Rebirth of the Wealthy American

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At a glance, the fat man didn't eat.

Li Mu's alertness was still high. She shook the knife in his hand to the fat man, and Pi Xiaorou smiled without asking: "Is there something wrong?"

Problems?

Why are you eating and drinking here? Our hundred and ten people are still hungry. Even if you do n’t care about others, do n’t you, my county king?

Then I can only think about it. I ca n’t ask for anything. The fat man is very clear. If he really asks that, Li Mu would dare to answer "no matter what, no matter what."

It's not impossible, it is certain.

So the little fat man immediately laughed at the flowers: "Li Mu, hehe, discuss something 呗 ——"

呦 ——I know Li Mu's name emotionally. Will this be closed?

"Hungry? Let's say--" Li Mu gave a sincere smile to the fat man, making the fat man creepy.

Perhaps he thought of Li Mu ’s virtue, and the little fat man turned away without talking nonsense. After a while, Lao Zheng came with a look on the execution ground, and then Li Mu paid half a catty of beef, ten flatbreads, two apples, For half a bottle of red wine, Miss Ten Thousand Dollars has another hundred dollars in her mother's purse.

This business is really worth it!

However, Li Mu did not do anything absolutely. After thinking about it, Li Mu instructed Lao Yantou to send a copy to Chen to the old man. Even if the others do n’t care, let them be hungry for a while, and be hungry for a long time.

At the beginning of the meal, Xue came to close the table, and Li Mu and Mike were temporarily out of chat. The two sat in chairs to rest. At this time, Li Mu had the opportunity to appreciate the original ecology of the United States in the 19th century.

After the War of Independence, the United States began the Westward Movement, which has been counted for almost a hundred years.

In the past 100 years, the territory of the United States has grown from about 800,000 square kilometers in the first 13 states to the current 50 states, with a total area of ​​more than 9.3 million square kilometers, which has expanded nearly twelve times. The population has also grown from 3.9 million people at the time of independence to the current 42 million, which has also increased by almost 11 times.

It is worth mentioning that among these 42 million people, there are about 150,000 Chinese.

As early as 1785, when the United States had just become independent, three Chinese sailors came to the United States by sailing on the "Goddess of Wisdom". However, until the middle of the nineteenth century, the Chinese had little access to news about the United States, and naturally had no interest in immigrating to the United States. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, many Taiping Heavenly Kingdom participants were sold as slaves to Americans. This opened the curtain of Chinese immigration to the United States. In 1849, there were only 791 Chinese who entered San Francisco and increased to 4025 by 1850. After that, it gradually increased. By 1873, the number of Chinese immigrants recorded by the United States Immigration Service was 150,000. This figure did not include the descendants of early immigrants and an unknown number of black households.

One thing is certain, the number of black households is definitely higher than the number of immigrants to the United States through formal channels, and it may be much higher.

The United States currently has 42 million people. This number sounds a lot, more people than the United Kingdom and France combined, but most of them live on the economically developed East Coast of the United States, only those who cannot mix on the East Coast. Only then will they choose to go to the west coast to participate in the development of the west. In this way, there are not many people on the west coast of the United States, and it is even less conspicuous to be distributed on this vast land.

The scenery outside the car window confirms this. When the train was just out of San Francisco, there were fields and houses on both sides of the railway. After Stockton, the road was gradually desolate, and large areas passed by the window. Large tracts of virgin forests and endless wilderness, and occasionally sporadic houses, represent that humans have begun to carry out difficult development.

I have to say that the United States is indeed a paradise at this time. Large tracts of undeveloped areas give wildlife a good environment for survival and reproduction. A large group of bison often appear outside the car window. Even the train just left Stockton less than two times. I was forced to stop in an hour, because the train killed a bison, the bison's carcass was crossing the rails, the train could not go forward, the bison carcass had to be removed, and the train had to be repaired to make sure the train was not damaged, In order to continue on the journey.

Li Mu ’s train now runs on the Pacific Railroad. The Chinese have made arduous efforts to build this railway.

About ten years ago, in 1862, then-President Lincoln approved the first bill to build the Pacific Railroad, which stipulated that the United Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad would jointly construct the Transcontinental Pacific Railroad. The starting point for Union Pacific Railroad is Omaha, Nebraska, and the starting point for Central Pacific Railroad is Sacramento, California. The two companies paved the railway from east to west.

The Pacific Railroad was the first railway to traverse the North American continent and was once named by the British BBC as one of the seven major industrial wonders in the world since the Industrial Revolution. The Pacific Railroad has made a huge contribution to the economic development of the United States. In a sense, it is this railway that has made the United States of the future.

When Lincoln decided to build the Pacific Railroad, he paid attention to the significance of the Pacific Railroad to the United States. At that time, the American Civil War had ignited war. This railroad had important strategic significance for the northern United States.

But at the same time, there are also many difficulties to build the Pacific Railway. The Pacific Railway has a total length of more than 3,000 kilometers and crosses the entire North American continent. It is the world's first transcontinental railway. This is considered a miracle in the eyes of Americans. Under the conditions at that time, the construction process of the railway was extremely difficult. Among them, the Sierra Nevada Mountains at an altitude of 2100 meters is a dangerous terrain, which is the most difficult point for the Pacific Railway.

The Central Pacific Railroad Company responsible for the western section was originally hired by Irish people. At that time, a large number of Irish people arrived in San Francisco with the ship every day, but these people were unable to adapt to the dangerous and exhausting road construction projects. These Irish people were drunk and fighting. Continued demands for increased wages. Even so, hundreds of Irish workers escaped every day. The slow progress of the project can only be described by snail crawling. In the first two years, only 50 were laid in the western section. Miles of steel rail.

Under no circumstances, Central Pacific Railroad executives Crooke suggested hiring Chinese workers, a proposal approved by Central Pacific Railroad's senior management, and then the first batch of 50 Chinese workers joined Central Pacific Railroad.

Almost to everyone's surprise, although these 50 Chinese workers all looked small and thin, they worked hard and worked hard, and were brave, and Chinese workers were not as free and casual as white workers. They are disciplined and flexible, and they can learn a lot of work.

Soon, Central Pacific Railways, which tasted the sweetness, decided to recruit large-scale Chinese workers.

In order to create convenient conditions for Chinese workers to immigrate to the United States, the Central Pacific Railroad even lobbied the U.S. government to sign the Pu Anchen Treaty with the Qing government in 1868. The treaty stipulates that China and the United States cross-recognize the right of citizens of the two countries to voluntarily emigrate to the other country. Chinese Feel free to travel to the United States.

Look, the Qing people at that time had already enjoyed visa-free treatment.

Since then, from 1865 to 1869, about 14,000 Chinese workers participated in road construction projects, accounting for more than 90% of the total number of workers.