Chapter Twenty-Seven: Making Money
In September 1914, the Battle of the Marne ended. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The appearance of the most primitive fighters, bombers and tanks allowed the German Army to take advantage of the Battle of the Marne, and then after more tanks and planes were put into the Western Front, the Germans became almost synonymous with conquering!
Thereupon......
John, a butterfly that crosses, a scene that changes history, appears.
On October 22, 1914, under the onslaught of hundreds of planes and more than 400 tanks, the capital Paris, the great city in the hearts of the French, fell!
Paris fell, causing a sensation all over the world!
Even with the help of thousands of Huntelaar trucks, the French and British performed a miracle to transport more than 100,000 troops to the front in just three days, but it didn't make any difference. The fighters first gained air supremacy, the bombers began to sweep the positions, and then the army launched an assault under the cover of tanks! The British and French had no way to resist at all, and in fact many of them collapsed psychologically when their untrained armies were confronted with tanks......
After taking Paris, the Germans temporarily halted their offensive.
It's not that the Germans didn't want to take France in one go, but the Battle of Paris was fought too fiercely, and although the German Army as the attacking side achieved its goal, it suffered very heavy losses. The planes did not have many losses because they did not have an opponent, but the tanks were different. Even in terms of the technology of the Huntelaar consortium, it was difficult to ensure the quality of tanks in this era, and there were a lot of lying nests, coupled with the fact that Britain and France bombarded with a large number of shells later, hundreds of tanks were almost exhausted in just one month!
The follow-up Wu Bai tanks of the Huntelaar consortium have not yet been delivered, and the domestic tanks will have to wait for at least two months!
And on the other hand, seeing that the two allies were beaten so badly that the Russians on the Eastern Front could not sit still, millions of Russian soldiers in gray uniforms began to attack, almost to the point of madness. Coupled with the fact that a large amount of supplies were exhausted in the early offensive, the Germans were finally unable to attack on the Western Front.
So by the end of October, the French had finally gained a foothold.
The French in front of them also worked hard to keep their capital, and bought all the goods in the warehouses of the Huntelaar consortium in France without bargaining, including 14,000 trucks! Tens of thousands of trucks desperately transported a large number of French troops to the front, and in order to prevent the French from being completely defeated, the British also sent more than 200,000 troops ashore and transported them to the front line by these trucks.
To help the French, the British also bought the cargo of an entire fleet of ships of the Huntelaar consortium!
Six hundred mortars, forty-five thousand Browning rifles and twenty million rounds of ammunition, millions of pounds worth of products. Of course, more important were the shells that the French desperately needed, and in order to withstand the onslaught of the Germans, they had to rely on a large number of artillery to threaten the unstoppable tanks. For the French, who greatly underestimated the scale of modern warfare, the number of shells prepared in advance was far from sufficient, and a huge fleet of ships arrived at the right time of the Huntelaar consortium, loaded with shells that France desperately needed, and sold them for a fortune in one go......
At the beginning of November 1914, the Western Front was finally relatively stable.
And at this time, the British, the French, including the Russians, finally reached an agreement with the American Huntelaar consortium to buy all the fighters, bombers, tanks and heavy trucks produced by the Huntelaar consortium in the next six months at a price two percent higher than that of the Germans!
At the same time, the order book includes a large number of other products.
For example, the shells, bullets and explosives of the Huntelaar Arms Manufacturing Company, for example, the more advanced radio equipment, for example, the large quantities of metal ingots and countless military supplies - uniforms, boots, cans, etc. As for rubber, synthetic ammonia and other materials monopolized or semi-monopolized by the Huntelaar consortium, the quantity is even more jaw-dropping!
Now no one doubts anymore that it will be a long battle!
The Germans captured the capital of France, and now they are far above Britain, France, and Russia in terms of morale and weaponry, and with their industrial level, they will soon be able to produce more planes and tanks! Although a fleet full of new aircraft and tanks had departed for Europe on the third day after the agreement was signed, Britain and France still had a long way to go before they could become familiar with and master these new weapons and eventually form a force that could compete with the Germans......
There is no doubt that the Huntelaar consortium has made a lot of money!
By the end of October, no one doubted the madness of the Huntelaar consortium over the past few years, because everyone understood one thing, John? The layout, which Huntelaar had started a few years ago, was finally harvesting. Synthetic ammonia, tanks, aircraft, machine gun coordinators, radios and other indispensable materials for the army knocked on the door of the major European powers for the first time!
And......
Now that Britain, France and Russia have not exhausted their reserves, they have to start buying the products of the Huntelaar consortium in large quantities, so almost everyone with a little discerning can foresee one point, that is, when they are exhausted and have to place a large number of orders to the Americans, the Huntelaar consortium will definitely use more advanced aircraft, tanks and all kinds of light weapons to force Britain and France to give priority to the purchase of their other supplies!
Don't doubt it, that Mr. Huntelaar would have done it!
Everyone knows how well prepared this Mr. Huntelaar is, not only in a variety of advanced technologies and products, but also in more fields: for example, the Huntelaar Shipping Company, which is now deservedly the first in the world, accounts for almost half of the United States shipping, and the major shipyards of the Huntelaar shipbuilding system can now produce the world's cheapest, but most outstanding cargo ships; For example, rubber, chemicals and various minerals, etc., are necessary and required in the war......
Also convinced of this are all the senior officials of the Huntelaar consortium.
After signing the supply contract with Britain and France, they let their major factories start to rush to meet this huge order. At the same time, the laboratories have also begun to invest in the third generation ......of products that can be supplied to them in the future after the European countries have digested the current technology.
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"Gentlemen, I've made money!"
Looking around at a pair of fiery eyes, John said aloud with a smile on his face: "I think as long as you don't lock yourself in the house and don't go out, you should be able to see this news from the newspaper, I have made money, and I have made a lot of money!" The outbreak of this war in Europe could allow my Huntelaar consortium to earn billions, if not billions, in the next few years......"
"Boom!"
After hearing these words, the whole conference room was suddenly bustling!
Everyone knows this from various sources, but it is still very shocking to hear it from Mr. Huntelaar - that's billions of dollars! Although this is only the money that Huntelaar makes, and it will definitely have to be cut out of the cost or something, this number is still enough to make most people feel dizzy!
After waiting patiently for a while, John said with a smile: "I know, many people are scolding me now, thinking that I am making war money, and some fellow doctors even openly accuse me of being cold-blooded or something......
"Coax ......"
This time it wasn't a shock, and the audience burst into laughter.
Almost all of them had a look of disdain on their faces, because they knew very well that these people were not necessarily clamoring for John's arms deal, and that they were ......
This is America, isn't it?
Many times wealth is the highest measure of a person, and those who shouted that John was cold-blooded, just like the people who desperately attacked the likes of Rockefeller and Carnegie in this era, who will remember them decades from now?
So after waving his hand, John smiled slightly: "But as a doctor, I think I should still show my value in this war!" So...... Gentlemen, go to Europe and show them our latest research results in the fields of surgery, plastic surgery and infection, and introduce them to our latest products......"
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Sorry, it hasn't been updated in a few days.
Don't worry, I've saved up thirty chapters of the manuscript during this time, and I expect to finish it next week. I'll update a chapter every day from today, and I'll release it in one go when I'm done. It's not that I did this on purpose, but the ending was rather hasty, and I didn't figure out a lot of ideas, so it was too hard to write that the back had to be changed to the front.
Fortunately, it's about to be written, so let's wait patiently.