Chapter 392 Fur Trade!

It is equivalent to saying that Chen Mo does not have to use the technology in his hand to gain benefits and develop his power, but to take the interests and power that originally belonged to others by taking one step ahead of others' opportunities.

Of course, Chen Mo's brain is incomparable, and the entire library can only be installed by a genius who is familiar with the modern history of the United States.

Chen Mo's acquisition of land in the central and northern parts of Manhattan is based on foresight to start the layout decades in advance, and this is just the beginning.

Now nearly half of the funds brought in his space have been consumed, but Chen Mo is not in a hurry to continue the acquisition of other lands around New York, because those areas were not officially incorporated into New York City until 1898, becoming one of the five districts of New York, a distance from now There are still more than 50 years, and Chen Mo has time to buy slowly.

On the contrary, the future exhibition in Manhattan is very fast. Chen Mo must start early, and before the planning of the Manhattan exhibition has come out and no one realizes its value, he will hold it in his hand in advance.

In addition to the future Midtown and Uptown areas of Manhattan, Chen Mo has also spent a lot of money to purchase a lot of land in the undeveloped areas of the lower city. Although the area of ​​these lands is far less than the less valued areas in the north, the funds spent are It is also above the purchase of 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 plans to sell them, and even stopped buying other areas of New York outside Manhattan. After the acquisition, it continues to use the remaining funds to acquire expensive land in the upcoming lower Manhattan area.

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 strong perception ability that is almost comparable to that of mind reading, anyone with bad intentions and bad morals cannot escape his precise perception. With enough money sprinkled, it is easy to select qualified candidates from many applicants. He has established a trustworthy and exclusive team composed of professionals who serve him exclusively.

And he himself temporarily let go of land acquisition matters and shifted his focus to the layout of new industries.

The funds in the space will be exhausted sooner or later. He must establish a new source of funds to support the later planning and layout, and he cannot arbitrarily change the technological process and come up with more advanced technologies to make profits. High-profit industries have become Chen Mo's choice.

I can't use my technology to make money, but I can grab yours directly.

What industry makes money, Chen Mo can directly intervene and snatch their cakes from other businessmen who are making a lot of money!

According to the memory in Chen Mo's mind, the most profitable industries in the United States at this time are not real estate and arms, but a business that many people who don't know the inside story can't think of, or despise, fur trade!

High-end fur is also a luxury in later generations, and in this era, only the upper class of society are qualified and able to own it.

Precious furs are expensive and a symbol of status and status.

The fanatical pursuit of fur by the upper classes of society is no less than the enthusiasm of modern people for luxury cars and famous watches.

Especially in Europe.

Europeans' love for fur is deeply rooted in the bone marrow. As early as the 1430s, the British royal family stipulated that fur should only be worn by nobles. Just as Chinese white porcelain was regarded as a luxury in Europe during the Middle Ages, the European royal family regarded wearing fur as a noble identity. Symbol, to this day, this fanatical pursuit of fur has not weakened in the slightest. On the contrary, with the development of capitalism, it has spread to the bourgeois people who hold a lot of wealth, and the demand for fur is also increasing.

However, the United States, which has not gone through too many openings, is densely forested with mountains, and is rich in wildlife resources, has an extremely rich fur output.

As early as the European colonial period, Europeans who set foot in the Americas began to use materials such as felt, firearms and brandy and live in the mountains and forests.

Native Indians who lived by hunting for fur.

For the Europeans, the common living materials are very precious to the primitive and backward Indians. With some by-products of their hunting, they can exchange for these good things that they cannot produce but are very useful. Seems like it couldn't be better.

This kind of barter, the exchange of low-value utensils, knives, cloth, liquor and other living materials for high-value furs from the Indians has continued to the present, and has been gradually monopolized by some families and large companies using force.

They exchange furs from native Indians at a low cost, process them and ship them to Europe or sell them directly in the United States. A piece of beaver skin can add value by at least 1ooo%, and even earn more than 2oo times the profit.

And Chen Mo's target this time is one of these businessmen who monopolize the fur trade.

John Jacob Astor, a German-American businessman, is mainly engaged in fur trade and investment in real estate business. He is the first multi-millionaire in the United States and is now the richest in the United States, and he now lives in New York, And he holds a large amount of land in the area to be developed, and his rapid wealth depends on the brutal monopoly of the fur trade of the Indian tribes.

John Jacob Astor originally planned to obtain a monopoly on the fur business in the Northwest Territories, but there was already a powerful Rocky Mountain Fur Company there, which completely monopolized the fur trade in the Northwest Territories. The foreign John Jacob Boo Astor failed to get in after trying.

After the plan was thwarted, John Jacob Astor focused his efforts on the vast area that stretched 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 can be said to be unscrupulous. He created the American Fur Company. By means of deceit and even the use of force, he obtained complete control of the area. Monopoly power, just like the former feudal aristocracy has a complete monopoly on the territorial manor.

Nominally the U.S. government rules this vast land, but in fact, John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company is the law itself. The fur trade in this region, which makes huge profits, completely disregards all laws enacted by Congress.

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