Chapter Thirty-Four: Ghosts, Ghosts, and Snakes Are Out to Be Demons
Tom needs to die, and he needs to die for a period of time to completely solve the problems caused by the previous over-development and ignored by Tom.
The rapid development has indeed given Tom a stronger foundation than in his previous life, but is this foundation really solid?
Except for the top executives and the directly affiliated military, most of the lower-level and middle-level managers are new to this interest system, and there is no mutual trust between them and Tom.
Of course, this only applies to lower-level managers and middle-level managers.
The employees at the lowest level are all illiterate and blind, and they just follow whoever is in charge of the food.
The most junior employees know their big boss, Tom Smith. Whether Tom needs gratitude or not depends on each person.
At present, most of the women who relied on Tom to get their first income in life are quite grateful to Tom, and their male family members are even more grateful to Tom.
Because Tom gives priority to female employees’ wages to their fathers, brothers, and husbands. Only women who are single and have no relatives can receive a meager income independently.
Egalitarians once again saw that Tom's Smith Company actually paid wages to female employees, and its recruitment practices became more active.
At the same time, this is why millions of employees in the Smith factory area can support Tom.
Support the fundamental reason for paying wages to female employees in the extremely sexist social environment of the 19th century.
But this newly established trust relationship is unreliable. If Mr. Yang controls the middle-level managers and lets these microphones spread in this area where compulsory education is not universal, Mr. Yang will use the same methods as Tom.
wage standards and payment methods.
Then, the image Tom has established in the minds of millions of employees will instantly lose its original advantage.
These managers are just like the despicable literati described by a great national warrior in later generations - they look like dogs from a distance, but they look like humans up close.
These grassroots managers who know a little about pen and ink are unwilling to endure hardships and seek benefits for their employees.
They are unwilling to endure hardship, but they all look forward to a life of becoming a master;
Reluctant to truly seek benefits for low-level employees, but each and every one of them expects low-level employees to praise them for the management work they have done;
In the end, they can only be like an old dog with no fighting ability, wagging its head and begging for a bone, following whichever master gives it a bone.
And the great national warrior who criticized them was a dog, a dog that was unyielding to the powerful and had the courage to reveal its literary fangs to all the evil forces that oppressed the employees at the bottom.
A fighting dog loyal to low-level employees.
For Tom, as long as there were reliable people to fill the huge vacancies in lower-level management personnel caused by rapid expansion, Tom would not use these people.
Now, Tom has thought of an alternative management method that can temporarily stop using these people who are worse than old dogs.
These losers who are not firm in their stance are exactly the demons and monsters that Tom wants to attack this time.
After a delicious meal of copper hot pot, John rushed back to Austin overnight. In theory, John stayed in Austin the whole time.
Tomorrow morning, John will rush back to Houston filled with grief and anger to help deal with Tom's "future affairs."
And Tom took advantage of the night to arrive at the place where he had previously met with Nathan, the leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
It was a quiet riverside place with a medium-sized wooden house. This was Tom's temporary residence.
No more than twenty people knew where Tom fished during his vacation.
And among the twenty people, most of them were a bunch of stupid relatives.
Tom was convinced that these stupid relatives could not imagine that he had faked his death.
December 16, 1866
"Extra number! Extra number!"
"The biggest accident in Texas since the founding of the state - a train derailment!"
"On the list of passengers on the train is Tom Smith, the largest capitalist in Texas, the founder of Smith Company."
"Currently, there is no conclusive evidence that Tom Smith survived."
“Texas State Capital – Tom Smith Confirmed Dead.”
The day after Tom's death, the news of Tom Smith's death spread to every corner of Texas.
Under the barking of those old dogs, the news of Tom Smith's death spread across Texas faster than the assassination of President Lincoln.
After all, Lincoln wouldn't give these old dogs bones to eat when he was assassinated.
The speed with which the news of Tom's death was publicized was an entry-level test for his future new master.
Obviously, in such an accident, when the body is not seen, it is assumed that the person's life and death are unknown and treated as a missing person.
But these despicable literati who surrendered deliberately used the "art" of language in order to show their literary "skills" and turned Tom into the richest man who "confirmed" his death.
Tom, who was sitting fishing in the cold December wind, had no other way to refute these old dogs except to sneeze in protest.
After all, dead people cannot speak, and Tom Smith is a dead man.
That night, John hurried back to the Smith Farm after a long journey, and in front of all of Tom's direct relatives, he officially announced that Tom had indeed boarded the last section of the death train.
Smith Company immediately announced the death of its founder, Tom Smith, under the leadership of John.
At the same time, preparations began for Tom Smith's funeral.
In fact, the Yang guys have already known all kinds of information about Tom Smith.
The second and fifth boys immediately reported their experiences to their masters.
Many young people had already watched Tom boarding the last carriage of the train.
It's a pity that they didn't expect that Tom would separate the last train car on the road, and then use dozens of large horses to pull the carriage.
The dead body was nothing more than a red-necked German farmer who had only dyed his hair for a few hours.
The biggest factor that helped this faked death incident to deceive others was actually Mr. Yang's own "impression flow" judgment method.
Just like later generations of Earth Dynasty novels, which believed that soap glass could sell well in ancient times, Yang Ji's subconscious impression of the rich led them to make wrong judgments about corpses.
Tom's most expensive suits are less than twenty dollars, and all of Tom's suits were either made by his sister or recently made by his mother.
Regardless of the hard labor costs of his mother and sister, if we only look at the fabric, Tom's wardrobe has never had a luxury suit worth more than twenty dollars.
Not to mention leather shoes, Tom Smith's leather shoes are all low-quality leather shoes that cost around ten dollars, and even the most expensive leather shoes for hospitality are less than thirty dollars.
Tom never wears any luxurious diamond pocket watches or gold rollerball pens.
The direct family members who get along with Tom every day all know this.
At the same time, Tom also knew from the side that there were no second or fifth sons in the direct lineage.
Tom doesn't buy these luxury goods. In addition to using more money for expansion of capital, there is another important reason:
In Tom's eyes, is it possible that a pocket watch worth ten dollars has a different flow rate of time than a diamond pocket watch?
As time went by, news of Tom Smith's death spread to every corner of the United States.