Chapter 59: The Calm Before the Storm
The signing of the British North America Act in early July made the world think that Great Britain was beginning to decline.
It's a pity that no one dares to touch the "tiger whiskers" of Great Britain.
Tom Smith doesn't care about that, he only cares about when he gets home and takes a bath.
Back in Texas, Tom also returned to his "busy" work of three hours a day.
In July and August, a small number of agricultural products were already harvested, and many basic crops were planted in Texas this year.
If it weren't for the extra subsidies that Hero Company gave to farmers who grow grain, and promised to buy all grain at a higher price, many farmers would not have planted these crops with lower returns than cotton.
During this time, Hero also purchased a lot of grain from Latin America and Africa.
The most important change in these two months is the Hero Company, which has gradually changed from the initial priority to supply goods to buyers using "Hero Dollars", and gradually becomes:
Only sell to buyers who use "Hero Dollars" to purchase goods.
Especially from July, when the war ended, and Hero resumed the rationing of products.
Everyone thought that the Hero Company was no longer short of money, and they began to be forced to obey the Hero Company and only use the "Hero Dollar" to buy the goods of the Hero Company.
However, Hero is still giving priority to the use of "Yankee dollars" in the payment method of raw material suppliers.
The Dixie themselves are disgusted with the Yankees, and now the Hero Company, the "hero" in the eyes of the Dixies, can only use the "Hero Dollar" to buy the "hero goods" of the "Hero".
Driven by this climate, around mid-August, there were almost no "Yankee dollars" left in Dixie.
The Hero Company also completely said goodbye to the "Yankee Dollar" and only traded with the "Hero Dollar".
within these two months. The Second Mexican Empire, the knightly domain of Lord Tom Smith, also ushered in the first "residents".
The first "North American employment ship" of the Heroes Club also came from across the ocean to Baja California in northern Mexico.
More than 100,000 poor peasants of the Celestial Empire began to devote themselves to the great cause of building the Second Mexican Empire.
And in the past few months, the most puzzling thing for Yankey is why Hero Company is still printing money, and the war is over?
The Yankees don't think that Tom is a fool who doesn't know that over-issuing money can cause an economic crisis.
But forced by Tom's accelerated money printing, the Yankees could only continue to print money.
As for the question of how much money was printed,
As of September 1:
Tom has already worked overtime to print $4.5 billion, and Tom has boldly estimated that the Yankees have printed at least $8 billion.
Tom's estimate was not accurate, and he was a little timid.
On the Yankees' side, the "private Federal Reserve" alone has printed $12.2 billion.
Tens of billions or nearly 20 billion dollars poured into the market, but the market did not react, and on the surface it was still "calm".
At this time, in the Yankee market, in fact, there are 1:2, 1:3 and even 1:5, 1:10 "hero dollars" in the black market: the exchange ratio of "Yankee dollars".
The Yankees' banks won't admit this outrageous exchange ratio.
These banks also accept two types of U.S. dollar exchanges, only 1:1.
But when people take "Yankee dollars" to exchange for "hero dollars", the bank will only answer them: "We exchange offices, accept hero dollars for Yankee dollars"
The low-level workers of the Yankee only know about the big smoke house, the marijuana house, and the latest hero hall, and only receive "hero dollars".
The "Yankee dollars" exchanged on the black market also returned directly to the bank under the operation of the Yankee consortium.
Finally back to the wages of Yankee workers.
This time and forth, the Yankee workers have lost their income by more than half.
This exchange turmoil has not yet affected the bright market, and in the bulk goods trading market in the Yankee market, even if the seller wants to only accept "hero currency" like Hero Company.
However, under the pressure of the local Yankee government, it can only "smile" and accept the buyer's transaction using "Yankee dollars".
No way, who made the world now a hero company, a company that has mastered the production line of those unique products?
As we enter September, it's been an eventful time.
On September 8, Tom's great-grandmother died in her sleep at the age of ninety-six.
There was no illness or disaster, and Smith's family happily had a "wedding funeral" and buried his great-grandmother.
On September 11th, Milia had labor pains, which stopped after a few minutes, and it was normal to see a doctor for examination.
On September 14th, the first edition of "Mr. Ma's Criticism of Capitalism" was published, and Tom chose to order it as soon as possible.
September 19, 1867,
Monday
Half past nine in the morning.
Tom slept peacefully in the single bed in his office.
Tom has a good habit of getting enough sleep for 12 hours a day, otherwise he will not be able to fully relieve the "heavy" fatigue caused by the "hard work" of the previous day.
In order to avoid being disturbed, Tom usually sleeps with the door locked.
"Bang!"
John knocked open the door to Tom's office.
Woke up Tom on the bed directly.
John didn't talk nonsense, just grabbed Tom and put it on his shoulder, and was about to leave with Tom.
"What's the matter, it's only half past nine now, I still want to sleep a little longer, I didn't go to bed until ten o'clock last night, and I haven't slept enough."
"Your baby is about to be born, and the doctor arranged by Aunt Penny has already started the delivery process when I leave."
"Hey, I will give birth to a child, I don't care what I do, I won't deliver a baby, I will only give birth to the first link of the child's initial movement - the man-making movement, and the rest will not be."
"Uncle Penny said that you must be present when your child is born."
"No, I want to sleep."
Tom, who was physically unable to fight John, had to be carried by John into the carriage heading for Smith Farm.
Seeing this scene of the hero company employees to nothing surprised.
The employees in the Smith Building have long been accustomed to it, and their immediate boss, Tom Smith, is notoriously "idle", and often impersonates new employees to enter various departments and inspect work.
said that it was to inspect the work, but the result was to take a few employees to skip work to chat and eat, to put it bluntly, it was to kill time.
Tom, who got into the carriage, directly put down the carriage seat and continued to sleep.
The carriage quickly drove to Smith Farm.
Now Smith Farm is no longer the "base" of the family with the surname Smith.
It's the meeting point for the Smith family's major events and festivals.
Tom Smith's first child, the real head of the Smith family, even if it is an "illegitimate child", is given birth in the most memorable place of the Smith family.