Chapter 22: Friendship Lasts Forever

Family businesses are very important these days, such as the three DuPont brothers and the five Rockefeller brothers. However, the five Rockefeller brothers are not born yet, and the heirs of Rockefeller are like Sheffield, with a small family.

However, there are also advantages to a small family. At least Sheffield doesn't have to worry about the emergence of competitors, and Annabelle doesn't hold on to power tightly, so Sheffield doesn't have to sigh, "Where in the world is there a prince who can sit on the throne for forty years?"

But the disadvantage is that the tradition of brothers fighting against tigers and fathers fighting against sons does not exist in Sheffield. He must complete the establishment of a network of relationships. In fact, this is not established by him, but the network of relationships that the Sheffield family has always had. He just needs to not exclude it and integrate into it.

He did not need to have harmonious relations with these partners. He only needed to explain the interests involved clearly and stop at the right time. The binding of interests was more effective than any friendship. In fact, Sheffield would be a guest of honor wherever he went, as long as he mentioned his family name.

It was no longer strange for girls to go in and out of girls' schools and walk their dogs in the sacred university campus. Except that because the school was full of girls, Sheffield's boy was a little abrupt and received a wave of glances, but there was nothing wrong with it.

Nowadays, men's clothing has become more unified. Western suits were not promoted by a certain country, but they are much more convenient than the national costumes of many countries. They gradually unified European clothing and then spread to the whole world.

Women's clothing is much more diverse, and the South is more agricultural, so it was much less impacted than the North. Girls in girls' schools still dress in a wide variety of styles. This is why Sheffield chose to walk his dog at the girls' school, rather than at the boys' school as rumored, where he had done something to some poor but beautiful female students.

Texas folk customs are considered very conservative in the United States, of course, it can't be compared with East Asia and the Pax Romana area. Now it's a patriarchal society, so it's best not to talk nonsense. You can try the Yankee area.

"If today's photography technology wasn't so poor, it would be possible to take a few photos." Sheffield has already developed the ability to judge the origins of immigrants from their clothing, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The photography technology of this era is destroying people. The photos produced are obviously uglier than the real people. This can be seen from the photos of the late Qing Dynasty. In fact, it is the same in the United States, but the degree may be different. Most women cannot withstand the destruction of photography technology, unless the woman is really born with a certain degree of beauty and ignores the limitations of the times.

Sheffield took the black back as if he was walking in a park, sitting on a bench and looking at the scenery. He took out his pocket watch, and it was time to go back, so he had to solve the graduation problem first.

Personality and marketing are extremely important. You must do your best to establish your personality in the beginning. Rockefeller cheated countless oil merchants in Pennsylvania and mobilized the state police to suppress the workers' unrest, but more people remember that Rockefeller was a generous philanthropist and a kind person.

This is why the bad things Rockefeller did could not be spread. This is not the Internet world of later generations. Even in the Internet world, news can be blocked, and it may even be simpler on the technical level, but the cost is a little higher because the speed of transmission is faster.

Even in the future republic, personality and marketing are extremely important, but if they appear too often, there is a risk of being slapped in the face one after another. For example, Taobao swore that half of Penguin's life was in games, but forgot that 90% of its profits were in e-commerce. Jack Ma said that he would never make games, and not long after that, his own game department was established. How great!

Therefore, the fast pace of the Internet is not very friendly to marketing personalities. If you don’t market, people will soon forget you. If you always market, you will inevitably be embarrassed. In 1895, there were relatively few sources of information, which was actually very suitable for establishing personalities. As long as you have connections, you can make everyone remember you in the shortest time, and you don’t have to always come out to attract traffic to avoid being embarrassed later. What a profitable business.

"This is not an easy task!" Sheffield took the pen. He wanted to write an article with a high purpose and a noble feeling, but he had to look carefully to see what he said. The most important thing was not to offend any forces. Otherwise, if it was just a purpose, he could just take out Das Kapital and modify it.

At Arlington Sheffield Manor, everything was still as peaceful and pleasant as before, and it didn't seem to be bothered by the many things happening inside and outside the United States. Of course, this was only on the surface.

"In fact, the British Empire has always been very interested in the agricultural products of the United States. Madam, you know that some important congressmen are not opposed to free trade. This coincides with the ideas of the Democratic Party. Moreover, this is definitely more beneficial than harmful to the South of the United States. The two sides should have maintained a harmonious relationship, just like the friendship between Sheffield and Britain for decades."

Hypocritical British! Annabelle suddenly remembered her husband's words. Before the showdown with the North, she, like most of the plantation owners in the Confederacy, believed that the British would not stand by and watch them die. After all, the Confederacy has always been a reliable source of raw materials for the British Empire.

Only her husband, Edward Sheffield, was not interested in contacting the British. "I would rather trust the Slavs you kidnapped than the British."

When someone mentioned the long-standing harmonious relationship between the British Empire and the Sheffield family, Annabell could only think of one thing: Britain did not help the Southern Confederacy during the Civil War, and her husband was poisoned by lead because he was shot during the Civil War.

If her husband had not been shot, the Confederacy would not have been defeated. If her husband had not left a dying message saying that revenge is never too late, even ten years later, and that the situation can always be reversed as long as there is time, she would never have reconciled.

"Mr. Bogood, I believe in your sincerity very much, but you may have been on the boat for too long and have not received the latest news. The Venezuelan president hired the United States Ambassador to Venezuela, Scruggs, to lobby both parties in Congress. The current situation has become uncontrollable. It can be said that many people in the United States have already known about this." Annabelle still had a leisurely look on her face, shrugging to show that she could do nothing to help. "Today, the Democrats and Republicans have reached a consensus, and the election is not far away. Neither party will back down at this time."

This is indeed the case. Less than a week ago, both houses of Congress passed a proposal asking the US government to protect Venezuela. Both parties had no objection to this and it was passed with a high vote.

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"Madam, forgive me for being blunt, but the United States is no match for the British Empire." Bogood said solemnly after a moment's hesitation.

"I know! I hope this incident will not hinder the friendship between Sheffield and the United Kingdom. Our friendship will last forever." Annabell answered very straightforwardly, but she was not nervous. In her heart, the Venezuelan crisis was not as important as her heir's graduation from university.

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