The 1900 election was still a showdown between Democratic Rep. William Bryan and incumbent President McKinley.

Brian has amassed more prestige in these four years, and the level of his speech has been perfected.

The Democrats packaged him as a pure anti-imperialist.

This has attracted many new supporters, including steel tycoon Dale Carnegie.

Yes, Carnegie backfired.

Such an alliance seems ridiculous, and undoubtedly damages Brian's image as a "great commoner" and a Narodite.

And the pair of McKinley and Roosevelt, although they looked like each other, carried the glory of victory in the Spanish-American War and economic recovery in the election.

It is believed that such a combination will lead to a better future for the United States.

So, without any suspense, Brian was defeated.

He lost again to McKinley, and even worse than he had lost in 1896.

Rockefeller breathed a sigh of relief.

The new governor of New York is a Republican establishment who advocates a moderate approach to the contradictions between trusts and the people.

He doesn't think it's a good idea to blatantly break up Standard Oil at this time.

In his point of view, the formation of trusts conforms to the objective laws of the market and is the choice of the market.

If we intervene artificially, we will completely disrupt the existing order, which will not be good for the economy.

Without Roosevelt's support, Taft Jr. was basically no threat to Rockefeller.

And on the IRS side, he also paid back taxes.

The oil tycoon finally breathed a sigh of relief.

On Chen Jianqiu's side, he is going farther and farther on the road of making money.

He was busy continuing to resell arms.

The British and Boers are still at loggerheads in the southernmost part of Africa.

Neither side has the intention of giving up.

Chen Jianqiu still sells on both sides, cash in stock, and a deposit for individual products.

He also hired several French people to collect firearms locally, repair them and sell them to local Zulu chiefs.

Before the Boer War, the best record of the 19th century on the continent against the British was achieved by the Zulus.

In the Battle of Varna in Istanbul, they killed 1,300 British soldiers and mercenaries with their spears and pikes.

Although in 1887, the British sent an army of 20,000 to fight for 10 months to conquer the Zulu Kingdom.

But the chieftains' rebellion never stopped.

The French are happy to do anything that disgusts the British, especially in this part of Africa.

They hit it off with Chen Jianqiu and began to continue to resell second-hand guns to the Zulu people.

Only gold is accepted.

The front line consumes bullets, and the machines in the rear naturally cannot be stopped.

More and more Chinese are pouring into the United States from the southern border.

Most of them are in Juarez a year or two in advance.

There, there will be schools to teach them the basic language, skills, and then enter the United States to obtain American citizenship in a special way.

USCIS has become accustomed to this.

For so many years, I have come over like this, and I have never seen anyone talk nonsense.

It's unreasonable, but it's legal.

Conflicts between Chinese and workers of other races still occur occasionally, but they will soon subside.

One is that the trade union plays a pivotal role in it, and on the other hand, no one wants to lose their job in Chen Jianqiu's company because of anger with Chinese workers.

This is the only company in the United States that has a pension fund!

Chen Jianqiu donated a huge amount of money to set up a relief and pension fund for the workers.

Many in the industry scoffed at his decision.

In their opinion, the workers are a bunch of white-eyed wolves who can't be fed, and no matter how much benefit they give them, they will still do it with you.

Chen Jianqiu does not deny this.

Relief and pension funds were supposed to be the government's thing to do.

He did this not so much as social security and more like charity.

Chen Jianqiu didn't expect the money to really support his old Chinese workers.

He just hopes that this measure, along with the employee stock ownership plan, will tie workers to the factory to a certain extent.

When Chen Jianqiu did this, he did it easily.

But this also made the "Chen Foundation" a clear stream in this era of intensifying class contradictions.

His wealth may not be the largest, and it cannot be compared with other conglomerates, but his control is rarely strong.

In addition to making money, Chen Jianqiu also had one more thing, which was to accompany Roosevelt to fish and hunt.

Because Mr. Vice President's time, it's very, very, very lenient.

He couldn't figure out which tendon he was wrong in the first place, and he didn't do it with the governor of New York, so he promised Chen Jianqiu to participate in the election as vice president.

It's like the feudal official took the initiative to give up the opportunity to divide one side and took the initiative to go to the capital to lick the ass of the Son of Heaven.

This made Roosevelt very uncomfortable.

"The vice president is really boring!" Roosevelt stood on the reef with a fishing rod in his hand and complained to Chen Jianqiu.

The two of them changed their way today and drove directly to the beach for sea fishing.

"Take it, the wind and waves are too big to catch fish." Chen Jianqiu looked at the waves crashing against the reef, shook his head, and began to collect the pole.

The two walked back to the car parked on the side of the road.

Chen Jianqiu drove, and Roosevelt sat in the back.

The vice president got in the car and was bored.

If you get bored sitting in the back seat of the car, most people will play with their mobile phones.

But it is clear that there were no mobile phones at the beginning of the 20th century.

So Roosevelt could only sit in the back row and look around.

His foot suddenly kicked something.

Roosevelt bent down and picked it up.

It's a steel helmet.

When he came in the car before, he didn't notice it in the car.

"Isn't that what your team wore in Cuba last time?" Roosevelt played with his helmet back and forth when something suddenly came to mind.

"It's been improved, the previous one was too heavy, and we thought of a way to make it as light as possible." Chen Jianqiu said while driving.

"Why are you fishing with this thing?" Roosevelt was a little puzzled, "You also have to wear a helmet when fishing?" ”

Chen Jianqiu originally wanted to tell him that in fact, sometimes he had to wear a helmet when fishing.

But he thought about it and decided to forget it.

He decided to tell the truth.

"It's a sample, I'm going to get it to the port later, an Englishman is waiting for me there, and the British Army is interested in this thing and wants to sign it."

Although at this time, there is still a big gap between the steel helmet in terms of material and craftsmanship and later.

Sometimes, though, it can save a soldier's life.

It is also quite versatile, and can be used to cook, drink, and even dig trenches.

"Where did you get such high-quality steel?" Roosevelt touched his helmet and asked.

"Dale Carnegie, wait a minute, he just made an appointment with me to talk about mass production."

In fact, Chen Jianqiu didn't know that Carnegie came to Chen Jianqiu this time, not only because of the material of the steel helmet, but because of another very important thing. (End of chapter)