1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 518 Great American Shock
New York State, New York City.

In New York City's municipal building, New York State Governor Myron H. Clark and New York City Mayor Fernando Wood summoned New York State retail tycoon Stewart in the mayor's office.

"Your Excellency the Mayor, yo, Your Excellency the Governor, are you here too?"

Seeing that the governor was also in the office, Stuart also greeted the governor.

"Stuart, you have gone too far in this matter." Fernando said to Stewart with a gloomy face.

To be honest, he didn't want to get involved in this matter. He was from New York City, and Stewart was also from New York City. The two of them were pretty good friends, and they usually saw each other without looking up.

It was only because of too much pressure from the Democratic Party that he had to wade into troubled waters and offend his wealthy friend.

After all, when a political future and rich friends cannot have both, the political future is more important.

"What are you talking about? Why can't I understand?"

Stuart's heart trembled, and he vaguely understood Fernando's intention of inviting him to a meeting, but he still chose to pretend to be stupid.

"If you don't want to talk here and want to keep pretending to be stupid, I can invite you to the police station in New York City to talk with Gerald."

Myron slammed the table hard and scolded loudly.

"Do you still want me to tell you about the bad things you did?"

Myron is also a Democrat, and he was also pressured by the Democratic Party to come forward to resolve the matter himself.

However, Myron and Stewart were not friends. They were just casual acquaintances, so he was not as worried as Fernando.

Furthermore, whether to offend Stuart alone or Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt and Liang Yao at the same time.Anyone with a normal mind should know how to choose.

Myron also hopes to use this matter to sell Vanderbilt and others a favor.

The familiar name of Gerald made Stuart completely give up resistance. He took out the kerchief on his chest and wiped the greasy sweat on his forehead. He had already greeted Gerald's family in his heart.

This kid Jellal is so damn unjust, he betrayed me so early.

These days, the New York police are arresting mobsters and Stuart has heard about the recovery of stolen money.

He was confident that he had done a very clean job, but he did not expect that the New York police would find out about him so quickly.

Damn, the New York police have never seen such high efficiency in handling cases before.

"Mr. Stewart, if you want to go home for dinner on time today, you should honestly confess to your other accomplice and compensate another 25 US dollars for the loss of the Crystal Palace mall."

Thinking of the past friendship, Fernando kept winking at Stuart during the conversation, implying that this time the incident was too big to avoid.

"Stewart, I think you are a decent gentleman so I came here to talk to you in person. Otherwise, Director Matt Sell would have talked to you. Do you understand?"

"Bruce, we met when stocks were traded on the exchange," Stuart said tremblingly.

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February 1857, 2, is a day worth remembering in the history of railroads in the United States and the world.

A transcontinental railway passed through mountains, rivers, deserts, and grasslands along the way, overcoming various geographical obstacles, and finally successfully merged in Provo, Utah, marking the first railway connection between the east and west coasts.

The 1712-mile (2754-kilometer) super-railway is divided into two main sections.

The Eastern Section, also known as the Union Pacific Railroad Section, gets its name from the joint construction of the New York Central Railroad and the Atlantic Railroad.

However, most of the work on this section was carried out by Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad, with the Atlantic Railroad only playing a supporting role.

The section of the railroad starts in Omaha, Nebraska, and travels westward through the plains and Rocky Mountains to Provo, Utah.

The length of the railway is about 1 miles (approximately 022 kilometers), and the laborers who built the railway are mainly European laborers of Irish descent.

The western section, also known as the California Railroad section, was independently constructed by the California Railroad Company.

The line stretches from Sacramento in the west to Provo in the east, although the total length of this line is only 690 miles (about 1 kilometers), which is not as long as the eastern section.

However, the western section of the railway spans the entire Sierra Nevada mountains, and there are almost high mountains along the way without much flat land. Therefore, although this section of the railway is shorter, the engineering difficulty and construction cost are higher than those of the eastern section of the railway.

The laborers who built this section of the railway were mainly Chinese laborers and Japanese laborers. However, in the middle period of the project, that is, after the Dutch-Chinese War, the California Railroad Company used a large number of Southeast Asian laborers who did not need to pay wages and only needed to take care of food in order to save costs.

Just when the project was about to be completed, the California Railway Company had secretly sent these Southeast Asian laborers back to the rubber plantations in Borneo in order to avoid unnecessary trouble.

“There is nothing better than building a road across mountains and building a bridge across rivers.”

Walking off Liang Yao's special train, Shen Baozhen pointed to the railroad tracks and asked.

"How much iron will be used to build this railway?"

"The section I was in charge of spent 39 tons of pig iron and 2 tons of steel."

Today is a happy day when the railway opens to traffic, Liang Yao is in a good mood, he said with a smile.

"As for Mr. Fan's part, at least 90 million tons of pig iron was used."

Railways have a huge demand for steel. If the California Coal and Steel Alliance had not been established in advance, the coal mines and iron mines in California and the Pacific coast of Mexico would be integrated, which would increase California's steel production in a short period of time.He really can't afford to repair this railway.

"A total of 87 tons of pig iron was used. I am not as prodigal as you. I am reluctant to use steel to lay the track. What is the price of pig iron? What is the price of steel?" Vanderbilt did not hide anything, and generously informed Shen Baozhen of the Eastern Railway How much steel was used.

Shen Baozhen wrenched his fingers and calculated a number that he had never heard before and felt suffocated: "That is to say, you used 123 million tons of pig iron and 2 tons of steel for this road. How many farm tools and weapons can this amount of steel produce?"

In the past, Shen Baozhen would not have believed this astronomical figure, and would have thought that Liang Yao and Vanderbilt were bragging.

However, after visiting the arsenal in Sacramento, the shipyard and steel plant in Jinshan, Shen Baozhen has broadened his horizons.What's more, the eastern part of the country where Vanderbilt is located is the core of the United States. It is expected that the steel output will be even more amazing than that of California.

So much steel was used to lay the rails, Shen Baozhen thought it was a fucking extravagance.

"That's right." Vanderbilt was also in a good mood.

"Pig iron in the eastern states is costing me a premium."

It is not an exaggeration to say that the price of pig iron in the eastern states has been increased by Vanderbilt. In order to build this railway, Vanderbilt has consumed more than one-fifth of the pig iron in the United States in recent years.

Liang Yao's situation was similar. Most of the steel produced in California was used by him to repair the railway.

"Don't tell me, if the steel output can increase, the price can drop below 70 dollars per ton, and the output is enough. I really consider using more steel rails. The strength and durability of the steel rails are higher, and they can bear greater weight. And pressure, the corrosion resistance is better, and the service life is longer. Unlike rails, the corrosion resistance is not bad, and it is easy to deform and break. It is necessary to send workers to check and maintain frequently." Liang Yao said.

In the 19s, the second industrial revolution had not yet fully rolled out, and steel prices remained high.

The price of American steel is between US$100 and US$200. As for whether it is US$100 or US$200, it depends on the quality of the steel and whether it is the origin of the steel.After all, the transportation cost of steel is very high.

When California was established as a state in 1850, because California's industrialization had just begun, steel production was extremely limited, and the price of steel was once as high as $500 per ton.

The price of steel in California has now dropped to US$110 per ton. The only place in the United States where steel prices are cheaper than in California is in the eastern steel capital: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Of course, pig iron at this time is not cheap, and the market price of pig iron per ton is between US$20 and US$40.

Due to the limited steel production, Liang Yao could only compromise with reality and only laid a small amount of experimental steel rails on critical road sections.

"According to this amendment, the steel in the entire United States will not be enough for you to build this railway." Vanderbilt shook his head and laughed.

Listening to the conversation between the two railway tycoons, Shen Baozhen felt the shock of America.

Secretly feeling that the United States, as a second-rate power in the West, has such a strong national power, isn't Britain and France, especially the United Kingdom, more powerful?

Fortunately, I came to the United States in person, otherwise I would have been a frog in a well for the rest of my life.

"Liang Xiandi, I wonder how much steel is produced in England?" Shen Baozhen couldn't help asking.

"I'm not British, how do I know. But it must be much more than that of the United States. The steel output of the United States is only a fraction of that of the United Kingdom. After a while, if you meet a British reporter, ask a British reporter, maybe they will know. "Liang Yao said.

It's not that Liang Yao doesn't want to answer Shen Baozhen's question, but that he really doesn't know how much steel production there is in the UK.

The amount of steel production in the United States is a little low. Last year, the steel production in the eastern United States was recorded to be about 45 tons, and the steel production in the west coast was about 15 tons (mainly concentrated in California).

Britain's steel production is at least three or four times that of the United States. (In 1856, the British local steel production was about 150 million tons)

Speaking of British journalists, Liang Yao suddenly remembered something. He called Carnegie and asked, "Carnegie, have all the European journalist friends I asked you to come?"

"Back to Your Excellency." Carnegie trotted all the way back to report to Liang Yaohui.

"The Times, Le Figaro, Parisian, Neue Zeitung, Frankfurter Zeitung , "Berliner Tageblatt", "Wiener Zeitung" (Wiener Zeitung), "Gazzetta di Torino" (Gazzetta di Torino) reporters can all come, just waiting for the opening ceremony to start."

"Why are there so many media from the German region? I remember that I didn't invite so many media from the German region?" Liang Yao was a little confused.

"General, I invited you here. Please forgive me for making my own decisions." Colonel Kruger said after Liang Yao.

"The opening ceremony is a grand event. I welcome more friends from the media to come and witness. I won't blame you for taking matters into your own hands. I just hope you don't make your own decisions on other matters." Liang Yao glanced at Ke expressionlessly. Ruger glanced.

This glance made Kruger feel chills all over his body, he nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, General."

(End of this chapter)