The little fat man looks like he hasn't eaten.
Li Mu's alertness was still high, and he shook the knife in his hand to the little fat man, and asked with a smile: "Is there something wrong?"
Is there something wrong Why are you eating and drinking here, we are still hungry, even if you don't care about others, don't you care about me, the king of the county I can only think about this, I can't ask it, the little fat man knows very well, if he really asks like this, Li Mu may really dare to answer, "No matter what, no matter."
Not exactly, but for sure.
So the little fat man immediately smiled on his face: "Li Mu, hehe, discuss something" Yo Affection knows Li Mu's name, this will not open his mouth and close his mouth "It's good to say when you're hungry" Li Mu gave the little fat man a sincere smile, which made the little fat man creepy.
Maybe he thought of Li Mu's virtue, the little fat man didn't talk nonsense and turned around and left, and after a while, Lao Zheng came over with an expression on his face, and then Li Mu paid half a catty of beef, ten flatbreads, two apples, half a bottle of red wine, and Miss 10,000 dollars had an extra hundred dollars in her mother's purse.
It's a good business However, Li Mu didn't do anything desperately, after thinking about it, Li Mu instructed Lao Yantou to send a copy to Old Man Chen, and the others didn't care, just let them be hungry for a while, and remember to be hungry for a long time.
After eating, Chuxue came to collect the table, Li Mu and Mike were not in the mood to chat for the time being, and the two sat on the chairs to rest, and Li Mu had the opportunity to appreciate the original ecology of the nineteenth century America.
After the Revolutionary War, the United States began its westward expansion, which has been nearly 100 years since then.
In the past 100 years, the territory of the United States has grown from about 800,000 square kilometers in the first 13 states to 50 states at present, with a total area of more than 9.3 million square kilometers, an increase of nearly 12 times.
The population has also grown from 3.9 million at the time of independence to 42 million at present, an increase of nearly eleven times.
It is worth mentioning that among these 42 million people, there are about 150,000 Chinese.
As early as 1785, not long after the independence of the United States, three Chinese sailors came to the United States on the sailing ship "Goddess of Wisdom".
However, until the mid-nineteenth century, the Chinese had little contact with the United States, and naturally had no interest in immigrating to the United States.
In 1849, only 791 Chinese entered San Francisco, and by 1850 it had increased to 4,025, and then gradually increased, and by 1873, the number of Chinese immigrants recorded by the USCIS was 150,000, not including the descendants of those early immigrants and an unknown number of black households.
One thing is for sure, the number of black households is certainly higher than the number of immigrants to the United States through regular means, and probably much higher.
At present, there are a total of 42 million people in the United States, which sounds like a lot, more than Britain and France combined, but most of them live on the east coast of the United States, which is more economically developed.
This is evidenced by the scenery outside the train window, where there were fields and houses on both sides of the railway when the train first left San Francisco, and after Stockton, the road gradually became desolate, with large expanses of primeval forest and endless wilderness passing through the window, and only the occasional scattered houses could be seen, indicating that there had been a difficult human development.
I have to say that the United States at this time is indeed a paradise, large areas of undeveloped areas give wild animals a good environment for survival and reproduction, there are often large herds of bison outside the window, and even the train was forced to stop less than two hours after leaving Stockton, because the train hit and killed a bison, the bison carcass was across the tracks, the train could not move forward, the bison carcass had to be removed, and the train had to be overhauled to make sure that the train was not damaged before continuing the journey.
The train they were riding on was now running on the Pacific Railway, which the Chinese had worked hard to build.
About ten years earlier, in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln approved the first Pacific Railroad, which provided for the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad to jointly build the transcontinental Pacific Railroad.
The Union Pacific Railroad station is Omaha, Nebraska, and the Central Pacific Railroad station is Sacramento, California.
The two companies paved the railroad in the east-west direction.
The Pacific Railroad was the first railroad to cross the North American continent and was once named one of the seven industrial wonders of the world since the Industrial Revolution by the British BBC.
The Pacific Railroad has made a huge contribution to the economic development of the United States, and in a sense, it is this railroad that will make the United States of the future.
When Lincoln decided to build the Pacific Railroad, he focused on the significance of the Pacific Railroad to the United States, which was strategically important to the American North at a time when the American Civil War had already ignited the flames of war.
But at the same time, want to build the Pacific Railway also faced a lot of difficulties, the Pacific Railway is more than 3,000 kilometers long, through the entire North American continent, is the world's first transcontinental railway, this in the minds of Americans is regarded as a miracle railway, under the conditions at that time, the construction process is extremely difficult, of which the 2,100-meter altitude of the Sierra Nevada Mountains is precipitous, is the most difficult to build the Pacific Railway.
The Central Pacific Railroad in charge of the Western Sector was originally employed by Irish, and at that time there were a large number of Irish who arrived in San Francisco every day with the ship, but these people were simply unable to adapt to the dangerous and exhausting road construction project, these Irish people were drunk, fighting, and constantly demanding higher wages, and even then, hundreds of Irish laborers escaped every day, and the slow progress of the project can only be described as a snail crawling In the first two years, only 50 miles of steel tracks were laid in the Western Section.
With no choice but to do so, Crowker, an executive at the Central Pacific Railroad, suggested hiring Chinese laborers, a proposal that was agreed to by the Central Pacific Railroad's top management, and then the first 50 Chinese laborers joined the Central Pacific Railroad.
Almost to everyone's surprise, although these 50 Chinese workers look short and thin, they are all able to endure hardships and stand hard work, and they are not as free and loose as the white workers, they love to drink and make trouble, they are disciplined, they are flexible, and they can learn a lot of work at once.
Soon, the Central Pacific Railroad, having tasted the sweetness, decided to recruit Chinese laborers on a large scale.
In order to create convenient conditions for Chinese workers to immigrate to the United States, the Central Pacific Railroad Company even lobbied the U.S. government to sign the Treaty of Anchen with the Qing government in 1868, which stipulated that China and the United States would recognize the right of citizens of the two countries to voluntarily immigrate to each other's countries, and that Chinese could go to the United States at will.
Look, the Qing people at that time had already enjoyed visa-free treatment.
From then on, in the four years from 1865 to 1869, more than 14,000 Chinese laborers, accounting for more than 90 percent of the total number of workers, participated in the construction of the road
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