Joshua was going to talk to Scrooge about the recent dispute. But before that, he had to report these matters to the family, so that the family could give a definite opinion. Otherwise, if he makes peace with Scrooge here, but the European side does something to escalate the conflict, isn't that asking for trouble for himself?

Transoceanic communications are now completely in the hands of Scrooge, so there is a big problem with the communication of some confidential matters. In order to solve this problem, the family has compiled a set of passwords for the communication of more confidential things. But it's hard to say how high the secrecy of these passwords is. After all, passwords are a new thing. The so-called cryptography of the future had not yet been formed at this time, and at most it had a little preparatory knowledge and skills. Therefore, in this day and age, most passwords are still quite crude, which makes secrecy a big problem. However, at this time, whether it is the Rothschilds or even the British Royal Navy, the awareness of the secrecy of the password is still at the level of taking good care of the codebook, so that people have no chance to see it.

But Scrooge from later generations is different. Relying on the Dashi Yàn room, Scrooge established a humble non-profit organization, the North American Computing Center. The basic role of this institution is to provide computational services for all kinds of "scientific research". This institution employs hundreds of workers with basic education. Yes, just a basic education. The vast majority of staff members have a level of mathematics, even after training, which is equivalent to that of a junior high school student. However, their work does not require much computing power on their own, as long as they can calculate the simplest calculations given to them with a hand-cranked computer. In this era, there were already relatively simple hand-cranked computers, and it took two years for the Dashi Yàn Room to triple the efficiency of the hand-cranked computers. And in this institution, there are more than 300 hand-cranked computers busy day and night.

In addition to providing basic computing services for the general scientific activities of the Dashi yàn room, as well as for MacDonald's companies, the center itself undertook an important task, which was to decipher the telegraph code.

In the absence of a codebook, the telegram cipher was not indecipherable. It's just a special nuisance. First of all, you have to be able to intercept a lot of messages from the other side, well, it's very simple, because the transoceanic radio communication is basically entirely in Scrooge's hands these days. Like the British Embassy, it still has its own low-power shortwave radio, and then relies on the warships cruising in the Atlantic Ocean as a transit station, which can be regarded as a relay station to transmit news back to China, and the other guys, including the Rothschilds, can only send messages through Guò Scrooge's New York Tower. Therefore, the messages sent back and forth by these companies were also "saved as" by the MacDonald consortium.

In this way, over a period of time, the telegrams sent by various large companies, big families, etc. have accumulated through the New York Tower, and the number is quite considerable. Generally speaking, there are always some words that will appear more frequently, and then they will be more likely to be combined with other words, and then examine the various actions of the other party after the telegram is sent and replied, and then comprehensively analyze and find out the pattern, well, a lot of passwords can be cracked.

The best way to deal with this method of secrecy is to constantly change the password. As long as you are diligent in changing passwords, even if the level of coding is almost low, the codebreaker will have no way at all. For example, later in World War II, some of the Kuomintang's telegraph codes were used for four or five years, and they were almost never changed, and as a result, the Japanese army deciphered them like clear codes, and the secrets were leaked as soon as they were telegraphed. On the contrary, the telegram code of the Communist Party, which was much worse than that of the Kuomintang, was almost never successfully deciphered, for the simple reason that the Communist Party, which had been engaged in underground activities for a long time, was quite cautious, and a set of codes was changed in two to three months at most. In two or three months, the number of intercepted messages is too small to be used to decipher backwards. At first, the Japanese planned to crack the Communist code, but when they discovered this habit of the Communist Party, they simply did not crack it. Anyway, no matter how smooth the crack is, the eight roads have changed their passwords several times.

It is said that after seeing the successful experience and the lessons of failure, the Japanese themselves should be careful when using passwords, but when the Japanese and the Yankees did it, the Yankees found that the way the Japanese used passwords was almost no different from the Kuomintang. In addition to the fact that the coding level is much higher, the same habit of not changing passwords for several years. As a result, at Midway, the family deciphered the code and set up an ambush, but they still did not change it when they arrived on Kuah Island, and even until the commander of the Combined Fleet, Yamamoto Isoroku, was killed by an air ambush because of the leak of the code, he still insisted on not changing the password. Even until the end of the war, I don't know, what? Our code has been deciphered? How is this possible? How could such an advanced and complex code of our Great Japanese Empire be deciphered?

And in this era, most people can't even imagine that there will be such a thing as code breaking. Therefore, it is natural that there will be no good habit of changing passwords from time to time. So now, the telegram code used by the Rothschilds is, in the eyes of Scrooge, no different from the clear code.

"How's it going, what's the reaction from the Jews?" Scrooge asked.

"Mr. MacDonald, two days ago Mr. Joshua Rothschild sent a long telegram to Europe, and according to the decipherment of our men, he sent some of the contents of our last letter to him, as well as some of his personal analyses and suggestions. Here is a translation of the telegram he sent, and you can take a look at it, sir. Bond handed a copy of the essay to Scrooge.

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"Joshua sent us a telegram from North America," an old man handed to the men at the meeting, "Look, what do you think?" ”

The telegram began to circulate in the hands of several people, and after a while, all of them had read it.

"Who did this to the MacDonald's factory?" The old man asked quietly.

"It's me, Grandpa." A young man stood up and said.

"Well, why did you do that?" The old man continued to ask quietly.

"Because they have entered our territory and ruined our plans," the young man explained, "we have managed to knock down the shares of the French industrial companies, and they have suddenly come out of nowhere and buy them." Their actions caused a rebound in the stock prices of these companies, which hindered our plan to buy the bottom. So ......"

"How much do you know about this opponent?" The old man said, pausing for a moment, and then said full, "Judging by what you have exposed in the newspapers, you should know this opponent well." Then you tell me, what is the purpose of his investment in France? How much resources would he be willing to devote to this? Do you think the power in your hands is enough to deal with them? ”

The old man spoke slowly, and there was no sternness, but the young man felt like his head was sweating.

"Grandpa, I think they just want to take advantage of the low price to make a profit." The young man replied.

"That's really all you think?" The old man stared into the young man's eyes, still speaking in that unhurried tone.

"Dad, Werther really didn't think it through this matter." Another middle-aged man in his forties said, "Werther, you're not too young, why are you still doing things so roughly!" What is McDonald's business in today? They've bought steel companies, they're building power generation and ammonia companies, and what do MacDonald's companies have in common? ”

"Dad, it should be that MacDonald has very unique skills in these industries." Witt thought for a moment and replied.

"Since you have a certain understanding of the MacDonald's family, can you tell us what technologies they have, and what kind of effects can these technologies bring to the market?" The old man continued to speak in an unhurried tone.

"Okay, grandpa." After a pause, he continued, "MacDonald Steel can make as much steel from the lowest grade of iron ore with high sulphur and phosphorus content as anyone else can make from high-quality iron ore." Because the raw materials are cheap, their prices are very competitive. In North America, they relied on this to crush almost all of their opponents, and Carol MacDonald, who was in charge of McDonald Steel, earned the nickname 'Steel Roller'. As for synthetic ammonia, at the moment only they and the Germans have the relevant technology, which is said to have been jointly developed. In terms of electricity, MacDonald uses alternating current power generation technology, which has high patent barriers and has obvious advantages in long-distance transmission. In addition, they hold most of the patents for electric lamps and various electrical appliances, and almost none of them can bypass their patents. ”

Because American consortia rarely actually come to Europe for long-term investment, local European capital is not particularly familiar with the MacDonald consortium. Many of you don't know much about the situation of this consortium. Now when I hear such an introduction, I feel a little shocked.

"In this way, they are simply monsters in terms of industry." Someone interjected.

"For such a powerful consortium, you actually launched a provocation without consulting everyone? Fortunately, since people have shown us this, it means that there is still room for relaxation. They probably didn't mean to turn their faces directly with us. Now, Witte, think again, and tell me, what is the purpose of the MacDonald consortium's investment in France? Compared to the United States, where is their biggest weakness in Europe. The old man said at last.