69novels Chapter 352
Chapter 352
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: 0.061s Scan: 0.088sAfter receiving the telegram from Berlin, President Harding finally breathed a sigh of relief!
To be honest, he was a little nervous when he sent the telegram to Mainz, because he was not very familiar with Mainz, and even had a bad relationship with him.
Mainz had made a special trip to North America to attend President Will’s funeral, and at that time President Harding had replaced President Will as the new president of Eagle Sauce.
Logically speaking, Hans’s prime minister came to pay tribute to the former president of his country in person, and the current president said that he should solemnly entertain the distinguished guests from afar.
As a result, Mainz was very unlucky and met such a weirdo as President Harding!
He didn’t care about any diplomatic rules or basic etiquette at all.
He was not polite to Mainz at all. Not only did he refuse to entertain and meet Mainz, but even Mainz’s request for a meeting was ignored!
That time Mainz came with hope, but he could only return disappointed. He didn’t even meet President Harding before leaving.
Mainz may have forgotten this matter long ago, after all, he knew what kind of person President Harding was.
But President Harding himself would not forget this matter, and as Mainz’s name began to become louder throughout Europe and even North America, the fact that he was refused to meet with him during his visit to North America was mentioned again and again by others, which made President Harding feel very embarrassed.
So when he sent a telegram to Mainz, he was still quite uneasy. If his request was rejected by Mainz, it would be a big shame!
Fortunately, Mainz was not the kind of person who cared about everything. He did not reject President Harding’s request because of his weird behavior at the time.
After all, if there is a chance to make a fool’s money, why give it up?
President Harding’s public request to President Hans to buy an airship as president immediately caused a sensation internationally!
Because the telegram sent by President Harding before was in plain text and not encrypted, not only the intelligence agencies of various governments intercepted this telegram, but also the telegram enthusiasts in various countries received this telegram.
So this matter spread quickly almost immediately, and in just a few days, this matter has become known to everyone.
Everyone knows that in order to pursue pleasure, President Harding actually asked President Hans to buy Hans’s airship in person as the president!
After the Eagle Sauce people knew about this, they all felt ashamed and embarrassed that their country had such a president.
The spectators in other countries didn’t care about this. They cared more about another thing:
What kind of attraction does Hans’s airship have that the president of the Eagle Sauce family is so fascinated that he even made such a move?
So, people from various countries, including politicians and upper-class nobles, began to become curious!
Hans’s airship must have something unique, otherwise President Harding would not have been fascinated!
Since even President Harding has set his eyes on Hans’s airship, it proves that this thing must be a good thing.
Therefore, the nobles and wealthy people in European countries began to have some ideas: since this is a good thing, should they also make one to show their power and status?
President Harding himself may not have been happy about his telegram, which actually produced a strong advertising effect.
He used his identity as the President of the United States to help Hans promote it for free, which led to Hans’s Zeppelin airship company constantly receiving consultation and price inquiries from all over the world.
Rich people and nobles in North America and South America all called to buy a boat from them to play with!
The airships of this era were not cheap.
The cost of an airship was more than 400,000 US dollars, and the selling price was more than 100 US dollars, which was equivalent to 400 cars.
Their status was similar to that of luxury yachts in later generations.
The airship that Ribbentrop took was a carefully built high-end airship with five-star facilities, top chefs, foot basin maids, and the Vienna Orchestra. The hardware and software facilities make the cost of building and operating this airship very high. The cost of building such an airship is more than 1 million US dollars, and the selling price is more than 3 million US dollars, which is equivalent to the sky-high price of 60 million US dollars in the future!
To be honest, this price is really not something that everyone can afford. Those who can afford such expensive products are either rich or noble, and they are also the top dignitaries!
Moreover, such expensive things cannot be bought with money. Mainz traveled from the future and knew the hunger marketing strategies of the top sports car companies in the future.
They often launch some luxury sports cars with excellent performance, beautiful appearance, and top configuration, and then limit the number of these sports cars to a very small number, so as to artificially make this top sports car a limited edition luxury variety, which will attract people’s pursuit and rush to buy!
In this era, because the automobile industry had just started, there were not many top luxury car brands, but Mainz pioneered such a precedent in airships!
Like the airship purchased by President Harding, Mainz only planned to build 25, each of which was priced at $3 million, first come first served, while stocks last!
Once the news was announced, it caused a huge sensation again.
At this time, after President Harding bought Ribbentrop’s airship, he proudly took his wife and relatives and friends to travel around on vacation. His airship immediately became the focus of attention of hundreds of millions of people in the United States. People criticized their own president for not doing his job and only knew how to play and enjoy himself all day long, but they envied the president’s luxurious life in private.
At this time, in order to prevent Ribbentrop from being unable to return home, Mainz sent another airship of the same model to Ribbentrop.
As a result, after the airship arrived, Ribbentrop was immediately besieged by hundreds of people across the United States!
“”Ahem, everyone, what are you doing? We have no grudges in the past, and no grudges in the present, so please don’t be impulsive!”
Seeing a group of people rushing over like wolves and tigers, surrounding him and several bodyguards, Ribbentrop was frightened and subconsciously covered his chest with both hands, revealing a frightened expression like a girl!
This action seemed extremely ambiguous, even a little bit unclear. Normally, this is a unique action of women, and men rarely do such a thing.
Fortunately, however, the attention of the people at the scene was not on this matter, and everyone’s attention was focused on the airship in Ribbentrop’s hand!
“Foreign Minister Ribin, name your price, we want this airship!
Citigroup immediately came out to express its intention to acquire this airship! Citigroup is mainly engaged in finance, and they have Citibank under their umbrella. At this time, they are expanding their global business and need to buy an airship to serve as a facade and entertain those top customers!
“Humph, we at JP Morgan Chase will buy it for $2 million!”
As soon as Citibank made its statement, JP Morgan Chase next to it immediately became unhappy and also came out to bid!
“3 million US dollars, this airship belongs to our Rockefeller family!”
However, they were not happy for long, and the Rockefeller family showed up again!
As the second-generation head of the Rockefeller family, Rockefeller Jr. is obviously much more high-profile than his father.
Facing the strong pressure from Goldman Sachs, Rockefeller Jr. is eager to let the whole world know the strength of their Rockefeller family, so he thought of buying the airship from Ribbentrop and making himself the second person in the United States to own such an airship.
As long as he can complete this transaction, the entire United States will recognize the financial strength of their Rockefeller family! Before
Ribbentrop could respond, Vanelk, as the helmsman of the Goldman Sachs consortium, also stood up:”One price, 5 million US dollars, Mr. Ribbentrop, we Goldman Sachs bought this airship!”
Of course, Vanelke didn’t have to compete with a large group of dignitaries for an airship. After all, if he wanted one, Mainz would definitely give him one directly!
However, in order to help Hans with publicity and momentum, and to suppress his competitor, the Rockefeller Foundation, Vanelke had no choice but to stand up and participate in the competition!
Wow!
Vanelke’s offer caused an uproar in the crowd. Although most of the people who came to watch were powerful dignitaries, the money in the hands of the dignitaries didn’t come from the wind!
Rockefeller and Goldman Sachs offered $3 million and $5 million respectively, and the two companies immediately raised the price to the sky, which made many people who were interested in this airship start to back off!
Even if they could afford a higher price than $5 million, they would probably find it difficult to snatch the airship from the two major chaebols, Goldman Sachs and Rockefeller!
After all, the strength of these two chaebols is too terrifying!