1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 170 The Weakness of the Opponent

The weather in California in April has gradually warmed up, and the warm spring breeze is blowing, which is refreshing.

After the banks of the American River in Sacramento were designated for exclusive agricultural use, gold prospectors left a place where gold had been mined.

There are many reasons for these gold prospectors to leave the American River mining area. In addition to the administrative order of the California government, it is also true that there is not much gold left in the areas along the banks of the American River after more than a year of intensive mining.

Another very important reason prompted them to abandon the mining areas on both sides of the American River, that is, Liang Yao's Shennong Reclamation Company offered an attractive price for their land and bought it from them.

It is worth mentioning that these gold diggers bought these lands from Liang Yao, and now these lands have returned to Liang Yao's hands.

Aspin Wall of the Pacific Cruise Line looked at the employees of the Shennong Agricultural Reclamation Group who were leveling the land, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart.

"Liang Yao is really a business genius. When you buy and sell this land, not only can you earn a good price difference, but during the year when the miners were bound on this land, their daily necessities must have been purchased from Liang Yao. Yes."

The eyes of John and Milners fell on the carriages full of luggage supplies and groups of gold diggers.

Some of these gold prospectors took the money from selling the land to find another way out, and more people took the money and chose to go all the way east to the legendary gold-filled foothills of Sierra Nevada, which is now the new territory of California.

One or two years ago, these gold diggers were also bewitched by the same news, and they came to California and Sacramento from all over the world with dreams of getting rich, but most of them did not get rich.

"I don't know how many of these gold diggers made a fortune, but Liang Yao and the group of Xiao Xiaoxiao around him must have made a lot of money. They control the lifeline of California's economy."

John said angrily.

Although he had a feud with Liang Yao and hated Liang Yao very much, he had to admit this fact.

Just as the Astor family controlled the real estate in New York, Liang Yao controlled the gold in California and all the lucrative industries.

With advanced machines and efficient gold panning techniques, their New York consortium could still benefit from California's unabated gold rush.

But it’s just soup. The California government’s taxation, purchase of mercury mines, purchase of daily necessities, etc., these expenses are huge. After deducting these expenses, there is not much gold that can really be left.

It's a far cry from what they expected when they came to California.

I thought California was fish, but I didn't expect that I would be fish after arriving in California.

This psychological gap made it difficult for John to accept.

"Mr. Aspinwall, I wonder how your Pacific Cruise Line is doing?"

Milners asked about the status of the Pacific Mail Line.

Aspinwall accompanied John and Milners into the downtown area of ​​Sacramento in a carriage.

After the gold diggers on both sides of the American River left, the city's popularity declined greatly. In the past, the streets of downtown Sacramento were crowded with people and it was difficult to pass through.

But today, their carriage was running unimpeded on the main road in downtown Sacramento.

Part of the main road in Sacramento has been paved with cement. The streets are very clean, and even waterlogging is rare. The employees of the construction company are laying drainage pipes to cancel the original open channel. The discharge of sewage in the open channel will inevitably emit unpleasant smells. Nauseous smell, especially in summer.

The open channel drainage and sewage discharge was just a stopgap measure before, because before that, there were no steel plants in California, and the lack of steel naturally made it impossible to produce drainage and sewage pipes.

"The current situation of Pacific Cruise Lines is not optimistic."

Aspinwall sighed and continued.

"On this route, Pacific Cruises will compete with Vanderbilt, the shipping king, in the eastern section, and Liang Yao's Global Shipping Company in the western section. Neither of these two guys is fuel-efficient."

The Pacific Cruise Line was no better off than the New York consortium panning for gold in California.

The Nicaragua route diverted a lot of their customers, and they fought a price war with the Pacific Cruise Line on the Panama route.

Pacific Cruises has lost money on its Panama route since it opened.

If it weren't for the support from the federal government and the New York State government, and the renewal of orders from the government and the Oregon region, the Pacific Cruise Line would have gone bankrupt long ago.

Aspinwall also thought about giving up this loss-making route, but the government backed him in order to maintain the postal links between the east and west coast of the United States, and he could not give up if he wanted to.

"Few people can shake Vanderbilt's position in the shipping industry. It's just that Global Shipping Company has just been established, and they are also capable of competing with Pacific Shipping Company on the western route?" John was very surprised.

"The large ships of the Global Shipping Company focus on the China route to transport Chinese immigrants to California, and the small ships on the route from Nicaragua to California. Logically speaking, compared with the Pacific Cruise Line, the Global Shipping Company has no advantage in this western route.

It’s just that Vanderbilt also established the California Shipping Company, and his assistant Nigel was in charge of running this route. The combination of California Shipping Company and Universal Shipping Company made Pacific Cruise Lines lose its competitive advantage in the western route.

I heard that the steamship Nozomi was launched at the California shipyard. If the production of the Nozomi goes up, it will also be a huge blow to the Pacific Cruise Line. "

Aspinwall said worriedly.

"According to the information I have collected, Vanderbilt is selling his ships to Liang Yao. A total of five large steamships are about to arrive at Cape Horn in South America, heading for California. Once these ships arrive, Global The advantages of shipping companies will be further enhanced."

"These damned yellow-skinned monkeys, I want to scalp all of them to make boots."

Hearing that Liang Yao was sending Chinese immigrants to California, Burnett couldn't help looking out the window. On the streets of Sacramento, there were many Chinese immigrants with Indian skin color and facial features.

"There are at least [-] to [-] Chinese immigrants in California. Liang Yao is dyeing California and even the United States red. The skin color of Americans should be white, not yellow and black."

"Burnet, put away your racial hatred and prejudice. This is California, the state where the yellow race is in power that you despise. Chinese and Indians cannot be regarded as the same," Milners said seriously.

"Although I also hate Liang Yao and these Chinese, you have to admit that they govern California very well."

"I agree with Milners, we can't let emotions and prejudices sway our judgment, we have suffered in this regard."

John agrees with Milners that he has had his fair share of losses.

Liang Yao is not an incompetent person, and the Chinese soldiers are not cowardly, these are things that have been proven by the facts.

"Mr. Aspinwall, what are Pacific Cruises' future plans?" Milners asked with great concern, "Pacific Cruises has been in a state of loss, and it is not a long-term plan."

The reason why Milners cared about Pacific Cruise Lines was that his family also owned shares in Pacific Cruise Lines.

The Pacific Cruises Company was established with the golden key of the government at the beginning, and it is a rare high-quality investment. Not only the Milners family, but also many famous celebrities in New York have participated in the investment of the Pacific Cruises Company.

Aspinwall smiled slyly: "The two of Fan Liang have strong financial resources, and they compete head-to-head. The Pacific Cruise Line is not an opponent, but they are not without flaws."

"What's the flaw?" John's eyes lit up.

"Cornelius Garrison, the main person in charge of Vanderbilt's Nicaragua route, is a breakthrough." Aspinwall said lightly.

"It's hard for Vanderbilt to trust someone, but once he trusts someone, he believes in that person. Vanderbilt and Garris are from the same country, and they had a good friendship.

It's just a pity that Garrison is only a trustworthy person on the surface. This is the flaw, and the Nicaragua route is not unbreakable.

Maybe we can exploit this loophole. "

(End of this chapter)