America: My Time

Chapter 856 Integration and Development
Chapter 826 Integration and Development
With money in hand, John accelerated his plans. After all, it would be a disservice to himself not to spend the funds he had plundered from Japan as soon as possible, not to mention the gains from East Germany and oil futures. It can be said that John now controls a huge cash flow, so much so that everyone is envious. The reason why those guys on Wall Street are keeping a close eye on John is because they are worried about the huge amount of money he has. Such a huge amount of money is enough to cause a huge impact on them.

Of course, many were worried that John would choose this time to increase his presence in the financial market, or even directly acquire Wall Street giants to become a Wall Street behemoth himself. Unfortunately, they were overthinking it. John had no such ideas, nor did he intend to make a crazy expansion on Wall Street. After all, these were all superficial; real industry was the foundation of everything. Unfortunately, American industry was declining rapidly, and this was all Ligan's fault. If he hadn't completely opened everything up, American manufacturing wouldn't be in this state, especially shipbuilding, which had completely collapsed, leaving only military orders.

This is why John chose to invest in South Korea and Taiwan, focusing on shipbuilding. The US was simply not an option; the costs were too high. Currently, Asia has the lowest costs, and Quantum Mining also controls steel mills, allowing them to maximize cost reduction and development. Those on Wall Street who are wary of John are simply overthinking it. John has no interest in competing with them in the financial markets, at least not now.

John knew very well what was left of the United States. While these guys were frantically focusing on the financial industry, John chose to plan ahead and take control of industries with greater future prospects, rather than fighting a major battle with these guys in the financial market. After all, as long as he didn't compete with these guys in the financial market, he wouldn't provoke their fierce counterattack, and he would have enough time to complete his own strategic plan.

The Mandarin Oriental Group is now accelerating its expansion and layout in the medical field, as well as in retail. Behind all of this are huge plans and massive investments. Health insurance is a very profitable business, and John will naturally not give it up. He didn't have much capital to invest before, but now that he does, he naturally wants to speed up the layout. Moreover, these funds can be completely controlled through offshore companies, transferring assets little by little, moving his assets to the shadows, making them less conspicuous.

When the Japanese real estate market completely collapses, John's assets will become too dazzling, so he is rushing to complete his asset transfer. As for those old guys, they all know this, and even the slightly smarter ones understand it, but John's plan is too good, step by step, leaving them no chance to stop him.

John knew perfectly well which industries would be the most valuable and profitable in the future, so how could he not make plans in advance? Although finance would continue indefinitely, John did not want to have a life-or-death struggle with those old guys yet, and dared not cross their bottom line. After all, as time went on, everything would develop in his favor.

John needs to accelerate his strategic planning in the profitable industries of the future and acquire more assets. This is the best of times; as long as the planning is done properly, he can acquire vast assets, complete his plans, and make himself invincible.

However, this plan did not go smoothly and encountered resistance from those old guys. The acquisition of President Lines by the United States made John wary and made him feel that it was time to teach these old guys a lesson, to let them know how much they would pay for opposing him, and to make them understand that they did not have an advantage in the competition of the capital market.

If he cannot sever these guys' greed and shatter their illusions, his subsequent plans will face more resistance and greatly affect his development. John has no time to get entangled with these old guys. Only by making these old guys dare not act rashly and dare not ruin his plans can he complete all the arrangements in the shortest time.

"Integration begins. Integrate all car transport companies under Knight Transport, and simultaneously complete the integration of Silicon Valley Navigation." With John's order, a tremendous change occurred in the US transportation industry. With Knight Transport as the main entity, numerous small transportation companies across the US began to integrate into a behemoth. In just a few days, Knight Transport had become one of the giants in the US transportation industry, directly shocking those old guys.

"Damn it, how is this possible? Why didn't our people discover all this beforehand? How did he do it? He bypassed our eyes and completed such a plan on American soil. I need an explanation!" Rockefeller roared. All of this was beyond his control and beyond his imagination. Originally, he thought John's target was shipping, after all, John had enough experience and great power in this area. Australian shipping was the best foundation. That's why he did everything he could to block Morgan's acquisition of President Shipping Company.

"We don't know. We also don't know when John accomplished all this. After all, before that, they were just small transportation companies, short-distance transportation companies, and their profits were not high, so naturally they went unnoticed!"

"I don't want to hear that explanation. I just want to know why no one discovered all of this. No one realized that this was John's plan. You've seen it now. This is another behemoth, and it's an investment in the United States. More importantly, they've integrated with software companies in Silicon Valley. Do you understand how big the impact of such an industry giant is?" Everyone understands the immense influence of this situation. Moreover, John didn't appear in the integration process, nor did he need to. Everything was arranged perfectly, and the integration was completed in an orderly manner. Those logistics bases and transportation companies quickly spread throughout the United States, even connecting major ports and airports.

The integration process was incredibly fast, without any chaos, and quickly merged into a giant enterprise. The companies were rapidly integrated into the entire transportation company system. All of this was thanks to the involvement of Silicon Valley software companies, who quickly integrated all these resources into a single system. This demonstrated the power of Silicon Valley and the power of software companies.

While everyone was vying for the personal computer and enterprise application software markets and didn't take transportation companies seriously, John had already completed his strategic layout and integrated transportation companies at an astonishing speed. Knight Transportation Company became one of the giants in the US transportation industry in the shortest amount of time.

Although Morgan knew John's plans and understood that Knight Transport was part of the scheme, he was still shocked when he saw the speed at which Knight Transport was integrated and the power it unleashed. It made him realize that he, the old man, was indeed outdated and could not compare with John in terms of vision and planning.

"Jimmy, what do you think John, that little fox, is up to by making his move at this time? This isn't what he said before. Although the emergence of Knight Transport is boosting the market value of US Presidential Shipping, isn't this going too far? Hurricane Investment has already entered the game, but the stock price is rising a bit too fast!"

“Boss, there’s nothing we can do about it. Everyone on Wall Street knows that Knight Transportation is John’s company. Although he’s not on the company’s list, his funds are, and there are some offshore companies overseas. It’s amazing that such a behemoth doesn’t have any shares in John.”

"Is it a rumor about Hurricane Investment, or a rumor about Knight Transport?"

"No, there's not a single rumor. When Hurricane Investment entered the fray to acquire a stake in President Lines, it already caused a frenzy among those guys. Now, seeing Knight Transport's integration, they are even more convinced of the potential of Australian shipping as the main entity to integrate President Lines. So these guys are all frantically competing with Hurricane Investment for the acquisition. Should we sell our shares now, or wait and see? Judging from the current situation, the share price will continue to rise."

“Sell our shares, but be careful not to let those old guys find out. At least not until we've made a clean getaway. I don't think John, that little fox, will give us any more time. If we're too greedy, it will be hard for us to get out unscathed, and it will also make that little fox look down on Morgan. Don't think that just because John didn't blame us for the failed acquisition, it won't have any impact. If things are blown out of proportion, then it will be a completely different story.”

Upon hearing this, Jimmy nodded in understanding. If Morgan was too greedy and didn't act in time, it would inevitably lower John's opinion of them and even affect future cooperation. After all, no one wants to cooperate with someone who is too greedy, can't see the situation clearly, and doesn't know how to act.

Although Hurricane Investment has entered the market, its acquisition efforts are minimal, and it hasn't publicly announced any intention to acquire President Lines. It's merely Wall Street's interpretation. Even if President Lines is no longer a target for Australian shipping or John's consolidation, it's not their fault. After all, they never said anything about it; it's just their overthinking. If problems arise, they will bear the consequences themselves, not John's or Hurricane Investment's. Being trapped is their own doing; they were too greedy!
(End of this chapter)