Chapter 12 Letter Twelfth Hell is full of good people

I'm not that stupid to sit back and watch my opponent, even if the strength of a potential opponent increases, is weakening my own strength, or even subverting my own position.My belief is to get there before anyone else.I quickly appointed the shrewd and capable Mr. O'Day to form the American Transportation Company, and launched a self-defense counterattack against the Imperial Company.Thank God, our efforts have paid off. Within a year, we controlled 40% of the oil transportation business in the oil region and suppressed Mr. Potts' attack.But that's just the beginning of my struggles with Mr. Potts.

The people who can get ahead in this world are those who know how to find their ideal environment, and if they can't get it, they will create it themselves. Two years later, a new oil field was discovered in Bradford, Pennsylvania. Mr. O'Day quickly led his people to the place that aroused the dream of making money for thousands of people, and laid oil pipelines to the new oil well day and night.But the guys in the oil field are all crazy and unrestrained, wishing to drain all the oil overnight, and then leave with joy on their faces.Therefore, no matter how hard O'Day and the others try, they cannot meet the needs of transporting and storing oil.

I don't want to see hardworking oil producers digging their own graves and destroying themselves, I ask O'Day to warn oil producers that their production capacity has far exceeded our transportation capacity, and they must scale back production, otherwise, they will mine The black gold that comes out will become worthless black soil.But no one accepted our kindness and advice, and no one appreciated our efforts, but instead condemned us, saying that they dare not take away their oil. Just when the emotions of the oil producers in Bradford were at their peak, Mr. Potts did it.He first demonstrated to me in New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, our oil refining bases, and bought our competitors' oil refineries; shipped to its own refinery.

I appreciate Mr. Potts' guts and would rather accept his challenge to undo my dominance in the refining business, but I must get him out of the refining business. I first called on Mr. Scott, the big old version of the Penn Railroad, and I told him straight up that Mr. Potts was a poacher, he was breaking into our property, and we had to stop him.But Scott was stubborn, determined to let Potts' banditry continue.I have no choice but to fight this mighty enemy. First of all, we terminated all business dealings with the Penn Railway. I instructed my subordinates to transfer the transportation business to the two major railway companies that have always supported us firmly, and asked them to lower freight rates, compete with the Penn Railway, and weaken its strength; at the same time, I ordered the closure All refineries in Pittsburgh that depended on Imperial for transportation; subsequently instructed all their own refineries that were in competition with Imperial to sell refined oil at a price far below that of the other.The Pennsylvania Railway is the largest transportation company in the United States, and Mr. Scott is a giant who holds the power of transportation. They are proud that they have never been conquered.But under my three-dimensional and oppressive style of play, they can only surrender.

To counter me, they go out of their way to give our competitors huge discounts, in other words, they pay someone else for their service.Then they resorted to an unpopular move -- laying off employees and cutting wages.Scott and Potts did not expect that this would soon lead to punishment. In order to vent their dissatisfaction, the angry workers set fire to hundreds of their tank trucks and more than a hundred locomotives, forcing them to file a complaint with the Wall Street bank. family emergency loans.As a result, not only did the shareholders of Penn Railway not receive dividends, but the stock price plummeted.As a result of their duel with me, their pockets are getting cleaner.

Mr. Potts is worthy of being a soldier. He fought for the rank of colonel in the smoke of life and death. He has an admirable indomitable willpower. Therefore, he still wants to continue to fight me when the victory has already been won. .But Mr. Scott, who also has a military career, although he was the most powerful and authoritarian figure before, he knows better about current affairs. He decisively lowered his mighty head and sent someone to tell I, very much hope to make peace and stop the refining business. I know that Colonel Potts wanted to prove himself against the great Moses, but he failed, he failed utterly.A few years later, Potts gave up the desire to fight me and became an active and hardworking director of one of my companies.This shrewd and slippery oil dealer!

Arrogance usually brings down people.Scotts and Potts and their ilk have always been proud of their noble birth, so my heart dances when I successfully tame these arrogant strong asses. John, I like winning, but I don't like doing whatever it takes to get it.Victory at any cost is not victory. The ugly means of competition are disgusting. It is tantamount to a prison. It may never be surpassed. Even if you win one victory, you may lose the chance to win again in the future. And following the rules does not mean that the determination to pursue victory must be lowered, but it means that a clear victory is won in a moral way, and it also means that within this limit, the pursuit of victory is fair and ruthless.I hope you can do this.

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