After completing the initial layout of New York, Chen Mo began to set his sights on the undeveloped western part of the United States. He purchased a large amount of land in these areas, built large ranches that covered vast areas, and recruited a large number of cowboys to work for him.
However, at the same time, Chen Mo did not abandon the fur trade. After John Jacob Astor was destroyed, the American Fur Company quickly disappeared. The Lakota tribe completely controlled the fur trade in the Missouri region. They walked out of the forest and gradually expanded the scope of the fur trade to the entire Missouri River and even the Mississippi River basin.
At the same time, with Viktor and James' extraordinary strength and the constant propaganda of the Lakota tribesmen, Chen Mo's identity gradually became a myth. Many Native American tribes in the Missouri region also gradually accepted this theory under the influence of the many legends and the increasing number of people who witnessed the magical abilities of Viktor and James with their own eyes. They respected Chen Mo, who had the same skin color as them but was very mysterious and powerful, as if he was a god.
In addition, the Lakota tribe had now received a large number of advanced firearms from Chen Mo. They had a powerful strength that could crush other tribes. These tribes were gradually subdued by the Lakota tribe and included under Chen Mo's command.
Chen Mo had more and more Native American warriors working for him. The Missouri region had completely become Chen Mo's territory. Even the lands around New York that belonged to Chen Mo could often be seen with the valiant Native American warriors.
However, at the same time, Viktor and James gradually lost the opportunity to fight.
Although they had completely taken control of the Missouri area, they had begun to expand outwards. However, the distribution of tribes in the plains outside the forest was not as dense as in the forest. Often, they would not see people for a long time. The tribes they encountered were all native tribes living in the plains. They rarely encountered fur traders.
Those native tribes were the main targets of their trade and their targets to win over. Naturally, they would not attack them easily. The scattered fur traders that they occasionally encountered were at most in teams of a dozen people. Many of them were father and son, uncle and nephew partners. They were not as ferocious and brutal as the armed personnel of the American fur company. Viktor and James were not so bloodthirsty that they would kill anyone they saw.
Therefore, the two of them gradually lost the opportunity to fight.
However, this was not a problem for Chen Mo. Wasn't it easy to fight? Without the American fur company, weren't there other fur companies?
At least at this stage, it was best to start with these unscrupulous monopoly fur companies.
On the one hand, not only did they oppress and exploit the Native Americans who traded furs with them in the area under their control, but they also cruelly slaughtered the other fur traders who invaded their "territory". It could be said that their hands were all stained with blood. Using them as practice, Chen Mo, Viktor, and James did not feel any pressure.
On the other hand, while eliminating the armed personnel of these fur companies, they could also rob the fur resources in their hands, which would bring sufficient funds for Chen Mo's land enclosure operation and a series of follow-up plans.
Therefore, after completely occupying the fur trade in the Missouri area, Chen Mo recalled Viktor and James and sent them to the Kansas area, where there was a forest larger than the Missouri area, the Rocky Mountains!
And their target this time was Jim Breed's Rocky Mountains Fur Company!
This was a fur company that was more powerful than the American fur company under John Jacob Astor. They had more than 2,000 armed personnel who spent their time in the Rocky Mountains, where ferocious beasts such as grizzly bears, brown bears, mountain lions, and so on were denser. These armed personnel were more ferocious than the personnel of the American fur company, and their combat power was also stronger. However, this was the best for Viktor and James. The two of them, whose strength was constantly improving, needed stronger opponents to hone their combat power.
The fur trade in the Missouri area and the expansion of the Mississippi River area were all handed over to Chief Geronimo of the Lakota tribe.
The Lakota tribe was no longer a weak tribe that could be wiped out by more than 30 armed personnel. The Lakota tribe, which had integrated the entire Missouri jungle, was considered one of the most powerful Native American tribes in the entire United States. Moreover, unlike other tribes that were sealed, oppressed, and exploited, with Chen Mo's support behind them, their weapons and equipment were even more advanced than many Native American tribes supported by the Western colonial countries.
After all, those colonists only needed them as guns in their hands to restrain the power of the United States. They would not give them too advanced equipment. Most of them were old flintlocks or even matchlocks that had been eliminated by their own country. They were not on the same level as the most advanced percussion rifles that the Lakota tribe was currently equipped with.
With guns in one hand and supplies in the other, the Lakota tribe's expansion into the Mississippi River area was proceeding very smoothly. Whether it was the fur trade or the work of subduing the "backward" Native American tribes on the plains, everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.
Viktor and James entered the Rocky Mountains to continue training themselves. Along with them were more than a hundred burly, fully armed Native American warriors. However, their main task was to conduct the fur trade, and at the same time, to search for traces of their opponents for Viktor and James.
Without Chen Mo's super perceptive ability, it was not easy for Viktor and James to find their targets in the lush Rocky Mountains.
Therefore, just like in the Missouri jungle, the purchasing team formed by these Native American warriors was responsible for purchasing fur. It was also convenient for them to communicate with the Native Americans in the Rocky Mountains. Soon, they were able to figure out the distribution and route of the Native American tribes in the Rocky Mountains. By then, they could purchase fur while searching for traces of the armed personnel of the Rocky Mountains Fur Company for Viktor and James.
Viktor and James led the Native American warriors into the Rocky Mountains, while Chen Mo led his team to continue to the northwestern states of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. They were wantonly enclosing land that had just begun to be developed.
The further west they went, the more desolate the surroundings became, and the fewer traces of human activity there were.
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