After making a plan with Caprivi to run on American gold, Jochen did not stop. It is also the government to help the imperial government earn gold, and you can also take this opportunity to make a profit. However, at this time, it is too fierce to squeeze the securities market with those big financial investors. Jochen's small body can't rob those financial predators. So Jochen's idea was to go directly to the United States to enclose.

Jochen had built a Caprivi to collect the Empire's silver coins, but Jochen didn't take out the royal coins. The royal treasury lent 30 tons of gold to the imperial government, 12 of which came from Jochen's gold mines in Africa. The gold was worth more than 80 million marks, and the ratio of 1:1.3 was enough for the government to issue more than 100 million marks in currency. As a result, Jochen did not speak, and Caprivi did not need to ask the royal family for silver coins again.

Jochen then asked Frederick III to get all the silver coins in the royal treasury, and Jochen said that he could repay it in gold in the future. However, Frederick III was very generous, saying that the gold was lent to the government, and he still cared about a little silver coin? If his only son wants, then take it all, anyway, the imperial royal family still has a large number of marks, which is enough to cover the various expenses of the royal family.

Jochen now had in his hands the 1,000,000 thalers he received at his wedding, which was equivalent to 3 million marks. Together with the royal silver coins of Thaler and Gulden, it was enough to make up 10 million marks. 10 million marks converted into dollars is about 2.5 million, and this amount of money is not even seen in the US stock market. But going to the United States to buy land is more than enough.

Of course, there is also a particular approach to buying land, and Yochen is not buying land to be a farmer. Many of America's vast resources are in undeveloped wilderness, and it only takes a small amount of money to buy large tracts of land. And Jochen was ready to pay the bill with silver coins.

Dallas, Texas

Dallas wasn't as prosperous as it was then, and there wasn't a bright spot like the Dallas Mavericks that would let everyone know about the city. Now it's a barren desert where birds don't poop, and even the landless Indians don't want to come. And now here comes a group of Germans.

When they learned that these Germans were going to buy land in the southeastern suburbs of Dalas, the government officials in Dallas could not believe their ears, and the United States was now facing an economic crisis, and some people were willing to spend money to buy such useless land, and the local government certainly welcomed it. The German Kaizi, who were seen by the Americans, were immediately warmly welcomed. The efficiency of government affairs is unprecedentedly high, and all kinds of property rights certificates and sales contracts are handled that is called a shun lì. And in order to allow these Germans to buy more land, the local government also deliberately lowered the price for the Germans.

The Germans paid $50,000 for more than 20 square kilometers of land. At a time when the local population speculated about what the Germans were going to do with the barren land, and secretly laughed at them for what they were going to do. These Germans actually brought dozens of drilling equipment, dozens of professional oil workers, and began to recruit workers locally, and offered a salary of $2 a month, which made Americans who were struggling to live because of the economic crisis start to sign up. The Germans, on the other hand, seemed to be unrelenting, and soon recruited more than a thousand workers, and the momentum of recruitment did not stop as more construction machinery arrived.

At this time, the Americans learned that this was an oil company from Germany and that it had large oil fields in Africa. But the Americans are not optimistic about the Germans' exploitation, this is not the Gulf of Mexico, this is where the oil companies are concentrated, this is Dallas, and to the south is the desert, where sand is stone, and where stone is sand, only a fool would believe that there is oil. But for the sake of the dollar, the workers can only accompany these Germans to get nervous.

The same scenario is playing out in many parts of the United States, in Williston and Watford in North Dakota, and in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where groups of Germans take silver coins for dollars and go to buy land. The next step was to bring in drilling equipment and recruit workers locally. This move was welcomed by the U.S. government, which was facing the dual pressure of money and employment, and the state governments gave certain preferential policies to the Germans.

And this series of actions of the Germans was naturally the handiwork of Jochen. The Royal Petroleum Company of Germany transferred a group of experienced technicians from Cameroon, and then directly purchased equipment from some small oil companies in the United States that were in danger of bankruptcy, and began the plan to round up the oil producing areas of the United States.

Originally, this plan also included Alaska, the Gulf of California, and the Gulf of Mexico, but Alaska is remote and has extremely poor transportation, so even if you invest in it, it is basically impossible to construct, so you just send an exploration team there to explore first, find resources and then buy the land first. As for mining, don't think about it, it's no fun.

Alaska is now nominally a U.S. territory, but in fact it is a three-way zone. Moreover, the location is remote or alpine zone, and the winter is fatally long every year. Now there are no heavy-duty trucks, transportation depends on railroads and shipping, and there is not even a shadow of a railroad to Alaska.

And sea freight? If you don't want to get to Alaska from the long-frozen Arctic Passage or from South America, well, go to Halifax, Canada, and then you'll have to cross the whole of Canada on two or four legs to get into Alaska, because the Canadian railroad to the Northwest is also nowhere in the shadow.

So in terms of Alaska's conditions, even if the resources are dug up, they can't be transported, so we can only talk about it later. , if it doesn't work, you can only find out and then sell the land to make a difference. The situation in the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of California is not much better, that is, on the west coast of the Atlantic, shipping is convenient, yes, but there is no offshore drilling in the continental shelf oil fields. How to mine the platform, so it can only be abandoned.

However, Texas, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas and North Dakota are not the first and second oil producers, the East Texas oil field in the southeast suburbs of Dallas was discovered in 1930, the predicted reserves were more than 680 million tons, according to the United States in 2012 announced the national reserves of 33 billion barrels, about 4.5 billion tons of oil, the oil reserves of these three regions will be close to half of the total reserves of the United States!

Take the silver coins and exchange them for U.S. dollars, and then use them to buy land, buy equipment, and hire workers. Jochen paid a measly $2.5 million for a future fortune that would affect American politics and national policy, and he did so in exchange for silver coins that would cease to be American currency in five years.

Jochen's goal is not just to extract oil, when the oil in these three regions is extracted and the reserves are revealed, then a super-oil trust that can have a significant influence in the United States will be born. At this time, the original American oil giant Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company will be greatly impacted. Coupled with the fact that Jochen is sure that he will continue to control all the oil-producing areas of the United States, this new oil trust can even crush Rockefeller when the time comes.

What's more, Rockefeller had no way to stop the onslaught, because the oil company was the private property of the future emperor of Germany, and he could not use his political influence in the U.S. government to strangle the threat. The U.S. government intervened in the property of the German emperor? This will lead to war!

Moreover, in the future, if it squeezes out Rockefeller and eventually becomes an oil monopoly in the United States, it will have influence over the entire American political situation. In the future, there is such a sentence that can illustrate the real center of power in the United States: the Democratic Party belongs to the Morgan family, and the Republican Party belongs to the Rockefeller family. Morgan and Rockefeller are inextricably linked to another family. There is also the shadow of this family in Germany, and the looting of the German economy after World War I was also carried out by the international bankers led by this family.

Both World War I and World War II had the shadow of manipulation by international bankers. This kept Jochen very wary. And now that the United States is in the midst of an economic crisis, Morgan is trying to put the United States on the gold standard. At this time, the attention of international bankers is focused on the control of American finance, and it is a good time to squeeze Rockefeller's living space. Even if Rockefeller couldn't hold on and asked for help from the family behind him, that family wouldn't be able to do anything. Because they can't put gold into the U.S. market, no one can come up with enough money to help Rockefeller, and Rockefeller can only watch his market share being squeezed out and eventually swallowed up. Then he is equivalent to cutting off an arm that controls the political situation in the United States.

In Jochen's view, the United States was far more dangerous than Britain, and it was true that American military power in World War I did not actually pose much threat to Germany, but the United States was afraid of huge industrial capacity. The Americans entered the war, and Jochen was not afraid, and even if the Americans came to Europe, their land forces would only be overwhelmed by the final German offensive in 1918.

But Germany could not afford to fight a war of attrition, and if the United States only provided resources to the British, then it didn't matter, and by 1919, the Germans would not be able to survive, and neither would the British. In the end, everyone can only sit down and negotiate. But if the United States enters the war, then the Americans can directly aid Britain without compensation, and all his own industrial capacity will be pressed to the Entente, and then the war will drag on for two or three years. At that time, even if Germany was stronger than it was in history under Jochen's leadership, it would definitely be consumed.

Therefore, having enough power at home to influence its political situation, it was Jochen's goal to delay the United States entering the war, and to bring the British to the negotiating table before Germany was completely consumed.