My America

"Now this time is not the best time, but it is the time when the political environment is most beneficial to me. It can't be delayed any longer, and it will be too late." At the Oak Manor, Sheffield took his wife Anne's arm for a walk. After the Democratic Party came to power, the slave owner's time was a complete end. Taking time with Annie, he realized the hard-won and easy life. "Earlier, it was easier to deal with, but the political environment was not good for me. Standard Oil used to There is this opportunity, but since the antitrust law was introduced, Standard Oil has been investigated every year, and it must be acknowledged that DuPont ’s luck is really good, but this luck has come to an end. "

The object of Sheffield's mouth, of course, Anne knows who it is, can be missed by the family, and is talking about the endless company, not Standard Oil, not Morgan Bank, but DuPont.

"I heard that DuPont is now a big three model, and several executives are very capable." Annie grumbled. "You are afraid that you will be too late, do you think you can't crush each other with normal means?"

"Well, this is the case, so to solve this problem in the past four years, otherwise the chances of working with the Democratic Party to deal with DuPont in the past four years are not big." Sheffield nodded and could not let DuPont go any further. Catch up with a chance to make a fortune in war, and she has little time left for Sheffield.

Do n’t look at the United States as if the capital is powerful, but the political environment is also very important. Like many companies, DuPont is not the first to face antitrust laws. When Roosevelt attacked trust companies, it did not take special care of DuPont, and the other party was still involved in the risk.

Now that the DuPont family controls 65 companies, DuPont ’s position in Delaware is similar to Sheffield United ’s position in Texas, and it even took the lead to form a stock exchange, which is really not In this era, I really don't know the extent to which a company can have an impact. A heavy-asset enterprise even established a stock exchange to serve its own company.

According to what Sheffield knows, the first official tax cuts and trickle-down operations in the history of the United States were all initiated by DuPont. It can only be said that the DuPont family switched from political diplomats to businessmen and never forgot the political abilities of their ancestors. Once you encounter difficulties, you can think of how to let politics serve them.

So, Sheffield, who thinks the government and business collusion is very strong, the opponent he met this time should be another company in the United States that knows most about government and business collusion. Now it depends on who is qualified to say, "No one knows better than me." The collusion between officials and businessmen. "

Once in Sheffield's previous life, I saw a news. On October 17, that year, a large explosion occurred in the chemical company BASF in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Not long ago, nylon manufacturing giant DuPont announced that it is planning to raise all nylon products by 200 US dollars a ton price, the price increase will start on October 15.

It was a chemical raw material transportation pipeline that exploded that day. At present, the pipeline has been cut off, and the steam cracking device and other related devices have been closed. As a German chemical giant, BASF will also tighten global chemical product supply in the short term. As a competitor, DuPont officially raised the price of nylon on October 15th, and it has to make people wonder whether Dupont is unclear.

This is the news of the 21st century. In the environment of the beginning of the century, Sheffield can only sigh that this time the opponent is a company with various lower limits, including the collusion between officials and businessmen. If it were not for the victory of this national election, the federal government is now controlled by the Democratic Party, and he really has no way to take the other party.

Sheffield stopped and made Annie a little strange. It seemed that this time the walk was a little shorter, and she heard her husband say, "You should go back to Arlington, take Natalya back together, she just gave birth Children, not suitable for staying here. "

"Don't DuPont dare to come to the South?" Anne smiled and comforted her husband.

"Other people don't dare, this company may not be. For safety." Sheffield looked at Annie lightly, said slowly, "Be careful not to be wrong, I have no problem myself, just worry about you."

It's so serious, don't you say that the United States is a society ruled by law? Annie said nothing, and when she saw her husband's solemn appearance, she dared not take it as seriously as usual, "Well, I will go back immediately."

"That's obedient!" Sheffield finally smiled a little and stretched her hand to scratch Annie's nose, not forgetting to bury the Dupont family. "It's not your husband that I'm afraid of. Those Dupont people can do it even if they get married. , Maybe you have a pit in your head and do something that is normally incomprehensible. "

"Then I will secretly leave for the train tomorrow!" Annie enjoyed her husband's care and promised beautifully.

"I still think it's safe to take a boat. At least the boat is made by our own company, and the joint company can't make such things as cars." Sheffield suffered a delusion and planned a safe route for his wife.

If a group of mistresses followed Anne to Arlington, this also seemed inappropriate. The other women either went to Arlington or stayed with themselves and could not place orders outside. Anyway, if the joint company is persecuted by a powerful opponent, the coalition government, such an opportunity appears, Sheffield may choose not to see it, or may die. The problem is that safety cannot be built on the possibility. It's like the plague struck you. You can't feel that your body is good and don't wear a mask. Isn't it a death, if you really die.

Sheffield himself did not know whether to face extremes or admit it. How could it be assumed that the DuPont family would admonish? Is it because the Democratic Party came to power to change history and gave Sheffield confidence?

"The man who brought John Conner back from Cuba to get some black gold is back. Now the port construction needs people to watch." When Sheffield ordered the butler at Oak Manor, it was utterly loud and solemn.

Broadly speaking, this is to **** New Orleans once again. Although there are potential implications, there are some factors because the slave owner has a kind of thinking that always wants people to harm me, but the latter is definitely not the main factor.

Once the expansion of the container port in New Orleans was interrupted due to some external factors, the damage was still caused by the outstanding citizens of New Orleans. This is for the sake of the overall situation.

News from the roadside agency in Washington has begun to circulate that the new Federal Minister of Justice Olney has begun to restart DuPont ’s antitrust law investigation on the grounds that it has used thousands of times to believe that DuPont ’s development has constituted Abnormal competition. When prosecuting trust companies, most of the reasons are not because of the direct vocabulary of monopoly, but because of the abnormal competition brought about by monopoly status as a reason for the difficulty of large companies.

Quite simply, if each industry is a trust company, monopoly can be used as a reason for difficulty. Then it will be difficult for all trust companies. Unfair competition can allow the Ministry of Justice to leave room for change.

Therefore, even when Roosevelt opened an operation against Northern Securities, it once emphasized that monopoly is not purely bad, but that some companies use the status of monopoly to prevent the emergence of competitors.

In Sheffield's view, one occasion for this kind of rhetoric is when the teacher says to your mother, "Your child is very smart, but he doesn't use it for learning."

It ’s enough to listen to this kind of words. Obviously it ’s for a monopoly trust company, but it does n’t mention the monopoly. It ’s the federal government ’s routine. Just like in the economic downturn, the company says to employees that we want to lay off employees, but if everyone can If we accept a pay cut, we will continue to persevere, and we may survive the crisis.

But in fact, even if everyone agrees to pay cuts, it is still unknown whether the company will survive. In the end, I really can't stand it. What can the layoffs say when the company lays off employees with its strength?

As anti-trust laws against DuPont intensified, many people also sought contacts to prove Olney.

As for who is verifying, it is naturally known to Sima Zhao ’s heart. The first antitrust law investigation carried out by the Ministry of Justice after the Democratic Party came to power has great symbolic significance. If anyone is really targeted by this first, It's definitely not a good thing.

After entering May, Washington was in the most comfortable season of the year. Olney, the attorney general who had served as secretary of state in the Cleveland government, came to Congress for the first time. Compared with previous government practices, compared with previous years Is a little late.

Many members of the Senate and the House of Representatives are very familiar with Olney. As a secretary of state and the second person in the Cleveland government, he is familiar with many people and is very calm about this meeting.

Walking directly to the rostrum, Olney took a cold look, "This federal government is committed to shaping a fair competitive environment, and it is possible to eradicate unfair competition between some companies, even extremely bad behavior. Some big companies do things that make every law enforcement person with conscience very angry. "

Listening to Olney, many parliamentarians are whispering, and they seem to be guessing who they are referring to. Well-informed parliamentarians lament that the Ministry of Justice ’s recent rumors are not groundless, and they must definitely investigate DuPont.

"In response to this bad behavior, as the Minister of Justice, I want to find out the truth." Olney concluded flatly, "The investigation of unfair competition against DuPont applies to antitrust laws, and the investigation will begin immediately."