1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 112 Sufficient Preparation

It was mid-November, 1850, when Fremont arrived in California.

The California winter has been cold and wet, with five days of non-stop rain.

The ship sailed slowly into the busy port of San Francisco, and Fremont stepped off the ship under an umbrella.

He was followed by some twenty servants whom he had brought from Georgia and forty more zealots from New York.

Liang Yao welcomed Fremont at the heavily guarded port of San Francisco.

When the local people heard the news of Fremont's return, they spontaneously went to the port to welcome Fremont's return and gave Fremont a heroic courtesy.

It made Fremont feel that all his hard work in Washington, D.C., was worthwhile, even if the results were somewhat unsatisfactory.

"Welcome home, my good comrade."

Liang Yao said while holding Fremont's callused hand.

"Home, yes, California is our home, and we don't allow anyone to trample on and destroy our home." Fremont showed a relieved smile.

Fremont was pleasantly surprised to find that San Francisco had changed dramatically during his absence.

The new urban area of ​​San Francisco centered on the commercial street is neatly planned, and brand-new buildings have sprung up on these planned lands.

There are even several factories on the edge of the city, and the chimney of one of them is billowing thick smoke.

"There are factories in California now?" Fremont asked with some surprise.

Fremont is a native of Georgia in the south, but he is not a planter who stubbornly pursues a poetic and picturesque pastoral life.

He believes that the development of industry is the way out for the future of the United States. Therefore, after the outbreak of the Civil War, Fremont did not choose to be loyal to the Confederacy, but insisted on his own beliefs, betrayed his family and chose to serve the North.

"Yes, there are, but currently only the steam engine factory and the shipyard are operating normally. The other factories are short of workers and raw materials. They just settled in the industrial zone first and have not started work yet." Liang Yao said, "Now we have more important things If we have to do it, we can only slow down the work of the factory."

Strauss directly acquired some small and medium-sized industrial and mining enterprises in the eastern region, dismantled the machines of these enterprises and took the route of Nicaragua to transport these machines to California at the fastest speed.

The machines arrived in California with 1200 skilled craftsmen and engineers.Liang Yao almost directly transplanted these mature industrial and mining enterprises in the east to California.

It's just Congress going its own way and insisting on taking back California land.In order to protect his legal land, Liang Yao could only temporarily slow down the pace of industrial development.

"If those consortiums weren't too greedy, with your ability, these factories in California would probably have started operation long ago."

Fremont sighed. He looked around and saw that the port was full of heavily armed personnel. Jinshan Bay even built a fixed coastal defense battery, blocking the entire Jinshan Bay.

Armed men on alert are inspecting ships preparing to enter the port and questioning their captains rigorously.Even the merchant ships of the Britons and Frenchmen were no exception.

Fremont understood that Liang Yao had spent most of his energy on defending the port of San Francisco.

"It's meaningless to say these things. I want to let the guys in Congress know that Californians are not easy to mess with." Liang Yao ordered someone to pull a carriage and said to Fremont, "Fremont, get in the car .”

Fremont didn't want to take a carriage, but asked Liang Yao, "Is there a horse? I'm more used to riding a horse."

"Of course there is."

Liang Yao clapped his hands, and Kony quickly brought over two majestic horses.

The two galloped all the way back to Tingtao Garden on horseback.

Listening to the guards on duty at the guard box at the gate of Tao Garden, seeing that Liang Yao had returned, they saluted Liang Yao and Fremont with a very strange but pleasing military salute.

This kind of military salute looks like a Prussian military salute. Could it be that Liang Yao recruited Prussian officers to train his army?
Fremont was full of doubts. He had noticed Liang Yao's soldiers along the way. These soldiers were well-trained, and they didn't look like stragglers at all. They had to walk side by side even when they walked.

Before arriving in California, Fremont did not have much hope for the California infantry regiment formed by Liang Yao.

Liang Yao is good at business and proficient in civil affairs, but he is not a professional military personnel after all.

Fremont had low expectations of the California Infantry, and he was content as long as it met militia standards.

Now it seems that Liang Yao is not an amateur in military affairs.

Although Fremont didn't know the actual combat effectiveness of the California Infantry Regiment, on the surface, the spiritual outlook and organization of the California Infantry Regiment had surpassed many infantry regiments in active service in the United States.

Fremont was now more confident in defending California.

"These soldiers are well trained by you, Liang Yao, you can always surprise me, so how many soldiers do you have?" Fremont asked.

"The California Infantry now has [-] veterans. In addition to these veterans, [-] new recruits have been recruited in the past two months. They are training in the fortress."

Liang Yao replied that the armed forces he can mobilize now are not limited to the California Infantry Regiment, members of the Loyalty Society, mine guard teams of major gold mining companies, local farmers, etc. These are all armed forces that can be organized and used .

When necessary, Liang Yao can pull up an armed force of two to three thousand people, or even more.

His current family background is much stronger than when Washington was founded.

"Enough." Fremont rubbed his hands excitedly, "I heard that half of Colonel Mason's regiment is marching towards San Francisco, and I think half of the regiment's strength can't get any cheap in San Francisco.

Texas has also recently sent more troops to New Mexico, and the federal government will not be able to send too many troops to California in the short term. "

"I'm not afraid even if I send many troops to California." Liang Yao said confidently.

He is not blindly confident. The infrastructure in California is very poor. Not only does it have no railways, there are few roads, and it is far away from the eastern base camp. Expeditionary infantry regiments provide logistical support.

The federal government wants to send a large amount of military logistics materials to California only through the Nicaragua or Panama routes.

The eastern section of the Nicaragua route is controlled by Vanderbilt, and the western section is controlled by his global shipping company.

Panama is the only transportation route fully controlled by the federal government. Not only does Panama have no canals, but even the railway has not yet started construction.

If the federal government wants to provide supplies to the army through this route, not only will it take longer, but the transportation efficiency will also be very low.

Mason's troops have not even arrived in Los Angeles, which is already very telling.

"It seems that you are fully prepared."

After entering Tingtao Garden, Fremont put away his umbrella and shook the rain on his woolen coat.

Coney handed Fremont a clean overcoat with great insight. Fremont thanked Coney, and then changed into the coat that Coney handed over.

"It's not complete, but I'm fully prepared. This year's autumn harvest, a lot of grain was harvested locally in California, plus the grain I bought from Mexico, the grain I hoarded is enough for us to last until next autumn harvest." Liang Liang Yao said as he walked.

"When necessary, a rationing system can be implemented for California's materials to distribute these materials more effectively. In this way, even if new immigrants continue to flow into California, at the current rate of immigration growth, we can barely last until next fall. "

"Don't talk about next autumn. Given the current situation of the federal government, I don't think they can last for half a year." Fremont followed Liang Yao's pace closely.

"Mr. President supports us. What the United States needs now is to recuperate and heal the wounds caused by the war, rather than start a new war.

I think Mr. President and those wise congressmen should be aware of this point. As long as we can persist for a while, those diehards in Congress will lower their proud heads sooner or later. "

Liang Yao also agrees with Fremont's point of view. The United States is indeed not ready for another new war.

At the beginning of the year, the north and the free states and the slave states in the south had such fierce fights, did the two sides still not fight in the end?

This is not because the North and the South love peace so much, but that the North and the South are not ready for a civil war.

In terms of contradictions, at this time, the contradictions between the north and the south of the United States are far greater than the contradictions between the east and west.

Liang Yao seemed to be an enemy of the entire United States, but in fact his enemies were only the nobles and plutocrat representatives of the old states in Congress.

As long as Fillmore is not downright stupid, he will not always pay for the greed of these people.

(End of this chapter)