The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 364 The Chinese

"Notify Old Silver Mountain... ask them to incite the miners over there! Then ask them to keep an eye on the Investigation Bureau and other gangs, and withdraw if they notice anything wrong!" Chen Zhengwei tapped his fingers on his knees while thinking.

With the Hand of War, he felt that he had a lot more ideas in his mind.

Taking this opportunity, he could get the miners at Old Silver Mountain to work for him.

Before this, he almost forgot about the Old Silver Mountain. Although the income was actually good, its presence was not strong.

His mind has been on San Francisco and Chicago lately, and there are so many things going on.

The Qing Dynasty envoy and the DuPont family...

After sending a telegram, Chen Zhengwei asked someone to find Great Poland, but learned that Great Poland had gone to the southwest community of Chicago.

Unlike San Francisco, Chicago was the main destination for Polish immigrants to the United States.

There are at least 20,000 to 30,000 Polish immigrants in Chicago.

"When he comes back, tell him to come find me!"

……

At this time, Dapolan was sitting in the carriage looking at everything on the roadside, feeling a strange sense of familiarity.

Polish-style houses and shops can be seen everywhere, as well as shop signs in Polish.

The people here are wearing dirty clothes and walking in a hurry. Occasionally, you can see men passing by in not very decent gentlemen's suits.

These people's economic situation is not very good, and they are no different from the Poles in San Francisco.

This is normal. Most of the Poles who fled to the United States during this period were trying to escape ZZ persecution and seek a better life. After arriving in the United States, many of them worked in heavy physical labor factories such as meat processing plants and steel mills.

Coupled with language barriers and cultural differences, these Polish immigrants belong to the lowest level of society in Chicago.

The widespread racial discrimination and racial prejudice also make it difficult for Polish immigrants here to integrate into mainstream society.

After waiting for a long time, a thin young man in an ill-fitting suit was pushed into the car.

After being pushed into the car, the thin young man calmed down when facing Greater Poland.

"Sir, is there anything I can do to help you?"

"Kind Novak... I've heard of you!" said Big Poland as he smoked a cigar and couldn't help but smile.

This guy is just a gangster, but he is quite famous in this generation and he is a nice person.

He needed some additional manpower.

"I am short of some people to do the work. Bring your people to help me!" said Dapolan.

"Who are you and what do you want me to do for you?" Novak asked warily. He didn't know this Pole and had never even heard of him.

"Let me introduce myself. Everyone calls me Great Poland! My boss is Chinese. You should have heard of him!"

Novak's expression changed and he blurted out subconsciously.

“That Chinese guy!”

Of course he knew "that Chinese guy," which was what many people at the bottom of Chicago called Chen Zhengwei.

Ever since that Chinese man came to Chicago, there has been a bloody storm in Chicago, especially in the past few days, many people died on the streets of Chicago.

They were all shot to death in the streets.

This has made Novak afraid to go out recently, and even if he goes out, he keeps a low profile.

"Why are you looking for me?"

"I am Polish...and you too!" said Greater Poland meaningfully.

"This is an opportunity for you, perhaps a turning point in your destiny. Wear decent clothes and move in and out of high society, or continue here, like them, never seeing a future!" Great Poland looked at the pedestrians outside the carriage.

"Of course, you might get beaten to death. But with greater benefits, comes greater risks!"

"So, what's your choice?"

"Can you give me a cigarette, sir?" Novak asked, lit the cigarette and started thinking.

As Big Poland said, this is an opportunity, perhaps the best opportunity in his life.

After finishing a cigarette, Novak let out a long breath, and smiled at Poland's gaze: "Why not, sir! Or maybe I should call you boss from now on!"

"How many men do you have?"

“More than twenty!”

"Too few! Spread the word, I want to recruit some people!" Greater Poland waved his hand.

Then he took out a wad of money from his pocket and threw it into Novak's hand.

Novak held the stack of money in his hand, his heart pounding. He might not be able to earn so much in a year, and the other party just threw it to him casually.

"It's just a small amount of money! If you can reach my level, you can earn so much in a day!" Big Poland smiled, he seemed to see his past self.

……

"How could this happen?" Looking at the ruins in New York City, Huang Kaijia, Cai Shaoji and others all had ashen faces.

They came here after seeing the news in the newspaper.

Although they did not like Chen Lanbin, this was the Qing Dynasty's embassy in the United States and the face of the Qing Dynasty.

It was actually blown up.

Minister Chen Lanbin couldn't even piece together a complete corpse.

"Who did this?" Other students were also outraged.

Not only did the students from Yale University come, but also other students who lived close to New York, dozens of them. "You just need to study! As for the things here, we are still investigating!" Deputy Minister Yung Wing said to the crowd, and his eyes swept through the crowd and saw Zhang Kangren at a glance.

The clothes he wore were obviously much better made than the others.

"You guys come with me!" Yung Wing said to Huang Kaijia and others.

Several people looked at each other and were about to leave with Yung Wing. At this time, Chen Jiashan, the supervisor of the Chinese students studying in the United States, saw everyone and snorted coldly.

If he wasn't in a bad mood, he would have scolded these students again.

When others saw Chen Jiashan, they subconsciously touched the back of their heads and realized that they had forgotten to bring their fake braids.

Huang Kaijia and others came to Yung Wing's room, and Yung Wing asked directly: "Tell me about Chen Zhengwei in San Francisco!"

Huang Kaijia and others were surprised at first, and then shocked.

"Master Rong, what do you mean?"

"It's hard to say. I'm just asking about this person first!" Yung Wing shook his head. There was no evidence to prove that it was Chen Zhengwei who did it.

However, Lord Chen Lanbin had a servant who was still alive...that servant had both his hands chopped off, which also shows some of Chen Zhengwei's style of doing things.

What’s more, the embassy was bombed just a few days after the servant returned.

Huang Kaijia and the others thought about it and then told what they had seen and heard in San Francisco.

Yung Wing nodded slightly as he listened.

He had heard about the situation of the Chinese in San Francisco before, but with the appearance of Chen Zhengwei, the situation of the Chinese there was completely different.

What's more, Chen Zhengwei also banned opium, opened a labor service company, and helped the Chinese fight for wages and benefits.

These things gave him a very good impression of Chen Zhengwei.

However, the fact that Chen Zhengwei chopped off the hands of Chen Lanbin's servant and blew up the ambassador Chen Lanbin also shows that he was bold and reckless, had no regard for the law, and acted violently.

Now the U.S. Department of Justice should also be targeting him, and I’m afraid his fate will not be good.

After thinking for a while, Yung Wing sighed and let the matter go. If Chen Zhengwei hadn't done this, he would have really wanted to meet Chen Zhengwei.

Now we are afraid that after Chen Zhengwei is arrested by the Ministry of Justice, the Chinese will be retaliated against and the situation will become even more difficult.

Then Rong Hong looked at Zhang Kangren, whose expression was still somewhat uncertain, and said, "You are still a student. Recently, you should focus more on your studies and get involved less in other things."

After all, it was he who promoted the Chinese students to study in the United States, and he had watched these students grow from childhood to where they are today.

He hoped that Zhang Kangren would stay away from Chen Zhengwei to avoid implicating him.

……

Old Silver Mountain.

Rong Jiahong, Rong Jiasheng, Lin Zhengan and Xu Yan gathered together and looked at the telegram in their hands.

"Brother Wei has been targeted by people from the Ministry of Justice recently. They may take action against us... We have to be on high alert recently!" Lin Zhengan said.

"We have hundreds of people and hundreds of guns. What can the Ministry of Justice do to us?" Rong Jiahong said with youthful vigor, slamming the table.

"Although there are not many people in the Investigation Bureau, there are many people from other gangs! Especially don't be left alone recently!" Rong Jiasheng looked at the telegram report on the table.

"Just get rid of them!"

"Now is not the time, don't make things complicated! Just follow Brother Wei's instructions first!" Rong Jiasheng made the decision. After all, he was much calmer than Rong Jiahong.

"The Bureau of Investigation needs to put more effort into this. We can't be unaware of anything when people from the Ministry of Justice show up."

"Also keep an eye on the movements of other gangs!"

"But inciting the miners...do you have any ideas?" Rong Jiasheng looked at the others.

"Anyway, they can't understand English, and those foreigners don't understand Chinese. Even if they say that the foreigners want to kill them all, they will believe it!" Rong Jiahong felt that this was not a big deal at all.

"Just say that the foreigners don't treat them as human beings. Now there are not many mines left in the old silver mountain, so they want to drive them all out of the United States! Then spread rumors, saying that the United States thinks sending them back to the Qing Dynasty is too far, and wants to throw them into the sea to drown them!" Xu Yan said with a turn of his eyes.

Several people pointed at Xu Yan. This guy was really vicious to think of such words.

But if you think about it carefully... Shit! Those foreigners can really do this!
Then a few people started to take action, and in just two days, some rumors began to spread among the Chinese miners.

Most people have no channels to obtain information from the outside world, and do not understand English, so they just stick together among the Chinese for warmth.

When I heard others say this, I believed it immediately.

Then people began to panic.

There are also some people who, even if they didn't believe it at first, started to believe it after hearing it more and more.

……

People from the Ministry of Justice also arrived at Old Silver Hill. That night, the boss of the largest Irish gang in Old Silver Hill sat in the bar and looked at the people in front of him.

"Let us fight those Chinese? Do you think this is just a child's game? People will die!" The Irish gang leader glared at the man in gentleman's suit in front of him.

"Either you beat him, or our Ministry of Justice will crack down on you with all our might until we send you to jail!" said the man in gentleman's suit calmly.

"Are you scaring me?" The Irish gang leader was immediately furious.

"I'm just telling you a fact!"

The Irish gang leader's face was uncertain, and after a while he said, "Why are you looking for me?"

"Not only you, other gangs in Old Silver Mountain will also be involved! Those people should be let know that this is America!" said the person from the Ministry of Justice with a smile.

"Bah!" The Irish gang leader spat on the ground, then tilted his head back and drank half a glass of beer.

"I promise you!"

(End of this chapter)