1850 American Gold Baron

"What do you plan to do with Brannan's remnants?"

Mentioning Brannan's remnants, Cai Mingsheng's eyes revealed a bit of murderous intent.

"Hasn't the murderer of Laixi been killed by you yourself?"

Liang Yao was quite surprised when he looked at Cai Mingsheng, whose hatred was still lingering.

"Killing one of them will not relieve my anger! Those remnants of Brannan's gang deserve to die. On the day they are executed, I want to be the executioner!"

Cai Mingsheng used to be the kind of person who would stay away from his wife when he saw her killing chickens, but now he actually volunteered to be the executioner.

"It is true that they deserve to die, but there are too many people to kill, thirty-six people in total. Killing so many people is no small matter.

After deliberation, the Citizens’ Committee decided to make a final judgment on them after California becomes a state, and California will become a state by the end of this year at the latest.”

Liang Yao didn't want to leave any excuse for this incident.

Historically, the charge Brannan was arrested on was the deliberate murder of Jenkins in defiance of federal law, not the casualties caused by the gunfight with the gold mining company.

He didn't want to follow in Brannan's footsteps, even though he was now the most powerful and wealthy man in California, but he had to learn restraint.

Killing is not difficult, what is difficult is how to end the killing.

Conflicts between miners led to casualties and private courts to execute people. Although they were both killings, they were completely different in nature. At least that's what the gentlemen in Congress thought.

The wealthy families in the East were jealous of his property in California and were eager to find him guilty and send him to prison so that they could divide up his land and gold in California.

"Are they all going to die?"

Cai Mingsheng asked.

"Yes, it's up to us to decide whether they die or not. We also decide the laws in California."

Liang Yao gave Cai Mingsheng a positive answer.

He does not plan to use federal law to judge Brannan's remnants, but plans to use California state law to judge Brannan's remnants after statehood is established.

After receiving a positive reply, Cai Mingsheng was finally relieved.

"Since there are already Chinese deputy chiefs in California, I think it is reasonable to have a few more Chinese police officers.

There are at least two to three thousand Chinese in California now, and we also need Chinese in the police force to ensure our safety.

You are Chinese, and even though you are a deputy police chief, those ghostly old mounted policemen may not obey you. It is convenient for you to do things with a few Chinese mounted policemen."

Liang Yao wanted to place Chinese in California's police force.

"I also have this intention, but we are mounted police. If we can ride a horse, there are not many people in Guangdong and Fujian who can ride a horse."

Cai Mingsheng also thinks this idea is very good, but it still needs to have its own people in the police force to feel at ease.

The mounted police of this era were not the so-called mounted police of later generations. Most of the so-called mounted police of later generations had a title with strong historical color.

Of course, it is a different matter for mounted police officers who use motorcycles as their means of transportation.

In this era where there are no internal combustion engines, there are no cars or motorcycles as means of transportation. Mounted policemen really need to be able to ride horses and be worthy of the name.

"Then learn and use now. You choose the man. It's best if he understands English. As for the horse, I will bring some cloth, rice and flour to the Indians in exchange for it later."

Cai Mingsheng deeply agreed with Liang Yao's proposal, and at the same time, he did not forget the purpose of his visit today.

"Fleg asked me to remind you that several gold mining companies in the Sacramento gold mining area may make some moves that are detrimental to you in the near future. I hope you can be prepared."

"They're just clowns. How do they compare to Brannan? Besides, those old gold mining companies are not monolithic."

Those clowns pose little threat to Liang Yao, and these gold mining companies also have his spies. Every move they make is under Liang Yao's control.

Most smart gold mining companies are still on his side and will not take the risk of offending him by taking action in the gold mining area.

If he really wants to cause trouble, he can also use the resources at his disposal to divide the troubled gold mining companies and find out a few typical examples to scare others.

The most important thing right now is to control cholera first.

Although no one among the Chinese was infected with cholera, and the gold mining work of the Xiangshan Gold Mining Company was not affected, the white gold mining companies were affected by cholera.

Already, some gold mining companies hope that he can extend the date on which they pay mining rents, because many of their miners have contracted cholera and are unable to work normally.

The rent from the mining area is also a huge amount of income for him. As cholera continues, his income will only become less and less.

"That's right, you are the best among men, and you are the one who wants to do big things. I am worrying too much." Cai Mingsheng also felt that his worries were unnecessary.

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"Even in New York, no one dares to be so rude and rude to the Astor family!"

On the pier of San Francisco Bay, Adal Astor stood on the cargo container, his eyes that almost burst out of fire as he stared at the bustling commercial street not far away with people coming and going.

Two of his steamships have been forcibly towed out of the port's berthing area due to their refusal to pay berthing fees.

Although Astor brought out the famous name of the Astor family, those ferocious port guards wearing strange uniforms did not buy his account at all.

Although Adar also has the surname Astor and often talks about the Astor family, he is not a core member of the Astor family.

In fact, he only left Liverpool, England, six years ago and went to New York to join the Astor family, hoping that the Astor family would consider their distant relatives and accept him and find a job in the Astor family.

It's just that A'dal has no outstanding abilities and has not performed well in the six years he has served the Astor family. It is understandable that he has not been reused by the Astor family.

When the news of the discovery of gold in California spread to the East, the head of the Astor family, John Jacob Astor, the elder Astor who had not established the Astor family's empire, had died of illness.

His son, William Backhouse Astor, also known as Astor Jr., took over the Astor family scepter.

Although Astor Sr. started with nothing, by the time of his death, the Astor family was not only the richest man in the country, on par with Vanderbilt, but also the largest landowner in New York.

Old Astor has a morbid obsession with the land.

When Old Astor was about to die, in addition to setting an ancestral precept not to allow future generations to sell off any inch of the Astor family's land, Astor also told Little Astor that he must inherit his legacy and buy every inch of land on Manhattan Island.

Come down.

Adair also saw this opportunity and volunteered, expressing his willingness to come to California to search for gold on behalf of the Astor family.

"Their berthing fees are not expensive, and we can afford the money. Mr. Adar, I think we should pay the berthing fees and drive our ship back to the berth area.

A lot of our equipment and tools are still on board. We can't do our job without the equipment and tools."

Berger, the captain of the prospecting team, wondered whether this distant relative of the Astor family had also contracted the Astor family's fine family tradition of being stingy and unwilling to pay even a small amount of parking fees.

Along the way, they did have a lot of money left in the name of the Astor family, including the berthing fees at the port. But in San Francisco, they encountered a problem. Perhaps the owners of the San Francisco port even owned the Astor family.

I don’t even know, so I insist on charging them parking fees.

"There are still supplies! We need to replenish water and food! Those vendors are unwilling to sell their goods to us. I think this is the reason why we did not pay the parking fee." Berger added that the food and supplies they carried were about to run out.

, needs to be replenished.

"Water and food?! Come on! We have gone ashore, and there is water everywhere on the land! As for food, I think the mountains and plains in the west are full of birds and animals. They are extremely delicious and are rare delicacies. We will not be short of food.

!We don’t have to spend this wasted money.”

"WTF! Mr. Adal, are you crazy? We are here to prospect, not to hunt!"