Chapter 620 Oh, gold!

Author: Seven Years Period

Chapter 620 Oh, gold!

"Hey, what is this?

Gold!

Yellow, shiny, precious gold!

No, gods, I am not an idle believer; I only want you to give me some roots!

This thing, just a little bit, can turn black into white, ugly into beautiful, wrong into right, humble into noble, old into young, coward into brave."

——Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens"

The charm of money is indeed unstoppable. Even after the war, California's population is still growing explosively, from 450,000 before the war to 500,000, growing at a rapid rate of 10% per year.

How fast is this rate? Take India, which is well known to modern people, as an example. Its population growth rate is only 0.8%, while the current growth rate in California is 12.5 times.

If it develops at this rate, California will have a population of 3.7 million in 20 years, but that is almost impossible because the gold mines will dry up sooner or later. Without gold, this land will no longer have such great charm.

Already.

Although the alchemy technology of the Austrian Empire at this time was far beyond the level of the same period in history, and the utilization rate was also constantly improving, it is an indisputable fact that gold mines are non-renewable resources.

Moreover, in the future, the land managed by O&M United Development Company will not be limited to California. In fact, Franz is currently studying how to develop land in Nevada.

However, unlike California's beautiful natural environment, Nevada's climate is hot and arid, with high temperatures in summer and cold winters, which can be described as "two distinct seasons."

Nevada's terrain is complex and diverse, including mountains, deserts, plateaus, basins and canyons. In addition to the common wild wolves and black bears, local creatures also include unique local specialties such as Nevada brown spiders and Nevada burnt-tailed scorpions.

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Not to mention the mysterious Bigfoot and brain-eating insects. If the United States hadn’t conducted hundreds of nuclear tests in Nevada in later generations, God knows what kind of monsters could be found in it.

The local Shoshone people said that Chernobyl and everything else were devastated, and that the nuclear radiation the area endured was 48 times that of Hiroshima.

Naturally, Franz was not willing to waste precious German immigrants in colonizing such a poor place. In fact, the most suitable people for the local area were the Indians, who had the highest adaptability.

However, this group of guys is extremely weak in terms of development and resource exploration capabilities. In addition, there is a very high chance of rebellion, and they may even unite with local Indians and Americans to attack the O-Mex joint development company.

Therefore, Franz needed a group of "loyal, reliable" and "hard-working" colonial advance teams. This was not just for the California area, in fact, the Austrian colonies were still very short of people.

After all, the Irish have been enslaved by the British for a long time, so it is inevitable that some crazy people will emerge. The colonies can have Irish people, but the proportion should not be too high, let alone allow it to become a large gathering place.

In fact, the United States encountered a lot of troubles when assimilating the Irish, one of which was the large number of gangs and mobs.

Later generations only know about the Italian mafia in black clothes and black hats holding Thomson, but they don't know about the Irish mafia that is countless times more terrifying.

Although the Italian Mafia can easily defeat the Irish in terms of professional skills, the latter has greater concealment and more ambitious goals than the former.

In fact, we can put it in a simpler way, that is, the Italian mafia cares about money, while the Irish mafia cares more about power.

While the Italians were still bleeding in the streets, the Irish had quietly mastered a more effective weapon - power.

With the rapid development of urbanization in the United States, no president can keep up with the infrastructure and management system.

This created a large power vacuum, and Irish gangs spontaneously became the underground bosses of these emerging cities.

Historically, it was called U BOSS, literally translated as underground boss, but Franz felt that it would be more appropriate to translate it into underground mayor.

This is well reflected in the American TV series "The Mayor of Kingston" starring Hawkeye St. Zelian Corgi. Although the plot is very hot, it is still a story about Huang Shilang's whitewashing, and even the whitewashing story.

I’m too lazy to wash it, so I just tell you that this is how the world should be.

This political gang seems to have alleviated local conflicts to a certain extent and established an order "suitable" for the local area.

However, these guys have nothing to do with good people, because they themselves are the source of chaos.

Although the Irish people during the Great Famine were very pitiful, it would be okay if Franz exchanged the safety and happiness of his people for it. After all, indifference in this world can solve 99% of the problems.

, don’t copy it, believe that the world is beautiful and the future is bright).

In fact, apart from Franz looking for labor, Americans are not idle either.

Historically, in 1845, Asa Whitney proposed to the U.S. Congress to build a railroad across the North American continent, so many American elites discussed building a railroad.

But now that the U.S.-Mexican War has failed, and California and Nevada are not in American hands, Franz feels that certain things may never happen again.

But the reality is that Americans still plan to build a transcontinental railway, but it will no longer go through Nevada and California, but directly to Oregon.

The reason is very strange, that is, the American whaling industry needs this railway, and at the same time, more than 100,000 Americans are blocked from colonization by less than 2,000 British people. This is really unbearable.

The two main slogans of James Polk's presidential campaign were to fight slavery and "retake" Oregon.

He always showed himself as a tough guy, and even said to the British, "If we want 49 degrees north latitude, we still need war."

Although the United States won the Mexican-American War, the losses were incredibly high, and as the army was disbanded, yellow fever began to spread across the country, killing too many people to count.

The army of the northern factory owners was completely defeated in the war, while the army of the southern slave owners did not suffer much losses because they were always on guard against the French.

As a result of this ebb and flow, the voice of the southern slave owners became stronger, and some even claimed that they had invited the French, so that the United States could turn the crisis around.

However, there is a lot of controversy on this point, because the generals of the Northern Army insist that Austria and Mexico are at the end of their war effort, and the United States can achieve final victory without the French, and there is no need to give away half of the fruits of victory.

Both sides hold their own opinions, but one thing is certain, that is, the power of the South was stronger at this time, so Polk would never dare to initiate slavery.

Historically, Polk did not "point his finger" at slavery itself, although Democrats have always claimed.

"James Polk was a capable, upright, and unbridable fighter for democracy and freedom throughout his life."

But in fact he always wanted them to be "young, effective" and cheap.
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