1850 American Gold Tycoon

Statehood Day in 1856 was the sixth Statehood Day since California became a state.

After signing the treaty with Mexico and sending a report to Fillmore, Liang Yao hurried back to California.

He has to rush back to California to celebrate the Statehood Day before April 1st.

The San Francisco Shipyard sent him good news. The shipyard would like to present gifts to the people of the state on the occasion of Statehood Day.

California participated in and won the Mexican War on behalf of the free states as a single state, which made the whole state proud and excited.

If last year's victory in Borneo was a carnival for California's upper class, then this victory in Mexico is a carnival for all Californians.

The most direct reason for this result is naturally geographical. Mexico is close to California, and Californians are naturally more familiar with Mexico, which is just a few feet away.

The deeper reason is resources and industry.

No matter how beautiful the newspapers describe Borneo, which has rubber and oil, developing oil and rubber requires capital and is not an industry that ordinary people can get involved in.

Moreover, rubber and oil are both emerging resources. Compared with traditional resources, ordinary people's understanding of these two emerging resources is relatively limited.

Mexico is different. Mexico's economy is similar to that of the southern United States, dominated by the plantation economy and traditional mining.

Whether you use the savings accumulated in California over the past few years to buy land and open fields in Mexico, or go to Mexico as a partnership to mine, it is a very good choice.

California is vigorously developing industry and needs a large amount of cheap industrial raw materials, and Mexico can provide these to California.

After the Treaty of Mexico City was signed, Bell accompanied Liang Yao by boat from Mazatlan to San Diego.

The two then took a train in San Diego directly to San Francisco.

Basically all administrative units above town level in California have access to railways. Most of the towns that do not have access to railways were towns that just completed the upgrade last year and the railways have not yet been laid.

Therefore, although transportation in the west is not convenient, transportation within California is very convenient.

After the signing of the Treaty of Mexico City, Bell and Liang Yao arrived in San Diego by boat from Mazatlan and then took a train in San Diego directly to San Francisco.

"Arrived in San Francisco so soon?"

Through the glass car window, the skyline of a big city gradually emerged. Bell thought he had arrived in San Francisco, and he couldn't help but poke Liang Yao beside him with his hand.

But Bell always felt something was wrong. He took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. They set off from the San Diego train station at 7 a.m., and it was only 1:30 p.m., so only six and a half hours had passed.

Even if Calrail improved the Pioneer, it would not be possible to get from San Diego to San Francisco in just six and a half hours.

"It's written on the platform." Liang Yao opened his eyes impatiently and glanced out the window and said.

"This is Los Angeles."

When the train slowed down and entered the station, Bell opened his eyes and saw clearly the words on the platform.

Unlike train stations in the east, the stop signs at California train stations are not only in English, but also in Chinese. Although Bell didn't understand Chinese, he could read English and saw the place names of Los Angeles clearly printed on the stop sign.

After confirming that he had read it correctly, Bell said incredulously: "Los Angeles? Is Los Angeles that big? So many people? This is bigger than Atlanta, Georgia."

Bell wanted to draw a comparison between Houston, Texas' largest city, and Los Angeles.

However, after gradually seeing a corner of this emerging metropolis, he realized that Los Angeles' dense buildings, prosperous population, and prosperous commerce were no longer something that a small city like Houston with a population of 30 to 40,000 could match.

"Atlanta?" Liang Yao smiled and shook his head, "Does Atlanta have oil? The wealth accumulated in Atlanta in one year may not be equivalent to the wealth accumulated in Los Angeles in one month."

Liang Yao is not bragging. Los Angeles is currently the only city in the world that can refine and produce large quantities of petrochemical products.

While the British were still brooding over the fact that their local textiles had not opened up a market in the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years after opening the Qing market, Liang Yao was already using kerosene to exchange for white money and local specialty handicrafts from the Qing Dynasty and Japan. Taste.

What's even more annoying is that this thing works for both industrial and agricultural countries. Not only can Liang Yao exchange kerosene for silver from the Qing Dynasty and Japan, but he can also exchange kerosene for British pounds, French francs, and Prussian marks.

"Really? I don't believe it!" Bell was a little unconvinced.

Atlanta, Georgia, is the largest transportation hub in the South and one of the few big cities in the South that can excel.

In such a big city, the wealth accumulated in one year is not equivalent to the wealth accumulated in Los Angeles in one month?

"How many millionaires does she have in Atlanta?" Liang Yao asked.

"Two? Maybe three?" Bell thought for a moment and said, "Anyway, it won't be more than three."

"There are at least thirty millionaires in Los Angeles." Liang Yao said calmly.

"Thirty millionaires? My God!" Bell exclaimed, "Oil is such a fucking huge profit! It's comparable to the gold in Sacramento back then!"

“Sacramento now is really not as wealthy as Los Angeles.” Liang Yao said with a smile.

California's original ranking of cities was Saint-Saint-Saint-Second.

Of course, there were only these two cities in California at that time, and they were very close to each other, one on the banks of the American River and the other on Jinshan Bay. All located in central California.

After the sudden rise of Los Angeles, it changed the urban layout of California. Los Angeles almost single-handedly drove the development of Southern California, diverting the dense population in the Jinshan Bay area to Southern California.

The current city rankings in California are San Francisco and Los Angeles. San Francisco is still ahead of Los Angeles due to its first-mover advantage and relatively complete industrial categories.

However, the gap between the two cities has become smaller and smaller, and Los Angeles has a faint tendency to catch up with San Francisco.

“If only there was oil in Texas.”

Looking out the window at the bustling Los Angeles, Bell said with envy.

"Dezhou has a vast land and rich resources, so there will be opportunities." Liang Yao said thoughtfully.

In the summer of 1853, Liang Yao sent an exploration team to Texas to explore for oil at Bell's invitation.

Texas is one of the largest oil-producing states in the United States, and its oil resources are widely distributed.

West, south, north, northeast Texas and even the Gulf of Mexico along the coast are rich in oil and gas resources. It can be said that Texas is a state surrounded by oil and gas resources.

However, southern Texas mainly produces shale oil, the north mainly produces shale gas, and the northeast mainly produces natural gas. These places and oil and gas resources and the oil and gas resources under the Gulf of Mexico seabed cannot be exploited with current technological conditions.

If Liang Yao wants to exploit oil in Texas, he can only focus on the West Texas Basin in west Texas.

The basin is a large sedimentary basin in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, also known as the Permian Basin.

The Permian Basin oil field is the most abundant oil field in the United States. Even in the 21st century, there is little oil left in the Permian oil field, and the crude oil production in the region still accounts for nearly half of Texas' total crude oil production. This shows its abundant reserves.

However, out of selfish motives, Liang Yao did not intend to tell Bell the truth now.

At this time, developing oil in Texas would do more harm than good to him and California.

"With your words, if you can really find this thing in Texas, I will definitely convince my old friends to cooperate with you and make a fortune together." Bell said, rubbing his hands excitedly.