America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 225 Heading to Albuquerque

Standard Oil Company finally chose to hire forty-three employees in the first batch, of which eight were original white employees and the rest were Chinese.

After a period of training, they were assigned to positions in oil wells and refineries.

What surprised Meyer was that these Chinese workers had extremely strong learning abilities and quickly mastered the corresponding skills. They were also very disciplined and efficient.

This made him a little overjoyed.

However, as an experienced business manager, Meyer still vaguely feels that there are some risks.

While he was organizing production in the factory, he quietly asked Hanny to go to nearby towns to see if he could recruit other workers.

At the same time, he also asked the deputy captain to run into the town from time to time to see what Chen Jianqiu, the owner of the grain store, was doing.

This young man has a kind of energy that responds to everything and needs special attention.

However, when the deputy captain came to the food store in the town, he found that the door was closed and there was a sign hanging above it, which read in English:

The west is very big, and the boss wants to visit it.

Chen Jianqiu is not in Roswell.

"Hey, boss, we've just had a peaceful life for a few days. Where are we going?" Sean sat on the horse and stretched.

"That's right, boss, there are dozens of people waiting to cook in my restaurant every day." Hanif also touched his upturned beard.

"Does your restaurant have anything to do with how much money you make for opening a restaurant? Do you know how to cook a dish? If the boss hadn't seen you idle all day long, I would have found something for you to do." Abiot, who was beside Chen Jianqiu, snorted.

, "Just drink the northwest wind every day."

He had never been at odds with Hanif, and the two had always looked down upon each other.

Hanif's face turned red when he was exposed: "You are really busy, I haven't seen you every day!"

"That's because I'm going to Santa Fe! I..." Abiotte retorted immediately.

However, his words were interrupted by Chen Jianqiu.

Chen Jianqiu, who was at the front of the team, was riding on Black Radish. He had resumed his previous cowboy outfit, and his body was rising and falling with the bumps on Black Radish's back.

"If you two have any objections to each other, you can fight here. I won't care about your life or death. I will only be responsible for collecting your bodies."

Chen Jianqiu's tone was calm but dignified.

"Ah, that's not what I meant, boss." Hanif quickly added, and Sean nodded beside him, "We just want to know where our next destination is?"

"Albuquerque." Chen Jianqiu didn't even look back.

Abiot was right. After settling in Roswell, almost everyone in the team was assigned jobs:

Together with Niu San, Danny, as the general person in charge of the town's construction site, keeps an eye on things at the construction site; Theresa runs the clinic;

Holmes and Camilla worked as teachers in the square; they taught English and marksmanship respectively, but Li Sifu and the others dared not speak out about their teaching attitude.

Holmes never taught according to the textbook he compiled. He usually started to let himself go and tell stories halfway through the lecture, regardless of whether the people following him understood it or not.

When Camilla, a great beauty, teaches marksmanship, the students are highly motivated, but she never tells them how to aim. In her words, if the aim is right, the ones who can't hit are pigs, so go back on your own.

practice.

Asuka has been responsible for the security of the stone fortress and the patrol around the town. At the same time, he also wanted to inquire about the news about Geronimo.

Sean was entrusted with the important task of becoming the nominal owner of the grocery store, but in reality he was managing the town's supply warehouse.

Both Hanif and Abiot have privately criticized each other. On this point, their views are unusually consistent:

What's the difference between this and letting rats take care of the granary?

Chen Jianqiu doesn't think so.

After all, only a thief understands a thief, so it is most appropriate to let him guard the warehouse.

As a result, there are not many positions left for Hanif.

Restaurants in small towns are in short supply of cooks and bosses. Hanif and Downey can't work as cooks, so they have no choice but to become bosses.

Then, the two of them started working in the restaurant until now.

Abiot, on the other hand, has been traveling back and forth between Santa Fe and Roswell. While Scott is covering for Chen Jianqiu, he will also provide Chen Jianqiu with some information.

He would bring back some newspapers along the way, but the dates on the newspapers were often from two or three weeks ago.

Three days ago, he brought Chen Jianqiu news about Butler Astor:

Construction of the railway from Albuquerque to Lincoln County has begun, and as the major shareholder of the Santa Fe Railroad Company, the investment company for the railway, Blake has already arrived in Albuquerque.

Chen Jianqiu set off with his team.

Except for the Dannies and Holmes, this time he brought almost all the elite soldiers with him.

He wanted to give the railroad tycoon an irresistible reason to delay the construction of the railway.

If Santa Fe is the oldest city in New Mexico, then Albuquerque is certainly the largest.

Founded in 1706, it was originally a Spanish colonial outpost, and later the Mexicans established military institutions here;

During the Civil War, the North and the South fought here. The battle lasted for a day, and the casualties were negligible. It was more like an armed parade in exchange of courtesy.

Chen Jianqiu led everyone slowly into the old city.

It was built according to traditional Spanish models.

A central square surrounded by government buildings, residential and commercial areas.

At the northern end of the central square, there stands a Pueblo-style Catholic church, with a yellow, five-foot-thick adobe wall connecting the two towers.

On the tower is a unique Gothic wooden spire.

"Church of San Felipe Deneri." Camilla rode her horse alongside Chen Jianqiu and said as she looked at the church.

"What are those people doing?" Asuka pointed to the south of the square, where a group of people had gathered, most of them looking like small farmers or ranchers.

A man in a suit and vest was waving his hands excitedly and delivering a speech to the people around him:

"Friends, the railway is a product of the new era. It connects the east and the west, civilization and wilderness."

"Our wheat, soybeans, cattle, and sheep could have been transported continuously to every part of the country by train."

"Yet, what are these people who control the railroads doing! Take the Atchison-Topeka-Santa Fe railroad that came here last year as an example. Instead of decreasing, freight rates doubled!"

"They deliberately built the railway in circuitous ways to get more land given to them by the state government. We can't let things continue like this!"

"We have to fight for our rights! Otherwise, we can never build a meter of railway near Albuquerque!"

The surrounding farmers and small ranchers were hit hard. They originally expected that the railway would bring them fortune, but things went contrary to their expectations.

They were furious.

"Negotiate! Negotiate!"

“Defend your rights!”

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Chen Jianqiu glanced at the banner behind the man, with the name of the organization they belonged to marked on it.

"Grange Farmers' Co-operative Society?" He read silently, "What the hell kind of organization is this?"

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