Chapter 541: The Yankees Who Caught Off-Guard
Poor Tian Xiali, I don't know that Zhang Yi and Colifen are now joining forces, ready to pit him. --
In Germany, Kaiser Williams II directly met with the head of the Krupp Group, Krupp, before Corrigin had sent a telegram to Wilhelm II, fully conveying Zhang Yi's plan to Wilhelm II.
Wilhelm II jumped excitedly, this Zhang Yi is really his own lucky star, knowing that the German Empire is now seriously lacking the oil urgently needed for development, and he actually took the initiative to remind himself to cross the United States to grab the oil fields. Of course, if Zhang Yi could directly take out the oil field, it would be best to cooperate directly with himself.
However, this idea is unrealistic after all, a mature politician will never dare to do such a thing that harms others and is not beneficial to himself, for the sake of the interests of Germany, it is very unwise to offend the Americans to death, even now, Wilhelm II is already very happy, which at least shows that Zhang Yi put the interests of Germany absolutely in front of other countries.
Wilhelm II turned to Krupp and asked, "Krupp, excuse me, do you now know what the Americans are going to offer?" ”
Krupp said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, according to my estimate, the Americans will not pay much benefit for this oil field, after all, they have enough oil fields in North America, and in the oil fields in Tsarist Russia, they still have a lot of investment, if the oil fields in Heilongjiang are too large, they will be difficult to get good enough economic benefits, and we are different, we strive for these oil resources, not only for economic interests, but more importantly, for the future war to accumulate enough oil resources, Oil has become the lifeblood of future wars, and without enough oil, we will never be able to defeat the British and French in future wars. So this time we have to win! ”
Wilhelm II nodded and said, "Krupp, according to your estimates, how much price do we have to pay to win thirty-five percent of the shares in this oil field?" ”
Wilhelm II groaned: "Your Majesty, according to Zhang Yi, the reserves of this oil field will be more than five times the reserves of the Shiliaohe oil field, then its value will be more than hundreds of millions of taels of silver, I think this time Zhang Yi will not take out all the oil resources, if it is just to establish such an oil group, and then develop, I think we will come up with 12 million taels of silver, we will definitely be sure to repel the bid of the Americans!" Of course, there are other things we have to pay, such as engineers and equipment. ”
Wilhelm II nodded and replied: "Krupp, this time, we must ensure success, and for this I will allow you to make an unlimited loan from Deutsche Bank, as long as you can grab a stake in the oil fields!" ”
Krupp nodded and replied: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, for the sake of the strength of our empire, this time I will make the most detailed preparations, and I will make sure that nothing goes wrong!" ”
Half a month later, Shengjing, the presidential palace.
Commercial negotiations between the three countries have officially begun.
Compared with Germany, the Americans are more hasty in their preparations, they have always believed that the oil field is what they are best at, and the Germans' chemical industry and coal and iron industry are more developed than those of the Germans, so they do not think that the Germans will compete with them in the oil field, but strive to protect the coal and iron resources of Mongolia and Mongolia.
As a result, the Americans suffered a great loss, and the representatives of the Rockefeller Group were obviously taken aback by the Germans' astonishing offer and adequate preparations, and they were simply caught off guard, and were finally beaten by the Germans.
In the end, representatives of the Rockefeller Group had to announce in frustration that they would withdraw from the competition in the oil fields.
The Germans finally got their wish to get the shares of the oil field in their hands, although the representatives of the Krupp Group also had some faint pain in their hearts, but as long as they could win the oil field, they had already succeeded, and His Majesty's reward would certainly not be small.
The Americans were a little angry, and secretly held their breath, since you don't make Lao Tzu comfortable, Lao Tzu won't make you comfortable, Lao Tzu will call you a good board on the coal and steel complex!
Then, at the next day's negotiations on the coal and steel complex, the Americans were really full of energy, and they spent the whole night revising their proposals, until they felt that their proposals were perfect, and then they took a short rest.
At the beginning, the Americans directly threw out their own proposals, raising the price all at once.
The representative of Krupp said with a smile: "Mr. Blair, since we have won the shares of the oil field, for the sake of the friendship between Germany and the United States, we should give up this competition, we are willing to leave the development opportunity of this Inner Mongolian-Cuban coal and steel complex to you, and wish you a happy cooperation with General Jianzhi." ”
When Blair heard this, he was immediately deflated, he knew that the Germans did not want to compete with him, so why should he quote such a high price?
However, Blair is still very grateful to the Germans for their acquaintance, after all, their brains have become more flexible now, they are not as rigid as before, they have gained their own interests, and they will also consider the feelings of their neighbors, which is really good.
Blair smiled reluctantly and said, "In that case, Mr. Brooke, I thank you for your kindness, and I hope that the cooperation between our two countries will be more pleasant." ”
Blair looked at Zhang Yi and said, "Mr. Jianzhi, now that our bidding has been completed, I don't know when our project will be launched?" ”
Zhang Yi smiled: "Hehe, great, Mr. Blair, Mr. Brooke, I sincerely thank you for supporting the development of our country, I hope that we can cooperate happily as the previous two projects, and wish us success!" Zhang Yi paused for a moment and said: "These two projects, I hope to start as soon as possible, however, even if the two projects are placed in Germany and the United States, they are first-class super-large projects, and the equipment and capital and manpower required are quite huge, so you still have to prepare as soon as possible, our country is now starting two railways from Baotou to Fengtian and from Qiqihar to Mudanjiang, as long as these two railways are repaired, then our resources can be continuously transported out and enter the international market!" I hope that by the time the construction of our two railways is completed, these two projects have been completed and have begun to produce benefits, and as for how to form the two consortia, I think you can communicate with my Minister of Commerce, Mr. Zhang Jian, who is my plenipotentiary! The two of them nodded one after another, such a big project, successfully passed, both sides are very excited, the future, this is a steady stream of money.
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