Chapter 134: A Hot Item That Got Popular Before It Was Released

"I don't want to do anything with hatred. It's always the Republicans who are stirring up hatred. Of course, it has been much quieter in recent years!" Sheffield pondered for a moment, and still felt that it would be better to make things clear to the public since there were so many people talking.

Because of the gap between the Yankees and the Dixies, these people, under the invisible blessing of public opinion, are likely to choose to stand on the side of the overall situation, but after so many years, the overall environment is completely different from that of the past. If it is too hateful, who knows what they will say when they go out.

No matter how great the hatred is, it is not as important as personal interests, so as long as they cooperate on the surface, Sheffield will be satisfied. If we talk about implementing everything with the power of the family, there are actually only two places where we can be sure, Texas and Louisiana, and the rest of the southern states still need the help of these partners.

Of course, Sheffield immediately handed out a new bait, saying that he now had a way to make everyone's farms go further. In the final analysis, he still had to tempt them with benefits and ask for help under the condition of giving benefits. Instead of showing off his power as the head of the Thirteen Provinces Green Forest Association under the so-called righteousness and unity.

"The United Machinery Company has developed a new type of agricultural machinery, which has been tested by the Germans. It is much more efficient than livestock. It will be tested on our farm soon. It will be released to the public after being confirmed to have no problems. I guarantee that the new agricultural machinery will make our farms better." Sheffield told these small farmers about the recent progress. In fact, they are not small. They cannot be compared with the Sheffield family, but each of them has tens of thousands of acres of land.

At present, Sheffield has chosen the industry that is most closely related to his family's business. The purpose of manufacturing agricultural machinery is to serve the farm, and internal combustion engines need fuel, so he agreed to cooperate with the Rockefeller family and take a ride. Promoting agricultural mechanization will improve production and give him more say in the field of agricultural and animal husbandry products. This is still to consolidate the Sheffield family's foundation, agricultural and animal husbandry products.

This is also what must be done at present. Promoting electrification is the first step to truly cross industries. Of course, these two issues are inseparable. He now needs help with the latter issue, and the former area can be shared with these farmers and plantation owners.

"It is undeniable that we Dixies are far more pioneering than those Yankees. We conquered all the territories of the United States and shed blood for the United States. Everyone knows this clearly. But if we don't intervene in other areas, we will fall into the situation before the Civil War. The wealth accumulated over many years will be looted by a civil war. Land is the foundation of our survival, so the first step is to make our farms stronger. Mechanized farms to form large-scale agriculture are the right path for us. In this regard, you and my family have common interests."

Sheffield did not deny that he was tying these farmers again, but the fact was that it was true, and he meant well by pointing out a clear path and pointing out the further trend of farm economy.

Many people agreed with these words, but before seeing the real thing, this approval was only in their hearts.

The widespread use of machinery can liberate manpower to the greatest extent. For major farms and plantations, it means using less manpower to manage larger land, which can produce more and cost less. In addition, the agricultural conditions in the southern states are far superior to those in the northern states. This will make agriculture have great potential.

A greater advantage is that it can cover a wider area of ​​land. You should know that although the agricultural population is not the majority in the United States, the land they live on is very extensive. If there were universal suffrage based on population, the Republican Party in later generations would actually no longer be a match for the Democratic Party. The number of voters in many consecutive elections has been smaller than that of the Democratic Party, and even the voters of real estate businessmen are not as many as those of Hillary Clinton. If it were not for the principle of winner-takes-all, the Republican Party would have been treated as an opposition party for eternity.

If you take into account that during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the positions of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party were reversed, and if you regard the Republican Party after that as the Democratic Party in the late 19th century, you will find that the agricultural-based states of the Great West and the South even stayed in power longer than candidates from the industrial northeastern United States.

Although they are not numerous, their political power is not small at all. Thinking of this problem, Sheffield gave these partners on the same front a shot of prevention and said, "Mr. William Bryan is a respectable man, but some of his ideas are not very acceptable. I don't know what you think in your heart, but before that, I would like to remind you that it is not likely that he will represent the Democratic Party in the national election. Maybe you don't necessarily agree with me, but you should be cautious when expressing your views on this person. Let's wait and see."

Sheffield received partners from various states in Houston, making full use of his personal connections. He introduced his views on the promotion of large-scale agriculture and the idea of ​​electrification. In the following days, he took the guests to the United Machinery Company to see the new crawler tractor, which left a deep impression on the farmers.

These farmers who came here have been dealing with land all their lives. No one knows better than them how much manpower a farm needs to manage and how much crops it can produce. They can see at a glance that if these new crawler tractors can be promoted and applied, although there may be some waste, the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages. They can break through the bottleneck of the farm and occupy a larger area of ​​land.

Sheffield is also very clear about this. Large-scale mechanized agriculture is definitely not as good as intensive farming in terms of average per-acre yield. This is inevitable. However, the United States has its own national conditions, and eventually a situation was formed in which two million family farms supported large-scale agriculture.

Sheffield understood this, and other farmers naturally understood it too. Almost immediately, someone expressed his willingness to use his own land to help finalize the production of the tractor. This was naturally rejected. Sheffield said that he could not allow defective machinery to enter the market. Only reliable products could be put into mass production.

Now this batch of products is not enough for their own use! At this time, the others realized that this inadvertently let Mrs. Anna's heir show off, but it didn't matter. He dared to use such a large farm, which showed that he had great confidence in the new crawler tractor, so they had nothing to worry about.

They even started placing orders directly, which made the agricultural machinery, which has not yet been officially launched, popular before it was released. Orders were received from farms in various states.

(End of this chapter)