1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 355 State Corporations
"Los Angeles city government pays? Standard Oil company pays people? Form an oil company owned and operated by the government?"

Deng Wenshun was very puzzled and confused by Liang Yao's thoughts.

"Isn't this just a matter of turning the left hand into the right hand, why do you have to do it so many times?"

"It's not a matter of left-handed and right-handed. One belongs to the government and the other belongs to us." Liang Yao said solemnly.

"In California, aren't we the public?" Deng Wenshun still couldn't understand Liang Yao's thoughts.

"If it's true as you said, we are the public. We should pay for the state government's deficit at the beginning of the year." Liang Yao laughed.

"Why? With so many rich people in California, why should we only pay for this hole? Robinson, Sartre, and Fremont, Ge Wen, Wu Yuanhua, and Pan Zhengwei, they usually get a lot of benefits."

Having said that, Deng Wenshun became anxious immediately.

"If we have to pay, we shouldn't be the only ones paying."

"This is the difference between government and private." Liang Yao sat down and said.

"Some industries that start to invest heavily and do not make money still need the government to do it. For example, the railway. Although California has developed so fast in the past two years, the California Railway Company has not yet paid back its capital.

The premise of these projects is too much investment, and the government needs money to do this project. "

Deng Wenshun was silent. After pondering for a long time, Deng Wenshun said: "Third Brother, I have no knowledge. You are a person who wants to do big things. I will listen to you on what to do."

"If you don't have much knowledge, read more books. Will the Los Angeles City Government have a surplus this year?" Liang Yao asked about the financial situation of the Los Angeles City Government.

"It stands to reason that the Los Angeles state government will have a financial surplus this year, but you know it too.

Los Angeles has also spent a lot of money this year, paving roads and repairing bridges, expanding the docks, co-founding a chemical engineering school with Standard Oil two months ago, and poaching more than a dozen doctors from San Francisco last month to form into a city hospital.

These all cost money, or a lot of money.After such a toss, there is not much money left in the accounts of the Los Angeles City Government. "

Deng Wenshun is very familiar with the financial situation of the city of Los Angeles.

Although the financial revenue of Los Angeles was small in the past, but there were few people in Los Angeles before, so the expenses were naturally low.Although the fiscal revenue of Los Angeles has experienced explosive growth this year, the population growth rate of Los Angeles is no less than the growth rate of fiscal revenue.

"How much is left?" Liang Yao asked, frowning.

"No more, no less, around $75000." Deng Wenshun replied.

"I can help you figure out a solution for the money, but you must choose the right person for me. This is the first company in California to be held by the government. If it is done, you will benefit the most from Los Angeles. Don't give me a sloppy eye. "Liang Yao specifically explained.

This is the first company in California that is owned and operated by the government. Success or failure is related to the establishment of other state-owned companies. This matter can only succeed, not fail.

"Understood, I don't dare to be sloppy about what the third brother explained." Deng Wenshun nodded and said, "The third brother plans to use his own money to form this government-owned company?"

"Subsidize money by myself?" Liang Yao shook his head and said, "California is everyone's California, why should I contribute money by myself? I'm not a good person? The state government will pay some money, but not too much, big head And count on the rest of the rich in California, who, like us, are the biggest beneficiaries of California."

"Letting them pay is worse than killing their parents." Deng Wenshun laughed.

The capitalists in California were not much more generous than the squires in the Qing Dynasty.

Based on Deng Wenshun's understanding of California capitalists, the few Fremont, Robinson, and Sartre who really regard California as their home may be willing to pay.

As for whether other people are willing to pay the public, it is really hard to say.

The squires in the Qing Dynasty felt that it was a crime to use the white money to help the poor.

The capitalists in California also feel that it is a crime to hand over the golden dollar to the government.

This is due to human nature, everyone has the same virtue, and no one should laugh at anyone else.

"You just need to do your job well, and leave the rest to me." Liang Yao said, "You rest in the lobby for a while, and I will go to the room to change clothes. After a while, the dignitaries of California will arrive. Just have a meeting."

As he spoke, Liang Yao took the daguerreotype photo sent by the newspaper in the morning and returned to the bedroom on the second floor.

When Liang Yao returned to the bedroom, Aoki Ling was sitting in front of the desk, biting her lip, racking her brains to compose words and sentences, and writing instructions for Vaseline.

Liang Yao approached lightly, silently looking at the manual written by Aoki Ling.

Aoki Ling's Chinese is very good, whether it is speaking, reading or writing skills, she is impeccable. The Chinese manual written by Aoki Ling is concise and smooth, and the sentences are smooth and beautiful. If Liang Yao writes it by himself, it may not be as good as Aoki Ling.

However, Aoki Aya's English level is really not flattering to Liang Yao.

Liang Yao glanced at Aoki Ling's half-written English manual, which was full of loopholes, and habitually patted Aoki Ling's ass.

Come on, Liang Yao gently kissed Aoki Ling, Aoki Ling wrapped her nightgown and found a set of tuxedo and a freshly ironed shirt from the closet for Liang Yao, and waited for Liang Yao to put it on.

After getting dressed, Liang Yao found Aoki Ling's photo from a pile of dollar bills in his wallet, which was developed with a negative film.

The advent of negative film allowed mass reproduction of images.

After more than ten years of development and perfection, this technology has matured day by day. However, compared with the irreproducible daguerreotype, the relatively cheap negative film also has a relatively big disadvantage, that is, the image quality is not as high as that of the daguerreotype.

Therefore, many of the celebrity photos handed down to later generations during this period are daguerreotypes.

Due to the high imaging quality and non-reproducibility of daguerreotypes, these photos often have very good collection value and are hard to find in the market.

Liang Yao dabbed some Vaseline on the back of the paper photo, and then pasted the photo on the Vaseline bottle.

"Doesn't it look good? I want to use your photo and portrait as the packaging for Vaseline." Liang Yao said while holding the Vaseline bottle with the photo on it.

Aoki Ling is plump and round, dignified and generous, and she is a typical oriental beauty. It is suitable to use her portrait to make Vaseline packaging.

Aoki Ling faced the mirror, looked at herself in the mirror and at herself in the daguerreotype, and said in amazement.

"It's exactly the same, without any difference. Even the best painter in Edo can't draw such a realistic portrait."

"One is art, the other is technology, there is no comparison." Liang Yao said lightly.

(End of this chapter)