"After this time, I will definitely not expand in a short time. I must control myself." Sheffield vowed to stabilize his current business first.

"I believe in you, just like you can control your own hand!" Edith Rockefeller glanced down, pretending not to feel the numbness in her chest and turning a blind eye to the big hand that was causing trouble.

Sheffield pulled his hand back angrily. Just as he was about to find a reason for his actions, Edith Rockefeller pulled her hand back again. He heard the woman say, "I don't like people who give up halfway."

Regarding the new development of the tobacco industry, Sheffield dare not say that he is sure of winning, but he feels that cutting off a little cake is not a problem. First of all, there were no filter cigarettes in this era, although the filters in later generations were not made of cotton, but a kind of

Chemical fiber, but the earliest filtered cigarettes had cotton filters.

Cotton is as common as food to the southern states of the United States. Without cotton, the Civil War would not have been so easy to fight. Furthermore, Sheffield knew that hybrid cigarettes were coming out and they quickly became popular throughout the United States. Now,

I can’t say that hybrid cigarettes have not appeared, but they have certainly not been accepted by smokers across the United States. United Company has this channel to promote tobacco across the country.

The biggest advantages of hybrid cigarettes are their rich aroma and low tar content. However, Sheffield has never experienced it. Maybe it is not in line with the taste of the people of the Republic. In his previous life, he could only feel the strong smell of stinky feet. Now it is just

Just thinking about it makes me a little nervous.

The tobacco market in the Republic is basically dominated by flue-cured tobacco. Except for the flue-cured tobacco market in the Republic, there is only the British market. Because flue-cured tobacco was invented by the British, there is basically no other market to support it. Other markets are basically a mixture of the United States.

Type tobacco dominates the world.

Now Sheffield needs to mix it to see if it can match the blended tobaccos. Try it yourself first. If you get the familiar smell of stinky feet, it's basically the same.

As the new boss of United Tobacco, Sheffield brought Edith Rockefeller to Reno's tobacco factory to meet his new employees, to establish a relationship, and to ensure that all of them would be retained and their benefits would remain unchanged, so that everyone could

tobacco workers put aside their worries.

Edith Rockefeller watched this hypocritical man show how to win people's hearts in front of her. After leaving the factory, she whispered, "It's unusual to gain the love of the workers so quickly."

"I wish I could just restore slavery!" In front of Edith Rockefeller, Sheffield stopped pretending, showed off his cards, and directly restored his true nature as a slave owner, "For people like us, the so-called workers are essentially slaves.

.This is what the Roman Empire was like. Although the Roman Empire perished, in modern times, countries like ours will emerge as successors."

"Looking at it this way, other countries are not as powerful as Western civilization, and essentially do not have slavery?" Edith Rockefeller smiled and thought Sheffield was talking nonsense.

"Each civilization is different. If it weren't for the interference of the Industrial Revolution, who knows what they would have developed into? But now that the Industrial Revolution has appeared, people like me will appear in this world. Your Yankee company is not better than mine, it's just pretending

I am not my own slave owner, and I don't want to pretend." Sheffield said disapprovingly, "Those who learn from me live, and those who imitate me die. Other civilized countries that learn from European civilization will eventually hit a wall."

In Sheffield's previous life, the history textbooks had been revised a lot. Although there was a lively debate on the Internet, the ancestral graves of both groups had been dug up. The Kangxi and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty were no longer called the prosperous times. After all, although It was a stable period of history in an agricultural society, but compared with the world, just like the Tyrannosaurus rex before the meteorite fell from the sky, it would definitely not be able to withstand the great changes of the industrial revolution, and the situation would be very embarrassing.

Almost in the same year, the sprouts of capitalism were also deleted from textbooks. The sprouts of capitalism originally appeared in textbooks, and there were two opinions in favor and against. The groups that advocated the emergence of the sprouts of capitalism were also divided into those in the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties. Clearing out the two groups, this is the end, and the textbooks no longer talk about the emergence of capitalism.

This is fine. China's political environment similar to Europe has disappeared since the establishment of the Qin Dynasty. The standard centralized system must rely on the feudal lords of Europe. The development of capitalism in Europe must also prove that Europe has it. China It must have been posted upwards as well.

Not sticking to the European environment also proves that the republic's national strength has increased, and it no longer needs to write controversial content in textbooks to enhance national pride, and it has got rid of the influence of the West.

The only thing that still interests Sheffield is that the boasting points of the two dynasty fan groups have been shaved off, and how to tear them down in the future. It's a pity that he didn't see it and became a modern slave owner.

"I want to add a filter tip to the cigarettes. This shouldn't be a problem. As long as the raw material of the filter tip is cotton." After Sheffield visited the factory, he and Edith Rockefeller once again approached Reynolds, the former boss of the tobacco company, and proposed a new proposal. concept, he stressed, “technically it shouldn’t be a problem.”

The United States has long been very familiar with cotton processing. Whitney, who invented the cotton gin, was a key figure in helping the economic development of the southern states. However, Sheffield has absolutely no good impression of this person. He wishes this bastard could invent the cotton gin. He will die immediately after taking the machine.

Because he promoted another thing, the standardization of gun production. The cotton gin caused an industrial revolution in cotton production in the South of the United States. The standardization of guns benefited the North. All gun parts were changed and changed to a unified style. Standard parts of a unified standard must meet the dimensions before they can be assembled together, and any normal person, with a little training, can master them quickly and with high efficiency.

The gun production capacity of the United States was several miles ahead of other countries. The most skilled technicians in the British Empire, the world hegemon at that time, could only produce at most two guns a day, while an ordinary worker in the United States could successfully complete 50 guns a day. Production of guns.

The final result was that Whitney's cotton gin allowed the economies of the southern states to take off, and his standardized gun manufacturing allowed the industrial-oriented Yankees in the north to rob the southern states.

"Okay, I'll give it a try right away!" Renault agreed happily, feeling that Sheffield's idea was very novel, "Is it for better packaging?"

People in this era did not have the concept that smoking was harmful to health. Renault just felt that Sheffield was just for better packaging to make tobacco easier to sell.

"I am doing this all for the sake of the health of the citizens. We should not only have the satisfaction of cigarettes, but also be healthy." Sheffield lied seriously. Whether filter cigarettes are healthier, this question completely depends on the smoker. Thinking this is healthier, if the person believes in his heart that it is healthy, then there is no problem.

You can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep. A senior smoker fully meets all the generalizations of this sentence. He can always find an excuse to comfort himself that he must be fine.

After adding filters, Sheffield also asked Renault to produce a new slimmer cigarette, also with filters, focusing on the female market. As a person who advocates gender equality, he cannot just focus on men's hobbies and ignore women's cigarettes.

Putting it aside, since men and women are equal, tobacco should be launched mainly for the female market.

This proposal aroused opposition from Renault. He believed that this move would definitely fail. The market for women was too small and might affect profits. Sheffield persuaded, "There are now more than 80 million people in the United States, and women account for half. We don't want to

You may ignore the market brought by nearly half of the people. If you think of this and prepare early, the investment is worth it, and the upfront investment cannot be saved."

One hundred years later, it is the women who maintain the majesty of the tobacco market in the United States. In terms of numbers, the Republic has long surpassed the United States, but half of the women in the United States smoke, maintaining the majesty of the American tobacco companies.

Adding filters to men's cigarettes and opening up the women's market was the first thing Sheffield did after acquiring Reynolds Tobacco Company. At the same time, Reynolds began to experiment with various types of tobacco and prepare mixed cigarettes. Once the experiment was successful, it

Put a lot of money into the market.

As for the cigarettes that are currently backlogged at Reynolds Tobacco Company, Sheffield has already sent a telegram to the headquarters of the supermarket chain and sold them through the supermarket chain channels, even taking price reduction measures. He also believes that he can acquire Reynolds Tobacco Company and quickly reduce the price.

This move will definitely receive immediate feedback from the market and let other tobacco companies know that a new player has entered the tobacco field.

In this way, Sheffield's next round of tobacco mergers and acquisitions that will be launched soon may be much smoother, because he has opened a gap from Reynolds Tobacco Company and has already entered the market. If other small and medium-sized tobacco companies do not agree,

He can definitely start a price war first and clear the market in the tobacco field.

By squeezing out the profits of other companies, I believe that negotiations will be much easier by then. This year Sheffield has not had a year in a row, but only took the time to send an email to Anne, Evelyn and Natalia in Arlington.

He sent a telegram to express his apology, and then continued to conduct inspections in tobacco growing areas in southern states.

During this period, the news about United Company's acquisition of Reynolds Tobacco Company has spread. Small and medium-sized enterprises in the entire tobacco industry are facing a powerful enemy and lamenting that the wolf is coming. They don't know what their ultimate fate will be, whether they will be merged or squeezed out.
Chapter completed!