Easy Tycoon

Chapter 655
At that time, Pierre Dupont and his youngest son Irene Dupont established the Dupont family gunpowder factory in Wilmington, Delaware. At the same time, Pierre prompted the US government to purchase French Louisiana. Let the DuPont family establish their position in the United States, and also allow the DuPont family's gunpowder company to develop rapidly.

After nearly a century of development, the gunpowder factory of the DuPont family has grown extremely large, especially when Eugene DuPont, the fourth leader of the DuPont family, was in charge of the DuPont family. The entire American gunpowder market has been completely monopolized by the DuPont family. up.At the same time, Eugene also made the business of the DuPont family to the whole world, becoming one of the largest gunpowder manufacturers in the world.But Eugene is not satisfied, he has greater ideals.When Eugene wanted to further expand his business, he encountered a very real problem. At that time, the constitution of Delaware did not allow the existence of the large enterprise he wanted to establish.

Because the United States is a federal country, in addition to the federal constitution of the United States, each state also has its own state constitution, and even the state constitution has higher power than the federal constitution in some areas.At that time, Delaware's state constitution had such provisions similar to the "Anti-Monopoly Law" that appeared later.

The existence of this statute in the state constitution has greatly restricted the development of the DuPont family. If the state constitution does not change this statute, then the DuPont family will not want to continue to expand.

And as the helm of the DuPont family, how could the ambitious Eugene sit back and watch this happen?So Eugene mobilized all the forces in the family and began to lobby the state legislators to persuade them to agree to amend the constitution.Soon after, the DuPont family manipulated the state assembly to amend Delaware's state constitution, and finally made the DuPont family the second "trust" in the United States.

As a businessman, it might not be difficult to manipulate a state to amend the state constitution in this modern era, but at that time, it was almost impossible. The Rockefeller family did not do this either, and the Mellon family, who served as the Treasury Secretary of the United States for three consecutive terms, did not do this kind of thing, but the DuPont family did it. This shows that DuPont What a powerful family background.

As for another major event that the DuPont family did, it is even more impressive.

As we all know, one of the most important reasons why the little devils surrendered in World War II was the two mushroom bombs "Fat Man" and "Little Boy".

During World War II, although the little devils retreated steadily on the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese government at that time had no intention of surrendering, and they even made a military plan to resist the US military at home.In fact, the U.S. military fought very hard in the Pacific War, especially the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima. It can no longer be described as simple hard work. "Tragic" is the most appropriate description of those wars.

And the reason why those tragic battles were fought so fiercely was because the little devil resisted desperately because he saw that the US military was about to hit his homeland.It is conceivable that if the US military really reaches the Japanese mainland, the price paid by the US military will be even greater.

However, with the aggressiveness of the Americans, if the price paid is too high, then they may not land on the Japanese mainland, and the final result of the Pacific War may be another result.

The Japanese were already prepared to resist the U.S. military at home, but two mushroom bombs that made it impossible for the Japanese to resist completely destroyed the confidence of the Japanese to resist, which finally led to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese emperor.

At that time, the DuPont family played an extremely important role in the development of the "Manhattan Project" of mushroom bombs. In some ways, the entire "Manhattan Project" was actually dominated by the DuPont family.

During World War II, Germany was the first country to develop mushroom bombs, but it never succeeded.Under the impetus of the great physicist Einstein, the United States and the United Kingdom decided to quickly carry out related research and development, and strive to develop it before it is manufactured in Germany.President Roosevelt of the United States thought of the DuPont family, so he threw a series of burdens on them.

Hanford, the largest factory used in the development of mushroom bombs, is owned by the DuPont family. Almost all R&D and manufacturing processes are completed in this factory, and Greenwalt, the director of DuPont's laboratory, is also a director of the "Manhattan Project".

At that time, the DuPont Group was an agent of the U.S. government. Members of the U.S. Congress could not go in if they wanted to investigate the Manhattan Project. In addition to the high confidentiality, another important reason was that DuPont managers liked to be quiet.In the end, through the efforts of Greenwall and others, the United States successfully carried out its first nuclear test explosion. ,

Although the patent of the mushroom bomb belongs to the US government, the knowledge generated during the entire R&D and manufacturing process belongs to the DuPont family.

From doubling the territory of the United States, to a company being able to operate the state legislature to amend the constitution, to actually leading the development of the first mushroom bomb in the United States and the world, as long as other families can do one of these three things, It is enough to make a name in the business world. The DuPont family has actually made three pieces, and it can be said that there are very few families in the world who can stand shoulder to shoulder with it.

This shows the profound heritage of the DuPont family.

It is obviously not a wise thing to go against a family with such a rich background, and Yang Jing has no doubts about it.Even if the Dragon Fund controlled by Yang Jing now has more funds than the DuPont family, Yang Jing would definitely not do such a stupid thing to turn against such a family for no reason.

And if the handwritten materials of the fifth-generation helm of the DuPont family that I found were handed over to the DuPont family, it would obviously be a good thing to quickly close the relationship with this family.

So when Yang Jing came out of the basement with a box of materials, notes and manuscripts, he immediately asked Butler Seldon to contact the Dupont family.

Butler Seldon, who had met Alfred before, was also very excited when he saw these manuscripts and materials.He also did not expect that there are so many precious manuscripts in the basement that has not been visited by anyone for decades.

These manuscripts are not very valuable to outsiders, but they are absolutely irreplaceably important to the DuPont family.As the old steward of Alfred Manor, Seldon naturally hoped that these manuscripts could be completely returned to the Dupont family.

Yang Jing would not handle these matters in person, with the old butler, Seldon, Yang Jing could completely let go of such matters.

His current main energy has been absorbed by the two notebooks found in the basement.
These two notebooks are definitely old objects, and judging from the handwriting and recorded content inside, these two notebooks are obviously Alfred's own notes.

The reason why Yang Jing left these two notebooks alone and did not return them to the DuPont family along with Alfred's manuscript materials is because Yang Jing noticed from the contents recorded in these two notebooks that Out of a few different places.

Just because some of the things recorded in these two notebooks are very fragmentary, Yang Jing couldn't figure out what was recorded in these two notebooks for a while, but what is certain is that these two notebooks definitely did not record anything. Alfred has manuscripts on gunpowder technology, but it is more like a travel notebook, because it contains a lot of place names and some book titles, and of course, there are more numbers that Yang Jing can't understand .

After seeing the contents of these two notebooks, Yang Jing instinctively thought that he should keep these two notebooks, so he ambiguously kept these two notebooks.

The reason for having this intuition, besides the incomprehensible things recorded in the notebook, is more because of Alfred's experience.

Alfred, as the head of the "Three Zhongxing Brothers" who led the DuPont family to rediscover their glory in the early [-]th century, actually did not live a very satisfactory life in the second half of his life.

In 1902, Eugene DuPont, the fourth-generation helm of the DuPont family, died of illness suddenly, which led to the huge DuPont family suddenly being without a leader, and because Eugene expanded too fast when he was alive, this made the DuPont family very concerned about the family’s core business, the Gunpowder Company. If Eugene is alive, then the DuPont family will naturally not worry about others occupying the magpie's nest, but Eugene's sudden death immediately caused confusion among the old directors of the DuPont family in the DuPont Group's board of directors hands and feet.

Because most of these old directors are very old, no one is willing to stand up and take over DuPont Group. Some directors even proposed to sell DuPont Group to DuPont Group's biggest competitor, Laughlin Rand Company.

But as the only young man on the board of directors, that is, Alfred Irene Dupont, the great-grandson of Irene Dupont, quit.Cubs can't sell their father's fields like this, can they?Not to mention selling DuPont to its biggest competitor of all time, this is simply blasphemy to the ancestors.

So Alfred suggested that he and his two cousins ​​jointly take over the Dupont family.

These three brothers did not disappoint the foundation of their ancestors. Under the care of the three of them, the DuPont family prospered again, and it only took seven years for the DuPont family to become a giant again.This is also the fundamental reason why Alfred and his two cousins ​​are known as the "Three DuPont Family ZTE Brothers".

It's just that although the three brothers brought the DuPont family back on the right track, it is inevitable that this ancient family will "share adversity but not prosperity".Alfred's two cousins ​​later began to use various means to seize the power that should have belonged to Alfred, and drove Alfred out of the power center of the three.

The incident of brothers fighting against the wall happened in the DuPont family, and finally ended with Alfred being touched by the center of power.

This is also the fundamental reason why Alfred built such a manor on the remote Grand Island in 1918, and then concentrated on doing experiments here.

Alfred is quite like his great-grandfather Irene, with a penchant for technology.But it was precisely because of his obsession with technology that he ignored the betrayal of the closest people around him.He was finally driven here to retire and do experiments, which is actually a kind of unavoidable sadness.

It's just that the things recorded in the two notebooks obviously have nothing to do with the gunpowder experiment, so what secrets are hidden in these two notebooks?

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