Since they decided to invite the old bush out of the mountain and let him serve as a consultant for "House of Cards", while leaving the UK, the little couple also set their destination as Washington, and wanted to talk to the little bush about their needs through an interview.

However, when Roland contacted the middleman Henry Rumsfeld, hoping that he could match the bridge, the guy who came to pick him up gave him a head-on blow, and put the 'impossible' response in front of Roland.

Of course, if it's just that, then Roland can only be angry, and then scratch his head to find the next target, but the problem is that while giving a negative answer, the current Minister of Defense also came up with a reasonable explanation.

He took a sip of the water glass in front of him, the moist touch cheered him up in the confined space, put down the water glass and leaned back, the white light in the dim conference room lit up the surroundings at the same time, but also put a cold and false coat on the surrounding utensils, making Roland feel that the old man in front of him was joking with himself for a certain moment.

"Henry." Clearing his thoughts, Roland finally spoke, "You mean, George is being besieged by the Donkey Party?" ”

“No。” Faced with Roland's inquiry, Henry Rumsfeld shook his head and corrected: "It's all of us who are being besieged by the Donkey Party. Moreover, it was not George who was slammed, but Dick. ”

So far? Do you seem to feel that your words are ambiguous? But it's more like trying to correct the preconceived notions in Roland's brain, before the words fall? And he added? "But whoever gets the bashing, the nature of the whole thing? That's all the same. While the matter is still unresolved, we? It is impossible to have any cooperation with the Donkey Party. ”

The firm words made Roland nod? While holding his head high and thinking about it seriously, the events that Henry Rumsfeld had previously described were also in his head? Constant replay.

That's right!

When Roland wants to gather the power of the old bush and the zipper? When the drama "House of Cards" was put on the horse and made it the only one that no one dared to investigate, the donkey was like the two parties, but they were tearing up like crazy.

The crux of the problem, isn't it the September 11 incident that has been happening for months? Not to mention the war on terror that broke out because of this, but the thunderstorm that only occurred two months ago? Enron, who filed for bankruptcy a month ago.

As mentioned earlier, the energy company Enron in Houston, Texas? Was a die-hard supporter of Little Bush, during Little Bush as governor of Texas? Have they already made a deal of interest with them? And after the announcement of the candidacy in the small bush? They even contributed large sums of money to each other's accounts, and like Ted Turner, the majority shareholder of Time Warner, they frantically waved the flag for the little bush.

It is precisely because of this public support that after Xiao Bush took office, he also took advantage of the situation to enact various policies to help the consortium behind him make profits.

However, because energy is a strategic resource of a country, and oil is directly linked to the US dollar in global trade, how to favor energy giants has become the most troublesome thing in the small bush.

In order to ensure that his policies would not affect the status of the dollar, the following month after taking office, Little Bush ordered his deputy Dick Cheney to meet with the top management of more than 150 energy companies in America, hoping to help his supporters gain benefits as much as possible through the talks, while ensuring the overall situation.

And Enron, who supported the small bushes, naturally became the backbone of it.

In February and May last year, Dick Cheney had six public meetings with Enron's top brass in Washington, D.C., and not only that, but after the talks, Enron profited heavily from the energy policy enacted by Little Bush.

As a result, the stock price has soared.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of power-for-money transaction is the tacit consent of all parties to the rules of the game.

Because every president, that's what he does.

Take Zipper ton, for example, during his reign, Wall Street bankers were open to swallowing up major companies, Silicon Valley supporters got congressional authorization and expanded wildly, and the telecommunications bill, which had been between Hollywood and media companies for many years, was directly repealed by him, and this kind of thing to rewrite the law for the benefit of the consortium was easier for them than eating and drinking.

So, even if Little Bush changes the current policy specifically for the energy giants, that's no problem.

But......

Who bankrupted Enron?

If it was safe and sound, then the donkey party would not pull the pigtails of the small bushes anyway.

But An Ran announced accounting fraud and went bankrupt directly when he got a large amount of profits, so the donkey party felt that the second generation of the official Xiao Bush was breaking the rules of the game for everyone, and it was too much.

Under normal circumstances, while the president makes profits for the consortium, he can also grab the corresponding returns, but this kind of return is long-term, and it is no longer in office, just like Comrade Guanhai who mixed up in Hollywood after leaving office, the funds and resources provided to him by each family, and the propaganda given to him were all transactions in the previous policy tilt.

If a company embezzles resources and then goes bankrupt, it is equivalent to taking money directly from the treasury!

I'm not interested in money, I'm interested in the treasury?

Hold the grass!

Young man, you simply don't talk about martial arts!

As a result, the Donkey Party, which was extremely restrained in the 911 incident, could not bear it.

California Representative Henry Wackersman and Michigan Representative John Dingle directly charged in Congress, saying Dick Cheney, who had close ties to Enron, was responsible for the Enron case.

At the same time as they got started, Michigan Donkey Senator Carl Levine, Donkey Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, Donkey Senator Ernest Hollins of South Carolina, and Donkey Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota all asked the Little Bush government for information about Dick Cheney's meetings with various energy giants from February to May last year.

If the Little Bush government refuses, then they will sue the White House directly in the name of Congress.

The two sides have already started fighting, and they are about to duel with guns like cowboys!

In this situation, Roland still hopes that Old Bush and Zipper can stand together and endorse "House of Cards"?

Isn't this special code just whimsical?

Therefore, after meeting Roland, Henry Rumsfeld said that Roland came at the wrong time.

And when Roland sorted all this out, he suddenly felt that the stinky woman who had been with him was quite right.

Don't feel like you're sure to win, and you'll have time to wait for you.

Because you never know, the unexpected or tomorrow, which will come first.

"That's really unfortunate." After resuming the plate, Roland reopened his eyes and glanced at Kate from the corner of his eye, and found that the other party was pretending to be dead, and Roland knew that after going back, I was afraid that he would have to talk about it again.

But being talked about is actually a trivial matter.

Because......

"In other words, right now, the Enron case is the top priority in your hands?"

Roland looked at Henry Rumsfeld for a definite answer.

In fact, he originally wanted to ask if he couldn't get the support of the other party before the Enron case was resolved, but after considering that it was a bit silly to ask a straightforward question, and that he could refer to everything with a top priority, the insinuating words naturally came out.

"Enron?" And after hearing his inquiry, Henry Rumsfeld also nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Okay, that looks like I'm going to have to change my target."

How else can we say that capital is compromised?

Knowing that "House of Cards" may be the best weapon for DreamWorks to show its strength at the moment, Roland still wants to give up, because even if it is abandoned and found in other places, it will incur a lot of costs, but if it is pushed strongly, the resistance is actually greater.

In the former, at most, it is a waste of time and money.

And the latter, that is to settle the fight between the two parties.

Which is more difficult?

This problem can be solved with the sole of the foot.

However, just as Roland was about to get up and say goodbye, wanting to relay the regrettable news to Steven Spielberg, and at the same time to appease the other party and go down in person to find a replacement project, Henry Rumsfeld, who was sitting opposite him, suddenly called out to him, "Change the target? Why did you make such a decision? ”

Hearing this, Roland felt that there was something in the other party's words.

But he ......

Reluctant to listen.

He will never treat a politician as a white lotus, let alone ask them for any information in the way he treats his own people, because he understands that all the inside stories have been marked by the other party before they are told, but only after he listens, he will see the final label, this kind of forced buying and selling is not an act that he can accept, and the things that are shoehorned in by others through forced buying and selling are also some things that others think he cannot buy.

Case......

It would be better to refuse the deal from the start.

"Because, in the case of not being able to invite George and William at the same time, the project of "House of Cards" has no value."

Roland said honestly, "So, I can only change the target." ”

"Hahaha~"

Henry Rumsfeld laughed and agreed with his sincere and unpretentious words, and after discovering that Roland did not take the initiative to enter the pit, he was not embarrassed to have something to say, but cut straight to the topic, "But in fact, this problem can be solved, right?" ”

"But the price can be very high." Roland was blunt.

"But if you don't understand, you'll miss it." Henry Rumsfeld opened his mouth to retort.

"But as soon as you understand it, you have to join." Roland shrugged with a smile, "I hate passivity, I don't believe you ask my wife." ”

When Roland brought the topic to Kate, Kate, who had been pretending to be a wooden man next to her, suddenly came back to her senses and said to Henry Rumsfeld with a smile: "Oh, Henry, please don't care, he's such a guy who can't talk about things properly!"

He can't tell the occasion, so he always pulls in other things that don't make sense when talking about serious topics! ”

At the same time, she also turned her head to glare at Roland and reprimanded, "Are you normal?"

Not everything can be said outside! ”

After being glared at by Kate, Roland's face also flashed with surprise, and while expressing apology, he also spread his hands at Henry Rumsfeld, signaling that he was not joking.

The singing and harmony between the young couple was seen by Henry Rumsfeld.

Although Roland and Kate's ridiculous behavior was very naïve in his eyes, the resistance conveyed made him squeeze out a helpless smile, and instead of dwelling on this meaningless topic, he forcibly brought out the topic and showed it rudely in front of Roland, who was unwilling to listen, "Actually, we did have deals with those energy companies."

But the core of the deal is not Enron's main business, electricity and natural gas, but oil. ”

When Henry Rumsfeld recklessly said about their insider trading with the energy giants, Roland's eyes narrowed instinctively, because he hated this kind of unruly table lifting, but when the word 'oil' fell into his ears, he frowned again when he wanted to stop the forced exit, because he smelled something abnormal.

This performance was also keenly captured by Henry Rumsfeld, and after finding that what he was telling aroused Roland's curiosity, he continued: "How important oil is to us, I think you should know very well that as a synonym for industry, we can no longer do without it.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, when we began to export oil, this resource has become the foundation of our expansion.

Because of our export trade, resulting in the dollar and oil pegged, and with the increase of our production year after year, countries around the world are also accustomed to using the dollar for oil transactions, when the international demand for dollars gradually increases, the proportion of the dollar in international settlements will also increase accordingly, and we can issue dollars, we can naturally dominate world trade.

Therefore, to maintain the pricing and trading power of oil is to safeguard the status of the dollar. ”

Speaking of this, Henry Rumsfeld suddenly laughed, "But you also know that it is very difficult to fully control the pricing and trading power of a commodity in the market.

As an inherent resource, we can't force Blizzard's games to Xbox like you to make global profits, because we are just one of many countries that can produce oil.

In this case, when Saudi Arabia issued an oil ban in 1973, we instantly fell into passivity, and this passivity was not because we could not continue to sell oil, but because we lost the pricing power and trading power, and the dollar fell into passivity in global trade, so the global economy was also greatly affected.

At that time, we chose to use force to solve this matter, and then we still used force to solve all this, but the problem is that the cost of using force is too high, George's father, even more passively used force after the economic weakness and pulled down, so how to use force while increasing the control of pricing power and trading power, has become what we have to do, and re-becoming the world's largest oil producer, is obviously the best solution.

But you know, increasing oil production is not an easy thing to do, and when most oil wells are running at full capacity, we have to increase the point, and there is only one point, and that is that it was stopped by the Atomic Energy Commission many years ago.

Shale oil. ”