Chapter 165: Do I Have a Grudge Against You? (Additional Chapters After Accumulating 10,000 Reward Points!)

Connie suffers from epilepsy, but the frequency of his seizures is not high. Google search reading

Since Connie started working for Liang Yao, Liang Yao remembered that Connie had only had four or five seizures.

Liang Yao helped Connie to the sofa to rest. What shocked Liang Yao was that Vanderbilt didn't know that his son had epilepsy.

"What's wrong with Connie?"

Vanderbilt frowned and asked.

"As a father, you don't know that your son has epilepsy?"

Liang Yao felt a little speechless.

William was used to it. He took out a clean white handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the foam from the corner of Connie's mouth. Then he asked Liang Yao's servant for a blanket to cover Connie to prevent Connie from catching a cold.

"My brother suffered from this disease when he was in business school."

William said calmly.

"He was worried that it would affect your career if you knew it, so he didn't tell you."

Vanderbilt remained silent.

"Mr. Vanderbilt, as a businessman, you are very successful, but as a father, you are a failure."

After saying this, Liang Yao left the hall and went to the study. He was not interested in asking more about Vanderbilt's family affairs.

Liang Yao sat down at the desk, sorted out his thoughts based on the materials on the desk, and continued to compile "Universal Chronicle", which is the world history textbook for elementary and middle schools in California.

Not long after Liang Yao arrived at the study, Vanderbilt knocked on the door of Liang Yao's study.

This was the first time Vanderbilt knocked before entering the house.

"Come in."

Liang Yao put down the work at hand.

"I am here to thank you and apologize to you."

Vanderbilt found a sofa to sit down, and then continued.

"I am very happy to see the changes that have taken place in Coney. He is better than I thought."

"All your children are better than you think."

Liang Yao felt very fresh. This guy actually thanked people sometimes.

Vanderbilt's sons were not as bad as he imagined. Not only was Connie not that bad, but his eldest son William was not that bad either.

After inheriting his property, William earned almost as much money in less than 8 years as his father earned in his entire life.

The Vanderbilt family reached its peak in William's hands.

However, Vanderbilt made so much wealth from scratch. In terms of ability and vision, Vanderbilt is actually better, and there is no doubt about that.

As for Vanderbilt's youngest son, George Washington, who died young in the war, his ability is not very good.

Liang Yao didn't know what Vanderbilt meant by the apology he said to him, and looked at Vanderbilt with some doubts.

"You haven't done anything to let me down, why are you apologizing to me?"

He thought about it, but he couldn't think of what Vanderbilt had done to let him down.

Vanderbilt opened his bag, took out a photo frame from it, and placed it on Liang Yao's desk.

Liang Yao glanced at the photo frame and saw a silver-plate photo of Elizabeth Yin in the photo. Elizabeth Yin smiled sweetly at him.

"Elizabeth Yin didn't come this time because she was angry with you. This is the gift she entrusted me to give you." Vanderbilt said with guilt.

"Angry with me?" Liang Yao felt puzzled.

"Ahem, after returning to the East, she wrote you a lot of letters, but she never received any reply from you." Vanderbilt said with two dry coughs.

"Letter? I didn't receive her letter." Liang Yao said bluntly.

"Of course you didn't receive it. I intercepted all these letters and threw them into the sea." Vanderbilt said.

"Do I have a grudge against you?" Liang Yao rolled his eyes at Vanderbilt.

"So I came to apologize to you, and I hope you can forgive me."

Vanderbilt stood up, took off his hat, and bowed to Liang Yao to apologize.

"I hope to find a good home for my daughter and a suitable husband, but you are too good. You are the only one who makes me feel that my daughter is not worthy of you."

Vanderbilt is looking for an assistant for himself rather than a son-in-law.

He hopes that his son-in-law has strong personal abilities, but at the same time, he hopes that his son-in-law's personal abilities are below his own, so that he can be controlled and ordered.

Obviously, Liang Yao, who has outstanding abilities, is not such a person. He will not accept his control, let alone listen to his orders.

"You should not control the lives of your children." Liang Yao picked up the teacup on the desk and took a sip of tea.

"From now on, I, an old man, will no longer ask about the affairs between you young people."

After saying that, Vanderbilt got up and left Liang Yao's study.

The two thousand rifled versions of M1842 ordered by Liang Yao from the Springfield Arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts have arrived. Not only can all the infantry regiments in California be equipped with this most advanced light weapon in the United States, but even the militia regiments can have one for each person.

According to California law, California citizens are obliged to serve in the militia. During the service, the state government provides accommodation and food subsidies, but no military pay. Military pay is only provided when performing tasks.

Those who perform well during the service in the militia will be promoted to the California Infantry Regiment and enjoy the same treatment as regular soldiers.

Rifled guns are expensive to make, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the production of Springfield Armory is also very limited.

Originally, Liang Yao could not buy two thousand rifles, but he paid more money, and the Springfield Armory did not hesitate to give priority to Liang Yao's California Infantry and Militia Regiment with 1,000 rifled M1842s that were originally to be delivered to the Washington Light Infantry Regiment.

After the end of the Mexican-American War, there were no large-scale new wars, and these American arsenals had a hard time. There was nothing that could not be obtained by paying more money. If there was, it must be that you did not pay enough.

In addition, Liang Yao also ordered 500 Springfield M1847s, which is a short rifle for cavalry, which can be understood as a short-barreled model of the Springfield M1842. The length of the entire gun is only 1041mm, while the length of the regular version of the Springfield is 1470mm.

Liang Yao used these cavalry rifles to equip cavalry to make up for the lack of range of revolvers.

Relying on this large order, Liang Yao also poached some gun designers from the Springfield Armory to California to work for his arsenal workshop.

Spending money to buy arms is not a long-term solution after all. He hopes that the California Infantry Regiment can use the advanced weapons and equipment produced in the state as soon as possible.

He knows that the Springfield Armory will not give him the best gunsmith in the factory, but it doesn't matter. When he goes to the East, he will personally take gold to the Springfield Armory to dig out their best gun designers.

Compared with the Springfield M1842 muzzle-loading gun, Liang Yao prefers the Delais needle gun, which has a more advanced design concept. He has sent people to Prussia to purchase this type of gun.

In terms of artillery, General Tromelin of the French Navy promised to help him purchase some 12-pound smoothbore field guns from the Paris Artillery Factory. How much can be purchased depends on the artillery production and attitude of the Paris Artillery Factory.

Liang Yao's purchase of French artillery is not for the sake of wine. Compared with the French artillery, Liang Yao is more concerned about the French artillery shells. During this period, the French artillery may not be the most advanced, but the French artillery shells are really unique, especially the French howitzer, which is a magical weapon.

As for the more advanced artillery such as the Armstrong and Whitworth that shone during the Civil War, they are still in the design and trial production stage, and they cannot be obtained even if you have money.

As for artillery, Liang Yao can only make do with it for the time being.

"Jinchen, notify Major Elvis and Lieutenant Colonel Deng Yan to come to my office to see me."

Liang Yao said to Hu Jinchen while looking at the map on the wall.