After Nako Kino went out, Shuichi Minamino fell into deep thought.

"I didn't expect the four major consortia to do it to me so quickly, it was really beyond my plan." Shuichi Minamino muttered to himself. Originally, he thought that the four major consortia should be in a fight with Sanhe Group and the First Quanyin Group in the next few years. Even if you have to deal with him, it is estimated that it will be five or six years later. But he didn't expect the other party to start doing it to him now.

The other party's sudden move caught Minamino Shuichi a little off guard.

Originally, he had already made a perfect plan and a layout, and he would start working on it in five or six years. But now the other party has made a move on him in advance, so he has to start this layout.

If you want to defeat the four major consortia, you must first break the monopoly of the other party! But it's not easy to break the other party's monopoly. Although now Shuichi Minamino's automobile, electronics, communications, computer and software development are slightly stronger than the four major consortia. In terms of technology and market, it is also better than the other party.

But this is just one of a few industries with a lot of knowledge.

It's as if people are now just grabbing cold-rolled automotive steel plates, which has seriously threatened the automotive industry.

In the final analysis, it is the mastery of the raw materials, and Shuichi Minamino can't compare with the other party at all.

If you want to form a monopoly, there are three major elements: technology, market, and raw materials. This ingredient is very important.

For example, the four major consortia now have countless mineral resources, which are being developed and have not yet been developed. After the development, they directly own the one-stop enterprise chain of steel mills, oil refineries and so on.

And what about Shuichi Minamino? Nothing!

So it was destined that this time in the face of the opponent's shot, he had no power to fight back at all.

In addition, the reason why Sanhe Group and First Quanyin Group can compete with the four major consortia without losing is because they not only have technology and market, but also have raw materials.

Both consortia have their own mineral resources, steel mills, oil refineries, rubber plantations on the rubber side, rubber factories, and much more. These are important resources.

Shuichi Minamino also owned ten oil fields before, but in fact, these oil fields have just been discovered and have not yet had time to exploit them. Even if he exploited, he did not own an oil refinery.

Besides, it's steel that people are targeting him now!

"The four major consortia are really powerful!" Shuichi Minamino said secretly in his heart.

He remembered a book he had read in his previous life, which was written about the background of the four major consortia of the island country.

Among them is to tell how the Mitsui consortium formed a resource monopoly and how it rose rapidly in the seventies and eighties to dare to compete with the old consortia of US imperialism.

Except for those big countries, the resources of the big countries are basically controlled by themselves, and outsiders can't come in at all.

As a result, those consortia can only look for those small and medium-sized countries to start.

By the seventies and eighties, the world's resources were almost controlled by conglomerates!

At that time, the upstream resources were actually controlled by foreign capital. These monopoly giants mainly control two major blocks, one part is Brazil and the other is Australia. Behind Australia is the capital of Britain and the United States, while Brazil is mainly the capital of the island country. In fact, in Brazil, the island country has entered Vale, Brazil, of which Mitsui & Co. already owns 12% of the shares of Vale's parent company!

This is what has created the confidence of the Mitsui consortium, which regards many large foreign steel companies as its super ATM! Because the raw materials used by the big steel companies are all taken from the Mitsui consortium.

This is the monopoly of capital.

And now, in 1960, the big four consortia did not have a stake in Brazil's parent company Vale, which was the plan that Shuichi Minamino had wanted. If he wants to defeat the four major consortia, he must master a large number of mineral resources and be invincible from the most basic raw materials.

But he doesn't have that much money to invest in this thing right now.

This is where he was caught off guard by the big four conglomerates.

Besides, even in later generations, the Mitsui consortium only owns 12% of the shares of Brazil's parent company Vale, but it is this 12% of the shares that makes it arrogant enough to monopolize countless steel companies and industrial chains.

"It seems that it is time to talk to my father-in-law, but what we need to do now is to solve the current urgent matters first." Shuichi Minamino decided in his heart.

"Since you've all pushed me into a hurry, then I'll have a wreck."

Soon Shuichi Minamino contacted his father-in-law, the helm of the Morgan Consortium - Henry.

When he told Henry about his situation, Henry was very determined to help his son-in-law tide over the difficulties.

That is to provide cold-rolled automotive steel plates to his son-in-law!

However, the provision of this cold-rolled steel plate requires a fee, after all, he can't lose money, right?

Anyway, it means that Henry doesn't make any money from Shuichi Minamino, and still gives Shuichi Minamino at the market price, but Shuichi Minamino needs to come out in terms of freight. In this way, in fact, Shuichi Minamino still bears the increase in the cost of automobile manufacturing. Morgan's steel companies are basically in the United States, and even if there are overseas, they are far away from the island countries, and they all need to be shipped by sea, which is also a transportation fee.

But there is no way to do this, after all, he is now fighting from far water, and the cost is high, so get through it first.

During the wireless telegraph exchange, Shuichi Minamino heard what Henry was telling him the truth.

"Now the big four consortia are obviously targeting you, if you use the cold-rolled automotive steel plate I provide to you for a long time, there is no problem, the problem is that the cost of manufacturing your car will increase, and your profit will become smaller. You now have three choices, one is to choose to succumb to the big four consortia and mix with them. The second is to stand on the side of Sanhe Group and the First Quanyin Group. At that time, your crisis will be solved at once. The third, to set up your own steel company, I am of course the most supportive of your last one. After all, if you want to set up a consortium in the future, you must have your own heavy industry and mineral resources. But with your current financial resources and strength, the third one is undoubtedly a dream talk. That's what Henry said to Shuichi Minamino.

"Father-in-law, in a week, I will go to the US imperialist to talk to you and talk to you, and then I will say." This is what Shuichi Minamino said to Henry. Yes, he is going on a trip to the US imperialists, and he is going to start implementing this crazy plan of his.

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Mitsui Foundation.

"Hehe, Shuichi Minamino must be anxious now. According to the intelligence, he refused to cooperate with the Sanhe Group, and it seems that the Sanhe Group also wants to trick him. He's in a dilemma. Mitsui Kurokawa looked at the information in hand and sneered.