1850 American Gold Tycoon

Liang Yao felt dumbfounded when faced with the so-called "persuasion" by these Chinese representatives.

"Dr. Robinson has received a good education and has high moral character. I think Dr. Robinson is more suitable to serve as the governor of California. If Dr. Robinson is willing to run for governor, I will fully support Dr. Robinson."

Liang Yao named the most suitable candidate for governor in his mind.

He chose to support Robinson's candidacy for California's first governor for many reasons.

First, Robinson's prestige in California is second only to his own. He is deeply popular and can relatively easily obtain the votes of immigrants of any different race except Chinese immigrants.

As for who the Chinese immigrants would vote for, it was just a matter of Liang Yao's words, and the operation was very simple.

Secondly, Liang Yao wants to develop California. The next four years will be the four years when the American economy bottoms out and takes off. It is very critical both for California and for him personally. The first governor must not be a straw bag.

Third, Robinson has a pure nature and is a good old man without much ambition. Liang Yao has the ability to control Robinson.

What if Robinson is out of control?

Liang Yao has also considered this issue. Even if Robinson reaches the point where he is no longer under his control, he will still have a way to clean up the mess.

Each state in the United States can be understood as a smaller version of the United States.

The governor is this miniature version of the "little president" of the United States. He has great power, but is checked and balanced by the parliament. His power is not powerful enough to be dictatorial. Liang Yao only needs to slightly manipulate the state parliament to unseat Robinson.

What's more, he himself is running for election and serving as lieutenant governor, and the governor has no power to appoint or remove the lieutenant governor.

The president and vice president of the United States are running mates, but the governor and lieutenant governor are not necessarily running mates and may also be political opponents.

Since the election times of governors and lieutenant governors in many states are staggered, it is often the case that the governor and lieutenant governor are political opponents of opposing parties.

Of course, this seemingly perfect set of power checks and balances also has flaws.

As long as the governor can control the state assembly, in theory there is the possibility of dictatorship.

In reality? There are actually very good examples.

In order to solve the domestic black problem, the United States made an attempt that lacked great virtue and transported local black slaves to Liberia in West Africa to create an American model student. Even the national flag was copied from the United States.

This country is known as Africa's Little America, Liberia, the Golden Bully of West Africa. Its political system is copied from the United States, and even the black people are "high-quality" black people shipped back from the United States.

These "high-quality" black people, that is, American black people, were very successful after arriving in Liberia. They directly became colonizers and colonized the local black indigenous people. They became superiors and became one with the local indigenous people.

And the presidents elected by black Americans were also dictators, and they carried out a long and bloody rule over this war-torn land.

Not only Liberia, there are many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America that do not have a good social foundation and are copying the American system.

There are almost no absolute oligarchs in the eastern states of the United States. They have a relatively mature two-party system. The wealthy gentry and wealthy businessmen can check and balance each other under this system of separation of powers. It can also be said that they have reached a tacit understanding with each other and all abide by this political system. The rules of the game cut off the soil for dictatorship in each state.

As for California, Liang Yao is currently an absolute oligarch, and it is not impossible for him to establish a dictatorship.

But in peacetime, the United States openly engages in dictatorship in a state, which is tantamount to seeking death. Liang Yao is not that stupid yet.

"Should I run for governor?" Robinson's life plan was not to get involved in politics. He quickly waved his hand to refuse and explained the reason.

"I am just a doctor without any experience in politics, so I cannot shoulder this important responsibility."

The smart and smooth Stanford guessed Liang Yao's thoughts. He said to Robinson: "Dr. Robinson, you are of high moral character, and your contribution to California is obvious to all. I believe that California will be governed by you and Mr. Liang." It’s getting better and better.”

"Dr. Robinson, what Stanford said makes sense. We all know that you hope that California will become better in the future. Now is a good opportunity. Being a politician can do more for California than a doctor." Liang Yao persuaded. road.

"If you are willing to run for governor, I will also run for lieutenant governor to assist you."

Liang Yao has no doubt about Robinson's ability to govern.

In another time and space, Robinson served as the governor of California, but not for the first time. Later, Robinson also served as the governor of Kansas, with a good reputation. This is enough to prove that his ability to govern is not only qualified, but even qualified. excellent.

After Liang Yao spoke, everyone looked at Robinson eagerly.

Robinson was a little embarrassed under the gaze of everyone. He scratched his head and said, "I'll go back and think about it."

"Give everyone an answer as soon as possible, Doctor Robinson. Everyone is very optimistic about you." Liang Yao stepped forward and patted Robinson on the shoulder.

Gervin had not arrived in California so soon, and he was still willing to give Robinson this little time.

After the meeting, Liang Yao hosted a banquet for these representatives in Tingtao Garden to celebrate California's upcoming statehood.

But Liang Yao was not as happy as these representatives.

Recently, gangsters led by Brandon have often harassed Sacramento, specifically picking out small gold mining companies and looting them, causing people in Sacramento to panic.

Whether for personal revenge or to maintain law and order in California, this scourge must be eliminated.

And it must be uprooted and removed completely.

Since the fall of the Brannan family, Brandon has been quiet for a long time.

Liang Yao analyzed the time of Brandon's activities, and the time basically coincided with the time when John entered the Sacramento area.

Therefore, he boldly judged that Brandon must have colluded with the New York consortium to dare to act so boldly.

The intelligence sent to him by John's gold prospector James also confirmed this.

It's just that he hasn't figured out the specific number of Brandon's bandit troops yet. There are rumors that there are more than two hundred people, and there are also some exaggerated rumors that there are more than three hundred people.

The information James sent him was that there were more than one hundred people, and this number was relatively reliable.

Brandon made a living by raiding and not producing, so it was impossible to support a team of two to three hundred people. Supporting a team of more than a hundred people is already the limit.

The Pomo, Maidu, and even the Yurok and Hupa Indian chiefs further north, near the border of California and Oregon, could not bear Brandon's harassment and asked Liang Yao several times to help them deal with Brandon.

Liang Yao also provided them with some outdated firearms, but these Indian tribes still couldn't do anything to Brandon.

After all, Brandon is a professional officer who has attended military school, served in the military, and participated in wars, and the core of Brandon's gangsters are deserters, not completely ragtag.

With the military level of the Indians, it is indeed difficult to deal with Brandon.

Brandon is a very cunning guy. He has been hiding from Liang Yao's weapons since he was hit hard in Sacramento.

Even gold mining companies and organizations with slightly stronger armed forces, such as the Boston Company and the Old Miners' Organization, did not provoke them. They only picked on soft persimmons, causing small gold mining companies and groups to complain.

If the resistance of small gold mining companies and groups is a little stronger, Brandon will quickly give up and quickly escape into the mountains and forests.

Liang Yao also had a headache with this guerrilla warfare style.

What he wants is not just to fight off Brandon's gang of gangsters, but to annihilate them all and solve the problem once and for all.

Besides, he is now a peace officer, and it is his responsibility and obligation to suppress bandits and maintain local security.

As for raising the bandits to respect themselves, having Indian tribes is enough.

After the banquet, Liang Yao left Sartre behind and went to the study with Sartre to discuss the matter of annihilating Brandon.

Deng Yan and two British instructors were already waiting in his study.