After settling Dorothea and spending a few more days taking over the things that were originally in Dorothea's charge, and then at the family meeting, Scrooge pretended to inform the family foursome of the "heavy secret" of the "heroin" problem after communicating with Carol in private...... In fact, Catherine was the last of the four to know this secret. However, Catherine confirmed that she knew it with Carol and Dorothea, and Dorothea thought she was the second to know. Both women felt that they were valued, and the family atmosphere was extremely harmonious.

Scrooge then analysed the possible consequences of the problem, and finally Scrooge came to the conclusion that after the expiration of the heroin patent, the secret would be revealed quickly, and then the prospects for the business would be absolutely bleak. So McDonald Chemical & Pharmaceuticals will have to gradually wean itself off heroin over the next few years.

"Two years before the patent expired, we simply sold it to the Europeans, along with the relevant production techniques and heroin trademarks. First, we can quickly get a large amount of money to open a new product to replace heroin and promote it, and second, when we need it, we can also break the news to hit our business rivals, because they have just spent a lot of money on this production, but they have not yet had time to make money. Scrooge said.

"Well, though, Scrooge, is there any direction for the heroin replacement project at the moment?" Carol asked.

"Ah, isn't it going on? The synthetic ammonia that we are working with the Germans. The benefits of that thing are definitely better than heroin. Scrooge replied.

"But the patent for that thing was to be shared with the Prussians." Dorothea grunted dissatisfied.

"I already have a plan for dealing with the Prussians. I can assure you that although the Germans have obtained the technology to synthesize ammonia, when it comes time to actually produce it, their costs will be much higher than ours. Scrooge smiled confidently.

"To be specific, do you still want to keep our password?" Dorothea furrowed an eyebrow.

"Dear Madam, did you really want to listen to what I said? Well, that's a bit of a hassle. Allow me to have someone bring a big blackboard, and by the way, let them bring ten boxes of eight boxes of chalk, and oh yes, and tell the kitchen to bring the food directly to the conference room. In general, it's actually quite simple, that is, we are technically ......"

"Shut up! Fainted, you did it on purpose! Dorothea gritted her teeth and scolded as if she was going to kick Scrooge.

"Okay." Scrooge smiled, "Anyway, all you need to know is that we have left them a hand on some technology." With this trick, we will be several times more efficient than them in the future. So, we don't have to worry about them being able to compete with us outside of Germany. ”

"Do they themselves have the ability to prescribe the same technology as ours?" Carol asked.

"There are some people who may be able to. Well, they have quite a few good chemists. Not worse than me at all. Although he was reluctant to admit it, Scrooge decided to be honest. Being able to face reality is the most basic and important thing for a ruler. "It's not like I'm out of the way to deal with them, though." Scrooge continued.

"Well, since you have a way, then let's not ask too much. In short, we all have faith in you. Carroll said that he didn't know what Scrooge's so-called method was, but he was very clear about the general direction, which was nothing more than two tricks: one was to buy, and the other was to eliminate. Chemical reality is full of all kinds of accidents, and it is not impossible to kill a person or even a group of people. Of course, this kind of thing is understood in everyone's heart, and there is no need to talk about it.

"So the general direction of this matter has been set, and now let's talk about the railroad...... "Scrooge said.

……

After this meeting within the family, Scrooge left Duckburg with his team of secretaries and bodyguards and boarded the train to Montana. If it is normal, in a few days, the Pacific Railroad across North America's Big 6 will be fully connected.

Compared with the original history, due to the inability to use cheap and sufficient Chinese laborers, and no one held them accountable for their deaths, the construction of the Central Pacific Railway was greatly reduced. But on the other hand, on the side of the Union Pacific Railway, although it was not possible to treat the Irish exactly like the Chinese laborers, because of the use of strong pills, the efficiency of the Irish was still fully guaranteed, so that the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad was far higher than the original historical level. Later, after Scrooge operated the canal, suppressed the stock price of the Pacific Railway, and began to take the opportunity to take a stake in the Central Pacific Railway, it turned out that because of the shortage and other reasons, it was not easy to buy explosives, strong pills, and even Japanese workers, all of them entered the opening of the Central Pacific Railway, so the construction of the Central Pacific Railway began to accelerate. After a lot of sacrifices and the death of a lot of Japanese, well, anyway, it's not about the Central Pacific Railway, in fact, the Central Pacific Railway Company has signed some contracts with the Japanese side to outsource some critical sections of the railway construction to some Japanese railway companies.

The Japanese people are truly industrious and brave people, on the snow-capped Andes, their blood and lives write miracles in the history of human architecture, they do more work than cats, they eat less than cats, they sleep later than owls, and they wake up earlier than chickens. Oh no, it's as early as the rooster in the workers' camp, it is said that the Japanese foremen always like to keep a big rooster in the workers' camp, and every morning, as soon as the rooster crows, the Japanese overseers shout, "Tear down the shop!" Get up! Damn, still lying down, pigs! "Beat you! Don't get up again? Slacker! Waiting for the sun to go up? So the Japanese workers began their day's work. It's just that the roosters in the workers' camp are always strange, and they always crow very early, often in the middle of the night, and then the overseers, who seem to have been ready for a long time, will immediately come out of nowhere and drive the Japanese workers to work.

Two porridges and one meal, twelve hours of work, intensive labor, pig-like life, trampled like dirt. After all, the "machine qì" caused by flesh and blood is different from that caused by steel; The Japanese workers' deeds stated that less than a third of them could be completed in a three-year period. Work, work, so weak that I can't walk or work, my hands and feet are as thin as a reed stick, my body is bent like a bow, my face is as miserable as a dead man, coughing, panting, dripping with cold sweat, and I am still oppressed to work.

Under such conditions, these Japanese workers died of exhaustion because of the intensity of construction, because of the high risk of construction, fell off the cliff and died, were buried in a large avalanche, froze to death due to lack of warm clothing, died of illness because of lack of medicine, died of poisoning because of abuse of drugs, thought they had eaten unhealthy food and had diarrhea and died, because they did not do a good job when they put explosives to blow up the mountain, because they met the bear who protected the forest and were shot to death, because they met the gray wolf family and were bitten to death, because they accidentally fell to death while climbing the mountain, Because he was carefully poisoned by a poisonous snake when he was crossing the grass, because he was too weak, he fell down silently and died while walking, and so on, and in the end, almost no one knows how many of these Japanese workers died. Many years later, the Japanese writer Takiji Kobayashi wrote in his novel the story of the Japanese workers who participated in the construction of the Pacific Railroad. He wrote: "Along the railroad you will not go far and you will always come across piles of graves, low graves overgrown with wild grass without headstones in front of them, and anything that would give a indication of the identity of the owner of the tomb, which Mr. Hughes told me was the grave of the Japanese worker who died here." All the graves are facing the west, which is the direction of the island of Japan. I knew that under every sleeper of this railway in the Andes lay the bones of a Japanese worker......"

It's a tragedy, and even Scrooge would make a sad face when he hears such a story. But this qiē is due to the Japanese self-organization, lack of respect for human rights, and has nothing to do with the Central Pacific Railroad under the leadership of the conscientious Scrooge.

In this way, the construction rate increased rapidly, and as a result, the entire railway was completed almost a year faster than in its original history. Of course, it is said that more Japanese and Irish died as a result than in the original history. But who cares about them? In fact, even later, when Japan and the United States went to war in World War II, the Japanese did not attack the United States with this matter -- because it was not only the Americans who drank the blood of these workers and ate the flesh of these workers, but also the entire Japanese upper class, whether it was the Tokugawa shogunate or the enterprising reformers, they drank this blood and ate this meat.

Scrooge swung his hammer and nailed the last of the spikes into the sleeper, and the Pacific Railroad, a miracle in the history of human engineering, was finally completed. There was applause from all sides, followed by the roar of a cannon salute. Then, under the watchful eye, Scrooge made an enthusiastic speech, in which he highly praised the great significance of this railway to the United States, and predicted that with the completion of this railway, the west will usher in a great exhibition and a prosperous tomorrow. Finally, Scrooge raised his glass of red wine to wish the United States a better tomorrow, and also announced the official start of the Pacific Railroad opening celebration reception.

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