Chapter 626: The Whistle of Annexation
Before Sheffield could take action, he received another call from his wife in Arlington. The matter was not particularly urgent. It was about Haiti. There was a famine in Haiti and they needed some food aid.
Sheffield naturally agreed immediately and told him to just go to the United Cereal Company to do it. Louisa Morgan's eyes lit up. She had never realized that the slave owner had such a side to him.
"It's just a test of the power of food weapons. The closer the war is, the more useful food will become. Now it's all just a preliminary test." Sheffield stroked Louisa Morgan's hair lovingly and said complacently, "Next year we will know the effect and see how capable a country is to survive famine."
Louisa Morgan was a little confused about the relationship between food aid and famine. Sheffield explained the reasoning behind it. In simple terms, under free trade, it is based on the principle of winner-takes-all.
First, use low-cost food to destroy the agricultural production of the country. When the cost of growing food in a country exceeds the cost of importing it, people will choose to buy food instead of growing it. In fact, this is dumping in the agricultural field.
Sheffield is planning to start a one-year dumping period this time, so that Haitians will no longer have to grow food during the busy farming season. When it is known that Haitians have no food, the dumping channel will be cut off to see how capable a country like Haiti is of withstanding the famine.
"A lot of people will die in this way. Is this what you call an experiment?" Louisa Morgan was deeply shocked. She thought Sheffield just wanted some profit, but she didn't expect that he wanted to starve the other party to death.
"How much can the food be sold for? Do I need that little money? What I lack is people's respect for me." Sheffield smiled coldly, "In a chaotic country, how big the food gap will be? I need an accurate number. I can't say "almost", "roughly". You know that we Dixies don't like immigrants, and there are many illegal immigrants on the southern coastline. Instead of intercepting them, we should find a way to weaken the source."
Now the whole of Haiti is under the control of the United States and is basically undefended, which fully meets the conditions for free trade. There is no freer trade than this.
Sheffield has always been a slave owner with extremely distorted values. He feels no guilt for doing this to any country, let alone a small country like Haiti. He just wants to try it out with Haiti first.
"Don't worry, I can do whatever I want with the small country under my nose, and no country will help them to uphold justice." Sheffield comforted Louisa Morgan. Haiti is a tropical country, maybe they can survive the famine by eating bananas next year, and not many people will die.
Sheffield actually wanted very much to do this in a place where there was a food shortage, but unfortunately these colonies all had owners.
This is a statistical experiment conducted before the World War. Once the World War broke out, a large number of men were conscripted to the front line. In the early 20th century, when individual labor was still the main form of labor, the labor intensity left was too much for women to handle. Was Germany strong enough? Except for the first year of the war when it was difficult to adjust, famine occurred again in Germany due to labor shortage in the later stages of the war.
As for the domestic situation, Sheffield has already implemented mechanized agriculture, so this problem will not occur. Therefore, the domestic plan is to have a division of labor with American characteristics, with farmers in the South and the Midwest making good use of the machinery in their hands to overstock the farmers on the Yankee territory, forcing these people to not make money.
Sheffield is such a fair man. He always pays attention to fairness when considering issues. God is no less fair.
Since they were talking about business again, Louisa Morgan told Sheffield that she wanted to invest in Imperial Russia. In her opinion, the market development potential of the Russian Empire was huge and could not be occupied entirely by the French.
"Don't go!" Sheffield looked bewildered. Louisa Morgan actually wanted to invest in the Russian Empire? Did she want to be like the French and have her assets confiscated by the Soviets?
"Why?" Louisa Morgan said somewhat dissatisfiedly. Why would they just sit there and watch such a huge market in the Russian Empire? Why not make money? She would not nod unless the slave owner gave a reasonable explanation.
"That's our enemy! If there's a country in the world that can pose a lasting threat to the United States, the Russian Empire is number one." Sheffield, filled with patriotism, severely criticized Louisa Morgan, then changed the subject and said, "The French have been operating in Imperial Russia for so many years, and there's no effect even after a short period of time. There's only input but no output. If this is really a good opportunity, how could I not help you?"
In Sheffield's eyes, the Russian Empire is definitely a long-term enemy of the United States. If there is any country in the world that can compete with the Five Eyes Alliance, the Russian Empire, which leads the entire Slavic nation, is the most likely opponent!
As for the other candidates, the slave owner is not really afraid of them. Except for the entire Slavic people, any other ethnic group has obvious weaknesses. But the total population of the Slavic people is about the same as that of the Five Eyes Alliance, and the land they occupy is also about the same size. They are completely opponents of the same level.
The Cold War decades later also showed this point. If Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union had not been at odds, and if Serbia and Imperial Russia had had such good relations like in the early 20th century, Yugoslavia would definitely be a member of the Warsaw Pact.
If this is the case, the posture of NATO and the Warsaw Pact will not be that NATO members surround Warsaw Pact members, but that the Warsaw Pact will cut off the entire NATO from the middle, and Greece, Turkey and Western Europe will be divided into two different parts. Yugoslavia's neutrality during the Cold War was a blessing for the entire NATO group.
Louisa Morgan still wants to invest in the Russian Empire? Isn't this aiding the enemy? Besides, investing at this time will definitely result in a loss.
Louisa Morgan is now running Morgan Stanley, but hasn't produced any results yet. Wouldn't it be better to go bankrupt first to help things along?
"Listen to me, don't waste your money." Sheffield warned Louisa Morgan seriously not to ignore his words.
The simplest way to deal with the Mellon family is to start with the collusion between officials and businessmen. Andrew Mellon himself said that the nature of the Mellon family's collusion between officials and businessmen was the same. But Sheffield couldn't do that because what he did was similar to the Mellon family.
If the collapse of the DuPont family is replicated and the same tactics are used against the Mellon family, a scene that is too similar will be played out, and everyone will know that this is a political purge.
If political purges become a tradition, the United States will completely deviate from the path of South Korea.
The federal government could not investigate the Mellon family's collusion with businessmen. Even though Sheffield knew this was the fastest way to achieve results, he had to give up the investigation. He could only go through normal channels.
"Citizens now believe that antitrust laws have been abolished since the Democratic government came to power." Sheffield contacted the FBI director again, and Konstantinovich said, "We have to think of a way."
"If you want to cause trouble to someone, just say it directly." Konstantinovich has become initially immune to the slave owner's rhetoric. Sheffield doesn't usually make phone calls, and when he does, it must be to ask for assistance from the FBI.
"It's meaningless for you to talk like that. We've been friends since childhood. Is this the trouble of growing up? I miss my childhood days so much. At that time, you especially liked tall Shire horses." Sheffield sighed and said, "I let you ride it despite other people's objections."
"I was almost smashed into a pulp by that horse!" It would have been fine if Sheffield hadn't mentioned it, but once he did, Konstantinovich couldn't help but complain, "Now that you mention it, I think you should have stopped me then."
"That was an accident. Maybe that's life. Life is full of accidents!" Sheffield said a few words to change the subject. "I want to merge with Mellon United. The Ministry of Justice has prepared prosecution documents for every trust, right? Don't tell me that Mellon United is not a trust?"
After hearing this, Konstantinovich took a deep breath and said in a voiceless voice, "Do you know that the electrolytic aluminum group alone has a market value of 150 million US dollars? You really found a good job for me."
"One hundred and fifty million dollars? It's not such an unimaginable number!" Sheffield said calmly, "The number of antitrust lawsuits filed by the Department of Justice is 80% less than that of the Roosevelt administration, and there are even fewer companies with great influence. You can't let the citizens vent their anger on Standard Oil. Edith Rockefeller is your sister-in-law, and the Morgan Alliance is not an option either. First of all, the Morgan Alliance is indirectly controlled, which makes it very difficult to investigate. Besides, Louisa Morgan is also your sister-in-law."
"Let me check it out first!" Konstantinovich reluctantly agreed after enduring the noise bombardment, "What kind of result do you want?"
"You're talking as if I'm the President of the United States!" Sheffield was silent for a moment and then spoke slowly, "Of course, the result I expect is what the majority of citizens expect, which is to split up Mellon Corporation, especially the valuable industry such as aluminum production, and hand it over to people who are more in line with expectations."
There is no doubt that the slave owner believes that the person who best meets the expectations of the citizens of the United States is of course himself. Only when he is handed over to the king of the emerging industry, will the citizens be satisfied.
"You just said you wanted to take over the Mellon family's aluminum company. I won't blame you for our relationship." Konstantinovich chuckled, then said seriously, "I will start investigating right away. Just wait for my news."
Now Sheffield urgently needs to tell this good news to the long-awaited citizens immediately. Newspapers affiliated with the Associated Press began to spread the news that the Ministry of Justice was preparing to investigate the Mellon family.
Sheffield hung up the phone and muttered with a smile, "Mellon blew the whistle, Hoover rang the bell. Wall Street sent a signal, and America rushed to hell!"
(End of this chapter)
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