue in his arms, Shen Jiannan patted her shoulder and said comfortingly: "Don't worry. It's all in my hands. ”
"I know, but Rockefeller's century-old legacy has already penetrated into all fields around the world."
"Have you ever heard a joke?"
"What a joke. ”
"Whoever hits me, I'll hit South Korea. ”
Lu Xinyue frowned, puzzled.
"Remember Big Brother?"
How could Lu Xinyue not remember this kind of thing.
"You're saying we can force Rockefeller's opponents out of the game?"
Rockefeller.
When it comes to American history, no one can avoid the family names: Standard Oil, the Rockefeller Foundation and Chase, the Museum of Modern Art, the Rockefeller Center, the University of Chicago, Rockefeller University, and the Twin Towers that toppled 911 to the grief of the United States of America.
In August 1859, oil was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA, and the oil industry in the United States and the world was born.
A year later, Rockefeller seized the opportunity and founded his own oil company.
From the beginning, Rockefeller set his sights on the international market.
He opened an office in New York to sell the company's products to the East Coast and abroad.
In the 80s of the 19th century, Standard Oil further expanded overseas markets to Western Europe, and the American process has made Standard Company's products superior to those of Europeans, so Standard Company won the kerosene market in most parts of Europe, accounting for more than half of all American oil production.
Because of this, Rockefeller is known as the "world oil king".
It is no exaggeration to say that the surname Rockefeller runs through almost half of American history.
It was the first trust of mankind.
Under the concept of a monopoly organization, Mobil Oil Company, which is under the control of Rockefeller, controls 95 percent of the oil refineries and 90 percent of the oil transportation in the United States.
In 1886, Standard Oil created the Gas Trust.
Soon, trusts spread rapidly throughout the United States and in all industries, and in a short period of time, this form of monopoly organization accounted for 90 percent of the American economy.
At its peak, even 92 percent of the world's oil sales channels were controlled by Standard Oil.
It was Rockefeller who succeeded in creating a unique era in American history - the era of monopoly.
What is Monopoly?
The phenomenon of violating natural selection is monopoly: eliminating competitors; only allowing oneself to sell certain products and not allowing others to sell them; only allowing oneself to express one's own views and not allowing others to express one's opinions; only allowing one's own ideas and cultural products to exist, and not allowing others to have ideas and cultural products
In the process of monopoly, it is inevitable to eliminate countless competitors and finally achieve the goal of monopoly.
It's like Marx said: capital comes into the world, from head to toe, dripping with blood and filth from every pore.
As a monopolist, Rockefeller made thousands of people paupers and offended many: business rivals, Wall Street, the courts, Congress.
After the monopoly... The company can survive without developing products... There are fewer new products...
Since: product = technology = wealth
So: monopolies prevent technology from being produced and prevent human beings from becoming rich.
Under the stick of President Roosevelt Sr.'s Antitrust Act, Mobil was dismembered, and the angry Rockefeller denounced Roosevelt Sr. as a despicable villain and vowed not to fund Republican candidates again.
This is the first and most fundamental antitrust law enacted by the U.S. Congress.
Interestingly, antitrust development did not have an accurate concept of monopoly at all from the beginning. What's even more interesting is that Roosevelt was able to successfully run for president, and the biggest supporters behind it were the Morgan family.
Listening to Lu Xinyue's worried tone, Shen Jiannan nodded.
"If the Jiuding inheritance plan wants to be promoted, the enemy that must be directly faced is the behemoth of Rockefeller. With the current strength of Capital One, there is no way to compete with Rockefeller's century-old heritage. ”
But time has cultivated the foundation of the Rockefeller family, and it has also accumulated enemies for the Rockefellers, and this enemy is still a fatalistic enemy with the Rockefeller family. ”
"It is probably not a coincidence that in 1911, Rockefeller was dismembered by Roosevelt and Wall Street and Congress, and in 1912, the Morgan family was implicated in the accident of the Tantanic, and even J Morgan had to be tried publicly and subsequently died. ”
"You know, the British and American financial circles and Wall Street are all looking after Morgan, and Morgan has no need and no possibility to kill those people. ”
"Titanic?"
Lu Xinyue's face was full of doubts, and she didn't understand what this love had to do with Morgan and Rockefeller.
Shen Jiannan smiled dumbly, realizing that Lu Xinyue probably had seen the Titanic at most, and it was impossible to know the secrets hidden behind it.
"The Titanic has changed facts. Aside from this supposed element of love, it has actually indirectly changed an era, or rather, has had a profound impact on the history of the United States for nearly a hundred years. ”
"Back then. J Morgan, the founder of General Electric and American Steel, has an international shipping group under the consortium, and the British White Star Line Company is controlled by this group company. And the white star is the owner of the Teknic. Therefore, as the big boss behind the scenes, J Morgan has his own private suite on the Titanic.
According to reports, J Morgan also booked a trial voyage on the Titanic at that time, but in the end, he stayed in France for a holiday and did not board the ship. ”
Later, the Titanic fell silent at sea, causing thousands of deaths, many of them Wall Street elites and business tycoons close to Morgan. ”
Because of the impact of the incident, Morgan had to appear in court the following year to be investigated, and although he was not charged, he died depressed. ”
Lu Xinyue couldn't help frowning, with her mind, she could naturally understand the meaning of Shen Jiannan's words.
"You mean. Maybe it has something to do with the Rockefellers?"
"No one has been able to prove that it has anything to do with the Rockefellers. But I think the Morgans think the same way I do, they don't believe in coincidences in the world. ”
Morgan is the founder of U.S. Steel and a shareholder behind several major railroad companies, and Rockefeller has had several confrontations with Morgan's railroad transportation companies in the process of monopolizing the U.S. oil system, and has suffered a lot of losses. ”
After Rockefeller monopolized global oil exports, it seriously threatened Wall Street and Congress's control of the economy, and it is for this reason that Roosevelt pushed the antitrust bill at all costs after taking office. ”
It was this act that led to the dismemberment of Rockefeller into what would become the Seven Sisters. ”
Holding Shen Jiannan's arm, Lu Xinyue fell into deep thought, she never thought that there would be such a complicated history between the top families in the United States.
"But this does not mean that Morgan and Rockefeller are mortal enemies!"
"If these speculations are not enough. ”
"But one thing is very interesting, although there are many political parties in the United States, only the Democrats and Republicans can be presidents.
Rockefeller angrily scolded Roosevelt as a bastard when Mobil was torn apart, and the Republican supporter has been Morgan until now. Rockefeller has always supported the Democratic Party. ”
In addition to political parties, the competition between Rockefeller and Morgan is also everywhere, from the confrontation between Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the early years, to Morgan's desire to enter the oil and gas industry but hitting a wall everywhere, it can be seen that there is definitely an irreconcilable struggle between the two. ”
"You're saying we can use the relationship between Rockefeller and Morgan to drive the tiger away?"
Shen Jiannan bared his teeth and smiled, deeply admiring
"An enemy of an enemy does not mean a friend. But the enemy of the enemy, even if the interests are involved, cannot become absolute friends. After all, the chaebols are different from the state, they do not have the pattern of the family and the country, and they cannot have the concept of the family and the country and the world. ”
"So strategically speaking, the situation of Jiuding is almost the same now. ”
"If Jiuding snipes at Rockefeller's strategic deployment from the shadows and targets Morgan's financial foundation from the open, what will be the result?"
Under normal circumstances, Lu Xinyue would only roll her eyes.
At the same time, starting a war with the two strongest families in the United States is not a clear search for death.
But with the loss there, she really didn't know what the outcome would be.
"Morgan will compromise with us and crush Rockefeller? Not to mention anything else, although Capital One is currently in the limelight, it is still not qualified to compete with Morgan head-on. ”
Lu Xinyue is very correct in what he said about this.
Wall Street influences the world economy, and Morgan influences Wall Street as a whole. So in J Morgan's time, the Morgan family has always been known as a bank within a bank.
Coupled with the fact that Morgan has controlled many industries in the United States for a century, even General Motors, U.S. Steel and ATT are the Morgan family's industries, although Capital One can leverage tens of billions of dollars, it is still not enough to leverage a behemoth like Morgan.
In this case, it is simply impractical to try to pry Morgan against Rockefeller.
"New moon. Don't you forget, I'm still from Hongmen? Don't forget, Roosevelt was also from Hongmen. ”