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Bill Gates is also full of bitterness in the process of moving towards the privileged class, although he has a good foundation laid by his mother, it is still difficult for a new aristocrat like him to enter the top class, because it is the territory of those old conglomerates. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Like the lions of Africa, they firmly guard their own territory and will not tolerate others entering them easily, because their own competition is already cruel and fierce, and they really cannot tolerate others entering their ranks again.

Although Microsoft has not yet reached the level of a consortium, the high-speed development of the information industry is showing them the vigor contained in it, indicating that the next century in the future will be the century of the information industry, and the information industry is a world of innovation and ideas, but they no longer have these capabilities, and will only rely on capital and relations to operate.

Among the existing upper-level forces in the United States, the original five major consortia are all family-owned, and they all have their own fixed fields, such as Rockefeller for oil, Morgan for finance, Mellon for industry and mining, and DuPont for chemicals. The Boston consortium has long since ceased to be in the same position as it once was, being squeezed by other conglomerates.

The Cleveland Consortium, the California Consortium, the Chicago Consortium, and the Texas Consortium are all regional surnames, with the exception of only the Citi Consortium, but they also have their own fields.

Of course, in the cruel competition, some consortia gradually declined, and some gradually fell into the vassals of other consortia, such as the Chicago consortium, most of its industries were infiltrated and controlled by the two major consortia of Morgan and Rockefeller, and only a few companies were still controlled in their own hands.

Among these consortia, the vast majority of them are supported by finance and munitions, and they do not have too strong a force in the information industry, only the Morgan consortium has an IBM in its hands that is still a little involved in the information industry, and this time it is the Morgan consortium that is targeting Microsoft.

The Morgan consortium did not demand control of Microsoft, but demanded that Microsoft internally channel funds for the Ming Cook Party through the establishment of political action committees and funding funds, because in the United States, the law allows the acceptance of political donations, but there are strict restrictions on the amount, for example, if an individual, a specific person, whether it is a president or a congressman, can not donate more than $1,000 for a certain person, and for a political party, it cannot exceed $20,000 per election.

Companies or organizations are not allowed to contribute directly, but they can set up political action committees to raise funds, which is tantamount to bypassing the restrictions of the law, and for large companies like Microsoft, every political party is fighting for it.

But this request was rejected by Bill Gates, who did not want to get involved in politics, because he had already seen the muddle of politics from his mother, but the Morgan consortium could not be so unrestrained, in their opinion, Microsoft, with its six billion dollars in cash, was like a super cow, like a huge lump of honey that attracted them.

In the traditional enterprise situation, most enterprises rely on bank credit to develop, and the enterprises do not have much money in their hands, which also leads to the fact that these enterprises cannot do without the support of banks, and are slowly infiltrated and controlled by the consortium, while companies like Microsoft, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard do not let them circulate with a lot of cash in their hands.

In their view, this is a great waste, if the company has enough cash in hand, then no matter what changes in the short-term situation, the company can cope with it, whether it requires a large amount of investment or strategic acquisition, they have enough cash to complete, then there is no dependence on the banks in their hands, they can't make money, and they can't take the opportunity to control these companies.

But these companies have developed to a certain scale, and if they want to solve the impossible problem in an extraordinary way, they have to use various means to suppress them, and among them, the most disobedient is Microsoft, Intel also donates hundreds of thousands of dollars to the two political parties every year, and Microsoft is simply an iron rooster.

This kind of political donation is actually similar to protection money, it doesn't mean that if you donate to the Ming Cook Party, you can't donate to the Republican Party, you can donate this, the law does not restrict you from supporting two political parties, and Bill Gates is a little too idealistic in this regard, and he is a little young and vigorous.

The Morgan consortium originally wanted to gradually control Microsoft, but it did not expect that the first step was blocked, which completely annoyed the Morgan consortium, and immediately instructed the Ministry of Justice to file accusations, accusing Microsoft of monopoly and unfair competition.

At first, it was just an accusation, and no case was filed, but it was just to intimidate Microsoft, because once the crime of monopoly was established, the Mobil Oil Company, which was controlled by the Rockefeller family at that time, was also split into 43 companies, although the strength was not lost, but it also showed the power of this crime.

Including the later tobacco company case and the aluminum company case, they were all sentenced to monopolistic establishment and thus were broken up, while the steel company case and the IBM case against the Morgan consortium were unsuccessful, and only the American telegraph and telephone company case reached a settlement, which fully proved the strength and energy of the Morgan consortium in this regard.

As a result, Bill Gates didn't care about their intimidation at all, and the Morgan consortium was furious, and would rather destroy Microsoft than tolerate such a provocation to them, so Microsoft was officially filed, and just in the previous paragraph, the justice in charge of trying the monopoly case told the media that Microsoft would never escape the fate of being split, and the split plan came out, divided into two companies: the system and the application software.

Although Bill Gates only felt the seriousness of the matter at this time, he was never ready to bow to the other party, and would rather be split than accept the other party's request, anyway, the split was just to separate the company, and no one could deprive him of his shares, but he was very concerned about the reaction of the major shareholders, and he was afraid that the Morgan consortium would acquire enough shares in the hands of others to affect the company's decision-making, so as to take control away.

He initially thought that Su Ming wanted to sell his shares to the Morgan consortium at a high price, and he could only be relieved after coming here to communicate with Su Ming, but after talking about these situations, Su Ming persuaded him that any struggle is to win over one faction and fight another faction, since the Morgan consortium representing the Ming Cook Party is so faceless, then find the consortium behind the Republican Party.

In fact, there is no difference between the Ming Cook Party and the Republican Party, the political concepts of the two are basically the same, but the people who support them are slightly different, and the Republican Party's supporters are mainly Rockefeller, DuPont, Mellon, Citigroup, these conglomerates, after listening to Su Ming's advice, quickly contacted the Republican Party's forces, and the Republican Party also said that there is no need to worry at all, because in the end, it is necessary to see the truth in the appellate court, and the appellate court is controlled by the Republicans.

So two days ago, Gates personally called, saying that the appeals court had overturned Jackson's ruling, and Jackson himself would be dismissed, and a new pro-Republican person would try the monopoly case.

In this way, Gates is equivalent to really entering the privileged class of the United States, and after entering this class, he can be regarded as appreciating a different kind of scenery, and specially expressed his gratitude to Su Ming, and Gates's mother is on the side of the Ming Cooking Party, but Gates is on the Republican side, which is also a spectacle.

And now Su Ming is thinking that more than a hundred officials of sufficient level are already a very powerful force, and these officials are still in a faction, and the top of this faction is still the center of state power, how to defeat all these people, this is a very difficult problem.

In the politics of the Chinese, they have always paid attention to not punishing the doctor and not holding the law accountable, and so many people have not done anything too hurtful to nature and reason, and they want to bring them all to justice, only relying on the strength of the faction, but the reaction of Cang Haiyue, Tie Rongsha and others last time has proved that they are not willing to clash with the general secretary's faction when the transfer of power is about to be handed over, and they want to get power in their hands first.

And this situation, in Su Ming's view, is appeasement, there are still two years before the handover of power, and whether the general secretary is willing to give up or not at that time is a matter of two words, rather than letting these people continue to toss, it is better to defeat them all.

It is not that there are so many lawless people only under the general secretary, and there are any factions, but the general secretary himself has a soft surname and still has some shortcomings in his bones, and in addition, in order to reduce the influence of the senior in the political arena in the early stage, he suddenly promoted some people who favored him, and there are too many good and bad among these people, which has led to the phenomenon that this influence is getting worse and worse.

Directly reported to the general secretary, the general secretary would only think that he was deliberately sweeping his face, so he had to find a way from other people, Su Ming's first thought was Li Zhengyang, Li Zhengyang is his direct boss, not to mention, mainly because this surname is strong, a little jealous and hateful.

If this kind of thinking is put on an ordinary person, or on an ordinary official, it is a good thing, but it is a bit inappropriate to put it on the body of a national leader.

So although Li Zhengyang is also very young and very capable, but this is the shortcoming, when choosing the heir, the elder put him aside, as for the premiership, he himself is not good at specific affairs, so he had to put him in the position of chairman of the CPPCC, and he will be put aside for seven or eight years.

Su Ming first took out the various suppressions that the Su Group had encountered recently, and after reading the thick stack of information, Li Zhengyang was really furious, and he was about to take these materials to question the general secretary on the spot, but was stopped by Su Ming, and Su Ming handed him the list of people involved in these incidents, but Li Zhengyang was silent after reading it.

It's easy to correct these things, but it's difficult for these people to deal with them, and Su Ming took out the list, the purpose is naturally self-evident, he has seen Su Ming's eyes and will report, and he dares to make a big fuss in Zhongnanhai for a trivial matter, how can this matter be so easy.

"Deal only with the first evil, don't you?" Although he felt that there was no hope, he still asked more, Su Ming shook his head gently, but his attitude was very resolute.

"That's going to be hard." Li Zhengyang immediately frowned, but there was nothing he could do.

"Do Prime Minister Tie and Comrade Haiyue know about this?" After thinking about it, Li Zhengyang raised his head and asked, Su Ming's answer was still shaking his head, but it made Li Zhengyang very happy in his heart, he knew that Su Ming had a very good relationship with those two, but he found himself first, this is the right way to solve things, because these things should be handled by him as the chairman of the CPPCC.

"Xiao Su, you take these things and go to the two of them first, listen to their opinions, I firmly support the treatment of these people, you can convey my attitude to them." Li Zhengyang knew that he could not fight the general secretary by himself, so he had to pull in others, but he clearly expressed his attitude from the beginning, which was also the most firm support.

(To be continued)