1855 United States Tycoon

In general, if you consider the possible increase in oil prices in the future, then the Germans will definitely make a lot of money in this transaction. However, Scrooge didn't think so, because he knew that within a few years, a world war would break out. At that time, the German property in United States will be frozen, and then what will happen is nothing to say.

Of course, the Germans are not without considering this risk. Only at that time, apart from a group of core members of Scrooge and the group of Marxists, few people really thought that there would be an uncontrollable global war. Most of them feel that war can be controlled, and they don't feel that war is imminent and inevitable. In addition, even if they are aware of the danger of war, the Germans will not feel that this is a loss-making business. If Germany wins the war, then Germany's interests in Alaska will naturally be respected by governments all over the world, including the United States government. On the contrary, if Germany is defeated, what is the loss of Alaska? Moreover, this agreement will also bring the relationship between Germany and United States closer. In today's political environment, any tendency of United States to approach Germany can increase the Germans' voice in front of the British.

Of course, what the two parties have reached is only an intention, which also means that if there is a need, both parties can use this letter of intent as toilet paper without any burden. Therefore, this also provides an opportunity for some countries to undermine this intention. For example, the United Kingdom is very dissatisfied with this cooperation intention. The British government also met with the United States ambassador for this purpose.

The United States ambassador and Macdonald are inextricably linked. In fact, no official who is an ambassador in an important country will be left behind without the shadow of a large consortium. Even in the tradition of the United States, The ambassador or something was originally auctioned at a clear price. When a person wants to participate in an election, he will collect donations from a large consortium to form his campaign team, and many of their campaign teams are directly from those large consortia. After he successfully became the president, he has the power to form a cabinet. At this time, representatives of the consortium that have supported him will enter the cabinet and share power. In order to avoid giving people the impression that there is too obvious collusion between government and business, generally speaking, people from large consortia will not directly enter the government cabinet. At this time, the position of a diplomat becomes a reward for immediately repaying their support. Of course, the more important the position of a diplomat, the more valuable the position of an ambassador in a country with more trade.

The ambassador of the United States is of course responsible for the United States. He certainly knows that the British are very strong. If the British want to make trouble for the United States, they can really do it. After all, being a shit stick is the specialty of the British Empire. However, he is not only the ambassador of the United States, but also a member of the MacDonald consortium, so he must be loyal to the interests of United States, but he must be loyal to the interests of MacDonald.

So the United States ambassador said that these are all free market behaviors. He doesn't think there is anything wrong with such behaviors. Whoever the United States people are willing to do business with is the freedom of the United States people. The brave people of United States will never back down while maintaining their own freedom. Of course, the United States also has positive goodwill towards the United Kingdom (although the people of the United States and the British people do not believe it at all, but they still have to say so), if the British are also interested in the development of Alaska, he thinks It's better for Britons to talk directly to McDonald Venture Capital Bank.

The British understand very well that the United States people want them to compete with the Germans in order to obtain better conditions. In other words, those damn United States guys intend to use the British as gunmen. But it doesn't hurt to be a gun at this time. If this deal cannot be prevented, then it is always good for the Germans to suffer more from this deal. So not long after, a British development bank also stepped in and asked for the right to develop Alaska oil. So German competitors appeared.

In fact, both Germans and United States people understand that the British are here to make shit sticks, but the United States people deliberately pretend not to know, and keep the British conditions all day long to make the Germans give in. Finally, when the agreement was formally reached, although the big picture did not change much, the Germans still made concessions on some issues. The most critical issue was the limitation of development speed.

For Germany, in a sense, as long as there is a large oil field in its hands, it does not even need to be developed on a large scale, so that the price of oil on the international market will not be too bullying for the Germans. Therefore, in order to avoid the phenomenon that developers hoarding land similar to those in later China, they are not developing but waiting for price increases. In the formal contract, the two parties have also made corresponding provisions for their annual investment in Alaska. So, shortly after the contract was signed, development in Alaska began.

The development of Alaska is first of all the expansion of the port. Because with the throughput capacity of the existing ports, it is basically impossible to guarantee the construction of Alaska. Of course, such a large expansion can bring a lot of comparison business. To this end, the Germans and McDonald Ventures conducted a bidding for their respective areas. Both of these tenders were aimed at global companies, but in fact everyone understands that other companies were just studying with the prince in the past. The companies that won the bid in the end are undoubtedly the German companies on the German side, and the companies on the McDonald Ventures side that are closely related to McDonald.The first to benefit is the steel industry and shipping sector. At this time, Scrooge missed the opportunity to introduce the concept of container cargo ships. Compared with ordinary bulk carriers, the goods are first loaded into containers and then sent to the port by rail or road for loading. Such loading and unloading methods greatly increase the speed of loading. During transportation, reloading and unloading are required many times, and each loading and unloading involves the arrangement and fixing of each item's location and a series of things. In the case of a large number of containers being used, on trains or cars, it is only necessary to put the standard-size large box directly on it, and then fix it all at once. And when you arrive at the wharf, you use a special container ship, and you don’t need to carefully study the placement, space, center of gravity, etc. for all kinds of goods. They are directly lifted one by one with the crane according to the set position of the container. The corresponding location is enough. In this way, time and manpower have been greatly saved in the process of loading and unloading. Originally, a bulk carrier of about 10,000 tons usually takes up to one or two months to load. This is also the size of a cargo ship. One of the reasons why it exceeds 10,000 tons is too much. If a 50,000 tons are produced like an oil tanker, it will be almost half a year to ship it, and then with the time on the road, there are really several crops of daylilies. . Nowadays, a container ship of 10,000 tons can complete loading or unloading in just a few days, which greatly reduces the time for this type of ship to complete a transportation cycle. The shorter the voyage, the greater the reduction. obvious. For example, on a transoceanic route to the United Kingdom, the actual sailing time for crossing the Atlantic Ocean is only half a month, but the loading or unloading time can be one month. Today, container ships have reduced the loading and unloading time to one week. Around that, even taking into account the time for maintenance, a container ship can make at least two round trips in a single round trip of a bulk carrier. In other words, one boat can be used as two boats.

As a result, when this new ship type appeared, almost all bulk carriers were immediately severely obsolete. Moreover, in the expansion project of the Alaska port, because the port has limited berths, in order to improve the efficiency of use as much as possible, the port stipulates that after three months, any cargo ship should not be docked for more than 8 days. This makes non-container cargo ships almost lose their right to call at Alaska ports. And everyone knows that in addition to the expansion of the port, a series of major projects will be involved, including the construction of railways, the development of oil wells, and the assumption of oil pipelines. These are all very large projects that will bring about More profit. Moreover, this project cannot be completed in a short time. Perhaps the entire construction time needs to be in ten years. This also means that it is definitely too late to start ordering container ships now. Even now, it is too late to start to transform or even build the slipway, and then build the container ship. And even if Alaska is not considered, only the high efficiency brought by the container ship itself is considered. In order to make more money in the competition, it is also a trend for the shipping companies to replace the old bulk carriers in their hands with container ships. Imperative. So the wave of container cargo ship and slipway construction began.

Due to the limited area of ​​Alaska’s ports, a large area of ​​it will be reserved for supertankers, so the space left for cargo ships is limited. Therefore, only cargo ships of about 10,000 tons can be berthed here. Although with the emergence of container ships, cargo ships The tonnage of tens of thousands of tons is no longer unimaginable. But this restriction makes those shipowners who are staring at Alaska's business not going to make any super cargo ships. At the same time, most of the ports in the world also lack oversized berths, and the existing berths can be berthed with container ships with only minor modifications. Therefore, under such conditions, container ships of about 10,000 tons are the best. Therefore, most of the newly built slipway is also for this type of ship.

"Dad, look, this is the situation of the newly-built slipway in United States. There are already 9 10,000-ton-class slipway under construction. In the future, more slipway construction will start. In addition, this is the case. In the past month, the number of orders received by McDonald Steel has increased by 30%, which has exceeded our maximum output. Therefore, all orders need to be postponed. Do you think we need to make How about MacDonald Steel's expansion of production?" Gray Stone said to Scrooge proudly holding a lot of reports.

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