Chapter 13: Orange County Farmstead
After giving out bonuses to everyone, after a few days of rest in New York, Guo Yu led his team to set off again. This time, I first arrived in the city of San Francisco, purchased 60,000 acres of land in the town of Quekerke, 55 kilometers southwest of San Francisco, and then set off to purchase 220,000 acres of land in Orange County, Los Angeles.
San Francisco and Los Angeles in California are places where Chinese are concentrated, and in later generations, California was the first agricultural state in the United States.
The first stop for Chinese people arriving in the United States is usually San Francisco, which is close to the port, which is very convenient for Guo Yu's future operation, and there are many Chinese here, which is also conducive to him recruiting people and expanding his team, and he does not have to bring everyone from China.
Quakerke's land, Guo Yu did not let the drilling team enter, because he knew that there was no oil there, Quakerk Guo Yu planned to use it as a farm and transit station, which is only 55 kilometers away from the port of San Francisco, the second largest port in the United States, and the bulk materials entering and leaving the United States in the future need to be collected and distributed here.
He brought the well-drilling team directly to Orange County and had geologists survey their land. At the same time, Guo Yu was also anxious about his team and began to implement the next plan.
"Al, I'm going to build my own estate in Orange County, I have the possibility to live here, I'm going to build my own villa, I want to develop this place into an agricultural plantation in the future, specializing in growing wheat and corn, and Quekelke's estate is used as a plantation and a material transfer station, you start to gather people now, plan these two locations, I want to recruit Chinese into the plantation, remember that I only want Chinese."
"You can find someone to design the villa, and after I am optimistic, you can start construction, and now you can recruit a large number of subordinates, as long as you feel that you can use it, now I give you this right."
"Hader, you hand over the management of the well drilling team to the vice-captain Pete, you will be in charge of managing all the plantation staff, I need to militarize the management, you can train them as if they were the German Army."
"Erzhu and Li Meng, you will set up your own security team in the future, select useful personnel from the Chinese employees, and arm them, and Harder will train the security team as a professional soldier."
At the same time as the construction of the manor, Brown established a "Huafu School", similar to the model of the training center, to carry out cultural education for all employees, Hu Yunyuan, Xiaoni, Lisa will join in, together to complete this thing, I will give you the study books, Chinese, mathematics, geography, history, Huafutang doctrine and other courses, we have to cultivate their own talents. ”
"That's all for now, you can split up, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Remember, both of our estates are called 'Huafu Manor'. ”
Huafu Manor has entered a vigorous construction, these Guo Yu don't care too much, because several of his subordinates can do a good job, Guo Yu checked his merit points, now it is more than 1.3 million, and it should be able to upgrade one, but Guo Yu is not in a hurry.
The main reason is that the points reminded him of a group of people in the Republic of China, it has been more than three months, it seems that they have done a good job recently, and the growth rate of their points has improved significantly, so they should be concerned. I took two bodyguards to the telegraph office to send a telegram, asked about the situation in the country, and informed me of my current address, so that I could contact him often in the future.
Two days later, he received a telegram from China, and Dazhu reported the situation at home. Huafu Association has now opened 17 branch churches in North China, and has already made a name for itself in North China, because it has the official name of the Charity Federation, and the local governments have not made it too difficult, and each branch has also set up its own security team, with a total number of more than 2,000 people, but for fear of arousing the government's disgust, they are not equipped with guns.
More than 3,000 orphans have been recruited, and they are all studying according to Guo Yu's instructions, and the results are very good, and now there are more than 1,000 people who can use them.
Chen Yougong is in charge of the antique jade trade, and now it is very stable, and he has acquired a lot of antiques, but there is no way to send them to Guo Yu for the time being. The general meaning of Dazhu's telegram is that he is safe and sound now, and he is acting according to Guo Yu's arrangement.
Guo Yu felt very relieved to see the telegram, his roots are in China, and his philanthropy must always go back to develop, and the cause there cannot be lost. Decades of great changes, the 50 million people who died, the calamitous Republic of China China needs someone to soothe his wounds, although he is not a god, but he can make his own efforts, isn't it.
After more than a month of construction, dormitories capable of accommodating 5,000 people were built on each farm, and more will be built as needed. Guo Yu's villa has been completed with the main building, and it will take some time for future decoration.
Al has already recruited more than 3,000 workers among the Chinese, and now they are organizing together to organize the construction of the estate, although the climate in California is good, but this year's planting season has passed, and it will be necessary to wait until the beginning of spring next year.
Guo Yu sent a telegram to China, asking Dazhu to organize 3,000 people to charter a boat to send the personnel of the "Huafu Association" to San Francisco, and then to the farm, these people will be employees of the plantation in the future, and they will also be the first batch of personnel to develop their careers in the future.
At this time, the exploration team in Orange County also came with good news, they found an oil well, the oil well seems to have a large reserve, the second oil well is being drilled, and the probability of oil production is also very high, it seems that they can contact Mobil again, and they can make a fortune again.
This time it was the old guy Hudson, the old acquaintance was easy to do, Guo Yu personally took the personnel to the exploration and drilling site of the Orange County farm. This is a basin of the farm, located on the west side of the farm, surrounded by low hills, which is not suitable for cultivation.
Surveyors worked hard for several days and came up with a surprising figure of 800 million barrels of oil, the largest oil field ever discovered in recent years. Guo Yu was also very happy and pulled all the staff to have a drinking party.
When Hudson proposed to buy, Guo Yu expressed his idea, he wanted to cooperate with Mobil to use this oil field to form an oil company, with a part of the shares for himself and the rest of the shares to be sold to Mobil.
In fact, the conditions proposed by Guo Yu are not unusual, and now there are often companies that sell some of them after discovering large oil fields, and form another oil company with other oil companies, but this is only a large company with a background, after all, it is difficult for individuals to meddle in the oil industry controlled by Rockefeller, except for Guo Yu now.
Guo Yu led his team to New York again to negotiate business with Mobil, and Guo Yu also put forward his own additional conditions, the oil field can be sold, but the land on the ground must be owned by Guo Yu personally, because he wants to set up a farm. Old man Douglas and Guo Yu discussed at the negotiating table for two days before finally reaching an agreement.
The two sides established the 'California Orange Oil Company' with a capital of 40 million US dollars, Guo Yu invested in the oil field, accounting for 25% of the share capital, Mobil accounted for 50% of the share capital, and the remaining share capital will join other oil companies, Guo Yu received 29 million in cash.
After visiting Little John again, Guo Yu returned to the Orange County Manor, and Allai reported, "Boss, now the manor has recruited 3,400 Chinese workers, who have been assigned to two manors, and the workers' dormitories have all been built, and all the employees have been settled, and the workers' dormitories can accommodate about 6,000 employees." Your estate is being renovated and it is estimated that you will be ready to move in in another twenty days, what do you think else you have to say? ”
"I have recruited 3,000 people from Huaguo, you go and check to see when they can arrive, and then go to the port to pick them up and assign them to the manor."
"Okay, this year's planting season has passed, just now organize employees to sort out the land of the manor, and next year you can directly sow seeds, I have organized people to buy agricultural machinery and seed farming tools, it should be almost there." Al said.
"Well, you can arrange that. I believe you will arrange it very well, by the way, now we want to run my industry in the company model, but also to establish various departments of the farm, you know the general manager, to establish the Ministry of Agriculture to manage the farm, the Ministry of Mines to manage the oil industry, the Administration Department is responsible for management and coordination, the Ministry of Education is responsible for the management of the "Huafu School", the Ministry of Security is responsible for the safety of the farm, you study these departments and report to me, I am making decisions. Guo Yu commanded.
"Equip the people of the Ministry of Security with guns, equip the team with Springfield rifles, isn't the American army equipped with this rifle, at least 5,000 must be purchased, which can be purchased in batches, and the bullets should be equipped in large quantities, because if the team members practice marksmanship more, they will definitely use a lot of bullets."
"Okay boss, I'll arrange it." Al closed the notebook and left, very professional.
I have 60 million in cash, what should I do?