In California, not only did a grain trade agreement be signed, but then several mineral resource agreements were signed, and many enterprises in Shandong jointly imported minerals from the West Coast of the United States at prices slightly below the market price. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yang Chao brought various enterprises in Shandong, and most of them were European companies, such as Alstom of France that needed copper ore, and Yantai Iron and Steel Plant that needed iron ore, and the shareholders of Yantai Steel Mill were even mainly Americans.

These people are willing to agree to travel with Yang Chao and jointly sign such a contract, not only to give Yang Chao face, such a large-scale trade purchase, can indeed take advantage of the negotiations, and take advantage of the US economic crisis, to obtain quite good concessions.

And this kind of collective form is that Yang Chao borrowed from the usual methods of the government of the Celestial Empire in later generations, pulled a large group of enterprises, and the government took the lead in going out.

Therefore, Yang Chao has always believed that the Celestial Empire is still quite clever in playing this hand, and the Americans are willing to follow Yang Chao's path, because Yang Chao came out, they feel that this is the official endorsement of China, and they are not afraid of those companies defaulting, which is probably the reason why Western governments and enterprises in later generations are willing to play with the Celestial Empire.

This novel approach is indeed very eye-catching, and major American newspapers have reported that the contract involving 20 million dollars is amazing enough, and it spreads all over the United States in an instant, and then spreads to the world.

And Yang Chao's trip this time is really going global, so other countries have speculated whether their country can also get such a large order of procurement, and there are really citizens of some countries who worry about the country and suffer from gains and losses.

After three days in California, the harvest was still great. Both public and private have gained a lot.

On business, of course, it refers to those trade orders; Privately, it is the spaceship that has been following Yang Chao to travel, and a large amount of gold has been fished out at the bottom of the sea. The amount reached a staggering two hundred tons!

Yang Chao didn't know that such an amazing golden ship could sink on the seabed off the coast of the United States.

Yang Chao came out this time, the airship flew in the sky, and the spaceship followed in the sea, the biggest purpose was actually to go to the Caribbean Sea to fish for gold, but it was limited to a land transmission distance of 1,000 kilometers. Yang Chao had to let the spacecraft be salvaged near the west coast of the United States, originally with an attitude that talking is better than nothing, who would have thought that there would be such a big gain.

Later, after thinking about it, I was relieved, isn't the reason why Francisco is called San Francisco because it used to produce money, Yang Chao chatted casually with the California government in the United States, and it became completely clear that he really underestimated this San Francisco.

Beginning in 1848, gold was discovered in California, and the California Gold Rush broke out. In a short period of time, 300,000 people from the United States and around the world came here to pan for gold, including Chinese.

It was this gold rush that started a wave of industrial development in the United States, because in just two decades, the amount of gold coins minted in the United States increased twenty-fold, and two-thirds of the gold came from California.

This is very similar to the industrial revolution in Europe, stimulated by gold and silver in the Americas, it is precisely because of such a huge amount of money injected into the economic system that the development of the western United States, the great economic development, and then the large-scale construction of railroads and so on, without the support of this gold. It's hard to imagine how sparsely populated Americans and lacking manpower everywhere can grow so fast.

According to statistics, before the railroad was built, the Americans mined more than a billion dollars of gold in California, such a huge amount of gold. But they all had to be taken by sea, and it is not surprising that some ships sank.

After three days of searching, from the coast of the United States all the way south to Panama, along the road of the American gold ship in those years, Yang Chao almost completely turned over the bottom of the sea, and then left California satisfied. Crossing the United States to Washington.

As the capital of Washington, D.C. naturally had a much more grand welcoming ceremony than California, and various foreign affairs activities were also more intensive, and it took 10 days for various reception activities alone.

Of course, it is indispensable to express dissatisfaction with the Chinese Exclusion Act with the US government.

For this reason, he made a speech in their Congress, and in front of all kinds of people, from wealthy businessmen to students, from politicians to ordinary people, Yang Chao waved his arms and was impassioned.

"For our country, which has a record of history three years ago, the United States is still very young, and the young are not presentable, like a child who has just learned to walk, in front of a gray-haired old man. Your attitude towards the Chinese can be understood as the disrespect of young children towards an old man. Maybe it's nothing in the United States, but it's the biggest offense in China.

The United States is very strong today, your country is very successful, and we are at a historical low. But once again, I am not humble to tell you that China will not sink like this forever. A great nation can always survive difficulties and be reborn from the fire. Believe me, give China thirty years and you won't recognize this country.

Therefore, I once again exhort the US government and the American people to respect a nation with a long history of civilization, that is, respect for history, and respect for human civilization, and only by learning this can the United States, a young country, truly become a great country and an influential country. ”

At the end of the speech, they all ended, and many international students applauded for a long time, their faces were very excited, they were members of the American Prosperity and Power Party, and they already had some admiration for Yang Chao, and it was too easy for Yang Chao to impress them with his eloquence exercised in the shopping mall.

But when some Americans walked out of Congress, they immediately showed a kind of disdain.

"Hahahaha, this Chinese guy really takes himself seriously. I really thought he was a big man, if it weren't for earning their money, who would have the time to come here and listen to his nonsense, and history? Still civilized? It's all shit! ”

A middle-aged man with blond hair who looked quite stylishly said.

Immediately, it attracted the conformity of friends, and they all laughed, loud and presumptuous.

But soon a discordant voice sounded: "He is right, if Americans do not learn to respect history and civilization, they will always be just a country that does not enter the stream, a country that will always be ridiculed by Europe!" ”

The man was dressed in a suit and glasses, and he looked like an intellectual, and he was indeed an intellectual, and he was a university professor, a college professor from the history department of the University of Washington, well, it seemed like an idealist.

Several businessmen glanced at the professor with disdain, sneered and left.

"Hey, this is America!"

The professor sighed and left.

The official reception in Washington is still good, and of course the results are in line with the scale of the reception, after all, this is in Washington, in the center of the United States.

More than 30 projects, the scene of signing together, the flickering light of the magnesium lights illuminated the scene into a piece of silver.

A new steel plant was established in Laiwu in a joint venture with the U.S. Steel Company, with a stake ratio of 64, with Yang Chao accounting for 60 percent and the United States accounting for 40 percent.

U.S. Steel is controlled by the Morgan consortium and is the world's largest company with a market capitalization of $1 billion, the first company in the world to exceed $1 billion, controlling more than half of the U.S. steel market.

Previously, Yang Chao cooperated with the American Iron and Steel Company to build the Yantai Iron and Steel Plant, and the shareholding ratio was 40% of the Morgan consortium, 30% of Rockefeller, and 30% of Yang Chao.

After the Yantai Iron and Steel Plant was put into operation, it happened to encounter a good opportunity such as the Russo-Japanese War, and the cost was recovered in the first year of construction, which is already a good story of investment in the United States. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, China soon clashed with Russia, and the steel mills still made a lot of money. Moreover, the main supplier of China's large-scale railway project is now the Yantai Iron and Steel Plant, which is another long-term business.

Later, China cooperated with the Americans to produce warships, introduced an American shipyard, and even expanded the second phase of the Yantai Iron and Steel Plant, because the previous production capacity was really saturated, and the Chinese market was so promising, it was logical to add new steel plants.

However, after the expansion of the second phase of Yantai Iron and Steel Plant, the annual output has reached 400,000 tons, and the scale of the newly cooperated Laiwu Iron and Steel Company is directly 400,000 tons, and there are 200,000 tons of expansion capacity, so that Shandong's steel production potential has reached one million tons, which is already the first steel industry in Asia, compared with the scale of 100,000 tons of the Japanese, it is ten times larger.

Does the Chinese market have such a large capacity?

If you look at the fact that even a small country like Belgium in Europe has a steel output of three to five million tons, there is no doubt that an economy as large as China can accommodate one million tons, which is not a trivial matter, and if the US steel company can't even make this assessment, there is no need for Morgan to control this company.

With a regular annual output of 400,000 tons and an investment of $7 million, it is easy to make headlines with such a huge investment in an economic crisis.

But this is only the beginning, and then a joint venture with Alcoa to build an aluminum plant with an annual output of 10,000 tons, with the rise of the airship industry, Zeppelin-Yang Chao airship company is obviously the world's most potential aluminum customer.

In this era, the aluminum industry has just emerged, is a sunrise industry, but limited to technical capabilities, and expensive prices, the expansion of the aluminum industry is very slow, even if the German aluminum industry is developing rapidly, but the combined aluminum output of Europe and the United States has just exceeded 90,000 tons.

Yang Chao's investment has directly increased the world's aluminum production by more than 10%, so the cost is still very large, and the investment of 10 million yuan immediately refreshed the investment in steel plants, and it is not surprising that it is not surprising that it is in the headlines.

Then there is the contract for the automotive industry, which is a small investment, but it is worth reporting because the content of the cooperation is relatively special. (To be continued.) )