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The known gold deposits near San Francisco have all been exploited to the point of exhaustion.

There are still some gold mines around Sacramento, and in the mountain valleys of northern California.

However, the gold mines in Sacramento and the area north of Sacramento are owned, and many mining companies are looking for new gold veins in the northern mountainous enclosure with thousands of acres.

Small gold rush teams have no chance at all in Sacramento, only in Nevada, there is a little chance to get rich with gold.

The "California Daily" has a column dedicated to the stories of gold diggers who made their fortunes in California.

This is also the story that gold diggers like to read and listen to the most.

Because the whole story can give them hope, almost all gold diggers are very sure that the next lucky person recorded in the newspaper must be themselves.

There are many gold diggers at the train station in Reno who are carrying luggage, watching the chicken soup story in the "California Daily", and preparing to go to the depths of Nevada to find gold.

Of course, there are also a lot of failed gold diggers who went bankrupt, lived on the streets, poured cheap spirits into their mouths, glanced at passers-by, and seemed to be looking for a target for their crimes.

The gold rush was a big part of California's continued ability to attract immigrants.

Although the gold mining industry is the industry that Liang Yao does not want immigrants to engage in, but there is no way, gold is more attractive than any other industry.

Liang Yao also needed a good enough gimmick to attract new immigrants to California.

These talents are walking gold. As long as they come to California and spend in California, these people can generate value for California.

California Gold Rush, California Flower, one wants to take home.

Everyone came to California with the dream of getting rich overnight and Ye Jin returning home, but there are fewer and fewer people who can really achieve riches after the bonus period of the gold rush has passed.

The gold digger's chicken soup stories in the California Journal are all true.

But the protagonists of these stories are carefully selected from hundreds of thousands of gold diggers.

It is still possible to find a few lucky ones out of thousands of unfortunate ones.

In fact, the gold rush trend in California can also be seen from the stories of gold diggers who discovered gold mines and became rich published in the "California Daily".

The 1851 California Daily reported mainly on gold prospectors in Sacramento, and a lucky one made it to the paper almost every week.

In February 1852, the number of gold prospectors in newspapers in Nevada surpassed that of Sacramento for the first time, and the proportion continued to grow.

But the frequency of reporting gold digger successes has gone from weekly to two to three weeks.

Failed to pan for gold, went to San Francisco or Sacramento to find a factory to work for wages, became a railway worker for the California Railway Company or other railway companies, and applied to the California government for a piece of agricultural land to become a planter if he wanted to farm.

That's where the vast majority of gold diggers end up, though the California Journal almost never reports these most common cases because the gold diggers don't like it.

There are so many similar reports that the newspaper office of the California Daily must be overthrown by the gold diggers.

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The workers of the "California Daily" are very smart, knowing that the gold diggers will buy their newspaper because they regard the most authoritative daily newspaper in California as a spiritual opium to comfort themselves, not how good the quality of their articles is.

Liang Yao has no objection to this kind of spiritual opium, as long as they don't sell real opium in California, Liang Yao's tolerance is still very high.

"California is much colder than San Francisco."

As soon as he got off the train, Liang Yao felt the chilly Nevada, and took the beaver fur coat from Carnegie in his hand.

Although the western Nevada region was given to California by the federal government as a concession and compensation to California in 1851, Liang Yao had never been to Nevada before. This was the first time Liang Yao came to Nevada in his life.

Fremont took out 50 cents to a newsboy who sold newspapers at the train station. The newsboy was so anxious that he was at a loss: "Sir, I can't change so much money. It is very dangerous to find someone to change here. You have a small face value." Some silver coins?"

"But this is already the least valuable money I have." Fremont laughed.

With that said, Fremont took another newspaper.

"Fifty cents buys you two papers, and the rest is your tip."

After the newsboy left, a well-dressed middle-aged man with roving eyes, looking up and down at Fremont and Liang Yao, came up to him, showed an unflattering smile, and spoke curry-flavored English.

"Sir, you also came to Reno to investigate gold panning, let me tell you, you have come to the right place, and the gold resources here are very rich.

Luckily for you, I didn’t want to share this secret with others, if I didn’t have enough start-up capital to mine gold mines.”

"Boy, you're quite courageous, did you deceive the speaker and the congressmen?"

Pinkerton, who couldn't help laughing, patted the middle-aged Indian man and said.

"The CIA is very interested in your investment. Tell me where the gold mine is. We, the CIA, invested in this project."

Hearing the words of Speaker of the House and CIA, the Indian was at a loss for a moment and stood there in a daze. After recovering, he ran away without looking back.

"The winter in Nevada is really cold. In two weeks, it is estimated that the mountains will be covered by heavy snow." Fremont handed the extra newspaper in his hand to Liang Yao.

"I still remember when I was exploring the Pacific Railroad line, I met two gold prospectors in the mountains. One of these two gold prospectors later discovered the California Star."

"You mean Martin? This guy is now in charge of my gold mining company in Australia." Liang Yao said with a smile, "The Umbrella company has harvested a lot in Australia, and I'm thinking about making some land for the Umbrella company in Southeast Asia. garden."

"Do you still want to be a slave owner?" Fremont laughed. "What can attract you, a rich man, to plant?"

"Rubber, I asked someone to bring some rubber seeds from South America, and I have sent people to transport these seeds to Pontianak in Southeast Asia for trial planting." Liang Yao said.

Humans discovered rubber very early, but it has only been more than ten years since rubber entered industrial applications.

In 1839, American Goodyear invented the vulcanization method of rubber, which solved the problem of raw rubber becoming sticky and brittle, and made the rubber have high elasticity and toughness. Only then did rubber really enter the stage of industrial application.

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The price of natural rubber has risen since then, until the 20s, when Germany began to mass-produce synthetic rubber, the status of natural rubber declined.

In the middle and late 19th century, German chemical industry was absolutely monstrous in the world. Many chemical geniuses emerged, which led to the rise of German chemical giants.

The strength of the German chemical industry was also forced out. After the unification of the German region, there are no colonies in the world to divide up.

Britain and France can easily plant the industrial raw materials obtained in the colonies. The Germans can only rack their brains in the laboratory to find out whether they can synthesize raw materials with the same effect in other ways.

Rubber can be used to make shoes, tires, conveyor belts, etc. It has a wide range of applications. If you want to develop industries in California, rubber is an unavoidable raw material.

The origin of rubber is Brazil, and there are also rubber plantations in other countries in South America and Africa.

The rubber in Southeast Asia was spread in 1876 when the British botanist Henry Wickham stole [-] rubber seeds from the Amazon region and planted them in plantations in Southeast Asia.

But now Liang Yao has already stolen it for the British 20 years in advance.

South America in the 19th century had few visionary politicians and governments, and it was not too difficult to get some rubber seeds.

The rubber output in Southeast Asia is high, the quality is good, and the price is low. In the end, it even defeated the rubber industry in Brazil, the country of origin.

Planting rubber in Southeast Asia is promising.

"Pontianak? The Pontianak on Borneo Island?" Fremont thought carefully about this relatively unfamiliar place name in his mind, and then said.

"This is the territory of the Dutch East India Company. It is to offend the Dutch to get involved in the island of Borneo."

"The Dutch East India Company is not the British East India Company, so what if I offend them?" Liang Yao laughed. When Japan signed the founding of the country, we, the United States, offended the Dutch to death."

With the backing of the United States, Liang Yao, the former sea coachman, really doesn't love it.

The Netherlands is a great power, and the United States is also a great power. If I can't afford to offend Great Britain in its heyday, can I also offend the weakened Netherlands?