"Marlboro has gained a foothold in the United States, and the promotion of ESSE is steadily progressing, and when Ingrid Bergman's movie is released, it will definitely be as popular as Marlboro in the United States! Now is the time to think about expanding into the global market! George said ambitiously.

"Just in time to occupy the European market at a time when British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco and Calaich have not yet recovered their breath, we can provide channels." Philip followed suit by saying that both the California Consortium and the Rockefeller Consortium were a significant part of the European reconstruction plan, with operations throughout Western Europe.

"That's what I think, too." In addition to the formal channels, the smuggling channels established by Shen Long can also play a huge role, and now there are European underground world leaders who have come to ask him for Marlboro, and Marlboro has also spread to Europe with Johnny's movie, and even Sicilian Tommasino has proposed a plan to represent this brand in Sicily.

"I'll leave this to Tom, let your people go to Las Vegas and talk to Tom! In addition, I would like to enter the Asian market, where the monopoly system of tobacco in Japan is in the hands of the Japan Monopoly Corporation under the Ministry of Finance, but I believe that we can convince General MacArthur that he will let us enter the Japanese market! If it were other products, Shen Long might not consider entering Japan, so as not to help the Americans in the war that would soon follow, but tobacco didn't matter, he wished that the U.S. military would smoke more.

"Haha." George and Philip laughed at the same time, MacArthur is an emperor-level existence in Japan, and he came forward, believing that the Ministry of Finance would not dare not agree, "He always has that corn pipe in his mouth, just need to send him a little tobacco leaves, and he will definitely agree to us." ”

"I'll go to Japan later and talk to MacArthur about these things." Shen Long went to Japan not only to let Marlboro and ESSE enter the Japanese market, but also to see the layout of the US military in the local area, although he has detailed historical information, but the information is information after all, and there is still a difference between it and reality.

"Once the schedule is set, tell me that I will have Mr. Dulles, Assistant Secretary of State, greet General MacArthur." Dulles has a close relationship with the Rockefeller family, and in the future he will serve as chairman of the Rockefeller consortium and become secretary of state two years later.

"Okay, I guess it won't be long." Of course, Shen Long also has his own channels, but it is certainly not as direct as Dulles, and the treatment in front of MacArthur by him is naturally different.

"Mike did a great job with Ike, Ike is going to give him some more work, you can get Mike ready, probably next year Ike will go to Europe, and then he will have to carry the job at Columbia." The two sides have cooperated very happily during this time, and George is also willing to do more for Shen Long.

Philip smiled and didn't speak, but he had already arranged for someone to help Reagan enter the political arena, he is currently in the leading position in the election of the California Congress, but this does not need to be said in front of Rockefeller's people, although they are now cooperating, but it is not without differences, in the military industry and finance, there is a lot of competition between the two major conglomerates.

After George and Philip left, Shen Long found out the information of the Japanese Monopoly Corporation, which held the monopoly rights of Japan's tobacco and salt industries, and had a high degree of monopoly on these goods, and raised a large amount of military expenses for the Japanese army during World War II; Later, due to the protests of foreign companies, the Japan Monopoly Corporation was reorganized into Japan Tobacco Corporation, becoming the world's third largest multinational tobacco company after Altria Group and British American Tobacco.

In 1999, Japan Tobacco spent a huge sum of $7.8 billion to acquire the international business of Reynolds Tobacco Company, so camel tobacco has also become a Japanese brand, in addition to many famous brands such as Yunston.

I'm afraid that it is difficult for Americans today to imagine that the camel smoke that they are so proud of will fall into the hands of Japan, right? But in this world, such a thing probably won't happen, and maybe it won't be long before the camel will be taken down by Shen Long's Altria company.

During World War II, the popular cigarettes in Japan were "Asahi", "Golden Bird" and other brands, which often appeared in various anti-Japanese dramas; However, after the war, the most popular cigarettes are the "Peace" brand cigarettes produced by the US military command, and the box of this cigarette has two birds printed on it, symbolizing the American bird high above, and the Japanese bird looking up to the United States below.

In other words, Shen Long wants to enter the Japanese market, not only to face the monopoly policy of the Japanese Monopoly Corporation, but also to face the competition of the US Garrison Command, but it doesn't matter, Heping Tobacco mainly occupies the high-end market, and he can use other companies to buy tobacco to make low-end cigarettes to enter the Japanese market.

After the United States ended its occupation of Japan in 1952, he took the cigarette of peace from the hands of the American army, and it was only three years before now.

After making preparations, Shen Long landed in Japan with Albert Nairy on a plane from the U.S. military, and now that the war has been over for several years, Tokyo has not yet recovered from the bombing of Li Mei, and there are ruins everywhere and workers cleaning up the ruins.

Most of the pedestrians on the street are yellow and thin, but Shen Long looks very comfortable in his heart, this is the end of provoking a war, but unfortunately another war will start soon, and Japan will also take this opportunity to break free from the shackles and restore the economy.

The jeeps driven by American GIs were rampaging through the streets, and the traffic policemen on the streets did not dare to pay attention to them at all, and they all cast awe-inspiring glances as they watched Shen Long follow them into the US military headquarters.

Here, Shen Long soon met MacArthur with a corn pipe in his mouth, Dulles's face was very effective, he met Shen Long at the first time, and Shen Long gave Charles tobacco as a gift.

MacArthur stuffed some into his pipe, which was built especially for him by the Missouri Sepiolite Company, the world's largest producer of corn cob pipes, and has now become MacArthur's trademark.

He was very satisfied with the tobacco sent by Shen Long, "Very good tobacco, I will smoke this in the future, remember to send more." Shen Long happily agreed, and with tobacco as an introduction, the two sides chatted happily, and soon got to the point, MacArthur asked, "What do you want to do when you come to Japan?" ”

When he heard that Shen Long wanted to sell cigarettes in Japan, MacArthur smiled, "Ha, now half a pack of cigarettes can change a woman in Japan, and they don't have the money to buy cigarettes." ”

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