Chapter 430 The Great Lord of the United States!

Chen Mo's forces once again began a large-scale expansion in the west.

In fact, the 10,000 times that James said to Zachary Taylor is still a conservative estimate. It may be less than 100,000 times, but there are still tens of thousands of times. All the good places in the entire west are basically occupied by Chen Mo. Add in the massive expansion now in the Southwest ceded by Mexico, and a hundred thousand times is only a matter of time.

Today's northern capitalists focus on "high-end" fields such as industry, real estate, and finance, while southern plantation slave owners guard their plantations and slaves, and Chen Mo takes advantage of this gap to eat all the land in the west , has grown rapidly into the largest rancher and landowner in the United States in just two years.

A large number of people who originally lived here and immigrants from other places swarmed after they found that it was much better to join Chen Mo's team than to dig food in the soil.

The people who came to the west during this period were the poor and hard-working. As long as they had food and clothing, and the livelihood of themselves and their families was guaranteed, they would cherish this job very much, whether it was a cowboy, a farmer, or a miner, all of them were They work diligently and diligently, and Chen Mo is not stingy to give them the generous remuneration they deserve.

Chen Mo's enclosure is not only for enclosure, he also has a deeper purpose, and there is more than one.

These wild places in the western United States are vast but sparsely populated. They belong to undeveloped and desolate areas. Although they belong to the territory of the United States, they are not joined as federal states, but are simply divided into several areas. Each of these regions is the size of several other states, but not as populated as a single city in the Mideast.

Although these western regions are desolate and backward now, more than a dozen independent states will be established in the future, and there are strict requirements from region to state.

When these areas were established, the United States government issued written federal statutes that set the conditions for state formation in these areas.

Initially, they divided these areas into several independent special districts, which were first assigned by the Confederate Congress to manage a governor and three administrative officials. As the population of the area increased, three to five territories could be added.

When the population of any territorial state increases to 60,000, it can apply to join the Federation and enjoy equal rights with the existing states.

In these barren, barren and sparsely populated lands in the west, Chen Mo's pastures occupy most of the high-quality land, and they are the largest population gathering places. With the development of the pastures, more and more people are recruited. In the future, these areas will truly become federal states. After that, most of the citizens will be Chen Mo's employees.

Chen Mo will become the real controller behind these states, and the votes of the governor and even the president will be in his hands!

At that time, the entire western United States will become Chen Mo's "territory", controlled by Chen Mo behind the scenes, and Chen Mo will become the most important lord among the major forces in the United States!

The United States itself is a country controlled by capitalists. As a big capitalist, Chen Mo, who controls huge wealth and a large number of votes enough to control the presidential election, will definitely become the target of all parties to win over.

Behind every party there is the support of a large number of capitalists, and these parties represent precisely these capitalists, interests, presidential elections, partisan battles, and in fact, capitalist struggles!

However, Chen Mo's large-scale enclosures and ranches in the West and even the entire United States are not just to control votes. The heyday of the fur trade will soon pass. Chen Mo can't just point at the pastures and land in his hands, and it's just these , still unable to support his power to influence the political situation.

After all, with the continuous development of the west, his ranch cannot always occupy the dominion of the west. After all, the number of employees the ranch can accommodate is limited. As more and more people come to the west, especially the arrival of other businessmen and capitalists, It will bring more factories, enterprises and employment opportunities. Although Chen Mo has occupied the best land in the west, it is impossible for him to enjoy the west alone and prevent others from entering.

This is also unfavorable for the development of the west.

Therefore, what Chen Mo has to do is to strengthen his own strength and always firmly occupy the dominant position. Even if more businessmen and capitalists arrive, they will not be able to shake his dominance in the west.

And to achieve this, pastures alone are not enough.

If all the land purchased by Chen Mo in the United States is marked on the map, and then compared with a map of the distribution of oil resources in the United States in the future world, we can easily find that the vast land owned by Chen Mo has been covered. More than 80% of the oil-producing areas in the United States!

And the remaining ones are just some small oil fields with smaller reserves.

In other words, in the land he bought, most of the oil resources of the entire United States are buried!

However, the oil at this time had not yet begun to be applied on a large scale, the oil extraction and distillation processes were primitive and backward, and modern oil wells and refineries had not yet appeared.

Moreover, the fuel engine that consumes the most oil in the future has not yet been invented, and the coal-fired steam engine is still used as the mechanical power output in the industry.

There is no internal combustion engine, and cars have not yet been manufactured, so in fact, in this era, the main use of oil was to use local methods to extract kerosene and use it as lighting.

Chen Mo did not intend to speed up the historical process and let the oil industry and the automobile industry appear earlier, so his purchase of the oil-producing area was just a precautionary measure, and he bought it together while building the ranch in the enclosure.

In addition to the oil known as black gold, Chen Mo has not forgotten the real gold!

Chen Mo has heard about the gold rush in the United States for a long time, just in time for this era, how could Chen Mo let it go.

California's San Francisco and Los Angeles have large gold reserves. When the United States acquired California and other areas from Mexico and sent governors and administrators, Chen Mo extended his enclosure operations. Who knows , Under the newly built vast pastures, there is a huge amount of gold treasures buried!

In fact, Chen Mo has always been thinking about a piece of land, Alaska!

This enclave located in the northwest of Canada, across the sea from the continental United States and not bordering, can be said to be a huge treasure.

Today, this huge area of ​​land is still a colony of Tsarist Russia.

Historically, after the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1853, Russia was afraid that the Alaska colony would be taken away by the United Kingdom, so some people proposed to sell Alaska to the United States. Finally, in April 1867, the two sides reached a deal for 7.2 million US dollars.

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