December 26, 1867, Christmas Day.

It's been almost ten days since Hero returned to full production, and today some of the workers in the factory were given a short vacation.

All Dixie white employees, were given vacations.

With the 16-hour working hours on weekdays, under the "great mercy" of Hero Company, white employees only need to work 12 hours on Christmas Day.

Mr. Tom Smith, he really, spoiled the workers so much that the workers were moved to tears.

Not every worker has such treatment, and there is no Christmas holiday for Chinese workers.

On the U.S.-Mexico border in North America, countless Chinese laborers worked together shirtless on a not-so-cold, December day in the Americas.

They are also employees of Hero Inc. - Hero Engineering.

Unlike the Dixie workers, who can reduce their working hours to celebrate the holiday at Christmas, the Chinese workers who have no faith and no soul to go to heaven are still working without regrets.

"Ahh

"Hey!"

"Boom!"

"Sample, grid~"

"Yikes!"

"Boom!"

“……”

In Texas and the Second Mexican Empire, a large number of Chinese laborers began to build roads again.

Under the shouts of a worker, the road was constantly tamped, and the foundation of the four-lane road gradually took shape in the hands of these Chinese workers.

It turned out that the temporary road during the war had been damaged, and this time, the Hero Company was going to repair the "Centennial Avenue".

Huge log stakes tied with ropes, like octopuses, were grabbed by the tentacles of the Chinese workers and "danced" up and down the construction site.

The Chinese workers are looking forward to these dancing octopuses, and they can dance the future that these Chinese workers are looking forward to.

Not far from the construction of the road, about half a mile away, is where the railway was built.

"Jingle Bell~"

The undulating sledgehammer smashed into the steel nails, nailing the rails to the sleepers.

The Chinese workers who had just crossed the world's largest ocean and came here from thousands of miles away were the first to see such long "iron rods", and they did not understand why their foremen wanted to let themselves smash these long things into the ground.

Some of the old Chinese workers from Texas are different, many of them are "transferred" from the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad in California, and they know that they are building railroads.

Although the old Chinese workers themselves were building railways, they were also curious about why the rails were so thick this time, and the distance between the two rails was so wide.

In the eyes of the old Chinese workers, the railroads in California are about four and a half feet, and the rails in Texas and paved are only a little more than five feet, why is the distance between the rails here about 6 feet?

The rails are also much thicker than those in California and Texas, and they feel heavy and solid.

It's just that these are not for the Chinese workers to bother to think about.

They want to use their own sweat to fight for a "better future".

The foremen spoke of a bright future.

Sweat and anticipation helped these Chinese workers resist the cold of minus 10 degrees Celsius in the American winter.

The wide spacing between the rails and the thick steel rails were the final decisions Tom consulted with dozens of railway engineers.

In this era, trains were not as perfect as later generations, and the spacing of the rails determined the upper limit of the width of the train traveling on it, and the wider it was, the greater the cargo capacity of the train carriages of the same length.

The quality of the rails determines the upper limit of the total weight of the train that the rails can withstand.

Taken together, the spacing of the rails and the quality of the rails determine the upper limit of the volume of cargo.

So why aren't the tracks in other areas now paved wider?

This is the contradiction between input and profit.

The wider the rails, the higher the demand for sleepers, the amount of construction work, the quality of the rails, and so on.

The most important thing is the increased cost that comes with the improved quality of the rails.

In this era, broad gauges are built for high loads, and the minimum standards for rail quality must also be exponentially improved, especially for rail quality at curves.

In this case, the railway company has to consider, why should the railway company increase the initial investment in the railway?

It would be nice to have a few more trains to transport goods in the future.

Company Heroes is different.

Tom didn't build railroad tracks and roads for profit, just to keep these workers from eating for nothing.

Tom doesn't know when the economic crisis will ease, and he doesn't know that millions of Chinese workers will continue to come to the Americas in the future.

As for the profitability of roads and railroads, Tom doesn't intend to profit from a negligible market of Texans and Chinese laborers in northern Mexico.

How did Hero Company obtain raw materials for road construction in the face of the world economic crisis and the basic cessation of freight transportation?

How did you buy all this cement, asphalt, and rails?

Of course, it was dug by itself, and in the past month, the hero company has relied on the first batch of hundreds of thousands of Chinese laborers who poured into the Second Mexican Empire, and has fully resumed the mines controlled by the former United Mexican States.

These mines are among the best rich mines in the Americas, and they are also the "ultimate goal" of the Europeans' invasion of Mexico, but unfortunately they were intercepted by Tom.

At that time, the United Mexican States could also be said to be "innocent and guilty".

In the mine, the Chinese workers covered in dust and mud hummed the "Miners' Song" taught by the foremen.

This is a "work song" tailored by Tom Smith for Chinese workers and miners.

More and more people were humming, and I didn't know who started it, so the miners began to sing loudly in the sweat and mud.

"Come on all the good peasants,"

"I have good news for you:"

"This nice soup man,"

"Brought us here,"

"And let's stay here."

"Which side are you on?"

"Which side are you on?"

"Which side are you on?"

"Which side are you on?"

"My father was a farmer,"

"I am the son of a farmer,"

"I'm going to follow Lady Tang,"

"Until you earn a piece of silver."

"They say there are no real people in the Manchus."

"You are either a brute in the eyes of Manchu officials,"

"Either the slaves of the Han Chinese landlords."

"Oh peasant, can you stand it?"

"Oh! Tell me how you can stand it? ”

"You're going to be a beast slave,"

"Or do you want to be a decent miner?"

"Don't be a pariah to the Manchus anymore,"

"Don't listen to the lies of the Manchu officials."

"We don't have a chance in our poor hometown,"

"Unless we organize."

"Fly across the sea together, come to the hero company together."

"Let's be a miner!"

Tom only designed songs for miners, who had the highest mortality rate among these jobs and needed songs to give them some "comfort".

Meanwhile, on the other end of Texas, Tom Smith is singing.

Singing in despair.

Sing songs of despair.