America's Road to Wealth

On a quiet snowy night, the brightly lit busy city also becomes quiet and empty at this time. The snowflakes under the halo of the street lights at night are distinct, like ice blown away by the strong wind, and the Christmas tree with lights is also covered by snow. , adding to the festive atmosphere of Christmas.

When Abel woke up again, his Smith had returned to Texas and landed at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.

Texas is significantly warmer than New York State.

Abel, who walked down the gangway, felt that the wind in his hometown was more genial than the wind in New York. Unlike the winter wind in New York, it blows on people's faces like a knife.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the convoy returned to Smith's Farm in northern Tarrantshire.

Today's Smith Farm is no longer the original small and medium-sized factory farm with only more than 7,500 acres and completely relying on modern intensive farming.

After Abel made his fortune, Alexander did not participate in the election.

Abel pays, Alexander and Alex. The Smith family bought and annexed many other farms around their own farm.

The Smith Farm, which originally covered an area of ​​just over 7,000 acres, is now a huge farm occupying the most fertile piece of land in Tarrant County, with an area of ​​about 250,000 acres.

Even the original Sunny Mountain Farm was included. Inside the farm, two towns, Sunnis City and Smith Town, were directly developed.

Among them, Sunnis City used to be mainly used as a training base for rock security guards and a place of residence for their families.

With the development of rock security, more and more people are staying. Schools, hospitals, shopping malls, and various entertainment facilities have all been built.

The current total population has exceeded 20,000. The locals applied to become a new city in accordance with federal and Texas laws, as well as Tarrant County laws.

This application was of course approved without question. As a result, Sunnis City obtained the power to organize its own council, elect its own mayor, and form its own police or sheriff team.

The Huaxia people seem to think it is a bit exaggerated, a city was established so easily.

There is also great autonomy, and almost nothing can be controlled from above.

But this is actually very common in the United States, especially in the large number of small cities in the Midwest and South Central, almost all of which are self-governing.

It can even be said that this is the earliest American model. The United States of America was established under such a union of autonomous cities.

Smith Town and Sunny City were established in a similar way, that is, the population is much smaller, with only about 5,000 people, most of whom are farm workers and other related workers.

Like Adam and Eve researchers.

These two small towns are located on the Smith family's 250,000 acres of land.

Many people understood that this was the domain of the Smith family.

So when Abel returns to Smith Farm, or Smith Town.

This place is completely different from when he came back four years ago.

The rudiments of towns have emerged, with everything from hospitals to police stations. The original farm has always been located in the center of the town, and all the buildings in the whole town are guarding the Smith Manor in the middle.

In addition, in the northwest of the town, on a huge open space that has been leveled out, a national-level airport that meets the standards of the "General Aviation Airport—Part of State-owned Assets" issued by the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States, that is, the FAA, is under construction.

According to the standard, national-level airports can serve the domestic and international aviation markets in the United States, with an average of 200 aircraft on site, including 30 jet aircraft. The frequency of flight activities is very high, and it can basically take off most of the existing aircraft in the world.

It is the highest standard among American airports.

After the construction of this airport is completed, large wide-body passenger planes such as Abel's Smith will no longer have to fly to Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, but can land directly on his own airport.

Today is Christmas. When Abel looked around in the car, he could see lights and festoons everywhere in Smith Town, beautiful Christmas trees everywhere, and people walking with smiles on their faces.

In the United States, Christmas is almost equivalent to the Spring Festival in China. It is a day for family reunion and celebration, and it is the most important festival of the year.

The huge open space at the main entrance of the original farm, which was mainly used for parking and loading goods, has now been transformed into a beautiful square.

In the middle of the square, on a huge pedestal, a huge bronze statue is under construction.

It's not finished yet, and it's a holiday, so there's no one on the scaffolding today.

After getting out of the car, Abel, who saw little Laura and the others smiling and walking towards him holding or holding the children's hands, couldn't help but look at the unfinished statue a few more times.

That was Alex's request, and the statue under construction was of what Ender Smith would look like.

Ander Smith was the first Smith who came to the North American continent from Plymouth on the Mayflower more than 380 years ago, the true ancestor of the Smith family.

Abel has seen the design drawings of the bronze statue of Ander Smith. The drawings say that the statue of Ander Smith weighs 450,000 pounds, is 46 meters high, and the base is 45 meters high. The whole bronze statue is made of 120 tons of steel and 80 tons of copper. The piece is the outer skin, and 300,000 rivets are assembled and fixed on the bracket, with a total weight of 225 tons.

Ander Smith on the statue, wearing a tuxedo, a top hat, and a suit and leather shoes, looks very much like the first generation of elites when the empire was founded.

In fact, Abel knows his own family affairs. He remembered that his ancestor was actually just a poor blacksmith in the beginning.

I owed a fart in Britain and couldn't repay the debt. In order to avoid the debt and find a way to survive, I boarded the Mayflower...

In the era when going to sea was almost a life-threatening, how could children from decent and wealthy European families risk their lives to come to North America?

Except for a few adventurers and careerists, the others who came here in those days were just people who couldn't survive in the old continent.

What shrubs, Mr. Luo, Dupont, and Rockefeller are all on that boat, and everyone is either a blacksmith or a miner, or a gardener or a gambler or a farmer...

Each of the 102 passengers on the ship has a name and a surname, which is recorded in the annals of history. Half of the passengers died within a year of their arrival in the harsh natural conditions of the New World. The one who got along the best at that time was the Winslow family. Edward Winslow was conferred by the British Empire and became the pioneer of the American colonies.

However, times have changed, and Winslow, who was good at that time, has long since disappeared from the crowd. He has been living as a doctor in Portsmouth, Massachusetts, and is no longer comparable to the others who were mediocre at the time but are now prominent.

But on the whole, apart from those who couldn't stand natural selection and died, the rest of the members of the Mayflower were undoubtedly very successful. In the United States, there are about 20 million people who have more or less the blood of the Mayflower crew at that time, and it has reached the fourteenth or fifteenth generation.

There's even an organization called the "Mayflower Society," descendants of those whose genealogical orthodoxy can be traced back.

But if you think about it, you will know that with a population base of 20 million people, even if it is one in a hundred, this organization will be like that. Today's association can be said to be just a mass organization, without the low-key luxury of a private club.

"Mayflower" has become more of a symbol used by blue blood nobles and bumblebee members to emphasize the nobility of their blood.

Such as shrubs, such as Rockefeller, and such as Smith now...

Therefore, as one of the passengers on the Mayflower that year, Ander Smith could of course become a bronze statue, almost standing on this land according to the cosplay of the Statue of Liberty.

Others are not qualified to gossip, because no matter what they say about Ander Smith, he is also one of the first pioneers to open up the empire.

Even if he was just a blacksmith at the time.