Chapter 56: After all, he is a yellow man

"Hello, welcome to Gaimon Ranch..." Alt Gaimon smiled and expressed his welcome, but almost anyone could see that his smile contained a hint of coldness and vigilance.

Orte Gaimon, a Romanian immigrant.

Like countless people, he dreamed of gold hunting in the western United States. For this dream, he left his hometown and came to the United States, took a boat in the southern United States, detoured through Cape Horn in South America, and arrived in San Francisco after half a year. However, like most people, his dream of gold hunting was quickly shattered and became a pauper. At the same time, because his English was extremely poor, he could not make any money among the white people, and it was difficult to find ordinary jobs. He had to join the construction of the Pacific Railway and become a worker of the Central Pacific Railway Company. Of course, unlike the Chinese workers, although he was not good at English at the time, as a white man, he did not suffer much sin, and even had the honor to participate in the celebration of this great project and received some rewards. But this does not mean that he has a lot of favor for this work. In fact, he has to do with that great

All he had was complaints and curses on the railway. Because, in the construction section of the Nevada Mountains, he almost lost his life. If something had happened, Hou Nan was by his side, rushed him aside and avoided the big rocks flying from the bottom of the mountain, his life would have been gone long ago, and maybe he would not even be able to find a complete body. Even now, more than ten years have passed, and whenever he thinks of the huge rocks as big as a few people, he still feels scared. Therefore, when occasionally learning that he actually lives very close to Hou Nan, only one or two days away, and his life is not very good, he would invite the other party to work in his ranch many times in order to have the opportunity to repay him. However, Hou Nan always makes excuses to reject his kindness, which makes him feel helpless. At the same time, he also respects Hou Nan more and more. "If it were a white man, he would have come here long ago." Gamon often thinks this way.

However, Gaimon did not expect that Hou Nan would not move, and that he would do such a big deal. Not long ago, several Chinese workers came to his ranch with a letter written by Hou Nan to ask someone to write. In the letter, Hou Nan asked Gaimon to take care of his compatriots and wait for him to come. Originally, Gaimon didn't care much, just a few people. Although his ranch was not big, a few people could still live in it. However, he never expected that these "several people" would soon become more than two hundred...

This situation once made Gaimon a little embarrassed. He was not afraid that the more than 200 Chinese unions would rob their ranch... This is the United States, and the white people keep their words. Moreover, because he had been saved by Hou Nan, he had a lot of contact with Chinese workers during the years of building the railway. He knew that these Chinese people were a group of honest people. Not to mention robbery, they would be grateful to be able to be less bullied by white people. What he was embarrassed about was food and accommodation. The food was barely enough for the ranch. As for the ranch, killing two cows would be enough for everyone to eat for a few days, but for this accommodation... Fortunately, the Chinese workers didn't care. In the end, they cleaned up the forage warehouse of the ranch and lived in it.

The matter can be said to be solved. But soon, Gaimon began to make things difficult again... A cowboy under his command reported to him: the Chinese workers actually paid! What does it mean? The Chinese workers ate beef and paid the bills for them! The most terrifying thing is that when the cowboy went to pick up the forage near the forage warehouse, he found that several Chinese workers secretly took out several large denominations, marked with a denomination of $100 and were secretly having fun there!

God, the big ticket for $100! Although it seems not US dollars, looking at the excited expressions of the Chinese workers, it seems that it is not fake money...

When he heard the cowboy's report, the first thought flashed through Gaimon's mind was: Those Chinese people must have been deceived, right? They should never have seen a large dollar bill in their lives. However, thinking of Hou Nan sending more than 200 Chinese workers to him at once, Gaimon still couldn't help but feel a little shocked: Could it be that these Chinese people have really done something bad and came to take refuge here?

Some subordinates suggested that Gaimon take decisive measures to arrest all the Chinese and ask about the origin of the money. But this suggestion was immediately rejected by Gaimon. Not to mention that Hou Nan had saved his life and his friend's character, it was unethical to do so. There were more than 200 Chinese people who came to the ranch, and the number was increasing every day. But how many of his small ranch and bosses were in total? Seventeen! Only seventeen. Take action? Force? If these Chinese really did something to run out of Denver, they would definitely not be as easy to bully as before. Will he still survive? Even if the ranch is not big, he is not the Romanian immigrant who dared to cross the ocean to the western United States to find gold when he was hot.

So, from the beginning, Gaimon stopped his subordinates' restlessness and sent people to Denver to inquire about the situation. Soon, they found out what the Chinese workers had encountered in Denver! Thousands of white people besieged the Chinese workers' settlement and killed one person. The Denver District Court sentenced an innocent Chinese worker to death for murder and arsonist, but he was run away again... and so on. As a result, Gaimon also felt that he should have understood why these Chinese workers left Denver in a rush and ran to his small ranch: these people could not survive in Denver. Immediately afterward, Hou Nan's arrival further strengthened his idea, because Hou Nan also said to him: Americans are too anti-Chinese, so we had to decide to re-immigrate and leave here!

Gamon can only express sympathy.

Because he had no prejudice against Chinese workers at the beginning, and had several years of contact with Chinese workers when building the Pacific Railway, he could clearly tell at the beginning that Chinese workers had actually become a punching bag for white Americans to vent their dissatisfaction. With the Chinese workers' character of silently enduring any incident and any pressure, Denver actually forced them to immigrate again. Then, it is conceivable how bad the Chinese workers were treated in Denver.

"Those guys are really too much."

Gaimon remembered the scene when he attended the celebration of the Pacific Railway. Those big names gave happily. The then California governor proudly claimed that "the reason why the Central Pacific Railway was successfully completed under such a difficult situation depends entirely on the hard work of the people of California." The emperor! This is simply talking nonsense with his eyes open. What kind of bullshit the quality of the people of California? More than 90% of the road construction work are Chinese, and most of the remaining ones are Irish, and Californians are not even one percent.

What's the matter with this railway? In comparison, although there are many Irish people employed by the Central Pacific Railway, these people are unable to adapt to the dangerous and exhausting road construction projects, alcoholism, fights, and continuous demands for increased wages, and they are not at all calm. Even so, hundreds of Irish workers still escape every day. Before hiring Chinese people, the slow progress of the entire Central Pacific Railway project can only be described as a snail. It took only 50 miles to be built in two years!

But Gaimon did not expect that those people were shameless to such a situation. They ignored the contributions of the Chinese, but now they have begun to persecute these honest people again...

"Maybe it's because they don't believe in God."

Although sympathized, Gaimon also knew that in the United States, there were not many people who sympathized with the Chinese as he did, especially in the western regions. He witnessed the hard work and simplicity of the Chinese workers, but he was extremely disgusted with these virtues that should have been praised... These are those white people!

Gamon hopes that Hounan and others will live better after leaving, at least, not worse than when they were in Denver.

However, when welcoming the last and most important group of Chinese people with Hou Nan to their ranch, Gaimon did not expect that he would see more than 200 horses...

"What did these Chinese people do? More than 200 horses? All the cattle and sheep and horses in my ranch are not as valuable as these horses. And..." Hou Nan seemed a little sneaky in the past two days after coming here. It was not like he remembered, working, eating, sleeping, and never doing anything else. Instead, he often left the ranch and went out for several hours... By the way, Hou Nan still rode a horse. Can Chinese workers afford horses in the United States?
Chapter completed!