My America

"When you're done, go, why not?" Edith Rockefeller heard a strange airway. "How can I not attend my child's father's wedding? Isn't it bad?"

"Edith, don't say that!" Sheffield said with a wry smile. "All the children and sons are complete. I'm not an irresponsible person, but do you always have to give me some time to operate."

"How much time do you give, like Carnegie's wife, wait until he is sixty years old to get married?" Edith Rockefeller said unkindly, "I really look forward to it, it seems that you still have two women at Oak Manor, What do they think? "

"You might not believe that, they are helping Anne choose the date of marriage, and they let me inform you!" Although Edith Rockefeller couldn't see it, Sheffield reached out and turned her hair from her forehead. It ’s pretending, “Several women are very smart people and can communicate.”

If she did n’t hear the voice, Sheffield thought that the other side had already hung up the phone. It took a long time for Edith Rockefeller ’s voice to come. “I ’m also smart, just tell me the day.”

"I can tell you about this now, May 1st is a good day." Sheffield's glory flashed, "That was the Labor Day set by the Europeans, and it was just used to give the workers of the United Company a holiday. . "

May 1st Labor Day originated from the workers' strike in Chicago, USA. More than 216,000 workers in Chicago held a major strike to strive for an eight-hour work system. After a hard and **** struggle, they finally won. To commemorate this great workers' movement, the European Socialist Party announced the following year as the International Labour Day on May 1st.

This decision immediately received a positive response from workers around the world. In the following year, the working class in Europe and the United States took the lead in going to the streets, holding grand demonstrations and rallies to fight for legitimate rights and interests. Since then, on this day, working people from all over the world will meet and march to celebrate.

After the slave owners saw and heard the real environment of the United States in this era, the strike in Chicago can be determined to have basically no effect. This so-called Labor Day mainly achieved influence in Europe.

It seems that one hundred years later, Labor Day in the United States also deliberately avoided this day and chose another month.

"Edith promised to come over. I have set my wedding date, on May 1." Sheffield returned to the living room and notified the three women of the decision they made with their heads. deal.

"Good!" Anne, who smiled like a flower, nodded cleverly. During this time, she smiled almost as much as she grew up. The main owner agreed, and Evelyn and Natalia would not say anything, any decision made by the user's great slave owner.

The Oak Manor is in a happy place, and there is no such thing as others. The news that the boss of the United Company is about to get married is spread in the place where the Sheffield family originated.

"William is getting married? A little hasty, with whom, Natalia?" Gail faced McHale's visit, very unwilling to bring his pants out, and seemed to blame his friend and disturbed himself Daily morning exercises.

"Who? Who else besides Anne! What do you want!" McHale glanced at the tent against Gael and ridiculed, "You are not bad, not worse than William, but it is not so big Quiet. Okay, the date is May 1st, the wedding is held at Arlington Manor. Now almost all of them are receiving invitations, I guess there should be a lot of guests on that day, and the two of us will prepare early . "

"Do you have to do it well? What's the use of spending so much on the wedding?" Gael sighed with a bitter smile. "But who made me born to be a laborer, William has a saying that people have to be under the eaves. Looking down, it might be my current state! "

Gael's self-complaint and Ai made McHale very dissatisfied. "You are in the state you should be envied by 99% of the citizens. Or can you consider studying steel king to do charity?"

"What's the matter? My money is hard-earned! Every piece of money is hard-earned money." Gail shook his head like a rattle and seemed to recall his father's hard work.

The news that Sheffield was about to get married was spreading at an alarming rate, and soon became known to farmers in the southern states. The formulated invitation is considered to be a sign of a truly high society in the South. At this point, these farmers are obviously multi-minded. Sheffield directly ordered 10,000 invitations.

If there are no invited people who are willing to go to Arlington to attend the wedding, they will not be blocked, as long as they do n’t carry a gun. In the New Orleans Morning News, workers in all industries of the United Company will be on May 1. The news of the three-day holiday has been published.

At this time, the slave owner had taken three hostesses to the United Firearms Company. Since the Boer War, the Boer fighting spirit has given countries around the world a very strong impression. After the civil war, the old lady has been in the gun business for the New Year. Reborn, even the members with the American Rifle Association are on the rise.

All this gave the motivation for gun innovation. Sheffield always expected the submachine gun to appear, and ordered the engineer of the United Firearms Company. No matter what method he used, he needed a rifle that could shoot continuously, and he could do it by himself. carry.

The main innovation of this era is still in Europe, and the innovation of firearms must rely on war. It is well known that the United States has not fought in war for many years. If you humiliate Spain, you can count.

The world's first submachine gun appeared in Italy during the First World War. The Italian soldier Leveri designed a Vi Parosha double-barreled automatic gun that can fire nine-millimeter pistols based on the semi-free gun-type automatic principle. This is the earliest submachine gun. Due to the heavy weight of the gun, it is difficult for individual soldiers to use. Although the rate of fire is high, reaching 3,000 rounds per minute, the accuracy is very poor, so it has not been developed.

Later, at the end of World War I, German Smersell produced a nine-millimeter mp18 portable machine gun in the last year of World War I. Although the gun was not very accurate and the range was relatively close, but the magazine was loaded with many cartridges. It can be fired continuously, with strong firepower and short and light weight. It is suitable for single-handed use in charge, counter-charge, street fighting and jungle.

The natural talent of the Germans in ordnance is naturally needless to say, but often when the defeat is determined, the so-called black technology is brought out, and at that time everything is late.

Sheffield would naturally not overestimate the research and development of the United Firearms Company, but when he came here, when he saw this thing called a submachine gun, he still did not associate the strange thing in front of him with the submachine gun in his impression. Certainly one cannot use it, and the shape is too strange.

Only the function of continuous shooting can meet the requirements. The rate of fire is really very high, but the obvious accuracy has approached the flintlock. The hit rate depends on God.

Although my heart is full of you, you are just teasing me! But Sheffield was still ignorant of conscience and praised the engineer, "As a weapon tested under closed conditions, it is already amazing. At least the biggest function of continuous shooting is very good, but it is best to operate it alone. There are no obstacles before it can be regarded as a finished product. Everyone still has to work hard. We have suffered a great loss in weapons. I believe many people can still remember this and do not need me to remind. "

During the civil war, because the industry in the south was weak, although there was no problem of lack of ammunition, it did not have the innovation of weapons. The industry in the north was far larger than that in the south. At the end of the civil war, the coalition army seemed to have encountered the Soviet steel torrent. Similarly, suffered the bitter fruits of industry weakness.

"In the end, the development of the submachine gun must not have leaked news, you also understand." Sheffield put her hands in her pockets to emphasize the seriousness of the matter. This matter must be kept secret.

"Every part is made by a different production line. The workers themselves don't know what they are doing, please rest assured!" The engineer of the United Ordnance Company promised.

"That's fine!" Sheffield nodded, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and left the Ordnance Company. It is a pity that he is not a talented genius. He researched the use of military equipment. Before leaving, he just drew a picture so that the guns made by these engineers would have a rough shape. The picture he left was similar to the later carbines of the United States, and he could not make much of it.

At the port of Houston, a ship arriving from Europe was docked, and the passengers above walked off the ship in twos and threes. A man wearing a sun hat and big pants, Yu Xuan, walked down and seemed to be no stranger and lazy. Said, "Houston has changed so much? It's a bit like Marseille."

The lady behind the man said angrily, "You haven't come back in years, do you remember what it looks like here?"

"William, it seems like a dad!" Anne whispered in the corner of Sheffield's clothes, "Would you like someone to bring them over?"

"Yes, I am so old, I am wearing such a flower!" Sheffield squeezed a bit of a wry smile. There were still four or five middle-aged women behind the two. The frequency of walking was obviously a gang, which made the slave owner very To his appetite, if it were not for Anne to want her mother to attend the wedding, he would definitely not remember the old man who had lost contact for many years.

"Why don't you greet you when your father comes back?" Harry Sheffield finally found a pair of newcomers and complained with integrity.