In a square on the outskirts of Houston, Tom stood on a high platform and began to speak loudly in Texas-Houston dialect to more than 3,000 rioting people in the audience.
There were more than 3,000 onlookers, except for the one or two hundred leading mafia gangsters who were tender-skinned little sissies, the rest were a group of old "rednecks" with calloused hands.
"Texas folks!"
"I'm an orphan from Texas, not just me, but my cousins Rocky and Johnny are also orphans."
"We three brothers all lost our parents because of gay Yang."
"After being displaced and escaping from the war, I returned to Houston. Looking at my hometown, it was so desolate. I..."
As he spoke, Tom burst into tears and burst into tears in front of three or four thousand people.
After crying for about ten seconds, Tom stopped crying, made a few expressions to suppress his tears, and continued to shout:
"Crying won't solve the problem!"
"I deeply love Texas and this land."
"I really know what it takes to make Texas stand up again!"
“That’s setting up a factory!”
As soon as the phrase "run a factory" came out, the citizens of Houston began to talk about it. In their eyes, running a factory was equivalent to what Yankees did, and farming and growing cotton was what Dixie people should do.
In the year since the end of the Civil War, it is not that no one has set up factories in Texas, but the factories set up by the Yankees have been boycotted by the locals and have been unable to set up factories smoothly. The factories set up by the locals in Texas have been exploited by the Yankees.
Bankruptcy.
"boom!"
Tom fired a shot into the air, and thousands of people once again focused their attention on Tom, wanting to hear what this Texas man with a pure Houston, Texas, accent had to say.
This accent brings Tom closer to the people of Texas.
It is also because of this natural and friendly accent that the people of Houston are willing to listen to what Tom has to say.
"I, Tom Smith, came back to Texas for three things!"
"Set up a factory! Set up a factory! What's more important is to set up a factory!"
"Some people want to ask, why should I set up a factory?"
"Why should I set up a factory like the Yankees? Am I still a good boy from Texas?"
"Let me ask you a question first: What do you think of the Civil War?"
"The war that orphaned three of us brothers was also the war that destroyed countless families in Texas."
"In that war, those bastard Yankees were clearly incapable of fighting chickens. None of them could beat the turkeys on our Texas farm."
Tom's wording contained strong regional discrimination, so that all the listeners could not help but secretly affirm Tom's words.
"And the final result of the war was that they relied on their superior numbers and guns to defeat our tough Texan men!"
"As a result, the people of Texas standing before me now are people groaning in defeat and humiliation!"
"After the Civil War, our Texan pride was gone!"
"Those hateful Yankees are riding on our necks and domineering, and they wantonly trample on our dignity!"
"The dignity of the people of the most powerful state in the United States of America!"
"Tell me, do you choose to be a Texas fighter like Robert Edward Lee, or are you a coward bullied by the Yankees!?"
"Fighter!"
"Fighter!"
"..."
The audience in the audience was mobilized by Tom's impassioned speech to resist "Gay Yang". Tom knew that he had a chance to win today!
Tom did not rely on the sound of gunfire to attract attention this time. He just pressed his hands, and the Texan people below stopped shouting and waited for the man's next speech.
"Learn from Gay Yang and use your skills to defeat Gay Yang!"
"If we say we have factories in Texas, especially a large number of military factories!"
Tom sees that the public atmosphere is "heating up", and he wants to add some "violent information"!
"Will our Texas Rangers, countless tough-minded men, still be defeated by that group of Yankee cowards who only know how to hide behind muskets and cannons?"
"Won't!"
“Do we need factories in Texas?”
"need!"
"Who are these people who are inciting you to oppose the construction of the factory? They are the Yankee lackeys who betrayed Texas! They are outside forces!"
"Yes! They are all lackeys! They are traitors! They are external forces!"
"What will we, the true men of Texas, do when dealing with the lackeys of the Yankees, the traitors in Texas, and the outside forces who want to harm us?"
As soon as these words were said, the crowd immediately went into chaos. It had been twenty years since the Civil War ended, but after the defeat of the Civil War, the Yankees had been oppressing the Dixie area.
During the Civil War, Texas, the most powerful country on the Dixie side, was "focused" by the Yankees. These people couldn't bear it anymore!
"Kill him!"
"I, xxxx, no wonder we have no factories in Texas. It's because there are traitors among our people!"
"It's him, he's the one who dragged me here to boycott the construction of the factory!"
"kill him!"
"boom!"
"..."
Before the chaos down there officially started, a gunshot attracted everyone's attention, and then everyone discovered that Tom had been "shot"!
A small blood-red gash opened in Tom's abdomen, and he began to bleed uncontrollably.
"I saw this young man at the train station and he was so excited that he cried when he came back to Houston."
"It seems that what he said is true. There are external forces who don't want us to rise in Texas, so they spread rumors that building factories and occupying land is to harm us!"
“Support the construction of factories and land!”
"Fuck gay Yang!"
As Tom fell "upright", the crowd below officially began to fight in a melee.
A large number of Mafia gangsters who had previously encouraged the masses to cause trouble were shot to death by angry Texas rednecks.
As for Tom lying in Johnny's arms, what's the "situation" like?
Need immediate help?
"Johnny, is there a fight down there?"
"Boss, the fighting was fierce. Several small mafia bosses I knew were shot to death."
"Well done, Johnny, you "help" me down first. Rocky, remember to collect the bodies of the killed mafiosi, hang them at the door of the city hall, and hang a "Gay Young Traitor" sign around their necks.
, English, French, and Spanish all need to be written, remember?”
"It's the boss."
"Oh, it really hurts. When I give a speech next time, the dose of the small gunpowder packet behind the blood packet at the "shot" site will be reduced. This dose is still a bit painful."
In this way, Tom, who was "shot several times", was helped off the podium by Johnny and sent to "medical care".