69novels Chapter 350
Chapter 350
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Goldman Sachs Group previously acquired General Motors and wanted to acquire Ford as well.
In this way, with General Motors and Ford in hand, they can become the largest automaker in North America and dominate the automobile market in the United States in a nearly monopolistic manner.
However, their offer was rejected by Ford, and Goldman Sachs’ acquisition failed.
This happened five years ago, when Vanelk had just arrived in the United States and had just taken over Goldman Sachs.
At that time, Goldman Sachs did not have such strong strength or such a great influence, so although the failure of this acquisition had some impact on them, the impact was far from huge.
Because of the various automotive technologies that surpassed this era provided by Mainz, Goldman Sachs’ General Motors rose rapidly and surpassed Ford.
At this time, General Motors’ market share in North America has exceeded 55%, making it the veritable first automobile group.
According to Vanelk’s idea, they only needed to take steady steps and in another seven or eight years they would be able to completely defeat Ford. By then, even if they did not acquire Ford, Ford’s market share would be completely divided up by them.
However, at this time, President Harding took the initiative to offer to help them, which reminded Vanelk.
Ford did not need help for the time being. What he needed was President Harding’s support in other areas, such as handing over the oil exploration rights of several southern states to Mobil Oil.
“This is not a big problem. The oil resources in these southern states are not that abundant, and their locations are not good. If you want, I can arrange it for you. However, these places are sparsely populated and the cost of extraction is very high. Are you sure you want to extract oil here?”
As the president of the United States, President Harding has some maps covering the distribution of various resources in the United States.
The places mentioned by Vanelk are not marked on the map. Most of them are located in Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. No oil has been explored in these places before. Some oil fields were discovered after Mobil Oil entered here.
However, compared with California and other traditional oil-producing areas, the oil here is not particularly eye-catching, so currently only Mobil Oil, controlled by Goldman Sachs, is mining here.
The intelligence that Vanelk got from Mainz showed that most of the oil in the United States came from Texas and the Gulf in the south, so if they want to monopolize the oil supply in the United States, they need to completely monopolize the mining rights here!
The number of cars in the United States is very large.
Because the residents have a relatively high income level and the country has a vast territory, they need to use cars when they travel and work, which makes the number of cars in the United States the highest in the world.
The huge demand for cars has not only made the car companies in the United States The huge profits also benefited the factories that repair and maintain cars.
However, gas stations and refineries make more profits in the automotive field than car companies and auto repair shops.
A car can be used for at least five or six years, so after a car factory sells a car, it will not make money from the car owner for at least several years.
Although cars usually break down, the failure rate is generally not high, and the number of repairs a year is limited, so repair and maintenance factories cannot make money from a single car owner every day!
However, gas stations are different!
As long as you use a car, you have to refuel, and the fuel consumption of cars in this era is very high, and energy-saving and emission reduction technologies are not up to standard, so cars consume a lot of fuel. Even if you don’t refuel every day, you have to go to the gas station every few days!
With the consumption of tens of millions of cars, the gas stations in the United States and the upstream oil producers are making a lot of money!
For them, the larger the stock of cars on the market and the more people drive, the more oil will be consumed, their sales will be better, and their profits will be higher.
As for automobile manufacturers, the higher the number of cars in the market, the higher the market saturation will be. At that time, their sales will decline, and their profits will also decrease.
Therefore, taking all factors into consideration, controlling industries such as oil extraction and refining is far more promising than controlling the automobile manufacturing industry.
After all, oil can not only be used for cars, but also for many machines such as airplanes and ships!
Even after Goldman Sachs extracts oil, it can sell it to its home country Hans. Hans’s industry is now developing rapidly, and the number of cars in the country has also begun to increase. However, Hans lacks oil fields in the country, and Mainz has no plans to exploit the oil fields in Schleswig for the time being, so Hans’ oil consumption is almost entirely dependent on imports.
In this case, pretend to spend money to buy from Goldman Sachs, and then take the money back from Goldman Sachs, and then transfer the money from Goldman Sachs to the left hand and the right hand, and Hans can get the oil of the Eagle Sauce for free! Free oil from the
Eagle Sauce, the Eagle Sauce thought that Hans was its major exporter, and would give Hans various preferential treatment and care in order to maintain this importer. How could Hans miss such a good thing?
Moreover, when the war came, the military was blocked in terms of oil, increasing the cost of the military’s war, earning money from the Eagle Sauce, and supporting the enemy of the Eagle Sauce, Hans. Isn’t it wonderful?
President Harding had no idea of the conspiracy in Vanelk’s heart. After hearing Vanelk’s words, he just couldn’t help but say a few words, and then patted his chest and agreed.
Anyway, Goldman Sachs is the Eagle Sauce’s own consortium, and as long as oil is not controlled by foreigners, then everything is O. As for which domestic company is given to exploit, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, he doesn’t care much, and Vanelk and Goldman Sachs rarely make any demands on him. If he can’t provide some services to the financial father, I’m afraid the financial father will leave him in the future!
So, as long as he agrees to this kind of thing, he will definitely do it well!
Vanelk was relieved when he saw President Harding agreed at this time.
After the meeting, President Harding quickly handed a list to Vanelk. In this list, in addition to a group of officials who really wanted to go to Hans for inspection, his mistress, Mrs. Phillips, was also hidden.
After President Harding dealt with Vanelk and arranged this matter, the rest of the matter was very simple. He only needed to deal with Ribbentrop!
Originally, there was only one way to travel from Europe to North America, that is, to take a ship, drift on the sea for more than ten days in the wind and rain, avoid the dangerous icebergs in the Atlantic Ocean and the storms that may suddenly rise at any time, and then survive the wind and waves and swaying on the sea. When arriving in North America, most people’s spirits may not be too good. After all, taking a ship is a very tiring thing!
If that kind of thing did not appear, then Ribbentrop would have to drift on the sea for more than ten days before arriving in North America.
However, this time Ribbentrop did not choose the traditional mode of transportation, but chose another very novel mode of transportation: flying in the air!
He took Hans’s Zeppelin airship at a speed of 130 kilometers per hour, and after 2 days and 48 hours of uninterrupted sailing, he arrived in North America!
Compared with traditional ships, this mode of transportation is not only faster, but also shortens the sailing time from the original 12 days to 2 days, greatly reducing the time consumption on the journey, reducing the fatigue of the journey, improving the efficiency of the sailing, and making intercontinental sailing easier!
Moreover, this mode of transportation is more comfortable and safer!
The Zeppelin airship is very large and is not afraid of wind and rain at all. Its speed is as high as 130 kilometers per hour, which is faster than all ships in the world.
Moreover, during the voyage, the interior of the Zeppelin airship is very stable, and it will not shake due to the waves like ships on the sea, so people will feel very comfortable when riding on it, and can even enjoy the unique beauty of the earth from 2,000 meters above the sky on the balcony of the airship! Moreover
, the interior decoration of Hans’ Zeppelin airship is very luxurious, using the best materials. It is not only equipped with complete equipment according to the standards of a five-star hotel, but also hired top chefs to be responsible for food, and even hired a professional band from Vienna to perform music.
On this airship, people can enjoy VIP treatment that is not inferior to that on a luxury cruise ship!
It is precisely because of these advantages that when the airship that Ribbentrop was riding arrived in the United States, it immediately attracted the attention of the entire United States.
Ribbentrop saw that the reporters and officials of the United States were very curious about the airship, so he took the initiative to invite them to visit and experience the airship, and even took them for a flight!