With the completion of the Caidi Bridge, the last track on the entire railway was laid, which lasted 11 months, and the first railway of more than 200 kilometers in Daming was completed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because the construction party is a British construction company, and it is the first railway built in China, the British newspapers pay more attention, and the construction company has praised the work ability of Chinese workers in interviews with several newspapers.

The British may have only used the railroad as a modernization project for the great British Empire at a time to help a backward ancient country in the East, but for those engineers who lacked good labor and were delayed, excellent Chinese workers had become a key force that they were increasingly eager to introduce.

The U.S. Pacific Railroad, as in history, encountered great difficulties in the construction process, and unlike in history, when they encountered difficulties, there were not enough Chinese workers to help them solve this difficulty.

Historically, when the Americans encountered the greatest difficulties in building railroads and were short of labor, they introduced the first batch of Chinese laborers in 1866, and in this history, the Ming government began to implement a policy against the coolie trade in 1866, and the concept was corresponded by President Lincoln, who won world fame for opposing slavery.

In the original history, after discovering that a small number of Chinese workers performed well on the railroad in this year, the Central Pacific Railroad Company sent these Chinese workers back to China to recruit more Chinese workers, and in this history, these Chinese workers returned to their hometowns to recruit their fellow villagers, but they were quickly arrested and thrown into prison by the government as coolie traffickers.

In the original history, in 1869, the construction site of the Pacific Railway Company, there were more than 10,000 Chinese laborers in construction, accounting for ninety percent of the total number of laborers, it can be said that except for a small number of skilled workers, basically all Chinese laborers, in this history, in 1869, the Ming Labor Export Company and the Pacific Railway Company Bo Gongtang for a year, the last Chinese construction team of 50 people, was used as a rescue coolie, sent on the ship back to China.

In 1869, the 689-mile western section of the Taiping Railroad was completed, a history that had not yet crossed the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, with less than 40 miles of track laying and several of the most important tunnels and bridges in a state of stoppage.

It can be said that it should be the opposition of the Daming Labor Export Company that the American Taiping Railway was not only not completed, but probably never completed, because the Central Pacific Railroad Company, which built the western section, had a huge financial deficit and was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Their last hope was to bring in a large number of Chinese workers, and after securing the last money from the government, they set off for China, where they followed a government diplomatic team to persuade the Ming government to support them in building the railroad and allowing them to work on it.

If they could not convince the Ming government, their backup plan was to go north and recruit Chinese workers in northern China in the territories controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing court.

At the beginning of March '69, not long after the Chinese New Year, when the couplets posted on the doors of the common people were still fresh, their ship set foot on the land of Guangzhou, and then submitted their credentials to the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty as quickly as possible.

This is not a negotiation, but a request, asking the Ming government to allow Chinese workers to go to the United States to build the railway, and what they have to do is to explain to the Ming Ministry of Rites the danger of building the railway, which is not as big as the Ming Labor Company thinks, and the construction of the railway, like other buildings, has this unpredictable risk, but it is definitely not as serious as the report issued by the Ming Labor Company, which is greater than the war casualty rate.

The governor of the Pacific Railroad believes that whether or not they can successfully persuade the Ming government will be the key to the survival of the company.

The importance of Chinese workers is not how good the skills of Chinese workers are, but their ability to endure hardships, and the western section of the Taiping Railway Company is the most difficult project in the world.

The gold rush that broke out in the 40s brought a large number of Chinese laborers into the United States, and gave the western port of the United States the name of San Francisco. By the time the 20-year wave of immigration was asked to build the railroad by Amtrak, there were already 50,000 Chinese laborers living in the San Francisco area.

So Americans didn't need to come to China to find workers.

But the Chinese workers in the United States are very aware of the sinister nature of the Rocky Mountains, and they have been here for many years, and most of them have found jobs in other industries, or panning for gold in gold mines, or opening restaurants in the city, opening laundries, or working as carpenters, blacksmiths, and masons, these jobs are very lucrative, and the local labor force is in short supply, and they can earn about half a tael of silver every day, and the rich income, coupled with their saving habits, makes most of the Chinese workers not in a state of hunger and cold, So very few people would be willing to risk a dollar a day paid by a railroad company to build a railroad in the mountains.

American railroads didn't like Chinese workers at first, especially Stanford, the founder of the Central Pacific Railroad, who was the governor of California and promised white Irish voters during his campaign that he would drive the Chinese back to China, so he couldn't choose to hire them.

The first time the Chinese were hired was in 1864, when dozens of Chinese were responsible for the construction of an auxiliary carriageway, which was quickly completed and no one cared. The second time, the following year, Judge Charles Crowker of California, one of the major shareholders of the Taiping Railroad, recommended that 50 Chinese laborers, all Hakka people, impress Americans with their ability to build railroads in the mountains where labor is scarce.

At the same time, the Irish laborers, because of their hard work, had just recruited hundreds of workers who had come to San Francisco by ship, and when he had a considerable number of old workers secretly went to pan for gold. In addition, there was alcoholism, fights after drinking, and constant demands for higher wages, and the threat of putting on work when they were not satisfied, which not only made the board of directors exhausted, but also seriously affected the progress of the railway construction.

For the Central Pacific Railroad, the speed of construction is a matter of life and death. Because although they received strong support from Lincoln's federal government, the promoter Stanford also announced through his power in California that the California government would give the railroad a large subsidy of more than $10 million, and at the same time persuaded neighboring states such as Oregon to provide subsidies ranging from more than $5 million.

But a big problem is that these state governments have no money, and the subsidy they give is converted land, more than 120 meters of land on both sides of the railway is given away for free, and 32 kilometers of land on both sides of the railway are transferred to the railway company at a low price. The federal government supported the railroad to use the land as collateral to lend to the federal government and allowed the railroad to issue $50 million in bonds.

It can be said that the Taiping Railway in the United States was built entirely by private individuals under government subsidies, and this means of transforming public assets into private capital is even more crazy and disorderly than the monopoly oligarchy after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

One of the people who has benefited the most is none other than California Governor Stanford.

If purely from a personal point of view, this person is not only a successful person, but also may be evaluated as a great figure in human history, but if only from the perspective of Chinese, this person is definitely a bastard.

He started out in the port, mine, and transportation industries, became a wealthy man in the west, and then formed a railway company and became a wealthy man. At the same time, he donated a large amount of wealth to build Stanford University, and this university's contribution to mankind is very significant. But this person is anti-Chinese, and the fate of the Chinese is in his hands, and it has only begun to become bad, so for the Chinese, this is a big bastard.

In this part of California, the Chinese must have arrived later than the whites, but when the Chinese arrived, there were few whites in this place, and the gold rush made both whites and Chinese pour here, but to get from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, it was necessary to take a boat around the whole of the Americas, which lasted seven months, and the difficult journey made only the poorest Americans willing to immigrate here, so often only those Irish who fled to the United States because of the Irish famine were willing to come.

Of course, the Taiping Rebellion broke the order of Chinese society, and also made a large number of Chinese workers choose here, at the beginning the local government of California was very welcoming to Chinese workers, or they welcomed any form of labor, and the mayor of Sacramento personally greeted it, when California was not a state, and the mayor was already the biggest politician. He welcomed the Chinese workers and made a public speech, imagining a future when the Chinese, like the white people, would vote for American officials.

But with the influx of Irish boatloads, as early as the 50s, the relationship between the Irish and the Chinese became bad, mainly because the Irish thought that the Chinese had taken away their jobs, the Chinese accepted lower wages, so that their wages could not grow, and the Chinese could dig gold nuggets from their abandoned mines, making them jealous.

In short, this is the most pitiful and pathetic competition between two disadvantaged groups, and the competition between sheep and sheep is always fiercer than the competition between wolves and wolves, because when wolves do not catch sheep, they can catch rabbits, catch foxes, and even devour each other, while sheep can only eat grass, and whoever loses the pasture will starve to death.

The Irish have a great advantage, they are more willing to give up their nationality, to the American flag to declare to join the United States, to become an American, to be an American means that they have a vote, while the Chinese are unwilling to give up their nationality, firmly want to return to the place where their ancestral ancestral hall is located, so they are unwilling to give up their household registration, as a result they have no votes in their hands.

This disadvantage slowly accumulated, and when the votes in the hands of Irish immigrants were large enough to decide the governorship, the government began to show a tendency to defend the interests of the Irish and began to restrict the Chinese.

But at this time, no one knows how to introduce substantive policies, so often the so-called crackdowns are just slogans used by politicians to fool voters.

Stanford became the first governor in 1861 after California was upgraded to a full-fledged state in the United States, and he made a number of promises to voters, including a promise to the Irish to drive the Chinese back.

But after he came to power, of course, it was impossible to drive out the Chinese, but if he used Chinese workers on the Taiping Railway and took away the jobs of Irish workers, he still did not dare to do it, so at first the railway was mainly Irish.

But the Irish lost the job with their idleness, so the railroad company began to hire Chinese laborers, and the number continued to increase, and by 1866 they had employed more than 1,000 Chinese laborers, mainly local Chinese. But they wanted more, they sent foremen back to China to recruit fellow villagers, but at this time they encountered the Ming Dynasty to crack down on the coolie trade, and many foremen were arrested as piglets, and they are still in prison.

However, at this time, the Ming government was only cracking down on the coolie trade at home, and it had not yet begun in the United States, but the California government showed hostility to the Ming labor company, which made the labor company start to oppose the governor's railroad company.

The biggest reason is that labor companies have bought large tracts of land outside Sacramento, the capital of California, and developed these lands, which have made too many powerful people jealous, and they have passed legislation stipulating that Chinese and Chinese companies cannot own land in the United States, and require that the property they already own be sold to Americans within a time limit, otherwise they will pay excessive property taxes, and they try to force Daming Labor Company to sell these land to them at a low price.

As a result, the California government offended a giant, not only because the Daming Labor Service Company is a non-profit organization directly under the Daming Foreign Affairs Department, not only because it is the only institution authorized by the government to export and manage Chinese workers, but the most important thing is that this company is directly responsible for Wu Chongyao, and there is Zhu Jinglun standing behind him, whether it is Wu Chongyao or Zhu Jinglun, it is not easy to mess with.

It can even be said that it is not in this embryonic period, and the chaotic California government can shake it.