Chapter 67: A Torch in the Night
Jiang Cheng was right, Pierre Dupont was indeed furious at this time.
Pierre DuPont was the real ruler of DuPont at this time, and it was in his hands that DuPont completed the complete monopoly of the explosives chemical industry, and it was also in his hands that such a business saying "beware of DuPont's bombs" appeared (if you are interested, you can go to Chabakaj Gunpowder Company bombing)
At this time, DuPont still had more than 1,400 secret armed forces, and in June of this year, it successfully married Franklin Roosevelt.
When he first found that the whole world was flooded with Weihua's nylon stockings posters, he hadn't reacted yet, after all, nylon was still studying how to industrialize on a large scale, and as far as he knew, DuPont was already at the forefront of nylon research in the world, and he really couldn't imagine that any company could research nylon faster than his own DuPont. I always thought it was just the same spelling.
But when his mistress was in front of him in stockings, he happily stroked his thighs in stockings, feeling the enjoyment he had never felt before, but the more he touched it, the more it seemed familiar, and then he thought that it was not a spelling coincidence, but that this was really the nylon he was studying.
DuPont immediately took the stockings back to his lab and let the damn scientists analyze them, and it turned out that it was the nylon they had worked so hard on, and it was mixed with other substances to make the nylon appear more elastic and smooth.
DuPont was so angry when he thought of the hot scene of the stockings and the green dollars that seemed to be leaving him with wings.
Thief!! It must be those damn yellows who plagiarized their own inventions.
As a white man, and a man who stood at the top of the white world, DuPont did not believe in his bones that there would be a yellow man standing higher than a white man in science.
These damn thieves, DuPont thought, they stole my nylons, stole my stockings, damn it, unforgivable.
After thinking about it, DuPont immediately made a phone call and said viciously, "Come to my office, there are some monkeys who have to be taught a hard lesson." Although DuPont is one of the top ten consortiums, but after all, it can't cover the sky with one hand, and some actions still have to be communicated with a few bigwigs, but this time it only involves a Chinese company, and it is Wei Hua, who has long been disused by the American business community, and Wei Hua's huge profits in the pharmaceutical industry have made many people red. It's just because they are all life-saving drugs, and Weihua did act in accordance with American law, and Roosevelt took care of it, so he didn't take action, and now he actually started the chemical industry monopoly of DuPont, so we are welcome.
Dupont thought about it and asked to see Roosevelt overnight.
In 1936, in order to re-elect himself as president, Roosevelt assumed the posture of "the embodiment of justice" and "representative of the people" and opened fire on the DuPont family, the main arms manufacturer in the United States. At a joint session of the National Assembly, he delivered an impassioned speech: "In 34 months, we have established a new popular power structure. In the hands of a people's government, this power can create shackles for the people's freedom. However, Roosevelt's counterattack soon stopped. Faced with a bad economy and a government on the verge of collapse, Roosevelt had to give in once again to the consortium and marry DuPont.
DuPont found Roosevelt, but saw that Mrs. Roosevelt was also wearing stockings, and couldn't help but be even more annoyed, and said to Roosevelt, "Mr. Roosevelt, I want to teach a thief a lesson." ”
Roosevelt listened to Dupont with a gloomy face, and didn't say anything, just nodded. When Dupont left, Roosevelt slammed the table to the ground.
Mrs. Roosevelt looked at him worriedly, and Roosevelt took a deep breath and said, "I'm fine, it's just that they went too far, and discussed with a president to use dirty means to deal with a company, what is this treating me as a president?" Puppets? Joke!! ”
Jiang Cheng soon felt the power of the consortium, and the newspaper office that was crying and shouting begging Weihua stockings to advertise in their newspaper began to call one by one, deciding not to allow the stockings advertisement to appear in the newspaper, and the beautiful name was because the stockings were too undignified and did not conform to the American spirit.
Jiang Cheng got the report and smiled slightly, this kind of hunger marketing is not the right way to last long, this week has completely fried the reputation of stockings, so he immediately changed the sales strategy, ordered all branches to sell in limited quantities from tomorrow on a first-come, first-served basis, and announced in the form of posters that the number is limited every day, and each person is limited to three pairs.
What the? Three pairs, countless women's eyes are red, and now the stockings are already a pair of hard to find, unless you have a prominent family background, you can only buy at any time with the approval of Weihua Company, so there is an iron law that you can't buy more than ten pairs at a time.
The next day, all the stockings stores lined up, and countless idle women and women who loved beauty came to line up early, but they were slowly replaced by gentlemen from all walks of life who heard the news, only to see countless affectionate eyes communicating, I don't know how many marriages have been achieved.
Jiang Cheng looked at such a scene in a car, nodded and said to Situ Meitang next to him, "Thank you for your hard work, I didn't expect it to be so popular." ”
Situ Meitang laughed and said, "Who doesn't like to make money, but our insider says that DuPont is already preparing to use their secret power." ”
Jiang Cheng looked at the crowd and said, "Aren't we ready a long time ago, if he wants to come, come here, order all the branches, in case of emergency, burn all the inventory, I will let DuPont not get a single stocking." ”
That night, various hosiery stores in the United States were suddenly attacked, and a group of people shouted Ku Klux Klan slogans to disperse the crowd in line. Throwing Molotov cocktails and even bombs into the stocking store, it was as if the entire American police were on leave, and no one showed up.
And the head office in New York, Situ Meitang looked at the gangs outside who were cleaning the ground and cleaned up the site, and smiled gloomily.
But the shops that were attacked were suddenly like torches, and the fire was amazing, which made these attackers look at each other, when did their Molotov cocktails become so powerful? By the time the fire was extinguished, there was nothing left in the store except the pungent smell of burning nylon.
In this week, Jiang Cheng sold more than 900,000 pairs of stockings in the United States, and more than 700,000 pairs were destroyed, and the inventory in the United States was less than 500,000 pairs at this time.
The next day, the whole of America was flooded with news that the stockings store had been completely destroyed, and Jiang Cheng also received an invitation from DuPont.
To be precise, this invitation is for Zhang Ye and Situ Meitang, Jiang Cheng looked at it and smiled and said, "DuPont wants us to honestly hand over the craftsmanship of the stockings, and he is ashamed to say that he will leave us a hundred percent of the shares, I thank him, does he treat us as their subsidiary?" ”
Situ Meitang took out a note and said, "The thugs who came to attack our headquarters were all killed and repelled by us, and we also killed and injured more than a dozen. Wouldn't it be too intense for us to do this? ”
Jiang Cheng sighed, "It's normal for people to die for money, birds to die for food, but don't worry, whether it is several other consortia or Roosevelt, I'm afraid it's too late to be happy to see our head broken and bloody, especially Roosevelt, he is afraid that DuPont will hit a nail in our place, so that he can take advantage of the opportunity to expand his power." Okay, Zhang Ye, you have a press conference. ”
Jiang Cheng guessed very right, after Roosevelt knew about these cases, he immediately ordered everyone not to investigate, ostensibly to help DuPont, but in fact, Roosevelt found that Wei Hua with the help of Situ Meitang could actually resist DuPont's attack, so he could use Wei Hua to fight DuPont, and DuPont in the province really thought that the Roosevelt family was afraid of them.
And DuPont, after getting Weihua's refusal, wanted to use secret force again, but was warned by Roosevelt, after all, it was too bad for too many things like this.
The girls who had been waiting in front of the store finally got the news, but the news was like a bolt from the blue for them.
Weihua Group issued a press conference and put up posters in various cities across the United States, announcing that due to unfair treatment and violent attacks by hostile companies, the company decided to suspend the sales of nylon stockings in the United States and transfer all the share of the United States to Europe before ensuring a safe investment environment in the United States, and apologized to consumers who love stockings.
Countless girls were stunned, although they guessed that the attack would affect sales, but they did not expect that they would stop selling directly.
Countless scalpers were ecstatic, and the price of those stockings they hoarded was about to skyrocket.
Countless people who are ready to watch a good show have broken their glasses, they never thought that Weihua would be so soft, and directly announced the launch of the American market, and some pharmaceutical companies couldn't help but wonder if they could also do something interesting to drive Weihua's penicillin and sulfonamides out of the American market.
And soon the rumors swept across the United States among women, and the villains who attacked Weihua were not the Ku Klux Klan, but the jealous DuPont, and then a large section of DuPont's black material.
What happened next made everyone feel the horror of the power of the people so deeply for the first time.
DuPont published an article announcing that nylon was actually DuPont's invention the day after Weihua announced its withdrawal from the U.S. market, and that it was the shameless Weihua company that plagiarized DuPont's invention, and that stockings were also DuPont's upcoming flagship product.
The day after Weihua announced its withdrawal from the U.S. market, countless women gathered in front of Weihua's building after getting the news, holding slogans and banners with words such as "stay" and "we need stockings".
Wei Hua quickly responded, and also took out a few banners and hung them out, writing, "DuPont does not apologize for a day, and Weihua stockings do not return to the United States for a day." "Let DuPont take out his stockings"
When Weihua's statement was issued, DuPont had no choice but to respond that it would launch stockings in the shortest possible time. Otherwise, who would believe that nylon stockings were plagiarized by Wei Hua from DuPont, you don't even have anything, how can you say that others plagiarized. Weihua also issued a statement immediately afterward, asking DuPont to take out his stockings within a week, even if it was a sample. DuPont was forced to agree.
Oh! Well, most of the Americans know about DuPont's big name and are looking forward to their new product. For a while, it was calm, and everyone was waiting for DuPont's stockings.
In fact, DuPont was completely forced to be helpless, DuPont didn't expect Wei Hua to play a scoundrel like this, and directly asked himself to also make stockings, or apologize.
Apologize? What are you kidding, have you ever seen people and monkeys apologize?
Although DuPont didn't care about fame, even his mistress was asking him to help her get stockings, which inevitably gave him a headache, so he simply pushed out his nylon stockings by himself.
At this time, DuPont's nylon has been invented, to be precise, nylon was invented in 35 years, but it has always been a laboratory product, and it cannot be produced in large industries, and this problem has not been solved until September 38 in history, and now it is only hard to bite the bullet on its own semi-finished products.
Jiang Cheng smiled and said to Situ Meitang, "Let everyone carry guns at any time, try not to go out, and let people take the lead in purchasing agents, I believe that countless gangsters are willing to do this business." I'll leave for a while, and I'll come back when the final battle comes. ”
A week? I'd like to see how you DuPont can solve the problem of industrialization in a week.
At this time, the calendar stopped on July 14, 1937, and Jiang Cheng knew that the next period of time was waiting, and Song Zheyuan's warlord thinking made it impossible for anyone to change his peace mentality, and only the Japanese artillery could shatter his dreams.
Jiang Cheng returned to modern times to prepare for a vacation, after all, after the start of the Pingjin Campaign, he would have less peace of mind to rest in modern times, so take advantage of the last tranquility before this storm to rest for himself.
Jiang Cheng asked Sun Ning to take a week's vacation with the whole company, and he and Yu Na were going to travel to some places and go home by the way, because according to the calculation, Jiang Cheng's small holiday made Sun Ning, Tyrannosaurus and others busy with people's backs, because Jiang Cheng bought a large number of Chinese enlightenment books and university textbooks some time ago, so that the national security senior management thought that the force behind Jiang Cheng should be a pro-China country or group, and Jiang Cheng did not do anything harmful to the country during this time. made the top level of national security lower and lower Jiang Cheng's threat level again and again, and raised his important level again and again. The order given to Sun Ning has also become surveillance-based, supplemented by protection, after all, except for Jiang Cheng, the entire national security has not yet found a second relevant person.
When Jiang Cheng and the blushing Yu Na returned home, Jiang Cheng's parents were very happy, and hurriedly greeted them inside and out, Jiang Cheng didn't want too many people to know that he was back, so he didn't go to any party, but relaxed his mood in the form of a family gathering. Watching Yu Na timidly help her mother cook, chatting with her father about the latest news without a word, Jiang Cheng had a feeling that this is life.
And in the building opposite Jiang Cheng, Sun Ning was holding a pineapple bag in his mouth, holding a telescope to monitor Jiang Cheng, looking at Jiang Cheng's happy family, Sun Ning couldn't help but flash a trace of envy in his eyes, how long had he not been back there?
Not to mention Jiang Cheng's daily life, our lens returns to North China of the Republic of China.
When he learned that Song Zheyuan actually signed an entente with Japan, the Jiang intermediary in Lushan was like thunder, what does this mean? ordered the 132nd Division and the 143rd Division to block their Central Army, and actually went to negotiate with the Japanese by themselves.
Jiang didn't really want to fight with the Japanese now, but such a situation was too embarrassing, and a discerning person knew at a glance that the Japanese were definitely not prepared for the peace talks at this time.
Jiang Zheng immediately sent a telegram to Song Zheyuan, once again warning him that the Japanese could not be trusted, and now the central government was determined to fight the war with all its might, and would rather be broken than destroyed, in order to protect the national character, and hoped that Song Zheyuan would obey the central government and not act alone.
Song Zheyuan looked at it, you said yes? Song Zheyuan thought about the various warlords during the encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, and he couldn't help but shudder, not only did he not obey Chiang's orders, but simply sent a telegram to the Japanese garrison headquarters, saying that he was willing to show his sincerity, and he went to Tianjin to obey Japan's guidance.
Song Zheyuan did not know that Japan had decided to increase its troops and attack on a large scale, but complacently believed that relying on his own tactfulness and cleverness, he had succeeded in extinguishing a major battle that was about to ignite. His Northwest Army will be able to live in peace and stability in this place for a few more years.
Song Zheyuan did not return to Beiping, but went directly to Tianjin to prepare to meet with the commander of the Japanese garrison, Tashiro Wanichiro.
When he came to the headquarters, he found that the entire headquarters was covered with white cloth, and Song Zheyuan couldn't help but be secretly shocked to find out that it was the original commander Tashiro Wanichiro who had died of a heart attack on the 14th, and Kazuki Kiyoji was the new commander.
Kazuki Seiji did not have a good face when he saw Song Zheyuan, but said that if the Japanese Empire believed in the sincerity of the 29th Army, then all the fortifications in Beiping must be dismantled.
Hearing this request, Zhang Zizhong, who came with him, wanted to jump up and refuse, but was held down by Song Zheyuan.
Song Zheyuan understood at this time that he had no way out, he had just rejected Jiang Zhong's order, and now if he offended the Japanese again, then he would really look in the mirror - he was not a person inside and out.
Song Zheyuan gritted his teeth and said, "We can dismantle the fortifications, but I hope your army can also show your sincerity for peace." ”
Kazuki Kiyoji was fifty-six years old at this time, and the polishing of time had made him no longer as impulsive as before, and now he could be said to be scheming. He nodded and said with a smile, "The enemy of our imperial army is not your China, but the Soviet Union, so don't worry, as long as we control our respective troops, I believe that we can still coexist peacefully for a long time." ”
Song Zheyuan was coaxed back to Beiping by Xiangyue Qingji's rhetoric, but when he arrived in Beiping, the Japanese army slapped Song Zheyuan hard with facts.