Chapter 152: Representatives of the Major Families
The Delta Special Forces were very fast, probably because they often cleaned the battlefield, and the 13 bodies were packed in their hands not long after.
However, because they were in the Atlantic Ocean, they could not find suitable coffins for these bodies, so they had to temporarily empty the ice storage on the cargo ship and invite the bodies in.
All the precious metals on board were transferred to the nuclear submarine and secretly escorted back to New York by the Delta Special Forces.
As for John, he did not return to New York with the submarine, and since he sent the news of the found letters back home, the other families sent people to receive them as soon as possible, so he had to stay and do the aftermath.
After seeing off the nuclear submarine loaded with precious metals, John boarded the Perry-class frigate from the new and rushed to the meeting place.
However, due to the delay in dealing with Antonio's affairs halfway, by the time he arrived at the meeting place, the people of the other families had already waited for a long time.
"Hey, JK, you're finally here. ”
John had just boarded the converging ship when he heard a familiar voice, and when he looked up, he saw that the person who greeted him was indeed an acquaintance.
"Oh... I'm really sorry Cousin Barron, but something delayed at zero hour. John said as he opened his arms and hugged Barron in front of him.
Barron was the son of his mother's older brother and his cousin, the heir to the Dupont family.
When it comes to the DuPont family, it can be said that it is famous, and its heritage is older than the Morgan family, which has been famous for more than 200 years.
The first patriarch of the family, Dupont, was a man of great fortune, and although he came from a family of horologists, the old man was an economist and political activist who wrote articles that influenced even Voltaire, Durgo and Adam Smith.
What's more, the old man was involved in the negotiations of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolution.
It was precisely because of this negotiation that he met Jefferson, the third president of the United States, at the meeting, and laid a solid foundation for the DuPont family in the United States.
But it was the second patriarch of the family, Irene Dupont, who established the DuPont family as a chemical giant.
At the age of 14, Lavoisier, one of the founders of modern chemistry, studied advanced explosives-making technology, and after completing his studies, he took this technology to the United States, officially laying the foundation for the DuPont family to become a chemical giant.
But it was the great-grandsons of Irene DuPont that really brought the DuPont family to glory, Alfred Irene Dupont, Thomas Clermont DuPont and Pierre Samuel DuPont, the DuPont Triumvirate.
The DuPont family was reinvigorated by the three of them, and the centralized management model transformed DuPont from a former family business into a group of companies.
But as the saying goes, the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it, and the DuPont family in its golden age has also attracted opponents for itself when it is growing stronger.
The most powerful opponents were none other than the Rockefeller and Morgan consortiums, which combined to suppress and annex the DuPont family, and finally the balance of victory favored the more powerful side, with the Morgan consortium taking over General Motors from the DuPont family and the Rockefeller consortium taking over the rubber industry of the DuPont family.
In the end, in order to protect themselves, the DuPont family chose the Morgan consortium of the two camps and became one of the members of this large group.
Moreover, in order to consolidate the relationship between the Dupont family and the Morgan family, the patriarch of the family also married his daughter to the next patriarch of the Morgan family at that time, that is, John's father.
So John is the bond that unites these two families.
But there are no eternal friends or eternal enemies, only eternal interests.
The DuPont family understands this, and the Morgan family also knows it, so after the marriage, the two sides immediately carried out a deeper integration.
Now the two families have long been you and me, I have you, and the common interests have tightly bound the two sides together, and this kind of relationship between the two families has become the most determined allies.
While John and Barron Dupont were greeting each other, the other representatives of the ship heard the voices and rushed over one after another.
"Hello, JK!"
"JK, long time no see!"
"JK, you don't even inform me of such a fun thing!"
"It's just that it's too unrighteous!"
Looking at the representatives of the major families who came towards him one after another, John was secretly surprised in his heart, because he not only knew these people but also knew them very well.
The person who came from the Stillman family was the next patriarch, Duke Stillman.
Speaking of the Stillman family, many people may not know or even hear of it, but if you talk about the family's industry, it is absolutely unknown to everyone, that is, the famous third largest consortium in the United States - Citigroup.
The family is also a member of the Morgan collective, which not only owns a large portion of Citibank's shares, but also owns many companies with the family, such as Boeing, Xerox, Penney...... Wait a minute.
The representative sent by the Boston Consortium was the next patriarch of the Lawrence family, Adrien Lawrence.
This consortium is jointly owned by four families, the most famous of which is the Kennedy family.
At that time, in order to successfully enter the White House, the Kennedy family put the Morgan family together, and later if it hadn't hugged the golden thigh of the Rockefeller family, the ending can be imagined.
But if the Kennedy family is not to mention, the Boston consortium is still very powerful, and its subsidiaries include not only the world's largest helicopter manufacturer, Bell Helicopter, but also the world's largest airline, American Airlines, .......
The representative of the arrival of the Mellon family is also the heir of the family - Auston Mellon.
The Mellon family is the fourth-largest consortium in the United States and one of the key members of the Rockefeller collective.
This family was once the largest consortium in the United States, and the family's assets surpassed those of the Rockefeller, Ford, and DuPont consortiums at that time.
But after the death of the family founder T. Mellon and the reviator Andrew Mellon, the family slowly declined and was gradually surpassed by the Rockefeller, Morgan, and Stillman families.
It was not until this patriarch came to the throne and carried out drastic reforms that this decline stopped.
Now although the status of the Mellon family has slipped to the fourth, no one dares to underestimate this family, the heritage of hundreds of years can not be destroyed in one day, not to mention that the family has slowly rejuvenated under the leadership of the new patriarch, and those famous industries under his name have gradually shown their fangs.
And if you want to talk about the Mellon family's industry, I believe many people have heard of it, especially military fans.
Because the famous Lockheed Martin and Westinghouse Electric are the family's businesses, Mellon is the world's largest arms dealer outside of the Morgan family.
Of course, in addition to arms, the Mellon family has many important industries.
For example, the Gulf Oil Company, Mellon Financial Corporation, and Amcoe Steel Company, and he also monopolized the lead industry in the United States.