1850 American Gold Baron

Chapter 365 Call from Paris

"You bastards, what wonderful grapes! Why don't you sell them at a good price? You have to sell them at a damn cheap price!"

"It's not like you old immigrants didn't treat us as human beings last year! You didn't even say hello when buying grapes. You sold your own grapes at a high price first, causing our grapes to rot in the ground!"

"Do you know this is a market? Do you know what a market is, you idiot? The market has a price every day, and there are profits and losses! I am willing to admit defeat! If you can't afford to lose, I will give you a boat ticket to go back to Qing Dynasty to continue planting sweet potatoes!"

"Bah! Damn the market! All I know is that I still owe a lot of money to the bank! If anyone doesn't let me sell the grapes today, I'll be in a hurry! Fight like hell! I'm willing to admit defeat.

, no matter what happens this year, it’s your turn, the old immigrants, to lose!”

Both sides had different opinions and started to quarrel with each other.

However, on both sides, the thunder was loud but the rain was light. This is also an old tradition in Fujian and Guangdong.

Everyone just curses in the street, and the most they do is throw stones and rotten vegetable leaves, making it difficult to start a real fight.

Even if a fight breaks out, the other party should make the first move. After all, the Stockton police are watching.

Fighting in California is not a trivial matter, and can result in a prison sentence and 2 to 5 years of hard labor in the end.

Whoever takes action first will be the loser in court in the future.

Of course, these quarreling Hongti Village immigrants were not only Chinese immigrants, but also a small number of Mexican immigrants, immigrants from eastern America, and even French immigrants.

These non-Chinese immigrants also chose their camps based on the first-come, first-served principle.

But apparently some of them were not that smart, and they actually picked up a stick removed from the grape trellis and hit the person on the skull.

The unlucky guy who was hit on the head by a sap fell down on the bed before he could even grunt.

"Killing people!"

I don't know who shouted this in the crowd.

The original tacit understanding of only using words but not using hands was finally broken.

The two sides lost control and restraint and started fighting in the square.

At first, everyone was still able to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. After all, Hongti Village is such a palm-sized area. Everyone looked down and didn't look up to see each other, and they had already become familiar with each other.

But soon, as the formation was broken up, the two sides fought more and more fiercely, and it soon turned into a farce of fighting on sight.

"Didn't you say that these people have some sense of control? Why did they start fighting right away?" Liang Yao looked at the group of villagers fighting in front of his eyes with a sullen face.

"Accident, accident." Chen Baoliang could only use accident to explain the cause of the fight.

"Take all those who gathered to fight and put them in jail."

Liang Yao pulled out the revolver from his waist and fired all six bullets in the cylinder in one breath. Then he waved his hand, signaling the Stockton police and his guards to control the grapes fighting in the square.

growers.

Although the situation was under control, lives had already been lost. Two of the three farmers, two men and one woman, were beaten to death and one was trampled to death. As for the injured, there were even more.

After examining their bodies, the Stockton police officers shook their heads helplessly.

"It's no small matter to gather a crowd to fight and kill people. Let the state send people to handle it and open a court to hear the case."

When this happened, Fremont's good mood was wiped out and he sighed.

"It is the failure of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agricultural Association to handle this matter properly. If something similar happens again in the future, Chen Baoliang, your agriculture minister will be done with it." Liang Yao was also in a very bad mood.

If only the Ministry of Agriculture had given some relief and stepped in to resolve the matter in time, the matter would not have developed to this extent.

After leaving Hongti Village, Liang Yao had no intention of going back to Stockton for dinner. Instead, he returned to his special train and headed to the Nevada area to inspect the construction of the Pacific Railway with Fremont.

Hu Jinchen has gone to Los Angeles to prepare for the establishment of Los Angeles Petrochemical, and Hu Jinchen's job is now taken over by Carnegie.

Liang Yao walked to the desk on the special train and sat down. On the desk were neatly placed several newspapers that Liang Yao often read and the recent telegrams sent to him.

Stations along the California Railways have been equipped with telegraph rooms to allocate trains on the railway lines.

Therefore, even if Liang Yao was not at Tingtao Garden in San Francisco, he could still receive telegrams sent to him.

The most important of these telegrams were three, the first of which was sent from Paris.

To be precise, it was sent from Paris to New York in the form of a letter, and then the New York telegraph office transmitted the letter to California via wire telegraph.

This is the fastest way to communicate between California and Europe. It only takes a little more than two weeks for Liang Yao to receive news from Paris.

In the era before the Atlantic submarine cable was laid, transoceanic information transmission between the Atlantic Ocean still needed to be transmitted by cruise ships.

James told him that in addition to the daily fuel supply, he also asked him to stock up on more arms, especially ammunition, and told him that a war was about to break out in Europe in the near future.

James' senses are still very keen and he is very well-informed.

Although James' prediction that Britain and France would join the war around Christmas was a little inaccurate, it was already very accurate. He even made a judgment in his letter that the Kingdom of Sardinia and France would form an alliance to jointly fight Russia. It can be seen that Rothschild

How well-informed the German family's information network is in Europe.

The second telegram was sent from Fillmore in Washington. Negotiations between Gadsden, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico City, and the new president of Mexico to purchase territory in northern Mexico had reached new heights of tension.

Fillmore asked Liang Yao to send more troops to the US-Mexico border to put pressure on Mexico, and must help Ambassador Gadsden obtain as much Mexican territory as possible at the minimum cost.

Fillmore made no secret of his territorial ambitions for Mexico.

He was determined to win the territory of Mexico, and he probably smelled the smell of war from the turbulent situation in Europa in the past few months.

The America of the mid-19th century was not the America of Americans, but the America of Europeans.

But as long as a war breaks out on the continent of Europe and Britain and France have no time to look west, America will be the America of the Americans for the time being.

California's industrialization requires high-quality iron ore. Although there are also Mexican iron ore owners in the California Coal and Steel Alliance, Liang Yao was able to successfully obtain high-quality and low-price Mexican high-quality iron ore from Mexico.

But if we can directly take over the iron ore areas in Mexico and put the iron ore areas directly into our pocket, that would be the best thing.

Just because Mexico dares not to sell him iron ore does not mean that the British and French will not interfere with it in the future.

The British, in particular, rejected Liang Yao more than once.

It feels more secure to hold the iron ore area in your own hands.

This is Liang Yao's only chance to obtain the Mexican iron ore area, and he must seize it.

(End of chapter)