1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 321 Western Brigade

When the issue of the organization was mentioned, the carriage's compartment became instantly quiet.

More preparations for Liang Yao means another increase in military expenditure.

Fillmore crossed his fingers and tapped the back of his left hand rhythmically with his right index finger. Instead of giving Liang Yao an answer right away, he was thinking about the cost of military expansion.

Liang Yao, on the other hand, calmly waited for Fillmore's reply with a calm face. Now it was Fillmore who asked him, not him.

"You have two regiments now. I can add a standing regiment to you. It is not a big deal for the army to expand a standing regiment. It only needs to go through the procedures of the Ministry of War and does not need the approval of Congress. The resistance will be much smaller, and I I can give you the establishment of this regiment immediately after returning to Washington."

After thinking for a while, Fillmore separated his hands and said while propping his thighs with both hands.

"In this case, you will have three regiments, and you can directly form a full-staffed western brigade. There are not many full-stacked standing brigades in the United States."

In peacetime before the United States participated in World War II, not only was the number of standing armies maintained very small, but the standing regiments were rarely fully staffed.

It is relatively rare for Liang Yao to maintain his standing regiment at full strength or even overstaffed.Under normal circumstances, only the standing regiments responsible for garrisoning in border areas maintain a relatively high presence rate.

And even in wartime, the U.S. military still has many combat units that went into the battlefield without being fully staffed after mobilization.

The New England Brigade commanded by Pierce during the Mexican-American War had only 2800 men when it went to the battlefield, and it did not meet the full-staff requirement.

"Excluding the troops stationed in Nagasaki, I am still in charge of the troops stationed in Japan." Liang Yao emphasized.

Having a brigade is a result he can accept. As for the army stationed in Nagasaki, Japan, Liang Yaoyao did not give a specific scale, and there is a lot of room for manipulation here.

"The troops stationed in Japan are not in the mainland, so they don't need to be counted in the establishment of the Western Brigade." Fillmore agreed.

He is not a president from the military, nor does he have a military background, so his influence in the military is limited.

Among all the generals in the United States, Liang Yao is the only general who he single-handedly promoted and can give a lot of trust.

If you want Liang Yao to contribute in the future war against Mexico and have more chances of winning, the best way to win Liang Yao is to win him over.

During the conversation, the carriage unknowingly drove to the business district at the junction of 42nd Street and Broadway in the West Side of Manhattan.

Liang Yao pulled up the curtains on the windows of the carriage, and the buildings still under construction on both sides of the street came into view.

These are supporting facilities around the Crystal Palace and small shops for rent in the future.

After the carriage continued driving for a while, it arrived at the completed Crystal Palace.

The news that Crystal Palace will be cutting the ribbon today was released a few days ago, along with the news that Crystal Palace will hold a big opening ceremony on the opening day.

At the sewing machine store in the Crystal Palace shopping mall, as long as you spend 10 cents to buy a lottery ticket, you have a chance to win a Butterfly brand pedal sewing machine.

There will be 10 Butterfly brand sewing machines participating in this lucky draw, and the lucky participants who get the Butterfly brand sewing machines will also become silver members of Crystal Palace Mall and will receive a sterling silver membership card.

Silver members can enjoy a [-]% discount when shopping at direct-operated stores in Crystal Palace Mall.

At present, an ordinary Butterfly brand sewing machine is priced at US$85, which is equivalent to half a year's salary of a New York worker, so this activity is very attractive to New Yorkers.

Many New Yorkers who came to watch the opening event held the mentality of being small and big, hoping to take home the sewing machine at the price of 10 cents.

In addition to sewing machines, kerosene and kerosene lamps also have their own opening activities, but the kerosene and kerosene lamp event is a preferential event for buying kerosene lamps and getting 1 liter of kerosene during the opening week.

In addition, ready-to-wear clothing stores, new-style shotgun stores, Chinese product areas, Japanese product areas, and Oregon fur products area also have their own corresponding opening activities.

At this time, tens of thousands of New York citizens had already gathered in front of the gate of the Crystal Palace. The arrival of Liang Yao and the president caused the dense crowd in front of the Crystal Palace to burst into cheers.

Of course, there are still some New Yorkers who are not interested in Liang Yao, the newly promoted brigadier general and the president of the United States. These people are doing good deeds to the chicks in the crystal palace square who are dancing hotly in low-cut dresses.

How could it be more interesting for the general and the president to watch these two clumps of fat on the chest, which are ready to come out, and the hot dance of beautiful girls is more interesting.

Liang Yao and Fillmore stepped out of the carriage at one time. Fan Daze and others, including the designer of the Crystal Palace, Joseph Paxton, were already waiting for the arrival of Liang Yao and President Fillmore in front of the gate of the Crystal Palace.

Van Dazer is very concerned about this matter. He attaches great importance to the Crystal Palace shopping mall. In order to fill this Crystal Palace with 300 stores of various sizes, it will not appear deserted on the opening day.Van Datze has used the contacts and channels accumulated by the three generations of the Van Datze family in the retail industry in New York.

Many of the retailers who settled in the Crystal Palace shopping mall came from Stewart's Marble Palace.

Because Stewart's Marble Palace shopping mall was previously the only one in the New York retail industry, it charged high entry fees for shop owners and suppliers who entered the marble mall.

Otherwise, your own shops, stalls and products can only be arranged in corners where no one cares about them. Therefore, before the Crystal Palace opened, many shopkeepers and suppliers of the Marble Palace shopping mall inquired about the admission fee of Van Darzer’s Crystal Palace. , expressing that he wants to enter the Crystal Palace shopping mall.

As for the staff of the Marble Emporium, there are even more people who have switched to the Crystal Palace.

Before buying the land under his feet, Liang Yao had inspected Stuart's Marble Palace shopping mall.Stewart is very harsh on employees, emphasizing the dedication of employees to the mall, but choosing to turn a blind eye to the treatment of employees. He has a demeanor that the more you talk about the treatment, the narrower your mind is, and the more you talk about the dedication, the higher the level.

The monthly salary of the grassroots employees in the Marble Palace mall is only US$6, which is a lower-middle wage level in New York, and the work intensity is similar to that of an assembly line in a factory.

However, even the $6 salary is not so easy to get in full. The Marble Palace Mall has a mature set of rules and regulations for deducting employees' wages and salaries, such as being late, leaving early, eating too long, going to the toilet for too long, and giving wrong change All may become reasons for Stewart to deduct wages.

The basic salary given by the grassroots employees of the Crystal Palace mall is 10 US dollars, and there are two days off every month. This salary is undoubtedly very attractive to the employees of the Marble Palace mall.

In the middle of the 19th century, rest was a very luxury for workers. It was normal to work for more than 16 hours a day without a day off. Compared with the work intensity of workers in the 21st century in China, they are living in paradise. up.

The rest day system, 8-hour work system, and holidays were won by workers in various countries in the 19th century after countless struggles with capitalists with their blood and lives.

The reason why Stuart dared to do this is also very simple. New York, as the largest city in the United States, lacks the most labor force. It is not easy to find a job in New York. Even if the old employees leave, there will always be new New Yorkers for his mall. Inject fresh blood.

(End of this chapter)