January 1, 1868,

The New Year has arrived, and this is the third New Year that Tom Smith has come to this world.

America has also changed dramatically because of Tom's arrival.

At Smith Farm, the Smith family celebrates the New Year with joy, but Tom is not here with the family.

Tom sat in his office, frowning at the bill.

Now HERO is relying on Daxin Civil Engineering to operate, but it is constantly losing "HERO dollars".

Mining, industry and other industries, HERO company has completed the perfect internal digestion, and all the goods are eventually used for road and bridge construction and other projects.

There is no need to think about sales at all.

But agriculture can't, and now Texas agriculture is highly dependent on imports — from the Boston Union Fruit Company.

Stimulated by the economic crisis, HERO sold off a large number of small and medium-sized shipping companies, and the Boston consortium took the lead, mainly the United Fruit Company and Boston's local shipping companies, and bought out the ships of the shipping companies on the entire East Coast of the United States, and now the shipping of the entire West Coast of the United States is almost completely controlled by the newly established United Fruit Company of Boston.

The Boston Consortium is the earliest and deepest Yankee consortium that has dealt with HERO Corporation, and it is also the Yankee consortium that holds the most "HERO dollars".

If you have gold, you may not be able to exchange it for HERO products, but HERO USD will definitely do.

Under the premise that the strong productivity of HERO is the cornerstone, the "HERO dollar" has long been a "hard currency" beyond gold in the United States.

The Boston consortium relied on sufficient reserves of "hero dollars" to complete its monopoly on shipping in the midst of the economic crisis.

On the other hand, the HERO company has always been able to make only a little money on fertilizers in agriculture, and unlike the Indians who live in caves, the plantation owners in the United States have a large amount of ammunition, and it is far more difficult to conquer these planters by force than to fight a Civil War.

You know, in the end of the Civil War, the Southern plantation owners compromised with the northern factory owners, nominally not enslaving the black slave.

The factory owners in the north did not massacre the plantation owners and took the land for themselves.

Don't the northern factory owners want to?

I don't dare.

Tom is the same, it is more difficult to kill a thousand Dixie plantation owners than it is to kill all the Indians in the world, and the Hero Company does not dare to conquer the agricultural production links of the United States by force.

It's just that Tom doesn't dare now, the people's hearts, people's hearts, and military support needed for land reform are too great, and Tom is still in the preparatory stage for development, so it's not appropriate to start in a hurry now

But drastic reforms to American plantation owners were already on Tom's agenda, and they were the ones he had to implement in the future.

If the emperor can't control the entire territory of his country, what difference does he have from a puppet who has been set up in the air?

It's not just the entrenched agricultural industry that Tom doesn't get involved, but the transportation industry as well.

After all, HERO is just a "rookie company" in the United States, and it is still a one-person shareholding company that does not raise funds.

The characteristics of the HERO company have led to the extreme resistance of local forces in various regions to the HERO company, so the HERO company can only control the production place of its own company - Texas.

The control of transportation links and sales areas has always been a weakness.

That's why HERO has not fully entered the front line of the market across the United States, does not actively participate in the retail link, and does not participate in the most profitable link of goods.

In just six months, the new Boston United Fruit Company, relying on its monopoly position as the only food supply channel in Texas, has repeatedly raised the price of agricultural products.

The Yankee farms in the north are also firmly controlled by the Yankee forces represented by the Boston consortium, and most of the Dixie farms are cotton plantations and there is no food.

All of this ultimately led to soaring food prices in Texas.

Looking at the price of food that had risen by more than 40 percent last month, Tom was a little upset with these reckless Yankeos.

"XXX's, aren't these XXX Yankews just relying on more boats?"

"One price a day, right?"

"I used to be okay with a 10 percent increase per month, but now! Forty percent! Is it going to double next month? ”

“XXXX……”

This is the first time that Tom has been choked by others since he became bigger, and unlike other commodities, grain must be firmly controlled for a long time, and it is a large area of production, in order to meet the food needs of tens of millions of people in the Second Mexican Empire in Texas.

Now Tom has a piece of "land" destroyed by his own scorched earth operations, but he has no agricultural foundation, so he can only be led by the Yankee by the nose and buy these agricultural products at a high price.

Angry, Tom scolded a few words, but reluctantly signed his name on the bill.

This kind of concession was helpless, the HERO company had no ships, and the railroad was only under construction, which could not support the food needs of tens of millions of people in Texas and Mexico's Second Empire.

Who is Tom?

How can the capitalists of the "new era" who can blow up and not shoot and kill, and who can rob but not buy, can endure this feeling of being choked by others.

After finding a "market" to maintain the production of the factory, how can it continue to endure the shameless price increases of these "middlemen", Tom is going to flip the table!

"If you like to ask for money, then I'll give you money!"

"Inform John, secretary, that he may buy all the grain at a higher price, all the whole world, meat, fruit, and grain...... As long as you can satisfy your hunger, you will buy them all! ”

"Even if it's a premium of 500 percent, no, even if it's hundreds of millions of dollars a piece of rice, you have to buy it for me!"

"Lao Tzu wants to eat all this fat and oily profiteer."

Tom handed the bill he had just signed to the female secretary beside him, and told the female secretary to hand it over to John, and at the same time gave the order that Milia did not understand.

In the eyes of the female secretary, wouldn't this behavior stimulate the Boston United Fruit Company to continue to raise prices?

Can you really eat all these profiteers?

The female secretary didn't say it, she was very clear about her position, and this kind of thing was just a dispensable tool person.

Watching the female secretary quietly exit the office, Tom took out a golden fake cigarette and took a few deep breaths of filtered air.

"These Yankews, they just don't have a long lesson."

"If you like money, then I'll give it all to you."

"I want to see if you have the life to take the money, and if you have the life to spend it."

Tom twisted the gold fake cigarette on the wall a few times, and the angry Tom twisted the end of the gold fake cigarette out of shape.

Coming to his senses, Tom hurried to stop the absurdity.

"Another one is broken, and it looks like I'm going to have to customize another batch when I go back."

"It's all Yankee!"