"Antitrust law?" Alton Parker asked in surprise, "Then who does it target?"

It is not non-existent that donors use money to help candidates campaign without asking for anything in return. Of course, Alton Parker did not think that he was gifted enough to change this unspoken rule. Before he came to the Opera House, he had already thought about the possibility of Sheffield.

He will mention some requirements in return, even if the requirements are very excessive, he is already mentally prepared.

But I didn't expect Sheffield to make such a request. Doesn't the other party's company meet the threshold of triggering antitrust laws? Of course it is enough. Learning and applying the law is not unfamiliar to him, an old judge.

The definition of any law is actually very vague. On the one hand, the framers deliberately let companies take the bait, and on the other hand, companies hire lawyers to skirt around the problem. This is a two-way handle, held in the hands of two groups of people.

So Sheffield actually talked about antitrust laws, which made Alton Parker very strange. Who should be investigated? You can't investigate them all, what if something is really found out.

"DuPont, what a good target." As DuPont's closest competitor, there is no need to know what dirty things DuPont has done, whose factories it has bombed, and what methods it has used to force competitors into desperation.

Ask others, and Sheffield can give examples one by one. The United Company has done these things before, and it is the enemies who know each other best.

DuPont's history of evildoing extends into the 21st century, because the harmful organisms in its experiments had adverse effects, but they concealed the facts and discarded them arbitrarily, seriously contaminating soil, rivers and drinking water for more than 50 years. After it was discovered, DuPont

The only response was to formulate drinking water safety standards. Suddenly, on the eve of the trial, the United Drinking Water Company set an unprecedented safety concentration standard for tap water. After testing, it was found that DuPont did not exceed the standard, and thus declared to the people who use water that everything is legal.

It is safe, and one of the members of the group that set this standard is DuPont.

This is the DuPont Company of the 21st century. Today's DuPont Company, as long as the federal government wants to cause trouble, it will catch it and it will be absolutely impossible for DuPont to escape as long as it investigates.

"Is this the only request? It's been so many years." Alton Parker asked slowly. If it was just this request, it wouldn't be impossible to agree to it. Nor was he concerned about the rumors between United Company and DuPont.

I don't know at all. I just didn't expect that the rumors were true and that the civil war is still clinging to it after so many years.

When Sheffield heard Alton Parker's voice, he hesitated. He raised his eyebrows and temporarily lowered his voice, "Of course it's not over yet. My grandmother is in good health now. This is her biggest wish."

Today is different from the past. Before the election, Alton Parker was a district judge in New York. But after the election, he is already President Alton Parker, the president of the United States for the next four years.

The other party is not a vassal of the United Company, and the slave owners are not arrogant enough to control the president. According to the examples known so far, no one who tries to do so seems to have succeeded.

In addition to its own requirements, another requirement, strictly speaking, is that the beneficiaries are farmers in the Midwest. The issue of tariffs has always been a focus of debate between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In order to support the basic base, the Democratic government often chooses

Reduce tariffs to promote exports of agricultural and animal husbandry products.

The Republican Party's base is in the northern industrial region, so it is completely opposite on the issue of tariffs. It chooses to set up tariff barriers to protect northern industries from the impact of European industries. Because of the large industrial population, the Republican government has never dared to be ambiguous on tariffs.

But now everything is over. Sheffield has communicated with the capital of the Ruhr area in Germany to lower tariffs in exchange for exports of agricultural and animal husbandry products to Germany. Now that the election has been won, it is time to fulfill its promise.

Whether this will arouse opposition from northern factory owners is of course, but whether the two most powerful Standard Oil and Morgan Alliance will object is an uncertain matter. Standard Oil is not only the domestic monopoly trust overlord

, there is no doubt that there is a monopoly in the entire world.

Morgan Alliance focuses on the financial and insurance fields, and has a lot of companies in the industrial field. But based on the size of the two companies, they have enough ammunition to resist the import of European industrial products. The real unlucky ones are those that are not large in scale.

Small and medium-sized enterprises, especially small workshops.

Although the tariff issue is also an urgent issue that Sheffield is very concerned about, he is not the only one who is concerned about it. Farmers in the Midwest are no less concerned than he is. To use a phrase from the foreign policy of the United States, everyone has interests, and Sheffield is not the only one.

Take all the benefits.

The slave owners did not waste too much time on the new president. Now Alton Parker's time is very precious. The Democratic Party's victory has only just begun. There are still many things waiting for him to be busy. The tariff issue that was mentioned before is just one of them.

First, the main supporters of the Democratic Party are two groups of people, the white supremacists in the South, and the agricultural population in the Midwest. In fact, the agricultural population makes up the majority of voters in the South. Sheffield does not need to say much about how to deal with the issue of agriculture and animal husbandry.

In addition, to form a trustworthy and reliable team, who will be the Secretary of State and who will manage the army, there will be an influx of people looking for Alton Parker now. In fact, Sheffield wanted to recommend Wilson as Secretary of State, but considering Wilson

Because of my current position in the Democratic Party and my own identity, I resist this idea.

In addition to the president, the secretary of state is naturally the role that gives the citizen class the most sense of presence. If Wilson becomes secretary of state, it can be said that he will be greatly tempered, and his scholarly demeanor may gain a lot of popularity. In this way

Whether it is used as the leader of the Democratic Party in the future or to prepare for future elections, it seems logical.

The problem is that Sheffield is a financial backer of the Democratic Party, but the Democratic Party does not belong to him. As a financial backer, he cannot but take the factions within the Democratic Party seriously. Nominating the Secretary of State is not a decision that a financial backer can make.

Overall, after watching an opera with Alton Parker, Sheffield has gotten the promise he wanted. The new president has promised him that he will seriously deal with a group of large companies that constitute unfair competition and bring benefits to citizens.

Fairness. Unfair competition enterprises represented by DuPont will never escape the stick of antitrust laws.

As for the United Company, everyone in this country knows that both the canned and beef trusts have been dissolved, and that the United Company cannot meet the standards of a trust.

As for DuPont, is it not enough? The core of antitrust law is against unfair competition, not against monopoly. Therefore, DuPont can be sued, but the United Company cannot be sued.

Sheffield considers himself a capable person, but he is not yet a god. Since he is not a god, it is inevitable that he will make mistakes, think about problems, and make omissions. He cannot criticize Al just because the Democratic Party won.

Dayton Parkel was dictating who the Secretary of State was and how to deal with the civil service system. Whether he should go on a killing spree against President Cleveland and fire 200,000 Republican civil servants in one fell swoop, or whether there should be a peaceful handover, these were not issues he could control.

This type of issue will definitely be discussed within the Democratic Party. If it is not his business, what can he do? He can only deal with such trivial matters as collusion between officials and businessmen, and public vengeance. The squeeze and political suppression by the Democratic and Republican parties are not his business.

But how can I put it, the money masters and the establishment should always live in harmony, and the United States is not like South Korea, a society where the chaebol dominates everything with one hand, and maintains basic unspoken rules that are good for everyone.

Everything has just begun. Sheffield will temporarily restrain his greed and use this term to wait and see. From now on, he has made at least a tributary appear in the history of the United States, but whether he can completely change the course of history and the direction of the rolling torrent is completely unknown.

In this field, we still have to wait and see what the consequences will be.

How can I put it, when there is a crisis, there is an opportunity. After careful and thorough analysis, the slave owners feel that it is not time to shout arrogantly, "Who else?", first let the United Company continue based on the political environment that is already conducive to them.

Hibernating, like a crocodile lurking in a deep pool, first pull Dupont, who has already reached the water's edge, into the water, and then we can talk about other things.

Struggles are mostly hidden. No one knows what happened until the final outcome. When people openly shout about who else is there, that situation is often the end of the struggle, or the beginning of the war. It is completely

A question in another category.

All in all, based on the Sheffield family's long-term firm stance, no matter what the results of this election bear, the harvest has just begun. After returning to Edith Rockefeller's villa, Sheffield is currently eager to order copies of the New York Times

Article to see what else this newspaper said after the Republican Party lost the election.

"Shocked, this is the reason why a famous college girl stayed out all night." After reading the headline of the New York Times that day, Sheffield laughed at himself and said, "Yes, it is well known that journalists are shameless.

, I actually thought they had a face. The so-called public intellectuals in this world are all masters of slapping someone in the face and then committing suicide."

Just a few months ago, the New York Times was still waving flags for the Republican Party all the time, but now it is as quiet as a chicken and returning to dirty jokes.
Chapter completed!