1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 131 Great Changes (650 subscriptions plus updates!)
"Are you a Colonel of America now?"

Sven looked at the colonel's epaulets on Liang Yao's shoulders in disbelief.

If Liang Yao got a major, he wouldn't be surprised at all by a lieutenant colonel.

As long as you have money in the United States, it is easy to buy a major and lieutenant colonel under a colonel to become an officer.

But a colonel is not something you can become with money, at least you have to get on line with officials at the ministerial level in the United States.

"Colonel of the U.S. Army as if it were a fake." Liang Yao said without any waves in his heart.

Not to mention officials at the ministerial level, these days he and President Fillmore have been exchanging letters frequently, but what they discuss are things that make both parties unhappy.

"Tsk tsk, maybe when I come back from the sea again, you will be a brigadier general of the American Army."

Sven, who had lost a lot of weight, said in admiration.

"That's not true. There are only four or five Brigadier Generals in the United States Army. It's not my turn. I see that you have lost a lot of weight. This ocean voyage is not good."

Liang Yao looked at Sven and Wu Yuanhua, compared to the last time they met, both of them were much thinner.

It is not so easy to become a general of the United States. It not only requires the approval of the ruling class of the United States, but also requires sufficient contributions and qualifications in the military field. Not everyone can be a general.

Furthermore, the mere American general is not his goal.

"Too much coal is needed to go from Guangzhou to California, and the three ships are overloaded, and the supplies that can be carried are very limited. Fortunately, you Chinese can endure hardships, and everyone endured and gritted their teeth and persisted to San Francisco."

Sven said that fortunately, most of the people on board this time were Chinese, able to endure hardships, and had no complaints about the reduction of food rations. There were no moths along the way, and they arrived in California smoothly.

If you want to change to a white passenger, it is estimated that the journey will not be so smooth.

"Fortunately."

Liang Yao patted Sven on the shoulder and said.

He understood why Sven and Wu Yuanhua became so thin, no matter how short the food supplies on board were, there would be no shortage of food supplies for the two of them.They set an example and stabilized the hearts of the people on board.

Sven is still reliable.

"According to your request, I recruited more than [-] Chinese sailors in Guangzhou and Hong Kong. After the immigration and you handover, I need to take them to the office of the global shipping company to sign a formal employment contract.

It's just that most of these crew members are sailors on sailing ships, and training them is required to familiarize them with the operations on steam ships. Sven thought for a while and said.

"Many of these Chinese sailors were originally employed by the British East India Company. I paid a high termination fee to recruit them. I think you are not short of this money. You will have to reimburse me later."

"No problem, as long as you can provide them with a termination agreement."

At the moment, he doesn't expect the World Shipping Company to make money. If he wants the World Shipping Company to make a quick profit, he won't let Sven go to great lengths to transport immigrants across the dangerous route across the Pacific Ocean.

"Strauss also recruited more than two hundred crew members from the eastern states last year, and Mr. Vanderbilt also handed over the James Day to us.

In addition to the 5 steamships we placed an order in the east this year, I also bought 3 steamships that have been launched directly from the French shipyard. The tonnage exceeds [-] tons, but it will take a while goods. "

Liang Yao told Sven good news.

"That is to say, the Global Shipping Company will have 12 steamships of over [-] tons?"

Sven was overjoyed, he was as happy as a child in public, and he didn't care about his image at all.

A shipping company with twelve steamships of more than [-] tons can be ranked even in Britain, where there are many large shipping companies.What's more, Global Shipping Company is still a young shipping company that has just been established for less than a year.

It's a great feeling to be backed by a big gold owner who owns a gold mine.

Sven is now a little worried that Vanderbilt's ship king status will soon be lost, and Liang Yao's expansion speed is too fast.

"It turns out that you still know about ships. The French have made rapid progress in shipbuilding technology in recent years. The quality of their newly launched ships is better than that of the British. I heard that the price is also more affordable than that of the British."

After the joy passed, Sven continued to talk to Liang Yao.

"When I was in Guangzhou, I was invited by a French captain to visit his new ship. The French do have their own uniqueness in ship design."

The tonnage of the Royal Navy ships is more than the combined tonnage of the ships of the following naval powers. As long as the British Royal Navy maintains the size of the existing fleet, it is enough to crush the navy of any other country.

The British are far inferior to the French, who want to overtake in a curve, in terms of ship updates.

As with the navy, so with the shipping industry.

France wants to catch up with Britain at sea, but it is impossible for France to catch up in quantity with France's national strength.

If France wants to overtake in a curve, it can only start with the quality of ships and ship-borne weapons.

As early as 1823, the French used their relatively mature metallurgical technology to stuff iron projectiles with explosives equipped with time-delay fuzes to replace solid shells with insufficient lethality.

The appearance of this kind of shells was simply a dimensionality reduction blow to the wooden sail warships at that time, and the offensive and defensive situation of naval warfare was instantly reversed.

Feeling threatened, the British launched their first iron-clad wooden steam battleship, the Nemesis, just seven years later.

Since then, countries have followed suit, either building new wooden warships wrapped in iron sheets, or adding iron sheets to existing ships.A new round of naval arms race was born.

Later, France was once again at the forefront of the times, not only replacing the shell of the thin iron shell with cast iron, which further enhanced the lethality of the shell, but also launched the epoch-making iron-clad ship Glory in 1859.

Wrought iron armor plates with a thickness of 107 to 120 mm are installed on the outer side of the ship's hull, which caught the attention of all the peers at the same time.

The birth of the Glory directly gave birth to the era of ironclad ships.

"It's also more comfortable dealing with the French than with the English."

Liang Yao thought of Gibson and Legoff who were still in California, and he would not place an order with the British shipyard even if he looked at Gibson's bird-like look of fearing the world would not be chaotic and his arrogant attitude.

If the British are willing to sell you things, it will never be a good thing.

"I haven't been here for a few months, and the changes here are really big."

Looking at the bustling city of San Francisco, Wu Yuanhua said with emotion that the speed of development here is so fast that he can hardly recognize it.

"These friends, please ask Brother Wu to help introduce them."

Liang Yao looked at the dozen or so Chinese businessmen behind Wu Yuanhua and said.

Wu Yuanhua hurriedly introduced those Chinese businessmen to Liang Yao, and Liang Yao met them one by one.

In addition to the Jardine Bank of the Wu family, the Tongfu Bank of the Pan family, the Guangli Bank of the Lu family, the Yicheng Bank of the Ye family, and other Dongxing Bank, Tianbao Bank, Xingtai Bank, Zhonghe Bank, Shuntai Bank, Renhe Bank, Tong Shun Xing, Xue Tai Xing, Dong Chang Xing, and An Chang Xing all sent people over.

It's just that after understanding, only the Wu family and the Pan family sent direct children of the family, and the people sent by other walks of life were all insignificant figures in the family.

Not only merchants from Guangdong came here, but also a few merchants from Fujian came with the boat.

The ancestral home of the Wu family and the Pan family is in Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, and they have a lot of intersections with Fujian merchants. It is not surprising that Fujian merchants accompanied them.

During the conversation, the immigrants on the steamship also slowly got off the steamship to register at the port and wait for arrangements.

There were soldiers from the California Infantry keeping order here, and everything worked relatively well.

Most of the immigrants communicated in dialects, and Cantonese was the most spoken among them. Apart from Cantonese, there were also many immigrants who spoke Hokkien and immigrants. What surprised Liang Yao was that among the immigrants this time, there were also immigrants with a Guangxi accent.

"There are also Guangxi people among the immigrants who came with the boat?"

Liang Yao asked curiously, Guangxi didn't have a high sense of existence before modern times, but in the middle of the 19th century, mentioning this province could make the Manchu dignitaries in Beijing's Forbidden City grit their teeth and hate it to the bone.

"For years of natural disasters, the Heaven and Earth Society took the opportunity to cause frequent riots in Guangxi. In recent years, many people from Guangxi went to Guangdong to beg for food to make a living. It's just that this year is not easy for us in Guangdong." Wu Yuanhua said with a long sigh.

"In addition to the Tiandihui, there is another cult that is more violent than the Tiandihui. I heard that tens of thousands of people have gathered in Guangxi to rebel, but now it is estimated that this group of people has been suppressed by the imperial court."

Wu Yuanhua said that the cult that was more troublesome than the Tiandihui was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising that did not run away.

It's just that this group of soldiers from the Qing court was probably put down by the rebel army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, rather than the rebel army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom being suppressed by the Qing court.Wu Yuanhua was still too optimistic.

I am afraid that Wu Yuanhua's current thoughts also represent the thoughts of the majority of the Manchu ruling class, who believe that the Qing Dynasty is stable, and a group of petty thieves should not be afraid of rioting.

"I have prepared carriages for you all, please go to the humble house to talk about it."

Liang Yao clapped his hands, and the coachman drove over with several carriages.

These businessmen lived in the five-port trade zone all year round and dealt with foreigners, and they were no strangers to this Western-style carriage.

"I know that Brother Xian likes to ride horses. I don't want to take a carriage. Brother Xian will just prepare a horse for me." Wu Yuanhua said.

Liang Yao nodded, and the two rode on their steeds and headed towards Tingtao Garden.

The two chatted while riding.

"Thanks to Brother Xian this time, our Wu family owes Brother Xian a great favor." Wu Yuanhua said.

"The Wu family's fleet also brought more than [-] immigrants, and these immigrants will also be resettled by my virtuous brother, but our ship needs to sail with sails, not as fast as a foreign ship. By the way, your father and Lingtang And Liang asked me to bring you a letter."

With that said, Wu Yuanhua took out three letters from his sleeve and handed them to Liang Yao.

Liang Yao took the letter and put it in his pocket, then asked, "Is there any member of the Liang family willing to come to California?"

"Indeed, there are a few Liang family members who would like to come to California to join you, but after seeing Captain Sven's boat, Liang felt that it was unlucky to ride on a foreigner's smoking boat, and believed that a foreign boat would catch fire easily.

So they came to California on the Wu family's boat, and estimated that they would be able to reach California in another ten and a half months. "

Wu Yuanhua congratulated Liang Yao.

"The Liang family has bought a new house and land with the gold sent back by my virtuous brother. Congratulations to my virtuous brother. Your virtuous brother has brought prosperity to the Liang family with his own efforts."

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