1850 American Gold Tycoon.

After the afternoon sun passed, the temperature dropped rapidly.

Temperatures vary widely in different parts of California, and in general Southern California is warmer than Northern California, and the plains are warmer than the mountains.

Stockton, where Liang Yao is now, is located in the San Joaquin River Valley of the Central Valley, which is the largest plain in California, but this is Northern California, and the evening in mid-October can still feel the coolness.

Chen Baoliang suggested to warm up his body by roasting in the stove, and then have dinner.

Liang Yao agreed to Chen Baoliang's proposal, and he also wanted to visit the school in Stockton Town.

After making up their minds, everyone rode to the school.

Before taking a few steps, there was a burst of gunshots not far away.

"Where is the gun shooting?!" Liang Yao frowned.

The troops in California are all under the control of Liang Yao, and the garrison of each regiment and company is personally arranged by Liang Yao.

Liang Yao also remembered the deployment location of each army clearly. He was sure that he had no troops stationed near Stockton.Not even a militia.

Liang Yao guessed that it might be the police from the Stockton police station who were shooting, but soon, Liang Yao himself denied this idea.

The California police have already changed their police equipment. All police stations, whether large or small, are all issued with the Sacramento version of the Colt revolver specially purchased by the Police Headquarters from the Sacramento Armory.

And the gunshots that came were obviously not the gunshots of short guns, but the gunshots of long guns.

Judging from the sound of the gun and the rate of fire, it is likely to be the Springfield m1842 rifle, or other old-fashioned smoothbore guns.

This old-fashioned rifle is not even equipped with the California militia. Except for the California infantry, the rest of Liang Yao's troops are equipped with Walter m1851 rifles.

Although California does not ban guns and allows people to buy guns for self-defense and guard against wild animals that appear from time to time, there are still certain restrictions on the guns held by ordinary people.Rifled firearms are not allowed to circulate in the civilian market.

"It came from the vicinity of Hongti Village. It is estimated that the new immigrants and old immigrants in Hongti Village had a fight." Chen Baoliang murmured, as if he was used to such things for a long time.

His usual expression had already told Liang Yao that this kind of thing happened not once or twice.

"Weapon fighting? Are you afraid of killing people with such a method of fighting with weapons?" Liang Yao's heart tightened.

"They all fired guns into the sky to scare each other. No one dared to point their guns at each other. They didn't want to get involved in a life lawsuit, so they had a sense of proportion. When the gunshot rang, the police in the town probably had already set off to rush over. , nothing can happen." Chen Baoliang said.

Liang Yao stopped his horse and asked the reason for the fighting in Hongti Village: "What is the conflict between the old and new immigrants? Why the fighting?"

The immigrants in Hongti Village fought with guns and weapons, and even if they had no intention of killing each other, the two sides must have deep grievances.It is not as simple as an ordinary contradiction.

"Why else? After all, it's still a matter of money." Chen Baoliang replied.

"A question about money?" Liang Yao asked.

"Yes, it's about money. Hongdi Village is engaged in grape planting, and it's the harvest time. When the merchants come to collect grapes, the new immigrants are short of money, so they often like to sell at a lower price, hoping to get rid of the grapes in their hands as soon as possible. The old man The immigrants hold grudges against the new immigrants, and the grapes in the hands of the new immigrants have pushed down the price, so the grapes in their hands will naturally have to be sold at a lower price." Chen Baoliang talked about the ins and outs of the matter.

"Don't we have an agricultural association? What does your agricultural association do? How did you become the head of the agricultural association?" Liang Yao said angrily, "These are all things that belong to your agricultural association!"

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"There is an agricultural association, but at the beginning of its establishment, the agricultural association only required grain growers to join the agricultural association, and there were no rigid requirements for growers of other crops." Chen Baoliang explained, "To enter the agricultural association, you need to pay annual membership fees. Moreover, many new immigrants don’t know what the Agricultural Association is, and they are worried that they will have to pay other money to join the Agricultural Association, so even if some new immigrants persuade them, they are unwilling to join the Agricultural Association.”

"Speaking of which, the work of your Agricultural Association is still not in place. You can't handle this matter clearly. The matter of setting up Stockton as a city will be put on hold for the time being. When there is no more fighting, then consider setting up a city." Liang Yao scolded.

"If you don't want to join, you can persuade them. If you can't persuade them, you can ask the state legislature to force all farmers, old or new, to join the agricultural association. Shall I teach you how to do this?"

Hongti Village is less than 10 kilometers away from the town of Stockton, and Liang Yao and his party rode to Hongti Village in no time.

This is a village dedicated to growing grapes. The villagers in the whole village mainly make a living from growing grapes, and there are 260 grape growing households.

About 90 of these growers are new immigrants, and the rest are old immigrants.

Of course, new immigrants and old immigrants are a very vague concept. For example, in the eyes of immigrants in 1850, immigrants in 1851 were all new immigrants.

In front of the immigrants in 1854, the immigrants in 1853 felt that they were old immigrants.

Perhaps it is more appropriate to call them winegrowers who are willing to lower their prices and those who are not.

Liang Yao galloped through the trail among the vines, scattered grapes could be seen everywhere, some trellises had been destroyed, the vines on the trellises were also cut off, what’s more, even the vines were directly destroyed.It can be seen that the contradiction between the two sides is deep.

When I came to the square in the village, I saw that the people on the square were divided into three groups. One group was the old growers who were unwilling to sell grapes at a lower price, and the other was a relatively small number of new growers who wanted to sell grapes at a lower price. household.The remaining group were grape buyers sitting next to the freight wagon, smoking cigarettes and watching a show.

These grape buyers are the biggest beneficiaries of the infighting among grape growers, so they are happy to sit on the sidelines and wait to reap the benefits.

The police from Stockton had confiscated the firearms of the growers, but fierce conflicts still broke out between these growers, but the weapons of the fighting were changed from hot weapons to cold weapons.

Although the police from Stockton had already arrived at the scene, since almost the whole village of Hongdi Village participated in the fighting, the more than [-] policemen from Stockton were still unable to stop the further expansion of the conflict.

Soon, the conflicts among these villagers rose from verbal conflicts to physical conflicts. Thousands of people, men, women and children, picked up stones and other debris that could be thrown from the ground and threw them into the opposing crowd.

After the accompanying guards fired a burst of guns into the sky, the commotion in the crowd gradually subsided.

The riots subsided during the war, but the anger between the two sides did not subside.

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