The quality of life of those who have power is far that of those who do not have power.

Money is essentially a form of power, and Doug has money, so he can have a good conversation with Thomson.

And what Thomson has is violence itself.

Thomson doesn't have a manor of his own, and the land around New Haven is not very suitable for farming, even raising horses, so even the top rich people here will not build a special estate here unless they love the land very much.

The place where Thomson lives is a villa, a real villa. However, his villa is more like a fortress than a house made of wooden planks.

Because, the thickness of the walls of his villa is more than one meter.

Thomson walks with Doug and introduces him to his home.

While the introduction was being introduced, Doug echoed and noticed that in this house, no more than five steps away, there would be a servant.

Doug calculated the cost a little, and felt a little painful.

These servants don't pay even a penny of wages, but the cost of keeping them alive is not a small amount.

With so many people, how much wealth can be created if they engage in production?

Thomson saw Doug looking at the maid stunned, and laughed, "Do you like this maid? ”

"I ......" Doug was surprised that there was one more woman for some reason, but he was afraid that he would refuse this maid, and after a while, another maid would be stuffed, so he had to say, "Thank you, Commander." ”

"Thanks, let's go steak!" said Commander Thomson in a loud voice.

The maid, who had already belonged to Doug, looked at Doug passing by him, looked at his back, and didn't know what she was thinking.

For someone like her, her whole life was destined to be like this. Always be arranged by others, and can't plan your own life.

She didn't feel any discomfort or pain about it. Because everyone around her is like this, and so is she.

Even, if now Doug walks over and says you're free, you can do what you want.

It is likely that she will also walk back to Thomson's villa and continue to work as a maid.

The trajectory of life has not changed so well.

Doug believes that people have thoughts, but he believes that the environment determines thoughts.

What kind of environment is what kind of person, a person who was born with everything arranged, how can it be so easy to soar freely.

Even if there are no chains in reality, there are chains of the heart.

Like most wealthy people of this era, Thomson's dining table was a huge oval table.

The advantage of this table is that it can accommodate many people to eat, and the disadvantage is that the utilization rate of this table is not too high most of the time.

Of course, for people like Thomson, utilization is never something they think about.

However, Doug noticed that the wood used for the table was not too expensive. It's not inferior like pine, it's not less decent like oak, but it's just cherry.

This may show that the Commander Thomson in front of him does not have as much wealth as he imagined.

Yes, a militia commander is already so extravagant and wasteful, even if he is in business, he will not accumulate too much wealth.

Even, he may not have any savings, and all his income can only barely cover his expenses, and he may be unable to make ends meet and fall into an economic crisis if he is not careful.

Although Doug has not really come into contact with this kind of person, he has not heard of it many times.

The best of these people are the former aristocrats of Europe.

The industrial revolution destroyed the original economic system, and in the industrial society, the aristocracy with the estate was crushed by the industrial aristocracy.

However, in order to maintain decency, they have to maintain their expenses.

As a result, it didn't take long for them to become even more decent, and in the end only the "decent" nobles remained.

Doug, who had some judgment on Thomson's financial situation, sat down across from Thomson.

"Two steaks in black pepper sauce. Commander Thomson commanded, and when the attendants were gone, he said to Doug, "Today's drill is so exciting! I wasn't happy at all when I was asked to see the drill by that guy De Niro.

Why not be happy?

Because I feel that such exercises don't mean anything to me and are a complete waste of my time.

I don't think there's anything new in the exercises, I just think there's a weapons company that wants to provide us with weapons.

But when I saw your team, I knew there might be a surprise today.

That uniform is so beautiful!

Not bloated at all!

If I were twenty years younger, I think I'd love to wear that too!

It's hard to recruit now.

Those rabbit cubs, even if they starved to death outside, did not want to come to the army.

If you ask them why, they say that being a soldier is not beneficial, and they will be disliked.

Ooh!

Is it so bad to be a soldier?

I also started as a grassroots soldier before I took over my father's position and became the commander of the militia after his death.

I know how hard it is to be a soldier!

But this kind of suffering is rewarding!

So, when I saw that uniform, I knew that the day when it would be easy to recruit was coming!

Those bastard boys, seeing such handsome clothes, didn't rush to become soldiers.

Okay, let's not talk about that, the steak is up, let's eat the steak!"

As soon as Thomson's words fell, two attendants, each carrying a tray, came to Doug and Thomson's side, and set up the steak in front of them.

Before Doug's knife could cut down, Thomson had just cut the steak open and yelled, "This steak is not cooked!

Doug wondered what it was like to be undercooked, so he cut it and found that there was a small fingernail-sized red spot in the middle of the steak.

Thomson looked at Doug's movements and apologized very sincerely, "I'm sorry, I didn't expect my chef to bring us undercooked steaks!

"It's okay, everyone makes mistakes sometimes, don't blame him too much. Doug said with a smile, putting down the steak in front of him, which was already not far from being fully cooked.

When steaks first appeared, no one would take the initiative to eat a few ripe steaks.

I even feel that eating meat that is not fully cooked is a particularly unbearable thing.

However, just like Thomson's chef will put a steak that is not fully cooked on the plate, making a fully cooked steak is really not an easy task.

Even if the steak goes through multiple processes to ensure that the meat is not difficult to chew, once the steak is overcooked, it will still be old.

As a result, chefs don't actually sit on the grill or on an iron plate and wait for the steak to be fully cooked.

Instead, there is a certain amount of space that allows the steak to be truly fully cooked on the plate as it travels from the kitchen to the table.

However, the chef did not have a clairvoyant eye, and he could not see whether the steak was cooked or not.

So, they can only rely on experience.

Cutting meat with experience, hammering meat with experience, cooking with experience.

By keeping all the variables in a very precise state, it seems that this is the only way to make a steak that meets the standards.

But in fact, this so-called standard is, to some extent, also a luxury.

Overcooked and undercooked steaks are not unedible.

Overcooked beef is just a bit of a tooth to go.

There is no fully cooked beef, and even if there are parasites, it will not parasitize in the human body when it enters the human body.

However, Doug was just a guest, and since Thomson said he would please eat steak, he would eat whatever kind of steak he wanted.

The two talked and laughed, and the second steak was served.

This time, Thomson took the lead in cutting and inspecting the steak, and after seeing that it was fully cooked, he happily said, "This time the steak is ready to eat!"

Doug cut a piece of steak and put it in his mouth, and the beef that didn't look very good burst out in his mouth.

The black pepper sauce is mixed with the tender and well-cooked steak, and the texture is firm without the unusual feeling of raw meat.

Whether it's Doug's past or present life, this is the best steak he's ever had.

Thomson saw Doug's expression and said, "It's delicious!"

"Hmm!" Doug replied with a nod.

As the commander of the militia, Thomson said in a less heroic voice, "I heard that you have an investment company, can you invest in my steak?"

"You want to open a steakhouse?" said Doug.

"Yes! I want to open a steakhouse. The hardest words had been said, and Thomson was happy to admit it.

He said with a look of embarrassment on his face, "Don't look at me as the militia commander in New Haven, I look very breezy. But I don't really have any money.

Even a house can only live in such a house. Even the servants were not enough for a hundred.

Do you say, "Is such a life a man's life?"

I don't have any other hobbies, I just like to eat.

This steak is a work that I am very confident in.

I think that once such a steak is sold, it will be very profitable!

But...... I don't have the money to open a store!

Mr. Doug, I know all about you, you have an investment bank.

I wonder if you're interested in investing in my steak?"

"Yes, of course!" said Doug affirmatively to Thomson, but he used his fork to touch the steak on the plate, and then pointed to another plate of steak that had just failed, and he continued, "But, as it is, you can't make money from opening a steakhouse."

Is there a danger that any customer's steak will fail and make a new steak for them after the failure is made?

Now that it's just the two of us who eat, the chef will fail, and when the restaurant is opened, hundreds or thousands of people come to eat every day, will the chef make fewer mistakes?

At the moment, I wouldn't invest. ”

"How do you invest?" asked Thomson hurriedly.

"Change it like I said. First of all, making steak so that it is fully cooked and not old is a difficult craft. For the sake of taste, the chef will inevitably make mistakes and make the steak not so cooked.

So, why don't we sell undercooked steaks?"

"Huh, that kind of raw meat will be eaten?"

"Why won't anyone eat it?" Doug smiled mysteriously, "Medium-rare, medium-rare, medium-rare, medium-rare, medium-rare, sauce steak is divided into these several degrees of doneness."

That way, even if we only have one type of black pepper steak to sell, customers have four options.

And......

We can wrap the steak.

Tell it a story first, and then naturally someone will eat steak for that story.

The more people eat it, the more people eat steak, and it becomes a culture.

Steakhouses can also be opened more and more all over the world. ”

"Is this really the case?" Thomson didn't understand well, but he felt that what Doug said seemed to be quite powerful, but he thought about it, Doug was able to accumulate so much wealth in such a short period of time, and he invested it, he could do whatever he said, thinking of this, he gave up his insistence on fully cooked steak, "I will do what you say!"

"Okay! First of all, this steak is called the Commander Steak!"

"Why is it called Commander Steak?"

"Because you're the inventor, and you're the commander of the militia in New Haven. ”

"Oooh. ”

"Next, let's add a story to the Commander Steak. Twenty-three years ago, when you were young, you were just a poor boy. There is a girl who falls in love with you, a poor boy.

However, her family does not approve of her being with you.

The two of you decide to elope, and in the process of eloping, she, who can't cook, makes a steak for you with her own hands, which is not even cooked, but you eat it with relish.

However, as soon as you finished eating, your girl was shot by a gangster.

In a pool of blood, you hold your girl in your arms and swear to avenge her.

So, you joined the army, joined the militia.

A little bit of promotion, and finally defeated the gang.

That's how you became the commander.

But your girl is dead and will never come back.

In order to pay attention to your girl, you made a commander steak, and in order to let more people know about her, you opened a shop to sell the flavors she once made.

It is said that if there is a couple in love, everything is eaten steak.

Boys will become famous, and girls will always be loved by boys for a lifetime of happiness.

What do you think of a story like this?"

"But...... I don't have a girl I love, and I haven't eloped......" Thomson said with a confused expression.

"It's just a propaganda story. ”

"And I don't like undercooked steaks......"

"Don't you talk about it?" Doug stood up and was about to leave.

How could Thomson let the financier go, he hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, Brother Doug, you can say whatever you want, as long as I can make money!"

From Doug, to Mr. Doug, to Brother Doug. Doug said, "Don't worry, you're going to make money." ”