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Chapter 556 This is Huang Shiren, this is a good devil! (Please subscribe, please vote)
To be honest, Hong Renzheng's biggest headache right now is that the guys on Capitol Hill in Washington are trying to pass a federal-level Chinese Exclusion Act.

In California, the True Protestants can still fight for a bit, with a maximum of 20,000 to 30,000 "white votes." And under the operation of the True Protestants, these white votes are relatively concentrated - in four counties: San Francisco County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, and Marin County.

As long as the True Yorkists can gather all the white people with voting rights they can control to vote in these four counties on voting day, the politicians supported by the True Yorkists will definitely be able to take down the county governors of these four counties. Through some deals with the Republicans, it will not be a big problem to keep O'Connor as a federal senator, and he can also get a lot of state senators and state representatives. This is enough to form a political force in California.

But if you want to fight against those white supremacists in Washington, this little power is not enough. County executives and state senators and representatives have no say in the federal government. Only Jamie O'Connor can speak on Capitol Hill.

But no matter how well he operates, he only has one vote per person. If the real Yorkists can take down the governor and control both the Senate and the House of Representatives in California, he will have more room to operate.

After all, the United States is still a "united nation" and the governors and state legislatures have great power. In particular, the militias of each state in the United States are directly commanded by the governor and are not directly controlled by the federal government.

After obtaining authorization from the state legislature, the governors of each state can directly appoint militia officers, and the number of state soldiers is not subject to federal restrictions. In other words, as long as the governor and state legislature of California are willing and the state finances can afford it, the number of California militia can far exceed the more than 10,000 federal army. So as long as the governor and state legislature of California are in hand, even if the federal government passes the "Chinese Exclusion Act", the true New Yorkists are not afraid. If the state refuses to enforce it, the federal bill is empty!
As for the federal government sending troops to take over California and forcibly enforcing the Chinese Exclusion Act, there are many things to consider! If the federal government can take over California today, can it also take over Texas, New York, and Virginia tomorrow?

This matter needs to be brought to the Senate and the House for discussion, and it will be rejected 100% of the time!
But the question is, how can the true New Yorkers take over the governorship of California and control the California legislature? It is not enough to rely on just 20,000 or 30,000 white votes. To achieve this goal, they must have at least 100,000 white votes, right?
Hong Renzheng, who couldn't think of any solution at the moment, had to sign a check for $50,000 and gave it to Congressman O'Connor, asking him to take it to Washington. Seeing O'Connor gratefully accepting the check, Hong Renzheng personally escorted Congressman O'Connor out of the cathedral. When he turned back, he saw Lei Lao Hu and three others guarding the door of his reception room. He smiled bitterly and said to his proud student, "Lao Hu, tell me, is there any way we can control more white people to vote for our people?"

He just asked casually, and didn't expect Lei Lao Hu to answer. This is the number one problem for the true dating faction on the West Coast. The only solution seems to be to have more children - let those Japanese girls and white people have more mixed-race sons.

But the problem is that growing up takes time!

If the U.S. federal government had introduced the Chinese Exclusion Act before these kids grew up, and the California state government and state legislature were not in the hands of the true pro-True Protestant faction, the true pro-True Protestant faction would have been in a lot of trouble.
"Archbishop, this is not difficult at all!"

A voice with a Hunan accent suddenly took over the question that Lei Lao Hu couldn't answer. Hong Renzheng looked in the direction of the voice and saw a pale, thin, and gentle-looking man.

"Do you have a solution?" Hong Renzheng asked.

"Yes," Huang Shiren said confidently, "It's just about controlling some poor miners! The Zhenyue faction can lend them money at high interest rates to control them. As long as the miners are owed money, there is no need to worry that they will not obey! This is the same method used by landlords and gentry in China to control poor farmers."

Hong Renzheng frowned: "Miners are not farmers, they all have guns!"

Huang Shiren laughed and said, "In Hunan and Guangdong, many rich peasants have guns, but they are still controlled by moneylenders. Although some people always say that they lend money while standing and collect debts while kneeling, in fact, the creditors have many ways to control the borrowers, no matter if the borrowers are poor or not."

"What if they really don't want to return it?" Hong Renzheng looked at Huang Shiren, "You won't ask Zhenyue to send thugs to forcibly collect it, will you?"

"No need," Huang Shiren shook his head. "Sell the debt to the gang. There shouldn't be gangs in California, right?"

"The underworld." Hong Renzheng's eyes lit up. "I am willing to lend money, but others may not be willing to borrow money. What should I do?"

Huang Shiren said: "Anyone who does business is willing to borrow money to grow. Mining is also a business, so why wouldn't they be willing to borrow money?"

Hong Renzheng said: "But the whites in California have their own banks!" "Then find a way to stop them from running!" Huang Shiren smiled, "Then take them over. As long as the banks in California are in the hands of the True Covenant faction, we won't have to worry about the whites going against the Bishop!"

"Yes!" Hong Renzheng had a sudden realization and murmured, "I can find a way to control the banks! Why didn't I think of that? The True Yodists control eggs, pork, beef, vegetables, flour, and rice, but they don't control the banks in California!"

As he spoke, he carefully looked at Huang Shiren again: "Good, you are a talent! What's your name? What's your current position?"

Tianjing, Building No. 2 of the Gewuguan of Taiping University.

Luo Yaoguo stood in front of a Jianghai steam engine with a big hole blown out of it, arms folded, smiling: "Professor Xu, which one is this?"

A middle-aged man standing nearby with a goatee, wearing a gray cloth robe and a pair of tortoise-shell glasses said with a wry smile, "Channel 7."

This man's name is Xu Shou. He is from Wuxi, Suzhou, and a fellow countryman of Weng Tonghe. He is a self-taught mechanical expert, the chief engineer of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau's machinery factory, and a professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Taiping University. He copied the "Jianghai" steam engine with the help of several foreign engineers, according to the drawings and steam engines he bought. He built a total of ten units, and seven of them have already broken down! "

"Teacher," said a student of Taiping University named Tian Jiuzhong, who was climbing up and down in work clothes, as agile as a monkey, "the connecting rod is broken!"

"Anbang, write it down!" Xu Shou's brows were twisted into the shape of a "川" character. Seven accidents, seven problems. None of them were the same again!
Chen Zhengguo, a student of mechanical engineering, took a notebook and a pen and carefully drew the damaged part of the steam engine, followed by a long text description - this was extremely valuable technical information!
If there is no external technology transfer, if you want to fully understand the steam engine on your own, you have to go through all the pitfalls one by one!
"It's okay," Luo Yaoguo consoled him. "It's better not to repeat the same thing. We found seven problems after trying out a batch of machines. Once we overcome them one by one, we'll make the second batch! If the second batch doesn't pass, we'll just make the third batch of steam engines. It's not that difficult! In the future, we'll be able to make internal combustion engines and gas turbines that are hundreds or thousands of times more complicated than this one!"

Hearing his words, Tian Jiuzhong, who was fiddling with the damaged connecting rod, was suddenly shocked, and then he accelerated his work.
"Your Highness, Your Highness!" Luo Yaoguo suddenly heard the voice of Louis Pasteur. He turned around and saw the French chemist running out of Building No. 3 of the Gewuguan with a test tube in his hand. "I found the bacteria that make silkworms sick! I found them! They are tiny, moving, brown particles!"

"That's bacteria." Luo Yaoguo laughed and said to himself, "Now, we just have to wait for Robert Stephenson Company to come to China to set up a factory, and then we can monopolize the world's silk market!"

Xu Shou was surprised when he heard the name of "Robert Stephenson Company": "Your Highness, are you saying that we are going to take on the world's number one steam engine manufacturer? Then our research..."

"You still have to do research!" Luo Yaoguo interrupted Xu Shou. "When the British Robert Stephenson Company comes, you will enter Robert Stephenson's factory and learn more skills. In the future, our machines will definitely far surpass this Robert Stephenson Company!" He said in an unquestionable tone, "You have to believe my prediction!"

London, Buckingham Palace.

Prince Albert stirred the Royal Coptis chinensis with a silver spoon, and the brown liquid rippled in the bone china cup: "You want to use the patent of berberine in exchange for a joint venture with Robert Stephenson Company in Shanghai. This is not easy to do! Robert Stephenson Company is a private company, and the British government cannot force them to open a branch in China. Why not change the conditions! How about a newest steam gunboat? We can also provide blueprints, engineers, ship engines, artillery and ship steel to help you build one in Shanghai!"

"We, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, are a peace-loving country and do not want the latest warships," Wu Chaoyue, a representative of Jiangnan Pharmaceutical, said in fluent English. "Prince, we do not need the military steam engines of Robert Stephenson Company. We only want to master the production of civilian steam engines and textile machinery. The textile machinery is mainly silk reeling machines and other silk textile equipment. We will not compete with British cotton and wool spinning."

Wang Libin, the ambassador of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, interrupted and said, "Your Highness, this is a good deal for Britain to make a profit. The market for berberine is much larger than that for steam engines! Berberine is still a unique business, and steam engines are made very well in France, Prussia, Austria, and even the United States! In addition, berberine is also very helpful for the epidemic on the Crimean battlefield! If you agree to our request, the pharmaceutical factory in Shanghai will go all out to produce berberine for the British and French forces in Crimea. If you disagree, we will go to Napoleon III."

(End of this chapter)