1850 American Gold Tycoon

"What do you plan to do with Brannan's remnants?"

When it comes to Brannan's remnants, Cai Mingsheng's eyes showed a bit of murderous intent.

"Hasn't the murderer of Laixi been killed by you yourself?"

Liang Yao was quite surprised when he looked at Cai Mingsheng, whose hatred was still lingering.

"Kill one of them to relieve my anger! Those remnants of Brannan's gang deserve to die. On the day they are executed, I want to be the executioner!"

Cai Mingsheng used to be the kind of person who would stay away from his wife when he saw her killing chickens, but now he actually volunteered to be the executioner.

"It's true that they deserve to die, but there are too many people to kill, a total of thirty-six people. Killing so many people is no small matter.

After deliberation, the citizens' committee decided to make a final judgment on them after California becomes a state, which will happen by the end of this year at the latest. "

Liang Yao didn't want to leave any excuses for this matter.

Historically, Brannan was arrested on charges of deliberately targeting Jenkins for murder in defiance of federal law, not casualties caused by a shootout with a gold mining company.

He didn't want to follow in Brannan's footsteps, even though he was now the most powerful and wealthy man in California, but he had to learn restraint.

Killing is not difficult, what is difficult is how to end the killing.

Conflicts among the miners resulted in casualties and private court executions, both murders but of a completely different nature. At least that's what the gentlemen in Congress think.

The rich families in the East were jealous of his property in California and were eager to find him guilty and send him to prison. Good to carve up his land and gold in California.

"Are they all going to die?"

Cai Mingsheng asked.

"Yes, it's up to us to decide whether they die or not. We also decide the laws in California."

Liang Yao gave Cai Mingsheng a positive answer.

He did not intend to use federal law to judge Brannan's remnants, but planned to use California state law to judge Brannan's remnants after statehood.

After receiving a positive answer, Cai Mingsheng was finally relieved.

“Since there are already Chinese deputy chiefs in California, I think it is reasonable to have a few more Chinese police officers.

There are at least two to three thousand Chinese in California now, and we also need Chinese in the police force to ensure our safety.

You are Chinese, and even though you are a deputy police chief, those ghost mounted policemen may not obey you. It is convenient for you to have a few Chinese mounted policemen. "

Liang Yao wanted to place Chinese in California's police force.

"I also have this intention, but we are mounted police. If we can ride a horse, there are not many people in Guangdong and Fujian who can ride a horse."

Cai Mingsheng also thinks this idea is good, but it still needs to have its own people in the police force to feel at ease.

The mounted police of this era were not the so-called mounted police of later generations. Most of the so-called mounted police of later generations had a title with strong historical color.

Of course, that is a different story for mounted police officers who use motorcycles as their means of transportation.

In this era where there are no internal combustion engines, there are no cars or motorcycles as means of transportation. Mounted policemen really need to be able to ride horses and be worthy of the name.

"Then learn and use now. You choose the man. It's best if he understands English. As for the horse, I'll trade it with the Indians later for some cloth and rice noodles."

Cai Mingsheng deeply agreed with Liang Yao's proposal, and at the same time, he did not forget the purpose of his visit today.

"Fleg asked me to remind you that several gold mining companies in the Sacramento gold mining area may make some moves that are detrimental to you in the near future. I hope you can be prepared."

"They're just clowns. How do they compare to Brannan? Besides, the gold mining companies of those ghost guys are not monolithic."

Those clowns pose little threat to Liang Yao, and these gold mining companies also have spies installed by him. Their every move is under Liang Yao's control.

Most smart gold mining companies are still on his side and will not take the risk of offending him in the gold mining area.

If he really wants to cause trouble, he can also use the resources at his disposal to divide the troubled gold mining companies and find out a few typical ones to serve as a warning to the monkeys.

The most important thing right now is to control cholera first.

Although no one among the Chinese contracted cholera, and the gold mining work of the Xiangshan Gold Mining Company was not affected, the white gold mining companies were affected by cholera.

Already, some gold mining companies have asked him to extend the date on which they must pay mining rents because many of their miners have contracted cholera and are unable to work normally.

The rent from the mining area is also a huge amount of income for him. As cholera continues, his income will only become less and less.

"That's right, you are the best among men, and you are the one who wants to do great things. I am worrying too much." Cai Mingsheng also felt that his worries were unnecessary.

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"Even in New York, no one dares to be so rude and rude to the Astor family!"

On the pier of San Francisco Bay, Adal Astor stood on the cargo container, his eyes that almost burst out of fire as he stared at the bustling commercial street not far away with people coming and going.

Two of his steamships had been forcibly towed out of the port's docking area because they refused to pay berthing fees.

Although Astor brought out the famous name of the Astor family, those ferocious port guards wearing strange uniforms did not buy his account at all.

Although Adar also has the surname Astor and often talks about the Astor family, he is not a core member of the Astor family.

In fact, he left Liverpool, England, only six years ago to join the Astor family in New York, hoping that the Astor family would take him in and find a job in the Astor family out of consideration for distant relatives.

It's just that A'dal has no outstanding abilities and has not performed well in the six years he has served the Astor family. It is reasonable that he has not been reused by the Astor family.

When news of the discovery of gold in California spread to the East, John Jacob Astor, the head of the Astor family and the father of the Astor family, had died of illness.

His son, William Backhouse Astor, also known as Astor Jr., took over the Astor family scepter.

Although Astor Sr. started with nothing, when he died, the Astor family was not only the richest man in the country, on par with Vanderbilt, but also the largest landowner in New York.

Old Astor has a morbid obsession with land.

When the elder Astor was about to die, in addition to setting an ancestral precept not to allow future generations to sell any inch of the Astor family's land, the elder Astor also told the younger Astor that he must inherit his legacy and buy every inch of land on Manhattan Island. Come down.

Adal also saw this opportunity and volunteered, expressing his willingness to come to California to search for gold on behalf of the Astor family.

"Their berthing fees are not expensive, and we can afford the money. Mr. Adar, I think we should pay the berthing fees and drive our ship back to the berthing area.

A lot of our equipment tools are still on board. We cannot do our work without equipment tools. "

Berger, the captain of the prospecting team, wondered whether this distant relative of the Astor family had also contracted the Astor family's fine family tradition of being stingy and unwilling to pay even a little bit of parking fee.

Along the way, they did leave a lot of money in the name of the Astor family, including berthing fees at the port. But in San Francisco, they encountered a problem. Perhaps the owner of the San Francisco port did not even know about the Astor family, so he insisted on charging them berthing fees.

"There are still supplies! We need to replenish fresh water and food! Those vendors are unwilling to sell their goods to us. I think this is the reason why we did not pay the parking fee." Berger added that the food and supplies they carried were about to be exhausted. Needs to be replenished.

"Fresh water and food?! Come on! We have gone ashore, and there is fresh water everywhere on the land! As for food, I think the mountains and plains in the west are full of birds and beasts. They are extremely delicious and are rare delicacies. We will not be short of food! We There is no need to spend this wasted money.”

"WTF! Mr. Adal, are you crazy? We are here to prospect, not to hunt!"