Chapter 235: Dragon New York
James squinted his eyes and looked down at the cars coming and going at his feet. The wine glass in his hand shook gently, and the wine in the glass seemed to be alive, constantly flowing in the glass. It flowed to the rim of the cup many times, but each time it was just right, and it didn't spill a bit. In the shaking, the aroma of wine slowly emanated, and James was extremely calm at the moment. This is the most relaxing time for him, after a busy day, standing on the top floor of the building, watching the traffic under his feet, pouring a glass of wine, quietly savoring the silence of the moment.
In the Dragon Building in New York, USA, the golden dragon with teeth and claws is guarded on the roof of the building like a guardian saint. As one of the city's iconic high-rise buildings, the completion of the Dragon Tower surprised many people. They were not surprised by the height of the building, but by the mighty dragon on the top of the building. Many people know everything about Chinese culture, and they also recognize what it is. Compared with the evil dragons of the West, the Eastern Dragons are sacred in the eyes of the Chinese, and the Chinese also claim to be the descendants of the dragon and are proud of it. Americans are only curious about Chinese culture, but many people are not used to the dragon on the Longteng Group. Especially the Dragon Teng Group, there was no problem in the first place, because when translated, it would become the meaning of the Western Dragon. But the completion of the building turned into the Oriental Dragon, and then they knew that this dragon was not the other dragon.
But this is also a minority, at this time, the United States is enforcing Prohibition, and the people are dissatisfied with the United States government. These seemingly inconsequential issues, except for a while after the completion of the Longteng Building, disappeared.
James didn't care about these words, citizens like to talk about it, and it doesn't matter anyway. However, at a business reception, an American businessman had just negotiated a deal with James, and was about to clink glasses to celebrate the deal, when the American businessman accidentally said the problem. James's face changed, he stopped clinking glasses, and put the wine glass in his hand aside. He straightened his clothes and said to the American businessman: "I can tell you that all the factories of our group are in China, in what you call this backward and ignorant country. Compared to the simple Chinese, I hate philistine Americans. I love their culture and their history. I would like to ask if I have violated the laws of the United States by using the Chinese Shenlong as a trademark. ”
Then James mentioned the suit of the American businessman and said: "The suit you are wearing is made by those ignorant Chinese people in your mouth, oh, and the tie, look at your leather shoes are also from our group." Now that you're wearing a product made by a Chinese, don't you think you're stupid when you come to me to judge the Chinese people? ”
After James finished speaking, he ignored the shocked American businessman, turned around and left the reception directly, ignoring the American businessman who tried his best to admit his mistake and retain him after he reflected. Of course, this business is naturally blown.
This incident has also spread widely in the American business community, and since then, they all know that there is a big chaebol in the United States who likes Chinese. If you want to talk to him about business, you can't talk about the Chinese, on the contrary, if you often say a few words of praise to the Chinese, it will invisibly increase the success rate of the business.
Other businessmen regard this love for the Chinese as a quirk of his, but in fact, many businessmen are also dissatisfied with their American employees, and if it weren't for the Chinese Exclusion Act, maybe they would have wanted to follow James's example and invite some Chinese to try. However, they don't have the skills of James, and they still have such a large scale to open the factory to China.
Before Chen Shao's rise, the U.S. government was not without James's idea. He urged James to move some factories back to China, or to open some factories directly in the United States. Use this to increase the employment rate of U.S. citizens.
James is also very cooperative, it is impossible to move back to the factory, but it is easy to build a factory. In just a few years, Longteng Group's factories in the United States have reached a huge scale, many of which are assembly plants, specializing in assembling accessories from China. Turn batches of parts into cars, motorcycles, bicycles, or other household appliances. Of course, a number of other factories were also built.
However, the location of these factories made those American officials very helpless, and they were all built next to Chinese ghettos, and some Chinese were hired all the time. Pose as if you ignore the Chinese Exclusion Act. At this time, the Longteng Group was already very large, and like other consortia, it also had its own parliamentary parties, and when the US government wanted to move, it was already a big tail.
The rise of China has given Longteng Group some restrictions on its development in the United States, but with Wu Jintang's visit to the United States, all kinds of restrictions have disappeared without a trace. On the contrary, it has ushered in new development opportunities, and other consortia have successively taken a fancy to Longteng Group's connections in China. For this reason, James became the most popular figure in the United States for a while, and many businessmen visited every day. They all fell in love with China's huge market, but James ignored these people.
Nowadays, Longteng Group looks very strange in the eyes of the world, one is the Longteng Group of China, and the other is the Longteng Group of the United States, all with the same name. In fact, many people know that this is the same company at all, but they are interested in who this company is. In the United States, it is run by Americans, and in China it is run by Chinese. This is one thing that they still don't understand.
But since March, no one has paid attention to this. In the eyes of many people, a great thing has come when money falls from the sky.
Just as James was enjoying this moment of tranquility, the door of the office was pushed open, and someone came to James's side and said, "The chief has officially issued the plan to activate the Dragon Teng One. ”
James, who was disturbed, was not angry, he understood that who was eligible to enter this room did not need to knock on the door. Hearing the words of the visitor, James nodded and said, "How are things arranged?" ”
"We control a total of 78 companies, large and small, and once the plan is launched, the funds will be controlled by our people, and the plan will be carried out through the channels of these companies."
The Dragon One plan is divided into several steps, and the scope involved is very large. It was Chen Shao's draft, and James enriched its details, so that it could finally be a huge plan. Once this plan is completed, it will have immeasurable benefits for China. Not only in terms of money, but also greatly improve the level of industry in China. So Chen Shao attaches great importance to this matter. This is an important bargaining chip for China's rapid rise. In the crisis of later generations, a large number of goods from all over the world flowed into China, and they all regarded China as an outlet to relieve economic pressure. At the same time, the Japanese side chose to invade China in 31 years, and this economic crisis, which lasted for four years, was the largest crisis since capitalism. The jumpers are like rain, the original millionaires almost become street beggars, and poverty will accompany them for the rest of their lives.
"You have to be careful about what you do, you'd better not come forward, this matter must be kept absolutely secret. At the same time, you can't be careless about those Jews, whose noses are too sensitive. James thought for a moment and said.
"I click, I understand, but don't you want to get rid of those little mice in the shadows. It's been a bit of a commotion lately. "Liu Qinglong is also the so-called Jian Shi, a high-level spy, who came to the United States to assist James very early. James is the overall manager and management of the Longteng Group, while Liu Qinglong's task is much simpler, only responsible for the part in the secret. That is, the underground forces of the United States, and the intelligence gathering work.
The reason why Longteng Group can develop and grow so quickly in the United States is inseparable from the intelligence collected, coupled with the fact that the dark forces have been unified and co-opted by a large number of people, and the light and darkness have worked together to get to where they are today. In the past, it was only controlled by some officials, and the intelligence collected by spies was secretly controlled, as long as it was those officials who were corrupt or had bad deeds. In the end, the Dragon Group supported the parliamentarians and also controlled some of them. No one can say that they are absolutely clean, and in order not to be exposed to the East Window incident, many people can also choose to obey. What's more, there is a steady stream of money from Longteng Group behind it, and it is very smooth to control.
"Don't worry about these things, as long as they don't come to provoke us. There's no need to worry if we're worried, but how prepared are the traders. "James doesn't care much about some little mice in the field now, he knows very well that the Dragon Group is making a big move, and it is inevitable that some kittens and dogs will come out to make trouble. But as James spoke, he glanced at the Morgan consortium opposite.
The Dragon Tower is located on Wall Street, opposite the famous Morgan consortium. When a bomb killed 38 people and injured more than 200 people, although it was claimed that the democratic freedom fighters did it, because the suspect could not be caught, the Morgan consortium directly pointed the finger at the Longteng Group, and James did not bother to explain this. Anyway, in the financial industry, the two sides have always had grudges, and they don't care about this bit of hatred.
James knows very well that if he wants to deal with his opponent, he must make him hurt all at once. Those little mice don't bother at all, and this time he will let the Morgan consortium take a good look. While waiting for Chen Shao's approval of the plan, James had already set his sights on this old enemy. He knows very well who is most harmed by such an economic crisis, and among all the consortia in the United States, Morgan is definitely the most direct victim.
This is because the Morgan consortium itself is engaged in trust business, and it also merged commercial banks this year. During World War I, the Morgan consortium made a lot of money because it took over the financial business in Europe and the United States. Even if there is no grudge between them, James has no intention of letting go of such a good opportunity, and he is really sorry for himself if he doesn't cheat Morgan.
And James also wants Morgan to spit out some of the benefits of World War I, the financial crisis can't bring down such a consortium, but it's no problem to pick out some interests.
(To be continued)