1850 American Gold Tycoon

Chapter 98 Choice
"Mr. Liang, what can you do?"

Colonel Griffin put on a neat military uniform, with an army saber pinned to his waist, and received Liang Yao in the living room in the military fortress.

"I'm here to congratulate you, Colonel Griffin, you can finally return home as you wished." Liang Yao congratulated Griffin.

Griffin is a person who knows how to live. Although this is a military fortress, Griffin's private courtyard is decorated very warmly by him, and it even feels like home.

"Thank you, and I also congratulate you on becoming the sheriff of California, Colonel Liang." Griffin sat down on the sofa.

It is indeed a happy thing to be able to leave this place of right and wrong and return to my hometown.

After he left, no matter how much trouble Liang Yao and the New York consortium made, it had nothing to do with him.

Griffin knew that Liang Yao's special visit to the military fortress would not be as simple as just coming to congratulate him.

"I think Mr. Liang's visit this time is not just to thank me." Griffin said.

"I want to buy some weapons from you to equip my soldiers in the future. In California, it is not easy to buy enough weapons to equip an infantry regiment."

Liang Yao got straight to the point and directly explained the purpose of his visit.

"Exchanging weapons for gold and bringing them back to Georgia is a very good deal for you."

"Then what will I use to deal with the Indians in my hometown when I go back?" Griffin pretended to decline.

"Indians? Georgia Indians? You're kidding me, Colonel Griffin. As far as I know, you scalped the Georgia Indians before I was born, and their territory It has already become your cotton field." Liang Yao said, crossing his legs.

This guy thinks he doesn't know anything about the East.

"Besides, you have gold in your hand. When you arrive in Georgia, do you still worry about not being able to buy enough arms?"

"If you can speak well of me in front of the officials of the Ministry of War, I would be willing to sell you some weapons. My troops are equipped with the most advanced rifled guns in the United States. Even if you have enough gold, you have to hold them Gold lined up at the gate of the arsenal."

Griffin did not expect that Liang Yao, a young man who had just immigrated to California from the Qing Dynasty, would know so much about Georgia, which is far in the east.

He heard that the new president favored this young and promising young man, and even applied for a silver medal from Congress for him.Although Griffin speculates that there may be elements of a transaction, it is enough to prove Liang Yao's status in the mind of the new president.

"That's natural. After all, you are stationed on the California flagship and have made outstanding contributions to maintaining law and order in California." Liang Yao said lightly.

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William Walkburn was a member of the Boston Company.

Seeing that all of his former colleagues have made a fortune and become wealthy bosses, Walker deeply regrets his behavior of stealing the company's gold, leaving the company, and finally becoming a bandit.

Bandits are not so easy to be. Although they can get a lot of money after a plunder every time, the wealth and materials looted are distributed by Brandon.

And Brandon relied heavily on his deserters and fellow countrymen. Walker and the others were just marginal people in the team and were not welcomed.Always suffer losses when distributing wealth and supplies.

Moreover, with the strengthening of defense forces in the Sacramento mining area, their looting activities have become more and more difficult to succeed, and the losses have also increased.

Although Brandon took the line of the New York consortium, Brandon was not optimistic.

Because so far, the help given to them by the New York consortium is just a verbal promise, and it cannot provide them with substantial material support.

On the contrary, Brandon asked them to allocate a part of the few supplies they had worked so hard to grab to the gentlemen of the New York consortium.This made Walker deeply dissatisfied.

I followed you, ate and slept in the open, and risked my head to gather with you in the mountains and forests, but you gave the looted supplies to those consortium masters and didn't give them to me?
Also regretting are Oliver Martin, who chose to leave the Boston Company with William Walker, and John Fuller.

As before, the three of them once again made the choice to leave the Brandon bandits.

They are from the gold panning company, and Brandon trusts the deserters more, so in the bandits, they are conservative discriminations of the gold panning company's hired gunmen and employees.

Now they have endured to the extreme and decided to leave the bandit team secretly.

William Walker chose to go to the Boston Gold Rush Company, and his old boss, Captain Weber, had already returned to Boston.

Now the leader of the Boston company is Dr. Robinson. Walker knows Robinson. Robinson is a kind and good person. Walker thinks that Robinson will accept him again.So Walker decided to sneak back to Sacramento.

Martin and Fuller also decided to leave, but they did not intend to return to the Boston company.

They heard that there is a gold lake in the Sierra Nevada area to the east, where there is gold that can never be mined.

Although it sounds exaggerated, Martin and Fuller decided to look for the legendary Golden Lake and try their luck there.

They don't want to continue to worry about being a bandit anymore.

On a dark and stormy night, the three of them parted ways again, each embarking on a different path in life.

Although Robinson is a kind old man, his kindness has a bottom line.

Robinson knew he would do bad things to the Boston Company if he readmitted William Walker.

Moreover, now the Boston Company has grown into a large gold mining company with strong financial resources.

Robinson's good reputation also brought benefits to the Boston Company, and many miners and hired gunmen came to join the Boston Company.

The Boston Company has no shortage of miners, let alone gunmen.

Robinson was not at all polite to Walker, the guy who stole the company's few gold and abandoned the company when he was in the company's most difficult time.

Robinson directly tied up Walker, a dangerous element, and turned him to San Francisco himself.

"Sheriff Flagg, it's great that you're here too. Look, who I brought here."

When Robinson came to Tingtao Garden, it happened that Flage was there.

Unlike Colonel Griffin, Fleger chose to remain in California.

The economy in the east is sluggish, although law and order in some places is getting worse.

However, in order to reduce financial expenditure, the government also made a decision to lay off the police.

Fleger felt that he would be no better off back in the East than he was in California.

What's more, now that California is about to become a state, if he stays in California, his promotion path will be broader.

Fleger hoped that Liang Yao could fund him to expand the San Francisco police station.

Compared with the thriving and rapidly developing San Francisco area, the old and small police station in San Francisco looks very shabby.

In return, Fleger promised to recruit more Chinese police officers into the California Mounted Police.

"William Walker? This is a dangerous guy. Isn't he in Brandon's team? How did you catch him?"

Walker is a mercenary who has participated in many wars. He was a well-known ruthless character in the 49-year-old miners team, and later defected to Brandon's team.

There is still a warrant for Walker in the police station, and the Boston Company was very surprised that Walker was caught.

Flagg gave Walker a hard fist, and Walker wounded one of his subordinates when he was chasing Walker.

"Mr. Walker, this punch is for my friend."

"He's from Brandon's team?"

Liang Yao looked at the five-foot-nine-inch (175cm) tall man.

He arrived in Sacramento in January 1850, and he was not very clear about the grievances among the 1-year-old miners.

Since Walker is a member of Brandon's team, Walker must know Brandon's team of gangsters very well.

"You are Mr. Liang? Great, Mr. Liang, I hope to serve you. I have been a mercenary for eight years, and I am still in Europe. Besides, my marksmanship is also very good."

Seeing Liang Yao, Walker sold himself to Liang Yao as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.

"I need some brave mercenaries with actual combat experience to be my guards, but unfortunately, you have been a bandit before." Liang Yao expressed his attitude.

After hearing Liang Yao's words, Walker was listless like a deflated ball, looking very disappointed.

"If you can provide some information about Brandon, I will speak a few words to the judge for you in the court trial in the future, and judge you according to the discretion. This is your only chance to do meritorious service." Liang Yao is like a golden eagle. Sharp eyes stared at the lost Walker.

(End of this chapter)