1850 American Gold Tycoon

Those rumors in the market are not groundless.

Liang Yao's assets grew faster than he expected. In mid-November, he roughly estimated that some of the assets he controlled had indeed exceeded 10 million US dollars.

Why rough?

Because his assets are growing at an astonishing rate every day, the gold directly purchased and the gold exchanged for mercury every day exceeds 2,000 ounces, which is more than 60,000 US dollars converted into US dollars.

This was accomplished despite the current situation where gold production in old mining areas is weak, new rich mining areas have not yet been discovered, and the machines purchased from the east have not yet been put into use.

This is just the income brought to him by gold and mercury.

If you include the income from hugely profitable industries such as ports, real estate, catering, clothing, retail, black industry, and pornographic industry, Liang Yao's daily wealth growth is even more astonishing.

The Bank of America is still the only bank in California. As long as a certain reserve of gold collected by the bank is left, other gold can be used by it.

It can be said that Liang Yao has now reaped the dividends of California's early gold rush era.

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Even the assets owned by Brannan, the first millionaire in the West at the beginning of the year, were only a fraction compared to the assets he holds now.

The cash in Liang Yao's hands now is likely to exceed the combined cash flow of Vanderbilt and Backhouse.

Vanderbilt's current main business is shipping. If he wants to make money, he must run ships. His fleet is mainly steamships, and he follows the route of small profits but quick turnover. The operating costs remain high and the profits will not be too high.

What's more, Vanderbilt has lost a lot of money in the stock market in recent years.

As for Backhouse, he is passionate about the real estate industry, but even if Backhouse has a keen eye and can make money from the land he buys, it still takes time to wait for the land to appreciate in value.

Liang Yao, on the other hand, picked up gold directly in California, and his assets grew faster than the two of them.

After Mason's troops were wiped out by Liang Yao, the consortiums that arrived in California became much more honest, and even the New York consortium stopped acting evil.

Because they had truly experienced Liang Yao's strength, they knew very well that the Chinese soldiers and the white soldiers from the California Infantry Regiment who patrolled around their camp every day and conducted so-called routine training exercises were not just decorations.

Those were the elite soldiers who wiped out half of Colonel Mason's regiment. They could already clearly feel that the eyes of these soldiers coming off the battlefield were different from before.

Now when I look at them, I feel a chilling feeling. Maybe this is the so-called murderous intent.

As for the so-called Indians in their mouths, these aristocratic capitalists of the New York consortium also know in their hearts that they are just Liang Yao's cover.

Who in California doesn’t know that Liang Yao’s relationship with the Indians is as good as wearing a pair of pants?

This month alone they have seen at least three or four Indian caravans carrying their native products to Sacramento for trade. Even the Indians from the neighboring Oregon region have gone to Sacramento for trade.

These Indians just walked in front of their mining area in such a grand manner, and the soldiers who kept saying that they wanted to resist the Indians enthusiastically showed them the way.

When they asked the soldiers why they did not capture these Indians, the soldiers told them that the Indians were divided into friendly Indians and unfriendly Indians.

These Indians who came to Sacramento for trade were friendly Indians, and the ones they had to guard against were unfriendly Indians.

This made the aristocratic capitalists of the New York consortium furious.

Fortunately, they panned for gold in the rich mining areas on both sides of the American River for more than three months and gained a lot.

The embarrassed aristocrats and consortium representatives looked at the results achieved in the past three months: 128,154 ounces of gold and cheered and celebrated crazily.

This gold is their biggest harvest in more than three months, and it is also their spiritual support.

Without this gold, they couldn't imagine how they could have stayed in this hellish place for more than three months.

This is gold worth more than three million US dollars. For them who were born into a wealthy family, this is also a huge fortune.

The miners who dug for gold could only watch helplessly as this group of aristocratic capitalists distributed the gold.

What these miners receive is only a meager daily salary, which is difficult to make ends meet in the extremely high-priced Sacramento area.

They naively hope that these aristocratic capitalists will be kind-hearted when distributing gold, and give them a little gold as a reward for their hard work.

Unfortunately, except for Milnas who generously gave each of his miners 10 ounces of gold as a reward, the rest of the aristocratic capitalists did not consider them as miners at all.

John also gave his miners 11 ounces of gold as a reward. Of course, this was not because of his kindness, but because he felt that he could not be compared with Milnas.

The team of the New York consortium packed up their gold, luggage and machines and prepared to leave the American River where gold resources had been exhausted, looking for the next rich ore point. Prepare to dig for gold while waiting for new news from New York and Congress.

Hopefully the next news they receive will be good news.

"Gentlemen, you can't leave!"

Soldiers from the California Infantry Regiment patrolling nearby blocked the New York consortium's path and sent someone to notify Liang Yao.

Faced with these murderous soldiers, the big bosses of the New York consortium did not dare to make any mistakes, for fear of offending them or that these soldiers would do something outrageous.

However, they still protested relatively mildly, whereas in the past, in the East, others had always provided protests to them.

Today they finally experienced the feeling of protest.

Protesting doesn’t feel good because the initiative is never in the hands of the protesters.

After learning that the New York consortium was leaving, Liang Yao immediately rushed over from the new mining area of ​​Xiangshan Gold Mining Company.

Since moving to San Francisco, he has rarely been to Sacramento, and he has rarely set foot in the mining area.

It's not that he dislikes the mess in the mining area, he's not the kind of person who's afraid of hardship and fatigue, but it's just that he simply doesn't have time.

Now, in addition to handling his own properties, he also has to deal with the state affairs of California, and he wants to break himself in half.

He came to the mining area today mainly because the machines purchased from the east had arrived. He wanted to go to the mining area in person to see how effective it was and how much gold production could be increased.

Relying on manual gold mining has gradually become a thing of the past. Next, California will belong to the era of machine gold mining.

He doesn't want to be eliminated in this round of transformation.

"Gentlemen, you may go."

Liang Yao rode a horse and looked down at the somewhat embarrassed New York aristocratic capitalists with squinted eyes.

"Did you hear that? Your commander has spoken, we can go, get out of the way!"

After hearing this, John's impression of Liang Yao improved a lot. He pushed away the soldiers in front of him and was about to leave.

Milnas still stood where he was. He knew very well that Liang Yao would not let them go easily.

If Liang Yao was willing to let them go, he would have ordered the soldiers of the California Infantry Regiment to let them go. There was no need to go there in person. Things were definitely not that simple.

"People can leave, but the gold stays!"

Liang Yao said angrily.

These words made these aristocratic capitalists in New York explode. They thought their ears had heard wrongly and froze in place.

"This is the gold we found. We have the right to take it away! Why should we keep it?!"

John took the lead in protesting, and the rest of New York's aristocratic capitalists stood up to protest.

"This is the fruit of our labor for more than three months!"

"This is our private property!"

"You are naked robbery!"

Faced with the verbal criticism from these aristocratic capitalists, Liang Yao just smiled faintly, took out the revolver at his waist and fired a shot into the air to calm them down.

After the gunshot, the aristocratic capitalists in New York fell silent for an instant. They took a few steps back unconsciously and looked at Liang Yao with some fear.

After Liang Yao put the revolver back into his waist, they let out a sigh of relief.

"You're right, but not entirely."

Liang Yao got off his horse and glanced at the frightened group of New York aristocratic capitalists with cold eyes.