Chapter 143: Business Is Inferior to Politics?

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 staffed infantry companies.

The existence of the California Infantry Regiment is not to defend the United States of America, but to defend Liang Yao's private property.

The order that can mobilize these soldiers is not from Congress and the War Department, but Liang Yao's order.

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

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

Now there is a very realistic situation in front of 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 school system of the American Military Academy is generally four years. In these two years, the graduates of the American Military Academy are all passionate young people who entered the military academy during the Mexican-American War.

The number of people applying for military academies from 1846 to 1848 was particularly large.

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

These graduates are facing the dilemma of being unemployed after graduation.

Not to mention finding a job as a grassroots officer in the regular army, it is already a blessing to be able to find a job with a decent salary in the militia.

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

These officers cannot be loyal to the north or the south, but only to him, Liang.

He wants to ensure that in ten years, the California Infantry Regiment, from officers to soldiers, will be completely loyal to him.

Compared with other regiments in the United States Army, Liang Yao's infantry regiment has another special feature.

That is, his infantry regiment is the only infantry regiment in all infantry regiments in the United States Army with Chinese soldiers as the backbone.

In an infantry company, there are seven infantry companies that are completely composed of Chinese from company commanders to non-commissioned officers to privates.

And 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 cultural and English foundation from Chinese soldiers and immigrants for training, and let them apply for military academies in the United States.

But such people are really hard to find. Including the young man recommended to him by Cai Mingsheng, 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 can bring him a surprise.

Wu Yuanhua recruited more than 80 guys who used to work for Guangzhou merchants in Guangzhou on his behalf. It is said that several of them are under 20 years old.

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

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

Along with the fleet, there were also several Liang family members.

To be precise, it was Liang Yao's uncle and three brothers.

The Liang family was still prosperous. In Liang Yao's memory, there were thirteen Liang family members of his generation, and he was the third oldest.

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

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

"Your third uncle and his two sons are easy to deal with. Your third uncle is honest and has no airs. It's just that your second brother is a bit difficult to deal with. Not only is he not good at studying, but he is also the legitimate son. But your grandfather and father are partial to this guy."

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

In Liang Yao's memory, the family members of the Liang family are not harmonious.

His third uncle Liang Shaoyu is an outlier among the children of the Liang family. Liang Yao vaguely remembers that in order to please his grandfather, most of the children of the Liang family are more diligent and studious.

Liang Shaoyu has no talent in the imperial examination. When Liang Yao was admitted as a student at the age of 17, Liang Shaoyu still had no fame.

But Liang Shaoyu is better than his other uncles in dealing with people. When Liang Yao passed the imperial examination, Liang Shaoyu was the first among his uncles to congratulate him, and he congratulated him sincerely, not hypocritically.

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

However, when Liang Yao was a child, he liked to play with Liang Shaoyu very much, because when he was with Liang Shaoyu, he could be temporarily liberated from the study, without having to study, and there was no pressure to be with Liang Shaoyu.

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

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

It was his half-brother Liang Sheng who was more troublesome. When he was a child, he saw that Liang Yao was better at studying, so he often bullied him and didn't get along with him.

Although Liang Yao was always right during 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 eldest 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 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 on the side.

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, did 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 past.

"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 clothes and threw them away at Hu Jinchen.

"Give these two letters to your master."

Although Liang Sheng's arrogant attitude made Hu Jinchen 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 a letter handed to you by your grandfather and father! 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 keep idle people here. Come on, send Mr. Liang to Sacramento to mine. Don't you like gold? I'll let you mine and have fun!"

This kid has a good idea. Liang Yao didn't waste time talking 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 held up by Liang Yao's two guards on the left and right.

"Liang Yao, are you crazy?! Let me go to the mine! I'm your brother! You bastard, I'm going to report you to my father! To my grandfather!"

Liang Sheng shouted angrily while struggling.

Liang Yao slammed the table and stood up: "Don't use your shitty father and grandfather to pressure me. If they dare to come, I'll make them go to the mine!"