Chen Mo's forces began a large-scale expansion in the west again.

In fact, the 10,000 times that James said to Zachary Taylor is still a conservative estimate, 100,000 times may not be enough, but tens of thousands of times are still there, and the entire western region is basically occupied by Chen Mo, and in addition to the great expansion of the southwestern region that is now ceded to Mexico, 100,000 times is only a matter of time.

Today's northern capitalists are all focusing on "high-end" fields such as industry, real estate, and finance, while the southern plantation slave owners are clinging to their plantations and slaves.

A large number of people who originally lived here and immigrants who had come from other places flocked to the place after discovering that joining Chen Mo's men was much better than digging in the soil themselves.

As long as they have food and clothing, and the livelihood of themselves and their families is guaranteed, they will cherish this job very much, whether it is a cowboy, a farmer, or a miner, all of them work dutifully and hard, and Chen Mo is not stingy to give them the generous remuneration they deserve.

Chen Mo's enclosure is not just for enclosure, he also has a deeper purpose, and there is more than one.

These wild lands in the western part of the United States, vast but sparsely populated, are undeveloped and desolate areas, and although they belong to the territory of the United States, they are not joined as federal states, but are simply divided into several regions, each of which is the size of several other states, but the population is not as large as that of a city in the central and eastern regions.

Although these western regions are now desolate and backward, in the future more than a dozen independent states will be established, and from region to state, there are strict requirements.

At the time of the establishment of these areas, the U.S. government issued a written federal ordinance that set forth the conditions for the establishment of states in these areas.

Initially, they divided the areas into separate special districts, which were administered by the Confederate Congress with one governor and three administrative officers, and three to five more quasi-states as the population of the region grew.

When the population of any quasi-state increases to 60,000, it can apply for federal membership and enjoy equal rights with the existing states.

In these barren and barren and sparsely populated lands in the west, Chen Mo's ranch occupies most of the high-quality land, itself is the largest population gathering place, with the development of the ranch, more and more people are recruited, in the future, after these areas really become federal states, the vast majority of citizens will be Chen Mo's employees.

Chen Mo will be the real controller behind these states, and the votes of the governor and even the president will be in his hands!

At that time, the entire western United States will become Chen Mo's "territory", controlled by Chen Mo behind the scenes, and Chen Mo will become the most important lord among the major forces in the United States!

The United States itself is a country controlled by capitalists, and as a big capitalist, Chen Mo, who controls huge wealth and a large number of votes to influence the presidential election, will surely become the target of all political parties.

Behind every party is the support of a large number of capitalists, and these parties represent the struggle of these capitalists, interests, presidential elections, partisans, and in fact, capitalists!

However, Chen Mo enclosed a large range of land in the west and even the entire United States, and established ranches, not only to control votes, the heyday of the fur trade will soon pass, Chen Mo can not only point to the pastures and land in his hands, and just these, can not support his strength to influence the political situation.

After all, with the continuous development of the west, his ranch cannot occupy the ruling power of the west forever, the number of employees accommodated by the ranch is limited after all, as more and more people come to the west, especially the arrival of other businessmen and capitalists, it will bring more factories, enterprises and employment opportunities, although Chen Mo has occupied the best land in the west, but he cannot enjoy the west alone, and do not let others in, which is also not conducive to the development of the west.

Therefore, what Chen Mo has to do is to strengthen his own strength and always firmly occupy a dominant position, even if more businessmen and capitalists come, he will not be able to shake his dominant position in the west.

And to achieve this, pastures alone are not enough.

If we mark all the land that Chen Mo bought in the United States on the map, and then compare it with a map of the distribution of American oil resources in the future world, we can easily find that the vast land owned by Chen Mo has covered more than 80% of the oil-producing areas in the United States!

And the rest are just some small oil fields with small reserves.

In other words, in these lands he bought, most of the oil resources of the entire United States are buried!

However, at this time, oil had not yet begun to be used on a large scale, and the oil extraction and distillation processes were primitive and backward, and modern oil wells and refineries had not yet appeared.

Moreover, the oil-fired engine, which consumes the most oil in the future, has not yet been invented, and the coal-fired steam engine is still used as a mechanical power output in industry.

Without an internal combustion engine, automobiles had not yet been manufactured, so in fact, in this era, the main use of petroleum was to use the soil method to extract kerosene and use it for lighting.

Chen Mo did not intend to speed up the historical process and let the oil industry and automobile industry appear in advance, so his purchase of the oil-producing area was just a precaution, and he bought it together while enclosing the land to build a ranch.

In addition to the oil, which is known as black gold, Chen Mo has not forgotten the real gold!

Chen Mo had heard about the gold rush in the United States for a long time, and it was just in time for this era, how could Chen Mo let it go.

San Francisco and Los Angeles in California have large gold reserves, and when the United States acquired California and other regions from Mexico, and sent governors and administrative officials, Chen Mo extended his enclosure action to the past, who knew that under the newly built vast pastures, there were huge gold treasures buried!

In fact, Chen Mo has always been thinking about a piece of land in his heart, Alaska!

This enclave, located in northwestern Canada, across the sea from the continental United States, is a huge treasure.

Today, this huge area of land is still a colony of Tsarist Russia.

Historically, after the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1853, Russia feared that the Alaska colony would be taken away by the British, so it was proposed to sell Alaska to the United States, and in the end, the two sides closed for $7.2 million in April 1867.