1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 522, President William McKinley’s Question (5)

The McDonald Consortium is interested in the railways in Argentina, which Little Morgan knew for a long time. But in business matters, it is impossible to say that the Macdonald Consortium will give it what it wants. The Morgan consortium took control of the Argentine railway. Although the money spent was not particularly large, the risks it took were very large. At that time, due to fluctuations in the international market, the sale of agricultural products in Argentina suddenly went wrong, causing economic difficulties. The economic difficulties in turn led to political turmoil. Political turmoil has made the economy worse, so that the international market has begun to recover, but Argentina’s production has been unable to recover. In this case, the Argentine government needs a large loan. Other bankers felt very pessimistic about the situation in Argentina, and the Macdonald consortium’s main energy was also put on the Boer War and the Philippines. At this time, the insightful old Morgan believed that Argentina’s prospects were actually very good. , It is worth the investment, so he took the risk to provide a large amount of loans to the Argentines to help the Argentine government tide over the crisis and restore the economy. Of course, in this process, in return, some of Argentina’s most important railways fell into Morgan’s hands.

“The asking price is too high, Greystone.” Little Morgan slowly shook his head and said, “Of course, if you only need a part of the priority, I think we can still talk about it.”

“We also know that John, you may not be willing to ask you to give us the control of the Argentine railway. But just a so-called priority use right, this sincerity is not enough.” Grey Stone replied calmly.

“Well, on the basis of the priority right to use the railway, how about the priority purchase right for me to add to the port construction? You know, now Argentina’s economy is getting better, so it’s like Puerto Blanca and the Port of Buenos Aires. There are plans for renovation and expansion. Because of our relationship with Argentina, and because Argentina does not have a consortium that can undertake such a large project, many of the business of the construction of these ports has fallen into our hands. If I take these ports The purchase of the required equipment is inclined to the company you specify, and that is a big deal. What do you think…”

“Except for us, we only have European port equipment. And we still have your shares in the production of port equipment, so John, you really can’t count, because as long as these ports have to carry out expansion and reconstruction projects, these orders It was originally ours…” Gray Stone still didn’t buy it.

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In this way, after a whole day of bargaining, the two parties finally reached a compromise. The Morgan Consortium promised that all actions they took would be notified to the McDonald Consortium in advance, and the McDonald Consortium promised to deal with the Morgan Consortium. Take some necessary actions to be cooperative or at least benevolent and neutral. On the issue of Argentina, the Morgan Consortium and the McDonald Consortium reached an intent to exchange shares. That is, the Morgan Consortium took out part of the railway and port shares in exchange for the McDonald Consortium’s shares in some farms, ranches, and food processing companies. In short, this was a successful meeting, and it marked another collusion between the two most influential consortia in United States.

In order to show the sincerity of cooperation, Greystone provided Little Morgan with the first piece of information on the same day.

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“Dad, according to the information they provided, Mr. Jacob Schiff also participated in their activities, and even, he is likely to be the core figure behind this.” Little Morgan said to own father.

“Well, it is entirely possible.” Morgan said with a sneer. “Before some of their operations were quite high-level, and they weren’t like the stuffed buns in the Midwest. I suspected that there were people behind them. Haha. , Jacob Schiff. This guy’s wings are now stiff, don’t you remember the lesson of 1873? Or, there are other forces behind him? For example…”

“Dad, are you saying that there may be European Jews behind him?” Little Morgan nodded and said, “It is entirely possible. Mr. Jacob Schiff himself is a Jew. And he also treats United States Jews everywhere. The leader is himself. The last time we threw out the Jewish Magi Protocol, Mr. Schiff has been advocating for the interests of the Jews… However, the family of Mr. Schiff seems to have a deep contradiction with Rothschild. ”

“The important thing now is to determine if there is a Rothschild behind him.” Morgan said.

Although Schiff’s family is considered a prominent family among European Jews, it is almost as old as the Rothschild family in terms of history. However, long history is long history, but in terms of financial resources, the gap between them and the Rothschild family is very large. It can be said that it is not on the same level. Schiff’s family can only be regarded as rich in Frankfurt, compared to the Rothschild family, they are also at the level of local riches. There are many tycoons among the Jews, but this does not mean that the Jews are all tycoons. Speaking of it, Marx can barely be considered a Jew (in terms of blood, but Marx’s grandfather’s generation had already converted to Jesus Christ, so if he were to join the Jewish Federation or something, he would definitely be called a traitor and kicked out. Yes.), but basically a poor man.

Today, the main wealth of the Schiff family has been on the North American continent, and there is not much left in Germany. However, in recent years, Mr. Schiff seems to be optimistic about the prospects of Germany, so he returned to invest in Germany, and now his business in Germany is not small. In this process, he will inevitably deal with Rothschild. In this way, Morgan will of course worry about whether he has become the spokesperson of the Rothschild family in North America.

“Dad, I will ask someone to look up the income and expenditure of the business in Mr. Schiff’s hands to see if they can see something wrong. In addition, if Dad, Mr. President and such a group of people unite, we must try to prevent For them, it is quite difficult.”

As the leader of the executive branch, the president of United States still has considerable influence. If he intentionally cooperates with the Midwest Banking Union in policy, it will be difficult to deal with the Midwest Banking Union through general economic means. Linear ascending, the cost of the entire operation will also be linear ascending.

“So, collusion between officials and businessmen is the most annoying.” Morgan also nodded and said.