America 1881: They Call Me Legend

Chapter 455 Form a team to open a new area
The Oklahoma region, the last piece of undeveloped land in the western United States.

It borders Missouri and Arkansas to the east, New Mexico and Texas to the west, Texas to the south across the Red River, and Colorado and Kansas to the north.

It used to be an Indian settlement.

After 1830, many eastern Indian tribes were relocated here.

It became a reservation for Indian tribes.

The federal army is stationed here, monitoring the local Indian tribes to prevent them from engaging in armed uprisings and the like.

However, this cannot stop the pioneers who have not yet obtained the land from coveting this land.

From time to time, some squads entered the Indian tribe's territory and were driven out under the double attack of Indians and federal troops.

But as other lands in the West were carved up, there were more and more such people.

Most of them are speculators, adventurers, and people who have not yet acquired land for various reasons.

These people kept looking for opportunities to sneak in and set up camps, frantically torturing the nerves of the federal soldiers.

Congress could no longer hold back the turbulent public opinion, and began to consider the issue of opening the Oklahoma border.

Chen Jianqiu first got this news at a board meeting of the Pacific Railway Company.

Someone from the railway company has been tracking and promoting this matter.

Because the opening of the frontiers to the Indians facilitated the expansion of the railroad business.

They told Chen Jianqiu that the Creek and Seminole tribes of Oklahoma had been forced to give up at least 200 million acres of good land in their territories in exchange for $417.3799.

Of course, whether the money can reach these tribes is another matter.

President Harrison agreed to open the area to the general public on April 4.

At that time, the army will withdraw from this territory and return to the border for supervision.

The way to acquire land is primitive, simple and brutal.

First come first served.

As long as the person arrives first and lays a boundary marker, you say that this piece of land is yours, and it is yours.

Those who seized the land first had the right to use force to defend their rights to the land.

Regarding these, those armies don't care, at most they only serve as starters and referees.

Don't you people like to sneak in and enclose land?Then simply open it up directly, let you all in, life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky.

Chen Jianqiu was delighted when he heard it.

He did not intend to seek justice for the two Indian tribes.

Now that the land has come out, I am really sorry for the original owner of the land if I don't bring people to do it.

There are still three months until the official opening of the border.

Chen Jianqiu has already started to prepare for this operation.

The Roswell Chamber of Commerce ushered in the long-lost excitement. Wyatt, Holmes and others rushed back early to attend this important meeting.

Chen Jianqiu was still sitting at the top, and on the wooden board behind him hung a large map of the Oklahoma area.

The location of the open area is carefully framed with a red pen above.

"According to the exact information provided by Holliday, the area to be developed this time should be located in the middle plain of the Oklahoma region."

Li Sifu gestured on the map with a small wooden stick in his hand.

"I don't rule out the possibility of continuing to open in the future, but if you can't gain a firm foothold in the early stage, I'm afraid you won't even have a share of soup in the future." Chen Jianqiu added from the side.

"This place belongs to the Red River Basin, and the land is fertile, which is very suitable for establishing settlements."

Holmes flipped through his little book and said seriously.

"This place not only has pastures, but also is rich in mineral resources. I took people to investigate, but they were kicked out."

"Hey, why do you get kicked out every time?"

Sean grinned at the geologist.

Chen Jianqiu touched his nose.

This scene seems familiar. When Holmes was looking for oil deposits in Roswell, Holmes was also driven out by the soldiers stationed at that time.

That sounds like a good sign.

"Is there any Indian territory around?" Chen Jianqiu looked at Asuka.

Asuka walked to the map and marked a few places on it with a pen:

"According to my understanding, these places are the current residences of the Creek and Seminole tribes, and they are distributed on the edge of this open land."

"On the north side of the open land is the territory of the Cherokee, and they are also a very brave and fighting Indian tribe."

Chen Jianqiu nodded.

"Well, we won't touch them for the time being. If we can say hello to them, try to say hello to them."

Asuka smiled wryly: "I hope they can accept it, but based on my experience, I'm afraid it will be very difficult."

Chen Jianqiu didn't continue talking.

He didn't really want to use Maxim to deal with those Indians.

"Wyatt, what do you know about Kansas and Texas? Who are our potential competitors?"

Chen Jianqiu clasped his fingers together, put them on the table, and asked.

Wyatt also stood up and walked to the edge of the map.

At the same time, he handed a report to Chen Jianqiu by the way.

He is now the head of the Border Detective Agency in Kansas and Texas, and he knows the situation in this area very well.

"Most people haven't heard the news, but you can guess that the northern and southern borders will be crowded with people." Wyatt said.

"Don't worry about these people. Most of them are retail investors, and they don't pose a big threat to us." Chen Jianqiu said while flipping through the information.

"There's some organization, though," Wyatt went on.

Chen Jianqiu's eyes also scanned the fourth page of the document, which recorded some information about the organization Wyatt mentioned.

"One is the Oklahoma Settlers' Association, founded five or six years ago by a desperado named David Payne, who at first flouted all laws and managed to get across the blockade, Delahoma opened up the land."

"For this reason, these people have exchanged fire with the federal troops stationed there more than once. Although they have all been driven out, the leader has also been arrested."

"However, this also allowed them to gain the support of many people, and their organization has grown bigger and bigger in recent years."

"How many armed men do they have? What kind of equipment are they?" Chen Jianqiu is more concerned about this question. "Which other leaders are there besides Payne?"

"Payne is dead. The current leader is WL Couch. There are about 800 armed personnel alone. Because of sufficient funds, the equipment is not bad. It is said that there are a few Gatlings."

"Well, that's a lot of people." Zhang Danian who was on the side nodded.

As a former military general, he still has a certain concept of the 800 people who are fully armed.

"Are there any other organizations?" Chen Jianqiu continued to browse down the information.

Wyatt introduced some more to Chen Jianqiu, but compared with the Colonists' Association, they were much smaller and scattered, not very eye-catching.

"Seven to eight hundred people, well-equipped, Gatling machine guns, yes." Chen Jianqiu looked at the information, and then turned his head to look at the map behind him.

Finally, he looked at Zhang Danian.

"Since they have 800 people, uncle, please pick a thousand outstanding ones from Roswell's militia."

"I'm afraid one thousand is not enough?" Zhang Danian frowned.

Chen Jianqiu didn't answer, but shouted to Danny at the other end of the table:

"Danny! Where's the gun we ordered from Krupp last year?"

(End of this chapter)