The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 209 We Made a Mistake

"Let him go!" Chen Zhengwei ordered, then sat back in his chair.

As soon as Green was released, he used his only intact hand to unzip his pants and try to check.

"I need a doctor!"

"It seems like you really care about it..." Chen Zhengwei said with a smile. He just poured a little hot water on it, and it probably could still be used.

Then he tilted his head and ordered, "Go find him a doctor!"

Then he looked at Green and said, "Before the doctor arrives, tell me about the Pinkerton Detective Agency. What else do you know..."

"For example, the distribution of power, behavior patterns... and any dark history..."

More than ten minutes later, Chen Zhengwei got on the carriage again.

“Walk around Chinatown.”

Thinking about the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

Pinkerton's dark history is of little use; their reputation wasn't great to begin with.

The Pinkerton Detective Agency is actually a thug of capital. In addition to criminal investigation, its main job is to provide security for the rich, monitor and suppress the workers' movement, and even assassinate union leaders.

The headquarters is in Chicago, and the western office is in San Francisco. The total number of people is over a thousand. Of course, the largest number of them are various staff, such as logistics, such as collecting information...

The real main force is detectives and reserve detectives, about a hundred of them in San Francisco.

The Pinkerton Detective Agency has over three hundred detectives and prospective detectives combined.

These people are almost all professionals, and have received professional training in reconnaissance, shooting and fighting.

However, although this armed force is not weak, Chen Zhengwei doesn't care much about it.

The most important thing is that the Pinkerton Detective Agency has some connection with the American high-level officials. During the Civil War, Allen Pinkerton once worked as the security guard for President Lincoln.

So it would be easy to kill the Pinkerton people in the San Francisco office, but unless Allen Pinkerton could be killed, the subsequent retaliation would be troublesome.

After walking around Chinatown twice, Chen Zhengwei saw two targets on two streets.

There are four people in Green's group, two detectives and two reserve detectives.

In addition to the two people who were monitoring the streets, there was also a buddy detective who usually sorted out information in their temporary rented residence.

When we returned to the casino, Peng Ba was there too.

"Mr. Chen..." He didn't know what happened in San Francisco in the past few days.

But he knew one thing: the entire port was at a standstill and all ships were unable to load or unload cargo.

He was shocked by Chen Zhengwei's influence in this city.

Previously, those gangs in Chinatown couldn’t even leave Chinatown, and they were not at the same level as Chen Zhengwei.

"Send someone to take him to the customs warehouse to retrieve the goods, send them to the storage center, organize the goods, sort them into books, and then send them to the corresponding shops." Chen Zhengwei instructed Rong Jiacai.

The goods brought by Peng Ba are in short supply and can be easily distributed.

Goods such as silk, tea, Chinese medicine, and spices alone could bring back about $100,000, which means that Chen Zhengwei only spent $10,000 to buy 12 tons of opium.

As for the opium, although he promised to sell it to the Jews, Chen Zhengwei had no plans to sell it to them now.

The club hasn't opened yet, and I don't plan to kill Jamie Mays for the time being. Selling these opium to them can help them make some money back.

At least we have to wait until the club opens and Jamie Mays brings the guests before killing him.

After all, it's a collaboration and he's going to die anyway, so he has to make some contributions before he dies.

"Go find Aaron again and ask him to capture those people and don't let them escape..."

The three men were caught quickly. Two of them had bruises on their faces, obviously having been beaten in a conflict.

Another one was caught right in the house he rented.

When the three men were caught and saw Green, especially Green who didn't dare to look at them, they immediately understood everything and looked at Green with murderous eyes.

If it weren't for the wrong situation, they would have killed Green first.

Then he turned his attention to the tall young man sitting on the chair.

"Don't be so hostile. In fact, he is doing this for your own good!" Chen Zhengwei smiled. The other detective was older, probably in his early forties.

The two prospective detectives were under thirty years old, and the youngest looked to be in his twenties.

"The detective agency will soon know that several of our men are missing," the oldest detective warned.

"That's not important! If you want to target me, you should know what the consequences will be." Chen Zhengwei waved his hand casually.

"There are only two choices before you now. Either be hanged by me... or work for me, and then you can get a salary of several hundred dollars every month without having to live outdoors or take too many risks!"

"Green, you come and persuade them."

Chen Zhengwei stood up and was about to leave after he finished speaking. After walking a few steps, he suddenly stopped and turned around to say to the few people with a fake smile:

"I don't need all of you to help us. We have a term called a pledge of allegiance, and those who disagree are the pledge of allegiance!"

After saying that, he returned to the office.

As for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, he had some ideas.

If I guessed correctly, the other party would ambush me when I went to meet Anna, which would be the most suitable time.

In addition, although he would leave Chinatown, his whereabouts were uncertain and most of the time he would not stay for too long, so the other party would not have time to mobilize manpower.

Only when I go to pick up Anna at a fixed time is it the best time.

This is how Otto’s men ambushed me last time.

And I still maintain this routine, and except for the occasional times when I have something to do, I will go there in person.

Just to give some people a chance.

How to kill them if we don’t fish them out?

But it looks like I can catch a big one this time.

……

Rong Jiacai's men took Peng Ba to the customs to retrieve the goods, and the whole process went smoothly.

And there were more workers at the dock.

Just after Li Xiwen informed Yan Qingyou, Yan Qingyou arranged for someone to notify those freight companies.

The freight companies and shipping merchants had been waiting anxiously. When they received the notice, they immediately sent people to notify the stevedores to come to work. Even if they had to work until late at night, they had to load a batch of ships first.

At the same time, Lin Mingsheng and Zhang Yan stood on the side of the ship and looked into the distance. There were some ships around them that were unable to enter the port.

Not only were cargo ships unable to enter or exit, but even passenger ships were affected.

"What's going on? When can we reach the shore?"

"They said something happened at the dock and we haven't been able to enter the port for three days. If this continues, we'll have to get off the ship in Los Angeles and then find a way to get back to San Francisco."

Seeing San Francisco so close but unable to go ashore made everyone on the ship very anxious.

Los Angeles is just a small port and there is no railway to San Francisco. It is very troublesome to go back to San Francisco by land. It takes a long time and is dangerous. There are many gangs in the wild.

Fortunately, at night, a ship finally left the port, and then a ship arrived.

The port is gradually returning to normal.

... "Brother Wei!" Rong Jiacai knocked on the door and entered the office.

"What's going on?" Chen Zhengwei asked casually.

"Those three people all agreed, but I'm afraid they just agreed on the surface in order to get out of the situation. I don't know what they are thinking in their hearts..." Rong Jiacai said.

"Bring the three of them up one by one..." Chen Zhengwei thought for a while and said.

The first detective brought up was the oldest, named Marco.

"Do you really want to help me?" Chen Zhengwei looked at Marco and asked casually.

"Do I have a choice?" Marco said with a sullen face.

"And my family needs money... I can do some things for you to get more money. But I won't help you against the Pinkerton Detective Agency!"

"So, tell me, what does the Pinkerton Detective Agency plan to do to me?"

Marco hesitated and said, "You appear at the Bank of California two days a week... This is the best opportunity to catch you!"

"You mean catch me?" Chen Zhengwei raised his eyebrows.

He thought that the Pinkerton detective society wanted to kill him. This was his habitual way of thinking.

He only reacted after hearing Marco's words.

After all, Pinkerton is just a detective agency. Their job is to investigate criminal evidence and assist in arrests, not assassinations.

"We made a mistake!" Marco looked at the badge on Chen Zhengwei's chest with complicated eyes.

They didn't know that Chen Zhengwei was actually the sheriff of the Investigation Bureau!

Although Pinkerton detectives cooperate with local investigation bureaus and can investigate criminals for evidence and even assist in arrests, this does not mean that they can investigate and arrest police officers from the investigation bureau.

The Bureau of Investigation will not allow this to happen.

In fact, Chen Zhengwei rarely carried this badge, and this matter was not publicized, so apart from the people within the Investigation Bureau, only people in Chinatown knew about it.

Even the Pinkerton Detective Agency only knew that Chen Zhengwei bribed the people in the Investigation Bureau, but they didn't expect that he was actually a member of the Investigation Bureau.

Chen Zhengwei laughed, carefully recalled Marco's expression and eyes, waved his hand, and signaled his men to take Marco out.

Then two more people were brought in.

After meeting all three, Chen Zhengwei said to Rong Jiacai, "Let Marco and that Jack take out the last one!"

"Brother Wei, how did you know that?" Rong Jiacai was a little curious.

"Otherwise, how can I be your boss?" Chen Zhengwei sneered.

Is it important to see it or not? What is important is that after doing this, they can't go back.

That Marco has family... right here in San Francisco.

Having family members gives you a soft spot and makes you more likely to be obedient.

After more than ten minutes, Marco and another reserve detective named Jack both had gloomy faces and were breathing heavily, not daring to look at the body on the ground.

clap clap clap!
Chen Zhengwei pushed the door open and walked in, clapping and saying, "If he lives, he will harm all of you. You are just saving yourselves, and not just saving yourself, but also saving your families."

"So you are not wrong! He is the one who is wrong. He wants to betray you! If he was the same as you, these things would not have happened."

Chen Zhengwei has always been good at persuading people.

Following Chen Zhengwei in was the limping Green, who looked at the body on the ground, and then at the two people standing there...

Green suddenly felt relieved.

They are not much better than me.

I did betray them, but at least I didn't kill anyone.

"Can you let us go now?" Marco glanced at Green, then looked at Chen Zhengwei.

"Of course..." Chen Zhengwei asked someone to bring some cash, two thicker stacks, each stack containing 500 US dollars.

There is also a thinner stack of $300.

"I'm a generous boss and can pay you one month's salary first... If you work for me, you will get this much every month in the future, and you can get more!" Chen Zhengwei said with a smile.

He always believed that putting a lot of money in front of people was enough to move them.

These ordinary detectives only earn a little over $100 a month, so the $500 is equivalent to four months' salary for them.

Green silently took the $500, followed by Marco, and finally the prospective detective Jack.

"You go back and do everything as usual. Don't let the people from the detective agency get suspicious." Chen Zhengwei tilted his head to signal them that they could leave.

"How do you plan to deal with the others?" Marco stopped and asked before leaving.

"Don't worry, I'm just creating an opportunity to have a good chat with them!"

"By the way, do you have any friends you can introduce to me?"

Marco hesitated for a moment, then left.

"Let Greater Poland arrange people to keep an eye on them and their stronghold!" Chen Zhengwei said to Rong Jiacai.

As soon as the three of them walked out of the casino, Marco punched Green hard in the face, knocking Green to the ground, and then left angrily.

……

The next morning, the meeting room at Pinkerton Detective Agency was filled with smoke.

Some agents were smoking pipes, others cigars and cigarettes, and on the wooden board in front of them were a map of San Francisco, sketches of people, and news cuttings.

They all belong to the same person, Chen Zhengwei.

"This is our target... the leader of the Chinese, Chen Zhengwei."

"He's currently the biggest gang leader in San Francisco. He's a ruthless and brutal gang leader. He's been linked to numerous murders, dozens of people have died at his hands, and over three hundred people have died because of him..."

"At around 4:20 p.m., he would arrive at the Bank of California on Ghani Street. Although this place was outside of Chinatown, it was also territory controlled by him..."

"He has encountered an assassination attempt here before, so he will be very vigilant!"

"We need to arrange manpower here, here, and here..." William Pinkerton introduced to everyone.

"Will the FBI help us?" one of the detectives asked. He had just returned to San Francisco after chasing a gang for two months.

"No, on the contrary, we have to be careful of the obstruction of the FBI! Right now, the FBI in San Francisco, from top to bottom, is accepting bribes from him..."

“This action is crucial to us because the commission comes from the San Francisco City Government!”

"And the FBI is rotten from top to bottom and cannot be trusted at all, so they came to us."

"You know what this means, right?"

"We must go all out in this operation and not allow for any negligence!"

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