After his cousin left, Tom couldn't help but wonder what had gone wrong.

Whether it's Johnny and Loki, or the female secretary, after collecting the money, they won't turn their arms out like this.

On the contrary, it is a cousin who is really connected by "blood", but he has done this kind of thing that Tom taboos the most.

If it weren't for the aunt's face, this cousin, after that cough, would have gone to the Gulf of Mexico to accompany the sharks.

Tom looked at the "Appendix" in his hand.

My cousin remembered that the school textbooks were "almost transformed" into a "lackluster lackey" who loved the country and did not love the family, the people and not the capital.

Tom couldn't help but take a few deep breaths.

"After the Smith Newspaper, Smith Press, Smith Education Press, and Smith School are all on the agenda."

Tom decided that he would find someone he trusted to write a few sets of qualified "textbooks", especially those within the Smith family.

The textbook in the family is called "The Smith Family Teaching Series".

Pick a few more must-reads.

The location determines the road.

Tom doesn't want a few more stunned people in his family who are like his cousins, who blindly pursue those "Guangweizheng" paths without figuring out their position.

Tom now only wants a qualified child among his children to edit these textbooks, he has not so much energy, and his peers are ordinary Germans who have not received much higher education.

"It's better to have a daughter."

"My daughter is more careful, and she is easy to know how to control people's hearts or something."

"It's not for that little bit of ethereal history to restore a sense of achievement."

After deciding roughly on the direction, Tom walked back to the office.

A map of Mexico is full of papers.

Now in Smith's office, there are only materials related to the "Civil War" in Mexico.

If you look closely, you will find that in the documents, some military factories have already experienced a shortage of capital chains.

It is not difficult to deduce that the HERO company also gambled its "net worth" for this war.

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Mid-June 1867,

Tom sat in his office, looking at the various urgent documents for work:

Payments submitted by overseas and other raw material suppliers, demand slips for strategic materials sent by John, payslips for workers in various factories, railroad projects in various parts of Texas, school construction fees in Texas, and ......

"Money!"

"No money!"

"I really don't have any money!"

Tom couldn't help but pat his forehead, it was the first time that Tom had been so worried about money after being in this world for so long.

The war was still far more financially draining than Tom had expected.

Especially as the advance deepened, the front line continued to lengthen.

Now HERO is losing millions of dollars a month because of the war.

Tom's tactical technique is to pave the road with money, but Tom didn't expect to pave such a "thick" road, which is simply a gold brick and silver road.

The rate of material consumption is even greater than the monthly rate of material consumption of the Confederate States of America and the United States of America combined during the Civil War.

During the Civil War, the monthly expenses of the Southern and Northern armies were actually higher than tens of millions of dollars per month.

However, it was a bill for the purchase of firearms and munitions from an arms supplier, and it was Tom's own production!

The Morgan consortium was able to sell guns worth less than a dollar and were about to be scrapped to the Yankee government army for more than $20 each.

Not to mention how dark other arms suppliers are.

Tom's self-produced and self-sold army consumes tens of millions of dollars in military supplies every month.

If it were to be replaced with the purchase price of the Northern and Southern armies during the Civil War, it would be billions of dollars per month, to say the least.

Fortunately, Tom started to prepare the military factory a few months in advance, otherwise, he would have been dragged down by the "middlemen".

In more than a year, HERO Company emerged from a group of Dixies who only knew how to farm, and swept the super giant enterprises in many industries such as medicine, fertilizer, and dyes in the United States.

From beginning to end, it is an absolute "personal shareholding" plus "personal decision-making", so that the outside world cannot interfere.

Even if there is no listed stock, there is no need to make public financial statements or anything, major local consortia also estimate that the monthly net profit of Hero Company is tens of millions of dollars, counting the huge "underground smuggling", Hero Company's monthly income is simply incalculable.

Under this kind of terrible profits, it is impossible to support Tom's "road-building tactics" for a long time, which shows how much more productive the United States was than neon in World War II to support MacArthur to engage in "island-hopping tactics" on the other side of the Pacific.

Now the loss of tens of millions of dollars per month has dealt a serious blow to the capital flow chain of Hero Company.

The shortage of the capital chain of the hero company has been reflected in many aspects.

The production of goods under the name of the hero company has increased, and it is no longer a monthly quantitative rush to buy, but those who come do not refuse, the order is all eaten, and all non-gold rare metals such as silver are sold in a large area, and the underground market is no longer only accepting gold to barter, and the dollars or other valuable materials issued by other states can be purchased and exchanged for the products of the hero company.

Tom is now short of selling HERO's reserve gold and selling a lot of real estate.

(At this point in time, the world is still dominated by the gold and silver standard, and it has not yet reached the point when the gold standard dominates the world.) The gradual domination of the world by the gold standard was not until after 1870. ）

Many of the heads of the financing side of the Yankee consortium are also sensitive to the business opportunities brought by HERO.

The war has dragged down the finances of the HERO company, which is now the consensus of the northern Yankees.

Everyone hopes that in this crisis of the hero company, in the name of "sending charcoal in the snow", they will "take advantage of the fire" to make a profit.

On the surface, the Yankews also said to each other that they would boycott each other and not give HERO a loan or anything, but in fact, they were contacting the senior management of Hero Company behind the scenes, trying to talk to Tom Smith.

In the past few days, from the **** group under the name of the Morgan consortium that originated in Europe, to the state banks supported by various local consortiums in the United States, and even the First National Bank of Boston under the name of the Boston consortium with a "blood feud", they have begun to contact Tom.

The huge profits even made several royal families and royal families in Europe moved, not to mention the Hanover royal family (later renamed the famous Windsor royal family), the Bonaparte royal family (later renamed the Napoleonic family), the Habsburg royal family, the Hohenzollern royal family, and the Romanov royal family.

The former ruling families of large countries such as the Bourbons, the Stuarts, the Braganças, the Wittelsbach family, the Friedrich family, and other large countries are also ready to move.

These families even offered to send troops to the war and provide material funds to take a stake in the HERO company.

Their real thoughts are far more barbaric than the Yankees who only want to rely on financing to buy shares.

If it weren't for the hundreds of thousands of "demon army" slaughtering all sides in Mexico, and there would always be restless "neighbors" in Europe.

The Europeans even wanted to go on an expedition to the United States, conquer Texas by force, and violently obtain the complete industrial chain of the HERO company.

For a time, the Hero company, which leaked out of the decline, established a piece of fat in the eyes of the world's major forces.