1850 American Gold Tycoon

Liang Yao did have such an idea, trying to divide and deal with these pawns of the New York consortium.

It's just a pity that he failed to succeed. The degree of unity of these consortia and their lackeys was beyond Liang Yao's expectation.

Nigel still has some knowledge. Being able to become Vanderbilt's trusted assistant seems to be more than just a strong business ability.

The maid brought the refilled tea to Nigel. Nigel took his hand out of his pocket, took the tea cup, and tasted it seriously, like a senior tea lover.

"Do you know tea?" Liang Yao asked curiously.

"I don't understand, but it tastes good and I like it very much." Nigel said very honestly, "I can't buy such authentic Chinese tea in New York. Can you give me a bag of tea soon? My tea is fast. Finished soaking."

"Nigel, I think you came to me today not just for tea, right?" Liang Yao put away the list in his hand.

"As you said, two ships of the California Shipping Company have problems and need to be repaired at your shipyard." Nigel explained his purpose. "Your shipyard is the only place in California that can repair ships. If there is a queue, I will It will take three weeks.”

"You can jump in line, but you have to pay extra. I'll go back and say hello to the shipyard." Liang Yao said.

"There is one more thing about Kony. If Kony continues to do nothing like this, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to explain to Mr. Vanderbilt." Nigel reminded Liang Yaodao, "Although I also know what Master Kony is. Neither, he can’t help you much, but he can definitely carry a bag, so let him follow you, maybe he can learn something from you, even if it’s just superficial."

Liang Yao had not forgotten about Kony, but since John arrived in California, he had to concentrate on dealing with the conglomerates that were swarming in, and had no time to take care of Kony, the second generation ancestor.

"Sir, this is the booklet you asked for."

Hu Jinchen handed Liang Yao a booklet called "Ghost Stories".

Hu Jinchen was the most capable of the fifteen men given to him by Wu Yuanhua. Strauss went to the east to purchase companies and purchase machinery and supplies. Liang Yao needed a capable assistant around him.

He thought about it and finally chose the most capable one from the fifteen former Yihe Bank employees to stay with him.

Liang Yao flipped through the booklet called "Ghost Stories". The so-called ghost stories were the words of ghost men.

This book "Ghost Talk" is equivalent to a quick-start manual for spoken English in this era.

"Did you learn English from this booklet?" Liang Yao flipped through the book "Ghost Stories" in his hand, which basically contained some daily expressions, with annotations of Chinese characters with similar pronunciations next to them.

But when I read through to the back, there were some relatively complicated sentences, and the content was basically related to business, such as how to ask for the unit price of goods, and how to bargain.

"Mr. Hui, almost everyone on Shisanhang Street has a copy of "Ghost Stories". In addition to "Ghost Stories", there is also "Red Haired Ghost Stories". However, since I was born, most of the foreign businessmen who came to Guangzhou to do business were British businessmen, so they studied "Ghost Stories". "The most people." Hu Jinchen replied respectfully.

Compared with Strauss, Hu Jinchen did not have the confidence that Strauss had.

Although Strauss, Hu Jinchen and he all have an employer-employee relationship, Hu Jinchen's behavior seems more like Liang Yao's servant, and the relationship between the two is more like a master-servant.

Even when he spoke, Hu Jinchen was careful, for fear of making Liang Yao unhappy.

"How is the effect?" Liang Yao closed the book and asked.

"If you want to speak nonsense, that is, if you want to speak English like a foreigner like Mr., it is absolutely impossible to rely on this booklet. However, if you learn this booklet thoroughly, you can easily communicate with foreigners and do some simple business. .”

Hu Jinchen said very seriously.

"Foreigners speak many languages, but English is the simplest and easiest to learn among them."

"In that case, later you can send this brochure to the newspaper's printing house and hand it over to the newspaper for printing and distribution." Liang Yao said.

He does not want Chinese immigrants in California to live in their comfort zone forever, especially those Chinese businessmen who are aspiring to do business.

Given California's isolated geographical conditions, it is impossible to develop behind closed doors. He must use the power of the eastern United States to attract eastern factory owners and businessmen to build factories and do business in California.

You will inevitably have to deal with these white people from the east. If you want to deal with them, do business with them, and let them accept you, you must first learn their language.

In the same way, if the Chinese in California can form a large and powerful group in the future, those foreigners will naturally learn the Chinese language and get close to the Chinese.

This is only the first step. Liang Yao also wants these Chinese elites who got rich first to penetrate into the American political arena and protect their business.

American businessmen who are not involved in politics will sooner or later become fat in the eyes of other capital giants.

They want to eat you justifiably, it's just a matter of passing a few bills in Congress.

However, this path is long and difficult, and even Liang Yao himself has not yet entered the American political arena.

But he can start by changing California, one step at a time, in a down-to-earth manner.

"My husband's schools in Sacramento and San Francisco have been built. I wonder when he will find time to go over and cut the ribbon on the school buildings?" Hu Jinchen asked.

"The school has been built, but I can't find teachers who are proficient in Chinese and English now. I'll cut the ribbon after I find enough teachers," Liang Yao said.

The two schools in Sacramento and San Francisco are language schools established by Liang Yao.

There are now nearly a thousand Chinese children in California, and Liang Yao wants to select some smart children to enter language schools to learn English, and then send them to middle schools and universities in the east for further studies.

He hoped that the Chinese could have their own engineers, mechanics, bankers, navigators, doctors and other high-end talents to serve his future career.

There is no way to quickly acquire these talents. At present, they can only be cultivated through the relatively complete education system in the east.

Now, Liang Yao is facing a very embarrassing problem, that is, he can't find enough teachers.

The most suitable teachers for language schools are missionaries and nuns who have come to China to preach. These people themselves are quite knowledgeable and are proficient in Chinese studies.

Rong Hong, Huang Kuan, and Huang Sheng, the first Chinese students to study abroad, completed their language education and basic education at missionary schools in Xiangshan, and their teachers were priests and nuns who came to China to preach.

After the First Opium War, the quality of missionaries to China has declined compared to the missionaries during the Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong periods, but there is still no shortage of well-educated people.

After the Second Opium War, a large number of so-called missionaries came to China to "proselytize". To put it bluntly, many of them were foreign garbage who could not survive in their own countries and came to China to be lords, cheating, abducting, and causing trouble everywhere.

Liang Yao has written to missionary schools in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanghai, expressing his willingness to fully fund qualified students trained by missionary schools to further their studies in institutions of higher learning in the United States and even the United Kingdom.

He hopes to recruit some missionaries and nuns who are proficient in Sinology to teach in schools in California, but he has not yet received a reply from the church, priests and nuns.