Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 1187 The world is as black as a crow

Said is not spared money, at most, he does not feel distressed when he sells his father's land. The former Ottoman Empire no longer exists. If the country cannot be restored smoothly, then Said's promise is nothing but a dream.

Rock will definitely not be fooled by Said's few words. Helping Said is not good for Rock. The Black Sea outlet is currently under the actual control of the "Strait Management Committee", which has no impact on southern Africa.

The Balkans are not the core interests of Southern Africa, the Near East is.

Even to be more specific, oil in the Near East is.

Rock doesn't care who controls the Black Sea estuary.

After Said was sent away, Tom Dupont and Shinichi Ono waited in line to be received by Roque.

The DuPont family received definite news that Nyasaland Military Industry is conducting research on synthetic rubber, nylon, and plastics. These research projects highly overlap with the business scope of DuPont Chemical.

The head of the DuPont family, Pierre DuPont, believes that after acquiring a large number of German scientists, the strength of Nyasaland Military Industry in the chemical industry may be far higher than that of DuPont Chemicals, so Pierre DuPont will let Tom DuPont came to Nyasaland to seek in-depth cooperation with Nyasaland military industry.

Germany's strength in the chemical industry was fully demonstrated during the World War. Without the efforts of German scientists, Germany, which was in a state of blockade, would not have been able to persist for four years.

After the outbreak of World War II, because Germany's coastline was blocked, Germany could not obtain natural rubber, so the Germans used dimethyl butadiene to polymerize methyl rubber, which can be produced in large quantities and is cheap.

During the World War, Germany produced about 2500 tons of methyl rubber. Although the pressure resistance of this rubber is not ideal, and there is a big gap between it and natural rubber, it is the first synthetic rubber with practical value.

Unlike Germany, Nyasaland may be the most convenient country in the world to obtain natural rubber. There are large rubber plantations in Victoria and Dias, and East India is a world-renowned rubber producing area. However, in many applications, artificial Synthetic rubber has many advantages that natural rubber does not have, and it performs better than natural rubber, so Nyasaland Military Industry will spare no effort in research on synthetic rubber.

For example, the neoprene rubber that Nyasaland Military Industry is researching has some anti-corrosion properties that natural rubber does not have. Neoprene rubber has high anti-corrosion properties for organic solvents such as gasoline, and is not as easy as natural rubber. Softens and swells.

Therefore, neoprene is more suitable than natural rubber in applications such as oil guide hoses.

No matter in terms of economic strength or technological strength, the DuPont family has a huge gap with Nyasaland military industry, so the DuPont family will actively seek cooperation with Nyasaland military industry.

"If I agree to cooperate with the DuPont family, Tom, what can I get?" Rock and Tom DuPont are not polite. The relationship between Britain and the United States is special, and Rock has no worries about cooperating with the Americans.

"Lord, if you choose to cooperate with the Dupont family, then you will always have the friendship of the Dupont family." Tom Dupont did not hesitate.

Rock suddenly lost interest.

friendship!

Who are you fooling?

How can capitalists have friendship? The friendship between Rock and Stoudemire needs to be consolidated. If there is a conflict of interest between Rhodesia and Nyasaland, then see if the friendship between Rock and Stoudemire will be unbreakable .

That's why Rock drew a clear line with Stoudemire early on. The South African company does not get involved in the military industry, and Nyasaland does not get involved in food. Although this cannot completely eliminate the conflict, it at least ensures that there will be no conflict of interest between Rock and Stoudemire to the greatest extent.

Of course, after Rock and Stoudemire adopt cross-holding, the hidden danger of conflicts is further reduced, and the relationship between Rock and Stoudemire is closer. If Stoudemire and Roque can further marry, by then Rock and Stoudemire The relationship between Sri Lanka will go further.

But it won't be unbreakable either.

"We can jointly invest in chemical plants. The plant in Nyasaland belongs to you, and the plant in the United States belongs to DuPont—" Tom DuPont continued to increase his stake, but Rock still had little interest.

Rock is not short of money. It is futile to try to use money to persuade Rock to make concessions. It does not take much money to invest in chemical plants, and there are traps in Tom DuPont's proposal. If Rock agrees to this plan, then Tom DuPont will Market segmentation should be required.

Although the market within the Commonwealth is large enough, Rock is still unwilling to give up the US market.

Market protection is actually useless for capitalists like Rock. There are many companies in the United States that are actually invested by Rock. There are also many companies in the UK that come from American capital.

Of course, most of these multinational companies are in the civilian field, and special industries still have a protection system. For example, it is difficult to sell oil from Adan Company to the United States, and American Ford cars cannot enter the Commonwealth.

Ford was crying in the toilet. If Ford cars could sell for 300 pounds, Ford would not produce a $[-] Model T car.

"——If we can cooperate, then we can share the patents obtained by both parties." Tom Ford finally talked about what Rock was interested in, and the DuPont family was not useless.

"Plastic, phenolic plastic, I need the authorization of phenolic plastic." Rock struck hard, phenolic plastic was the first fully synthetic plastic, on July 1907, 7, American-Belgian Leo Hendrik Baekeland Obtained the patent of Bakelite.

Speaking of phenolic plastics, there is another episode. At the same time that Baekland submitted the patent for phenolic plastics, Sir James Swinburne of the United Kingdom also submitted the invention patent of phenolic plastics to the British Patent Office, which was only one day later than Baekeland.

Scientific research is so cruel, no matter how much time and money Sir Swinburne spent on phenolic plastics, he lost his money one day later, and all the initial investment was wasted.

It can't be said that all of them are in vain. There are also many fake phenolic plastics on the market now, forcing Baekeland to register a brand to compete with the cheaper fake phenolic plastics.

Bakelite is an excellent thermosetting plastic, widely used in electrical insulation materials, furniture parts, daily necessities, handicrafts and other fields.

Enterprises in Nyasaland have a great demand for plastics, and it is showing a growing trend. With Roque's current status, it is impossible to save face and invest in factories to produce phenolic plastics that have not been authorized. Although these plastics The performance is about the same.

Baekeland's patent did not lose its protection period until 1926,

"My lord, Bakelite's patent right is with Bakelite, not Dupont—" Tom Dupont was in a dilemma, Rock was the real person and didn't talk too much.

Rock smiled. Rock knew a lot about the DuPont family's scandals, and things like patent rights were not a problem for the DuPont family at all.

It is said that in the era of Eugene DuPont, there was an old employee of DuPont, Waddell, who once served as the head of the sales department.

Later, after Eugene's death, Waddell set up his own company and founded a "Bakay Gunpowder Company", which began a competition with DuPont.

At this time, Tom Dupont's father, Pierre Dupont, sent someone to negotiate with Waddell, intending to buy Waddell's company.

Waddell rejected DuPont's acquisition, and the business of Bakay Gunpowder Company also increased, breaking the DuPont family's monopoly on the gunpowder industry.

But not long after, the Bakay Gunpowder Company suddenly exploded and the company went bankrupt.

If Waddell is an outsider, then the DuPont family is equally merciless towards their own people.

After Pierre DuPont became the head of the DuPont family, Payton, the son-in-law of former president Eugene, ran a medium-sized black powder factory named "Payton" in California.

Eugene is Pierre's cousin, and Peyton is Eugene's son-in-law. In this way, Pierre and Peyton are also relatives, but Pierre even bought Peyton's company by force.

The acquisition case went to court for a while, but Payton finally gave in, and the company was acquired by the DuPont family.

In the field of plastics, Bakelite may be very powerful, but compared with the powerful DuPont family, Bakelite is not worth mentioning.

Rock believed that as long as the DuPont family wanted it, they would be able to obtain the patent on phenolic plastics. As for the method used by the DuPont family to obtain the patent, it was beyond Rock's control.

"Tom, I just want the right to produce and sell phenolic plastics in the Commonwealth." Rock didn't buy and sell by force. After getting the right to produce and sell, Rock would pay the corresponding fees, and he didn't want to eat a king's meal.

Nyasaland's company also approached Bakelite before, hoping to obtain authorization from Bakelite.

But Baekeland is a very stubborn person. He only agreed to sell phenolic plastics to Nyasaland, and he did not agree to grant the patents of phenolic plastics to Nyasaland enterprises.

This annoyed Rock.

Now Rock is used to controlling all links of production and sales in his own hands, and will not let any link be controlled by others. The application range of phenolic plastics is very wide. Rock doesn't care about the patent fee, but Rock doubts that the Americans credit.

Americans have always been mercurial and capricious. If Nyasaland’s companies do not have the authorization of phenolic plastics, if Baekeland wants to raise prices one day, or threaten Nyasaland’s companies by means of phenolic plastics, what will happen? What about the enterprises in Nyasaland?

Don't think that Americans can't do this kind of thing. If it's Roque, Rock will do it as long as necessary.

In the most recent example, Roarke forced the Admiralty to give up its request for the Chagos Islands by interrupting the technical support for the British carrier-based aircraft. Capital.

ps: Call me a certain deacon of the Three Watches,

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