1850 American Gold Tycoon

Chapter 60 Have you thought about the worst outcome?

"Mr. Liang, let's go to the bow and smoke for a while."

Out of admiration for Liang Yao, or love for talent, Vanderbilt still decided to remind this young man who knows nothing about the sky and the earth.

The two walked to the bow, and Vanderbilt habitually escaped a crumpled cigar from his coat pocket.

He doesn't like to pack his cigars in fancy boxes, but prefers to keep them in his pockets, and only puts two or three cigars at a time.Because this way you don't have to share your cigarettes with others.

"You made the right choice to buy land, which can make you a huge windfall, but you bought too much. Do you know what kind of people your future buyers will be?"

Vanderbilt said to Liang Yao in the tone of someone who has experienced it.

It is a good thing to be ambitious, but it is a very bad thing to not know how to restrain one's ambition.

Vanderbilt himself suffered such a loss when he was young.

If Liang Yao only bought a small part of the land in the Sacramento gold mining area, perhaps the big chaebols in the east would let him live and spend money reluctantly to buy some land rich in gold.

If we talk about the land in the entire gold mining area, these big eastern chaebols who are used to sucking blood will never take out their pockets and buy the land from Liang Yao with real money.

"I know that they are more powerful and ruthless people than you." Liang Yao's gaze was very firm, "As long as they come, there will be no more miracles in California, and private gold diggers and small gold mining companies will become rich overnight history will always be history."

"Money sometimes can't buy high society status. I only want to be cruel to my competitors. I only want money."

Vanderbilt's status in New York was embarrassing, and his wealth did not bring him a commensurate social status.

Even the tickets to the banquet of New York elites and celebrities, he spent a lot of effort to get them.

He still remembered the first time he attended a banquet. He was dressed very formally, wearing a custom-made tuxedo, carrying a staff of civilization, and even learned aristocratic etiquette in order to better integrate into them.

But his contributions were not respected by the celebrities. The upper-class people looked down on him as a country bumpkin from the bottom of their hearts, and shamed him as a rude farmer and a despicable sailor without hesitation.

Since then, Vanderbilt has completely figured it out. Attending the banquet is just to make troubles at the banquet, making troubles at the banquet like an immature child, venting his grievances, and adding trouble to those New York elites who call themselves aristocrats.

He gave up trying to fit in with New York's elite and instead focused on making money with his like-minded friends.

He also made friends with some members of Congress, but they were all humble members.

Vanderbilt's real stature commensurate with his wealth would not come until after the Civil War.

After the Civil War, Congress awarded him the Gold Medal for his support of the Union during the Civil War.

But he also paid a big price for it, the biggest price being that he sent his favorite George Washington Vanderbilt to the battlefield during the Civil War, and George Washington Vanderbilt was never able to fight again. return.

This caused him to suffer and blame himself for the rest of his life.

"For the sake of my suffering countrymen, and for my own sake, I must do this if I can stand firm in America.

If I don't, do you know what awaits those gold diggers and my countrymen?Get a subsistence job at one of those big gold rush companies and work 90 hours a week, maybe more, for a meager paycheck.At that time, we will never have a bright future!

Of course, I also thought about what kind of results this would bring me. "

Liang Yao's tone was very firm, he would never give up the wealth he already held in his hands.

Although he was an individual in his previous life, he had to compromise with reality in order to live and became a bully of capitalists, but in this life, he never wants to be a bully again!

Nor did he want his countrymen to come to California with hopes and ideals only to sail from one hell to another.

"What do you think is the worst possible outcome?" Vanderbilt asked.

"Congress does not recognize the legitimacy of my ownership of the land in Sacramento, and puts the land that belongs to me to public bidding, and those greedy chaebols will bid for these lands that are rich in gold at negligible prices."

This was the worst result Liang Yao could think of.

"It seems that you still know them very well. What are you going to do if you have reached this point?"

Vanderbilt was very surprised by Liang Yao's answer. This was indeed the worst result, even to the point of being unconstitutional.

But he believes that for the sake of gold, those big chaebols are likely to put pressure on Congress to do this kind of thing.

When he was in a lawsuit in his early years, he had personally experienced their methods, and he knew the faces of those people very well.

"I will destroy California with my own hands!" Liang Yao said loudly, "California not only has gold in Sacramento, if they insist on focusing on Sacramento and killing me, I will take up arms to defend my property and dignity.

What I can't get, they can't get easily, I can make California run in order, I can make California run into chaos, make California a purgatory on earth, they want gold, go to purgatory Come get it! "

Liang Yao wasn't talking alarmistly. He had been hoarding ammunition secretly. In addition to trying to train the 150-member legion into professional soldiers, the 680 members of the Loyalty Society were also training as paramilitary personnel in turn.Young Chinese are also being armed.

If he really wants to turn his face, he can at least raise an armed force of thousands of people.

To wipe out his private armed forces, at least two infantry regiments must be dispatched. Colonel Griffin, who is stationed in California, only has four or five hundred people in his hands, and there is nothing he can do for a while.

California was isolated on the western frontier, and Liang Yao had a lot of time to raze San Francisco, Sacramento and even Los Angeles to the ground when the US War Department dispatched troops.

Even if the U.S. troops were stationed, he would not fight them directly. At worst, he would escape into the vast western mountainous area and become a bandit, looting his house.

Such a high cost of counterinsurgency is enough for the American government to drink a pot.

Of course, this is only a low-level strategy, and there is a more moderate method, which is to use the public opinion in the east and the Texas landowners and plutocrats who also have land grants from the Mexican government to put pressure on the government.

As for whether it will be effective, he does not dare to guarantee it.

"Ahem, this is just the worst outcome, maybe the real situation will be better than you imagined."

Liang Yao's countermeasure made Vanderbilt's scalp tingle when he heard it. I hope he just talked about it.

It was already late at night when they arrived in Sacramento. Although the Sacramento sailed smoothly, everyone felt a little tired after a whole day of sailing, so they decided to rest for a night before proceeding with the investigation the next day.

Although it was late at night, the Sacramento area was still very lively.

Many nearby miners have settled here, and many shops are still open late at night.

This is where Liang Yao made his fortune, and the city of Sacramento was planned by Liang Yao himself.

The street is wide. Although there are vendors setting up stalls on both sides of the street, it is still more than enough to accommodate four carriages side by side.

What's even more rare is that the streets of Sacramento have a perfect drainage system.

Due to the lack of materials for making drainage pipes, Liang Yao had no choice but to use open channels for drainage.

A relatively complete drainage system ensures that sewage will not be discharged randomly on the streets, so the streets are relatively clean.

"It's very clean here."

Elizabeth said with some surprise that she had thought that Sacramento would have a poor sanitation environment like many small eastern cities.

Unexpectedly, she didn't even have to lift her skirt to walk here. The hardened streets were cleaned very cleanly, so she didn't have to worry about staining her skirt.

Since there are enough public toilets in Sacramento, it is almost impossible to see people excreting or dumping excrement on the street at will. At most, you can see some livestock feces.

The feces of these livestock will not exist on the streets for long, because here, like the commercial street in San Francisco, there are special cleaning crews responsible for cleaning the streets.

"My home is here. The conditions here are not as good as those in San Francisco. Let's just settle down."

Liang Yao came to his residence in Sacramento. His residence in Sacramento was built in a hurry. Although it is not simple, it is far less comfortable than Tingtao Garden.

There are still bullet marks from the previous battle on the walls of this house, and Vanderbilt asked while staring at these densely packed bullet marks.

"Have fierce conflicts erupted here?"

"Yes, some deserters attacked here, and I almost died here. Fortunately, we miners were united enough to drive away those bandits." Liang Yao said with a relaxed face.

Vanderbilt nodded, he was a little absent-minded, as if he was thinking about something.

(End of this chapter)