1850 American Gold Tycoon

Officers, Liang Yao needs a group of high-quality officers who have received formal military education.

After several rounds of selection, Liang Yao's California Infantry Regiment already has 10 fully equipped infantry companies.

The existence of the California Infantry Regiment was less to defend the United States of America than to defend Liang Yao's private property.

What could mobilize these soldiers was not orders from Congress and the War Department, but Liang Yao's instructions.

He is the only one in the entire United States who can afford such an expensive infantry regiment.

In addition to the ten standard infantry companies, Liang Yao also plans to expand one dragoon company and one artillery company.

Now there is a very realistic problem before Liang Yao. He does not have enough qualified officers.

West Point Military Academy and Virginia Military Academy certainly have a large number of unemployed young talents waiting for him to choose.

The academic system of the American Military Academy generally lasts four years. The graduates of the American Military Academy in these two years are all passionate young people who entered the military academy during the Mexican-American War.

From 1846 to 1848, an exceptionally large number of people applied for military academies.

Sadly, now that the war is over, the federal government has carried out large-scale disarmament in order to save military expenditures.

These graduates face the difficult situation of being unemployed upon graduation.

Not to mention finding a job as a junior officer in the regular army, finding a job with a decent salary in the militia is already a blessing.

Liang Yao can hire them for emergencies, but in the long run, he still needs to cultivate a group of officers who are absolutely loyal to him.

These officers could neither care about the north nor the south. They could only care about someone else.

He wanted to ensure that ten years later, the California Infantry, from officers to soldiers, would be completely loyal to him.

Compared with other regiments of the American Army, Liang Yao's infantry regiment has another special feature.

That is, his infantry regiment is the only infantry regiment among all the infantry regiments of the American Army that has Chinese soldiers as its backbone.

Among the infantry companies, there are seven infantry companies that are entirely composed of Chinese, from the company commander to the non-commissioned officers to the top soldiers.

What Liang Yao lacks most now is Chinese officers who have received systematic military education.

In order to solve this problem, Liang Yao decided to select a group of young people with literacy and English skills from Chinese soldiers and immigrants for training, and let them apply for American military academies.

It's just that such people are really hard to find. Counting the young man Cai Mingsheng recommended to him, he has only found 8 such young people now.

And he needs at least 20 such young people. Liang Yao can only hope that the Wu family fleet that is about to arrive will surprise him.

Wu Yuanhua recruited more than 80 people in Guangzhou on his behalf who were working for Guangzhou Hongshang. I heard that several of them were under 20 years old.

On February 20, 1851, Wu Yuanhua's fleet finally arrived in San Francisco.

At this time, the Global Shipping fleet had already set off for Guangzhou, preparing to transport the next batch of immigrants.

Accompanying the fleet were several members of the Liang family.

To be precise, they were an uncle and three brothers of Liang Yao.

The Liang family is quite prosperous. In Liang Yao's memory, there are thirteen children of the Liang family in his generation, and he ranks third.

"How do you plan to arrange these four people? One is your third uncle, and the three are your brothers."

Deng Yan was worried for Liang Yao about how to arrange the four Liang family members.

"It's okay for your third uncle and his two sons. Your third uncle is a kind-hearted person and has no airs. It's just that your second brother is a bit difficult to deal with. He doesn't learn to speak well on weekdays. He is still the legitimate son. However, your grandfather and father are still partial to this guy. .”

The Liang family is not only a prominent family, but also a wealthy family. The interpersonal relationships between such family members are destined to be very complicated.

In Liang Yao's memory, the relationship between the Liang family members was not harmonious.

His third uncle Liang Shaoyu was an anomaly among the Liang family. Liang Yao vaguely remembered that in order to please his grandfather, most of the Liang family's children were more diligent and studious.

Liang Shaoyu had no talent in the imperial examination. When Liang Yao was admitted to the junior college examination at the age of 17, Liang Shaoyu still had no fame.

But Liang Shaoyu was better than his other uncles in dealing with people. When Liang Yao was admitted to Linsheng, Liang Shaoyu was the first among his uncles to congratulate him, and he congratulated him sincerely, not in a weird and false way. congratulate.

In Liang Yao's childhood memories, Liang Shaoyu was always regarded as a typical negative teaching material in the family. His father and other uncles often said that if he didn't study hard, he would be as useless as your third uncle.

However, when Liang Yao was a child, he liked to play with Liang Shaoyu, because when he was with Liang Shaoyu, he could be temporarily liberated from the study and did not have to study, and there was no pressure when he was with Liang Shaoyu.

Also, among the brothers of the same generation in the Liang family, he has the best relationship with Liang Shaoyu's eldest son, Liang Xu.

As for Liang Shaoyu's youngest son Liang Xi, if Liang Yao remembers correctly, Liang Xi is only twelve years old this year.

His half-brother Liang Sheng, on the other hand, was more troubled. When he was a child, he saw that Liang Yao was good at reading and writing, so he often bullied him and refused to deal with him.

Although Liang Yaozhan was the one responsible for every conflict, he was always the one who got beaten.

There was no other reason. Liang Sheng's biological mother was the well-matched wife of his father, who was married to a matchmaker. This lady of the Liang family was not a well-educated person, and was particularly partial to her two sons. When Liang Yao was young, he and Liang Xu called the Liang family's wife an old witch, which is evident from their relationship.

And Liang Yao's biological mother, Deng Lan, was just a concubine that his father took out of his sight and had no status at all in the family.

"They did whatever the Deng brothers did when they first came to San Francisco. He is my third uncle, you are my second uncle, the brothers from the Liang family are my brothers, and the brothers from the Deng family are also my brothers. I have no reason to be right." They are partial." Liang Yao said, "Let's start from the following step by step."

"It's just that they are the Liang family after all."

Deng Yan felt very comfortable hearing Liang Yao's words, but the situation of the Liang family was different from that of the Deng family.

"So what about the Liang family? I earned this foundation in California and it has nothing to do with the Liang family." Liang Yao said.

The foundation he built in California has nothing to do with the Liang family.

When he first went abroad, the Liang family didn't give him a penny of silver. The eight silver dollars in his pocket were given by his mother.

If the Liang family wants to point fingers at his property and think it belongs to the Liang family, then they are thinking too much.

Hu Jinchen walked in with four children of the Liang family.

"Third uncle, sit down."

Liang Yao made a gesture of invitation to Liang Shaoyu.

"It's been two years since I last saw you. You've grown a lot taller and stronger than before."

After Liang Shaoyu sat down, he looked at Liang Yao and said with some embarrassment.

"To be honest, your third uncle brought the whole family here to join you this time."

As he spoke, Liang Shaoyu winked at his wife Zhang beside him.

Mrs. Zhang hurriedly took her two sons to say hello to Liang Yao.

"This is your brother, go up and say hello."

Before Zhang could finish speaking, Liang Xu and Liang Xi stepped forward to say hello to Liang Yao.

"Third brother, you live here very comfortably. The yard where you live alone is bigger than the yard where the entire Liang family lives."

Liang Sheng said angrily.

"I heard from those businessmen in Guangzhou that you made millions of taels of silver in Citi Country, and you sent 500 taels of gold to your family. Could it be that you have been in Citi Country for a long time? Don’t remember your last name?”

"Second nephew! Please stop saying a few words! When the third nephew went abroad to make money alone, do you know the hardships involved?"

Liang Shaoyu couldn't help frowning when he heard this. Liang Sheng was too ignorant. This is Citi Country, not Fragrant Mountain.

As an adult with brains, Liang Shaoyu knew very well that Liang Yao was able to build such a solid foundation in a foreign country in a short period of time, so he must be no ordinary person. Today's Liang Yao is no longer the same Liang Yao as before.

At the first sight of Liang Yao, Liang Shaoyu felt that this nephew was completely different from before. Except for his appearance, there was no trace of his former self.

"You have been pampered since you were a child and don't know the difficulty of making money. The third nephew's money is not brought by the strong wind. Do you believe outsiders when they say how much money the third nephew has earned? Besides, isn't 1,000 taels of gold still too little?"

"I don't know how much the third brother's property in Citi is worth, but this Western-style house is probably worth hundreds of thousands of taels." Liang Sheng said with squinted eyes.

Liang Yao looked gloomy, staring at Liang Sheng's sallow face, and said coldly: "How about I give you my house?"

Liang Sheng had no intention of refusing at all. He called Hu Jinchen, who was serving tea to Liang Shaoyu and others, to come over, took out two letters from his lapel and threw them away to Hu Jinchen.

"Give these two letters to your master."

Although Liang Sheng's arrogant attitude made Hu Jinchen feel very dissatisfied, due to Liang Sheng's identity, Hu Jinchen did not dare to say anything more and had to submit the letter to Liang Yao.

"Before leaving, my grandfather and father have made it clear that I will be in charge of the Liang family's accounts in Citi. The money earned by the Liang family in Citi is calculated annually."

Before Liang Sheng finished speaking, he saw Liang Yao stand up and throw the two unopened letters into the fireplace. Seeing this, Liang Sheng immediately stood up from his chair.

"What are you doing? This is the letter that your grandfather and father gave you! You threw it into the stove without even looking at it! You unfilial son!"

"What kind of property does the Liang family have in Citiland? This is all the property of Liang Yao. When the Liang family sent me alone to a foreigner's ship and ignored me, did I ever think about today?" Yao said behind his back.

"I don't owe the Liang family anything. If I can send 500 taels of gold to the Liang family, I have already done my best. The Liang family has no right to point fingers at me."

Liang Sheng was furious and was about to grab Liang Yao and beat him up like he did when he was a child. However, after seeing Liang Yao's thick body and the ferocious servants behind Liang Yao who were definitely not kind, Liang Sheng Still chickened out.

Forget it, a good man will not suffer the immediate loss. I will write a letter later and send someone back to Xiangshan to tell his father and grandfather about the crime of this unfilial son.

"Don't forget, it was the Liang family who raised you, and I am your brother. It doesn't matter. As long as you give me a job, I won't care about it."

Liang Sheng said pretending to be generous.

"What kind of fat job do you want?" Liang Yao stared at Liang Sheng with squinted eyes.

"Of course it's a job with less work and more gold." Liang Sheng said without thinking.

"I don't care for idlers. Come here and send Mr. Liang to mine in the mines in Sacramento. Don't you like gold? I'll let you dig in the mines to your heart's content!"

This kid had a pretty good idea. Liang Yao didn't talk nonsense to Liang Sheng and directly ordered people to send Liang Sheng to the mining area to mine.

As soon as Liang Yao finished speaking, Liang Sheng was stood up by two of Liang Yao's guards, one on the left and the other on the right.

"Liang Yao, are you crazy?! Let me go to the mine! I am your brother! You little son of a bitch, I will report you to my father! I will report you to my grandfather!"

Liang Sheng shouted angrily while struggling.

Liang Yao jumped up and said, "You damn father and grandfather are trying to oppress me. If they dare to come, I will tell them to go to the mines!"