Before going to Pittsburgh, Li Mu also had to find a plot of land for his factory. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Land in the United States is still very cheap, with Will here, Li Mu did not spend much money, and obtained the ownership of a thousand acres of land in the upper Connecticut River.

An acre is a unit of area in the United States, and one acre is equal to about 0.00404686 square kilometers, so 1,000 acres is about a little more than four square kilometers.

Four square kilometers sounds like a lot, but it's not much at all.

Land was not a scarce commodity for the U.S. government at this time, and Massachusetts, as part of the New England region, was considered an economically developed region. Even so, there is still a large amount of uncultivated uncultivated wasteland in Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts government even issued a rule a few years ago that as long as the farmers reclaim the wasteland, it will be owned by the farmers themselves.

When the United States was building the Pacific Railroad, in order to increase the enthusiasm of businessmen, the United States Government donated the attached land on both sides of the railroad to the companies and individuals involved in the construction of the railroad free of charge, of which the North Pacific Railroad Company alone obtained 39 million acres. When they got the land, the capitalists who had only stared at Wall Street found that they had a cornucopia, and the land on both sides of these railroads was flat and fertile, and if they sowed the seeds, they could reap gold. There was a joke at the time, "The farmer can plow in a straight line for months and then harvest the grain on the way back."

Li Mu did not participate in the construction of the Pacific Railroad, so it was impossible to obtain the land for free, and Li Mu paid 2,000 US dollars to get the 1,000 acres of land.

That's right, just two dollars per acre of land, Li Mu obtained the ownership of these lands.

Note that it is ownership, not the right to operate, after obtaining the certificate issued by the Springfield government, Li Mu is the legal owner of these lands, and from now on, even if the civil servants of the US government want to enter Li Mu's "kingdom", they must greet Li Mu.

Otherwise, it's trespassing.

It must be said that the U.S. government is very strict about the protection of private property, and the phrase "personal property is sacrosanct" is not an empty phrase in the United States; if there is no legal reason, even the United States military cannot casually enter the four square kilometers of Li Mu's area, otherwise it will be an illegal invasion, and Li Mu can pick up a gun to protect his life and property.

After obtaining the certification documents issued by the Springfield government, Li Mu and Will went to the small peninsula where Li Mu, Yan Hu, and Yan Shun often practiced guns, and inspected their "territory."

This small peninsula is actually only a part of the four square kilometers, and the area of the peninsula is a bit small, thirty or forty hectares, which is exactly in the center of Li Mu's four square kilometers.

When he saw the shooting range on the peninsula and the bullet casings everywhere on the shooting range, Will suddenly realized: "It turns out that you have premeditated, then you can just buy this small island, why buy such a large area?" ”

Li Mu bent down and grabbed a handful of sand on the ground, slowly crushed it in the palm of his hand, watching the sand particles overflow from his fingers and flutter around with the breeze, he was really satisfied: "I didn't buy this island to build a shooting range, but to build a factory here, didn't you find that the conditions here are very good?" Not far from Springfield, close to the Connecticut River for easy transportation, surrounded by plenty of wasteland to cultivate, and with very fertile soil, it would grow into a perfect town if it had been managed with care for a few years - the point is that there is no trace of human life here, and I can build it whatever I want. ”

One thing is for sure, in the future, Li Mu's factories will use a large number of Chinese, and the feelings of the Chinese people for the land are incomprehensible to other ethnic groups, and if Li Mu promises to allocate one acre of land to each worker, then he can gain the loyalty of the workers to the greatest extent.

One acre is about six acres of land, and even if you don't have the income to work in a factory, you can only farm to support a family of five. Li Mu now has 1,000 acres of land, and at least 900 acres can be allocated to the workers, which means that Li Mu can help 900 families and harvest the loyalty of at least 900 workers.

"It's a good idea, you do have some ability now, and it's good to think of giving back to society." Will verbally praised Li Mu.

"If you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are good, you will help the world, and this is how my ancestors taught me. Isn't it tempting to build a town from scratch? If you change your mind now, there's still a chance. Li Mu lost no time in lobbying Will, still trying to win Will's investment.

Li Mu followed Will as a small follower for almost a month, and after careful calculation, Li Mu was also shocked by this month's gray income, although Li Mu was a small head, but Li Mu also had five hundred dollars in the account, so Will's gray income can be imagined.

"If you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will help the world - a very philosophical sentence, your ancestors are amazing." Will ignored Li Mu's lobbying and immersed himself in the artistic conception of this sentence.

It is indeed very philosophical, this is a famous quote from "Mencius", Li Mu said this not to climb relatives, from the perspective of cultural inheritance, those sages of ancient times are the ancestors of all Chinese, and their ideas are worthy of all Chinese people.

"Of course, it's remarkable, the Chinese nation has a history of 5,000 years of civilization, and how many years does the United States have a history? Even if you count the United Kingdom, you don't have many years of written history. When it comes to traditional culture, Li Mu, as a Chinese, has the capital to be proud of the world.

"Five thousand years? You're kidding, Jesus was born less than 2,000 years ago. "The information is not very advanced these days, and it is difficult for Will to understand what the concept of 5,000 years is.

"No kidding, the earliest writing we've found now is an oracle bone, about -- uh, about 3,300 years ago." Li Mu still had to count with his fingers to come up with an approximate number.

In fact, the oracle has not been discovered yet, but it doesn't matter, and it is impossible for Will to go to the Far East to verify this.

"It's only been 3,300 years." Will was devastated, and from the perspective of cultural inheritance, Western society and Eastern empires could not be compared, and the gap was obvious.

"But the oracle bone inscription records the last dynasty, which is about 4,000 years ago." Li Mu is not in a hurry, he is reasonable, and if he fights history, the Chinese can fight the Americans as far as the Pacific Ocean.

"It's only been four thousand years—" Will was still stiff-mouthed, but he lost his breath before he could finish his sentence.

Li Mu is talking about a "dynasty", since it is a dynasty, it must not appear out of thin air, it must go through a long period of fighting and conquest before it can evolve from a tribal society to a dynastic era, even if Will has not studied world history, he understands the general laws.