1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 479
The Columbia River is the dividing line between Oregon and the Northern Oregon Territory, later Washington State.

This is not only the administrative dividing line between the two places, but also the dividing line between civilization and barbarism, openness and obstinacy, modernity and primitiveness, development and backwardness.

A river divides the north and south banks into two different worlds.

To the south is the thriving and rapidly developing state of Oregon, where new immigrants come here every day, and new buildings are erected here.

And the north is still a vast land, with a lot of resources waiting to be developed.

Northern Oregon is also a fertile land. There were immigrants who wanted to cross the Columbia River into Northern Oregon to open up new settlements.

It's a pity that these immigrants were all driven back to the South Shore by the unfriendly racism in Northern Oregon, who claimed that immigrants of color were not welcome in Northern Oregon, and that Northern Oregon was Northern Oregon for white people.

The two sides also broke out many conflicts because of this.

The current governor of the Northern Oregon Territory, Stevens, is a Democrat from Washington, DC.

He saw political opportunity in the conflict between racists and Chinese immigrants in northern Oregon.

He raised the banner of pure Ore to gather white people and racists on the West Coast in an attempt to keep immigrants of color from the south bank of the Columbia River.In the future, the northern Oregon area can be established as a Democratic constituency, expanding the influence of the Democratic Party, and then enhancing its right to speak in the party.

April 1856, 4, was an ordinary day.

Thousands of organized immigrants carried their luggage and took a ferry to the taboo land of Chinese immigrants on the north bank of the Columbia River.

The nearby white immigrants from Northern Oregon soon learned of the news. As usual, they held rifles to intimidate these immigrants crossing the river in an attempt to drive them back to the south bank.

"You bloody yellow-skinned monkeys! Go away! Go back to the South Shore! This is Northern Oregon, you are not welcome!"

"Get out! Get out! If you don't get out, I'll shoot you!"

"Don't be ignorant!"

The two sides pushed and shoved each other, refused to give in to each other, and almost fought.

These immigrants did not fear the intimidation of the northern Oregon whites, and they had no intention of retreating in the face of their threats.

Collins, who was among the immigrants, took out his improved camera and set it up ready to shoot.

"Hey! You bloody traitor lackey! Put your camera away, or I'll smash your camera to pieces!"

Collins' camera was still too big and conspicuous, and was quickly spotted by a white man.The white man snapped at Collins.

In the eyes of these racists, Collins, who was among the Chinese, was naturally a traitor and lackey.

These racists are very extreme. They think that the white people who live in the West Coast and the Chinese are traitors and lackeys. Only those white people who stick to the pure land of Northern Oregon are the real white people.They are also proud of it.

On a loach boat on the Columbia River, Liang Yao was observing every move on the north coast of Oregon through a telescope.

This immigration operation was planned by his Wu Yuanhua. He wanted to take this opportunity to complete the last piece of the puzzle in the west coast region and bring the entire west coast region into his sphere of influence.

He doesn't allow the West Coast to have a stronghold of racism like Northern Oregon.

The immigrant team that landed on the North Shore was not a purely immigrant team.Two battalions of Oregon militia members were among the migrants.

The few observant white men on the North Shore seemed to sense that something was amiss.

Compared with previous immigrants, the scale of this immigration is too large, and these immigrants are all fucking young and middle-aged, and some young and middle-aged people actually have a murderous look in their eyes.

These people are definitely not simple immigrants, this is the thinking of a small number of observant white people.

"We are citizens of the United States! Citizens of the United States have the right to settle in any American territory!"

The leader of the Chinese immigrants stood up to line up with the immigrants who blocked their northward advance, and threw his ID card in the face of the white leader.

In the early history of the United States, there were no paper citizenship documents.The primary route to U.S. citizenship is through the jus jus or naturalization process.

Beginning in the mid-19th century, some states and cities began to issue their own certificates of residence, but these certificates are usually only used to prove identity and place of residence, and do not include information on nationality.

California is a state with the most complete household registration system in the United States. The ID card of Californians contains detailed information such as nationality, household registration, date of birth, and place of residence, and is given to each person according to the place of residence (place of birth) and date of birth. A unique ID number for every citizen.

The ID card thrown out by the leader of Chinese immigrants is the ID card of California.

"Citizens of the United States? Are you also considered a citizen of the United States?" The white leader snorted at this. He snatched the ID card with a sneer and tore it up in front of everyone.

"Don't hold a piece of paper and think that you are an American, we are Americans! I will give you 5 minutes, and immediately take your people and go back to the South Bank! Otherwise, don't blame me for being rude!"

The white leader's approach won applause from the whites of northern Oregon.

The actions and rhetoric of the white leaders aroused the indignation of the Chinese. Most of these Chinese immigrants were militiamen and old immigrants of the Oregon militia.

Their sense of citizenship is much stronger than that of new immigrants.

On weekdays, Liang Yao instilled in California immigrants that paying taxes means being citizens, that the more taxes you pay, the more honorable you are, and that you can enjoy more rights.

Citizenship is also one of the most fancy things for these former Qing oxen and horses.

"Taxpayers are citizens! You poor people don't pay as much tax as we do! A bunch of moths!" retorted one of the old immigrants.

"Damn it! You need a beating, don't you?!" The immigrant leader whose ID card was torn into pieces ran away in an instant, bursting out of the essence of the country, "Do you fucking know that reissuing an ID card is tricky?!"

The white people in Northern Oregon basically don't know Chinese, but they can still understand some of the quintessence of Chinese.

In a rage, the two fought together.

Collins on the side secretly raised his camera under the cover of Chinese immigrants to record this moment.

The conflict quickly escalated, and the two sides changed from pushing and shouting to fighting in an instant.

Northern Oregon has a small number of white people, and it must be a disadvantage for three hundred people to fight with more than 1000 people. They were soon at a disadvantage in the fight, and they were beaten to the ground, unable to find the north.

In order to regain the ground and control the situation, the white people in northern Oregon relied on guns in their hands and fired warning shots into the sky, hoping to deter these Chinese immigrants who did not know what to do, so that they would retreat in spite of difficulties.

This scene was naturally recorded by Collins, who had quick eyesight and quick hands.

Unexpectedly, after hearing the gunshots, these Chinese immigrants, instead of intending to retreat, became even more excited.

"Brothers! The ghost is shooting!"

"They fired first! Copy the guy and fuck them!"

After the gunshots, these Chinese immigrants took out long guns and short guns from their luggage in unison.

Before facing a long gun several times larger than his own, the northern Oregon white man who was still aggressive in the last second was instantly like: like an eggplant beaten by frost: wilting.

Oregon vigilantes masquerading as immigrants deftly disarmed and captured the stunned white Oregonians.

Two months ago, the militiamen of these Oregon militias did not miss the Mexicans in Mexico, and they were very familiar with this set of work procedures.

(End of this chapter)