1850 American Gold Tycoon

Chapter 47 The Chinese Deputy Sheriff

"What are you going to do with Brannan's remnants?"

Mentioning the remnants of Brannan's gang, Cai Mingsheng's eyes showed a bit of murderous intent.

"Didn't you kill the murderer who killed Laixi?"

Looking at Cai Mingsheng whose hatred was still there, Liang Yao was quite surprised.

"Kill one to relieve my anger! Brannan's remnants 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 hide away when his wife killed a chicken, but now he volunteered to be the executioner.

"Damn it, but there are too many people to kill, a total of thirty-six people, killing so many people is not a trivial matter.

After deliberation, the Citizens Committee decided to make a final judgment on them after California became a state, which will be established by the end of this year at the latest. "

Liang Yao didn't want to leave anyone with a clue because of this incident.

Historically, Brannan was arrested for the deliberate murder of Jenkins in defiance of federal law, not for the casualties caused by the shootout with the gold mining company.

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

Killing people is not difficult, what is difficult is how to end after killing people.

Clashes among miners resulted in casualties and executions by private courts. Although both were killings, they were of completely different nature.At least that's what the gentlemen in Congress think.

The plutocratic families in the East were envious of his California property, and they were eager to get him some crimes and send him to prison.To divide up his lands and gold in California.

"Are they all going to die?"

Cai Mingsheng asked.

"Yes, it's up to us whether they die or not. California's law is also up to us."

Liang Yao gave Cai Mingsheng an affirmative answer.

He does not intend to use federal law to judge Brannan's remnant party, but intends to use California's state law to judge Brannan's remnant party after the state is established.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Cai Mingsheng was finally relieved.

"Since California now has a Chinese deputy police chief, I think it is reasonable to have a few more Chinese police officers.

Now there are at least two or three thousand Chinese in California, and the police force also needs Chinese to ensure our safety.

You are Chinese, although you are a deputy sheriff, 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 the police force in California.

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

Cai Mingsheng also thought that this idea was very good, but he still needed to have his own people in the police force to be at ease.

The Mounted Police of this era is not the so-called Mounted Police of later generations. Most of the so-called Mounted Police of later generations is a title with a strong historical color.

Of course, the Mounted Police who use motorcycles as a means of transportation is another matter.

In this era when there are no internal combustion engines, there are no cars and motorcycles as means of transportation. Mounted police must really be able to ride horses, and they are veritable mounted police.

"Then learn what you have learned and use it now. You can choose the person. It is best to know English. As for the horse, I will exchange some cloth and rice noodles with the Indians later."

Cai Mingsheng deeply agreed with Liang Yao's proposal, and at the same time he did not forget why he came here today.

"Fleger asked me to remind you that several gold mining companies in the Sacramento gold mining area may have some actions against you in the near future. I hope you can be prepared."

"It's just clowns. How are they compared to Brannan? Besides, the gold digging companies of those ghosts are not monolithic."

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

Most of the smart gold digging companies are still on his side and won't risk offending him by making trouble in the goldfields.

If he really wants to make trouble, he can also use the resources in his hands to divide those troublesome gold digging companies and find out a few typical ones to make an example of them.

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

Although none of the Chinese were infected with cholera, and the gold mining work of Xiangshan Gold Mining Company was not affected, those white gold mining companies were affected by cholera.

Already some gold mining companies hoped that he could extend the date for them to pay the rent of the mining area, because many of their miners were infected with cholera and could not work normally.

The rent of the mining area is also a lot of money for him. With the cholera, his income will only decrease.

"That's right. You are a dragon and a phoenix among people. You are a person who wants to do big things. I worry too much." Cai Mingsheng also felt that his worries were a little unnecessary.

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

On the pier of San Francisco Bay, Adal Astor stood on the cargo box, his eyes that were almost spouting fire stared at the bustling commercial street not far away.

Due to his refusal to pay the berthing fee, his two steamships have been forcibly towed out of the berthing area of ​​the port.

Although Astor moved out the great name of the Astor family, those vicious port guards in strange uniforms didn't agree with him at all.

Although Adal is also surnamed Astor and often talks about the Astor family, he is not a core member of the Astor family.

In fact, he left Liverpool, England, to join the Astor family in New York six years ago, hoping that the Astor family would consider him as a distant relative and take him in, and find a job in the Astor family.

It's just that A'dal doesn't have outstanding abilities, and he didn't have any outstanding performance in the six years of serving the Astor family. It is also reasonable that he has not been reused by the Astor family.

When the news of the discovery of gold in California spread to the east, the helm of the Astor family, John Jacob Astor, that is, the old Astor who had not conquered the country before the Astor family, had died of illness.

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

Although Old Astor started his business with fur, when he died, the Astor family was not only the richest man in the country who could keep pace with Vanderbilt, but also the largest landowner in New York.

Old Astor had a morbid obsession with the land.

When the old Astor was about to die, in addition to setting the ancestral precepts and forbidding his descendants to sell any inch of the Astor family's land, he also confessed that the younger Astor must inherit his will and buy every inch of the land in Manhattan Island. down.

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

"Their berthing fee is not expensive, and we can afford the money, Mr. Adal, I think we should pay the berthing fee and drive our boat back to the berthing area.

Many of our equipment tools are still on board.We cannot do our work without equipment and tools. "

The captain of the prospecting team, Berger, wondered if this distant relative of the Astor family had also acquired the good family tradition of the Astor family's stinginess, and refused to pay even a little bit of parking fee.

They did leave a lot of money in the name of the Astor family along the way, including the cost of berthing at the port.But in San Francisco, they hit a snag. Perhaps the owner of the San Francisco port didn't even know the Astor family, so they insisted on charging their berthing fees.

"There are 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 have not paid the parking fee." Berger added that the food and supplies they carried were about to run out, Needs to be refilled.

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

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

(End of this chapter)