It is equivalent to saying that Chen Mo does not have to use the technology in his hands to earn benefits and develop his power, but by taking the opportunity of others one step in advance, he will take the interests and forces that originally belonged to others as his own.

Of course, this method can only be done by a super genius like Chen Mo, who has an incomparably developed brain and has installed the entire library, and is familiar with the modern history of the United States.

Chen Mo's current acquisition of land in north-central Manhattan is relying on foresight to start the layout decades in advance, and this is just the beginning.

Now nearly half of the funds brought by his space have been consumed, but Chen Mo is not in a hurry to continue the acquisition of other land around New York, because those areas were not officially incorporated into New York City until 1898, becoming one of the five districts of New York, and there are still more than 50 years before now, Chen Mo has time to slowly acquire.

However, the future development of Manhattan will be very rapid, and Chen Mo must start early, taking advantage of the fact that the Manhattan development plan has not yet come out and no one realizes its value, he will hold it in his hands in advance.

In addition to the future Midtown and Uptown areas of Manhattan, Chen Mo also spent a lot of money to buy a lot of land in the undeveloped area of Downtown, although the area of these lands is far less than the unvalued areas in the north, but the funds spent are still on the purchase of the northern area, of course, the returns they can bring to Chen Mo in the short term are also huge, but Chen Mo has no intention of selling them, and even after stopping the acquisition of other areas of New York outside Manhattan, The remaining funds continue to be used to acquire expensive land in the upcoming development area of Lower Manhattan.

It's just that Chen Mo entrusted these things to a team of professional lawyers and accountants with good professional ethics that he hired after screening.

With Chen Mo's super perception ability, which is almost comparable to mind reading, it is impossible for anyone with bad intentions and bad morals to escape his accurate perception, and with enough money to spill it, it is easy to screen qualified people from many applicants to form a trustworthy and exclusive team composed of professionals who serve him.

For his part, he temporarily liberalized land acquisitions and shifted his focus to the layout of new industries.

The funds in the space will run out sooner or later, and he must establish a new source of funds to support the later planning layout, and he can't change the process of science and technology at will and come up with more advanced technology to make profits, so the existing high-profit industries in the United States have become Chen Mo's first choice.

I can't use my skills to make money, but I can just grab you.

What industry makes money, Chen Mo can directly intervene and snatch their cake from other businessmen who are making a lot of money!

According to Chen Mo's memory, the most profitable industries in the United States at this time were not real estate and arms, but a business that many people who didn't know the inside story couldn't think of, or couldn't look down on, the fur trade!

Fine fur was also a luxury in later generations, and in this era, only the upper class of society were qualified and able to own it.

Precious furs are expensive and are a symbol of status and status.

The fanatical pursuit of fur by the upper class of society is no less than the enthusiasm of modern people for luxury cars and watches.

Especially in Europe.

Europeans' love for fur is deeply rooted in the bone marrow, as early as the 30s of the 14th century, the British royal family stipulated that fur can only be worn by nobles, just as Chinese white porcelain in the Middle Ages was regarded as a luxury in Europe, the European royal family regarded wearing fur as a symbol of noble status, and today, this fanatical pursuit of fur has not only not weakened in the slightest, but with the development of capitalism, it has spread to the bourgeois people who have a lot of wealth, and the demand for fur is increasing.

The United States, which has not yet undergone much development, is densely forested in the mountains and rich in wildlife, and has an extremely rich fur production.

As early as the European colonial period, Europeans who set foot on the American continent began to use materials such as felt, firearms and brandy in exchange for furs and the Native Americans who lived in the mountains and forests and lived by hunting.

The ordinary necessities of life for the Europeans were invaluable to the primitive and backward Indians, and it seemed to them that some of the by-products of their hunting could be exchanged for these very useful things which they could not produce themselves.

This kind of bartering, exchanging low-value utensils, knives, cloths, liquor and other daily necessities from the Indians for high-value skins has continued to the present, and has gradually been monopolized by some families and large corporations by force.

They exchange fur from Native Americans at a low cost, process it and ship it to Europe or sell it directly in the United States, and a beaver pelt can increase in value by at least 1,000 percent, and even make more than 200 times the profit.

And Chen Mo's target this time is one of these merchants who monopolize the fur trade.

John Jacob Astor, a German-American businessman who was mainly engaged in the fur trade and investment in real estate, was the first multimillionaire in the United States, and is now the richest man in the United States, and he now lives in New York, and holds a large amount of land in the undeveloped area, and his sudden wealth is due to the brutal monopoly of the fur trade of the Indian tribes.

John Jacob Astor originally intended to gain a monopoly on the fur business in the Northwest, but there was already a powerful Rocky Mountain Fur Company there, which completely monopolized the fur trade in the Northwest.

When the plan was thwarted, John Jacob Astor focused his efforts on the vast area that expanded along the Missouri River Valley, which was inhabited by a large number of Indian tribes.

In order to complete the monopoly of the fur trade in this region, John Jacob Astor can be said to be unscrupulous, he created the American Fur Company, relying on deception, even the use of force, he obtained a complete monopoly of the region, just as the feudal aristocracy had a complete monopoly on the estates of the territory.

Nominally, the U.S. government rules this vast expanse, but in reality, John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company is itself a law, and it has a monopoly on the fur trade in the region by force and deception, making huge profits from it, completely ignoring all the laws enacted by Congress.