Chen Mo, who had initially completed the layout of New York, began to set his sights on the undeveloped western United States, buying a large amount of land in these areas, establishing large ranches covering vast areas, and recruiting a large number of cowboys to work for him.

However, at the same time, the fur trade was not left behind, and after the fall of John Jacob Astor, the American fur company soon disappeared, and the Lakota tribe completely controlled the fur trade in Missouri, and out of the forest, the scope of the fur trade gradually spread to the entire Missouri River and even the Mississippi River basin.

At the same time, with the strong strength of Victor and James who are now far beyond ordinary people and the continuous propaganda of the Lakota tribesmen, Chen Mo's identity has gradually been mythologized, and many Indian tribes in the Missouri area have also gradually accepted this statement under the influence of these many legends and more and more people have witnessed the magical abilities displayed by Victor and James, and they respect Chen Mo, a very mysterious and powerful existence with the same skin color as them.

In addition, the Lakota tribe has now obtained a large number of advanced muskets given by Chen Mo, and has the strong strength to crush the tribes, and these tribes are gradually subdued by the Lakota tribe and incorporated into Chen Mo's command.

There are more and more Indian soldiers under Chen Mo who are working for him, and the Missouri area has completely become Chen Mo's territory, and even in the land around New York that belongs to Chen Mo, you can often see the figure of fierce Indian soldiers.

But at the same time, Victor and James gradually lost the opportunity to fight.

Although they began to expand to the periphery after completely controlling the Missouri region, the tribes in the plains outside the forest were not as dense as in the forests, and they often did not see people for a long time, and they encountered all Indian tribes living in the plains, and rarely encountered fur traders.

These Indian tribes are the main objects of their trade, and the target of wooing and subduing, naturally they will not attack easily, and the scattered fur merchants they occasionally encounter are at most a team of about a dozen people, many of them are fathers and sons, uncles and nephews, and they are not as fierce and brutal as the armed personnel of the American Fur Company, and Victor and James did not kill to the point of killing people regardless of the target.

So gradually, the two of them didn't have the opportunity to do anything.

But this is not a problem for Chen Mo, isn't it simple to want to fight? Without the American Fur Company, aren't there other fur companies?

At least for the time being, it's best to take these unscrupulous, monopolistic fur companies.

On the one hand, they not only wantonly oppressed and exploited the Indians who traded furs with them in the area they controlled, but also brutally slaughtered other fur traders who invaded their "territory".

On the other hand, while eliminating these fur company fighters, they can also snatch the fur resources they occupy, bringing sufficient funds for Chen Mo's enclosure operation and a series of subsequent plans.

So after completely occupying the fur trade in Missouri, Chen Mo recalled Victor and James and sent them to the Kansas area, where there is a larger forest than Missouri, the Rocky Mountains!

And their target this time is Jim Breed's Rocky Mountain Fur Company!

This is a fur company that is stronger than John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company, with more than 2,000 armed men, mixed with grizzly bears, brown bears, mountain lions and other fierce beasts in the Rocky Mountains all year round, these armed personnel are more fierce than the personnel of the American Fur Company, and the combat effectiveness is also more powerful, but this is the best for Victor and James, and the two who are constantly improving are in need of stronger opponents to hone their combat effectiveness.

The Missouri fur trade and expansion into the Mississippi River Valley were left to Chief Geronimo of the Lakota Tribe.

The Lakota tribe is no longer the weak tribe that can be wiped out in the face of more than 30 armed men with guns, the Lakota tribe that integrates the entire Missouri jungle is also the most powerful among all the Indian tribes in the entire United States, and unlike other tribes that are blocked, oppressed, and exploited, with Chen Mo's backing, they are even more advanced than many Indian tribes supported by Western colonial powers in terms of weapons and equipment.

After all, those colonists just need them as guns in their hands to contain the power of the United States, and they will not give them too advanced equipment at all, most of them are old flintlock pistols and even arquebuses that have been eliminated by their own countries, which are not at the same level as the most advanced firing rifles equipped by the Lakota tribe.

With muskets in one hand and supplies in the other, the expansion of the Lakota tribe into the Mississippi River valley was going very smoothly, whether it was the fur trade or the subjugation of these "backward" Indian tribes on the plains, all of which were carried out in an orderly manner.

Victor and James continued to hone themselves in the Rocky Mountains, accompanied by more than a hundred burly, heavily armed Indian warriors, but their main mission was to trade furs and search for traces of their opponents for Victor and James.

Without Chen Mo's super perception, relying only on Victor and James, it is not easy to find a target in the wooded Rocky Mountains.

So they were still in the Missouri jungle at the beginning, the acquisition team composed of these Indian warriors was responsible for the fur acquisition, and they were also able to communicate easily with the Indians in the Rocky Mountains, and soon they were able to find out the distribution and routes of the Indian tribes in the Rocky Mountains, and then they could make fur purchases while looking for traces of the armed personnel of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company for Victor and James.

Victor and James led Indian warriors into the Rocky Mountains, while Chen Mo and his team continued their march to the northwestern states of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, and enclosed land on these newly developed lands.

The further west you go, the more desolate the surrounding landscape becomes, and there are fewer and fewer traces of human activity.

These areas have only been in the hands of the United States for a short time, and they have not yet been developed, and the west is a completely desolate place compared to the central and eastern regions, where industry, agriculture, commerce, and economy are booming.