Chapter 453: The Last Virgin Land
Chen Jianqiu's words were for Potter, and of course for the Chinese onlookers.
With him, at least these San Francisco police officers must not arrest the Chinese as indiscriminately and beat them up as before.
Potter glanced at Chen Jianqiu, and then looked around at the crowd of people around him.
He didn't say anything, and left Chinatown with his police and Szeto Meitang.
There is no suspense in the final result.
The lawyer group was dispatched again.
However, due to the schedule, only two people attended this time.
But it was enough to solve the problem.
Judges in San Francisco now have a headache when they see these litigants.
He always had the feeling of going back to law school to listen to professors.
In addition, the matter itself is very clear and the evidence is abundant.
Those gangsters had a lot of criminal records, which made the jury also tilt in favor of the defense.
Szeto thought he would be hanged like the Chinese who had killed people in California before.
As a result, he was released after only two months in the cell.
By the time he returned to Chinatown, Chen Jianqiu had already left California, leaving him with only a long letter.
Boss Chen's purpose is one, I hope that Situ Meitang can grow as soon as possible, take ZGT on the right path, and never forget his own nation.
It doesn't matter if you want money or people, just mention it.
He will also come to San Francisco from time to time to give enough support to the Chinese here.
Situ Meitang took the letter, stood at the door of the Chinese Federation Hall, and bowed deeply to the door.
When he got up again, he was already in tears.
Chen Jianqiu returned to Roswell.
Tesla is still working on alternators.
Preliminary improved models have come out.
Chen Jianqiu was the first to build a power plant in Roswell, and then pulled up the transmission line between Lincolnshire and Roswell.
Two places were the first to be electrified.
The telephone line went all the way to Santa Fe.
Sanjiang Bank and major factories have installed telephones, making it much easier to get in touch.
More and more scientists and engineers are coming here.
Now the Roswell Science and Technology Society is full of elites, and laboratories have sprung up on a scale no less than Edison's invention center in New York.
The treatment and conditions here are really good, not only the salary is high, there are also generous bonuses, and most importantly, the investors have been staying in Roswell recently, and they are not ambiguous.
The only bad thing is that the president and vice president of the association are obsessed with feasibility research and basically don't care about the things in the association.
Holmes spent all day looking for mines outside, and Tesla and Browning were busy working on fully automatic rifles and changing motors for the factory.
On the contrary, that Boss Chen would appear in the association from time to time, preside over meetings, and listen to their scientific research results.
Chen Jianqiu really didn't have nothing to do.
It's just that he has a little personal matter, a very important private matter.
So he had to stay in Roswell lately, or he didn't want to be too far away.
Camila is pregnant.
This is not surprising for Chen Jianqiu, but it is great news.
He's going to be a dad.
He himself is an orphan, and so is Camilla.
Therefore, during this time, he prefers to be by the side of the mother.
In the years that followed.
Everything is going in a good direction.
Mass production of chemical fertilizers has begun, and although it has not turned the barren Roswell into a fertile soil, the yield of crops such as potatoes has made a qualitative leap.
Oases have appeared in the wasteland, and those who come to visit are amazed.
Coupled with the propaganda carried by the National Farmers' Union and the Commonwealth Party, Roswell's fertilizer began to sell well in various western states.
Minerals previously invested in Mexico are beginning to show their enormous economic potential.
Technology gave 19th-century America wings.
The silver, copper, and iron produced by these mines were transported across the border to the United States through the railroads built by the Santa Fe Railroad Company, bringing huge profits to Chen Jianqiu.
As for the arsenals in Europe, they have completely turned a profit.
Whether it was Britain or France, Austria-Hungary or Germany, their emperors were unusually keen to consume bullets in their colonies in Africa and Asia.
Against the sabber-wielding cavalry of Central Africa and the Arab world, the Maxim machine gun became the best choice.
Maxim machine guns and cartridges were sold out of stock in Europe, and ambitious empires began to pre-order improved machine guns.
As for the United States, the frontier is gradually disappearing.
Iowa, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Montana, these western quasi-states, are considering joining the Union.
As the number of people in these western states increased and the industry gradually prospered, it was logical to join the Union.
But because these territories are all Republicans in power.
In order to ensure that power would not be sidelined, the Democrats, who control both houses of Congress, refused to accept their applications to join the Union.
Congress is in a state of turmoil, and President Cleveland is in a state of flux.
These applications were only approved after Republicans sent Harrison to the White House in 1888.
But just when these states applied to join the Union, Washington and the bigwigs in the East discovered that the most prosperous places in the West were not among these states.
It's New Mexico!
Unlike other western quasi-states, which are mainly agricultural, there are many factories here!
This is the largest arms production base in the United States! It is also the most prosperous place for import and export trade!
The population is far greater than they could have imagined, with a large number of workers working here, including whites, Chinese, and Mexicans.
The state government is so rich that several core cities such as Santa Fe and Albuquerque have even caught up with San Francisco.
This kind of place has not joined the Federation until now?!
Congress began to prioritize bills to admit New Mexico's quasi-states into the Union.
They came up with a plan to merge New Mexico and Arizona into the Union as a single state.
Those in power in Congress also found a problem.
The number of Chinese in New Mexico is beyond their imagination.
Many of the Chinese have joined Republicans and Democrats and have served in quasi-state governments and even state legislators.
At first, people in Congress were surprised by this.
In the impression of these eastern gentlemen, these western states are all pioneers of Chinese culture, and the drafting of the PAI Chinese Act came into being mainly at their request.
God knows why these Chinese people live so nourishingly here now.
But to Washington's surprise, this plan was flatly rejected by the two territories.
The reason is that it has nothing to do with the Chinese.
Native Arizona residents are afraid of the prosperity and complex ethnic makeup of the neighboring state of New Mexico, and New Mexico has a simpler reason of not wanting to share congressional seats with the Arizona gang of old hats.
For this reason, the governor and the speaker of the parliament also went to Lincolnshire to visit Chen Jianqiu.
They wanted to hear from the New Mexico bigwig.
However, in the study of the villa in Lincolnshire, Chen Jianqiu held his son who had just turned one year old, and waved his hand at them kindly:
"You politicians can just handle these things."
"I'm just a businessman, I don't understand politics, as long as I don't delay my business, you can do anything."
He certainly doesn't need to say much.
Wang Qingfu led the members of the "Chinese Suffrage Alliance" to cross the rivers and seas on both sides of Washington and New Mexico.
What they do represents his will.
Now in the west, Chen Jianqiu and the Chinese have two basic plates, New Mexico and California, and they are worry-free for the time being.
But it also gave him a wake-up call.
The frontier is dissipating, and there is not much room to move.
An increasing number of Chinese immigrants are entering the United States through California and Mexico.
They need more room to grow.
This is the last chance to seize living space.
Soon, that opportunity came.
Chen Jianqiu received an important message:
On April 22, 1889, the federal government will open the last virgin land in the entire West: the Oklahoma Territory.