Chapter 559: Defenseless
Phoebe's development strategy for Titan is mainly to rely on the existing power structure of the United States and gradually develop it without seizing other people's markets. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
As a result, Titan has business dealings with many ministries and institutions, but none of these business dealings will spread down to the civilian market.
Phoebe's main consideration is that once it enters the civilian market, even if Titan's existing products are not good, there will be capital forces watching Titan. The reason is very simple, Titan's stuff is a new thing for the current civilian market.
Phoebe will not put herself in danger for the sake of money, and Titan only does business with government departments, which also makes many capital forces temporarily resist not making a move against Enceladus.
If Titan's products enter the civilian market, the most convenient way to attack Enceladus is to use an antitrust investigation - of course, because Titan has not entered the civilian market, neither judge will approve the investigation.
The only wristband watch business that has entered the civilian market has also cooperated with Universal Music, which makes it impossible to conduct an anti-monopoly investigation.
Of course, Titan has another thing that can be regarded as entering the civilian market, that is, semi-liquid food from the Detroit factory, and as a result, Phoebe also engaged in a project to help the famine in East Africa, sending all food products to East Africa for free, and not even submitting samples to the FDA for testing, let alone selling them in the United States.
In this way, the capital forces understand that because Titan only deals with government departments, and many projects have confidentiality agreements, they cannot get a piece of the Titan pie at all.
In addition, Phoebe also has a background in a diplomatic group, so except for the fact that the FBI had to do it at the beginning, Phoebe and most of the capital strength are all on peace.
However, just because you're safe doesn't mean no one is watching, and Phoebe knows this very well - she has business dealings with the Pentagon and many other large institutions, and many people are still very jealous.
With the construction of the Atlantic Floaters, the capital group is also beginning to come back to taste.
If we wait until Titan builds this floating island, I am afraid that it will become extremely difficult to meddle in this company.
After all, it's a floating island with a radius of 5,000 square kilometers.
Judging from the information inquired, this floating island will look like a strategic base to protect the east coast of the United States after it is completed.
But in the eyes of business-savvy people, the potential business benefits of having such a floating island between the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean are quite enormous.
On top of that, it is said that the principle of this floating island is the same as that of a floating iceberg, which means that there is still a huge space below sea level - think about the volume of the iceberg below sea level, and many people have a faint feeling that if this floating island can really float, then I am afraid it will not sink.
Moreover, if there is so much space below sea level, I am afraid that this floating island will still have the ability to protect against nuclear strikes.
Some people have inquired that after the completion of the floating island, there will be an underwater passage for submarines to enter and exit, and after the completion of the floating island, in addition to inviting the US Air Force and Navy to station, strategic forces will also have a place on the island.
Although no one is very clear, this floating island may have the ability to survive the strike, and at the same time serve as a base for a second or even third US counterattack.
Therefore, many people think that even if they can't get some benefits on this floating island, it would be nice to have a room......
However, the company has never taken a position on this, which makes some people secretly anxious: Could it be that Enceladus thinks I am not qualified? So you didn't notify me?
Even with it, many people in the diplomatic system are often tested for news in this regard. After all, in the eyes of many people, in fact, the family of the diplomatic system is very xenophobic, they only trust people in the circle most of the time, even if this person is contrary to their own political views, their credibility is higher than that of people outside the circle - the credibility here means that everyone knows the rules and bottom lines of the circle.
But many families in the diplomatic system don't quite know what the Atlantic Floaters are all about, and they initially thought it was the Pentagon's name for it.
Although the diplomatic system could have asked Phoebe and Barbara for information, they had a credential that they could not tell anyone - Phoebe and Barbara both had more than 20 levels of secrecy, and the president's secrecy level was only eighteen.
As a result, Phoebe and Barbara were allowed to mention the level of secrecy when questioned by others, which made it impossible for the diplomatic family to find out the specific information.
But after all, they are also people from the diplomatic system, even if they have now obtained a higher status in the intelligence system, but they both understand that people cannot turn their backs on their original families, even if they are adopted, not to mention that Phoebe is ready to ask Eblon to stand in the front desk to block the gun for herself and Titan.
Although the technical details of the Atlantic Floater have not been revealed, the function of its completion has been circulated. Fortunately, the news is not very widespread, and most importantly, no one knows who came up with the technology of the Atlantic Floaters.
However, the functions that have been circulated do not satisfy some people, who feel that they should be able to add some more functions, but they do not have a position to dictate the design of the floating island.
Therefore, in order to add some of the functions you need, I am afraid that you have to buy shares, but how to buy shares is very particular.
Is it to find a way to take a stake in the floating island, or to take a stake in Titan-9?
If you take a stake in the floating island, you will definitely make a profit...... Although I don't know how much Titan has invested in floating islands, judging from the company's consistent financial situation, this is a company that is not short of money at all, and even undertook the construction of such a large floating island on its own, and has not borrowed from any financial institution.
But the real owner of Titan is a bit stupid, thinking that when the Pacific Railroad was built, didn't it make many people rich in this way?
Of course, the main purpose of selling shares in the construction of the Pacific Railroad was to raise funds, but the principle is the same.
And the most important thing is that although the stock market is not very good now, technology stocks and new concept stocks are easy to prosper, if the floating island really carries out share operations, the money that can be grabbed from the capital market is probably ten times the capital investment of the floating island itself.
The problem is that no one knows who is behind Titan, only the little girl named Phoebe who is standing in the front desk on the surface, and I don't know who did it, and she asked Langley to arrange someone to protect her.
But it doesn't matter, a free economy means that economic means can also be very free, since the mastermind behind the scenes can't come out, then you can find a way to force him out.
In the free world, in addition to antitrust investigations, which are a means that you must decide to die and have a mortal enmity after you choose, there is also a convenient way to use it, that is, anti-employment discrimination investigations.
And Titan's largest factory is still in Detroit, which is as convenient as it gets......
So, there was a new situation that Barbara was reporting to Phoebe: "Since the afternoon before yesterday, in front of the Detroit company, some hey people have been holding signs such as 'Give me a job, don't give alms' or 'Protest against Titan's massive purchase of agricultural products and cause other companies to go bankrupt', and the Detroit police have also sent people, but I don't know what's going on, there have been more robberies in Detroit recently, so the police are not enough to send too many police." ”
At this point, Barbara paused for a moment, glanced at Majid, who was sitting next to Phoebe, before continuing: "Fortunately, the demonstrators seem calm. But we in Detroit are all white, and those demonstrators are all black, and although it seems calm now, if someone provokes it, it is easy to have a riot. ”
Phoebe nodded, pondered for a moment, and asked, "Is there anyone leading them?" ”
Barbara shook her head and said, "I don't see a leader for the time being." These people are all spontaneous. ”
Phoebe asked, "Are they telling the truth?" ”
Barbara nodded and said, "After investigating in Detroit, many of the people who came to demonstrate were indeed employees of some food processing companies that closed down this year. But everyone knows that most of the reasons for the collapse of those companies are due to the economic situation this year. And their closure has also affected many farmers, and we have saved a lot of people by buying agricultural products. ”
Phoebe nodded, thought about it again, and said: "I had planned to move the processing plant to the floating island after the construction of the floating island to a certain extent, although the plan was delayed because of the navy's harbor, but if it is really possible to cause a kind of #clan #riot# chaos because of us, it is better to evacuate Detroit as soon as possible, anyway, the time when Detroit is needed most has passed." In addition, the integrated shipyards along the river should also be put up for sale immediately, and we will not need them in the future. ”
Barbara nodded, although Phoebe's behavior was very similar to being scared before the battle, but don't forget, Phoebe said at the beginning that she had already planned to move the Detroit branch to the floating island
Since the two of them spoke German, Majid beside Phoebe also understood very well, so she was a little surprised at what Phoebe could do.
Before, I told Phoebe that she wanted to escape from her current fate, and ordinary people couldn't help her at all, but Phoebe was different. Phoebe decided to accept Majid as soon as she got Barbara information about Majid's family and her tribe, and the only trouble was what to say to explain the matter to the imams - of course, she couldn't wait for the public welfare event to be done and send the war-wounded children home to find a way to get in touch.
Therefore, Majid simply followed the imam and said that he was originally going to give Allah the years to come, and now that he knows that Phoebe, a heretic, can know so much about I#S#Lanism and the scriptures, his pure believer seems to know more than Phoebe in some aspects.
Speaking of which, this is quite embarrassing for the majority of believers.
Therefore, she received some faint enlightenment - in order to maintain the honor of believers before Allah, she must spend ten years converting Phoebe so that she can officially become a believer, at least so that she will not say that she knows more about the ancient #Lan # scriptures or the Yi #Si # Lan scriptures than the authentic believers.
With this excuse, combined with the devout faith that Majid had shown before, no one thought she was lying, and even the imams felt that Majid might have gone to the other extreme because he was too protective of his faith. But at least she wasn't wearing that kind of vest with wires, so this kind of cherishing the supremacy of the classics is not too outrageous.
Thus, Majid became a resident of Phoebe in the presence of the imams in order to fulfill his declaration to Allah.
Faintly, she was also regarded by those imams as a "saint", which was entirely out of respect for her devotion to the faith.
In this regard, neither Phoebe nor Barbara, including Majid, felt any guilt about it......
Barbara can understand Phoebe's intention to keep Majid, because the tribe she belongs to has been in the camp of the victorious side during World War II, first with the Afrika Korps against the British, and later by the British with the political status of I#La#k, and then with the British against the Germans.
Therefore, this tribe has a lot of say in the Middle East, both in terms of power and economic status, and the Majid family was given a high religious status by the tribe because of its correct choice of the tribe's direction of refuge in World War II.
This tribe reappeared on the local political scene with the major adjustment of the political structure of Iraq, although it does not say that it has a pivotal position, but at least it has the ability to pry the situation, for Phoebe, in such a pawn that is not standing in the most conspicuous position, in fact, it is quite beneficial, of course, this benefit, will not be apparent until much later.
However, as Phoebe said to Barbara at the beginning, through Majid, Titan has the possibility of intervening directly in the Middle East.
Although this may seem like a bit of a twist, in many regional affairs, if there is no such possibility of intervening, no matter how powerful it is, it cannot be used - otherwise it would be an act of aggression.