1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 341
"What conditions?" Liang Yao asked.

To provide such a huge loan, with the nature of the children of the Rothschild family, it would be abnormal not to ask for it.

But now Liang Yao is not at a disadvantage in the cooperation with the Rothschild family. After all, he is the only one in the world who can provide such high-quality and cheap commodities as kerosene.

As long as Lionel and James are not stupid, they will not make excessive demands and push Liang Yao towards their competitors, such as the Bahrain family.

It's true that Hills is an idiot, but it doesn't mean that all the members of the Baring family are idiots. After realizing it, the Baring family will definitely seek cooperation with Liang Yao and get kerosene from Liang Yao.

The Bahrain family made their fortune much earlier than the Rothschild family, and their influence in the UK, especially in British politics, is greater than that of the Rothschild family.

Lionel certainly cannot prevent the Bahrain family from cooperating with Liang Yao in the future.

Lionel still has a very clear understanding of this point.

However, although it was impossible to organize the Balin family to cooperate with Liang Yao and get a share of the kerosene trade, before the Balin family approached Liang Yao.Let the Rothschild family take the lead in reaching some agreements with Liang Yao to ensure that the Rothschild family will gain a dominant position in the kerosene trade, Lionel can still do it.

"About the five requests you made to August last time, I will do my best to satisfy you. Almost every powerful country in Europe has our friends. As long as you come to Europe, we will introduce you to some powerful Friends, even royals from various countries.

As for supporting President Fillmore's re-election, Mr. President has been successfully re-elected now, and I think you should have no worries now.

If you want to explore the European market with us, we also welcome you.

Of course, we can also deliver the new cannons and blueprints you want to you immediately. "

James said very clearly.

"And what you have to do is to give priority to providing kerosene to our high-quality partner, and we want to get kerosene from you at the most affordable price, which means that in the future your other partners want to get goods from you, The price cannot be lower than the price you give us.

We have just one condition. If you can agree to this condition, we can sit down and continue discussing our cooperation happily together. "

Lionel's request was not too much, Liang Yao agreed after a little thought.

"Of course, we are partners. I promise you that the Rothschild family will get kerosene from Standard Oil Group at the best price."

"Then we are happy to cooperate."

Lionel, who always regarded himself as aloof, took off his gloves, and shook hands with Liang Yao kindly and friendly.

After leaving the factory, Liang Yao invited Lionel and others to a restaurant in Los Angeles.

There are no high-end restaurants in Los Angeles. After all, before the development of the chemical industry, the population of Los Angeles was less than [-], and the wealthy population was even more pitiful.There is also no demand for fine dining restaurants.

But with the development of the chemical industry, the influx of wealthy businessmen into Los Angeles and the rise of the middle class, Los Angeles became rich almost overnight.

High-end restaurants and luxury stores have also sprung up in Los Angeles to meet the needs of the emerging class in Los Angeles.

The most exclusive restaurants in Los Angeles are located near the Los Angeles Plaza, where the land is at a premium, which is the most crowded place in Los Angeles.

This restaurant is called Guangli Restaurant, which is opened by a Chinese-French couple and can provide authentic French and Cantonese food.

The owner of the restaurant is one of the Thirteen Banks in Guangzhou, a side branch of Guangli Bank, and the hostess is a down-and-out nobleman from the Normandy region of France.

Since Liang Yao wanted to treat guests, Deng Wenshun naturally brought Liang Yao to the most prestigious restaurant in Los Angeles.

Seeing Mayor Deng Wenshun leading the way respectfully, Lu Shen, the male owner of the restaurant, did not dare to neglect, and personally brought his wife to entertain these distinguished guests.

"Who is this distinguished guest?" Lu Shen couldn't hold back his curiosity, and asked Deng Wenshun cautiously.

In Los Angeles, only others nodded and bowed to Deng Wenshun, and this was the first time Lu Shen saw Deng Wenshun bowed and bowed to others.

"This is my cousin." Deng Wenshun replied proudly.

"Your cousin?" Lu Shen quickly realized, he slapped his forehead, "Your cousin, isn't that General Liang?"

"Hurry up and work on you. Your ancestral grave is smoking today. The general wants to receive distinguished guests here. These gentlemen must take good care of you. The general is negotiating a deal worth several million pounds with them," said Deng Wenshun. .

Lu Shen nodded in agreement, led the group to the private room on the third floor, and then prepared meals for these distinguished guests as quickly as possible, including various Chinese dishes and French dishes.

"I didn't expect to be able to eat such authentic French food in such a remote place." James was very satisfied with the arranged meal.

It seems that the level of development in California has far exceeded his expectations, and James is now even considering leaving his right-hand man, August, in California to be in charge of developing the market here.

Perhaps the business that can be done here is not limited to kerosene.

Lionel's mind is still on kerosene: "Mr. Liang, how many liters of kerosene can be refined per ton of crude oil? At what price will you sell kerosene to us?"

Yield and profit are Lionel's biggest concerns.

"According to the technology we have at present, about 25 liters of kerosene can be extracted per ton of crude oil, but the specific amount of kerosene that can be extracted depends on the quality of crude oil. Good quality crude oil can extract more than [-] liters of kerosene per ton, and the quality is poor. crude oil, maybe only a dozen liters of kerosene can be refined per ton." Liang Yao thought for a while and said.

"As for the price for you, the high-grade kerosene is 12 cents a liter, the medium kerosene is 10 cents a liter, and the low-grade kerosene is 8 cents a liter."

At present, the average cost of kerosene produced in Los Angeles is between 4 and 5 cents per liter. If you sell it to the Rothschild family at this price, you still have at least 100% profit.

Although this profit is high, it is definitely not comparable to the profit in the United States.

The cost of storage and transportation to transport kerosene from Los Angeles to New York is about 10 cents, while in the Crystal Palace mall, the price of kerosene of different qualities is between 20 and 30 cents per liter, which shows the profit.

However, since it has cooperated with the Rothschild family to open up the European market, the profit of kerosene in the European market will definitely not reach such a high level, and it still has to give some to the Rothschild family.

What's more, the main purpose of the cooperation between Liang Yao and the Rothschild family is to use Rothschild's resources and contacts to build their own sales network in Europe, and then sell other products.

After all, kerosene is not the only commodity he can sell now.

"This is not much different from the price that retail investors get at the kerosene store. Mr. Liang, your price for the goods lacks the sincerity of cooperation."

Lionel was not satisfied with Liang Yao's asking price.

Of course, he wasn't angry either. When it came to business, we could still bargain with each other.

"But those retail investors can't guarantee that they can always get the goods, and you don't have such troubles. The kerosene in Los Angeles will be supplied to the Rothschild family first." Liang Yao did not intend to make concessions at this price, he explained to Lionel.

"This price is the price of the goods you receive after shipping to Europe, including intermediate storage costs and transportation costs. I am also the largest shipping company in the United States now. These goods can be transported by my fleet and delivered safely. To your hands, without the hands of others.

After the kerosene arrives in Europe, you have the final say on what price you want to sell. My people are only responsible for assisting you in sales and will not interfere with your pricing.

At present, the price of whale oil on the market is 50 cents a liter, and the prices of other animal fuels and vegetable fuels are also between 40 cents and 60 cents, that is to say, as long as you have a profit margin of more than 300%.

I think my price is sincere enough. "

After hearing that this was the price without shipping to Europe, the expression on Lionel's face gradually relaxed.

After some bargaining, the two parties finally signed a cooperation agreement in the restaurant, formally reaching a cooperation.

Lionel also handed over the four new cannons and two boxes of technical drawings to Liang Yao.

After eating and drinking a little wine with Lionel and the others, Liang Yao took out his pocket watch to check the time.

But the hands on the pocket watch did not move at all, Liang Yao even wondered if he had hallucinations from drinking too much.

He rubbed his eyes and took a closer look, the hands on the pocket watch were still motionless, it was obvious that there was something wrong with his pocket watch.

"Wen Shun, what time is it?" Liang Yao asked Deng Wenshun what time it is now.

"Five words at 10 o'clock in the evening, it's getting late, or the third brother will spend the night in Los Angeles?" Deng Wenshun took out his pocket watch and looked at it and replied.

"Character" is the unit of time measurement in most places in Guangdong and Fujian. The Chinese immigrants in California are mainly Fujian and Guangdong immigrants. This measurement unit with regional characteristics was brought to California.

A word represents the minute hand on the clock jumped from one number to another, that is, five minutes.

10:5 is 10:25.

His housekeeper, that is, his third uncle Liang Shaoyu sent him a telegram. Admiral Hong Mingxiang of the Guangdong Navy and his fifth uncle Liang Shaoqiong had been waiting for him in San Francisco for many days.

These two people came to him, mostly to buy arms and Yueyong's affairs.

San Francisco still has a lot of things waiting for him to deal with. Liang Yao does not plan to stay in Los Angeles, but is going to the train station in Los Angeles.

A year ago, there was a train connection between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and it is very convenient and fast to go back to San Francisco from Los Angeles.

Start now, and you will arrive in San Francisco around ten o'clock tomorrow morning.

"No, I have to go back to Jinshan."

With that said, Liang Yao put on his coat, and at the same time asked Lionel, James and others about their upcoming itinerary.

"Are you going to rest in Los Angeles and return to Europe, or do you have other plans?"

"The development of California has exceeded our expectations. We are very interested in California now and plan to continue to investigate in California for a period of time."

After discussing with Lionel for a while, James replied.

(End of this chapter)