"Gentlemen, I will wait for three days." In a secret place in Hamburg, a white man with gray hair said calmly: "Within three days, we must get a definite reply, otherwise the two cargo ships will "Leave Hamburg and sail back to North America!" "" There was an embarrassing silence in response to him. The gray-haired white man waited for a while before a deep and hoarse voice came over: "Sir, our transactions have always been very pleasant, but this time we haven't even seen the sample, so we have to accept it. A high price, is this too much? You know that it is a huge sum of tens of millions of marks. Who can guarantee" "Huntelaar!" Before the other party could finish speaking, the white man slapped him mercilessly. He cut off the other party's words: "Sir, the surname Huntelaar is a guarantee that he deserves your trust!" "" There was another silence, and the room was so quiet that it made people panic. ¡°Gentlemen, I look forward to your reply.¡± After waiting for a moment, the white man stood up, bowed, turned and left. After he left the room and the door was closed from the outside, the hoarse voice whispered with anger: "Damn Yankee, who does he think he is? How dare you talk to us like this!" "Okay! No need to say such angry words." As soon as he finished speaking, another calm voice said: "The key now is that we must find out whether the things he just said are really that powerful! Two weapons, one allows us to dominate the sky, and the other allows us to dominate the land. If it is really that powerful I think the price is acceptable!" "This" The hoarse voice paused, and then He struggled: "Sir, that's a huge amount of money totaling up to 60 million marks Do you think the cargo of these two freighters is really worth that much? I don't believe it, absolutely don't believe it!" Since according to what I just said At the price, two cargo ships would definitely not be able to load it! And in this era, it is impossible for the two cargo ships to be worth 60 million yuan, let alone the goods above. If calculated based on volume alone, even if both ships were loaded with what the man said, the total would be 20 million marks. After a moment of silence, a calm voice said calmly: "Who said it must be the things on these two freighters? According to the usual habits of the Huntelaar Consortium, I am afraid that a lot of them have been shipped here before, otherwise you would think that they rented them in Germany What are there so many warehouses for? They are full of goods! " "Here, you mean" After a moment of hesitation, the hoarse voice became surprised. "Haha, this is courage!" After a chuckle, the calm voice continued: "I think you probably don't know yet, right? There was a piece of information from the United States two days ago. John Huntelaar called for a meeting on his birthday. We contacted all the senior executives of the Huntelaar Consortium and held a secret meeting" As he spoke, his steady voice became lower and lower. "What?!" The hoarse voice instantly became high-pitched, and the whole person stood up instantly! "Evaluate it and then discuss it." He waved his hand and pushed back the man who had just stood up. He whispered in a calm voice: "In any case, if what he said is true, it is a good opportunity for us. Absolutely We are not allowed to miss it Our time may really be running out. " "But Sir." After taking a deep breath, he said helplessly in a hoarse voice: "This amount of money is really too huge If it doesn't work, their things have already been shipped here anyway" "Don't even think about it!" This time, before he could finish speaking, a steady voice shouted: "If these things are really what they said. , This is the most stupid thing to do! They can sell it to us, of course they can also sell it to the British and the French, and even the Russians will buy a large number of them. " "But" Bite He gritted his teeth and wanted to retort in a hoarse voice, somewhat unconvinced. "Okay!" He waved his hand and said impatiently in a steady voice: "At least they can now guarantee that they will never sell to the British and French within half a year. This is enough! That's it, you are ready to go Let¡¯s¡¡± ¡ At the end of May 1914, another batch of American freighters arrived in Hamburg. distanceJust a few days after the last large-scale cargo ship arrived, the Huntelaar consortium reached another deal with the German government. In the next ten days, not only the materials on this batch of cargo ships were secretly transferred, but many material warehouses on German soil were also opened to the German government, and a large number of troops transported batch after batch of materials from them. ¡°Then¡¡± In just three days, the huge Deutsche Bank and the equally huge Huntelaar Bank completed the transfer of funds. A huge amount of gold was put on the ship from Hamburg, left the European continent, and then shipped all the way back to North America, where it was deposited in the underground vault of Huntelaar Bank in New York. At the same time, the Germans handed over a large number of patents and technologies in chemical industry, machinery, optics and other fields and transferred them to various companies under the Huntelaar consortium. In June 1914, the Huntelaar consortium received the largest blood transfusion of the year. Of course, for a large-scale consortium, this small amount of funds is not enough to reverse the current unfavorable situation, but according to the estimation of John's subordinate accountant, it is enough to ensure that the consortium can be safe and worry-free in the next year. Of course, the prerequisite for continued operation is that it cannot continue to expand. ¡°It¡¯s a pity that Mr. Huntelaar did not adopt this suggestion. To buy more minerals, prepare to build more production lines, and recruit more workers and technicians, John put on a desperate posture. Since the meeting on his birthday, a small group of people had obtained John's judgment through various channels, so everyone understood what he was doing. It's just that except for a few caring people who started to take action silently, most people sneered at his judgment. After all, the war swept across the entire European continent and lasted for several years For most people, this is It's like listening to Greek mythology! Fortunately, the Huntelaar Consortium has been John's personal property from beginning to end. Even the top managers with dividend rights do not have corresponding voting rights. So under John's strong pressure, all different opinions within the consortium were suppressed, and everything continued according to his plan. Time passed day by day, and soon June 28, 1914 came. The butterfly wings that John traveled through did not affect the occurrence of major events. The Archduke Ferdinand and his wife chose this special day regardless of life and death and came to Sarajevo, where assassinations were rampant. But this time, unlike history, the one who shot at them was not just one passionate Serbian youth, but as many as three people, with a total of five pistols 8