1855 United States Tycoon

For Scrooge, the year 1859 flew so fast and passed in a blink of an eye. In this year, Scrooge's career can really be said to have gone by leaps and bounds. In particular, the three major products of MacDonald Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals have continuously brought Scrooge's wealth. Now, Scrooge can almost claim that in the United States, or even in Europe, there is no pharmacy that does not have Scrooge's drugs for sale. And those doctors in Europe and America, if they leave Scrooge's sulfa and heroin, they simply don't know how to treat the disease.

And the company's other medicine, "Dali Pill" has become an essential medicine for home travel and murder and arson. This is not nonsense. In terms of "home travel", travelers use it to relieve travel fatigue, students use it to support themselves staying up late to study, and workers use it to support themselves to complete high-intensity labor. Scrooge's company bought this thing for the owner's slaves. Writers use it to inspire own inspiration, and actors use it to Ascension own performance passion. Even, it is said that girls in New York and some other cities who are engaged in some kind of ancient service industry also use it to enable themselves to complete more business a day.

In terms of "killing and arson", since the Italian warfare, the Italian army that took the "power pill", with the assistance of the French army, continuously defeated the Austrians, and finally basically completed the unification of Italy. "Daliwan" has become an indispensable strategic material in the military of European countries. Now it can even be said that without the "power pills" of MacDonald Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, those European countries would not be able to fight. Coupled with the popularity of the Macdonald 1857 rifle in Europe, (now, Austrians and Prussians have become new users of this rifle. Only the shameless French, after carefully studying the Macdonald 1857 rifle, He actually launched a so-called "backloading rifle with completely independent intellectual property rights." Does he think he is Shen Hoy? How dare to do this! It is Shen Hoy, who also bought a lot of orthodox in the Komsomolsk on the Amur River After the SU-27, the J-11B, J-15, and J-16 gangs of barbarians began to copycats. So Scrooge immediately stopped the supply of "Dali Pills" to France, and then France sent people to negotiate. Oh, um, it’s still wrangling now.) So much so that Scrooge has a new nickname in addition to the nickname of "King of Medicine": "King of War".

With such a good business, Scrooge naturally has more and more money in his hands. By the end of 1859, his net profit had exceeded seven million dollars. In other words, if Scrooge was willing, he could replace the United States government and buy the entire Alaska. However, did Scrooge want to be king, so why did he buy that? Alaska is rich in minerals and rich in resources, but to develop it at the time, it required more than just a little money. Moreover, Alaska will be in the hands of the United States. It will be 1867, and there are still several years to buffer. The money in the hands of capitalists will never be put in the treasury. When there is more and more living money in his hands, Scrooge will naturally consider what purpose the money should be used for.

In the feudal era, when people got rich and got money, they often had two ways of doing it. One was to sell it into land, and the other was to convert it into gold and silver, then put it in a jar, and then dig a pit and bury it. People who are more attentive are afraid of forgetting the place of burial, and a sign saying "There is no silver in this place" will be erected on it.But this is not the case for capitalists in a capitalist society. They understand that capital can only show their value in the constant flow of capital, and the era in which they live also provides various outlets for their funds. Therefore, it is not that capitalists have no treasure vaults for storing gold and silver. For example, the famous old Grandet has a secret vault, but the gold and silver in those treasure vaults are always flowing. Capitalists can't do things like the Russian landlord Poluhijin that makes potatoes pile up in the warehouse.

Before that, as long as Scrooge had money, he invested in reproduction and expanded the scale of production. But by this time, he felt that the scale of production was already large enough, and continuing to blindly expand the scale would bring evil results instead. So what is this increasing amount of idle money used for?

To this question, Scrooge has the answer long ago, and that is-China Construction Bank.

In the era of capitalism, all factors of production must flow through the allocation of capital. The bank is the pipeline and valve of capital flow. A large consortium may not be involved in arms, chemicals, steel, transportation, or power, but it must not be involved in finance, and must not be without its own bank. A bank is a multiplier of capital power. A rich man without a bank in his hands can only use his own wealth, while a rich man with a bank can use various means such as credit to mobilize far more than his own. The capital of the wealth possessed.

At the time of the New Year in 1860, a bank called "McDonald Venture Capital Bank" with a registered capital of 6 million US dollars appeared in Manhattan, New York. When the bank was founded, the largest investor, Mr. Scrooge McDonald, gave a speech on the bank's business direction. In his speech, Scrooge briefly reviewed the history of own development (of course, some dark things are naturally not mentioned), and pointed out that unlike any era in human history, science and technology are in this era of history. The development of "Science and Technology" played a leading role, and further pirated the argument that "scientific technology is the primary productive force". Then, Scrooge expressed his compassion, considering that in this era, there are countless scientific talents and all kinds of fantastic ideas, but because of the lack of start-up funds, these things cannot be turned into real products. People, so I established such a bank to support these people’s entrepreneurial path.

Based on Scrooge's understanding of the development of science and technology in later generations, which ideas are feasible, which ideas are rich, and which ideas or technologies can bring large sums of money, and those things that seem dizzy are actually Click the wrong technology tree. In this era, no one knows better than him. Soon after the end of the Civil War, the tide of the second industrial revolution will be swept. This bank is preparing for this in advance.

Just when Scrooge was proud to form his empire, Loli Dorothea Jr. was writing to the own Big Brother at her home in the south.

"Dear Big Brother:

Hello!

Dad officially announced that he gave us all the black slaves freedom a week ago. I don't know if he told you in the last letter. Freedom to black slaves seems to be a very good thing, but in fact, this thing is not going well. A lot of unexpected things happened.

The old Joel family was the first black man to learn that his father had given them freedom. When his father handed him the certificate of the freedmen, he was almost mad with joy. But it didn't take long for him to discover that freedom did not bring him any benefits. He ran outside for several days and wanted to rent a small house. Because he wanted to try, as a free man, the feeling of living outside the manor. But, who would rent a house to a black man, even though he is a free man. As a result, their family still lives in the original place and continues to help our family grow cotton. In fact, all the slaves who have been freed are like this. They are still doing the work they did before. Well, Buck is still raising cows, and Adele is still our cook. The only difference is probably that Dad now spends time every month to calculate their wages, and they have to pay Dad a monthly rent or something.

If it’s just that, but I don’t know where the rumors came from. Some people say that Dad will be like those greedy Yankees. When the black people get older and can’t work, they will be fired. Hurry to the street. This rumor frightened the black people. Some black people even found their fathers and asked them to take back their status as free citizens so that they could continue to be slaves. They kept pestering their father until he assured them that they would continue to hire their children in the future. In addition, the black people still stay in the plantation most of the time, and few people really go to the street like a free man. Because on the street, they are often beaten by the police for no reason.

In addition, her father's actions made her very isolated among the neighbors. They all spoke ill of her father behind their backs. They said that her father was a traitor from the South and the running dog of Lincoln's big villain. Now, no one wants to come to our house anymore, not even Alice and Lucia. Even when I met them on the road, they ignored me. But they ignore me, and I ignore them, who is afraid of whom!

Alan Uncle came once a few days ago. In fact, before his father made such a decision, he specifically came to discourage his father. But Dad didn't listen to him. But this time, he didn't come to see his father joke, he introduced several friends who had similar ideas to his father. An uncle named Jackson brought me a large box of various candies, which are rarely seen here. If it was before, I'm afraid it won't be long before these candies will be divided among Alice and Lucia, but now they won't come again. This is really great, for the first time I found out that there are still a lot of benefits if they don't come.

Oh, yes, Uncle Jackson also said that he also knew Scrooge's Big Brother. He talked with his father for a long time, and they seemed to be talking about war or something. Uncle Jackson said that if Lincoln is elected, there will be war. I think now, why is this Lincoln so disgusting? Can't he stay obediently in his own home and don't go anywhere? After Uncle Jackson left, I saw my father look worried, so I asked him, really because we are keeping slaves, do the northerners have to fight us? Do you fight like Big Brother was fighting with Alice’s Big Brother when he was a kid? In fact, I already knew that fighting is not fun. It's different from your games. But I still say that, I want to make my father happy. Dad was amused by me, but he is still very worried, I know that.

Yesterday afternoon, my father practiced shooting in the manor. Well, you know, Dad doesn't like hunting. I remembered a word he said to Uncle Jackson. He said, if there really is a war, I will join the soldier and fight for the South. I think Dad may be serious.

The campaign has been very lively, and the poster of the bad guy Lincoln has even been posted to the south. But none of us would vote for him. Why didn't he immediately get sick and die? In addition, I wrote a few letters to Scrooge Big Brother, but he never wrote back to me. This is so irritating. In short, this week, I am very unhappy. I really miss Big Brother when you were still at home.

Little Sister Dorothea

yours truly!

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