August 13, 1866

Once again, Washington convened a joint meeting of the Northern consortiums.

"Why are you xxx state xxx city still selling Hero Company products!"

"Especially painkillers, do you know how hard this is for our opium trade!"

"Damn! The gang under my command is out of control, and they have to smuggle drugs from Hero Company. ”

"So do my men."

"Don't say anything about anyone, I think the mafia or something is a group of "poisonous snakes" that can't be raised, let's do our best! ”

"We've really done our best!"

"Don't blame us for our lack of ability, only blame the enemy for being too cunning."

"Company Heroes is such a cunning fox!"

The leaders of several major families of the Northern Consortium met again, but this time, the Vanderbilt family was too lazy to come, he already knew what this meeting would be like.

Obviously, he was moved by the huge profits of smuggling, but he still had to throw the pot to the disobedient mafia under his hands.

Do those gang of mafias dare not listen to the words of "food and clothing"?

What's more, if you don't smuggle, your enemies will smuggle, and there are no absolute friends and enemies between the big families in the north!

Vanderbilt couldn't help but wonder, is it better to face this kind of business war like Hero Company, where one person holds full shares, does not hold shareholder meetings, and has absolute control over a state?

But how does this model deal with the shortage of funds? The chain of personal funds is never as good as a class.

Anyway, judging from the current situation, the hero company in Texas is still an iron bucket, while the "alliance" of the northern consortium has existed in name only because of the small profits of "painkillers".

"It is impossible to get benefits from an opponent who gambles his life for the sake of giving up the alliance for a little profit."

Just when the Northern consortium was still trying to boycott the products of Hero Company on the surface, and secretly digging into each other's walls, the Europeans rushed to Texas to find the legendary "first plane".

This is the difference between the concerns of the Europeans and the "native" Americans, throughout the history of the United States, especially the United States before the twentieth century, the frequency and scale of its wars, compared to the powder keg in Europe, is simply a country incarnated by a dove of peace, and there may not be many people in the United States except for the DuPont family who pay attention to war technology.

The first to arrive was the envoy of the Second Mexican Empire, who also represented the Second French Empire to some extent.

At this time, the Second French Empire was on an expedition to Mexico, and the puppet regime supported by the Second French Empire, the Second Mexican Empire, and the Republic of Mexico were inseparable, and the emperor of the Second Mexican Empire, Ferdinand Maximilien Joseph von Habsburg-Lorraine, the former Archduke of Austria, and the emperor of the Second French Empire behind him, Charles-Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, were very concerned about this new technology that could become a battlefield weapon.

In order to make a name for the hero company Raven One, Tom made four identical Raven One, and every day at 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., he would perform a three-minute air show in Smith Square.

The envoy from the Second Mexican Empire, looking at the soaring Raven 1 in front of him, as an honor student who graduated from the same military academy as Napoleon Bonaparte, the Paris Military Academy, understood at a glance how much of a change such a thing could cause on the battlefield.

"The moment this kind of thing hits the battlefield, it is the moment when the military history of mankind is rewritten!"

"Quick, contact Mexico...... No! Directly contact the homeland, the French Empire must use this to dominate the skies of Europe! ”

As the envoy of the French aristocracy, he could no longer maintain the "aristocratic" reserve he should have at this moment, and hurriedly took a few core subordinates to the telegraph station in Houston, where he wanted to send a telegram to Paris, France.

At this time, Tom was chatting with the low-level guards of the French army.

Not to mention this era, the bottom of the expeditionary force in which era is a bunch of ordinary people, they are also homesick, they also miss their wives and children, they are also afraid of war, and they are also afraid of death.

So, how do you fit into the current French rank-and-file soldiers?

"Cheers! The great Emperor Napoleon will surely lead France to glory again! ”

"Cheers! The great Emperor Napoleon will surely lead France to glory again! ”

Don't ask, if you ask, you just blow Napoleon and you're done.

Tom speaks "authentic French" with a double mixed accent from Texas, Spain, and the "gratuitous condolence wine" in his hand, high-purity distilled absinthe, and quickly blends into this group of French soldiers who worship the "Napoleonic royal family".

These French GIs rarely relaxed, and the decline of the Mexican-French War and the rise of Prussia made them a little panicked, and the high absinthe of more than 50 degrees was the best "relaxation" in their eyes.

With a large amount of alcohol in his stomach, Tom, as the only person present to drink the "special absinthe" mixed with pigment and water, quickly became a topic leader among the gang of soldiers.

What can grassroots soldiers talk about in this era?

The opposite sex, the opposite sex with a good body, the opposite sex with a good body, and the opposite sex with a good body and good looks.

The mixed blood customs of Latin America, the delicate skin of Africa, the masked characteristics of the Middle East, and so on.

Tom also continued to talk about this topic along the way, boasting about his "Void Record", obviously he was still a "chick body" in this era, but it seemed that there were more areas in the topic than these expeditionary forces had visited.

Without him, he is familiar with his hands.

In the eyes of the French Expeditionary Force, Tom is now a "professional expeditionary force" for women of all nationalities around the world.

Seeing that the atmosphere was almost over, Tom shifted the conversation from momentary pleasure to their homeland in France.

A group of soldiers who had been on an expedition for many years could no longer hold it back, and began to cry while holding the absinthe in their hands.

crying about his wife and children, his parents, everything in his French hometown,

From the unintentional disclosure of everyone's cries, Tom really confirmed that his previous merchandising plan was feasible.

The biggest crisis facing the French government today – the demographic crisis – is real.

And this crisis of the French government is Tom's business opportunity!

These French expeditionary forces were not the lowest peasants or workers in France, and compared with peasant workers, they all had a certain income and social status.

Tom had previously looked at the information and found that in the nineteenth century France, there was a trend of declining birth rate.

Many French people, especially those with a certain status, will give birth control on their own, in order not to let a large number of offspring affect their energy and money due to the cost of child support.

And this is true of these GIs, among whom there are many junior officers in the middle and lower ranks, and the higher the ranks, the more reluctant they are to have a large number of children.

They needed more money to maintain their position in the French army in exchange for the admiration of the officers at the top and the loyalty of the soldiers at the bottom, rather than taking the money to raise their children.

These people also have the recent X desire, and they will also listen to Tom's "Expedition View" with relish, and the standard of living is high, which is simply a "target customer" tailored for Tom's upcoming "Hero Condom"!

"French! Do you want to know about hero condoms? ”