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After returning from New York, Francis was much more polite to Situ Nan, and the two sides have been working closely together. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the biquge.info of Wèn Aishang Novel Network)

For a guy with unlimited potential like Situ Nan, Francis wants to tie himself to the other party's big tree, cooperate with the strong, and have a good relationship with the other party, Francis is confident that the Francis family will definitely have a place in the rising California consortium in the future.

The attentive Francis had carefully estimated Situan's fortune and came to the conclusion that he shuddered—before he knew it, a consortium was beginning to rise in California. Although this is a vague prototype, the outline is becoming clearer and stronger.

Although most people don't know it now, they can't hide it from those who have a heart. The last time he was in New York, Francis was surprised when he learned that Stuart and Robles had attended a meeting of the Wall Street forces organized by Morgan.

The Pirate Ship Conference was extremely secret, and there were only a handful of humanists in the United States, among whom were Francis's associates. Otherwise, it didn't matter at all, and Francis wouldn't have been able to get an order for a battleship from the Admiralty lightly.

So this time he planned to cooperate with Situ Nan, and he also decided that after the shipbuilding industry had passed the prosperous days of these years, Francis's family's industry would turn to other industries. He has his eye on electronics, electrical and banking.

Situ Nan didn't know what Francis had in mind, and when he heard that it was so simple, he got a shipbuilding base with unlimited potential on the west coast of the United States, (San Diego has better shipbuilding conditions than San Francisco, and General Dynamics' shipyard headquarters is located in San Diego. Not to mention $2 million, $20 million Situ Nan is willing to give. Although it's not worth the money yet.

Situ Nan must encircle the important shipbuilding base in the future before the eastern consortium moves westward, and as for the shipbuilding industry in the east, Situ Nan has never counted on it.

"Alright! As you say! I can exchange the shares that the other party wants. But how can we work together with the new shipyard? Situ Nan said. This time, he didn't want Francis to take the lead anyway.

There was silence on the other end of the line, and after a while Francis said, "I can't talk to you, you thief has money." Well, I want 30% of the shares, and the rest is yours, but on one condition, the San Diego shipyard will be managed by me. ”

Situ Nan thought about it for a while, and felt that he had taken advantage of it, and it was nothing for the shipyard to be handed over to Francis for management, anyway, he had experience, and Situ Nan did not have a suitable candidate in his hands, so he didn't think much about it, and Situ Nan agreed.

"Deal! My friend, I have to say, you are so generous. Situ Nan said sincerely. As for how much the other party can feel, only God knows. However, Francis is so knowledgeable, Situ Nan thought that he would take care of this guy if there was something good in the future. It's hard to get fat alone!

"Don't be happy, it's going to take a lot of money to upgrade the new shipyard! I estimate that it will cost at least two or three million dollars to get on a 5,000-ton slipway, and 5 million dollars to get on a 10,000-ton slipway. But this money depends on you, and I can't draw so much cash here for the time being, so I can only use some equipment and talents to buy shares. The rest of the delay is not enough. Francis said. That's true.

"Get on the 10,000-ton slipway! I'll do my best to send you the money. For the first $2 million, you can go to the Union Bank of California for a loan, and I'll say hello to them. Situ Nan said.

Well, I didn't expect to come back and answer a phone call, and millions of dollars were spent. It's well spent!

As early as 1914, Stuart and Robles took advantage of the absence of financial market turmoil at the outbreak of World War I to fish in troubled waters and speculate, which turned out to be a great success.

By chance, Situ Nan acquired a 60% stake in Union Bank of California in San Francisco.

(For more information, please refer to Chapter 17, "The Nouveau Se", with minor modifications made by Pu Su)

In the past two years, although he has paid little attention to the bank, he knows the general situation. Thanks to the rise of manufacturing in California, the bank is also doing well, and its total assets have doubled from $5 million to $10 million, and the momentum is growing.

After lending $2 million to the San Diego shipyard, Mr. Stuart estimated that Union Bank of California might be overwhelmed with other businesses.

However, it is also expected, Situ Nan plans to integrate the bank after he goes back after he is busy for a while.

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The other end of the phone. San Francisco office.

Francis put down the microphone, feeling a little complicated, and he said: "I hope I am not mistaken!" But I didn't lose anything, but I made it. ”

His eyes fell on the wall clock on the wall, on which the minute hand had almost completed half a circle, and suddenly something came to mind, and Francis's face changed - "Fack! My phone bill! Damn Western Union Telephone Company! Those bitches raised them, this time I'm happy! ”。

Situ Nan couldn't see Francis's expression, otherwise he would be happy.

The call, which ran from San Francisco on the West Coast to Detroit in the Great Lakes region, is a historic interstate conference call if history is any longer documented, with only two protagonists: Francis and Stuart.

But it was Francis who did pay, and he had just made an outstanding contribution to the business of the telephone company. I wonder if the phone company will give a discount to a generous customer like him?

Two years ago, there was a piece of news about telephone communication, and it caused a sensation in the United States at that time! It is said that on January 25, 1915, the first interregional telephone line was opened between New York and San Francisco.

It used 2,500 tons of copper wire, 130,000 poles and countless loading coils, with three vacuum tube amplifiers along the way to strengthen the signal.

One can imagine how expensive the phone bill was at that time. In recent years, not only Situ Nan's industry has been developing rapidly, but the speed of the eastern consortia is not bad at all, as far as the American Telephone and Telegraph Company is concerned! The key members of the Morgan consortium have been able to connect the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States, and the installed base of telephones is growing at a rate of two or three hundred thousand units per year.

There is also the famous Bell Shi yàn room, Situ Nan can only look at it, and it seems that it can only be like this.

Francis is probably all green by now, right? Situ Nan thought with a smile. Well, he was so happy.

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Situ Nan didn't expect a phone call from San Francisco to have so many stories behind it. Although he didn't know it at the time, when he returned to Los Angeles a few months later, he was touched by the changes in California.

Now he just feels that since coming to Detroit, he has been distracted by other things, and his planned car company has not been completed.

Life is like this, we are sometimes brought into another fork by some sudden accidents, and when we return to the original point, we find that we have come full circle.

Looking through the glass window, there are still some idle Detroit people on the street who are passionately denouncing the Germans, who have been shouting and killing in the streets for days. His noise made Situ Nan have to guess, this guy can't be a "**"?

It is also difficult to say that in the past two years, Britain and France have hired many people to smear the Germans in the United States, and some idle people who are sore or call themselves freedom fighters do not work hard and earn more money to support their families, but talk all day long, propagating sloganism that is worthless in Situ Nan's eyes.

Regardless, unrestricted submarines were always a watershed moment in World War I. Next up is the Zimmerman leak, right? Situ Nan thought.

Now that they have offended the Americans, the granite-headed generals of the German Army Staff are probably trying to make trouble for the Americans, and they want the Americans to have no time to take care of them, so that they can buy some time for the Germans to concentrate on dealing with European affairs, at least to kill the Russians, and the polar bears that were once known as the European gendarmes or the European steamrollers are almost out of blood.

The Germans only needed to lightly stab the wound and the obstructive guy would fall, so that the Germans could concentrate their forces on a decisive battle with the British and French.

The German guy who jumped over the wall in a hurry finally mustered up the courage to pinch the balls of Uncle Sam in the United States. They thought Mexico would be thrown into trouble by the United States in order to buy time for their operations in Europe.

"Sure enough, it's a German guy who goes to the end in black, and it seems that the Germanic Hans have always been such a tendon, and they don't look back if they don't break through the south wall." Situ Nan muttered.

In fact, everyone knows that it is not that the Germans are not afraid of death, but that they will die sooner or later, it is just a matter of time. Even if he didn't fight hard, the final result would be bad. To be honest, Situ Nan also sympathized with the unfortunate bitter boy of the Germans.

The general context of history is imprinted in Situ Nan's mind, and he is thinking about how he can profit from it?

Why don't you send someone to Europe to join in the fun? It's okay to go in the name of a volunteer, anyway, the volunteer thing has been used by the Americans.

Oh, by the way, I don't know what happened to the Germans that Gedas went to collect the German merchant ships? If we don't hurry up, all the German merchant ships stranded in the United States will be confiscated by the White House. Even if you can buy it cheaply, it will cost you a lot.

Hey! Situ Nan thought proudly as he picked up the phone.

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