1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 51

The year 1857, which was extremely important to Scrooge, just passed. Just a month after the New Year’s bell rang, Scrooge sent off Carroll Own Dage in New York Harbor. After Scrooge made a fortune, it was obviously unrealistic for Carroll to continue to run his father’s small leather shoe store. Scrooge’s business is very open and expanding very quickly. He needs helpers and extremely reliable helpers.

To be honest, in Scrooge’s view, Dage Carroll is not a person of outstanding ability, not to mention that he is compared with Rockefeller, or with the Gardnerby who is not entirely in business, but also with Clarke. They are all very different. After all, Clark is only Chinese, but at least he has a wealth of experience.

But compared to these people, Dage Carroll has a huge advantage, that is reliability. Fight tiger brothers, father and son soldiers. This argument is not unreasonable. In some cases, reliability is even more important than ability.

It was only after the strange “Italian” visited him and signed a big contract that Scrooge discovered that Europe does not seem to be particularly peaceful now. If there is not much change in history, by 1959, for the unification and independence of Italy, the Kingdom of Sardinia and France will unite and start a war with Austria. Scrooge felt that Robert Ferrari, the Southerner under the Italian flag, reminded himself that it would be good to go to Italy to make a copy before the Civil War began.

So Scrooge immediately went to New York and got in touch with Joshua Rothschild, whom he had known during the last hunt. He knew that the Rothschild family played a significant role in financing the war in the Kingdom of Sardinia. So he directly asked Joshua whether he knew about the preparations of the Kingdom of Sardinia and Austria, and whether they might purchase guns from the United States. When Joshua heard his question, he immediately laughed.

“Scrooge, you really have a good sense of smell. Yes, the Kingdom of Sardinia is preparing for a war with Austria. Well, it’s not difficult to know this. Last time, well, I mean the peace in 1849, everyone knows. It’s just an intermission. But no one knows how long this intermission is—at least, most people don’t know. And you suddenly want to inquire about things in Italy at this time. It seems that you are not here. Among ordinary people. I don’t know how you know this point in time, and I don’t want to inquire about these. Everyone has their own secrets. Rushing to inquire about these will turn your friends into enemies. First of all, let’s discuss you together. I hope you can get something in this war and what help you hope to get from me. Then, we will come to seriously discuss how we should cooperate.”

“What I hope is of course to get more orders. In the last war between the Kingdom of Sardinia and Austria, the two sides used more than 100,000 troops. In this, even if only one side uses my rifle, even if only one-third. One or even one-fifth of the rifles are produced by my company, and I can also make a lot of money.” Scrooge said, “Besides, I think after the last war, maybe this time. The scale will be further expanded.”

“You seem to say a little bit less.” Joshua added, “You still want to make your rifle reputation through this battle. In United States, even if your rifle is very good, because of cost considerations, United States It is also difficult for the army to equip your rifle for the time being. But European countries are different from the United States, which basically has no foreign threats. Wars between them are more frequent. The contradictions between each other are sharp. Britain and France, Austria and Prussia, Austria and Russia, wait, wait, they are more likely to pay for a relatively expensive rifle. I think this market is what you really care about.”

“This is a longer-term plan.” Scrooge replied.

“However, most powerful countries will not tolerate that own guns are totally dependent on imports. They will definitely require patent authorization and technology transfer. What is your attitude toward this?” Joshua took the school’s vision Looking at Scrooge.

“This concern is completely understandable.” Scrooge said, “Besides, I can’t afford such a large market anyway. Besides, even if I refuse to authorize, those countries really don’t. Will it be imitated? For example, if the British imitated MacDonald 1857, can I still expect the United States Navy to get justice back to me? The federal government may not gnaw a bit. As long as they are willing to pay for each rifle Give me a bit of patent fees. In addition, I cannot transfer related technology to any organization or individual in other countries, and I cannot sell these guns on the international market and civilian market without my authorization. Of course, regarding the final At all, it is not impossible to discuss.”

In this era, the bolt-action rear-loading rifle is definitely a big killer. Once its effect is confirmed in the war, I am afraid that its copycats will appear everywhere in the world. Those big countries don’t care about things like intellectual property in this kind of thing. Not to mention the great powers of that era. In the 21st century, Shen Hoy went to the Komsomolsk on the Amur River to take a look. He became pregnant when he came back and gave birth to a lot of J-11B, J-16 and so on. of. The Russians can’t just protest a few words, there is no way at all, and they can’t even stop you from watching. In this era, those big countries will only be more unscrupulous. So Scrooge felt that it might as well simply sell the patent right.

“Well, you are very good.” Joshua said, “You are not dazzled by money. You know the limits of your strength and know how to advance and retreat. It’s not easy.” He paused, then said:

“Both the Kingdom of Sardinia and France have economic contacts with our family. The Kingdom of Sardinia is indeed making financial preparations for the war. We have provided them with some financing services. So if we are willing to recommend you to them This rifle, I believe that the possibility of making this sale will be great. However, I do it with conditions.” Joshua said.

“I understand, what are your conditions?” Scrooge asked.

“Macdonald’s rifle agency in Europe.” Joshua stared into Scrooge’s eyes and said.

Scrooge considered it for a while and asked, “Do you need a few years of agency rights? What other models are involved?”

From this answer, Joshua understood that Scrooge thought his asking price was a little higher. But this is nothing, business talks were originally done through bargaining.

“Scrooge, in fact, entrusting your company’s products to us will never let you lose. Our advantage in financing will make more countries in Europe willing to buy your products and patents. This is compared to yours. Do it on my own, the speed of opening the market, and the final profit will be much higher. For example, I am now confident that I will sell more than 50,000 rifles in Europe within this year. Double this number on a yearly basis. Even in the process, we will earn another share of the money, but I’m sure that you can make more money by entrusting our agent to it than by doing it yourself, or by looking for someone else’s agent. Earn more.” Joshua said sincerely.

Scrooge knew that Joshua was right, but it was very dangerous to give the sales channels to others at any time. This is tantamount to putting one’s own lifeline in the hands of others, so that one must rely on others to survive. And this almost means that the other person can do whatever they want with you. Such a condition cannot be promised anyhow.

“Mr. Joshua, you mentioned just now that some powerful countries will not tolerate own’s main weapons being completely dependent on imports, and the reason they cannot tolerate this is not because of price issues, right? I think, for a company There will be similar persistence.” Scrooge replied after considering the language.

Joshua looked at Scrooge and said slowly: “You know, this will make your pace a lot slower.”

“But it will also be a lot more stable. Moreover, blindly seeking quickness will often only die halfway. Only seeing the small interests in front of you will not be able to achieve great things.” Scrooge replied.

Joshua suddenly laughed: “Scrooge, I didn’t expect your reading to be so extensive, even the famous sayings of Chinese people! A country refuses to let its main weapons come from imported oil as a prerequisite. This premise is-this is a country with great ambitions; a company can no longer rely solely on a business partner in its sales channels. There is also a premise, that is, the company’s leaders have high ambitions. I admit, I just said During the negotiation, I had some bad ideas. Of course, this is only a bad idea for aspiring entrepreneurs. Many businessmen, ah, we don’t mention these past things. We are now, Let’s just talk about this business in the Kingdom of Sardinia—well, our family supports France, and France now supports Sardinia. And Sardinia is also a country that can accept the full import of rifles—Scott Would you consider selling rifles to Austria first?”

“At least not for now. Only the weak and eager for revenge who has experienced failure is more willing to accept new things.” Scrooge said.

“The French also hope to sell rifles to Sardinians, and their rifle companies also have contact with us. So if you want me to support you, you must show some sincerity.”

“I can transfer the relevant patent use rights to a company you specify on the most favorable terms. However, their weapons using my patent are limited to domestic sales and cannot enter the international market…”

Two days later, the two sides reached an agreement. Rothschild obtained the exclusive right to sell McDonald’s rifles to the Kingdom of Sardinia within ten years. At the same time, McDonald’s Infantry Weapons Company will send a group of staff to Italy to be responsible for various after-sales work of weapons. Of course, these dispatched personnel also have two important tasks: 1. Establish some basic bases in Europe and try to establish contacts with potential customers in Europe; 2. Sell the various services of Heishui to the Italians.