Li Kongrong did not expose the inside story of the US Treasury Department because of the Communist Party, he just felt it. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info If Chen Guangfu can take advantage of or avoid this point, he may be able to get more U.S. aid loans to ease the pressure of the domestic war of resistance. What he didn't expect was that Chen Guangfu, who learned the news, suddenly thought of a person after standing for a while: Ji Chaoding. This person was highly recommended to him by the Treasury Department official Eddell, and if the U.S. Treasury Department was all Communists, then this person was probably also Communists. Of course, Chen Guangfu and other businessmen did not want to get involved in partisan disputes, he just knew it in his heart.

The preparatory meeting for the Singapore-China Investment Bank was very successful, and the three local factions on the mainland, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Shanxi, were all willing to join such a purse bank. Since Chen Guangfu nodded on the side of the South Third Bank, it is also very easy to talk about Zhejiang Industrial Bank and Zhejiang Industrial Bank. Singapore's OCBC Bank and Guangdong Bank are actually overseas Chinese-run banks, OCBC Bank has negotiated it very early, and Guangdong Bank is worried that Fu Lao will eat himself, so he has been hesitating, but if everyone participates in Cantonese, they will not be willing to be left behind. What is really missing is the Chaoshan people, who are tightly grouped, emphasizing the real and the light, and are not too interested in investment in banking and finance.

Li Kongrong sat in Xinzhong Company for a while, and then the rest of the matter came after him. Just after half-past four, the call to the office went to him, and he had to leave and go home immediately. Six o'clock. The car drove to 10th 54th Street in Manhattan, where John Davis Rockefeller Jr. lived, and the Zhis arrived early.

"Welcome. Oh dear Xu, is this your baby? "It was Mrs. Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who came out to welcome her. What surprised Li Kongrong was that she was more cordial to Xu Peipei than anyone else.

"Yes, ma'am, our first child." Xu Peipei glanced at her husband with sweetness in her eyes.

"Has the child been baptized?" Abby Aldrich Rockefeller was a devout believer and an art lover. Her affection for Xu Peipei started with the unlockable melody and reached its peak after the release of Gone with the Wind.

"Yes, ma'am." Mrs. Rockefeller was unusually kind, and Xu Peipei replied with a smile.

"Welcome. Plum. Branch. "The man, Rockefeller, finally appeared, well-dressed and polite. He looked at Li Kongrong, who was dressed in a navy dress, before shaking hands with him, and then shook hands with Zhi Bingyuan. "Gentlemen, you are welcome to come. It's my kids, John, Nelson, Lawrence, and Winthrop and David. ”

The eldest son, who seems to be the same age as Li Kongrong, stands beside his father in a tuxedo, and when his father introduces him, he reaches out to shake hands with the guests. The other sons also came out of the hall when they saw their parents at the door welcoming them.

"Lee, I heard about one of your rally speeches last year, and you said that the United States will rule the world, is that true?" After the guests were seated, before the food was served, Rockefeller asked about a speech Lee Kong-yong gave at a reception at the Foreign Affairs Association in New York last year, and he was not there at the time.

"Yes, sir." Li Kongrong said. "The British Empire is aging, potential challengers are aggressive, and if the United States does not step up and shoulder this responsibility, the future of humanity will be bleak."

"But why the United States and no one else? Or why does the United States have to come forward? Mr. Rockefeller read the transcript of that speech, and he agreed with it while he also had his own thoughts, especially since the United States is in an isolationist atmosphere today. The world needs the United States, but does the United States need the world?

"Sir, only the United States can save the situation." Li Kongrong answered Rockefeller's first question. He thought about the second question for a while before saying, "As for why you are asking why the United States is coming forward, I think Gone with the Wind has already made an explanation." ”

Unexpectedly, Li Kongrong mentioned the movie, and Mrs. Rockefeller smiled.

"To the average person, this movie seems to tell a love story of four people. When Ashley and Melanie were about to get married, Scarlett told Ashley that she loved him. When Scarlett courted Ashley, Rhett suddenly fell in love with Scarlett, and when Scarlett, who had been through everything, found out that the person she really loved was Rhett, the flame of Rhett's love for her had been extinguished.

Actually, this is not the case, we can't ignore the real background of the story, the Civil War, the scorched earth under artillery fire, and the rout of Atlanta. The changes brought about by the war were subversive in the South, which represented a cold and powerful industrial civilization, a new way of life and values. Ashley and Melanie are the representatives of the South, who groan in the fire of Atlanta and are rescued by Rhett and Scarlett, and then live a pitiful life under Scarlett's care. Their former honors were wiped out with the war, and all that remained was confusion and loss.

This is how history evolves, whether you like it or not, it will push cold and relentlessly, crushing all the forces that stand in its way. But if that's all there is to it, I don't think so many people will like it, and there's obviously another half of the story, which is religion and human feelings.

After the war, Scarlett immediately threw away the reserve of the southern aristocratic lady and resolutely took her sisters to work in the fields, and when her sister complained about the thickening of her fingers, she gave her a merciless slap. She also worked as a prisoner of war, and as long as she could make money, she could stay out of any public opinion. Some people may accuse her of being unscrupulous, mercenary, ruthless, etc., etc., etc., but most people choose to ignore the fact that the evolution of history has never considered moral good and evil.

In contrast to Scarlett, Melanie, although the war destroyed everything in the South, she still has a warm vein, and this warmth seems to be a bright light in the suffocating cold course of history, it shines not only on her husband Ashley, but also on Rhett, and even the prostitute who is despised by everyone and is her husband's mistress.

Scarlett doesn't care about anyone but herself, and Melanie cares about everyone but herself. While Scarlett embodies the adventurous and enterprising American spirit that the North has imported through war, Melanie shows a religious tolerance and kindness that can burn everything that the flames of war cannot.

It was this tolerance and kindness that Rhett was conquered by. He was a merchant who could make a fortune without a conscience, and he despised the flashy Southern nobles, but he joined the inevitable defeat of the Southern army, and he had great respect for Melanie. Most people can see the process of the northernization of Miss South in Scarlett, but few people think about the signs of the southernization of the northern merchants of Barryt. The reason why the whole story is so fascinating and a masterpiece is that it shows the ruthless evolution of history like iron and fire on the one hand, and at the same time shows the tenderness and compassion of people and love......"

Li Kongrong originally wanted to use Gone with the Wind to explain that it was a historical necessity for the United States to enter the war and lead the world, so there was no need to care about good and evil in moral and human nature. But in his actual description, he couldn't help but deviate from the theme to deconstruct the film that is being released in the United States. He talked so much that all eyes were on him, especially Mrs. Rockefeller. But when he saw a row of servants standing in the corner of the dining room with dishes, the digression came to an abrupt end. "I'm sorry......" he said.

"No, no." It was Mrs. Rockefeller who asked the servants to wait, and when she saw that Li Kongrong was sorry, she immediately said 'no'. "Lee, what you said is wonderful, this is the best commentary I've ever heard about this movie."

"Thank you, ma'am." Li Kongrong thanked her, but his eyes looked at Rockefeller, and he was worried that he did not understand. In fact, there was no need for such fears, and Rockefeller took a sociology course in college, graduating in 1897 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

"Son, what do you think the world will be like after the war?" Rockefeller looked at Li Kongrong again, as if he wanted to know him again-he thought that Li Kongrong was just an adventurous naval officer, and that inviting him to a banquet was more of a wife's meaning, and she liked Xu Peipei's songs very much, and often said that her voice was simply the holy water of heaven.

"If nothing else, the post-war world will be a red and white world." Li Kongrong made no secret that he hoped to gain the trust of Rockefeller. "Oil will be the lifeblood of the world. In the red world, oil is the main commodity for foreign exchange earnings through exports, and its significance is greater than that of grain and Kimura; In the white world, oil is the foundation of the country, and once the price of oil rises, most countries will have an energy crisis. Even, oil will replace gold as the anchor of the dollar. Sir, gold is finite, and when there are more and more dollars and less gold, oil will replace gold. ”

Li Kongrong's words contain too much information, and Rockefeller, who has read Capital, can imagine what the black and white world is, but he is puzzled by oil becoming the anchor of the dollar, and he asks at the same time as the food is served: "Li, what is the anchor of the dollar?" ”

"It's that the world's oil trade has to use the dollar." "Oil is a consumer product, and if the international oil trade can only use the US dollar, then most countries in the world will use the US dollar," Li explained. ”

"Can this be done?" Rockefeller laughed, he was too curious.

"Honey, it's time to pray." Mrs. Rockefeller interrupted her husband, and she prayed with her children with her hands together. Xu Peipei smiled at her husband and began to pray before the meal. Li Kongrong was helpless, so he had to read something randomly.

"Son, let's talk about the dollar anchor, I'm very interested in that." Rockefeller was a little dismissive of dining etiquette and anxious to know how the oil trade could be traded only in dollars.

"Sir, the world's oil is not in the United States but in the desert region of the Middle East, although the oil production there is very small now, but ......" Li Kongrong suddenly felt as if he was fabricating the distribution of the world's oil production areas out of thin air, and had to interrupt: "Sir, do you believe what I say?" ”

"For a man who has been able to find the treasure of a shipwreck many times, I fully believe what you say." After Rockefeller finished speaking, he held up a saucer: "This is what I bought at auction, from the Tang Dynasty shipwreck you found." ”

"Thank you very much, sir." Only then did Li Kongrong notice the porcelain used in the dinner, and after thanking him, he continued: "The Middle East oil fields are rich in reserves, good oil quality, and shallow burial. Saudi Arabia produces only 19 cents per barrel of oil, which excludes 21 cents in royalties, and Bahraini oil produces 10 cents per barrel, excluding fifteen cents in royalties. The cost of such production is only one-tenth of that of the United States, which accounts for more than half of the world's production, and I believe that even the United States will use oil from the Middle East in the future. If you control the Middle East, you can control the oil trade, and you can realize the anchor of the dollar. ”

"It's not a good sign." Rockefeller put down his dinner knife, the importance of oil is undoubted, but the Middle East is a British and French colony, and Standard Oil's subsidiaries have no advantage in Persia, Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates in addition to Saudi Arabia.

"Sir, West Africa cannot be ignored either." Li Kongrong prompted.

"West Africa?" Rockefeller was a little stunned, he knew that Africa also had oil, but Africa was a colony of European countries except Abyssinia, and it was not easy for Standard Oil to enter.

"Yes. As far as I know, West Africa accounts for nearly one-fifth of the world's oil reserves. Although they are all colonies, there are always opportunities in war, such as Italian Libya. Elsewhere, post-war independence could push these countries away from European control. Li Kongrong suggested.

"Mr. Colonel, how much oil is there in Libya?" Rockefeller's eldest son, Rockefeller, the third, asked.

"That's probably more than 40 billion barrels." Li Kongrong carefully interjected with a napkin. "And most of it is in one place."

"Where?" Rockefeller asked the third, his eyes fiery.

"A basin in the north, called Sirt, S.I.R.T." Li Kongrong also spelled it out, this is a big gift. "If you move fast enough, Standard Oil may be able to sign an exploration agreement with the Italian government, and you will soon be able to verify that there are giant fields there."

"If you act fast enough?" Rockefeller repeated.

"Sir, my judgment is that France will be defeated and surrendered next year, and Mussolini is so happy that he will definitely take the opportunity to declare war on France, so the agreement should be signed before he declares war, or after the surrender of the Italian government." Li Kongrong said.

"Sir, how is China? Do you think China has oil? Rockefeller asked with a complicated third look, and he seemed to have a purpose in asking the question.