1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 468 Saint One Luo Two
The 1856 statehood was the sixth statehood since California became a state.

After signing the treaty with Mexico and typing a report to Fillmore, Liang Yao hurried back to California.

He wants to rush back to California to celebrate the statehood before the statehood on April 4st.

The San Francisco Shipyard sent him good news. The shipyard will present a gift to the people of the whole state on the occasion of the founding of the state.

California fought and won the Mexican War on behalf of the free state as a single state, which made the whole state proud and excited.

If last year's victory in Borneo was a carnival for the upper echelons of California, then this victory in Mexico is a carnival for all Californians.

The most direct reason for this result is naturally at the geographical level. Mexico is close to California, and Californians are naturally more familiar with Mexico, which is close at hand.

The deeper reasons are resources and industries.

No matter how beautiful the newspapers describe Borneo with rubber and oil, the development of oil and rubber requires capital, and it is not an industry that ordinary people can get involved in.

Moreover, both rubber and petroleum are emerging resources. Compared with traditional resources, ordinary people have limited understanding of these two emerging resources.

Mexico is different. Mexico's economy is similar to that of the southern United States, dominated by plantation economy and traditional mining.

Whether it is taking the savings accumulated in California over the past few years to buy land in Mexico to open a farm, or to go to Mexico to open a mine in partnership, it is a very good choice.

California is vigorously developing industry and needs a lot of cheap industrial raw materials, and Mexico can provide California with these.

After the signing of the Treaty of Mexico City, Bell and Liang Yao arrived in San Diego by boat from Mazatlan.

The pair then took a train from San Diego directly to San Francisco.

The administrative units above towns and above in California basically have railways, and the towns without railways are mostly towns that just finished upgrading last year, and the railways have not yet been laid.

Therefore, although the transportation in the west is not convenient, the transportation in California is very convenient.

After the "Mexico City Treaty" was signed, Bell and Liang Yao took a boat from Mazatlan to San Diego and then took a train from San Diego to San Francisco.

"San Francisco so soon?"

Through the glass window, the skyline of a big city was gradually revealed. Bell thought he had arrived in San Francisco, so he couldn't help poking Liang Yao who was beside him.

It’s just that Bell always felt that something was wrong. He took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. They set off from the San Diego train station at 7:01 in the morning, and now it’s only 30:[-] in the afternoon, and only six and a half hours have passed.

Even if the California Railroad improved the Pioneer, it would not be able to make it six and a half hours from San Diego to San Francisco.

"It's written on the platform." Liang Yao said impatiently as he opened his eyes and glanced out of the window.

"This is Los Angeles."

When the train slowed down and pulled into the station, Bell's eyes widened to see clearly the words on the platform.

Unlike the train stations in the east, the stop signs of Caltrain Station are not only in English, but also in Chinese.Although Bell doesn't understand Chinese, he can understand English, and he saw the place names of Los Angeles clearly printed on the stop signs.

After confirming that he read it correctly, Bell said incredulously: "Los Angeles? Is Los Angeles that big? So many people? It's bigger than Atlanta, Georgia."

Bell wanted to make an analogy between Houston, the largest city in Texas, and Los Angeles.

However, after gradually seeing a corner of this emerging metropolis, he realized that the dense buildings, the bustling population, and the bustling business in Los Angeles were no longer something that a small city like Houston with a population of 4 to [-] could touch.

"Atlanta?" Liang Yao smiled and shook his head, "Does Atlanta have oil? The wealth accumulated in Atlanta in a year may not be worth the wealth accumulated in Los Angeles in a month."

Liang Yao is not bragging, Los Angeles is currently the only city in the world that can refine and produce petrochemical products in large quantities.

When the British were still worried about their local textiles that had not been sold in the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years after opening the Qing Dynasty market, Liang Yao was already using kerosene from the Qing Dynasty and Japan in exchange for a lot of money and local handicrafts. Taste.

What's even more irritating is that both industrial and agricultural countries can eat this thing. Not only can Liang Yao exchange kerosene for Qing and Japanese silver, but he can also exchange kerosene for British pounds, French francs, and Prussian marks.

"Really? I don't believe it!" Bell was a little unconvinced.

Atlanta, Georgia is the largest transportation hub in the South, and it is also one of the few big cities in the South that can afford it.

In such a big city, the wealth accumulated in a year is not worth the wealth accumulated in Los Angeles in a month?
"How many millionaires does she have in Atlanta?" Liang Yao asked.

"Two? Maybe three?" Bell thought for a while and said, "It won't be more than three anyway."

"There are at least thirty millionaires in Los Angeles." Liang Yao said lightly.

"Thirty millionaires? My God!" Bell exclaimed in surprise, "Oil is so fucking profitable! It's comparable to the gold in Sacramento back then!"

"Now Sacramento is really not as rich as Los Angeles." Liang Yao laughed.

The original city ranking in California is Santa Isa II.

Of course, there were only these two cities in California at that time, and the two cities were very close to each other. One was on the American River and the other was in Jinshan Bay.are located in Central California.

The sudden emergence of Los Angeles has changed the urban layout of California. Los Angeles has driven the development of Southern California almost by itself, diverting the dense population of the Jinshan Bay area to Southern California.

San Francisco is currently ranked first among cities in California, and Los Angeles is ranked second. With its first-mover advantage and relatively complete industrial categories, San Francisco is still ahead of Los Angeles for the time being.

However, the gap between the two cities has become smaller and smaller, and Los Angeles has a faint tendency to catch up with San Francisco.

"If only Texas had oil."

Looking at the bustling Los Angeles outside the window, Bell said enviously.

"Dezhou is vast and rich in resources, there will be." Liang Yao said thoughtfully.

In the summer of 1853, Liang Yao sent an exploration team to Texas to explore for oil at the invitation of Bell.

Texas is one of the largest oil-producing states in the United States, and its oil resources are widely distributed.

There are rich oil and gas resources in west, south, north, northeast and even the Gulf of Mexico along the coast of Texas.It can be said that Texas is a state surrounded by oil and gas resources.

However, shale oil is mainly produced in southern Texas, shale gas is mainly produced in the north, and natural gas is mainly produced in the northeast. These places and oil and gas resources and the oil and gas resources under the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico cannot be exploited with current technological conditions.

If Liang Yao wants to exploit Texas oil, he can only focus on the West Texas Basin in western Texas.

The basin is a large sedimentary basin in west Texas and southeastern New Mexico, also known as the Permian Basin.

The oil field in the Permian Basin is the most abundant oil field in the United States. Even in the 21st century, there is not much oil left in the Permian oil field. The crude oil production in this area still accounts for nearly half of the total crude oil production in Texas.It shows that its reserves are abundant.

But out of selfishness, Liang Yao didn't intend to tell Bell the truth now.

At this time, the development of oil in Texas will do more harm than good to him and California.

"With your good words, if you can really find this thing in Texas, I will definitely convince those old guys of mine to cooperate with you and make a fortune together." Bell said excitedly, rubbing his hands.

(End of this chapter)