Wild North America 1846

Chapter 632 All parties are moving
In the bleak cold wind, Boston 1876 came quietly.

It has been more than a month since the last meeting with Mr. Joseph Appra-Garcia, a rich businessman in Boston, and now "Madman" Carl has transformed into a big shot in the West District.

With additional financial support, "Madman" Carl recruited a group of people to form the "Westside Workers' Union", with more than 1700 formal members and more peripheral workers.

This is already a big force in the bottom-level workers' organizations in Boston.

1876 late 1

It has been less than two weeks since the traditional Chinese Lunar New Year, and many festive lanterns, banners with Chinese characters and blessings such as "Happy Spring Festival" and "Congratulations to the New Year" appear on the streets, which are full of British-style buildings. The city brings a different kind of oriental style.

On the street outside the West End Pier

Many white coolies who go to work in the early morning brave the cold wind and walk into the breakfast stall with their necks shrunk. They order a hot spicy soup and two pieces of burnt sesame seed cakes sandwiched with fried dough sticks. It is a satisfying and filling meal. breakfast.

Piaggio, an Italian, opened the hot and spicy soup shop. His brother Augustus was making biscuits by the biscuit oven at the entrance of the shop, and Sophia, a woman, was busy frying fried dough sticks.

The business was pretty good early in the morning, and the store was full of people.

These white coolies are very fond of hot pepper soup. A big bowl of hot soup is cheap and filling. The key taste is not bad. It is the most common breakfast for the bottom workers in Boston.

There are not 200 hot and spicy soup breakfast restaurants in Boston, but there are 150. A breakfast costs only 3 cents. If you don’t have enough hot and spicy soup, you can add more.

And in Pittsburgh in the western provinces, offal soup is a favorite of local workers.

Don't ask why?
The mutual influence and penetration of Chinese and Western cultures is reflected in every detail of social life, subtly changing the living customs of residents.

When "Madman" Carl opened the cotton curtain and walked into the breakfast restaurant, a group of white people crowded around the table were drinking hot and spicy soup. Seeing the black bear-like Karl walking in, he couldn't help but raise his head.

"Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaible... come in when you guys are eating, seems a little out of place. Hey... old Tom, you look like you are enjoying a steak dinner, can you please stop spitting so loudly ?” Karl said hello with a breezy face, as if he thought he was very humorous.

The gray-haired old Tom raised his head, stuck out his tongue to lick the remnants of the hot pepper soup on the corner of his mouth, and then scolded unceremoniously; "Let me see who this is...he started talking in a gentleman's tone? Oh... …So it was Carl the son of a bitch, don't forget you jumped over the courtyard wall and stole my chicken when you were just sensible. Now you start talking like high society, this is so disgusting!"

"Ahem... Old Tom, don't mention this all the time, no... here is a dollar, we have settled the balance now, you can take this to the street market and buy a dozen chickens." Carl took out a dollar paper showing off. The banknotes were slapped directly on the table.

Old Tom confiscated the money with lightning speed, then took a hard bite of the biscuit with fried dough sticks in it, and said unhurriedly;
"Since you're a rich man now, Karl...then it's between us.

You were thrown in the street drunk, and it was Old Tom who brought you back because he was afraid you would freeze to death.And when you left the next day, you stole my ancestral silver spoon.

That's a very vintage piece, worth at least $5.

And when it was hot last year, you went to peek at the shower..."

"Oh... stop, stop, that's enough... here's 10 dollars, I just hope old Tom shut up, I'm a decent man with status now, don't dare to talk nonsense, be careful I'll smash your head. "

"OK, it's a deal." Old Tom put away the $10 with a smile on his face. As for the five-dollar ancestral silver spoon, that's pure nonsense.

It was nothing more than a few silver-plated spoons worth a dollar at best.

It cost 11 dollars to buy Old Tom to shut up, and Carl also felt heartbroken, so he stopped talking about his sense of humor, but said directly.

Said; "Hey... guys, I hope you all join the Westside Workers Union, which is our own organization for white laborers, and no Chinese will be allowed to join."

As soon as he said this, the white people around burst into laughter, someone put his finger in his mouth and blew a sharp whistle, and more people burst into tears of laughter.

"Hahaha...Damn Carl, you really made me laugh."

"That's right, hahahaha... Why didn't I realize that besides being crazy, this bastard is also as stupid as a pig. Who among those rich Chinese will come to join your broken organization?"

"Don't let the Chinese participate? Hahahaha...hahaha...I really laughed to death, hahaha..."

The Chinese are a reserved and introverted nation. They especially like to live together in groups and are not good at communicating with the outside world. They live in the rich areas of Boston and are generally richer.

Most Chinese could not speak foreign languages, let alone join any foreign workers' organizations.

And those Chinese who can speak foreign languages ​​are either executives or upper class, and the last ones are middle-level and high-level government employees or policemen. Who would join a white labor union?
Is this still a sweaty dockworkers organization?
The guests in the breakfast shop were laughing up and down, Karl was so angry that his face turned red like a pig's liver, he held back his breath after thinking about it, and shouted to the shop owner Piaggio;

"Give me a big bowl of Hu spicy soup, add more vinegar, and then 4 pieces of sesame seed cakes, 4 fried dough sticks, and move quickly."

"Are you sure you want this much? Carl, you may not be able to finish it." Piaggio reminded him kindly.

The Hu spicy soup shop uses large bowls made of oak, and a large bowl of Hu spicy soup weighs three catties.A piece of biscuit is really two taels, and a fried dough stick is one tael. The average big-bellied man can't eat so much.

Carl rolled his eyes, waved his hand proudly and said, "Go ahead, if you can't finish eating, pack it for me and take it home. The guys who had breakfast in the store today will count one by one, and all will be charged to my account."

The first sentence was not very good, but the latter sentence attracted loud applause from the crowd. The guests who were not yet full quickly ordered two more fritters, and they were going to go out when they were full.

When Carl saw that the small favors worked, he immediately began to preach his fallacious theories in the breakfast shop, which won the favor of many white workers, and the atmosphere was very enthusiastic for a while.

Washington

US (North) President Benjamin Disraeli is in a bad mood, throwing a tantrum in his Oval Office.

He was questioned by Congress because of corruption, and it was the powerful Chinese congressman group "Free America" ​​who initiated the questioning, which made Mr. President very embarrassed.

"...

Damn it, they want to ruin my reputation. These orientals don't want to succeed. Even if it is passed by the lower house of parliament, I will not hesitate to use the president's veto power.

It's really hard to understand why they have to stare at me like a hungry dog.

In order to get rid of the status of an abnormal country, several major policies of the current government have been messed up by the guys in the parliament. They are the real sinners of this country.

Steve, what do you think I should fight back against these bastards..."

White House chief of staff Steve is the president's chief butler, and of course his ass is sitting on President Benjamin's side. He frowned and thought about it carefully, and said;
"With all due respect, Mr. President;

The Congress is their turf, and they can take advantage of the convenience of their home court to continuously raise questions, and whether we choose to delay and evade or face-to-face hard arguments, we will be at a disadvantage.

Independent prosecutors and their people, and there are too many loopholes in the engineering corruption case of the New York Water Department to stand up to scrutiny.

The two sides join hands, which will make us very passive, and will also greatly affect the reputation of the party group.

What I mean is to create another battlefield, such as starting from their identities..."

The chief of staff of the White House, Steve, instantly made President Benjamin Disraeli feel enlightened with a look of "you know", and said impatiently;

"That's right, that's it, this is a political incident that was manipulated by the Tang Empire behind the scenes, and pro-Oriental political forces crazily bitten and smeared me. It is a complete conspiracy.

These congressmen and independent prosecutors are all wearing a pair of pants, the purpose is to smear the white president to achieve his sinister political goals.

We must find another way to let the general public know the truth and use the power of public opinion to force them to stop.

Great, Steve... let's do it. "

President Benjamin Disraeli pumped his fist excitedly when he said this, feeling that he could get away with being the first president to be impeached for corruption, which would be too bad.

Steve shrugged and continued;
"We can't be happy too early, dear Mr. President, now we must warn Morey to cause trouble again, at least wipe his ass clean.

He has caused us too much trouble to continue.

The corruption case of the New York Taxation Bureau has received widespread attention from the public because it is too bizarre.

A 4-story office building needs to be refurbished and renovated, and it costs more than 230 million U.S. dollars. With so much money, it is enough to build another 20 buildings. How could it not arouse strong social repercussions?

A crystal chandelier costs $6.2, a chair costs $550, and Mr. Moret's desk costs $1.32, which is equivalent to the salary of 300 American workers for a year, which is outrageous.

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Regardless of how the internal billing of the New York Water Department will be exposed, the top priority is to be able to silence Mr. Moret before this bomb explodes in our hands. "

"Uh... will it be so serious?" President Benjamin Disraeli looked hesitant.

In the corruption case of the New York Water Bureau, Mr. President also played a disgraceful role as a bribe-taker, which is why he was involved in the intensified corruption case, and even reached the stage of investigation by the federal independent prosecutor.

The president of the United States of America is miserable. Most of the financial lifeline and economy are controlled by Chinese capital, so there is not much money to be made.

The New York Water Bureau is considered a big fat sheep, and it is also the place where there is not much oil and water left in the Federation.

As long as there is a chance, various forces in the government will intervene, and the president is no exception, sharing a large part of the benefits.

Otherwise, how could the appropriation of the $230 million government budget go so smoothly?
Moret, the director of water affairs, is just a scapegoat who was pushed out. In fact, there is not much he can get in his hands, and more is the political profit behind it.

After deliberating for a while with a solemn expression, President Benjamin Disraeli finally calmed down, looked at Steve with gloomy eyes and said: "This is really a difficult decision. In order to let this matter end here, we can only Moret was sacrificed. Arrange this matter, and it must appear natural."

"No problem, Mr. President, Mr. Moret chose to jump from a tall building under tremendous social pressure, and demonstrated his innocence with his life. This is a malicious smear by some political forces, and this tragedy cannot be allowed to continue gone."

"Well said Steve, I'll wait for your good news and then launch a counterattack."

"Happy to serve you, dear Mr. President." Steve replied immediately.

As long as Moret's weight clue is cut off, it will be difficult for independent federal prosecutors to bite the top of the White House, which not only protects the president, but also protects other people.

It is impossible to completely eradicate corruption, which will touch a huge vested interest group, but it is very simple to physically eliminate a person.

It is a last resort to abandon the pawns and save the handsome man. In this dark chain of interests, Mr. Moret should have such a self-consciousness. This is God's arrangement.

Each White House presidential term is only four years, which inevitably leads to the short-term behavior of the elected president and the lack of long-term strategic planning.

During the presidency of Benjamin Disraeli, it was very obvious that the primary consideration was not to improve relations with powerful neighboring countries, but to gain short-term political benefits by manipulating ethnic issues.

This kind of behavior will definitely suffer serious backlash, and the consequences will gradually appear...

In various cities in Meijian, some radical organizations have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, spreading hate speech and deepening the gap between ethnic groups.

Many Chinese living in North America have found that there are more unfriendly white people around, and they often gather together in small groups to whisper, and there is an unspeakable violent emotion surging in the society.

This is not a good phenomenon, and it has aroused the great vigilance of the Chinese community.

Soon, some social rumors came up through Chinese associations, which aroused the attention of the North American Garrison Command.

And on this issue, I questioned the US government, hoping that the US can well control the tone of public opinion, and avoid intensifying unhealthy speech and emotions in society, which will lead to the situation getting out of control.

Obviously, the government, which is eager to get rid of corruption charges, has not paid attention to this correct opinion, and is somewhat complacent.

The spearhead of public opinion is aimed at ethnic conflicts, and the enthusiasm for paying attention to corruption issues has naturally declined, which is a good thing for them.

(End of this chapter)