This is a kind of blueprint that can be exchanged for 50 reputation points in the prestige shop, which is a gold panning trough equipment driven by a waterwheel, without any steam mechanical device, which needs to be manually filled with river sand, and finally needs to manually pick up gold sand, but the gold panning trough is cleverly set up and can improve the work efficiency hundreds of times.

A gold panning trough equipment built by carpenters and blacksmiths can replace the screening volume of 760 gold diggers in a day, and only 7~8 people are required to operate.

As an armed group, the Datang Society must of course have its own fixed industry and stable income channels.

Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water.

Of course, Richard knew that the gold mines along the American River were now a well-known secret of San Francisco, but the news did not leak out, thus triggering a gold rush throughout North America and even the world.

The ultimate reason is that regional thinking is at fault.

In San Francisco, no one wants to share the feast of gold panning with outsiders, so everyone involved consciously keeps the gold mine secret and does not reveal it to outsiders.

If history has not changed

It wasn't until two years later, in 1848, that a clever grocery store owner leaked the news, which sparked a worldwide gold rush, and the influx of a large number of immigrants made the grocery store owner also make a lot of money.

In fact, at that time, there were very few surface gold resources that could be easily mined along the rivers of the Americas, and steam mechanical mining equipment was needed to further excavate deeper gold resources.

Judging from the current total gold production, the American riverside gold diggers can harvest about 2.4 million ~ 2.5 million ounces of gold a year, and the gold resources are extremely rich, and gold can be mined with the simplest tools, and the peak can reach 5.2 million ounces of gold two years later.

With such a huge amount of wealth, what makes sense not to get a piece of the pie?

The leather and meat business of the Association Hall is a year's income of more than 100,000 ounces of gold, which at first glance is a lot, but the actual influence is limited, accounting for about one-twentieth of the current gold reserves of the entire American River.

Such a little was obviously not enough to satisfy Richard's appetite, and he asked after taking out the drawings; "Can you read the drawings?"

"President, this set of drawings is not complicated to decompose, it should be composed of waterwheels, transmission rods, flushing tanks, gold panning tanks, screens, and water pipes, and the production is not a big problem, so I will do it." Gai Wangshan replied after taking a closer look.

"In the early stage of manufacturing 4 sets, the blacksmith also uses our people, we must pay attention to confidentiality, decompose the drawings of the carpenter and the blacksmith to build, and strictly prevent the behavior of eating inside and outside."

"Understood, I asked Captain Liu Wu to help check the gates."

"Yes, Liu Wu, on the side of the pro-guards, you can select competent manpower, which can be expanded to about 50 people, and the weapons and equipment will be equipped first, and cooperate with General Gai to do this well."

"Subordinate Order." Liu Wu received the order with a solemn expression.

"Hmm." Richard nodded in satisfaction, looked around at the crowd, and commanded; "Since everyone has assigned tasks, let's hurry up and do things, I will always be in charge of this place for the time being, and there will be no chaos. Mr. Mike hastened to contact Captain William Richardson at Parkview Green, and I would like to meet with him as soon as possible. ”

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, the crowd dispersed, and the council hall became empty again.

Richard sat alone in the hall, took a leisurely sip from his teacup, and thought about the current complicated situation in San Francisco and considered his next steps.

In the planning he considers;

Datang Club is mainly engaged in two industries: commerce and gold panning, and is also engaged in the agriculture and animal husbandry industries of Grape Valley and Rose Manor, all of which are highly promising industries.

Needless to say, in San Francisco, every grocery store is simply a money-printing machine that makes money every day, from the hoe. Frying pans, flour, weapons, kerosene lamps and cloth for clothes, everything can be sold for sky-high prices, and the profits are amazing.

Except for John Sutter, who had a few of his own cargo sailboats, the other channels for importing goods were all in the hands of the captains of Yerba Buena Land, who basically monopolized the local channels for importing goods, and thus made a fortune.

Every merchant in San Francisco had to take goods from the British captains in Yerba Buena, which was an unavoidable hurdle.

Behind these British captains was the Caribbean Fleet of the British Empire that roamed Central America, and the Royal Navy's Caribbean Fleet was able to keep rampant Caribbean pirates away and essentially monopolize regional sea trade routes.

With the current strength of the Datang Society, it is far from enough to challenge all this.

Therefore, if you want to engage in trade, you have to obediently deal with the captains of Yerba Buena Di and accept a layer of exploitation.

In the gold mining industry, it is inevitable to contend with Alexander Madison.

Alexander Madison's gang is an out-and-out gold tyrant, and in order to protect the interests of the Chinese gold diggers, the armed horse team of the Tang Society has had several skirmishes with them.

Although there has not yet been a big fight, the two sides have already concluded.

If Datang will open a gold panning by the American River with great fanfare, once it discovers a gold-rich area with amazing returns, the two sides will inevitably go to war.

In the eyes of Alexander Madison's men, the gold fields of the River of the Americas were their territory, and anyone who dared to mine gold here with great fanfare was tantamount to stealing their wealth.

Whether or not this bandit theory holds up, the Alexander Madison gang did just that.

They roam the gold fields like mad dogs, and any prospector who finds a vein of gold, whether white, Chinese or Mexican, will have a hard time escaping their hands if they smell the slightest fishy smell.

The primary goal of the armed forces prepared by the Datang Society is to deal with this gang of rampant white bandits.

So, Richard's next strategy is simple;

It is to win over the forces of Yerba Buenadi, closely combine the interests of both sides, and form a close alliance of interests to jointly fight against the landlord John Sutter and the Jinba Alexander Madison group.

The premise of cooperation is that Datang will have good armed strength and be able to rush to the forefront as a thug in Fangcaodi.

The cunning British, who colonized the world, have always preferred to use local power to achieve their own ends, rather than doing everything themselves and charging ahead. After all, the white population of Britain is sparse, and life is more expensive.

The British have almost endless trade routes for materials, and they will never be stingy to come up with supplies to tempt the Tang Dynasty to join their camp.

And at the beginning of development

What Datang Club lacks is a wealth of material supply channels, and the two sides have a natural foundation for cooperation.

Now back to the third industry.

The farming and pastoralism that runs Rose Estates and Grape Valley has turned into a lucrative industry in San Francisco's nationwide gold rush.

With the influx of more and more gold diggers in San Francisco in the future, the urban population will increase from less than 30,000 to more than 300,000 in just a few years, an increase of 11 times, and the gap in agricultural and sideline products will become wider and wider.

The ensuing skyrocketing price hike was enough for the big farmers to make a staggering profit and become the real winners in the end.

The development of these three major industries will create tens of thousands of stable job opportunities and help expand the basic base of Chinese influence.

At present, in the entire San Francisco (San Francisco) area, there are about 3,000 Chinese Americans, plus a few hundred people in Sacramento, and less than 4,000 people, where are the tens of thousands?

To know

The large number of Chinese workers is not in the Oriental Empire across the Pacific, but in Central and South America, which also includes Panama, Chile, Peru and Bolivia, where there are tens of thousands of Chinese workers.

After the concept of the Panama Canal was proposed, because of the huge amount of work, it required an astronomical amount of money, and it is only in the blueprint and demonstration stage.

The first to be implemented was the Panama Railway, a transoceanic railway parallel to the planned Panama Canal, a rail transportation hub connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

This railway was built by a large number of Chinese laborers in the tropical jungle of Central America, and as many as 7,300 Chinese laborers devoted themselves to it, and hundreds of Chinese laborers were buried here under the double oppression of tropical diseases and heavy labor.

Now that the Panama Railway has been completed, these Chinese laborers who have contributed hard work to this cause are no longer cared for.

The American Railroad, which once imported a large number of Chinese workers, would not spend large sums of dollars to buy expensive tickets for the Chinese workers to return to the land of China, but abandoned them as if they were not in the shoes of China, and did not care about them at all.

A large number of Chinese laborers were forced to find work on white estates or farms in Panama, endure bloody exploitation, and the road to return home was far away.

In the saltpeter mines and farms in Chile in South America, the sugar plantations in Cuba, the islands where manure is piled up on the Peruvian island, and the plantations in Bolivia, there are no less than 30~330,000 Chinese laborers working day and night in exchange for a meager income.

These people were Richard's first targets.

First, these overseas Chinese workers have experienced bloody exploitation, and it is easier for them to gather unity and cherish their hard-won good life, which is the best source of soldiers.

Second, most of these overseas Chinese workers have survived so far, are physically strong, have certain communication skills, are more likely to accept Western-style military training and the organizational concept of the Tang Society, and can quickly integrate into it.

Third, with the same text and the same species, it is easier to huddle together for warmth in this foreign country, and if you don't rely on yourself, who can you rely on?

As long as they are given a home and a better hope for the future, these overseas Chinese workers who have gone through all kinds of hardships are willing to risk their lives to follow Richard, which is a point that Richard attaches great importance to.

After the business in San Francisco stabilized, Richard had to start importing Chinese immigrants by all means, and the first choice was Panama and Peru, which were close at hand.

Needless to say, Panama's railway workers are the second densely populated area of Chinese workers, with a preliminary estimate of no less than 135,000~150,000 people, most of whom are gathered on islands rich in guano.

They do the hardest work and live on a meager income.

How much can guano be worth?

Peru, for example, was nationalized in 1821 when it was founded on all the islands where guano had been deposited, and 65 to 70 percent of the sale price was taxed.

Peru has become one of the richest countries in Latin America, experiencing a 25-year boom in the so-called "Guano Era".

Today, Peru is in the golden age of the "Guano Age", enjoying the high profits of guano mining, and the already small population is not willing to do hard labor at all, but wears gold and silver, and dances and enjoys all day long.

Guano mining is very simple, with almost no cost except for manpower, and Peruvians are reluctant to engage in such hard and menial work, so they have imported a large number of Chinese laborers from the Qing to help them mine guano.

Through the caustic exploitation of Chinese laborers, Peru has obtained huge guano export revenues, and the whole country has prospered and affluent, and it is these overseas Chinese laborers who are at the bottom.

More than ten years later

In the "Guano War" that broke out in the three countries of South America, an army composed of tens of thousands of Chinese miners joined the Chilean side to fight bravely and made great contributions to the final victory of the war.