1850 American Gold Tycoon

Chapter 5 Little Fudge

"I, Liang Yao, swear on blood in front of Guan Gong today! From tonight on, I will live and die with my brothers and my second uncle, advance and retreat together, share the blessings, share the difficulties, and go up the mountain of swords and down the sea of ​​fire. Yan, braid like this!"

Liang Yao solemnly swore in front of the statue of Guan Gong enshrined in Cai Mingsheng's house, drank the blood wine, picked up the scissors on the altar, and cut off the humiliating big braid on his head without hesitation!He wanted to cut off this braid that got in the way when he was on the boat.

"Third brother is fine if he has the heart! Cutting hair and braids is absolutely forbidden! How can the body, hair and skin be damaged by the parents?"

Deng Yan, who was a witness, saw Liang Yao cutting off his braids, and hurried forward to dissuade him, but it was too late, Liang Yao had already cut off his braids with lightning speed, and threw them into the brazier.In order to cut off the braids cleanly, he sharpened the scissors overnight.

"The hair can be broken, but the brotherhood between me and you cannot be broken!"

After the braid was cut, Liang Yao suddenly felt refreshed.

Except for Deng Wenyu, who was talented and intelligent, and his family reluctantly helped him to pay Shuxiu for three years in a private school, the rest of the children of the Deng family were all illiterate and illiterate.

It will not work to talk about the big truth with these people. On the premise of the relationship between cousins, they will immediately form a party and form a common interest group that belongs to them to jointly gain selfishness. This is an effective way to gather them by your side. Not considering his and Deng Yan's seniority issues, he even wanted to make friends with Deng Yan.

He doesn't know whether the Deng brothers believe in Confucius or not, but they definitely believe in Guan Gong.

The Deng family brothers are generally not very old, similar to Liang Yao, or a little older, or a little younger, and their minds are not very mature.The appearance of this kind of plot that only happened in the novels told by the storytellers made their blood boil.

Liang Yao struck while the iron was hot, took out the constitution of the Loyalty Association that had been drafted, and read it out.

"One: Do not act without authorization and mine gold without permission.

Second: all the income is paid into the membership, and the dividends are distributed at the end of the year.

Third: Loyalty Association will arrange the board and lodging for all members who join the membership and their families.

Fourth: Do not smoke opium, whore, or gamble.

Anyone who violates all these will be expelled from the Loyalty Association and will not be forgiven. "

Forming a party and establishing an association in the Qing Dynasty was a capital crime to punish the nine ethnic groups, but Guangdong was already rampant, and the rulers in the north were beyond their reach, and the Deng family did not have much resistance to this.

What's more, this is California, and it is [-] miles away from the Qing Dynasty, so they have nothing to do with the restoration of the Qing Dynasty here.

After reading the charter, Liang Yao took out his only twelve ounces of gold as the initial funds for the Loyalty Society.

The Deng family brothers hesitated for a while, and took out the fine silver taels hidden in strange places such as the soles of shoes, clothes, and crotches.

Liang Yao despises these few scraps of silver, but he must firmly hold the financial power in his own hands.

"Third Brother is one of our own, can you still believe it? Third Brother has given away so much gold himself, is it possible that he will cheat on your few pieces of silver in front of Guan Gong?"

Seeing that there were two descendants of the Deng family who were unwilling to take out their private money, Deng Yan stood up to Liang Yao's platform, and handed over all his belongings to Liang Yao.

Seeing this, the remaining two Deng brothers also took out a few grains of silver from the soles of their feet.

Liang Yao originally wanted to set up a company like other gold digging organizations, but considering practical factors, he decided to set up a meeting party first.

There wasn't much gold left that could be mined by hand near San Francisco, and it was Brannan's territory.Although the transportation conditions here are convenient, Liang Yao does not intend to start a business here. His ideal starting place is Sacramento, an emerging gold mining area more than [-] kilometers away from San Francisco.

But before that, he had to visit Sartre to obtain a piece of legal land.

Gold mining is not just a gold mine in the physical sense. In fact, there are very few lucky people who get rich and reach the pinnacle of life through direct mining of gold.

Most of the people who made their fortunes in the California Gold Rush were people like Brannan who did not directly participate in the gold rush, but engaged in monopoly operations.

Liang Yao didn't want his hard work to be wiped out due to illegal occupation and settlement.

Although there is no cost in the short term for directly occupying land and mining gold, you still have to look at the long term.

Furthermore, when he first arrived in California, he also needed a partner, and Sutter was a particularly suitable partner.

Liang Yao arranged for Deng Yan to take the Deng family's children to buy some necessary living supplies in San Francisco, and then, under Cai Mingsheng's guidance, went to Sacramento's Fort Sutter to visit Sutter.

"My former employer doesn't like gold diggers, and I'm afraid I'm going to return without success this time."

On the way, Cai Mingsheng vaccinated Liang Yao in advance to prepare Liang Yao mentally.

In his previous life, Liang Yao made his living by fooling people, so he still had confidence in convincing Sartre.

Sartre's current situation is not good, and it has reached the verge of bankruptcy.This person discovered gold, but spent the rest of his life in unwillingness and poverty, and finally passed away sadly. He is a sad and tragic figure.

"Sai Se! You bloody moths! Get out of my territory!"

A middle-aged Caucasian male in a fit of rage held the reins of his mount with one hand and fired a gun into the sky with the other, driving away the gold diggers who invaded his private territory. This reminded Liang Yao of the typical red-necked image of the United States in later generations.

"This is my former club."

Cai Mingsheng pointed to the middle-aged white man and said, "He is my former club, Sartre."

"Mr. Sutter, I brought you the wooden utensils you told me to make." Cai Mingsheng unloaded the wooden utensils from the carriage and said to Sartre.

"Cai, you are always so sure and punctual in doing things. If only my hired workers were as reliable as you. Those damn slobs, let's just go panning for gold one by one, and steal from me!"

Seeing Cai Mingsheng, Sartre's face became more amiable, and Liang Yao noticed a bit of military demeanor in Sartre's eyebrows.

"This is the hired worker you want to introduce to me? Great, my farm is short of manpower, the increasingly barren land needs people to cultivate, and the livestock also needs people to feed, but his body is a bit thin."

Sutter looked Liang Yao up and down like a commodity, thinking that Liang Yao was a hired worker recommended to him by Cai Mingsheng.

"Hello, Mr. Sutter, I'm sorry that I'm not the employee Mr. Cai introduced to you. In fact, I'm also a moth, a moth fascinated by gold."

Liang Yao revealed his identity very frankly, and Sartre didn't give Liang Yao a good look.

"Then what do you want from me? Damn you little moth."

Seeing Cai Mingsheng's face, Sutter didn't immediately issue an order to evict Liang Yao, but he also looked very impatient.

"Just six months ago, when I was a student at Monson High School in Massachusetts, my goddamn father abandoned me and my younger siblings with a pile of gambling debts, when I wrote in the newspaper Seeing the news of the discovery of gold in California, I decided to go here with my compatriots for the sake of my younger brothers and sisters.”

Liang Yao weaved his lies without changing his expression, while Cai Mingsheng who was on the side was stunned.

Cai Mingsheng, who was from Liang Yao's family background, was very clear about why studying in Massachusetts was pure fiction. Are scholars in the Qing Dynasty so shameless now?Just open your mouth to tell a lie?
Sartre was not a particularly famous person in history, and Liang Yao didn't know about Sartre's life, and he didn't get much information from Cai Mingsheng. He only knew that Sartre was from the German-speaking part of Europe.

In other words, Sartre was a European immigrant who came to the Americas from Europe, the center of civilization, or an immigrant from a remote area of ​​the Americas during this period. Either he committed a crime in his home country, or he left his hometown due to huge debts or other reasons.

Of course, there are also a very small number of down-and-out nobles who fled from Europe to America, but the image of Sartre makes it difficult for people to associate him with the term nobility.

At Sartre's age, he probably already had a family in Europe and came here by abandoning his wife and son.This is Liang Yao's guess based on the information Cai Mingsheng told him.

There was an imperceptible look of pity in Sartre's eyes, but all of this was seen by Liang Yao, who was good at observing words and expressions.He guessed it right, and this Sartre really had a family in Europe.

"So you're still a poor little moth, but what does that have to do with me? I'm not your gambling father." Sartre said coldly.

"I got some reliable news in Boston that the eastern consortium will be stationed here soon, their machinery and equipment have been shipped, and California will soon be a state, as long as you can hold your legal land before their arrival , become a person who has the right to speak in California, you can not only sell a little land and make a fortune."

Liang Yao stared at Sartre's slightly moved face, paused and continued.

"At that time, as long as you can still talk in California and have a little money, you will be one of the first congressmen in California and become one of the richest and most powerful people in California. But as far as I know, the most powerful people in California now The rich and powerful man is Mr. Sam Brannan."

Speaking of Brannan, Sartre almost jumped off his horse like a cat whose tail was stepped on.Presumably there are also many grievances and entanglements between them.This is also a very good signal for Liang Yao, they have people they hate in common, which is a very good basis for cooperation.

"It's just that those gold diggers now think that the west is a land of no man. They wantonly invade your legal land and steal your sacred and inviolable private property. These guys who deserve to be hanged really do all kinds of evil!"

"Let's go, little moth, sit in my castle and have a sip of coffee. I can't believe you're still a middle school student."

Sartre turned his horse and walked slowly towards his farm, thinking that if his children in Europe were half as alert as Liang Yao, at least they would not have to worry about food and clothing.

Sutter's Castle, that is, Sutter's manor, has already appeared. In Nuo Da's manor, Liang Yao only saw a few absent-minded Indian hired workers. After the gold was discovered, everyone was crazy about it, and rushed into the gold rush Among them, no one is willing to be Sartre's hired worker.

"Tell me, Mr. Xiao, what can you give me? What do you need from me?"

Sartre took a sip of coffee, crossed his legs and asked.

"Any sugar cubes, Mr. Sutter."

Liang Yao took a sip of the coffee lightly, the extremely bitter taste made him unacceptable.

Sater complied with Liang Yao's request and brought Liang Yao two cubes of sugar. Liang Yao said while rubbing the cubes.

"I would like to legally acquire a small piece of land from you for me and my compatriots to settle down. This land is preferably on the banks of the American River. I will pay you [-]% of the gold mining income as land rent.

In return, when we have enough gold, we will buy this land from you at a price that satisfies you. When necessary, my compatriots and I will also take up arms and assist you in defending us rights and interests.

Of course, you can also choose to reject me as a reliable partner.At that time, those barbaric gold diggers will erode your territory step by step until you go bankrupt and become a pauper with nothing and debts. "

(End of this chapter)