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Stuart reassured Eastman when he received a call from Robles from New York. (The fastest update speed is on the Aishang Novel Network biquge.info)

"Stoney, the investigation into the mysterious forces has been decided, their funding comes from a large bank in the Cleveland area, and this time we should have met the Cleveland consortium."

Robles on the other end of the line said.

"Do you know exactly?" Situ Nan asked. He knew that the Cleveland Consortium was a consortium formed by the union of several large families in the Cleveland area, mainly the Mather, Hannah, Humphrey, Eaton and other families. Taking advantage of the abundant coal and iron resources in the Cleveland area, he founded the steel industry, and after reaping huge profits, he invested in the banking industry and developed into the rubber industry and rail transportation.

"I'm still investigating, but those guys are very strong in Cleveland, if we hadn't started quickly, I'm afraid Kodak's matter would not have been so easy this time." Robles said with emotion.

"Hmm. But in the end we won, didn't we? Situ Nan said disappreciatively.

In Situ Nan's previous life, after World War I, World War II and the glory of the two world wars, the strength of the Cleveland consortium once ranked sixth among the top ten consortia in the United States, but due to regional restrictions, the influence of the Cleveland consortium gradually declined, and was surpassed by the new consortia in the west and south, and the enterprises in their original hands were gradually infiltrated by the Morgan and Rockefeller consortia in the east.

The situation is exactly the opposite of what it will be 100 years later, and Cleveland is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie in the north of the state, at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, and is an important land and water transportation point. It is the largest city in Ohio, USA.

In the nineteenth century, the American industrialization road went all the way to the west along the direction of westward expansion, and Cleveland was the transit point of the westward expansion of the United States.

In particular, shortly after the opening of the canal between Lake Illinois and the Ohio River, the Cleveland Railroad was opened to traffic in 1851, after which the industry and commerce in the Cleveland area flourished with the improvement of transportation, and became an industrial center in the Midwest of the United States.

Heavy industry is the foundation of Cleveland's economy, with the steel industry being the most developed, and other industrial sectors such as machinery manufacturing, metallurgy, electrical equipment, petrochemicals, textiles, and food are also in the ascendant. The acquisition of Kodak is an attempt by the Cleveland consortium to expand into other industries.

Cleveland's industry, while not as good as Pittsburgh's, is limited. In the steel industry, it is completely comparable to Pittsburgh, and its first and steel companies, Lex Youngston, Amcoe Steel (jointly controlled with the Mellon consortium and the Rockefeller consortium) and National Steel (jointly controlled with the Mellon consortium), are among the top ten steel companies in the United States.

It is worth mentioning that Situ Nan's California Iron and Steel is also among the top ten steel companies in the United States, which is a special case, and Situ Nan did not have such a large steel company in Los Angeles in his previous life. It was catalyzed by Situ Nan with a lot of money, otherwise the rise of California would have to wait until after World War II.

Because of Situan's golden finger, the industrial development of western states such as California and Texas was earlier than the original time and space, and the achievements were greater, so the strength of the United States will also increase.

In recent years, the rapid development of industry and commerce in the states on the Pacific coast of the United States has put pressure on the Japanese on the other side.

Although the Pacific Ocean is large, it cannot accommodate two small world powers. After Theodore Roosevelt's great naval development, the United States in the Pacific has become stronger and stronger, and now the war in Europe has also given the Americans a rare opportunity, and the retreat of the British power in the eastern Pacific has just been filled by the Americans, who are rushing into the Pacific with great industrial strength.

Japan was not without development, but after seizing the German colony on the Jiaozhou Peninsula in China and the German islands in the Pacific, Japan became the hegemon of the Northwest Pacific. Now Japan is taking advantage of Europe's rare opportunity to vigorously develop heavy industry in an attempt to perfect their path of industrialization for a period of time, hoping to have enough strength to confront the Americans across the sea in the future.

As for guts, this thing

Since the Meiji Restoration, there has never been a shortage of Japanese people, but there is a bit of a surplus, and there is nothing they dare not do for the Japanese soldiers fed with the spirit of bushido, which is more daring than eating an ambitious leopard. Add more than half a sentence to describe them is that their eyes are too high. This is the opposite of the ancient kingdom of the continent on the opposite side where the spine was broken.

Far away, or the topic is back to the Cleveland consortium.

Now because of the European war, and the imminent entry of the United States into the war, the steel industry is booming, and the Cleveland people are doing well, and their investments are getting a good return or have very good prospects.

Cleveland people have a little money in their hands and invest in steel, machinery manufacturing and other industries, in addition to some discerning people have also begun to look at other industries. For example, the camera, Kodak was one of their targets this time, but it was killed by Situ Nan and came out on top.

There may also be a little bit of personal vendetta and other bloody factors, anyway, this is something that Situ Nan doesn't know.

He only knows that the current Cleveland consortium is just a newly formed consortium, although its strength should not be underestimated, but it is not strong enough to make himself taboo.

Although the families in Cleveland have been in business for decades and their overall strength is stronger than Situ Nan, they are not the opponent of an upstart like Situ Nan.

For example, the acquisition of Kodak this time is not the will of the entire Cleveland consortium, but the sole action of one family, and other families are not involved.

The Cleveland gang has not yet reached the point where they are outrageously strong like Morgan and Rockefeller, and they are only half a pound and eight taels compared to Stuartham.

Their strength is mainly concentrated in the steel industry in the Cleveland area, and the funds mainly come from Morgan and other consortia in the Northeast, so the funds of the Cleveland consortium have been controlled by others.

"Don't be afraid of them, they are like dogs trapped in their hands and feet, no matter how fierce they are, who told them not to get out of that little world of Cleveland!"

Situ Nan said arrogantly and meanly.

He's right!

Cleveland is located in the Great Lakes region of the Midwest of the United States, where industry and commerce are prosperous, and it is the most important industrial area outside of the northeastern industrial region of the United States.

There are also industrial cities like Chicago and Detroit around Cleveland that compete fiercely with it, so it is not easy for the Cleveland consortium to expand, at least the strength of the current Chicago consortium is not lost to the Cleveland consortium at all. Where is it to hide in faraway California and Texas and farm like Situ Nan? ，

"Hahaha! Stoney, I love your analogy! It's so talented! ”

Robles on the other end of the line chimed in, "Okay, I'll let you know if there's any further news, I didn't do that beforehand." ”

Putting down the phone, Situ Nan thought about it, this time Kodak's incident should be a coincidence, even if he didn't use Kodak, the Cleveland guys would do it, everyone just happened to bump into a piece.

The Cleveland gang may not have enough money to get their own! At a critical time in the battle for Kodak this time, it suddenly died down, and I guess I didn't want to lose both with myself.

Businessmen seek wealth rather than anger, maybe they know that they can't compete for Kodak before they temporarily hibernate, and wait for the next favorable opportunity to jump out, right?

Situ Nan was guessing in his heart about the Cleveland consortium's intentions, but this was all his speculation, and there was no evidence. Although he shouted quite loudly, he never despised his opponents, and he was careful not to make a big mistake, lest he be careless and capsize in the gutter.

This is what Situ Nan learned from the tragedy of the Titanic, if they hadn't been lucky at that time, maybe that tragedy wouldn't have happened.

You must know that although the Cleveland consortium can't help Situ Nan, they have a close relationship with Morgan's Wall Street forces, and it is not good to say that those enemies will unite against themselves.

You know, the cold arrow behind is the deadliest.

The next few years will be a critical period for the rise of Situ Nan's consortium, so he can't take it lightly, and a momentary mistake may lead to the consequences of zhì Yan zhòng.

After dinner, Situ Nan and Eastman sat down again.

"George, the investigation into the forces of the third party has been decided, they are the Eaton family of Cleveland, and the current head of the house is a man named Sam Eaton. By the way, he holds about 20% ----25% of Kodak shares. ”

Eastman was furious when he heard that the original perpetrator was Sam Eaton, "Sam Eaton? Sure enough, it's this shitty guy! It's been all these years, isn't this guy dead? What a dereliction of God's duty! Fack! ”

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