The Return of the King chapter 042

After arriving in North America, Mainz and others hid their identities, put on casual clothes, and inspected the country.

Eagle Sauce is currently the largest economy in the world. This country has a vast territory, a large population and rich resources, and has unique natural conditions.

Mainz knew very well that although the Empire on which the sun never sets at this time still seemed to be the world's hegemon, its status as a world hegemon began to slowly decline after World War I.

In the Treaty of Washington City in 1922, The naval tonnage comparison between the Sun Never Sets and Eagle Sauce became 5:5.

The signing of the Treaty of Washington City marked that the Sun Never Sets Empire gave up its status as the world's hegemon.

By the time of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union China naturally snatched the position of world hegemon from Britain and France!

Of course, in this process, the Hans tragically served as a stepping stone and backdrop, not once, but twice!

There is a saying that goes well: they did not take the world's hegemony by themselves, but the German army gave it to them through two world wars!

The inspection of Yingjiang is not only to implement their own financial plan, but also has another purpose, which is to understand the social atmosphere and industrial situation within Yingjiang, so as to judge the war potential of Yingjiang.

After a month of inspection, everyone in the delegation looked very serious.

The industrial strength of Eagle Sauce is stronger than everyone expected. Before coming to Eagle Sauce, everyone's influence on North America was still in the barbaric and backward era more than a hundred years ago. But after they really saw it, they knew How outrageous your thoughts are

"If the country of Eagle Sauce cannot become our ally in the future, it will definitely become our strong enemy, even more terrifying than the sun never sets!"

Mainz was relieved after seeing that everyone had a deeper understanding of Yingjiang's national strength. Although the group of people he brought out were not famous at this time, they would be the ones he would use to form a new government in the future. Core members.

People like Goebbels, Speer, Ribbentrop, and Walter were all senior officials of the Nazi government more than ten years later.

Some of these people were good at propaganda, some were good at internal affairs, and some were good at diplomacy.

They are good at economics.

Although it seems to have nothing to do with military affairs, Mainz is very aware of the importance of these"chores".

If they can do these things they are good at, it will be of great help to the military operations of the Third Reich.

"Your Excellency, what are you going to do?"

Walter is older, so he was the first to speak.

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On August 1, 1919, Goldman Sachs Group welcomed a group of mysterious guests to its headquarters in Nuoyue.

No one knew where these people came from, but the employees knew that these people had a lot of backgrounds, because they saw that the founder of the group, Marcus Goldman, who was in his nineties, actually entertained these people in person..

These people didn't stay at the headquarters for long. They came and left in a hurry. Two days later, Goldman Sachs Group suddenly acquired a car company-General Motors Group!

Although Goldman Sachs did not disclose the amount of this transaction, according to sources, this acquisition cost Goldman Sachs approximately US$50 million!

This transaction shocked the United States, so much so that it was reported on the front pages of major newspapers for a week!

Many people think Goldman Sachs is crazy. Although General Motors Group is one of the major automakers in North America, its valuation is definitely not as much as 50 million. You know, when General Motors proposed to acquire Ford Group, Ford Group proposed The offer of 8 million scared GM away. However, the scale and products of the Ford Group are not inferior to that of GM. Ford is only worth 8 million. How can GM be worth 50 million?

Thinking of this, many people feel that Goldman Sachs' deal was unwise. In the eyes of many investors, Goldman Sachs is a typical negative example of people being stupid and making too much money!

However, when everyone thought that the Goldman Sachs deal was a loss, they failed to notice that as the whole country and even the world rushed to report on this matter, the Goldman Sachs Group, which was just a small company before, was A well-known, but not particularly famous, investment bank has become famous after this battle, and its popularity among the people has almost reached the level of a household name!

Although everyone laughs at Goldman Sachs people for being stupid and rich in money, they also realize Goldman Sachs' strong financial resources, financial resources and reputation, which has made Goldman Sachs one of the top investment banks in North America.

Affected by this, in After completing the transaction to acquire General Motors, Goldman Sachs Group's business volume also began to grow by leaps and bounds, increasing fivefold in half a year!

From this point of view, even if Goldman Sachs' investment in General Motors Group makes a loss, it will not affect anything, because they can make back the investment of US$50 million in one year at most!

What's more, the acquisition of General Motors Group will not only result in no loss, but will also make huge profits!

In North America in 1919, with the end of the First World War, a large amount of war windfalls were plundered from Europe, and both the government's and the private sector's financial resources were greatly improved.

The increase in social wealth has greatly increased people's income. Therefore, in order to pursue a better quality of life, the real estate and automobile industries in North America have ushered in a booming and rapid development stage.

As a result, the originally sluggish automobile sales began to come out of the trough and began to enter a period of rapid growth.

Of course, during this period, Ford was the well-deserved leader in the automotive field. Ford's annual output at this time was approximately 750,000 vehicles. This number exceeded that of the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Ohobe, etc., in addition to Eagle Sauce. The sum of the seventeen kingdoms.

The main reason for the popularity of Ford cars is that Ford launched the famous Model T in 1908. The main change of this car was to reduce the price of the car from the original $800 to $200, a reduction of four times. , so that cars that were originally only affordable by the upper class and high-income people suddenly began to enter the homes of ordinary people and became affordable for ordinary people!

With a price that was much lower than that of its peers, Ford cars began to enter thousands of households. From 1908 to 1927, before the Model T was discontinued, a total of an exaggerated 15 million units of this car were sold!

The success of the Model T not only brought cars into thousands of households, but also opened up the market and laid the foundation for the North American car nation, making car culture a part of the lives of North American people!

Mainz knows that the car market in North America will continue to grow in the future. This country with a population of more than 100 million can produce 5 million cars per year at its peak. This is still an exaggeration in this era, and even if every car Selling for only US$200, this is also a huge market of US$1 billion!

How could he let it go?