Tom put all of the Yankee task force under house arrest, claiming that:

All contracts for the sale of shares in Smith Company during his previous disappearance are all valid, and the Yankees are welcome to deliver them.

Tom also invited the Yankey Task Force, these "friends of life and death" from afar, to attend the Smith family's Christmas dinner together.

At the Smith family's Christmas dinner, the guests of honor were happy and unpleasant.

And in faraway Washington, D.C., there is a tasteful estate.

On the day of Jesus' birth, there was no joy in the whole manor.

In a conference room on the estate, no less luxurious than a Senate conference room, dozens of high-ranking members of the Yankee Consortium gathered.

During Tom's suspended animation, the wealthy people of local consortia in the core cities of the United States, led by the Boston Consortium, the Chicago Consortium, the New York Consortium, and other local conglomerates, once gathered.

Meet in this conference room in Washington, D.C., to discuss a "fair" division of Smith Corporation.

Now they received a telegram from Tom "Reborn" and once again gathered in Washington.

Discuss how to deal with Smith & Co.

No one believed that Tom Smith was really willing to sell the Smith company he founded to the sworn enemy who "killed him".

One by one, the old foxes discussed how to redeem their children.

The last time the branch was divided, how happy these old foxes were, and how uncomfortable they are now.

"A few months ago, this Smith Company was still a small character like the mafia, only knew how to engage in smuggling and violent fighting, and that bastard named Tom had been assassinated many times, why did he dare to do it to us Yankees now?"

"I found out a few days ago that this bastard had recruited hundreds of thousands of blacks in the previous few months, and the war we provoked was all for this bastard!"

"Even in our Yangji area, there are millions of employees who have been recruited by him."

"Even in Europe, nearly 200,000 people go to Texas every month."

"Haven't we already found out that there are no Europeans to back him up? Where did he get so much money to build factories and recruit workers! ”

"I don't know about recruiting employees, but in terms of building a factory, it's the same as we deceived the English."

"Some stupid construction teams and fund companies, knowing that Tom's methods are the same as our methods to deceive the English, still went to the Texas area to engage in construction."

"For a while last month, Texas State Bank dollars were reprinted to the point of scrap paper, and some idiots were sending engineering teams to earn it."

"Don't give Lao Tzu a scolding Huai! Didn't your construction company and fund company get involved in the construction of the Texas Smith factory area? ”

"We're not here to discuss the "legendary family history" of this little bastard and tear each other down! We're going to find a way to solve the trouble he caused! It's better to get rid of him completely! ”

Dozens of representatives of the major families hated Tom to the core.

A few months ago, Tom was nothing more than a German pariah in Texas to them.

Now Tom's Smith Company actually threatens their blue-blooded aristocrats in several core industries.

It's not just an industrial threat, but now there are many core members of every household who have been detained by Tom.

"Didn't you say he almost died in a train accident not long ago? Can't he die from these accidents? ”

"Unlikely, the best opportunity has already been squandered by someone's children, and now his army has been raised to the surface in the name of maintaining law and order."

"This little cub has been secretly pulling people from his hometown of Germany some time ago, and now there are more than 50,000 standing troops in Texas alone."

"Pure European Arms plus German Training."

"No kidding, how can he afford to raise 50,000 standing troops? Aren't his goods all low-priced goods? ”

"In Boston, for example, the Port of Boston makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a month from the Smith company's pharmaceutical forwarding. Do you think he might earn less than you Bostonians? ”

"And all the products in his Smith Pharmaceutical Company claim to be bought and sold at a loss, making low-cost drugs for the sake of human health."

"Do you believe this for the sake of the health of all mankind?"

"Where do you think all that money went? Not long ago, the news came back that the suit on his body was only thirty dollars. ”

Even a group of self-proclaimed blue-blooded "American aristocrats" when facing Tom's Smith Company.

At the first time, I still wanted to use the most primitive, barbaric, and despicable method - assassination.

"50,000 people, he can't concentrate 50,000 people in Houston!"

"Let's get together a little bit of people from each family, and gather tens of thousands of people to make an unexpected "fire". ”

"Wouldn't it be long before you got rid of him and the Smith family once and for all?"

The middle-aged man who first proposed another assassination proposed a violent "assassination".

"Don't think about these means at every turn, let's not talk about how to cross the zone where the Ku Klux Klan is making trouble."

Even if they went, tens of thousands of people went to the current base of the "women's liberation movement" and the demonstration site of the "abolition of slavery in the south"? ”

"You might as well just provoke a Second Civil War."

"Damn woman! What a hindrance! Isn't Texas the most backward place in thought? How could such an abnormal person appear? ”

"Knock knock!"

A middle-aged man in his forties and fifties slammed the ground several times with the cane in his hand.

"Now the question is what to do with Tom! Instead of analyzing the cause and effect until now! ”

After interrupting the crowd's arguments and insinuations, the middle-aged man looked around with his bald eagle-like eyes.

"Don't say that those juniors are doing something wrong, you ask yourself, isn't everything they did to successfully acquire Smith?"

"When you first received the news of Tom's death, which of you didn't dance?"

Hawkeye looked at the helmsmen of the other consortia around him and nodded to each other.

"I think let's go ahead with Tom Smith's proposal."

"Isn't it tens of millions of dollars in gold? Let's go door-to-door and get together, we don't have much. ”

Some core members of the same family who were not middle-aged in Eagle Eyes wanted to refute it on the spot after hearing this weak proposal.

But seeing the helmsman of his own house still sitting there made me understand a lot.

This decision was made by these bigwigs.

These core members are just here to listen, and they are not qualified to be swayed.

But not every family has sent a key family heir, and some families have only sent some marginal juniors.

"I'm against it! This kind of subservience is not conducive to our future control of Texas. ”

"Dixikees, they may take this opportunity to stir up the masses to provoke a civil war once again."

The eagle-eyed man didn't bother to look at the person who retorted, and looked directly at the head of the rebuttal's family.

"If you object, don't come back to this meeting."

"Now we have to find a way to unite all the forces of the United States, Tom Smith, even if he grows wings and flies away, those factories are also the wealth of the United States of America."

"This young and promising guy can join us completely."

"But if you don't appease this young man, these possessions may really fly out of the United States of America!"

"You know, what is the ultimate goal of our Yankee consortium?"

"Don't lose a big deal because of a small thing!"

When the heads of the various families heard the phrase "ultimate goal", everyone's faces darkened, and the words were all said to this point.

This dumb loss must be eaten.