1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 212 I Have My Dignity and Principles

"You have so many patents but you only care about tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses." Liang Yao said with a smile, "The pattern needs to be opened up. A genius like you should not be burdened by the world."

"Open up the pattern? I want to open up the pattern, but I am different from you. You are one of the richest people in the United States. You don't have to worry about making a living, and I have a family of more than [-] people to support. One of my children It's a total headache for me to be worthless compared to one."

Walter raised his forehead.

"Although I have a lot of inventions, many of them are sudden flashes of inspiration. I don't know what uses these inventions can have and how much commercial value they have."

"I'm not good at making inventions and creations, but I'm good at realizing them and making them realize their due value. We are an excellent partner." Liang Yao said.

"If you are willing to go to California with me, you don't have to worry about other things. You just need to focus on your inventions and creations. I will give you a big manor and hire the top painters in the United States to serve you 24 hours a day to help you draw Drawings, all the costs of your inventions and creations will be borne by me."

Before Liang Yao finished speaking, Mrs. Walter, who was listening on the sidelines, had bright eyes and hurriedly asked Liang Yao.

"Great estate, my god, my God, is it a large estate by the Hudson River?"

"Yes, Mrs. Walter." Liang Yao gave Mrs. Walter an affirmative answer.

"Oh, Mr. Liang, you are simply an angel sent by God.

Honey, what are you waiting for!Let's help out in California. I've had enough of this pigsty in New York. I've had enough of this kind of life. said Mrs. Walter excitedly.

"When I arrive in California, I will hire a few servants to do housework, help me take care of the children, and take care of the estate."

Mrs. Walter has already planned a blueprint for her future life. She has worked hard and suffered all her life, and finally she is looking forward to the day of happiness.

"I heard that the prices in California are more expensive than in New York, and the transactions there are directly used in gold."

Walter usually heard rumors about California. After all, since 1848, going to California to get rich has been the hottest topic in New York.

The conditions offered by Liang Yao are very attractive. It has always been Walter's ideal to devote all his energy to invention and creation without worrying about making a living.

It's just that the price of California makes Walter flinch.

"It's true, prices in San Francisco and Sacramento are much higher than in New York."

Through my life experience in New York these days, although the prices in New York are high, they are nothing compared to San Francisco and Sacramento, two cities that rely on gold mines to rise.

Although prices in San Francisco and Sacramento have fallen sharply after the increase in gold production, the price levels of these two cities are still the highest in the United States.

In order to dispel Walter's worries, Liang Yao offered a price.

"You don't have to worry about life. I bought out all your unsold patents in the past, and I will also buy out all your future patents. 20% of the money you earn through these patents will belong to you."

Seeing Liang Yao being so sincere, Walter said after thinking for a long time.

"I don't know how much commercial value my inventions have. If possible, I would prefer to get a fixed remuneration of $1000 a month from you to support myself and my family."

Compared with unstable patent dividends, Walter hopes to obtain a stable income to dispel his concerns.

After wandering in New York for half his life, Walter hoped that he and his family could live a more stable life for the rest of their lives.

No matter how high the prices in California are, $[-] a month should be enough to guarantee the life of his family.

This is what Walter is thinking now.

Liang Yao was astonished at Walter's request of throwing watermelon and picking up sesame seeds, wondering if he had heard something wrong with his ears.

Seeing Liang Yao's reaction like this, Walter thought that his asking price was too high.

Liang Yao is the most financially rich and reliable partner he has ever met so far, bar none.

Some people have taken a fancy to the potential of Walter's inventions and cooperated with Walter before, but these collaborators are either short-sighted or shameless villains who [whore] his patents.

Walter has suffered a lot in this regard. Liang Yao has a high vision and is willing to spend money for his patents. Such collaborators and investors are hard to come by.

Walter didn't want to let go of this opportunity.

"If $1000 a month is too much, we can still talk."

"Do I seem to be someone who lacks the $1000?" Liang Yao was as happy as a child weighing more than a hundred pounds.

"If you are willing to settle down in California, in addition to the manor and a fixed monthly remuneration of 1000 US dollars, I will also pay you a one-time settlement fee of 50000 US dollars. Of course, this settlement fee will not be paid until you arrive in California. you."

"There's nothing to say. You are the happiest and most reliable collaborator I've ever met. I think our future cooperation will be as happy as today." Walter happily rubbed his big hands that had nowhere to rest.

"In that case, let's sign the contract now." Liang Yao struck while the iron was hot.

He doesn't want to make any mistakes with such a precious talent.

Liang Yao drew up a contract on the spot. Facing this lucrative contract, Walter happily signed his name on the contract after checking the contract with great difficulty.

"Mr. Liang, which invention did I win the first Liang Yao Invention Award?" Walter asked curiously.

He has so many inventions that he can't remember how many patents he has applied for in the patent office.He was very curious about which of his patented technologies Liang Yao valued the most.

"It's a sewing machine, sir." Liang Yao told Walter the answer.

The significance of the sewing machine is extraordinary.

Although the United States was industrializing at this time, in the international trade market, the main export commodities of the United States were raw materials such as cotton, tobacco, cane sugar, fur, and timber at the beginning of the founding of the country.

There are very few industrial products that can go abroad and enter the European market.

This is a scar in the hearts of Americans.

California already had a cotton industry that turned cotton into cloth.

But California's remote geographical location is far away from the European continent. If the United States is the edge of the world, then California is the edge of the edge of the world.

The remote geographical location makes California enjoy a relatively safe external environment, but at the same time it has to bear the inconvenience of external transportation, and it has to pay high freight costs for exporting goods to the continent.

The cotton textile industry is only rough processing of raw materials, and the profit is not high. Under the circumstances of high tariffs, high transportation costs, and high labor costs, it is necessary to earn foreign exchange through the export of cotton textile industry to earn British pounds and French Francs are unrealistic.

The cotton cloth spun by Liang Yao's cotton textile factory in California is basically sold to Central American countries and the eastern states of the United States, barely maintaining the operation of the textile factory, so as not to suffer too much loss.

Even Liang Yao's textile factory is losing money, not to mention other small textile factories and small workshops in California.

His original intention of opening a textile factory in California was to attract female workers and alleviate the population structure problem in California. Therefore, he gritted his teeth and continued to run the textile factory after losing money.

In the first five years after the founding of the state, the largest employment position for women in California was [prostitutes]. He can accept it. At least the industry in California is relatively large. Finding [prostitutes] in California is better than those in Iowa and Wisconsin. Xinzhou should be convenient. Xinzhou is like a bird, there is nothing to be ashamed of.

But if five years later, when people mention women in California, they will immediately think of prostitutes in California. This is the shame of all California rulers and all California men, and Liang Yao can never bear it.

Losing money is not a long-term solution. If you want to make California's textile industry bigger, the profit of the textile industry must be high enough, so that more people are willing to open textile factories and provide California women with more self-supporting jobs. .

And if you want high profits, you must deep processing.

This is why Liang Yao attaches so much importance to sewing machines. Not only is it very profitable to manufacture sewing machines, but they are truly high-end products in this era.

Once the sewing machines are mass-produced, a garment factory can be set up in California to directly manufacture ready-made garments.

The cost of garments sewn by machines is much lower than that of garments sewn by hand by tailors.

Once the sewing machine garment factory is set up, not to mention the US local clothing market, even Liang Yao is sure to be able to eat the European market.

Tariffs are high, transportation costs are high, and they cannot stand up to the high profits of machine-sewn garments.

"I did not invent the sewing machine, and if you were going to award me the prize for being the inventor of the sewing machine, I would not accept it."

Walter was not happy when he learned that he had won the prize for inventing the sewing machine, and he declined the award.

"I just made some improvements on the original basis. Although I am a craftsman who stinking inventions, living off patents and living in poverty, I have my dignity and principles, and I will never accept honors that do not belong to me.

As much as I love dollars, I'm not the mercenary type Alex and Isaac are. "

"Honey, what are you kidding! This is tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses! I also point to these bonuses to buy new clothes for the children and buy delicious food."

Hearing that Walter rejected the Liang Yao Invention Award, Mrs. Walter almost jumped up.

Mrs. Walter is different from Walter. What Walter cares about is the honor and social affirmation brought to him by the Invention Award. What Mrs. Walter cares about is the huge bonus that comes with the Invention Award.

Fame is false and cannot be eaten, but profit is real, and real dollars can directly improve the life of their family.

"Shut up! You bitch! You know nothing!" Walter interrupted Mrs. Walter rudely.

"To be precise, this award is given to you in the name of the inventor of the lock-type single-needle sewing machine and the main improver of the sewing machine." Liang Yao said very solemnly.

"Your contribution to the improvement of the sewing machine is like Watt's contribution to the improvement of the steam engine. Although you are not the inventor of the sewing machine, you are the improver who has made the greatest contribution to the improvement of the sewing machine. Only you are worthy of this Awards."

There are different opinions on who is the inventor of the sewing machine. Some say that the British carpenter Thomas Sander invented the sewing machine to sew leather shoes, and some say that the French tailor Timonier invented the sewing machine that is actually used for sewing clothes. sewing machine.

Of course, later generations still say that it belongs to Walter, or even Alex.

In Liang Yao's view, these skilled craftsmen are all inventors of sewing machines. The sewing machine technology has been perfected for half a century, and until now it can barely be put into mass production. These outstanding inventors have contributed their wisdom to the sewing machine.

(End of this chapter)