Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

The DuPont family is a ruthless family, not just the kind of ruthless murderers and arsonists, but the kind of ruthless family that treats monopolistic wars and blood relations as an engineering project.

This large family originated from an escape. Old Dupont, the son of a Parisian watchmaker, was originally a French economist and a Physiocrat. His writings even directly influenced Adam Smith, leading him to write "The Wealth of Nations." Famous economists such as Voltaire and Turgot also praised him extensively.

Old DuPont served under Louis XVI and participated in the negotiations for the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War, thus becoming acquainted with future President Jefferson.

So, naturally, after the French Revolution, the elder DuPont fled to the United States with his two sons.

Contrary to popular belief, DuPont was not founded by a business family; they were true intellectuals and technocrats.

The one who truly made the DuPont family business a success was Ellesse DuPont, the youngest son of the elder DuPont.

When Ellison was in France, he had a teacher who became famous throughout history.

Lavoisier, a chemist, was the head of the French Royal Gunpowder Directorate.

He was a truly great scientist who overturned the phlogiston theory, established the theory of oxidation, and subsequently discovered and named oxygen. He discovered the most important law in chemistry, the law of conservation of mass. He also proved that water is not an element, established the modern chemical nomenclature system, proved the nature of respiration, and published the groundbreaking "Fundamentals of Chemistry."

Lavoisier truly made chemistry a modern science.

Of course, when modern people think of him, they mostly think of the mathematician Lagrange's lament: "It only takes a moment to cut off this head, but it would probably take a hundred years to grow another head like this."

And in Lavoisier's final experiment, before being sent to the guillotine, he made an agreement with several people to conduct an experiment, hoping to use the last moments of his life to leave scientific observational data on whether consciousness continues after decapitation. After being beheaded, he would blink as many times as possible, so that his assistant and executioner could count how many times.

Ultimately, he reportedly blinked a dozen or even twenty times, lasting for a total of thirty seconds.

Whether this story actually happened is a matter of debate among historians. There is also a theory that Lavoisier was making a final effort before his execution to complete an unfinished experiment.

The French government at the time replied that the republic did not need scholars.

Whether it was the teacher's experience that caused Ellesse DuPont to change in some way, in any case, this scholar transformed into a major capitalist at lightning speed.

In 1802, relying on his scientific thinking, he chose an excellent site to build a gunpowder factory on the banks of the Brandivan River in Delaware. The water flow here was sufficient to power waterwheels, there were willow trees nearby that could produce high-quality charcoal, the proximity to the Delaware River made it convenient to transport sulfur and saltpeter, and there were quarries nearby that provided building materials.

Furthermore, in the subsequent War of 1812, DuPont, thanks to its superior quality control resulting in stable quality and excellent consistency, outperformed other inconsistent American-made gunpowder.

Then in 1857, Lamotte du Pont developed Type B explosive, which, despite being highly hygroscopic, became the best explosive and a favorite of the military.

The subsequent Civil War saw the sale of an astonishing 400 million pounds of gunpowder, generating enormous profits.

The family's illustrious reputation stemmed from World War I, when DuPont seized the opportunity to accelerate production at an alarming pace.

In the last four months of 1914 alone, DuPont sold 2162.13 million pounds of explosives to the Allied Powers. Six months after the start of the war, DuPont’s total production expanded 13 times, and after the United States entered the war, this figure reached an astonishing 54 times.

DuPont supplied half of the Allied arms.

After the war, someone even wrote a bestselling book attacking DuPont, titled "The Death Merchant".

However, DuPont remained unmoved, relying on acquisitions, price agreements, and the elimination of uncooperative competitors. It consolidated 100 companies, controlling 95% of the gunpowder business.

DuPont is ruthless, but its most ruthless tactics are against its own people.

DuPont almost completely disregarded its workers' human rights. Although it adhered to the scientific mindset of its predecessors, the gunpowder factory on the banks of the Brandtwan River actually had very sophisticated safety measures. The mechanics' whale oil lamps had to be covered with glass, the gunpowder workers' boots were made with wooden nails instead of iron nails, and the hooves of the horses pulling the carts were covered with leather.

However, their training was terrible, and the factory frequently exploded. Historically, at least a hundred people have been killed in the accidents. Not only the workers, but also the family members of the workers living next to the factory were injured or killed. The youngest victim was only two years old.

In terms of bloodline, they are even more extreme.

For the sake of family cohesion, the elder DuPont himself said: "I would prefer marriages between cousins ​​for our colony."

In the first three generations of the DuPont family, there were at least 10 marriages between first cousins, making them the largest family in the United States with the most consanguineous marriages.

This provided an exaggerated sense of family cohesion, but the consequences were predictable: the DuPont family had an exaggeratedly high rate of birth defects and tuberculosis.

This unbridled growth continued until the rise of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the American emperor, who elected the first non-DuPont member as president. Then, in 1967, the last family member to serve as president of the company resigned.

Counterintuitively, after controlling the company for over a century and a half, they were very proactive in relinquishing power.

The DuPont family did not have a good time afterward.

Their family trust has a lot of money, belonging to the top tier.

On paper alone, his wealth exceeds 20 billion US dollars. He also has numerous non-controlling companies, trusts, foundations, and board seats, and retains a soft power in Delaware's political and business network.

However, with more than 3500 living cousins ​​scattered around the world, DuPont has never been financially secure.

Most members can only hold a meager $100,000 in trust funds each year, which is nothing compared to other old money families.

In this context, Aurora's attacks on several weapons companies dealt another heavy blow to DuPont.

Back then, leveraging its political and business resources, DuPont held shares in several weapons companies. Now, not only have the annual dividends disappeared, but the stock price is also about to plummet.

Even more alarming, they discovered that the DuPont family was losing influence in their ancestral homeland of Delaware.

The current president and Chen Yiran are both said to have connections with Delaware.

With Chen Yiran's support, they no longer cared about DuPont. The two of them had become Delaware's voice representatives in the United States, and DuPont had been completely excluded.

Under pressure, DuPont VIII bypassed the professional manager and chose the ruthlessness in his blood, directly taking action against Chen Yiran.

His target is Black Velvet, whose abilities have already been demonstrated in the rocket.

Having started their careers in chemistry, they felt that the potential of black velvet might be even more exaggerated than imagined.

Only by obtaining the black velvet can one possibly return to the poker table.

DuPont VIII was even prepared to go into exile; if he could get the prize, he was willing to go to Europe and hide for a few years.

Even if it were a world war, it wouldn't break out for several years, which would at least buy them some time.

Once they had a preliminary goal, the DuPont family began to take action.

As a long-established family, although they have been out of the public eye for many years, they have always maintained their own small team.

They would sponsor many down-on-their-luck soldiers, providing substantial medical funds and tuition fees.

These don't even use modern accounting methods; they come entirely from various old bank accounts, those old trust accounts with incomplete records.

They went to great lengths for this operation. Every time there was a meeting, family members would go to the old house, leave their phones in the meeting room, and have some family members stay behind to hold a fake meeting.

The remaining people went to the inner chamber to begin the real discussion.

Each recruitment was conducted while hiking or fishing in the wild, avoiding all electronic devices.

They weren't sure if Chen Yiran's technology could extract their intelligence from the massive amount of information, but they still executed it with astonishing efficiency, not touching any electronic devices at all throughout the entire mission.

The recruited soldiers also followed this rule, devising a very crude and luck-based method.

They took a detour, dug pits on both sides of the only road leading out of Yuma, and stationed people there to wait for a long time.

They may have been doing useless work all along, but this is the best they can think of that will remain completely hidden.

Three months later, they finally got the opportunity they had been waiting for.

Most of them don't know who they are truly loyal to, but they know that their families have started taking money from the life trust, which is enough to ensure they have enough to eat and drink for the rest of their lives.

The worst that can happen is death; they're used to it.

The only two people who knew the final plan were those whose families were threatened by DuPont.

They knew that none of those who made the move could escape the aurora's pursuit; they were all expendable pawns. They were all just a smokescreen, destined to die.

Aurora's technology is too advanced; they can only take a gamble, a gamble on the fact that the light is dim.

In a secluded room of the DuPont mansion, Pierre DuPont and his father remained, even having dinner there. He asked his father somewhat uneasily, "We feel so passive. Will we win?"

Looking at the satellite imagery on the old television, DuPont VIII said firmly, "We will win!"