How to occupy a larger share of the American market is a question that Seryosha and the Gorky financial group must face in order to survive.
It is precisely because the United States is the most mature capitalist market in the world that in addition to the emerging high-tech industries, whether it is the energy industry, the manufacturing industry, or the financial industry, it has long been carved up by those big conglomerates.
As a participant in the game, the Gorky consortium will inevitably snatch a part of the market and interests from these consortiums.
The difficulty of this can be imagined.
The Gorky consortium was involved in a lot of money laundering business in the initial stage, and in any case, these things were like a bomb that could bring disaster to the Gorky consortium at any time.
If we want to completely whitewash the Gorky Brotherhood and turn it into a legitimate conglomerate recognized by others, and participate in the distribution of interests in the United States under the sun, we must forge our own way in the American market, which has been carved up by the American conglomerates, and expand our control and influence as much as possible.
The Gorky consortium is now the largest in the UK, controlling more than half of the UK's water, gas, and electricity markets.
Basically every British family is contributing profits to the Gorky consortium.
In Germany, the Gorky consortium controls half of the German automobile industry, and more than one-tenth of West German workers work for the Gorky consortium.
In Italy, the Gorky consortium and the mafia monopolized the shipping industry throughout the Mediterranean, and also indirectly controlled the domestic gas market and foreign trade market.
In addition, the Gorky consortium is also gradually infiltrating the socialist camp in Eastern Europe, which is about to undergo change, and these Gorky consortiums alone have no rivals in Europe.
But Europe is not the center of the world after all, and no matter how Seryosha tosses in Europe, he will not be able to truly achieve absolute security.
So Seryosha's ultimate goal is to gain a foothold in the United States.
A year earlier, Seryosha had bought Enron, a major little-known energy company, with the help of Blackstone, and retained the company's management.
Seryosha bought the company because he knew it would grow into the world's largest energy company and energy trading platform, and eventually went bankrupt overnight due to financial fraud.
But how Enron grew from a small company in Texas to the world's largest energy giant in a decade is not clear to Seryosha.
It was only recently that Enron CEO Kenneth Ray imported large quantities of cheap gas from Europe that Seryosha was inspired.
Kennethray's business strategy was simple: he successfully converted the fuel of traditional thermal power plants from coal to natural gas by retrofitting his power plants.
It is also transported directly to the power plant through a gas pipeline.
In today's world, natural gas has not yet replaced coal as the mainstream energy source.
But because natural gas is a clean energy source and is favored by environmental groups, the transformation has been an economic success and has earned Enron a good social reputation.
Seryosha was inspired by Kennethray's desire to buy and renovate more power plants, and that electricity is the basic driving force of industry, and that controlling electricity is equivalent to controlling American industry.
And Kenneth Reey's Enron seems to be the right key for the Gorky Group to open up the American market.
Seryosha now controls a large amount of natural gas resources, not only in the Soviet Union, but also in the United States.
Occidental Petroleum is, after all, one of the top 10 oil industry conglomerates in the United States.
Just after the death of Comrade Hammer last year, the entire Occidental Petroleum Company became an enterprise completely controlled by the Gorky Financial Group.
With the help of Comrade Hammer's life's work, Seryosha not only owned a large number of oil and natural gas fields, but also had a mature petrochemical and chemical industry chain, in addition to the fact that Western Petroleum was also the largest beef cattle producer in the United States, which made Seryosha the largest rancher in the United States.
Now it seems that the combination of Occidental Petroleum's natural gas fields in North America and Enron will lead to a clean energy revolution in the U.S. electricity market.
This is Seryosha's rare opportunity to control the U.S. electricity market.
Seryosha could have quietly hid behind the scenes to manipulate all this.
He can donate money to environmental groups to protest at power plants that still refuse to renovate and continue to use coal.
Don't underestimate the power of these civil society groups, they represent the vote in the United States, and the vote is the lifeblood of politicians.
These environmental groups can drive politicians to pass environmental bills.
Forcing these coal-fired power plants to switch to natural gas is definitely very beneficial to Enron.
With this in mind, Seryosha asked Karim in the United States and Europe to keep an eye out for suitable environmental groups.
Seryosha can foster these groups through funding.
Karim has become adept at using politics for his own business ends.
Seryosha thinks it may have been inherited from Karim's politician father, Amin.
Since Griffith's election as governor of South Dakota, Karim has applied the model of fostering political agents to North Dakota, Iowa, and Alabama.
Karim seeks out potential politicians to provide them with campaign funds to gain proxies, and when these politicians are elected, they naturally return the favor to Karim's businesses.
In this way, Monsanto's seed products have succeeded in dominating the seed market in these states.
But it's not enough to just do this, Seryosha also has McDonald's, the largest restaurant chain in the United States.
McDonald's is the world's largest buyer of ground beef, tomatoes, cabbage and other agricultural products.
In order to ensure that the taste of each of its restaurants is basically the same, McDonald's has strict restrictions on suppliers.
They can be refined down to the specific details of the environment in which the beef cattle are raised, the feed, etc.
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If you don't raise beef cattle as per McDonald's' requirements, you can't become a supplier to McDonald's.
McDonald's, on the other hand, mandates that there is enough corn and soybeans in the feed.
This is actually expanding the market for Monsanto, after all, there is no corn or soybean production cost that is lower than Monsanto's genetically modified seeds, relying on this series of related businesses, Karim has completed a de facto monopoly in the supposedly free American agricultural market. t1706231537: