Back in sight of Houston,

The contingent sent by the federal government of the United States arrived in Houston as early as yesterday afternoon.

The youngest of these young men, who were only in their early thirties, had already learned that Tom's Smith Company was a "dictatorial" mega-corporation with one-man decision-making.

Most of his descendants are a group of brainless northern German veterans, and Tom's immediate family is all women.

After everyone came to Houston yesterday, they gathered some of the dark lines planted in advance by the major families, and thousands of former mafia outlaws gathered in Houston.

Tom was not in Houston at this time, but in Austin, the state capital of Texas, to deal with the details of the revisions to the tobacco bill that Tom had previously proposed, all of which Tom had to be present to deal with.

Several members of the task force keenly smelled that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to address the threat posed by the Smith Factory District to the Yankey area.

"Adams, do you really want to do this? That's too much, isn't it? ”

"Why can't you do that?"

"I also support Adams' plan, kill and kill, it's just a mud-legged Dixike."

"But what does Washington say?"

"When we come out, it is the trust of the family, and it is impossible to live under the protection of our predecessors for the rest of our lives, right?"

At the suggestion of a young man with the surname Adams, a heated discussion began about the assassination plan.

The surname Adams, one of the most honorable surnames in the United States, is the surname of Samuel Adams, the founding father of the United States.

"The most important thing is that as long as Tom Smith, the brain of this Smith company, dies, this dense industrial area with millions of employees can be quickly dismembered and acquired by our major families."

"After all, not everyone under Tom Smith likes his almost emperor-like dictatorship."

"I've also contacted a lot of factory managers, and they all support the shareholding of Smith."

"This is his territory after all, is it safe to do so?"

"His turf? If you know how many people oppose his dictatorship, you know whether this is the territory of American democracy or the dictatorship of Tom. ”

"With such a large corporation in control of the government and most of the land in Texas, it's not too much to say it's a small country."

"How can there be officials in a country of millions of people and more than 300,000 square miles who support dictatorship? Who wouldn't want to eat more? ”

The crowd was gradually convinced, and they all agreed in their hearts that such a huge company was no different from a country.

It is absolutely impossible for the middle management of any country to like a one-man dictatorship.

This is because this system greatly limits the autonomy and administrative efficiency of the middle level.

Dictatorship restricting the efficiency of middle-level administration is only an excuse, and the essence is to use this "autonomy" to obtain benefits.

People go to high places and water flows to low places, and the greed of middle managers is often the root cause of the collapse of powerful empires.

"In this way, we will send a third of the dark line to assassinate Tom, and the rest of the people, half of them will go to convince the managers of the Smith factory divisions throughout Texas, and half will continue to hide in the shadows, ready to face the unexpected situation at any time, so that there are people who can respond to the situation."

"An assassination force of thousands of people, unless Tom is an angel with wings, in charge I don't believe Tom will survive."

After assigning a mission to the all-Texas Dark Line, the task force headed to Smith Farm to meet Tom Smith.

The task force from Washington, representing the federal government, the women who stayed behind at Smith Farm, who had the power and ability to deal with it, sent a telegram as soon as possible, summoning Tom back to Houston.

The timeline also retraces the point in time when Tom walked out of the governor's office.

Tom stepped out of the state government building and into a black, unadorned carriage.

There was no ostentatious ornamentation in the carriage, as it looked, except for two rows of hard-seated seats facing each other, like the old green trains, and a small table nailed to the center of the carriage.

"John, how many of them are there?"

"It is conservatively estimated that there are thousands of ambush troops, from forest trails to highways to train tracks, and more than a dozen entrances and exits in Houston, each with hundreds of ambushes."

"Why did you get in so many two-and-five?"

"It's not that we have too many people. A year ago, Texas had a population of less than 200,000, and today, even the most conservative estimates of Texas have more than 5 million people! ”

John, who was often by Tom's side, also understood what Tom meant by two-five-boy, traitor boy.

"Too big a step?"

"What do you say? In the past few months, a steady stream of people has poured in from Ireland, Tsarist Russia, Ottoman Turkey, Yankey areas, Ku Klux Klan riot areas, etc., how can they be all refugees and slaves? ”

"You're right, but I still think there are too few people, and if I wasn't afraid of crossing again, I would have planned to go to Galeries Lafayette to buy tens of millions of people."

"Who is Galeries Lafayette?"

"It's a character who can only be understood but not spoken, and I don't want to cross again."

Tom leaked an embarrassed expression, indicating that Galeries Lafayette, a forbidden area character, was not able to elaborate, and John did not dwell on this.

"Not to mention the problem that it is easy for grass-roots employees to be mixed in, there are also many people in the factory area who are dissatisfied with the direct management of our company."

"I have received a lot of information about the corruption of factory managers, and I have dealt with a few that are too out of line, but a few that are not so out of line, and I have not dealt with them thoroughly."

"These people can defect at any time and become supporters of the Yankee."

"What to do with them? Do you want me to take them directly? ”

John made a gesture that only the Smith family knew how to use, and the gesture meant that the Yankees and Ergoboy would go to the North Atlantic Ocean to swim with rocks and sharks.

"The Yankee issue will slow down for a moment, I'm more concerned about corruption now? How serious is it? ”

"It has been serious to ten managers, nine and a half are corrupt, there is only serious corruption and general corruption, and there is no one who is not corrupt. On top of that, with the exception of the top managers in each of the Smith factory districts, the middle and lower management levels are all new hires recruited after the expansion. ”

"This ......"

Tom felt that things were starting to go in a direction that he couldn't control, and the influx of people forced him to recruit some of the lower middle and lower level managers.

The top management is all descendants, and the corruption of these people can certainly be connived up, after all, now is a critical period of development, and appropriate connivance of the power of the descendants can be exchanged for greater trust.

But these non-descendant managers have become a terrifying time bomb, and Tom leans back on the sofa, thinking about what to do with these two-five and potential two-five boys.

As for the Yankee issue, the collapse of the empire always originates from within, and external forces cannot break through the barriers of the empire.

"John, how many German veterans do we have under our hands now, I said drag the family."