Chapter 1345 - Counterattack Capital Plan
After preparing for so long, how could Tony not even know who was plotting to kill him behind his back?
He knew very well the identities of those guys in his heart, and now he had spent so much time just to make these guys completely public. Let more people know their true colors, so that he can use the most straightforward means to deal with them. And in terms of the means to deal with them, he has actually arranged them a long time ago.
The capitalists reacted quickly, and after seeing their names appear in the courtroom on live television, they already wanted to run away. With their financial resources and resources, as long as they can escape from the United States, then no matter how powerful the Stark government is, it is impossible to easily capture them back.
Governments will not allow the United States to reach into their territory casually. The local forces will definitely create obstacles for them at all levels. So the best thing to do is to catch these guys before they get out of the country, and that's what the Stark government is doing right now.
The agents who have been hiding on the side for a long time, plus the intelligent machines that suddenly killed. Their thunderous tactics made it impossible for these rebellious capitalists to escape. I was almost lucky enough to be caught in my own home. And the luckiest ones didn't escape the U.S. border unscathed.
As many of his teammates as Governor Arnold betrayed in court, as many unlucky eggs fell to the Stark government. Although they cannot be regarded as the core of the consortium forces, at most they can only be regarded as part of the backbone. But in any case, such a large group of people were taken down by the Stark government in such a name, which was a heavy blow to the consortium.
You know, these capitalists are not tough guys. It is simply impossible to expect them to keep their mouth shut in the hands of the Stark government. If it had been before, they would have been able to use the capital in their hands to form a luxurious team of lawyers to fight lawsuits against the government to ensure their safety and interests. But now, in Tony. Stark didn't intend to fight them against them in the light of the previous laws and regulations, and it would be in vain to do so. They have to give in, and they have to wag their tails and beg for mercy from the Stark government. As a result, the power of the consortium will be dealt a heavier blow.
Many people know and understand this in their hearts. So while they are not involved in it now, many people have begun to plan and prepare to secretly escape from the United States today.
It's not their paradise anymore. Staying in this place now can only be a target for the Stark government. Maybe one day, a large group of intelligent machines will come to the door and escort them out as if they were criminals. They are men with heads and faces, but they can't afford to suffer such a toss. And besides, who can be sure that if you get in, you will be able to get out safely? So they have to go, and they have to go as soon as possible.
But before leaving, they must be embarrassing the Stark government a bit. No matter how bad it is, they have to let the Stark government know what kind of fate it will be for those who offend them openly.
With this in mind, they have been operating secretly since the end of the trial. And when they left the United States, almost the entire capitalist market in the United States shook because of their actions.
Their action is simple, that is, layoffs, crazy layoffs.
High-tech industries such as IT companies are fine, but they have high basic requirements for employees, and layoffs will not be able to lay off these high-tech employees. And those factories are not the same as ordinary enterprises. For large companies like them, it is difficult to escape the situation of redundancy. First, because they need to sell the government's face to meet the government's policy needs at the cost of providing more jobs. Second, because they themselves also have to embody a certain sense of social responsibility in the society, so that they can better make their enterprises bigger and stronger.
And now, because of Tony's action, they no longer need to maintain this superficial façade. So almost unceremoniously, they just laid off a lot of redundant personnel.
Not just layoffs, they began shutting down factories in the United States and moving them to other countries. You must know that in the past, because of the expensive labor problem in the United States, it was no longer a cost-effective thing to open a factory in the United States. If it weren't for the fact that successive U.S. governments have been very strict about this issue, and even did not hesitate to introduce policies requiring these local American companies to set up factories in China, they would have moved their factories to the third world with cheap labor.
And now, the Stark government's move just gave them an excuse. It's already torn up, so of course they don't care about anything on the surface anymore. Those who should go, those who should retreat. Nothing left, just a mess for the Stark government to see how he cleans up.
I have to say that this is a ruthless move. It was ruthless to the point of injuring 1,000 enemies and injuring 800 of itself. But to tell the truth, when the consortium is injured, their combined background is much thicker than that of the current United States. Even if they keep dragging on like this, they can drag the whole of America into the abyss.
The Stark government is capable, but it is absolutely impossible for him to dictate the rules of the financial markets. Because this is no longer the rule of one country, but the rule of the whole world. Unless the Stark government dares to play the game of closing the country or fighting against the whole world. Otherwise, it would have been absolutely impossible for him to play on this with the consortium alliance formed by the capitalist forces.
This is a ploy to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, and it is also a desperate ploy used by the capital consortium forces against the Stark government. They don't need to think about it to know that if this trick is used, the entire Stark government will definitely be in a hurry. If it is dealt with, at most, it will maintain the situation in front of it, and there is no possibility of rising. If it is not handled well, then maybe the entire US economy will collapse and directly fall into a second-rate country. In the past, the Soviet Union, and now Russia are a good reference.
The USSR collapsed because of economic problems. Although Russia has strong political and military strength, its economy has been weak, and the people's lives are deteriorating. These are all living examples. They proved that politico-military cannot change economic problems, and the same applies to the United States. The U.S. economy is dominated by capitalists like them, so when they start playing this game, the U.S. government will inevitably have a hard time parrying it.
Of course, they are actually very uncomfortable. Because it is their interests that are lost in doing so. The longer it drags on, the greater their interests will be lost. Unlike the U.S. government, which can do this kind of thing under pressure and without interest, they can't do it.
They have a congenital disadvantage over the government, and that is that their alliance is not so strong. Capitalists build alliances based on their interests, and even if they belong to the same consortium, it is inevitable that some dirty things will occur when their interests are affected. Now, perhaps, the consortium can rely on its influence and authority to force these members to obey their arrangements. But after a long time, even they themselves don't have much confidence that these allies who are at peace with themselves because of their interests will not fall apart.
The issue of interests is the key, so when they withdrew from the United States, they had already begun to plan how to open up a new market for interests.
The elder Morgan had already prepared for this. In his vision, the continental United States was already a territory that had been abandoned and shelved.
In the past few decades, the reason why the United States has been able to become a paradise for consumers and a market for major enterprises in the world to enter is entirely because the United States itself has a unique soil for the development of capital power. The affluence of the country's citizens and the internal capital environment are the basic reasons that make it such a special country. And now the problem is that these advantages of the United States are no longer there.
After the near-catastrophic blow and their massive actions, the entire US economy has fallen into a state of weakness. The affluence of the people will inevitably be affected. The most typical example is that the lending procedures of major US banks have begun to climb higher and stricter. This is definitely a great factor affecting the prosperity of the people.
You know, Americans basically rely on bank loans to complete their consumption. Once banks tighten up their vetting procedures, they will never be able to spend as much as they used to. Coupled with the current wave of layoffs and capital delisting in the United States, it is simply a question of whether the people can continue to be prosperous.
Morgan Sr. had already guessed this day, so he had long been planning to withdraw from the American market and find another place to open up. His target was the country across the ocean, but he knew in his heart that now was not the best time for them to break into that country.
Different government standards and different market conditions are the biggest obstacles in front of them. Blindly plunging headlong, even with the huge scale of their consortium, will inevitably hit the head and break the blood. Because it was the most powerful government in the world today, a country that used to be a country against the world. In the territory where the state controls the market, they are dragons and tigers. Unless he was stupid, he would never have made such a stupid decision. So obviously, they can only figure it out slowly.
And if they talk about it, then they must find a place to settle down now. This is not a problem for the American consortium, because they have found a target, and they are quite ready for it.
South Korea's chaebols are their target.