Back then, Pierre du Pont and his youngest son Irene du Pont established the DuPont family's gunpowder factory in Wilmington, Delaware. At the same time, because Pierre urged the US government to purchase French Louisiana, the DuPont family established its position in the United States and the DuPont family's gunpowder company developed rapidly.

After nearly a century of development, the DuPont family's gunpowder factory has grown to be extremely large, especially when Eugene DuPont, the fourth leader of the DuPont family, was in charge of the DuPont family. The entire American gunpowder market has been completely monopolized by the DuPont family. At the same time, Eugene also expanded the DuPont family's business to the world, becoming one of the world's largest gunpowder manufacturers. But Eugene was not satisfied, he had a bigger 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 enterprise he wanted to establish to exist.

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

The existence of this law in the state constitution has greatly restricted the development of the DuPont family. If the state constitution does not change this law, the DuPont family will not be able to continue expanding.

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

As a businessman, manipulating a state to amend its state constitution may not be a difficult task in modern times, but it was almost impossible at that time. Even the most powerful Rockefeller family in the United States at the time had never done it. The Mellon family, which later served as three consecutive U.S. Treasury Secretaries, had never done such a thing. But the DuPont family did it, which shows how powerful the DuPont family's foundation is.

As for another big thing the DuPont family did, it was even more amazing.

As we all know, one of the most important reasons why the Japanese surrendered during World War II was the two mushroom bombs, "Fat Man" and "Little Boy".

During World War II, although the Japanese were losing ground in the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese had no intention of surrendering. They even made a military plan to resist the US military on their homeland. In fact, the US military fought very hard in the Pacific War, especially in the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima. The words "hard" can no longer be used to describe the wars. "Tragic" is the most appropriate description of those wars.

The reason why those tragic battles were so tragic was that the Japanese fought desperately because they saw that the US troops were about to reach their homeland. It is conceivable that if the US troops really reached the Japanese homeland, the price they paid would be even greater.

Given the aggressive nature of the Americans, if the price they paid was too high, they would most likely not land on the Japanese mainland, and the final outcome of the Pacific War might be different.

The Japanese had originally prepared to fight the U.S. military to the death on their own soil, but two mushroom bombs that made it impossible for the Japanese to resist completely destroyed the Japanese confidence in resistance, which ultimately led to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese emperor.

At that time, the DuPont family played an extremely important role in the "Manhattan Project" that developed mushroom bombs. In some ways, 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, under the impetus of the great physicist Einstein, decided to quickly carry out relevant research and development, and strive to develop them before Germany can make them. US President Roosevelt thought of the DuPont family, and threw a heavy burden on them.

The largest factory used in the development of mushroom bombs, Hanford, was owned by the DuPont family. Almost all research and development and manufacturing processes were completed in this factory, and DuPont laboratory director Greenwalt was even a director of the "Manhattan Project."

At that time, the DuPont Group was an agent of the US government. Members of the US Congress were not allowed to investigate the Manhattan Project. In addition to the high confidentiality, another important reason was that DuPont's managers liked quietness. In the end, after the efforts of Greenwall and others, the United States successfully conducted its first nuclear test.

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

From doubling the territory of the United States, to a company being able to manipulate the state legislature to amend the constitution, to actually leading the development of the first mushroom bomb in the United States and the world, if other families could accomplish just one of these three things, it would be enough to make a name for themselves in the business world. The DuPont family actually accomplished all three, and there are very few families in the world that can compare with them.

This shows the profound heritage of the DuPont family.

It is obviously not a wise thing to go against a family with such a rich background, and Yang Jing has no doubt about this. Even though the amount of funds owned by the Dragon Fund controlled by Yang Jing has exceeded that of the DuPont family, Yang Jing would definitely not do such a stupid thing as to make enemies with such a family for no reason.

If these handwritten materials of the fifth-generation helmsman of the DuPont family that he had discovered were returned to the DuPont family, it would obviously be a good thing that would quickly bring him closer to the family.

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