Cooperation is good, but George has no interest in Italian banks.
Even if there is no North Borneo, he has no interest in Italy. How can investing in Italy compare to investing in Germany?
Germany is the real ruins, with gold everywhere!
Italy...
In fact, this is a problem of funds. If he has billions or even tens of billions of dollars of capital like Morgan, he will certainly flourish everywhere.
But now, good steel must be used on the blade.
Soon, a feast of sharing began. Thanks to Mussolini's state-owned investment policy in the past 20 years, the Italian government has a large number of official assets. Although a considerable part of them are in the north, there are still many high-quality assets in the south, such as the Port of Taranto, the most important port in southern Italy, which was auctioned off by an American company for only 3 million US dollars.
As for those assets in the north that are still under the control of the German army, they can of course be auctioned, but the price is a bit unsatisfactory.
Of course, there are also many things that cannot be sold, such as merchant ships.
As in history, at the official Italian auction, the merchant ships failed to be sold, and as many as 285,000 tons of merchant ships became junk that no one wanted.
This result blinded the Italians. After all, they thought these ships would be hard to get, after all, German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean were still sinking merchant ships.
In theory, they should be very popular, after all, the shipping industry is very prosperous now.
The Italians even marked a high price - 15.8 million US dollars!
It failed to be sold, and no one was interested in these ships.
It was at this time that a businessman walked into the office of Major General Baritian.
"Are you the agent of the Spanish company?"
Major Baritian looked at the visitor in surprise, with a puzzled look.
Spaniards?
Yellow people?
Could it be Indians?
"General, it's not important. I brought you a solution to the problem."
"What's the problem?"
"Your personal problem."
George said directly.
"What?"
Major General Baritian frowned and asked in confusion.
"What personal problem?"
"General, as we all know, the Allies will definitely punish war criminals in the future. I believe you have also received news about this. What will happen in the future? I believe you are also very clear, so..."
While speaking, George put the briefcase in his hand on the table.
"I think in the future, General, you need something that can be circulated abroad. Here is half a million dollars!"
Five hundred thousand dollars!
Major General Baritian's eyes widened. He stared at the briefcase, and then glanced at the guy in front of him.
War criminals.
He did receive the news in this regard. Even the marshal is likely to be included in the list?
Who can protect them?
Major General Baritian was full of worries about the future, but the briefcase in front of him now made him a little excited.
He stretched out his hand to open the briefcase, which was full of US dollars!
The impact of a bag of US dollars was unimaginable. Taking a deep breath, Major General Baritian asked.
"What is this?"
"This money is my consulting fee for you,"
"What do you want, sir?"
"Merchant ships!"
"Merchant ships."
Looking at the briefcase, Major General Baritian said,
"Anyone can auction those merchant ships, sir."
"No one will buy that pile of scrap metal, General, you already know the answer, don't you?"
George's smile made Major General Baritian feel complicated. Originally, those ships were the most valuable materials in the hands of the government, but now?
They are just worthless scrap metal.
"They just haven't realized their value yet."
"Value? What kind of value?"
George said bluntly.
"Compared to old ships, the British and American authorities are more willing to buy new ships because new ships have faster speeds and uniform speeds. What about other shipping companies? They are waiting to buy the Liberty ships in the hands of the British, American and Canadian authorities after the war. Those are all 10,000-ton ships, which have just been built in recent years. When the war is over, a $1.8 million Liberty ship will only cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even tens of thousands of dollars. General, tell me why they are spending a high price to buy your ship."
Originally, George thought that it was only the interference of the Allies that prevented the Italian officials from selling their assets, but who would have thought that people were considering a realistic problem - the American Liberty ships were built too fast and too many!
Compared to these old ships in Italy, they are more willing to wait until the war is over to buy Liberty ships.
"This..."
Major General Baritian opened his mouth, but in the end he couldn't say a word.
Before the auction, they thought that the merchant ships could be sold at a good price, but now, through communication with those American businessmen, their fantasy was shattered.
If you want to blame someone, blame the Americans for building too many Liberty Ships.
"This may be true..."
"I think with your help, I can buy them at a suitable price!"
As he spoke, George looked at the general in charge of the sale of materials with a sincere smile on his face.
The eyes wandered between the briefcase and George from time to time, and finally Major General Baritian said.
"This bag seems to be French, and it looks no worse than an Italian leather bag."
Of course, what he saw in his eyes was not the bag, but the things in the bag, which was the most important.
"General, you can take it back and enjoy it slowly."
Seeing that the goal had been achieved, George smiled and stood up.
The rules of operation of this world are so simple. When a country is in collapse, almost everyone will try every means to make money from it.
Who does this feast belong to?
It may belong to a certain noble official or a certain general, but it has absolutely nothing to do with ordinary people. For ordinary people, what they endure is only the pain of losing their loved ones and a poor life in the future.
But the noble officials once again ate a lot of money. In this way, many materials were bought by the noble officials and speculators at extremely low prices.
For example, Samsung bought the rice in the Japanese warehouse and completed the accumulation of the first pot of gold.
And now?
In Italy, George just participated in the party and got a little bit of return from it.
Just a few days later, a news spread among those predators-someone spent 2 million US dollars to buy an Italian merchant ship.
Almost everyone had a question in their hearts-where did this fool come from?