December 11, 1867

In the huge lecture hall, there are only Tom and Milia.

Tom stopped and looked at the blackboard, sometimes shaking his head, sometimes sighing.

Milia was intently observing Tom and trying to figure out Tom's thoughts.

It is really a beautiful picture of "the person who sees the scenery is also the scene in the eyes of others".

The large push-pull blackboard in the lecture hall is full of Tom's opinions, thoughts and predictions about the economic crisis over the past month.

The first part is to analyze the causes:

Although Tom has not studied finance, he also knows that the over-issuance of currency will cause an economic crisis, and in the first few days of this month, Tom was thinking about the nature of the economic crisis.

"Why?"

"Why did it cause such a massive economic collapse?"

No matter how much Tom thought about it, his brain, which had no talent for finance, could not think of a logical relationship between the over-issuance of money and the economic crisis.

After only thinking about it for a few hours, Tom stopped thinking about it, it was useless to come up with it, it would not solve the current economic crisis.

Tom is not the kind of "economist" who shouts slogans every day, he is a practical capitalist, and he is a real "hero" who saves the people of the country from fire and water in the midst of a fiery economic crisis.

Tom no longer cares about the underlying logic of the outbreak, and instead thinks about why the Yankee economic crisis will lead to a "big earthquake" and "tsunami" in the global economy.

The second part on the blackboard is the map:

Tom drew two maps, one for the United States and one for Europe, with a large number of symbols, routes, and arrows.

They represent the flow routes of raw materials and commodities, respectively.

Under Tom's analysis, the economy collapsed due to the over-issuance of currency by 30 million Yankees, and the final chain reaction eventually caused a global economic crisis.

Tom couldn't figure out the economics of chain reactions.

It took Tom four days to analyze some very straightforward and obvious truths:

The Yankees have experienced massive unemployment due to the economic crisis caused by the over-issuance of money.

The poor really have no money, and the rich really don't dare to spend money.

Tom is convinced that the poor who can't even afford "painkillers" really have no money.

The rich also see that the current market environment is not good, so they hoard all their money and wait for the market to pick up.

For the world's factory owners and capitalists, the huge market of 30 million Yankees suddenly disappeared overnight.

Factories that make a living from the production of goods for this market will go out of business.

In Europe, where many factories make a living by exporting American goods, they go bankrupt.

On the map Tom spent, the arrows representing the exports to the Americas were crossed out.

Factories in Europe went bankrupt, these workers lost their jobs, and the European market began to shrink.

Among the European factories, the factories that relied on local sales declined and eventually went bankrupt.

The bankruptcy of these factories, which depend on the local market, has led to the unemployment of European workers and the shrinking of the market.

In this way, the arrows of commodity flow are marked with a big cross by Tom.

As a result, factories around the world went bankrupt and the world market was sluggish.

The third part is the current situation of Hero Company:

Hero Inc. is a "friendly" company that started out on "legitimate industries" such as violence, guns, painkillers, and corruption and bribery.

When Tom arrived in Texas, it coincided with the defeat of the South in the Civil War, and the balance between the original major powers in the South was broken, and the gangs often fought with each other.

Hero Company won all the "votes" in the "Talker Voting Conference" of the Texas Gangster's "Friendly, Peaceful, Fair and Just" for half a year, and in this way, Hero Company became the only "talker" in Texas.

There is no way to "vote", only "Hero Company".

The others all talked about a "love" with TNT of Hero Company that would never break up

Company Hero controls almost all of Texas.

By the time of the crisis, Hero had de facto control over almost every industry in Texas except agriculture.

As for agriculture? You really can't control the local farmers and plantation owners without killing them.

Unlike companies in other parts of the world, corporate consortia in other regions and so on, have local forces that compete with them, and they are not willing to lose money to "feed" the unemployed during an economic crisis.

This will weaken the company's local competitiveness after the economic crisis.

Hero Company is different, assuming the Yankee's "laissez-faire" policy towards the grassroots.

If there is a riot among the workers and there are casualties, Tom can die of heartache.

Tom can have a heartache to the point of insomnia every day, only sleep ten hours, heartache to the point of backache and leg pain, press an extra hour a day, and work overtime to four hours a day, using work to numb himself.

Every worker who dies is a labor force in Hero Company after the economic crisis.

The workers are dead, and if they die, they will die, and they will be a hundred, but who will be responsible for the property losses of the hero company?

It has been said that it is the workers who die, and the only one who is really "injured" is the capitalist - Tom Smith.

Workers cannot die irresponsibly, that is the ruthless "oppression" of the capitalists!

The blackboard is full of: the number of workers, the "number of security guards", the estimated amount of goods produced, the daily consumption of food, and so on.

Tom is like a "loving old mother" to these workers, thinking about how to make these workers "starve" and "not have enough to eat".

Labor that does not participate in production should die.

If it weren't for the fact that the Pacific route was too slow, and the Heroes Society's help to the Celestial Empire farmers to "re-employment" was too slow, to be honest, Tom would have wanted these workers to die!

It is better to be able to resurrect the economic crisis in situ after it is over.

The fourth part is Tom's various ideas for a month:

Envision how to do it, so that the hero company can let all these workers participate in production under such a current situation, so that Texas can be more vigorous, and let these workers stop eating rice.

Tom's first idea:

Let the arrows of the whole world be restored.

As long as these arrows are restored, the world will be back in motion, and its hero company will be able to continue to make a profit by relying on its own foresight.

If the world economy does not flow, how can the goods produced by the hero company be sold?

Sell to whom?

Whose money is it earning?

That's what Tom has been thinking about for a month.

Unfortunately, Tom's level of finance is not enough to support Tom in coming up with a solution to the world's problems.

For the past month, Tom has been maintaining a minimum standard of living for millions of workers, and Tom knows that this will not last long.

Judging by Karl's report, the workers had reached the borders of the riot.

The other day, Tom suddenly had a second thought:

"Why can't you find a product that can be produced casually, produced as much as it can be bought, and which can be stored for decades at a very low storage fee?"

"Anyway, I'm raising these people, I'm going to find them a job to do, isn't it beautiful?"

"Working 16 hours a day, I'm not in the mood to think about it."

"What fits this need?"