Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Story of the Chaebol

What's even funnier is that five countries were born on just one clone archipelago, and the one with the largest population among these five countries has only three thousand people, and the remaining four are even worse off, with basically only about a thousand people each.

The main reason why the monarchs of these five countries went to that crappy place called the Clone Islands to establish their countries was that the islands there were cheap.

These five people did not really want to develop their own country. The main reason they created this country was to communicate with other businessmen from the Ugly Country.

After all, these businessmen from the Ugly Country now always carry the title of King of a certain country or Grand Duke of a certain country when they go out. If they cooperate with others without these titles on their heads, wouldn't they be inherently inferior to others?

Speaking of this war between the Morgan Kingdom and the Carnegie Kingdom.

Sun Tong had heard about this incident when he was still in Africa, but he was not very interested in what was happening in South America, so he didn't find out much about what happened.

"Father, the reason why Morgan and Carnegie are fighting this time is mainly related to their business in the Ugly Country."

"Tell me more about it?"

"In fact, the dispute between the two families began in 1898 when the Ugly Kingdom and the Bullfighting Kingdom fought. At that time, the Carnegie family repelled the Morgan family's invasion of the steel and railway systems, but the feud between the two families also began from that commercial competition. Over the years, the two families have been secretly trying to trip each other up, especially since the two families met in South America at the same time. As one of the strongest countries among the hundreds of countries in South America, the Morgan Kingdom and the Carnegie Kingdom have fought many times overtly and covertly over the years. A few years ago, the Carnegie Kingdom discovered several large mineral deposits in its territory, including not only iron ore and copper mines, but also two super-large gold mines. After discovering this mineral deposit, the Carnegie Kingdom immediately invited several neighboring kingdoms to jointly develop these mineral resources, but during this period, the Carnegie Kingdom alone did not look for the Morgan Kingdom, which made the relationship between the two countries even more tense."

"and then?"

"It just so happened that at this time, the Morgan Kingdom discovered two super-large oil fields. Because the investment required for independent development was too much, the Morgan Kingdom also invited several Ugly Country capitals. Previously, these capitals had invested a lot of money in the Carnegie Kingdom. This time, they couldn't take out so much money to invest in the oil company for a while, so they found the Ugly Country government again, hoping to borrow money from the Enemy Country government. The Ugly Country has always regarded South America as its own backyard. It has always been a headache for the Ugly Country to have these domestic chaebols run to South America to establish a country. This time, they finally got an opportunity to intervene in South America, so the Ugly Country government was naturally willing to lend the money to those chaebols, but the problem was that the Enemy Country government couldn't take out so much money for a while, and the banks in the Ugly Country were originally controlled by these chaebols, so the Ugly Country government also counted a lot on domestic banks. At this time, the Ugly Country government could only focus on the domestic infrastructure industry."

"I see. This is touching the Carnegie Foundation's cake!"

After hearing what Sun Jingwen said, Sun Tong finally understood the whole story.

"That's right. After so many years of development, the Carnegie Consortium has now monopolized more than 60% of the Ugly Country's infrastructure industry. This time, the Ugly Country government wants to reduce domestic infrastructure, which is definitely bad news for the Carnegie Consortium. The Carnegie Kingdom is in great need of money right now, and this move by the Ugly Country government is a big blow to them. However, this time, the Carnegie family did not hate the Ugly Country government, but hated the Morgan family instead. Soon after, the Carnegie Kingdom began to constantly pick on the Morgan Kingdom on the grounds that the wanted criminal had fled to the Morgan Kingdom, and then the two countries started fighting."

"Why are you fighting like children? It's been almost a year since these two countries started fighting, right?"

"Yes, it has been ten and a half months."

“Are there specific casualty figures for the two countries?”

"Yes, the military sent observers to both countries after the war broke out. According to statistics, the number of casualties in both countries after the war was not large. Carnegie had about 3,000 people, and Morgan had more, about 5,000 people."

"Both sides are still rational and have not fought each other blindly. They know how to control the scale of the war. So what is the Ugly Country doing now?"

"Speaking of the Ugly Country, I have always found it strange. Ever since Morgan and Carnegie went to war, the Ugly Country has been very quiet. This is quite different from their previous behavior."

"What's so strange about this? Don't forget the backgrounds of Morgan and Carnegie. Although they have established countries in South America, they also lead the big financial groups of the Ugly Country. If the Ugly Country is defeated at this time, who should it side with? In my opinion, it is best for the Ugly Country to remain silent now. When the two countries are almost done fighting, wouldn't it be good for the Ugly Country to jump out and mediate?"