James had never missed automobiles and airplanes so much, and at the same time couldn't help but be glad that there were at least steam trains and a relatively sound railway system in this era, and thanked Mr. Watt for improving the steam engine early.

After Christmas, James and Tom and Danielle went to the United States to determine the location of the factory one by one and other details.

This time, James was completely addicted to "spending", and he spent a lot of money on the Howlett family's wealth to buy a lot of land in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Philadelphia.

As the land became cheaper and cheaper due to the intensifying turmoil in the United States, and it was a position that no one fancied, everyone tried to stop James's crazy moves, but to no avail. If it weren't for the distance and the chaos of the times, he would even want to go to southern California and Texas to "shop".

This made Mr. Tom Weddell wonder if he had mistaken this little Mr. Howlett, opening a factory and doing business is not being a manor owner, and more land must be better.

After nearly half a year of investigation and acquisition, James fully realized the United States in this era, especially made him realize what kind of injustice, discrimination and even hatred the mutant community will face in ordinary human society in the future.

Even in the American North, which was inclined to abolish slavery and was based on capitalist industry, blacks still did not have the dignity of their rights. With the exception of the black slave community, which was not yet completely eradicated, all cities were divided and marked separately for what kind of places were allowed for blacks to enter, and restaurants, inns, bars, and even toilets were divided into black and white.

James knew that his grandfather, Mr. Howlett, was an out-and-out black hater, not only because of his inherent narrow-minded racial thinking, but also because his brother who died of illness was infected with the epidemic of black slaves. He knew very well how difficult it is to eliminate the opposition at the root of cognition.

In fact, James was just a martial artist, learning to be a manor owner, and an upper-class businessman running the business had exhausted him.

So in the future, will he have the ability to speak up for the mutant race, shelter and even lead them? Filled with annoyance and depressed emotions, James travels all the way back to Edmond, Howlett Manor.

The construction of the underground palace has reached the final stage, and it will only take three months to deliver at most. After Christmas, Daley Fernon put all the other workers who had done the rest of the work into the Howlett estate project, which greatly accelerated the completion of the Underground Palace.

He had to finish this strange cellar project as soon as possible so that he could continue to build six factories in the four cities that James was about to put into construction. Even for Canada's largest construction contractor, this is a business volume that can be eaten for two or three years.

The equipment cast by Boss Tom is almost finished, and it will be transported to the manor one after another to be assembled in the dungeon, and those big guys can't be loaded and moved in. And James' training can finally get on track.

Mr. Daniel's decision to set off for Africa after a month of finishing is a journey that I don't know how long it will take, and he and James are in some ways just a gentleman's agreement.

Danielle promised to do everything he could to find Wakanda, maybe a year or two if it was fast, and if he couldn't find it, he had the right to decide when to end the mission.

In the blink of an eye, the weather was getting colder, and James had said goodbye to Mr. Daniel's group of seventeen two months ago. The expedition team includes nine family riders who have been working with the Howlett family since their grandparents, and are responsible for the safety of the team in general and Mr. Danielle in particular.

Three black slaves who had been sold from different parts of Africa, James promised to be free from the moment they agreed to the mission, and that they would receive a considerable amount of money when they returned. There are also four skilled men who are well-versed in medical care, cooking, and other necessary field skills, and when they arrive in Africa, they will also hire local guides and coolies to carry the burden of luggage.

In the early autumn of 1857, James came to the world's first hand that touched the trajectory of history.

In the United States, Herbert Fernon was unable to complete all the projects in one fell swoop, and James demanded that six factories must be built and completed at the same time, and a well-known construction firm in Washington undertook the construction of two factories.

At this time, the Western world was in the transition period from the first industrial revolution to the second industrial revolution, the steam engine era was at its peak, and the internal combustion engine had not yet appeared. Three of the six factories are steelmaking plants, which produce various mechanical raw materials, two mechanical processing plants, and one "mechanical experimental factory" for unknown reasons.

Entering a completely new industrial field is not something that can be done well by having the money to buy land and build a factory. James spent only a small part of his previous six months of research on site selection and land purchases, and more on acquiring poorly run steel mills and processing plants, finalizing channels for mineral raw materials, understanding the U.S. industrial market, and other extremely tedious things.

After seeing Mr. Danielle away, he traveled to various parts of the United States for more than two months to deal with a number of matters. It also hired professional geoprospectors to explore the land owned by the Howlett family in Canada, and the family was in full swing as if it had been wound up.

If all goes well, the factories will be officially opened in a year's time, and the plantation and animal husbandry owner will gradually transform into a new industrial tycoon.

Finally, this winter, James arranged all the things, and was able to have some free time to train his boxing skills, and he could also spend his last days with his grandfather.

Mr. Howlett is completely bedridden, and can only eat some liquid food. The butlers, Vane and O'Hara, took care of him during the day, and the old man's brothers, who were still alive, took turns talking to him at his bedside every day.

Most of the time, Mr. Howlett could only gasp for breath and let out a "ho... Ho..." in response. Every day after dinner, James would personally feed the old man, scrub his body, and meditate with him until dawn.

He hopes that the only loved one he really puts in his heart in this world will not sleep alone on the bed and face the dazed night at the moment of leaving, but to be able to see his beloved grandson sleep forever in contentment.

At a depth of about 30 meters underneath the Howlett Manor, a huge space of nearly two modern football fields of 13,000 square meters in size and nine meters high echoed with the roar of a pile driver.

This is an underground palace divided into multiple spaces and structures, and in a training ground of about 2,000 square meters, James, naked and full of steel twisted body, punches and whips his legs on a giant steel "mace" about five meters high, sometimes hitting his shoulders and elbows and knees, and the figures are staggered and undulating.

In the deep and quiet space underground, pots of carbon fire and torch flames shone around, and after nearly half an hour of tireless intensive hitting, James' last heavy punch was imprinted on it, and he slowly closed his fist around and looked at his "sandbag" to complete today's warm-up exercise.

"The quality is pretty good." He nodded with satisfaction, "The current strength can only leave a shallow mark with all his might, and it is not enough to 'turn' the iron stake, it is enough for a long time......"

He called the giant mace steel stake, which resembled a Wing Chun wooden stake, an "iron stake", and it would take at least three tonnes of impact to move the giant pile, which was not enough at the moment.

After checking it, James walked to the side of the steel frame full of thick barbell plates, carried a special iron as thick as a forearm, and successively did the most basic modern strength training movements such as squats and deadlifts, constantly increasing the test of his current physical strength limit.

"Five hundred and twenty kilograms of squats, five hundred and eighty kilograms of deadlifts, and now the weight is roughly one hundred and thirty kilograms, more than four times the weight of the ......," James took the pen and recorded the relevant data in his notebook, and his mouth was full of words. Able-bodied ordinary people can reach twice the strength level of their own body weight when they carry out strength training of a certain intensity and time, while top athletes can reach three times or even more, once they reach this range, every kilogram of growth is a threshold, which is the limit of human physical strength.

James' stats have completely exceeded that limit, and this is still the time he has not fully exploited his physical potential. Nowadays, he needs to understand the boxing method and no longer understand the use of strength to practice the muscles and bones of the whole body as he did at the beginning, but must touch the limits of his body and explore his potential.