Chapter 657: Brothers Wall
Pierre DuPont and his youngest son Irene DuPont established the DuPont family’s powder factory in Wilmington, Delaware. At the same time, Pierre urged the US government to purchase French Louisiana. This allowed DuPont to The family established its position in the United States and allowed the DuPont family’s gunpowder company to develop rapidly.
After nearly a century of development, the powder factory of the DuPont family has grown extremely large, especially when Eugene DuPont, the fourth leader of the DuPont family, was in charge of the DuPont family. The entire US gunpowder market has been completely monopolized by the DuPont family. . At the same time, Eugene made the DuPont family’s business worldwide and became one of the world’s largest gunpowder manufacturers. But Eugene is still not satisfied, he has bigger ideals. When Eugene wanted to further expand his business, he ran into a very real problem. At that time, the Delaware Constitution did not allow the large enterprises he wanted to establish.
Because the United States is a federal country, in addition to the U.S. Federal Constitution, each state also has its own state constitution, and even the state constitution has higher powers in certain areas than the federal constitution. At that time, the Delaware state constitution contained such provisions similar to the antitrust law that appeared later.
The existence of this regulation in the state constitution has greatly restricted the development of the DuPont family. If the state constitution does not change this regulation, the DuPont family will not want to continue to expand.
As the helm of the DuPont family, how could the ambitious Eugene sit and watch this happen? So Eugene mobilized all the forces in the family and began to lobby the state legislators to persuade them to agree to amend the constitution. Soon after, the DuPont family manipulated the state legislature to amend the state constitution of Delaware, eventually making the DuPont family the second “trust” of the United States.
Manipulating a state as a businessman to amend the state constitution may not be a difficult task in the modern era, but in that era, it was almost impossible, even if it was the best in the United States at the time. The Rockefeller family did not do this, and the Mellon family, which later became the U.S. Treasury secretary for three consecutive terms, did not do such a thing, but the DuPont family did it. This shows that DuPont How powerful the family background is.
As for the other big thing the DuPont family did, it was even better.
As we all know, one of the most important reasons why the little devil surrendered in World War II was the two mushroom bombs “Fatty” and “Little Boy”.
During World War II, although the little devils were retreating on the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese **** at that time had no plan to surrender. They even made a military plan to resist the US military in their homeland. In fact, the US military fought very hard in the Pacific War, especially the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima, which can no longer be described with simple hard work. “Tragedy” is the most appropriate description of those wars.
The reason why those tragic battles were fought so tragically is because the little devil saw that the US military was about to reach his homeland, so he resisted desperately. It is conceivable that if the US military really reaches Japan’s mainland, the price the US military will pay will be even greater.
And with the Americans’ aggressiveness, if the price paid is too great, then they are likely not to land in Japan. The final result of the Pacific War may be another result.
I was already prepared to fight to the death of the U.S. military on the mainland, but unfortunately, two mushroom bombs that made Japan unable to resist completely destroyed the confidence of Japan to resist. In the end, this led to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese emperor.
The DuPont family played an extremely important role in the “Manhattan Project” that developed the mushroom bomb at that time. Even on some levels, the entire “Manhattan Project” was actually led by the DuPont family.
During World War II, Germany was the first country to develop mushroom bombs, but it never succeeded. Under the impetus of the great physicist Einstein, the United States and Britain decided to carry out related research and development quickly, striving to develop them before they were made in Germany. American President Roosevelt thought of the DuPont family, so he threw a series of burdens on them.
Hanford, the largest factory used in the development of mushroom bombs, belongs to the DuPont family. Almost all the R&D and manufacturing processes are completed in this factory, and DuPont’s laboratory director Greenwalter is also a director of the “Manhattan Project.”
At that time, the DuPont Group was an agent of the US government. Members of the US Congress were unable to enter the Manhattan Project if they wanted to investigate the Manhattan Project. In addition to the high level of confidentiality, another important reason is that DuPont managers like to be quiet. In the end, through the efforts of Greenwall and others, the United States successfully entered the first nuclear test explosion. ,
Although the mushroom bomb patent belongs to the US government, all the knowledge generated during the entire R&D and manufacturing process belongs to the DuPont family.
From doubling the territory of the United States, to a company that can operate the state assembly to amend the constitution, to actually dominate the development of the first mushroom bomb in the United States and the world, other families only need to do one of these three things. It is enough to make a name in the business world. The DuPont family has actually made three of them. There are very few families in the world that can compare with them.
This shows the depth of the DuPont family.
It is obviously not a wise thing to fight against a family with such a rich heritage, and Yang Jing has no doubt about this. Even if the amount of funds owned by the Dragon Fund that Yang Jing controls now exceeds that of the DuPont family, Yang Jing would definitely not do this kind of brain-dead thing for a family like this for nothing.
And the autographs of the fifth-generation helms of the DuPont family that I discovered, if they are returned to the DuPont family, it is obviously a good thing that can quickly bring the family closer.
So when Yang Jing came out of the basement with a box of materials, notes and manuscripts, he immediately asked the Butler Shedon to contact the DuPont family.
As someone who has met Alfred before, Butler Sheyton was very excited when he saw these manuscripts and materials. He also didn’t expect that in that basement that had not been asked by anyone for decades, there were still so many precious manuscripts.
These manuscripts are not very valuable to outsiders, but they definitely have irreplaceable significance for the DuPont family. As the old butler of Alfred Manor, Shedon naturally hopes that these manuscripts can be returned to the DuPont family in its entirety.
Yang Jing won’t handle these things personally. With the old butler from Xie Dun, Yang Jing can completely let go of this kind of things.
His main energy now has been attracted by the two notes found in the basement
These two notebooks are definitely old objects with age, and judging from the handwriting and the contents of the records, these two notebooks are obviously Alfred’s own notes.
The reason why Yang Jing left these two notes separately and did not return them to the DuPont family along with Alfred’s manuscripts is because Yang Jing perceives from the contents recorded in these two notes. Out of a few different places.
Just because some of the things recorded in these two notebooks are very fragmentary, Yang Jing couldn’t figure out what exactly was recorded in these two notebooks, but it is certain that,
These two notebooks are definitely not Alfred’s manuscripts about gunpowder technology, but more like a travel notebook, because it contains a lot of place names and some book titles, of course, more are Some figures that Yang Jing couldn’t understand.
After seeing the contents of these two notebooks, Yang Jing intuitively thought that he should keep these two notebooks, so he ignorant of the two notebooks.
The reason for this intuition, in addition to the incomprehensible things recorded in the notebook, is more because of Alfred’s experience.
Alfred, as the leader of the “ZTE Three Brothers” led by the DuPont family in the early twentieth century, the DuPont family regained their glory. In fact, the latter half of his life was not very satisfactory.
In 1902, Eugene DuPont, the fourth-generation helm of the DuPont family, suddenly died of illness. This caused the huge DuPont family to suddenly lose its head. And because Eugene expanded too fast when he was alive, this made the DuPont family’s core business of the family’s gunpowder company. The control is greatly reduced. If Eugene is alive, then the DuPont family will naturally not worry that others will occupy the magpie’s nest, but Eugene’s sudden death, which immediately caused the old directors of the DuPont family in the DuPont Group to mess up their hands and feet. .
Because most of these old directors are very old, no one is willing to stand up and take over DuPont Group. Some directors even offered to sell DuPont Group to DuPont Group’s largest competitor, Laughlinland.
As the only young man on the board, Alfred Irene Dupont, the great-grandson of Irene Dupont, was quit. You can’t sell Ye Tian like this, right? Not to mention selling the DuPont Group to its biggest competitor all the time. This is simply a blasphemy against our ancestors.
So Alfred suggested that he and his two cousins should take over the DuPont family together www.readwn.com These three brothers really did not live up to their ancestors’ foundation. Under the care of the three of them, The DuPont family prospered again, and it took only seven years to make the DuPont family a giant again. This is also the fundamental reason why Alfred and his two cousins are hailed as the “Three Brothers of the DuPont Family”.
It’s just that although the three brothers brought the DuPont family back on track, it was inevitable that the “can share hardships but not share wealth” was inevitably staged in this ancient family. Alfred’s two cousins later began to use this and other means to seize the power that should have belonged to Alfred, and drove Alfred out of the three-person power center.
The incident of brothers breaking the wall occurred in the DuPont family, and it ended with Alfred being touched by the power center.
This is the fundamental reason why Alfred built such a manor on the remote Grand Island in 1918 and then concentrated on experimenting here.
Alfred has the style of his great-grandfather Irene, and he is very fond of technology. But it was precisely because of his fascination with technology that he ignored the betrayal of those closest to him. He was eventually rushed here to take care of the elderly and do experiments, which is actually a kind of sorrow of last resort.
It’s just that the things recorded in the two notebooks obviously have nothing to do with the gunpowder experiment. So what is the secret hidden in these two notebooks?
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