Chapter 688: To mess up the United States, it depends on California!

The autumn wind on the Huangpu River blew away the coal soot and steam, and the steam crane on the boat platform of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau kept roaring. Luo Yaoguo stepped on the slippery iron ladder to the scaffolding. The Jiangfeng lifted up the hem of his navy blue robe, revealing the "Tongtian Mirror Cover" placed on his waist - it was sewn for him by Su Sanniang himself. The "Tongtian Mirror" that can "connect to the heavens" is now inserted inside.

"The spacing between the ribs is eighteen inches, and the error must not exceed half a cent!" The French chief engineer Jean Pompidou's Shanghai dialect with a strong French accent, and the compass in his hand poked dense holes on the drawings. Several British engineers held cherry wood pipes, looking dissatisfied - what ironclad ships do the French know about? Their "Glorious" class is only more than 5,000 tons, and the "Warrior" class of the British Empire is nearly 10,000 tons!

Unfortunately, Britain refused to transfer the "Warrior"-level drawings to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so these British shipbuilding experts could only serve as deputys to the French.

Under the boat, two hundred Chinese workers bowed their backs and dragged ten feet of steel beams with hemp ropes. The river wind in late autumn blew past their thin short jackets like a knife, but sweat condensed into salt frost on the spine. A young apprentice was staggered by the steel beam, and a Chinese intern engineer who had just graduated from Taiping University quickly shouted: "Be careful, be careful, don't let it go."

Xu Shou, the general manager of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, jogged over with a blue leather booklet: "Your Majesty, the articles of association of the employee stock have been drafted - one share can be purchased for three years of service, an annual interest rate of four cents, and resigned at the market price." Open the inner page, and you can tell at a glance that the terms above were drafted by Hu Guangyong, the general manager of Shanghai Silk Reeling Factory.

Xu Shou also said: "Tang Tingshu of Kaiping Mining Bureau proposed that in addition to the dividends of not granted shares, he would draw 10% of the annual pre-tax profits into the 'pension pool'. Xu Run of Xuzhou Iron and Steel Plant said too much, and half of the achievement was enough..."

Luo Yaoguo smiled: "Where can Kaiping Mining Bureau compare profits with Xuzhou Iron and Steel Plant? 10% of Kaiping's is less than a cent of Xuzhou Iron and Steel Plant!"

Among the factories under the management of the Shengku of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Xuzhou Iron and Steel Plant, Jiangnan Pharmaceutical Bureau and Shanghai Wire Reel Plant are definitely the three major money-making kings! The chief engineer of Xuzhou Iron and Steel Plant is Bei Semai himself, the founder of metallurgy! Moreover, Xuzhou Iron and Steel Plant is a "kengkou Factory", with coal mines, iron ore and seaports nearby, and the railway was built early to connect the factory, mine and port.

Xuzhou itself is the intersection of the two railways of Longhai and Jinpu. The railway tracks in Xuzhou factory can be loaded and shipped without being cold. They go straight to the construction site, and the efficiency is extremely high!

The production efficiency of Jiangnan Pharmaceutical Bureau cannot be compared with that of Xuzhou factory, but Jiangnan Pharmaceutical Bureau has the flagship product of Coptis chinensis, which also controls the supply of Coptis chinensis, and the product is in short supply. How many people in the world have diarrhea every day? Today's foreign doctors can use berberine to treat diseases, but they are smoke.

As for the Shanghai Wire Reel Factory, although it does not have the high efficiency of the Xuzhou Factory and the high technology of the Jiangnan Pharmaceutical Bureau, it has Hu Guangyong! So it has developed very fast in the past two years, has excellent product quality, and is also very well controlled. Moore and Friedrich, who have gone to North Korea to help Yang Xiuqing in industrialization, also regard the Shanghai Wire Reel Factory as a typical example of success. I guess Hu Guangyong's name will be included in that "theory"!

Luo Yaoguo thought about it again and made a decision: "There is no coordinated pension yet, so let each factory take care of itself first."

Xu Shou was stunned: "The pension will still need to be coordinated in the future?"

"Of course!" He gave a positive answer, then turned his attention to the keel line of the "Tianjing" on the drawings, and suddenly asked: "Can the steam engine of Jiangnan-Sthysen Company, and can the boilers of Jiangnan-Bolton Company be supplied on time?"

"We have formulated three plans in total," Xu Shou lowered his voice, "One set is made of products from joint ventures, one set is made of French products, and the other is made of original British goods. The telegram taken by the Countess of Temple Mount said that she can settle all three plans."

"Okay!" Luo Yaoguo nodded with a smile, "Rinko said that if he could settle it, he would definitely settle it." He then ordered, "The 'Tianjing' class No. 1 ship must be delivered before the end of October of the tenth year of Tianli!"

Yuyuan, Tingyuxuan.

Zhang Bao had just arrived in Shanghai today and didn't even return home. When he heard that Luo Yaoguo was inspecting Shanghai, he ran straight to him without even having to eat. At this moment, the steamer of crab noodles and small buns was piled up in front of him, and the cuffs of the military uniform were stained with crab oil and balsamic vinegar.

"The iron-clad ship hits a wooden ship like tearing paper!" He waved his chopsticks, and the soup splashed on Maria's Western skirt. "Those foreigners were driving the 'Sasquehanna' and were stuck out by a shot!"

Maria's silver spoon hit the porcelain plate with a "clang": "Hong Renzheng didn't plant the Huanglong flag in Jinshan, right?"

"I almost shivered!" Zhang Bao wiped his greasy mouth, "I heard that the old boy even prepared the dragon robe, thanks to Prince Zhao's "high wall" of King Feng Nan - now they are applying for a 'white certificate' for the Chinese! What do you think? Use a magnifying glass to look at his arms, and compare who is white!"

As he spoke, he looked at Maria again and had to say. Maria is really white! If you want to divide white people according to her skin color, 99% of the Chinese in California are still not white enough!

Luo Yaoguo sat aside and savored the tea. When he heard Zhang Bao talking about the "white witness", he burst into laughter: "Zhao Si did a good job, but Hong Renzheng"

He suddenly turned around, his eyes like a knife: "Maria, go to Seoul! Now!"

"Go to Seoul?" Maria asked, "What deal do you want to do with Dongwang?"

Luo Yaoguo did not answer, but looked at Zhang Bao, and Zhang Bao immediately fucked his belly: "I'm full, teacher, my wife, I'll go home first."

Luo Yaoguo nodded: "Okay, let me say hello to Xier."

The "Xi'er" he mentioned is Wang Xi'er, Wang Yan's girl, and now Zhang Bao's wife.

Seeing Zhang Bao leave, Luo Yaoguo whispered to Maria: "Hong Renzheng can't continue to do it anymore. He can't learn from Wei Jun to be the king on the West Coast!"

"If Hong Renzheng wants to move, I'm afraid he will have to do the king?" Maria blinked her bright eyes.

Luo Yaoguo lowered his voice: "Go and tell King Gan that the three states on the west coast and the Tianwang City can be given to Tiangui! If King Gan agrees, you will go and talk about this matter with the Dongwang and ask what conditions are there."

"yes!"

In the afternoon in Springfield, Illinois, there was a strong wind and the pine sign at Lincoln Law Firm was creaking.

Abraham Lincoln's old leather shoes were placed on his desk, holding a newly written speech in his hand - he is now preparing for the 1860 presidential election!

"Is Mr. Lincoln here?"

Sherman's voice came in from outside the door. Lincoln was stunned: "Here, you are."

"I am William Sherman!" With a cold wind, a "Chicago Tribune" was taken on Lincoln's desk. In the front page, a judge in the black robe was checking Xianfeng's arm with a magnifying glass.

"They are creating a new plague!" Sherman wore a dirty military coat. "Today, he can tamper with the constitution based on the color of his skin, and tomorrow he can define human rights based on his height!"

He threw out a series of documents: "This is the entry statistics table for Chinese people from the California Immigration Administration from 1850 to the present. In just 10 years, 350,000 Chinese, including Japanese and Koreans, have entered California, more than twice as many white people as in California!"

Lincoln stroked his long fingers through Xianfeng's smile in the photo: "William, what do you want to say?" He looked at Sherman.

Sherman's fist hit the ink bottle and jumped up: "The Federation must amend the Naturalization Law to nail the 'free whites' to the blood of European whites! Only whites in Europe are considered whites!" He took out his revolver from his arms and slapped it on the table, and the handle of the gun was engraved with "victory or death", "otherwise the White House will hang the yellow dragon flag in half a century!"

A string of Mars burst out from the fireplace. Lincoln looked at Sherman: "The Constitution of 1787 compromised slavery. Now it's our turn to compromise on the color of the skin. Is it a compromise on race?" His voice suddenly rose, "Col. Sherman, do you want me to be a president of 'white supremacy' or a president of 'everyone is born equal'?"

"Don't you understand?" Sherman looked anxious. "California will be messed up by them!"

"Who messed up?"

"Of course they are Chinese!" Sherman said, "They are so many in the past, they were second-class third-class people in California, and they had already arrived 350,000 like ants. If they were defined as free white people, millions or even tens of millions of Chinese would come to California, Oregon, and Washington in less than thirty years. The western states would have dozens of electoral votes and dozens of seats for the federal representatives! The True Dealers and Chinese will become an important force in American politics. And they will definitely not support strengthening the Federation for their own interests. They will be in harmony with the slave owners in the south, advocate state power supremacy, and turn the United States into a loose confederacy instead of a close confederacy! Abraham, is that America your ideal country?"

Lincoln squinted his eyes and said forcefully and firmly: "Not America will definitely be a great country!"

On the banks of the Huangpu River, the keel of the iron-clad ship "Tianjing" was bulging like a giant beast's backbone. Luo Yaoguo stood at the top of the ship platform, looking at merchant ships of all sizes coming and going on the river. British freighters were unloading the boiler from Birmingham, French merchant ships carried silk to Marseille, and the trans-Pacific ships of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were filled with immigrants who were dreaming of making money, while his Maria was riding a "Shanghai" class along the Huangpu River.

"Spread the United States..." he said to himself, "California will definitely become a tool to mess up the United States!"

In New York, thousands of miles away, Xianfeng, carrying the "Naturalization Certificate" signed by the California Supreme Court, was slowly walking down from a luxury passenger ship accompanied by Little Lico Stanford and Chiyoko.
Chapter completed!