1850 American Gold Tycoon

To be honest, Liang Yao was very disappointed with the Buchanan administration that had just taken office.

He did not expect mediocre people like Buchanan to bring the United States out of the quagmire of economic crisis. His greatest expectation for the Buchanan government was to maintain the basic social order in the United States and ensure his normal economic activities in the east.

Obviously, he overestimated the ability of Buchanan and his cabinet. The Buchanan administration could not even do this.

Far from being contained, the riots in the east tended to intensify.

Thinking of this, Liang Yao felt inexplicably nostalgic for the time when Fillmore was in power.

Although Fillmore is not a great talent, he is at least a qualified conservative president.

The president of the United States is really not as good as one term, Liang Yao sighed in his heart.

Those who are now in power in Washington are not even politicians at all. They are simply a group of political clowns.

"President, among us, you have the most face and the most weight in your words. You have to make the decision for us." A Cantonese businessman ran up to Liang Yao and said in Cantonese.

He hopes to use his local accent to narrow the distance between the two, and hopes that Liang Yao can help him out of the friendship between fellow villagers.

"God will help those who help themselves, and God will abandon those who abandon themselves. Only you can be your own master." Liang Yao took another sip of tea to moisten his throat.

"Let me ask you a question. Can you tell the difference between a Yankee and a Dixie?"

“Old Dixie loved riding and hunting, and the southern sun was very hot, so Dixie’s neck and face looked redder, which seemed to be caused by the sun.

But not every Dixie man is like that. If I want to tell whether a person is a Dixie or a Yankee, I am not completely sure. "

Pan Zhengwei, who almost rushed to Tingtao Garden with Liang Yao, thought about it carefully and said.

The Pan family's Tongfu Group has done a lot of business in the United States in recent years. Tongfu Group was listed on the Wall Street exchange last year.

Therefore, the Pan family also had to frequently deal with barbarians who he once considered a foreign country.

The Pan family has business contacts with the Yankees in the north and the Dixie people in the south. On this issue, Pan Zhengwei still has a say.

"Can you tell the difference between Tsinghua people, Yangki people, and Dixie people?" Liang Yao continued to ask the next question.

"The president is joking. Even if we cut our braids, take off our robes and mandarin jackets, and change into Hanfu or even Western clothes, our yellow skin and black and straight hair are all left to us by our ancestors and cannot be changed." Pan Zhengwei said.

"What the president means is that there are thugs targeting us Chinese?" Wu Yuanhua suddenly reacted.

"Yes. There are many freedmen among black people. However, in the seventy years since the founding of the United States, these black freedmen, although they are free in name, have not actually received real citizenship treatment." Liang Yao sneered.

"Since they discriminate against black people and don't treat black people as human beings, they will naturally also discriminate against us Chinese, don't treat us Chinese as human beings, and think that we are weak and can be bullied!"

"This is unreasonable! I will call Washington to protest!" Wu Yuanhua was filled with indignation and angrily ran to the telegraph room to send a telegram.

"Hold on! These white-skinned politicians in the United States are all cheap. They will accept the tough but not the soft. It is useless to talk to them. They must be taught a profound lesson so that they will remember it." Liang Yao stopped Wu Yuanhua.

Liang Yao understands the nature of Washington politicians better than the Chinese businessmen present, and they will definitely not take a mere verbal protest to heart.

On this matter, they must not shrink back and submit, otherwise, those clowns in Washington will only become more unscrupulous. It is not even ruled out that these clowns will take desperate measures to divert the contradiction between the north and the south and target the west, turning it into a contradiction between the east and the west.

This kind of result is what Liang Yao least wants to see.

As a result, the official racial discrimination activities are blatantly targeting the Chinese, and the anti-Chinese movement is not far away.

Liang Yao must prepare for the worst.

"President, what should we do? We all listen to you!"

"Yes, we all listen to you! Whatever you say, we will do it!"

Chinese businessmen all realized the seriousness of the problem, and they followed Liang Yao's lead.

"Okay! Since you all praise Liang, Liang will do it for you!" Liang Yao said happily.

"With your words, we feel relieved. Just tell us, what should we do?" The Chinese businessmen all gathered around Liang Yao and listened carefully to Liang Yao's words, for fear of missing a word.

"First, we must retaliate with tooth for tooth and violence with violence. Call all the chambers of commerce and hometown associations in the east and ask them to inform all Chinese who make a living in the east to gather together temporarily and prepare firearms if they encounter any bad guys. If you want to do something evil, don’t ask any questions, just shoot and kill him regardless of right or wrong!" Liang Yao said the first point.

"The Chinese people in the east already live together, and each chamber of commerce is equipped with weapons and ammunition. This is not difficult to do. It's up to me to do it." Wu Yuanhua nodded.

"You really should give those ghost guys some color, otherwise they would think that we Chinese are easy to bully."

Everyone had no objection to this article and expressed their support one after another.

"Secondly, starting today, Chinese businessmen have suspended all commercial activities in the eastern region and went on strike to protest. Anyone who violates this article and trades without permission will be immediately expelled from the chamber of commerce and will never be allowed to enter the chamber again!" Liang Yao said.

The strike has caused controversy.

Once a market strike occurs, you will first face direct business losses.

This is still secondary. Once the original cooperation with business partners and customers is temporarily cancelled, it is inevitable to break the trust of others. What will be lost is these business partners and customers that were finally won over.

"President, the villain thought this was inappropriate and went on strike rashly. If our customers find a replacement during our strike, I'm afraid" Zeng Jinsong hesitated.

This sentence made Liang Yao so angry that Liang Yao was about to angrily scold Zeng Jinsong. Deng Wenyu on the side was already pointing at Zeng Jinsong's nose and yelling curses.

"Confused! You are a short-sighted person! Just now you said that everything depends on the third brother. Why, when it comes to the market strike, you are reluctant to give up even a scrap of money? My third brother makes less money with you on weekdays?!

If we give in today, even if we can make money in the future, we will still make money on our knees, and we must always act based on other people's faces! If we are tough today, once things are done, we will all stand and make money from now on, and no one will dare to provoke us! "

"Jinsong, are you blinded by money? Can't you tell the difference between right and wrong?!" Wu Yuanhua was also very dissatisfied with Zeng Jinsong's words, and called him by his first name regardless of seniority and etiquette.

Liang Yao stood up and said to Zeiss: "Zeiss, please immediately send this letter to the New York branch of the Americas Group. From now on, the Americas Group will suspend all business in the east!"

"Yes! Your Excellency." Zeiss nodded, trotted out of the living room and headed to the telegraph room to send a report.

Liang Yao glanced at everyone with cold eyes: "Liang has never forced others to make things difficult for him. If you don't want to participate in the strike, you can directly raise it now and leave the chamber of commerce on your own. Go to the sky and go to each other's side. Don't face any difficulties in the future. Find the Chamber of Commerce, let alone mention that you are a member of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, you are Chinese!”