Wild North America 1846

In the evening, the brilliant sunset fills the sky.

The scenery along the American River is beautiful, with the clear river water flowing and the gorgeous redwoods and green trees on the river bank contrasting with each other. The scenery is particularly colorful.

On the river beach, filled with the strong aroma of cooking meat, a large crowd of gold diggers gathered, including Chinese and white people. They were whispering to each other excitedly, as if it was a festival.

There are four large pots lined up along the river beach, which are filled with large pieces of beef and mutton. On the bed board not far apart, there are already piles of high noodles, piled up like a hill, and they are baked.

It will be browned and soft, tempting your appetite.

Richard has never been a stingy person. Since so many gold diggers gathered to watch the excitement, the atmosphere was particularly intense, so he arranged for someone to drag 5 barrels of beer back to Shanghewan Village.

It can't be said that you can drink as much as you want, at least one cup per person is enough.

The Kahn family nailed several tables to the door panels and covered them with plaid sheets. The skillful women picked wild flowers of various colors from the forest and decorated the tables in a decent way.

There are more than a dozen clean pans filled with various cuts of meat, mashed potatoes, mushroom and bean soup, braised beef, eggs mixed with wild onions and other dishes. The Chinese chef from Shanghewan Village is preparing stir-fry, what?

Stir-fried beef tendons in water with onions, stir-fried tripe, braised beef offal with mushrooms, etc., all need to be carefully managed.

According to Eastern tradition, this is the main table of the banquet.

As the most distinguished guest, Richard sat on the main table surrounded by everyone, with only a wooden block under his butt. The other Chinese captains sat in a row on both sides.

An empty seat was left next to Richard, which was reserved for old Kahn. This was a special courtesy.

The nephews and nephews of the Kahn family sat on the tables on both sides. Today, they had enough meat and wine, so they could drink as much as they wanted.

Old Kahn waved his red-faced hand and announced the start of the banquet. Amid the cheers of the crowd, he lit three bonfires. When the bonfires burned brightly, the feast began.

Boiled in four large pots is boiling beef offal soup, which is fragrant after adding potatoes and wild onions. The gold diggers attending the banquet can get a large bowl of soup and half a piece of dry biscuit here for free, and eat it first.

If the bowl is not enough, wait for others to finish, then use the empty bowl to fill the soup again. After a large pot of beef offal soup is finished, a new pot is poured in to start cooking. The blazing bonfire illuminates everyone's happy faces.

It is a day of celebration.

The well-fed young men gathered around the bonfire and danced to the beat. In this rare relaxing and happy day, they vented the heavy pressure of life.

main table

Richard raised his head and drank a few big sips of wheat beer. He put down the cup, looked at old Kahn and said, "Kahn, I will give you a quota of 100 people for the cavalry. I will try my best to fill them up in the next few days. I only need those

A down-to-earth and obedient farmer, you are a veteran in the army, you should know what kind of people you cannot tolerate."

"Please rest assured, sir, I will not cause trouble for myself and will definitely select the soldiers with the best obedience."

"That's good. The Tang Association I founded has no distinction between race and skin color. As long as you are willing to follow my footsteps and open the door, we are welcome to join. In this wasteland of North America, we must make our own decisions."

"Understood sir, the Kahn family is always at your call."

"Well, the recruited personnel will be gathered in Shanghewan Village for training. Logistics equipment and supplies will be replenished as soon as possible. I ask you to bring out all your previous skills and train these bastards well..."

Richard sat at the table and talked, the shining bonfire reflecting off his young face, outlining his sharp outlines.

At the table nearby, Brienne Kahn, the fourteenth youngest girl in the Kahn family, looked at him with her beautiful big eyes flickering, falling into the little girl's intoxication;

The young master of the Kahn family is as handsome and handsome as the prince in the fairy tale, which is deeply imprinted in the little girl's heart.

Early the next morning

Richard then led more than 50 cavalrymen of his personal guard to leave Shanghewan Village and rode rapidly towards the Grape Valley.

Grape Valley

The camp across the entire valley entrance is like an iron lock, sealing off the entire Grape Valley entrance. The rust-red iron gate is inlaid with ninety-nine and eighty-one copper nails as big as a bowl, which looks solemn, solemn, and extremely strong.

The plaque on the upper edge of the gate reads "Shanhaiguan" in three large Chinese characters with flying dragons and phoenixes, which looks particularly impressive under the sunlight.

Richard led a group of 10 riders through the pass. They did not stop at Toudaoling Village, but continued deep into the village until they slowed down near the open terrain of Sidaoling Village.

The entire Grape Valley is a long and narrow valley, about hundreds of kilometers long, until it merges into the continuous Sierra Nevada Mountains.

The overall shape is a spindle, with a small entrance and a large valley plain in the belly. It shrinks again when it approaches the Sierra Nevada Mountains until it merges into the continuous mountains.

The villages where Chinese people live at the entrance of the valley belong to the area around Sidaoling Village, which is relatively flat and open, and is suitable for building firearms factories, brick kilns, hydraulic lumber mills, hydraulic mills, oil mills and other facilities to support the construction of the valley.

But currently

Due to the lack of necessary manpower, the Chinese rushed to the American rivers to pan for gold. These planned production facilities were only ideas and had not yet been implemented.

From Toudaoling Village to Wudaoling Village, there are less than 280 male laborers left in the valley. In addition to the Chinese soldiers recruited by the Tang Dynasty, thousands of others have flocked to the American River to pan for gold.

Today, the number of stranded women in Grape Valley has reached nearly 447. Among them are women who have become prostitutes in New Town, young maids, 111 women who were trafficked in Rose Manor, and 10 women who were sent to Sacramento by the Agreement Hall.

Beauties, as well as some good local women, are now all concentrated in the Grape Valley, and most of them are settled in houses near Sidaoling Village.

The weaving factory, clothing factory and textile factory that Richard plans to build will also be settled in Sidaoling Village one after another in the future. This will also include the weapons processing factory and will be built into an industrial village.

The reason for considering this

Firstly, it is because Sidaoling Village is relatively close to the entrance of the valley, less than 10 kilometers away, and only 267 kilometers away from Xinshi Town, so the transportation is very convenient.

The second reason is that there is a small coal mine in the nearby Wudaoling Village. The coal used for cooking in nearby villages comes from here. It is shallowly buried and of high quality, and can provide a sufficient supply of industrial fuel.

If you continue deeper into the valley, you will enter the territory of the indigenous Indian tribes. You will be attacked by the indigenous people and even brutally killed in the dense forest.

Therefore, so far, for safety reasons, Chinese immigrants have rarely gone deep into the valley and do not know much about the depths of the valley.

Sidaoling Village

The arrival of the cavalry attracted the attention of many women in the village. The women stood in front of and behind the houses, commenting on these young and vigorous cavalry, and burst into uncontrollable laughter from time to time.

Those girls who have never left the court are a little shy, but among them, the extraordinary and conscientious women have been through many battles, and what they discuss in private are things that make people blush.

With that look on his face, he wanted to devour these young men in one go.

The escorting cavalry moved to both sides. Richard, who was tall and straight, got off his horse and looked around with his handsome face. The women around him suddenly became silent, and then said "Hail" with respectful expressions.

All in all, all the women here should be grateful to Richard for rescuing them from the pit of fire, returning their deeds, and being able to be upright women from now on.

Richard's tall figure stood out from the crowd, and his temperament was particularly outstanding. He nodded slightly to the women around him, and then strode into the courtyard of the village office.

At this time, the voices of the women around him suddenly became louder.

"This is the young master, he looks so handsome!"

"Hmph, do you still have to say this for a fox like you? The young master is of course the first-class person in the world. He is handsome and has great abilities. All those ghost guys admire him!"

"Have you heard that the young master slaughtered thousands of people in a battle by the American River? He was as ferocious as a god. When those ghosts heard the young master's name, they were so frightened that they flew out of their wits."

"Thousands of people? I heard that more than 3,000 people were killed. The water in the American rivers has changed color."

"Ah...are you so fierce? I'm so scared!"

"What are you afraid of? The young master is not cruel to us. He always stands up for us Chinese in everything. If the Tang Dynasty was not established by the young master and was so majestic, when would those ghost guys treat us kindly?"

"That's right, only with the young master in North America holding up the sky, we Chinese can live a good life!"

Regardless of the inexplicable excitement of these women, over there, Richard strode into the courtyard and saw several white people coming out to greet him.

The person next to Odom Russell, the federation's head of logistics, is a middle-aged man in his 30s with a beard, wearing a decent black tuxedo, and this person should be Samuel Colt

, the master of weapons design that Richard has longed for.

After exchanging pleasantries, my guess was indeed good.

Samuel Colt not only arrived in San Francisco in person this time, but also brought his close assistant Rodlin, as well as the entire weapons factory's skilled workers and equipment.

And all of this was paid for by Richard, including all their journey expenses and ferry tickets to the west coast of North America.

before that

Samuel Colt had already gone bankrupt due to business failure. Not only did he sell his weapons factory, but he also incurred huge debts. He only had a dozen invention patents for revolver revolvers on hand.

"Welcome, Mr. Colt, your talents can only be fully developed in this wild west.

You are a talented designer, and your extraordinary talents should not be buried. I really look forward to having more excellently designed firearms. I believe you will be able to do it.

We need you here, and we need you. I see this as the biggest opportunity for Colt to take off again, provided that we maintain relatively close cooperation..."

Richard gave a warm welcome speech, put a high hat on Samuel Colt, expressed his sincere cooperation expectations, and quickly won the respect and trust of the guests.

Nothing else to say

The real money that Richard spent was not fake. It was with this large amount of money that Samuel Colt was able to purchase a complete set of stamping and milling equipment for weapons production, as well as 20 steam engines, and convert the previous

All the skilled workers from the weapons factory were recruited back, and they came to the western part of North America ambitiously, hoping to do something big.