Chapter 431

Chen Mo's forces began to expand on a large scale in the west again.

In fact, James's 10000 times of Zachary Taylor is still a conservative estimate, maybe less than 100000 times, but there are still tens of thousands of times. The whole western region, where everything is relatively good, is basically occupied by chenmo. In addition to the massive expansion in the southwest of Mexico, 100000 times is only a matter of time.

Today's northern capitalists focus on the "high-end" fields such as industry, real estate and finance, while the slave owners of the southern plantations keep their own plantations and slaves. Chen Mo takes advantage of this gap to eat all the land in the west, and grows rapidly into the largest rancher and landowner in the United States in just two years.

A large number of people originally living here and immigrants from other places swarmed in after finding that joining Chen Mo's hands was much better than digging for food in the soil.

In this period, the people who came to the West were the hard-working poor. As long as they had food and clothing, and their own and their families' lives were guaranteed, they would cherish this job very much. Whether it was cowboys, farmers or miners, they all worked diligently and dutifully, and Chen Mo was not stingy to give them the generous rewards they deserved.

Chen Mo's enclosure is not only for enclosure, but also for a deeper purpose.

These wild areas in the west of the United States are vast but sparsely populated. They are undeveloped and desolate areas. Although they belong to the territory of the United States, they are not joined in as federal states, but simply divided into several areas. Each of these areas has the size of several other states, but the population is not the same as that of the Middle East The city has a large population.

Although these areas in the West are desolate and backward now, there will be more than a dozen independent states in the future. However, there are strict requirements from region to state.

At the time of the establishment of these areas, the United States government issued a written federal decree setting out the conditions for the establishment of states in these areas.

Initially, they divided these areas into several independent special zones, which were first managed by a governor and three administrative officials appointed by the Confederation Parliament. As the population of the area increased, three to five quasi states could be set aside.

When the population of any quasi state increases to 60000, it can apply to join the Federation and enjoy equal rights with the existing states.

Chen Mo's ranch occupies most of the high-quality land in the barren, barren and sparsely populated land in the West. It is the largest population gathering place. With the development of ranch, more and more people are recruited. In the future, when these areas truly become federal states, most of the citizens will be Chen Mo's employees.

Chen Mo will become the real controller behind these States, and the vote of the governor and even the president will be in his hands!

At that time, the whole western part of the United States will become Chen Mo's "territory", under the control of Chen Mo behind the scenes. Chen Mo will become the most important Lord among the major forces of the United States!

The United States itself is a country controlled by capitalists. As a big capitalist, Chen Mo, who controls huge wealth and a large number of votes that can influence the presidential election, will be the target of all parties.

Behind every party there is a large number of capitalist support. These parties represent these capitalists, interests, presidential election, party disputes, in fact, the struggle of capitalists!

However, Chen Mo's large-scale enclosure in the West and even throughout the United States is not only to control the vote. The peak period of fur trade will soon pass. Chen Mo can't only point to the pasture and land in his hands, but also just these, can't support his power of influencing the political situation.

After all, with the continuous development of the west, his ranch can't always occupy the domination of the west, and the number of employees in the ranch is limited. With more and more people coming to the west, especially other businessmen and capitalists, more factories, enterprises and employment opportunities will be brought. Although Chen Mo has occupied the best land in the west, he can't be one It is also detrimental to the development of the western region that individuals enjoy the western region alone and do not let others in.

So what Chen Mo has to do is to strengthen his own strength and always firmly occupy the dominant position. Even if more businessmen and capitalists come, he will not be able to shake his dominant position in the West.

To achieve this, it is not enough to rely on pasture alone.

If we mark all the land that Chen Mo bought in the United States on the map, and then compare it with an American oil resource distribution map of the future world, we can easily find that Chen Mo's vast land has covered more than 80% of the oil producing areas in the United States!

The rest are just small oil fields with small reserves.

That is to say, in the land he bought, the vast majority of American oil resources are buried!

However, at this time, the oil has not begun to be widely used, the oil production and distillation processes are primitive and backward, and there are no modern oil wells and refineries.

Moreover, the fuel engine that consumes the most oil in the future has not been invented. The steam engine that is used as the mechanical power output in the industry is still the coal-fired one.

Without an internal combustion engine, cars have not yet been manufactured, so in fact, in this era, the main use of oil is to use kerosene extracted by local methods for lighting.Chen Mo didn't plan to speed up the historical process and let the oil industry and automobile industry appear ahead of time, so his purchase of oil producing areas was just a precaution, and he bought them together while building pasture in the enclosure.

In addition to the black gold oil, Chen Mo did not forget the real gold!

Chen Mo, the American gold rush, has heard of it for a long time. It's just in time. How can Chen Mo let it go.

San Francisco, Los Angeles and other places in California have a lot of gold reserves. When the U.S. obtained California and other places from Mexico and sent out governors and administrative officials, Chen Mo expanded his enclosure operations in the past. Who knows that under the newly built vast pastures, there are a huge number of gold treasures buried!

In fact, Chen Mo has been thinking about a piece of land, Alaska!

This enclave is located in the northwest of Canada, across the sea from the mainland of the United States, not adjacent to each other. It can be said to be a huge treasure.

Today, this vast land is still a colony of Czarist Russia.

In history, after the Crimean War broke out in 1853, Russia was afraid that the Alaskan colony would be taken away by Britain, so some people proposed to sell Alaska to the United States. Finally, in April 1867, the two sides clinched a deal with 7.2 million dollars.