The news came, the world's companies with high-speed rail technology, are all moved, everyone knows the style of Americans spending money, and they all want to get this big cake, but now it seems that the Americans are not Lei Feng, look at Jesse and Kate, people obviously want to let the meat rot in the pot. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info.

"So, the Hearst family wants to participate in this big project?"

Jin Muchen touched his chin and asked Jesse and Kate, Jesse and Kate nodded at the same time: "It should be like this, although we didn't enter the room to see who participated in the discussion, but we heard someone call Thomas's name, and besides, when their Hearst family started in the early years, they made their fortune in California, so they still have considerable influence in the local area, not to mention that if California really builds high-speed rail, then their Hearst family, how can they miss this gluttonous feast?" ”

Listening to Jesse's words, Jin Muchen nodded, this is indeed the case, the Hearst family is not the same as the financial family like Morgan, and it is a bit similar to the Rockefeller family, when their ancestors made their fortunes, they were not in New York, but in other places, and after making a lot of money in other places, they moved their family from other places to New York.

The founder of the Hearst family, William. Randolph. Hearst was also born into a wealthy family in the United States at the beginning, but at that time his father was not as influential as him, but just a second-rate businessman.

And he was a trader, not a media, and later in 1887, William. Hearst takes over the San Francisco Observer, a newspaper company that his dad won from a lawsuit.

William, who had just graduated from Harvard that year. Hurst traveled from the east to San Francisco in the west, where he began his legendary life, relying on his keen sense of news and ability to dig for news, William. Hearst made the current Hearst family, so much so that in the twenties and thirties of the last century, when Hearst Media was at its most prosperous, one out of every four newspapers in the United States belonged to the Hearst family.

And that William. Hearst has been rooted in the western United States all his life, especially in California, San Francisco, and he later built a luxurious Hearst Castle for himself, which has now become a famous tourist attraction in the western United States.

It took 28 years to complete the castle from the beginning of its construction, even if it was not until that William. When Hearst died, it had not yet been repaired, which shows the luxury of the castle.

Someone even commented on this castle and said that this may be the most expensive real estate in the history of the United States, but later the descendants of the Hearst family, William. After his death, Hearst donated the castle to the California government.

As for why they did this, there are still legends, and some say that they donated the castle because of William. After Hearst's death, the government bureaucrats were no longer afraid of the Hearst family, and they came to the door to collect a huge amount of property tax and inheritance tax on the Hearst family, forcing the Hearst family to donate the castle.

Others said that because it was a special period, World War II had just ended, and the heirs of Hearst Media were very wary of what happened to their relatives in Europe.

So many rich people, even big families that have been passed down for several generations, dozens of generations, were wiped out in that war, and there were many, and even oh the city because of the envy of the common people, the most nonsense and troubled times, plus many big families in the United States at that time, also understood the truth of wealth is not exposed, and began to live in seclusion behind the scenes, remote control of the economy and politics of the United States, the Hearst family, at this time, also wisely chose to live behind the scenes, in order not to attract jealousy, they donated the castle and so on.

Anyway, there were different opinions about the Hearst family at that time, and no one knew what those Hearst family people thought back then.

However, it is precisely because of such an earth-shattering 'good deed' of the Hearst family that their family has won a very high reputation in California, although their family later moved back to New York and established a new media group headquarters in New York, but their influence in California has always been undoubted.

Over the years, successive U.S. presidents and dignitaries of the U.S. government have been so polite to the Hearst Group, not only because their family has the title of the mouthpiece of the United States, but also because their family is a very influential family in California, and if they offend them, it means that they are likely to lose the votes of California, the most important state in the western United States.

So this is also an important factor for the Hearst family to be able to influence the American high society, and it also shows the status of the Hearst family in the western United States, especially in California.

As early as a few months ago, the United States had several regions announced that they would build high-speed rail projects, one was in the New York area, and several state governments, and some American railroad companies joined forces to build a high-speed rail from New York to Washington, but this project finally turned yellow.

The reason is simple, partly because of popular opposition, and partly because of the lobbying of the auto giants, airlines, and aircraft manufacturing companies in Washington, which finally made the politicians compromise.

The other is in California, from Los Angeles to San Francisco this section of high-speed rail, in fact, this section of the railroad reconstruction, in the California area, has been debated for more than ten years, since the beginning of the century New York terrorist attacks, the California government has been pondering, want to build such a railway.

In the early years, there was only a railway between the two cities, but later due to the rise of automobile companies, highways, and the aircraft passenger industry, this railway was basically abandoned, and now it can only bear some freight functions, and the facilities are seriously aging.

The California government, in order to stimulate the development of the local economy and provide employment opportunities for the local people, has long been thinking about building such a railway, but the time has not been very mature, when they were building, China did not have high-speed rail at that time, and several other countries in the world with high-speed rail technology, interested in this project, but when it was to be built, they opened their mouths and asked the California government for a high price, which made the California government not very acceptable.

Then the economic crisis broke out, and the California government had no money to carry out such a project, and then after the economic crisis, California recovered too much, and China also had high-speed rail technology, and the price was very low, and the California government was tempted again.

Unfortunately, there are many good things, this matter is not so easy for China's railway companies to get involved, although the Americans do not have high-speed rail technology, but for the yellowing of things, but very capable, their own railway, do not let their own people make money, but let the Chinese, who have always been hostile objects, make money, how can it be so easy?

As a result, the construction of this section of the railway has become a tug-of-war over and over again, with one moment saying that it will be built, another saying that it will not be built, another saying that it will be contracted to a Chinese railway company, and another saying that we in the United States have our own company and have such technology... Anyway, about the construction of high-speed rail in California, it is still in the clouds, and there is no clear statement.

But just yesterday, Jesse and Kate heard that Hearst's family was involved in this incident, which indicates that this matter may be about to be seen.

After all, if there were no influential family like Hearst involved, the politicians in California who represent different consortia and family interests would have been able to make a fuss about this for decades.

And now that the Hearst family is involved, it is easy to integrate these families with different interests and the consortium, and as for those who only have votes, in their eyes, they are absolutely not fart.

And Jesse also said, at that seminar, those people had already said, how to expropriate the land, whose land was the land, etc., which already shows that those people have begun to divide their sphere of influence.

The construction of the high-speed rail is very expensive, especially in the United States, where the labor cost is particularly expensive, and the cost of the high-speed rail is likely to reach hundreds of millions, or even more than a billion kilometers, plus the maintenance in the later stage, this is a long-term deal, no wonder so many people want to participate.

And as long as these people delineate the route of this railway, there will be a land acquisition crisis or a farce in California at that time, and these consortiums and families will definitely try their best to get the villages and towns and families who are now living on the route that the high-speed rail is about to pass through, and assign that land to their names.

At that time, as long as the construction of the high-speed rail is announced, the compensation given by the state government is quite amazing, which is probably the main reason why Thomas held such a meeting in New Jersey this time.

However, this conference room Thomas presided, does that mean that the Hearst family's participation in the construction of the California high-speed rail is led by him?

The other two people at the helm of the Hearst consortium now, Petty. Hearst and Dylan. Did Hearst know about this, and what was their attitude towards it?

After all, the Hearst consortium was mainly engaged in media before, and this time it participated in such a large-scale infrastructure project, which is a decision to adjust the future strategic focus of the consortium, David. Does Hearst know about this, will he agree to it? (To be continued.) )