Hoover's praise for Zhou Ming is heartfelt, because as far as most people are concerned, whether they study hard or work hard, whether you work in the fields or face the computer in a financial building on Wall Street, their goal is nothing more than to get a promotion and a raise, and it is very satisfying to get more salary every month.

The so-called ambition is at most that someone has saved enough money to open a small company and become his own boss, and to be able to build a company and be included in the wings of a large consortium, which is already the most extravagant idea that people want.

However, Zhou Ming was not satisfied, he even wanted to look up to the same blue sky as these big conglomerates, maybe it sounds like people's childhood ambitions, but Hoover had a feeling that he could really do it, or he could not only do it, but even he could do it better.

Thinking of this, Hoover stabilized his mind, and then said to Zhou Ming: "As far as I know, the main controlling parties behind China's Bank are California, Morgan and Texas three consortiums, of which Morgan and Texas respectively hold 25 percent, and the California consortium holds 30 percent, and China's headquarters is located in San Francisco, California. ”

"What about that Uncle Tiger? Is he also from the California Consortium?" Zhou Ming asked.

Hoover nodded and said, "That's right, he comes from a very large family in the California consortium, and that family is also the largest family in the California consortium." ”

"So since there are three consortiums to support it, how can Chinabank still fall into such a run wave? I don't know much about California and Texas, but at least the Morgan consortium started in finance, and he should have a way to resolve this run crisis, doesn't he care?" Zhou Ming asked curiously.

Hoover shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Although China's bank is not the core business of the Morgan consortium, as an important holding company of Morgan, the Morgan consortium will not sit idly by. ”

After Hoover finished speaking, he thought for a while and then said: "If Zhou Ming, you have been paying attention to the stock market recently, then you should have seen the stock of Massachusetts Securities Company plummeting, which is a countermeasure of the Morgan consortium." ”

"Did Wei save Zhao?" Zhou Ming said, "But then again, Brighton is the territory of the Brighton consortium, and the Tang Bank's rash entry will definitely attract the other party's crazy targeting, right?

"Mr. Zhou Ming, haven't you heard the saying that plans can't catch up with changes?" Hoover said, "The plan is only useful when you can control the situation, just like if you go to buy a company smaller than you, but who can predict the struggle and layout between big conglomerates? Since it can't be predicted, isn't it very likely that any plan you make will become useless?"

"So that's the case, then Mr. Hoover, can you tell me about the Brighton consortium?" Zhou Ming asked, he thought for a moment and then added, "Within the scope of what you know." ”

Hoover replied: "Of course, no problem, as the head of the Brighton branch of the Don's Bank, I have to know the situation of the Brighton consortium by heart." ”

Subsequently, Hoover told Zhou Ming about the composition of the Brighton consortium, first of all, the composition of the Brighton consortium, no matter how long the history of the Brighton consortium is, he and other consortiums are still very similar in structure, mainly composed of Adams, Kennedy, Lowell and Lawrence, the four major families and the companies they control.

Among the four families, the Lowell and Lawrence families have their main spheres of influence in their own cities, as well as Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, plus they are not so active by nature, so the most important of them are the Adams and Kennedy families.

Needless to say, the Kennedy family is familiar to many people who care about international politics, and the American president who almost declared war on the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis, triggering a possible World War III, and was later assassinated in Texas, came from this family. The Kennedy family was able to produce a president, which is inseparable from the family's own financial resources.

The Kennedy family started out in finance, owning the Bank of Brighton, owning the Kennedy Securities Company and a number of food companies.

Because Kennedy very selfishly handed over all defense orders to the Brighton consortium during his presidency, the Kennedy family also had a very important stake in Bell Corporation, which manufactures airplanes, and Phoenix, which manufactures missiles and other high-tech weapons. It is also for this reason that although the Kennedy family debuted much later than the other three families, it can still rank second in terms of strength.

The first strength of the Brighton consortium and the core of the consortium is undoubtedly the Addams family.

The Addams family has the title of the "first royal family" in the United States, not only because the Addams family planned the American Revolutionary War and was one of the three most important founding fathers of the United States, and the White House was planned and built by Adams, but also because the Addams family set a precedent for both father and son to be presidents. It can be said that since the founding of the United States, the Addams family has established itself as the core of the Brighton consortium.

As the core of the consortium, the Adams family has a controlling stake in all the important companies of the consortium, whether it is the Bell Corporation and the Phoenix Company that order arms, or the food company, and even Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which are controlled by the Lowell and Lawrence families, the Adams family also serves as directors of the university, and the Adams family of Brighton Bank, which is the foundation of the consortium, has a terrifying 49 percent control.

"It's for this reason that there's a joke here in Massachusetts that if the governor catches a cold, it's okay to change the governor at most, but if Adams catches a cold, then the whole of Massachusetts will be infected. Hoover said to Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming was not surprised at all, after all, Adams was the oldest consortium family in the United States, and even made the decision to move the capital in order to confront other consortiums during his presidency. Such a strong family, if it doesn't even control its own base, it is an unscientific story, but what interests Zhou Ming is another story.

"Since the Brighton consortium is so strong here, there must be many spokespersons for the consortium in the state government and legislature, right?" Zhou Ming asked, Hoover gave an affirmative answer, and Zhou Ming then asked, "So what I want to ask is, who is the Brooke family?"

"The Addams Family. Hoover's answer was very straightforward.

Zhou Ming suddenly realized: "So there is a reason why the Brooke family is so powerful. ”

Hoover nodded and told Zhou Ming: "That's right, the Addams family implements a policy of encirclement in the state legislature, because since the president stepped down, they have understood a truth, the Führer is just a time-limited puppet, and only the parliamentary system is eternal, so he never directly supports the governor or speaker, but only focuses on supporting his own senators who have the right to speak in the state legislature, and Old Brooke is one of them." ”

After speaking, Hoover thought for a while and said: "And according to other information, in addition to being a senator supported by the Addams family, Old Brooke also has great economic cooperation with the Addams family, and the investment company controlled by Old Brook is an important business of the Addams family." ”

"I see, as far as I know, there are not many senior senators in the state legislature, so in other words, if I find a way to kill Old Brook or the investment company controlled by Old Brooke, won't I be able to force the Addams family out?"

Faced with Zhou Ming's sudden question, Hoover panicked and subconsciously said, "Zhou Ming, why do you think so?"

"Because there is no love for no reason in this world, since Uncle Tiger has found me and asked you to support me and ask me to become an influential person in Brighton within a year, how can it be purposeless?" Zhou Ming asked.

Hoover had already recovered his mood at this time, and he said to Zhou Ming: "I don't know the real purpose, but I guess Mr. Tiger just hopes that you can cause as much trouble as possible to the Brighton consortium, because this will reduce the pressure on the Donton Bank." ”

"Mr. Tiger really thinks of me, and he would think that I should start in the base camp of the Brighton consortium and cause trouble for this big consortium that controls the lifeblood of the United States. Zhou Ming said meaningfully, he thought for a moment and asked, "I don't think I'm the first person to be chosen by Mr. Hoover to do these things, right?

"They all failed, some are dead, some are in prison. ”

Hoover lowered his head as he spoke, not daring to look at Zhou Ming's eyes, as if he was also ashamed of this inhuman request, but Zhou Ming's next words surprised him.

"It's a tragic story, but it's exciting. Zhou Ming said.

Hoover raised his head again, he looked at Zhou Ming dumbfounded, and asked in a daze, "Zhou Ming, you said you were excited?"

"Why aren't you excited?" Zhou Ming asked Hoover rhetorically, "You see that the Brighton consortium is one of the top ten consortiums that control the United States, and it is also the oldest consortium in the United States, and it knows very well that it also instigated the American Revolutionary War, but now I want to make trouble for him, isn't it tantamount to digging into the corner of the United States? I participated in the collapse of the Soviet Union, and now I want to play with the American plutocracy, how can you not make people excited?"

Hoover gasped, facing Zhou Ming's words, he was shocked or shocked in his heart.

Because originally Hoover thought that Zhou Ming would give up after seeing through the purpose, after all, now Zhou Ming has achieved a little in Brighton, not only has an insurance company with assets of more than 100 million, but also has a very potential candidate, no matter how you look at it, it is a rising small consortium.

At this time, there should be no one who provokes the Brighton consortium, no matter how it is said that it is a big chaebol that controls the lifeblood of the US economy, and there are at least 10,000 ways to make Zhou Ming unable to stay in Brighton.

But Zhou Ming said that he was very excited, because he was going to play with the Brighton consortium, how could this not be shocking?

Hoover was so shocked that he couldn't even speak: "Zhou...... Zhou Ming, are you sure you really want to do this?"

"Why not? Have you forgotten what I said, I want to look up at the same blue sky as those big people?" Zhou Ming said.

If Hoover was still shocked just now, then at this moment he was completely convinced after listening to Zhou Ming's words, and he remembered a very reckless sentence: willing to cut his body, dare to pull the emperor off the horse.

Isn't this what Zhou Ming looks like now?

Only then did Hoover understand why there were so many dynastic changes in Chinese history, unlike in Europe, where a family could rule a country for a thousand years, wasn't it because there were many people like Zhou Ming who were domineering and dared to argue with the highest power?