1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 173 Japan Chapter
After the passage of gas with Britain and France, the large and small transport ships of the Global Shipping Company hoisted the coal at the port of San Francisco and shipped it to Hawaii.

In addition to the coal ships, there are also some ships that carefully hoist the goods that have been marked with the American Jardine trademark.

This is the Chinese native product that Liang Yao is going to sell in the east. These Chinese native products are all high-quality goods that Liang Yao bought from Chinese businessmen. They are used to open up the market in the eastern part of the United States and build a reputation for Jardine America.

Before leaving for the east, Liang Yao had one last thing to do, which was to open a branch of the Loyalty Society in Japan to collect information for him.

Branches of the Loyalty Society have now opened to Mexico and Oregon, providing him with a lot of information.

In particular, Deng Wenyao, who traveled between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, not only provided him with detailed information on Mexico's garrison in Tijuana, but also became good friends with local military officers who talked about everything.

There are also Japanese congregants in the Loyalty Association, and this time Liang Yao intends to select some capable Japanese congregants to send back to Japan to open a branch.

The founding of Japan will happen even if he does not intervene. Instead of waiting for Perry to knock off Japan, it is better to add fuel to the flames and seek more benefits for California and himself.

After California's industry developed, it needed a place to dump goods overseas, and Japan was one of the best places to dump goods.

In addition, California's unreasonable population structure and the imbalance between men and women seem to be resolved in Japan.

"Big leader, are you looking for me?"

A tall Japanese man with a bald head and a full 160 cm tall stood in front of Liang Yao.

"Liang Sen, from now on you will be the little leader of the Japanese branch of the Loyalty Society."

Liang Yao looked down at this tall Japanese man who was much shorter than himself, and put a bronze dragon head badge that had been prepared long ago on Liang Sen's chest.

Liang Sen's original name was Ichiro Cunkouya, and Cunkouya is his house number, which can be simply understood as the house number, and Ichiro is his name.

The name Liang Sen was given to Yaichiro Mururaguchi by Liang Yao.

After California became a state, the Bureau of Statistics conducted detailed statistics on the state's population.

When the gold rush started, there were three or four hundred Japanese immigrants from Hawaii in California. These Japanese had to change their "surnames" according to their house numbers when they moved, which made the staff of the Statistics Bureau extremely dissatisfied.

For this reason, Liang Yao ordered these Japanese people to have a fixed name of their own to facilitate statistics by the Bureau of Statistics. They can choose their own surnames or follow the Han surnames.

As a result, a large number of Japanese cheerfully followed Liang Yao and took the surname Liang.

Ordinary Japanese people in the Edo period chose their names freely, and the surname was the privilege of the upper-level rulers. In the Edo period, people in Japan with names and surnames in public were by no means ordinary people.

At most, commoners can only secretly use some unpopular surnames in private. If they want to obtain the right to use surnames, they can only buy them from the big names of various clans. The more money they give, the longer the surnames can be used.

It is indeed a joyful thing for these Japanese to be able to [prostitute] for free without spending money.

As for Japanese civilians having their own names in Japan, that was after the Meiji Restoration.

Wearing the bronze dragon head badge, Liang Sen felt tears welling up in his eyes. He has met Liang Yao twice since he joined the club. The first time was when Liang Yao gave names to a dozen Japanese congregants of the Loyalty Society, and the other time is now .

Liang Sen was originally a branch of the Loyalty Society, that is, the small leader of the Loyalty Society at the grassroots level. He wore a gold black bear badge and was the highest-ranking member of all Japanese congregations.

Now he was wearing a dragon head badge that he had never dreamed of, which made him cry uncontrollably.

"Thank you for your appreciation! Liang Sen will die for Da Longtou!"

Liang Sen bowed ninety degrees to Liang Yao, and said with snot and tears.

Although the copper small dragon head badge is only the lowest level of the dragon head badge, to put it bluntly, it is the lowest level among the top leaders of the Loyalty Society, but for Liang Sen, it has achieved a class transition, which is equivalent to a commoner suddenly becoming a samurai in Japan.

"I don't want you to die, I just need you to do good things for me. I asked Jardine to prepare a boat for you. You will take Jardine's merchant ship to Nagasaki as a merchant of the Qing Dynasty." Liang Yao said lightly.

"The things you have to tell you must be done beautifully and properly. I can put this dragon head badge on you, and I can also take it off."

"Yes! Big dragon head!"

Liang Sen subconsciously clutched the badge on his chest and said.

Japan's closed-door policy is mainly aimed at Western whites, and exchanges with East Asian countries, such as the Qing Dynasty, North Korea, and Ryukyu, are relatively normal.

It is worth mentioning that, in addition to these East Asian countries, Japan is also willing to have normal exchanges with the Dutch.

The reason is also very simple. After entering Japan, the British, Spanish, and Portuguese not only traded in Japan, but also preached in Japan, built churches, and even wanted to interfere in Japanese politics, which caused panic in the Tokugawa shogunate.

Only the Dutch are relatively honest, they only do business, they don’t preach or intervene in Japanese politics, so the Tokugawa shogunate allowed the Dutch to continue to trade in Japan.

The Netherlands was also the only window through which Japan in the Edo period understood the Western world.

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"Steam warships are the future of the navy. The influence of the United States not only depends on the national strength of the United States, but also depends on the range of the American Navy and the range of naval guns."

Meanwhile, the USS Mississippi is on board the steam paddle-wheeled wood-hulled cruiser outside the port of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Commodore Matthew Perry of the American Navy looked out to the sea and said to President Fillmore who came to inspect.

"Where the steamship can travel depends on where we can repair the supply station."

Perry was born in a naval family in Newport, Rhode Island. He was influenced by his family since he was a child and determined to join the US Navy.

His father was a captain in the U.S. Navy, and his elder brother made great achievements in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 1813, 9, and became a well-known general of the U.S. Navy.

Perry himself did not give in. He joined the Navy in 1809 and served as the director of shipbuilding at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1833. In 1837, he supervised the construction of the US Navy's first steam battleship, the USS Fulton, and was promoted to colonel.

Only three years later, Matthew Perry was awarded the rank of brigadier general and became a hot figure in the US Navy.

Perry highly admired steam warships, and believed that steam warships were the future of the navy. Thanks to Perry's efforts, the "steam rate" of the US Navy has been greatly improved.

"Most of the good ports in the world are under the control of the British, and it is not easy to obtain supply points for refueling American steamships."

Fillmore looked at the cruiser Mississippi under his feet with a full-load displacement of only 1692 tons. It was capable of serving as a flagship in the fleet of the American Navy, but in the British Navy, it was just an ordinary warship.

Compared with the navies of the British and French, the navy of the United States is too weak.

(End of this chapter)