At the same time that Hero Company swept the Great Lakes market, the Boston Consortium led the Chicago Consortium, the New York Consortium and other wealthy people from various core cities in the United States gathered in Washington to discuss how to deal with the sudden offensive of Hero Company.

"This recent hero company is very unproportionate!"

"If it's just a small industry like dyes and cement, can we let them go in the industry of medicine and fertilizer?"

"A few months ago, this company was still a small role like a mafia, only knowing opium trafficking and violent fighting, that bastard boy named Tom has been assassinated many times, why do you dare to come to our north to spread wilderness now?"

"I found out a few days ago that this bastard recruited hundreds of thousands of blacks after the Civil War, and the wars we started were all for this bastard!"

"Where did he get so much money to build factories and recruit workers!"

"Painkillers"! As early as half a year ago, some people's big smoke houses were full of Hero Company's drugs, but they were all smuggled in the past and then sold by local gangs, but this time they were directly sold by Hero Company. ”

"Don't point to Sang and scold Huai, don't you have any products from the Hero Company in your big smoke house?"

"We're not here to discuss the "legendary family history" of this little bastard and tear each other down! We're going to find a way to solve the trouble he caused! It's better to get rid of him completely! ”

Dozens of representatives of the major families hated Tom, who a few months ago was nothing more than a Hispanic pariah in Texas, but now threatened their blue-blooded aristocrats in several core industries.

"Didn't you say that he was assassinated and kidnapped not long ago? Can't he die from these accidents? ”

"Unlikely, benefiting from the "painkillers" that some families have bought up on a large scale, this little untouchable already has the money to keep a standing army of five thousand under his hands. ”

"No kidding, how can he afford to raise five thousand standing troops?"

"Take Chicago as an example, the "painkiller" that I know sold more than 100,000 dollars last year, and this is still an inland city on the Great Lakes, how much profit do you think he has? ”

"And all the industries in his hero pharmaceutical company last year, the total profit on the books was just over a million dollars, where do you think all that money went? His suit was only thirty dollars. ”

Even a group of "American aristocrats" who think they are blue-blooded, when facing Tom Smith's company of heroes, they still want to use the most primitive, barbaric, and despicable method - assassination.

"Five thousand, he can't concentrate all five thousand people in Houston! Let's get together a few people, gather a few thousand people to cause an unexpected "fire", and completely dispose of him and the Smith family, will it not be long before we can get rid of him and the Smith family completely? ”

Don't think of these means at every turn, and thousands of people go to the current base of the "women's liberation movement" and the demonstration site of the "abolition of slavery in the south"? You might as well provoke a Second Civil War directly. ”

"Damn woman! What a hindrance! Isn't Texas the most backward place in thought? How could such an abnormal person appear? ”

While a group of people were arguing, a father and son sitting in the corner were nodding frequently at Tom Smith and John Mueller's information.

"It's a pity that I quit shipping a few years ago, otherwise I would have wanted to take a boat to meet this interesting young man."

"Captain", Cornelius Vanderbilt, played with the cane ornament in his hand, and looked at his son, his chosen successor, William Henry Vanderbilt.

"If this information is true, then this little imp is really interesting."

"Father, what's interesting, it's just a big factory owner who has mastered new production technology, other factories will learn his production methods sooner or later, and his capital chain will break one day sooner or later, and then he can only sell shares for financing, if he is lucky, he will become the first family in Texas at most, and if he is unlucky, he may only become a member of the Houston, Texas consortium."

"I don't think so, the United States has a population of more than 30 million or nearly 40 million, and I was able to earn a million dollars a year just by sailing from a "gold rush hotline" from the East Coast to the West Coast, and he was selling daily necessities to all Americans, and they were necessities that could not be bargained, how much do you think he could earn in the past six months? ”

"Take New York City, for example, where there are hundreds of big tobacco shops and even more heavy industrial areas...... Father, he may have earned tens of millions of dollars in the past six months! ”

William Henry Vanderbilt, as the family's designated successor, quickly understood how lucrative Tom's pharmaceutical industry chain was.

"This is just the beginning of his life, even if it is only at this rate, it will only take three to five years for him to replace me as the richest man in the United States."

"But this gray industry is not a long-term solution after all, and Pennsylvania has already started a drug rehabilitation campaign."

"Do you think he doesn't know? The Texas House of Representatives recently introduced a comprehensive drug rehabilitation bill, do you think there is no Hero Company behind the introduction of this law? I've heard that Tom Smith has a rule within the company that no one, including his family, is allowed to touch marijuana, opium, or any drugs. ”

"Isn't that his own most lucrative business?"

Cornelius Vanderbilt touched the sapphire on his cane, and instead of answering his son's question directly, he thought about the interesting young man's previous moves, and smiled slightly.

"Have you ever seen a mafia leader spend all his assets on expanding the industrial chain and expanding the factory? He still lives in his office every day, and does not build a single house as his "mansion", until last month he recruited his first attendant, who I heard was still very average-looking. ”

"People, after being rich, they are greedy for pleasure and vanity, and the jewel on my crutch could have built a railroad from New York to Washington, but I exchanged gold and dollars for this stone of little practical value."

"Because I already have too many railroads, 70 percent of the railroads in the entire northern United States are mine, and I almost control the rail network in New York, so it doesn't matter to me whether there is one more or less."

"If you were a self-made multi-millionaire and you got rich in half a year, would you resist buying some extravagant accessories and beautiful women? Even if it's just a little innocuous money. ”

Cornelius Vanderbilt wanted to use this to educate his children not to be extravagant and greedy for pleasure, but after looking at the sapphire gold cane and a custom suit in his hand, as well as the Breguet watch of the former French royal family that he bought at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars, he really did not have the confidence to educate his son directly, so he could only use the subtext to wake up his son.

"These idiots are not going to defeat Tom Smith in this war."

"On one side are the fanatics who gamble their lives and exchange every drop of blood on their bodies for bullets."

"On the other side is just a bunch of wine bags and rice bags, and the war ended before it even began."