There are many Chinese miners in California, and the vast majority of these miners are a group of people who have escaped from the management of the Daming Labor Export Company and the protection of the Daming Consulate. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The labor export company imported 100,000 immigrants into California, and the number of men and women was equal because they were all organized to immigrate from the family unit.

Most of these immigrants work in California as expatriates, and the labor export companies do not encourage them to become U.S. citizens, so these people have no desire to become U.S. citizens.

Chinese coming to California are not only these immigrants, there will always be some laborers who enter California through various means.

Because such a large immigrant population, such a vast California, and such a large number of benefits, it is impossible to stop the greedy hearts of those who want to get rich.

The Ming Dynasty vigorously cracked down on the coolie trade, but it could not crack down on free immigration based on personal will, so more or less some people came to the United States as individuals.

For example, some people have heard that they have made a fortune in California, and then come here with the dream of making a fortune, there are a large number of adventurers in the West, and there are many gamblers in China.

Some of them were workers who had come to the United States during the gold rush and who did not return home during the crackdown on the coolie trade, but remained in the United States as free laborers.

There were even some who came to the United States from Mexico, Cuba, and Peru in the south, and there was no smuggling at a time when there were no walls on the borders.

Some came to the United States from Canada, some came to the United States from Alaska, and the Ming exiled tens of thousands of criminals to Alaska, and when these people arrived in the vast Alaska, there were always people who tried to escape, and the destination was nothing more than Canada or the United States.

However, there are some people who came to the United States from the Manchu Qing ruling areas in the north, and Tianjin and Tangshan are now important ports for Chinese workers to go to sea, and a large number of poor people in the north have either been deceived by others, or they have joined relatives and friends, and have come to the United States on American ships, these people are not under the control of the Ming Dynasty, their whereabouts are difficult to control, and it is impossible for the Ming Navy to check whether there are coolies on every ship bound for the United States.

Therefore, a large number of Chinese workers from Hebei and Shandong in the north also came to the United States.

These Chinese laborers, who are no longer under the management of labor export companies, are mainly distributed in the mining industry in the United States, but the Ming government has acquiesced to this status quo, and the Ming government hopes to promote normal, legal immigration, transfer the surplus population out of the country, and earn good returns from California, but there is no need to crack down on these free laborers, there is no need to prevent them from making money in the United States, and then remitting them back home.

However, with the entry of these free laborers into the United States in large numbers, a large number of American mining capitalists also like to hire these people, the first is that these Chinese workers are obedient, work very hard, and can tolerate overtime, and the other is that even if these people die, no one will trouble them, because it is obviously impossible for these people's families in China to come to the United States to find people, and this group of people is not within the jurisdiction of the Ming Consulate, as for the Qing Consulate, there is not a single one in the whole United States.

In this case, a large number of American capitalists do not even have to buy insurance for Chinese workers, these people die, they are buried on the spot, and they have nothing to lose.

However, because the mining capitalists in California are more and more fond of hiring free Chinese workers, more and more Chinese miners have appeared in the American industrial and mining industries, and the White Workers' Party, mainly composed of Irish, hates these Chinese workers, because in the process of fighting for the interests of the workers, these Chinese workers have never refused to cooperate, and when the white people go on strike, these Chinese will take the opportunity to take away the jobs of the white people, and even when the union negotiates with the capitalists, the capitalists will threaten to hire Chinese workers, so that the white trade union is very passive.

As for the American elite, except for a few racists, most capitalists like Chinese workers who don't like to make trouble.

For these complex reasons, the number of free Chinese workers in California has reached more than 50,000, of which half are northerners and half southerners, half with braids and half without braids, and the vast majority of these people are bachelors.

The more Chinese there are, the more competition there is with the white lower class workers, and the more white people hate the Chinese, and the more conflicts there become. In recent years, struggles against the Chinese have occurred from time to time.

In 1862, eighty-eight Chinese were killed in Yuba County, California; In 1871, the massacre of Chinese in Los Angeles' Chinatown (Chinatown) was carried out, and there were countless other scattered criminal cases.

Daming has negotiated with the U.S. government many times because of this kind of racial vendetta, but the U.S. federal government can't manage it, and the government doesn't dare to manage it.

More and more free Chinese workers are being harmed, and it is impossible for the Ming Consulate to ignore it, but it can't do it. After analysis, the main attacks on Chinese workers occurred in the mining industry, the mines belong to the wilderness, there is no strict judicial system to protect them, the mine owners and foremen are lawless pioneers in the west, there are so many people who know, and those who do not know how many Chinese workers have been victimized.

In fact, the solution is to let the Chinese workers not go to work in the mines, even if they earn less, and work in agricultural areas, especially in agricultural areas where Chinese people live, and work in Chinese communities, which is much safer.

Therefore, the consulate has been trying to do this work in the past few years, hoping to fix these free Chinese laborers in places that can be controlled by the labor export company, but their efforts have not been smooth, because the wages in the mining industry are too high, and a strong worker can earn two dollars a day, while the Chinese laborers working on the land cannot even earn a dollar a day, and can only get 70 to 80 cents, which is equivalent to about half a tael of silver.

In this case, if California were to legislate to ban Chinese workers from entering the dangerous and lucrative mining industry, it would be helping labor-exporting companies protect them.

Crowker, who has been working for labor export companies for three years, is well aware of the employer's mentality, so he believes that Stanford's push for such a bill that would satisfy white miners is actually helping the Chinese in disguise.

But Stanford also understands that now it depends on how he chooses, if he really thinks of being against the Chinese as his ideal, then he will naturally not promote such a bill, if he only makes prestige for himself and makes political achievements, then banning Chinese workers from entering the mining industry can meet all his requirements.

Crocker quickly got the answer, because he received the news that Stanford had recently begun to agitate for a ban on Chinese workers from entering the mining industry, the largest industry in California, so that they would not compete with white miners for jobs, and Stanford's attitude and views were very much in line with the tastes of white interest groups, and all kinds of white groups, racist and worker-like, strongly supported Stanford's views, so a new bill was quickly passed in February 1866.

At the same time, Stanford also completed negotiations with the labor export company, and the two sides reached a cooperation agreement. Stanford will buy a 21 percent stake in Pacific Railroad, which will allow it to take a controlling stake in the railroad company alongside the stake held by the labor export company.

However, the acquisition of shares in the railway company requires a huge amount of capital, although Stanford is extremely rich, but he can't come up with so much money, his mines, land add up to more than one million dollars, but he can't all press them all, and the acquisition of these stocks, the need is not only one or two million, but nearly ten million dollars.

One of Stanford's requests for cooperation was that the Daming Labor Export Company lend him the money. The labor exporting company was willing to lend money, but a dispute arose between the two parties over the way to repay the loan. The labor company hopes that within three years of the railway's completion, Stanford will be able to repay the loan. Stanford, for his part, wants to be able to repay it over 30 years with his dividends at the railroad. He clearly didn't want to take any risks.

In the end, a compromise was reached, and Stanford proposed to repay the loan in the form of land along the railway within three years of the completion of the railway. Although the land along the railway line will belong to the railway company in the future, the completion of the railway will make this land extremely valuable. But if he dares to propose this plan to replace Stanford's most valued cash with the land that the Chinese love, it is clear that Stanford has the ability to convert these lands from the assets of the railway company at a low price to his personal assets, and then resell them to labor companies at a high price. As for what Stanford will do, as long as he can become the president of the railroad company, he has a hundred ways to complete this trick of stealing beams and changing pillars.

At the shareholders' meeting, unlike Stanford, which appears as an individual majority shareholder, the labor company does not appear in the name of the company, but by agents, most of whom are bankers from New York, who complete the acquisition of the Pacific Railroad through their hands, and also let them act as agents for the power of those shares, which is how the British played.

Unlike the British, the British, who were so relieved that they were frightened by railroad speculation, were willing to trust the reputable aristocratic bankers, such as Morgan, who were reputable bankers to act as their agents for the railroad companies in which they held large shares, and then dared to invest in them.

Labor companies did this because they were worried that the acquisition of a railroad of great significance to the United States by a Chinese company would arouse racism in the United States, and the labor companies, which had been exhausted by Chinese exclusion, were now behaving cautiously in the United States.

The agents of these labor companies, of course, support Stanford to become the president of the company, and with Stanford's own shares, they can have a say.

So at the March shareholder meeting, the management of the Union Pacific Railroad experienced a coup d'état, and the California tycoon, the former president of the Central Pacific Railroad, completed the restoration with the support of a large number of bankers and became the new president of the railroad.

He then replaced most of the railroad's greedy management with his old division from his time at the Central Pacific Railroad, and renamed the Union Pacific Railroad as the Central Pacific Railroad, thus completing his restoration of the Pacific Railroad.

Within a month, Stanford had hired 20,000 Chinese workers who had just lost their jobs from the mines.

At the end of April, Stanford, on behalf of the Central Pacific Railroad, announced that it would restart construction of the railway, which had been stalled for three years, and that it would open tunnels and complete docking almost within two years.

But even such a big news didn't make the Pacific Railroad stock rebound, because everyone is really tired of this kind of false news from large companies, and in this depression era, how many railroad companies are repairing and stopping, and in the end, they are all making no progress.

At the same time, on the territory of China, there are also two railways, which suddenly announced the start of construction.

And these two railways are advertised as life-saving roads, because in northern China, a famine suddenly broke out in this spring, and the famine spread to most of the northern regions, from Shandong and Hebei to Shaanxi and Gansu, and the most serious are Shanxi and Henan, and these two railways are from Hebei and Shandong, where the famine is most serious, to Shanxi and Henan, which can not only provide a chance for countless hungry people to make a living, but also bring life-saving food to the disaster area.

These two railways are the Qinhuangdao-Datong Railway and the Qingdao-Zhengzhou Railway obtained by Daming as early as ten years ago.