Wild North America 1846

Chapter 56
american river
On April 4th, a week had passed since the battle of burning Hewan Village. On the ruins of the original site, a larger-scale camp stood, covering an area of ​​as much as 8 acres. It was originally Hewan Village. 12 times.

It was built by the American River Gold Rush Company mobilizing more than 2000 gold diggers and hundreds of soldiers, and it took a week to build it. It was named "Shanghewan Village".

Now only the walls of the village have been built, the ground is being cleared and compacted, roads are planned out with lime, commercial areas, town halls, public security offices, post and telecommunications offices, gold panning companies, and residential areas, most of which are neatly arranged tents.

The first building is the commercial area, and the unified construction is a two-story wooden building. Drawing on the lessons learned from the previous Hewan Village being burned to the ground by a fire, the planned village and town buildings are mainly in the shape of "Hui", consisting of 12 to 16 houses. The fire exits with a distance of 5 meters are also used as village and town roads.

The advantage of this is that once a fire breaks out, at most 1 or 2 "Hui"-shaped HDB flats will be affected, instead of burning down the entire village and causing major irreparable losses.

Besides
Li Cha hated the unhygienic situation of defecating anywhere, and personally presided over the planning of more than a dozen public toilets in villages and towns. Open defecation was strictly prohibited, and offenders were severely punished.

He plans to arrange for someone to clean up the cow and horse manure on the street in the next step.If conditions permit in the future, a special livestock pen will be built next to Shanghewan Village, and a paid storage method will be adopted to prohibit ox carts and horse carts from entering the village, so as to completely improve the poor sanitation situation.

Today's housing construction is in full swing. All the Chinese gunmen of the Tang Dynasty and the armed personnel of Fangcaodi have the right to get a free piece of homestead in the newly built villages and towns for building their own houses.

The homestead is given to you, but whether and when to build it is up to you. If you don’t build a house within three years, the American River Gold Rush Company will take it back for free and use it for other purposes.

This is Richard's move to win people's hearts. As long as you follow him, you will be rewarded for fighting to the death, and you can also get shares and homesteads in gold mining companies, and you will have various privileges next to America.

In the hell of San Francisco, everything is expensive, especially labor.

But the Chinese gunmen of the Datang Club thought of a good way, that is to build houses in a mutual aid style, which can greatly save costs.

What is Mutual Building?
According to the establishment of the armed cavalry and musketeers of the Tang Dynasty, 10 people form a team, appoint a small team leader, and a deputy team leader is in charge of commanding, and the team has a total of 12 people.They usually eat, live, and train together, and the assigned homestead is also together, basically a "hui"-shaped group.

Most of these Chinese have the skills of carpenters and masons. It is not difficult to build a house together, and it takes more than a month.

I have to admire how clever these overseas Chinese are, and soon spontaneously formed a team-based "house building cooperation group".

More than [-] "housing cooperation groups" worked together, and together with the labor recruited to build the commercial street owned by the American River Gold Rush Company, dozens of houses in Shanghewan Village were erected at the same time, and the construction boom was in the ascendant.

it won't take long

A brand-new new town will stand beside the American River, and it will become the headquarters of the federation to control the situation in the region. The new village and town will gather gold diggers, provide one-stop services for eating, drinking and having fun, including wine, women and gourmet food, and also provides Sands exchange deposit service. .

This is a bank privately established by Richard. Its full name is "Saint Fernandez Sequoia Bank", which means that the bank grows like a North American redwood tree and grows into a lush forest.

The bank accepts the service of depositing gold sands by gold diggers and the service of remittance bills, mainly relying on a securities called "Sequoia Bank Gold Notes".

There are four types of gold bills: one dollar, two dollars, five dollars and ten dollars. The value is equivalent to the securities issued by other insurance companies in the United States. They are guaranteed by the American River Gold Rush Company and are used to exchange for gold sand in the hands of gold diggers.

Sequoia Bank is the only employer that builds solid stone buildings in the entire village. At the request of Li Cha, the salaries of the staff members of the federation will be paid with Sequoia Bank gold notes in the future. Common to grocery stores and other business establishments, including protected brothels, restaurants, etc.

Richard tried to amass a lot of wealth through this move, laying a solid economic foundation for the next military expansion.

In April, the American River was crowded with people, and there were more and more gold prospectors from New Town and other areas. The total number was close to 4, forming a raging gold rush.

after the situation calmed down
Shanghewan Village has also ushered in a new round of recovery. A large number of white gold diggers, Chinese gold diggers and Mexican gold diggers poured into the village. to have fun.

Due to the poor conditions, the tents and brothels can only be separated by a curtain, and there are no beds.

Spread some straw on the ground, throw a mat on it, and the woman begins to receive guests.

Such simple conditions still can't stop the enthusiasm of gold diggers. The price of 10 dollars each time has climbed to 15 dollars. There are still a large number of men waiting outside the tents, and the business is booming.

A Cai, the owner of a brothel who brought girls from the new town to do business, invented a new business, which is to watch sex for 15 minutes.

In a large tent, 30 guests can pour in at a time, and they can charge $15 for 60 minutes.There are still many horny men waiting in line outside, and their hands are weak when they really collect the money.

In just one day, I made more than $1600.

Now the federation has customized two kinds of badges, one is the badge of the military personnel of the federation, which represents the identity of armed personnel from the Tang Dynasty or Fangcaodi, and has the right to maintain the law and order of the American River, Fangcaodi, Grape Valley and even the new town. Capture criminals, attack alien forces, and wipe out bandits wandering in the wilderness.

One is the badge of the American River Gold Rush Company. Those who wear this badge belong to the law enforcement officers of the American River Gold Rush Company, who play the role of police, tax officials, and civil dispute mediators for this gold-rich river basin.

The staff of the gold panning company are responsible for maintaining the security of Shanghewan Village. They patrol back and forth in full armor every day to ensure that the gold diggers are safe and sound.

About 20 kilometers downstream of Shanghewan Village, a camp of the same size was also established, named "Xiahewan Village".

The scale of Xiahewan Village is larger, with an area of ​​15 acres. It is located on the high ground beside the river beach. The current construction progress is similar to that of Shanghewan Village, and it is also in the initial stage.

With these two villages and towns as the core, within a range of more than 80 kilometers upstream and downstream, it is the area with the richest gold reserves in the entire American River, accounting for more than three-quarters of the total gold sand output.

The American River Gold Panning Company set up checkpoints at both ends of the 80-kilometer river, according to Richard;

This is a strictly controlled area. If you want to pan for gold here, you must abide by the rules of the gold pan.

What rules?

Free gold diggers who enter the area must pay a regular fee. Calculated on a monthly basis, they need to pay 2 ounces of gold, which is called "mineral resource tax".

Generally speaking

In the American River region, where gold ore resources are abundant, it is easy for ordinary people to mine 1 to 2 ounces of gold per day, which is an average level.

For those who are lucky, it is possible to pan for tens or hundreds of ounces of gold a day, but this situation is not common.

Therefore, the mineral resource tax of 2 ounces of gold per month is not high, and credit is allowed in the first month, and it will be paid on the first day of the second month, but a late payment fee of one ounce of gold will be paid, which is two months Tax plus late fee is 1 ounces of gold.

Taking advantage of the great reputation that had just suppressed the Alexander Madison gang, the Federation swept across the entire American River Basin within a week, cleaned up a dozen small groups that were not very obedient, and then promoted this policy.

Gold prospectors outside the strictly controlled areas only need to pay a "mineral resource tax" of one ounce of gold every month, and the fee is halved.

on the basis of

The American River Gold Panning Company is responsible for maintaining the law and order of the entire Golden River, cracking down on robbery and other illegal activities, so as to thoroughly rectify the chaotic situation within the gold mining area and embark on the development path of orderly mining.

It is estimated that the annual income will reach 35 to 38 ounces of gold just by collecting the "mineral resources tax".

And near Shanghewan Village
Three tall waterwheel-style buildings have been erected. This is the waterwheel-style gold pan under construction. Seven buildings will be built in a row along the dozens of kilometers of river bay rich in gold sand, from Shanghewan Village to Xiahe Bay Village, this is the main business of the American River Gold Rush Company.

"Kane, I've given you three more days to consider, and I've shown enough sincerity. I'm waiting for your answer as to whether I'm willing to join Datang Society."

Wearing a light-colored cowboy hat on his head and a plaid scarf around his neck, Li Cha walked to the old Kahn standing by the river, looking at the green jungle and the towering Sierra Nevada mountains in the distance, his tone was not tight Said not slowly.

Standing beside him was the tall and burly old Kahn, with thick hair like a lion. His height was about the same as Richard's, but he was half as wide anyway, and his chest was as thick as a hill.

Old Kahn turned his face to look at Li Cha, he could not see any abnormality from his young face, his brows had already frowned into the word "Chuan", he said in an arrogant voice;
"God, can't you let Kahn's house be quieter? As long as we find enough gold, we will leave here, maybe buy a large piece of land next to Rose Manor, and live a peaceful life without disputes in the world."

"Kahn, you may not know that a war is about to break out between the United States and Mexico. Who do you choose to help?"

"I don't choose anyone. When I brought my family all the way here from Texas, the Republic of Texas hadn't been established yet. I didn't like the United States or Mexico. It's none of my business if they fight. .”

"The goal of the Federation is to form an independent republic in California, would you like to join, man?"

"I don't want to help anyone, I just want to stay quietly. Please don't disturb the Kahn family anymore. Is this small request too much?"

"Hehe..." Li Cha looked at the frightened birds flying in the distance, and suddenly smiled meaningfully, and said with a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth; "There is an old saying in the East: How can you allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch? Kahn If the whole family does not join the Datang Club, then what is the intention of the forty or so white gunmen you gathered secretly? Are you planning to play house? Kahn, I gave you the opportunity, I hope you don’t make the same mistakes again and again .”

Talking room

Li Cha revealed a strong aura, and the heavy pressure gathered on Old Kahn's body. This was the murderous aura gathered by killing hundreds of people, and the old Kahn was a little breathless.

Which one to go and which one to follow is related to the lives of more than a dozen nephews and more than 30 relatives and friends of the Kahn family. Once they bow their heads and join the Datang Society, it will be even more difficult to get out.

How the free eagle is willing to stay on a certain hill: this decision is not easy to make!

(End of this chapter)