Chapter 511: The world has never truly improved, it’s just... we have!
These words were spoken with a complete lack of humanity.
But Larry and several other Jewish bosses actually agreed wholeheartedly. After thousands of years of being driven away and slaughtered, the seeds that remained learned self-preservation. If they were too focused on emotions, perhaps this nation would have long disappeared into the river of history.
But Harry Morgan didn't listen. He stormed out like a wounded quail, roaring angrily as he left.
"Worthless."
The Jewish elder said coldly, glancing around, "Victor wants to develop the economy, and he can't do it without us, just like the world can't do without us. Find someone to talk to him, be polite, and as long as we can make money, whatever rules he sets, we can abide by them."
Larry nodded but then thought for a moment, "Victor seems unfriendly toward the consortium. Out of the ten families in the Mexican Consortium, six have been killed. Plus, he has a bit of a moral obsession. On the list released for the 'Little Saint James Island' incident, quite a few were our people."
The Jewish elder fell silent.
"We should try it."
He looked at the celebration on TV with cloudy and complex eyes, "There's always someone who likes money, isn't there? Even in Cuba, we have our people. Once people have their hearts divided, stuffing it with US Dollars is enough."
As for...
US-Israel conflict?
They hadn't considered it; they were American businessmen.
...
The celebration continued until 2 PM, and the people spontaneously marched on the main road holding portraits and national flags.
The Republic of Mexico established diplomatic relations with 30 countries in one go, exchanging state letters with these nations in front of the world's cameras at the celebration.
No European countries were included, mainly Asian and Middle Eastern nations participated.
This indicates that Mexico in North America is still excluded from the "aristocratic circle" of the Western world in Europe and America.
Victor is not in a hurry; you can join if you want; if not, I'll play alone.
On the same day, at a joint press conference with Rabbit at 7 PM on July 2, it was announced that they would invest 20 billion US Dollars to build power plants, subways, and trams, all entrusted to East University.
This order made the representatives from Europe and America quite envious!
Their eyes turned red...
Didn't they see the East University representative's mouth smile crookedly? Victor at least secured nearly 100 billion US Dollars from him; of course, it wasn't given all at once, but there were land and manpower exchanged. There seemed to be a transaction for profits, but it also skyrocketed their foreign reserves.
Keep in mind that in 1991, East University's foreign exchange reserves net value was: 21.712 billion US Dollars!
Europe wasn't doing well, especially with the economy's worsening stagnation, and the US was taking advantage, with many international brands swallowed up by America during this period.
The Yanks claimed they wanted to be the leader while reaping the companies of their brothers; the weaker subgroups understand that without struggle, they'll be leeched out entirely.
The United Kingdom was a representative of this, wanting to resist but not daring to resist too much.
During this time, a big contract meant a revival chance for many countries domestically, hesitant and unsatisfactory.
Victor didn't bother with them; he was happy now. As long as he secured his basic foundation in Mexico, there was nothing to fear.
The remnants of the celebration continued to linger overhead for the following month.
Within this one month, the government consecutively passed the "Financial Consumption Stimulus Act" and the "Cultivation Act," requiring Mexico's existing cultivated land to increase from 3900 acres to 600 million acres, not to reduce below this red line.
This grain wouldn't be enough to feed 126 million people but could significantly ease the pressure; the rest would be imported from Cuba and East University.
It's easy to conquer; it's hard to rule!
Besides, Victor planned to build fourteen super-large ports, entirely serving maritime trade.
Mexico has plentiful coastlines; look around, damn, this geographical location is enough to make Guangxi people envious, almost like a natural port country, not developing it is simply wasteful. Even with a 20% development, starvation is unlikely.
Every day, new acts are rapidly issued...
Couldn't you just copy?
East University crossed the river by feeling Uncle Sam, Victor crossed by feeling East University, learning and improving mutually, he even merged North and South Lower California States into one, named California State, with a staggering area of 220,000 square kilometers, and established an economic special zone, reducing trade taxes to stimulate the economy.
Of course, these were acts passed, but their implementation would take some time.
But even this, Victor's bold reform scared quite a few countries, Field called several times, worried he might ruin Mexico.
Reforming is not easy!
Just like making BJ people and HB people form City Jingbei together, what do you think the locals would think?
Southern and Northern Lower California States differ greatly in geography and income.
But the topic of reforms in Mexico and Victor soon got overshadowed by the "excitement" next door.
Because Clinton's corpse was discovered!
It's said that a "night runner" or essentially a thief, a Niger, climbed over Clinton's cottage intending to steal something, but found irregularly sunken and buried land at the back of the house, thinking it was treasure.
Once he dug it up, Clinton's rotten corpse, accompanied by a stench, spilled out instantly, scaring the Niger almost into being an India brother, screaming as he called the police.
When the local police arrived and saw it, oh heck, Clinton!
They panicked immediately, trying to seal the leads, but the reporters, who had heard about the murder case at Clinton's former residence, rushed over urgently when they found the deceased was Clinton.