Chapter 2: Deputy Chairman

After passing the square, you will walk into a manor for a while. That is the Sheffield manor. There are already a lot of carriages waiting in the manor. Obviously, today is a more important day for this place.
After sorting out the bow tie around her neck, Sheffield slowly walked off the carriage. At that moment, another carriage stopped, and a middle-aged woman walked down on it. Rarely capable in this era, her short blonde hair gave her a sense of fierceness, and at a glance she knew the rare superwoman.
It is now January 1895. Texas winter is very short. In fact, it is not necessary to wear such thick clothes, but the woman is wearing thick mink and apparently just returned from the field.
"Hello, Auntie!" Sheffield did not dare to neglect, and nodded at the middle-aged lady who had just got off the carriage. "Did you just come back from the north? Have you been comfortable recently?"
Isabella glanced at her nephew and sighed indignantly, "It's not good, the members of the Rifle Association are shrinking. Now people, don't buy guns one by one, it's really a headache."
"That's really bad news! But that's the troubles of the chairman. Auntie, you're the deputy chairman." Sheffield shrugged, expressing her sympathy.
The headquarters of the American Rifle Association is located in Virginia. The Rifle Association originated during the American Civil War. This geographical location is quite illustrative. Virginia was the center of the South during the Civil War, and the agricultural economy in the South is highly prevalent in hunting and the so-called gun ranger culture. north.
Although the nationalities of the world are very different, the northerners are brave and warlike, and the southerners are good at economics, but the United States is the reverse. During the Civil War, the economic and population of the northern United States were several times that of the south, but in the war, they also paid The number of casualties is also several times that of the Southern Union Army.
The Civil War has just caught up with a key era in the evolution of firearms. The use of miniature bombs and rifled guns has given the Southern Army such advantages. Recognizing this, one of the North Army veterans jumped out and shouted: We want to let the northerners, no, all Americans learn to play guns.
After Edward Sheffield was injured in the war, I felt I might be dead soon, and I used the last moment to adopt the strategy of Durant that I can't beat you, but I can join your strategy. Hearing that the North is going to establish a rifle association, it will start to penetrate the rifle association.
"What ’s wrong with the deputy chairman, there are fewer and fewer members, and the factories in your home will be affected. The firearms will not be sold, and the loss will still be our home! William, you still do n’t understand these things, although your studies are well done. , But in practice it's still a lot worse. "Isabella looked at her nephew who was destined and didn't want to continue talking. To say that the most failing opponent of the Sheffield family was her brother. The serious heir was a , Longer in Paris than in the United States.
"My aunt, I don't mean this, but the current environment is like this. There is no way to do this without the outbreak of war!" Sheffield said helplessly. It is now a rare time when the American Rifle Association is out of touch.
Of course, for this self-proclaimed non-profit organization, it should have been suffering. It's just that after being infiltrated by some southern evils, he always wants to use the Rifle Association for his own profit. This is reasonable.
Isabella does not care about the fate of the Rifle Association, but fewer and fewer members, the Sheffield family's arsenal sales will also be reduced, in order to sell their own firearms, the Deputy Chairman of the Rifle Association is also worried.
Sheffield didn't doubt at all that if the family who had been born in this life would produce profits if they killed, the Sheffield family would become the forerunners among them. No one is doing the losing business, and the losing business is rushing to do it.
The interior of Sheffield Manor is well-decorated. Among the huge meeting rooms, a woman with a lot of hair but very elegant, with a calm color between her eyebrows, listens quietly to the discussion of others.
Slowly, the conference room became silent, and the men who had just been filled with indignation did not dare to breathe, and their eyes fell on Annabel. Even at this age, Annabel ’s face could still see the young The appearance of the time, of course, is not important. Others are not down under Annabell's pomegranate skirt. The reason why they came is because of their status.
"It's a difficult problem, it seems that the partners who fled at the time can't hold on." Annabel rubbed her head and rubbed the wedding ring on her finger. "My husband said that when he was alive, they will come to Brazil sooner or later. Regrettably, when we tried our best to the Yankee and we could only achieve a conditional truce, what about the unfamiliar Brazil? In the end, we still inevitably faced this result. "
"Anna, this is not to blame that we fell twice from a pit. The Brazilian government does not compensate for the loss of the plantation. This can involve hundreds of millions of assets. Just like the Yankee thirty years ago, it is easy to sign a decree, but we Who will compensate for the loss? Now that 30 years have passed in the United States, we ca n’t say anything, but the plantation owners who ran to Brazil were all our friends and relatives, so many families were divided into two. , Now they can't hold on, what should they do? "
"Yes, there is no compensation at all, this is robbery."
Everyone opened your mouth to me, what happened in Brazil at this moment reminded them of the Civil War thirty years ago. For them, this has always been a thorn in their hearts. Not only has it not healed today, but it has been reawakened because of the worrying situation of many plantation owners in Brazil.
"So what do you want? In mobilizing relatives from various states to bring a gun to fight?" Annabel said with a frost on her face. "If it wasn't because everyone knew me, my husband was a nostalgic person, early The Sheffield family who have completed the transformation, are they still involved in the Civil War? A shot in Edward ’s battlefield caused chronic lead poisoning, how to calculate this account? I was alone at my young age and became a widow. Come back to my husband's life. "
"Since the introduction of the Brazilian Abolition Act six years ago, it has been six years now. Do you see the attitude of various countries? At that time, you also hoped for the mediation of the British Empire, and the mediation did not appear in the end. Edward said that, The British are not credible, they are hypocrites. It is not as credible as the Slavs I bought from Eastern Europe. "