In the context of the economic crisis, the amount of land in Li Mu has increased instead of decreasing. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The incident at Amis's Mobile Credit Company triggered a crisis of confidence in the North Pacific Railroad, which eventually led to the bankruptcy of Jay Cook's financial company, which led to the economic crisis of 1873.

The outbreak of the economic crisis in 1873 had his deep-seated reasons and inevitability, even if the Mobile Credit Company did not have problems, it would be detonated by other events, which had little to do with Li Mu.

What the economic crisis has brought to the United States remains to be verified, but for now, Li Mu's horse investment company is the most profitable.

In the frenzy of railway development more than 10 years ago, in order to attract private investment, the US government donated 30 kilometers of land on both sides of the railway line to individuals free of charge, and the North Pacific Railroad Company took advantage of this major advantage, after the construction of the Pacific Railroad, owned nearly 40 million acres of land, of which nearly 7 million acres had fallen into Li Mu's name, and the other 32 million acres of land were taken out by the North Pacific Railroad Company to pay off debts.

When the North Pacific Railroad was forced to take out land to pay off its debts, Wall Street was in a state of mourning, with commercial companies declaring bankruptcy every day, securities companies announcing bankruptcy every month, and countless people lining up to jump from the tallest building in Manhattan.

Let's put it this way, if you take a map of the world and go to Manhattan and ask any pedestrian to find out where they are in Illinois, half of them will be able to point you to Australia.

That's right, the geography of the United States is so bad, and their math is the same.

Li Mu naturally will not let go of this opportunity, when an acre of land is only fifty cents in the market, the horse investment company began to eat, unlimited amounts, as many as you want, all paid in cash.

By November, Horse Investment had acquired more than 5 million acres of land on the market, the size of 20,000 square kilometers.

If we add the 7 million acres of land that Li Mu had previously acquired, the amount of land in Li Mu's hands has exceeded 12 million acres, with a total area of more than 48,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to 19,000 square miles.

How big is 19,000 square miles?

Li Mu's Massachusetts state covers an area of about 7,800 square miles, and Li Mu's private land is nearly the size of four Massachusetts.

So far, Li Mu can proudly say that not to mention whether Li Mu has become the richest man in the United States, Li Mu is already the leading rancher in the United States.

As far as the United States as a whole is concerned, no one owns more land than Li Mu.

There is so much land, it must be cultivated, and at this time there is no agricultural machinery in the United States, and manpower is needed to cultivate the land, especially to open up the wasteland, which is definitely hard work, even if Li Mu gets all the Chinese in the United States to Illinois and Indiana to farm, it is only a drop in the bucket, and each of them needs to cultivate eighty acres, which is equivalent to four hundred and eighty acres.

In the days when there were no agricultural machinery, this was a desperate number.

Therefore, there is a team in the Junma laboratory is a power research group, and they strive to complete the design of the engine as soon as possible, which is not only Li Mu's personal need, but also the urgent need of agriculture.

Before Christmas 1873, as long as the engine design was completed, Li Mu would give a reward of $10,000 for each day in advance.

In order to receive the reward, the new dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Franklin, has moved to live in the laboratory, vowing not to shower, not to cut hair, not to shave.

Well, Americans have a relatively large body odor, so the smell of the laboratory can be imagined.

At the Kuobin Reservoir, Li Mu inspected the ongoing construction of the reservoir.

This is relatively simple, when the Horse Weapons Company built the factory, in order to prevent waterproofing and flood control, the banks of the Connecticut River were reinforced, so some of the workers of the Horse Weapons Company have construction experience.

Compared with the time of the construction of the Horse Arms Company, there are now more people and more experience, so the progress is very fast, and in half a year, the dredging of the bottom of the lake has been completed, which greatly exceeds the expectations of the designers hired by the Springfield government, according to the designers, if the same number of Irish people are allowed to carry out the work, they may be able to catch up with the current progress by this time next year.

In other words, the Chinese were three times more efficient than the Irish.

If you don't speed up the progress, Li Mu pays the workers $30 per person per month, there are more than 30,000 workers on the construction site, and the monthly salary is more than $900,000, plus other food, drink, and Lazar, it is easy to exceed $1 million a month, so it seems that the 15 million paid by the Springfield government is quite a lot, but in fact, it is really not enough to use it for the project.

For a project like the Kuobin Reservoir, the construction cycle in the United States is generally calculated in years, so when Amis handed over the Kuobin Reservoir project to Li Mu, he did not mean to dig a pit for Li Mu, but the sky is not as good as the human calculation, Li Mu has not fallen into the pit, and Amis died first.

It's really embarrassing that the world is impermanent.

Rao is like this, Li Mu is still unwilling: "Go to Mr. Bruce Motley, we need additional investment." ”

If it goes on like this, let alone making money, it will be lucky not to fold the old capital into it, Li Mu doesn't want to work thanklessly.

"It's been done, but Bruce Mottley says the Springfield government can't afford to add it right now." Sidney Johnny had no choice but to spread his hands.

The amount of money needed to build a reservoir is too much, beyond the limits of Springfield's capacity alone, and Bruce Motley didn't refuse, he didn't dare to refuse, he really couldn't do anything about it.

"Okay, I'll take care of that." Li Mu took the job over and said that he couldn't go to Boston.

Boston is the seat of the state capital of Massachusetts, and since the construction of the Broadside Reservoir is beyond the responsibility of the Springfield city government, the state government needs to lend a hand, and Runkel is the new senator of Massachusetts, and Li Mu is not without acquaintances in the state capital.

Li Mu also went to the workers' dormitory area, rest area and entertainment area, and had a meal with the technicians on the construction site before returning to Springfield.

On the way back, Ford Benjamin and Li Mu rode in a horse-drawn carriage.

Ford Benjamin is considered to be Li Mu's descendant, and when Changjie was attacked, Ford Benjamin was also wounded in several places, and he personally sent away the Amis family, thus winning Li Mu's trust.

Although Ford Benjamin did not go to Cuba with Li Mu, Li Mu did not treat Ford Benjamin badly, Li Mu gave Ford Benjamin a ranch in the Kuobin Reservoir, and then arranged for Ford Benjamin's two younger brothers to work in the Horse Investment Company, and at the same time Ford Benjamin also has a part of the shares of the Horse Weapons Company, although it is the kind that cannot be transferred, but the annual dividends are enough to be envied.

That's right, the Horse Arms Company has not yet reached the profit period, but this does not affect the dividends of the Horse Weapons Company, close to Christmas, Li Mu is not stingy, and takes out one million US dollars as the dividend of the Horse Weapons Company this year, Will, Zhang Leye, Cao Anran, Chard, who is now the chief of the Springfield City Police, Bresta who serves as Will's adjutant, and Ford Benjamin, etc., they are all eligible to participate in the dividends, each can get at least five thousand dollars.

That's $5,000 in 1873, and $5,000 at the time of the economic crisis.

"In the six months that you were away, something happened in Springfield, in August, because there were no white workers on the Broadside Reservoir, there were people in Springfield who gathered to make trouble, white supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan had a special fight, the police department and the rifle association all helped a lot, two policemen were killed in the course of the operation, four militiamen were wounded, they all got their due pensions, and their families were well cared for, and no one in Springfield dared to say anything about the Broadside Reservoir at the moment, but on the whole it was not optimistic, you knowIn times of economic crisis, there are always some people who are unlucky, and those who are unlucky do not look for problems in themselves, but habitually take out their anger on others, just two months ago, a Chinese exclusion movement broke out in San Francisco, when eight Chinese were murdered -- "Ford Benjamin reported the dark side news that has happened in the past six months.

Ford Benjamin is Li Mu's secret son who stayed in Springfield, although Li Mu is in Cuba, he will not relax his surveillance of Springfield, some things are not suitable for Zhang Leye and they come forward, Ford Benjamin specializes in this kind of dirty work.

So far, Ford Benjamin is doing a good job.

"San Francisco – How did the local government deal with it?" Li Mu's business has not yet expanded to the West Coast, although San Francisco is a transit point for Li Mu's immigrants from the Qing Empire, but there are people from the Horse Investment Company to take care of them, and the safety of the immigrants does not need to be worried.

The ability of the company is still limited, and it is already stretched to take care of these new immigrants, and it is not able to take care of the old immigrants who have settled in San Francisco, and those old immigrants have become the target of some "racists".

"It's not good, the local government and the police department didn't do much, they did almost nothing on the day of the riot in San Francisco, and only symbolically arrested a few people for several days after the incident, but they were all released within a few days because of lack of evidence." Ford Benjamin had no superfluous expression on his face, nor did he mean to observe Li Mu's reaction, so he spoke in an almost declarative tone.

"There's no proof - hehe, good!" The anger in Li Mu's heart immediately surged up, does this kind of thing need evidence?

For Li Mu, there is really no need.