Might just be an opportunity!
This seemingly light remark tasted different in Li Yi’an’s ears.
Before he could react, Li Guoren continued.
“Look, there are also those people…”
He tapped his knife and fork toward some guys in suits and leather shoes not far away, who clearly did not look like government officials, and said, “They are from Morgan, Rockefeller, General Motors, and Ford.
Anyway, they are all major American financial syndicates and large corporations.
Unlike those officials who cross swords to dismantle the British colonial empire, they silently take over the post-war world without a word.
They don’t use guns or cannons, and no blood needs to be shed.
They only use money and materials.
Everything is very cheap.
Any important mines, factories, and financial groups will be swallowed up by big American companies, and the British have absolutely no way to stop it.
Look, those people eating steaks, just like us…”
Slicing his steak with his knife and fork, Li Guoren spoke with a tone of mockery.
“While Shirley’s husband drops bombs over Germany and Beth’s lover eats sand in North Africa, these polite, wealthy Americans are drawing the post-war world map in their own way.
This map is different from Roosevelt’s political map, and it’s different from the generals’ military maps.
It has special mountains, rivers, towns, and troop deployments.
They are also fighting a world war, but this map absolutely does not belong to Shirley’s husband, Beth’s lover, or millions of ordinary people.
It belongs to those American tycoons.
However…”
Setting down his knife and fork, seeming to have lost interest in the American beef on his plate, Li Guoren spoke in a solemn tone.
“As long as you can seize the opportunity, then you have the chance to be a part of it!”
Whoa!
Facing these words, a thought suddenly popped into Li Yi’an’s mind: Good heavens, this guy is no simple character!
He was indeed not simple.
How many people in 1943 could use just a few words to pierce through the United States’ plans for the post-war world?
You have to realize, it was 1943 right now, not 1953.
“Be a part of it?
Li Guoren smiled slightly.
“Some eat meat, some drink soup.
You just need to seize the chance.
This opportunity, of course, is to hug the Americans’ thighs tightly.
In the future, when the British withdraw from various places, the Americans, especially those big American corporations, will definitely intervene everywhere.
If you seize the opportunity now to build good relationships with them, how could Zhiyuan possibly worry about not making money in the future?”
Well!
The first half of his speech sounded decent, but the second half just groveled entirely.
The massive contrast made Li Yi’an almost unable to process it.
However, Li Guoren’s next words, “To make money, you have to earn American dollars,” made him agree deeply.
“Chengjie possesses great talent.
I am truly full of admiration.”
“It’s just a shallow opinion.
The words I’ve spoken are merely picking up what others have said.
Ambassador Gu often says in the embassy that this great war is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our country.
To avoid repeating the mistakes of the last European war, the Americans are bound to dismantle the British and French colonial empires to seek their own benefits.
After the war in Asia, when Japan is defeated by the Allies, and Britain and France are driven out by the Americans, the US will surely support our country to maintain balance in Asia.
If it is so for the nation, how much more so for an individual?
While the Americans eat the meat, just drinking some of the soup is enough for one to achieve a meteoric rise.
Zhiyuan, just cling to the Americans’ thighs.
When Britain and France withdraw from Nanyang in the future, if you seize the chance, why worry that your family business won’t prosper?”
The words were rough, but the logic was sound.
Whether or not to cling to the Americans wasn’t the crucial part; the most important thing was that the decline of the British and French colonial empires was inevitable.
After the war, under the combined efforts of the US and the Soviet Union, it took merely a few years for the massive colonial empires to disintegrate.
When that time came, what would be presented to the world?
Pieces of fat meat!
Various resources, enormous markets, everything would truly open its doors to the world.
Of course, the doors would open to American capital, but as long as one seized the opportunity, others could gorge themselves just by drinking the soup.
Look at post-war Japan and South Korea; didn’t they make a fortune just by trailing behind the US and drinking the soup?
In the following time, Li Yi’an chatted a lot with this relative working in the embassy.
While talking, his eyes kept wandering over those Americans in suits and leather shoes.
Among them were officials and corporate managers.
From time to time, they would raise their glasses, drinking single malt Scotch whiskey that ordinary people rarely saw, and even French red wine.
The knives and forks in their hands were not cutting steak, but the flesh and blood of the British Empire.
They were chatting and laughing, carving up the post-war world.
“They are the true big winners!”
At this moment, Li Yi’an finally understood why it was said that the United States was the true victor of the war.
Their benefits from the war were unimaginable.
It wasn’t just about turning European countries into their loyal dogs; more importantly, those American financial groups were silently taking over the world.
In fact, it was precisely during this war that the so-called multinational corporations forged their future glory.
They used the war wealth they earned to fund governments-in-exile, inject capital into foreign companies on the brink of bankruptcy, and buy the stocks of those companies at outrageously low prices.
While people all over the world were bleeding and sacrificing for the “righteous cause of all mankind,” while tens of millions of Allied soldiers from Asia to Africa, from Africa to Europe, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, were bleeding and sacrificing for a just cause, these polite people in suits had already quietly reached negotiation deals with the people of the exiled governments.
They bought the most promising mines, oil fields, and factories.
Not only that, but while people all over the world were in deep suffering, they were drawing their maps.
Under their instigation, American officials wielded their big sticks to force Britain and France to abandon their colonial empires.
Meanwhile, those seemingly harmless massive American corporations waited like dormant beasts for the right moment, and then quietly took over the world before people could even react.
Amidst the clinking of glasses, in Li Yi’an’s eyes, those Americans in suits transformed into dormant giant beasts.
They would continue to lie in wait, silently biding their time.
And in this process, anyone who could see through the secrets of heaven and seize the opportunity would reap massive rewards.
And this…
wasn’t this his exact opportunity?
Swirling the wine glass in his hand and looking at the French red wine inside, Li Yi’an smiled.
Yes, this was exactly his opportunity!
(End Of Chapter)
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