1850 American Gold Tycoon

"What wonderful grapes you guys are! Why don't you sell them at a good price? You have to sell them at a damn cheap price!"

"It's not like you old immigrants didn't treat us as human beings last year! You didn't even say hello when you bought grapes. You sold your own grapes at a high price first, causing our grapes to rot in the ground!"

"Do you know this is a market?! Do you know what a market is, you idiot? The market has a price every day. If you make a profit, you will lose! I am willing to admit defeat! If you can't afford to lose, I will give you a boat ticket to go back to Qing Dynasty to continue planting sweet potatoes!"

"Bah! Damn the market! All I know is that I still owe a lot of money to the bank! If anyone doesn't let me sell the grapes today, I'll be in a hurry! I'll fight like hell! I'm willing to admit defeat. , no matter what happens this year, it’s your turn for the old immigrants to lose!”

Both sides had their own opinions and started arguing with each other.

However, on both sides, the thunder is louder than the raindrops, which is also an old tradition in Fujian and Guangdong.

Everyone just curses in the street, and the most they can do is throw stones and rotten vegetable leaves. It is difficult to start a real fight.

Even if a fight breaks out, the other party must make the first move, after all, the Stockton police are watching.

Fighting in California is not a trivial matter and can lead to a prison sentence and 2 to 5 years of hard labor in the end.

Whoever takes action first will be the loser in court later.

Of course, these quarreling Hongti Village immigrants were not only Chinese immigrants, but also a small number of Mexican immigrants, immigrants from eastern America, and even French immigrants.

These non-Chinese immigrants also chose their camps based on the first-come, first-served principle.

But apparently some of them were not that smart, and they actually picked up a stick removed from the grape trellis and hit the person on the skull.

The unlucky guy who was hit on the head by a sap fell down on his hands before he could even grunt.

"Killing!"

I don’t know who shouted this in the crowd.

The original tacit understanding of only using words but not using hands was finally broken.

The two sides lost control and restraint and started fighting in the square.

At first, everyone was still able to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. After all, Hongti Village is such a palm-sized area. Everyone looked down and looked up to see each other, and they had already become familiar with each other.

But soon, as the formation was broken up, the two sides fought more and more intensely, and it soon turned into a farce of fighting on sight.

"Didn't you say these people have some sense of control? Why did they start fighting right away?" Liang Yao looked at the group of villagers fighting in front of his eyes with a sullen face.

"Accident, accident." Chen Baoliang could only use accident to explain the cause of the fight.

"Put all those who gathered in the crowd into jail."

Liang Yao pulled out the revolver from his waist and fired all six bullets in the cylinder in one breath. Then he waved his hand to signal the Stockton police and his guards to control the grape growers fighting in the square.

Although the situation was under control, lives had already been lost. Three farmers, two men and one woman, two were beaten to death and one was trampled to death. As for the injured, there are many more.

Stockton police officers looked at their bodies and shook their heads in resignation.

"It's no small matter to get into a fight and kill people. Let the state send people to handle it and open a court to hear the case."

When this happened, Fremont's good mood was wiped out and he sighed.

"It is the failure of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agricultural Association to handle this matter properly. If something similar happens again in the future, Chen Baoliang, your agriculture minister will be done." Liang Yao was also in a very bad mood.

If only the Ministry of Agriculture had given some relief and stepped in to resolve the matter in time, the matter would not have developed to this extent.

After leaving Hongti Village, Liang Yao had no intention of going back to Stockton for dinner. Instead, he returned to his special train and headed to the Nevada area to inspect the construction of the Pacific Railway with Fremont.

Hu Jinchen has gone to Los Angeles to prepare for the establishment of Los Angeles Petrochemical, and now Hu Jinchen's job is taken over by Carnegie.

Liang Yao walked to the desk on the train and sat down. Several newspapers that Liang Yao often read and the recent telegrams sent to him were neatly placed on the desk.

Stations along the California Railways have been equipped with telegraph rooms to allocate trains on the railway lines.

Therefore, even if Liang Yao is not at Tingtao Garden in San Francisco, he can still receive telegrams sent to him.

Three of the most important of these telegrams were sent, the first of which was sent from Paris.

To be precise, it was sent from Paris to New York in the form of a letter, and then the New York telegraph office transmitted the letter to California via wire telegraph.

This is the fastest way to communicate between California and Europe. It only takes a little more than two weeks for Liang Yao to receive news from Paris.

In the era before the Atlantic submarine cable was laid, transoceanic information transmission between the Atlantic Ocean still needed to be transmitted by cruise ships.

James told him that in addition to daily calls for kerosene, he also asked him to stock up on more arms, especially ammunition, and told him that a war was about to break out in Europe in the near future.

James's senses are still very keen and he is very well-informed.

Although James' prediction that Britain and France would join the war around Christmas was a little inaccurate, it was already very accurate. He even made a judgment in his letter that the Kingdom of Sardinia and France would form an alliance to fight Russia together. This shows how well-connected the Rothschild family's information network is in Europe.

The second telegram was sent from Fillmore in Washington. Negotiations between Gadsden, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico City, and the new Mexican president to purchase territory in northern Mexico had reached new heights of tension.

Fillmore asked Liang Yao to send more troops to the US-Mexico border to put pressure on Mexico, and must help Ambassador Gadsden obtain as much Mexican territory as possible at the minimum cost.

Fillmore made no secret of his territorial ambitions for Mexico.

He was determined to win the territory of Mexico, and he probably smelled the smell of war from the turbulent situation in Europa in the past few months.

The America of the mid-19th century was not the America of Americans, but the America of Europeans.

But as long as a war breaks out on the continent of Europe and Britain and France have no time to look west, America will be the America of the Americans for the time being.

California's industrialization requires high-quality iron ore. Although there are also Mexican iron ore owners in the California Coal and Steel Alliance, Liang Yao was able to successfully obtain high-quality and low-price Mexican high-quality iron ore from Mexico.

But if we can directly capture the iron ore areas in Mexico, that would be the best thing.

Just because Mexico dares not to sell him iron ore does not mean that the British and French will not interfere with it in the future.

The British, in particular, resented Liang Yao more than once.

The iron ore area still feels more secure if I hold it in my hands.

This is Liang Yao's only chance to obtain the Mexican iron ore area, and he must seize it.