At that time, Pierre DuPont and his youngest son Irene DuPont established the DuPont family's gunpowder factory in Wilmington, Delaware. At the same time, because Pierre prompted the US government to purchase French Louisiana, this allowed the DuPont family to establish its position in the United States and also allowed the DuPont family's gunpowder company to develop rapidly.

After nearly a century of development, the gunpowder factory of the DuPont family has developed extremely large, especially when Eugene, the fourth leader of the DuPont family, was in charge of the DuPont family, and the entire American gunpowder market was completely monopolized by the DuPont family. At the same time, Eugene also made the DuPont family's business the world and became one of the largest gunpowder manufacturers in the world. But Eugene was not satisfied, and he had a greater ideal. When Eugene wanted to further expand his business, he encountered a very realistic problem. At that time, the Delaware Constitution did not allow the large enterprises he wanted to establish.

Because the United States is a federal state, in addition to the federal constitution of the United States, each state also has its own state constitution, and even the state constitution has higher power in certain areas than the federal constitution. At that time, Delaware's state constitution had such provisions similar to the later Antitrust Law.

The existence of this regulation in the state constitution greatly restricts the development of the DuPont family. If the state constitution does not change this regulation, then the DuPont family will not be able to continue to expand.

As the helmsman of the DuPont family, how could the ambitious Eugene watch this happen? So Eugene mobilized all the forces in the family and began to lobby state legislators and persuade them to agree to amend the constitution. Soon after, the DuPont family manipulated the state legislature to amend the state constitution of Delaware, which eventually made the DuPont family the second "trust" in the United States.

It might not be difficult to manipulate a state as a businessman to amend the state constitution if it was in the modern era, but it was almost impossible in that era. Even the Rockefeller family, the most powerful family in the United States at that time, did not do this. Later, the Mellon family, who served as the three consecutive U.S. Treasury Secretary, did not do this, but the DuPont family made this happen, which shows how powerful the DuPont family is.

As for another big thing the DuPont family has done, it is even more awesome.

As we all know, one of the extremely important reasons why the Japanese surrendered in World War II was that the two mushroom bullets of "fat man" and "little boy".

During World War II, although the Japanese were defeated on the Pacific battlefield, Japan at that time had no plans to surrender. They even made military plans to resist the US military on the ground. In fact, the US military fought very hard in the Pacific War, especially the battles such as Okinawa, Iwo Jima, and so on. They could no longer be described as simple hard work. "Terrible" is the most appropriate description of those wars.

The reason why those tragic battles were so fierce was that the Japanese soldiers were about to fight to the death because they saw that the US military was about to reach their own homeland. It is conceivable that if the US military really reached the Japanese homeland, the US military would pay a greater price.

With the Americans' beating, if the price they pay is too high, then they are likely not to land in Japan, and the final result of the Pacific War may be another result.

The Japanese were already ready to resist the US military to the death on their homeland, but, however, two mushroom bullets that made the Japanese irresistible completely destroyed Japan's confidence in resistance, and eventually led to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese Emperor.

The DuPont family played an extremely important role in the "Manhattan Project" that developed mushroom bombs at that time. Even from some perspectives, the entire "Manhattan Project" was actually dominated 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, driven by the great physicist Einstein, decided to quickly carry out related developments and strive to be developed before it was made in Germany. US 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, and almost all R&D and manufacturing processes are completed in this factory. Green Walter, director of DuPont's laboratory, is a director of the "Manhattan Project".

At that time, DuPont Group was the agent of the US government. U.S. Congress members wanted to investigate the Manhattan plan and could not enter. In addition to the high confidentiality, another important reason was that DuPont's managers liked to be quiet. In the end, after the efforts of Greenwall and others, the United States successfully entered the first nuclear test explosion.

Although the patent for mushroom bullets belongs to the US government, all the knowledge generated during the entire research and development and manufacturing process belongs to the DuPont family.

From double the territory of the United States, to a company that can operate the state legislature to amend the constitution, to actually dominating the development of the first mushroom bullet in the United States and the world, as long as other families can make one, it will be enough to leave their name in the business world. The DuPont family has made three of them, and families around the world can compare with them.

This shows the depth of the DuPont family.

It is obviously not a wise thing to fight a family with such a rich background, and Yang Jing has no doubt about this. Even if the amount of funds that Yang Jing controls now has exceeded that of the DuPont family, Yang Jing will definitely not do such a stupid thing for a family that is evil for no reason.

If you return these handwritten information from the fifth-generation helmsman of the DuPont family that you discovered, it is obviously a good thing that can quickly bring your relationship with this family.

So when Yang Jing came out of the basement with a box of information, notes and manuscripts, he immediately asked Butler Shayton to contact the people of the DuPont family.

Butler Shayton, who had met Alfred, was extremely excited when he saw these manuscripts and materials. He did not expect that in the basement that had been inquired for decades, there were still so many precious manuscript materials.

These manuscript materials are not very valuable to outsiders, but they are definitely of irreplaceable importance to the DuPont family. As the old housekeeper of Alfred Manor, Schetton naturally hopes that these manuscript materials can be completely returned to the DuPont family.

Yang Jing would not do these things personally. With the old housekeeper Xie Ding, Yang Jing could completely let go of such things.

His main energy now has been attracted by the two notes found in the basement...

These two notebooks are definitely old objects, and according to the handwriting and the contents in it, these two notebooks are obviously also Alfred's personal notes.

The reason why Yang Jing left these two notes alone did not return these two notes to the DuPont family along with the manuscript materials of Alfred was because Yang Jing noticed some differences from the content recorded in these two notes.

It was just because some of the things recorded in these two notes were fragmented, and Yang Jing couldn't figure out what was recorded in these two notes for a while. But it is certain that the two notes recorded definitely not Alfred's manuscript information on gunpowder technology, but rather it was more like a travel note, because it recorded a lot of place names and some book titles, and of course, more of them were numbers that Yang Jing couldn't understand.

After seeing the contents of these two notes, Yang Jing's intuition thought that he should leave these two notes, so he misunderstood the two notes.

The reason for this intuition is that in addition to the things recorded in the notebook that I can't understand is more because of Alfred's experience.

As the head of the "Three Brothers of ZTE" who led the DuPont family to re-show their glory in the early 20th century, Alfred actually did not live very well in the second half of his life.

In 1902, Eugene, the fourth-generation helmsman of the DuPont family, suddenly passed away, which led to the huge DuPont family's leaderlessness. Moreover, because Eugene expanded too quickly when she was alive, this greatly reduced the DuPont family's control over the family's core business gunpowder company. If Eugene was alive, then the DuPont family would naturally not worry about others occupying the nest, but Eugene's sudden death immediately made the old directors of the DuPont family on the board of directors of the DuPont Group mess up.

Because most of these old directors are too old, no one is willing to stand up and take over DuPont Group. Some directors even proposed to sell DuPont Group to DuPont Group's largest competitor, Lufflein Rand.

But as the only young man on the board of directors, Alfred Irene DuPont's great-grandson, Alfred Irene DuPont, quit. He can't sell his sons in this way, right? Not to mention selling DuPont Group to its largest competitor, this is simply a blasphemy to his ancestors.

So Alfred suggested that he and his two cousins ​​take over the DuPont family together.

These three brothers did not disappoint their ancestors. With the management of the three of them, the DuPont family flourished 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 known as the "Three Brothers of the DuPont family's ZTE."

However, although the three brothers brought the DuPont family back on track, the thing that "can share hardships but cannot share wealth" is inevitable in this ancient family. Alfred's two cousins ​​later began to seize the power that should have belonged to Alfred in one way or another, and drove Alfred out of the three power center.

The incident of brotherly battles occurred in the DuPont family and ended with Alfred being touched by the power center.

This is also the fundamental reason why Alfred built such a manor on the remote Grand Island in 1918 and then focused on experimenting here.

Alfred has the charm of his great-grandfather Irene and is very fond of technology. But it is precisely because of his obsession with technology that he ignores the betrayal of the people he was originally closest to. He was eventually rushed here to retire and do experiments, which is actually a last resort.

But the things recorded in the two notes obviously have nothing to do with the gunpowder experiment, so what secret is hidden in these two notes?
Chapter completed!