1855 United States Tycoon

The Pacific Railway in United States was the first railway in history to cross the North American continent. It has a total length of more than 3,000 kilometers, traverses the entire North American continent, and is the world's first transcontinental railway. It is with this railway that the development of the vast west of United States is truly possible. Without this railway, people and materials on the west coast would have to travel two to three thousand kilometers in a carriage on the plains full of horse bandits and Indians to go to the east coast, or they would have to travel by sea for six or seven months. The ship, because there was no Panama Canal at the time, so they could only go south along the coast of America and ran to the vicinity of the Antarctic, surrounded by a large group of penguins, bypassing the treacherous Cape Horn, and then turned their heads to the north. Your luck is good enough, after 6 months, you will be able to reach the east coast of United States.

Taking into account the extremely limited capacity of carriages, the transportation of bulk goods must be carried by sea. In this way, the distance between the west and east of United States is actually as far away as the distance between United States and the European continent. It also makes the United States government almost no decent control over the west. In fact, this is reflected in later United States Westerns. For a long time, the West was synonymous with chaos. Even the sheriff, who was supposed to represent order, acted more like the chaotic Wandering Xia. This difference further forms a cultural difference. Well, it is relatively independent economically and unique in culture. If this continues, I am afraid that the United States will face the division of the West just after it has settled the South.

Therefore, the construction of such a railway, for United States, can indeed be called "contributions to the present, and benefits for the future." But on the other hand, this railway is another road of blood and tears for the Chinese. At that time, the United States government, which was at war with the South, had absolutely no money to build such a 3,000-kilometer railway. At the time, the west wanted to be desolate. Firstly, private individuals could not afford to invest in such a railway, and secondly, relying on this railway alone was not very profitable (at least it would take a long time to recover the investment). Therefore, the United States government simply adopted the method of bundling outsourcing to prepare for the construction of this railway.

The United States government announced that the company that builds the railway can obtain the property rights of the land within a radius of 122 meters along the road, and the right to mine minerals within a radius of 32 kilometers along the line. Immediately, the attraction of this railway was ascending. Even worse, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of road construction, the Lincoln government came up with an idea. He divided the railway into two newly-built companies-Union Pacific Railway Company and Central Pacific Railway Company, and then began to sell shares to raise funds. . The Union Pacific Railroad was built from the Mississippi River to the west, and the Central Pacific Company was built from San Francisco to the east. The government does not stipulate the final meeting point. Wherever it is repaired, it will be the meeting point. Obviously, whoever cultivates faster will gain more benefits.

In this way, when building this railway, the basic principle has become "a hundred-year plan, speed first, quality second, safety third". In the end, the railway, which was originally scheduled to take 14 years to be completed, was actually completed in only seven years. Geographically speaking, Central Pacific is naturally at a disadvantage. Because their railway has to climb over the steep Rocky Mountains. The engineering is extremely difficult. To speed things up, Stanford, the president of Central Pacific Corporation, um, Stanford, the great philanthropist who later founded Stanford University, came up with the idea of ​​bringing in Chinese workers to build the railway.

"A nation that can build the Great Wall will certainly be able to build a railway." When faced with other people's doubts that "Chinese can also build roads," Stanford said so. Because of this sentence, many people in later generations regarded Stanford as a philanthropist and educator friendly to China. But Scrooge didn't think so when he read this story. When Scrooge looked at history, he always used the worst malice to speculate on intelligent creatures. In his opinion, Stanford chose Chinese laborers. Apart from the fact that Chinese laborers are really hardworking, there are more reasons for them: 1. Chinese laborers are cheap and cheap. They only need two-thirds of the white people's salary, and they don't need to buy insurance for them. 2. No matter how many Chinese workers have, no one cares. In order to obtain more benefits, the faster the road construction, the better, and the greater the labor intensity, the better. Coupled with the harsh climate and difficult and dangerous environment, the death of a small number of workers does not conform to the principles of biology.

The number of deaths of the Chinese workers involved in the construction of the Pacific Railway is now impossible to test due to incomplete information (in fact, the tycoons who regard Chinese workers as one-time consumables are too lazy to record these). However, there have been several deaths with more than a thousand people. As for deaths from overwork, it is even impossible to count them. The later claim that "there is a corpse of a Chinese worker under every sleeper of the Pacific Railway" is not an unfounded exaggeration.

"Damn it! How should I deal with this?" For the first time since crossing over, Scrooge felt confused about own choice. In fact, he knew very well that under such rules, to consume Chinese work as a disposable item is the most economical choice and can bring maximum benefits to the participants. This is the general trend of capital. What can you do in the face of this general trend?

For a long time, Scrooge used the eyes of the NPC to see the people of his own relatives. But now there are a group of NPCs jumping into the game with Chinese characters on their heads. what can we do about it?

In his last life, Scrooge was not a patriot, but he still had a little bit of a simple feeling for the nation. For example, when playing games such as "Age of Empires", although you may not choose China, you will not set a computer-controlled opponent that is destined to be killed by yourself as China. Now, in this real version of the hegemony game, there are Chinese. And it did not appear as a computer-controlled player that can form an alliance, but as a flock belonging to the Goddess Gaia. Do you want to join this feast of capital? Do you want to kill those two-legged sheep called Chinese in this feast, and add a bloody brick to the building of own hegemony? Scrooge hesitated for the first time.

However, Scrooge quickly made up his mind. Not to participate in the feast of the Pacific Railroad? How can this be? Think about it, how many places the railway has passed, and how much iron ore, oil, and coal are there within 32 kilometers of the railway? Relying on the unknown foresight of these minerals, how much benefit can be gained by participating in or even leading the construction of the railway? Giving up such benefits, Scrooge is not a little tangled problem, but is in pain.

Then, like Stanford, use Chinese laborers to spread their bodies on the ground? Then I would like to praise the Chinese people for their cleverness and diligence, and to satisfy some Chinese people's vanity. Maybe in a few hundred years, some people will praise him for being free from racial prejudice and being friendly to the Chinese people. Think about it this way, it seems pretty good. However, um, considering a problem, Scrooge found that he didn't have to worry about it at all. Because Scrooge's power is mainly in the east, in the Great Lakes region, and in the west, his influence is definitely not comparable to that of a local snake like Stanford. So even if he joins this feast, he can only lead the Union Pacific Railway Company, which builds the railway from east to west, rather than the Central Pacific Railway Company. Considering the super remote route from China to transport Chinese workers to the eastern part of United States, Union Pacific Railroad is simply unable to use Chinese workers on a large scale, so what should I entangle with?

"Raise funds immediately to obtain control of the Union Pacific Railroad Company." Scrooge thought, "and then use all means to create obstacles to the use of Chinese workers, such as standing on the moral high ground and using newspapers under their control to expose Stanford's abuses. Slave labor. For example, trying to provoke Chinese laborers to strike, for example... Anyway, I’m the best at pretending to be a Virgin. Well, I must immediately organize personnel to go to the west to dig up Stanford’s dark history for the rest of the world. Be prepared for action."

After figuring out this question, Scrooge felt relieved a lot. As for whether the Chinese workers' strike would be called to suppress it, would it... Well, Mr. Scrooge McDonald didn't expect it for a while.

"It's a good job of publicity." Morgan looked at the pile of newspapers in front of him, as well as today's revenue report, thinking triumphantly.

Taking over Lincoln's national debt was a big risk Morgan made. If the sales are successful, he can not only make a fortune, but also really consolidate his position as the "banker's banker" on Wall Street. This allowed the own family to gradually get rid of the influence of European capital. This transaction was also a war of independence for the Morgan family.

"Those Europeans are too superstitious about own power. They think that if they are behind the scenes, the South will be able to become independent. They think that United States is still the United States when it became independent in 1783? And those idiots on Wall Street, Scrooge Mack Mr. Downer is already endorsing Lincoln in that way, and they dare not give it a go. Yes, the wealthy people in the north are certainly not as enthusiastic about buying treasury bonds as in the south, but the base in the north is large, and there are also a huge number of people in the north. Freedmen, they are much easier to mobilize than the wealthy. As long as they are willing to spend money on propaganda to encourage these truly patriotic civilians to buy these national debts, it is not as difficult as they thought. I just don’t know, don’t know... Mimi How is the situation now. I hope that Dr. Menger and Dr. Heim can cure her disease."

Thinking of his wife who was seriously ill, Morgan's happiness from the success of his business dissipated a lot.

"Mr. Morgan!" The door was knocked open suddenly, and Morgan's chief Dowding rushed in rudely, "Madam is awake, Madam is waking up!"

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