1850 American Gold Tycoon.

At the beginning of California's statehood in 1851, the state government submitted the first five-year plan proposal to the state legislature and passed it.

It is definitely inappropriate to describe California as a state when it was founded as poor and empty.

In 1851, California's industrial foundation was very poor, and the only things that had nothing to do with industry were some mining and handicraft industries that emerged around the gold rush industry.

But California in 1851 was not poor, and the per capita income was ridiculously high.

Until now, many people in California still miss the days when the California gold diggers earned 1 ounce of gold a day.

In 1856, when the gold rush gradually cooled down, the people who could earn an ounce of gold a day were definitely the wealthy class in California.

Of course, what they miss is only the income at that time. No one will miss the prices, living standards and poor public security at that time.

This year is the last year of California's first five-year plan. Except for a small number of targets set five years ago, most of the targets have been achieved as scheduled.

In Tingtao Garden, Liang Yao was flipping through the relevant data of 1855, that is, last year provided by the Bureau of Statistics, in order to provide reference for formulating the second five-year plan for the coming year.

The first is population data. Whether it is an industrial state in the north or an agricultural state in the south, population is the basic disk of a state.

Even if the per capita wealth of a sparsely populated state is very high, the upper limit will not be too high.

As the number one immigrant state in the mid-19th century, California's data growth in this area is very gratifying.

1851年加州统计在册的人口数据是14万人，1853年加州人口就突破了50万，1855年这个数字则是95万，距离突破百万人口大关只有咫尺之遥。

It is now April 1856. Perhaps when Liang Yao was looking through the data, the population of California had already exceeded the million mark.

With a population of 95, the United States at this time is at a mid-range level, and it is definitely not a populous state.

Over the past four years, California has not only seen strong population growth.The population structure has also been optimized, although California's population structure, especially the sex ratio between men and women, is still unbalanced.

But now women in California account for at least 31% of the total population, which is a big improvement from four years ago.

If California's economic growth momentum can be sustained, the situation will be further improved.

The world is so big, as long as the wallet is not empty, you don't have to worry about finding a wife.

Many early immigrants who had already made a fortune either returned to their hometowns, or went to the East, or made families through other means.

Unmarried immigrants are basically new immigrants in the past one or two years.

Compared with other states horizontally, California's population is comparable to that of North Carolina at this time.

But in fact, North Carolina's population is definitely larger than that of California, and it is much larger.

At this time, the attributes of the blacks in the South were not human beings, but farm implements like cattle and horses.Slaves and even free blacks in slave states were often not counted in the census.

If blacks are also included in the statistics, the population of California in 1855 was actually at the lower middle level.

In terms of population statistics, the Northern Free States are far ahead.

The three most populous states in the United States are New York (360 million), Pennsylvania (270 million), and Ohio (210 million).

These three states are the only three in the United States with a population of more than 200 million.

The vertical comparison of the three indicators Liang Yao is most concerned about—steel, coal, and railway mileage—with California in 1851 is very gratifying.

In 1851, California's steel production was 16000 tons, of which steel production was only 360 tons.

Liang Yao still clearly remembers that he wanted to lay steel rails at the beginning, but in the end he had to give up due to the poor steel production in California at that time, and had to compromise with reality and use pig iron to lay rails.

In 1855, California's steel production increased abruptly to 115800 tons, of which 7560 tons were steel.

Coal production in California also rose from 1851 tons in 35 to 1855 million tons in 210.

The railway mileage increased from 1851 kilometers in 0 to 1855 kilometers in 2880.

The goal set in the first five-year plan is that after the end of the first five-year plan, California's steel production needs to exceed 5000 tons (steel production exceeds 200 tons).The coal output exceeds 2000 million tons, and the railway mileage exceeds [-] kilometers.

Of course, this is limited to vertical comparison with yourself.

If you compare it horizontally with the only superpower of this era, looking at the cold data can make people feel desperate.

In 1855 Britain produced 340 million tons of steel, 490 million tons of pig iron, and 8200 million tons of coal.

The data for the United States in the same period are: steel output 40 tons, pig iron output 90 tons, and coal output 1700 million tons.

As the only country in the world that has completed industrialization at this time, the productivity of the British Empire is not only a dimensionality reduction blow to agricultural countries, but also a dimensionality reduction blow to other powers that are industrializing.

Britain and the United States are countries of the same size in terms of population. In the 1850s, the population of the United Kingdom was just over 3000 million, while the population of the United States was approaching and catching up with the United Kingdom with its terrifying growth rate (mainly from immigrants).

The above-mentioned goals are the main goals that California has achieved and will soon achieve during the first five-year plan.

Beyond that, California has unmet goals.

This goal is the food self-sufficiency rate.

The requirement of the first five-year plan for California's grain self-sufficiency rate is that after the end of the first five-year plan, California's grain self-sufficiency rate will reach 100%.

In 1851, California's food self-sufficiency rate was around 60%. In 1855, this figure only increased to about 75%.

To achieve the goal of 1856% food self-sufficiency in 100, unless the Bureau of Statistics makes technical adjustments to the 1856 data, it is forced to complete self-sufficiency.

Otherwise, according to objective laws, it is impossible to achieve this goal within one year.

The wasteland reclaimed before 1853 has now become mature land. The guano dug from Nauru is also available to farmers everywhere at a low price. The state government has also invested in agricultural water conservancy facilities, and it has also provided agricultural machinery. With subsidies from farmers, California's agricultural tax is also maintained at a very low level.

It stands to reason that with so many policy blessings, the Ministry of Agriculture should not hand over such an ugly answer sheet.

Liang Yao didn't understand, so he sent a report to Chen Baoliang, Minister of Agriculture, asking him to come to Tingtao Garden, and he wanted to question the Minister of Agriculture face to face.

"The population is growing too fast, and no matter how fast the farming is, it can't resist adding so many more mouths to eat every year." Chen Baoliang said with a bitter face.

He had expected that one day, among the various ministers in California, the minister of industry would be the most comfortable, contributing more than [-]% of the state's tax revenue, and he would not have to look at people's faces wherever he went.

In contrast, his life as Minister of Agriculture is not so comfortable.

Chen Baoliang also expected that Liang Yao would ask him for a private interview. Maybe after Liang Yao, the new governor would talk to him again.

"But the Immigration Bureau can say that they give you a lot of immigration quotas for the Ministry of Agriculture every year. Are the people in your Ministry of Agriculture all idiots? With so many immigration quotas, so many policies to eat, even food self-sufficiency Can't even achieve the basic goals?" Liang Yao looked at the table very displeased, and his voice became a lot louder.

"This is not Qing Dynasty! There is no shortage of land!"