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Situ Nan didn't know that Francis was thinking so much, and he didn't know that Handar would think so highly of himself, Bott would respect him so much, he hadn't been back to Los Angeles for a long time, and he could only rely on phone and telegram for the past few months. (If you like this book, please bookmark biquge.info)

In fact, he just happened to be at the right time, even if there was no butterfly like him, Los Angeles and California would rise sooner or later, just a little later.

If Situ Nan had not intervened, after World War I, the swelling consortia in the east would have moved westward one after another.

These western giants will join hands to carve up the economic territory of California and other western states, and the local California consortium can only gradually succumb to the Morgan Rockefeller and other consortiums.

The history of past lives is like that. After World War II, California's economy took off, but the local consortium was gradually infiltrated and controlled by Morgan, Rockefeller and other consortiums, and the famous Bank of America finally fell into the hands of Morgan?

Now the industry in Los Angeles is highly concentrated in the interest group centered on Situ Nan, and Hantec, Bot and Francis are all allies of Situ Nan, and their interests have also swelled with the expansion of Situ Nan's power.

With these hardcore allies by their side, seizing the favorable opportunity to lay a solid foundation, and the eastern consortium is busy farming on its own one-third of an acre of land for a while, and has no time to look westward, it is impossible to say that California's economic power will eventually be able to grow independently without being coerced by the eastern forces.

The local bureaucracy is also a small boost to the development of Los Angeles, and seeing that it is profitable, these fat guys are pouring money into it, and they will also spare no effort in policy to plan for economic development.

These people are also investors with big money, so if anyone can't make money with them, they're going to make it impossible for anyone to live in California. Therefore, the interests of these bureaucrats have always been the same as those of Situ Nan and the emerging strata of urban development.

No matter what country or dynasty it is, collusion between officials and businessmen is actually the most normal. It's just that the criterion for dividing your existence between heaven and hell is whether ordinary people benefit from economic development.

In some places, all the achievements are monopolized by a few people in the name of high-sounding, and ordinary people can't share them, so we call it ****.

And those who take the lion's share and leave some for ordinary people to share in the profits, we call them liberal democracy. In fact, both are similar, but the latter is more cunning than cleverness, at least these capitalists let the cattle eat first when they coax the cattle to plough the fields.

California's rapid development is not accidental, just imagine, is there such a resource-intensive place in the world as California?

No!

Needless to say, there is a lot of oil buried in the ground in California, as well as other rich minerals, and there are large tracts of land suitable for farming.

Abundant resources, pleasant climate, natural harbor, coupled with the fact that the United States completed rail transportation not long ago, there was no war, and the development opportunities brought about by the war in Europe, there are so many favorable factors, and the rise of California is also inevitable.

The war in Europe was indeed a godsend for California's development. With foresight, Situ Nan obtained a large number of material orders from Britain and France for California, and then subcontracted them to other factories that he could not complete, so he also promoted the development of a number of related industries.

These orders originally belonged to the eastern cities, but they were intercepted by Situ Nan. It was these orders that allowed the early days of California's industrial rise to get through the most difficult start-up phase.

It just so happened that the Panama Canal was also opened at this time, and the sea freight conditions from California to Europe were not too far behind those of the cities on the eastern Atlantic coast, at least not to the Great Lakes region. Is this another natural coincidence?

And in Asia, the British were shrinking their power and trying to satisfy Japan's growing appetites at the expense of China.

The interests of the German and Russian powers were almost lost, the French were in tatters, their industrial production itself was in short supply, how could they still have the energy to care about the Far East? If you can keep Indochina, you snickered in your heart.

Only the United States and Japan are still living a free life in the Pacific, and the Chinese market, which originally belonged to Britain, France, Germany, Russia and other European powers, has been temporarily divided between the Americans and the Japanese.

Although Situ Nan will not deliberately pay attention, the Meihua Trading Company is indeed developing very well, and a large number of goods are sent to Shanghai from San Francisco, Los Angeles and other ports on the west coast every month.

The volume of trade is rising, and the scope of trade is becoming more and more extensive. From small items such as candles, kerosene, lighters, foreign hammers, and matches to large items such as steel machines, Situ Nan's fleet continued to cross the ocean to fill the gap left by the British.

What makes Situ Nan complain is that gangsters are always gangsters, and pornography, gambling and drugs can never be quit, but the big guys all use each other and take what they need, and they don't feel too dirty in their hearts.

The only thing that satisfies Situ Nan is that there are more than 10,000 Chinese who pour into California every day, most of whom are smuggled in, but they go ashore directly from Monica Harbor on the Los Angeles side.

Through guò bribing officials and forging documents, many well-behaved Chinese have obtained the right of abode. However, the situation of the Chinese is not listed for the time being.

The proximity to the water was the first to take advantage of the month, and the trade of merchants in California on the west coast of the United States opened up a market. Of course, it is said that the mortars produced by the California Arms Company are good, and some of them have flowed in the past, and those Turkish warlords have no money to equip expensive cannons, so it is also a good choice to buy some mortars to meet the situation.

Therefore, through the channel of the guò Meihua trading company, there is indeed some arms flowing into China. Although this was not Situ Nan's intention, he would not deliberately refuse to accept it, there was nothing to avoid.

Reality is never shifted by the will of the individual, there has always been a dumping ground for arms by the great powers, Situ Nan does not sell, but it is impossible to prevent others from smuggling it over.

However, Situ Nan did not lack this money, so he had no idea of exporting (smuggling) arms over there, but felt a little regretful.

In short, there is no better time for American businessmen. Since the retreat of the European powers from the Far East, it has become a rivalry between Japan and the United States. However, Japan's manufacturing industry is not comparable to that of the United States.

In China, if they didn't have guns and cannons, and a lot of Japanese advisers and traitors colluding with those traitors, their goods would not be able to compete with American goods at all. Two years ago, because of the Shandong problem, China boycotted Japanese goods, which made the Japanese feel a lot sad.

However, a weak country is always a weak country, and the poor and weak government of the Republic of China will never be able to do much. Of course, the Americans are not angels, but they are gentler and more subtle than the brutal Japanese.

The only benefit of the strike was to give a group of Chinese enterprises an opportunity, and they took advantage of this rare time to develop light industry and make a lot of money, which was the spring of national capitalism.

Interestingly, since cooperating with Situ Nan, the Song family, who had tasted the sweetness of the US-China trade, saw the investment industry, and couldn't resist the inner impulse and built a factory in Shanghai.

However, the true nature of the compradors has not changed, relying on Situ Nan's connections, they imported machines from the United States and sold them to other Chinese businessmen.

Although American goods are more expensive than Japanese products, the quality is also better, so there is a large market. Historically, the western United States, which was originally industrially backward, could not do enough to expand trade with China, because their center of gravity was still in the eastern cities on the Atlantic coast.

The capitalists in the east are busy making European money and US government money, so the Chinese market is only their third choice. It's not that I don't pay attention to it, but it's a little too busy.

However, now that there is one more Situ Nan, California's manufacturing industry has also achieved some results, and the United States has the spare capacity to export industrial products and machinery to China. Therefore, the White House also looks twice at the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

But it is only second, now the strategic center of gravity of the United States is still in the Atlantic, as for the drama of the Americans rescuing the Chinese, it will not happen in another hundred years.

Out of sight and out of mind, Situ Nan can't change the original face of history until he doesn't have enough strength. Now that he is becoming more and more Westernized, he has little time to think about the affairs on the other side, and he does not want to end up becoming the object of revolution.

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