Chapter 8 These mafias are all external forces!
In a plaza on the outskirts of Houston, Tom stood on a high platform in front of the crowd of more than 3,000 people in the audience. Begin speaking aloud in the Texan-Houston dialect.
There were more than 3,000 onlookers, except for one or two hundred mafiosi who took the lead, who were small sissies with fine skin and tender meat, and the rest were a group of old "red necks" with calloused hands.
"Fathers and folks of Texas!"
"I'm a Texas orphan, not just me, my cousins - Loki and Johnny are orphans too."
"All three of us brothers lost their parents because of the Yankees."
"I returned to Houston after being displaced and fleeing the war, and looking at my hometown, I was so depressed, I ......"
As he spoke, Tom burst into tears, and began to cry in front of three or four thousand people.
After crying for about ten seconds, Tom stopped crying, and after making a few expressions that forcibly suppressed his tears, he continued to shout:
"Crying doesn't solve the problem!"
"I love Texas and the land."
"I really know what it takes to get Texas back on its feet for real!"
"That's a factory!"
As soon as the phrase "running a factory" came out, the citizens of Houston began to talk about it, and in their eyes, setting up a factory was equivalent to what Yankees did, and planting land and cotton were what Dixie people should do.
In the year since the end of the Civil War, not no one has set up factories in Texas, but the Yankees' factories have been resisted by the locals to the point that they cannot set up factories smoothly, and the factories run by the Texans have been deducted by the Yankees until they go bankrupt and go bankrupt.
"Bang!"
Tom fired a shot into the air, and once again thousands of people focused on Tom to hear what the Texan man with a pure Texas Houston accent had to say.
This accent brought Tom closer to the people of Texas.
It is also because of this naturally intimate accent that the people of Houston below are willing to listen to what Tom says.
"I'm Tom Smith, back to Texas, for three things!"
"Set up a factory! Factories! Also MT is to run a factory! ”
"Some people have to ask, why do I want to set up a factory?"
"Why do you want to run a factory like a Yankey? Am I still a good boy in Texas? ”
"Let me ask you a question first, what do you think of the Civil War?"
"The war that orphaned our three brothers and destroyed countless families in Texas."
"In that war, those dog-called Yankees were obviously powerless, and none of the weak ones could beat the turkeys on our Texas farms."
Tom's wording was heavily regional, so that all the listeners couldn't help but secretly affirm Tom's words.
"And the final result of the war is that they relied on the superiority of the outnumbers and muskets to defeat our iron-clad Texans!"
"The people of Texas, who are standing in front of me now, are the people who groan in defeat and humiliation!"
"After the Civil War ended, the pride of us Texans was gone!"
"Those hateful Yankees ride on our necks to make a fuss, and they trample on our dignity!"
"The dignity of the people of one of the most powerful states in the United States of America!"
"Tell me, do you choose to be a Texas fighter like Robert Edward Lee, or a coward who is bullied by the Yankees!?"
"Fighter!"
"Fighter!"
“……”
The audience was aroused by Tom's impassioned speech to resist the "Yankee", and Tom knew that he was in charge of victory today!
Tom didn't rely on the sound of the gun to attract attention this time, but just pressed his hands weakly, and the Texans below stopped shouting and waited for the man's next speech.
"Learn from the Yankee to control the Yankee!"
"Let's say that we also have factories in Texas, especially a large number of military factories!"
Tom saw that the "heat" of the people's atmosphere below had arrived, and he was going to add a handful of "fierce materials"!
"Will our invincible Texas Mounties, countless iron-clad men, still lose to the Yankees, who only know how to hide behind musket cannons?"
"No!"
"Do we need factories in Texas?"
"Yes!"
"Who are the people who are encouraging you to oppose the construction of the factory? They are Yankee lackeys who betrayed Texas! They are external forces! ”
"That's right! They are all lackeys! It's a traitor! It's an external force! ”
"Treat the Yankee lackeys, the traitors in Texas, and the outside forces who want to trap us, what will we real Texas men do?"
As soon as this sentence was finished, the masses below instantly made a mess, it has been twenty years since the end of the Civil War, but after the defeat of the Civil War, the Yankee has been bullying the Dixie area.
In the Civil War, Texas, the most powerful on the Dixie side, was "focused" by the Yankees, and these people couldn't bear it anymore!
"Kill him!"
"Lao Tzu XXXX, no wonder we have no factory in Texas, it is a traitor among our people!"
"It's him, it's he who dragged Lao Tzu here to resist the construction of the factory!"
"Shoot him!"
"Bang!"
“……”
Before the chaos officially began, a gunshot attracted everyone's attention, and then everyone found out that Tom had been "shot"!
Tom had a small blood-red cut in his abdomen and began to bleed uncontrollably.
"I've seen this guy cry when he comes back to Houston at the train station."
"It seems that what he said is true, there are external forces that don't want us to rise in Texas, so they spread the rumor that building a factory and occupying land is a trap for us!"
"Support the construction of the factory and occupy the land!"
"Kill the Yankees!"
As Tom "straightened" down, the crowd below officially began to scuffle.
A large number of mafiosi who had previously incited the masses to make trouble were shot and killed by the angry Texas Red Neck.
And Tom, who is lying in Johnny's arms, how is the "situation"?
Need timely assistance?
"Johnny, is there a fight down there?"
"Boss, the fight is inextricable, and several small mafia leaders I know have been shot and killed indiscriminately."
"Well done, Johnny, you "help" me down first, Loki, do you remember to collect the bodies of the killed mafios, hang them in front of the city government, and hang a "Yankee traitor" sign around their necks, in English, French, and Spanish, remember? ”
"It's the boss."
"Eh, it hurts, the next time I speak, the dose of the small gunpowder bag behind the blood bag at the "shot" site is going to be reduced, and this dose is still a little painful. ”
In this way, Tom, who was "shot several times in the body", was helped off the podium by Johnny and sent to "medical care".