Chapter 519 Normal Market Behavior
The slave owner thought of many possible responses from the DuPont family, and even thought that the other party might send someone to kill him, but please forgive Sheffield for his lack of imagination and he really didn't expect the result of being sued.
Sheffield, who was standing in front of the sofa with his hands on his waist and an incredible expression on his face, was bumped into by Jessla, who had taken over the business of Black Gold Company. His boss was also an emotional person? After listening to the words of the butler of Oak Manor, he, who had just been appointed as the manager of Black Gold Company, finally understood what was going on.
It's like a rapist who got out of prison and ran into another rapist he knew in prison. After asking around, he found out that the rapist now works at a women's treatment agency, where his main job is to help women mediate domestic violence. Who would believe that? A notorious company that makes money from wars, against another company that also makes money from wars, comes up with a solution of suing and appealing to the sacred law?
"Boss, how about we contact Arlington and have the legal team respond to the lawsuit?" Seeing that his boss had not yet recovered from the powerful news, Jessla had to speak up and make a suggestion.
"Where should we respond to the lawsuit? In Delaware?" Sheffield looked at Jesla with a straight face, almost laughing out loud, and said sarcastically, "Why don't you let the DuPont family sue the United Company in Texas and see if the DuPont family can win."
Sheffield could predict the outcome of this lawsuit without even waiting for the trial. Suing the emperor of Delaware on Delaware's territory? How could he win? It would be a miracle if he won.
After calming down, Sheffield was also thinking about the purpose of the DuPont family. Why did they come up with such a plan? A warmongering person has now changed his nature? This is definitely impossible. There must be a purpose!
"Create a fait accompli, use case law to succeed in Delaware, and then drag the United Company to the federal court?" Sheffield slapped his thigh. This was the purpose of the DuPont family. He was still thinking about the first level of the DuPont family's Seven Injury Fist, while the other party had already started practicing the second level of the Seven Injury Fist.
Fortunately, slave owners also have rich experience in litigation and counter-litigation, which is all thanks to the major actions taken during Roosevelt's term of office. It can be said that many business owners in the United States are now passively developing a legal knowledge base.
Sheffield could also think of the underlying reasons that DuPont could think of. Finally, he shook his head and said, "Don't let our legal team respond to the lawsuit. Just find two lawyers in Delaware to deal with it. We can't win this lawsuit in Delaware. Just deal with it casually. The hope of victory lies elsewhere."
The sacred law was just a casual remark. Given DuPont's position in Delaware, Sheffield had no way to do anything. If he wanted to be invincible in law, he had to do it outside of Delaware.
As for the lawsuit initiated by the DuPont family, Sheffield can only take a passive response and hope for herd immunity.
Of course, there is still a lot of room for the Ministry of Justice to play with its investigation into DuPont. It can use rhetoric to appear neutral on the surface and secretly influence citizens to agree with the Ministry of Justice's statement.
Then Sheffield also began his journey to win over allies. If the Department of Justice had not been investigating the DuPont family at the same time, he would have wanted to force other upstream and downstream industry chain manufacturers to choose between Sheffield United and the DuPont Consortium.
Almost immediately after the DuPont family sued the United Company in Delaware, Sheffield began to talk to upstream and downstream manufacturers in the name of the owner of the United Company. For a company like the United Company that occupies an important position in the midstream, it has a strong control over the upstream raw materials and the downstream market.
It is so easy to talk to the suppliers and demanders of the entire industrial chain. If the payment for the purchased goods is delayed a little, the share is reduced a little, and the ingredients of the raw materials are a little picky, the relevant manufacturers who are blocked by Sheffield United will become very uncomfortable. Of course, these manufacturers can also go to the DuPont family. This is a free country. You are free to do anything, but of course you must bear the consequences of freedom.
A basic fact is that the Federal Department of Justice is now investigating the DuPont Consortium. This is the first time that the Democrats have wielded the antitrust law since coming to power. If some people want to join in the fun, Sheffield will definitely not stop them.
In fact, it is just a blatant way of forcing these manufacturers to choose between the two. There are definitely more methods aimed at attacking opponents. In order to make those companies and factories that refuse to compromise obey at one time, some necessary verbal and military intimidation are inevitable.
If you don't want to do business with Sheffield United, then don't do business with McHale Mining, don't do business with Gail International Trading, and a long list of related companies on the list. The DuPont family controls dozens of companies openly or secretly, and Sheffield's allies are only stronger than them, not weaker.
If Sheffield must single out a manufacturer as an example, it can simply let hundreds of southern companies express their opinions within a day. As for rail transportation, Sheffield can talk to Hartman and Hill. As long as it wants to move goods in bulk, it must use rail transportation and must obtain transport wagons from the two railroad giants, Hill and Hartman.
If a large number of goods cannot be delivered in time, the companies will suffer huge losses.
As long as Sheffield is willing to negotiate with the two railroad giants, raw materials will not be transported into Delaware. Unless the raw materials of the DuPont family are all produced in Delaware, but according to the slave owners, Delaware is not famous for raw materials. As for Texas, it barely fits this definition, especially the railway blocking the transportation of goods, which is a very fatal thing.
When Standard Oil faced the cross-border oil war with the railway giants, the reason why it was not strangled in transportation was that the Rockefeller family used new oil pipelines to offset the possibility of the railway giants strangling the transportation industry. This eventually led to the bankruptcy of Carnegie's mentor and friend.
Oil can be transported through oil pipelines. Compared with railway and road transportation, which are also land transportation methods, pipeline transportation has the characteristics of large transportation volume, good airtightness, low cost and high safety factor. As the diameter of the pipe increases, the cost of oil transportation decreases. Under the premise of abundant oil resources and guaranteed oil sources, the benefits of building large-diameter pipelines will be more obvious.
Now in Texas, with the help of Standard Oil Company, the 30-centimeter-diameter Texas oil pipeline has been fully built, making the transportation of Texas oil even more efficient.
Inland waterway transportation is in the hands of the United Corporation, and the giant of automobile transportation has not yet appeared, because the trucks have just been introduced. Strictly speaking, there is no automobile transportation giant in the United States, and it will not appear in the foreseeable future.
If you, as a loyal ally of the DuPont family, can shoulder the responsibility and solve this problem, who can do anything to you? If the slave owner also admits that you can do this, then you are awesome.
As a young Morgan who had worked in the railway system for many years, he first thought of the problem of railway transportation. No one understood better than him the significance of the transportation process to major factories. It can be said that in the United States, apart from Standard Oil, which fought an oil war with its rivals, he was the one who understood what this meant the most. If the aorta was cut, the production process would be interrupted.
Otherwise, why would Morgan and Rockefeller support each other in the fight over control of the railway in front of Hartman and Hill? If there were no more cost-effective alternative such as oil pipelines, there would never be a reconciliation in the end. Neither the Rockefeller family nor the Morgan family would tolerate their economic lifeline being completely controlled by the other side.
"It's really embarrassing!" Morgan Jr. was in a dilemma. The present was different from the past. The alliance with the DuPont family and the harmonious relationship with Standard Oil and United Oil seemed to be very correct at the time, but even he did not expect that in just a few years, the gap between the DuPont family and its opponents would become so big.
If the power of the Morgan Alliance is not used to help the DuPont family, as the noose around the DuPont family becomes tighter and tighter, Morgan Jr. must admit that if the true strength of the two companies is really to be compared, the DuPont family will be in trouble this time.
But Morgan Alliance came forward. To be fair, Morgan Jr. didn't want to do this. He didn't even want to face this opponent, let alone come forward for an ally? The two companies became enemies on the battlefield. Why would he, a banker, come out to join in the fun?
But watching the DuPont family being strangled, Morgan Jr. couldn't do anything, so he could only speak up and remind Pierre DuPont first. Morgan Jr. knew that if Sheffield really used transportation as a noose to strangle the DuPont family, it would be a violation of antitrust laws.
Therefore, Morgan Jr. estimated that in the current public opinion environment, the slave owners in the South would not sing praises for the Ministry of Justice while contacting the railway giants to leave obvious evidence in transportation. It is possible to greet Hill, Hartman and others privately, but no matter how much operation is done, it is unlikely.
Hartman and Hill received a call from Morgan Jr. almost as soon as they hung up the phone with Sheffield. The two knew that something interesting seemed to have happened recently. The two seemed to be obsessed with trivial matters and ignored something.
From Morgan Jr.'s call and the slave owner's previous call, the two railroad tycoons already understood everything.
"Don't worry, we won't muddy the waters between the two big companies." Hill and Hartman both expressed their attitudes one after another. If something really happens, they can only say that all this is normal market behavior.
(End of this chapter)
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