Chapter 393

It is equivalent to saying that Chen Mo does not need to make use of the technology in his hands to earn profits and develop forces, but to seize opportunities of others in advance and take the interests and forces that belong to others as his own.

Of course, Chen Mo's brain is extremely developed. Only when he has installed the entire library and knows the modern history of the United States, can he achieve this.

Mr. Chen's acquisition of land in north central Manhattan is just the beginning of decades of planning ahead of time.

Now he has spent nearly half of the money in his space, but Chen Mo is not in a hurry to continue the acquisition of other land around New York City, because those areas were not officially incorporated into New York City until 1898, becoming one of the five districts of New York City, which is more than 50 years away from now. Chen Mo has time to slowly acquire.

However, the future development of Manhattan will be very fast. Chen Mo must start early, and take advantage of the fact that Manhattan's development plan has not come out yet, and no one realizes its value, he should hold it in advance.

In addition to the midtown and upper city areas of Manhattan in the future, Chen Mo also spent a lot of money to buy a lot of land in the undeveloped areas of the lower city. Although the area of these land is far less than that of the northern areas that are not valued, the money spent is still on the purchase of the northern areas. Of course, they can bring huge returns to Chen Mo in the short term, but only Chen Mo didn't plan to sell them. Even after stopping the acquisition of other parts of New York outside Manhattan, he continued to use the remaining funds to acquire the expensive land in the area to be developed in lower Manhattan.

However, Chen Mo has entrusted these matters to a team of professional lawyers, accountants and others with good professional integrity who he hired after screening.

With Chen Mo's super perception ability, which is almost comparable to mind reading skill, no one who has a bad heart or a bad virtue can escape his accurate perception. Enough money can be spilled over, and it is easy to select qualified personnel from many candidates to build a dedicated team composed of professionals who are dedicated to him and are worthy of trust.

While he himself temporarily released the land acquisition and shifted the 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. However, he cannot change the technological process at will and put forward more advanced technologies to make profits. Therefore, the existing high profit industry in the United States has become Chen Mo's first choice.

My technology can't be taken out to make money, but I can grab yours directly.

What industry makes money, Chen Mo can directly cut in and snatch their cake 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 is not real estate and arms, but a lot of people who don't know the inside information can't think of or see the business, fur trade!

High grade fur is also a luxury in later generations, and in this era, only the upper class of society are qualified and capable of owning it.

Precious fur is not cheap, it is a symbol of status and status.

The enthusiasm of the upper class for fur is no less than that of the modern people for luxury cars and watches.

Especially in Europe.

As early as the 1430s, the British royal family stipulated that fur can only be worn by nobles. Just as Chinese white porcelain was regarded as luxury in Europe in the middle ages, the European royal family regarded wearing fur as a symbol of noble status. Up to now, this crazy pursuit of fur has not weakened at all, but with the development of capital The development of the doctrine has spread to the bourgeois people who hold a large amount of wealth, and the demand for fur is growing.

However, the United States, which has not been developed too much, is rich in alpine forests and wildlife resources, and has a very rich fur output.

As early as in the European colonial period, the Europeans who set foot on the American continent began to use felt, firearms, brandy and other materials and live in the mountains, and the Indians who lived for hunting exchanged fur for fur.

For the Europeans, the most common living materials are precious to the primitive and backward Indians. With some by-products of their hunting, they can get the good things that they can't produce, but are very useful, which is the best thing for them.

This kind of trade of barter, using cheap utensils, knives, cloth, liquor and other living materials to exchange for valuable fur from Indians has continued until now, and is gradually monopolized by some families and large companies using force.

They exchange fur cheaply from native Indians, process it and ship it to Europe or sell it directly in the United States. A beaver skin can increase its value by at least 1000% or even more than 200 times.

And Chen Mo's goal this time is one of these merchants who monopolize fur trade.

John Jacob Astor, a German American businessman, is mainly engaged in fur trade and real estate investment. He is the first millionaire in the United States and the richest man in the United States. Now he lives in New York and holds a large number of land in the areas to be developed. His wealth depends on the brutal monopoly of fur trade of Indian tribes.John Jacobs Astor originally intended to monopolize the fur business in the northwest, but there was a powerful Rocky Mountain fur company there, which monopolized the fur trade in the northwest. After trying, the foreign John Jacobs Astor failed to enter.

After the project was blocked, John Jacobs Astor focused his efforts on the vast area along the Missouri River Valley, where a large number of Indian tribes lived.

In order to complete the monopoly of fur trade in this area, John Jacobs Astor can be said to be unscrupulous. He founded the American fur company. By means of deception, or even by force, he obtained the complete monopoly of this area, just like the feudal aristocrats had monopolized the manor.

In name, the U.S. government dominates this vast land, but in fact, John Jacobs Astor's American fur company itself is a law. It not only has powerful force, but also uses deception and other means to monopolize the fur trade in this area, and makes huge profits from it, completely ignoring all laws enacted by Congress.