The background of this family is not something that ordinary people can imagine.

The DuPont family has been passed down for more than two hundred years and has accomplished many great things. The three most famous ones are still talked about today.

The first major event was naturally what Pierre du Pont, the founder of the DuPont family, did to facilitate the U.S. government's purchase of French Louisiana from the French government.

The American War of Independence broke out in 1775, and the United States declared independence in 1776. It was not until 1781 that after seven years of war, the Americans led by Washington finally defeated the British Empire. In 1783, they signed the Treaty of Versailles with the British, announcing the true end of the War of Independence and the establishment of the United States of America with only thirteen states.

When the United States was first established, its territory consisted of only the thirteen states on the east coast, with an area of ​​only about two million square kilometers, which was a far cry from the later United States' land area of ​​nearly 9.6 million square kilometers. The vast land in the central and western United States did not belong to the United States at that time.

At that time, Pierre DuPont, the first generation of the DuPont family, was still serving the Poitiers dynasty of France far away in Europe. However, when Napoleon came to power, he believed that Pierre was loyal to the French royal family, so he exiled all members of the DuPont family to the United States. In this way, the DuPont family's base was transferred from France to the United States.

Pierre was at a loss when he arrived in the United States. The United States was a completely new place for him. His family had nothing except the savings they brought from France. He had to lead his family to start a new business. Pierre had two sons, the younger son Irene Dupont and the older son Victor Dupont. Irene was a student of Lavoisier, the "Father of Modern French Chemistry", from whom he learned how to make gunpowder; Victor was a socialite who lingered in the aristocratic circle and knew more celebrities than Pierre.

When in Europe, Pierre used Irene's chemical knowledge to build a gunpowder factory, and then used Victor's social skills to expand the gunpowder factory.

However, after being expelled to the United States by Napoleon, the DuPont family's European industries were all ruined. Pierre had no choice but to resort to the old trick and produce gunpowder in the United States. After all, the United States is different from France. Although Pierre is familiar with many American officials, he always has some problems in doing things. Pierre and his son set their sights on the US government. Irene suggested that his father should advise President Jefferson to buy Louisiana, the French territory in America.

Jefferson had actually thought about purchasing French Louisiana a year earlier, because at that time the United States actually occupied New Orleans, and the sovereignty of New Orleans belonged to France. In order to keep New Orleans, purchasing Louisiana was the best way, but the French government seemed uninterested in the US proposal, or France could not accept the conditions offered by the United States.

Jefferson was very happy when Pierre got involved. He immediately appointed Pierre as the plenipotentiary representative to purchase French Louisiana and negotiate with Napoleon on behalf of the United States. Finally, France agreed to sell it to the United States at 4 cents per acre, and the final total transaction price was 15 million US dollars.

How big was French Louisiana? It's very simple. The entire central United States belonged to French Louisiana. If it were defined by specific regions in later generations, it would be the 14 states of Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Oklahoma, with a total area of ​​about 2 million square kilometers! It was about the same size as the land area of ​​the United States at that time!

Washington is known as the father of the United States, but the United States he founded only had thirteen states. The transaction between the United States and France led and facilitated by Pierre of the DuPont family directly doubled the territory of the United States!

If we look at it from this perspective alone, how much inferior is Pierre to Washington?

After the deal was made, in return, the U.S. government handed over all saltpeter refining business to the DuPont family. From then on, they had the support of the U.S. government, and their business in the United States flourished.

This is the DuPont family.

Although the DuPont family was somewhat opportunistic in the initial stages, how many people could facilitate a land purchase transaction between two governments?

Besides, the United States is a place where people eat each other. If the DuPont family did not have the ability and strength, how could it have persisted in the United States for more than 200 years and remained prosperous?

Thanks to the information explosion of later generations, the mysterious DuPont family is not so mysterious in Yang Jing's eyes, so Yang Jing knows a lot of things the DuPont family did in the past. The DuPont family's promotion of the United States to purchase French Louisiana was just the beginning of the DuPont family's rise. Pierre DuPont's descendants have also done many great things...