Chapter 485 Arms Race
What a refreshing place, Sheffield felt that it was worth the trip just to accomplish this. Alice Roosevelt might not understand it now, but Sheffield believed that she would understand it sooner or later.
"You did a good job!" Back at the headquarters of United Mines, Sheffield praised Jimmy, his trusted general, generously, "Whether it was the miners' riot this time or the advancement of the state law. How effective is my mortar in actual combat?"
"Well, boss, this is a little bit bad. Of course, it is very convenient, and it is no more difficult than carrying a gun." Jimmy hesitated and said, "But it is just convenient."
"Be content. It's made from waste materials dismantled from tractors and even selected as a civilian weapon. You don't know that the current economic situation is not good. Even an enterprise like United Company has to know how to save money. Moreover, in some situations, too advanced things cannot be used." Sheffield can even make naval guns. The caliber is certainly not a problem, but it needs to follow the objective laws of weapon development.
Leading by one generation is called leading. Leading by too much sometimes does not necessarily mean leading. Sheffield still remembers the classic battle between the U.S. military jet and the wooden propeller of the People's Army during the Korean War. The old-fashioned wooden propeller in the hands of the People's Army confused the U.S. Air Force as soon as it appeared. It flew too low and too slowly in the ups and downs of the mountains. The U.S. Air Force pilots did not dare to chase it. If they were not careful, they would crash into the mountain, which was completely not worth the loss.
In the end, Sheffield used the fallacy that being too far ahead does not mean being ahead, and successfully made his subordinates accept the setting of civilian artillery bombardment. It was not that it was unusable, although it was indeed very backward. In the end, wasn't the three-barreled gun just used for firing cannons?
The headquarters of United Mining can be expanded. In the current economic downturn, sometimes we need to build large-scale projects to create some value. Even if infrastructure is useless, it is better than stock speculation. This financial crisis has proved this. In order to avoid losses, J.P. Morgan has threatened to close the New York Stock Exchange. He is really a complete rogue.
It was nothing serious, so Sheffield went to the temporary housing arranged for him by the company. Although the conditions were quite good in the initial stage, it was still possible to use it.
Alice Roosevelt was still in the room. She needed some time to digest the news that she had gotten married right away. When she saw Sheffield come in, she still didn't say a word.
"Now I am your husband, protected by the laws of this state." Sheffield's tone clearly showed strong dissatisfaction with Alice Roosevelt. This has been going on for several days. Alice Roosevelt has always ignored him. The two have only met three times in these few days. And every time they met, Alice Roosevelt had a cold face, as if someone owed her tens of millions and didn't pay her back. To be honest, Sheffield felt very unhappy about this.
There is nothing wrong with the fact that she is the president's daughter, but does that make me a successful person? Alice Roosevelt is beautiful, and she is the president's daughter, but this cannot go on forever.
After being scolded like this, when Alice Roosevelt looked at Sheffield, tears were already welling up in her eyes, and she looked so pitiful. Seeing this scene, the slave owner's anger that was out of control for a moment disappeared again. He walked over and squatted in front of Alice Roosevelt, stretched out his hand to grab the other's white little hand, and said in a deep voice, "Alice, do you hate me? Let me give you a chance. You can kill me, but I will not hand over the marriage certificate. I would rather die."
Alice Roosevelt looked at Sheffield deeply, with complicated emotions in her eyes. Just when the slave owner was about to regret, the woman suddenly curled her lips and said, "You are the most afraid of death I have ever seen. Can you deceive yourself by saying this?"
"Why can't I lie? Sometimes I can try to lie." Sheffield was exposed and became angry. "We are like this now, how can we still separate?"
"I'm angry because we can't separate." Alice Roosevelt glanced at the window and said angrily, "I feel sad that I have become one of many women in one man. If I had a choice, I would not want to know you at all."
This is not up to you. As long as you don't hide in the White House, I will target you sooner or later! Sheffield complained in his heart that Alice Roosevelt still didn't understand the principle of guarding against thieves for a thousand days.
"I just don't want the woman I've given my feelings to end up marrying someone else. It's a little selfish, but who isn't selfish?" Sheffield continued to argue for his actions. "As long as you don't leave me, as long as this broken ball has something, I'm willing to fight for your wish to come true."
"Stop talking!" Alice Roosevelt interrupted Sheffield's confession, raised her pointed chin slightly and said, "Help me undress and carry me to the bathtub. This is what I want now. You just said it."
Who do you think you are? The Russian tsarina? Sheffield complained as he helped Alice Roosevelt put on her slippers. Then he carried her fair and tender body into the bathroom, closing the door with his left foot as nimbly as his arm. Bang!
So what kind of peaceful days are there? It's just that someone is carrying the burden for you. The citizens only know the glory in front of their slave masters, as for the glory in private, they can't even think about it.
It is not easy to be a rich and powerful man, and it seems even more difficult to be the woman of a rich and powerful man. Just like Sheffield, he always has a battlefield outside his home, where he has to fight with others and defy the law. As his woman, you need to learn to be tolerant at this time. Although the slave owner did something unkind, Alice Roosevelt still had to forgive him and learn the obligations of a wife from now on.
"You can handle the law, but can you handle other people's views? If one day people use this to attack you, what will you do?" Alice Roosevelt asked leisurely, still panting. The happiness just now could not dilute her worries about the future.
"Do I have to deal with other people's opinions? That's too difficult. Even God can't do it. There are many people who believe in Satan. Aren't you asking me to be more powerful than God?" Sheffield hugged Alice Roosevelt, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "I don't have to run for president, so I don't have to worry about this kind of thing."
But one thing is true. From the beginning of the antitrust confrontation to the present, Sheffield can proudly declare that not only has she not been hurt, but she has also temporarily captured an important prisoner of the other side. Why temporarily? In the future, there may be more than one prisoner. If Alice Roosevelt feels that this confrontation is not over, there is still a chance to turn the tables. For example, she can capture Sheffield's children as revenge.
For many people, this was a difficult time. Although the financial crisis ended, it was not without its effects. By the beginning of the second year, more than 300 credit institutions had gone bankrupt, with debts of $360 million, and most banks had stopped paying cash. More than 30 railway companies went bankrupt, with $600 million in stocks and bonds and 13,000 kilometers of railways. Another 27,000 industrial and commercial enterprises registered for bankruptcy, with a total debt of $420 million.
The decline in production caused by this crisis was greater than any previous one. On a monthly basis, steel production fell by nearly 60 percent, pig iron by 38 percent, locomotives by 69 percent, freight cars by 75 percent, and new railroad construction by 46 percent. More than half of the enterprises of the steel trust stopped production. The number of unemployed people exceeded that of any previous crisis.
This proves the wisdom of Sheffield's first layoffs, which was certainly a necessary stage. It can be said that President Roosevelt's term in office was economically unsatisfactory. Logically speaking, Roosevelt could not have the fame of later generations. After observing the slave owners, we can conclude that this crisis was a blow to President Roosevelt's second term, not the first term.
Furthermore, at the beginning of the 20th century, Roosevelt had a strong anti-establishment tendency. If a real estate businessman had gone through a smooth first term a hundred years later, and the economy had fallen into recession during his second term, he would not have been in big trouble.
This time the economic recession also spread to European countries. Although the economic ties between countries in the early 20th century were not as secretive as in later generations, the United States, as the largest debtor country, also dragged European countries into the recession.
Britain, which was closely linked to the United States economy, was hit the hardest, with the depth of the crisis second only to that of the United States. Ferrous metal consumption fell by one-fifth, pig iron production fell by one-tenth, steel production fell by one-tenth, and the tonnage of newly built ships was reduced by half.
Britain's rival, Germany, was hit hard but soon came from behind. To this end, Germany carried out a series of domestic reforms and carried out continuous mergers and reorganizations. The already high scale of nationalized industries reached a new high. It is worthy of being the country of origin of the conglomerate model of enterprises. After another large-scale nationalization, the entire German Empire has formed a top-down super conglomerate empire. William II is also a strong supporter of this nationalization, and even believes that the prostitution industry should be nationalized.
As for France, which is adjacent to Germany, as an old revolutionary base, French citizens who sang the Marseillaise became active again under the leadership of trade unions, holding marches and strikes and carrying out movements to fight for their rights.
At the same time, because Germany had begun to build dreadnought-class battleships, Britain began to implement the two-power standard and adopted a two-to-one naval policy when building dreadnoughts, that is, keeping its own number of dreadnoughts twice that of Germany to cope with it. Britain and Germany entered the arms race stage, using increased armaments to achieve economic growth.
(End of this chapter)
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