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Chapter 160 Koch's Family History
Nor is California's sweeping natural gas plan to lie to Mr. Budge.

Governor Brown had planned to make a big move, launching projects such as schools, highways, and natural gas promotion.

If Mr. Budge can abandon the dark and turn to democracy, he will play a significant role in the state's religious circles and the energy industry.

Don't say that you have this thought in the first place, even if you create something out of nothing, it may not be impossible.

Of course, Payton knows that it will be difficult for Mr. Budge to make a choice in a short period of time, especially when the Democratic Party fails to show that it has taken root in California.

He does not represent him alone.

If it is an individual, the women's rights movement mentioned by Peyton will be a good point of contact for both parties.

Resolving this movement not only expresses goodwill to the new governor, but also allows each other to have enough room for buffering.

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"Great Northern Oil? Rock Oil Refining Company? The Kochs?"

Looking at the information in his hand, Peyton fell into deep thought.

After getting Charles Koch's business card, he launched an investigation, and a lot of information about the family and their company appeared in his hands.

The Koch family may not be called a family at present. Their fortune history is very short and very special.

Traditional Federal Petroleum History—Naturally Standard Department History.

However, the Koch family is different. They sought development from outside and made their first pot of gold overseas.

The current leader of the Koch family, Fred Koch, is the first generation of entrepreneurs.

Although his parents and grandfather also had a small fortune, they were engaged in the newspaper industry. It cannot be said that it has nothing to do with petrochemical industry, but it can only be said that it has nothing to do with it.

In 1925, MIT chemical engineering graduate Fred Koch was invited by his classmate Lewis Winkler to join an engineering company in Wichita, Kansas, where he invented a The new technology improved the thermal cracking process of converting heavy oil into gasoline. This technology had a great impact on the oil refining industry at that time and could greatly improve the efficiency.

However, he did not benefit!

Because this technology threatened the interests of countless large companies, he was resisted by almost all his peers.

Even later, because of this technology, he was blocked by major companies, and he had nowhere to go in the federal oil industry.

At that time, the Standard Oil Company under the Rockefeller family had just disintegrated for more than ten years, and the new oil companies formed after the disintegration have become several giants in the federal oil industry. Although they compete with each other internally, they are also a loose alliance externally. .

New technologies are harmful to everyone's interests!
Therefore, Fred Koch's new invention was jointly boycotted by several major federal oil giants, who regarded this technology as a patent-infringing technology, and listed 44 regulations to prohibit this method from being used in gasoline production.

After Fred Koch was squeezed out, he ran to the Soviet Union with the mentality of not staying here and having his own place.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, Fred Koch was appreciated by his loving father.

At that time, the Soviet Union was working on the "First Five-Year Plan" under the leadership of a benevolent father, which required a lot of dollars to exchange for industrialized materials, so the exchange of oil for dollars was very important to the Soviet Union. At the same time, most of the oil produced in the Soviet Union was heavy oil. , Lacking the core technology to extract gasoline from heavy oil, Fred's pyrolysis technology can be used.

During the first five-year plan of the Soviet Union, Fred Koch successfully helped his father build 15 modern oil refineries and trained a large number of petroleum engineers for the Soviet Union, which greatly improved the Soviet industry.

At the same time, Fred Koch himself has accumulated an amazing wealth.

Mo about 50 dollars!

Looking at the US knife in the bank account, when Fred was about to contribute his blood and enthusiasm to the Soviet Union.

The great purge of the Soviet Union came.

The mercy of the Father came.

Fred saw that many of the engineers he had trained were purged, and even his own whereabouts were being followed. He touched his neck worriedly, thinking that life was more important than money.

Moisturized.

Where is Run?
The Federation definitely can't, the law does not allow its own technology to be produced.

When he was thinking about it, he met a good friend, a staunch member of the Federal German Workers' Party.

Under the introduction of a good friend, he learned that Germany needs its own technology.

Therefore, as soon as he left the Soviet Union, Fred immediately threw himself into the arms of the German Workers Party. Under the introduction of a good friend of the Federation, he got the opportunity to serve the German Third Reich.

At that time, the head of state urgently needed to strengthen fuel manufacturing capabilities to prepare for future wars. Fred's technology came in handy. He built the third largest oil refinery in Hamburg for the German Workers Party, which can process 1000 tons of crude oil per day. .

What's more, Fred's refinery was able to produce the high-octane gasoline needed for fighter jets.

In Germany, of course, he made another hit.

He has finished helping the enemies of the Federation.

Fred, who had made two buckets of gold, returned to the Federation and began to serve the people of the Federation.

Of course, you may ask, Fred has done things for both the German Workers Party and the Soviet Union, so no one will deal with him in the Federation?
But the federation is the federation, free forever, only you have money, who cares how your money comes from?
Moreover, Jingsu and pro-German elements are not a small number in the Federation.

Even Hoover, FBI Director, was a German Workers Party supporter.

In the federal election of 1940, Hoover formed an alliance with the domestic German Workers Party and pushed Montana Congressman Wheeler to power. This also made Fred have nothing to do when he returned to the Federation.

At the same time, Fred is also a capitalist, and he grasps the situation very accurately. Even though his first pot of gold came from the Soviet Union, when McCarthyism prevailed, he firmly declared that he would always be the defender of freedom, and actively participated in various events. A right-wing organization.

It looks like I am at odds with the Soviet Union.

Do you pick up the bowl and eat the meat, put down the chopsticks and swear at your mother?

Perhaps it was his loving father who frightened him to death!
After all, he has never scolded the Germans.

He has been advocating that Germany, Italy, and Japan are sound countries. The reason is that he sees that the citizens of these countries are all working hard without pay, and they are not as busy as the workers in their own countries. How good it would be to be so selfless.

The Soviet Union and Germany, the first pot of gold, the second pot of gold!
The two treatments were very different. In the Soviet Union, he was afraid of being loved by his loving father, and he was frightened. In Germany, he was like a fish in water, and the head of state even gave him a medal, which was very kind.

Because of his good experience in Germany, he admired the German Workers' Party management style very much, and even hired a German Workers' Party fanatic as a tutor for his eldest son and second son.

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In any case, he finally returned to the Union in the late 30s.

At that time, due to the development of industry, the working conditions of gasoline engines became more and more harsh. Thermally cracked gasoline could no longer meet the needs in terms of quantity and quality. The patents of large companies were gradually broken through, and his technology was no longer legally recognized. blockade.

At the same time, outside the Federation, he also completed the accumulation of primitive capital.

In 1940, Fred Koch contributed $23 to participate in the formation of a new oil refinery. As one of the five original shareholders, he obtained a 23% stake in the new company. The refinery was located near East St. Louis and was named Wood River Refining Company.

The initial development of Muhe Oil Refining Company was not smooth.

Not long after the company was established, World War II broke out. The Federal Congress imposed a "profit tax" of up to 25% to 95% on the oil refining industry. The average tax on Muhe Oil Refining was as high as 70%. It was several original shareholders who broke out conflicts because of interest-related transactions.

In 1944, some shareholders withdrew one after another, and Fred Koch gradually bought all the shares and began to operate independently.

He is indeed a skilled businessman, relying on his superb production technology and easy-going style of work. Although he has been suppressed by large oil companies many times, under the leadership of Fred Koch, the company has won many battles and won many battles. Born in Kansas, tearing up a large market.

In 1946, he acquired the Rock Island Oil and Refining Company in Oklahoma, opening up the federal market.

In the following time, he also established a world in the European market and became a newcomer in the industry.

As a result, the Standard Oil family threw an olive branch at him, enabling him to acquire a 35% stake in Great Northern Petroleum and become a member of the Standard Oil family.

"The Koch family? What do you want me to do?"

"Get a hand in the Middle East and North Africa outside of the Federation and Europe?"

"Or, within the standard system, looking for allies?"

(End of this chapter)