The impact of this world war has just begun. It is foreseeable that because of this war, all participating countries that have the conditions to do so will withdraw capital from overseas and return to their countries for reconstruction. This is of course a bad thing for backward countries, which lose foreign investment.

The injection development speed will be slower.

But for the United States, this is not necessarily a bad thing. Before the war, the slogan of the United States was open door and all benefits shared. But after the war? The slogan can remain unchanged, but there can be some changes in actions.

Especially in the Americas, the United States itself has this geographical advantage. Before, it was just the powerful imperialist powers in Europe that made the United States very uncomfortable. After the withdrawal of these European capitals, the capital of the United States can completely fill the vacancies in the market. The current war

Although it is not over yet, it is all foreseeable.

Domestic corporate globalization has achieved results, except for the Morgan family in the invisible field, the Rockefeller family, which monopolizes oil hegemony, and the United Company. Success in going overseas depends on the situation. The US Philippines does not count, except for British India.

The British colonies, such as Canada, Australia, and South Africa, were relatively successful.

The second batch has some influence in Latin America, but it did not have an advantage in the competition with European capital before the war. Now facing the background of the possible withdrawal of European capital, the United Company definitely has an advantage in Latin America's operations.

, Sheffield can help the Boston consortium in this regard.

It was precisely because of this consideration that Adams III readily agreed to the cartel agreement proposed by Sheffield.

The slave owner stayed in Boston for a while and visited the properties of the Boston Consortium. When he and Lowell were talking, he asked, "Is Joseph Kennedy the latest upstart in Boston?"

"If he wasn't the son-in-law of the mayor of Boston, how could he develop so easily." Lowell said with a smile, "He has indeed developed well in the past few years, and Adams also thinks highly of him."

"The mayor or the mayor, etc., are all external reasons. It is not shameful to have such external help. Even the Adams family has the momentum it has today because of the emergence of father and son presidents." Sheffield laughed.

, "I think the Kennedy family may be a powerful presence in the future. The only worry is that this new family does not know how to have good relations with other companies. I hope everyone can coexist peacefully, otherwise Boston may be affected.

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As long as it does not involve matters of life and death, monopoly capitalists are certainly not willing to go against the president. But the fate of the Kennedy family shows that monopoly capitalists in the United States are capable of killing people.

If it weren't for the inextricable connections between major domestic companies, the Boston Consortium might have been eliminated.

It’s not like similar things have never happened. When most people feel that their interests have been harmed, the pattern is not completely unchangeable, such as the fate of the Kuhn-Loeb consortium.

Before World War II, the Kuhn-Loeb Group was only slightly inferior to Morgan and Rockefeller. By the time the World War ended, the Kuhn-Loeb Group had disappeared from the list of top financial groups.

The Kuhn-Loeb consortium mainly invests in the railway industry and was once known as the "Railway Kingdom". The main financial institution of the consortium is Kuhn-Loeb Company. Founded by Kuhn and Loeb, German-born Jewish immigrants, it is a company engaged in

A bank that provides credit and underwriting securities services. In its early days, it mainly operated securities investments in the United States for German capital.

Later, it invested in railroads and competed with Morgan in controlling railroads. Before World War II, this consortium controlled 25 major railroad companies such as the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and cooperated with other consortiums.

Jointly controlled Union Pacific Railroad and several other railroad companies.

After Vanderbilt and Old Morgan, another king of the railway system disappeared. Sheffield thinks the reason for its disappearance is that it has a strong German background. The second reason is because of its Jewish identity.

During World War II, the background of German capital made the United States uneasy. Secondly, there were the Jews. The United States was not a country rumored to be controlled by Jews. Jews were just stewards and the like and could not be the real masters. It was possible to get rich.

Yes, it is not possible to make rules.

If it weren't for the Boston Consortium, there are many old families with complex connections. It is estimated that after the Kennedy incident, they would have disappeared from the national economic map directly along the route of the Kuhn-Loeb Consortium.

"President Wilson's ambition after the war may not be so easy to realize, but in America, we can still work hard. Before the emergence of disruptive emerging industries, the current pattern of the domestic market is unlikely to change. It depends on who

I can occupy more foreign markets." Sheffield said as he walked, "I know that money cannot be made by one person. Although I have been working hard towards this goal, I also hope to have some friends in the process of going overseas.

around."

"There are quite a few companies in the south around you." Lowell smiled and shook his head. "They are even more obedient."

"Are you going to buy minerals with McHale? Latin America seems to be a competitor to McHale. In terms of manufacturing, my partners in the south can't help me much." Sheffield pointed out the conflict between southern enterprises and the Latin American market, "

I can't interfere too much with them in terms of personal choices. We all have long-term friendships. I can remind them, but I can't regard myself as their father, don't you think?"

When going overseas to raise funds, slave owners would definitely leave a share for their southern partners, but there was only so much they could do.

Just the day before, he had just received a call back from Gale, asking Sheffield if he was joking. Because of the economic boom caused by the war, Puerto Rico received a large number of domestic tourists. At this time, the slave owners actually wanted to close to the outside world?

Sheffield thought about it. He was preparing to make another fortune from the spread of the pandemic, but he asked Gale to prevent the virus from spreading to Puerto Rico. This was a bit of a double standard.

The invisible enemy was still spreading, had crossed the trenches, and through the fighting of soldiers on both sides and the contact of prisoners, it no longer became a difficulty for the Allies alone.

Sheffield has been analyzing the direction of the war from the perspective of hardware. He believes that Germany's domestic accumulation can completely last a year, but he has forgotten that the virus does not recognize people. The reserves of military supplies are sufficient, and the factories have enough raw materials, but workers need to go to work.

Production, the virus does not only target soldiers participating in the war, but all men, women, old and young are equal.

The battle on the front line will kill two million Allied troops on the Western Front, but the virus can kill hundreds of millions of citizens. The virus outbreak weakens the overall strength of the entire country, and the military cannot protect itself alone.

Even in the station report of the German General Staff, there have been descriptions of soldiers in various units who are unable to fight due to contracted diseases. This is definitely bad news for the German army launching an offensive.

In May, June and July, the Allied forces launched large-scale attacks one after another. Now the German vanguard has begun to break through in the direction of Champagne. The sad place four years ago, the Marne River, is right in front of us. It is only 37 kilometers away from Paris.

The strategically important Soissons was reoccupied. In just four months, the German army broke through from four directions and the main force advanced 65 kilometers. Allied soldiers suffered heavy casualties, with losses as high as nearly 700,000.

Compared with the situation in Paris, the situation of the British Expeditionary Force was actually even worse. The main purpose of the Emperor's Battle was to rush the British Expeditionary Force to the sea. After the Battle of the Somme, the British Expeditionary Force replaced the French on the Western Front.

trend, in the later active offensive, the British Expeditionary Force was even more proactive than the French.

Although the positions of the British Expeditionary Force were less than half that of France, they became the main choice for Germany's offensive. Hundreds of tanks were taboo, especially in coastal positions, just like the situation of the Anzac Corps in the Dardanelles Strait landing battle.

If the American Expeditionary Force had not arrived to stabilize the position, it would not have been impossible for him to be driven into the sea by the Allied forces.

As long as a new force joins, as long as 200,000 soldiers, a group army, and a large-scale offensive are launched, what will be the result?

There are no more soldiers. In the past three months, the virus has spread to various European countries. Although the participating countries have blocked the news. But from reports in Spain and people's perceptions, everyone knows that a pandemic has swept across Europe.

Hospitals in all countries are overcrowded, and the level of overcrowding in hospitals in various places is even greater. The injured and injured who were transported to hospitals during the war, whether in Britain, France, Germany, or Austria, Hungary, and Italy, were not spared.

In northern Italian cities, countless Italian citizens took to the streets, hoping that the kingdom would withdraw from the war, allow soldiers to go home, and focus the country's efforts on fighting the pandemic.

There was a conflict between the marching citizens and the city's military and police. The military and police's suppression had no effect, but instead intensified the anger of the citizens. The citizens launched a strike and stopped entering the battlefield to produce weapons for the war. Soldiers on the front line on the French-Italian border

Extending the emotion is like recreating the scene before the collapse of the Empire. There were no soldiers in the trenches, and many soldiers were lying on the ground, ignoring the reprimands and scoldings of the officers.

Through the neutral country Spain, the Kingdom of Italy has secretly negotiated with France to strive for a relatively good armistice condition. At the same time, Italy quickly seized the Austro-Hungarian warships and merchant ships in its ports.

The French originally did not want the French and Italians, but because the British were the main targets of the Emperor's offensive, they persuaded the French to let the Italians go and focus on the Germans. It would be better to carve up Germany than to just leave Italy with no fighting ability.
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