1850 American Gold Tycoon.

1857 1 Month 1 Day.

After Christmas, the next biggest holiday on the West Coast is the Spring Festival.

Since the population structure of the entire West Coast region is dominated by Chinese, unlike other regions in the United States, the Spring Festival atmosphere in the West Coast region is stronger than Christmas.

In California, the Spring Festival legislation has even been positioned as a holiday.

The newly established states of Oregon and Liangzhou have also put on the agenda the proposal of positioning the Spring Festival as a legal holiday.

If there is no accident, the people of Oregon and Liangzhou will also enjoy a half-month holiday during the Spring Festival next year.

Unlike in the past, Liang Yao will not spend the Spring Festival in San Francisco this year, but will choose to spend it in his new residence in Sacramento.

Although Sacramento is not as prosperous as San Francisco and Los Angeles, as the third largest city in California and the administrative center where California dignitaries gather, Sacramento is still quite lively.

The streets are full of residents buying new year's goods.

Liang Yao originally wanted to take advantage of the free time in the past few days to accompany his mother and two daughters-in-law to buy New Year's Eve shopping. Unexpectedly, his third uncle Liang Shaoqiong sent a telegram, saying that he had bought New Year's shopping for Liang Yao and was now heading to Sacramento. On the way.

"Mother, my son can't accompany you to buy new year's goods. My third uncle is coming to Sacramento, and my son is going to pick up my third uncle at the train station." Liang Yao said to his mother who was about to leave.

Liang Yao couldn't buy New Year's goods together, so Elizabeth and Zoe were a little disappointed following Deng Lan.

Deng Lan was also a little displeased: "The third uncle is here, you just ask your father to pick him up, since he is idle anyway."

"You old woman has nothing to say, why are you accusing me? Who is idle? Now I can say that I am also a tycoon who manages a million-dollar property!"

Hearing his mother-in-law scolding him, Liang Shaochen, who was drinking tea with his legs crossed, immediately stood up and retorted.

"Who are you talking about, ladies?"

Before Liang Shaochen straightened his back for three seconds, Deng Lan greeted Liang Shaochen with a feather duster, and Liang Shaochen begged for mercy repeatedly.

Elizabeth and Zoe couldn't help but smile as loud as they could. Liang Yao's five-year-old daughter Liang Qianqian was usually pulled by Deng Lan, so she had a closer relationship with Deng Lan. The half-year-old daughter also imitated the same example. Looking like Deng Lan, he picked up a feather duster and chased Liang Shaochen to hit him.

"Haha, little bastard! If your grandpa can't cure your grandma, can't he cure you?"

Liang Shaochen suddenly hugged Liang Qianqian and lifted Liang Qianqian high to ride on his neck.

"Hehehe, grandpa will be a horse for me to ride! Drive~drive~"

Liang Qianqian was very excited. She used a feather duster as a riding whip and directed Liang Shaoqiong forward as if she were riding her own pony.

"Put the child down quickly! Don't let the child fall!" Deng Lan was afraid that Liang Shaochen would not be able to support Liang Qianqian, so she dropped her baby bump, and threw away the feather duster to ask Liang Shaochen to put the child down.

"Mom, my third uncle is now an important member of the imperial court. When he comes to California this time, he must have something important to discuss with the child. It would be more appropriate for the child to receive it in person." Liang Yao said to Deng Lan.

After Yueyong participated in the military operations to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he succeeded again and again, and Yueyong's strength also increased day by day, which aroused the fear of the Qing court.

In addition, Liang Shaochen, the two chief officials of Yueyong, and Pan Shicheng, who was in the same company, were not born as Jinshi in the same class. It is inevitable that there will be unaccustomed scholar-bureaucrats fanning the flames around Emperor Xianfeng in the court.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Liang Shaoqiong decided to advance instead of retreating. On the grounds that his father was old and needed to be served, he took the initiative to ask him to resign and return to his hometown.

Emperor Xianfeng borrowed a donkey to go downhill and agreed to Liang Shaoqiong's request. He also issued a decree to commend and reward Liang Weiming and Liang Shaoqiong with some royal items as consolation.

But the good times didn't last long. After Liang Shaoqiong lost his job and Yue Yong became passive and sabotaged, the war situation quickly took a turn for the worse.

Naturally, the waste of the two camps in the south of the Yangtze River and the north can not be counted on. The only thing that can be counted on from the Yueyong court is Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army.

Reluctantly, the Hunan Army failed to live up to expectations, and the foreign gun team opened by Yi Wang Shi Da was forced to fight all the way back to Hunan from Anhui, losing the three important towns of Anqing, Jiujiang, and Wuchang in succession.

Even Changsha, the provincial capital of Hunan, the home of the Hunan Army, was in a hurry.

In desperation, the Hunan Army went to the doctor in a hurry and hired foreigners headed by the American Waller to form a foreign gun team.However, apart from burning, killing and looting everywhere, these foreigners did not achieve much results except for stirring up public resentment.

In order to reverse the situation of the war, the Qing government had to consider asking Liang Shaoqiong to come out of the mountain to exterminate Changmao again.

Liang Shaoqiong declined the imperial court's invitation on the grounds that he wanted to be filial.

It wasn't until Prince Gong Yi came forward to win Liang Shaoqiong the title of the right servant of the Ministry of War and promised not to interfere with Yueyong's specific decision-making.

Only then did Liang Shaoqiong go up to the performance with tears of gratitude, expressing that since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, and he is willing to go out to share the worries of the emperor and be loyal to the Qing Dynasty.

Liang Yao asked his servants to prepare the carriage and go to the train station, when he bumped into Vanderbilt who was in a hurry.

"I'm looking for you." Vanderbilt said, grabbing Liang Yao's shoulder.

"Something happened to Crystal Palace."

"Which Crystal Palace, from New York? From Philadelphia? Or from Boston?" Liang Yao asked with a frown.

After the success of the business model of New York's Crystal Palace shopping mall, Liang Yao followed suit and successively opened Crystal Palace shopping malls in two big cities, Philadelphia and Boston.

It's just that the Crystal Palaces in New York and Philadelphia are owned by himself, Vanderbilt, and Vanderzee.

The Crystal Palace Mall in Boston is owned by himself, Vandaze and Robinson of the Boston Group.

"In New York, Vanderbilt just sent me a telegram. The Crystal Palace shopping malls in Philadelphia and Boston have stepped up their security." Vanderbilt said angrily.

"Damn it, when I get back to New York to find out who did it, I have to kill him! Dare to burn my mall!"

"Burned?" Liang Yao asked.

"It burned a little bit, but fortunately, we took precautions, discovered it in time, and put out the fire in time." Vanderbilt said.

"Did Fan der Ze say how much the loss was?" Liang Yao asked.

"The loss of property and goods, plus the cost of repairing the Crystal Palace, the direct loss is at least [-] to [-] U.S. dollars." Vanderbilt said with some distress.

"If you only want to make money, I'm afraid it's hard to find out which bastard did it. I think it's a competitor in the same industry who set fire to the mall."

"There are only a few big retail businesses in New York, and it's not difficult to find out," Liang Yao said.

"We don't need to investigate this kind of thing by ourselves. Over the years, our Crystal Palace shopping mall has paid taxes to New York without stealing or leaking. Let the police in New York investigate.

The loss of [-] to [-] U.S. dollars, we can't just swallow it directly, find a good lawyer, sue the New York City government, and demand the New York City government to compensate for the loss. "

"Based on the nature of the New York City government and the police department, it is true that they will only be active if they pay for the investigation first." Vanderbilt nodded.

"I have a lot of old buddies in New York. I will handle this matter. It's just that I heard that your Huaxia Chamber of Commerce has been on strike for a few days. The attitude of the federal government seems to be unclear."

"It's something that is expected." Liang Yao said calmly, "Previously, major merchants had more or less stocked up on Chinese businessmen's inventory. When these stocks were used up, their attitude became clear. I think they underestimated this. The determination of the Chinese merchants to go on strike this time, I thought that I, Liang, was just acting as a show."

These days, American businessmen in the east are sending more and more telegrams to Liang Yao, and the tone of the call urging Liang Yao to resume supplying them has become more and more urgent.It means that their inventory is running out, and this kind of result is exactly what Liang Yao wants to see.

Want to resume supply?Then put pressure on the federal government authorities and ask the federal government to agree to all the demands made by the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce!
Today, California is no longer the California that only had gold at the beginning.Has made considerable achievements in the manufacturing industry.

Especially in the fields of high-end machinery manufacturing and chemical industry, it is the leader in the United States and even the world.

For machine tools, sewing machines, bicycles, kerosene, Vaseline and other products, American businessmen in the east have been unable to find any other suppliers besides Liang Yao for a long time.

This is where Liang Yao's confidence lies.

To put it bluntly, with the kerosene provided by California, the nights in the eastern cities will definitely look bleak!
"Can you survive this?" Vanderbilt asked tentatively.

"There's nothing I can't resist." Liang Yao said with a smile, "My kerosene, Vaseline, bicycles, and sewing machines are lined up by the British and the French. I wish I could go on strike forever."

"Yes, only your America Group can provide these things." Vanderbilt's concerns were dispelled, and he asked about another thing.

"Are you sure you don't want to invite President Buchanan to the opening ceremony of the Pacific Railroad next month?"

"No please." Liang Yao said very decisively.

"Buchanan's position as president will not last long. My father-in-law must support me in this matter no matter what."

"I trust your judgment." Vanderbilt laughed.

"Where are you planning to go when you prepare your horse to go out?"

Judging from Buchanan's overall performance from election to taking office, he is indeed not a politician worth investing in.Vanderbilt and Liang Yao agree on this point.

"Go to the train station to pick up the Deputy Minister of War of the Qing Dynasty. Are you interested in meeting him?" Liang Yao joked.

"Yes, of course." Vanderbilt said with narrowed eyes, and at the same time he felt a little strange.

"The Deputy Minister of War of the Qing Dynasty came to visit. Why didn't I hear anything about such a big event?"

"It's not an official visit, they just come to spend a new year with me." Liang Yao laughed.

"The Deputy Minister of War of the Qing Dynasty came all the way to California just to spend a new year with you?" Vanderbilt asked puzzled.

Liang Yao didn't say much and invited Vanderbilt, who looked suspicious, to get in the car and go to the Sacramento train station together.

Sacramento is not a big place, and soon the two of them arrived at the train station.

"Sacramento has changed a lot."

After getting off the carriage, looking at the bustling crowd at the train station, Vanderbilt couldn't help but sigh.

In the past few years, Vanderbilt has visited Sacramento several times, so he has a deep impression of Sacramento.

"This is just the beginning." Liang Yao said without any modesty.

The local population of Sacramento is not large, only 10,000+. There are so many passengers at the train station because Sacramento is a transit station from San Francisco to Oregon.

"In the past few days, I have been thinking about where to build a city as a supply station after the opening of the Pacific Railway." Vanderbilt said ambitiously.

"As the only traffic artery between east and west in the near future, the commercial value contained in it is immeasurable."

"We will discuss this matter in detail after we go back. Father-in-law, my third uncle is here." Liang Yao said.

Liang Shaoqiong wore a long gown with braids, and the accompanying servants also wore braids, which stood out among a group of Californians who wore Hanfu and Western suits without braids.

As soon as Liang Shaoqiong got off the train, Liang Yao found Liang Shaoqiong from the crowd.

"Your uncle?" Vanderbilt was a little puzzled.

"My uncle is the Deputy Minister of War of the Qing Dynasty." Liang Yao explained.

Vanderbilt suddenly realized, no wonder this kid said that the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of War of the Qing Dynasty would come to celebrate the New Year with him, and the Deputy Minister of affection was his uncle.