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Text Chapter 595, The End of the Carnival (5)

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    In October 1911, the first batch of oil produced from the Alaska oil fields was transported to the Port of Anchorage through the newly laid oil pipeline.  This time is several months later than Graystone expected.  This is mainly because pipelines are holding us back.  Oil pipelines are still new in the world. The concept of this thing was first proposed by the laboratory of the University of Cleveland, and then Standard Oil built the world's first short-length pipeline in the Romanian oil field, leading to Constantinople.  Check the oil pipeline in the port.  The operation of this pipeline was not bad. Later, the Germans developed their own oil pipeline technology based on their understanding of this pipeline and based on their own technology, plus some technologies purchased from Standard.  And there have been some practices in some projects undertaken by German companies.  However, these experiences all come from warm areas. It is normal for some new technical problems to arise when doing this in alpine areas.  Therefore, this delay is normal.  However, this delay has caused some undesirable consequences in the capital market. First of all, the delivery time of a large number of projects is approaching. If something goes wrong at this time, it will naturally cause a lot of turmoil.  Fortunately, some large capitals have not yet had time to complete divestment, so this problem has not caused any major problems.  However, small turbulence is still very beneficial, that is, it makes the flow of funds less conspicuous.  This is more conducive to big capital quietly withdrawing from the market.  In November 1911, the first 50,000-ton oil tanker arrived at the Port of Hamburg, Germany. German Emperor Wilhelm II personally went to the Port of Hamburg to greet the giant ship. Near the Port of Hamburg, the Germans also built huge oil storage tanks.  The tank is forty to fifty meters high and has a diameter of more than a hundred meters. It is part of the German strategic oil reserves.  Emperor William II has attached great importance to oil over the years. In fact, His Majesty the Emperor has made great efforts to complete this plan.  With the arrival of Alaska oil, many stocks related to Alaska oil have started a new round of rise in the London capital market.  ¡­ ¡­ Anthony Lawrence received new instructions from the United States, allowing him to start selling a series of stocks related to steel, shipbuilding, etc.  Ever since Catherine Lawrence married Carol, this third-class family in England has been tied to the Macdonald family chariot.  Of course, they do this voluntarily. If someone wants them to come down, they will definitely fight this guy to the death.  Later, after the second generation of the MacDonald family gradually grew up, they married again with the Lawrence family. Of course, some of the really important people in the second generation of the MacDonald family, such as Gray Stone and Donald, did not marry.  Among the foreign wives, only Mary Macdonald, who was excluded from the circle of heirs early because of her poor performance, married to England and married Anthony, the head of the Laurence family.  Anthony is still very satisfied with this marriage, although like all Americans, Mary Lawrence is not a typical fair lady.  First of all, just one generation of optimized breeding and breeding failed to make her look beautiful and fragrant. In terms of appearance, although Mary McDonald is still pretty, she is only pretty.  Etiquette and behavior are even more average.  After her mother Dorothea discovered that women in the Macdonald family could also hold a very high status and wield considerable power, she no longer cared much about the so-called lady training, thinking that she could fill the gap.  Dena's lack of talent, it wasn't until she discovered that Mary's talent was really average and there was no hope at all that she started some training in this area.  But Dorothea herself is not very good at this, and Scrooge can't count on it.  Not to mention the etiquette of women, it was the etiquette of men. In the early years, he still remembered a little bit, but over the years, as he became richer and richer, he had completely forgotten all these etiquette.  .  "If my behavior is not in line with etiquette, then etiquette must be wrong." Well, Scrooge has such an attitude now.  As for Catherine, firstly she was in poor health, and secondly, this kind of thing didn't bother her, so Dorothea found some etiquette teachers for Mary to teach her.  But because the time is short, these things cannot be internalized into habits.  Therefore, in the eyes of some British nobles, Mary's etiquette was still obviously lacking.  However, unlike when Carol was in England, now in the British aristocratic circle, no one would say that Mary is uneducated, whether she is a lady or a young lady, a gentleman or a young master, just like Scrooge said  In this way, the behavior of those in superior positions is naturally a form of etiquette.  "If you don't have enough status, you can only be like Zengzi. When you are dying, you have to change your mat. That is called knowing etiquette and education."  But if your status is high enough, you can just put your hand into the crotch of your pants to scratch it while talking to others.??, that is also called celebrity style.  Nowadays, the MacDonald family is one of the richest families in the world, just like the famous saying of the Rothschild family, "When gold coins jingle, bad words stop abruptly."  Nowadays, Mary's background is no longer something that ordinary small nobles can criticize casually.  In Anthony¡¯s opinion, there are two very good things about Mary.  First of all, she is a member of the MacDonald family. After she married herself, her position in the family became extremely stable.  Secondly, Mary herself is quite proficient in economics. (Although in the Macdonald family, she is considered to lack talent, but compared to the average lady from a noble family, Mary's economics level and ability to deal with complex economic problems are not.  The average one is stronger. After all, ordinary noble ladies are only cultivated as flower vases. Even among investors, they are good, although not top-notch.  Therefore, Mary, who married into the Lawrence family, was to a large extent the supervisor of the MacDonald Consortium in the UK.  However, since ancient times, when sending supervisory troops or something, you will encounter a dilemma: those who are reliable do not know what they do, and those who know what they do may not be reliable.  In contrast, Mary is knowledgeable and reliable.  Anthony knew that if the interests of the Laurence family and the Macdonald family were inconsistent, Miss Mary would probably stand firmly on the side of her parents' family.  Because it is impossible for a young lady from the Macdonald family not to know this: "The bourgeoisie has destroyed all feudal, patriarchal and idyllic relationships wherever it has gained dominance. It has ruthlessly severed them.  The various feudal fetters that bind people to their natural superiors leave no other connection between people except naked interests and ruthless "cash transactions." It combines religious piety and chivalry.  The sacred outbursts of passion, philistine sentimentality, are drowned in the icy water of egoistic planning, which turns human dignity into exchange value and replaces countless privileges and self-earned benefits with a kind of unscrupulous freedom of trade.  Freedom. In short, it replaces exploitation masked by religious and political illusions with open, shameless, direct and explicit exploitation. The bourgeoisie has erased the sacred halo of all traditionally respected and awe-inspiring professions.  . It turns doctors, lawyers, priests, poets and scholars into wage laborers it pays. The bourgeoisie has torn off the veil of tenderness that covered family relationships and turned these relationships into pure money.  "This young lady naturally knows that her status in her husband's family, and even her status in the world, is not determined by her husband, parents-in-law, sisters-in-law, and her feelings, but by her.  The economic power represented is, more specifically, determined by the amount of money she can use.  But Anthony will not be dissatisfied with this. In fact, it is definitely a good thing for the Lawrence family to have someone who the MacDonald family can trust very much.  Because in the foreseeable future, the best interest of the Lawrence family is to tie themselves to the MacDonald family as tightly as possible.  "Mary, such an operation won't have a big impact on Britain, right?" Anthony asked.  "No, this time our target is mainly domestic." Mary replied.  She knew that Anthony didn't ask this out of patriotism or other reasons. He was just considering whether doing so would damage the reputation of the Lawrence family, because in many cases, a good reputation itself is wealth.  As agents of the Macdonald family in England, their good reputation was, in a sense, Macdonald's wealth.  But Mary's answer made Anthony a little worried, so he was silent for a while and asked: "So the MacDonald family plans to sell so much property in Europe, does it want to withdraw from Europe?" To this question  , Mary hesitated. She knew that the family judged that the war in Europe was about to begin, and the assets on the European continent would become dangerous.  Therefore, the McDonald family is indeed preparing to gradually transfer its assets on the European continent back to the United States.  But this kind of strategic judgment cannot be leaked casually, even to allies like the Lawrence family.  So Mary replied: "We judge that this round of prosperity is about to reach its peak, and it may not be long before a new round of crisis breaks out. This round of crisis may be centered on the United States and Germany. Anthony, you know that the world is like a  In a large pond, whenever prosperity comes, just like when summer comes, a lot of small fish and shrimps will grow in the pond. Then when the crisis of winter comes, those larger fish, in order to survive, will  We need to eat other fish and shrimps as soon as possible to make ourselves fatter so that we can survive the severe winter of crisis. We estimate that this crisis will be quite serious. At this time, our funds are not considered large on the European continent.  Fish, in order to avoid being eaten, of course we have to consider taking them back first, which is very important for us in the United States.Fish and shrimp will also help.  However, because Britain has vast colonies, Britain is likely to be relatively better off in a crisis.  So, you should also note that we have no plans to withdraw much capital from the UK.  " Anthony listened, thought about it carefully, and then said: "Dear, do you think our family can make some investments in the United States?  " "Of course that's no problem.  Mary replied, "But you have to seize the opportunity. Now is not a good time to invest, whether in the United States or in continental Europe."  "
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