Chapter 18: The Underground Palace Completed
James never missed cars and planes so much, and he couldn't help but be glad that at least there were steam trains and relatively sound railway systems in this era. Thanks to Mr. Watt for improving the steam engine early.
After Christmas, James and Tom and Darnell went to the United States to implement the factory's location one by one, etc. Details.
This time James completely lived up to the idea of "spending money like soil". He spent a lot of money on the wealth of the Howlet family in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Philadelphia.
As the turbulence in the United States becomes increasingly cheaper, and no one takes a fancy to it, everyone tries to stop James' crazy actions, but they all end up in vain. If it weren't for the distance, the situation was chaotic, he even wanted to go to California, Texas to "shop" around.
This made Mr. Tom Widdle a little doubted whether he had read this little Mr. Howlett wrongly. Opening a factory and doing business is not a manor. It would be better if there is too much land.
Nearly half a year of investigation and acquisition made James fully realize the United States of this era, especially what kind of injustice, discrimination and even hatred will be faced by the mutant group in ordinary human society in the future.
Even in the northern United States, where slavery tends to abolish and capitalist industry, blacks still have no so-called dignity of rights. Except for the group of black slaves who are not yet fully Du Qing, all cities will be divided and marked separately and distinguished in black and white. Restaurants, hotels, bars and even bathrooms will be separated from black and white.
What James deeply understands is that his grandfather Mr. Howlet is an absolute black enemy. Not only is he inherently narrow racial thoughts, but also because his brother who died of illness was infected with the disease in the black slaves. He clearly knows how difficult it is to eliminate the opposition from the cognitive roots.
In fact, James is just a warrior and learning to be a manor. An upper-class businessman has already made him suffer from trouble in running the industry.
So in the future, will he be able to speak out for the mutant groups, protect or even lead them? A full of troubles and depression accompanied James all the way back to Edmond, Howlet Manor.
The underground palace project has reached its final stage and can be delivered to use at most three months. Dudley Fennon invested all the workers who completed other engineering business after Christmas to the project of the Howlet Manor, which greatly accelerated the completion of the underground palace.
He had to complete this strange cellar project as soon as possible so that he could continue to receive construction projects from six factories in four cities that James would soon be invested in. Even Canada's largest construction contractor, this would be a business volume that would last for two or three years.
The equipment cast by Boss Tom is basically completed and will be transported to the manor one after another to be assembled in the underground palace. Those big guys cannot fit them and move them in. James' training can finally get on track.
Mr. Darnell decided to set out for Africa in the last month of repair, a journey that he didn't know how long it took, and he and James were just a gentleman agreement to some extent.
Daniel promised to do his best to find Wakanda. If it was fast enough, it might be news in a year or two. If it was not found, he had the right to decide when to terminate the task.
In the blink of an eye, the weather became colder. James bid farewell to Mr. Daniel and his 17-member group two months ago. This exploration team includes nine family riders who have been developing a foundation with the Howlet family since their grandfather, and are responsible for the safety of the entire team, especially Mr. Daniel.
Three black slaves sold from different parts of Africa from oceans, James promised that they would restore their freedom from their promise to this task, and would receive a considerable fee when they came back. There were also four experts who were familiar with the necessary skills of medical care and cooking in the wild. After arriving in Africa, they would also hire local guides and coolies who were carrying bags.
In the early autumn of 1857, James came to the world's first hand that touched the trajectory of history and slowly poked out.
Construction began in the United States. Herbert Fennon was unable to take all the projects in one bite. James asked six factories to be built and completed one after another, and a well-known construction company in Washington took over the construction of two factories.
At this time, the Western world was in the transition period between an industrial revolution and a secondary industrial revolution. The steam engine era reached its peak, and internal combustion engines had not yet appeared. Three of these six factories were steel mills, producing various mechanical raw materials, two mechanical processing plants and an unknown "mechanical experiment factory".
Entering a brand new industrial field is not something you can do by having money to buy land and build a factory. James's six-year examination was only used to select a site and purchase land, but more of it was to acquire poorly managed steel mills, processing plants, finalize mineral raw materials channels, understand the US industrial market and other extremely cumbersome things.
After sending away Mr. Darnell, he went to various parts of the United States for more than two months to deal with many matters. He also hired professional geographic explorers to explore the land owned by the Howlet family in Canada. This family seemed to have been in full swing.
If everything goes well, major factories will officially start construction in a year, so that the owner of the animal husbandry industry will gradually transform into an emerging industrial tycoon.
Finally this winter, James arranged a matter of things, and had some free time to train his boxing skills, and could also accompany his grandfather's last time with peace of mind.
Mr. Howlet was completely bedridden and could only eat some liquid food. Butlers Wien and O'Hara were taking care of each other during the day. The old man who was still alive would take turns talking to him at the head of his bed every day.
Most of the time, Mr. Howlet could only breathe and make a "ho...ho..." sound in response. Every day after dinner, James would feed the old man himself, scrub his body, and meditate and accompany him until dawn.
He hopes that in this world, the only relative he truly cares about, will not sleep alone on the bed and face the confused night, but will be able to see his beloved grandson sleep forever in satisfaction.
About thirty meters underground in the Hollit Manor, a huge space of nearly two modern football fields is 13,000 square meters in size, and a huge space as high as nine meters is echoing a pile driver.
This is an underground palace divided into multiple spaces and structures. In a training ground for space transformation of about 2,000 square meters, James's body was twisted like a steel bare body, punching his fist and whip legs on a giant steel "mad" about five meters high, and sometimes hitting his shoulders, elbows, and his figures were scattered and undulating.
In the quiet space deep underground, a pot of carbon fire and torches shone around. After James' tireless and dense striking attack for nearly half an hour, he pressed his last heavy punch on it, slowly retracting his fists around for a week and looking at his "sandbag" and completing today's warm-up exercise.
"The quality is quite good." He nodded with satisfaction. "Now, the strength of our strength can only leave a shallow mark. It is not enough to 'turn' the iron pile. It has been a long time..."
He called this huge iron mould steel creature shaped like a Wing Chun wooden stake a "iron pile". It would be far from enough to move the giant stake to at least more than three tons of impact.
After the inspection, James walked to the steel frame piled with thick barbell pieces on one side, carried the special iron rod as thick as the forearm, and performed the most basic modern strength training movements such as squat deadlifts, constantly increasing the weight to test his current physical strength limit.
"A 520 kilogram squat, a 580 kilogram deadlift, and now the weight is about 130 kilograms, and more than four times the weight..." James held a pen and recorded the relevant data in his notebook, muttering words. He should carry out a certain intensity and time-based strength training to reach the strength level of twice the weight, while top athletes can reach three times or even more. Once they reach this category, every kilogram increase is a barrier, which is the limit of human physical strength.
Chapter completed!