May 3, 1866

DA officials have not received orders from above to leave Houston and can only continue to stay at the Smith Hotel, while the state government of Texas has urgently passed a decree that no one thought of at all.

The Texas Private Armed Reform Act!

It explicitly stipulates that a company, enterprise, factory, or any collective of armed personnel with any number of arbitrary weapons specifications are allowed to act as a security team!

In fact, as early as the moment when the European colonists landed on the American continent, the farmers of the colonists owned guns and relied on the force brought by guns to protect their farms from local beasts and "wild men".

But this kind of decree explicitly allowing bourgeois corporations to have "armies" is the first in the Americas and even in the world.

In this barbaric era, no one cares about your company's factory secretly recruiting some armed forces to protect property, but it is still not in line with "morality" to put it on the surface so blatantly.

This behavior aroused the alarm of all high-level leaders in the United States, and the sensitive Yankee consortium said:

Is Texas state government a showpiece? Allowing private companies to train the military on a large scale?

Tom said that the Yankees can urgently come up with a DA to restrict my hero company, why can't my Texas old men make a decree to expand the army openly?

The government of the United States is nothing more than the dog of the American consortium, which is an American characteristic and has to be tasted!

Texas has the toughest people, the largest land area, and the largest population in the United States.

The security problem in Texas itself is maintained by the voluntary "Mounted Police" of the people, and the average person may wonder how effective is this kind of civil organization?

The Texas Mounted Police still showed good combat effectiveness in the case of the Civil War, and was one of the best armies in the Confederate Army.

So, what kind of combat effectiveness will this group of mounted policemen on horseback have, who have grown up shooting guns on horseback since childhood, and with the absolute discipline training of the modern army in later generations?

As for the will and loyalty, how can they be guaranteed?

It's all about the land, Tom's family has transformed, not the old-fashioned economic model of plantation farmers tied to the land, Tom linked a large number of land in the southern United States acquired by Hero Company to Hero Security, as long as he participated in "security work" in Hero Security Company for a certain number of years or made meritorious contributions, he could own part of the land forever.

Tom clearly stated in his employment contract how many years he would be a "security guard", or how much land he could get for what he had done, and asked each soldier to take a copy of the contract and let them keep it at their bedside to motivate themselves every day.

Whites in the entire southern United States make up a quarter of the white population who actually own land, and the remaining three-quarters of whites are attracted to this lucrative offer, not just Texans, but also land-hungry young people in other states who are pouring into Hero Security's recruiting office.

In just half a month, after preliminary screening, the number of armed "security guards" of the Hero Security Company quickly reached 200,000!

In terms of weapons and equipment, compared with the various levels of equipment and uniforms of the Civil War, the hero company first arranged three sets of uniform uniforms for each "security guard" in terms of clothing, regular uniforms, combat uniforms, and training uniforms. The light weapons were all the rifles used by the French in Europe, the Chasebo rifles, and the heavy weapons were the Prussian Krupp cannons.

As for how Tom chose these two weapons? It's very simple, buy all the artillery of the European armies and build it on the vast farms of Texas, and you can always compare the best.

As for whether the Europeans sell it or not? The United States is separated by an Atlantic Ocean from Europe, and there is no threat to Europe, and the proud Europeans will only marvel at the fact that the American local money is so knowledgeable and will not hinder the door-to-door business.

Tom buys a small number of weapons for training, and the Hero Arsenal begins to copy them on a large scale.

"I'm not an engineer, but I'm a chemical engineering student!"

"Yankee, who is still using a breech gun, prepare to appreciate the power of my bolt-action rifle!"

Tom touched on a replica rifle made of better steel, which Tom named the Smith M1866 rifle.

In terms of firearms, bullets, and artillery ammunition, Tom's smokeless gunpowder completely exploded the current gunpowder in terms of calorific value ratio and safety.

In this way, a Texas with a population of less than 10 million was forcibly transfused by Tom relying on the Hero Company to develop a 200,000 iron-blooded "Texas Security Brigade" with the most advanced weapons of this era and a military system beyond the era!

You must know that in the Franco-Prussian War, Germany and France, which had a population of 40 million, had only 400,000 to 500,000 front-line combat soldiers in each country, while Texas, which had a population of less than 10 million, had 200,000 standing "security guards."

However, it is not surprising to consider that these 200,000 "security guards" are raised by the blood of tens of millions of "able-bodied" addicts in the United States.

In later generations, the companies that controlled tobacco and salt did not collect taxes on the people as much as the "heroine painkiller series"!

Tom firmly believes that it only takes half a year, and after half a year, the "Hero Security Brigade" in Texas can become an armed force comparable to the armies of European powers in terms of military quality.

So, how to stabilize the Yankee in this half a year? Will those softies provoke war again? ”

"Forget it, I can only bet that those soft eggs are shrunken turtles, and I don't dare to tear my face."

Tom looked at the few proposals on the table and let out a faint smile.

"Texas Statewide Land Acquisition Plan", "Mexican War Plan", "Texas Independence Plan", etc., these are all proposals that make Tom excited just by looking at the name.

"Knock knock~"

"Enter."

Milia slowly walked into Tom's office in a suit designed by Tom in the future lady's workplace suit.

This kind of tight-fitting clothes shows off the person's figure very well, no wonder the boss likes to wear this kind of clothes for secretaries.

I don't know if it's an illusion or what, Tom always feels that the little white rabbit of Milia has grown bigger in the past few months, and his stature is no longer in the aircraft experimental site. This is not in line with human physiology!

"Mr. Smith, today is Pentecost, and you should go back to celebrate the holiday with Mrs. Smith and the whole family."

"Oh, Whitsunday! I really don't want to celebrate the dog's Christian holiday, listening to my mother's nagging prayers is like throwing me into an ant nest, crawling all over my body with ants. ”