Chapter 404: Repeated Pulling

Facing Fang Lang's merciless questioning, Mr. Morgan could only smile awkwardly, and hurriedly waved his hand and said:

"Fang, you dissipate your anger first, we are friends, and our Morgan family will never treat their friends badly. I mean, if you have something to ask for, you can just ask for it.

If you can do it, I will satisfy you. Even if I can't satisfy you personally, I will definitely give feedback to Mr. Patriarch and try my best to give you a satisfactory answer. ”

At this moment, Fang Lang completely saw the true face of the so-called Morgan family friendship, in the past, Fang Lang also felt that the Germans' behavior against the Jews was too bad, and the Jews were too pitiful.

Later, after the establishment of Israel, there were conflicts with Palestine at every turn, and Fang Lang still felt that this was a problem for both sides, after all, a slap in the face could not be heard.

In later generations, Fang Lang was working as a seaman, and when he heard that when the little devils were invading the Northeast, there were Jews from his hometown who participated in it and betrayed the interests of his hometown, Fang Lang also felt that it might be hearsay.

After all, when the Jews were driven out by people from all over the world, the old family did not dislike each other, but generously took them in. But no one expected that when the little devil attacked his hometown, this nation protected by his hometown would abandon his hometown without hesitation.

Fang Lang didn't know the situation at that time, and he didn't dare to confirm it.

But after this cooperation with the Morgan family, Fang Lang finally believed the rumors about Jews in the world, so he had to start examining the relationship with the Morgan family again.

Unfortunately, now that the Jews in the United States are all over the United States, it is impossible for them to avoid contact with the Jews if they want to maintain good relations with the United States.

It is obviously impossible to cut off contact with the Jews, so all that remains is to be vigilant when cooperating.

Don't easily believe in any agreement with the other party, after all, the other party's behavior of tearing up the agreement for the sake of interests this time can be regarded as a good lesson for Fang Lang.

Although Morgan kept saying that he would try to give himself a satisfactory answer, and if he didn't work, he would apply to the patriarch, but applying to the patriarch was just a pretext.

After all, whether the application is approved or not is not in their control.

Therefore, Fang Lang simply ignored his statement, and didn't want to hear what he said.

However, he didn't want to take the initiative to say what he needed, because once he let go, he would let the Morgan family know his attitude towards this matter.

The second is that in this kind of negotiation, the party that loosens its mouth first will be seized by others to open a breakthrough and let itself fall into a passive situation in the negotiation.

No matter which one it is, Fang Lang is not allowed to take the initiative to say what he needs.

He believed that since the other party had asked him over, he must have already had a clear plan, and he didn't have to take the initiative to speak, and the other party would definitely propose a compensation plan that they thought was appropriate.

As for whether this plan can be accepted by oneself, it is necessary to continue to negotiate with the other party little by little.

Fang Lang shook his head, expressing his disappointment with the Morgan family, and then said directly:

"Since the Morgan family has reached a preliminary agreement with the other party, then the compensation plan for our global group must be prepared, so it is better for Mr. Morgan to talk about the compensation plan of your Morgan family first!"

After Mr. Morgan heard Fang Lang's words, the embarrassed expression on his face flashed, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he took a sip of the teacup before he slowly spoke:

"Fang, the other party did propose a compensation plan to us, and we think it is more reasonable, and it is exactly what you need. If you think it's okay, we can follow this plan. ”

"Oh! It's exactly what we need, and I'm a little interested in what you say. ”

Hearing Morgan's words, Fang Lang said mockingly.

But Morgan didn't seem to feel Dao Fanglang's emotions at all, and continued to speak:

"The plan now is to buy one shipyard from Turkey and one from Greece and merge it into Universal Shipbuilding to compensate for the loss of the grain trade for the Universal Group. What do you think? ”

These words almost made Fang Lang laugh again, how nice he said, and used one shipyard in each of the two countries to compensate for the losses of the Global Group.

Regardless of whether these two shipyards can compensate for Fang Lang's losses, the current Morgan consortium is the second largest shareholder of Global Shipbuilding, saying that it is compensating Fang Lang's losses, but in fact it is still protecting its own interests.

Is this playing with Fang Lang as a fool?

Moreover, Turkey and Greece are not traditional shipbuilding powers, and the scale of these two shipyards can be imagined by Fang Lang.

Although Greece is one of the world's top shipping developed countries, Greece has more shipping companies, not shipbuilding companies, and Greek and Turkish shipbuilding companies are not ranked high in the world.

If Global Shipbuilding is allowed to acquire shipyards in Turkey and Greece, it will be two more new shipyards for Global Shipbuilding, which will not bring much improvement to shipbuilding technology.

I have to say that the calculation of the Morgan consortium is really loud.

But Fang Lang obviously couldn't implement them according to their ideas, so he refused without hesitation:

"I don't think so!"

To say that Greece has a developed shipping industry, the construction of a new container terminal here can allow goods to better enter Eastern Europe, but Eastern Europe at this time is under the control of the Soviet Union.

It is very difficult for Fang Lang's company to break into this market, it is not that he is unwilling to enter this market, it is really impossible for the United States to allow the Universal Group to do business with the Soviets.

When the two polarities are not right, they will face endless investigations by US intelligence agencies, and they can annoy people to death just thinking about it.

Of course, this is not to say that Fang Lang will give up on building his own container terminals in Greece and Turkey. If Fang Lang is ready to build container terminals all over the world, let his container standards be implemented all over the world.

But this business has nothing to do with the European aid program, even if there is no European aid program, it will not affect the rollout of Fang Lang's container terminal project around the world.

Therefore, this is obviously not a condition for compensating the Universal Group.

Fang Lang's attitude obviously did not surprise Morgan, he knew very well in his heart that this point was obviously not satisfactory to Fang Lang. Therefore, he kicked the ball back in front of Fang Lang again.

"Fang, if you don't think this plan is suitable, you can make your request."

The problem has returned to the original point again, in fact, Fang Lang's attitude has shown that he agreed to give up a part of the market, and now the biggest problem is how to compensate to satisfy Fang Lang.

And Fang Lang also began to calculate in his heart what Greece and Turkey needed.

To talk about these two countries, it is also very interesting, as far as Fang Lang knows, Greece and Turkey have always been very incompatible, although the two countries are NATO countries, but they have not done anything less about tearing each other down.

Take the aircraft carrier purchased from Ermao by his hometown later, which was blocked by Turkey in the strait and was not allowed to pass, and it had to be guaranteed by the state. At this time, Greece took the initiative to stand up.

Not only did it provide a guarantee for the homeland, but also sent a tugboat fleet to tow the aircraft carrier out of the Aegean Sea.

A large part of the reason for this is the contradiction between Greece and Turkey, and Greece's actions have the element of demolishing Turkey.

So what exactly is the contradiction between the two countries? This begins with the contradictions between the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the Byzantine Empire.

In 1453 the mighty Ottoman Turks destroyed the Byzantine Empire and captured Constantinople.

Greece, a member of the Byzantine Empire, also submitted to Ottoman Turkish rule, but the Greeks fought for independence. Knowing that in the nineteenth century when the Ottoman Turkish Empire weakened, the Greeks finally became officially independent in 1821.

In World War I, Ottoman Turkey was the defeated country and became the object of partition, and Greece took the opportunity to rise to restore the glory of the Byzantine Empire and recover the territory of the original Byzantine Empire from the hands of the Turks.

It's a pity that regardless of the strength, he was pressed to the ground by Turkey for a good time, and later because of this defeat, the Greek royal family suffered a coup d'Γ©tat, and the kings were exiled.

Although the Greeks were defeated, they were not willing to be defeated, and in their opinion all the territories of the Byzantine Empire should belong to Greece, especially Constantinople, which the Turks called Yinstanbul.

To this day, both countries are entangled over the fate of some of the islands in the Aegean Sea.

As a result, relations between the two countries have not been harmonious, and they have always dismantled each other.

But in terms of strength, Turkey is definitely much stronger than Greece, and it is in a crushing position both economically and militarily. Turkey, the most populous country in Europe, has more than seven times the population of Greece.

In terms of military strength, Turkey is known as the second most powerful country in NATO, so it is impossible for Greece to recover its homeland.

Just looking at the population gap between the two countries, we can see that the Morgan family's equal distribution is a joke at all. The main consumer of food is the population, and Turkey's population is more than seven times that of Greece.

Therefore, although Fang Lang accepted the distribution plan of one person and one country in his heart, he never expressed his position.

The biggest problem now is that Fang Lang has not found a compensation plan suitable for him from these two countries, and at the same time, he does not want to get compensation from outside these two countries.

After all, he has thoroughly seen the way the Morgan family treats so-called friends, and if he talks about getting compensation in other countries now, maybe there will be new changes at that time, and it is better to directly realize the benefits that can be grasped now.

"Mr. Morgan, to be honest, I am very disappointed in the Morgan consortium right now, and this kind of backsliding behavior is very contrary to business ethics.

However, I have worked with Mr. Morgan himself many times and have a very good relationship. I don't want to ruin our relationship for a business.

If the Morgan consortium is really unable to resist the pressure and is ready to let Bunge enter the market, I can also look at your face and agree to give up a part of the market with adequate compensation. ”

Hearing Fang Lang's words, Mr. Morgan breathed a sigh of relief, he knew very well that Fang Lang was talking about these scenes, and it was impossible for him to completely offend the Morgan family for a grain business.

In the end, he will definitely agree to give up a part of the market, and the most important question now is what kind of compensation he will demand. And will this requirement exceed everyone's expectations.

Now it seems that the shipyard plan proposed by himself will definitely not be able to satisfy Fang Lang.

"Haha....... Fang, I knew that we were friends, and you would definitely not embarrass me. ”

Haha laughed and took the initiative to get up and stretched out his right hand to Fang Lang. Seeing this, Fang Lang smiled and slowly got up, shaking hands with the other party gently.

The mouth said unhurriedly:

"Mr. Morgan, although we are friends, there are some things I must say earlier, that the plan of equal distribution you are talking about is not equal at all.

If I were to make the distribution on a one-person-one-country basis, I would choose the Turkish market and let Bunge take care of the Greek market.

Turkey's population is more than seven times that of Greece, and if it were evenly distributed, would it be too insulting to my intelligence? ”

Morgan, who was still laughing just now, heard this, and hurriedly closed his voice in embarrassment, and the right hand that he had just held with Fang Lang was also slowly withdrawn, and he touched his trouser leg a little embarrassed.

With some embarrassment in his mouth, he continued:

"Ahh This one...... This doesn't seem fair, and we really haven't noticed it! ”

Of course, Fang Lang would not believe Morgan's nonsense, as a successful capitalist, how could there be such a low-level mistake. This kind of lie is not clever, even a three-year-old child can see through it.

But Fang Lang didn't pierce the other party either, after all, it didn't make any sense to continue to entangle with the other party here.

So, he continued:

"I know that the other party must have given the Morgan family an interest that they cannot refuse, and perhaps, I wonder whether the Morgan consortium has now become one of the shareholders of Bunge.

Of course, none of this is my business, and what I want to know now is what kind of compensation I can get as an ally of the Morgan consortium.

First of all, I am not familiar with the two countries of Turkey and Greece, and I will not be able to find a suitable compensation for a while.

However, since it was the Morgan consortium that compensated me, I hope to be compensated accordingly in another place. ”

Morgan was stunned when he heard this, and some did not react to Fang Lang's meaning, it would be too broad to get compensation in another place, and the best case would be that Fang Lang wanted to get compensation from the markets of other European countries.

Another situation is that Fang Lang has taken a fancy to the Morgan family's industry.

Thinking of this, Morgan's expression became very cautious, and he said with some uncertainty:

"Oh! I don't know if the other place you are referring to specifically ....... ”

Looking at Morgan's vigilant look, the corners of Fang Lang's mouth turned up slightly, he looked Morgan up and down with bad intentions, picked up the teapot and added him a cup of tea, and then slowly spoke:

"I want a stake in General Electric, a part of the Morgan consortium."

Fang Lang's words made Morgan jump up directly from the stool, and exclaimed:

"What? That's impossible! ”

You must know that at this time, although General Electric was far from reaching its later strength, GE was an important part of the Morgan consortium's large industrial plan.

The company, which can be traced back to the Edison Electric Light Company, has a history of 68 years until this period. In the years since its establishment, it has annexed many excellent enterprises at home and abroad through various means.

In 1939, GE had about 30 factories in the United States, and now it has more than 100 factories. By 1976, GE had 224 manufacturing facilities in the United States and 113 manufacturing facilities in 24 countries around the world.