Mr. Wu presided over the Daming Labor Company and purchased large amounts of land assets in California, although most of them were wasteland, and it was wasteland that local whites felt had no development value, or that required huge investments to produce benefits. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wu Chongyao held in his hands the $100 million capital that Zhu Jinglun had earned from speculation in the United States, and there was no difficulty in acquiring these lands, not to mention that the local government did not value the value of the land at all, and sold it casually for a little money.

As a result, in just two years, the labor export company has occupied 2 million acres of land in the local area, mainly in the suburbs of Sacramento, where the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers converge to form a delta.

In later generations, this delta was the most agriculturally developed region in California and had the most fertile arable land. But in this era, not only is this land uncultivateable, but it is also a wild land for the California government.

The delta where two major rivers meet, with direct access to the sea through San Francisco Bay by river, has long been a hub for trade, where grain, vegetables and fruits are traded.

However, the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, which bring convenient water transportation conditions to the delta every spring, receive a large amount of alpine snow water from the Rocky Mountains, and the volume of water increases dramatically, not only flooding a large number of sandbanks in the delta area, but also inundating a large amount of land along the coast, and even threatening the danger of Sacramento cities.

When the labor export company said it would buy the land, which was flooded regularly every year, and even swamped in many areas, explaining that the purpose was to build embankments and then reclaim the land for agriculture, the government decided that if the Chinese were willing to build embankments, they would provide great protection for the city.

In addition, the population was limited at that time, the labor cost was expensive, and the land price was low, so everyone did not pay attention to it, so it was approved.

But when they saw that the labor export companies were actually building embankments that were hundreds of kilometers long, and the land that was regularly silted by the rivers every year was so fertile, some people were tempted.

In this era, the American West is still synonymous with barbarism and disorder, no law, any human rights, there is only an empty shelf, where Indians are everywhere, people are dying on the streets every day, talking about what kind of order, only their own strength can protect themselves.

At this time, the California government was controlled by rich people like Stanford, and it can be said that they are big players in doing business with the government, and it can even be said that the government is part of their business in the first place.

Don't think of these people as great statesmen, they don't have the idealism of Lincoln, they don't have the gentlemanly morals and demeanor that Lincoln represents.

Stanford University is very famous, Stanfu University, is doing a great cause, but he can't wash away his bastard nature just because he has done a great thing, human history is so ridiculous, there are many great causes, all of which are promoted by bastards, once you want to name these bastards great, then you can only call them great bastards.

Stanford, this kind of bastard, is absolutely unscrupulous, and the American politician who wants to build a large railroad across the United States was Lincoln at the earliest, Lincoln sent a representative to the west to investigate, and the representative chose a route, and after thinking that it was feasible, Stanford immediately stood up and jointly established the Central Pacific Railway Company with the giants in California, squeezing out Lincoln's advisers.

Then, in order to prove their determination and ability to build the railroad, on the one hand, he subsidized the railroad through the California government, and on the other hand, he put his huge wealth into it, and proved his determination in this way, and went to Washington to lobby that Lincoln was the president who wanted to build the railroad to connect the United States as a whole, and did not care about Stanford's exclusion of his people, so not only did not oppose it, but strongly supported it.

If Stanford did not use the power of the government in the process of squeezing out Lincoln's representatives, Americans would not believe it.

How can such a person, who can even be excluded by the president's representative for the sake of his own personal interests, not be moved when he looks at the millions of acres of fertile land reclaimed by a Chinese company?

But Lincoln thinks he is a gentleman, and the so-called gentleman can bully him, but Zhu Jinglun is not so easy to bully.

But the other party is a politician who controls the local politics, and they have the final say on the local laws and politics, and these people are all local snakes, and it is not so easy to fight this local snake.

Since the other side has passed a law prohibiting Chinese companies from owning land assets, it is impossible to prohibit American companies from owning assets, and it is impossible to prohibit local companies from owning assets.

Wu Chongyao asked his righteous brother to come forward, register a company in the local area, and then transfer all the land of the labor company to this company, and then the person in charge and the person who does the work remain the same, it is just a legal procedure.

However, the matter did not end so easily, and the California government began various investigations, believing that Daming Company and Forbes Company had black-box operations in land transactions.

The long investigation, arguing and litigation between the two sides have not yet ended, and the feng shui has taken turns, and Daming Company has begun to crack down on the employment problem of the Central Taiping Railway Company.

The Lincoln administration recognized the Ming Dynasty's restriction of the coolie trade, which was not just a verbal promise, and the Ming soon signed a treaty with the United States Federation, promising several American companies to open tea plantations in the Ming Dynasty.

Many people don't know that international treaties are more binding than domestic laws, which means that California laws must also comply with international treaties. Of course, there is a difference in implementation, and large countries like the United States and China, they cannot change the constitution for the sake of international treaties, but ordinary laws can be amended. And a small country like Singapore, I am afraid that in order to adapt to international treaties, the constitution will be amended, unless they do not want to join the international system.

So at least in the matter of coolie trade, the California government will still implement the treaty, especially the Lincoln government has greatly increased the power of the Union through the Civil War, and California has built a railroad and relies heavily on the federal government, so they dare not overturn the federal treaty.

At this time, the vast majority of Chinese laborers in the United States passed through coolie trade, otherwise how would the Chinese know that there was an America, and it was brought by the American companies themselves, and a large part of the results of the efforts of these Chinese laborers were collected by these companies as shipping fares.

As a result, as soon as the Central Pacific Railway was about to expand the recruitment of Chinese laborers, the labor company came to the door and informed the railway company that the Chinese laborers they hired were all sold from the coolie trade, and according to the treaty with the United States, the railway company demanded that the railway company immediately hand over these Chinese laborers to the labor export company, and the company would come forward to rescue them and return to China.

Stanford didn't know that this was an act of revenge by the Ming company, but he underestimated the power of the company. Any company with $100 million has irresistible power, but Stanford doesn't know it.

At first, he felt that the company was beyond its means, and did not accept the transfer of Chinese workers at all, and also increased its efforts to recruit Chinese workers in California, raised wages, and really attracted a group of people.

Labor companies are constantly fighting lawsuits, fighting and losing in California, it doesn't matter, the purpose is to go through a process, to appeal to the federal court.

No one could have imagined that an unfortunate situation had arisen when the railroad company's work had reached its most critical stage, and the construction of the most dangerous and difficult passage to the Sierra Ridge had begun.

Dubbed the project's greatest challenge, the passage required overcoming a granite wall in the Rocky Mountains on the steep Sierra Ridge known as Cape Horn, a vertically smooth cliff with a depth of 304.8 meters.

It is really not easy to carve out a passage to accommodate the width of the railway's double track on such a cliff. In any case, Ireland was unwilling to do this kind of work, only Chinese workers were willing to tie themselves to hanging baskets, hang them down from the top of the hill with ropes, dig into the wall in mid-air to fill the gunpowder, light the fire, and then pull it up, where the rock was so hard that the gunpowder often burst out of the cannon hole and killed people.

And Chinese workers are uninsured, and if they die, they will die in vain.

Later records showed that during the construction of the 100-mile railway in the Sierra Range, the death rate of Chinese laborers was as high as 10 percent.

But a casualty higher than this appeared, a huge tragedy, this winter, during the construction of the Sierra Ridge tunnel, there was an avalanche, 1,000 Chinese workers were buried by the wind and snow, and the total number of Chinese workers at that time was only 3,000, the labor company immediately became angry, this time directly sued the railway company for murder, thinking that they used workers to do dangerous work without absolute safety measures, which is complete murder.

The railroad company did not admit it, and they won the lawsuit again, apparently they have a lot of influence in the United States.

But it doesn't matter, you can't sue the railroad company, one by one the engineers of the railroad company are sued, one by one the engineers of the emergency construction are summoned to court for endless arguments, these engineers are accused of not taking reasonable measures, resulting in a large number of worker casualties, and they are responsible. Or accused of illegally engaging in construction work without a qualified level, and few of the engineers hired by the railroad companies in the west, regardless of their skills, really had a legal license, and one of the engineers was actually arrested and put in prison.

Engineers resigned en masse after seeing that they were working for the railroad company and could go to jail.

At this time, Stanford still refused to admit defeat, the big deal was that he didn't need Chinese workers, one by one Chinese workers were dismissed, some of them were homesick, the labor company arranged for them to go home, and some still wanted to keep to earn money, and the labor company hired them to work on the farm.

The railroad companies that can start employing Irish people not only pay double the salary, but also can't get the work done on time, the railroad companies are financed by mortgaging the land and issuing bonds, and they can only get the nearby land if they build a railroad long enough, and they can get a mortgage, and as for the bonds, the federal government has introduced a bill to support them, and for every mile of railroad built, they can issue bonds of about 50,000 dollars, but you have to be able to build the railroad.

The delay in construction immediately affected the railroad company's finances, and they had to turn to the federal government again and again.

At the same time, they wanted to cut costs, but instead of accepting lower wages, the Irish demanded a significant increase in wages, citing the difficult working conditions in the mountains. If you don't agree, you will put on the job.

They tried to disband the old workers and hire hillbillies who had just come from Ireland and didn't understand anything.

But at this time, the labor company advertised in various newspapers, describing the damage caused by the avalanche, telling everyone that using gunpowder on the snow-capped mountains is simply looking for death, and gunpowder cannot be used, but can only be dug by hand. The Irish believed, and they refused to use gunpowder.

The less disciplined Irish kept the work on hold all day, dragging it out, and from 1867 they largely stopped work in the first half of the year, and in the second half they received new funding to begin the work.

At this time, the Central Taiping Railway Company not only competed with the Daming Labor Company, but also faced the Union Pacific Company, which built the railway from the east to the west.

It can be said that whoever builds the railway is long, who gets more land from both sides of the railway, who repairs it quickly, who gets more subsidies, the construction period is already late, in order to catch up with the construction period, the railway company asked the workers to work in the winter, as a result, a snowstorm broke out, and thousands of Irish workers were all buried alive. Later, it was learned that starting in 1867, the Rocky Mountains ushered in a two-year blizzard season, and in some places the snow was more than 4 meters thick, making it too prone to avalanches.

The disaster completely delayed the construction of the second half of the year, and in the spring of the following year, they suddenly discovered that no matter how high the price they paid, they could not hire more than 1,000 workers.

Stanford is a governor, he doesn't have to look at Daming's face, but he is also a capitalist, and he has invested too much money in the Central Pacific Railroad, so it can be said that if this road cannot be completed, then he will also go bankrupt, and he will have to bear a huge debt.

At this time, Stanford suddenly changed his attitude and called for more Chinese workers to be brought in for the future of California.

When questioned, Stanford also vowed that "the Chinese are the people who built the Great Wall, they are the best stonemasons in the world, and the granite of the Rocky Mountains can only be conquered." ”

Feelings, this great bastard also knows that the Chinese have an excellent side.

At the time of these remarks, Stanford had already decided to settle with the Daming Labor Company, and privately agreed that neither party would file legal proceedings against the other party, but his request to sign an agreement with the Daming Labor Company and introduce 10,000 Chinese workers was rejected by the labor company.

In this war of giants, the western bastard capitalists represented by Stanford lost, the construction of the Taiping Railway was greatly delayed, and the railway company was on the verge of bankruptcy.

The Daming Labor Company, which paid millions of dollars for legal proceedings but lost most of the lawsuits, also lost and shipped back more than 20,000 Chinese laborers, some of whom were immigrants who had gradually taken root.

There are no winners in this war.

Stanford clearly realized this, he would not get along with money, not to mention that he was about to go bankrupt, so he decided to sincerely reconcile with Daming, for this reason, he didn't care about the interests of those Irish, who cares about those fools, it's a big deal, Lao Tzu won't do it.

He believes that if he can promise to promote some Chinese-friendly policies, or even just say some good things, the Ming government should be willing to reconcile with him, after all, no one will have trouble with money.

But he forgot that he was not facing another great bastard, he was facing the regime of an Eastern country that valued face more than anything else.