Morgan knows too well because the Morgan consortium owns several mines there. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Located in the Meshabi Mountains of Minnesota, USA, this iron ore mine was issued in 1887, with a vein length of 180 kilometers, a width of more than a kilometer, a thickness of more than 100 meters, and an iron content of more than 70%, this iron ore almost supported the steel industry in the United States, and was mined until 1952 before it dried up.

Clearly, Morgan knew what the discovery of this vein meant.

"How do you work with this?"

Morgan said cautiously that such a mine means wealth, the most preserved asset, and in this era of crisis, it is the rarest investment opportunity.

Yang Chao said with a smile: "The Morgan consortium accounts for 2 percent, China's iron and steel group accounts for 3 percent, and Yangzi Mining accounts for 5 percent. ”

Morgan sighed in his heart, he has no right to refuse this distribution, because there must be power support behind doing business in these years, the reason why Morgan has been open and closed in those years is not because he controlled the U.S. government, it has not worked in the past few years, the wings of the U.S. government have hardened, and he has not stopped Morgan's words, Yang Chao is willing to take him to play together, it is already a rare opportunity.

And if it is other investments, Morgan can give up, and there are many opportunities to make money. But iron ore is different, because Morgan owns an American steel company, which is still the world's largest company, with a market capitalization of more than a billion dollars. It is also the pillar industry of the Morgan consortium, and the annual dividends are very considerable, but what is more meaningful is that through such a huge industrial company, you can do a lot of other things, after all, Morgan Bank plays with stocks and bonds, which is sometimes essential, and such a super-scale company provides a huge operating space for the Morgan consortium.

But the problem is that although the production scale of American Steel Corporation is large, there was a problem as early as when it was still Carnegie Steel, which was run by Carnegie, that is, the supply of iron ore was restricted by the Rockefeller consortium.

The iron ore fields in the United States are mainly concentrated in the three iron ore mines in Minnesota, and the largest and longest of the three mines is the famous Meshabi iron ore mine with a length of 180 kilometers. But this iron mine was in the hands of Rockefeller.

At that time, Rockefeller had just operated iron ore in the Meshabi region, and his mine ore taste was not high, and it was a type that was difficult to smelt, and only the most powerful Carnegie Steel Company in the United States had smelting technology at that time, so Carnegie disdained Rockefeller and fiercely lowered the price.

As a result, Rockefeller was angered and threatened to build his own steel mill, and finally Carnegie compromised and reached an ore deal with Rockefeller in a low profile, Carnegie bought all the output of Rockefeller's iron ore at a price of 25 cents a ton, and also promised to buy only Rockefeller's iron ore in the Mesabi region, and Rockefeller promised not to enter the steel industry, and Carnegie wanted to use Rockefeller's railroad and ships to transport all iron ore.

After cooperating with Carnegie to make a profit, Rockefeller expanded aggressively in the Mesobie region, because the United States' monopoly Carnegie Steel Company only bought Rockefeller's iron ore in this region, so that a large number of small and medium-sized iron ore companies went bankrupt and swallowed up by the wealthy Rockefeller, and finally even the mining giant Superior United Iron Ore Company was acquired by Rockefeller, making Rockefeller the largest mine hegemon in the Mesabi region.

At that time, Carnegie was blackmailed by the wealthy Rockefeller, and the iron ore in Mesabi was inseparable from the production of steel, and now Morgan has acquired Carnegie's steel company and formed a larger steel company, and it is still impossible to leave the iron ore supply in the Meshabi region, and it is still subject to Rockefeller.

The Americans are very clear about Morgan Rockefeller's grievances, so Morgan absolutely does not want to see the US Steel Company subject to Rockefeller. But the opponent is Rockefeller, and even Morgan can't buy it.

Therefore, it can only be subject to Rockefeller, resulting in the hard work of American steel companies but the profits of steel are getting smaller and smaller, Rockefeller controls the mines, waits for wealth, but the profits are getting higher and higher, as if Morgan is working for Rockefeller, just like the **** steel mills in later generations and the Australian iron ore giants.

The best way for Morgan to reverse this situation, to increase steel profits, was to control his own iron ore, but unfortunately Morgan got involved in the steel industry too late, and if Rockefeller had bought the Superior Iron Ore Company in 1894, Morgan had not even thought of entering the industry.

Now I want to buy new mines in the United States, but the best are in the hands of Rockefeller, and I know with my heels that he will not sell.

However, the discovery of this large mine in Australia gave Morgan another option, although the cost of importing special ore from Australia is higher than that of iron ore in Messabi, but it can be used as a tool to force Rockefeller to accept an ore price that is favorable to Morgan.

In other words, it is a card used to threaten Rockefeller and completely reverse the bird's spirit that has been received under Rockefeller's monopoly over the years.

"What about the total amount invested?"

So Morgan no longer hesitated, and asked very simply.

"100 million US dollars, Morgan invested 40 million, several major steel companies in China invested 60 million, and Yangzi Mining invested in mining rights!"

The mine was found by Yangzi Mining, and the mining rights are those of Yangzi Mining, and this mining right is worth this price.

Morgan didn't hesitate: "Yes!" ”

The cooperation between the two giants can indeed be said to be dancing with wolves, but it is difficult to say who is the sheep and who is the wolf.

Reaching this deal made Morgan feel like he had a big advantage, because the Chinese could have a monopoly on it.

What he didn't know was that Yang Chao had his own plans, and it was one thing to have a good relationship with Morgan, on the other hand, Yang Chao felt that he was not very easy to make a move in Australia, and the Australian government would be crazy with such a big vein.

At this time, Australians still considered their country to be an iron-poor country, and the total reserves of several iron ore mines they discovered in eastern Australia were only more than 200 million tons, and the Australians thought that they would be depleted within a few decades, so they even issued a ban on iron ore exports in the 30s.

Later, when Hancock discovered the iron ore in the Pilbara area, the Australian government did not believe it, and the bureaucratic Australian parliament did not hand over the iron ore mining rights to Hancock for several years, allowing Hancock to operate for several years, and finally cooperated with Rio Tinto to start mining, and it took several years to break the export ban.

What would they do if the Australian government knew about this crazy iron ore mining area and the mining rights were in the hands of the Chinese? Australians are now learning from the United States to exclude China and want to engage in a White Australia policy, but Yang Chao doesn't want to provoke them, because Yang Chao doesn't want to go to war with the British Empire, at least not before World War II.

If Morgan intervened, it would be different, with the influence of the Morgan consortium in the British Empire, as well as the identity of the white race, the Australians would not resist, and Morgan also had enough influence to let the Australian government grant them the right to mine in the Pilbara for the first time.

"But I have one request, this mining can be mined in the name of Morgan, I don't want to get in trouble, you know, Australian Chinese exclusion is also very strong."

Morgan nodded, he knew why Yang Chao wanted him to join the shares, but he didn't think that his role was so great, after all, he was just a signboard, and he was not qualified to bargain with Yang Chao, because China insisted on mining the mineral deposits here, and the Australian government could not stop it, unless it wanted to start a war with the Chinese.

But the Australian government has the ability to make trouble, such as an export ban, making it difficult for the mine to produce normally.

As for the rest, Yang Chao doesn't care, anyway, Morgan mines, the human resources needed, it is impossible to hire from the United States, and eventually have to hire Chinese laborers, in a few years, where it will be the same as Brazil, forming a city dominated by Chinese, when the time is the Australian is blowing up, Yang Chao will have enough reasons to instigate a Chinese uprising, form a Chinese autonomous region, and even split the Pilbara from Australia, it is not impossible.

After reaching an agreement, Yang Chao was in a good mood, but when he returned to the bedroom, he saw his wife sobbing.

"What's wrong with honey?"

Origa is a woman with no heart, people often say that people are stupid and happy, and most of the time she is still very happy.

"My dear, save the Russian people!"

As he spoke, he threw himself into Yang Chao's arms.

Yang Chao was a little puzzled: "What's wrong?" ”

Origa quickly pulled out a stack of photos from the drawer of the dresser.

Yang Chao understood at a glance, the dead corpses all over the ground were as thin as firewood.

Apparently this was caused by famine in Soviet Russia.

There is also a cruel photo of the husband and wife directly freezing their young son in a barrel in the winter, intending to keep it for the winter.

Looking at the horrific photos, Yang Chao couldn't help but churn in his stomach, he knew that the Russians were so miserable, and he was inseparable from the responsibility, of course, he didn't hack the Russians, Russia would be miserable, but it would not be as serious as it is now, and later according to calculations, the Russians lost 50 million people in the civil war, 30 million more than in history, and at least half of them starved to death. Yang Chao felt that he accounted for one-third of the responsibility, and two-thirds of it was borne by Vladimir's gang.

"Where did this picture come from?"

"Sent by the Americans."

In fact, the Americans' rescue of Soviet Russia has already begun, and the famous Soviet Russian writer Gorky appealed to the world through the Western media, and the United States is the first and only country capable of responding.

The American Relief Administration, an American charity, was established two years ago under the leadership of Herbert Hoover to provide humanitarian assistance to war victims. After the war, they carried out rescues in Germany, Poland and other countries, they saw Gorky's appeal, and they had entered Soviet Russia, and these photos were taken quietly by them, and if they were known, they would not be able to bring out Soviet Russia, otherwise it would be very bad for Vladimir's image.

"What do you want me to do?"

Yang Chao asked with a sigh.

Origa said eagerly: "Buy food and send it to them." ”

Yang Chao nodded: "It's okay." The tsarist family has an inescapable responsibility to the Russian nation, I am your husband, and I will help you. ”

Origa nodded vigorously, her eyes filled with trust, she had superstitious trust in her husband.

"Tomorrow we will announce to the outside world that the Tsar family will auction off all the jewelry and launch a fundraiser in the United States. We must provide the Russian people with unlimited food sufficient to survive the famine. ”

Origa continued to nod.

The next day, with a religious sense of mission, she did her best to invite Russian celebrities in Washington to raise donations, tearfully told everyone about the plight of the Russian people, hoping that they would be generous, and she also took out all her personal jewelry, and said that she would sell all her jewelry to feed the Russians.

Origa was sincere, so it was all the more touching, and the generosity of Russian immigrants, and the American newspapers praised loudly, raised the impression of the female tsar among the Russian immigrants in the United States to an extremely high level.

On Yang Chao's side, he had already ordered the Siberian garrison to take action, taking off and landing thousands of airships from Yekaterinburg every day, transporting tens of thousands of tons of grain to Soviet Russia by air, and then dropping them one village after another and directly sending them to the Russian people.

And invited the bored Russian nobles to participate in it, and made a show of it, so that the Russians in Siberia are still very grateful.

However, it caused a lot of trouble to the Soviet Russian government, because every grain bag thrown by Yang Chao was marked with the symbol of the Tsarist family.

When many Russian people received the Tsar's food, the taste in their hearts was really complicated, and many old people really hugged their heads and cried.

But the trouble is not limited to this, it is just a trick of the tsar to buy people's hearts, the most important thing is that the Chinese airship threw down so much grain, whether the Soviet Russian government collects or not, collect, on the one hand, the tsar releases grain, on the other hand, Soviet Russia grabs grain, I am afraid that the common people will rebel again.

But if you don't collect it, the food supply in the cities has never been satisfied, and now people are still starving to death in the big cities, which is the most difficult thing for the Soviet Russian government, which made Comrade Vladimir furious, and even increased the number of troops to the front by hundreds of thousands.

In an interview, Oliga happily announced that she would deliver enough food to the Russian people, and said that she had raised $100 million.

When asked where the money came from, Origa happily said that her husband gave it to her.

When asked by reporters why she said that the government would pay such a large sum of money, Olga said that her husband did not want his wife to have no jewelry to wear.

This famine was worse than before, because it was not only human, but also natural disasters, and there was a great drought in the entire Soviet Russian region, which lasted for three years, and then the Russian government announced that more than 5 million people had died.

However, Yang Chao's plan to help Soviet Russia without restrictions is not just compassion, an important reason is that he is worried about refugees, between starvation and flight, it is obviously not difficult to make a choice, once he really can't survive, the Russians will definitely come to Siberia in large numbers to join their tsar.

Of course, the millions of troops that Soviet Russia has assembled in the border areas will not allow refugees to pass, which is a huge blow to their image, not to mention the loss of human resources, which is also unacceptable, and Russia's labor force is already seriously insufficient.

However, once a large-scale outbreak of refugees, the Soviet Russian government will not be able to stop it, if there are millions of Russians pouring into that place in Siberia, which is difficult for Yang Chao to accept, that place is Yang Chao's confinement, where it must become an area where more and more Chinese will eventually occupy the status of the main ethnic group.

However, it was not suitable for a refugee to accept it, so Yang Chao ordered the airship to land in a suitable village and bring some Russians along. (To be continued.) )