1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 113 Telegram
In the telegram room listening to Taoyuan, the ticking of telegrams can be heard endlessly.

The telegraph operator Liang Yao hired from the Eastern First Telegraph Bureau was skillfully operating the electromagnetic telegraph and sent the first telegram to the American Telegraph Bureau branch in the Sacramento area.

After the telegram was sent out, the operator nervously waited for the reply from the other side. Not long after, the telegraph machine rang.

Sacramento successfully received their telegrams and responded to them!

The operator hurriedly decrypted the message, then got up and handed the decrypted and translated message to Liang Yao.

"Sir, long live California!"

This is the first power connection between the cities of San Francisco and Sacramento!

"Long live California!"

In the telegraph room, California dignitaries who were eagerly waiting for California's first cross-city telegram couldn't help shouting out this telegram.

Their faces are filled with happy and confident smiles.

At this time, Samuel Morse, the father of the telegraph, sent the first telegram from Congress to Baltimore in 1844: What a miracle God has created!Six years have passed.

In less than six years, the United States had laid more than 14000 miles of telegraph lines and had 20 telegraph offices.

However, due to the high cost of laying telegraph lines, the average cost of laying telegraph lines is as high as $500 per mile. If the telegraph lines have to cross mountains and rivers, the cost of laying will be even higher.

Therefore, most of these telegraph lines and telegraph offices are concentrated in the eastern region with developed economy and strong financial resources.

In order to lay the telegraph line between San Francisco and Sacramento, Liang Yao spent a total of 65000 U.S. dollars. Including the telegraph line laid to the military fortress, Liang Yao spent more than 7 U.S. dollars on the laying of the telegraph line.

He would also lay a telegraph line between San Francisco and Los Angeles after the storm had passed.

With the telegram, Liang Yao can issue orders to the military fortress in his own manor, and at the same time receive information from the Sacramento area in the fastest time.

"The smooth ear in the myth is nothing more than that."

The impact of the telegram on Deng Yan was greater than that of the steamship. When he was in Guangdong, Deng Yan could at least see the British steamship, so Deng Yan was not very unfamiliar with the steamship, but the telegram was a new thing. It was the first time he had seen a thing.

He thinks this kind of machine that can receive information from hundreds of miles away at once is amazing.

"If there is such a thing, wouldn't it be possible to strategize in the telegraph room, command thousands of troops, and win a decisive victory thousands of miles away?"

Deng Yan's first reaction was to apply the telegraph to the military, which may have something to do with his military background.

"That will vary from person to person, and it may also bury millions of troops in the telegraph room."

With that said, Liang Yao left the telegraph room and walked back to the study. He glanced at the calendar hanging on the wall and asked Deng Yandao.

"Wen Yao and Wen Shun haven't come back from Los Angeles yet?"

Soon after the founding of the Loyalty Society, he sent two brothers, Deng Wenyao and Deng Wenshun, to Los Angeles to run the city.

Now Colonel Mason is leading half of the regiment to the north, and it is bound to pass through Los Angeles.

For the sake of safety, Liang Yao had already sent someone to notify the two brothers Deng Wenyao and Deng Wenshun last month to take the local residents, especially the Chinese residents, to San Francisco to avoid the military disaster.

The military discipline of American soldiers in this era is worse than that of later generations, especially Colonel Mason and a captain named William Tecunam Sherman.

This man was the notorious general of the North during the Civil War.

The Germans like to name their tanks and armored vehicles after animals, especially cats, while the Americans like to name their tanks and armored vehicles after their generals. Sherman also won this honor. During World War II The M4 tank known as the Ronson lighter is named after him.

This man was extremely murderous. During the Civil War, he carried out an indiscriminate massacre of Atlanta and burned the southern city.

Wherever Sherman has gone, it can be said that chickens and dogs have never left behind. His atrocities are not only in Atlanta, as long as he passes by, no matter whether it is a military fortress or a civilian settlement, he will not escape his murderous hands.

In Mississippi, the hometown of Confederate President Davis, more than [-]% of the towns and plantations were burned by Sherman, and more than half of the young and middle-aged people died under Sherman's butcher knife.

Sherman's massacre made Mississippi a famously poor state in the United States after the war, and it failed to recover for a whole century.

And Sherman's bloodthirsty nature had already begun to emerge during the US-Mexico War.

Sartre told Liang Yao that during the US-Mexico War, Sherman could not catch up with the Mexican army because the Mexican army retreated too quickly. In a fit of frustration, Sherman massacred the Mexican village to vent his anger, and burned the village afterwards. to destroy the evidence.

Liang Yao's base camps are in San Francisco and Sacramento, it is impossible for him to divide his troops to garrison Los Angeles.

Furthermore, he has not yet developed the oil in the Los Angeles area, and there are currently no high-value industries in Los Angeles that are worthy of his garrison.

But for the safety of the local residents, Liang Yao still decided to send the local residents, especially the Chinese residents, back to San Francisco for resettlement.

Anyway, there are not many residents in Los Angeles, even if they all come to San Francisco, Liang Yao can still accommodate more than a thousand residents in Los Angeles.

"Wen Yao just brought more than [-] people from Los Angeles to Jinshan this morning," Deng Yan said.

"Wen Shun hasn't come back yet?" Liang Yao couldn't help frowning upon hearing this.

"Wen Shun is a stubborn kid. He said that he is the mayor of Los Angeles, and he has to be responsible to the people of Los Angeles Town. He insisted on persuading the people in Los Angeles who don't want to come to Jinshan to come to Jinshan." Deng Yan was full of worries about this, He was very worried about Deng Wenshun's safety.

"Have all the Chinese residents returned with Wen Yao?" Liang Yao continued to ask.

"Except for Wen Shun and a dozen members of the Loyalty Society, the Chinese residents have already returned, and those who are desperate to stay in Los Angeles are basically local white people." Deng Yan said.

"This careless guy!" Liang Yao sighed, "Immediately send someone to deliver a letter to Wen Shun, telling him that he has fulfilled his duty, and the white people who refuse to listen to persuasion and refuse to leave are left to live in Los Angeles. Mie, Mason's subordinates are not good, so don't put yourself in Los Angeles."

After the Ministry of War and the Ministry of War appointed Liang Yao as the sheriff of California and the head of the infantry regiment, they actually handed over the defense task of the Canada-Mexico border to Liang Yao.

Mason shifted the focus of the defense to southwestern New Mexico.

But soon, Mason received four consecutive letters from the President, Congress, the Department of War, and the Department of War, which can also be said to be orders.

They asked Mason to immediately send half of the regiment to the San Francisco and Sacramento areas to ensure that Congress could successfully recover the California land.

Facing these four letters with different wordings, Mason felt very confused.

The president and the Department of War asked Mason to treat the local gentry's armed forces with a more moderate attitude, and prohibited him from conflicting with the local armed forces, otherwise he would be responsible for instigating the American Civil War.

This made Mason want to cry, but he was a little colonel, how could he bear the responsibility of instigating the civil war?
Besides, it is your Congress that is in conflict with the California authorities, not me, Mason.

The Congress and the Ministry of War required Mason to take a very tough attitude towards the local gentry and armed forces, clearly instructing him to use all means to eliminate the local gentry and wealthy businessmen who opposed Congress.

After reading the four letters, Mason felt as if ten thousand alpacas were galloping by, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

But at least four letters were consistent in that they all ordered him to go to San Francisco and Sacramento.

As for what to do after arriving in San Francisco and Sacramento, Mason can only take one step at a time.

Perhaps once there he would receive new orders.

(End of this chapter)