As time passed, most of the people present had already made up the truth about John's betrayal of the Smith family in their minds.

The enraged members of the Smith family directly drew the weapons they wore and prepared to execute the traitor John Mueller.

"Don't be impulsive, this is Big Tom's funeral."

"John Mueller, a traitor, will never make it out of Smith Farm alive."

"But you can survive this funeral."

"It's not just this traitor, those Yankees, they're all going to stay on Smith Farm forever!"

"John, you traitor, and those Yankees, cherish the last days of your life at Big Tom's funeral."

Loki's words made the Smith family members present stop pulling out their guns.

After all, this is Brother Tom's funeral, and the execution of traitors here is indeed a bit dirty about Brother Tom's grave.

"Pap~Pap~Pap~"

"What a wonderful reasoning, but have you ever thought about it?"

"If your reasoning is true, which side can't get out of Smith Farm?"

Adams, one of the main characters of the Yankee Task Force, slowly stood up, applauded Loki's reasoning, and made a gesture.

Hundreds of gun-wielding Yankee soldiers slowly walked out of all directions of Smith's Farm,

Heavily armed, they held muskets and walked step by step towards the center of the funeral venue.

Dozens of core members of the Smith family instantly took out the revolvers they carried with them and confronted thousands of Yankey troops.

This time, Loki didn't stop him, but also pulled out his pistol and pointed it at Adams and the other Yankee task force present.

Adams is not in a hurry, he is twenty-six or seventeen years old, and he is at the peak of his appearance.

It has the handsomeness of a young man, but also does not lose the calm air that a man should have.

Adams was dressed in the luxurious garb of the European aristocracy, matching the handsome face.

With a very elegant step that conforms to the etiquette of the European aristocracy, he walked forward.

In front of all the guests present, he walked over to Tom's family.

"Mr. Rocky Smith, have you ever wondered if you would be alive if I died?"

"Of course, you who are foolish and faithful may think that after avenging the Lord, death is indifferent and deserved."

"So, what about these lovely ladies?"

There were many female relatives present, and Tom Smith was the founder and original leader of the Smith family.

Almost all of the core members of the Smith family and their daughters were present at Tom's funeral.

The faces of the descendants of the Smith family darkened, and they only then realized why the "traitor" John had arranged the funeral in the middle of the field.

In this age of muskets or flintlock pistols, in this kind of uncovered open space, the number of people is everything.

Even if Loki led this group of die-hard members of the Smith family to execute the traitors and several Yankews in front of them, they would not be able to fight their daughters out of the siege.

"Of course, we are not barbaric warriors, and we will not massacre hundreds of you."

"The core members of your Smith family, as well as many of them scattered in the major factory districts of Texas, serve as the owners of the sub-divisions, so we don't need to exterminate you."

"I let my men ambush all around, just to protect me."

"What we want is cooperation, and it is the Smith family that is willing to open up the Smith company and let us have a consortium that has money and no land to spend to invest."

Adams, of course, didn't plan to kill the Smith family at this funeral.

This irrational behavior will only stimulate the remaining members of the Smith family, with the strength of the current state of Texas, and with the powerful Ku Klux Klan, it is not impossible to provoke another Civil War.

Fortunately, Adams is a man who likes to think about the worst, arranging thousands of elites in advance to be on standby around at any time.

After clarifying the stakes, Adams looked at the core members of the Smith family who were still holding guns, and was a little helpless, so he could only shake his head and continue:

"I pledge in the name of my grandfather, the founding father of the United States, the draftsman of the Declaration of Independence, the signatory, and the second president of the United States, John Adams."

"We did not work with Mr. John Mueller in any way before Mr. Tom Smith's death."

"Mr. John Mueller, who is just a man of the times, knows that working with our Yankee consortium is the only way out."

"Ladies and gentlemen, we, the Yankee Consortium, are really just here to seek cooperation, not to provoke another war."

Adams' oath caused the members of the Smith family present to slowly lower their guns.

Adams breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he remembered that these were mud legs who had just been smuggled from Germany, and it was better to be trusted by swearing directly than to explain the stakes.

"Wait, I have a question for you, Mr. Adams, please continue to pledge in your grandfather's name."

"Excuse me."

"Brother Tom, did you Yankees kill you?"

"Who knows? People can't be resurrected after death, shouldn't life always look forward? ”

"To be at ease with what happens is to condescend! We Germans will not let go of the previous blood feud, brothers, copy guys! ”

(To be at ease is to condescend, German proverb: Sichanpassenheissthinuntersteigen.)

Loki's irrational questioning and Adams' semi-tacit answer tense the atmosphere that had just eased up again.

Adams really didn't understand these mud legs.

No matter how mud-legged a person is, he can become the right-hand man of a rich man like Tom, and no matter how bad he is, he should know how to understand current affairs like John, right?

Originally, with the active cooperation of John Mueller, the demutualization of Smith Company has been smooth.

Except for the short time and the fact that some of the key positions in the Smith branch factory area have not been completely taken, the rest is all going well.

Of course, the Yankees also want to eat the Smith Company entirely, but considering the investment-to-return ratio.

Cornering the Smith family, leading to the Second Civil War, was not a good choice.

Slowly encroaching on Smith is the best option.

Steadily dismember the Smith Company, and then use some of the money to corrupt the members of the Smith family, and even sell one or two Senate seats in the House of Representatives to appease the Smith family.

That's Adams' perfect plan.

What Adams didn't expect was that a smart and simple Rocky Smith came out halfway.

There's no way, who let Tom choose his lineage when he was selected, as long as this foolish and cute Hanhan, don't steal and play tricks.

Thousands of Makeshift Yankeo troops, armed with muskets, walked out of the woods two miles away, slowly shrinking the encirclement.

And in the middle of the funeral, dozens of core members of the Smith family armed with more advanced Chasebo M1866 rifles, surrounded several Yankees and traitor John.

The ring-by-ring encirclement is still shrinking, and the funeral in the center of the encirclement can no longer be heard except for the sound of the Chasebo M1866 rifle pulling the bolt.

Everyone is waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to go to war.

"Quack~"

The crisp sound of metal hinges opening and closing from the empty coffin was clearly a brand new metal hinge.

"Ah~ I sleep as if it's so dazzling sun, doesn't it mean that my funeral is evening? How did it become noon? ”

Everyone looked at the voice of the voice, and saw Tom, who should have been carbonized a long time ago, pushed open the "empty coffin", stretched his waist, and sat up yawning.

"Mr. Smith, it's three o'clock in the afternoon, not noon."

"John, no, no, no, in my eyes, as long as the sun is in the sky, it's noon, it's really damn sunshine."

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Thanks to the three wives of Jiuwu for 100