Chapter 419 The largest landowner in the United States!
At this time, the American West was a completely desolate land.
The people who come to these places now are people who are extremely poor, have lost their land, or can no longer live in the central and eastern regions. They are either alone or with their families, driving carriages and carrying their only possessions.
Attracted by the preferential policies introduced by the U.S. government to attract immigrants to develop the West, they traveled thousands of miles to this barbaric land.
The wealthy businessmen and capitalists did not like these desolate lands at all at this time. In comparison, they preferred the central and eastern regions, which were developing rapidly with the progress of the industrial revolution, where there was gold everywhere.
With enough funds, you can make a lot of money even if you just invest the money in the stock market or open a factory. These desolate lands have no appeal to them at all.
However, it is not that no one is interested in the future development of these areas and came here to invest in advance. However, the desolate and backward environment here, which is completely like a wilderness, has driven away most people. After all, not every rich person can invest in this kind of place.
To live in a harsh environment, there are no hospitals, no shops, no bars, nothing but vast land and harsh environment.
They are accustomed to the comfortable and convenient life in bustling cities, but it is difficult for them to adapt to the primitive and difficult life here. In the end, there are very few speculators left. Even those who stay are not sure when they can persist and leave.
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These speculators who came to the West with the poor are actually small businessmen. They have limited funds and have little development in big cities. In the West, they just hire some poor farmers who came to the West and build small businesses.
It's just a farm. In essence, there is not much difference between them and these poor people.
Really powerful people sit comfortably in their own offices and direct their subordinates to take care of their own properties. Who would go to such a barbaric place to seek suffering?
Chen Mo can be regarded as a truly powerful capitalist, but he did not sit in his office and direct the team's work. Instead, he personally led the team to the northwest.
However, compared with those poor people or speculators who drove old carriages and brought their families with them, Chen Mo's arrival was completely different.
Hundreds of fierce and roaring Indian warriors riding horses and carrying muskets escorted a long convoy filled with supplies as they advanced toward this vast land.
Vast wilderness, natural stone arches, huge canyons, charming caves, rapid waterfalls, dark green Colorado River water, rough and desolate red earth, weathered into strange-shaped rock cliffs.
The carriage drove on the vast land in the west, and the scenery changed along the way. It was magnificent, beautiful, and desolate. Occasionally, the vigorous figure of a cowboy riding a horse passed by in the distance. The sound of Dada's hoofbeats and the yellow dust raised by the running cattle were flying here.
In this desolate and vast land, it feels like being in an American blockbuster, with a strong flavor of the West blowing across your face.
Smelling the fresh smell of cow dung drifting in the wind, Chen Mo didn't see any change on his face. He calmly retracted his gaze out of the car window, but secretly slowed down his breathing rate.
It's really hard to be a cowboy. It seems necessary to improve their treatment appropriately.
Chen Mo, who had abundant funds, traveled all the way, bought huge tracts of land, and built huge pastures that stretched as far as the eye could see.
Chen Mo's generosity shocked the poor people who came to open up the western wilderness. Later, when Chen Mo offered very generous terms to recruit cowboys, countless people rushed to sign up.
Compared to working hard and grazing in this wilderness, but only getting a subsistence harvest, the treatment offered by Chen Mo, a wealthy rancher, is much more attractive.
But the strange thing is that all applicants must go through a personal interview with the rich man, and only after passing the interview can they officially join his ranch and become his employees.
It was said that it was an in-person interview, but in fact Chen Mo just sat on one side of the interview site while several interviewers conducted interviews with the candidates.
The entire interview was actually not long. Everyone only had a few minutes. The interview process was also very simple. They just asked a few questions casually, but in the end less than half of the people passed.
Chen Mo still has certain requirements for the character and loyalty of his men, especially the initial group of people. Although these cowboys do not need to be as loyal as his private business team, not everyone can join.
The questions he asked seemed simple, but Chen Mo could accurately tell whether he was lying or not. Lies had no effect on Chen Mo. He could directly torture people's hearts through these simple questions and know the truest thoughts in their hearts.
Of course, these people who have been personally screened by Chen Mo are only the initial core members. The area of these ranches is very vast and they are just getting started. With the construction of the ranches and the increase in the number of cattle, sheep and horses, more people will continue to be recruited to join in the future.
The number of these people will be in the tens of thousands, which is not something Chen Mo can detect. However, after the ranch develops more prosperously and becomes larger in the future, everything will be on the right track, and Chen Mo will not need every one of them.
Employees are extremely loyal, and it is enough to ensure the character and loyalty of this core group of people.
As Chen Mo's route went all the way west, a lot of money was spent. Chen Mo also established a series of huge super-large ranches on this still wild land, becoming the largest landowner and ranch in the West and even the United States.
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Indians, whites, and blacks all became his employees.
After the completion of this series of major actions, time also entered April 1846, not long before the outbreak of the U.S.-Mexican War.
At this time, although the United States had acquired large tracts of land in the west by purchasing land from European colonial powers such as Britain and France, its land area was still far from the scale of later generations.
The future southwestern regions of the United States, including California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming, were still Mexican territories at this time.
Since Mexico became independent from Spanish colonists in 1821, various political forces in the country have begun to fight against each other, coups or rebellions have occurred constantly, and the political situation has been unstable for a long time.
From 1821 to the present, everything in Mexico is in chaos.
There have been more than 40 governments in more than 20 years, almost all of which were the product of military coups.