Chapter 474: Saint One Luo Two

The Statehood Day in 1856 was the sixth Statehood Day since California was established.

After signing the treaty with Mexico and writing a report to Fillmore, Liang Yao hurried back to California.

He had to rush back to California to celebrate the Statehood Day before April 1.

The San Francisco Shipyard sent him good news that the shipyard would present a gift to the people of the state on the occasion of the Statehood Day.

California participated in and won the war against Mexico as a free state, which made the whole state proud and excited.

If last year's victory in Borneo was a carnival for the upper class in California, then this victory in Mexico was a carnival for all the people of California.

The most direct reason for this result is naturally geographical. Mexico is close to California, and Californians are naturally more familiar with Mexico, which is close at hand.

The deeper reason is resources and industry.

No matter how beautiful the newspapers portray Borneo, which has rubber and oil, it takes capital to develop oil and rubber, which is not an industry that ordinary people can get involved in.

Moreover, rubber and oil are both emerging resources. Compared with traditional resources, ordinary people have limited knowledge of these two emerging resources.

Mexico is different. Mexico's economy is similar to that of the American South, mainly based on plantation economy and traditional mining.

Whether it is to use the savings accumulated in California in recent years to buy land and open fields in Mexico, or to go to Mexico to open mines in partnership, it is a very good choice.

California is vigorously developing industry and needs a large amount of cheap industrial raw materials, and Mexico can provide these for California.

After the signing of the "Treaty of Mexico City", Bell and Liang Yao took a boat from Mazatlan to San Diego.

Then the two took a train from San Diego directly to San Francisco.

Administrative units above the town in California have basically been connected to the railway. Most of the towns without railways are towns that have just completed the upgrade last year, and the railway has not been laid yet.

Therefore, although transportation in the west is not convenient, transportation in California is very convenient.

After the signing of the Treaty of Mexico City, Bell and Liang Yao arrived in San Diego by boat from Mazatlan, and then took a train from San Diego directly to San Francisco.

"So soon to San Francisco?"

Through the glass window, the skyline of a big city gradually appeared. Bell thought he had arrived in San Francisco, and he couldn't help but poke Liang Yao beside him.

But Bell always felt something was wrong. He took out his pocket watch to check the time. They left the San Diego train station at 7 o'clock in the morning, and it was only 1:30 in the afternoon. It had only been six and a half hours.

Even if the California Railway Company improved the Pioneer, it would not be possible to travel from San Diego to San Francisco in just six and a half hours.

"It's written on the platform." Liang Yao opened his eyes impatiently and glanced out the window, saying.

"This is Los Angeles."

When the train slowed down and drove into the station, Bell widened his eyes and saw the words on the platform clearly.

Unlike train stations in the east, the station signs at California train stations are not only in English, but also in Chinese. Although Bell didn't understand Chinese, he could read English. He saw the name of Los Angeles clearly printed on the sign.

After confirming that he was not mistaken, Bell said in disbelief: "Los Angeles? Is Los Angeles so big? So many people? It's bigger than Atlanta, Georgia."

Bell wanted to compare Houston, the largest city in Texas, with Los Angeles.

However, after gradually seeing a corner of this emerging metropolis, he realized that Los Angeles' dense buildings, prosperous population, and prosperous business were no longer something that a small city with a population of 30,000 or 40,000 like Houston could compare to.

"Atlanta?" Liang Yao smiled and shook his head, "Does Atlanta have oil? The wealth accumulated in Atlanta in a year may not be equal to the wealth accumulated in Los Angeles in a month."

Liang Yao was not bragging. Los Angeles is currently the only city in the world that can refine and produce petrochemical products in large quantities.

While the British were still worried about the fact that their local textiles had not been sold in the Qing Dynasty for more than a decade after opening up the Qing market, Liang Yao was already using kerosene to exchange for silver and local handicrafts from the Qing Dynasty and Japan.

What's even more infuriating is that this thing is popular with both industrial and agricultural countries. Liang Yao can not only exchange kerosene for silver from the Qing Dynasty and Japan, but also for British pounds, French francs, and Prussian marks.

"Really? I don't believe it!" Bell was a little unconvinced.

Atlanta, Georgia is the largest transportation hub in the South and one of the few big cities in the South that can be shown off.

For such a large city, the wealth accumulated in a year is not as much as the wealth accumulated in Los Angeles in a month?

"How many millionaires does Atlanta have?" Liang Yao asked.

"Two? Maybe three?" Bell thought for a while and said, "Anyway, it won't be more than three."

"There are at least thirty millionaires in Los Angeles." Liang Yao said indifferently.

"Thirty millionaires? My God!" Bell was shocked, "Oil is really a damn huge profit! It's comparable to the gold in Sacramento back then!"

"Sacramento today is really not as wealthy as Los Angeles." Liang Yao laughed.

The original ranking of cities in California was San Francisco first and Sacramento second.

Of course, there were only these two cities in California at that time, and the two cities were very close to each other, one on the American River and the other in San Francisco Bay. Both are located in central California.

After the rise of Los Angeles, the urban layout of California changed. Los Angeles almost single-handedly promoted the development of Southern California and diverted the dense population of San Francisco Bay to Southern California.

Now the ranking of cities in California is San Francisco first and Los Angeles second. San Francisco temporarily suppresses Los Angeles with its first-mover advantage and relatively complete industrial categories.

However, the gap between the two cities has become smaller and smaller, and Los Angeles has a tendency to surpass San Francisco.

"It would be great if Texas had oil."

Looking at the prosperous Los Angeles outside the window, Bell said with envy.

"Texas is vast and rich in resources, there will be." Liang Yao said thoughtfully.

In the summer of 1853, Liang Yao sent an exploration team to Texas to explore for oil at Bell's invitation.

Texas is one of the largest oil-producing states in the United States, and its oil resources are widely distributed.

The west, south, north, northeast and even the Gulf of Mexico along the coast of Texas are rich in oil and gas resources. It can be said that Texas is a state surrounded by oil and gas resources.

However, the south of Texas mainly produces shale oil, the north mainly produces shale gas, and the northeast mainly produces natural gas. These places and oil and gas resources and the oil and gas resources under the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico cannot be mined with the current technological conditions.

Liang Yao wants to exploit Texas' oil and can only focus on the West Texas Basin in western Texas.

The basin is a large sedimentary basin in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, also known as the Permian Basin.

The Permian Basin oil field is the richest oil field in the United States. Even in the 21st century, the oil in the Permian oil field is running out, and the crude oil production in this area still accounts for nearly half of the total crude oil production in Texas. It shows how rich its reserves are.

However, out of selfishness, Liang Yao does not intend to tell Bell the truth now.

At this time, developing Texas' oil will do more harm than good to him and California.

"Thank you for your words. If you can really find this thing in Texas, I will definitely convince my old friends to cooperate with you and make a fortune together." Bell said, rubbing his hands excitedly.