Chapter 4: The Diamond Dynasty
The second half of 1929 was a disastrous year for the diamond giant "Del Bis" company. A family that came out of nowhere, named "Iris. Tifa's German company dumped massive amounts of diamonds on the market at a price so cheap that Oppenheimer Sr., the chairman of the company, wanted to pick up the "Chicago typewriter" (Thomson's nickname for the submachine gun).
In just five months from June to October, their sales in the German gemstone jewelry industry shrank by nearly two-thirds, and in the international industrial and mining industry, sales of industrial diamonds plummeted. The worst is in the German market, where its diamond products have been completely lost in the industrial market and are in a state of complete collapse.
As a trust in the diamond industry, Del Bis firmly controls more than 70% of the world's diamond market share, and controls the supply and sales of the international diamond market. Before the economic crisis of 1929, it was the golden period when international diamond sales were booming and prices were at their peak," said Iris. The emergence and turmoil of the company caused the price of diamonds in the international diamond market to plummet by 15% in a few months. It was no longer as simple as slapping old Oppenheimer in the face a few times, but taking a knife and cutting a large piece of flesh on him.
Lin Han's spokesperson in the "world" executor, the leader of the "Sasros" sect Derek registered "Iris. Tifa's Diamond Ltd. caught the attention of Oppenheimer Sr. early on. With the exception of the Red Soviet Union, almost all of the world's famous diamond mining areas were in the hands of the trust alliance led to the Delbis Company. Tifa's background was investigated in detail to trace the origin of the vast amount of diamonds in his possession. The result, of course, was nothing. And the investigation of Derek's backer's background is also "simple" to make old Odinheimer even more vigilant.
Even in the 21 st century, the large monopoly consortia of European and American countries are monsters that eat people and do not spit out bones, and it is not uncommon for the US president to be overheaded on the spot for the sake of profit and profit. And in the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, their eating appearance was even more ugly. DuPont used explosives packs to blow up rival factories into the sky, and the Rockefellers controlled tens of thousands of mercenaries who specialized in dirty work. And a month ago, there was a Chinese named Zhuang Jihua, suspected of being a stocking seller, who was arrogant in the US stock market and stockings market for a period of time, and he used the gold finger as a golden thigh gold God, and he made a total of four billion US dollars before and after, earning one-seventh of the national GDP of the United States in 1929, and then on the day he was about to take the money, he was shot and killed in the street, and the body was thrown into a cement mixer and mixed with concrete and poured into the foundation of the Empire State Building in New York.
Compared with the ruthless DuPont and Rockefeller, the elder Oppenheimer is also not a good man and a woman. As early as World War I, he planned South Africa's war against German South Africa behind the scenes and swallowed the diamond mines there. Historically, during World War II, the company even dared to cut off the supply of industrial diamonds to the United States for the sake of profit.
Capital has always been an undisciplined store in pursuit of profits. For "Iris. Tifa's company, the elder Odinheimer didn't want to make a move, and it wasn't that he didn't make a move. It's just that all the surveys show that, "Iris. Tifa's company is just an empty bag company, and it can't find the source of the huge amount of diamonds in his hands, and there is no point in using ** or white means to bring him down. As for the assassination and kidnapping methods of **, after the two groups of gunmen sent to Kiel were mysteriously knocked unconscious, stripped naked and thrown away in the downtown area, the old Oppenheimer also had to temporarily extinguish this idea.
The last resort taken by the elder Oppenheimer was to use the huge sales channels in his hands to control "Iris."
Tifa's "Diamonds" were boycotted.
Less than a week after the introduction of this practice, on October 24, the day the US stock market crash began, Oppenheimer Sr. received a copy of the "Iris. A gift from Tifa's company - a goblet made of pure diamonds.
After getting the appraisal report that the goblet was "cut from a single piece of high-grade diamond", the elder Oppenheimer couldn't sit still on the spot, and the next day he chartered a plane and took his son Henry with him. Oppenheimer, who flew directly to Kiel, Germany, approached Derek and asked for negotiations.
The place where the head of the church received Oppenheimer and his son was a seaside villa three kilometers away from the Kiel shipyard, and the room where they were received was a "crystal palace" or "diamond palace" with extreme luxury.
The entire room is almost entirely decorated with diamonds.
Diamond-encrusted lamps, chairs, dining tables, and even French meals are served on pure diamond plates. The most exaggerated thing is that the floor of the room is thickly covered with countless diamonds the size of rock sugar instead of carpets. Oppenheimer and his son entered the room with diamonds under their feet.
The red wine poured from the diamond bottle was poured into a diamond glass and then served to Oppenheimer and his son. Looking at the French dinner table full of plates made of diamonds, Oppenheimer and his sons, who have been dealing with diamonds all their lives, have a feeling that they can't swallow.
Derek, sitting across from their father and son, stirred the soup in his hand with an aluminum spoon. His appetizer soup is served in a porcelain bowl from China.
He stirred and said softly: "In the fifties and sixties of the last century, when the French Emperor Napoleon III dined, he used aluminum cutlery. At the time, it was considered a symbol of luxury, but now, aluminium is a commonplace to be found. ”
Lin Han hid and watched the cult leader Derek's "pretending performance" with envy, and only hated that he had no physical body, and he couldn't go down in person to do this kind of thing of smashing people in the face with diamonds and pretending to be forced.
Old Oppenheimer said coldly: "Your diamonds are all man-made!" ”
"But they're no different from natural diamonds, or even better!"
Derek picked up the diamond wine glass in front of him, shone it at the ceiling light, squinted his eyes slightly, and said, "The chemical composition of diamonds is carbon, and it's just carbon." For diamond merchants, sometimes chemists are disgusting. ”
Oppenheimer Sr. said, "You're not a chemist......"
He squinted at Derek's face, the German in front of him was no more than thirty years old, his background he had already investigated, and he didn't believe that he had the ability to turn carbon into diamonds. Old Oppenheimer checked, and he knew that there were people behind him, and those who were hiding behind the scenes were what he was afraid of.
Derek was noncommittal, looking at the red droplets in the wine glass, with a fanatical and obsessive expression in his eyes: "Half a year ago, the jewelry business I invested in went bankrupt, and I was in debt at that time, and I was so desperate that I was about to jump into the sea and die. But fate did not abandon me, and I met a great being, who gave me a second chance. ”
The elder Oppenheimer's interest was piqued.
"The Great Deposit?"
Derek said, "He's the one Iris." Tifa: "The real boss of the company, I just stood at the front desk and ran errands for him. ”
"Who is he? I want to see him! ”
Derek didn't answer directly, and said to himself: "The ability of a merchant is to sell the straw at the price of gold. And the scientist's ability is to make gold at the cost of straw. The great staker behind me, he is not a scientist, but he has the ability to make gold for the price of straw. Just ......"
Derek's eyes changed, and he said something that made Oppenheimer of all ages feel relevant: "For luxury merchants, the greatest tragedy in history is that aluminum, which once cost more than gold, was sold at a price as cheap as potatoes." Such a tragedy should not be repeated, you say? ”
Three days later, when Oppenheimer, the monopoly of the diamond industry, left with a few small gifts made of diamonds, the two sides were largely satisfied with the outcome of the negotiations. Lin Han was co-opped with Delbys' huge sales channel, and he only needed to provide a certain number of diamonds every year, so that he could sit at home and enjoy a share of the money, while Delbys was promised an unlimited supply of cheap and high-quality diamonds and exclusive sales rights.
The capitalist economic crisis, which has already begun, will lead to a sharp drop in the price of diamonds in the coming years. In order to make a lot of money before the crash, the two sides decided to hold a "Crystal Palace" auction conference in the near future after negotiations. Based on the standard of this reception of Oppenheimer and his son, a more luxurious and extravagant "Diamond Palace" was created. The unscrupulous capitalists and the diamond "mass-producers" colluded in a ruthless manner, and Oppenheimer and his sons appealed to "Iris. The company ordered a large high-grade diamond and planned to name it the "Star of Atlantis", which was far superior in appearance and quality to the "Star of Africa" embedded in the scepter of the British king.
On the surface, the negotiation was a win-win situation, but in reality, both sides were smiling, talking kindly, and hiding sharp edges. Oppenheimer and his son never asked who Derek's boss was, and Derek only promised that if the two sides could work together for a year, his backstage boss would come out to meet with him.
Although Oppenheimer and his son were dissatisfied, they were helpless to be controlled by others, and he would definitely intensify his investigation afterwards and crack down on the idea of a "diamond synthesis factory" that did not exist at all. The technology that Derek has in his hands to synthesize diamonds is a deadly threat to diamond merchants. It is impossible for them to be so controlled by the fate of the Diamond Dynasty, and small actions in private are absolutely indispensable.
Lin Han is not afraid of what they will do, for him selling diamonds is almost a business, if the Deer Bis company dares to mess around, he will dare to flip the table, and when the time comes, a large number of diamonds will be dumped in the market at the price of cabbage, and the world-renowned Delbis Diamond Dynasty will only cry.
Of course, this kind of upslapping the table and harming people is not good for him. This is the last resort, and the nuclear bomb has always been the most powerful when it is on the shelf. Old Oppenheimer was no longer happy, and before he could come up with a countermeasure, he could only pinch his nose and admit it. Time is on Lin Han's side, and soon his forces will be tied to the mustache. As long as the mustache comes to power, there will be a whole Germany as the backing at that time, Oppenheimer's diamond dynasty looks scary, but it is just a scary paper tiger.
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