This "Heroic Orphanage Rules and Regulations" is a mixture of Tom's Prussian education, neon education, German education and later military management system during the war, and combined with the "children's enlightenment textbook" - "Heroes", to train all Texas orphans into the most powerful "security" team of Hero Company.

Father Martin did not understand what kind of person this kind of education would make a child become.

All he knew was that Tom was a "saint" who could make life without food and clothing for all the orphans in Texas.

Sometimes, people are actually very stupid, and a successful person, even if what he says is wrong, everyone will think that it is right, because it is the successful person who said it.

Father Martin is the smartest of the bunch, and interestingly, it is this kind of "smart man" who is more superstitious about the words and deeds of successful people.

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January 1, 1868

The New Year has arrived, and this is the third New Year that Tom Smith has come to this world.

The United States has changed dramatically because of him.

At Smith Farm, the Smith family celebrates the New Year with joy, but Tom is not here with the family.

Tom sat in his office, frowning at the bill.

Now Hero Inc. is up and running, but it is constantly losing "Hero Dollars".

Mining, industry and other industries, the hero company has completed the perfect internal digestion, and all the goods are eventually used for road and bridge construction and other projects.

There is no need to think about sales at all.

But agriculture can't, and now Texas agriculture is highly dependent on imports — from the Boston Union Fruit Company.

Stimulated by the economic crisis, a large number of small and medium-sized shipping companies in the United States sold off their ships, and the Boston consortium took the lead, mainly the United Fruit Company and Boston's local shipping companies, to buy out the ships of the shipping companies on the entire East Coast of the United States, and now the shipping of the entire West Coast of the United States is almost completely controlled by the newly established United Fruit Company of Boston.

The Boston Consortium is the earliest and deepest Yankee consortium that has dealt with Hero Company, and it is also the Yankee consortium that holds the most "Hero Dollars".

You have gold not necessarily in exchange for "heroine painkillers", but hero dollars certainly can.

Under the premise that the strong productivity of the hero company is the cornerstone, the "hero dollar" has become a "hard currency" in the United States that surpasses gold.

The Boston consortium, relying on sufficient reserves of "hero dollars", completed its monopoly on shipping in the midst of the economic crisis.

Unlike the Indians who lived in caves, the plantation owners in the United States owned a large amount of ammunition, and it was far more difficult to conquer these planters by force than to fight a Civil War.

You know, in the end of the Civil War, the Southern plantation owners compromised with the northern factory owners, nominally not enslaving the black slave.

The factory owners in the north did not massacre the plantation owners and took the land for themselves.

Don't the northern factory owners want to?

I don't dare.

Tom is the same, it is more difficult to kill a thousand Dixie plantation owners than it is to kill all the Indians in the world, and the hero company does not dare to get involved in the production of agriculture.

As for the transportation link, the hero company, the American "rookie company", can only control the production area, and the transportation link has always been a weakness.

This is the main reason why Hero has not fully entered retail, the most profitable link of goods.

In just six months, the new Boston United Fruit Company, relying on its monopoly position as the only food supply channel in Texas, has repeatedly raised the price of agricultural products.

The Yankee farms in the north are also firmly controlled by the Yankee forces represented by the Boston consortium, and most of the Dixie farms are cotton plantations and there is no food.

All of this ultimately led to soaring food prices in Texas.

Looking at the price of food that had risen by more than 40 percent last month, Tom was a little upset with these reckless Yankeos.

"XXX's, aren't these XXX Yankews just relying on more boats?"

"One price a day, right?"

"I used to be okay with a 10 percent increase per month, but now! Forty percent! Is it going to double next month? ”

“XXXX……”

This is the first time that Tom has been choked by others since he became bigger, and unlike other commodities, grain must be firmly controlled for a long time, and it is a large area of production, in order to meet the food needs of tens of millions of people in the Second Mexican Empire in Texas.

Now Tom has a piece of "land" destroyed by his own scorched earth operations, but he has no agricultural foundation, so he can only be led by the Yankee by the nose and buy these agricultural products at a high price.

Angry, Tom scolded a few words, but reluctantly signed his name on the bill.

This concession was helpless, the Hero Company had no ships, and the railroad was only under construction, which simply could not support the food needs of tens of millions of people in Texas and Mexico's Second Empire.

Who is Tom?

How can the capitalists of the "new era" who can blow up and not shoot and kill, and who can rob but not buy, can endure this feeling of being choked by others.

After finding a "market" to maintain the production of the factory, how can it continue to endure the shameless price increases of these "middlemen", Tom is going to flip the table!

"If you like to ask for money, then I'll give you money!"

"Millia, tell John to buy all the grain at a higher price, all the food, meat, fruit, grain...... As long as you can satisfy your hunger, you will buy them all! ”

"Even if it's a premium of 500 percent, no, even if it's hundreds of millions of dollars a piece of rice, you have to buy it for me!"

"Lao Tzu wants to eat all this fat and oily profiteer."

Tom handed the bill he had just signed to Milia and told him to hand it over to John, and at the same time gave the order that Milia did not understand.

In Miria's eyes, wouldn't this behavior spur Boston Union Fruit Company to continue to raise prices?

Can you really eat all these profiteers?

Milia didn't say it, she was very clear about her position, and this kind of thing was just a dispensable tool person.

Watching Milia exit the office, Tom took out a golden fake cigarette and took a few deep puffs of filtered air.

"These Yankews, they just don't have a long lesson."

"If you like money, then I'll give it all to you."

"I want to see if you have the life to take the money, and if you have the life to spend it."

Tom twisted the gold fake cigarette on the wall a few times, and the angry Tom twisted the end of the gold fake cigarette out of shape.

Coming to his senses, Tom hurried to stop the absurdity.

"Another one is broken, and it looks like I'm going to have to customize another batch when I go back."

"It's all Yankee!"