After finishing the exchange with Tom Dupont, Rock decided to end today's work. It didn't matter whether there were still people waiting in line for Rock's interview. Just cancel temporarily.
Although Roque refused decisively in front of Said, looking back, Roque only summoned relevant officials to discuss the possibility of helping Said recover.
One thing must be emphasized. If Roque helps Said regain his country, then let alone the ownership of the Black Sea outlet, the Mesopotamia and Mesopotamia will definitely belong to southern Africa forever. There is no doubt about this.
"Even if we don't help Said regain his country, the Two Rivers Basin will definitely belong to southern Africa. We now have 500,000 people in the Mesopotamia. No one can take the Two Rivers Basin away." Martin said about the Two Rivers Basin.
It is relatively clear that during the World War, Martin had been responsible for the offensive in the Mesopotamia.
The half million people here refer to immigrants from the Mesopotamia. There are no more than 20,000 armed personnel in Southern Africa in the Mesopotamia. Almost all of them are mercenaries of the Umbrella Company. After the end of the world war, the Southern African Expeditionary Force has moved from Mesopotamia to Mesopotamia.
The watershed is removed.
There is no way, the cost of stationing troops overseas is too high, and even the Ministry of Defense of Southern Africa cannot bear it.
"What we are talking about now is the Garibaldi Peninsula. The Black Sea outlet is still very important -" Rock tried to bring the topic back, but the effect was not good. The people attending the meeting did not think the Black Sea outlet was very important.
Everyone knows that the Black Sea outlet is used to clamp down on Russia's chokepoint, but now Russia does not pose much of a threat to European countries, so the Black Sea outlet is not that important. The "Strait Management Committee" is in the Bosporus Strait.
The total number of troops stationed in the Dardanelles Strait is more than a thousand.
Today's Russia is not yet one of the two poles in the world that it once was. Both the United States and the United States still prefer the Americas, and their influence on Europe is not great.
Therefore, Roque's words did not resonate much. Before the rise of Russia, no one thought that Russia would become the European military police in the future.
"If we want to help the Ottomans regain their country, then we have to directly face the entire Entente. This risk is too great and we cannot afford it." Anton directly vetoed it. The Dardanelles Strait is not the Suez Canal, and it is really not that important.
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"The increase offered by Said is too low, and the Garibaldi Peninsula is not under Said's control. Said is being generous to others." Paul, who returned to southern Africa after the end of the world war to serve as the chief of staff of the National Defense Forces
Coker also disapproved. Said was obviously not sincere, which was a great disrespect for Roque and southern Africa.
"The key thing is that our main task now is not expansion. We have just acquired Southwest Africa and Tanganyika. It is best to spend ten years completely annexing these two regions before considering external expansion." Still in charge.
Derek Dodd, Deputy Secretary of Defense, is sober. Even though the pie is big, he still has to be able to eat it.
Since the two deputy ministers and the chief of staff disagreed, Roque followed suit and could only say that Said had made a wrong calculation and wanted to use southern Africa as a weapon. Said was not qualified enough.
When Roque rejected Said, the DuPont family in the United States had already begun to take action.
Holding the patent of phenolic plastics, Bakerlite Company's operating conditions are very good. The characteristics of phenolic plastics are: insulation, stability, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, non-flammable, good rigidity, small deformation, heat resistance, and can be used between 150 and 200
long-term use within the temperature range of degrees Celsius.
Under water lubrication conditions, phenolic plastic has an extremely low friction coefficient and excellent electrical insulation properties. It is called a "thousand-purpose material".
Widely used in the automotive, radio and power industries.
Baekeland is an outstanding scientist. He has more than 100 patents and numerous honorary positions. With his patent on phenolic plastics, Baekeland can earn millions of dollars in income every year. He is also an excellent businessman and has a business sense that is rare among scientists.
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One day in early May, a special guest came to Baekeland's office. He asked to buy the production and sales rights of phenolic plastics in the Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth can be regarded as the most important market in the world after the United States. Becklight Company can obtain more than 400,000 US dollars in profits from the Commonwealth every year, but the visitor only plans to spend 100,000 US dollars to purchase phenolic plastics in the Commonwealth.
10 years of production and sales rights.
This figure certainly did not satisfy Baekeland. Although Baekeland's patent expired in 1926, it was actually less than ten years in full.
But what made Baekeland hesitate was that the guy named Franklin who visited Baekeland represented the DuPont family. Thinking of the various legends about the Dupont family, Baekeland shuddered.
"One hundred thousand dollars is not a small number. The patent protection period for phenolic plastics is less than eight years, so there is nothing to hesitate about, Mr. Baekeland -" Franklin looked at Baekeland with sharp eyes and a gloomy expression.
Just like a hunter looking at his prey.
"Mr. Franklin, I don't want to sell my patent at a low price. Although my patent has less than eight years of protection left, if calculated based on last year's income, in the next less than eight years, I should
Get at least US$3 million in benefits." Baekeland didn't want to sit back and die, and the price of one hundred thousand dollars was almost an insult to Baekeland.
"Hehehehe——" Franklin's laughter was like the scream of the devil in hell, which made Baekeland very uncomfortable: "If you have a life to earn, you must also have a life to spend——"
This was definitely a threat from Hong Guoguo, so Baekeland took action.
Franklin was so confident that he didn't care about Baekeland's anger.
Baekeland breathed for a while and couldn't help gritting his teeth: "I know who you are working for. Lord Nyasaland is an Englishman. Don't you feel ashamed to work for him?"
The image of Americans in the world at this time was that of an upstart. Although the United States made great sacrifices for the Allies during the World War, it did not change the image of Americans. Europeans - especially the British and French,
He still laughs at Americans for their rudeness and humiliates them in public. As a Belgian of Belgian origin, Baekeland knows this very well.
But what is regrettable is that although Baekeland knows that Americans have a poor image, he has no way to change it. Improving the quality of the people cannot be achieved overnight. The population of the United States has now exceeded 100 million, and the large number of people has a certain impact on industrial production.
There are advantages to having more people, but in some aspects, having too many people can actually be a drag.
If you look at India, you will know that sometimes having more people is not necessarily a good thing.
The popularity of education in Southern Africa has been so rapid in recent years. The federal government's unsparing investment is certainly one aspect, but the small population is also another aspect.
If southern Africa had a population similar to that of India, then Adelaide would not be able to raise the funds needed to universalize compulsory education even if he sold the Palace of Justice.
"Mr. Baekeland, it doesn't matter who I work for. If the devil pays me, I will also work for the devil. The question now is, are you willing to accept the one hundred thousand dollars, or are you willing to watch your hard work?"
Disintegrate into nothing, I'm not threatening you, I'm just stating the facts." Franklin is really not exaggerating. The United States in this era is incredible. Payton's factory will explode for no reason, and Nikola Tesla's laboratory will explode.
Fires will ignite for no reason. Once or twice may be a coincidence, but if too many coincidences occur together, it is definitely not a coincidence.
"Mr. Franklin, the New York State government will not let you do whatever you want. This is New York, not Wellington, Delaware -" Baekeland was hysterical. His office is in New York and the factory is actually in New Jersey.
However, as a multinational company, Bakerland has branches all over the world. In May 1910, Bakerland established the General Phenolic Resin Company at the Lügers Factory in Berlin with a daily output of 180 kilograms of various phenolic resin products. It was later merged into Union Carbide.
company.
Wellington, Delaware, is the home of the DuPont family.
"Calm down, Mr. Baekeland, you know, if I want to do something, I won't need the permission of the New York City Government." Old God Franklin, if it is the DuPont family, then if they don't take action, they will ask Baker.
Lan does not need permission from the New York City government to fly.
"You are too presumptuous. If you dare to do that, I will go to the White House and sue you." Baekeland made a desperate move. He knew that Franklin was not bragging, but let Baekeland sell the patent license for only 100,000 US dollars. Baekeland
It's really unacceptable.
"Well, I'm waiting for your accusation -" Franklin stopped talking nonsense, picked up the top hat in front of him and prepared to leave.
Before leaving Baekeland's office, Franklin turned back and smiled strangely, and Baekeland felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
After Franklin left, Baekeland felt restless and always felt that something was about to happen.
So Baekeland decided to end the day's work and go home from get off work.
Before getting into the car, Baekeland suddenly remembered Franklin's creepy smile before leaving, and suddenly decided to ask the driver to check the car.
"There's nothing wrong with the car, sir. I'm always in the car, waiting for your call at any time." The driver was a very energetic African young man and thought that Baekeland was unnecessary.
"Just do it if you are asked to do it, stop talking nonsense -" Baekeland walked away with a firm attitude. The car he was riding in was also a Lord car produced by Nyasaland, and it was given to Baekeland on his own initiative by the Nyasaland Military Industrial Group.
Although Baekeland did not agree to Nyasaland Military Industry's request, he happily accepted the car.
The driver did not dare to disobey Baekeland's order and conducted a detailed inspection of the carriage, but found no problems.
"Under the car, the bottom of the car is also called inspection -" Baekeland did not give himself a chance to make a mistake. Life is only once for everyone.
"There won't be any problems under the car either -" the driver Nunu muttered, lying on the ground to check the bottom of the car, and then Baekeland heard the driver's sharp exclamation.
"What's going on?" Baekeland asked.
"Yes - someone installed a bomb under our car!" The driver got up in shock and ran away.
No need to ask, this must have been done by a family of habitual criminals.
