Chapter 97 Coffee Bean Merchant
Coubertin's days in Chicago can be said to be comfortable and pleasant. He had two gullible people willing to help him develop the international Olympic cause in the Western Hemisphere. He even had the idea of absorbing the two into the Olympic Committee.
This honor was naturally worthless to Rockefeller Jr. In Rockefeller Jr.'s eyes, the sports event was a typical example of not doing one's job properly. A French nobleman who did not do business properly but engaged in these things was also not doing his job properly. Isn't it better to make money with money than to invest the family fortune in this so-called ideal?
Sheffield did not have as many bad habits as Rockefeller Jr. Only Coubertin had this idea. Sheffield agreed immediately, with the awareness of fighting for the Olympics all his life. It was a family tradition and he could not keep a low profile.
Compared with Rockefeller Jr., Edith Rockefeller was also very interested when she learned that Sheffield had submitted an application. But it was rejected as expected. Coubertin also had his own problems. First of all, he believed that sports had nothing to do with women, and it was better for women to stay at home and have children.
Sheffield held back his laughter and comforted Edith Rockefeller for a day, listening to her angrily denouncing Coubertin's arrogance towards women. To be fair, Coubertin's ideas were just common ideas of that era, and Edith Rockefeller was the outlier of that era. A hundred years later, perhaps a generation of female leaders would not be warned by the women's fists.
But in this era, Edith Rockefeller wanted to keep the Rockefeller family name and wanted to run the company with her husband. This was considered treasonous. Did she really think of herself as the queen?
"I should have married into a family that respected me!" Edith Rockefeller complained to Sheffield angrily, "Marrying in Chicago was a mistake."
"Madam, I feel a little uneasy when you look at me like that. You are eight years older than me, and my father is even worse off. He has been in Paris for more than ten years." Sheffield couldn't help but shiver. With that tone and that look, even if he was stupid, he could tell who Edith Rockefeller was talking about as the best marriage candidate.
The United States is able to stand up to various kings, and it is a family headed by a woman. Isn't this just like our own family?
But isn't the Sheffield family a special case? The first generation surrendered halfway, the second generation enjoyed life, and it was not until she was still a minor that she was given the name Mrs. Anna.
Sheffield absolutely did not believe that Edith Rockefeller fell in love with him because of a misunderstanding. This woman just wanted to find a family where women had rights. Even her husband did not agree to such a thing, so Sheffield would not agree to it even more.
Before Edith Rockefeller could complain to herself, Sheffield saw that it was getting late and said that he wanted to go back to the Farmers and Livestock Association to rest. "Annie will be free from Madam's care. The environment at the association is not so good."
"Oh, nothing has happened yet? You're already taking care of me!" Edith Rockefeller moved her majestic body in front and equally exaggerated body in the back, curling her lips with a hint of lemon, "She gives me instructions every day. I thought she was the next generation mistress of the Sheffield family."
"I am a cautious person and will not fall into obvious traps. Just like I told Coubertin not to go to the black community. If I hadn't sent someone to follow him, he would have been robbed three days ago." Sheffield laughed and sighed in his heart. Anne had only lived here for a few days, but she was robbed by Edith Rockefeller. She probably knew when her period came.
If Edith's clothing company hadn't been almost established and Anne was familiar with the dress of the Parisian aristocracy, Sheffield would never have come to her villa so often.
The next itinerary has been set. He will go to New York to see Rockefeller's headquarters and deal with some other things. Then he will return to Texas to see if McHale and his team have dealt with their competitors.
The weather was clear on the day we left Chicago. In this month, the north was already a little chilly in the mornings and evenings, and we began to enter the most changeable season of the year. The weather in the United States is unstable, which is innate. Facing the North Pole is a huge Hudson Bay, which looks like an embrace of the Arctic cold current on the map.
Rockefeller Jr. fully supported Sheffield's plan to go to New York. It was not to show off the unfinished estate, but to show his sincerity by taking the initiative to go to New York.
The two of them went to New York to see Coubertin off from the United States. Of course, this was not their main purpose, but it was generally for this reason. While Sheffield was waiting at the station, he suddenly had a question that had been on his mind for a long time, so he asked it out loud, "Who is richer, your family or the Morgan family?"
"If we talk about the funds that can be mobilized, it should be the Morgan family. Morgan's influence in finance is too great. However, in terms of dominance in the industry, Standard Oil's dominance in the oil field is much stronger than Morgan's in finance." Rockefeller Jr. gave his own answer.
This means that Morgan's capital flow is greater, but it is not necessarily his own money! Although the oil industry cannot be compared with finance in this era, the Rockefeller family's wealth may be greater than that of the Morgan family?
Sheffield didn't know if he understood the meaning correctly. Rockefeller's answer was too roundabout. Isn't it said that Westerners are honest? It turns out that honesty depends on who you are talking to. There is no such thing as honesty when evaluating people of the same level. When evaluating beggars, they are quite honest.
In this era, the New York metropolis already had some shadows of later generations. Although it would take several more decades before it could truly shine, Sheffield was considering whether to buy a piece of land and do real estate business, after all, it was a sure win.
After sending Coubertin on board, Rockefeller Jr. had already returned to the Rockefeller estate, and Anne conveyed Karl Lagerfeld's instructions. She was going to tell him in Chicago, but was stopped by Sheffield. It is best to discuss family matters in private.
"Madam said that it's okay to use some tricks against those small Central American competitors. I know the coffee bean merchant!" Anne's words did not surprise Sheffield at all. He asked in confusion, "Who is the merchant selling coffee beans?"
Haha! Sheffield laughed and explained, "I know this story. It's about Morgan. When he was young, he traveled to the South and happened to go to New Orleans. A Brazilian ship was full of coffee beans and was about to unload in New Orleans, but the buyer went bankrupt. Morgan happened to come across this and bought the coffee beans and made a profit. He happened to sell them to my family. This was the first time Morgan made money on his own."
Sheffield also kept hearing the term coffee bean merchant from Annabel in the past few years. Finally, he couldn't help asking and found out that she was talking about Morgan.
"So Morgan is also a very inspiring businessman." Annie nodded confusedly, "He also started a business when he was young."
"Who can buy a whole ship of coffee beans? That's not something that most people can afford!" Sheffield broke Anne's fantasy of chicken soup for the soul. "After doing this, Morgan will go home to inherit the family property. The Morgan family has long been a big family in the United States. Morgan's grandfather was a big farmer."
(End of this chapter)
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