After becoming a New York shipping magnate, the first Vanderbilt was not satisfied. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Then, during the California Gold Rush, he opened a one-day steamship route from New York to California, which was popular for its ability to greatly reduce travel time and expense.

Later, when the Civil War broke out, the Vanderbilt family made one of their most successful investments, supporting the Lincoln administration and making an indelible contribution to the unification of the United States by shipping to transport Northern soldiers.

After the unification of the United States, the Vanderbilt family reaped the benefits of political investment, and they became a real transportation giant, gaining rail transportation resources on top of the original shipping resources.

At that time, he founded a railroad empire, the New York Central Railroad, whose tracks extended the Vanderbilt family business empire across the United States and gave him a monopoly on all the railroads that ran to and from New York City.

Li Du looked at the news introduction that when the first Vanderbilt died, he had accumulated a fortune of $100 million!

That may not seem like much now, but it was 1877, when the U.S. Treasury held $100 million in assets!

Later, the Vanderbilt family suffered a situation similar to that of the Winston family, and the heirs were like weasels under rats, a litter is not as good as a litter!

Cole's father's talent can't be compared with his grandfather, and he can't compare to his father, if it weren't for Li Du's birth, I'm afraid that the Hai Rui Winston Group would have to change its name now.

Vanderbilt II was a well-kept king, and he ruled the transport empire for twenty years, making little progress, but he did not let the kingdom fall.

Later, when it came to his two sons, things started to get worse.

At first it was his eldest son, William Kissam Vanderbilt, who took over the company, but retired soon in order to focus his time and energy on his yachts and the bred racehorses.

His younger brother, George Vanderbilt, didn't like to get into the transportation business, but liked real estate.

Real estate is a good industry, and instead of selling real estate, he keeps building super villas and mansions for himself to live in.

For example, the Vanderbilt family built more than a dozen luxury buildings between 51st and 59th streets in Manhattan, including Building 1 on 57th Street with 137 rooms, the largest building in an American city at the time.

For example, the Vanderbilt family has also built more than a dozen luxury vacation villas, including Marbur Villa, Tingtao Manor, Biermore Manor, etc.

Among them, the Mabur Villa was built by the third generation of Kisam from 1888 and was given to his wife Alva as a birthday present in 1892.

The 50-room luxury villa cost $11 million when it was built, and $7 million was spent on marble alone.

When it was built, its design and grandeur were unmatched among American houses of the time, and the porch in front of it is often compared to the White House to this day.

Built in 1893-1895 by Kiza's elder brother, Vanderbilt II, Tingtao Manor has its own advantages from Villa Marble, but is much larger than Villa Marbur, with 70 rooms and 65,000 square feet of habitable space.

The scale of the Marble Villa and Tingtao Manor was already very large at that time, however, compared to the Bilmore Manor, which took six years to build, it felt a bit small.

Designed by a renowned French architect, the model architecture of the Bilmore estate has 250 rooms, 43 bathrooms, 65 fireplaces, 3 kitchens, 1 bowling alley, 1 indoor swimming pool, and an 178926 square foot area......

Li Du couldn't imagine how luxurious these villas were, and what was the point of building so many large residences?

In short, the domineering power of the Vanderbilt family can be seen from these buildings, and not only that, the family also donated money to build a university, called Vanderbilt University.

According to media reports, in the twentieth century, the Vanderbilt family was content to enjoy themselves, and the transportation empire business continued to shrink, and the family wealth gradually shrank.

However, there are also reports that the Vanderbilt family's wealth is not shrinking because of the decrease in business, on the contrary, they are spending a lot of wealth in unknown areas, resulting in less money that can be used to develop the transportation business, and the transportation empire is shrinking step by step.

Some of these reports say that Vanderbilt's fourth-generation successor was keen to find extraterrestrial civilizations and ancient treasures around the globe, and that he burned a lot of wealth in this regard.

There are also reports that the Vanderbilt family's wealth has not shrunk much, and they are just acting like this to avoid causing hatred of the rich among the people and avoiding government repression.

In short, in any case, until now, the Vanderbilt family is still a very important family in the world, but they are very low-key and not much is reported.

Li Du didn't understand, how could Steve, whose surname was Tucsonberg, be related to the New York superfamily Vanderbilterra?

Moreover, according to reports, the Vanderbilt family is a native Dutch, and Steve has some Jewish physical features.

Cole's information will not be wrong, since he said that Steve is related to the Vanderbilt family, there must be a connection between the two sides, what is the specific connection, Li Du decided to go back to the villa first, and then explore later.

At about the same time, a police car stopped at the door of the villa, and a girl with a single ponytail got out of the car, she was wearing a sand-yellow police uniform, her eyes were cold, and her posture was heroic.

Seeing the stranger appear, the hounds, who had been hiding in the shade of the trees, became excited, jumped up and bared their teeth and barked wildly at the door.

Sophie heard the dog barking and smiled at Victoria, who was painting, "Look, since we have dogs, we don't need electric bells." ”

Victoria and Ivana nodded gently, and when Sophie left, they looked at each other, quickly opened the drawing paper and took out the comic book to read.

Walking out of the villa, Sophie was pleasantly surprised: "Hi, Rose, hello, why are you here?"

She went up to drive away the hounds: "Go, go, go, don't bark, don't bark, this is a guest!"

The hounds didn't listen, but still roared at Luo Skirt.

Sophie saw Si Xiao, who was still hiding in the shade of the tree, and shouted, "Take them away, hurry up!"

The four little ones got up and barked a few times, and the hounds bowed their heads and returned to the shade.

When Luo Skirt entered the door, except for Ali, the other members of the four elementary schools looked at each other with sinister eyes.

They thought of the suffering of being under the same roof with Luo Skirt, the fear of being dominated by violent girls, and the way to get revenge on her!