It might be an opportunity!
It seemed like a light sentence, but it sounded different in George's ears. Before he could react, Li Guoren said again.
"Look, there are those people..."
He pointed at some guys in suits and ties not far away with his knife and fork, who obviously did not look like government officials, and said.
"They are from Morgan, Rockefeller, General Motors, and Ford. Anyway, they are all big American consortiums and big companies. Unlike those officials who used verbal battles to disintegrate the British colonial empire, they took over the post-war world silently without guns or bloodshed, only money and materials. Everything is cheap. All important mines, factories and financial groups will be absorbed by big American companies. The British have no way at all. Look, those people who eat steak are the same as us..."
Li Guoren said in a mocking tone while cutting the steak with a knife and fork.
"When Shirley's husband dropped bombs on Germany and Beth's lover ate sand in North Africa, these polite American rich people were drawing the post-war world map in their own way. This map was different from Roosevelt's political map and the military map of generals. It had special mountains, rivers, towns and troop deployments. They were also fighting a world war, but this map definitely did not belong to Shirley's husband, Beth's lover, or thousands of ordinary people, but to those American tycoons, but..." Putting down the knife and fork in his hand, Li Guoren seemed to have no interest in the American beef on the plate, and said in a serious tone. "As long as you can seize the opportunity, you have the opportunity to participate in it!" Wow! Facing his words, George suddenly had an idea in his heart-good guy, this person is not simple! It is indeed not simple. How many people can use a few simple words in 43 years to expose the United States' plan for the post-war world. You know, it's 43 now, not 53.
"Participate in it? How to participate?"
Li Guoren smiled.
"Some people eat meat, some people drink soup, just seize the opportunity, this opportunity, of course, is to cling to the thighs of the Americans. After the British withdraw from various places, the Americans, especially those large American companies, will definitely intervene in various places. Seize the opportunity now to build a good relationship with them, and in the future, Zhiyuan will not worry about not making money?"
Yes!
The first half of the words are still human words, and the second half is directly kneeling. The contrast between the two is so great that George can't even react, but Li Guoren's next words "to make money, you have to earn the knife of the Americans" made him agree deeply.
"Cheng Jie is a great talent. I admire him."
"It's just a little bit of my opinion. What I said is just repeating what others have said. Ambassador Gu often said in the embassy that this war is a golden opportunity for our country. In order not to repeat the mistakes of the last European war, the Americans will inevitably disintegrate the British and French colonial empires to seek their own interests. After the war, Japan was defeated by the Allies in Asia, and Britain and France were also driven by the Americans. They will definitely support our country as the balance of Asia. This is true for the country, let alone an individual? After eating meat, Americans only need to drink some soup to rise to prosper. Zhiyuan just needs to hold on to the thighs of Americans. When Britain and France withdraw from Southeast Asia in the future, you can seize the opportunity and worry about your family business not prospering?"
The words are rough but the truth is true. It doesn't matter whether you hold on to the thighs of Americans or not. The most important thing is that the decline of the British and French colonial empires is inevitable. After the war, with the joint efforts of the United States and the Soviet Union, it only took a few years for such a large colonial empire to collapse. At that time, what will be presented to the world?
It's a piece of fat meat!
All kinds of resources, huge market, everything is truly open to the world, of course, to American capital, but as long as you seize the opportunity, others can drink soup to death.
Have you seen that post-war Japan and South Korea made a lot of money by following the United States, and those consortiums that are very prominent in the new century all rose in this process.
In the following time, George talked a lot with this cousin who worked in the embassy. When talking, his eyes would always wander around those Americans in suits and leather shoes. Among them were officials and consortium managers. They would pick up their glasses from time to time and drink Scottish whole malt whiskey that ordinary people rarely see, and even French red wine. The knives and forks in their hands were not cutting steaks, but the flesh and blood of the British Empire. They were talking and laughing and dividing the post-war world.
"They are the real winners!"
At this moment, George finally understood why the United States was the real victor, because their benefits from the war were unimaginable. They not only turned European countries into their loyal dogs, but more importantly, those American financial groups were quietly taking over the world.
In fact, the so-called multinational companies achieved their future glory in this war. They used the war funds earned in the war to support the exiled government, transfuse blood to foreign companies on the verge of bankruptcy, and buy the stocks of those companies at outrageously low prices. When people all over the world were bleeding and sacrificing for the "just cause of all mankind", when tens of millions of allied troops from Asia to Africa, from Africa to Europe, from the Pacific to the Atlantic were bleeding and sacrificing for the just cause, these seemingly polite people in suits and leather shoes had quietly reached negotiations with the exiled government. They bought the most promising mines, oil fields and factories.
Not only that, they were drawing their maps when people all over the world were in dire straits. Under their instigation, American officials waved their sticks to force Britain and France to abandon their colonial empires, and those seemingly harmless American conglomerates, like dormant beasts, waited for the opportunity to come, and then quietly took over the world before the world reacted.
In between the cups, in George's eyes, those Americans in suits and leather shoes turned into dormant beasts. They will continue to dormant and wait silently, and in this process, anyone who can see through the secrets and seize the opportunity will gain a lot.
And this...isn't it his own opportunity?
Shaking the wine glass in his hand and looking at the red wine from France in the glass, George smiled.
Yes, this is his own opportunity!