1850 American Gold Tycoon.

"You did very well."

First of all, Liang Yao affirmed the work of Fair and the Ministry of Industry, and then he reminded Fair.

"If all goes well, the Pacific Railway will be able to open to traffic in September 1857, that is, one year and five months later, and more industrial products from the east, and even enterprises from the east, will enter California.

At that time, California's industry will face an unprecedented severe test.I hope that by then, the Ministry of Industry will be able to deliver a satisfactory answer sheet like today. "

The transportation between California and the eastern states is not very convenient, and the fastest route is the Nicaragua route.

In this era of high transportation costs, this is tantamount to protecting California's nascent manufacturing industry in disguise.

However, after the opening of the Pacific Railway, the life of California's local manufacturing industry will not be so easy.

Not only will the cost of eastern industrial products entering California be greatly reduced, but the transportation time will also be shortened from the original two months to two weeks.

At that time, these commodities will inevitably hit the local manufacturing industry in California.

Of course, California can also choose to set up trade barriers like other states to keep out industrial products from other states.

However, this is not a wise move. First, it is easy to offend people, and second, it is not conducive to the further development of local manufacturing in the long run.

Goods from other states can enter California by the Pacific Railroad, and Californian goods can also enter other states by the Pacific Railroad.

This presents both a challenge and an opportunity for California businesses.Who is a wolf and who is a dog, you have to bite to see the outcome.

What's more, California welcomes new immigrants every day, and California also needs more jobs to accommodate these new immigrants.

The presence of out-of-state companies can also provide more jobs in California.

To put it bluntly, these local companies have enjoyed seven years of development dividends.

It is understandable that it cannot compete with similar companies in the UK. If it cannot compete with similar companies in the United States, it deserves to be eliminated by brutal business competition.

"Please rest assured, please trust the Department of Industry and California's manufacturing industry."

Fell is very confident in the Department of Industry and California companies, and he believes that California companies can stand the test.

California's leading enterprises, such as the steamship of the San Francisco Shipyard, the locomotive of the California Railway, the bicycles and machine tools of the General Machinery Company, the machine tools of Pratt & Whitney and the Bran Company, the steam engines of the Allair Works and the Republic Engine Company, and the Sewing machines at the Binns-Lawrence factory.

These products are not only very competitive in the United States, but also very popular in the international market.

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San Francisco is now a city to work in, but not a city to live in, as pollution in San Francisco gets worse by the day.

Of the three major cities in California, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sacramento, the most livable city is undoubtedly Sacramento.

Except for the arsenal, Sacramento has no serious polluting enterprises.

The sky here is bluer than in San Francisco, and the air is cleaner.

Considering that the state government, state assembly, and state court are all located in Sacramento, Liang Yao bought a piece of land from Sartre and planned to build a A manor.

Ashamed to say, this is Liang Yao's first time building a manor in California.

Tingtao Garden, where he lived for more than six years, was not built by him, but by Sam Brannan, California's first millionaire.

The manor Liang Yao built was in New York, and the time he lived in that manor in New York was only the month when he married Elizabeth.

Liang Yao took the train to the construction site in Sacramento. To Liang Yao's surprise, Bell was also on the construction site.

He also thought that Bell came to Sacramento to inspect the arsenal to prepare for the introduction of firearms and artillery production lines from California to Texas.

April weather in Sacramento is pleasant, but doing physical work can still be sweaty and stuffy.

Bell was sawing wood shirtless, revealing muscles that were loose but still full of strength.

Yankees and Dixies do not differ significantly in physical features.

However, it is still possible to easily distinguish whether a person is a Yankee or a Dixie by certain obvious characteristics produced by acquired living habits and climatic differences in the area of ​​​​activity.

Bell has the typical red neck of white southerners, which is exposed by the harsh southern sun during outdoor activities all year round.This is also the origin of the name red neck.

The black-colored vocabulary in this area has a long history. Around 1800, the northerners used the term red neck to ridicule the rural whites in the south, white miners and white people engaged in heavy physical labor.

At first, the popularity of this word was not very high. As the conflict between the North and the South intensified, the popularity and frequency of use of this word gradually increased.

The scope of coverage has also spread from rural whites in the south, white miners, and white practitioners of heavy physical labor to all southern whites, including southern slave owners.

This appellation is obviously a contemptuous term for northerners to southerners, but southern whites don't seem to dislike this discriminatory appellation, but are proud of it.

The development history of the southern state is relatively short. Even if the southern immigrants have made a fortune, many of them are second-generation, third-generation, or even first-generation immigrants. Due to the reality of labor shortage, they have not abandoned what their parents left behind. A glorious tradition of labor.

Take Bell, for example, a first-generation immigrant from Texas.

When he was young, he personally cultivated cotton fields and sugarcane fields.

After sawing the wood, Bell called a black servant, and the black servant carried the wood and hit the wood on the foundation.

This old man is really strong, Liang Yao couldn't help sighing.

Bell is in his 50s this year, and by the standards of this era, 50 must be considered a young old man.

Liang Yao walked to Bell's workbench, and saw a piece of architectural blueprint on the workbench, with a wooden ruler and a fine-grained brush pressed on the architectural blueprint.

Liang Yao moved away the wooden ruler and fine brush that were pressed on the drawing, and realized that it was an architectural drawing of a wooden house.

"Father, grandpa is building a house for Qianqian and mother, a very big house."

Caitlina, who was playing on the sidelines, galloped over on the black pony she brought from Texas, gesticulating the big and big houses while talking.

Children are very capable of learning, and Katerina can already speak some simple Chinese and Cantonese after being with them for five months.

Qianqian is the Chinese name given to Caitlina by Liang Yao's grandfather Liang Weiming.

Liang Yao picked up Liang Qianqian who was on the horseback, kissed her hard on the cheek, and asked, "Where's mother?"

"Mom went back to the red house to prepare lunch for grandpa." Liang Qianqian replied in a childish voice.

The red house is the house built by Liang Yao when he settled in Sacramento in the early years.

This house is made of red bricks, so Liang Qianqian likes to call this house a red house.

After finishing speaking, Liang Qianqian took out the longevity lock hanging on his chest, and proudly showed off to Liang Yao: "The longevity lock given to Qianqian by the bearded grandpa, isn't it beautiful?"

"Pretty." Liang Yao said with a smile, "That's Dad's grandfather, you should call him great-grandfather."

"dad."

"When will you marry your mother?"

"soon."

"When is soon?"

"It's when there is a suitable day to get married."

"What day is suitable for marriage?"

"Don't be sloppy with the kids." Seeing Liang Yao approaching, Bell patted the sawdust on his hands and walked up, saying.

"I have discussed it with your grandfather. According to your Chinese calendar, the ninth day of August this year is a very suitable day for marriage. I will go to Xiangshan with you then."

The ninth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is September 1856, 9 in the Gregorian calendar.

It's only mid-April now, and there are still 5 months to go, so it's not too late.

"If you want to build a house, you can hire some workers. You don't have to do it yourself." Liang Yao said looking at Bell, who was dripping with sweat and panting heavily.

"Forget it, my black slaves are more comfortable with it." Bell said, "The joy of building a house for my daughter and granddaughter, you Yankee guys who don't have a job and haven't even landed will not understand."

Liang Yao had no way to refute this point. Liang Yao's conditions were very good when he was born. At that time, the Liang family was one of the largest landlords in Xiangshan. He had never even bought land.

But Liang Yao didn't agree with him when he said he was a Yankee: "I'm not from the north, what kind of Yankee is I?"

"You people in the Free State are all fucking Yankees, and you are the son-in-law of the Yankees," Bell said.

"I married your daughter, and I'm also Dixie's son-in-law. Do you think I'm a Yankee or a Dixie?" Liang Yao and Bell circled around.

"Stop fucking nonsense, if you let me know that you bully my daughter in the future, I will never forgive you." Bell said cursingly.

"Speaking of business, I have already visited the arsenal in Sacramento. I have discussed it with my old guys in Texas. I plan to introduce a Walter 1851E rifle production line, a small Napoleon gun and a large Napoleon gun production line. .

The address of the factory has already been determined, and it will be located in San Antonio. "

"This is the reward I promised you at the beginning. As long as the Texas side and the Sacramento Armory make an agreement, I have no objection." Liang Yao said.

The Texas side chose to introduce the production line of Walter 1851E rifles and Napoleon guns, which Liang Yao expected.

As for the big killer, the Sacramento Cannon, which was not selected, it's okay, but it's too expensive.

The poor in the south couldn't afford it, and the rifled Napoleon gun was not outdated at this time, it was still a relatively advanced artillery.

Choosing to introduce the production line of Napoleon guns is a cost-effective choice for Dezhou.

"However, there is a very difficult problem. Texas can't produce the gun steel needed for making guns. This kind of steel requires a high level of metallurgical technology. Even Virginia (the most industrially developed state among the slave states) has It is impossible to manufacture qualified gun steel." Bell frowned and said.

"As far as I know, steel mills in Pennsylvania and Ohio can produce high-quality gun steel." Liang Yao thought for a while and said.

"Under the current circumstances, it is impossible for the Yankees to sell this strategic resource to the South." Bell shook his head and said.

"I discussed with the old folks in Texas. We would like to invite you to set up a steel factory in Texas. We will provide the money, and you will provide the technology and equipment to produce this high-quality gun steel in Texas. .The shares of this steel plant, we hold 51% in Texas, and the remaining 49% are held by your California."

Liang Yao turned his head and asked Carnegie, the assistant beside him: "Carnegie, which company provides the gun steel for the Sacramento Steel Plant?"

"There are two suppliers of gun steel to the Sacramento Arsenal, one is the United Steel Corporation under the California Coal and Steel Alliance, and the other is Tongfu Metals under the Tongfu Group." Carnegie quickly replied.

"Well, let me say hello to Tongfu Group. For specific matters, you in Dezhou will directly talk to Tongfu Group." Liang Yao thought for a while and said.