America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chen Jianqiu returned to the camp carrying the body of the unlucky puma.

"Oh, this is really a big guy." The groom expressed his sincere admiration.

"I want teeth, wear them as a necklace and catch them." Sean licked his lips.

"Are your ancestors from Wakanda?" Chen Jianqiu glanced at the black man.

"Wa what?" Sean didn't know why, so he said calmly, "I know my mother is African-American, but my father doesn't know, because I don't know who my father is."

"It's nothing." Chen Jianqiu handed the body to Asuka.

Indians are good at handling this stuff.

Asuka skinned the corpse three times, five times and two times, and then spent a long time picking shrapnel from the meat.

It was getting dark quickly.

The smell of meat quickly dissipated in the camp, and everyone was already hungry, and they ate up the meat.

To Chen Jianqiu's surprise, the puma's meat tasted okay.

Kind of like a calf?
After filling their stomachs, everyone chatted for a while by the campfire.

Chen Jianqiu and Asuka were on duty separately, and the others went into their tents to sleep.

After several days of trekking, they reached Bismarck, where they parted.

"If you have time, come to New York often!"

On the platform, Roosevelt held Chen Jianqiu's hand and said solemnly.

"Although we disagree on certain matters, this does not prevent me from respecting you, let alone denying the fact that you are my savior."

His words are very sincere, just like his frank conduct.

"I think we're friends."

Chen Jianqiu smiled and shook his hand:

"Say hello to little Astor for me."

After parting with Roosevelt, Chen Jianqiu and the others spent several weeks returning to Roswell by train.

Fertilizer research is in full swing.

Holmes took the drilling workers from the oil field to the basin to start drilling, and quickly produced a batch of potassium salt.

Berzelius led a team of chemists to screen and purify the main ore.

The output of the first batch of samples is not too much, plus the phosphate fertilizer and natural saltpeter sodium nitrate obtained from Mexico.

Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers are also available for a while.

But Zhang Danian couldn't wait any longer.

He had to plant things quickly while the weather was right.

As for the types of agricultural products to choose, Chen Jianqiu had already decided before he left.

Mainly potatoes.

That is, potatoes.

Mentioning this stuff can easily bring back bad memories for Irish people in the United States.

For example, why did they or their parents come to the United States.

40 years ago, there was a great famine in Ireland. The reason was that the potatoes they depended on were suffering from late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans.

Potatoes failed.

Plus all kinds of inappropriate behavior in the British Empire.

Millions starved to death, and others were forced to leave their homes and seek a living overseas.

A large part of them traveled across the ocean and came to the continent of North America.

The main reason for potato late blight is that Irish potato varieties are extremely single and have poor disease resistance; secondly, Ireland's climate is relatively humid and cold, which is prone to the growth of Phytophthora infestans.

As it happens, Roswell doesn't have this problem.

It couldn't be more dry here.

Chen Jianqiu is not at all worried that these North American varieties of potatoes will get sick.

Roswell has a large temperature difference between day and night and long hours of sunshine.

He believes that with the blessing of chemical fertilizers, the best quality potatoes will be grown here.

In addition to potatoes, there are also some sorghum and peanuts.

As for Berzelius and those chemists, they are studying how to further produce more efficient hydrolyzed potash fertilizers.

Chen Jianqiu gave them full time and financial support.

Because he knows that as long as any of the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers can be economically produced in large quantities, then he is basically sitting and counting money.

"Mr. Chen, I heard that your arms business in New Mexico is in full swing?"

In a mansion in Juarez.

Mr. Rimantoure, Minister of Commerce of Mexico, is playing billiards with Chen Jianqiu, the richest man in New Mexico.

This mansion was given to him by Chen Jianqiu as his residence in Juárez.

He was sitting in a chair by the pool table, drinking coffee from the side of the chair.

The pole rested quietly on the side.

He has lost five or six games in a row.

Chen Jianqiu let him tee off every game, but as long as he broke the connecting rod and sat back on the chair, Chen Jianqiu never let him stand up again.

"Well, it's okay."

Chen Jianqiu walked around the table, observed the balls on the table, and designed the route of hitting the ball.

"The production of bullets requires a lot of copper. As far as I know, your copper is mainly purchased by Rockefeller's United Copper Company, right? There seems to be a little misunderstanding between you."

While drinking coffee, Riementour considered his words.

What he said was the truth.

Ever since Standard Oil failed in New Mexico, Rockefeller has never forgotten Chen Jianqiu as his opponent.

He didn't miss any chance to disgust Chen Jianqiu.

"Well, it's a little misunderstanding, but it's not a big problem, we still have copper mines from Chile."

Chen Jianqiu's expression didn't change, he said lightly.

He leaned over and started hitting the ball.

"But Chile is far away after all, so it's not very cost-effective." Rieman Tours smiled half-smile.

What he said is still true.

The air route from Chile to the United States is long.

If there is a ship loaded with copper ore, it is better to load more saltpeter.

"What? When did you suddenly worry about my raw materials?" Chen Jianqiu looked at the white ball, "Tell me, did Dias send you another mission?"

Seeing what Chen Jianqiu said, Rieman Tur went straight to the point:
"The Mexican government wants to buy the ownership of the railway built by the Santa Fe Railway Company in Mexico. In exchange, we can give you a copper mine in the north, which is currently the copper mine with the highest output in North America."

"In addition, the land that was gifted to you before still belongs to you."

"The railway hasn't been completed yet, so it's hard to estimate the price."

Chen Jianqiu hit with one shot.

With a sound of "boom", the target ball entered the net, and the white ball moved according to the trajectory he planned, and stopped exactly at the predetermined position.

"Well, that's another issue, and we hope you will continue to provide labor and technical support to complete the railroad in the remaining two states."

Rieman Tour said.

Compared with the neighboring United States, the various states in Mexico are more independent, and Dias needs to control the control of these railways to complete the control of the entire Mexico.

Chen Jianqiu looked puzzled:
"I've had a hard time convincing the other shareholders of the railroad, you know, those old folks in the East are tough."

Rieman Tur looked at Chen Jianqiu's appearance, his face twitched.

Who doesn't know that the Santa Fe Railroad's board of directors exists in name only.

The second shareholder is the governor of New Mexico, or your ferro.

Aren't these things all about your words?

"Let's add another silver mine." Rieman Tur gritted his teeth.

"In addition to the phosphate mine in Baja California (Author's Note: Northwestern State of Mexico), but I still recommend that you wait until the railway is completely repaired before handing it over to the Mexican government."

Chen Jianqiu started hitting the ball again.

He wasn't worried at all about whether Rieman Tour would agree.

As long as they achieve their goals, these compradors are unequivocal in selling their own national assets.

"Row."

The Minister of Commerce answered cleanly.

Chen Jianqiu hit the pole again.

But this time, the ball didn't go in the hole.

He walked up to Rieman Tur, smiled and said to his opponent whose buttocks were almost numb:
"Mr. Minister, it's your turn."

After the two played for a while, someone knocked on the door of the mansion.

The servant opened the door, and a man hurried in.

It's Abiot.

He walked to Chen Jianqiu's side and said something into his ear.

"Mr. Rieman Tour, I have some things and I need to excuse me."

Chen Jianqiu said with an apologetic face.

The two returned to the municipal office in Juarez.

Abiot took out a telegram and handed it to Chen Jianqiu.

"Roswell turned," he said.

This telegram was taken by Hanifti Hawley, in Hawley's tone:

"Boss, what should I do next? If I continue to do this, I'm afraid I'm going to be the boss."