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

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

To Meyer's surprise, these Chinese workers were extremely capable of learning, quickly mastering the corresponding skills, and were very disciplined and efficient.

This made him a little overjoyed.

Still, as an experienced business executive, Meyer still has a vague sense of risk.

While organizing the production in the factory, he quietly asked Hanny 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 Chen Jianqiu, the owner of the grain store, was doing.

There is a kind of energy in this young man's body, which needs to be paid special attention to.

However, when the vice-captain came to the grain store in the town, he found the gate closed and a sign hanging on it, which read:

The west is big and the owner wants to see it.

Chen Jianqiu, not in Roswell.

"Eh, boss, it's only been a few days of stable life, where are we going?" Sean got on his horse and stretched.

"That's right, boss, there are dozens of people waiting to boil in my restaurant every day." Hanif touched his upturned beard as well.

"How many cents does your restaurant have to do with you? Do you know how to cook a dish? If it weren't for the boss who saw that Ling was idle all day long, he would have made you something to do. Abiot beside Chen Jianqiu snorted, "You just drink the northwest wind every day." ”

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

Hanif was exposed, and his face turned red: "You're busy, and I haven't seen you every day!" ”

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

However, his words were interrupted by Chen Jianqiu.

Chen Jianqiu, who was at the front of the line, rode on the black radish, he returned to his previous denim outfit, and his body rose and fell with the bumps on the black radish's back.

"If you two have an opinion about each other, you can duel here, and I don't care if you live or die. He is only responsible for collecting your corpses. ”

Chen Jianqiu's tone was unfazed, but with majesty.

"Ah, that's not what I meant, Boss." Hanif hurriedly added, and Sean also nodded as if he were pounding garlic, "We just want to know where to go this time?" ”

"Albuquerque." Chen Jianqiu didn't reply.

Arbiot was right, after settling in Roswell, almost everyone on the team was assigned work:

Danny and Niu San, together with Niu San, as the general person in charge of the town's construction site, keep an eye on things on the other side of the construction site; Teresa runs the clinic;

Holmes and Camilla in the square as teachers; One article and one martial arts, teaching English and marksmanship respectively, but the teaching attitude of the two of them Li Sifu They dare not be angry.

Holmes never told the story according to the textbook he had written, and he usually started to let himself go and start telling stories halfway through the story, regardless of whether the people below understood it or not.

When Camilla, a big beauty, teaches marksmanship, the students are very motivated, but she never tells them how to aim, in her words, the crosshair is right, and those who can't hit it are pigs, and go back to practice by herself.

Asuka has been in charge of keeping watch at the Stone Fortress and patrolling around the town, as well as asking for news about Geronimo.

Sean is entrusted with the task of becoming the nominal owner of the grocery store, but is actually managing the town's warehouse of supplies.

Hanif and Abiot have both been privately slandered, and on this point, their views are unusually unanimous:

What's the difference between this and letting a rat take care of the granary.

Chen Jianqiu didn't think so.

After all, only thieves know thieves, so it's only fitting that he should guard the warehouse.

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

The restaurants in the town lack cooks and bosses, and Hanif and Donnie can't be cooks, so they can only be bosses.

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

Abiot, on the other hand, has been going back and forth between Santa Fe and Roswell, and while Scott is covering for Chen Jianqiu, he will also provide some news for Chen Jianqiu.

He would come back with some newspapers, but the dates in the newspapers were often two or three weeks old.

Three days ago, he brought Chen Jianqiu news of Steward's housekeeper:

Construction of the railway from Albuquerque to Lincolnshire has already begun, and Blake, the majority shareholder of the railway's investment company, the Santa Fe Railroad, has already arrived in Albuquerque.

Chen Jianqiu set off with the team.

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

He wanted to give the railroad tycoon a reason he couldn't refuse to delay the construction of the railroad.

If Santa Fe is the oldest city in New Mexico, Albuquerque is certainly the largest.

It was founded in 1706 as a Spanish colonial outpost and later established a military presence here by the Mexicans;

During the Civil War, there was a fight between the North and the South here, and the battle was "long" for a day, with negligible casualties, and more like an armed parade of courtesies.

Chen Jianqiu led everyone slowly into the old city.

This is built according to the traditional Spanish model.

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

At the far north of the central plaza stands a Pueblo-style Catholic church, with yellow, five-foot-thick adobe walls connecting the two towers.

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

"Church of San Felipe de Neri." Camilla rode a horse and Chen Jianqiu walked side by side, looked at the church, and said.

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

A man in a suit vest, waving his hands excitedly, was giving a speech to those around him:

"Friends, the railway, a product of a new era, which connects the east and the west, civilization and wilderness."

"Our wheat, soybeans, cattle and sheep could have been transported to every part of the country in a steady stream by wagons."

"However, what are these people who control the railroad doing! Last year, for example, the Atchison-Topeka-Santa Fe railway, for example, doubled its freight rates! ”

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

"We want to fight for our rights! Otherwise, don't even think about building a one-meter railway near Albuquerque! ”

The surrounding farmers and small ranchers were struck in the sore spot, and they had hoped that the railroad would bring them a fortune, but it backfired.

They were outraged.

"Negotiate! Negotiation! ”

"Defend your rights!"

……

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

"Grange Farmers' Cooperative?" He silently said, "What the hell is this?" ”

One more, two more later

(End of chapter)