1855 United States Tycoon

"Mr. Eldo, sit down and talk." Scrooge made a gesture, motioning the tall forty-year-old man standing in front of him to sit down and talk.

"Ah, thank you, Mr. MacDonald." Eldor sat down rather cautiously. Scrooge noticed that when he sat down, his buttocks were sitting very far forward, unlike Scrooge. Usually he buries himself deeply into the sofa. Eldo's back is a full foot away from the backrest, and his legs are neatly close together. He looks honest and frightened. This made Scrooge very happy, so he continued to ask:

"Mr. Eldo, I heard you have something to look for me?"

"Ah, it's like this." Eldor explained, "Mr. MacDonald, the company's recent orders have exceeded the factory's annual production capacity. You know, our factory has not had time for the first phase of the project. It is completed, and according to the plan, we will not expand production on a large scale until next year’s planting results come out. So, should we stop accepting intentional orders?"

"Is the effect of publicity so good?" Scrooge asked. Originally, he felt that fertilizer should not have been accepted so quickly. In history, the rapid promotion of this thing was also after the actual effect. That’s why Scrooge didn’t expect that the effect of his own propaganda would be so good.

"Yes, Mr. MacDonald." Eldor replied, "I have relevant statistics here." Eldor stood up, stepped forward and handed a document to Scrooge, and explained: "Mr. MacDonald, you see, in these days, we have received about 800 letters every day. Almost all of the senders expressed their interest in'earth gold', 70% Eight of the people hope to be able to order this fertilizer immediately. In just a few days, the order amount mentioned in these letters has exceeded our scheduled total output for next year. Are we..."

Scrooge looked down at the document, and then said to Eldor: "You can pay attention to this problem in time and tell us that this is very good, and we will consider it. Well, the progress of the construction of the new factory. What happened?"

"Mr. MacDonald, the infrastructure construction of the factory, such as the factory buildings, roads, and supporting power facilities have all been carried out in advance, and are currently under construction according to schedule. As long as the new equipment has been completed and has been delivered The factory area is now being installed. As long as the new equipment is not delayed, we can probably complete the construction one month to one and a half months ahead of schedule."

"Very good." Scrooge said, "Grasp the construction, pay attention to the quality, and don't make quality problems just to grab the schedule."...

"Hey, Hanks, have you heard? The sales plan for soil gold has come out." Jim shouted to Hanks.

"How do I sell this thing?" I have been listening to the bombardment of advertisements for this thing, plus the trust in the quality of the things in the McDonald series, yes, the trust in the quality of the things in the MacDonald series. When Hanks was in Alaska, he saw the difference between McDonald's genuine and other cheap imitations more than once, whether it was a lighter or a bag, or a dagger, shovel, and pistol. Although McDonald’s genuine products are more expensive, their products are indeed not comparable to other people’s products. So when they started advertising for "earth gold", Hanks immediately sent a pre-order letter according to the address mentioned in the advertisement.

"It is in the newspaper delivered today." Jim handed the newspaper to Hanks, Hanks took the newspaper, and he saw the news.

"...Because the order quantity has exceeded our current production capacity, and more pre-ordered letters are being sent to the company continuously, in order to ensure that all customers who support our company have an equal opportunity to use our products, after research , Our company decided to use lottery sales for the first batch of products. We will give all letters sent before 0 o’clock on the x month x day and received by our company before 24 o’clock on the xx month xx day. Then pass Lottery, to determine the first batch of lucky people who can purchase the first batch of "earth gold" of our company. Each number is limited to 500 kilograms. Our company will provide technology guidance and income guarantee for these lucky people to guarantee them After correctly using our company’s “earth gold” in accordance with the guidance of our technology personnel, the yield per mu exceeded 20% of the average yield per mu of United States last year. If the yield is not up to standard, our company will provide This group of lucky users provides compensation equivalent to the insufficient part of the grain output...The final interpretation right of this clause belongs to the company."

"Well, it seems that'earth gold' is really a good thing," Jim said. "They are almost guaranteeing a good harvest with their'earth gold'. But if we buy their fertilizer, then we won't be serious. Once they are planted, aren't they at a loss?"

"They left behind. Look here-"After using our company's "earth gold" correctly in accordance with the guidance of our technology personnel", if you don't perform additional management, it will be said to be It's'not used correctly', and then it has nothing to do with them." Hanks replied that when he was in Alaska, he was used to seeing backdoors in this type of agreement.

"And you see here,'The final interpretation right of this clause belongs to our company.' The final interpretation is up to them. So, don't think that you can beat others. Moreover, these big companies have Power is not what you can imagine. If you want to cheat them, you don’t know how to die. However, big companies will also value own reputation. They dare to say this, which means that they will definitely intervene and increase production by no more than 20%. Very, very few." Hanks said at last, "I just don't know if I will win in the end."

"Hanks, look, they didn't seem to say whether to give everyone a number, or a number for each letter?" Jim said, "Well, there is still half a day before the deadline for the letter to be sent, or let's go quickly. How many more letters?"

...

A few days later, the Cleveland Agriculture Company conducted a lottery under the witness of radio and newspaper reporters. In the code of 100,000 letters, a total of 20 number segments were drawn, for a total of 10,000 numbers. These people are the first lucky ones.

Hanks' number was not shaken, but Jim had good luck and became one of the ten thousand lucky ones.

...

The construction of the factory is still proceeding step by step, and the training of workers and technology personnel is also in progress. By the end of the year at most, the factory will be able to officially start operations. Everything seemed to be going well, but one day, James found Scrooge on a phone call.

"Mr. MacDonald, there is one thing I need to report to you." From the phone, James was nervous.

"What's the matter? James, you're not the one who can't hold your breath. What happened?"

"We found someone trying to steal synthetic ammonia information." James replied.

"Have you caught it? Who are they?" Scrooge asked.

"It was two technologists who were both caught, but the guy who was connected to them escaped and took away some of the materials." James said nervously.

"What did they get? Where did it go? Who instructed them to do it?" Scrooge stood up and asked coldly. James felt that the handset of the telephone suddenly became cold, as cold as the ice that has not melted for thousands of years on the Alaska glacier. He hurriedly replied: "It's part of the design of the compressor. According to them, a person who claims to be Rhodes bought them with a lot of money. It was the one who escaped. They didn't know the identity of that person."

"Then he ran away, and there is nothing you can do?" Scrooge asked angrily.

"We chased him, and then he fled in... escaped into the French consulate." James said, "our people surrounded the consulate. What shall we do now?"

"What to do?" Scrooge's sneer came from the receiver of the phone, "Is it still necessary for me to teach you? Contact the police immediately, ask your people to pretend to be gangsters, fight with them, and then quickly occupy the French consulate! Then do you want me to teach you anything?"

"Yes! Yes!" James responded immediately.

"What are you talking about! Hurry up!" Scrooge's roar came from the earpiece...

...

"Scrooge, what's the matter?" Dorothea was shocked when she suddenly yelled after seeing her husband received a call.

"Nothing," Scrooge smiled hard at his wife. "A few spies stole something from us."

"Didn't catch them? Let them escape into the French consulate?" Dorothea heard part of the content, and naturally became nervous. "You let them rush into the consulate directly to arrest people and find things. No, no. What's the problem? Will the French..."

"What can the French do?" Scrooge coldly smiled. "Even if I let them kill all the French in the consulate, will the French declare war on United States because of a bandit attack? "

"But, but they can definitely know what is going on." Dorothea seemed unable to accept such violent methods against diplomats. You must know that from a legal point of view, the consulate is equivalent to In French territory, Scrooge's doing so is equivalent to invading France.

"Of course they know, even if they don't know, we have to let them know. But what can they do if they know? Do you say to the outside:'Because we are spying in the United States and stealing other people's business secrets, and we are being chased by others." Come in'? Napoleon III is now facing the pressure of the Prussians, I don't believe how he dare to react at this time!"

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