1855 United States Tycoon

Before Rockefeller thought about how to call Carol, a new piece of news was revealed by a tabloid-Scrooge's wife, Dorothea, was caught in the afternoon after she rushed to the hospital to visit her husband. People discovered secretly left the hospital and boarded the train back to New York.

"At this time, Dorothea did not accompany her injured husband, but suddenly quietly left the hospital and returned to New York. This has to make people wonder if Mr. MacDonald’s injury is as serious as the legendary one is. Some analysts said that this move may indicate that there was an unexpected situation within the McDonald Consortium, so that Dorothea had to rush back to deal with it immediately..."

"This is..." Looking at this report, Rockefeller was silent. He sat down on the chair, picked up the cigar he had smoked half of the last time, struck a match, lit it, and took a deep breath. Rockefeller doesn’t usually smoke. He only smokes two sips when he encounters extremely difficult problems. Moreover, he doesn’t smoke such high-end Havana cigars too much, because these things are too expensive. Very distressed. Speaking of which, these cigars were still sent to him by Scrooge last time.

Rockefeller naturally understood that, according to the general understanding, Dorothea suddenly left the hospital and returned to New York, which probably indicated that Scrooge's situation was so serious that it could not be maintained, and it was even possible that Scrooge had died. When Dorothea went back, she probably wanted to seize a time gap so that she could hold more power and try to take the lead in the big changes after Scrooge's death. After all, Dorothea may not necessarily trust Carol and them. Just like the words that the great Shakespeare uttered through the mouth of Prince Donaben in his play: "Where we are now, people’s smiles are hidden with sharp blades; the closer the blood is to us , The more I want to drink our blood."

But Rockefeller couldn't fully believe this judgment. Because it involves the scourge of Scrooge. Would such a scourge die so easily? This is too unscientific, right? Well, although Scrooge is a scourge, in this world, he still has to obey the physical rules of this world, that is, even if you are a scourge who deserves to live for a thousand years, you are bombed, bombed, and bombed. Collapsed, still dying. But...what if Scrooge did all of this? In case...Anyway, if you firmly control Standard Oil, you will be invincible. Moreover, although Standard Oil is part of the MacDonald Consortium, Scrooge relied more on controlling Standard Oil's raw materials and purchasers, as well as technology standards. In terms of shares alone, in this company, Rockefeller is the largest shareholder.

"It's better to adapt to the changes." Rockefeller thought. As for the phone call, forget it. Because if Scrooge is okay, he must understand that he didn't want him to misunderstand him by doing this. If Scrooge is dead, even if Carol or Dorothea feel that they are not friends enough, will they have enough power to deal with Rockefeller by that time? In other words, would Rockefeller still be afraid of them?

After thinking about this problem, Rockefeller easily pressed the cigar out, then carefully wrapped it in tin foil, and put it back in the delicate little box.

However, as the saying goes, "The tree wants to be quiet but the wind keeps on", Rockefeller wanted to sit and watch the changes, but this change suddenly found himself.

...

"Last night, Dorothea suddenly visited Rockefeller? She went to Rockefeller in such a hurry as soon as she returned to New York. Why is this?" Looking at the intelligence in his hand, Morgan also frowned. If Scrooge died, or was about to die, it would be understandable for Dorothea to go to Rockefeller in such a hurry. Maybe Dorothea and Carol had a conflict to divide the consortium? Morgan has seen a lot of things like civil strife in large families for the distribution of wealth. It is said that Vanderbilt's body is not very good, and the struggle between his children has become a joke on Wall Street. But now is not the time to do it, and now I still need to continue to observe and observe.

...

Time goes back to the night before the day. New York, Rockefeller's newly purchased residence. Rockefeller was a very frugal man, but as he became richer and richer, he also began to feel that the security of his residence was not enough. Therefore, he spent a rare amount of money to build a small manor with high walls and moved in not long ago.

Several cars stopped at the entrance of the manor, a bodyguard got out of the car, went to the porter and said a few words to the porter, then returned to the car, and then after a while, the car door opened and a woman got out of the car , Walked into Rockefeller's manor surrounded by a group of bodyguards.

The bodyguards escorted the woman to the door of the house, and then the woman walked in with two bodyguards.

...

Just now when the porter reported that Dorothea was visiting suddenly, Rockefeller was shocked, and even reflexively wanted the porter to tell them that he was not at home. However, he immediately understood that if Scrooge was okay, then Dorothea's behavior must be due to Scrooge's instruction. Then he had better meet her; if Scrooge died, then see her. What's so scary to see her? But to be on the safe side, Rockefeller still brought a few bodyguards.

Rockefeller stood in the living room to greet Dorothea. However, when Dorothea appeared in front of him, he was startled by the man dressed as the bodyguard beside Dorothea.

"Scrooge!" Rockefeller opened his eyes wide.

"John, are you surprised to see me?" Scrooge took off his hat and smiled at Rockefeller.

"Where, I am a surprise." Rockefeller said. At the same time, he began to think, Scrooge suddenly came to the door, what on earth did he want to do?

"Ah, John, what are you doing standing up. Sit down and talk. You are the master, and I'm embarrassed to sit so comfortable if you stand like this." Scrooge sat comfortably on the sofa. When he got down, he let himself half lie down on the sofa and said to Rockefeller like this.

"Scrooge, you are too rude. How can you do this as a guest? Pay attention to your image!" Dorothea said to Scrooge, and at the same time, she sat down with a lady beside Scrooge.

"What do you need to be polite when you get to me." Rockefeller smiled, sat down, and said to Scrooge, "Scrooge, seeing that you are safe and sound, a stone in my heart has finally fallen to the ground."

Rockefeller is not all telling lies. At least Scrooge now uncovered the mystery to him in advance, avoiding his dilemma, and also avoiding his possible mistakes. Rockefeller knew that this was also a kind of favor from Scrooge to him.

...

A few days ago, when Dorothea and Scrooge were in the hospital plotting who they wanted to be the target of jumping out, Scrooge made such a decision.

"Anyone who is capable will have ambition. There is no such thing as a person who is super capable but does not have any ambition." Scrooge said to Dorothea, "So, as long as you give him benefits through betrayal As long as this benefit is great enough, all capable and ambitious people will betray you. But shouldn’t we therefore not use capable people? On the contrary, we must reuse capable people and cherish capable ones. People, rather than deliberately seduce them to make mistakes. As long as we are willing to work hard to trap them, I believe that we will always have a way to shake John's position and cause problems. However, losing John, is there any benefit to the consortium? So , We must love John and don’t tempt him to seduce him."

That's how Scrooge analyzed the problem for Dorothea. So Scrooge appeared here, so the target they were going to hit hard was naturally very clear-then naturally it could only be Morgan.

Although Morgan was probably not the initiator of this attack, to be honest, Scrooge didn't care too much about catching the real murderer or something. With this incident, Scrooge can just hide in the future and not show up in public. It will not be so easy to assassinate him again. More importantly, most people don't know who the real culprit is anyway. If the real culprit is just a few small trash fish, even if they are found, and they are eliminated by harsh means, it will not really give the public much deterrence to those potential covets of their own wealth. Anyway, for those real black hands behind the scenes, those directly involved in the assassination are nothing more than consumables.

Of course, the investigation of the real murderer did not relax, but Scrooge, and even the entire family's focus has been placed on how to fight the black hand behind the scenes.

...

"John, I want to tell you that in the future, at least before our next generation basically grows up, our expansion will gradually stop, and we may even retreat from some Realms." Scrooge said, "Before this, I made a major mistake. I expanded too quickly when our foundation was not solid. This made us stand on the opposite side of all the other business owners. This is very dangerous. Sometimes, slow is fast. Do you know what I mean?" Since we want to save Rockefeller and don't give him a chance to make mistakes in position, of course we must openly and honestly explain his own ideas. What's more, Rockefeller is so smart, even if he doesn't say it, he can figure it out sooner or later.

Rockefeller thought for a while, nodded and said, "I also think this makes sense. Sometimes I also wonder if the refinery owners who have been bankrupted by me will also give me a visit. Especially Scotch. For you guys who want money and don’t want your life, and even hang their own noose, are willing to buy them everywhere. For a few money, those guys can get things like sniper rifles and infantry guns casually. Recently, I had to spend a lot of money to modify and strengthen my bedroom to ensure it can withstand the bombardment of infantry artillery. Before our successor grows up, we must stop, or even retreat a little later. However. It’s not easy to go back. If you don’t do it well, people think we can’t stand it anymore. So before going back, we must find a guy with enough weight to fix it, and use a certain jackal to scare the gang of monkeys around. Scrooge, don't you want to take Morgan to operate?"

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