Thomson's eyes grew brighter and brighter as he listened to Doug's description, and he forgot to continue enjoying the steak on the table.

He never thought he could do that.

His idea of opening a steakhouse was not only revealed to Doug alone, almost all the arms merchants who came into contact with him had heard of his idea of a steakhouse.

It's just that none of those people are like Doug.

None of them agreed with his idea of opening a steakhouse, and they all prevaricated him for all sorts of reasons.

Even if any steak is delicious, people with status will not eat it.

What is the economy is not good now, and no one comes when the steakhouse opens.

In short, disappointment on disappointment made him completely disappointed in those arms dealers.

Even, the owner of some weapons company, gave him a sum of money directly, as if he were an insatiable person.

All right......

Truly......

He also doesn't need money, but ......

But!

Doug is different!

This young man, who looked very different, not only did not refute his idea, but also quickly set a plan for the implementation of this idea.

Although, he knew that the implementation plan would not be as easy and perfect as he said.

However, something is better than nothing.

Maybe it will work?

Even if it fails, it is not your own money that is used.

While Thomson's side was calculating the gains and losses, Doug was also calculating.

However, what he cares about is not the gain or loss of money, but what he can gain by winning Thomson through the steakhouse.

New Haven is a place that is not big, but it is never small.

As the heartland of the heartland of the United States, the economy here ranks in the upper reaches of the United States and the world.

Although the militia is not a regular army, it is not in name only, in fact it is a formal army.

For such a team, assembled with a full set of standard weapons, Winchester Arms Company and Whitestone Security Company, this one thing alone is enough for them to be busy for a while.

Regardless of how much money you make for the time being, at least you can become more professional through this "hands-on".

In addition, the fame that can be earned can also be converted into money.

As for the steakhouse itself, although Doug has never made a steakhouse himself, he has seen many fast food restaurants.

Seeing it is not the same as doing it, and it is not the same as being proficient.

However, in this era when the chain fast food model has not yet appeared.

Just one idea can do a lot.

There is no need to face refined competition, and the target audience keeps it fresh.

As long as it goes well, there won't be much loss.

After all, Doug didn't expect a steakhouse to open a full number of outlets all over the world.

Even, Doug thinks that a steakhouse with a few locations in New England or Connecticut is good enough. Presumably, Thomson will be satisfied with this.

Dinner is over.

Doug and Thomson, on both sides of the table, hugged cordially again.

This time, although there was no red wine to garnish the dinner, both of them got what they wanted.

Everyone feels that they are earning, and no one feels that they are losing.

Doug got into his carriage and left Thomson's villa.

It didn't take long for all the arms companies in New Haven to know what the two men were talking about.

It is impossible to keep it secret, and it is impossible to keep it secret in this life.

In Thomson's villa, there are so many servants and the salary is so low, it has long been infiltrated like a sieve by people with a heart.

Don't Thomson know?

Maybe you know.

Perhaps, he also thinks that it is a good thing that he has no secrets around him.

Maybe he's already reaped a lot of benefits from it, but who knows?

No matter in those days, people who could achieve something were not stupid people.

Whether it's the bosses of weapons companies, or the commanders of militias.

Many things that seem unthinkable to outsiders may be precisely what they do on purpose.

After all, the interests of the militia are the interests of the militia, and the interests of the militia commander are the meaning of the militia commander.

Trying to measure the actions of those in power against the interests of the group is often not so accurate.

At the same time, news of the Winchester Arms Company's possession of more high-intensity explosives began to spread rapidly along the lines of communication.

In Delaware, at the DuPont factory next to the Brandy River, there seemed to be a "bang" explosion.

DuPont has been a company for almost 60 years.

In the eighties of the eighteenth century, at the age of sixteen, DuPont was apprenticed in the laboratory of Lavoissy in France, where he quickly learned how to synthesize explosives.

Four years later, he left France and immigrated to Delaware, where he bought a plot of land on the banks of the Brandy River and began building a gunpowder factory.

Thanks to the aura of Lavoissi's laboratory, he raised more than $360,000 in the United States in the early nineteenth century.

With these funds, he suddenly became the largest gunpowder manufacturing company in the United States.

After another two years, DuPont finally began mass-producing and selling gunpowder.

Another year later, the first batch of gunpowder was exported to Spain.

By the 10s of the 19th century, the annual production of gunpowder had exceeded 200,000 pounds, and the annual sales exceeded 120,000 US dollars.

However, after entering the fifties of the nineteenth century, DuPont's life was not so good.

Although gunpowder can still be sold a lot every year, the explosives that European scientists began to try have begun to erode the market of DuPont.

Gunpowder and explosives, albeit belonging to the same class of products.

However, explosives are more powerful than gunpowder. The explosion is also more powerful.

If it weren't for the existing explosives, which had many problems with the safety of transportation, there would be even fewer markets for gunpowder.

But despite the crisis, DuPont has little to do to respond.

This is despite the fact that DuPont, like other chemical companies, was initiated and founded by chemists.

However, it is not the same as those companies in Europe that are wholly owned by chemists. At the beginning of the construction of DuPont, it obtained construction capital in the form of raising shares.

Over the past few decades, the market for gunpowder has been particularly good.

Whether it is domestic sales or foreign sales, they have been relatively stable.

In this case, a problem is encountered.

It's the capitalists who hold stocks who think chemists are useless.

They even felt that it was unnecessary for chemists to spend so much money every year on new gunpowder.

The money invested in research is not as good as our dividends.

While the founder, DuPont, was still around, the situation could still be somewhat contained.

But when he died and his children took his place, things changed.

The capitalists began to use various methods to increase their profits.

There are only two ways to increase profits, one is to make more money and the other is to save more expenses.

The global trade in gunpowder has been maintained at a relatively stable baseline.

Since there is no way to continue to expand the market, it is better to save money.

Funding for scientific research has been cut, and so have hired people.

A large number of researchers and workers who broke away from DuPont decided to build their own factories and become their own masters.

How could the DuPont capitalists, who had already eaten enough sweetness in the gunpowder market, allow such factories to be established and encroach on their own markets.

As a result, as long as the scientific researchers and workers who set up their own factories will die one after another.

DuPont doesn't hide much about this, after all, with DuPont's current size, he has de facto monopolized the gunpowder market in the United States, so what is he doing hiding his intentions?

Even, once this kind of lying down to make money has formed inertia, when they know that there are scientists in Europe who have developed explosives that are much superior to gunpowder, they still maintain the status quo.

Why sit if you can lie down?

Why stand if you can sit?

Whoever stands in the way of me lying down will be destroyed!

And now, under DuPont's active exploration, perhaps the owner of some weapons factories in New Haven, took the initiative to leak. The Winchester Arms Company, which had very strong explosives, was known to DuPont.

DuPont's leadership didn't make a very detailed decision.

They were going to send out their guards to oppress the workers internally and destroy their rivals externally.

They were going on an "expedition" to eliminate those who threatened them in New Haven.

However, the arrogant DuPont did not block the news.

When Drake informed Doug of the news, Doug said that he already knew that Dupont was coming.

Doug looked at the worried Drake and comforted, "Don't you believe in our strength?"

"It's not that I don't believe it, but at that time, DuPont! They were going to blow up the whole factory, which they thought was an adversary. Everybody's tied to the dynamite, and it's going to blow up to the sky!" Drake said with exaggerated hands and feet.

Drake was not afraid of death, nor was he afraid of war, but he was afraid of cruelty like DuPont.

When Doug heard Drake's narration, he didn't know if it was the fearlessness of the ignorant or the state of mind he was in, he said in a relaxed tone, "It's okay, DuPont is sending other people's whole families to heaven, and Tom is also sending his whole family to heaven." It's not really ruthless to the enemy, it's so ruthless to one's own family, why should we be afraid of DuPont?"

"Soup...... Tom, that Tom from Yale?" asked Drake, a little stumbling.

Doug nodded.

Drake saw Doug nodding and decided to stay away from Tom in the future.

However, even if Doug really comforted him, he was still a little apprehensive.

The United States is a federal state, a country of small government, and giant corporations have unimaginable power in such a country.

DuPont can be domineering in this era, it's not that DuPont really has the ability to dominate.

But most of the companies in this era are like this.

is like Vanderbilt, the former "king of ships" of the richest man in the United States, who also became the king of North American ships through violent means.

The most ships, the most people, the most wealth.

Even if he went ashore and stopped playing with boats, he didn't wash his name.

On the railway bridge, you can also shoot at the opponent's train, in order to monopolize this section of the line by your own train.

This is the main theme of business competition in this era.

Savage enough leitmotif.

Compared with the stage of barbaric growth in a certain country in another time and space, this stage of the United States is even more barbaric.

Of course, it also grows more vigorously.

Blood watered the flower of capital, and wealth can bear fruit.

It was precisely because of this that Doug understood this that he took a stake in the Winchester Arms Company and formed the White Rock Company.

In the era when there were no nuclear weapons, planes, missiles, it would not have been him who died anyway.

In that case, why didn't he play by this rule?

Even, when you are at your most savage, everyone begins to think that you are the most civilized.

Perhaps, only when the personal safety of the capitalists will be threatened will such a barbaric situation be subdued.

Otherwise, it's not yourself who dies anyway, so why not?

Doug patted Drake on the shoulder and said, "Captain, you don't have to worry too much. If DuPont is coming for our trouble, why don't we go for DuPont's trouble?"

"Find ...... DuPont ???? "Drake was almost going crazy with Doug's whims.

"Of course, go find DuPont!" said Doug, pointing to the map, "We're here, we're only so far away from Dupont. They come arrogantly, we have defense, and it is more difficult for them to attack. But if we attack them and we don't keep a word, they don't know, they will get a heavy blow before us!

Now that they have been hit hard, there is no point in them attacking us again.

So, our crisis was solved.

Don't you think that's good, Captain?"

"This ...... Is that so?" Drake looked at the map with some trepidation, "They're going to blow it up!"

"Haha!" Doug laughed, "Captain, do you have any misunderstanding about us?" Their gunpowder can blow others away, so why can't ours?"

"Captain...... Do you know which ship they came on? We're just ......," Doug said, and the captain's mind was filled with a scene of a bombing of the ship.

The ships of this era are not the kind of ships that can be used for a long time.

The boat always has to be maintained, otherwise the wooden hull will be misaligned, leaking, and finally silent.

Therefore, the ship is even more precious.

The captain obviously had a deep affection for the ship, and he felt uncomfortable thinking about the image of the ship being blown up.

However, Doug does not feel this way, for Doug, as long as he can achieve his goal, it doesn't matter what he has.

If the explosion works, then the explosion is good.

Don't we need an explosion?

It's an explosion!

Blow up the opponent and we will win.

"Go, Captain!"

"Go, Captain!"

"Go, Captain!"

"Go, Captain!"

"Go, Captain!"

"Go, Captain!"

"Did I really go?"

"Go ahead!"