Almost immediately, Morgan's spokesman dismissed rumors that Ms. Avery 61 Dupont had been aboard the Corsair. In the statement, Morgan stated that he and Scrooge had always been best friends and that he had not, and had no need or possibility, to be involved in the plot to assassinate Scrooge. As for some of the problems that MacDonald Ventures is currently encountering, it is not because of his conspiracy, but because of the influence of the market itself. At the same time, he also pointed out that although the assassination of Mr. Scrooge 61 MacDonald was a very evil and illegal act, and such an act should be dealt with, such a blow should rely on law and order in order for justice. Rather than resorting to violence that counters violence.

Such a statement was of course refuted by the McDonald consortium, which seems to have temporarily become united after the attack on McDonald Ventures. First, Carroll mildly stated that he believed that the rumors that Morgan was involved in the assassination of his brother Scrooge 61 MacDonald were nonsense. But on the other hand, he also believes that the recent credit rating downgrade of MacDonald Ventures Bank is very abnormal.

"The companies under the MacDonald consortium are doing very well. All of our businesses, including McDonald Ventures, are profitable. And our company is well-funded, and there is no risk of the so-called capital chain breaking. Those who want to take advantage of the fire are completely miscalculated. ”

Although many depositors have begun to transfer their deposits out of MacDonald Ventures, this is far from enough to shake the capital chain of the Macdonald consortium. In the underground treasury of Duck Fort alone, there are tens of millions of dollars worth of gold. Moreover, the various companies under the MacDonald consortium are doing quite well, and if there are no major development projects, they do not need much liquidity support. At this time, the overall good business situation became an important weapon for the MacDonald consortium and its own. The attack on McDonald's Ventures is not completely ineffective, but it will take quite a while to really get results. And, even if it did, it would only be a recipe for the MacDonald consortium to shrink rather than collapse.

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"I've said it a long time ago, you're in too much of a hurry." Morgan told his allies, "We should keep waiting until Dorothea and Carol fall apart completely." But ......"

Morgan did not go any further, because he knew that it was necessary to mention the mistakes of his allies who acted against his will, because it would make everyone realize that he Morgan was the smartest of all, and that his influence in the alliance would increase further in the future. And his allies will also feel more and more that those who believe in Morgan will be profitable, and those who do not believe will inevitably be punished by the market. In this way, although he does not have the absolute power brought by equity in this alliance, he can also rely on his rising prestige to control and command forces far beyond his own capital.

But it would be unwise to make too many mistakes about allies. In this alliance, Morgan does not have an absolute financial advantage, and his own capital accounts for less than 10% of the entire alliance. In this way, it is not necessarily a good thing to be too mean to remind allies that you are all stupid.

Morgan once compared himself to Scrooge in a casual conversation. At the time, he said this:

"In terms of the ability to use capital alone, Scrooge is far from me. However, Scrooge is still a better guy than me. Because Scrooge was good at building. Among the wisdom of a qiē, the wisdom of construction is the highest. ”

"Mr. Morgan, what are we going to do?" One ally asked.

"What happens if we pause our operations against McDonald Ventures?" Morgan asked.

"Maybe without our pressure, the conflict between Dorothea and Carol would have flare-up again, right?" One person said.

"They're not that stupid, are they? Although the question of interest is bound to create contradictions in the long run. But with the lessons we learned, they will definitely come to a compromise. Therefore, it is also unrealistic to expect them to clash again as soon as we stop. Another said.

Everyone talked about it for a long time, and finally, everyone turned their eyes to Morgan.

"It's definitely not going to work now." "Now that we're done, we're giving the McDonald consortium time to complete internal consolidation and safely shrink its operations," Morgan said. Even so, the MacDonald consortium may still withdraw some of the market to us, but it will leave us far less profit than if it were to collapse. ”

So, what do we do? The MacDonald consortium has a huge gold mine in its hands, and this gold mine alone can provide them with a lot of hard currency. Even if we crack down on McDonald Ventures now, it won't be a fatal blow to the McDonald consortium. They can still shrink the line steadily. ”

"Now, we can only start with the second core of the MacDonald consortium." "Our efforts at McDonald Ventures are not without results," Morgan said. Under normal circumstances, the McDonald consortium will indeed not have the problem of tight capital chains. But what if we create something unconventional? ”

"What do you mean?"

"The University of Cleveland is now definitely the number one in the United States in terms of science and engineering. Even if you put it in the world, it is already first-class. What is the main factor for the development of science and engineering, especially the development of engineering, which can be turned into money immediately? ”

"Genius scientist?" One person said.

"The right direction of study?" The other said, and then he added, "Mr. Morgan, don't sell it, just tell me your answer." ”

"Haha, in fact, your answer is not wrong. But you're ignoring another thing that's more relevant to our job, and that's money. "Ten years ago, it was possible for someone to get along with a good idea and make a fortune out of it. Just like when Scrooge designed the rear loading step. Guns. But now, it's getting harder and harder. The bar for epoch-making inventions is getting higher and higher.? As various studies go deeper, the various equipment required for research is also more and more expensive.

For example, ten years ago, when we were building ships, the choice of the alignment of the ships was almost entirely based on experience. And nowadays, without large pools, without a large number of model tests, determining the alignment of a boat is almost like a joke. And those ships built entirely on experience, because of the disadvantage in performance, have no market competitiveness at all. In the case of my Corsair, for example, it took hundreds of various models and tons of paper to calculate just to determine its linear shape. More than $100,000 was spent. As you all know, the MacDonald consortium made a lot of money by radio. But you know that one of the key technologies in this -- the vacuum tube -- cost almost a million dollars in research costs. When the University of Cleveland's room was built, it only cost more than $100,000,000, but with the development of these years, the McDonald Consortium's investment in fixed assets here has approached $10 million. If you count the research investments that come and go, you don't know what kind of number it is. But I'm sure it must be an astronomical amount. Without the support of this money, the University of Cleveland would not have been able to develop into the best science and engineering school in the United States and the world today. And its academic journal, Science, is unlikely to develop into a professional journal that can almost be compared to Nature.

Today, our attack on McDonald Ventures is most likely to affect the University of Cleveland's room. I don't know exactly how many research programs were underway by the MacDonald consortium prior to the attack on Scrooge, or how they were going. But I believe that Mr. Scrooge'61 Mr. MacDonald is not the kind of guy who will stop the flow of profits. All along, he has relied on the superiority of technology to crush the enemy, and his investment in technology must be quite large. While his own astonishing sensitivity to technology makes it less and less likely that the investment will go wrong, the expense must also be significant. And now, Scrooge is 'unconscious'. It was not so easy for the MacDonald family to continue the Scrooge-era research program. Continuing to maintain Scrooge's R&D program under the control of these guys will greatly reduce the efficiency and cost more money. Because whether it is Dorothea, or Carol, or Rockefeller, they are all staggeringly different from Scrooge in their understanding and intuition of technology. This, by the way, is also the reason why it is difficult for others to imitate Scrooge's model.

So, I'm sure the MacDonald consortium will definitely cut back on research projects in order to save money on research. And Scrooge's 'coma' also made it possible for us to enter this field. I think that now, on the one hand, we must continue to suppress the financing ability of MacDonald Venture Bank, and on the other hand, we will start to establish our own R&D institutions, and use various means to poach those R&D personnel under the McDonald consortium. This is especially true for R&D personnel who understand the key technologies involved. Perhaps this is the biggest benefit we can get from this incident. Morgan concluded.