After passing the square and walking for a while, you will enter a manor, which is the Sheffield family's manor. There are already many carriages waiting in the manor. Obviously today is an important day here.

After adjusting the tie around his neck, Sheffield slowly stepped out of the carriage. At this moment, another carriage also stopped, and a middle-aged woman got out of it. Although she had escaped the youthfulness of her girlhood, she was full of a sense of humor.

She is rare and capable in this era, and her short blond hair gives her a strong look. One look at her and you can tell she is a rare strong woman.

It is now January 1895. The winter in Texas is very short, so there is no need to wear such thick clothes, but this woman is wearing thick mink fur, and she has obviously just returned from other places.

"Hello, auntie!" Sheffield did not dare to neglect and nodded to the middle-aged lady who had just got off the carriage. "Have you just come back from the north? Are you feeling comfortable recently?"

Isabella glanced at her nephew, sighed and said angrily, "It's not good, the membership of the Rifle Association is shrinking. Nowadays, none of the people buy guns. It's really a headache."

"That's really bad news! But that's the trouble of the chairman. Auntie, you are the vice-chairman." Sheffield shrugged, expressing that he felt the same way.

The National Rifle Association is headquartered in Virginia. The Rifle Association originated during the American Civil War. This geographical location is quite telling. Virginia was the center of the South during the Civil War, and hunting and so-called gun rangers were highly prevalent in the South, which was dominated by an agricultural economy.

culture, which also led to the shooting level of southern soldiers at the beginning of the Civil War being much higher than that of northern soldiers.

Although the various ethnic groups in the world are vastly different, it is generally true that northerners are brave and good at fighting, and southerners are good at economics. However, the opposite is true in the United States. During the Civil War, the economy and population of the north of the United States were several times that of the south, but they also sacrificed during the war.

The casualties were several times that of the Confederate Army.

The Civil War coincided with a critical era in the history of firearms evolution. The application of Minie bullets and rifled guns made the Southern Army's advantage even more powerful. After realizing this, one of the veterans of the Northern Army jumped out and shouted: We must let the Northerners

,No, all Americans have learned how to play with guns.

After Edward Sheffield was injured in the war, he felt that he might not die soon. He used his last moment to adopt Durant's strategy of "I can't beat you, but I can join you." Hearing that the North was going to establish a rifle association, he started

We need to make arrangements to infiltrate the Rifle Association.

"What's wrong, Vice Chairman? With fewer and fewer members, our factory will be affected. We won't be able to sell the firearms, and our family will suffer the loss! William, you don't quite understand these things, although you have done a good job in your studies.

, but in practice it is still far behind." Isabella looked at her lucky nephew and was unwilling to continue the conversation. The Sheffield family's biggest failure was her brother, and the serious heir was a playboy.

, I spent more time in Paris than in the United States.

"Auntie, I don't mean that, but the current environment is like this. Without the outbreak of war, there is really nothing we can do about this matter!" Sheffield said helplessly. This is also a rare time for the National Rifle Association to be inactive.

Of course, for this kind of self-proclaimed non-profit organization, it should be clean and tidy. It's just that after being infiltrated by some southern remnants, it always wants to use the Rifle Association to benefit itself. How can this be justified?

Isabella doesn't care about the fate of the Rifle Association, but with fewer and fewer members, Sheffield's arsenal's sales will also decrease. For the sake of her family's firearm sales, the vice president of the Rifle Association is also worried.

Sheffield has no doubt at all that if the family he was reincarnated in this life can generate profits by killing people, the Sheffield family will become the forerunners, and they will definitely do it. No one will do the business of losing money, but they will rush to do the business of losing heads.

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Inside the Sheffield Manor, in a large conference room with elegant furnishings, a very elegant woman with long hair and a calm look on her eyebrows was quietly listening to the discussions of others.

Slowly, the conference room became silent. The men who were filled with indignation just now did not dare to breathe. Their eyes fell on Annabell. Even at this age, Annabell could still vaguely see youthfulness on her face.

Of course, her appearance at that time was not important. The others did not bow down to Annabel's pomegranate skirt. The reason why they came was entirely based on each other's status.

"It's a difficult problem. It seems that the friends who escaped can't hold on anymore." Annabell lowered her head and rubbed the wedding ring on her finger. "My husband said when he was alive that sooner or later they would run to Brazil."

Regretfully, we tried our best against the Yankees but could only achieve a conditional armistice. So what can we do in Brazil, a place we are unfamiliar with? In the end, we will inevitably face this result."

"Ana, you can't blame us for falling from the same pit twice. The Brazilian government will not compensate for the loss of plantations. This involves hundreds of millions of assets. Just like the Yankees thirty years ago, it is easy to sign a decree, but we

Who will compensate for the losses? Thirty years have passed since the incident in the United States, and we can’t say anything. However, the plantation owners who went to Brazil were all our friends and relatives, and many families were split into two.

, now they can’t hold on anymore, what should we do?”

"Yes, there is no compensation at all. This is robbery."

Everyone was talking to each other. What was happening in Brazil at the moment reminded them of the Civil War thirty years ago. For them, this has always been a thorn in their hearts. Not only has it not healed to this day,

Instead, it was reawakened because of the dire situation of many plantation owners in Brazil.

"Then what do you want? Mobilize relatives from various states and bring guns to fight a war?" Annabel blurted out with a frosty face, "If it weren't for everyone knowing each other and my husband being nostalgic, he would have been there long ago.

Does the Sheffield family, which has completed its transformation, still need to participate in the Civil War? Edward was shot on the battlefield, resulting in chronic lead poisoning. How to calculate this account? I became a widow at a young age, and no amount of money can buy it.

Come back with my husband’s life.”

"It has been six years since the Brazilian Abolition of Slavery Act appeared six years ago. Have you looked at the attitudes of various countries? At the beginning, you also placed your hope on the mediation of the British Empire, but in the end, mediation did not appear. Edward said at the beginning,
Chapter completed!