Reborn Brazil as a Plutocrat

Chapter 416 High Risk Assessment

Alvin Rockefeller also fell into deep thought after hearing Marshall's words. Of course he knew about road construction. When it comes to whether there is money to be made from road construction, the answer is yes.

However, the income of this business is too single, and it requires heavy capital investment. The initial construction time may take three to five years, during which time no income will be seen at all.

And these consortiums know very well that the entire European aid plan is currently planned according to four fiscal years.

In other words, when this highway is built, the European aid program may come to an end. No one knows what Europe will look like by then.

More importantly, everyone understands that the European aid plan has a more important goal, which is to curb the infiltration and development of the Soviet Communist Party. Look at the various industries in the areas controlled by the Soviet Communist Party. Almost all of them have been nationalized.

Regardless of these large consortiums or individual capitalists, who would be willing to take such a huge risk to make such a heavy capital investment? Maybe they will lose everything by then.

Now, most of the people who are participating in this plan are actually here for the aid funds from the state. In addition, they want to take advantage of the opportunity to buy low-priced industries in European countries.

As for a pure fixed asset project like a highway, once it is built, it is impossible to divest the investment. Once it is nationalized, all the money will be lost.

There is only one way to recoup investment from roads, and that is to obtain a highway franchise, which is generally speaking, the right to charge. The fees collected are used to repay the cost of road construction, maintenance, operation and labor expenses.

Fang Lang even suspected that it was precisely because of this that Truman chose to appoint a five-star general as the civilian Secretary of State.

After all, there is no need for them to fight in the war, but they can make another war fortune.

With the temptation of such a huge benefit, the capitalists will try every means to promote the implementation of this plan. As for whether it will trigger a new world war, it is not what the capitalists should be concerned about.

Able to know what the future history will be like.

If you want to build roads, you can't directly purchase steel bars and cement from the United States! How much American capital can this involve? Don't say that American taxpayers won't agree, and even the consortium won't support it.

It's not that he doesn't understand such a simple truth, but he has already had a round of communication with the Morgan Consortium and other consortiums on this matter, but everyone is obviously unwilling to invest funds in it. This kind of effect is slow and the risk is huge.

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Although Fang Lang's words made Morgan frown, it made Marshall's eyes light up. As a military strategist and politician, his goal is not whether the consortium can make money, or how much money it can make.

After Marshall heard this, he coughed slightly in embarrassment and said:

Only after the Lao Du Doctrine was officially implemented in Greece and Turkey, and the United States sent troops to successfully intervene in the Greek civil war and won victory, did these large conglomerates and capitalists slowly build up the confidence to fight against the Soviet Communist Party.

This was the announcement of the "Lao Du Doctrine" and also marked the official beginning of the confrontation between the two world hegemonisms.

Eli Morgan, who had always been close to Fang Lang, tilted his head towards Fang Lang and whispered:

This is also the reason why the political situation in various countries was chaotic during this period.

Therefore, this so-called European aid plan has never been a simple economic aid plan. It is a sugar-coating used to wrap the cannonball.

Otherwise, by then, everyone will know that there is a lot of money to be made here, and everyone will swarm in the same direction, and it will be chaos, right?

And now the difficult problem raised by General Marshall is the hard nut that no one is willing to take on.

That's why Marshall said it's a difficult problem.

Rockefeller, who knew the situation in the United States, was certainly very aware of these situations, so he frowned when he heard Marshall raise this difficult problem.

"Ahem. This is another country's internal affairs. How can we just send troops to interfere?"

Of course, these are the specific directions for subsequent implementation. Although the current consortia are not absolutely sure, they are very clear about how much benefit this plan can bring.

Unexpectedly, this guy said in an understatement, just let the governments of various countries mortgage loans, what does he need to say? If there is not the risk of political instability, who doesn't know that you can build roads with loans and make money with tolls.

At this time, Marshall did not pay attention to Morgan's eyes, but quickly responded to Fang Lang's words. After all, he came here not only to help the Morgan family, but more importantly, he urgently needed to find a solution to the problem.

But the regime of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union doesn't care about you! All the capitalists' belongings will be confiscated directly! If the plan fails by then, this type of heavy-asset investment will be a business that loses all its money.

Everyone's attention is now mainly focused on the US$13.1 billion in aid funds that the US government can provide. Therefore, major consortiums do not want to invest large sums of money in European countries now.

After hearing what Eli Morgan said, Fang Lang said with some confusion:

Fang Lang is still unable to see clearly the conspiracy involved, but he knows very well that no matter what, it is impossible for any one company to undertake this business alone.

But neither the financial groups nor the politicians in this period had full confidence in the current situation. Now, whether it is Turkey and Greece on the front line of resistance to the Soviet Communist Party, or other European countries, such as Germany, Italy, France, etc.

As more and more victories were achieved, various consortiums and big capitalists finally believed that they could win the final victory, and their investment in European countries increased.

After all, Rockefeller's appearance was obviously an accident.

Therefore, generally such projects need to be led by state-owned capital, but now European countries obviously do not have the ability and funds to take the lead in restoring their domestic road transportation networks.

In fact, the reason why Fang Lang felt that there was a conspiracy but could not find out the specific problem was that he had the ability to see through the fog of history.

But whether his political ideals and ambitions can be realized, when he heard Fang Lang's words, he understood that there was room for control.

These words made Marshall look embarrassed. He glanced at Charles Morgan and said helplessly:

"These European countries also understand that our aid is not actually free, so they are a bit open."

This is also the reason why preparations for the European aid plan had already begun, but were not implemented immediately. Instead, after the "Lao Du Doctrine" was announced, and with the support of the powerful military power of the United States, rehearsals were first conducted in Greece and Türkiye.

Even the Morgan family may be directly bankrupt and liquidated. Who dares to take such a risk?

“Governments are certainly willing to provide appropriate collateral and are even willing to make appropriate concessions in other aspects such as the length of the franchise.

Fang Lang did not lower his voice. Everyone heard this and looked at Fang Lang in surprise.

“For this kind of project, governments of various countries can come forward and apply for loans from banks!

As long as these governments can provide suitable collateral, I believe it will not be a problem to raise funds to build infrastructure, right?”

Because they knew very well that if the people of Turkey and Greece could not have a good life under their social order, they would not hesitate to fall into the arms of the Soviet Communist Party.

Once Turkey and Greece fall, the whole of Europe will fall one after another like dominoes. This situation is absolutely unacceptable to the US and British governments that represent the interests of the big bourgeoisie and big landowners.

Therefore, everyone is strongly wary of such total asset investment projects in road transportation.

Some people may also think that since they are not sure, they can put it aside for now! It will not be too late to wait until then. But in fact, before these large consortiums start to implement such a big plan, they must first make a good distribution of interests.

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"We are just providing assistance, how come we make it seem like we owe each other something?"

But now they are obviously unwilling to make large investments in areas where they are still uncertain.

If, once the Democratic Army wins, all our early investment will be in vain."

Everyone understands what he said, but at this time, no one is willing to take on this high-risk business.

"It's not that everyone doesn't know the importance of transportation, nor is it that everyone is unwilling to invest in road construction. The main reason is that the risks are too high. Take Greece now as an example. The Democratic Army of Greece formed last year has gone through several confrontations with government forces.

Now, the reason why everyone is hesitant about this type of infrastructure projects is due to risk assessment considerations.

After both Greece and Turkey achieved victory, the entire aid plan was officially announced the following year and launched rapidly. This process was even more bloody and violent.

But it is obvious that the United States does not intend to take advantage of its assistance to Europe. The total amount of funds for the entire aid plan is only 13.1 billion U.S. dollars. When spread among so many countries in Europe, each country may only receive more than 1 billion U.S. dollars.

Not only were they not eliminated, their strength became stronger and stronger, and now they have a team of nearly 30,000 people.

His uninvited visit today was because the Morgan family deliberately asked him to raise this issue in front of Fang Lang again to create pressure on Fang Lang.

As for the United States and the United Kingdom, as the boss and second child of capitalism, of course they must find ways to maintain the order of the capitalist world. This is why the United Kingdom is still trying its best to support Turkey and Greece even when it is in very difficult circumstances.

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As long as road traffic in various countries can be restored as soon as possible, the local economic situation will definitely grow rapidly.

This look was immediately caught by Fang Lang, and at this moment he couldn't help but begin to wonder if all this was a trap set by the Morgan consortium to get him to stand up and take on this business.

Of course, this plan is only one of the means to maintain the capitalist world order. It is already January 1947, and in March, Lao Du will deliver a speech at the joint meeting of the two houses of Congress, declaring: All countries in the world today

They are all faced with the choice of two different lifestyles.

If this money is really used to build roads in Europe, it may be barely enough to connect some major cities, and this is assuming that there is already a road foundation.

"Have our troops not intervened yet?"

While European countries accept this assistance, they must also accept military intervention from the United States. Of course, this intervention is packaged under the cloak of a NATO ally.

There are a large number of political parties and people who believe in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the country, and even parties established in several countries have become the largest local parties.

But the funds from this aid plan need to be used to purchase technology, equipment and basic living supplies from the United States.

People standing in the fog of history cannot see the future, but they can see the strength of the Soviet Communist Party. Therefore, even the old and American people with their big guns have no absolute confidence that they will definitely be the victor.

The reason why these big conglomerates can eat the fattest and biggest meat is because they also have to face the hardest bones to chew.

In other words, although these large consortiums and big capitalists have seen the huge benefits behind this European aid plan, they still have some doubts about whether this plan will ultimately succeed.

This is very important for the rapid recovery of the entire European economy, so I really hope you gentlemen can seriously consider it."

At this time, the emergence of the European aid plan obviously made many countries find a victim.

Even in history, when Marshall delivered a speech on the steps of Memorial Church in Harvard Yard, announcing that the United States was ready to help Europe recover, in order to avoid American newspapers paying attention to the speech, no American journalists were invited to the speech, and Truman also deliberately

A press conference was held on the same day to divert the attention of domestic media.

These words made several members of the Morgan family frown. After all, of the several consortiums here, only the Morgan family relied on finance to make their fortunes. If they were to be able to provide loans, it must be them.

Almost all were carried out with the cooperation of the U.S. military, which is why the United States will have nearly a thousand military bases around the world in later generations.

There are so many consortia that want to participate in the aid plan, and others have put forward conditions. We cannot let one family take over this mess, and let others go crazy and make money!

Thinking of this, Fang Lang glanced at Morgan and the others calmly, then slowly said:

Fang Lang, who came from a later generation, knew very well that this European aid plan actually achieved his goal.

If these benefits are not distributed before the plan officially starts, everyone will only want to eat the meat and not chew the bones, which will inevitably affect the subsequent plan for everyone to make a fortune together.

This is why the United States insists on advancing this European aid plan even though it knows that it may encounter strong backlash from the domestic public.

He spoke directly:

After all, now Fang Lang is staring at his share of grain exports and only wants to get the maximum benefit from the entire plan, but he has not paid enough. It is time for him to understand that there is no free lunch in the world.

Now it was Fang Lang's turn to be surprised. He quickly realized why everyone gave such a high risk assessment to road construction. It turned out that even though Fatty Qiu from the UK had given a speech in the United States.

But at this time, Lao Du in the United States did not know whether Lao Duism had not yet thought of Lao Duism, or whether it was in the brewing stage.

In short, it is obvious that the Yankees have not yet begun to form the ideological concept of the world police in the future and start to dictate the internal affairs of countries around the world.

I have to save my face to some extent, and do not unscrupulously regard myself as the savior of the capitalist world.

(End of chapter)