"Mr. Hitchcock, let me introduce you, this is the famous writer Mr. Tony Monet......" Sam helped Monet to introduce.

"Hello Mr. Monet, I have seen your work, it is very creative!" Hitchcock greeted Monet politely.

Monet knew that Hitchcock was definitely a polite compliment, because his own works also accounted for a creative idea, after all, they were all copied from later generations, and the writing was really ordinary.

The next day Monet called Sam and asked, "How did you talk to Hitchcock?" ”

Sam hesitated for a moment, then replied, "Normally, he just said that he would go back and think about it." ”

Monet proposed: "If you really want him to join, I would suggest buying the rights to Butterfly Dreams and giving it to him, but to be honest I don't think it's a good idea to hire Hitchcock, and although I like his work very much, I don't think he is in line with our Warners style, because Hitchcock is the standard British style." ”

Sam chimed in, "Actually, we think the same way, because some of Mr. Hitchcock's demands, while reasonable, are really at odds with our philosophy. ”

After talking to Sam, Monet just wanted to make a cup of coffee, but the phone rang again, and when he picked it up, he heard that it was Dina's call, only to hear her flattering: "Honey, let's play sneak attack at night, okay?" ”

Monet nodded in agreement: "Sneak attack? Okay, but don't be as big as last time, you almost hurt me! ”

"Don't worry, I won't resist this time!" After saying that, Dina hung up the phone, and Monet muttered in his heart, what does it mean if you don't resist?

At night, Monet had just started to sneak attack, but immediately realized that it didn't feel right, so he stopped and asked, "You are not Dina, who are you?" ”

At this time, Dina didn't know where to get out, and stuck to his back and whispered: "Didn't you always want me to accompany your mother and you, and let you succeed today!" ”

At this time, Monet realized who the woman in his arms was, and just wanted to defend himself, but found that his key point had been caught by Cami, so he sighed secretly, it seems that he still failed to escape the "poisonous hands" of the mother and daughter...... (The following plot cannot be written here)

After the battle, Monet smiled bitterly: "Cammy Actually, even if you don't do this, I originally planned to let Dina tell you in the past two days that I will short Pan American Oil during this time!" ”

"Short Pan Am Oil? Do you think his stock price will fall? Cammy asked, surprised.

Monet nodded and replied, "Yes, don't you know about the recent nationalization of oil in Mexico?" ”

Monet's "nationalization of Petromecanos" was a major event of international significance in 1938.

In the first 20 years of the 20th century, Mexico was the world's second largest oil producer after the United States, with three oil wells producing tens of thousands of tons per day.

But it is a pity that these oil wells are basically controlled by foreign capital, the first largest oil company in Mexico is the Mexican Eagle founded by the British Pearson, and the second is the Pan American oil company mentioned by the American Dohanni mentioned by Monet just now.

With the reckless frenzied exploitation of these foreign companies, the annual oil production level dropped from 24.95 million tons to 5.2 million tons, and the reduction of oil revenues naturally led to a reduction in the wages and benefits of oil workers, so in 1937 Mexico's oil workers launched a general strike, they believed that foreign companies had made huge profits, but did not contribute to Mexico's economy and society, and now they actually reduced welfare benefits, so they demanded a significant increase in workers' wages and the implementation of a 40-hour work week. In addition to six weeks of leave per year, retirees are paid 85 per cent of their original salary.

Naturally, the oil companies would not agree to this "unreasonable" demand, so the then Mexican President Cárdenas decided to nationalize the oil and confiscate all the oil assets of foreign companies.

Do you think these oil companies are willing? And how can such a large oil company be opened abroad without a backer?

So the oil companies led by the Mexican Eagle began to resist, directly organizing a global oil embargo to prevent you from exporting Mexican oil, trying to strangle the Mexican economy and force the Mexican government to comply.

Just as Monet was recalling, Cammy frowned and asked, "Tony, do you think these oil companies will lose?" ”

In fact, not only Cami thinks so, but most people think so, because in everyone's opinion, how can a small, backward Mexico be an opponent of Britain and the United States? Not to mention the embargo, the possibility of sending troops to fight you for this is not impossible. (You can think back to the wars that have taken place over oil in the past few decades)

Monet nodded and agreed: "Normally, these oil companies will definitely not lose, but I think Mr. President may meddle in this matter and let Pan America suffer this loss!" ”

"How is this possible? How could Mr. President make such a decision? Kami couldn't help but exclaim.

"According to my information, Mr. President will really make this kind of decision, because he doesn't want to push Mexico into the arms of the Axis powers, and now we and Britain are embargoing Mexico, but the consequence of this is that Mexico has become the largest oil supplier to Germany and Japan, and even Japan is still cooperating with Mexico in exploration, so from the overall point of view, Mexico must be sought, so the assets of the oil companies are a small matter." Monet explained.

Cammy thought that Monet had received news from someone like Albert or Baja, but in fact this was Monet's memory, and he remembered that in the end, Mexico had lost millions of dollars symbolically, and almost killed Pan Am......

I have to say that Cárdenas chose a very smart timing this time, first, this time coincided with the beginning of World War II, and Britain and the United States did not have the energy to deal with Mexico; The second is to take advantage of the confrontation between the two sides of World War II, if you want to oppress me, then I will support your opponent, I see what you should do?

At first, the foreign companies thought that without their capital, technology and talents, the Mexican oil company would definitely not be able to develop, but in fact, the development of the company was really good, ranking 107th among the world's top 500.

PS: In the past two days, I have been watching the third part of "Antiques in the Game", although I personally don't like Qu Chuxiao very much, and I think the emotional scenes in the first few episodes are too ink, but I have to admit that this drama is well filmed, and it has not ruined this classic of the prince.