1850 American Gold Tycoon

Chapter 15 Gold for Land

"I know that you are the owners of this land. At the beginning, the Mexican government gave you the land here. Although this is the territory of the United States of America, the ownership of this land still belongs to you, not those who illegally invaded the land. gold diggers."

Inside Sutter's Castle, Liang Yao at this time still knew nothing about San Francisco's conspiracy, and he was talking to representatives of early immigrants who settled in California before the gold rush.In order to achieve the purpose of buying land from them.

"You hate those gold diggers, you hate them for disturbing your clean life, wantonly occupying and stealing your land and property.

Although I am also a gold digger, I am different from them. I respect the legal rights of every land owner. Every grain of my gold is mined on my own land.Is it right?Mr Sutter? "

"Yes." Sartre replied very honestly.

These early immigrants were also willing to believe this. In the past three months, Liang Yao had also bought food and goods from them, and had fair transactions with them, so they had a good impression of Liang Yao.

Of course, they prefer to believe that Sartre, their old friend who has been with them for many years, will not deceive them.In their eyes, Sartre is a trustworthy person.

"You hate these illegal squatters, but you can't do anything about them. I sympathize with this. I have a proposal. I will buy your land with money and I will bear the losses."

Liang Yao looked around at these early immigrants and said his proposal.

Some early immigrants were ready to move after listening to Liang Yao's proposal.

One is because they can't hold the land, and there are too many gold diggers.

The second is because their land was gifted by the Mexican government or purchased from the Mexican government at a small price.

In the Westward Expansion Movement, in order to encourage the eastern population to move westward and change the overcrowded status quo in the east, the U.S. government put forward the principle that whoever occupies the western land will own it, and whoever reclaims it will own it.

Those bandit-like gold diggers often say these words, which makes them feel uncertain about whether the US government will recognize the legitimacy of the Mexican government's land grant.

If they can throw away this burden now and get some money, it would be a good choice for them.

Some early settlers vacillated, thinking about the gold beneath their land.

"But there's gold buried beneath these lands!"

As for whether the US government would recognize the legitimacy of the Mexican government, only Liang Yao had an affirmative answer in his mind: yes.

This is not because the U.S. government is too trustworthy, but because the U.S. has encouraged Americans to immigrate to Mexico since the early [-]s.

The Mexican government has also introduced measures to welcome American immigrants, especially Americans immigrating to the Texas region, because this can develop the economies of these regions and provide them with more tax revenue.At the same time, these Americans can also be used to resist the harassment of the northern Indian tribes for the Mexicans.

The Mexican government thought it was a good strategy to kill two birds with one stone, but it was not expected to be backlashed by its own stupid behavior.As a result, some Mexicans in later generations even complained why the United States didn't swallow the whole of Mexico?
The Mexican government granted a large number of lands to those American immigrants, and the number of early American immigrants in California was scarce, almost negligible.

But there are hundreds of thousands of American immigrants in the Texas area. They have more or less the land generously donated by the Mexican government. If the US government does not recognize the legitimacy of these lands, they just swallowed Texas The region either riots or falls back into the arms of Mexico.

Which of the two is more important, the US government can still decide.

"Who knows if there is gold buried under those lands? Gold mining itself is a risky gamble."

Liang Yao smiled, walked to the center, lifted the cloth in the center, and everyone present went crazy for it!
"My God! Gold!"

"This is the first time in my life that I have seen so much gold!"

"Oh my god, the damn color is so charming!"

When 3 ounces, that is, more than [-] kilograms of gold, is in front of your eyes, the shock is hard to describe in words.

Especially these old hats who have never seen the world, they lost their composure on the spot and went crazy.

"Since you like gold, I also take the risk of gold panning for you, and use all my gold to buy land from you. Gentlemen, you must know that I have to bear not only the risk of gold panning, but also whether the US government recognizes the Mexican government. risks to the legitimacy of the

Liang Yao stared contentedly at these early immigrants who lost their temper. Don't you want gold?I have ready gold!

"Mr. Liang, you are really a kind person, God bless you."

"We have no reason to refuse such a favorable condition."

"We must not disappoint Mr. Liang's good intentions!"

Under the lure of gold, these early immigrants all agreed to sell the land in their hands to Liang Yao, and Liang Yao showed a satisfied smile.

"In that case, gentlemen, go back and get your land deeds to me for gold. I'll be waiting for you at Sutter Castle!"

When it came, it was two carts full of gold, and when it returned, it was a bag of contracts that were worthless in the eyes of outsiders.

Even Liang Yao's assistant didn't understand what Liang Yao was doing. Is it worth it to exchange gold for a bunch of land grant certificates from the Mexican government?
Back in Sacramento, Liang Yao quietly locked up all these contracts.A few months later, what now looks like scrap paper was enough to make him a multi-millionaire.

Liang Yao bought a hamburger and a sandwich from his family's restaurant, and devoured them with milk.

At this time, there were sparse gunshots outside the window, Liang Yao didn't pay much attention to it, he just thought it was Deng Yan and the guards training.

It wasn't until the gunfire became more and more intense, and the cries mixed with the gunfire reached his ears, that Liang Yao realized that something had happened.

"what happened?"

After confirming that the two spinning pistols he was wearing were loaded, Liang Yao bent over holding the guns, carefully opened the door and walked out to find out.

"Rooters! The robbers are coming!"

Deng Yan quickly assembled more than thirty Chinese guards and a dozen hired white gunmen.

The gunfire was dense but not chaotic, and the fight was very methodical, which showed that the opponent had a large number of people, and they were shooting in a row. This was by no means an ordinary robber.It is likely to be the deserter in the rumors.

Liang Yao's head was very confused, and he tried his best to keep calm.

"What about the eight mounted policemen?"

Liang Yao rubbed his temples and asked.

"Third brother! Those ghost arresters run away!"

Deng Wenqi came out of the police station next door, cursing and staggering.

Accompanied by a burst of neat gunshots, more than a dozen gold diggers fell to their deaths in the American River, and the water of the American River was dyed red.

These gangsters did not rush to loot the gold from the gold diggers, but methodically reloaded it on the spot.This made Liang Yao firmly believe that they were by no means ordinary gangsters.But those deserters from the California military fort.

With his current armed forces, he is probably not the opponent of these desperadoes.

"Go to San Francisco and find Fleige for reinforcements!" Liang Yao said solemnly.

"Third brother, give me a fast horse! I'll go!"

Deng Wenshun, who had just returned from purchasing supplies from the Indian tribe, asked for his life.

"Ride my horse! Go!"

Liang Yao gave Deng Wenshun his mount, and suddenly remembered that Deng Wenshun might not be very good at English, so he took out the pen from his pocket and wanted to write a note for Deng Wenshun.

"No need, I will speak the words of the ghost!"

I saw that Deng Wenshun had already got on his horse and raised his whip, and galloped westward.

"San Francisco is too far away from here, and far away water can't quench your thirst! The host is closer to here! There are dozens of people in the host, so I will go to the host and ask him to help!" Deng Wenyao said.

Deng Wenyao's suggestion is very reasonable. San Francisco is more than [-] kilometers away from here. After going back and forth, their bodies may have been completely cold before Fleger arrived in Sacramento.

"Hurry up and get back!"

Although Liang Yao didn't know whether Sartre was willing to take the risk, he still planned to give it a try.

The nearby gold diggers scattered one after another, fleeing this right and wrong place in a panic, leaving only a mess.

"Liang, I think we should join forces."

Captain Weber brought more than fifty people from the Boston company to Liang Yao's mansion, which was the strongest building in Sacramento.

"Indeed, welcome, Captain Weber!"

Liang Yao and Weber shook hands. There are twelve or thirteen professional gunmen in the Boston company. Fighting alone is definitely not the opponent of those gangsters. There may be a chance for them to join forces.

"Count us in!" A ragged gold digger in the crowd calmly shot back in the direction of the bandits, knocking down two or three bandits, and then retreated into Liang Yao's house. Inside.

"Sven?"

Liang Yao didn't have time to think about why Sven didn't leave San Francisco and chose to come to Sacramento to seek gold. He accepted Sven and asked Deng Yanduo to pay attention to Sven's every move.

With so many things happening suddenly, his nerves became tense and sensitive.

"Did you see the big mansion in front? That mansion houses the richest man in California. He panned several tons of gold in Sacramento! As long as we take down that mansion, the gold will be ours!"

Brandon waved his pistol excitedly and directed his men to attack Liang Yao's house.His bloodshot eyes radiated a bloodthirsty and hot light.

"Who told you to shoot at this time! Reload quickly! Don't shoot without my order!"

Although Weber had issued guns to everyone in the Boston Company, the Boston Company, including Captain Weber himself, had only thirteen professional gunmen.

There are only seven or eight of these professional gunmen with actual combat experience.

The scene was very chaotic for a while, everyone fired their guns indiscriminately. This may scare away ordinary gangsters, but not the crazy gangsters who used to be professional soldiers.

How can a professional soldier who can go through disarmament and stay in the army after the end of the Mexican-American War be an ordinary generation?
(End of this chapter)