1850 American Gold Tycoon

Chapter 62 The Magic of Gold (4k)

After Liang Yao and Vanderbilt left, Deng Wenqi immediately changed his face, and said in a low voice to several gun-wielding Chinese mine guards around him.

"Let me bet all those ghost miners who are suspected of hiding gold!"

Four trembling, terrified white men were brought up. They were two Americans, one French, and one Spaniard.

Deng Wenqi has been in the mine for several months, and he can guess who has ghosts and who has no ghosts after a few more glances.Those with a guilty conscience can hardly escape his sharp eyes like vultures.

"Fourth Master Deng, everyone has been brought here, what should we do?" asked the leader of the mine protection team.

"Have they found the gold they hid?"

Deng Wenqi's cold eyes swept over the four ghost miners who were brought in.

It was because Liang Yao brought ghost guests here that he didn't deal with the four ghost miners who were suspected of hiding gold.

Now that Liang Yao took Vanderbilt and others away, he naturally didn't have to be polite to these gold hoarders.

"I didn't find it on my body. These ghosts have tight mouths. It seems that they don't cry when they don't see the coffin." The member of the mine protection team shook his head and said.

"Follow the old rules." Deng Wenkang said lightly.

It was not the first time for the members of the mine protection team to deal with this kind of thing. They ordered the four ghost miners suspected of hiding gold to take off all their clothes and pants.

The French guy who had just entered the mine didn't know the rules here, so he refused to take off his clothes for a long time.

After the ghost miners took off their clothes, members of the Chinese mine protection team sternly ordered them to squat down.

Although there were ten thousand reluctances in their hearts, the four white miners gritted their teeth and squatted down after seeing the guns in the hands of the Chinese mine guards.

Deng Wenqi took his time and moved a stool to eat grapes in front of them. He is very experienced in handling such things.

Don't talk about stuffing gold into the chrysanthemum, even if it is swallowed into the intestines, he still has a way to get the gold out.

A Yankee said that his legs were sore from squatting, and he wanted to stand up for a while, but was quickly hit by two gun butts, and continued to squat obediently.

Not long after, three piles of gold wrapped in excrement appeared on the ground.

"Hey, the assholes of these ghosts are really big. This piece of dog's head gold weighs at least two ounces. Can this be stuffed in?"

A member of the Chinese mine protection team couldn't help exclaiming.

"These ghosts are so fucking greedy. We have food and housing in the mine, and we have no other expenses. If we work honestly for a month, won't we have three ounces of gold? We must take risks to hide gold."

Another member of the Chinese mine protection team said that this is the sixth case of gold reserves discovered this month.

Fifteen gold miners are all white without exception.He really couldn't understand why these white people did this, wouldn't it be good to make money steadily?Don't take your life into it.

Deng Wenqi has long been used to the strangeness, not to mention two ounces, three or four ounces of gold, he has seen ghosts stuffed into chrysanthemums, and he is not afraid of being strangled to death.

Seeing that the incident was revealed, the three white men who hid money hurriedly begged for mercy, but Deng Wenqi was unmoved at all and just waved his hand lightly.

"Find an abandoned mine and bury these three gold-hidden ghosts. When someone asks, they say that there was a landslide in the mine and they were buried in it. They are mining, and there are no immortals."

Several members of the Chinese mine protection team nodded, and drove the three gold-hidden white men to the abandoned mine pit with ease.

Deng Wenqi smiled and helped up a Yankee who did not have a Buddhist scripture.

The Yankee was still in shock, trembling with fright.

Deng Wen spoke to the Yankee in his English with a strong Cantonese flavor.

"Congratulations, starting today, you are a member of the mine protection team, and the mine protection team needs an honest person like you."

Hearing that he was able to join the mine protection team, the Yankee was overjoyed, and the pain caused by the beating just now disappeared without a trace.Being able to join the mine protection team is worth a beating. As for the dignity of being stripped naked, he doesn't care at all.

Dignity does not exist in a place like the gold mining area. Every day, you have to come in naked and go out naked in full view of the public.

"Great! Great! Thank you, Mr. Deng, you are such a nice person." The Yankee didn't even bother to wear clothes, so he hurriedly thanked Deng Wenqi.Joining the mine protection team was his dream.

Being a miner is hard and tiring, and you have to risk your life to go to the mine.The gold that can be obtained every month is only three ounces,
The members of the mine protection team are much more relaxed, and their monthly salary is an ounce of gold more than that of ordinary miners like them.

However, the members of the mine protection team of Xiangshan Gold Mining Company are basically Chinese, and it is very difficult for white people to join the mine protection team.

The conversation was divided into two parts. When Deng Wenqi was dealing with the white miners who hid gold privately, Liang Yao had already arrived at the Bank of America branch in Sacramento.

The two smartest of the Deng family siblings are Deng Wenyu and Deng Ying, both of whom were entrusted with important tasks by him.

Deng Wenyu is in charge of receiving Chinese immigrants arriving in San Francisco at the guest house in San Francisco, and Deng Ying is now the vice president of the Bank of America and the president of the Sacramento branch.

In the past few months, Deng Ying has changed a lot. She is no longer the timid and timid girl she used to be, but has become generous and confident.

"Let my cousin take a look, hey, it seems to have grown a lot taller."

The last time I saw Deng Ying, the top of Deng Ying's head could only reach the tip of his nose, but this time when I saw Deng Ying, the top of Deng Ying's head directly reached his eyebrows, which surprised Liang Yao and felt very incredible.

Deng Ying chuckled: "I wear high heels of foreigners, so I look tall."

Liang Yao looked Deng Ying's attire up and down. She was wearing an ivory dress with a floral pattern and a thin light blue waistcoat on her upper body. It would be difficult to find another Chinese woman in California with such avant-garde attire. .

"Second uncle and second aunt can't control you anymore?" Liang Yao joked.

"My father has cut his hair and put on foreigner's clothes. Why should he control me? Only the state officials are allowed to set fires, but the common people are not allowed to light lamps?" Deng Yingba blinked at Liang Yao and said, "Even if my father wants to Take care of me, and my cousin will support me, cousin, don’t you think so?”

"Yes, yes, stop talking nonsense, do business, and take these distinguished guests to the vault." Liang Yao nodded and smiled.

Deng Ying greeted several people in English proficiently and introduced herself.

This surprised Vanderbilt and others. Although the status of American women is not low in the world.

However, there are not many professional women in this era, and women are still discriminated against in terms of employment, except that textile factories, garment factories and other factories have a relatively large demand for female workers.Women are almost invisible in other industries, especially in finance.

"Hello, Ms. Deng, my name is Connie, you are the most attractive woman I have ever met, may I have the honor to have dinner with you tonight?"

Kony stared at Deng Ying dazedly, tightly holding Deng Ying's gloved hand and refusing to let go.

"Mr. Coney. You hurt me." Deng Ying felt very embarrassed. No matter how avant-garde she was, she was not so avant-garde that she could have dinner with the strange man she just met.

"The skin is itchy again, isn't it?"

Kony's behavior made Vanderbilt feel a little ashamed, and Vanderbilt knocked Kony's hand away with his civilized stick.

Elizabeth hastily stepped forward to apologize to Deng Ying on behalf of Coney: "I'm sorry, Miss Deng, my brother is a complete nuisance."

Bank of America's Sacramento branch is as heavily guarded as its head office, and the bank has more guards than its head office in San Francisco.

Since Sacramento is close to the gold producing area, a large amount of gold is stored here every day.

The armed guards of various gold mining companies escorted the gold and lined up at the gate of the bank, waiting to exchange the gold for safer and more convenient gold coupons, and then take out the gold when necessary.

Currently, Bank of America is the only bank in California without any competitors. The only incident is that Brannan briefly opened a bank in San Francisco in order to compete with Liang Yao.

However, Brannan's bank was annexed by the Bank of America following the demise of the Brannan family.

Deng Ying took out a bunch of keys to the bank vault door from her small bag, and opened the three iron doors of the bank vault one by one.

After the door of the bank vault was opened, it was pitch black and nothing could be seen.Only a few thin streaks of light filtered into the vault from the ventilation holes.

"Light on."

Liang Yao ordered the whale oil lamps in the vault to be lit to provide illumination.

The lights came on, and what greeted the eyes were large gold bricks neatly stacked one by one.

Each gold brick in the vault is melted and cast according to the specification of 25kg, which is 803.794507 troy ounces.

The reason why Liang Yao smelted and cast such large gold bricks was to facilitate statistics and transportation, but to prevent theft.

Of course, it is mainly for the convenience of transportation statistics. In California, only a person with a wrong mind would think about his gold.

The moment they saw the gold, everyone was suffocated, including Vanderbilt.

Not to mention other people, although they are also rich in the east, their assets include fixed assets such as factories, land, and equipment.

Among these people, except for Vanderbilt who can easily come up with a few million dollars in cash, the rest of them only have one or two million dollars in silver deposits.

The gold bricks in the vault are worth about 25000 US dollars.

The so-called millionaire is also worth 40 gold bricks in the vault.

As for such gold bricks, Liang Yaoguang has 523 pieces in the Bank of America branch in Sacramento.And this number is increasing every day.

"Oh, this dazzling light almost blinds my eyes."

"Shock! It's really shocking."

"It's not the first time I've seen gold, but it's the first time I've seen so much gold!"

"Oh my God, I can't describe in words what I'm feeling right now!"

Vanderbilt took a deep breath, trying to keep himself calm.

The gold reserves in this branch's vault alone are enough for Liang Yao to join the ranks of the multi-millionaire club.

This is not the most frightening thing, the frightening thing is that the assets of this little rich man are still growing at an alarming rate!

"Are these yours?"

Vanderbilt's eyes were like a blazing fire in gleaming gold.

At this moment, his heart was burning like a hot flame.

If he had all this gold, why would he not be able to defeat his competitors in the shipping industry, and why would the railway company not be able to build new stations and lay new tracks!Why worry about stocks. Forget about stocks, now the stocks in the New York Securities and Exchange Commission are all falling badly.

The gold in this vault is even enough to dig through a Panama Canal that runs through the Central American Isthmus!
The evaluation of the Panama Canal project by the British Barings Bank and the French Bank of France is that US$11231021.14 is needed to complete this great project!
Of course, Vanderbilt also knew that the cost accurate to cents was a random estimate by the Bank of Barings and the Bank of France, because they expected that no rich man in the United States would spend [-] million US dollars to build the Panama Canal at this time. Ability.

In fact, this is true, including him, Vanderbilt, who does not have this ability. His deposits in major banks add up to more than [-] million US dollars, which is still a long way from the cost of the Panama Canal.

Vanderbilt wondered what he would do if he had so much gold, and his thoughts quickly became confused, because there were so many things he wanted to do.

Shipping!railway!finance!He wants to do it all!
Not only to do, he also wants to be the master of these industries!

He admitted that the gold was too much, so much that he, a commodore of an incomparably rich country, was tempted.

It's not that capitalists don't love money, but they love big money more.

"I also hope that all this gold is mine, but unfortunately, there is not even one-third of the gold that really belongs to me in this vault." Liang Yao shook his head, "Most of this gold is stored by other gold panning companies. of."

"Don't say one-third, even one-sixth is more than all my assets!"

Fan Daze's unsatisfied tears fell down involuntarily, and he continued in a crying voice.

"I am fifty-eight years old this year, and I have worked hard for most of my life, and my assets are less than two million US dollars. And you are not yet 20 years old, and your assets have already surpassed mine by several times. My God, why are you so unfair!"

Liang Yao didn't have a regular meeting with Fan Daze, fair?Perhaps this Mr. Van Dazer will feel how happy he is when he thinks about the workers in the factory who earn less than ten dollars a month and work more than twelve hours a day.

Liang Yao changed the subject and continued: "However, only a small part of the gold needs to be kept as a reserve fund, and the rest of the gold can be used for investment, gentlemen."

Hearing the investment, everyone's eyes were like hungry wolves, emitting a frightening light.Obviously they all wanted a piece of the pie, and the allure of the gold to them was enormous.

Vanderbilt was also secretly delighted, this cunning little fox finally showed his little tail.

Liang Yao also knew in his heart that with his current strength, he couldn't keep these wealth.

He still understands the reason why a big tree attracts the wind. As a Chinese with a huge amount of gold in his hand, he will undoubtedly become a thorn in the side of the eastern plutocrats and nobles, and they will attack him sooner or later.

Instead of this, it is better to cooperate with rising upstarts like Vanderbilt, and maybe there is still a chance to keep his wealth and continue to grow.

He also thought about keeping a low profile, but unfortunately with his current wealth, he couldn't hide his low profile even if he wanted to.

The richest man in the entire United States with assets exceeding tens of millions can break it with one hand. Although he is not a multi-millionaire now, with the current growth rate of his wealth, he will become a millionaire with tens of millions of dollars by the end of this year at the latest .

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