1850 American Gold Tycoon

"If you really can't bear it, just take a sip."

Liang Weiming wiped the wet corners of his eyes and handed the cigarette stick to Liang Shaochen.

Although Liang Weiming often scolded Liang Shaochen for being hopeless and useless, he felt that he hated Liang Shaochen.

But after seeing Liang Shaochen shouting and rolling on the floor for several days due to his addiction to cigarettes, Liang Weiming finally couldn't bear to see Liang Shaochen suffer.

Liang Yao didn't have much affection for this father. He just stood aside and watched with cold eyes.

If Liang Shaochen hadn't made too much noise and disturbed his reading, he wouldn't have even bothered to come over and take a look.

Compared with the wide variety of drug detoxification methods in later generations, the current drug detoxification method is very single, almost only one.

That is the natural withdrawal method, which is a drug detoxification method that forcibly cuts off the supply of drugs to drug addicts so that their withdrawal symptoms will naturally subside and achieve the goal of detoxification.

Lin Zexu also used this simple and crude method to help many drug addicts quit their addiction when smoking was banned in Guangdong.

However, most of the addicts who have successfully quit using this method are those who have just started taking drugs or those who are light smokers for the first time. And there is no guarantee of 100% success.

Liang Shaochen, who has been smoking for several years, is obviously not a light smoker.

He will need to endure more pain and have stronger willpower if he wants to successfully break the addiction.

Liang Yao didn't have high expectations for Liang Shaochen's drug rehabilitation.

Liang Shaochen bit his lip and looked at Liang Yao, then at the cigarette pole in Liang Weiming's hand.

He resolutely slapped Liang Weiming's hand away, his eyes becoming determined.

Liang Yao and his future grandson have become the most powerful spiritual support for Liang Shaochen to quit smoking.

Liang Shaochen stretched out his hand to Liang Weiming and said: "Smoking cessation pills!"

Liang Weiming sighed and took out a few smoking cessation pills from his bag.

Liang Shaochen took the smoking cessation pills and stuffed them into his mouth without hesitation, but the smoking cessation pills could not relieve his pain.

Liang Yao stepped forward, knelt down and helped Liang Shaochen up. He turned to Liang Weiming and said, "Grandpa, get ready. Let's board the ship and head to California."

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It was already October 1855 when Liang Yao returned to San Francisco.

California's terrain is diverse, and temperatures vary greatly from place to place.

For example, although the temperature in San Francisco is now more than ten degrees, it feels very comfortable.

But at this time, the temperature in the high altitude areas of the Coast Mountains is much lower, and the Sierra Nevada Mountains are even now frozen.

California’s second-term gubernatorial election has ended.

Not surprisingly, Fremont was successfully elected as the second governor of California when Liang Yao did not participate in the election.

Fremont was the founding father of California. This military expedition to Borneo greatly increased Fremont's reputation.

In this election, Fremont can be said to have an advantage.

Not only did the upper class of California support Fremont's election, but the middle and lower classes of California, especially the old Californians before 1851, also strongly supported Fremont's election as the second governor.

Fremont still has a high reputation in the eyes of these old Californians.

As for former Governor Robinson, he went to Kansas.

Robinson told Liang Yao that he wanted to bring the influence of the Civic Party to other places, and Kansas was Robinson's first stop outside of California.

Liang Yao just felt that Robinson was a little confused. There was no good place to go, but Kansas, a powder keg.

Liang Yao didn't understand Robinson's brain circuit, and he didn't think Robinson could achieve anything in Kansas, a place with more simple folk customs than California.

If you have the time, you might as well go to Oregon to do some business. If Oregon becomes a state in a few years, you can try your luck again and become the first governor of Oregon.

However, everyone has their own ambitions, and everyone has their own pursuits. Even if you don’t understand, Liang Yao still respects Robinson’s choice.

After all, Liang Weiming was Liang Yao's grandfather, and Liang Weiming's arrival still caused quite a shock to California.

In order to welcome Liang Weiming's arrival, the upper class in California decided to hold a banquet to welcome Liang Weiming.

Since it was autumn, which was a good season for hunting, everyone unanimously decided to hold a picnic where they could hunt, eat meat and have a feast.

San Francisco is the earliest developed place in California and the most densely populated place.

There are either residences or factories nearby, or factories or farmland. Even if there are some occasional prey, they have already been killed by local farmers and their employees.

Therefore, the location of the picnic was finally chosen in the mountains and forests of Sutter's Fort in Sacramento.

Thousands of acres of land near Sutter's Fort are Sutter's private domain. Except for Sutter himself, no one dares to hunt in Sutter's private forest, where there are more prey.

Sartre also sincerely invited Liang Weiming to visit Sacramento.

"Grandpa, we rejected the banquet in Japan, but we can't reject the banquet in California no matter what." Liang Yao said to Liang Weiming with a smile.

"Your grandfather and I are not unreasonable people, but where is Sacramento?" Liang Weiming asked curiously.

"I heard Nasat say that his mountain forest is full of animals and the sky is full of birds. A place so full of animals must be a very remote and sparsely populated place."

"It's not far. Sacramento is only three to four hundred miles away from us," Liang Yao said.

"Isn't it three or four hundred miles away? It takes two or three days to travel three to four hundred miles even if you ride a horse." Liang Weiming frowned.

“We don’t ride horses. There is a train connection between Jinshan (San Francisco) and Sacramento. It only takes two hours to take the train from here to Sacramento.

You can have a good rest tonight and we will set off again tomorrow. "Liang Yao asked Tingtaoyuan's servants to take Liang Weiming down to rest first.

A journey of three to four hundred miles can be reached in two hours?

Liang Weiming felt very incredible at this amazing speed and was very curious about what the train was that could run so fast.

Hearing that Liang Yao was going to Sacramento for a picnic, Kony came to Tingtao Garden to find Liang Yao, carrying two strange-looking guns.

As soon as they met, Kony asked with a playful smile: "Are you going to have a picnic at this picnic?"

"What kind of gun are you carrying? A lever gun?" Liang Yao ignored Kony's joke. His attention was attracted by the two guns on Kony's back.

Judging from the appearance, these appear to be two lever-action rifles.

"This is the latest gun model produced by my company. How do you know this is a lever gun?" Kony was a little surprised. He unloaded the gun and placed the two guns on the table.

"I heard that you are going hunting in Sacramento. You must have a handy weapon when hunting. This is a handy shotgun I specially prepared for you."

"I have seen the drawings of the lever-action rifles drawn by Walter." Liang Yao carefully looked at the two lever-action rifles on the table and said, "You want to take this opportunity to sell your guns, right? I hope I can give you an order. ?”