1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 145 Mine for Lao Tzu!

For military officers, Liang Yao needs a group of high-quality officers who have received formal military education.

After several rounds of selection, Liang Yao's California Infantry Regiment already has 10 fully staffed infantry companies.

The existence of the California Infantry Regiment is not so much to defend the United States of America, but rather to protect Liang Yao's private property.

What can mobilize these soldiers is not orders from the Congress and the Ministry of War, but Liang Yao's orders.

He is the only one in the entire United States who can afford such an expensive infantry regiment.

In addition to ten standard infantry companies, Liang Yao also planned to expand another dragoon company and an artillery company.

Now there is a very realistic situation in front of Liang Yao, he does not have enough qualified officers.

West Point Military Academy and Virginia Military Academy certainly have a large number of unemployed young talents waiting for him to choose.

The schooling period of the American Military Academy is generally four years. During these two years, the graduates of the American Military Academy are all enthusiastic young people who entered the military academy during the Mexican-American War.

From 1846 to 1848, the number of applicants for the military academy was exceptionally large.

Sadly, now that the war is over, the federal government has carried out large-scale disarmament in order to save military expenditures.

These graduates are faced with the embarrassing situation of being unemployed upon graduation.

Not to mention finding a job as a low-level officer in the regular army, finding a job with a modest salary in the militia is already a high-spirited job.

Liang Yao can hire them for emergency, but in the long run, he still needs to cultivate a group of officers who are absolutely loyal to him.

These officers can neither turn their hearts to the north nor to the south, but only to him or someone else.

He wants to guarantee that ten years later, the California Infantry Regiment will be completely loyal to him from the officers to the soldiers.

Compared with other regiments of the American Army, Liang Yao's infantry regiment has another special feature.

That is, his infantry regiment is the only infantry regiment with Chinese soldiers as the backbone of all infantry regiments in the American Army.

Among the infantry companies, there are seven infantry companies that are composed entirely of Chinese from the company commander to the non-commissioned officers to the chief soldiers.

What Liang Yao lacks most now is Chinese officers who have undergone systematic military education.

In order to solve this problem, Liang Yao decided to select a group of young people with cultural foundation and English foundation from Chinese soldiers and immigrants for training, and let them apply for the military academies in the United States.

It's just that such a person is really hard to find. Counting the young man recommended to him by Cai Mingsheng, he has only found 8 such young people.

And he needs at least 20 young people like this, Liang Yao can only hope that the Wu family fleet that is about to arrive can bring him surprises.

On his behalf, Wu Yuanhua recruited more than 80 guys who were working for Guangzhou merchants in Guangzhou. It is said that some of them are under 20 years old.

On February 1851, 2, Wu Yuanhua's fleet arrived in San Francisco after a long delay.

At this time, the fleet of Global Shipping has already set off for Guangzhou, preparing to transport the next batch of immigrants.

Along with the fleet, there are several Liang family children.

To be precise, it is Liang Yao's uncle and three brothers.

The members of the Liang family were fairly prosperous. In Liang Yao's memory, there were thirteen descendants of the Liang family in his generation, and he was the third eldest.

"How do you plan to arrange these four people? One is your third uncle, and the three are your brothers."

For Liang Yao, Deng Yan was worried about how to arrange the four Liang family members.

"Your third uncle and his two sons are okay. Your third uncle is honest and has no airs. It's just that your second brother is a bit difficult to deal with. He doesn't learn well on weekdays. He is still a legitimate son, but your grandfather and father are partial to this guy. .”

The Liang family is not only a famous family, but also a big family. The interpersonal relationship between such family members is destined to be very complicated.

In Liang Yao's memory, the relationship among the members of the Liang family was not harmonious.

His third uncle, Liang Shaoyu, was an outlier among the Liang family's children. Liang Yao vaguely remembered that in order to please his grandfather, most of the Liang family's children were more diligent and studious.

Liang Shaoyu had no talent in imperial examinations. When Liang Yao was 17 years old and was admitted to Linsheng, Liang Shaoyu still had no fame.

But Liang Shaoyu is better than his other uncles in dealing with people. When Liang Yao was admitted to Linsheng, Liang Shaoyu was the first among several uncles to congratulate him, and he congratulated him sincerely, not in a hypocritical manner. congratulate.

In Liang Yao's childhood memory, Liang Shaoyu was always regarded as a typical negative teaching material in the family. His father and other uncles often said that if he didn't study well, he would be as hopeless as your third uncle.

But when he was a child, Liang Yao liked to play with Liang Shaoyu, because when he was with Liang Shaoyu, it could be temporarily released from the study, and he didn't need to study, and there was no pressure when he was with Liang Shaoyu.

In addition, among the Liang family's brothers of the same generation, he has the best relationship with Liang Shaoyu's eldest son, Liang Xu.

As for Liang Shaoyu's youngest son Liang Xi, if Liang Yao remembers correctly, Liang Xi is only twelve years old this year.

On the contrary, his half-brother Liang Sheng had more headaches. When he was a child, he saw that Liang Yao was good at reading and writing, so he often bullied him and didn't deal with him.

Although Liang Yao was responsible for every conflict, he was the one who was beaten every time.

There is no other reason. Liang Sheng's biological mother is his father's official wife who is married to a well-matched family. The Liang family's wife is not a well-educated person, and she is particularly partial to her two sons.When Liang Yao was young, he and Liang Xu called the old lady of the Liang family the old witch, so the relationship is evident.

And Liang Yao's biological mother, Deng Lan, was just a concubine his father took for granted, and had no status at all in the family.

"When the brothers of the Deng family first came to San Francisco, they did whatever they wanted. He is my third uncle, you are my second uncle, the brothers of the Liang family are my brothers, and the brothers of the Deng family are also my brothers. I have no reason to They are eccentric." Liang Yao said, "Let's start slowly from the bottom step by step."

"It's just that they are the Liang family after all."

Deng Yan felt very comfortable listening to Liang Yao's words, but the situation of the Liang family was different from that of the Deng family.

"What about the Liang family, I earned this foundation in California, and it has nothing to do with the Liang family." Liang Yao said.

The foundation he built in California has nothing to do with the Liang family.

When he first went abroad, the Liang family didn't give him any money, and the eight silver dollars in his pocket were given by his mother.

If the Liang family wanted to point fingers at his property and think it was the property of the Liang family, they would think too much.

Hu Jinchen walked in with four Liang family children.

"Third uncle sit down."

Liang Yao made a gesture of invitation to Liang Shaoyu.

"I haven't seen you for two years. You've grown a lot, and you've grown stronger than before."

Liang Shaoyu looked at Liang Yao after sitting down, and said with some embarrassment.

"To be honest, your third uncle brought the whole family here to join you this time."

As he spoke, Liang Shaoyu winked at his wife, Mrs. Zhang, who was beside her.

Mrs. Zhang hurriedly pulled her two sons to say hello to Liang Yao.

"This is your brother, go up and say hello."

Before Mrs. Zhang could finish speaking, Liang Xu and Liang Xi stepped forward to say hello to Liang Yao.

"Third brother, you live here really comfortably. The yard you live in alone is larger than the yard where our entire Liang family lives."

Liang Sheng said angrily.

"I heard from those merchants in Guangzhou that you earned millions of taels of silver in Citigroup, and you sent 500 taels of gold to your family. Could it be that you have been in Citigroup for a long time? Can't remember what your last name is?"

"Second nephew! Don't say a few words! When the third nephew went abroad to make money alone, do you know the hardships involved?"

Liang Shaoyu couldn't help frowning and said, Liang Sheng is too ignorant, this is Citigroup, not Xiangshan.

As an adult with a brain, Liang Shaoyu knew very well that Liang Yao was able to build such a foundation in a foreign country in such a short period of time, he must not be someone who would take it easy.Today's Liang Yao is no longer the same Liang Yao as before.

At the first sight of Liang Yao, Liang Shaoyu felt that this nephew was completely different from before, except for his appearance, he couldn't find a trace of his past.

"You have been spoiled and spoiled since you were a child, and you don't know the difficulty of making money. The third nephew's money didn't come from a strong wind. If outsiders say how much silver the third nephew earns, you will believe it? Besides, is 500 taels of gold not enough?"

"I don't know how much the third brother's property in Citigroup is worth, but this western house is probably worth hundreds of thousands of taels." Liang Sheng said with narrowed eyes.

Liang Yao looked gloomy, staring at Liang Sheng's sallow face, and said coldly, "How about I give you my house?"

Liang Sheng didn't mean to refuse at all, he called Hu Jinchen who was serving tea to Liang Shaoyu and others, and took out two letters from his jacket and threw them all over Hu Jinchen.

"Give these two letters to your master."

Although Liang Sheng and Liang Sheng's domineering attitude made Hu Jinchen very dissatisfied, due to Liang Sheng's status, Hu Jinchen didn't dare to say anything, so he had to submit the letter to Liang Yao.

"Before I left, my grandfather and father had made it clear that I will be in charge of the accounts of the Liang family in Citigroup.

Before Liang Sheng finished speaking, Liang Yao got up and threw the two unopened letters into the fireplace. Seeing this, Liang Sheng immediately stood up from his chair.

"What are you doing? This is a letter from your grandfather and father! You threw it into the stove without even looking at it! You are an unfilial son!"

"Where does the Liang family have any property in Citigroup? It's all my property, Liang Yao. When the Liang family sent me alone on a foreigner's ship and ignored them, did you ever think about today?" Liang Yao Yao said with his back.

"I don't owe the Liang family anything. If I can send 500 taels of gold to the Liang family, I have already done my best. The Liang family has no right to dictate to me."

Liang Sheng was furious, and was about to go up and grab Liang Yao and beat him up like he did when he was a child, but after seeing Liang Yao's thick body and the vicious servants behind Liang Yao, who were by no means kind, Liang Sheng Still flinched.

No matter what, the hero does not suffer from the immediate loss, I will write a letter later and send someone back to Xiangshan, and tell my father and grandfather about the crime of this unfilial son.

"Don't forget, the Liang family raised you. I'm your elder brother. As long as you give me a fat job, I don't care about it."

Liang Sheng pretended to be generous and said.

"What kind of fat job do you want?" Liang Yao narrowed his eyes and stared at Liang Sheng.

"Of course it's an errand with less work and more gold." Liang Sheng said without thinking.

"I don't care for idlers. Come here and send Mr. Liang to mine in Sacramento. Don't you like gold? I'll let you dig in the mine and have a good time!"

This kid thought pretty well, Liang Yao didn't talk nonsense with Liang Sheng, and directly ordered Liang Sheng to be sent to the mining area to dig.

As soon as Liang Yao finished speaking, Liang Sheng was held up by Liang Yao's two guards, one on the left and one on the right.

"Liang Yao, are you crazy?! Let me go to the mine! I'm your elder brother! You son of a bitch, I want to report you to my father! To my grandfather!"

Liang Sheng shouted angrily while struggling.

Liang Yao jumped up at the case: "Young mother, father and grandfather are oppressing me with bullshit. If they dare to come, I will tell them to go to the mine!"

(End of this chapter)