Chapter 17 Opportunities when the Empire Collapses (Second update, please collect and recommend)
It may not be an opportunity!
The seemingly light words changed the taste in Li Yian's ears. Before he could react, Li Guoren said again.
"Look, there are those people..."
He pointed at some guys in suits and ties not far away with the knife and fork in his hand, who obviously did not look like government officials, and said.
"They include Morgan, Rockefeller, General Motors, and Ford. They are all large conglomerates and companies in the United States. Unlike those officials who fought with words to dismantle the British colonial empire, they did so silently. Take over the post-war world without guns or bloodshed, only with money and supplies , everything is very cheap, but all the important mines, factories and financial groups will be sucked into the big American companies. The British have no way at all. You see, those people who eat steak are just like us..."
Using a knife and fork to cut the steak, Li Guoren said in a mocking tone.
“While Shirley’s husband was dropping bombs over Germany and Beth’s lover was eating sand in North Africa, these polite and wealthy Americans were depicting the post-war era in their own way. World map. This map is different from Roosevelt's political map and the generals' military map. It has special mountains, rivers, towns and military strength. Deployment, they are also fighting a world war, but this map definitely does not belong to Shirley's husband, Beth's lover, or millions of ordinary people, but to those American tycoons, but... "
Putting down the knife and fork in his hand, seemingly no longer interested in the American beef on the plate, Li Guoren said in a serious tone.
“As long as you can seize the opportunity, then you have the opportunity to participate!”
Oops!
Facing his words, Li Yian suddenly had a thought in his heart - good guy, this person is not simple!
It is indeed not simple. A few people were able to expose the United States' plans for the post-war world in a few simple sentences in 1943. You know, it's 43 years now, not 53 years.
"Participate? How to participate?"
Li Guoren smiled.
"Some people eat meat and some drink soup. All you have to do is seize the opportunity. Of course, this opportunity is to embrace the lap of the Americans. In the future, the British will withdraw from various places. Americans, especially those big American companies, will definitely I will get involved in various places and seize the opportunity to establish good relations with them now. Why will Zhiyuan worry about not making money in the future? "
Yes!
The first half of the speech was still in human language, but the second half was just kneeling. The contrast between the two was so great that Li Yian couldn't even react, but Li Guoren's next words, "To make money, you have to earn money from Americans" made him deeply agree.
"I admire you for being a great talent." "It's just a superficial opinion. What I said is just a piece of wisdom. Ambassador Gu often said in the embassy that this war is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our country. In order not to repeat the mistakes of the last European War, the Americans will inevitably disintegrate the British and French colonial empires in order to seek their own interests. After the war, Japan in Asia was defeated by the allies, and Britain and France were also driven by the Americans. For the balance of Asia, they will definitely Is this true for a country, let alone an individual? Apart from eating meat, Americans only need to drink some soup to make a fortune. Zhiyuan can just hold on to the thighs of the Americans until Britain and France withdraw from Southeast Asia. Why worry about the lack of opportunities? ”
Rough words or not, it doesn’t matter whether Americans can embrace them or not. The most important thing is that the decline of the British and French colonial empires is inevitable. After the war, with the joint efforts of the United States and the Soviet Union, it only took a few years to If a large colonial empire fell apart, what would be revealed to the world at that time?
It’s a piece of fat!
A variety of resources and a huge market, everything has truly opened the door to the world, of course to American capital, but as long as we seize the opportunity, others will just eat the soup. Can drink till death.
Have you not seen that Japan and South Korea after the war did not just rely on following the United States to drink soup, and ended up making a lot of money? Those consortiums that are very prominent in the new century are not all here. rise in the process.
In the following time, Li Yi'an chatted a lot with this person who worked in the embassy. While talking, his eyes would always turn to those Americans in suits and ties. Among them were officials and consortium managers. From time to time they picked up wine glasses and drank Scottish whole-wheat whiskey that ordinary people rarely see, and even French red wine. The knives and forks in their hands were not cutting steaks, but British steaks. The flesh and blood of the empire, they are talking, laughing and carving up the post-war world.
"They are the real winners!"
At this moment, Li Yian finally understood why he said that the United States was the real victor, because their benefits from the war were unimaginable, not just They just turned European countries into their loyal dogs. More importantly, those American consortiums are silently taking over the world.
In fact, it was during this war that the so-called multinational companies achieved their future glory. They used the war funds earned during the war to support the government-in-exile, and gave blood transfusions to foreign companies on the verge of bankruptcy. Buying stocks of those companies at outrageous prices, when people all over the world are bleeding and sacrificing for the "just cause of all mankind", thousands of people from Asia to Africa, from Africa to Europe, from the Pacific to the Atlantic While thousands of Allied troops were bleeding and dying for a just cause, these seemingly polite people in suits and ties had quietly reached negotiations with the people of the government-in-exile, and they bought the most promising mines, oil fields and factories. .
Not only that, they were drawing their maps there when people all over the world were in dire straits. Under their instigation, American officials waved their big sticks to force Britain and France to give up. Their colonial empire, and those seemingly harmless American conglomerates, are like dormant behemoths, waiting for the opportunity to come, and then silently take over the world before the world can react.
While drinking and drinking, in Li Yian's eyes, those Americans in suits and ties have turned into dormant beasts. They will continue to dormant, waiting silently, and in this process Anyone who can see through the secrets and seize the opportunity will gain a lot.
And this...isn't it also his opportunity?
Shaking the wine glass in his hand and looking at the French red wine in the glass, Li Yian smiled.
Yes, this is your chance!
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(End of this chapter)