America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 225 To Albuquerque

The first batch of Standard Oil finally chose to hire 43 employees, of which eight were originally white employees, and the rest were all Chinese.

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

To Meyer's surprise, these Chinese laborers had a strong learning ability, quickly mastered the corresponding skills, and were very disciplined and efficient.

This made him a little overjoyed.

However, as an experienced business manager, Meyer still faintly felt some risks.

While organizing the production in the factory, he quietly asked Hanni to go to a nearby town 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 the owner of the grain store, Chen Jianqiu, was doing.

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

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

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

Chen Jianqiu is not in Roswell.

"Hey, Boss, it's only been a few days of peace and stability, where are we going?" Sean rode on the horse and stretched.

"That's right, Boss, there are dozens of people waiting to open the pot every day in my restaurant." Hanif also stroked his upturned beard.

"How much money does your restaurant have to do with you? Do you know how to cook a dish? If the boss doesn't see you being idle all day long, I'll find you something to do." Abiot beside Chen Jianqiu snorted. , "You can drink the northwest wind every day."

He has always been at odds with Hanif, and the two have always looked down upon each other.

Hanif was exposed, and his face flushed red: "You are busy, and I don't see you every day!"

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

However, his words were interrupted by Chen Jianqiu.

Chen Jianqiu, who was at the front of the team, was riding on the black radish. He resumed his previous cowboy attire, and his body heaved up and down with the bumps on the black radish's back.

"If the two of you have disagreements with each other, you can have a duel here. I won't care about your life or death. I'm only responsible for collecting your corpses."

Chen Jianqiu's tone was calm, but majestic.

"Ah, that's not what I meant, Boss." Hanif hurriedly added, and Sean also nodded his head like a slapstick, "We just want to know where the next destination is?"

"Albuquerque." Chen Jianqiu didn't turn his head.

Abiot was right. After moving to Roswell, almost everyone in the team was assigned to work:

Together with Niu San, Danny, as the general manager of the town's construction site, stared at the things on the construction site; Teresa ran the clinic;

Holmes and Camilla were 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 has never spoken according to the textbook he compiled. Usually, halfway through the lecture, he will start to let himself go and start telling stories, regardless of whether the people below understand or not.

When Camilla, a beautiful woman, teaches marksmanship, the students are very motivated, but she never tells them how to aim. In her words, the aim is right, and those who are not accurate are pigs, go back by yourself practice.

Asuka has been in charge of guarding the stone fortress and patrolling around the town. At the same time, he also wants to inquire about Geronimo.

Sean was entrusted with an important task and became the nominal owner of the grocery store, but he was actually managing the warehouse of the town's supplies.

Both Hanif and Abiot have privately slandered, and on this point they are remarkably unanimous:
What's the difference between this and letting a mouse run the granary.

Chen Jianqiu didn't think so.

After all, only a thief knows a thief, so it's only fitting that he guard the warehouse.

In this way, there are not many positions left for Hanif.

Small town restaurants are short of cooks and bosses. Hanif and Donnie can't be cooks, so they can only become bosses.

Then, the two of them worked odd jobs in the restaurant until now.

Abiot, on the other hand, has been going back and forth between Santa Fe and Roswell. While covering for Chen Jianqiu at Scott's side, 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 usually two or three weeks ago.

Three days ago, he brought news of Butler Astor to Chen Jianqiu:
The construction of the railway from Albuquerque to Lincolnshire has already begun, and as the investment company of the railway-the majority shareholder of the Santa Fe Railway Company-Blake, has arrived in Albuquerque.

Chen Jianqiu set off with the team.

Except for the Danni couple and Holmes, this time, he brought almost all the elite soldiers.

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

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

Founded in 1706, it was originally an outpost during the Spanish colonial period, and later the Mexicans established military institutions here;
During the Civil War, the North and the South fought a battle here. The battle lasted "long" for one day, and the casualties were negligible. It was more like an armed parade of reciprocity.

Chen Jianqiu led the crowd slowly into the old city.

This was built in traditional Spanish mode.

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

And on the northernmost side of the central square, stands a pueblo-style Catholic church, with a yellow, five-foot-thick adobe wall connecting the two towers.

On the tower, there is a unique Gothic wooden spire.

"The Church of San Felipe de Neri." Camilla rode a horse and walked alongside Chen Jianqiu, looking at the church and said.

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

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

"My friends, the railway is a product of the new age, it connects the east and the west, civilization and savagery."

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

"However, 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 reducing freight rates, they doubled!"

"They purposely built the railway in a twist and turn to get more land from the state government, we can't let it go on like this!"

"We must fight for our own rights! Otherwise, we will never build a one-meter railway near Albuquerque!"

Those farmers and small ranchers around them were stabbed in the wound. They had hoped that the railroad would bring them a fortune, but it didn't work out.

They were enraged.

"Negotiation! Negotiation!"

"Rights protection!"

……

Chen Jianqiu glanced at the banner behind the man, which marked the names of the organizations they belonged to.

"Grange Farmers' Cooperative?" he read out silently. "What kind of organization is this?"

　One more, two more later
　　
　
(End of this chapter)