The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 620 Oh, Gold!

"Hey, what is this?
Gold!

Yellow, shining, precious gold!

No, gods, I am not an idle believer; I only want some roots from you!
Just a little bit of this thing can make black become white, ugly become beautiful, wrong become right, humble become honorable, old become young, coward become brave. "

-Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens"

The charm of money is indeed unstoppable. Even after the war, the population of California is still growing explosively, from 45 before the war to 50, growing rapidly at a rate of 10% per year.

How fast is this speed?Take India, which is well known to modern people, as an example. Its population growth rate is only 0.8%, while the current California area is 12.5 times that.

If it develops at this rate, California will have a population of 20 million in 370 years, but that is almost impossible, because the gold mines will be exhausted sooner or later, and this land will no longer have such a great charm without gold up.

Although the alchemy technology of the Austrian Empire at this time far exceeded the level of the same period in history, and the utilization rate was constantly improving, it is an indisputable fact that gold mines are non-renewable resources.

Moreover, in the future, the land under the control of the Omer Joint Development Company will not be limited to California. In fact, Franz is now studying how to develop the land in Nevada.

However, unlike California's excellent natural environment, Nevada's climate is hot and dry, with high temperatures in summer and cold winters, which can be described as "two distinct seasons".

Nevada's terrain is complex and diverse, including mountains, deserts, plateaus, basins, and canyons.In addition to the common wild wolves and black bears, the local creatures also have unique local specialties such as the Nevada brown spider and the Nevada scorched-tailed scorpion.

Not to mention the mysterious Bigfoot and brain-eating worms, if it wasn't for the hundreds of nuclear tests conducted by later generations of Americans in Nevada, God knows what monsters can be found in it.

The local Shoshone people said that Chernobyl was too weak to explode, and the nuclear radiation that the local area suffered was 48 times that of Hiroshima.

Franz was naturally reluctant to waste precious German immigrants in colonizing such a poor country.In fact, the Indians are the most suitable for the local area, with the highest adaptability.

But this group of guys are weak in terms of development and resource exploration.In addition, there is a very high chance of mutiny, and even united with local Indians and Americans to attack the Aomo Joint Development Company.

Therefore, Franz needed a group of "loyal and reliable" and "hard-working" colonial advance teams.This is not just for the California area, in fact, the Austrian colony is still very short of people.

After all, the Irish have been enslaved by the British for a long time, and it is inevitable that there will be some bewildered people. There can be Irish in the colony, but the proportion should not be too high, let alone become a large gathering place.

In fact, the United States encountered a lot of trouble when assimilating the Irish, one of which was a large number of gangs and mobs.

Later generations only know the Italian mafia in black clothes and black hats holding Thomson, but they don't know the Irish gangsters that are countless times more terrifying.

Although the Italian mafia can easily beat the Irish in terms of professional skills, the latter has stronger concealment and more ambitious goals than the former.

In fact, it can be put in a simpler way, that is, the Italian mafia cares about money, while the Irish gangs care more about power.

While the Italians were still bleeding on the streets, the Irish had quietly mastered a more effective weapon-power.

With the rapid development of the urbanization process in the United States, no president can keep up with the infrastructure and management system.

This also created a large-scale power vacuum, so the Irish gangsters spontaneously became the underground bosses of these emerging cities.

It was called U BOSS in history, literally translated as the underground boss, but Franz felt that it was more appropriate to translate it into the underground mayor.

This is well reflected in the American drama "The Mayor of Kingston" starring Hawkeye St. Zelen Corky. I don't bother to wash it, just tell you the world should be like this.

To a certain extent, this kind of political gang seems to have eased local conflicts and established an order "suitable" for the local area.

However, these guys are not really good people, because they are the source of chaos.

Although the Irish people in the Great Famine were very poor, it would be fine if Franz traded the safety and happiness of his own people. After all, indifference can solve 99% of the problems in this world. , don’t just copy, believe that the world is beautiful and the future is bright).

In fact, except for Franz who was looking for labor, the Americans were not idle.

Historically, in 1845, Asa Whitney proposed to the U.S. Congress to build a railway across the North American continent, so many American elites discussed the construction of the railway.

But now that the Mexican-American War has failed, and California and Nevada are not in American hands, Franz feels that certain things may not happen again.

But the reality is that the Americans still plan to build a transcontinental railway, but it no longer passes through Nevada and California, but goes directly to Oregon.

The reason is very strange, that is, the whaling industry in the United States needs this railway, and at the same time more than [-] Americans are blocked by less than [-] British people from colonizing, which is really unbearable.

Fighting slavery and "reoccupying" Oregon were two of James Polk's presidential campaign slogans.

He always showed himself as a tough guy, and even said to the British that "if you want 49 degrees north latitude, you still want war".

Although the United States won the Mexican-American War, its losses were surprisingly large, and with the disbandment of the army, yellow fever began to spread across the country, and the number of deaths was too large to be counted.

The army of northern factory owners suffered a complete defeat in the war. On the other hand, the army of southern slave owners did not suffer much losses because they were always on guard against the French.

Under the ebb and flow, the right to speak of the southern slave owners became stronger, and some even claimed that they invited the French, so they could turn the United States from danger to safety.

However, there is a lot of controversy on this point, because the generals of the Northern Army insist that Austria and Mexico are already at the end of their battles, and the United States can win the final victory without the French, and there is no need to share half of the fruits of victory.

Both sides insisted on their opinions, but one thing is certain, that is, the power in the South was stronger at this time, so Polk absolutely did not dare to engage in slavery.

The historical Polk also did not "dictate" slavery itself, although Democrats have always claimed.

"James Polk was a lifelong fighter for democracy and liberty, able, upright and an invincible fighter."

But in reality he always wanted them to be "young, effective" and cheap.

(End of this chapter)