In 1789, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man mentioned for the first time that private property was sacrosanct.

Many people hold this sentence as a guide to democracy and freedom, but they do not know that there is another sentence: no one's property shall be exploited except when it is clearly necessary for a legitimately recognized public need, and under conditions of fair and advance compensation.

Now that there is such a thing as "legal determination", the space available is frighteningly large.

What does it mean to be legal?

Is it legitimate to defend the interests of the majority?

Is it legal to give up a small family for everyone?

The official word has two mouths, and the soldier word has two hands, which is the greatest legitimacy.

The same is true of Colt, although the land purchased by Samuel Colt to build the factory was legal, and although the Colt factory was the legal property of the Colt family, anything could happen under the premise that Colt filed for bankruptcy.

Don't overestimate the morality of officials, when the enterprise is in full swing, the officials will treat the enterprise as their father for the sake of political performance, once the enterprise declines, the enterprise will become a lamb to the slaughter.

In this case, if the Stallion Group says that it will continue to put the new factory in Hartford, what choice do you think the Hartford City Council will make?

The answer is obvious.

Therefore, Li Mu was very confident when he said this, and Li Mu believed that the Hartford City Government would definitely stand on the position of Junma Group.

At the end of breakfast, the negotiations between Li Mu and Wayne have been completed, and all 3,100 workers of Colt Company will join the Junma Group, and let the Junma Group scatter them in various factories; On behalf of the Junma Group, Li Mu promised that these workers would not be treated badly, and that these workers would have the benefits that other employees of the Junma Group had.

This result was very happy, and after getting Li Mu's promise, Wayne and the others were overjoyed, and even refused Li Mu's invitation to visit the headquarters of Junma Group.

Wayne and the others had to return to Hartford overnight to tell the good news to their relatives who had been waiting for the family, since Colt closed the door, all the workers were unemployed, and the family had lost their source of livelihood.

Only now that Li Mu can be relieved, after accepting Colt's workers, the Junma Arms Company has actually dominated the American arms market, and the other small workshops that are still alive have no threat to the Junma Weapons Factory, as long as Li Mu and the Junma Weapons Factory do not die, the Junma Group will continue to be brilliant.

There are still hidden dangers, the military industry is the lifeblood of a country, Washington could have allowed the Junma Group to acquire Springfield, but it is estimated that it is not willing to see all the military enterprises acquired by the Junma Group, especially if the acquisition of these enterprises is still a Chinese, if some people with good intentions take the opportunity to make waves, maybe the Junma Group will become the first anti-monopoly case in the United States.

In early December, before the end of 1874, Li Mu summoned Zhang Leye, Cao Anran, and Wayne Henry, who had already taken office as general manager of the Hartford Arms Company, and Leslie Dorne, general manager of the Auckland Arms Company, to solve the problem together.

The Auckland Arms Company had quietly opened in October, and Li Mu did not attend the opening ceremony, and Henry went to Auckland instead of Li Mu.

Compared with the East Coast, the West Coast has a greater demand for weapons, especially personal self-defense weapons.

Auckland is also in charge of the Far East market, where the demand for weapons is even greater, and if it weren't for Springfield, where the headquarters of the Horse Group is located, Zhang Leye would have been eager to go to Auckland to preside over the work.

Leslie Dorn was not a member of the arms industry before, but a professional manager hired by Henry from the market, and as an old courtier of the Horse Group, Leslie Dorn was able to become the general manager of the Auckland Arms Company due to his conscientious performance at the headquarters of the Horse Group.

The subsidiary of the Horse Arms Company is not responsible for weapons research, but only for weapon production, so technical ability is not important, management ability is important, Henry only asked Leslie Dorn to manage the operation of the Auckland Arms Company, and other aspects do not need Leslie Dorn to worry, this point, I believe Leslie Dorn can still do.

"—The basic principle is this, Zhang returns to Springfield to be in charge of the Horse Arms Company, Cao goes to New Haven to head the New Haven Arms Company, Leslie is in charge of Oakland, Wayne is in charge of Hartford, the Horse Arms Institute is spun off from the Horse Laboratory, and the headquarters of the Horse Arms Company is in charge of the operation—from now on, the Horse Arms Company is still the Horse Arms Company, the New Haven Arms Company is owned by the San Diego Investment Company, and the Hartford Arms Company is owned by the Barron family, The Auckland Arms Company is owned by the Springfield Company - all the companies are not affiliated with each other, and there is still a competitive relationship between you, but the focus is different, the Horse Arms Company will focus on the research institute in the future, and it is your main job to work hard to develop new technologies, the New Haven Company is mainly responsible for the production of heavy weapons, and the Hartford Company is responsible for light weapons, and the business in Auckland is more miscellaneous, but because you want to open up new markets, your business volume is the most important, It is your main purpose to produce as many weapons as possible and supply them to the West Coast and the Far East-" Li Mu personally presided over the meeting, and the most important task was to divide it.

It's not okay not to spin it off, the current aggressiveness of the Junma Group has aroused the vigilance of some people, at this time it is better to keep a low profile, at least in this way, on the surface, it seems that the Junma Arms Company does not monopolize the United States arms market, at most the scale is relatively large, but with Standard Oil and the DuPont family to attract firepower, it should not be eye-catching.

Compared with Li Mu's caution, Rockefeller and Henry DuPont are unscrupulous, Rockefeller's standard oil has monopolized the US oil market, Henry DuPont has created an American Gunpowder Association, and the market scope of all gunpowder companies depends on the = Gunpowder Association, which is undoubtedly a monopoly.

It may not be long before the names of the Carnegie and Vanderbilt families are added to the list of monopolies.

Dale Carnegie spearheaded the founding of the American Iron and Steel Association, which was ready to use the DuPont family approach to unify the U.S. steel industry.

The Vanderbilt family is even more ambitious, after the collapse of the Pacific Rim Railway, the Vanderbilt family ate 80% of the shares of the Pacific Rim Railway, and now more than half of the railroads on the East Coast of the United States are controlled by the Vanderbilt family, as long as William Vanderbilt pays attention to his health and does not die young like in another world, the Vanderbilt family will definitely be more brilliant.

As for the Springfield Company, it is actually Hongmen, with the support of Li Mu and the Springfield Security Company, the Springfield Company has developed rapidly in New York, and in the catering, hotel and construction industries, the Springfield Company has become a rising star, and it is time to get involved in the capital market.

Zhang Leye and Cao Anran have no objection to Li Mu's plan, in fact, they are just covering their ears and stealing the bell, even if the company is split, the ownership is still controlled by Li Mu, and their account books still have to be sent to the headquarters of Junma Group and handed over to Chuxue's accounting department for review.

Not only for weapons companies, but also for other companies in the Horse Group, such as the electric companies that operate electric lights and telephones, which are now divided into the Horse Electric Company and the New York Electric Company, as well as the Oakland Electric Company on the West Coast, these companies are also zoned operations, the business scope of the Horse Electric Company is New England, and the New York Electric Company's business scope is to remove the East Coast region of the New England region, and Oakland faces the entire West Coast.

The car company is relatively better, because there is also the car company of the Vanderbilt family, so the horse car company is not so conspicuous, but in terms of performance alone, the profit of the horse car company is far better than the Vanderbilt car company, after all, the Vanderbilt car company uses the patent of the horse group, and also pays a lot of patent royalties to the horse group.

Speaking of automobiles, after months of research, the company finally launched a Volkswagen version of the Volkswagen model, which is called "Volkswagen", which is specially designed for the Vanderbilt family to compete for the low-end market.

"Volkswagen" is the first car to be produced using assembly line technology, and after collective optimization, each production line can produce a car in 100 minutes on average, which is equivalent to the combined production capacity of the previous Junma Automobile Factory and Vanderbilt Automobile Factory, and such assembly lines are ten in the "Volkswagen" car factory.

Therefore, before the "Volkswagen" is put into production, the Vanderbilt Automobile Factory had better find a way to increase the production speed as soon as possible, otherwise it can only watch the "Volkswagen" cars continue to drive out of the factory and devour the market that originally belonged to the Vanderbilt Automobile Factory.

In fact, it is said that it is a Volkswagen model, but the price of "Volkswagen" is not cheap, the price of 1800 US dollars is only a little lower than the price of Vanderbilt cars, Li Mu's positioning of "Volkswagen" is the price of cabbage, which will always be the first point than the price of Vanderbilt Automobile Factory, which will make Vanderbilt Automobile Factory feel enough pressure, but it will not force Vanderbilt Automobile Factory to a dead end.

Li Mu does not want to split the Junma Automobile Factory into four or five different factories yet, the automobile industry is different from the arms industry, as a civilian product industry, the automobile industry is not as sensitive as the arms industry.

Entering December, Junma Group has to prepare for the year-end summary meeting and organize the first car rally, so Li Mu is very busy.

Compared with the year-end summary meeting, Li Mu attaches more importance to the car rally, which is a good opportunity to open up the automobile market, Li Mu wants to take this opportunity to recommend the car to the ordinary people in the United States, whether it can enter the automobile era decades in advance, it depends on this experience.