The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 454: The Investigation Bureau Appears Decades Ahead of Time
The shipyard asked Chen Zhengwei for people after just two days.

They needed to build a steam engine first to test the data, so they asked Chen Zhengwei for some manpower from the metal processing factory and also poached a few people from the steam engine factory in San Francisco.

Throwing the matter to them, Chen Zhengwei was too lazy to take care of it.

Anyway, he only looks at the results.

However, there has been news coming from Congress in Washington in the past two days.

Congress finally passed a proposal to expand the Justice Department.

In theory, there are high crime rates in major cities, especially interstate crimes. Since the investigation bureaus in different states rarely cooperate with each other, there are even different laws and regulations between states.

Therefore, the Ministry of Justice must handle these cases.

The Ministry of Justice's special agent system can no longer cope with the current situation. Due to staff shortages, the Ministry of Justice often has to hire detective agencies to assist in investigations.

Even so, the efficiency of solving cases is very low. For example, the robbers of the Nevada train robbery, the Bob brothers, have not been caught yet. Not only are they still at large in the West, they even commit crimes from time to time.

Therefore, the Justice Department is preparing to establish a new division specifically to handle interstate cases and investigate criminals who violate federal laws.

This department is called...Investigation Bureau!

The new department plans to recruit 600 people, including 300 agents and the remaining 300 logistics staff and clerical staff.

"Isn't this the FBI?" Chen Zhengwei sneered after receiving the news.

Everyone knows who the Ministry of Justice is targeting when it set up this department.

Unexpectedly, because of me, the FBI showed up decades earlier.

Moreover, it has just been established and it is recruiting 600 people, which is a big move.

After all, the US government is not that wealthy. Not only does it have to pay him compensation, but it also has to increase its military spending this year and allocate funds to the FBI...

Oh, and they also have to deal with the militias in the various states.

I heard that Washington sent a lot of people to lobby the governments of southern states.

"Senior Brother, is this investigation bureau targeting us?" Li Xiwen asked.

"That's hard to say!" Chen Zhengwei laughed: "Maybe he is specifically investigating what color underwear the president wears!"

"Ah?" Li Xiwen was a little confused.

"It's time to let the people in Washington take action!" Chen Zhengwei said with a smile.

He had some people in Washington early on.

After the signing of the Washington Treaty, these people stayed in Washington.

Now it's time for these people to take action...find a way to get the Department of Justice to recruit people from the Pinkerton Detective Agency into the newly established investigation bureau.

"By the way, why haven't the merchant ships from the Qing Dynasty arrived yet? Have they been robbed?" Chen Zhengwei turned his head to look out the window, wondering.

"There shouldn't be many pirates on this route, right?"

The last Chamber of Commerce would send merchant ships here every year before the Chinese New Year.

The Chinese New Year is only a few days away, why hasn’t the ship arrived yet?

Due to the influence of ocean currents, the sail-powered ships heading here from the Qing Dynasty can only set off at this time.

Only steamships were less affected and were able to depart earlier and arrive before the New Year.

However, there were very few steam-powered ships from the Qing Dynasty heading here.

That's why Chen Zhengwei is thinking about this matter.

But soon, another piece of news diverted his attention.

"Brother Wei, Aaron has arrived in Auckland!"

"That guy is finally back!" Chen Zhengwei was cheered up after hearing the news.

After he left Chicago, Aaron stayed there to open up transportation routes between cities.

Not an ordinary transportation route, but a transportation route for various contraband between gangs.

After all, they have to deal with gangs in major cities, and ordinary people cannot control them.

Even though they acted well in front of Chen Zhengwei, they were actually not good-tempered. And each of them had their own ideas.

So Chen Zhengwei simply left Aaron to do this.

Now that Aaron is back, it means that the matter has been settled.

"Some other students are here too! There's also a guy called Yung Wing!"

"They came back together? That's perfect. Let's go say hello to Dingshilou and book it for the night."

……

"Since you got off the train just now, you can walk sideways! Have you seen crabs? Crabs walk sideways, and you can do that too!"

Aaron was chatting with Yung Wing at this time.

Hearing what Aaron said, Yung Wing burst into laughter.

But he is indeed looking forward to San Francisco. He is now full of energy, as if he has returned to his twenties and thirties.

After he arranged for those students, he left a letter of resignation from his official position and came to San Francisco.

It just so happened that many students had heard Huang Kaijia and others talk about the situation in San Francisco, so they wanted to come and celebrate the New Year.

After all, they have been away from home for many years and miss celebrating the New Year at home when they were young.

So we went together to see it.

Then Yung Wing brought them here together.

As for A Long, Xu Yan helped them contact him, and it just so happened that A Long was going to bring people back, so he took them with him.

"The only bad thing about San Francisco is that it's cold! Especially in winter! But Los Angeles is much better!"

"Yes, Los Angeles is much better! But the most important thing is not the climate, it's the city of overseas Chinese!" Yung Wing smiled with his hands on the side of the boat, his eyes full of anticipation.

Turning his head, he saw a woman with dark brown hair smiling at him. The woman was holding a baby and there was another child of three or four years old beside her.

This time, Yung Wing brought his wife and children with him.

Soon, the group arrived at the Port of Los Angeles.

Before getting off the ship, you can see that many of the workers working at the port are Chinese.

This made Yung Wing and the students behind him feel very familiar.

In the distance, there were some Chinese young men wearing gentlemen's suits.

Yung Wing was looking at these people all the way, and even when he arrived at the carriage, he was not in a hurry to get on, but was still looking at them.

"What are you looking at?" Aaron looked in the direction Yung Wing was looking in confusion.

"Spirit, energy and hope make people different!" Yung Wing took a long time to look away.

As soon as he arrived at the dock, he knew that he had made the right choice this time.

Just like those people in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, unlike the common people who were numbly seeking survival, the laborers here also had light in their eyes and smiles on their faces.

This is what comes with hope for the future.

But Chen Zhengwei was different from the people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He was more far-sighted than them, and his forces were not as conflicted as those within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

"Mr. Chen did a great job!" After getting on the carriage, Yung Wing couldn't help but sigh to his wife:
"The workers at the San Francisco docks all have sparkles in their eyes! That's wonderful!"

He was genuinely happy after seeing the light in those people's eyes.

In the carriage behind him, the students were also looking at everything around them curiously, especially the Chinese on the street.

"Hello, brother!" A student greeted the Chinese people on the street with a bow.

It was not for any other reason, but because seeing so many Chinese people, the sense of closeness that came from the blood made him excited.

A Chinese youth in gentleman's suit on the side of the road looked at him in confusion, then bowed.

Then he asked the people around him, "Who are those people in the carriages?"

"He's young and well dressed. He might be a student studying in the United States. Didn't some of them come during the Chinese New Year last year?" said the young man next to him.

He had spent quite a while bragging and chatting with Zhan Tianyou last year, so he was deeply impressed.

A group of people arrived at the club and first met Chen Zhengwei in the lobby on the first floor.

There were more than twenty students coming this time, but those who were descendants of wealthy officials like Huang Kaijia and Ouyang Geng from last year did not come.

However, Zhang Wenyao and Zhan Tianyou came, along with many Chinese students from the second and third batches studying in the United States.

Many of these people had never seen Chen Zhengwei before. When they saw Chen Zhengwei coming down from upstairs, they looked at him curiously, this legendary figure among Chinese in North America.

They felt as if there was light on Chen Zhengwei, which made people couldn't help but move their eyes to him.

He is also very tall and strong, giving people an extremely majestic feeling.

More than one person recalled the story they heard when they were young: "There was a big man, eight feet tall, with an eight-foot waist circumference..."

"So many people? Welcome to my San Francisco!" Chen Zhengwei smiled when he saw Yung Wing and a group of students after going downstairs.

"Mr. Chen!" The students all greeted him obediently.

"I'll have someone arrange accommodation for you in a bit. You've all been studying in the United States for many years, and you probably haven't experienced the taste of Chinese New Year for a long time. Just have fun in San Francisco these days, and all the expenses will be on me!"

"Thank you, Mr. Chen!" Most of these students came from ordinary families. Even if they felt that it was too easy to accept the kindness, they were impressed by Chen Zhengwei's generosity.

"Go and arrange accommodation for them, somewhere near Chinatown, the conditions there are better. They have come all the way to San Francisco, we can't let them sleep in a shared bunk bed!" Chen Zhengwei said to the henchman next to him.

"Let them arrange a place for you to stay first. I have arranged a banquet in the evening! I will talk to you then." Chen Zhengwei smiled at the students.

After the students were taken away, Chen Zhengwei asked Yung Wing: "How did you feel on this journey?"

"Well, Mr. Chen has done a great job here! I have observed carefully along the way, and even the workers at the dock have light in their eyes. This is so rare!" Yung Wing immediately praised.

"I just gave them a salary increase two days ago!" Chen Zhengwei laughed.

"There's money in this pocket, and there's light in the eyes!"

"Those workers at the dock all work for Mr. Chen?" Yung Wing asked in surprise.

"That's not the case. I asked all the factories in San Francisco to raise the minimum monthly wage for Chinese workers by $5!" Chen Zhengwei said with a smile.

"I said it would go up, and it would go up whether they were happy or not!"

Although Chen Zhengwei said it casually, Yung Wing felt that it was very domineering.

"Brother Wei is so domineering! What does it mean to be a boss? Brother Wei is the real boss! So it is a blessing for the Chinese in Chinatown to meet Brother Wei!" Aaron said immediately.

"You are the only one who knows how to flatter!" Chen Zhengwei laughed. He liked to hear Aaron flatter people.

Yung Wing bowed and said, "Mr. Chen, it's a good thing you did, but there will be many people who are dissatisfied, right? Will anyone dismiss the Chinese workers?"

Yung Wing felt that doing so would likely result in good intentions leading to bad consequences.

Before Chen Zhengwei could speak, A Long took over: "Then they don't want to live anymore!"

"I've been talking to you for a long time, but you still don't understand! This San Francisco is Wei Ge's San Francisco!"

"Brother Wei said that they should raise their salaries, no matter what they think, they have to raise their salaries!"

"If you dare to fire the Chinese, then you are dissatisfied! If you are dissatisfied, then you don't need to work anymore. Let him swim from San Francisco to New York!"

……

While the group was talking, another ship was sailing from Hawaii to San Francisco.

In the cabin, the new San Francisco Consul Liu Xihong was chatting with someone.

He met this person in Hawaii. It is said that he was a Chinese from San Francisco, but because he offended Chen Zhengwei, he was driven to Hawaii.

This person has some relationship with Chen Zhengwei. It is said that he is Chen Zhengwei's senior brother and is very familiar with San Francisco.

So he hired this man.

(End of this chapter)