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Chapter 159 Surprised Business Card

"Ugh!"

In the room, Budge said goodbye to Peyton and Charles Koch, with a slight sigh in his heart.

"What a cunning fellow."

Just now he kept inquiring about Governor Brown's natural gas promotion plan, but Chris kept talking about him, kept evading this topic, and kept it secret...

Throwing a bait, but not giving the rod, and not saying a word as soon as he opened his mouth, is just worrying.

"This is forcing me to meet the new governor!"

Baji shook his head. To be honest, he hadn't made any plans yet.

How should one express oneself in a changed state of California?

How to maintain and fight for your own interests?

This still requires their further exploration!

At his stage, they are no longer just simple speculators, they are even qualified not to make a clear choice, not to cater to a certain governor...

They should be the ones to be won over, not the little fish who take the initiative to speculate.

In Baji's view, what they need to do is not to fight for the short-term, but to fight for the long-term.

The future of California has never been with a single governor, but with the two parties that dominate the Union.

A traditional religious family in California and the president of Standard Oil in California, these two identities alone can show his political views, the Republican Party!
Needless to say the former, the religious inclinations on the traditional base of the Republican Party are bound to favor them.

As for the latter, Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil, is the Republican Party, so the position of Standard Oil of California goes without saying.

According to research, in 1896, Democratic presidential candidate William Bryan delivered the most famous political speech in federal history, and Bryan's speech won the support of countless voters.

Sensing the tension, top Republican committee members unleashed a campaign of propaganda and buying unprecedented in the history of federal elections.They got 700 million dollars on Wall Street, of which Rockefeller and Morgan donated 25 yuan each, and the butcher in Chicago donated 40 yuan...

During the election period, the Republican Party printed and distributed 2.5 million pamphlets, and 500 million families across the federation received an average of one piece of material advocating McKinley every week...

The final result is obvious, the effect of gold yuan is huge.

Sometimes, a shopping coupon is enough to make many people lean towards the balance in their hearts.

At the end of the election, Bryan lost to the Republican candidate McKinley by 50 votes.

And McKinley's coming to power also allowed Rockefeller to enjoy a generous political return.

During McKinley's tenure as president, the federal monopoly capital was formed and began to expand aggressively.

President McKinley, who has received funds from big capital, should be the spokesperson of capital, and at the same time, this is also in line with his political views.

He believes that economically, if the Federation wants to play the competitiveness of Federal companies in the world market, only Federal companies will become large companies, so he basically promoted the formation of monopoly capital.

Standard Oil thus reached the pinnacle of the trust's monopoly.

Of course, as far as big capitalists are concerned, it is too shallow to measure them with pure party affiliation.

Only profit can drive them.

Once the interests are in place, it is entirely possible for the Republican Party today and the Democratic Party tomorrow.

Moreover, Standard Oil's interests are not entirely aligned with the interests of the Republican Party, and there has been a rift between them for decades.

After the assassination of President McKinley who was promoted by them, Theodore Roosevelt, a shrewd and upright young vice president, came to power and decisively introduced the anti-monopoly law.

The most representative anti-monopoly case during his tenure was that he first took the Federal Standard Oil Company established by the famous federal oil magnate and the world's first billionaire John D. Rockefeller.

In Roosevelt's view, monopoly not only makes it impossible for small and medium-sized enterprises in the same industry to compete fairly, or even fail to survive, but also prevents the vast number of workers engaged in oil-related production and services in the United States from receiving due protection of labor rights.

At that time, the workers of the Federal Standard Oil Company had almost no market share of other peer companies in the industry, so the labor value of the workers of the Standard Oil Company was severely squeezed, and in order to keep their jobs, the bottom workers had to work overtime continuously.

Therefore, in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt, who had just taken office, launched an investigation of Standard Oil and the oil industry.

After years of investigations, in November 1906, the Roosevelt administration sued Standard Oil in the St. Louis Federal Circuit, accusing the company of antitrust violations.

Antitrust means that on July 1890, 7, the Federal Congress passed the "Protection of Trade and Commerce from Unlawful Restriction and Monopoly Act", referred to as "Sherman Antitrust Act".

Although this bill was announced in the federal government for more than 20 years, it was the first time that the federal court used this bill to punish a company for violating the antitrust law. According to this judgment, the federal court sentenced Standard Oil to The company was dissolved, and the Standard Oil empire was split into some 37 regional oil companies at once.

The huge oil empire had to be hidden underground.

At that time, John D. Rockefeller even said angrily: "The Republican Party is not trying to get a penny from me!"

However, this is just a remark. His years of business in the Republican Party cannot be completely divided just because a president who does not suit his interests has taken office.

The president is only a few years away, and he has time to choose the next president whose political leanings match Standard Oil.

At the same time, his family is also actively cultivating political representatives. For example, the third generation of the Rockefeller family, his grandson David Rockefeller, is now the governor of New York State. The "prodigy of American politics" is the Republican candidate in the party and Nixon's strong competitor in the next presidential election!
"Back then, Olsen left in despair after serving as governor for one term. Will it be different now?"

"It's really different. Now the influence of the Democratic Party in California is far greater than before, and the next election will also be beneficial to the Democratic Party..."

Baji thought to himself.

Neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party can ignore California, the largest vote base in the entire federation.

After Olsen failed that year, the Democratic Party increased its investment in California, and more party members grew up here. Although they could not stand up to each other, they could still make their voices heard.

Not to mention, last year's re-election, because of the sudden attack on the welfare plan, they completely gained the upper hand in the re-election. Once they gained power, even the mayors of San Francisco and Los Angeles... became Democrats.

In the next few years, the life of the Republican Party will definitely be difficult.

"By the way, I remember that the emerging welfare plan was promoted by Governor Chris of Alabama, and the consuls of California and even the federal government owe John Chris a favor. In this way, this little Chris is really powerful... ..."

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Outside the manor.

Charles Koch smiled and handed over a business card: "Mr. Chris, I have some suggestions for cooperation regarding Libya's oil. I wonder if you have time."

Peyton took the business card in surprise, asked the assistant on the side about his itinerary, and said, "How about this Wednesday at eight o'clock in the morning?"

"Of course, I am honored!"

(End of this chapter)