It is equivalent to saying that Chen Mo does not need to use the technology in his hands to earn profits and develop power, but to seize other people's opportunities in advance and take the benefits and power that originally belong to others as his own.
Of course, this method can only be accomplished by a super genius like Chen Mo, who has an extremely developed brain, can hold an entire library, and is familiar with modern American history.
Chen Mo's current acquisition of land in central and northern Manhattan is based on foresight and planning decades in advance. This is just the beginning.
Now nearly half of the funds he brought from the space have been consumed, but Chen Mo is not in a hurry to continue acquiring 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 are still more than fifty years left, so Chen Mo has plenty of time to slowly acquire.
On the other hand, Manhattan will develop very rapidly in the future. Chen Mo must start early, before the Manhattan development plan is released and no one is aware of its value.
In addition to the future Midtown and Uptown areas of Manhattan, Chen Mo also spent a lot of money to purchase a lot of land in the areas to be developed in the lower city. Although the area of these lands is far less than that of the areas in the north that are not valued, the money spent is still
In addition to purchasing the northern area, of course, the returns they can bring to Chen Mo in the short term are also huge, but Chen Mo has no intention of selling them, and even stopped buying other areas in New York other than Manhattan.
After the acquisition, it continued to use the remaining funds to acquire expensive land in undeveloped areas of Lower Manhattan that were about to be developed.
It's just that Chen Mo entrusted these matters to a team of professional lawyers and accountants with good professional ethics that he hired after screening.
With Chen Mo's super perceptive ability, which is almost comparable to mind reading, no one with bad intentions or bad morals can escape his precise perception. If enough money is spent, it will be easy to select him from many applicants.
Qualified manpower has established a trustworthy and exclusive team of professionals dedicated to serving him.
He himself has temporarily let go of land acquisition matters and shifted his focus to the layout of new industries.
Sooner or later, the funds in the space will be exhausted. He must establish a new source of funds to support the later planning layout, and he cannot change the technological process at will and come up with more advanced technologies to make profits. Therefore, the United States now has
High-profit industries have become Chen Mo's first choice.
I can't use my skills to make money, but I can directly steal yours.
In any industry that makes money, Chen Mo can directly intervene and snatch cakes from other businessmen who are making a lot of money!
According to the memory in Chen Mo's mind, the most profitable industry in the United States at this time was actually not real estate and arms, but a business that many people who didn't know the inside story could never imagine or look down on, the fur trade!
High-end fur was also a luxury product in later generations, but in this era, only the upper class of society were qualified and able to own it.
Precious furs are expensive and are a symbol of identity and status.
The fanatical pursuit of fur by the upper class of society is no less than the passion of modern people for luxury cars and luxury watches.
Especially in Europe.
Europeans' love for fur is deeply rooted in their bones. As early as the 1330s, the British royal family stipulated that only nobles could wear fur. Just like Chinese white porcelain was regarded as a luxury product in Europe during the Middle Ages, European royal families regarded wearing fur as a sign of noble status.
It symbolizes that to this day, this fanatical pursuit of fur has not weakened at all. On the contrary, with the development of capitalism, it has spread to the bourgeoisie people who control a lot of wealth, and the demand for fur is also increasing.
The United States, which has not yet undergone much development, has dense mountains and forests, and rich wildlife resources, has an extremely rich fur output.
As early as the European colonial period, Europeans who set foot on the American continent began to use materials such as felts, firearms, and brandy to exchange furs with the native Indians who lived in the mountains and forests and made a living by hunting.
To the Europeans, the daily necessities that are commonplace are extremely precious to the primitive and backward Indians. They can exchange some of the by-products of their hunting for these good things that they cannot produce themselves, but are very useful to them.
It seems to be the best thing.
This kind of barter trade, in which low-value utensils, knives, cloth, liquor and other daily necessities are exchanged for high-value furs from the Indians, has continued to this day and has gradually been monopolized by some families and large companies using force.
They exchange furs from native Indians at low cost, process them and ship them to Europe or sell them directly in the United States. A piece of beaver skin can increase its value by at least 1,000%, and can even earn 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-American businessman who was mainly engaged in the fur trade and real estate investment business. He was the first multimillionaire in the United States and the richest man in the United States. He now lives in New York.
He also held a large amount of land in undeveloped areas, and his sudden wealth relied on his brutal monopoly on the fur trade of Indian tribes.
John Jacob Astor originally planned to obtain a monopoly on the fur trade in the Northwest Territories, but there was already a powerful Rocky Mountain Fur Company, which completely monopolized the fur trade in the Northwest Territories. John Jacob Astor from outside
Bou Ast finally failed to penetrate it despite trying.
After the plan was blocked, John Jacob Astor concentrated his efforts on the vast area extending along the Missouri River Basin, where a large number of Indian tribes lived.
In order to complete the monopoly of the fur trade in this region, John Jacob Astor could be said to have used any means. He founded the American Fur Company. By relying on deception and even using force, he obtained complete control of the region.
Monopoly power, just like the former feudal aristocracy's complete monopoly on territorial manors.
Nominally, the U.S. government rules this vast land, but in fact, John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company is the law itself. It not only possesses powerful force, but also uses deception and other means to monopolize the land.
The fur trade in this region made huge profits from it and completely ignored all laws enacted by Congress.