Chapter 113 Paying Attention to Vulnerable Groups
It was obviously not a shameful occasion, but after Michael appeared and immediately disappeared, the two of them fell into a suffocating silence. It was awkward, very awkward.
"I won't do anything that has no benefit. It is not my intention to create unpleasantness with the Democrats because of your interests." Sheffield spoke again. He felt that he had made it very clear this time. He would never destroy the good relationship with the Democratic Party because of the so-called class feelings. Class feelings also have to be divided into money. We are all black-hearted capitalists. Let's not talk about helping each other. That would be too formal.
If we don't offer conditions that will impress the Sheffield family, then what else is there to talk about?
"Isn't friendship with the Rockefeller family important? Why would someone like you care about party interests?" Edith Rockefeller was very angry now, very angry. Sheffield was simply worse than her husband.
"The Democratic Party has been a friend of our family for many years. We have a long history and similar interests!" Sheffield looked indifferent, staring into Edith Rockefeller's eyes word by word. Before the other party tried to avoid his gaze, he turned his head and flicked the ash from his cigarette, "It will cost more..."
"I am moved by what you said!" Edith Rockefeller curled her lips. She thought that as an outstanding representative of southern interests and the only heir of the Sheffield family, she would be a person with a firm stand and would not be moved. It turned out that it was all about money. She asked, "What do you want in order to help me with this?"
"I don't know either!" Sheffield thought hard for a long time, but there seemed to be nothing he needed to say. The Rockefeller family couldn't help with the fruit competition in Central America, and he needed his own family's help if he wanted to enter Mexico for exploration.
Sheffield will not let go of agricultural products. No matter who stands behind Keane, he will not take a step back. Agriculture and animal husbandry are the foundation of the family. If he dares to give up halfway, the old man will not forgive him.
As for the international community, the friction between the United States and the British Empire is still going on, but it is not as tense as it was at the beginning. The United States would not dare to do anything to Britain even if it had the guts. The domestic environment in Britain has changed. Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, who was a virtuous family, tried to teach the United States a lesson, but was suppressed by the British Prime Minister and changed his target.
He began to turn to his imperial confederation plan, trying to turn the British Empire into a real imperial entity. The most important thing here was the competition for southern Africa. Chamberlain's friend, mining magnate Cecil Rhodes, became the Prime Minister of the British Cape Colony, and his hostility towards the Boers was already very obvious.
Cecil Rhodes and Chamberlain shared the same ambition, which was to strengthen the British Empire's control over the world, which coincided with Chamberlain's idea of turning the British Empire into a truly great empire.
Sheffield naturally didn't know Cecil Rhodes, but when he found out that his company was called De Beers, he suddenly remembered a saying: Diamonds are forever! It turns out that this is the source of the IQ tax on men all over the world.
Although he never knew why diamonds, which have the same composition as carbon, are so valuable, since they control the main origin, any price is reasonable. Isn't the price of oil in the United States also controlled by the Rockefeller family?
The problem of diamonds still needs to be solved by artificial synthesis. This is not something Sheffield cares about. However, the international situation does make him think of the terms of exchange. He smacked his lips and glanced at Edith Rockefeller. "I want a share of the arms order. This requires the consent of the Senate and the House of Representatives. If you can help me do it, everything will be negotiable."
In this Venezuelan crisis, the United States has weak military power and is facing the world police, the British Empire. All it can do is to protest in a weak manner. The British Empire does not take the United States seriously at all.
It was just a fluke that they took the initiative to cool down because they thought the situation in southern Africa was more important. Just like the United States thought the Middle East was more important and let a certain big country off the hook. But even if they were lucky enough to escape danger, wouldn't they be afraid? Developing military strength and not being able to conquer the world with only 30,000 troops has definitely become a consensus between the two parties.
In fact, the news from Washington also proved this point. Military expansion is inevitable. Sheffield remembered that when the Spanish-American War broke out, the United States had already expanded its military strength a lot in just a few years, enough to deal with Spain, which was a thing of the past.
"DuPont is also counting on expanding its military to increase its sales!" Edith Rockefeller didn't dare to say she was extremely smart, but she was knowledgeable enough to know as soon as she heard it that Sheffield was eyeing the cake of military expansion.
Moreover, the relationship between the two families has been very bad since the Civil War. If their bases were not far apart and they were not wary of each other, they would have found a place to set up their battle formations and fight.
In recent years, the DuPont family has been in chaos within the company due to the issue of succession. Coupled with the Democratic Party coming to power, the two sides have been gaining and losing in the military industry, not to mention the tradition of gun ownership among the Southern people themselves.
If the DuPont family didn't get much of the pie of expansion, Edith Rockefeller would be worried about this old company.
"President Cleveland is in the White House now, and the Democratic Party is in power. DuPont certainly can't get more than my family. But as a long-time close friend of the DuPont family, we must do something while the DuPont family has been in trouble in recent years." Sheffield said lazily while filing his nails, "You should understand the long-standing friendship between the DuPont and Sheffield families."
The friendship between your two families is so deep that it started during the Civil War. Just as Edith Rockefeller was about to speak, Sheffield said, "Of the two houses, the Senate has bigger problems. With your family's help, this is not a problem. The same is true for William Bryan."
"Can you promise?" Edith Rockefeller asked in a deep voice, "Don't let this person take the stage."
"Yes, there is absolutely no problem. Even if he comes to power, it can still be solved!" Sheffield narrowed his eyes and nodded solemnly, "For this, I can even donate a mental hospital to help the truly disadvantaged groups in the United States."
What does this have to do with a mental hospital? Edith Rockefeller found that she couldn't understand what the boy said, and asked stupidly, "Are you going to do charity?"
"If you insist on thinking so, then take it as it is!" Sheffield chuckled, thinking that teasing the young lady was quite interesting, and expecting him to do charity was absolutely a dream. Judging from the two Internet giants in the Republic, doing charity is not as good as marketing chicken soup for the soul. I planted some trees and dared to claim the credit for the shelterbelt that the country invested heavily in. Isn't this great?
Sheffield also wants to have such a vision and such a bright future. Anyone who dares to say that he doesn't have it, even a mentally ill person would not agree.
My chapter titles are all so positive!
(End of this chapter)
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