Said did not hesitate to spend money. At most, he did not feel sorry for selling his father's land. The former Ottoman Empire no longer exists. If it cannot be successfully restored, then Said's promise will be in vain.
Roque will definitely not be fooled by Said's few words. Helping Said will not be of any benefit to Roque. The Black Sea outlet is currently under the actual control of the "Straits Management Committee", which has no impact on southern Africa.
The Balkan Peninsula is not Southern Africa's core interest, the Near East is.
To be more specific, oil from the Near East is.
Rock doesn't care who controls the Black Sea's outlet.
After seeing off Said, Tom Dupont and Shinichi Ono were waiting in line to be received by Rock.
The DuPont family received definite information that Nyasaland Military Industry was conducting research on synthetic rubber, nylon, and plastics. These research projects highly overlapped with the business scope of DuPont Chemical Industry.
Pierre Dupont, the head of the DuPont family, believes that after acquiring a large number of German scientists, Nyasaland Military Industry may be far more powerful than DuPont Chemical Industry in the chemical industry, so Pierre Dupont will let Tom
DuPont came to Nyasaland to seek in-depth cooperation with Nyasaland’s military industry.
Germany's strength in the chemical industry was fully demonstrated during the World War. Without the efforts of German scientists, Germany, which was in a state of blockade, would not have been able to persist for four years.
After the outbreak of the World War, Germany was unable to obtain natural rubber because its coastline was blocked, so the Germans used dimethylbutadiene to polymerize methyl rubber. This kind of rubber can be produced in large quantities and is cheap.
During the World War, Germany produced approximately 2,500 tons of methyl rubber. Although the pressure resistance of this rubber was not ideal and there was a big gap between it and natural rubber, it was the first synthetic rubber with practical value.
Unlike Germany, Nyasaland may be the country with the most convenient access to natural rubber in the world. There are large rubber plantations in Victoria and Dias states, and East India is a world-famous rubber producing area. However, in many applications,
Synthetic rubber has many advantages that natural rubber does not have and performs better than natural rubber. Therefore, Nyasaland Military Industry spares no effort to conduct research on synthetic rubber.
For example, the chloroprene rubber being studied by Nyasaland Military Industry has some anti-corrosion properties that natural rubber does not have. Chloroprene rubber has high corrosion resistance to organic solvents such as gasoline, and is not as easy to use as natural rubber.
Soften and swell.
Therefore, for applications such as oil-conducting hoses, chloroprene is more suitable than natural rubber.
Whether in terms of economic strength or technological strength, there is a huge gap between the DuPont family and Nyasaland military industry, so the DuPont family actively seeks cooperation with Nyasaland military industry.
"If I agree to cooperate with the DuPont family, Tom, what can I get?" Rock and Tom Dupont are welcome. Britain and the United States have a special relationship, and Rock has no worries about cooperating with Americans.
"Lord, if you choose to cooperate with the DuPont family, you will always gain the friendship of the DuPont family." Tom Dupont did not hesitate.
Rock suddenly lost interest.
friendship!
Who are you fooling?
How can there be friendship between capitalists? The friendship between Rock and Stoudemire needs to be consolidated by interests. If there is a conflict of interest between Rhodesia and Nyasaland, then let’s see if the friendship between Rock and Stoudemire will still be unbreakable.
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That’s why Roque drew a clear line with Stoudemire early on. The South African company will not be involved in the military industry, and Nyasaland will not be involved in food. Although this cannot completely eliminate the contradiction, it will at least ensure that there will be no conflict of interest between Roque and Stoudemire to the greatest extent.
Of course, after Rock and Stoudemire adopted cross-holdings, the risk of conflicts has been further reduced, and the relationship between Rock and Stoudemire has become closer. If Stoudemire and Stoudemire can further marry, by then Rock and Stoudemire will
The relationship between Sri Lanka will go further.
But it won't be unbreakable either.
"We can jointly invest in chemical plants. The factory in Nyasaland belongs to you, and the factory in the United States belongs to DuPont -" Tom Dupont continued to increase his investment, but Rock was still not very interested.
Rock is not short of money. Trying to use money to persuade Rock to make concessions is futile. It doesn’t cost much to invest in a chemical plant. Moreover, there are traps in Tom DuPont’s proposal. If Rock agrees to this plan, then Tom DuPont will do it next.
There should be a requirement to divide the market.
Although the market within the Commonwealth is already large enough, Rock is still unwilling to give up the US market.
Market protection is actually useless to capitalists like Rock. There are many companies in the United States that are actually invested by Rock. There are also many companies in the UK that come from American capital.
Of course, most of these multinational companies are in the civilian field, and there are protection systems for special industries. For example, it is difficult for Adam Company's oil to be sold to the United States, and American Ford cars cannot enter the Commonwealth.
Ford cried in the toilet. If Ford cars could sell for 10,000 pounds, Ford would not produce a $300 Model T car.
"——If we can cooperate, then we can share the patents obtained by both parties." Tom Ford finally said what Rock was interested in. The DuPont family was not useless after all.
"Plastic, phenolic plastic, I need the authorization of phenolic plastic." Rock was ruthless. Phenolic plastic is the first completely synthetic plastic. On July 14, 1907, the Belgian-American Leo Hendrick Baekeland
Obtained a patent for phenolic plastic.
Speaking of phenolic plastics, there is another episode. At the same time that Baekeland submitted the patent for phenolic plastics, Sir James Swinburne of the United Kingdom also submitted an invention patent for phenolic plastics to the British Patent Office, only one day later than Baekeland.
Scientific research is so cruel. No matter how much time and money Sir Swinburne spent on phenolic plastics, he would lose everything one day late and all the initial investment would be in vain.
It cannot be said that everything is in vain. There are also many fake phenolic plastics on the market, forcing Baikeland to register its brand and compete with cheaper fake phenolic plastics.
Phenolic plastic is an excellent thermosetting plastic and is widely used in electrical insulation materials, furniture parts, daily necessities, crafts and other fields.
Enterprises in Nyasaland have a huge demand for plastics, and it is showing an increasing trend. With Rock's current status, it is impossible for him to lose face and invest in factories to produce unauthorized phenolic plastics. Although these plastics
The performance is almost the same.
Baekeland's patent did not lose protection until 1926.
"Sir, the patent rights for phenolic plastics belong to Beckett Company, not to DuPont——" Tom Dupont was embarrassed, Rock was a real person who was ruthless and didn't talk much.
Roque smiled. Roque also knew a lot about the DuPont family's secrets. Patent rights were not a problem at all for the DuPont family.
It is said that during the era of Eugene DuPont, there was an old employee of DuPont, Waddell, who once served as the head of the sales department.
Later, after Eugene's death, Waddell set up his own business and founded the "Bacay Gunpowder Company" and began to compete with DuPont.
At this time, Pierre Dupont, the father of Tom Dupont, sent people to negotiate with Waddell and planned to buy Waddell's company.
Waddell rejected DuPont's acquisition, and Bakay Gunpowder Company's business increased, breaking the DuPont family's monopoly on the gunpowder industry.
But not long after, the Bakay Gunpowder Company suddenly exploded and the company went bankrupt.
If Waddell is an outsider, then the Dupont family treats its own people equally ruthlessly.
After Pierre Dupont became the head of the DuPont family, Payton, the son-in-law of former president Eugene, ran a medium-sized black powder factory called "Payton" in California.
Eugene is Pierre's cousin, and Payton is Eugene's son-in-law. In this way, Pierre and Payton are also relatives. However, Pierre did not even let his cousin go, and forcefully purchased Payton's company.
The acquisition case went to court for a time, but Payton finally gave in and the company was acquired by the DuPont family.
In the field of plastics, Becklite may be very powerful, but compared with the powerful DuPont family, Becklite is not worth mentioning.
Rock believed that as long as the DuPont family wanted it, they would be able to obtain the patent for phenolic plastics. As for the method the DuPont family used to obtain the patent, that was beyond Rock's control.
"Tom, I only want the production and sales rights of phenolic plastics in the Commonwealth." Roque is not buying and selling by force. After obtaining the production and sales rights, Roque will pay the corresponding fees, not to get a king's meal.
Companies in Nyasaland have also approached Becklite before, hoping to obtain authorization from Becklite.
But Baekeland was a very stubborn person. He only agreed to sell phenolic plastics to Nyasaland and did not agree to grant the patent of phenolic plastics to Nyasaland companies.
This made Rock very angry.
Nowadays, Rock is accustomed to controlling all aspects of production and sales in his own hands, and will not let any link be controlled by others. Phenolic plastics have a wide range of applications. Rock does not care about the patent fees, but Rock suspects that the Americans
credit.
Americans have always been ungrateful and capricious. If the companies in Nyasaland do not have the authorization for phenolic plastics, what if Baekeland wants to raise prices one day, or threatens the companies in Nyasaland with phenolic plastics?
What should companies in Nyasaland do?
Don't think that Americans can't do this kind of thing. If it were Rock, he would do it if necessary.
The most recent example is that Rock forced the Admiralty to give up its request for the Chagos Islands by interrupting technical support for British carrier-based aircraft. If British local companies master the relevant requirements for carrier-based aircraft, then Rock will also lose the opportunity to force the Admiralty to give up.