1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 355 Gunshots of the Second America Civil War (3)

Almost immediately, Morgan’s spokesperson refuted the rumors that Ms. Avery Dupont had been on the Viking. In the statement, Morgan stated that he and Scrooge had always been best friends. He did not, and did not have any necessary and possible involvement in the plot to assassinate Scrooge. As for some of the problems that McDonald Venture Capital Bank is currently encountering, it is not because of his conspiracy, but because of the influence of the market itself. At the same time, he also pointed out that although the assassination of Mr. Scrooge McDonald was a very evil and illegal act, such an act should be attacked, but this attack should rely on law and order, and this is justice. Instead of resorting to violent actions that turn violence into violence.

Such a statement was of course refuted by the McDonald Consortium. It seems that after the MacDonald Venture Capital Bank was attacked, the McDonald Consortium, which had been in an infighting, temporarily had a tendency to unite. First, Carol mildly stated that he believed that the rumors that Morgan was involved in the assassination of his brother Scrooge McDonald were nonsense. But on the other hand, he also thinks that it is very abnormal that the credit rating of McDonald Ventures Bank has been unreasonably lowered recently.

“The companies under the McDonald Consortium are operating very well. All of our companies, including the McDonald Venture Capital Bank, are profitable. And our corporate funds are abundant, and there is no so-called capital chain rupture. The risk. Those guys who want to take advantage of the fire have completely miscalculated.”

Although many depositors have begun to transfer their own deposits out of McDonald Ventures, this is far from enough to shake the funding chain of the McDonald Consortium. Just in the underground treasure house of Duck Castle, there is gold worth tens of millions of dollars. Moreover, the operating conditions of the companies under the McDonald Consortium are quite good. If there are no major development projects, they do not need too much liquidity support. The overall good operating situation at this time has become the Macdonald Consortium and its important weapon. The attack on the McDonald Venture Capital Bank is not completely ineffective, but it will take a long time for it to be effective. Moreover, even if it worked, it would only allow the MacDonald consortium to shrink rather than collapse.

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“I already said that you are too anxious.” Morgan said to his allies. “We should continue to wait before Dorothea and Carol fall apart. But…”

Morgan did not go on, because he knew that it was necessary to mention the mistakes caused by the actions taken by allies against his wishes, because it would make everyone realize that he, Morgan, is the smartest of all, yes. In the future, his influence in the league will be further ascending. And his allies will feel more and more that trusting Morgan is profitable, and unbelievers will inevitably be punished by the market. In this way, although he will not have the absolute power brought by equity in this alliance, he can also rely on the increasingly ascending prestige to control and command the power that far exceeds his own capital.

However, it is not wise to mention the mistakes of allies too much. In this alliance, Morgan does not have an absolute advantage in capital, and his own capital accounts for less than 10% of the entire alliance. In this way, it is too mean to remind allies that you are all fools, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Morgan once compared himself with Scrooge in a small chat. At the time, he said this:

“Only in terms of how to use capital, Scrooge is far behind me. However, Scrooge is still a better guy than me. Because Scrooge is good at construction. Among all the wisdom, the wisdom of construction Is the highest.”

“Mr. Morgan, what shall we do then?” an ally asked.

“If we suspend the action against McDonald’s venture capital, what will happen?” Morgan asked.

“Maybe without our pressure, the conflict between Dorothea and Carol will break out again?” one person said.

“They are not that stupid? Although the issue of interest will definitely cause conflicts in the long run. But with the lessons we have intervened, they will definitely reach a compromise. Therefore, we hope that as soon as we end our hands, they will conflict again. This is also unrealistic.” Another person said so.

Everyone talked about it for a long time, and finally, everyone turned their eyes to Morgan.

“It’s definitely not enough to close it now.” Morgan said. “Now that we close it, it’s equivalent to giving the McDonald Consortium time to complete internal integration and safely shrink its business scope. Even so, the McDonald Consortium remains the same. It may leave some markets to us, but this will leave us with much less profit than letting it collapse.”

“So, what should we do? The McDonald Consortium has a huge gold mine, and this gold mine alone can provide them with a lot of hard currency. Now even if we hit the McDonald Venture Bank, It will not cause a fatal blow to the Macdonald Consortium. They can still steadily shrink their defenses.”

“Now, we can only start from the second core of the McDonald Consortium.” Morgan said, “Our efforts on McDonald’s venture capital are not without effect. Now under normal circumstances, McDonald’s It is true that the consortium will not have the problem of a tight capital chain. But what if we create some unconventional situations?”

“Do you mean?”

“The University of Cleveland is now absolutely No. 1 in the United States in terms of science and engineering. Even if it is placed in the world, it is already first-class. The development of science and engineering, especially those that can immediately become money What does the development of engineering depend on?”

“A genius scientist?” one person said.

“The right research direction?” another person said, and then he said again, “Mr. Morgan, don’t sell it, just say your answer.”

“Haha, in fact, your answer is not wrong. But you have overlooked another thing that is more closely related to our own job, that is money.” Morgan said, “Ten years ago, there might be people who were thinking about it. With a move, get along with a good idea, and then make a fortune from it. Just like Scrooge designed a rear-mounted rifle. But now, this kind of thing has become more and more difficult. The threshold for epoch-making inventions has been increasing. The higher it is. With the deepening of various researches, more and more equipment is needed for research, and more and more expensive.

For example, ten years ago, when we built ships, the choice of the shape of the ship relied almost entirely on experience. Nowadays, without a large pool, without a large number of model tests, determining the shape of a boat is like a joke. And those boats that rely solely on experience to build, because of the disadvantages in performance, have no market competitiveness at all. Take my Viking as an example. Just to determine its line shape, hundreds of various models were used, and the calculations used weigh several tons of paper. It cost more than one hundred thousand US dollars. As you all know, the Macdonald Consortium made a lot of money through radio. But you know that one of the key technologies in it, the vacuum tube, cost almost one million dollars in research expenses. When the large laboratory of the University of Cleveland was built, it only cost more than one million U.S. dollars, but with the development of these years, the fixed asset investment of the Macdonald Consortium here has approached tens of millions of U.S. dollars. If you count the coming and going research investment, then you don’t know what kind of figure it is. But I’m sure that it must be an astronomical figure. Without the support of this money, the University of Cleveland would never develop into the best science and engineering college in the United States and even the world. And its academic journal “Science” cannot be developed into a professional journal almost on par with “Nature”.

Today, our attack on McDonald’s venture capital, the most easily affected is the University of Cleveland Lab. I don’t know how many specific research projects of the MacDonald Consortium were underway before Scrooge’s attack, or how these projects were going. But I believe that Mr. Scrooge McDonald is not the kind of guy who will stop the flow of profits. He has always been relying on the advantages of technology to crush the enemy, and his investment in technology must be quite large. Although his astonishing sensitivity to technology makes the possibility of investment errors less and less, the expenditure must also be large. Now, Scrooge is in a coma. It was not so easy for the Macdonald family to continue the research project of the Scrooge era. Under the control of these guys to continue to maintain Scrooge’s R&D plan, the efficiency will be greatly reduced, and the money required will be more. Because whether it’s Dorothea, Carol, or Rockefeller, the gap between them and Scrooge in their understanding and intuition of technology is astonishing. By the way, this is why it is difficult for others to imitate Scrooge’s model.

Therefore, I am sure that the Macdonald Consortium will definitely cut research projects to save research funding. And Scrooge’s “coma” also made it possible for us to enter this Realm. I think that, on the one hand, we must continue to suppress the financing capacity of the McDonald Venture Capital Bank on the one hand, and on the other hand, we will begin to establish our own R&D institutions, and use various methods to dig out those R&D personnel under the McDonald Consortium. Especially the R&D personnel who understand the relevant key technology. Maybe this is the biggest benefit we can get from this change. “Morgan said at last.