Wild North America 1846

Chapter 203 Five Golden Flowers
The Americans watched Texaco Petroleum Company make a lot of money with envy, and tried to ask through various channels about the possibility of purchasing new oil refining equipment, but they were all rejected without mercy.

They don't know that this Chang'an Petroleum Equipment Company is also a company that the royal family holds shares through various companies on behalf of them. In fact, it is a company that is fully controlled. The relevant petroleum refining equipment will not be considered for export within 10 years.

10 years later
The oil companies that have sprung up in the Datang Kingdom should have reached a new level in their refining capabilities and have stronger market dominance capabilities.

At that time, the appropriate liberalization of competition is an inevitable move.

The flowers in the greenhouse can never grow up. Only after the baptism of the market can the world's major oil companies with real market competitiveness rise.

As for now, the Yankees are dreaming!
These few years

The relationship between the Datang Kingdom and the US federal government has always been bumpy and has never been on the track of normalization. The trade between the two parties often passes through the south, which puts the southern state in a unique position in the US-Tang bilateral trade.

There has been a long history of discord between the southern states and the northern states in the United States. In the same country, industrial products from Europe and the Tang Kingdom can enter the southern states unimpeded and become mainstream products in the market.

However, products from the northern states of the United States cannot enter, and even if they enter, they are hindered.

it's not surprising

The northern states of the United States have always held high the banner of human rights and advocated the abolition of slavery. Many northern white civil rights activists secretly established the so-called "freedom channel", which is a secret channel to help southern black slaves escape to the north.

no doubt
Southern white slave owners regarded black slaves as their own wealth, and black slaves were the main labor force in cotton plantations, each worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and strong male black slaves were even worth thousands of dollars.

Running away with one or two is enough to make the white slave owner feel distressed for a long time.In some southern plantations, with the help of northern whites, a dozen or even dozens of black slaves ran away at once. How could the white slave owners not be so angry that they vomited blood?

In their eyes, the Yankees were outright stealing.

If things go on like this, it's no wonder that the relationship between the South and the North can be good.

After losing foreign aggression like the Tang Kingdom, the United States has now formed a clear-cut opposing camp between the South and the North. The two sides have deep grievances, and there are irreconcilable fundamental contradictions. Resentment and dissatisfaction are constantly fermenting.

Even if the Tang Kingdom has smooth trade channels with the southern states of the United States, it is impossible to sell important new oil refining equipment. Wouldn't that mean that they would use their martial arts to cultivate a strong opponent for themselves?

Such stupid things should never be done.

The so-called appropriate liberalization of competition refers to the proper sale of a generation of backward refining and chemical equipment to British oil companies when they cannot bear the pressure. Other countries, including France, Prussia and the United States, are not considered.

Among the five golden flowers of the Tang Kingdom in the economic field, in addition to the dazzling Texaco Petroleum Company, the American River Gold Rush Company still plays the mainstay role.

In 1851, the American River Basin produced a total of 387.74 million ounces of gold, with a total output value of 7758 million Tang yuan.

With its advanced gold pan equipment and superior geographical location, the American River Gold Panning Company enjoys an exclusive 2/3 share of it, making a lot of money.

but should see
After 6 years of large-scale and high-intensity development, especially the intensification of the gold rush in the past two years, the gold resources of the American River are showing a state of exhaustion. Compared with the previous year, the gold output this year has not increased much, and the income of ordinary gold prospectors has declined. More than half, getting rich overnight has become a dream.

The dream of getting rich is shattered, which prompts a large number of gold diggers to return to society and engage in various industries, commerce or agriculture and animal husbandry within their capabilities. The gold rush is cooling down step by step.

However, in the remote Melbourne area of ​​Australia in the vast Pacific Ocean, new gold deposits have been discovered.

The American River Gold Rush Company moved quickly and landed in Melbourne in the middle of 1851, waving banknotes to win large tracts of land in areas with rich gold reserves for in-depth development.

Melbourne, Australia is also a new profit growth point for the American River Gold Rush Company.

As a world-class mining company, American River Gold Rush Company has complicated sources of shareholders. It not only has the royal family and aristocratic shareholders of the Tang Kingdom, but also has great influence in the upper class society of the British Isles, and has many top aristocratic shareholders.

Therefore, the American River Gold Rush Company launched a large-scale gold rush in Melbourne, and all aspects were given the green light, and it soon became one of the local giants.

General Heavy Industry Holdings (holding steel mills, iron ore and coal mines, shipyards and other heavy industrial enterprises) has benefited from the industrial policy of Datang Kingdom, and has developed rapidly in the past two years. The number of steel plants it holds has increased from 5 to 17. The amount of iron produced is as much as 37 tons.

Compared with the United Kingdom, which ranks first in the world, this output is only about 15% of the current output in the United Kingdom. However, it should be noted that the output of pig iron in the United Kingdom was as high as 470 million tons as early as ten years ago.

It's just that due to shrinking demand, production has been declining all the way, and now it is only half of its heyday.

Datang Kingdom is driven by strong domestic demand, and the steel industry is in a stage of rapid development.The two major industries of shipbuilding and railway basically absorb 8% of the steel production capacity.

The remaining [-]% ​​is used for urban bridges and housing construction. The demand in this area is growing rapidly, and the supply gap is very large.

For this reason, Datang Kingdom had to import 10,000+ tons of steel from the UK to make up for the lack of production capacity.

Considering the current status quo of outdated equipment, poor smelting capacity and low output in the world's steel industry, the Steel Research Laboratory of the University of California, funded by General Heavy Industries Holdings, brings together experts and scholars from the steel industry from all over the world to develop advanced steel smelting equipment , to increase production efficiency and output as soon as possible.

At present, the new production process has passed the technical demonstration, and the blueprint design and engineering research stage of the new iron and steel smelting technical equipment are in progress.

In less than a few months, it will soon enter the production stage of new steel smelting equipment.

At that time, the production efficiency and output of steel plants using new steel smelting equipment will be greatly improved.

Different from the revolutionary subversive design of petroleum refining and chemical equipment, the new iron and steel smelting equipment directly and rudely adopts the expansion method, that is, there is more molten steel in one furnace, and when it becomes larger, the output will naturally increase.

In addition, the use of heavy oil and diesel oil for combustion and forced air blowing can greatly improve the steelmaking efficiency of the steelmaking furnace, shorten the smelting time of single furnace molten steel, and thus increase the output.

This kind of process improvement is only suitable for a resource-rich country like Datang Kingdom that has a large amount of excess heavy oil and diesel oil, and other countries cannot learn from it.

The great development of Grape Valley Light Industry Company (holding textile, clothing, food, wine and other light industrial enterprises) originated from the reclamation of large areas of land suitable for growing cotton in Chihuahua and New Mexico after the signing of the "Mexico Treaty" in August 1851. A stable cotton production base with huge output has been formed, which has driven the rapid development of the domestic textile and clothing industries.

The rise of a large number of cotton plantations in Chihuahua and New Mexico has also driven a large number of poor Mexicans to work in cotton plantations. The current total is as high as 17.

As cotton plantations spring up, demand for Mexican labor will grow rapidly.

Compared with the labor market of 400 million black slaves in the southern United States, the cotton plantations in the Tang Kingdom are now in the ascendant, and there is still a lot of room for development in the future.

But this has to be done slowly, you can't become fat if you eat in one bite.

end of 1851
After the total population of the Tang Kingdom exceeded the 2 million mark in February, Chinese immigrants grew by 300 to 7 per month, and with the addition of 8 to 2.7 new births per month, the total population exceeded 2.9 million again by the end of the year Off, hitting a new high in history.

throughout North America

Therefore, the Datang Kingdom surpassed Mexico, second only to the United States, and was the second most populous country in North America.

The social prosperity brought about by rapid economic development has changed in all aspects of society. The urban area has grown rapidly, and various beautiful buildings have sprung up. The bumper harvest of agriculture and animal husbandry has brought abundant urban supplies and promoted commercial prosperity.

In the vast territory of the Tang Kingdom, the business talent of the Chinese has been fully utilized, and the rich have opened shipping companies and got involved in heavy industries such as steel mills and shipyards.

There are also some businessmen who devote themselves to cement factories, brick kilns, wineries, textile factories, quarries, timber factories, food factories and other fields, find their own position in the social division of labor, and develop in full swing.

Those Chinese immigrants who had just arrived in North America and did not have much money on their bodies simply provoked the peddlers to walk the streets and alleys, and worked hard to accumulate primitive capital.

Seeing other people's lives are prosperous, getting rich, marrying wives and taking concubines, buying houses and buying properties, all the more aroused the great enthusiasm of later Chinese immigrants to start businesses.

In ordinary Chinese families
Having an Indian woman or maid is the basic configuration, and the better one is the Mexican maid, who is a good hand whether it is giving birth to children or helping with work.

Most middle-class Chinese families have one or several white concubines, several Mexican maids, at least own a single-family villa or their own land, shops, and a stable source of income.

More than 8% of these middle-class Chinese families are retired officers and soldiers, becoming the middle class that got rich first.

If you have the conditions, you will order a Chinese bride. After these Chinese brides have traveled thousands of miles to North America, 9% of them are well-deserved as the matriarch of the family.

After all, ghosts are ghosts, not only do they have a language barrier, but also their living customs are very different. After all, it is good for Chinese to marry a daughter-in-law, so the concubine naturally doesn't care.

After His Majesty the King married a lady from a famous family from mainland China as the queen and side concubine, this upsurge of marrying mainland brides was first initiated by the aristocratic group, and then quickly spread to the wealthy and middle classes of society, thus giving rise to all kinds of people. Several powerful multinational media companies, this is something later.

(End of this chapter)