On a quiet snowy night, the busy city with brilliant lights also becomes quiet and empty at this time, and the snowflakes under the halo of street lamps at night are distinct, like the ice blown away by the wind, and the Christmas tree with lights is also covered with snow, adding to the festive atmosphere of Christmas.

By the time Abel woke up again, his Smith had returned to Texas and landed at Dallas Fort Worth Airport.

Texas is noticeably much warmer than New York.

Abel, who walked down the ramp of the plane, felt that the wind in his hometown was more warm than the wind in New York. It's not like the winter wind in New York, which blows like a knife on people's faces.

At nine a.m., the convoy returned to Smith Farm in northern Tarrant County.

Today's Smith Farm is no longer the small and medium-sized factory farm with only more than 7,500 acres and completely relying on modern intensive farming.

After Abel's fortune, Alexander did not run for election during that time.

Abel paid for it, and Alexander and Alex came forward. The Smith family bought and annexed many other farms around their farm.

Smith Farm, which originally covered just over 7,000 acres, is now a sprawling farm that occupies one of the most fertile acres in Tarrant County, covering an area of about 250,000 acres.

Even the original Sunnis Hill Farm was included. Within the farm, two towns of Sunnis City and Smith Town were directly developed.

Among them, the city of Sunnis, which used to be mainly used as a training base for rock security and a place of residence for family members.

With the development of rock security, more and more people are moving in. Schools, hospitals, shopping malls, and various recreational facilities were built.

At present, the total population has exceeded 20,000. Locals apply to become a new city under federal and Texas law, as well as Tarrant County.

Such an application was of course approved without question. The city of Sunnis was thus given the ability to form its own council and elect the city on its own. long, form your own police. The powers of the inspector or the sheriff's ranks.

The Chinese people probably think it's a bit exaggerated, a city was built so easily.

There is also a great right to autonomy, and there is almost nothing to be done from above.

But it's actually very common in the United States, especially in the Midwest and Mid-South where a large number of small cities are almost always in this mode of self-government.

It can even be said that this is the earliest American model, and the United States was established under the union of autonomous cities in this way.

Smithtown was founded in a similar way to Sunnis, with a much smaller population, about 5,000 people, most of whom were farm workers and other related workers.

For example, Adam and Eve's scientists.

These two modest towns are located on 250,000 acres of land owned by the Smith family.

Many people understand that this is the Smith family's territory.

So when Abel comes back to Smith's Farm, or Smithtown.

It's a completely different place than when he came back four years ago.

The rudiments of towns have emerged, from hospitals to police. The Inspectorate has it all. The original farm has been located in the center of the town, with all the buildings in the town guarding the Smith Manor in the center.

And to the northwest of town, on a large clearing of land that has been leveled, a national airport is under construction that meets the Federal Aviation Administration's new General Aviation Airport – Part of State-owned Assets standard.

According to the standard, the national airport can serve the domestic and international aviation market in the United States, with an average of 200 aircraft stationed on site, including 30 jet aircraft, and the frequency of flight activities is very high, and it can basically take off most of the existing aircraft in the world.

It is one of the highest standards for airports in the United States.

After the construction of this airport is completed, Abel's Smith, a large wide-body passenger plane, will no longer have to fly to Dallas Fort Worth Airport, but can land directly on the airport of his own home.

Today is Christmas, and when Abel is in the car, he can see that the whole town of Smith is lit up everywhere, beautiful Christmas trees are placed everywhere, and people walking are smiling on their faces.

In the United States, Christmas is almost equivalent to the Chinese New Year, a day for family reunion and celebration, and it is the most important holiday of the year.

The large open space at the entrance to the farm, which was mainly used to park and load goods, has been converted into a beautiful square.

In the middle of the square, on a huge pedestal, a huge bronze statue is being built.

It's not finished yet, and it's a holiday, so the scaffolding is empty today.

I had already gotten out of the car and saw Little Laura and the others smiling one by one, holding or holding the children's hands towards Abel, and couldn't help but take a few more glances at the unfinished statue.

That's Alex's request, and the statue under construction is what Ander Smith looks like.

Ander Smith was the first Smith to travel from Plymouth to the North American continent more than 380 years ago aboard the Mayflower, and the true ancestor of the Smith family.

Abel has seen the design drawings of the bronze statue of Ander Smith, which says that the statue weighs 450,000 pounds, is 46 meters high, and the base is 45 meters high, and the whole bronze statue is made of 120 tons of steel as the skeleton, 80 tons of copper sheets as the outer skin, and 300,000 rivets are assembled and fixed on the bracket, with a total weight of 225 tons.

The statue of Ander Smith, wearing a tuxedo, a top hat, and leather shoes, looks like the first generation of elites at the beginning of the empire.

Actually, Abel's own family knows his own affairs. He remembered that his ancestor had been a destitute blacksmith at first.

In Britain owes a fart. couldn't afford to repay the stocks and debts, so in order to avoid debts and find a way to survive, he got on the Mayflower......

In that era when going to sea was almost a struggle for life, how could the children of serious and wealthy European families risk their lives to come to North America?

Except for a few adventurers and careerists, the rest of the people who came here in those days were just people who couldn't survive in the Old World.

What shrubs, Master Luo, Dupont, and Rockfeller were all in that boat, and each one was either a blacksmith or a miner, or a gardener, or a gambler, or a farmer......

Each of the 102 passengers on the ship has a name and a surname, which goes down in history. Half of these passengers died within a year of their arrival in the harsh natural conditions of the New World. At that time, the best mixed was the family surnamed Winslow. Edward Winslow was canonized by the British Empire and became the advance officer for the opening of the American colonies.

However, time has changed, and Winslow, who was a good mixer at that time, has long since disappeared from the crowd, and has shrunk to work as a doctor in Portsmouth, Massachusetts, and several other ordinary but now prominent people are completely incomparable.

However, on the whole, except for those who could not stand the death of natural selection, the rest of the Mayflower members were undoubtedly very successful. In the United States, there are now about 20 million people, more or less in the blood of the Mayflower crew at that time, and it has reached the fourteenth and fifteenth generations.

There is even an organization, called the Mayflower Society, which is the descendants of those who have genealogical orthodoxy that can be traced back to that year.

But just think about it, the population base of 20 million people, even if it is one in a hundred, this organization is just like that. Today's association can be said to be just a mass organization, without the low-key luxury of private clubs.

"Mayflower" has become more of a symbol used by some blue-blooded nobles and bumblebee members to emphasize the nobility of their own blood.

For example, shrubs, such as Rockfeller, and now Smith......

So as one of the passengers on the Mayflower that year, Ander Smith could naturally become a bronze statue, almost like a cosplay on the Statue of Liberty, standing on this land.

No one else is qualified to gossip, because no matter what Ander Smith says, he was also one of the first pioneers to open up the empire.

Even if he was just a blacksmith at the time.