In October 1911, the first batch of oil produced in the Alaska oil field was transported to the Port of Anchorage through the newly laid oil pipeline. This time was several months later than the expected time of Grestone. This was mainly because the oil pipeline dragged the back. The oil pipeline is still a new thing in the world. The concept of this thing was originally proposed by the University of Cleveland Laboratory. Standard Oil then built the world's earliest oil pipeline to the Port of Constanta in the Romanian oil field. The operation of this pipeline was pretty good. Later, the Germans developed their own oil pipeline technology based on their own technology and some technologies purchased from the standards. And there were some practices in some projects undertaken by German companies.

However, these experiences all come from warm areas. It is normal to have some new technical problems in high-altitude areas. Therefore, this delay is still common in novels.

However, this delay has caused some bad consequences in the capital market. First of all, the delivery time of a large number of projects is approaching. At this time, problems naturally cause a lot of turmoil. Fortunately, some large capitals have not had time to complete the withdrawal, so this problem did not cause any big problems. However, a small turmoil is still very beneficial, that is, the flow of funds is not particularly conspicuous. This is more conducive to the secret exit of large capitals from the market.

In November 1911, the first 50,000-ton oil tanker arrived at the Port of Hamburg, Germany. German Emperor William II personally went to Port of Hamburg to welcome the giant ship. Near Port of Hamburg, the Germans also built huge oil storage tanks. These giants with a height of 40 or 50 meters and a diameter of more than 100 meters were part of the German strategic oil reserves. Emperor William II attached great importance to oil over the years. In fact, the Emperor had made great efforts to complete this plan.

With the arrival of Alaska Oil, many stocks associated with Alaska Oil in London's capital market have begun a new round of gains.

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Anthony Lawrence received a new order from the United States to start selling a series of stocks related to steel, shipbuilding, etc. Since Katherine Lawrence married Carroll, the third-class family in England has been tied to the McDonald's chariot. Of course, they were voluntary. If someone asked them to come down, they would definitely fight with this guy. Later, after the second generation of the McDonald's family gradually grew up, they married the Lawrence family again. Of course, the really important people in the second generation of the McDonald's family, such as Grestone and Donald, did not marry foreign wives. Only Mary McDonald, who was excluded from the heir circle because of his poor performance, married to Anthony, the head of the Lawrence family.

Anthony was still very satisfied with this marriage. Although like all Americans, Mary Lawrence was not the model of a beautiful lady. First of all, the optimization of the selection of seeds by just one generation did not make her look beautiful. In terms of appearance, although Mary MacDonald was pretty, she was just pretty. Etiquette and behavior were even more ordinary. Her mother Dorothea found that the status of women in the MacDonald family could be very high and could also hold considerable power.

Later, I didn't care much about the so-called lady training, thinking that she could fill Dena's shortcomings. It was not until I realized that Mary's talent was really average and she had no hope at all that, and she began to cultivate some of this. But Dorothea herself was not very good at this, and Scrooge couldn't count on it. Not to mention women's etiquette, but in the early years, he still remembered a little, but over the years, as he became richer, these etiquettes were forgotten by him.

"If my actions do not conform to etiquette, it must be that etiquette was wrong." Well, Scotch has this attitude now. As for Catherine, firstly, she was in poor health, and secondly, this kind of thing would not be troubled, so Dorothea found some etiquette teachers for Mary to teach her. But because the time was short, these things could not be internalized into habits. So in the eyes of some British nobles, Mary's etiquette was still obviously lacking.

However, unlike when Carol was in England, in the British aristocratic circle, no matter how it is a wife, a lady, a gentleman or a young master, no one will say that Mary is uneducated. As Scrooge said, the behavior of the superiors is naturally etiquette and upbringing.

If you don’t have enough status, you can only change your mat when you die, just like Zengzi. That’s what you mean by being polite and well-educated. But if you have a high status, you just talk to others and tickle while tickling, which is also called the demeanor of a famous scholar. Now the MacDonald family is one of the richest families in the world, just like the famous saying of the Rothschild family, "When the gold coins ring, bad words come to an abrupt end." Now Mary’s background is no longer something that ordinary little nobles can criticize casually.

In Anthony's opinion, Mary has two very good points. First, she is from the MacDonald family. When she married herself, her status in the family became extremely stable. Secondly, Mary herself is quite proficient in economy. (Although in the MacDonald family, she is considered to lack talent, compared with the ladies in ordinary noble families, Mary's economic level and ability to deal with complex economic problems are not ordinary. After all, ordinary noble ladies are only trained as vases.) It is also good even among investors, although not top-notch. Therefore, Mary, who married into the Lawrence family, is largely the supervisor of the McDonald's consortium in the UK. However, since ancient times, when sending military supervisors, they have encountered a dilemma: those who are reliable but do not understand the profession, and those who are knowledgeable may not be reliable. In comparison, Mary is both knowledgeable and reliable.

Anthony knew that if the interests of the Lawrence family were inconsistent with the MacDonald family, the Miss Mary would probably stand firmly on the side of her parents' home. Because a lady from the MacDonald family could not have known this:

"The bourgeoisie destroyed all feudal, patriarchal and pastoral relationships where it had already ruled. It ruthlessly cut off all kinds of feudal bonds that bound people to natural elders, and it made no other connection between people except naked interests and cruel "cash transactions". It drowned the sacred attacks of religious piety, knight enthusiasm, and petty citizens' sadness in the ice water of egoism. It turned human dignity into exchange value, and replaced countless franchised and self-earned freedoms with a kind of conscience-free trade freedom. In short, it replaced exploitation covered by religious fantasy and political fantasy with open, shameless, direct, and explicit exploitation.

The bourgeoisie erased the sacred halo of all vocations that have always been respected and awesome. It transformed doctors, lawyers, priests, poets and scholars into wage workers it paid for.

The bourgeoisie tore off the veil of warmth that posed on family relations and turned this relationship into a purely monetary relationship."

This lady naturally knew that her status in her husband's family and even her status in this world was not determined by the relationship between her husband, parents-in-law, sisters-in-law and her sisters-in-law, but by the economic power she represents. To be more clear, it is determined by the amount of money she can use.

However, Anthony would not be dissatisfied with this. In fact, having someone who can make the MacDonald family trust very much in the Lawrence family is definitely a good thing for the Lawrence family. Because in the foreseeable future, the greatest interest of the Lawrence family is to tie themselves and the MacDonald family as tight as possible.

"Mary, this kind of operation will not cause any big blow to the UK, right?" Anthony asked.

"No, our goal is mainly in China this time." Mary replied. She knew that Anthony asked this not for patriotism or any other reason. He was just thinking about whether doing so would damage the reputation of the Lawrence family, because in many cases, a good reputation itself is wealth. As the McDonald's agent in the UK, their good reputation is also MacDonald's wealth in a sense.

But Mary's answer made Anthony a little worried, so he was silent for a while and asked, "So is the MacDonald family planning to take so much property in Europe, do they want to withdraw from Europe?"

Mary hesitated for a moment about this question. She knew that the family judged that the war in Europe was about to begin and assets on the European continent would become dangerous. So the MacDonald family was indeed ready to gradually transfer their assets on the European continent back to the United States. However, this strategic judgment cannot be leaked casually, even for allies like the Lawrence family. So Mary replied: "We judge that this round of prosperity is about to reach its peak, and it may not take long for a new round of crisis to break out again. This round of crisis may be centered on the United States and Germany. Anthony, you know that the world is like a big pond. Whenever the prosperity comes, just like when summer comes, the pond will be

Many small fish and shrimps will grow. When the winter of the crisis comes, the bigger fish, in order to survive, should eat other fish and shrimps as soon as possible, so as to make themselves fatter, so as to survive the severe winter of the crisis. We estimate that this crisis will probably be quite serious. At this time, our funds are not as big fish on the European continent. In order to avoid being eaten, of course we should consider withdrawing them first. This will also help us eat small fish and shrimps in the United States. However, because Britain has a vast colony, the situation in the UK will most likely be relatively good in the crisis. Therefore, you should also note that we have no plan to withdraw much capital from the UK."

After hearing this, Anthony thought about it carefully, and then said, "Dear, do you think our family can make some investments in the United States?"
Chapter completed!