Mid-June 1867,

Tom sat in his office, looking at the various urgent documents for work:

Payments submitted by overseas and other raw material suppliers, demand slips for strategic materials sent by John, payslips for workers in various factories, railroad projects in various parts of Texas, school construction fees in Texas, and ......

"Money!"

"No money!"

"I really don't have any money!"

Tom couldn't help but pat his forehead, it was the first time that Tom had been so worried about money after being in this world for so long.

The war drained far more money than Tom had anticipated.

Especially with the deepening of the advance, the front line continues to pull.

Now the Hero Company is losing at least 10 million dollars a month because of the war.

Tom's tactical technique is to pave the road with money, but Tom didn't expect to pave such a "thick" road, which is simply a gold brick and silver road.

The rate of material consumption is even greater than the monthly rate of material consumption of the Confederate States of America and the United States of America combined during the Civil War.

During the Civil War, the monthly expenses of the Southern and Northern armies were actually higher than tens of millions of dollars per month.

However, it was a bill for the purchase of firearms and munitions from an arms supplier, and it was Tom's own production!

The Morgan consortium can sell guns worth less than a dollar and are about to be scrapped to the military for more than $20 each, not to mention how shady other arms suppliers are.

Tom's self-produced and self-sold army consumes tens of millions of dollars in military supplies every month.

If it were to be replaced with the purchase price of the Northern and Southern armies during the Civil War, it would be billions of dollars per month, to say the least.

Fortunately, Tom started to prepare the military factory more than a year in advance, otherwise, he would have been dragged down by the "middlemen".

Within two years, Hero Company was born from a group of Dixies who only knew how to farm, and swept through many industries such as medicine, fertilizer, and dyes in the United States.

From beginning to end, it is an absolute "personal shareholding" plus "personal decision-making", so that the outside world cannot interfere.

Even if there is no listed stock and no public financial statements are required, major local consortia also estimate that the monthly net profit of the hero company is tens of millions of US dollars, counting the huge "underground pharmaceutical industry", the monthly income is simply incalculable.

Under this kind of terrible profits, it is impossible to support Tom's "road-building tactics" for a long time, which shows how much more productive the United States was than Neon in World War II that could support MacArthur to engage in "island-hopping tactics" on the other side of the Pacific.

Now the loss of tens of millions of dollars per month has dealt a serious blow to the capital flow chain of Hero Company.

The shortage of the capital chain of the hero company has been reflected in many aspects.

The production of goods under the name of the hero company has increased, and it is no longer a monthly quantitative rush to buy, but those who come do not refuse, the order is all eaten, all non-gold rare metals such as silver are sold in a large area, and the underground market is no longer barter that only accepts gold, and the dollars or other valuable materials issued by other states can be purchased and exchanged for the "heroine medicine" of the hero company.

Tom is now close to selling the Hero Company's gold reserves and selling a lot of real estate.

(At this point in time, the world is still dominated by the gold and silver standard, and it has not yet reached the point when the gold standard dominates the world.) The gradual domination of the world by the gold standard was not until after 1870. ）

Many of the heads of the Yankee consortium financing are also sensitive to the business opportunities brought by Hero Company.

The war has dragged down the finances of Hero Inc., which is now the consensus of the Yankees in the North.

Everyone hopes that in this crisis of the hero company, in the name of "sending charcoal in the snow", they will "take advantage of the fire" to make a profit.

The Yankees also said to each other on the surface that they would boycott each other and not give loans to Hero Company or anything, but in fact, they were all contacting the senior management of Hero Company behind the scenes, trying to talk to Tom Smith in every possible way.

In the past few days, from the **** group under the name of the Morgan consortium that originated in Europe, to the state banks supported by various local consortiums in the United States, and even the First National Bank of Boston under the name of the Boston consortium with a "blood feud" have also begun to contact Tom.

The huge profits even made several royal families and royal families in Europe moved, not to mention the Hanover royal family (later renamed the famous Windsor royal family), the Bonaparte royal family (later renamed the Napoleonic family), the Habsburg royal family, the Hohenzollern royal family, and the Romanov royal family.

The former ruling families of large countries such as the Bourbons, the Stuarts, the Braganças, the Wittelsbach family, the Friedrich family, and other large countries are also ready to move.

These families even offered to send troops to the war and provide material funds to invest in the Hero Company.

Their real thoughts are far more barbaric than the Yankees who only want to rely on financing to buy shares.

If it weren't for the hundreds of thousands of "demon army" slaughtering all sides in Mexico, and there would always be restless "neighbors" in Europe.

The Europeans even wanted to expedition to the United States, conquer Texas by force, and violently obtain the complete industrial chain of Hero Company.

For a time, the hero company that leaked out of the decline established a piece of fat in the eyes of the world's major forces.

In the middle of the storm spiral, Tom was still so calm.

Tom leaned back in his office chair, his "golden fake cigarette" in his mouth, and sucked the filtered air.

Tom began to analyze the situation of the war.

There is no doubt that the regime of the United Mexican States has no direct resistance, and guerrilla warfare is also suppressed by Tom's "road-building tactics".

There is now an option to reduce investment in military factories and slow down or even suspend the advancing offensive of the John Front.

As long as the capital investment in military supplies is reduced by half, the hero company can recover tens of millions of dollars in monthly profits in an instant.

After the execution of Massimiliano I, Emperor of the Second Mexican Empire and Lord of Tom, the United States of America ceased its "gratuitous support" to the United Mexican States.

Washington sees Tom as a new state for the United States.

On the surface, it is the best option to postpone the attack, waiting for the capital chain to turnover, but Tom is worried that it will change later, and what if a third party forces join the United Mexican States?

Especially if there is a European monarch of sufficient weight, like Napoleon III in the Austro-Prussian War, should he accept it?

The north has not yet laid down a suitable outlet to the sea, and now it is not a waste of all the work that has been done to stop the discussion?

Does Tom really need to take all of Mexico? Occupy those worthless rainforests?

The northern part of Mexico is fine, the central and southern parts are almost all tropical rainforests, and more importantly, the rainy season is coming soon, is it really good to drag it out?

Tom touched the golden fake cigarette in his hand and saw that it was engraved with a phrase, and his eyes flashed.

"Are you going to use that?"

"I'm not prepared enough, is it really okay to use that rashly?"