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For Scrooge, 1859 passed so quickly that it passed in a blink of an eye. In this year, Scrooge's career can really be said to be a rapid progress. In particular, the three major products of McDonald's Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company continue to bring rolling wealth to Scrooge. Now, Scrooge can almost claim that there is not a single pharmacy in the United States, or even in all of Europe (with the exception of Eastern Europe, perhaps), that does not have Scrooge's drugs sold. And the doctors in Europe and the Americas, if they left the sulfonamides and heroin of Scrooch, simply did not know how to treat the disease.

And another medicine of the company, "Mighty Pill" has become a must-have medicine for home travel, murder and arson. This is not nonsense, in terms of "home travel", travelers use it to relieve the fatigue of travel, students use it to support themselves to stay up late to study, workers use it to support themselves to complete high-intensity labor, Southern slave owners also buy it from Scrooge's company for their slaves, writers use it to inspire themselves, and actors use it to enhance their acting passion. It is even said that girls in New York and some other cities who are engaged in some kind of old service industry use it to get more business done in a day.

In terms of "murder and arson", since the Italian army took the "Pill" in the war between Italy, with the assistance of the French ** team, they have continuously defeated the Austrians, and finally basically completed the unification of Italy (because of the intervention of the French, the Pope's control over Rome was temporarily retained). "Hercule" has become an indispensable strategic material in the first teams in Europe. Now it can even be said that without the "strong pill" of McDonald Chemical & Pharmaceuticals, those European countries would not have been able to fight. Add to that the popularity of the MacDonald 1857 rifle in Europe, (and now, both Austrians and Prussians have become new users of this rifle.) Only the shameless French, after carefully studying the MacDonald 1857 rifle, actually launched a so-called "rear-loading rifle with completely independent intellectual property rights". Did he think he was Shen Hoy? How dare you do this! It was Shen Hoy who bought a lot of orthodox Su-27s in Komsomolsk-on-Amur before he began to copy the J-11B, J-15, and J-16. So Scrooge immediately stopped supplying "Mighty Pills" to France, and then, France sent someone over to negotiate, well, it's still going on. So much so that Scrooge has a new nickname in addition to the nickname of "King of Medicine": "King of War".

The business was so good, and it was only natural that Scrooge had more and more money in his hands. By the end of 1859, he had made a net profit of more than seven million dollars, in other words, if Scrooge wanted to, he would have been able to buy the whole of Alaska instead of the American government. However, did Scrooge want to be king, and what did he buy that for? Alaska is rich in minerals and resources, but at the time, it took more than a little money to get it out. Moreover, Alaska will not be in the hands of the Americans until 1867, and there will be several years to buffer. The money in the hands of the capitalists will never be left in the treasury without moving, and when there is more and more living money in his hands, Scrooge naturally has to consider what use this money should come in.

In the feudal era, when people got rich and had money, they often had two methods, one was to sell the land, and the other was to exchange it for gold and silver, and then put it in a jar, and then dig a pit and bury it. Careful people are afraid that they will forget the place where they are buried, and they will put up a sign on it, "There are no silver three hundred taels here".

But this is not the case with the capitalists in capitalist society, who understand that capital can only show its value in a constant flow, and that the times in which they live provide various outlets for their funds. Therefore, it is not that the capitalists do not have a treasure trove of gold and silver, such as the famous old Grande, there is a secret vault, but the gold and silver in those treasury are always in constant flux. The capitalists can't do anything like the Russian landlord Pryushkin who left potatoes rotten in the warehouse.

Previously, as long as Scrooge had money, he put him into reproduction and expanded the scale of production. However, by this time, he felt that the scale of production was already large enough, and continuing to blindly expand the scale would bring bad results. So what is this growing amount of spare money used for?

Scrooge has long had an answer to this question, and that is to build a bank.

In the capitalist era, every factor of production has to be flowed through the allocation of capital. Banks, on the other hand, are the conduits and valves for the flow of capital. A large conglomerate can not be involved in arms, it can not be involved in chemical industry, it can not be involved in iron and steel, it can not be involved in transportation, it can not be involved in power, but it must not be involved in finance, and it must not be without its own bank. Banks are the multiplier of the power of capital, a rich man without a bank in his hands, he can only use his own wealth, but a rich man who owns a bank can use credit and other means to mobilize capital far greater than his own wealth.

On the New Year's Day of 186o, a bank called "MacDonald Venture Capital Bank" with a registered capital of 6oo dollars appeared in Manhattan, New York. When the bank was founded, the biggest investor, Scrooge? Mr. MacDonald gave a presentation on the direction of the bank's operations. In his speech, Scrooge briefly reviewed his family history (of course, some dark things will not be mentioned), and pointed out that unlike any other era in human history, science and technology have played a leading role in the development of history in this era, and then pirated the argument that "science and technology are the primary productive forces". Then, Scrooge said compassionately that in this era, there are countless people who have scientific talents and all kinds of wonderful ideas, but are unable to turn these things into real products because of a lack of start-up capital, so he has established such a bank to support these people's entrepreneurial paths.

In this era, no one knows better than Scrooge's understanding of later science and technology exhibitions, which ideas are feasible, which ideas are profitable, and which ideas or technologies can bring in large sums of money, and those that look dazzling are actually wrong technology trees. Soon after the end of the Civil War, the tide of the Second Industrial Revolution would sweep in. This bank is prepared for this in advance.

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While Scrooge was struggling to build his empire, little Lori Dorothea was writing letters to her brother at home in the south.

"Dear brother,

Hello!

Dad officially declared all of our black slaves free a week ago, and I don't know if he sued you in his last letter. It seems like a good thing to give freedom to black slaves, but in fact, it doesn't go well. There are a lot of unexpected things.

The old Joel's family was the first black to learn that their father had given them freedom. When Dad handed him the certificate of the Freedman, he was almost crazy with joy. But it didn't take long for him to realize that freedom had not brought him any benefit. He was out running for days and wanted to rent a small room to live in. Because he wanted to try what it was like to live outside the manor as a free man. But who would rent a house to a black man, even though he was a free man. As a result, the family continued to live in the same place and continued to help our family grow cotton. In fact, all the freed slaves were like this, and they were still doing what they used to do. Well, Buck is still raising cows, and Adele is still our cook. The only difference is probably that Dad now has to spend time every month to pay them, and they have to pay Dad rent or something every month.

If only that's it, but somewhere came the rumors that Dad would be like the greedy Northerners, when the blacks were too old to work, he would fire them and drive them out into the streets. This rumor frightened the blacks, and some of them even approached their fathers and demanded that they take back their freedmen so that they could continue to be slaves. They pestered Dad until Dad assured them that he would continue to hire their children in the future. In addition, blacks still spend most of their time on the plantations, and few actually go out into the streets like a free man. Because on the street, they are often beaten by the police for no reason.

In addition, Dad's actions made her very isolated among the neighbors, and they all spoke ill of Dad's back, they said that Dad's father was a traitor to the South, a lackey of Lincoln's big villain. Now, no one wants to come to our house anymore, not even Alice and Lucia. Even when I was walking on the road and met them, they ignored me. But they ignore me, and I ignore them, who is afraid of whom!

Uncle Alan came here a few days ago, and in fact, he had come specifically to dissuade him before he made such a decision. But Dad didn't listen to him. But this time, he didn't come to see his father's jokes, he introduced his father to several friends who had similar ideas. An uncle named Jackson brought me a big box of all kinds of candy, which I rarely see here. If it had been before, I'm afraid it wouldn't be long before Alice and Lucia would have divided up all the candy, but now they won't come again. It's great, and there's a lot of benefit to seeing them for the first time.

Oh, by the way, Uncle Jackson also said that he knew Brother Scrooge, too. He talked to his dad for a long time, and they seemed to be talking about war or something. Uncle Jackson said that if Lincoln was elected, there would be war. I now think, why is this Lincoln so annoying? Can't he just stay in his house and don't go anywhere? After Uncle Jackson left, I saw my father's worried look on his face, so I asked him, is it true that because we have slaves, the northerners are going to fight with us? Is it like my brother played war with Alice's brother when he was a kid? Actually, I've known for a long time that fighting a war isn't fun, it's not the same as your game. But I still say it, I want to make my dad happy. Dad was amused by me, but he was still worried, I knew that.

Yesterday afternoon, Dad practiced shooting at the manor. Well, you know, Dad didn't like hunting. I remembered what he had said to Uncle Jackson. He said, if there is a real war, I will go to the army and fight for the South. I think Dad might be serious.

The campaign was already lively, and posters of Lincoln's bad guy were even posted in the South. But none of us would vote for him, so why didn't he get sick and die right away? (God forgive me, but that's what I really want.) Also, I wrote a few letters to Brother Scrooge, but he never replied to me. It's so infuriating. Anyway, I've been unhappy for a week. I really miss the time when you were still at home, brother.

Sister Dorothea

Yours sincerely

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