The Badge Hotel is really a magical place. No matter how high your status is, your true colors will be revealed when you get here, and everything will be explained clearly.
"This is the case. Bob Wheeler relies on these seemingly independent-thinking remarks to attract people's attention and gain profits by the way." Alvin does not care about the interrogation process, only the results.
A mere district congressman has not yet had a chance to enter Alvin's sight. Most of the congressmen Alvin knows are members of Congress, and at the very least, they have to be state legislators to have the qualifications to appear around Alvin.
"Are there any overseas fund transactions?" Gavin didn't care about the fate of the person involved. After finding this step, the person was basically finished.
It's actually quite a pity.
The professor at the Johannesburg Medical School is not a good professor, but he has chosen to get involved in politics. Now it is impossible to go back and become a professor.
"No, you must not know who this guy's big sponsor is-" The smile on Alvin's face was quite helpless.
"Who?" Gavin was curious.
"Your father-in-law——" Alvin laughed.
Gavin looked constipated and ate melon until he hit his head.
That's okay, this seems like something the father-in-law who has always been unreliable can do.
Like Rock, Stoudemire is now over sixty.
Unlike Roque who is still persisting, Stoudemire retired early about ten years ago and handed over his business to a team of professional managers to live a retired life like a leisurely cloud and wild crane.
That's not right, Stoudemire's retirement life is not a leisurely life. Compared with Rock's endless meetings, Stoudemire's retirement life is extremely exciting.
Stoudemire is a character who can't take any time off. He always has to have some fun when he has nothing to do. It's not surprising that he donates money to the People's Party. Stoudemire is also a major donor to the Liberal Party, the Progressive Party, and the Nyasaland Party.
This is the real trick of not putting all your eggs in one basket. After Rock retires, no matter who wins, Stoudemire will be the ultimate winner.
Of course, Stoudemire's support for the People's Party is definitely much worse than that of the Liberal Party.
"What have you been doing lately?" Although Gavin is Stoudemire's son-in-law, his relationship with Stoudemire is not very close.
"Opera——" Alvin's expression was playful.
Gavin nodded and forgot about it, not noticing Alvin's expression.
Listening to opera is normal. In an era when entertainment was scarce, appreciating opera was one of the most popular activities of the so-called upper class.
Of course, "appreciation" here needs to be enclosed in quotation marks.
Opera has a high status and tickets are quite expensive. Those world-famous troupes are busy touring around the world every day, making it rare for ordinary people to see them.
Let’s not talk about those who really like opera. The reason why most aristocratic children pursue opera is more because of beautiful actresses. Many of them spend a lot of money just for the opportunity to have dinner together.
When Stoudemire was studying in the UK, he was a famous opera lover. He only restrained himself after returning to southern Africa.
This was not because Stoudemire changed his gender, but because Southern Africa was a remote and remote area at that time, and those world-famous theater troupes would not perform in southern Africa at all, so Stoudemire had no chance to continue to like opera.
Nowadays, with the development of Southern Africa, big cities such as Pretoria, Los Angeles, and Cape Town have resident theater troupes, and more and more famous theater troupes come to perform in Southern Africa. However, the status of opera
It's much worse than before.
The entertainment industry in Southern Africa is very developed. TV stations broadcast programs 24 hours a day, new movies are released almost every day, and there are so-called blockbusters every month.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to watch a movie. The football leagues in Southern Africa are also world-class. After live television became popular, the two games between Nyasaland Eagles and Rhodesia United every year have been upgraded from El Clasico to all fans around the world.
holiday.
After the outbreak of the world war, football as a project traveled around the world with the expeditionary forces, and the number of fans increased. This was a major victory for the cultural export of southern Africa.
Rock had no time to listen to opera. After returning to southern Africa from the United States, Rock was surrounded by endless meetings.
The world war is coming to an end, and Rock has to consider not only the post-war world structure, but also the economy of southern Africa.
If nothing else goes wrong, after the end of the world war, the economic crisis will come again. This time, southern Africa will not be immune and will be severely impacted by the economic crisis.
Southern Africa has been able to survive all previous economic crises by relying on its own resource advantages and size advantages. Even if the "Great Depression" came, it did not have much impact on Southern Africa because of Roque's well-organized response.
This time is different from before.
Most of the previous economic crises were triggered by the United States. The reasons are very complicated. They have been explained before and will not be repeated here.
Southern Africa relied on its strong industrial capabilities to become the biggest beneficiary of the Second World War. During the war, Southern Africa's industry reached a higher level due to strong demand, dwarfing not only European countries but also the United States.
After the end of the world war, the economies of various countries will gradually recover, and the demand for southern African goods will also drop rapidly. Especially in the military industry, the order volume will definitely decline avalanche, which may lead to an industry crisis.
"The economic crisis has actually emerged. Since the beginning of the year, our orders have fallen sharply, especially in the military industry, which has dropped by more than 50%. Some orders have been cancelled, and some unfinished orders have also been suspended." Industry Minister Morris
Having just turned fifty, he is still young for a politician.
Maurice graduated from Nyasaland University, and nominally has a teacher-student relationship with Roque. He was also one of the first batch of graduates from Nyasaland University. After graduation, he entered the Ministry of Industry and worked steadily. He performed steadily and gradually improved. Last year, he began to serve as
Minister of Industry.
"——Fortunately, we have been prepared for a long time and have been gradually promoting the transformation of the arsenal since last year, so the current situation is still acceptable to us compared with our American counterparts." Morris is very lucky to have such a sober person like Rock.
Guide.
Southern Africa, like the United States, provided logistical support to the Allied forces, and the military industries of both countries were the biggest beneficiaries of the world war.
Like southern Africa, most of the arsenals in the United States are private enterprises. The government has no right to interfere and has great autonomy.
Roque himself is the boss of the largest arsenal in southern Africa, so whether to transform or not depends on Roque's words. As long as Roque makes a decision, others will follow suit. Even if profits are affected in the short term, they can survive in the long run.
If this continues, this is the greatest victory during the economic crisis.
American capitalists are synonymous with greed. Even if Roosevelt becomes president, the situation will not change much.
When there are many orders, capitalists will not reduce production, but will only try their best to increase factories, recruit workers, and make money first.
For capitalists, having money means everything. If there are no orders, the company will close down at most, and the factory land and machines can make another profit. As for the lives of unemployed workers, it has nothing to do with them.
Under such circumstances, even Roosevelt's guidance would be of little use. The capitalists would even influence the U.S. government's decision-making in order to ensure profits.
"From now on, we must be prepared to live a hard life. We must have real competition with our competitors." Roque thought more deeply.
During the World War, the countries participating in the war had no room to choose. The enemies were all coming. It didn’t matter what the weapon was, as long as it could be used, the quality didn’t matter at all. Tweezers
In the situation in Russia, when the battle is at its fiercest, the survival time of soldiers on the battlefield is measured in hours.
So it really doesn't matter whether the quality is good or not. For the same barrel, there is no big difference between the lifespan of 10,000 rounds and the life of 1,000 rounds. It can even be used with 100 rounds.
Six years of world war have depleted the national strength of the countries participating in the war. Even countries like France and Italy are considering no longer retaining troops and placing more of their national security on the protection of their allies. Needless to say, small countries, they originally
Can't afford it either.
Of course, Rock won't get carried away.
France and Italy have no choice but to disarm. Given time, they will definitely regain their national defense and will not continue to rely on southern Africa.
That’s when the real competition begins.
"Our quality is the best." Morris has not experienced Rock's era and does not know what is truly good.
The word "good quality and low price" includes two parts. It must be good quality and cheap at the same time. One of them is indispensable.
To be honest, cheap price is even more important than quality.
For the same product, if you buy 100-point quality at a 100-point price, only people who are not short of money will choose it.
Most people's choice is to buy 80-point quality at a price of 50 points.
Roque wants both good quality and low price.
"The target customers must be precise. For customers like Russia, quality is not important, price is the most important. For customers like the United Kingdom, of course we must provide the best products in the world." Roque segmented the customers.
Transformation, in a word, is just looking at what others are doing.
Morris was greatly shocked. The Rock in his impression was not like this.
Roque's image in southern Africa has always been very positive, tough externally and friendly internally, which is undisputed.
Even in business, the image of the Locke family is very positive, especially in terms of welfare benefits, which are much better than those of the federal government.
Strictly speaking, the job of federal government employee is not very attractive to southern Africans.
It’s not that the welfare benefits of the federal government are not good, but that there are too many restrictions and constraints. For example, during the World War, the overtime work of federal government departments remained high in southern Africa. Although overtime work was paid overtime, for most of the southern
For Africans, the overtime pay is really dispensable.
If given a choice, the vast majority of federal government employees would choose not to work overtime at all.
The Nyasaland company under Rock's name also works overtime, but overtime is voluntary.
The federal government's overtime is mandatory and there is no choice.
"We'd better have reservations about Russia." Morris is very wary of Russia. Although the bearded man is always peace-loving, Russia is actually a country full of expansionism.
Russia developed from the Principality of Moscow, with an initial area of only 1,300 square kilometers. After the crazy expansion of successive tsars, the current Russia was born.
In the imperial era, Russia never stopped expanding. Even if its land area reached 20 million square kilometers, it was still not satisfied. This eventually aroused collective dissatisfaction among European countries. Therefore, in the 9th Russo-Turkish War, the Ottoman Empire joined forces with Britain and France to violently conquer Russia.
Beat him up.
Until the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Russia was still restless.
So Britain teamed up with Japan to beat Russia up again in the Far East, and only then did Russia become more honest.
Frankly speaking, it was not because he had changed his gender, but because he had completely lost face during the Russo-Japanese War and could not hold his head high in front of the great powers. His own problems became more and more serious, so he had to stop.
After the fall of the Russian Empire, Russia finally found peace for twenty years.
This is not because the moral level has been greatly improved, but because Russia has been excluded from the League of Nations and cannot integrate into mainstream society, so it can only be forced to stay in the cold Arctic Circle.
The League of Nations has trapped Russia for twenty years, but now it can no longer contain it. After World War II, Russia's international status has rapidly improved, and is about to surpass Britain and France, and equal southern Africa and the United States.
If we continue to trade with Russia at this time, to put it mildly, we will be tying up the enemy.
"We can't stop trade with Russia. That will only force Russia to develop itself. We have to meet Russia's needs, so as to produce a greenhouse effect." Roque wants to boil the frog in warm water. It doesn't matter if the Russians don't have money. Why not use resources in exchange?
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Russia owes Southern Africa a lot of money.
If trade is suspended now, what will happen if the Russians default on their debts?
Southern Africa cannot imitate Britain in launching a war because of its debt problem.
As for Russia’s technical level——
In his previous life, Rock remembered that Russia's technical level was ridiculed by many people, and being stupid, big, black and thick was synonymous with Russian products.
This is definitely prejudice and even slander.
Russia's technical level is very good, and can even be described as miraculous.
In another time and space, the United States snatched away von Braun and Germany's information on the V-series rockets. The United States also had powerful men like Robert Goddard, but the first human being to enter space was a Russian.
Although the Americans later claimed to have completed a manned moon landing, many people aroused doubts as to whether they really raced on the moon as advertised by the Americans.
Even if you arrive first, you are still running too fast, so fast that it is completely illogical.
"What about the United States?" Morris committed the old habit again. When he was with Rock, he seemed to have lost his brain.
"For American companies, just flood them with cheap, high-quality goods. After we get the market, it's not up to us to decide what to do." Roque treated others as he treated them.
This is how the United States in another time and space got the first place in Blue Star.
Rock now wants to take the road of the United States, leaving the United States with no way to go.
