"He wants to explore for stones in Texas?" Annabel asked calmly, "Is there no other purpose?"

"Not yet. Standard Oil Company is looking for new oil areas. I don't know their purpose. But it's not surprising when you think about it. It would be a bit unrealistic for us to cap it." Isabella bit her lip and asked.

, “Should we reject them?”

"That's not necessary, it's not here yet, so don't worry!" Annabelle said calmly, "Maybe it's just a casual exploration. Rockefeller wants to replicate in Texas the feat of engulfing the oil industry in Ohio and Pennsylvania, but we

Home is not like a small workshop where he cannot harvest at will."

"I hope so!" Isabella exhaled softly, "In the past twenty years, the South has really been pushed further and further away."

"Hmph!" Annabel snorted softly, "Girl Yang deliberately widened the gap between the north and the south through war. Before you were born, we were no worse than the north in terms of the number of rich people alone, but the industrial development was really

It's much better than a plantation. A deserter from the Civil War, a bastard who took the opportunity to hoard food, became an oil tycoon."

Before the Civil War, in order to avoid military service, Rockefeller pretended to be ill. He couldn't pretend anymore, so he spent money to find a substitute. Before the war broke out, Rockefeller did his best to invest all the money he could and hoard large quantities of grain, salt, ham, and cotton.

Coal and other strategic materials. As the war expanded, crops failed, prices of agricultural products and other daily necessities soared, and orders came to him like snowflakes. Only he knew how much money Rockefeller made.

Rockefeller was actually very concerned about the Civil War. His office was like the Army General Staff. Rockefeller spent money to buy a large map of the United States and hung it on the wall, with the latest war reports from Washington marked in yellow and red. Rockefeller was like a general.

, often talking about the current situation while looking at the map. More people believe that the locations marked by Rockefeller on the map are actually his business outlets: the yellow labels represent grains and the red labels represent ham. The so-called war situation map

, is actually a commercial attack map.

"Many plantation owners went to Brazil after the war. Although our family was a little isolated, it also lost a lot of competitors in the south." Annabelle was obviously more calm and leisurely than her daughter. She comforted her somewhat nervous daughter and said,

"Girl Yang just has a lot of people. Our family can compete with any single family, so don't be nervous."

The current dominance of the Sheffield family is actually the result of the Civil War. Before that, there were actually many planters of the same level. The Sheffield family was not the largest planter in Louisiana. But after the Mexican War

Afterwards, Edward Sheffield, who successfully inherited the family business, defied all opposition and moved his family to Texas, focusing on the wider land in Texas, which led to the current result.

"Don't worry, just wait for them to come to your door!" Annabel said slowly, a little tired after a day out, "If it's just domestic, the Yang guys are better than ours, but if it's not limited to domestic, we

We are not weaker than anyone else. We might as well worry about DuPont, as they have business conflicts with us."

This business conflict lies in gunpowder and firearms. The DuPont family mainly deals in gunpowder, which is exactly the business run by the Sheffield family. Compared with the DuPont family, Sheffield is a latecomer and provided arms to the Union Army during the Civil War.

Compared with the DuPont family who sold Louisiana to the United States, this seems a little lacking in background.

Because of the French Revolution, after Dupont arrived in the United States, Pierre repeated his old plan and produced gunpowder in the United States. After all, the United States was different from France. Although Pierre was familiar with many American officials, he always had trouble getting things done.

The Pierres and their sons had the idea of ​​​​the U.S. government. Irre Dupont suggested to his father that he should make suggestions to the then President Jefferson to purchase Louisiana, the French territory in the Americas.

Jefferson actually thought about purchasing French Louisiana as early as a year ago, because at this time the United States actually occupied New Orleans, and the sovereignty of New Orleans belonged to France. In order to keep New Orleans, purchasing Louisiana was the best way.

However, the French government does not seem to be interested in the U.S. proposal, or France cannot accept the conditions offered by the United States.

After Pierre got involved, Jefferson was very happy. He immediately appointed Pierre as the plenipotentiary for the purchase of French Louisiana, and negotiated with Napoleon on behalf of the United States. Finally, France agreed to sell Louisiana to the United States, and the French Empire was

How important is Louisiana? After the United States purchased it, it was roughly divided into fourteen states, covering an area of ​​about two million square kilometers, which was equivalent to the area of ​​the United States at that time and one-fifth of the area of ​​the United States today.

More.

But a Civil War changed this situation. The Civil War changed the situation of the United States. After all, only the Texas Regiment was well preserved in the southern states. The accident of the Regiment was a conditional surrender. It gave the southern residents a psychological comfort. This

Only then did we have a place in domestic chemical raw materials.

It's just that the United States has not been fighting any wars recently. When it comes to explosives and firearms, both companies are having a hard time, so the competition is not so fierce. However, both companies are also undergoing transformation, and the competition has expanded to other chemical fields.

Sheffield, who has been in seclusion for several days in a row, is still preparing for his graduation. Graduating from college is a trivial matter. From now on, if he does not go to college for a day, he can still get his diploma. After all, in this Gilded Age, it is not real gold.

Beneath the gilded exterior, the chaos behind the scenes is also shocking.

To put it simply, it is the brutal expansion of capital, so there is a lack of order, and many things are illegal. This has led to a lowering of the threshold for accepting bribes. In future generations, if a person wants to carry out some secret operations, he must bribe the entire board of directors, or even the university.

Only after all the senior officials and everyone agree can Sheffield graduate from a higher education institution in the United States without any knowledge or skills. This cost is not something ordinary people can afford.

The current lack of order has led to a lower threshold for accepting bribes. Many universities in the United States can graduate openly as long as they get through some key figures. Without supervision, they will inevitably become emboldened.

This is such a bastard era. Even an ordinary citizen can obtain benefits openly, as long as he stuffs money. It is different when there is order. At that time, ordinary people did not have the financial resources to bribe, and ordinary people were deprived of their right to bribe.

Only I can pay bribes, so there will be order.
Chapter completed!