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cabinet meeting.
A ministerial meeting where the heads of departments of the US federal government gather to decide important policy issues for the administration.
However, this white letter from the White House felt a little different from the peacetime cabinet meeting.
“Is it a secret meeting at the White House? Seeing that the seal of the Republican Party (GOP) is also affixed, it may be right to view it as a national convention where in fact Republican leaders gather.”
“Have you been cluttered in the last month? The people are biting the Republican government’s Cuban government, the beef scandal, etc.
The Republican party’s lights went out.
Even in the Guantanamo evacuation operation, the political risk for the Republican Party was considerable as much as it was a defeat for the United States.
To cover this risk, they had to somehow win the war, but at the same time, they had to end this war.
The moment a peace treaty of humiliation is signed in this state of being defeated by the Spanish Empire, the angry stoning of the people will try to kill them.
“Then why are you invited to the Republican Party Senior Conference?”
“It’s an advisory role. Didn’t the Black Wednesday incident and the Railroad Trust case catch the eye of the White House?”
“Master, that invitation. There seems to be one more.”
“yes?”
tuk-
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One overlapping piece of stationery I was holding fell to the floor. I bowed down and picked up the paper.
And the moment I turned it over to see the contents, with a thrilling shock, my eyes vibrated.
“…..!!!”
– John Sherman.
– John Davison Rockefeller.
Founder of modern anti-monopoly law.
The absolute leader of the petroleum trust.
what is this. scared.
It was as if a copy of the letter of recommendation that was signed by the demon king and the hero at the same time was enclosed with the invitation letter. When something like this goes into the White House, I get an invitation too.
understood at once.
“And Master. This time, Class 0 and Class S funds also made huge profits through short selling. How do you deal with these funds? Even if you keep selling them short, you will make a profit for the time being.”
“Put those funds on hold. There is another place where you need it.”
A class 0 fund is a fund containing my personal funds, and a class S fund is a fund containing the hidden funds of early investors.
Unlike railway funds and short-selling funds, these two funds have a wide range of management and a high degree of freedom.
“Where do you use it?”
“Uh, how much is the sum of the funds from the two funds? Excluding shares held. As cash equivalents only.”
“In the case of a Class 0 fund, a total of $200 million remains in reserve, excluding stocks in Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola Bottling Company, DWM North America, and Dow Jones Company.”
“Five.”
“Yes, the case of S-Class funds is similar. It has a slightly higher $300 million reserve.”
5 billion dollars in total.
I think this should suffice.
“With that money, buy a stake in Federal Steel. The stakes of the major shareholders must be contracted through a block deal, so you can add a premium to them.”
“A stake in Federal Steel?”
“uh. Perhaps Minnesota Steel, Lorraine Steel, Johnson Company, and Elgin Joliet Eastern Railway are holding large stakes, so you can get them.”
As the New York Stock Exchange plummeted, the value of the shares must have been significantly reduced. Considering that the stake held by JP Morgan will return to me someday, it is safer for me to take over the rest. Most of all, the money I made with steel. All I wanted to eat.
“Would you like to give it to me?”
“Will you give me? Federal Steel is still large, but does not have a stable source of revenue. It’s embarrassing to even compare it to steel giants like Carnegie Steel and Bethlehem Steel.”
So I’m trying to take over.
At today’s secret meeting of the White House, there will probably be talk of military affairs, and there will always be talk of steel business.
If I want to take over the steel business along with the machine gun business, it makes sense for me to have a stake in Federal Steel.
“The timing is good. Things discussed at the White House secret meeting will probably take a month or two before being announced or buried. And now is the moment when the New York stock market goes down and the stock is the cheapest.”
“I will buy it as soon as possible.”
“Uh, there’s no harm in putting a premium on the stock, so please put a generous amount on the stock so that it doesn’t sound bad. By the way, if you can solve it with a class 0 fund, buy it as much as possible. I left 50 million dollars as a reserve.”
“Yes!”
It’s not just about World War I or World War II. As the steel business is a business that goes into the automobile industry that Ford will build, it is also a business that goes into steel structures such as the Empire State Building.
For the United States in the early 20th century, the steel business was inseparable.
“James. Did you get any call from the British embassy? To attend the secret meeting, the requests from the British embassy are desperately needed.”
“If that’s the case, did you put it on the desk?”
As James reached for the desk, a luxurious stationery lay there.
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Oh, I must have missed it because there was a lot of work to be done at Federal Steel.
wickedness-
I opened the envelope with a letter knife.
“……?”
But the more I read the letters from the British embassy, the more my lips curled up.
great.
“According to the orders of the naval minister, the Spanish Navy has confirmed the invasion of the American mainland. As expected, the port of Charleston, South Carolina, is the target.”
A good hand came into my hand.
***
Washington DC
White House.
“The conference room is over here.”
Taking the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) express train down Washington, DC, I was able to reach the White House in less than half a day.
Republican executives were already in the conference room, as key US government agencies were concentrated in Washington, DC.
As I entered, the Republican leaders glanced at me once, but then they chatted with the people sitting next to me.
I quietly entered the conference room.
“You stand behind.”
“Yes, please call me by beckoning if you need it.”
“uh.”
I put James and Veyron behind me and sat down in my reserved seat.
As he participated as an advisor to the cabinet meeting, the position was located on the outskirts of the Republican Party, unlike the senior leaders.
Then, a middle-aged gentleman spoke to me.
“Hey, can I sit next to you?”
“Yes? This is a reserved seat.”
“Haha, it’s fine. are you okay. I see people flirting with me every day, but I don’t care about the seat. It’s not even an official cabinet meeting.”
The middle-aged gentleman took off his fedora hat and jacket, left it to the secretary, and sat down. As the middle-aged gentleman said, no one cared about where he sat.
“Thank you.”
“…..Yes.”
familiar appearance.
Soon I was able to remember the identity of the middle-aged man.
Henry Kebot Lodge.
At first glance, this middle-aged gentleman, who seems warm-hearted, was one of the chief executives of the current Republican Party.
He was a marrow imperialist.
‘Why is such a giant interested in me…’
I glanced at the middle-aged gentleman with a squint.
After about 30 minutes, the vacancies were gradually filling up, and the conference room was filled with executives and the meeting began.
The seat of the president was vacant, but no one questioned it. Instead, his chief of staff attended as a proxy.
“Then we will proceed with the meeting since everyone is gathered.”
And the meeting began.
The first agenda item of the meeting was, of course, the follow-up to the beef scandal, and the meeting was on fire from the very beginning.
As it was a secret meeting, there was no pretense.
– First of all, all personnel from the Ministry of War, including the Minister of War, will be summoned to the Senate hearing. Since the beef scandal has already spread wildly across the United States, wouldn’t it be right to cut them off?
– Of course they cut and go!!! Are they the problem now? The problem is our Republicans. If it goes like this, it’s going to be split up until the next election!!!
– I’m worried about impeachment right away rather than the next election!!! If the war with Spain ended with a peace treaty like this, let alone impeachment, he was caught on the cross of the press and burned at the stake!!! Fire!!!
Republican leaders raised their fingers and raised their voices, shouting at you. They were just as dire as they were now.
But my seat is the outside of the conference room.
It was somewhat separate from the burning hot conference room. As I was quietly observing how the board turned, someone next to me tapped my finger on the shoulder with a tuk-tuk.
I turned my head.
“Did you say Detroit? What do you see as the crux of the matter?”
Senator Lodge, who was sitting leisurely next to me, whispered to me.
“…Isn’t that a way to keep the war going? Republicans cannot stop the war.”
It doesn’t matter whether they bite the people who caused the beef scandal or force them to resign.
How can we continue the war to overcome all these problems? was the problem
“Oh, that’s correct. So how do Republicans keep the war going? I’m curious about your opinion as a consultant.”
“……”
For a moment, my mind wandered and passed.
this is a test
However, with a casual expression on his face, he shrugged his shoulders.
“Simple.”
“Simple? Is this the issue that even the most respected executives of the Republican Party are struggling with with their heads tied?”
“They are the most respected dignitaries of the Republican Party, but I am closer to the Navy than they are. And if you follow the method I suggested, in all probability, the people will cry out for war.”
“Hey…”
The lodge officer brushed his beard.
“I wonder. That’s the way you plan to wage war.”
“It is an invasion of the mainland.”
“…!!!”
Ilsoon Lodge opened his eyes.
But it soon returned to normal. Instead, the calculator started running in his head.
“It’s an invasion of the mainland…”
isolationism.
From the early days of the founding of the United States, it has been pouring all its energy into pioneering a new continent while keeping a distance from Europe beyond the Atlantic Ocean.
So, while slaughtering natives and plundering Mexico, they have little experience of being invaded by a full-fledged power.
War with Britain?
At that time, British troops even invaded Washington DC and burned the White House itself. So what will happen if the mainland is invaded?
They had many wounds and had no immunity.
“Fear.”
“Yes. It is correct.”
The American people’s seizure buttons are the Zimmermann Telegram and the Black Tom Island incident in World War I. And it was proved by the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
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Of course, the Lodge would be imagining the White House burning black.
“But to convince them, I need quite a bit of evidence. Do you have any evidence?”
“Yes, there is plenty.”
I pulled the envelope out of my pocket and waved it. It was a letter from the British embassy.
The envelope was stamped with the seal of the British embassy.
“There are many more than this.”
“Hmm.”
The lodge’s eyes lit up.
“great. Trust me.”
bang- bang-
The lodge councilor banged his palm on the desk in the conference room where the heated discussion ensued. At the sound of tearing apart the meeting room, the eyes of the executives were focused at once.
“…!!!”
But when they saw the owner of the sound, they urgently hid their impure eyes.
The lodge officer smiled.
“I think this guy has something to say.”
***
The eyes of the conference room turned to me.
Republican vice ministers in the cabinet, including Treasury Secretary Gage, who I was close with, were also present, and the views of senators and congressmen, who were considered to be the Republicans’ nerds, were also in attendance.
I sighed inwardly.
“My name is Detroit Morgan, who was invited to act as an advisor.”
– Detroit? Isn’t that Morgan’s illegitimate son?
– I’ve heard that it’s been on Wall Street recently, but…
– Who got that blue little bastard into this important meeting room?
Hmm.
For a moment, the conference room became noisy, but the lodge’s vain cough brought attention back to me. The lodge councilor quietly took out a letter from his bosom.
🥳-
“I brought you to the meeting as advisors on the recommendation of President John Davidson Rockefeller and former Secretary of State John Sherman, but if you have any dissatisfaction, please tell me. I will deal with it.”
The lodge’s eyes lit up.
Then, the meeting room, which had been boiling with dissatisfaction, became quiet in an instant. The ministers were dissatisfied, but grunted and sat arrogantly, leaning their backs against the back of the chair.
“You can tell me now.”
“…..thank you.”
I wondered why he was so nice to me, but it didn’t seem like he had any special intentions.
Rather, it feels closer to liking.
‘We’ll ask about this later…. First, the cabinet meeting.’
As the lodge staff spread the board, I got up and looked around the conference room.
Negative glances such as ignorance, indifference, arrogance, dissatisfaction, etc. all flocked to me at once, but I ignored them all and spoke out.
“In the end, isn’t the point of the matter how to keep the war going? There is a way.”
“Way?”
“Yeah, it’s a bit extreme. What if the US mainland was invaded by the Spanish Empire?”
“Are you being invaded? to Spain?”
“Yes.”
Republican executives were confused by my sudden comment, but quickly started tapping the calculator in their head.
her.
“If you can, it’s the best. But how?”
“This is the information I received this morning through the British Embassy, but it is the plan for the invasion of the American mainland by the Spanish Empire, which I obtained from the request of the Naval Intelligence Department of the Royal Navy.”
“…What!!!”
jump-
Even the seniors who had been sitting quietly got up from their seats at my words. Then, their eyes turned to John Long, who was sitting in front of them.
But the Secretary of the Navy, John Long, was looking at him with his eyes wide open, as if he had heard it for the first time.
“How do you know that? What the Secretary of the Navy doesn’t know.”
“There may be secrets that cannot be known from a military point of view, but I can also buy secrets through my finance and military business.”
When I heard about the business I run, all the lawmakers shut their mouths.
Enterprises in the age of imperialism had much wider scope of authority than those of the modern 21st century, and they were free to engage in direct negotiations with the state.
It was an era of political and economic cooperation itself, but it was also a time when companies knew about secrets that the state did not know.
It was a time before the National Intelligence Service was even properly launched.
And it’s not Morgan.
Everyone understood.
“The plan for the invasion of the US mainland drafted at the suggestion of the Spanish naval minister was reasonable because the Camara Fleet, the elite Spanish fleet, was stationed on the Spanish mainland, and Cuba fell into the hands of the Spanish Empire, and it was approved by the Spanish Navy. ”
“…..Oh My God.”
The conference room was noisy.
However, Secretary of the Navy, John Long, who had been contemplating, asked me.
“for a moment. As you said, it would mean that the Camara Fleet of the Spanish Empire crossed the Atlantic Ocean and attacked the American mainland, but the North Atlantic Fleet is held tightly by the US Navy.”
“Did you really forget the Minister of the Navy?”
“Forget?”
“August soon. It’s hurricane season.”
“…!!!”
Hurricane.
A huge storm of tropical cyclones that strikes every fall in the southwestern United States. At this time, even naval warships could not patrol the North Atlantic or Caribbean Sea recklessly, and could be caught and sunk by mistake.
So, if there is a risk if the Spanish fleet surprises, now is the best time, and the defense line of the US Navy is the most vulnerable.
“Besides, the target of the Spanish Navy’s attack was Charleston, South Carolina. It’s located in the southwestern part of the United States, so it’s a dangerous zone that is even more affected by hurricanes.”
“If it’s Charleston…!!!”
“Yes, it is a large trading port that was responsible for the slave trade in the southern states. If this place is ambushed, the large port will be devastated, right? Of course, military bases will also be robbed.”
The naval minister’s mouth shut shut.
“Besides, the port of Guantanamo is absent due to this defeat in Cuba. The Port of Guantanamo is essential for naval warships to navigate the waters of the Caribbean or the southwestern United States, but it was lost to Spain. If you include hurricanes, that area is now the territory of the Spanish Fleet.”
No matter how strong the U.S. Navy is, what do you do?
If you are swept away by a hurricane, it will only be washed away by Mother Nature’s wrath. There was not enough time to stop the Spanish Navy, which was anchored in Guantanamo Port, when it pierced like a tip.
Soon the conference room became serious.
They believed in the power of the U.S. Navy and thought that the war had not been lost, and that the waters of the North Atlantic were the domain of the U.S. Navy.
The problem was more serious than expected.
“Wait, if the Spanish fleet bombarded Charleston and the Marines landed like that, wouldn’t that mean that it would come?”
“it?”
The Minister of the Navy’s complexion turned white.
“The devilish machine gun that put American soldiers in Cuba!!!”
A heavy silence fell in the cabinet meeting room at the scream of the naval minister.
f*ck.
While everyone in the conference room was getting serious, I was the only one who gently raised the corners of my mouth.
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