Chapter XXVII
With the great gains of the First World War and the preparation to sell a large number of properties, John's heart also grew. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In addition to the planned schools, John is already preparing to build more universities in China. After all, when I first considered it, I chose a place that was politically stable or relatively stable in the future as much as possible, and now that China has completed its reunification and established a strong army, then more places meet John's criteria for building a school.
For example, Henan, Hebei, Northeast China, Anhui and other populous towns are in urgent need of support in this regard.
In the future, China's universities will be built more on the principle of centralization, and resources will be concentrated in Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Wuhan and other cities under the planning system, but there are few good schools in those provinces with large populations. Coupled with economic backwardness, education in these provinces can only lag behind year after year. Therefore, John, who was well aware of these drawbacks, had some plans.
For John's proposal, Yan Fuqing naturally strongly supports it!
Then the master and apprentice discussed in Taiyuan for two whole days, and finally decided on the plan to build three more universities, located in Henan, Anhui and Jilin, and these three places should not only build a top medical school, but also build a real comprehensive university like Taiyuan, Changsha and Chongqing!
With that, John's top college program grew to eight!
Jilin, Henan, Anhui, Shanxi, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Chongqing include regions from northeast to southwest and from northwest to southeast. Eight top medical schools, plus ten medical schools, basically form a system of medical education. These schools will be supported by the Huntelaar consortium in the next ten years, and it is up to them to see how they develop in the future......
From June to July 1921, John and Yan Fuqing traveled almost all over China.
From Taiyuan to Chongqing, from Chongqing to Kunming, from Kunming to Hangzhou, Nanjing, and finally back to Shanghai. John inspected almost half of the medical schools he had invested in, and was very satisfied with Yan Fuqing's efforts over the years. Needless to say, with the supervision of the Huntelaar Bank, everything is built to the highest standards, and the faculty is almost all graduates of the Huntelaar system, and there are professors hired from the United States by John's high salary to supervise, which is quite guaranteed.
In fact, the establishment of these medical schools in China in 1920 and the support of the local government and gentry must be thanked for John's unremitting support of international students over the years, as well as the good reputation of the Huntelaar Consortium in China. Otherwise, not to mention whether they can recognize these doctors who use knives, let's just say that the attitude towards foreign-run schools is just to look at the tribulations suffered by Xiangya in history......
Back in Shanghai, John immediately gathered all the top leaders of the Huntelaar consortium in China.
There must have been a lot of questions, but everything was expected by John.
"Gentlemen, I'm leaving!"
Looking around at the many high-level leaders in the conference room, John said in a deep voice: "At noon next Monday, I will leave Shanghai on the Princess Anna...... North America needs me to get back to town as soon as possible, so it's impossible to stay any longer. ”
When he said these words, John was also quite helpless.
His stay in China was so short that many of his plans remained on paper. If it were possible, John really wanted to stay here forever, because he really wanted to see the rapid development of China after it was unified and stabilized.
But alas, he couldn't stay any longer.
The Huntelaar consortium is going to split and reorganize, to sell a large number of world-leading patented technologies, and even to sell a lot of high-quality assets, which are all big news that can cause a sensation in the United States, and they are also things that must be finally decided by John. As negotiations with the major consortia have progressed, many of the deals have been agreed upon, and these will need to be finalized when John returns to the United States.
And......
In addition to the North American affairs, the European side also awaits him.
In fact, Britain and France, which had eased up a little after the end of the Paris Peace Conference, immediately took action. They bought the blackmail and balance of the Huntelaar consortium during the war, so as soon as the war ended, Britain and France immediately began to impose sanctions on the Huntelaar consortium. Of course, it is not on the surface, but anyone with a little vision can find that the various undertakings of the Huntelaar consortium in Europe have been greatly impacted!
Products are boycotted, and industry is often harassed.
All the products of the Huntelaar consortium, from airplanes to cars, from medicines to daily necessities, were met with an almost total boycott in Europe. In addition to the grateful countries such as Germany and Austria, those countries controlled by Britain and France, including their colonies all over the world, caused the Huntelaar consortium to suffer huge losses in a short period of time! Many of the companies that were already affected by the end of the war are now even worse.
This situation finally reached its peak in 1921.
So after hurriedly returning to the United States, John immediately asked people to speed up negotiations with major consortia, and began to break up the major companies under his consortium as soon as possible. Huntelaar automobiles, agricultural machinery, chemicals, weapons manufacturing, communications, shipbuilding, shipping, and other large-scale enterprises, which are likely to be attacked by the monopoly law, have been broken up according to certain principles. For example, the automobile company was split into three companies, passenger cars and trucks, the weapons manufacturing company was split into light weapons and artillery, and the aircraft company was split into military and civilian use.
Other companies have completed their restructuring. For example, film and television, animation, broadcasting and publishing, formed the first media group in the United States and the world, and began to acquire influential newspapers and publishing houses in the United States on a large scale. John understands how terrible the power of public opinion will be in the future with the advent of the radio and television era, so in addition to the massive acquisition of newspapers and publishing houses, the Huntelaar Media Group has invested $30 million to start building the largest wireless broadcasting network in the United States!
At the same time, the Huntelaar laboratory also received a two-million dollar investment.
These investments were made by John? Mr. Huntelaar specified it for the development of television sets. As early as 1917, the Huntelaar laboratory invented the electronically scanned picture tube, followed by the mechanical scanning picture tube in 1919. In their state-of-the-art lab, there have been many demonstrations of televisions, and now what John needs them to do is to continue to invest in this area and develop a commercially available television as soon as possible!
The Huntelaar Radio Broadcasting Company also began to develop a television broadcasting system.
According to John's plan, by 1925 at the latest, the Huntelaar Media Group had to establish the first television broadcasting system, and then by 1930 at the latest, the era of commercial television broadcasting had to be launched. The so-called commercial television here is not the kind of TV series that the BBC broadcast in 1930, but it must be a mature and smooth system......
Split, reorganize, and sell!
On the surface, in response to the boycott of Britain and France and the post-war economic crisis, in fact, in order to raise a lot of cash, John's Huntelaar consortium began to sell its own high-quality assets, including Nike, Adidas, elevator companies, daily necessities companies, etc., all of which were among the sales. And more intangible assets, namely patents and technologies, were also sold by John!
In the history of the United States, 1922 is known as the year of miracles!
At the beginning of the year, the Huntelaar Oil Company announced the discovery of a large oil field in Texas, a super large oil field! This news immediately caused a sensation in the United States, and the next day the Huntelaar Consortium and the Rockefeller Consortium issued a statement that the two giants would cooperate to develop the Texas oil field, and a large number of Huntelaar Security Company personnel would go to Texas to defend the sacred property of the Huntelaar Consortium!
With the support of the U.S. government, these well-equipped security guards will crack down on oil thieves!
At the same time, the six oil companies of the Rockefeller consortium sent capable men and thousands of people to Texas to start drilling oil wells and earning the liquid gold. In April 1922, the first oil well produced oil, and in September 1922, the daily production of seven oil companies exceeded 30,000; In December 1922, seven oil thieves were killed and 14 wounded in a clash between the Huntelaar Security Company and oil thieves. In March 1923, the Rockefeller consortium decided to intervene in a larger conflict between the security company and the oil thieves, and at the same time the National Guard announced that it would send 4,000 men into the oil-producing area; In July 1923, after more than 120 deaths in more than a dozen conflicts, the number of oil thieves began to decrease; In October 1923, when the daily production exceeded 200,000 barrels, the price of oil in the United States plummeted, and the government began to intervene......
This year, the two-year economic crisis finally passed, and the United States ushered in a golden age of more than ten years; This year, the Huntelaar consortium sold a large number of patents and technologies, giving birth to dozens of great companies in the future! For example, the Hasmen Motor Company that the Morgan consortium is preparing to build, such as McGill Aircraft Company, such as Nike, Adidas and Dirks Elevator Company, which will continue to develop in the future, and so on. According to statistics, by 2010, there were as many as six companies that were separated from the Huntelaar consortium in 1922, and as many as 19 companies were listed in the world's top 500 because of the transfer of patents or patents by the Huntelaar consortium......