In other words, Chen Mo didn't have to use the technology in his hands to earn benefits and develop his forces. Instead, he could take the benefits and forces that originally belonged to others as his own by robbing them of their opportunities in advance.
Of course, only a super genius like Chen Mo, who had an extremely developed brain and was familiar with the modern history of the United States, could do this.
Chen Mo's acquisition of land in the central and northern part of Manhattan was based on his foresight, which allowed him to lay out his plans decades in advance. And this was only the beginning.
Now, nearly half of the funds he brought from the dimension had been consumed, but Chen Mo was not in a hurry to continue the acquisition of other land around New York, because those areas were not officially incorporated into New York City until 1898 and became one of the five boroughs of New York. There were still more than 50 years until now, and Chen Mo had plenty of time to slowly acquire them.
On the other hand, Manhattan would develop very quickly in the future. Chen Mo had to take action early, before the development plan for Manhattan was out and before anyone realized its value, he had to get his hands on it.
In addition to the future midtown and uptown areas of Manhattan, Chen Mo also spent a lot of money to buy a lot of land in the undeveloped areas of Lower Manhattan. Although the area of these lands was far less than the areas in the north that were not valued, the money spent was more than the purchase of the northern area. Of course, the returns they could bring to Chen Mo in the short term were also huge. However, Chen Mo had no intention of selling them. After stopping the acquisition of other areas of New York outside of Manhattan, he continued to use the remaining funds to purchase the expensive land in the undeveloped areas of Lower Manhattan.
However, Chen Mo had entrusted these matters to a team of lawyers, accountants, and other professionals with good professional ethics to take care of these matters.
With Chen Mo's super perceptive ability that was almost comparable to mind-reading, no one with bad intentions or morals would be able to escape his precise perception. With enough money, it would be easy to select qualified people from the many applicants and form a team of professionals that would serve him and be worthy of his trust.
He temporarily put aside the acquisition of land and shifted his focus to the layout of the new industry.
The funds in the dimension would be exhausted sooner or later, so he had to establish a new source of funds to support the layout of the future plans. However, he couldn't change the development of technology at will and take out more advanced technology to make a profit. Therefore, the high-profit industries in the United States were Chen Mo's first choice.
My technology can't be used to make money, but I can take it from you.
No matter what industry was profitable, Chen Mo could directly intervene and snatch the cake from other businessmen who were making a lot of money!
According to Chen Mo's memory, the most profitable industry in the United States at this time was actually not real estate or arms, but a business that many people who didn't know the inside story or looked down on................
High-grade fur was also a luxury item in the future, but in this era, only the upper echelons of society had the qualifications and ability to own it.
Precious furs were expensive and were a symbol of one's identity and status.
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The fanatical pursuit of fur was no less than the modern people's passion for luxury cars and watches.
Especially in Europe.
Europeans' love for fur was deep in their bones. As early as the 1430s, the British Royal Family stipulated that only aristocrats could wear fur. Just like China's white porcelain was considered a luxury in Europe during the Middle Ages, the European Royal Family saw wearing fur as a symbol of noble status. Today, the craze for fur didn't weaken at all. Instead, with the development of capitalism, it spread to the bourgeoisie who held a lot of wealth, and the demand for fur grew bigger and bigger.
The United States, which hadn't been developed much, was covered with mountains and forests, and was rich in wildlife resources, and had an extremely rich production of fur.
As early as the European colonization period, Europeans who set foot on the American continent began to use materials such as felt, firearms, and brandy to exchange for fur with the native Indians who lived in the mountains and forests and who hunted for a living.
To the Europeans, living materials were very common, but to the primitive and backward Indians, they were extremely precious. To them, it couldn't be better if they could use some of their hunting by-products to exchange for useful things that they couldn't produce themselves.
This kind of barter, where cheap utensils, knives, cloth, liquor and other daily necessities were exchanged for expensive furs from the Native Americans, had been going on until now. Gradually, it was monopolized by some families and large companies using force.
They exchanged fur from the Indians at a low cost. After processing, they were shipped to Europe or directly sold in the United States. A beaver fur could increase the value by at least 1000%, or even more than 200 times the profit.
Chen Mo's target this time was one of these businessmen who monopolized the fur trade.
John Jacob Astor was a German-born American businessman who mainly engaged in the fur trade and investment in real estate. He was the first multimillionaire in the United States, and at the same time, the richest man in the United States. He now lived in New York and owned a lot of land in the area that had yet to be developed. His sudden wealth relied on the barbaric monopoly of the fur trade with the Indian tribes.
John Jacob Astor originally intended to obtain a monopoly of the fur trade in the Northwest region. However, there was already the powerful Rocky Mountain Fur Company, which completely monopolized the fur trade in the Northwest region. The foreign John Jacob Astor tried once, but in the end, he couldn't succeed in breaking in.
After his plan was thwarted, John Jacob Astor focused his efforts on the vast area that extended along the Missouri River valley, where a large number of Indian tribes lived.
In order to complete the monopoly of the fur trade in this area, John Jacob Astor could be said to be unscrupulous. He established the American Fur Company, and by means of deception, and even using force, he obtained a complete monopoly in this area, just like the feudal nobles in the past monopolized their estates.
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