1855 United States Tycoon

Dorothea was settled, and it took a few more days to take over the things that Dorothea was in charge of. Then at the family meeting, Scrooge pretended to be a general after communicating privately with Carol. The "major secret" of the "heroin" problem was informed to the family group of four. In fact, Catherine was the last to know this secret among the four. But Catherine confirmed that she knew Carol and Dorothea together, and Dorothea thought she was the second to know. Both women felt that they were valued and the family atmosphere was extremely harmonious.

Then Scrooge analyzed the possible consequences of this problem, and finally Scrooge came to this conclusion: After the heroin patent expires, the secret will be discovered quickly, and then the prospects of the business are absolutely absolute. It's bleak. Therefore, Macdonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical companies will gradually get rid of their dependence on heroin in the next few years.

"When the patent was about to expire two years ago, we simply sold it to Europeans with the related production technology and heroin trademarks. In this way, we can quickly get a large sum of money for the development of alternative heroin. The new product and the corresponding promotion work. Secondly, when necessary, we can also hit our business opponents by breaking the news, because they have just spent a lot of money to produce this, but they have not had time to make a profit. Money." Scrooge said.

"Well, but Scrooge, is there any direction for the project to replace heroin?" Carol asked.

"Ah, isn't it ongoing? We are cooperating with the Germans on synthetic ammonia. That thing can definitely bring more benefits than heroin." Scrooge replied.

"But the patent for that thing is to be shared with the Prussians." Dorothea grumbled dissatisfied.

"I already have a plan to deal with the Prussians. I can assure you that although the Germans have obtained the technology related to synthetic ammonia, when it is actually produced, their cost will be much higher than ours." Scrooge smiled confidently. Laughed.

"To be more specific, do you still have to keep the code for us?" Dorothea frowned.

"Dear Madam, did I really want to listen? Well, it's a bit cumbersome to say. Please allow me to send someone to bring a large blackboard, and by the way, let them send ten boxes of eight boxes of chalk. Oh, yes, and order the kitchen to deliver the food directly to the meeting room. In general, it is actually very simple, that is, we are in technology..."

"Shut up! You fainted, you did it on purpose!" Dorothea scolded as she gritted her teeth and made a kick of Scrooge.

"Okay." Scrooge smiled. "Anyway, you only need to know that we can give them a hand in certain technologies. With this trick, our efficiency will be several times that of them in the future. So. , We don’t have to worry about them being able to compete with us in markets outside of Germany.”

"Do they have the ability to develop the same technology as ours?" Carol asked.

"Some people may be fine. Well, they have a lot of good chemists. They are not worse than me." Although he was reluctant to admit it, Scrooge decided to speak truthfully. Being able to face reality is the most basic and most important quality of a ruler. "However, it's not that I can't deal with them." Scrooge continued.

"Well, since you have a way, then we won't ask too much. In short, we all have confidence in you." Carol said. He didn't know what Scrooge's so-called method was, but But he is very clear about the general direction. This is nothing more than two tricks: one is to buy, and the other is to destroy the body. Chemistry experiments are full of accidents, and it is not impossible to die a single person or even a group of people. Of course, you only need to understand this kind of thing in your heart, and you don't need to talk about it.

"Then the general direction of this matter has been set in this way. Now, let's discuss railway issues..." Scrooge said.

...

Just after the meeting within the family, Scrooge left Duck Castle with his own secretary and bodyguard team and got on the train to Montana. If everything is normal, in a few days, the Pacific Railway across the North American continent will be fully connected.Compared with the original history, the construction speed of the Central Pacific Railway has been greatly reduced due to the inability to use the Chinese laborers who were cheap and sufficient in price and no one was held accountable for their death. But on the other hand, on the Union Pacific Railway side, although it is impossible to treat the Irish like the Chinese workers, because of the use of Dali pills, the Irish work efficiency is still fully guaranteed, so that the Union Pacific Railway side The construction speed is far higher than the original historical level. Later, Scrooge suppressed the Pacific Railway’s share price through the operation of the canal. After taking the opportunity to buy shares in the Central Pacific Railway, it turned out that it was not easy to buy explosives, Daliwan, and even Japan because of the shortage. Workers have all entered the development of the Central Pacific Railway, and the construction of the Central Pacific Railway has also begun to accelerate. After paying a lot of sacrifices and killing a lot of Japanese people, um, it’s not about the Central Pacific Railway Company. In fact, the Central Pacific Railway Company signed some contracts with Japan, which changed some key points. The railway construction works of the sexual sections were outsourced to some Japanese railway companies.

The Japanese people are indeed hardworking and brave people. In the high snow-capped Andes, their blood and life compose the miracle in the history of human architecture. They do more work than cows, eat less food than cats, and sleep. It was later than the owl, and it got up earlier than the chicken. Oh, no, it’s as early as the rooster in the workers’ camp. It is said that Japanese foremen always like to raise a big rooster in the workers’ camp. Every morning, as long as the rooster crows, there are those Japanese supervisors. Shouting: "Demolition shop! Get up! Damn, lying down, pig!" "Beat you! I won't get up again? Lazy! Waiting for the sun to go up the mountain?" So the Japanese workers began their day's work. It’s just that the roosters in the workers’ camp are always very strange. They croak very early, often in the middle of the night, when they croak, and then the overseers who seem to have been prepared for a long time don’t immediately know where to croak. Come out and drive these Japanese workers to work.

Two porridge and one meal, twelve hours of work, labor intensive, life like a pig, and trampled like dirt. The "machines" made by flesh and blood are ultimately different from those made by steel; the contract of the Japanese workers states that within three years, less than one-third of them can be completed. Work, work, weak enough to walk or work, hands and feet as thin as sticks of reeds, body bent like a bow, and face like a dead person, coughing, panting, dripping cold sweat, and still being oppressed to work.

Under such conditions, these Japanese workers were exhausted due to the heavy construction intensity, because of the high construction risk, they fell off the cliff and died, were buried in a big avalanche, and they were frozen to death due to lack of protection against the cold, and died of illness due to lack of medicine. He died because of drug abuse, thinking that he had diarrhea and diarrhea after eating unhealthy food, because he failed to explode when he exploded the mountain with explosives, because he met the bear who protected the forest and was shot to death. When I arrived, the Big Gray Wolf family was bitten to death because they accidentally fell to death while climbing, because they were careful to be poisoned by poisonous snakes when they were crossing the grass, because they were too weak, they fell silently and died as they walked, etc. Wait, wait, in the end, almost no one knows how many of these Japanese workers died. Many years later, Japanese writer Takiji Kobayashi described the story of Japanese workers who participated in the construction of the Pacific Railway in his novel. He wrote: "Along the railway, you can always meet piles of tombs not far away. These low tombs covered with weeds have no tombstones, and anything that can explain the identity of the tomb owner. Mr. Hughes told me that this is the tomb of the Japanese worker who died here that year. All the tombs are facing the west, which is the direction of the Japanese island. I know that every sleeper on this railway in the Andes is underneath every sleeper. Lying there is the bones of a Japanese worker..."

This is really a tragedy, even if Scrooge heard such a story, he would make a sad expression. But all this is because the Japanese themselves are not well organized and do not respect human rights, and have nothing to do with the Central Pacific Railway Company under the leadership of the conscientious Scrooge.

In this way, the speed of construction was ascending quickly, and as a result, the entire railway was completed even nearly a year faster than in the original history. Of course, it is said that more Japanese and Irish people died as a result than in the original history. But who cares about them? In fact, even after Japan and the United States went to war in World War II, the Japanese did not use this thing to attack the United States-because drinking the blood of these workers and eating the meat of these workers, As a result, it is not only the people from the United States who have gained weight. The entire upper class of Japan, whether it is the corrupt Tokugawa shogunate or the enterprising reform veterans, have all drunk the blood and eaten the meat.

Scrooge swung the hammer and nailed the last spike into the sleeper. The Pacific Railway, a miracle in the history of human engineering, was finally completed. There was applause from all directions, followed by the roar of cheering salutes. Then, under the attention of everyone, Scrooge delivered a passionate speech. He highly praised the great significance of this railway to the development of United States, and predicted that with the completion of this railway, the west will usher in a great Development, a prosperous tomorrow. In the end, Scrooge raised the wine glass full of blood-red wine, wishing United States a better tomorrow, and at the same time announcing the opening of the Pacific Railroad to celebrate the cocktail party officially began.

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