At that time, Pierre DuPont and his youngest son Irene DuPont established the DuPont family's gunpowder factory in Wilmington, Delaware, and because Pierre prompted the U.S. government to buy French Louisiana, which established the DuPont family's position in the United States and allowed the DuPont family's gunpowder company to develop rapidly.After nearly a century of development, the DuPont family's gunpowder factory has developed extremely large, especially when the fourth leader of the DuPont family, Eugene DuPont, took charge of the DuPont family, and the entire American gunpowder market has been completely monopolized by the DuPont family.At the same time, Eugene also expanded the DuPont family's business to the world, becoming one of the world's largest gunpowder manufacturers.But Eugene is not satisfied, he has bigger ideals.When Eugene wanted to expand his business further, he was confronted with a very real problem, as the Delaware constitution at the time did not allow the existence of the big business he wanted to build.Because the United States is a federal country, in addition to the federal constitution of the United States, each state also has its own state constitution, and even the power of the state constitution in some areas is higher than that of the federal constitution.At that time, Delaware's state constitution contained provisions similar to those of the Antitrust Act, which later emerged.The existence of this statute in the state constitution has greatly constrained the development of the DuPont family, and if the state constitution does not change this regulation, then the DuPont family will want to continue to expand.And as the helmsman of the Dupont family, how could the ambitious Eugene sit back and watch such a thing happen?
So Eugene mobilized all the forces in the family and began lobbying the members of the state legislature to persuade them to agree to change the constitution.Soon after, the DuPont family manipulated the state legislature to change Delaware's state constitution, eventually making the DuPont family the second "trust" in the United States.As a businessman to manipulate a state to amend the state constitution, if it is placed in the modern era, it may not be a difficult thing, but in that era, it was almost impossible, even the Rockefeller family, the most powerful in the United States at that time, did not do this, and the Mellon family, who later served as the federal secretary of the Treasury for three consecutive terms, did not do this kind of thing, but the DuPont family did it, which shows how powerful the DuPont family is.As for the other big thing that the DuPont family has done, it is even more awesome.As we all know, an extremely important reason why the little devils surrendered in World War II was because of the two mushroom bombs of the "fat man" and the "little boy".During World War II, although the little devils were defeated in the Pacific theater, they had no intention of surrendering at that time, and they even made a military plan to resist the US army on their homeland.In fact, the U.S. military fought very hard in the Pacific War, especially the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima, which can no longer be described as simple hardships, and "tragic" is the most appropriate description of those wars.And the reason why those tragic battles were fought so tragically was because the little devils saw that the US army was about to hit their homeland, so they resisted to the death.It is conceivable that if the US military really reaches the mainland, the US military will pay a greater price.And with the beating nature of the Americans, if the price paid is too great, then it is very likely that they will not land on the mainland, and the final outcome of the Pacific War may be a different result.He was ready to resist the U.S. military to the death on his homeland, but two mushroom bombs that made him unable to resist at all completely destroyed his confidence in resisting, and finally led to the unconditional surrender of Emperor Yumoto.At that time, the DuPont family played an extremely important role in the "Manhattan Project" that developed the mushroom bomb, and 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.The United States and Britain, under the impetus of the great physicist Albert Einstein, decided to quickly carry out relevant research and development, and strive to develop it before it was made in Germany.President Franklin D.
Roosevelt thought of the Dupont family and threw the burden of a family on them.Hanford, the largest factory used in the development of the mushroom bomb, is owned by the DuPont family, where almost all the development and manufacturing processes are completed, and Greenwalt, the director of the DuPont laboratory, is a director of the "Manhattan Project".At that time, the DuPont Group was an agent of the U.S. government, and members of the U.S.
Congress could not enter the Manhattan Project if they wanted to investigate it, because in addition to the high secrecy, another important reason was that DuPont managers liked 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 patent for the mushroom bomb belongs to the U.S. government, 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 a state legislature to amend the Constitution, to actually leading the development of the first mushroom bomb in the United States and the world, these three things, as long as other families can do one, it is enough to leave a name in the business world, and the DuPont family has actually done three, and there are very few families in the world who can compare with it.This shows the depth of the DuPont family's heritage.And it is obviously not a wise thing to go against a family with such a rich background, and Yang Jing has no doubt about this.Even if the amount of funds owned by the Evil Dragon Fund controlled by Yang Jing now exceeds that of the DuPont family, Yang Jing will definitely not do this kind of brain-dead thing if he has such a family for no reason.And if the handwritten information of the fifth-generation helmsman of the DuPont family that he found is returned to the DuPont family, it is obviously a good thing that can quickly get closer to this family.So when Yang Jing came out of the basement with a box of materials, notes and manuscripts, he immediately asked Shelton Butler to contact the people of the Dupont family.And the Sheldon butler, as a person who had seen Alfred before, was also very excited when he saw these manuscripts and materials.He didn't expect that in that basement, which had not been cared about for decades, there were still so many precious manuscript materials.These manuscripts are not very valuable to outsiders, but they are definitely of irreplaceable importance to the DuPont family.As the old steward of Alfred Manor, Shelton naturally hopes that these manuscript materials can be returned to the Dupont family in their entirety.Yang Jing will not operate these things in person, with the old housekeeper Shelton, Yang Jing can completely let go of this kind of thing.His main focus now was drawn to the two notebooks he had found in the basement, both of which were definitely old objects, and judging by the handwriting and content inside, it was clear that these two notebooks were also Alfred's own notes.The reason why Yang Jing left these two notebooks separately and did not return them to the DuPont family along with those Alfred's manuscript materials is because Yang Jing noticed some differences from the contents recorded in these two notebooks.It's just that some of the things recorded in these two notes are very fragmentary, and Yang Jing can't figure out what is recorded in these two notes for a while, but it is certain that these two notes are definitely not Alfred's manuscript information on gunpowder technology, but more like a travel note, because there are a lot of place names and some book titles recorded in them, of course, more numbers that Yang Jing can't understand.After seeing the contents of these two notebooks, Yang Jing's intuition thought that he should leave these two notebooks, so he ignored these 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 "Three ZTE Brothers" who led the DuPont family to reshow its glory in the early 20th century, actually did not live a very happy life in the second half of his life.In 1902, the fourth generation helmsman of the DuPont family, Eugene Dupont, died suddenly, which led to the huge DuPont family suddenly without a leader, and because Eugene expanded too quickly when he was alive, this greatly reduced the control of the DuPont family over the family's core business, the gunpowder company.Because most of these veteran directors were too old, no one was willing to come forward to take over DuPont, and some even offered to sell DuPont to DuPont's biggest competitor, Havelin Rand.But as the only young man on the board, Alfred Irene Dubon, the great-grandson of Irene Dubon, quit.You can't sell Ye Tian like this, right?
Not to mention the sale of DuPont to its ever-biggest competitor would be a blasphemy against our ancestors.Alfred suggested that he and his two cousins take over the DuPont family together.These three brothers did not live up to the inheritance of their ancestors, and under the care of the three of them, the DuPont family flourished again, and it took only seven years for the DuPont family to become a giant again.This is also the fundamental reason why Alfred and his two cousins are known as the "Three Brothers of the DuPont Family".It's just that although the three brothers put the Dupont family back on track, the thing of "sharing hardships but not prosperity" is inevitable in this ancient family.Alfred's two cousins later began to use one kind of means or another to seize power that was supposed to belong to Alfred, and drove Alfred out of the center of power of the three.The Brotherhood Affair took place in the DuPont family and ended with Alfred being touched by the center of power.This is the fundamental reason why Alfred built such an estate on the remote island of Grande in 1918 and then focused on experimenting here.Alfred has the air of his great-grandfather Irene and has a penchant for technology.But it was precisely because of his obsession with technology that he ignored the betrayal of the people closest to him.He was finally driven here to retire and do experiments, which was actually a kind of unavoidable sadness.It's just that the things recorded in the two notebooks obviously have nothing to do with the gunpowder experiment, so what secrets are hidden in these two notebooks?
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