My America

Among the Rockefeller estates, Sheffield and Rockefeller ’s brother and sister met with a reporter named Ida Tabel, who was a banner of civil antitrust. Of course, this negotiation is definitely not friendly!

"There is no hatred that can be solved. If you are dissatisfied, make a price and shut up." Edith Rockefeller looked at the woman in front of her with a very tough attitude. With the other party's attitude of not reluctant, she finally endured Can't help breaking out.

"Miss Ada, your father was defeated by my father when he was young. This is normal business competition. It is unreasonable for you to give up on our company for a few years, and your reports are full of false and false accusations. "Rockefeller Jr. said righteously," Where are you justice again? "

Aida Tabel's father also stepped into the oil field and became the soul of death under the expansion of standard oil. Aida Tabel later met with a senior executive of Standard Petroleum and learned many of Standard Petroleum's unknown things, found an opportunity to publish it in the newspaper, and wrote a book saying that the publication was successful.

The exchanges between the two sides were full of gunpowder, which made Sheffield, who was originally an outsider, full of frustration. After looking at the country, it was similar to himself.

However, Sheffield still expressed his position, with a mockery, "You just think that if your father succeeds, today's standard oil is his. If it really becomes like this, you will still shake your arms today. Screaming, is it harmful to trust companies, and now everything you do is just jealous. "

"I don't know what this old woman likes?" Adatabell looked at Sheffield and asked, knowingly.

Edith Rockefeller stood up straight, was pulled by Sheffield without fully standing up, and sat down again. He heard his man say, "You can live to this day, enough to prove that you are a lucky person."

"Dare you threaten a reporter?" Adatabell said unbelievably. She is now a public figure. As a civil leader of antitrust law, everyone is concerned about every move.

"You're not the first person I threatened!" Sheffield took out her handkerchief dismissively, wiped the sweat on her face, and said to herself, "I even threatened the Attorney General, how can I not threaten you?" . What if you pass it on, no one will testify for you, who knows if it is slandering? "

"Then watch it!" Rockefeller Jr. knew that the negotiations were inconclusive, and said, "Ninety percent is not enough, the standard oil is more, the domestic is not enough, and the foreign ones, no one can stop us. . "

"Yes!" Sheffield agreed. "Do you expect a group of small workshops to compete with European companies? You want to raise your head in European companies, and you want full domestic competition. It's simply good service and no money. , Do we owe you these companies? "

Not only did the meeting not smooth the situation, but the confrontation became more intense. Sheffield raised the banner directly, signing in the New York Times of Pritzer to praise his partner Rockefeller family, "We are refining oil for the poor, the poor need good and cheap oil, we rely on good quality and low price to win credibility . "

"Stable oil prices support the development of the automotive industry, which allows cars to enter thousands of households, and only standard oil can do it." Sheffield established the image of Rockefeller's allies in the newspaper, shouting loudly, "Once the oil price rises, new life The automotive industry may suffer setbacks in development, which should be considered by the federal government. "

"Some losers attribute their failure to other reasons. For no other reason, he is incompetent." Sheffield said without mercy. "Fleeing from Europe and succeeding in the New World through personal efforts, people, especially It ’s a man who must compete for survival in the future, and ca n’t give the weak any assistance. The weak can either feed themselves or be eliminated by society. I ask many people to note that your ancestors only occupied Indian land in those years. Today, if your ancestors have mercy, it is still the place of the Indians today. Surviving or ruining the competition is your own choice. Do n’t encounter the Indians and you will know that it ’s your turn to use the competition as an excuse to be weak. Just desire fairness, this is not fairness, but hypocrisy. "

"Unwilling to admit his incompetence, but cursing the surrounding society like a deep hatred. Even those who have defeated in the competition, sadly accused the society of how unfair, completely forgetting that they are participating The competition is the same ruthlessness. Adatabell is just one of them, not only incompetent but stupid. In the world, we have many competitors. "

Aida Tabel soon began his own counterattack in public opinion, "Capitalists, workers, politicians, citizens-are all breaking the law, or allowing the law to be trampled. Who will defend the dignity of the law? Rely on lawyers? This Some of the best lawyers in the country have been nurtured. Instead of defending in court, they serve as consultants for companies and businesses, teaching them how to circumvent the law and not be subject to severe punishment. Do you rely on judges? Many of them are so Respect the law so that they returned to the court to release those who were found guilty because of a certain error or evasion. "

"It really makes sense!" Seeing the adversarial newspapers, Aida Tabel's remarks on it seem to be particularly popular. Sheffield said to Edith Rockefeller when no one saw it, "Actually Some of us are too undisguised. In fact, among the trusts, Standard Oil is not excessive, and it is even a very restrained enterprise. But because of the huge scale of Standard Oil, it is the largest trust and attracts the firepower of other trusts to itself. Now. "

Because the leader of the trust company was investigated by the Ministry of Justice, the stock market experienced unusual fluctuations. Sheffield was almost sleeping and dreaming about the stock market disaster. He was instantly alert. Although he had never had stock trading experience, he began to study this digital game. stand up.

At the same time, he certainly did not forget to continue his solidarity with the confrontation with Standard Oil. To be fair, the bottom level desires fairness. The slave owner understands it very well. It is understandable. All ethnic contradictions can be discussed, and class contradictions cannot be discussed. All he can do is stand beside the standard oil without contempt and wave his flag.

If the nuclear bomb is not available for a day, the threat faced by the slave owners will always be there. The Manhattan Project is really the dream of all the big companies in the United States. If it reaches that point, he has no doubt that the United States can also guarantee that it will not use nuclear weapons first. , With the exception of civil war.

Because of the investigation of the Ministry of Justice, almost every news about Standard Oil came out, and the stock price of Standard Oil fluctuated. Sheffield took the time to ask Edith Rockefeller, "Standard Oil is also a regular visitor of the Ministry of Justice. Since the beginning of the year ago, the Ministry of Justice is like being close to your family's life. Have there been such intense fluctuations before? "

"Not in my mind!" Edith Rockefeller asked strangely. "Aren't you not interested in the stock market?"

In the past two years, I dare not be interested. Sheffield took a deep breath. If the trust leader of the United States, such as Standard Oil, now has relatively large stock market fluctuations due to public opinion, it means that the current stock market is really not healthy. Too.

The existence of Standard Oil is comparable to what Apple and Microsoft add up, and it is of great significance to the United States of this era. No one after Standard Oil can occupy such a high share of the industry. When a series of giant companies of Apple and Microsoft, because of some body news, all share price fluctuations occur, can this be said to be normal?

It can only be said that the stock market is already unhealthy, but this volatility is harmless to Standard Oil. The Rockefeller family's huge cash flow will not be bankrupted instantly like a trust company.

The White House has spoken to some other companies to help Standard Oil, and neither the defense nor the opposing parties have expressed their views, just like staying out of business.

Sitting for a few months to see the opposition of public opinion, the Minister of Justice Noske suddenly announced that after careful investigation and evidence collection, he believed that Standard Oil violated the scope of unfair competition in antitrust laws, and would be fined 2,000. Five million dollars, administrative fines do not need to be approved by the Supreme Court.

The news came to give everyone a blow, the silent federal government, a huge penalty for a shot. Twenty-five million dollars, astronomical figures in the eyes of ordinary people.

The news came that everyone was in a dream, and soon many people poured into the exchange to throw out the standard oil stocks in their hands.

After opening, Standard Oil ’s stocks began to fall, and after a day, one-tenth of its market value disappeared. After a few days, Standard Oil ’s market value had fallen by one-third.

"William, what should I do?" Edith Rockefeller was also a little anxious. She hadn't encountered this kind of scene since the beginning of the journal. Will the Rockefeller family go bankrupt in this way?

Sheffield swept Edith Rockefeller into her arms, reaching out and patting her back to comfort, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, technical adjustments, it will rise back!" A few days has been enough to see something, Standard Oil The stock plunge did not affect other industries, purely technical adjustments.