1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 104 Texas Wrath ([-]rd watch)

Liang Yao stood by the window of the study, looking down at the city below him.

In his previous life, he had been to San Francisco several times on business trips, and he looked at the empty Golden Gate Strait.

Without the landmark of San Francisco: the Golden Gate Bridge, he always felt that something was missing in Golden Gate Bay.

Build a Golden Gate Bridge?
He is not the first person to have this idea. Two years ago when the gold rush started, someone proposed the idea of ​​building a bridge across the Golden Gate Strait to connect the two sides.

It's just that this idea was too bold and avant-garde, and it became a laughing stock for a while.

In 1850, the annual output of steel in the United States was less than 1 tons, and the annual output of pig iron was less than 60 tons.

In the 20s, the United States consumed more than 30 tons of steel, and it took four years to build the Golden Gate Bridge.

That is to say, if you want to build the Golden Gate Bridge, regardless of other factors, it will take at least [-] years to get the steel needed for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge with the current steel production in the United States.

Before the second industrial revolution, the idea of ​​undertaking such a large-scale project was tantamount to wishful thinking.

Even the British Empire, the world's largest industrial power at this time, may not have the strength to build a bridge across Jinshan Bay.

During this period, the main bridges in the United States were still mainly masonry bridges.

"Mr. Liang, long time no see."

Ge Wen walked into the study and came to Liang Yao's side.

"Ge Wen, you said it would be great if we could build a bridge over the Golden Gate Strait. This bridge will definitely become a landmark in San Francisco." Liang Yao withdrew his gaze from the Golden Gate Strait.

"Mr. Liang, you are dreaming. If we can build a bridge across the Golden Gate Strait, it will be a miracle in the history of world bridges and even in the history of industry."

Ge Wen felt that Liang Yao's ideas were a bit wild, if Ge Wen didn't know Liang Yao, he would definitely think that Liang Yao was a complete lunatic and delusional.

"Anything is possible, sit down, Mr. Gavin."

Liang Yao made a gesture of asking to sit down, and the two sat on the sofa and were about to start a conversation.

Coney walked into the study with a pot of hot tea, poured a cup of tea for Liang Yao and Ge Wen respectively, and reminded at the same time: "The tea is hot, be careful of burns, gentlemen."

"Is this your new servant or assistant?"

Ge Wen pointed to Kony and asked curiously. He always felt that Kony looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, but he didn't seem to have seen it before.

"New assistant." Liang Yao said without thinking.

"Your assistant looks very much like Mr. Vanderbilt. I visited Mr. Vanderbilt when I was passing through Texas."

As if he suddenly remembered something, Ge Wen stroked his forehead and said, no wonder he felt that Liang Yao's novice looked familiar. He had seen it somewhere. It turned out that the new assistant chief was very similar to Mr. Vanderbilt.

"He is Coney, the son of Commodore Vanderbilt, isn't it?" Liang Yao laughed.

"Mr. Vanderbilt's son will be your assistant?" Ge Wen's eyes widened, and his jaw almost dropped from shock.

"Coney, to Mr. Girvan, no, I should introduce yourself to Mr. Girvan." Liang Yao said to Coney.

"Hello, Senator, nice to meet you, my name is Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt." Coney briefly introduced himself to Gwen.

"Hello, Kony." Ge Wen shook hands with Kony, and he still had an incredible expression on his face.

"Gwen, I read in the newspaper that the territorial dispute between Texas and New Mexico has not been resolved?"

Liang Yao paid much more attention to Texas than to other states.

In terms of geographical location, Texas is the closest state to California among all the states that have been established in the United States.

As far as interests are concerned, as a state that has just joined the United States of America, many of California's interests are consistent with those of Texas.

"It is true that it has not been settled, that Mr. Peter Hansborough Bell of Texas is not satisfied with the compromise, that the Texas garrison in the New Mexico area has not been fully withdrawn to Texas, and that both parties The smell of gunpowder is still strong, Mr. Vanderbilt told me."

Ge Wen took a sip of tea to moisten his throat and continued: "Congress will merge the 32.4 square kilometers of land that originally belonged to Texas into New Mexico, and Texas will get 1000 million US dollars as compensation. .”

"If I were the governor of Texas, I would not agree to this loss-making deal." Liang Yao could understand Governor Bell's mood.

"The state of Texas is too big, covering more than one million square kilometers. Congress and President Fillmore's cabinet may have divided 32.4 square kilometers in northwest Texas for the purpose of balancing the states. Kilometers of land is assigned to the New Mexico region, after all, too large a state is not conducive to the unification of the United States." Ge Wen said.

The new cabinet is a cabinet that is soft on the outside and strong on the inside. Although the new cabinet spares no effort to mediate the agreement, all members of the new cabinet firmly support the unity of the United States and will never allow any state to separate from the territory of the United States.

"That doesn't mean you can't cede the state of Texas. The free states in the north are economically developed, and I haven't seen them pay more taxes than the southern states. As far as I know, the taxes paid by the southern slave states are It accounts for [-] percent of the federal government's fiscal revenue."

Liang Yao complained for Texas, and the Congress and the government made it clear that they favored the North.

"There is no way around this. The United States needs to maintain stability within the United States. And if the United States wants to be strong, it must develop industry. The industrial products of the United States cannot compete with the British and the French. In order to protect its own industry, in addition to raising tariffs, the government also gives There are tax breaks for factories in the north, but government agencies must have sufficient funds to maintain their operations.”

Ge Wen went so far, Liang Yao is so smart, he should understand what he meant.

This is a lice on the monk's head. It is obvious that the United States wants to use the scissors difference between the northern industry and commerce and the southern plantation economy to develop the northern industry.

The United States is not as vast as the British colony, sucking wool and sucking blood to develop local industries, so it reached out to the slave states in the south.

But the problem is that the slave states in the South are also part of the United States of America, not the colonies of the United States, and the United States cannot treat the southern states like colonies.

In fact, the factory owners in the northern states have long regarded the slave states in the south as their actual colonies, not only lying on the slave states unscrupulously to suck blood.

He also raised the banner of humanitarianism and condemned the barbarity of slavery in the southern slave states from the moral high ground.It can be said to be up and down again.

Factory owners in the north only care about whether their factories can get more profits, which can be used to expand their factories and recruit more workers.Regardless of the feelings of the people in the southern states.

The slave-holding states in the south made sacrifices for the industrialization of the north, but instead of receiving compensation and rights that matched the sacrifices made, the south was further weakened by the north.

Congress and the federal government are blindly pulling sideways, not leveling the bowl of water, which will inevitably chill the hearts of the southern states.

No matter how clever the methods used by Fillmore and his cabinet to fight Tai Chi, they only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Sooner or later, the great war between the North and the South will break out.

After all, the northern states and southern states of the United States have parted ways since the founding of the country and chose different paths.

As the saying goes, different ways do not seek each other, and even the paths we take are different, so what is the talk of being of one heart and one mind and helping each other in the same boat?

Although the path chosen by the north is correct, industrialization is the only way to make America strong and complete the great cause of catching up with France and surpassing Britain.

But at the same time of industrialization, shouldn't the northern factory owners and plutocrats consider the feelings of the southern slave states, and treat the southern slave states with a more gentle attitude and methods?

"Continuing like this is not a long-term solution. You said that Governor Bell did not withdraw all the troops stationed in New Mexico to Texas. It must be because the $1000 million promised to Texas has not been in place?" Liang Yao said, " As far as I know, Governor Bell is not unreasonable."

He admired Governor Bell's courage to stand up to the federal government. Texas is connected to the American rail network.Bell sent troops to the New Mexico region not only to guard against the local armed forces in the New Mexico region, but also to respond to military threats from the north at any time.

Of course, Liang Yao also had the courage of Bell, but he relied on his understanding of history, as well as California's closed geographical environment and inconvenient traffic conditions to have such courage.

It is not easy for the federal government to deploy large-scale troops to California.A protracted war in California would cost as much as another half of the Mexican War.

The United States, which has just experienced the war, needs to recuperate at this time, and will not want to provoke a war in the short term, whether it is a foreign war or a civil war.

Unless the president is the President Taylor who just died suddenly. This guy was so confident during the US-Mexico War that he put down his bold words to annex the whole of Mexico.It can be seen that his political level is worrying.

"It is true. The state of Texas requested a one-time payment of 1000 million US dollars in compensation, while Congress and the government advocated payment in installments on the grounds of financial constraints." Ge Wen nodded and continued.

"Neither the Congress nor the president planned to form a new infantry regiment in California. You need to thank three people for being a colonel this time."

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