1850 American Gold Tycoon

"You have so many patents but only care about a mere tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses. Search on Google to read." Liang Yao smiled and said, "The landscape needs to be opened up. Geniuses like you should not be burdened by the world."

"Open up the situation? I want to open up the situation, but I am different from you. You are one of the richest people in the United States. You don't have to worry about your livelihood. And I still have a family of more than 20 people to support, including my children. It’s so frustrating to be compared to someone else.”

Walter held his forehead and said.

"Although I have a lot of inventions, many of them are just sudden inspirations. I don't know what uses these inventions can have or how much commercial value they have."

"I'm not good at inventions and creations, but I am good at monetizing inventions and creations so that these inventions and creations can realize their due value. We are an excellent partner." Liang Yao said.

"If you are willing to go to California with me, you don't have to worry about other things and just focus on your inventions. I will give you a large manor and hire the top painters in the United States to serve you 24 hours a day and help you draw. Drawings, all expenses required for your inventions and creations will be borne by me.”

Before Liang Yao finished speaking, Mrs. Walter, who was listening on the sidelines, her eyes lit up and she hurriedly asked Liang Yaodao.

"A manor, oh my God, a manor like that by the Hudson River?"

"Yes, Mrs. Walter." Liang Yao gave Mrs. Walter a positive reply.

"Oh, Mr. Liang, you are simply an angel sent by God.

My dear, what are you waiting for? Let's help go to California. I've long had enough of this pigsty in New York. Twenty or so people live in a small, four-story tiled house with a pitched roof. I've had enough of this kind of life. Mrs. Walter said excitedly.

"When I get to California, I will hire a few servants to do housework, help me take care of the children, and take care of the manor."

Mrs. Walter has planned her future life blueprint. After working hard and suffering all her life, she finally looks forward to the day of happiness.

"I heard that prices in California are more expensive than in New York, and gold is used directly in transactions there."

Walter often hears rumors about California. After all, going to California to get rich by gold mining has been the hottest topic in New York since 1848.

The conditions offered by Liang Yao are very attractive. It has always been Walter's ideal to not worry about making a living and devote all his energy to invention and creation.

It was just the prices in California that kept Walter away.

"It's true. Prices in San Francisco and Sacramento are indeed much higher than in New York."

Through my living experience in New York these days, although the prices in New York are very high, they pale into insignificance compared with San Francisco and Sacramento, two cities that relied on gold mines to rise.

Although prices in San Francisco and Sacramento have dropped significantly after gold production increased, the price levels in these two cities are still the highest in the United States.

In order to eliminate Walter's worries, Liang Yao offered a price.

"You don't have to worry about life issues. I have bought out all your unsold patents in the past and will also buy out all your future patents. 20% of the money earned through these patents will belong to you."

Seeing that Liang Yao was so sincere, Walter said after thinking for a long time.

"I don't know how much commercial value my inventions have. If possible, I would prefer to receive a fixed salary of US$1,000 per month from you to support myself and my family."

Compared with unstable patent dividends, Walter hopes to obtain a stable income to dispel his concerns.

After wandering in New York for half his life and getting used to a life of hunger and hunger, Walter hoped that he and his family could live a more stable life for the rest of their lives.

No matter how high prices are in California, one thousand dollars a month is enough to protect his family's livelihood.

This is what Walter is thinking now.

Liang Yao was stunned by Walter's request to throw watermelons and pick up sesame seeds. He wondered if there was something wrong with his ears and he heard wrongly.

Seeing Liang Yao's reaction, Walter thought that his asking price was too high.

Liang Yao is the most financially powerful and reliable partner he has ever encountered, bar none.

There have been people who have taken a fancy to Walter's potential to create inventions and have cooperated with Walter before, but these collaborators are either short-sighted or shameless villains who use his patents in vain.

Walter had suffered a lot in this regard, and Liang Yao had a lofty vision and was willing to spend money on his patents. Such collaborators and investors are rare to find.

Walter didn't want to miss this opportunity.

"If $1,000 a month is too much, we can still negotiate."

"Am I someone who lacks this $1,000?" Liang Yao was as happy as a child weighing more than 100 pounds.

"If you are willing to settle down in California, in addition to the manor and the fixed monthly salary of US$1,000, I will also pay you a one-time settlement fee of US$50,000. Of course, this settlement fee will not be paid until you arrive in California. you."

"There's nothing to say. You are the happiest and most reliable collaborator I have ever seen. I think our future cooperation will be as pleasant as today." Walter happily rubbed his big hands that had nowhere to rest.

"In that case, let's sign the contract now." Liang Yao struck while the iron was hot.

He didn't want anything to go wrong with such a precious talent.

Liang Yao drew up a contract on the spot. Faced with this well-paid contract, Walter happily signed his name on the contract after painstakingly reviewing the contract.

"Mr. Liang, which invention did I win the first Liang Yao Invention Award?" Walter asked curiously.

He has so many inventions that he can’t even remember how many patents he has applied for in the patent office. He was very curious about which of his patented technologies Liang Yao valued most.

"It's a sewing machine, sir." Liang Yao told Walter the answer.

The significance of the sewing machine is extraordinary.

Although the United States was industrializing at this time, in the international trade market, the United States' main export commodities were still raw materials such as cotton, tobacco, cane sugar, fur, and wood from the beginning of the founding of the country.

There are very few industrial products that can go abroad and enter the European market.

This is a scar on the American heart.

California already had a cotton textile industry that could turn cotton into cotton cloth.

But California’s remote geographical location is far away from the European continent. If the United States is the edge world, then California is the edge area of ​​the edge world.

The remote geographical location means that while California enjoys a relatively safe external environment, it has to bear the inconvenience of external transportation and high freight costs for exporting goods to Europe.

The cotton textile industry is only a rough processing of raw materials, and the profit is not high. Under the three high conditions of high tariffs, high transportation costs, and high labor costs, if you want to earn foreign exchange through the export of the cotton textile industry, you can earn British pounds and French people. The franc is unrealistic.

The cotton fabric spun by Liang Yao's current cotton textile factory in California is basically sold to Central American countries and eastern states of the United States, barely maintaining the operation of the textile factory without suffering too heavy a loss.

Even Liang Yao's textile factory is losing money, not to mention other small textile factories and workshops in California.

His original intention of opening a textile factory in California was to attract female workers and alleviate California's demographic problems, so he continued to operate the textile factory despite losing money.

In the first five years after the founding of the state, the largest employment position for women in California was prostitution. He could accept it. At least the industry in California was relatively large. Finding prostitutes in California was easier than in states like Iowa and Wisconsin. Xinzhou needs to be more convenient, Xinzhou is all like this, there is nothing to be ashamed of.

But if five years later, when people think of women in California, they will still think of California [prostitutes] first. This will be a shame for all California leaders and all California men. It is something Liang Yao cannot bear.

Operating at a loss is not a long-term solution. If you want to expand the textile industry in California, the profits of the textile industry must be high enough, so that more people will be willing to open textile factories and provide more self-reliant jobs for California women. .

If you want high profits, you must do deep processing.

This is why Liang Yao attaches great importance to sewing machines. Not only is the manufacturing of sewing machines itself very profitable, this thing is a real high-precision product of this era.

Once sewing machines are mass-produced, garment factories can be set up in California to directly manufacture garments.

The cost of machine-sewn garments is much lower than those hand-sewn by tailors.

Once a sewing machine clothing factory is established, not to mention the domestic clothing market in the United States, even the European market Liang Yao is sure to take advantage of it.

Tariffs are high, transportation costs are high, and garments made by machines cannot support high profits.

"I did not invent the sewing machine. If you were going to give me this award as the inventor of the sewing machine I would not accept it."

After learning that he had won the prize for inventing the sewing machine, Walter was unhappy and refused the prize.

"I just made some improvements on the original basis. Although I am a craftsman who makes bad inventions, relying on patents and living in embarrassment, I have my dignity and principles, and I will never accept honors that do not belong to me.

Although I also like the U.S. dollar, I am not a mercenary person like Alex and Yinsak. "

"Honey, are you kidding! This is tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses! I also use these bonuses to buy new clothes and delicious food for my children."

Hearing that Walter rejected the Liang Yao Invention Award, Walter almost jumped up.

Unlike Walter, who cares about the honor and social recognition that the invention award brings to him, Mrs. Walter cares about the huge bonus that comes with the invention award.

The reputation is false and cannot be used as food, but the benefits are real, and the real dollars can directly improve their family's life.

"Shut up! You stinky bitch! You know nothing!" Walter interrupted Mrs. Walter unceremoniously.

"To be precise, this award is given to you in the name of the inventor of the lock-type single-needle sewing machine and the main improver of sewing machines." Liang Yao said very solemnly.

"Your contribution to the improvement of the sewing machine is just like Watt's contribution to the improvement of the steam engine. Although you are not the inventor of the sewing machine, you are the improver who has made the greatest contribution to the improvement of the sewing machine. Only you deserve this Awards.”

There are different opinions on who is the inventor of the sewing machine. Some say that the British carpenter Thomas Shante invented the sewing machine for sewing leather shoes, while others say that the French tailor Timonier invented the sewing machine that was actually used for sewing clothes. sewing machine.

Of course, later generations also said it was Walter or even Alex.

In Liang Yao's view, these skilled craftsmen are all the inventors of the sewing machine. Sewing machine technology has been increasingly perfected for half a century, and now it can barely be put into mass production. These outstanding inventors have all contributed their wisdom to the sewing machine.