In general, if you take into account the possible rise in oil prices in the future, then the Germans will definitely make a lot of money on this deal. However, Scrooge did not see it that way, because he knew that in a few years, a world war would break out. By that time, the property of the Germans in the United States will all be frozen, and then what will happen is simply needless to say.

Of course, the Germans did not fail to take this risk into account. It's just that at the time, apart from Scrooge's core and the gang of sub-Marxists, few people really thought that there would be an uncontrollable global war. Most of them feel that war can be controlled, and they do not feel that war is imminent and inevitable. Moreover, even if they were aware of the danger of war, the Germans did not feel that it was a loss-making business. If Germany had won the war, German interests in Alaska would have been respected by governments around the world, including the U.S. government. If, on the other hand, Germany loses, what is that little loss in Alaska? Moreover, the agreement will bring Germany and the United States closer together. In today's political environment, any proximity between the United States and Germany increases the Germans' say in front of the British.

Of course, now the two parties have reached only one intention, which also means that if necessary, both parties can use this letter of intent as toilet paper without burden. Thus, it provides an opportunity for some countries to undermine that intention. For example, Britain was very dissatisfied with this cooperation intention, and the British government even made an appointment to meet with the US ambassador for this purpose.

The US ambassador is inextricably linked with MacDonald, and in fact, there is no official who is an ambassador in those important countries who does not have the shadow of a big business behind him, and even, in the American tradition, ambassadors or other things are originally auctioned off at a clear price. When a person wants to run in an election, he will raise donations from big corporations to form his campaign team, and many of the people in their campaign team are directly from those big corporations. When he succeeded in becoming president, he had the power to form a cabinet, and at this time, the representatives of the consortium that had supported him would enter the cabinet and share power. In order to avoid giving the impression of collusion between officials and businessmen that are too obvious, in general, people from big conglomerates do not go directly to the government cabinet. At this point, the position of diplomats becomes an immediate reward for their support. Of course, the more important the position of a diplomat, the more valuable the position of the ambassador of a country with which trade is more valuable.

Of course, the American ambassador is responsible for the United States, and of course he knows that the British are very strong, and if the British want to make trouble for the Americans, they can really do it, after all, being a-stirring stick is the specialty of the British Empire. But he's not just the U.S. ambassador, he's a member of the MacDonald consortium, so he's certainly loyal to the interests of the United States, but he's even more loyal to MacDonald's interests.

So the US ambassador said that these are all free market behaviors, and he does not think there is anything wrong with such behaviors, and that it is the freedom of the American people to do business with whomever the Americans want to do business with. The brave American people will never back down when it comes to asserting their freedom. Of course, the United States also has positive goodwill towards Britain (although the American people and the British people say that they do not believe it at all), and if the British are also interested in the development of Alaska, he thinks it would be better for the British to talk directly to McDonald Ventures.

The British understood very well that the Americans wanted to put them and the Germans against each other in order to get better terms. That is, those damned Yankees are going to use the British as gunmen. However, it does not hurt to be a gun at this time, and if this deal cannot be stopped, then it is always good to let the Germans suffer a little more in this deal. It wasn't long before a British development bank stepped in and demanded the right to develop Alaskan oil. And so the rivals of the Germans appeared.

In fact, both the Germans and the Americans understood that the British were here to be-stirring sticks, but the Americans deliberately pretended not to know, and used the British conditions all day long to make the Germans give in. In the end, when the agreement was formally reached, although the general appearance did not change, the Germans still made concessions on some issues, the most important of which was the limitation of the speed of development.

For Germany, in a sense, as long as it has a large oil field in its hands, it does not even need large-scale development, so that the price of oil in the international market will not bully the Germans too much. Therefore, in order to avoid the phenomenon of developers hoarding land similar to that that which appeared in China in later generations, that is, not developing but waiting for the price to rise, the formal contract also made corresponding provisions for the annual investment of both parties in Alaska. So, shortly after the contract was signed, the development of Alaska began.

The development of Alaska is first and foremost the expansion of the port. Because with the throughput capacity of the existing port, it is basically impossible to guarantee the construction of Alaska. Such a large expansion can certainly bring a lot of business. To this end, the Germans and MacDonald Ventures conducted a separate tender for their respective regions. Both tenders were for global companies, but in fact everyone understands that the other companies used to be just studying with the prince. There is no doubt that the companies that won the bid in the end are German companies on the German side, and MacDonald Ventures is a group of companies that are close to MacDonald.

The first to benefit are the steel companies and the shipping sector. At this time, Scrooge lost no time in introducing the concept of container ships. Compared with the general bulk carrier, the goods are loaded into containers first, and then sent to the port for loading by rail or road, such loading and unloading methods, so that the speed of loading is greatly improved, before that, those scattered goods in transit, to reload and unload many times, each loading and unloading involves the arrangement of the position of each item, fixing and a series of things. In the case of a large number of containers, on the train or car, you only need to directly put the large standard size box on it, and then fix it all at once. When it comes to the wharf, with a special container carrier, there is no need to carefully study the location, space, center of gravity or anything for various goods, and it is enough to lift the container to the corresponding position one by one with a crane directly according to the position of the set container. In this way, in the process of loading and unloading, time and manpower have been greatly saved, the original bulk carrier of about 10,000 tons, the loading time is often as long as one or two months, which is also one of the reasons why the size of the cargo ship will not exceed 10,000 tons, if it is also like an oil tanker to make a 50,000 tons out, I am afraid that it will take almost half a year to load the ship, and then add the time on the road, it is really daylily that has been planted several stubble. Nowadays, a 10,000-ton container ship can be loaded or unloaded in just a few days, which greatly reduces the time for such ships to complete a transportation cycle, and the shorter the voyage, the more obvious this reduction is. For example, on the route to the United Kingdom, the actual sailing time across the Atlantic Ocean is only half a month, but the loading or unloading time can be a month, and nowadays, container ships have compressed the loading and unloading time to about a week, even taking into account the maintenance time, a container ship can run at least two round trips in a round trip time for a bulk carrier. In other words, one boat can be used as two boats.

As a result, as soon as this new type of ship appeared, almost all bulk carriers immediately became seriously obsolete. In addition, in the expansion project of the port in Alaska, because of the limited berths in the port, in order to improve the efficiency of use as much as possible, the port stipulates that after three months, no cargo ship can dock for more than 8 days. As a result, non-container ships have all but lost the right to call at Alaskan ports. And everyone knows that in addition to the expansion of the port, there will be a series of large projects involved, including the construction of railways, the development of oil wells, and the assumption of oil pipelines, which are very large projects that will bring a lot of profits. Moreover, this project will not be completed in a short period of time, and the entire construction time may take ten years. This means that it is absolutely too late to start ordering container ships now. It is even too late to start renovating or even building slipways, and then building container ships. And even if you don't consider Alaska, just consider the high efficiency brought by the container ship itself, in order to make more money in the competition, it is imperative for those shipping companies to replace the old bulk carrier in their hands with a container ship. So the wave of container ships, as well as the construction of slipways, began.

Due to the limited area of Alaska's ports, a large part of which is reserved for those supertankers, so the space left for cargo ships is limited, so only about 10,000 tons of cargo ships can be berthed here, although with the emergence of container ships, the tonnage of cargo ships reaching tens of thousands of tons is no longer unimaginable. But this restriction has made it difficult for shipowners who are eyeing Alaska's business to make any supercargo ideas. At the same time, most of the world's ports also lack oversized berths, and the existing berths only need to be slightly rebuilt to dock container ships, so under such conditions, container ships of about 10,000 tons have become the best choice, so most of the new slipways are also for such ship types.

"Dad, you see, this is the situation of the newly built slipway in the United States recently, there are already 9 new 10,000-ton slipways, and there will be more slipways to start construction in the future. In addition, this is the number of orders that McDonald Steel has received in the past month, and the number of orders has increased by 30 percent, which has exceeded our maximum output, so all orders need to be postponed. Do you think we need to get McDonald Steel to expand production? Greystone proudly said to Scrooge with a large pile of reports.