America 1945: Tycoon of Fortune

A successful businessman usually succeeds by chance. You are in a lot of trouble before you even start. If this kind of person can succeed, it is really a joke. Please take a look at the development history of each business tycoon. It was quite easy in the beginning. It is not as complicated as you. If Jack Ma started like this, there would be no Taobao.

Watch a white-skinned guy rise to become a business tycoon? What's the point?

Is there support for domestic plots? If so, I won't watch it.

What if you could understand a little bit about the American system? The federal government can't order the states below, and the states can't order the cities below. If MacArthur is defeated, he can't live in big cities? Ha Not only do you not understand the United States, you don't even understand Desmond. Do you know how famous he is as the first person to receive the Medal of Honor without holding a weapon? In America, reputation is all wealth

The guy next door started out following Capone's route and went crazy writing. I hope you, who use Once Upon a Time in America as a template, won't go crazy too. There is no need to write so many conspiracies in the early stage. With the starting identity of the protagonist, except for the fact that he cannot take the political and intellectual route and the bottom line in the early stage, no one will cause trouble for him. You have written that the protagonist has won more than 20 military awards. Don't treat people like fools. You don't even do any investigation, but just come up and kill people?

Shennong's comment: The writing is quite smooth, but the tone at the beginning is high, which is a bit inexplicable, which makes the whole thing look dull, slow to react, and lacks a sense of refreshment. In the era of wild expansion, the protagonist needs violence to cooperate with Zhengxing. The so-called harmony between Zhengqi and Zhengqi, this protagonist has something that he is not good at. Compete with others, use business methods that you have absolutely no resistance to compete with, and give up your own force to compete. It can be said that the dark side of the United States or any country is unavoidable. Why not develop your own dark side of force at the same time, and cooperate with your own actions, and those decent people will talk to you.

I can't say it's not good to watch, but the story is too long-winded and complicated. The story of a small character at the beginning contains too much description and does not reflect the character of the protagonist

I didn't pay much attention to it because the war was over. Why was there so much murder and conspiracy everywhere when I returned to the United States? Although I don't have a good impression of Americans, are you exaggerating? Normal veterans will be hunted down at any time. What is going on?

Character's name; Walker Taft, a native of Ohio, USA, character's age; about the same age as the protagonist or three to five years older than the protagonist, character's family background; Walker was born in the Taft family, the top family in the United States. The founder of the family, Alfonso Taft, was the U. S. Secretary of War in 1875 and the Attorney General in 1876. At the same time, Alfonso Taft is also one of the founders of the American Skull and Bones Society, so the Taft family is also one of the important families in the Skull and Bones Society. Walker's grandfather was William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States, and Walker's father was the leader of the Republican Senate in the 1930s and 1940s. Robert Alfonso Taft, who was once rated as one of the five greatest senators in the United States and known as Mr. Republican, died in 1953. Robert Alfonso had five children whose names and occupations are unknown. Walker is the youngest son of Robert Alfonso Taft. Walker's second uncle, Charles Phelps Taft, was elected mayor of Cincinnati in 1955 and was very prestigious in Cincinnati. He died in 1983. Walker's aunt, Helen Herron Taft, was a professor at the Yale School of Law and History. Oh, by the way, the Taft family also produced a first deputy secretary of defense during the Reagan era in the 1980s and even served as the acting defense secretary for three months Character personality: bold and enthusiastic, calm and decisive, careful thinking, cynical, character camp; the Taft family has a tradition of joining the military, so Walker and the protagonist met in World War II and were old comrades in the same army. The protagonist saved Walker's life and the two became good friends. The relationship between the two is excellent. The Taft family's main business industries are machinery and media. Walker and the protagonist retired from the army one after another. After Walker came to the protagonist, Walker also became one of the protagonist's important partners in starting a business. Walker also became one of the protagonist's right-hand men. Walker was also one of the protagonist's important resources. Walker and the protagonist were lifelong friends and partners. By the way, it would be difficult for the protagonist to marry the protagonist's sister with Walker's family background. I feel that marrying the protagonist's sister is about the same. If Walker can't marry the protagonist's sister, then replace him with someone else. If you don't find a suitable one, I'll find one myself.

Speechless (ー_ー)!! Why don't you get rid of enemies immediately when you know there are enemies? In this era, the first pot of gold for businessmen is bloody. If you want to make money, don't you have to be completely evil? Speechless(ー_ー)!!

The writing is good. If the quality continues, at least it will be a hit.

Although America 1919 had various problems in the early stages, there were no problems with the overall structure of the consortium, and there were no problems with the relationship between the consortium and the government. Although America 1995 mainly writes Internet articles, and the format is a bit small, this book also explains the relationship between various American states and Washington, and how to use state governments to fight against Washington. How to use the White House against Congress, and how to use Congress against the President. Author, don't be stupid. It is impossible for the United States to have a centralized figure, except for Roosevelt during World War II.

Taylor: The bank of a group of merchants turned into a bank of merchants The predecessor of Citibank was the New York branch of the First Bank of the United States, which was founded in 1791. In 1812, Samuel? Osgood reorganized it into the "City Bank of New York" - Citibank's early official name. In June 1812, Citibank was incorporated with an authorized capital of US$2 million and a paid-in capital of US$800,000. When it was first founded, the board members of Citibank were all big businessmen, which turned the original Citibank into a tool for them to provide credit financing for their own businesses. The bank director-related loans were "large in scale and had many defaults." In February 1814, for example, 12 of Citibank's 750 customers, or 12 bank directors, accounted for a quarter of the bank's total loans. Citibank's state of being "owned by and serving a group of businessmen continued until 1837. A financial crisis in 1837 brought Citibank to the brink of bankruptcy. In the end, the bank was rescued by Mr. John Jacob Astor, the richest man in the United States at the time and a real estate investor in Manhattan. Mr. Astor sent his representative Moses Taylor to serve as a director of Citibank. Taylor was a model of self-made man from poverty to wealth in that era. He single-handedly created a huge business empire integrating industry and finance: 1 commercial enterprise, 5 railroad companies, 3 financial companies including Citibank, 2 public utility companies and 1 communications company. Taylor served as a director of Citibank from 1837 to 1856, 18 years later. He served as president from 1856 to 1882. As a businessman and industrialist, Taylor transformed Citibank into a "bank owned by and for one merchant" (mainly controlled by Taylor and mainly serving Taylor's personal business empire, so that Citibank during this period did not have its own identity). In 1856, Taylor transformed Citibank from the Bank of New York into the National Bank of the United States. , The official name was changed to "National City Bank of New York." Taylor died in 1882, and his son-in-law Payne, who had been a director of Citibank since 1869, took over as president for nine years. Tyler, who took over Citibank during the financial crisis in 1837, left an important legacy to Citibank: "consistently conservative financial strategy" - cash strategy (Ready). Money), which enabled Citibank to "take risks" in many subsequent financial crises and stride forward over the corpses of failed banks. During the administration of Taylor and Payne, the United States had three banking crises in 1857, 1873 and 1884. In each crisis, Citibank's reputation for safety and reliability increased greatly. The crisis made Citibank the largest bank in New York City with $29.7 Million in assets, and the largest bank in the United States the following year. Stillman: Creating a Professional Manager Management Structure In 1891, the Citibank board of directors selected James Stillman, then 41, as president. Until this time, Citibank's management structure was still very limited. Simple: It is still a board of directors composed of a dozen businessmen each with their own business, and there is only one president and cashier as a full-time executive. Both Stillman and Taylor regard Citibank as a tool to support the development of their personal business empires. The difference is that Taylor is an industrialist, so he runs the bank like an industrialist, while Stillman is a financier and also uses finance. Perhaps this difference made Stillman the first person to start a professional manager to manage Citibank. After Stillman became president, he continued to increase his holdings of Citibank shares by purchasing from other shareholders and increasing capital for Citibank, starting from 1.1% And increasing to 1.1% In February 1892. 6.6%. In that era when there was no mature professional manager system, it was a very popular and reasonable corporate governance model for the owner-manager to purchase a large number of shares from the original owner and become the new owner-manager. It enabled the business owners-managers who were retiring or abdicating to realize the value of their businesses, and also enabled the new owners-managers to obtain a controlling share of the business. This dual transition of ownership and management forces the new managers of the enterprise to take care of the interests of the original owners while connecting their own interests with the enterprises they manage. During the 18 years from 1891 to 1909, when Stillman served as president, Citibank made rapid progress in its late-starting investment banking business, leading and participating in a large number of securities underwriting and corporate restructuring activities. Stillman was expanding the scope of banking business. Like Morgan, he reorganized many other companies and sat on their boards. At the same time, he also chose to reorganize and expand Citibank's board of directors. He also chose to introduce Mr. John Rockefeller to the Citibank board of directors, replacing the representatives of the Taylor-Payne family business with American industry giants, and also made Citibank at that time the capital settlement center of Rockefeller's Standard Oil. In 1909, Citibank was first established. After retiring from the position of bank president, Mr. Stillman became the chairman of the bank's board of directors. It can be said that the chairman of the board of directors of Citibank was a title created by Stillman as he stepped down as a consultant. Frank Vanderlip served as the president of Citibank. He was the first "modern payroll manager" of Citibank's previous presidents. They both held certain shares in Citibank, and were even the largest shareholders, so they did not take a salary at the bank. Vanderlip became president, and Mr. Stillman, the chairman of the board of directors, chose to move to Paris. At this time, the entire American business community, and those industrial tycoons who started their business, began to gradually withdraw from their daily involvement in the company. Management, company managers began to make financial decisions on behalf of company owners, and the personal relationships between tycoons who maintained business transactions gradually turned into relationships between institutions. As president, Vanderlip led Citibank for ten years, developing small and medium-sized enterprise customers in the United States, and at the same time establishing an international branch network to provide good services to large customers (at that time, American industrial companies began to expand overseas). In 1919, Citibank became the first head office in the United States. A bank with assets of $1 billion. In June 1919, Vanderlip resigned because his hope of obtaining a controlling stake in Citibank failed. Stillman's son, James A. Stillman, who had been elected as the second chairman of the board of directors of Citibank after his father's death in 1918, succeeded him as president (John Roy Stillman, the White House chief of staff under President Truman, was also a member of the Stillman family. John Roy Stillman started from 1 From 1946 until President Truman left office in 1953, he served as the White House chief of staff) Stillman Jr. Served until 1921 when Citibank suffered heavy losses in Cuba and resigned. The establishment of modern incentive mechanisms In 1921, Citibank's internal manager, 43-year-old Charles Mitchell, was elected president, and Swenson (a large landowner and entrepreneur in Texas) served as president. The chairman of the board of directors, however, made it clear that Mitchell was the "executive leader" of Citibank. In 1929, Citibank became the world's largest commercial bank. Mitchell resigned from the position of president and became chairman of the board of directors until 1933. Vanderlip left because he could not become an owner of controlling shares like the previous bank presidents, and Stillman Jr. Was unable to operate at the same time. He was not able to lead Citibank for a long time like his father. Without being able to own controlling shares and become owners, how to motivate capable professional managers to create value for shareholders has become an important issue for Citibank to continue to move forward. To this end, Citibank launched a bonus plan called the "Managers Fund" in 1923. The main content of the plan is to distribute the bank's profits in the following three parts: First, according to the bank's shareholder equity. The bank's excess reserves are withdrawn at a rate of 8%, and then dividends are distributed to shareholders at a rate of 16% per share. Finally, a managerial bonus fund is withdrawn at a rate of 20% of the remaining profits and distributed to senior managers at or above the vice president. This plan balances the risks and interests between the owners and managers: the owners provide the managers with a lower limit of compensation in the form of salary, and the managers provide the owners with a guarantee of a minimum dividend ratio. Owners and managers share the remaining profits in a ratio of 80:20. After being established as Citigroup in 1998, the company gradually adopted the long-term incentive plan that is commonly used in large American companies to grant restricted stocks and stock options to directors and senior managers. Since Mitchell, except when Perkins served as chairman of the board between 1933 and 1940, the chairman of Citibank's board of directors has always been C after retiring. The EO is held by a professional manager. However, under the strong leadership of the board of directors and an effective incentive mechanism, the professional managers who led Citibank produced continuous and stable returns for shareholders. In the third quarter of 1991, Citibank suffered a loss of US$885 million, resulting in Citibank shareholders not receiving a quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share for the first time since it began paying dividends in 1813. From Citibank. Bank to Citigroup, Back to basic banking after the crisis To bypass federal regulations restricting banking activities, Citibank established a bank holding company, First National City Corporation, in 1968. In addition to owning Citibank, which was then called First National City Bank, it also engaged in business activities other than commercial banking. At that time, several other major U. S. Banks also established similar bank holding companies. Widely recognized by consumers, First National City Corporation was renamed Citigroup in 1974, and First National City Bank was renamed Citibank. In 1998, Citigroup and Travelers Group merged into Citigroup. The company became the world's largest financial services group with total assets of US$698 billion, known as the "Global Financial Supermarket." John Reed, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Citigroup and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Travelers Group Sandy Weill co-led the new company as co-chairman of the board. In November 1999, Citigroup became the first financial holding group in the United States to own both banking and insurance businesses. In 2000, Reed, who lost the power struggle, became chairman and CEO. In October 2002, Charles Prince took over as chairman of the board of directors.

You will be able to control the president in Chapter 200, and it will be over in Chapter 300.

In the new book issue, it is very important to read it. I beg you all to read it. Thank you. There are 100,000 saved manuscripts, but for the sake of recommendation, we cannot distribute all the new books. The author is just an ordinary person, and relies on inquiry for many points. If there is anything wrong, you are welcome to point it out reasonably and discuss it rationally. Please do not express emotions.

Why don't the author read it himself after writing? This has happened once or twice. Reading is good.

The author, McDonald's and Coca-Cola can also do it.

After "Spreading Flowers", will there be any extras? There was a lot to write about during the Cold War, such as the Vietnam War, the Afghanistan War, etc.

Isn't it a bad eunuch? If not, I'll order them all

Author, do you have any plans for a new book?

In many places, your punctuation marks have broken one sentence into two sentences. It's so weird to read.

It's getting better now. It turns out that after I finished watching it, I was always among the first 100 people to finish it. Now I don't get any prompts anymore. Come on.

Ah? ? ? ? This is the end

It's okay, but it's too old and it's from a foreign country, so the sense of immersion is a bit lacking.

This kind of foreign novel would be more attractive with a little introduction of China at that time.

Didn't I say I would write it in early May? It's almost midday now

Are you looking forward to what will happen after MacArthur is beaten?