"Gentlemen, please welcome the President of the United States, Mr. William Howard Taft!"

With the intense music, the people in the banquet hall cheered. William Howard Taft, the current US President, walked into the banquet hall with his huge belly!

John and Anna also stood up politely and began to applaud gently.

After two years in office, Taft was not highly praised in the United States. Taft was actually pushed to power by Roosevelt. Roosevelt said that he was the most suitable person in the country to be president, but in fact, Taft was conservative, not good at rhetoric, and did not have the ability to control the Republican Party. Moreover, he lacked political skills and implemented a series of extreme and conservative policies. Simply put, he completely implemented the former president's old routine in policy, but lacked the talent of Roosevelt!

The most important thing is that Taft had just had a falling out with Roosevelt.

However, this did not prevent Taft from gaining respect for his presidential identity. Even if he caused the division of the Republican Party and handed over the presidential throne to the Democrats two years later, it would not prevent his current glory. Therefore, when Taft walked into the banquet hall with a smile on his face, the cheers were still loud as if he was about to overturn the roof...

...

"Mr. Hunterlaer, I am very sorry."

In the VIP lounge, Taft, who was a little tired due to speeches and greetings, shook his head and said helplessly: "Because of your affairs in the Far East, the White House has been under great pressure these days! You know, it's okay for the Russians and Japanese, but we can't ignore the protests of the British and French people, so... the White House hopes that the Hunteral consortium can reduce its support for the military strongmen in the Far East!"

"Haha, isn't the White House encouraging us to go out and invest now?"

After taking a sip of the coffee in his hand, John smiled faintly: "My investment in the Far East is just for profit and does not involve the political field. I think they should have overreacted."

After hearing John's answer, Taft couldn't help but frown: "Is that true? Then you have opened so many schools in the Far East and funded so many Chinese students, all for the benefit?"

"certainly!"

With a brow raised, a gloomy flashed in John's eyes, and he responded in a faint sense: "If there are not enough talents, who will operate our company? Who will operate our factories? There are also cars, tractors and planes. If there are no talents, how many people in China will drive? Mr. President, don't forget that it is a huge market with 450 million people, but we need to cultivate them first... Maybe I am not as good as you in politics, but if you talk about doing business...haha."

Without further ado, John took another sip of coffee leisurely.

"Well……"

Taft could only be speechless for John's reply.

Few people know about this era. Mr. John Hunteral actually knows little about business. He relies on old Hunteral in front of doing business, and then mainly rely on experts like Taylor or Ford. They know stories that have long been written in newspapers and magazines: they accumulated their first pot of gold with bicycles in their early years, and later they opened pharmaceutical companies, automobile companies, etc., and relied on themselves to be the throne of the richest man in the world.

Taft also stayed in an extremely superficial position about John's understanding.

So Taft could not refute this sentence, and could only smile helplessly: "In short, you can regard him as a warning from the White House to you. If you continue to provoke the British and French in the Far East affairs, there may be many bad things in the future..."

"Yeah?"

When John heard this, he smiled slightly and raised his eyebrows with a little disdain, "Those Europeans still have the time to care about my affairs in the Far East? Haha... Yes, before these idiots started fighting, they really thought life would be so comfortable day by day?"

"Hmm? What did you just say? Fighting in Europe?"

Taft was stunned when he heard this and quickly asked.

"Cough, cough cough!"

After coughing twice, John smiled a little embarrassedly, "Haha, have you ever heard of a famous saying by Pisme? The German has said that Europeans will sooner or later fight for a few Balkan idiots..."

John, who was sneering for a moment, used an old joke to perfunctorily pass on the topic.

Taft didn't care. When he received John's assurance that the investment in the Far East would only involve industry and education, he talked about his and his wife's condition with confidence. Taft was so fat that he was naturally full of illness, and his wife also suffered a stroke shortly after he moved to the White House, so he came to New York for detailed physical examinations and treatment every year. There is no doubt that New York, the United States is now a medical center, and the center of New York is Hunteral General Hospital... A few years later, when Taft proposed the anti-war argument, he remembered John's reaction today, but by that time everything was meaningless...

...

When he came out of the VIP room, John looked helpless.

As one of the attending physicians of Taft, John certainly knew that he had narcolepsy, but this was the first time he fell asleep when he met him. After briefly explaining to the presidential followers, John began to search for Anna.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Hunterlaer."

Just as John was about to ask his entourage, a gentleman in his fifties came over and saluted respectfully: "Mrs. Hunter Ral is now in another VIP room and is chatting with our wife... Do you want to go there?"

"Oh? Of course!"

After glanced at the person, John nodded immediately.

Of course he knew this person, the housekeeper of the oil king Mr. Rockefeller, and one of the guys he trusted the most. So after seeing the visitor, John paused and began to guess the purpose of the oil king looking for him.

Not long ago, Standard Oil was ordered to disband.

Although Rockefeller was hiding in the United States for several months, when his grandson was born, he had to return to New York and received a court subpoena. Standard Oil was forced to dissolve and split into 37 independent companies. The generation of giant Standard Oil was dissolved, but no one expected that Rockefeller still controlled the equity of most companies and obtained even greater wealth after listing them and became the well-deserved richest man in the world!

Of course, because of John's appearance, Rockefeller did not have such a chance this time, but Standard Oil was just disbanded, and Rockefeller should be in a bad mood. How could he come to this banquet today?

When John just saw Rockefeller, he was a little surprised.

Maybe other people need to please Taft, the US president, but for Rockefeller, even Roosevelt can ignore it and there is no need to worry about what is...

“Um…”

While walking towards the VIP room, John frowned and pondered. Then his heart moved and suddenly thought of a possibility: "Mr. Oil King, who is about to get rich, may have discovered something again..." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!