The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 334 The Second San Francisco
"Brother Wei, Eberst is here! He looks scared!" Aaron leaned against the door and said with a grin, his voice full of sarcasm.

"Are you scared now?" Chen Zhengwei sneered as he adjusted his clothes in the mirror.

This flop!

If the identity of the Investigation Bureau Director was not still useful, I would have helped him bring honor to his family yesterday.

Cover the national flag!

Is it glorious enough?

Chen Zhengwei applied some hair oil and pushed all his hair back.

After washing his hands, he turned around, picked up his suit and walked out.

"How many bullets did you use last night?" Chen Zhengwei asked as he walked.

"Almost 20,000 rounds..." Aaron scratched his head.

"Damn, bullets are free?" Chen Zhengwei muttered. In the battle last night, he had used up a quarter of his bullets.

The production of smokeless powder bullets is too slow, and the output of bullets can only be increased after the new equipment is returned.

"Brother Wei, it's all Great Poland's fault! They were all used up by his men. One person shot up five magazines and turned the Pinkerton Detective Agency into a sieve!" Aaron acted decisively and sold Great Poland immediately.

When Chen Zhengwei went downstairs to the hotel lobby, he saw Eberst sitting at a table. Not far away, some of his men were looking at him with unfriendly expressions.

"Mr. Chen! Let's talk!" Seeing Chen Zhengwei coming downstairs, Eberst stood up and spoke somewhat awkwardly.

Chen Zhengwei glanced at Eberst. Eberst's face was pale, his eyes were dark, and he looked a little haggard.

"Mr. Director, you look so haggard. Didn't you sleep well last night? Why don't you have a good rest?" Chen Zhengwei raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.

Eberst did more than just not sleep well last night.

How could he sleep after all that happened? He didn't sleep all night last night.

He is now facing an extremely dangerous situation.

If the truth of what happened last night were to get out, his professional and political career would be ruined.

And this also has a prerequisite, that is, he can stop the revenge of this Chinese.

He knew very well that the other party would definitely retaliate.

Leland Stanford was killed at home, George Jones of the New York Times was shot in front of the newspaper office... and what happened last night, all of which show how bold and cruel the other party is.

There are a total of 600 police officers in Chicago, and one-third of them were lost last night. Adding the casualties of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, he knew very well that he could not stop the other side's revenge.

Maybe one day he will die at home.

The other option is to negotiate peace with the Chinese, then suppress what happened last night and find a scapegoat.

This was his only choice.

As the director of investigation chosen by "Big Dollar" Thompson, Eberst is certainly not a man of integrity and firmness, so he appears here.

He also knew that Chen Zhengwei would meet the mayor this morning, so he came here early.

Chen Zhengwei took out his pocket watch and looked at it: "I have to go see the mayor, I still have about ten minutes!"

Eberst felt a little embarrassed because he had said these words to others.

But he couldn't care about that now.

"Ten minutes is enough. It won't delay Mr. Chen for too long!"

Chen Zhengwei sat on the chair, crossed his legs, and looked quite lazy.

"Mr. Director, you can say it now!"

"Mr. Chen, I'm sorry for some misunderstandings last night!" Eberst said in a low voice after sitting down, his voice a little difficult.

"Whether it is a misunderstanding or not is not decided by you, but by me! What's important is... what I think!" Chen Zhengwei raised his hand to interrupt him.

"I was ambushed by hundreds of people last night, and now you tell me it was a misunderstanding?" Chen Zhengwei stared at Eberst.

"I'm sorry...it's all because of Pinkerton Detective Agency..." Eberst's forehead was covered with more sweat.

"What I hate most is someone apologizing to me!" Chen Zhengwei stared at Eberst and said in a very slow voice: "I can pretend that this never happened! But you have to cooperate with me and do something!"

"what's up?"

"Recently, American gangs held a meeting in Chicago, and a large number of gang members gathered in Chicago... What happened last night was that the Chicago Investigation Bureau arrested gang members, and then they were counterattacked..."

"That's right!" Eberst said immediately. This was also his idea.

Those gangsters are much easier to deal with than Chen Zhengwei.

"The meeting is tomorrow night. As for who to arrest, I have the final say!"

"Can……"

"Also, I want to meet the police chiefs from the Investigation Bureau!" Chen Zhengwei continued.

In his opinion, the chief of police in the investigation bureau is much more important than the director.

After every election, there are always new directors taking office along with the new mayor, and these directors do not need any professional skills at all.

And those sheriffs are the ones who actually do the work.

Bribing the sheriff means bribing the police officers under him!

Eberst hesitated, but still nodded.

"I can promise you all these! But you also have to promise me to forget what happened last night!" Eberst said in a deep voice.

"The deal is done. I like working with people! I will pretend that what happened last night never happened!" Chen Zhengwei smiled. With Eberst's cooperation, it would be much easier to bribe the Chicago Bureau of Investigation.

"Okay!" Seeing that Chen Zhengwei had relaxed, Eberst finally breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his head.

"Then I'll go see the Mayor! If you have time in the evening, Eberst, maybe we can have dinner together! Please call the police chiefs from the Chicago Bureau of Investigation." Chen Zhengwei stood up and said.

"I have time!" Eberst said immediately.

"Oh, one more thing... We found two people in the basement of Pinkerton Detective Agency last night... They are from San Francisco..."

Being detained in the Pinkerton Detective Agency and being a native of San Francisco, it was hard for him not to think of Chen Zhengwei.

Chen Zhengwei was stunned for a moment, then remembered that two of the insiders hired by Green were missing, so he called out to the distance: "Green, go to the Investigation Bureau and see if they are your people!"

Then he took his men into the carriage.

"Brother Wei, are you just going to let him go like that?" Aaron looked out the carriage window at Eberst still standing at the door of the hotel, and said with some dissatisfaction.

"It's not that easy!" Chen Zhengwei sneered.

"After he steps down, find a time to kill him, and do it in a covert way."

Three hundred people! They acted faster than me. If I hadn't been so powerful, I would have had breakfast in jail today.

Chen Zhengwei still gets angry when he thinks about it now!
"By the way, what did the newspaper say?" Chen Zhengwei asked.

When a newspaper boy passed by, Aaron threw two coins out of the window and took two newspapers from the boy.

Chen Zhengwei took it and found that all the headlines were related to the gunfight last night.

"A large-scale gunfight broke out in Chicago late at night. The scene was bloody and the citizens were in panic!"

"The Investigation Bureau's operation failed miserably, with more than a hundred casualties!"

All of Chicago was shocked by the news in the newspapers this morning.

Especially when the news came out in the newspapers that the Investigation Bureau suffered heavy casualties, with more than a hundred casualties, many people became panic-stricken.

Even Chicago's upper class were trying to find out what had happened.

Gordon has now become the center again, with several groups of people visiting in one morning.

But surprisingly, Gordon, who always likes to show off, was extremely low-key this time and was vague about what happened at the scene last night. As for the two sides of the gunfight last night, he kept saying that he didn't know.

Even when others asked him for his opinion, he did not talk as much as before, but remained silent.

……

In the Palmer House Hotel, the most prosperous hotel in Chicago, Paul Kelly, the boss of the Five Points Gang, was yawning on the sofa in his bathrobe, and his henchman hurried over to him with a newspaper.

"Boss, look!"

Paul Kelly took the newspaper, glanced at it, and then read on carefully.

"Chicago is more chaotic than New York!" Paul Kelly exclaimed.

It was shocking enough that the bureau on New York's Lower East Side was blown up.

The situation in Chicago was even more chaotic, with a gunfight of this scale happening right in the city center.

"Boss, could it be done by some gang?"

"They don't have the courage or the ability! This matter has nothing to do with us!" Although Paul Kelly said this, he was also a little suspicious in his heart.

He desperately wanted to know what happened.

He was worried about the impact it would have on tomorrow's meeting.

"Go ask Clayton Jackson what the other gangs did last night!"

At noon, Paul Kelly got the results.

"Last night was mostly spent in the hotel and nearby bars. At most there was a fight... Those guys from Philadelphia got drunk last night and stabbed someone!"

"It seems that it has nothing to do with us!" Paul Kelly breathed a sigh of relief.

……

"I have an appointment with Mr. Thompson!" Chen Zhengwei came to the Chicago City Hall and spoke directly.

The city government staff took a look at the unfamiliar face in front of them, and quickly stood up and said respectfully:

"Mr. Chen from San Francisco? Mr. Thompson has already told you that you can go directly to see him when you arrive!"

Unlike San Francisco, neither the rich nor the ordinary people in Chicago know much about the Chinese. They have never seen a Chinese person in their entire lives.

If anything, it is the similarities between the Chinese and Indians in appearance that makes some people suspicious.

Chen Zhengwei was taken to the door of the mayor's office.

The mayor's secretary knocked on the door: "Mr. Thompson, Mr. Chen from San Francisco is here!"

"Let him in!"

Chen Zhengwei took a suitcase from Aaron and walked in.

"Good morning, Mr. Chen!" A smile appeared on Thompson's face.

"Good morning, Mr. Mayor!" Chen Zhengwei put the box on the table, then opened it, revealing stacks of cash inside.

Then he sat down opposite the desk.

"This is a gift, Mr. Mayor!" Chen Zhengwei said with a smile.

"What do you want to do?" Thompson asked Chen Zhengwei.

With just a glance, he knew that the box contained at least $60,000.

"Like I said yesterday, I want to come to Chicago to do business and do something for this city!" Chen Zhengwei said with a smile.

As soon as he came to Chicago, he gave the city a big surprise.

"I hope to be treated fairly when doing business in this city, and no one will come to trouble me for no reason! You know, this kind of thing happens all the time in the United States. Especially for my skin color... Although I am a native American, I have seen a lot of injustice!"

"You will be the most popular person in this city, and no one will look at you with tinted glasses!" Thompson immediately guaranteed.

He was quite happy to have a large sum of money coming in at the end of his political career.

As for the rest...what does it have to do with him?
As long as nothing major happens in Chicago during his term, he doesn't bother to care about anything else.

Besides, his term of office is less than three months away.

"Mr. Thompson, you are a very visionary and sincere person. It's a pity that you did not participate in this election! I think Chicago will have better development under your leadership!" Chen Zhengwei said regretfully.

It would be nice if a good man like Thompson could be re-elected for another two years.

"If there is a chance in the future, maybe I will run for election again!" Thompson said casually. He knew that his political career was almost over.

His approval rating is low in Chicago right now.

But he didn't care, he had made enough in the past two years.

"My new hotel will open in a few days. I hope Mr. Thompson can come and cut the ribbon with me!" Chen Zhengwei said. If nothing unexpected happens, he will have a new hotel in a few days as his business card in this city.

"Of course! But you need to tell my secretary in advance. You know I'm always busy!"

The meeting with Thompson went smoothly. Chen Zhengwei even drank a glass of champagne and didn't leave until almost 11 o'clock.

He really liked Thompson.

People who take money so readily are all good people.

……

"Send a telegram to Rong Jiacai, asking him to be on high alert. Especially at the weapons factory!" Chen Zhengwei gave the order after returning to the hotel.

Although an agreement was reached with Thompson and Eberst, something so big that happened last night could not be covered up.

What concerned him most was the formula of smokeless gunpowder.

As for submachine guns, it doesn't matter. Without smokeless gunpowder, even if someone imitated and manufactured submachine guns, they would not be able to be used in actual combat.

Too much black powder residue will stain the barrel.

Moreover, the thrust of the black powder explosion cannot drive the gun to load automatically.

After a few years, it won’t matter if the formula of smokeless gunpowder is leaked.

"By the way, ask him if Lin Changning has returned!"

Later, Green returned to the hotel, followed by two people.

"Boss, we've brought the people back. They are indeed the people we arranged. Their identities were discovered by Robert Pinkerton, and they were locked up!"

"Boss!" the two people behind Green said respectfully.

They knew last night that the Pinkerton headquarters was almost wiped out, and they were in shock the whole night.

Especially when Green and the director of investigation went to bring the two out, they had a feeling...

It won't be long before Chicago becomes the next San Francisco.

At this moment, facing Chen Zhengwei, in addition to the gratitude for being rescued, there was also a mixture of fear and respect.

"You two are lucky!" Chen Zhengwei took a look at the two of them and decided to let them go back to Pinkerton Detective Agency.

As for what they said after being arrested, Chen Zhengwei didn't think about it or ask.

Subordinates recruited by such means would definitely not be very loyal.

He didn't need them to be loyal, as long as they were afraid of him and did what he asked them to do.

As for the future…the more they have, the harder it is to give it up.

In the end you can only do things for yourself.

(End of this chapter)