1850 American Gold Tycoon

Chapter 26 Citizenship Committee

"God buried an inexhaustible amount of gold in California and guided us believers in God to discover the gold that God has given us, believers in God.
We are all chosen by God!

Now someone wants to monopolize this gold and drive us step by step to a dead end, in the name of God, for gold!For a better life!We unite! "

In Sacramento, Liang Yao is delivering his incendiary speech.

"We unite!"

"For God! For Gold!"

"For a better life!"

A tsunami-like echo from the audience poured into Liang Yao's ears.

Citizens of San Francisco have also suffered from Sam Brannan for a long time, and now there is someone who can wrestle with Brannan and is willing to stand up for justice, and they are also willing to stand up and resist.

Gold was discovered in California, but it was Brannan and his bullshit sheriff's board who benefited from it in San Francisco.

If this is the case, they can still bear it. What makes the gold diggers unbearable is that instead of restraining themselves, these vested interests rely on their monopoly position to sit on the ground and raise prices, levy huge rents and miscellaneous donations on shops, and use heinous Selling daily necessities and gold digging tools at a low price completely blocked their upward path of making a fortune.

"Rousseau once said in the opening chapter of "The Contract" that man is born free but is everywhere in chains, although you seem to be free, but in fact you are all slaves, you are all Brannan's miners!

You dug and dug in the ore soil day and night with your hard-working hands, and finally dug up such a pitiful little bit of gold.

But what happened?Just a word from Brannan, the price of the gold pan will increase by three dollars today!Beer goes up two dollars a pound!Bread goes up by a dollar a pound!You can easily take away the gold in your hands!

Brannan is our chains!Let's unite together!Break free from this damned shackles! "

Liang Yao struck while the iron was hot and continued to fan the flames.

Looking at Liang Yao who was giving a speech with great passion, Robinson felt very crazy and incredible.

Liang Yao actually easily mobilized the emotions of these gold diggers from different places,
Robinson listened carefully to Liang Yao's speech, and he used the theories such as the theory of God's chosen people abandoning the people, the theory of destiny, and the theory of contract, which he used flexibly.

Liang Yao's speech was not only provocative, but the content of his speech was so profound that it might make even those experienced politicians in the east feel ashamed.

Robinson became more and more curious about Liang Yao's experience. Is this a speech that only eighteen or nineteen-year-olds can make?

As a person who has just grown up, Liang Yao is too mature.He even wondered if Liang Yao was the one chosen by God?

Apart from this explanation, Robinson could not think of any other reasons to explain Liang Yao's outstanding personal ability and excessive maturity.

The speech was very successful. Liang Yao successfully established the California Citizens Committee, and he was successfully elected as the chairman of the Citizens Committee as he wished.

Due to Robinson's good reputation, the participants elected Robinson as the vice chairman of the Citizens Committee.

This made the employees of the Boston company very excited.

Robinson himself felt like he was sitting on pins and needles. The citizens' committee had a large number of ordinary members. Even if the citizens' committee failed in this struggle, these ordinary members would be able to retreat unscathed.

As the chairman, Liang Yao and the vice chairman, he has no way out at all and can only advance and retreat together.

Robinson is now also riding a tiger, so he can only reluctantly agree to serve as the vice chairman of the Citizens Committee under the instigation of everyone.

"Please accept my congratulations, Dr. Robinson, your election as vice chairman is well-received."

After the meeting, Liang Yao congratulated Robinson.

The current population structure of California is still dominated by white people, and the Citizens Committee has a highly respected white person as the vice chairman, and those white people can also accept it.

This situation is what Liang Yao is happy to see. Apart from his extraordinary speech ability, his ability to serve as the chairman of the committee is his strength. After all, except for Brannan, no one in California has the strength to compete with him. .

It can be said that Liang Yao is the only candidate for the chairman of the Citizens Committee, and there is no other choice except him.

Robinson's role as vice chairman is truly what everyone expects.

"I can't be happy at all. Let me be the vice chairman, it's as uncomfortable as putting me on fire. I just want to be an ordinary doctor."

"An ordinary doctor can't save California, Mr. Robinson."

Liang Yao patted Robinson on the shoulder and said meaningfully to Robinson.

"Sorry to interrupt your conversation, hello, Mr. Chairman, there is something I want to talk to you about."

A young man about the same age as Liang Yao said cautiously, holding a pair of brand new canvas pants in his hand.

"Of course, please come to my residence to talk, and I will invite you to drink authentic Chinese tea."

Liang Yao bid farewell to Robinson and invited the young man to sit in his courtyard.

"I am overwhelmed by your extraordinary speech ability and personal charm. If California becomes a state in the future, I will vote for you like today."

The young man said, looking around Liang Yao's house: "Compared to Mr. Brannan's manor, your house is too simple, but your house is very tasteful and well designed. Unlike Brannan, his There is always only one theme in the house, that is gold, I am afraid that people all over the world will not know that he has gold, and you will be much more low-key.”

"I don't think you came to me to discuss residential design with me."

Jones couldn't learn how to make tea clumsily, and Deng Ying was not around. Liang Yao felt very uncomfortable watching Jones' clumsy and unfamiliar tea making movements. He asked Jones to sort out this month's financial statements, and he made tea himself.

"I'm a small shopkeeper in San Francisco, and I have a project, I think you will be interested in it." As he spoke, the young man hurriedly brought the canvas pants in his hand to Liang Yao for him to have a look at.

Liang Yao poured a cup of tea for the young man, and the young man took it fearfully and drank it, but the tea was too hot and his mouth was red.

"I can't drink hot tea in a hurry. The tea is too hot. You can put it on the coffee table first and drink it when it cools down." Liang Yao reminded the young man while looking at the canvas pants.

The canvas trousers were very strong. Liang Yao put down the canvas trousers, then picked up the teacup, blew the hot air on the teacup, and took a sip gently.

"Tell me your name, and what you think."

"My name is Levi Strauss. I just immigrated to New York three years ago. Your accent makes me feel very familiar. You speak English with a very unique New York accent. Are you a New Yorker?"

"I'm not from New York, but my English tutor is a New Yorker, so my English will inevitably have a New York flavor."

In his previous life, Liang Yao lived in New York for seven or eight years, and it is inevitable to acquire some local accents. Now his English accent is different from that of more than a hundred years ago. Strauss thinks that his English has a strange New York accent, which is not good. Strange.

In his later generations, he often dealt with all kinds of customers, and speaking with a local accent can also shorten the distance with local customers, making it easier to negotiate deals.

Levi Strauss, founder of Levi's?

"Before immigrating to New York, were you a Jew living in a German-speaking area?"

Liang Yao carefully looked at Strauss. The gold rush in California gave birth to the first batch of rich people in the western United States. Many of the companies founded by these rich people have been passed down for a hundred years or even longer.Levi's is one example.

It’s just that there are shipping magnate Vanderbilt in the front, and oil tycoon Rockefeller and steel magnate Carnegie are behind. These western tycoons look dim under the starlight of these three tycoons, and they are not so well-known.

"How do you know?" Strauss was very surprised.

"Your English has a strong German flavor. A shrewd businessman like you, I think, is either Jewish or somewhat Jewish."

Strauss, like Sartre, speaks a very German English, which is easy to recognize.

"You have more knowledge than Mr. Brannan. It seems that joining the Citizens Committee will be the wisest choice I have made in my life." Strauss sighed, and then he introduced his products.

"From what I have observed in the mines these days, I have found that the clothes and trousers of the miners are worn out and worn out, and that it is very expensive to make a new suit and trousers in California.

So I thought it would be nice if these miners could have a hard-wearing suit, so I got a tailor to make some samples out of some dead canvas, and this one you have is the best of them all. "

After speaking, Levi looked at Liang Yao nervously and expectantly.

Strauss, who has just started his business, is now short of funds and urgently needs an investment to change his current predicament.Otherwise, he wouldn't have come to Sacramento to listen to Liang Yao's speech after seeing Liang Yao's news in the newspaper.

Strauss hoped that the young investor would be interested in his project. He had bet everything on coming to California to start a business, and he couldn't afford to lose.

"Canvas is wear-resistant and really suitable for making tooling. I can consider investing in it. However, although canvas tooling is wear-resistant, it may not be comfortable to wear. This is also a problem that needs to be considered in the future. If you want your products to sell well, you The products must be improved, updated and iterated to meet the needs of users, so as not to be abandoned by the market.”

"You are far-sighted, and to tell you the truth, before I came to you with trepidation, I also approached Mr. Brannan. Unfortunately, he was only interested in lucrative industries such as gold mining tools, brothels, casinos, and taverns. I don't intend to reduce my rent." Seeing that Liang Yao affirmed his idea, Strauss was overjoyed.

Liang Yao sighed lightly: "A place with only brothels, casinos and taverns will have no future. Gold is just an opportunity God bestowed on California, not the future of California. Only industry is the future of California."

Strauss agreed with Liang Yao's point of view very much. He was very excited, as if he had found a bosom friend with a common language.

"You're renting Brannan's shop now?"

"Yes sir, it's just that the rent charged by Brannan is too expensive. Although my grocery business is doing well, I have to buy from Mr. Brannan, and with the high rent, I have almost no funds left to open it. New sales channels.

I once tried to find a merchant ship that docked by myself and buy the goods directly from the owner, which would be much cheaper, but I also paid for it. After Brannan found out about this matter, the people from the Security Committee severely repaired me. Dayton, and warned me that if they found out again, they would confiscate my shop.

Brannan is in control of everything in San Francisco, which makes us feel very hopeless.But luckily God sent you to California to save us. "Strauss said not without gratitude.

"How are the other merchants in San Francisco doing?" Liang Yao asked.

"I've already been a relatively good shopkeeper. I think you can guess what happened to other shopkeepers." Strauss shrugged helplessly and spread his hands.

It is self-evident that Strauss has made such a prosperous business and is still struggling to survive. The situation of those ordinary shopkeepers is naturally self-evident.

"California doesn't have banks yet, and some shopkeepers have to borrow from Brannan to make ends meet," Strauss added.

"Brannan has gone too far. I sympathize with your situation. If you want, you can now work with me and continue your project. Your project has great potential. I am very optimistic and willing to support you Give a helping hand.

I have also purchased some land in San Francisco where I will build a new commercial street, where the rent will be very reasonable and some necessary public services will be provided.

After returning to San Francisco, you will tell the poor shopkeepers that San Francisco will usher in a new era just like Sacramento. Let us work together to build a beautiful new California!Build our prosperous new home! "

　In history, Strauss did not come to California so early, and the plot needs to be advanced.But fellow book lovers, rest assured that this book will adopt an attitude of not sticking to the big things and the small things in the treatment of historical facts, and will not make random things out of thin air.

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