1850 American Gold Tycoon

Chapter 6 The Worried Cousins

On the way back, Liang Yao played a cheerful ditty. After all, he managed to grind down a piece of precious land with his mouth.

Sartre was far richer than he imagined, and leased him 300 acres, or about 121 hectares of land.Sartre also helped them deal with the minutiae procedures of naturalization. He still has certain contacts in California, and these things are not difficult for him.

Although the contract stipulates that the land must be bought at the price of 1200 ounces of gold within two years, otherwise Sartre's terms of taking back the land look very harsh.But Liang Yao can accept that if he can't earn 1200 ounces of gold here in two years, his gold rush trip should be over.

Four ounces an acre would be expensive anywhere else, but this is California.Liang Yao believed that the value of these 1200 acres of land, especially the [-] acres of land beside the American River, was far more than [-] ounces of gold.

"Uncle Cai, gold is everywhere in California, why don't you go digging for gold? You can make more money digging for gold than carpentry."

Liang Yao expressed the question in his heart. He didn't understand why Cai Mingsheng, as the first batch of Chinese who arrived in California, didn't join the wave of gold rush.

If Cai Mingsheng were to seek gold, he would have a first-mover advantage and become a 49-year-old miner, or even a member of the earlier group of miners.

Cai Mingsheng smiled wryly, remembering the past that he didn't want to recall.

"When I was in Peru, I dug silver day and night in the dark mine for three years, and I still have nightmares at night, dreaming that I was buried in the mine, dreaming that I was beaten alive by the overseer Death, of course, also dreamed about our hometown Xiangshan.

You are a great talent. I worked for my old employer for four years, and I only bought [-] acres of thin land from him. You just asked for [-] acres of land from him.Young people can be described as ah. "

"I want 1200 ounces of gold. This Sartre has a lot of appetite. There are still these lands, although they can barely be connected, but there are too few lands beside the American River." Liang Yao felt a little bit of a fly in the ointment.

"The land on both sides of the American River is precious. Although the former owner's land is large, there is not much land on the American River. It is very rare to grant you five acres of land on the American River." Cai Mingsheng pulled the reins, Slow down the horse so that the wagon can move more smoothly over the rough road ahead.

"Second Uncle, Brother Yao and the others were beaten by the ghost!"

As soon as he returned to his mansion on the outskirts of San Francisco, Liang Yao's good mood was swept away.

After all, some people did not resist the temptation of gold and went out to mine gold without permission.

"It's not worrying!" Deng Yan slapped Deng Wenshun's face when he came back to report: "You bought something and went to the gold mining area?"

"Brother Yao dug up a piece of dog's head gold. It was those ghosts who came to snatch the gold we dug up for no reason. The piece of dog's head gold we dug up was as big as half a fist!"

With a straight face, Liang Yao said coldly, "Second Uncle, go to the mining area, it's late, don't talk about gold, maybe my life will be in the mining area!"

"What are you doing in a daze? Listen to third brother, fuck that bastard gang of ghosts!"

Deng Yan hurriedly called the remaining Deng brothers to rush to the gold mining area. Liang Yao also hurriedly loaded the cap gun, put on the cap, and ignored the pain in his buttocks and inner thighs and rode on the bike that Cai Mingsheng had lent him. The old draft horse set off hastily.

Muddy sewage, human and animal feces everywhere, disgusting smell, disorganized tents, and chaotic crowds are the conditions in the gold mining area.

Covered in blood, Deng Wenyao curled up, lying like a wounded caterpillar in the filthy mud, no matter how the gold diggers from all over the world beat him, he still held the dog's head gold tightly in his arms. Ken lets go.

Among those violent perpetrators, Liang Yao vaguely saw a few shadows with braids.

Without hesitation, Liang Yao fired a shot at the sky, and then rushed into the crowd with Deng Yan and others, dragging the dying Deng Wenyao up.

Soon, they were also surrounded by crazy crowds.Fortunately, Liang Yao saved his hand and told Cai Mingsheng to call the Sheriff of San Francisco.Of course, all this comes at a price.

There are more than [-] gold diggers near San Francisco, and the dozens of mounted policemen in San Francisco simply can't handle it, and they don't want to. Many mounted policemen have long since given up their monthly salary of only Seven or eight dollars of work, as a gunner for the gold rush company and team.

Sergeant Flage brought over a dozen mounted policemen armed with live ammunition and full of murderous looks, which barely deterred the gold diggers.

Many of these mounted police officers served in the volunteer army during the Mexican-American War, and participated in the Mexican-American War three or four years ago. Involuntarily took a few steps back.

"Your Excellency, I am very sorry to disturb you because of such a trivial matter. You should be drinking afternoon tea at this time, not in this dirty mining area. You are really a good and conscientious sheriff. With a good sheriff like you , is truly a blessing to all the people of California."

Liang Yao's words made Flaige feel like a spring breeze. Of course, Liang Yao also knew that his words were not enough to impress Flaige, and Flaige would not help him just because of his words.

While speaking, Liang Yao had already stuffed the bloody dog's head gold into Flaige's empty left hand.

No one would say no to gold, and it wasn't because he loved the job that Fleiger didn't give up his low-paying job and choose to stay in the job like his colleagues did.

Fleger is well aware of the power of law enforcement in his hands, and sometimes he can get a lot of gold in exchange. He doesn't need to gamble on his own luck to dig gold.

Fleger was very satisfied with the harvest of this trip. For the sake of gold, he rescued Liang Yao, and led Liang Yao out of the gold mining area under the eyes of the gold diggers.

"This friend of yours is really stupid and bold, or brainless. The miners of San Francisco are not so much miners as a gang of irrational thugs."

After leaving the gold mining area, Fleger and his men put the Colt five-shot revolver that they had been holding tightly in their hands back into the holster.

"Even us mounted policemen dare not enter this area easily. Today I risked my life to save your life."

"Sheriff Flagg, is there any reliable doctor in San Francisco?"

Looking at the dying Deng Wenyao, Liang Yao interrupted Flaige.Flag helped them, but they also gave him gold, and Flag was by no means as noble as he made himself out to be.

"You don't have your own doctor?"

Fleger was a little surprised that almost every gold mining company and group had its own doctor.Their group didn't even have their own doctor, which surprised Fleiger.

Liang Yao shook his head helplessly. His group didn't even have decent doctors, not even a doctor who could treat bruises.If no doctor can be found, Deng Wenyao will not live long when he goes back.

"The doctors in the gold mining companies will also treat people outside the company, provided you have enough gold or dollars. But the doctors here are not very skilled. Many so-called doctors are actually trying to escape the troubled waters of the $300 investment fund. disciples."

Although the U.S. economy has stagnated and all industries have been depressed in the past ten years, the development of the entire American society has entered a bottleneck period.But doctors are still a very respectable profession in the eastern part of the United States, and there are not many doctors who can give up everything to take the risk of California.

As for the three hundred dollars, it is the investment money for joining the gold mining company. The investment amount can be as small as one or two hundred dollars, and as large as seven or eight hundred dollars. Certainly.

Of course, if you are a doctor, you can join any gold digging company and team without paying a penny.

"But you are very lucky, Liang, you know me, and I know a doctor with superb medical skills and good ethics. The key is that this doctor does not accept gold or dollars."

Flage said slowly while stroking the gold in his pocket.

Liang Yao understood what Flaige meant, so he gritted his teeth and gave Flaige another ounce of gold.

Damn, I haven't found a single piece of gold since I came to California, and I have given gold to others.

"Dr. Charles Robinson of the Boston Company, I'll take you to see him."

Flag, who received the gold, showed a satisfied smile.

Charles Robinson was probably in his thirties, with a thin body, and his haggard mental state could not conceal his well-balanced facial features and handsome face.

Although Sergeant Flag said that this doctor had very good medical ethics and did not accept gold, but for the sake of his cousin's life, Liang Yao still took out what little gold he had left.

"I didn't save people for gold."

Charles Robinson's eyes full of stories just glanced at the gold in Liang Yao's hand.Then he concentrated on treating Deng Wenyao's wound.

Some people's value can be measured by gold, while some people's value is not measured by gold.

"The injury is not optimistic. You need to stay with me for observation and treatment for at least half a month, or even longer." Charles said after washing his blood-stained hands.

"We're leaving for Sacramento the day after tomorrow. Dr. Charles has done his best, so you can go."

Captain Weber, the leader of the Boston Company, issued an order to evict them. It was impossible for them to delay their trip and gold panning for a stranger.

"We just came back from Sacramento to buy supplies, maybe we can have some company, Captain Webb."

It seemed that Weber didn't welcome them. Just as he was about to reject them, Dr. Robinson spoke first: "Let's go together, we can take care of each other on the way."

Dr. Robinson has a high prestige in the Boston Company, although the people in the Boston Company seem to respect Captain Weber on the surface.But Liang Yao could see that their admiration for Dr. Robinson was from the bottom of their hearts.

Liang Yao heaved a sigh of relief, half of Deng Wenyao's life was recovered, if it wasn't for Deng Yanhe and the other Deng brothers, he wouldn't bother to care about Deng Wenyao's life or death.

Back at their residence, Liang Yao didn't give them a good face. In just a few days, Deng Wenyao and Deng Wenshun regarded the constitution of the Loyalty Society as waste paper and secretly hid money. Brother Jia doesn't take the constitution of the Loyalty Society seriously.

Right now he is very short of manpower, whether it is panning for gold or starting a small business, he needs a lot of manpower.

But people who don't follow the rules will only do bad things, such people don't need to use it, even if they are related to him by blood.

(End of this chapter)