Just as Tom was preparing to rely on the "moral high ground" to launch a wave of labor market "recruitment" operations in the United States, Johnny returned to the hometown of the Smith family - the town of Karlstadt in Bavaria, Germany.
Johnny quickly found Tom's mother, who was still a worker in the largest vineyard in the area, and his two sisters who were helping on the farm.
Tom's father lost his life to the flu last year.
Johnny found all the people on the list that Tom had given him in the town of Karlstadt. They were basically all the living relatives of the current core members of the Smith family, as well as the family members who had sacrificed core members for Tom.
When he was in New York, Tom was still pretending to be harmless. Now that Tom has come to Texas, he is going to have a big fight with the Yankees.
We must do everything possible to deal with possible problems that may arise, and we must also set an example so that the existing backbone can safely sacrifice their lives for Tom.
Bavaria is now the core agricultural region of Germany, the future core region of the North German Federation and the Second German Empire, and one of the most powerful states in German history, but it is full of famine and disease.
Not just in Bavaria, when Johnny looked for other people on the list, he didn't see any wealth and prosperity in the German region.
Perhaps only the carriages of the Junker nobles and their estates can be seen among the few people in the whole of Germany who have enough food and clothing.
Even Tom's three immediate family members who work on the farm, his mother and two sisters, are as hungry as skin and bones even though they work in a workplace that produces a large amount of crops every year.
Johnny spent more than half a month traveling to almost all regions in Germany, and in the end only collected one-third of the people on the list. The rest of them have become a part of the reincarnation of all things.
After a few days of rectification, Johnny led nearly a hundred people and set off from the port of Holstein in Germany on a luxurious paddle steamer.
As for whether there was any obstruction from the Prussian recruiting officers and customs?
For these people, the loss of population in Germany is not as important as the warm marks in their hands.
They have already clearly put a price tag on the problem of people smuggling from the German region.
"Cousin Johnny, why should I be called Amy Smith from now on? Isn't my last name Trump?"
"Because your brother told you to do it."
"Cousin Johnny, wasn't your last name Schneider before? Why is your last name Smith now?"
"Because your brother asked me to do this."
"Cousin Johnny, I heard you say that cousin Rocky Schmidt is also named Smith. Why?"
"Because your brother told him to do it."
"My brother isn't called Frederick Trump anymore? Why is he called Tom Smith?"
"..."
Sitting in a large luxurious box, Tom's mother, who had been a vineyard picker all her life, and the twin sister Alice, were both a little reserved in such a luxurious environment.
Even though the clothes they wore were exactly the same as their surroundings - filled with the extravagance of the Victorian era, their inner admiration for wealth did not change just because of their outer clothes.
On the contrary, it was the more lively sister of the twins who kept asking Johnny questions all the way.
In addition to the four people who were indeed related to Tom by blood, there were three brothers and sisters in the wing who were also sitting on the sofa in the wing.
The three siblings are brother John Mueller, and his twin sisters, Mia Mueller and Rena.
In addition to answering Amy's questions, Johnny stared closely at the "fellow" John Mueller, who was taller and stronger than him.
Unlike the other six people present, John's English name John was not arranged by Tom, but was changed by John himself.
He had long wanted to take his two sisters and flee to the United States of America, the legendary "Pure Land". Both the English names and the English names had been prepared in advance.
At the same time, John was also a childhood neighbor and teenage "colleague" of Tom in Germany. John's parents were also "colleagues" of Tom's parents during their lifetime.
With Penny's help, Johnny easily invited John and took the three brothers and sisters on the boat together to go to Houston.
Paddle steamers in the 1860s took about half a month to a month to sail from North Germany to finally arrive at New York Harbor in the United States. If they wanted to go to Houston, it would take at least a month to sail.
Considering that the paddle steamer was not the cargo ship that Tom had stowaway on, but an ocean-going tourist ship with a high ticket price, the ship was basically filled with upper-class people from Europe and the United States.
How could the upper class endure a paddle steamer traveling at maximum speed across the treacherous North Atlantic like a cargo?
It is estimated that it will take another month and a half for the paddle steamer to arrive in Houston.
One and a half months of life at sea was enough for the seven of them to get to know each other, especially the four little girls around ten years old. Under the active invitation of the most lively Amy, the four little girls soon started to lively and active in the big room every day.
Started playing.
Penny, as the only middle-aged woman present, was responsible for following the lives of four little naughties and taking care of the four little girls every day.
Johnny and John, on the other hand, sat in the living room of the wing at the beginning of the period, staring at each other with big eyes and small eyes every day.
About a week later, John was reading, and Johnny was waiting for John to watch.
John was different from Tom's semi-illiterate family members. John was literate. He knew almost all German words and most of the English vocabulary. John quickly read some of the reading materials that came with him in the room.
"Cousin Johnny, can't we go out to eat?"
"For such a big ship, there should be more food in the restaurant, right?"
“The four of us are tired of eating caviar and foie gras every day.”
Amy looked at the lunch delivered by her subordinates, looking at the same luxurious meals as yesterday, and told Johnny that she wanted to eat something else.
He also took the opportunity to drag the other three little girls into the water.
The three little girls also nodded. This was what the four little girls had discussed in advance. Their playful nature was completely unleashed during these few days when they didn't need to work.
When we were in Germany, four little girls helped their parents with work every day since they were seven or eight years old.
In vineyard plantations where there is a large amount of non-heavy labor, the workload of teenage employees can even be comparable to that of most adults.
After finally getting rid of the kind of life of waking up early and working late at night, the four little girls began to become more and more unrestrained.
They longed to play freely on this huge paddle steamer instead of being restricted in this "small" luxury suite of only a few hundred square meters.
"No, no, you can't leave the wing because your brother..."
"Because your brother asked me to do this."
"whee……"
The four little girls imitated Johnny's tone in unison and repeated what Johnny said most these days - because you just asked us to do this.
"Indeed, it's because your brother asked me to do this."
Johnny was a little embarrassed by the four little girls, but he still adhered to the order given to him by Tom and had as little contact with outsiders as possible, especially those on the core list.
Although Johnny didn't understand why John and his two sisters were also on the core list, he obeyed Tom's orders.