Indian warriors with bird feathers on their heads, long black hair, Indian-style leather jackets and leather pants escorted more than a dozen carriages full of goods all the way from Missouri to New York.
It only took Chen Mo ten minutes to fly in his Iron Man Armor, but they walked for nearly ten days.
Along the way, it was not that no one had any ideas about them. However, in the face of the Native American warriors, whose weapons and equipment were more sophisticated than the army, and whose combat awareness was even stronger, after wiping out a few armed groups that looked down on them because they were Native Americans, they arrived in New York smoothly.
When they first entered New York, this special team also caused a sensation. Fortunately, they went directly to the central area of Manhattan belonging to Chen Mo. Only the people in Chen Mo's farm saw them. Otherwise, it is estimated that even the police would have been alarmed. After all, a heavily armed Indian team appearing in the city will still cause a lot of commotion.
In this way, the news of this Indian team quickly spread throughout New York, and John Jacob Astor finally knew who was against him!
However, he gradually couldn't see through Chen Mo.
In the beginning, this rich Chinese man had a large number of land in the remote suburbs of the northern part of New York City and was laughed at by these people. However, as Brooklyn was also taken down by him, he has become the largest landlord around New York. Although it is only some suburban land, it has already made many people whisper in their hearts.
However, no matter how they think about it, they can't guess Chen Mo's intentions. These lands can't be developed for decades. What's the point of buying them at this time? Instead of changing the money into these remote lands that won't yield much for a long time, it's better to invest the money in the urban real estate and financial fields. As long as they operate well, they can quickly multiply.
However, although they don't understand, no one calls him an idiot anymore. In any case, these assets are real. Even if he doesn't do anything, doesn't carry out any commercial operations, and just keeps these lands, his assets have surpassed most people in New York.
When a person who is similar to you or even worse than you does something you don't understand, people will laugh at him, but when a person who is much better than you does the same thing, no one will laugh at him.
However, compared to Chen Mo's intention to buy these remote lands, John Jacob Astor was more curious about how he subdued the rebellious Indian tribes. Even if he has been operating in the Missouri area for so many years, he only monopolized the trade with the Indians, so they could only trade with him and be oppressed and exploited by him. It was impossible to subdue and order them to do things for him.
He didn't even dare to exchange firearms and other weapons with these Indians because he was worried that they would resist him and threaten his rule in the Missouri area.
However, Chen Mo, a seemingly conservative, short-sighted Chinese tycoon who only knew how to hoard land blindly, was able to subdue them and take these arrogant Native Americans for his own use, breaking his monopoly in the Missouri region. This made John Jacob Astor have a higher opinion of Chen Mo. It seemed that this Chinese tycoon was not as simple as they had thought!
However, he wouldn't let it go just like that!
So what if he subdued the Indian tribes? These barbaric and backward Indians were just beasts that could talk. They weren't even citizens of the United States and weren't protected by the law. It wouldn't be a problem even if he killed them all.
If it weren't for the fact that he needed these savages who were good at hunting to provide him with precious furs, he would have already used his powerful armed forces to slaughter all these disobedient savages.
Compared to the armed personnel of the American fur company who possessed advanced firearms, the Native Americans who still used bows and spears as weapons were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of firepower even though they had higher combat literacy and were more fearless of death. They were no match for these armed personnel at all.
So what if these Indians subdued by Chen Mo had firearms? Once they were out of the forest, John Jacob Astor had his own way of dealing with them. He was more concerned about Chen Mo!
Previously, he didn't know who was fighting with him for control of the Missouri area, so he was always in a passive position. Now that he knew that it was Chen Mo who was dealing with him, John Jacob Astor wasn't worried anymore.
If Chen Mo had been hiding behind the scenes, carefully hiding himself, and didn't let the Indians transport furs to his land with such great fanfare, John Jacob Astor wouldn't have been able to find out that it was him and couldn't do anything to him.
It was a pity that this rich man from the Huaxia area was either arrogant or brainless. He actually exposed himself so easily.
Now that he had found the real culprit, things were easy to handle. His armed personnel in the Missouri forest were no match for Chen Mo's men and the Indians who had firearms. He had no choice but to let them develop. At most, he could only shrink his forces and increase the number of people in each purchasing team.
But in New York, his base camp that he had operated for decades, it was easy to deal with Chen Mo, an outsider without any foundation!
Over the years, he didn't care much about the business in Missouri and completely handed it over to his men to take care of. He had been staying in New York and developing in the fields of real estate, finance, mining, and industry. He seemed to have forgotten his barbaric and fierce past. As a self-proclaimed civilized businessman, he didn't plan to use force against Chen Mo for the time being. Instead, he planned to use his best "business means" to deal with Chen Mo, an outsider, and show off his means as the richest man in the United States!
After some investigation, he basically figured out Chen Mo's actions after he came to New York. He learned that Chen Mo hired top talents from various industries with high salaries and formed a private team to take care of business matters for him. John Jacob Astor smiled disdainfully.
"This bumpkin from Huaxia has some brains, he knows to hire professionals to serve him."
John Jacob Astor raised his right hand, put the thick Cuban cigar between his fingers into his mouth and took a light puff. He slowly exhaled a puff of smoke and said with contempt.
"But this is the United States, the United States where money is supreme! You're still too inexperienced to fight with me! "
John Jacob Astor discovered that there was a fatal flaw in Chen Mo, and that was this private business team.
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