Chapter 571 Five-Nation Alliance Forces
Chapter 571: The Eight-Nation Alliance
"Report to your Excellency, the red-haired Irish have taken the lead in slowing down the work. The rednecks have also become dissatisfied due to the decline in their income."
The federal economy is booming, so why is the income of ordinary people declining? Someone took an extra cut.
The rednecks don't understand the complex financial system, but they know very well that they work harder but earn less.
The hot-tempered rednecks can't tolerate your bad habits. Three hundred thousand people start strolling around casually, and two hundred thousand people start refusing to work.
Cleveland was unceremonious, "Suppress!"
"Darling, is this okay? Your reputation will be damaged."
It was his young second wife, Frances, who dissuaded Cleveland.
Frances was 28 years younger than Cleveland and was the daughter of his friend.
Before his death, his friend entrusted his daughter to him, and Frances became Cleveland's adopted daughter.
Cleveland proposed to Frances while his original wife was still alive. Ahem, that's definitely cheating.
Of course, this is a private matter and has nothing to do with career achievements. For big men, this kind of romantic affair is nothing.
This would have been quite romantic if Cleveland had not been only thirty-six years old that year - guess Francis' age yourself...
As for Cleveland's character, well, well, it can be described in two Chinese characters.
The incident on a certain island is an absolutely authentic method passed down by the ancestors of the American barbarians...
"Francis, you have to know who brought me to this position. If you take money from someone, you have to work for that person."
Cleveland is very particular about this and does not hesitate to protect the interests of its financial backers.
A large number of police officers were dispatched, federal prisons were overcrowded, and blood was shed everywhere. This event is known in history as the "Era of the Great Riot."
The sudden outbreak of events interrupted the planning of the wing king and made Cleveland panic.
"Report, several congressmen want to impeach you for being too attentive to capital interests and deviating from Garfield's ideals."
The tiger skin of the ideal successor to the great Garfield is still needed, but Cleveland has a way.
Who is the biggest entrepreneur now? Rockefeller.
Cleveland immediately signed an order in the name of "anti-monopoly" to split up Standard Oil, and Rockefeller's company was broken up into 34 small companies.
You see, I am ruthless even to the big boss. Isn’t that very generous?
Rockefeller did not feel wronged. His company monopolized 95% of the federal refining capacity, 90% of the oil transportation capacity and 25% of the crude oil extraction capacity, so he had no complaints about being split up.
The problem was that Morgan had just spent 7.2 million taels of silver to acquire Carnegie Steel Company and established the larger Federal Steel, but Cleveland deliberately ignored it.
The result was that Garfield's two supporters, Rockefeller and Carnegie, were suppressed at the same time, and Cleveland's true colors began to show.
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Qiao Garden, Qingfeng Pavilion.
Shao Quanzhong stayed at Qingfeng Pavilion and was chatting with Wenxiu. Alas, I am fifty-four, so old.
"Yuting, I just received a call from Rockefeller. His company has been split up. We own 49% of the shares..."
Shao Quanzhong waved his hand and said, "Bai Tian Yongxian told me about this. It's not a big deal. Actually, they don't have a planning committee or computer-aided management. Companies that are too big don't make money."
"Even if the shares are split, they are still ours. In the market environment over there, small companies are more dynamic. Maybe we can get more dividends."
"I don't understand this. Yongxian is an expert. He said so, so it should be reliable. Yongxian also said that if the curve of our Caiqingtang declines in the future, we should also split up the unimportant industries."
Wenxiu was dissatisfied, "Then how come Morgan made more money by acquiring Carnegie's steel company?"
"So you old woman don't know how to do big things. You only know how to work and make money."
"Steel companies have joined the military-industrial complex and are fed by the government, not earning money by working. If you sell a nut for $90,000, someone will pay for it. Even a pig can make money in that position."
"Rockefeller's backer is gone now, so he can't eat this kind of food anymore. He should just work honestly to earn money. Tell him not to focus on the present, avoid worries, relax, and live a few more decades." A month later, Shao Quanzhong unexpectedly received a thank-you telegram from Rockefeller.
"Master, thank you very much for your advice. When my company was first split, I was extremely anxious and completely collapsed."
"Anxiety and worry followed me everywhere. I was afraid every day and worried about gains and losses. I suffered from insomnia, digestive disorders, and my hair and eyelashes fell out, leaving only a faint tuft of eyebrows."
"After hearing the advice from the economic experts of Daxia conveyed by your madam, I suddenly understood. As expected, I found that the split enterprises are running better, and I don't have to work hard to arrange them."
"I'm starting to learn to put down the work at hand, learn to play golf, take care of my own garden, and try to chat, play cards and sing with my neighbors."
"There was a school on Lake Michigan that was facing closure due to mortgage rights. I spent several million dollars to buy it and planned to establish the University of Chicago. Now I feel very good and have decided to start my charity work. I believe I can live to be 100 years old."
Half a month later, Rockefeller donated a large sum of money to build a university in Beijing second only to Hailing University. He also donated to the hospital left by Mr. Luo Weilin, expanded the scale of the hospital, and renamed it "Union Hospital"...
Rockefeller didn't know that the key points pointed out by the "Big Xia Economic Expert" actually came from the teachings of one of the greatest economists of this century. In fact, the expert himself did not have any good feelings towards big capitalists like Rockefeller...
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Redneck rebellions broke out one after another within the federation. Cleveland showed his ferocious face and suppressed them brutally. After several months of iron-fisted control, the country finally calmed down by the end of the year.
Cleveland finally turned his attention to Havana. Now he was no longer afraid of Daxia's magnetic storm bombs, and the navy ships and planes were all equipped with missiles. Humph, who was afraid of who?
On January 1 of the following year, the battleship USS Maine, which was sent to Havana by Cleveland in the name of "protecting overseas Chinese", suddenly exploded and sank inexplicably.
Cleveland immediately announced that the Atlantic Fleet would blockade the waters north of Havana and the port of Santiago.
This was an act of declaring war in fact, and world public opinion was in an uproar.
In fact, as a pre-dreadnought battleship, the Maine has no room for transformation and its combat capability is very limited. It should be dismantled or used as a target ship. So anyone with a discerning eye knows what happened to this explosion.
Cleveland doesn't care about that, as long as there's an excuse.
The Atlantic Fleet swarmed from its anchorage in Puerto Rico toward Cuba, with the goal of controlling Havana, expelling Bactria's V2 rocket group, and eliminating the threat to Miami on the mainland.
In the past two years, the large-scale immigration led by Marshal Shao has been basically completed. King Yi now has more than six million subjects under his command, of which more than five million are of Chinese descent. This place has basically become a Chinese country.
Cleveland brazenly attacked the Wing King. The world is watching how Daxia will respond. Will there be another fierce battle?
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Qiao Garden, with its two bamboo houses, is home to many generals.
Except for Grant and Emery who avoided the conflict with the Federation, almost all the other generals had arrived. For such a conflict between two giants, the emperor still needed to be the master of the game.
"Fuck you, who's afraid of who? How dare you bully King Yi and our more than five million overseas Chinese? If you can't beat him to death, I'll declare war!"
"Wait a minute, Marshal!"
The person who came in was Zhang Zhidong.
"The military advisor is here, great. Now I need your advice on how to plan."
Many years have passed, and Zhang Zhidong is now the prime minister, but the generals who came from the old Huai Army still call Zhang Zhidong military advisor.
Everyone still remembers the victory that the Huai Army won one after another under the guidance of the military advisor.
Zhang Zhidong waved his feather fan and said, "Marshal, we are now the world's number one. You are not used to this position yet. You can't do things alone. There are some rules here."
"I think it should be like this..."
In the afternoon, an imperial decree was issued from Qiao Yuan, ordering Daxia, Southern Japan, Luzon, the Bau Heavenly Kingdom Federation, Bulgaria, Romania, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Spain to form an Eight-Nation Alliance to go to the Caribbean for "peacekeeping" and mediate the conflict between Cuba and the Federation.
At the same time, Tan Yaoxun was urgently summoned to meet the emperor in Qiao Garden.
(End of this chapter)