Things are going well in Sacramento, Jiang Hao is about to return to Los Angeles, and before leaving, he meets with the old man Durant, who looks full of ambition to run for state legislature, and Jiang Hao sends his blessings.

A few days later, Jiang Hao returned to Los Angeles, and by this time people had already known about his appointment, Jiang Hao gathered all the legislators and held the first working meeting to determine his status.

Los Angeles is still under construction, Jiang Hao arranged all the work, and then Jiang Hao is ready to build a new factory again to produce smokeless gunpowder and new guns, perhaps in the future, Hall Gun Manufacturing Company will become a well-known large arms company in the United States.

Two months have passed, the California election for state legislature is over, and the old man Durant has really become a state legislator because of Jiang Hao's funding, which is also a happy ending, and Jiang Hao officially became the mayor of Los Angeles.

Now there are countless jobs in Los Angeles, which need a lot of manpower, Jiang Hao's cigarette factory expansion, the establishment of a gun manufacturing factory, which needs many, many workers, the construction of the Santa Monica Pier, also needs a lot of manpower, and Jiang Hao is also preparing to develop Long Beach, which needs more and more manpower.

There is a huge shortage of people in Los Angeles right now.

Jiang Hao convened a meeting of parliamentarians and said to many parliamentarians: "Los Angeles is developing at full speed, which has also brought many problems, the most difficult one is that we have a large shortage of people, farmers, and workers, during this time, we advertised that more than 1,000 workers were brought in from San Francisco, but the shortage is still very, very large, with the current situation, we are at least short of more than 10,000 people. ”

One councillor also said: "Yes, I am also feeling the pressure of lack of manpower, and it is really irritating that my farm has been trying to recruit a few new farmers to cultivate new land recently, but I can't find anyone." ”

"We can advertise people in the newspapers, maybe people will come from the east or the center." Someone suggested.

"I'm afraid it will take a long time, and it may not end too well." Someone retorted.

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People have been discussing for a long time, and there is no good way, Jiang Hao glanced at the congressmen and said: "I have a proposal, let's discuss, I want to declare Los Angeles a 'friendly city for Chinese' to attract more Chinese, what do you think." ”

"Before, because of the shortage of manpower, my factory recruited thousands of Chinese workers, I think they are a very hard-working group of people, hard-working, obedient and good management, and there are no vices, you know, during the construction of the big railway, the Chinese were the largest labor group, I think if we announce this policy, maybe we will absorb more Chinese, then we will not lack manpower in Los Angeles."

This is Jiang Hao's real purpose.

Jiang Hao knows that it is too difficult and too difficult to change the status quo of society by relying on the strength of one person, a country is like a giant ship of 10,000 tons, he carries the strength of countless people, and the conflicts between whites and Chinese people involve ethnic, economic, cultural and other aspects, and he cannot reverse it with his own strength alone.

Everything he did before was just to give the Chinese a place to breathe.

The parliamentarians were somewhat silent,

Many people have a kind of resistance to Jiang Hao's proposal in their hearts, which is caused by long-term ideological concepts, but to say that they directly oppose Jiang Hao's proposal, these parliamentarians have scruples, although Jiang Hao's authority is now getting heavier, but this is not the main reason, in the final analysis, it is still interests.

Jiang Hao looked at the councillors, his gaze fell on one person, and asked with a smile, "Councilor Connathan, what do you think of my proposal?" ”

Connathan opened a big store in Los Angeles, since the population has increased, his business has improved a lot, not only that, now some of the things that Jiang Hao needs for many industries are purchased from Conason stores, such as gloves, shovels, ropes, etc., but these things can make Conason earn an extra twenty or thirty thousand dollars a year.

Twenty or thirty thousand dollars is not a small amount of money.

Against?

I'm afraid that tomorrow Hall Company will not buy goods from him, such a big loss Connors can't afford it, Connathan immediately squeezed out a smile, smiled at Jiang Hao and said: "Your Excellency Mayor, I think your proposal is for the good of Los Angeles, now Los Angeles is indeed short of a lot of labor, Chinese people can come over and have a good supplement to our side, I agree with your proposal." ”

Jiang Hao smiled and nodded, then turned his head to look at the other councilor.

"Councillor Thomas, what do you think of my proposal?" Jiang Hao asked.

Thomas is a farmer with more than 5,000 acres of land, mainly growing grain, his previous grain needs to be transported to San Francisco to sell, and now Jiang Hao's factory purchases a large amount of flour, Thomas has set up a flour mill for this purpose, supplying Hall Company's flour business.

Against?

He still owes more than $10,000 in debt from Hall City Bank, and if Hall no longer buys his flour tomorrow, his mill will immediately shut down, he will become a debtor, the flour mill and the farm will be taken away, and he will go from a decent man to a homeless man.

Thinking of this, Thomas struck a spirit,

No, he will never allow this kind of thing to happen, to hell with any anti-Chinese feelings, his life is really good.

Thomas immediately stood up and said loudly: "Your Excellency Mayor, I firmly support you, my flour mill is still short of workers, and when the Chinese come, I am ready to recruit a few Chinese to work for me, please hurry up, I can't wait." ”

Jiang Hao smiled, "It seems that your flour mill needs to be expanded, which is really good news." ”

Hearing this, Thomas and I snorted, is this a signal to yourself, let yourself expand the flour mill, and buy a large amount of your own flour in the future, yes, the Chinese have to eat when they come, and the flour sales will naturally increase, and they can make more money.

At this time, Thomas looked at the other councillors with whom he had the best relations, all of whom were also farmers, and Thomas looked at them and said, "It seems that I am going to buy more food from you." ”

The industrial chain is the chain of interests, and many people are involved in any link.

When these farmers heard this, yes, their grain was sold directly to Thomas's flour mill, and if Thomas was finished, he would be finished.

Immediately, several more people spoke up, "I also agree with the mayor's proposal." ”

"Oh, I think the Chinese are good, they are not as pickled as they are rumored, I usually contact them, they are very polite and humble."

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Jiang Hao smiled and nodded, and looked at the other councillor, who was named Phillips and immediately stood up and said, "There are several Chinese workers working on my ranch now, and I am considering increasing the number of beef cattle, and I am also considering building a milk processing plant, which also needs more workers, so I support the proposal of His Excellency the Mayor." ”

This guy is a real cowboy, a cattle breeder, he has more than 2,000 cows and thousands of sheep in his pasture, which is nothing in later generations, but now in Los Angeles, he is definitely a big rancher, and the cattle and sheep he slaughtered used to be sent to San Francisco by train to sell, and now almost all of them are purchased by the Hall factory.

He's not stupid, it's not fucking good to go against his own gold owner, it's to put a rope around his neck and look for death.

When the other ranchers saw Phillips' statement, they also understood that Mayor Hall was not only the mayor, he was also the owner of Hall Company, and it could be said that he controlled the entire economy of Los Angeles.

Near, their company purchases their own cattle and sheep, far away, he will control the entire Los Angeles public facilities in the future, and the Santa Monica Pier in the future, although it is now said to be the government, but everyone knows that the Los Angeles government can't pay back the money at all, even if he has the ability to pay it back, Mayor Hall will not let him pay it back.

If you want to develop your own ranch in the future, do you want to use the dock for transportation? That's a must, and if they don't let you in, then die.

"I agree with the mayor's proposal."

"I agree."

"Agreed."

Most of these councillors have their own industries, and almost all of them have business dealings with Hall Corporation, or rather, rely on Hall Corporation to survive, if Jiang Hao cuts off their business, they will immediately fall into the deep valley.

In the end, these people still lost under the ability of money.

Therefore, it is more effective to control people's money bags than to control people's hands and feet and block their mouths.

That's the reality.

Even in modern times, it has not departed from this model, what democracy, phew, to put it bluntly, is still for its own interests.

"Let's vote now." Jiang Hao said.

As a result of the vote, 32 parliamentarians, 21 voted in favor, 9 voted against and 2 abstained.

Jiang Hao immediately announced, "From now on, Los Angeles will be a 'Chinese friendly city', and I hope that in the future, Los Angeles will be a civilized, modern, open and rich city, abandoning discrimination and conflict, and allowing the people to live a happy and happy life." ”

"Whoa!"

The councillors applauded, "Mr. Mayor said so well, we support the mayor's decision." ”

After the end of the meeting, Jiang Hao returned to his office and took the votes from his hand, although it was a secret ballot, but Jiang Hao, who couldn't help but understand chemistry if he wanted to make a mark, took out the image drops and put them on those negative votes, and the numbers appeared.

You must know that there is an order when distributing, Jiang Hao made a special arrangement, he has the ability to never forget, he knows who is the number, just look at the numbers above, and know whose votes they are.

"T Wup, Clinton, Bush..." Jiang Hao said nine names in a row, these were all people who opposed him, Jiang Hao smiled and muttered: "In the next congressional election, I will not let you appear in the conference room again." ”

He is going to turn around and make his brothers councilors, Pete, Bill, Adams, these guys, now some are sheriffs, some are company bosses, they have a certain social status, and they are fully qualified to be a councilor, and when these people come in, Jiang Hao's voice will be stronger.