1850 American Gold Tycoon

After passing gas with Britain and France, large and small carriers of the Global Shipping Company hoisted coal at the port of San Francisco and shipped it to Hawaii. Google search reading

In addition to the ships carrying coal, there are also ships that carefully hoist cargo that has been marked with the American Jardine brand onto the ship.

These are the Chinese native goods that Liang Yao plans to transport to the east for sale. These Chinese native goods are high-quality goods that Liang Yao purchased from Chinese businessmen to open up the market in the eastern United States and build a reputation for Jardine in the Americas.

Before setting off for the east, Liang Yao had one last thing to do, which was to open a branch of the Loyalty Society in Japan to collect intelligence for him.

Branches of the Loyal Society have now opened in Mexico and Oregon, providing him with a lot of information.

In particular, Deng Wenyao, who traveled between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, not only provided him with detailed information about the Mexican garrison in Tijuana, but also became good friends with the local officers who talked about everything.

There are also Japanese members in the Zhongyi Association, and Liang Yao plans to select some capable Japanese members to send back to Japan to open branches.

The founding of Japan will happen even if he does not intervene. Instead of waiting for Perry to influence Japan, it is better to add fuel to the flames and gain more benefits for California and himself.

After California's industry developed, it needed overseas product dumping sites, and Japan was one of the best product dumping sites.

There is also the problem of irrational population structure and imbalance between men and women in California, which seems to be solved in Japan.

"Da Longtou, are you looking for me?"

A tall Japanese man with a shiny bald head and a height of just over 160 centimeters stood in front of Liang Yao.

"Liang Sen, from now on you will be the leader of the Japanese branch of the Loyalty Society."

Liang Yao looked down at the tall Japanese man who was much shorter than himself, and put a bronze dragon head badge that had been prepared on Liang Sen's chest.

Liang Sen's original name was Murakouya Ichiro, Murakouya was his house number, which can be simply understood as the house number, and Ichiro was his name.

The name Liang Sen was given by Liang Yao to Murakuchiya Ichiro.

After California became a state, the Bureau of Statistics conducted detailed statistics on the state's population.

When the gold rush started, there were three to four hundred Japanese who immigrated from Hawaii to California. These Japanese had to change their "surname" according to the house number when they moved, which made the staff of the Bureau of Statistics extremely dissatisfied.

For this reason, Liang Yao ordered these Japanese to have a fixed name of their own to facilitate the Bureau of Statistics to conduct statistics. They could choose their own surnames or follow Chinese surnames.

The result was that a large number of Japanese happily followed Liang Yao and adopted the surname Liang.

Ordinary people in Japan during the Edo period chose names more casually, while surnames were the prerogative of the upper-class rulers. People with names and surnames in public in Edo period Japan were by no means ordinary people.

At most, civilians can only secretly use some unpopular surnames in private. If they want to obtain the right to use surnames, they can only spend money to buy them from the daimyo of each domain. The more money you give, the longer the surname can be used.

Being able to get your last name for free without spending any money is indeed a joyful thing for these Japanese people.

As for Japanese civilians having their own names in Japan, that was after the Meiji Restoration.

Liang Sen, who was wearing the bronze dragon head badge, felt tears well up in his eyes. He had met Liang Yao twice since he joined the association. Once was when Liang Yao gave names to more than a dozen Japanese members of the Loyalty Association, and the other time is now. .

Liang Sen was originally a deacon of the Loyalty Club, that is, the junior leader at the grassroots level of the Loyalty Club. He wore a gold black bear badge and had the highest position among all Japanese congregations.

Now he was wearing a dragon head badge that he had never dreamed of, which made him cry uncontrollably.

"Thank you Da Longtou for your appreciation! Liang Sen will definitely die for Da Longtou!"

Liang Sen bowed ninety degrees to Liang Yao and said with tears in his eyes.

Although the small copper dragon head badge is only the lowest dragon head badge, to put it bluntly, it is the lowest among the top brass of the Loyalty Society, but for Liang Sen, it is a class jump, which is equivalent to a commoner suddenly becoming a samurai in Japan.

"I don't want you to die, I just need you to do a good job for me. I asked Yihe Bank to prepare a ship for you. You can take Yihe Bank's merchant ship to Nagasaki as a merchant of the Qing Dynasty." Liang Yao said calmly.

"The things I tell you must be done beautifully and properly. I can put this dragon head badge on you, and I can also take it off."

"Yes! Big dragon head!"

Liang Sen subconsciously covered the badge on his chest and said.

Japan's isolation is mainly aimed at Western white people, and its exchanges with East Asian countries, such as the Qing Dynasty, North Korea, and Ryukyu, are relatively normal.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to these East Asian countries, Japan is also willing to have normal exchanges with the Dutch.

The reason is also very simple. After entering Japan, the British, Spanish, and Portuguese not only conducted trade in Japan, but also preached in Japan, built churches, and even wanted to interfere in Japanese politics, which caused panic in the Tokugawa shogunate.

Only the Dutch were more honest and only engaged in business. They did not preach or get involved in Japanese politics. Therefore, the Tokugawa shogunate allowed the Dutch to continue trading in Japan.

The Netherlands was also the only window for Japan in the Edo period to understand the Western world.

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"Steam battleships are the future of the navy. America's influence not only depends on its national power, but also on the range of its navy and the range of its naval guns."

At the same time, outside the port of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, aboard the steam paddlewheel wooden cruiser USS Mississippi.

Commodore Matthew Perry of the United States Navy looked at the sea and said to President Fillmore who came to inspect.

"And where the steamship can go depends on where we can build the supply depot."

Perry was born into a naval family in Newport, Rhode Island. He was influenced by his family since he was a child and determined to join the U.S. Navy.

His father was a captain in the U.S. Navy, and his brother made military exploits in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813, becoming a well-known general in the U.S. Navy.

Perry himself was no less generous. He joined the Navy in 1809 and served as the director of shipbuilding at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1833. In 1837, he supervised the construction of the USS Fulton, the first steam battleship of the American Navy, and was promoted to captain.

Just three years later, Matthew Perry was awarded the rank of Brigadier General and became a popular figure in the U.S. Navy.

Perry highly praised steam battleships and believed that steam battleships were the future of the navy. With Perry's efforts, the "steam rate" of the U.S. Navy has been greatly improved.

"Most of the world's best ports were under British control, and it was not easy to obtain supply points to refuel American steamships."

Fillmore looked at the cruiser Mississippi at his feet, which had a full load displacement of only 1,692 tons. It could serve as a flagship in the American navy, but in the British navy, it was just an ordinary warship.

Compared with the British and French navies, the American navy is too weak.

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