Scrooge also heard about Gardner spending more than half of his day fishing, riding horses, and frequenting various clubs and the like. However, Scrooge did not show any dissatisfaction, at least not as much as Rockefeller. In Rockefeller's opinion, this is a typical inactive, incessantly wasting his time and talent.

"Gardner the guy's ability is quite good, maybe not to catch up with your perversion, but should not be worse than me, certainly better than Clark. He thinks clearly, and responds quickly, if he is willing to put his mind on the company's business, then the company's help will certainly be much greater than now. But he ...... has to give himself half a day off every day so he can do those meaningless crap, which is just chronic suicide!" Rockefeller shook his head and said to Scrooge, a painful look.

"John, remember that time we were at Warren? Remember that time we had a barbecue at Warren Delano's?" Scrooge laughed.

"Yeah." Rockefeller replied without thinking, "How could I forget that?"

"And do you remember Mr. Warren's special seasoning?"

"That damned old thing! I'm glad that pervert Warren could eat it!" Rockefeller remembered this incident, and felt the strange taste come out of his mouth immediately, so he picked up the water on the table and gulped it down twice.

It was not long ago that Scrooge and Rockefeller went on a business trip to New York. They also went to visit Warren Delano. Mr. Warren had just returned from a hunting trip and brought back a wild boar, and was directing the helpers to make a roast tenderloin.

"Ah, John, and Scrooge. What a coincidence you're here. Gosh, you didn't smell it and come here, did you?"

"Aah! Aah!" A gust of wind blew the smell of chili powder into Rockefeller's nose, Rockefeller violently sneezed twice, and tears almost flowed out.

"You call this aroma? This is so spicy, how to eat ah!" Rockefeller said.

"You ignorant hillbilly! This is my friend to faraway India to bring the Indian chili, do not look spicy smell, eat it, can make you feel like going to heaven. But the cowards are afraid to eat." Warren Delano proudly bragged, while squinting at Rockefeller and Scrooge, a look like I just despise you cowards.

At that moment, the chef brought several skewers of tenderloin to the table. Warren Delano picked up a skewer, took a bite, then closed his eyes while chewing, and then his face turned red as if he had drunk two or three bottles of Red Star Diablo. After a long time, he opened his eyes and said, "Ah, it's like being in heaven! How about a bunch of them?"

The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.

Indian pepper is what things, others do not know, Shi Gaoji but know very well. The thing is also called the Indian ghost pepper and is one of the world's most spicy pepper. According to the standards of later times, generally speaking, the spiciest pungent seasoning spiciness is only 2500 Skvir, while the spiciness of this Indian ghost pepper can be as high as one million Skvir. Once, as a representative of the Northern Company, the previous generation of Scrooge went to India's neighboring country, Bangladesh. At that time, the host gave each of them a small jar of this stuff, which had been pickled. Scrooge tasted a small bite, well, the taste, of this life can not forget. Looking at Warren Delano actually can eat this thing, Scrooge also has some admiration.

I do not know the great Rockefeller is unwilling to show weakness, and pick up a skewer of grilled meat to the mouth ......

"At first there is no feeling, then suddenly 'boom', like in the battlefield by at least 24 pounds of cannon directly hit the same, the whole brain, and even the whole body is exploded, into a shattered, no feeling whatsoever, even thinking seems not to exist, and then after After a long time, my soul returned to my body - until now, my mouth is still on fire - water! Give me water!" After rinsing his mouth with almost two tons of water, Rockefeller barely regained his ability to speak, describing the taste of the pepper.

"Why do you bring that up?" Rockefeller asked.

"That Indian chili, Warren does think it's delicious. But do you think it's delicious?"

"I'm not a pervert, how could ......"

"So, someone else's heaven may be hell for you, and vice versa. You think Mr. Gardner is wasting his life, but maybe in his opinion, it is enjoying life." Scrooge said unhurriedly.

"How is this ...... forget it, I do not talk to you about this. You will tolerate your staff so 'enjoy life'?" Rockefeller immediately changed his perspective.

"That depends on the situation, if I gave him to do a hundred parts a day for pay, but he only did 90, then even if he was in the factory all day, I have to let him go or reduce his wages. But if he does all the work in the first half of the day, well, what does it matter to me what he does in the second half of the day? As far as I know, Mr. Gardner has done in half a day what an average person would normally do in a day, so what do you have to complain about?"

"But he could have done a better job ......"

"Come on, look, we're going back around again." Scrooge laughed, "Actually, let's think about it, what did you expect from Mr. Clark when he said he was going to bring in a new joint venture partner to the company?"

"Well, to be able to come up with the money so that we could have money to go into new areas, not be too conservative, not be too bad in terms of ability," Rockefeller said.

"So you see, where does Mr. Gardner not meet your requirements? Besides, if he's as interested in the business of the company as you are - well, you think it's a pleasure to have another enhanced version of Mr. Clark in the company, or that he wears the same pants as Mr. Clark in everything."

"He wouldn't be an enhanced Clark if that were the case, but a weakened Scrooge."

"If he were a man like me, he would have the desire to control everything in the company. Do you think you'd like a guy like that ...... Don't take it out on me, I don't care about Clark Rockefeller and you're focusing your main efforts on this company and don't care much about McDonald Infantry Arms, do you?"

"I'm not going to fight you for control of McDonnell Infantry Arms when I'm focusing on it. Because I think I'm not as good as you at this. You take the lead and get more of the meat." Rockefeller said.

"But if I put my main focus on Clark Rockefeller to compete with you for the baton, what do you think?" Scrooge asked.

"I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to it, as long as you can prove that you can make as much money in food trading as you can in arms." Rockefeller smiled and said.

"Believe you! Your guy's desire to control is not normal." Scrooge said in his heart. But he also saw, now Rockefeller's opinion of Gardner is much less.

"I just don't like the way this guy treats the company as a side business, especially when I'm so busy every day that I get angry when I see an idle guy. This guy is like this, it is not too bad." Rockefeller said again.

"I understand. You're just jealous." Scrooge laughed.

But Scrooge knew that Mr. Gardner was not a real idle philanderer. For this in the original history of the same was introduced by Clark's joint venture, in the history of the legacy is also left a legacy. He should be the first partner in history to be kicked out of the company by Rockefeller. And is also the only one willingly kicked out of the company by Rockefeller's partners - when Rockefeller saw that this guy's ambition was not in business, but in politics, so desperately encouraged him to go into politics, and said he was willing to buy his shares at a high price so that he could have money to the campaign or something. The company was willing to buy his shares at a high price so that he could have money to run for office. So Gardner sold his shares and quit. Later, Mr. Gardner became the mayor of Cleveland and was later elected to Congress, but Scrooge couldn't remember if he was a senator or a congressman.

......

"Many old members of the Whig party have joined the Republican Party, Gardner you are also an old member, are you interested in joining our Republican Party?" A tall man on a horse asked Gardner.

"You are talking about the Republican Party that Mr. Lincoln is organizing, right? I've noticed this new party." Gardner loosened the rope and let his horse walk casually across the grass.

"I think this party has a lot of promise." The tall man said, "The members of the Republican Party are staunch abolitionists so that the mainstream of the Whig Party will be united under this banner. At the same time, Mr. Lincoln is a statesman who knows the difference, who is good at coordination, and who is clear and determined. The Democrats were able to win this election solely by the division of the Whig party, and once those in the Whig party who were firmly opposed to slavery were united if only by these men, we were sure to win in four years."

"How did Mr. Lincoln feel about the conflict with the South?" Gardner asked.

"Mr. Lincoln thought that slavery in the South could not be continued in any case and that the whole United States could not be sacrificed to the South in response to their opposition. But Mr. Lincoln also stressed that the conflict between the North and the South should be resolved by negotiation and not by other means." The man replied.

"Ah, that's an interesting one. As you may know, I have recently taken a stake in a food company. I've been spending a lot of money on my own, so financially, I have very little to offer the Republican Party. But I recently met a fascinating guy, well, have you heard of the little kid owner of McDonald's Infantry Arms? He might also be interested in these Republican ideas ......"