1850 American Gold Baron

As currently the largest immigration transfer station, Xiangshan has undergone earth-shaking changes in recent years.

The attitude of local magistrates towards immigrants has also experienced changes from rejection to acceptance, and then to support.

This is not because the parents and officials in Xiangshan are very enlightened, but in Xiangshan, immigration has become a business, a relatively mature and profitable business.

At first, officials in Xiangshan and Guangzhou had a relatively repulsive attitude towards immigrants. A large part of the reason was that in order to keep the refugees gathered in Xiangshan from trouble, they needed to allocate some grain and rice from the treasury to provide porridge.

The gathering of a large foreign population also increases the administrative costs of their management.

These all cost money, and as long as it costs money, these officials will naturally not be happy.

Of course, if you can make money, that's a different matter.

Immigration has brought prosperity to all industries in Xiangshan, and also enriched the pockets of Xiangshan’s parents and officials.

And now Californians basically take care of the food and clothing of these immigrants. Xiangshan does not have to pay any price for these immigrants. It only needs to give them the green light to get huge benefits.

Therefore, from the magistrate Fang Jianyuan of Xiangshan County to the petty officials of Xiangshan County, they all have a very tolerant attitude towards these immigrants, or to be precise, the immigrant industry.

The labor problem is a difficult problem to solve in California.

"Not yet, but it will be a matter of time." Liang Yao said, "The place names on this plaque represent the thoughts of most Oregonians, especially those in the south."

"Even governments at all levels are coming to rob people."

"Eugene joined us in California?"

"So, Russian must be a mean and vulgar language." Liang Yao said with a mocking tone.

In order to recruit workers, many factory owners and entrepreneurs are no longer content to wait at ports in California to grab immigrants. Instead, they go directly to Xiangshan, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo and other places to directly grab immigrants.

Many people even know California first, and then they know the country of the United States.

Printing Muravyov on 5,000 rubles is somewhat presumptuous. It can be seen that the Russians are greedy for territory.

But compared to the exhibition halls, the staff at these booths are more patient and answer almost every question, and the immigration conditions and investment conditions offered are more generous than in big cities.

The upper class nobles were proud to speak French and ashamed to speak Russian.

The current competition logic in California is also very simple, regardless of the industry of Liang Yao America Group.

"The power of the market is so powerful." Liang Yao said with emotion as he looked at the crowded streets of Xiangshan.

Compared with big cities and towns with deep pockets, these villages don't have that much money. They can't afford to set up an exhibition hall and can only build a simple exhibition stand.

Wealth taxes are generated by population. In California, the more populous the place, the more developed it is and the more abundant the government's fiscal revenue will be.

The funding problem can be solved in California.

In the past, the transportation of immigrants from Qing Dynasty to California mainly relied on the shipping capacity of Global Shipping Company, but now it relies more on the fleets organized by California factory owners and entrepreneurs.

Walking down the road, Liang Yao discovered that these exhibition halls were not only those in big cities such as San Francisco, Sacramento, and Los Angeles.

There was a gold rush in California, and now there is an oil rush. Even people in many inland provinces and regions of the Qing Dynasty have heard of California.

In a small pavilion at the end of the intersection in the pavilion area, Deng Yan saw that the place name written on the plaque at the door was Eugene, California, not Eugene, Oregon.

Only factories and companies that expand quickly enough can survive the brutal market competition.

There are even some rural booths.

Except for a few manufacturing industries such as Pratt & Whitney that master multiple patented technologies and have relatively high barriers to entry.

As for the purpose of big city governments setting up exhibition halls here to attract immigrants, it is nothing more than to steal people.

"If you have time, I suggest you learn French. It is a very elegant and elegant language. Let me introduce myself. I am Nikolayevich Muravyov, the Governor of Siberia in the Russian Empire."

"You don't know French?"

The sign in Eugene, California is obviously more attractive than the sign in Eugene, Oregon.

California is currently in a period of rapid development, with booming industries and a large number of labor vacancies.

If there is such a big thing, I won't be able to hear nothing about it." Deng Yan said after thinking for a while.

"You can find out if you go and ask," Liang Yao said with a smile.

He was a little surprised to learn that Liang Yao didn't know French, but beyond the surprise, there was a sense of superiority that he couldn't hide on his face. He switched to English and spoke.

The Russian portrait of Peter the Great was only printed on 500 rubles.

Four years ago, Eugene was still a sleepy little village.

Most industries compete on who has the fastest expansion speed and whose capital turnover rate is high.

"General Liang, it's not easy to meet you."

"Sorry, I don't know French." Liang Yao frowned, a little unhappy.

The efficiency is much higher than Liang Yao's organizational distribution in the early days.

These people signed contracts with immigrants in the Qing Dynasty, and after registering with the Immigration Bureau in California to obtain nationality, they could work in factories.

There is no shortage of funds in California. All major banks in California, whether local or foreign, are willing to provide funds for California factories and enterprises.

Muravyov, this name is no stranger to Liang Yao. It is this person who is printed on Russia's largest denomination of 5,000 rubles.

California is more well-known in the Qing Dynasty than any other American state.

Many companies are currently facing a shortage of workers.

After visiting Xiangshan, Liang Yao was about to go to the pier, but was blocked by a white man in his forties who spoke French.

Liang Yao can understand some French, but as for speaking, he can only speak some simple French words.

"As long as you attract enough immigrants, in the coming year you can change from village chief to township chief, and township chief to town mayor. If you were the village chief, you would also come here to attract people," Liang Yao said.

California is now the big brother of the West Coast region of the United States, and even the entire western region. It is normal for younger brothers to want to follow the big brother and take advantage of it.

Of course, unlike factories and companies, these pavilions stationed by governments at all levels in California not only attract immigrants, but also undertake the task of attracting investment.

California's administrative hierarchy is based on population, and the number of immigrants is related to the vital interests of the village chiefs and people in these villages. Therefore, the village chiefs and people in these villages are very concerned about immigration.

If you speak Russian at a noble banquet, there is no doubt that you will be laughed at.

"Probably not. If Eugene joins us in California, at least the entire southern Oregon will join us in California.

Eugene is the closest large settlement to California in the Oregon Territory, located in the southern part of the Oregon Territory. It is also the largest city in the Oregon Territory after Portland.

In the 19th century, Russia's upper-class nobility and lower-class people were still in a state of separation.

These exhibition halls are all named after places. The staff of the exhibition halls enthusiastically introduce their local conditions to passers-by, and make their locations so colorful that they attract immigrants to work and settle there.

Deng Yan, who accompanied Liang Yao to visit Xiangshan, pointed to the plaque in the exhibition hall area in front and said.

Due to France's strong influence on the European continent, French was the common language of the European aristocracy at this time. After all, French men at this time were still very martial and virtuous and not good at surrendering.

However, Russia is the only European country that has elevated French to such a high level, so despised its own language, and is even ashamed of its own language.

After Peter I, Tsarist Russia has been doing two things. One is to expand its territory and find an outlet to the sea. The other is to aspire to integrate into the European continent and gain recognition from the mainstream powers in the continent.

This is one of the reasons why Imperial Russia admires French so much.

The above two things were not only done by the Russian Empire, but also by the Russian Federation in later generations. It can be said that they have not forgotten their original intentions.