A train "hum-hum-hum" carried the Vanderbilts and their sons out of Houston.
When the train reached the Texas border, because the rail spacing was different, the Vanderbilts and their entourage transferred to the "Yankee" train with the British standard spacing of 1435mm rails.
This track is one of many tracks controlled by the Vanderbilt Railroad Company.
After boarding their own train, the Vanderbilts entered a train compartment together.
After the transfer train started slowly, with the "noise" of the old train, the father and son could safely say some "family" words.
Cornelius looked out the window at the scene of running backwards, and said to his son earnestly:
"What a fun youth and fun journey."
"Henry, do you know what I saw along the way?"
"Since entering the Dixie area, the rich people on the train, the staff at the train station, and even the vendors selling goods on the train platform encountered at the transfer station..."
"Without exception, these people were bragging about the "greatness" of Hero Company. Even after I, a gay guy, praised Hero Company a few words, they considered me a "good brother of the Dixie people."
"It's as if Hero Company is run by themselves."
"And Tom Smith, the founder of the hero company, is more tacky than these ordinary Dixie people and is more like a "Dixie redneck"."
"His plans and strategies are also simple and crude. He really looks like a Dixie guy."
"Speaking of his plan to sell things at a loss, Henry, what do you think?"
Cornelius looked out the window at the endless cotton plantations, looking at the "black slaves" who were not black slaves who had already begun to prepare for spring plowing, and asked his son what he thought of this "two-wealth alliance"
plan of.
"Father, I am not optimistic about this plan. Can this kind of reselling at a loss really defeat the Yang Gang consortium that is intricately connected with each other?" While answering the question, Henry looked at his father, wanting to see what his father thought of him.
answer.
"Don't look at me. If you don't have me at this time, think about the impact of this plan."
Cornelius's words made Henry a little stunned.
Henry also understood that his father probably really wanted to use this incident to make himself "higher".
My father is also old.
Henry, who was leaning back in his chair, relaxed his whole body on the swaying train and carefully thought about the details of this "double-rich cooperation".
"Smith has been emphasizing confidentiality, but how can such a big news be kept secret?"
"No! He is not afraid of leaks! Even if the secrets are leaked, the crazy Yang Gang consortium will not stop the reselling plan, so what is he planning?"
"Hero's products have not increased in price in recent years. If this continues, there will only be more and more "hero dollars" on the market, and Hero's goods will become increasingly worthless."
"Why exactly?"
“Bury gay Yang like Bloody Monday?”
"He wants to..."
Henry suddenly sat up straight and looked at his father, Cornelius, with wide eyes. Cornelius just smiled back at his son and ended the conversation.
Cornelius recalled the huge number of workers he saw in the Texas area, even more than the workers in the entire Great Lakes Industrial Zone. Such a huge "family business" dared to risk his life to get his own.
It would be a good idea to click on the "Little Family Business" on the New York Central Railway Network and join in the gambling together.
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April 1, 1868,
Tom summoned all the top leaders of Hero Company.
One of the characteristics of the top management of Hero Company is nepotism. Almost all of them are XX Smith. Occasionally, there are a few who are not sexual Smiths and are close relatives of the core members of the Smith family.
Tom doesn't need "smart people", he just wants a group of "family members" who trust each other.
This meeting has been a month and a half since Cornelius Vanderbilt left. The price of agricultural products on the market has soared to 16,000 percent of the pre-crisis level, which is a 160-fold increase!
However, the prices of hero products are still so "cheap".
Hero Company's factory area has reached the point where it sells as much as it makes, and the warehouse seems to be just a bunch of useless "trinkets" that decorate the factory area.
So, how does Hero Company pay the high bills of each agricultural product supplier?
How can such a large funding gap be filled?
It’s the “hero dollar”. Now the Texas state bank, Hero Bank, has begun to issue “hero dollar” with a face value of US$10,000.
However, supported by the large number of low-priced products of Hero Company and the credibility of Hero Company itself, the value of "hero dollars" has not actually fluctuated much.
Mr. Yang is not a fool. He knows that Hero Company is losing money.
But they still invested a lot of manpower and material resources to transport food to Texas as Tom expected.
There was also a lot of discussion within hero.
Fortunately, the "core" members who have accompanied Tom to make a fortune since he traveled back through time are still convinced of the "Tom myth" and that Tom can lead the Smith family to greater "glory."
Those "Smith" family members with "foreign surnames" who are not close to Tom have already been talking about this.
"Ahem..."
"Good news! After today, you no longer have to buy agricultural products."
"Starting from this afternoon, all old factories in the old factory area will cease operations."
"All workers will be transferred to military factories and other infrastructure-related factories in the new factory area."
"The excess workers will be sent to various places to build infrastructure..."
Standing on the podium, John, the CEO of the hero company, announced this order that made all the executives "stunned". If it weren't for the "steward" Tom Smith who never appeared in non-major meetings sitting in the first row below.
, the executives thought that the order to close the factory was not an order made up by John himself.
"Now Hero's only profit is the negligible profit in the old factory area. If we close all the factories, Hero may go bankrupt tomorrow."
"John, is this really Tom's order?"
"Closing the factory? What to do with those previous orders?"
"This will cause Hero to face tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation!"
"Isn't this an April Fool's joke?"
"..."
Before John could finish speaking, the executives sitting below could no longer hold back their excitement and began to whisper among each other.
This blockbuster news was like a depth charge detonating in the conference room. The executives could not believe their ears. Hero Company was actually going to close the "Smith Industrial Zone" that they had relied on for more than a year.
John pressed his hands softly, and the conference room became quiet again.
Tom sat in the first row, listening quietly to this "fabricated order" without moving.
Everyone knew what Tom's move meant - this order indeed represented Tom's meaning.
"Before tomorrow morning, all workers in the hero factory area will be evacuated in an orderly manner, and all the buildings in the old factory area will be blasted with TNT tomorrow morning."
"At the same time, hero company and all its subsidiaries declared bankruptcy."
"As for the compensation issue, please contact Hero Bank and we will compensate you as much as Mr. Yang wants."
After John said this, he glanced at Tom, who nodded expressionlessly.
In the silence of the entire audience, Tom slowly stood up from his seat and left the meeting, followed closely by John, who left the meeting room together.