The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 507: Opportunity to Kill Chen Zhengwei

In the president's study, Army Commander-in-Chief William T. Sherman and Attorney General Charles Deves were both here.

"Mr. President, I think we have a chance now!" Charles Deves said.

"Last December, without notifying anyone, China Chen took a train back to San Francisco... Twenty days ago, he used the same method to go to Houston, and now he uses the same method to go to Galveston."

"He was very cautious, but he didn't want to give up the convenience of the train. So he would only take a few people with him each time to hide his identity, so we seized this opportunity."

"It was difficult for us to track him down before, but this time it was different... Galveston is an island city connected to Houston by a railway bridge. Apart from taking a boat, there is only one way in and out."

President Rutherford Hayes listened to the other party's words and showed an interested look.

"what do you mean……"

"Arrange the men to blow up the railway bridge when he passes by!"

"Although there will be some casualties, if he survives it will bring hundreds or thousands of times more casualties, and will bring huge trouble to this country! So I think it's worth it!"

"Although his faction has many people, he is the core and brain of that faction! As long as he dies, even if those people don't become scattered, the threat will be much smaller!"

"And after he dies, those Poles and Germans will not listen to the orders of other Chinese. They are only loyal to him. We can easily separate them.

By then, the only ones left will be the Chinese, who will be like cabbage worms on a vegetable leaf, easy to spot.”

The Poles, Germans, and even Irish under Chen Zhengwei's command were able to easily integrate into the streets of the United States, and Chen Zhengwei assigned many of his murder tasks to them.

This caused them great trouble.

It would be different if there were only Chinese people, because Chinese people are too conspicuous in the United States.

Therefore, as long as Chen Zhengwei is killed, the organization will not only lose its core and brain, but also the other ethnic groups within it can be separated.

The threat posed by Chen Zhengwei's subordinates has been reduced by at least 80%.

Rutherford Hayes was indeed interested.

The threat posed by Chen Zhengwei alone is greater than that posed by the 100,000 Chinese in San Francisco.

Just look at the more than six million black people in the United States.

Chen Zhengwei leads tens of thousands of Chinese people whose status is even lower than that of black people, and the threat he poses is greater than the trouble posed by the more than six million black people in the United States.

"Is the number of Chinese in San Francisco still increasing?" President Hayes asked first.

"Yes. Two years ago, there were only 45,000 Chinese in San Francisco's Chinatown and a few hundred in Los Angeles." Charles Deves pulled out a few sheets of information from a pile on the table and pushed them over.

"Now, there are more than 100,000 Chinese in San Francisco and Los Angeles combined. Every sailing season, tens of thousands of Chinese are sent here on slave ships. From March this year to now, more than 12,000 Chinese have entered San Francisco."

"And let's not forget that he also bought five large cargo ships, which can make at least three trips to the Qing Dynasty each year, bringing back tens of thousands of people every year."

"In just a few years, we will only see yellow-skinned Chinese in the West."

The Ministry of Justice first sent people to San Francisco to blow up the ship, but the ship failed and the people were put in jail because of a fight in a bar.

He suspected that those people were discovered by Chen Zhengwei...but from the information he obtained later, it seemed to be an accident.

Later, he learned that Chen Zhengwei wanted to crack down on the KKK, and planned to support the KKK privately. However, before he set out, the leader of the KKK in Texas was shot to death on the street.

In addition, the KKK's kidnapping and killing of the Houston mayor aroused the anger of the Texas upper class.

So the plan was aborted before it was implemented.

However, he has sent people to hide their identities and contact white supremacist organizations in the surrounding states of Louisiana and Arkansas, trying to bring those white supremacist organizations into a head-on conflict with Chen Zhengwei.

At this time, he suddenly found an opportunity.

A chance to kill Chen Zhengwei.

Rutherford Hayes took the documents and looked at them, then handed them to William Sherman on the side and said in a deep voice.

"We have to do something!"

"What do you think? You've dealt with him before. Is this plan feasible?"

"I don't agree!" William Sherman said directly.

Attorney General Charles Deves gave Sherman a disapproving look.

He thought the other party would support him.

But he didn't speak.

Rutherford Hayes said: "Tell me your reasons!"

"That man is very smart and cunning! He can think of everything we can think of!" William Sherman said coldly.

He would never underestimate Chen Zhengwei.

He was a master tactician with extremely keen battlefield intuition.

He didn't believe that the other party would leave such a big loophole.

"Galveston only has one railroad going to Houston, and that's a huge threat, and he'll definitely be prepared. I don't think he'll take the train!"

"If we take action but fail to kill him in one fell swoop, you can imagine that he will definitely take crazy revenge."

"But this is an opportunity!" Charles Deves argued. "We can't just sit there and watch him grow bigger and bigger."

"Of course, we need to do something, but not blow up the railway bridge!" Sherman nodded. "The report from the Department of Justice said that he only brought a dozen people with him every time he traveled, hiding his identity and avoiding being discovered in advance! But there are still traces to follow!"

"He is currently pressuring cities in Texas to crack down on the KKK."

"The only big cities in Texas are Galveston, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas and Austin."

"Now he has gone to Houston and Galveston and convinced the governments and wealthy people in these two cities to fight the KKK together."

William Sherman's eyes flashed with a gleam of light. He stood up and walked to the side of the map, pressing his hand on the map and said:
"He'll only go to two places next, San Antonio and Austin!"

“San Antonio is the second largest city in the state, and Austin is the state capital!”

"We just need to prepare in these two places and we can wait for him to attack! He only has a dozen or twenty bodyguards around him. As long as we are prepared, we will never let him escape!"

William Sherman's expression remained grim, but his voice became more passionate.

"That man loves to enjoy himself, which is his biggest weakness! Because he loves to enjoy himself, he can't stand the carriage moving slowly in the wild, and chooses to take the risk of taking the train! Because he loves to enjoy himself, he only goes to the best hotel in the city!"

“And in Texas cities, there’s usually only one best hotel!”

"We could even use the Texas militia and have 800 or even 1,000 of them set up in ambush at the hotel and on the street in front of it."

"As long as he continues to travel the same way as before, he will never be able to escape!"

As he said the words "can't escape", Sherman slapped his hand on the map on the wall.

It was like a nail, nailing Chen Zhengwei there.

Rutherford Hayes thought for a moment, his brows first frowned, then relaxed.

He clapped softly, "You convinced me."

As expected of a famous American general, this plan is indeed more suitable than the Attorney General's plan.

"Of course, he has another option. He can send some of his men to these two cities first. If that's the case, we can determine his route and then change the plan to blow up the train."

“The railroad bridge between Galveston and Houston looks nice, but we can imagine, and he can imagine, that he probably won’t leave by train.

Secondly, it would be too easy to be discovered if we wanted to plant explosives there, and there is no place to hide nearby. If he had his men check along the railway, we would have no chance to act, and would instead alert the enemy."

"But going from Houston to San Antonio and Austin is different. There are a lot of complex environments along the way, and he has no way to check them all."

Rutherford Hayes and Attorney General Charles Deves both agreed to the plan.

Charles Deves immediately said, "If we want to blow up the railway, maybe we can have someone pretend to be a KKK member. If the mission fails, we can direct his revenge to the KKK."

Then he shrugged: "Anyway, there is a deep hatred between them!"

"I authorize you to carry out this mission!" Rutherford Hayes made the decision directly. He had great expectations for this operation.

"There is no need to notify Congress about this! It's all done in complete secrecy."

"Do not disappoint me!"

……

"The sea here is so beautiful!" Cicely Dupont ran barefoot on the beach with her arms open. While running, she turned her head to look at Chen Zhengwei, with a happy smile on her face.

This is the Gulf of Mexico, the sea water is a turquoise blue, and the beach is a long and soft golden sand.

Coupled with the bright sunshine, this place has a holiday atmosphere.

Chen Zhengwei also likes this environment.

Especially the sound of the waves mixed with Cicely Dupont's laughter.

After playing on the beach for half a day, Cicely Dupont returned to the hotel with Chen Zhengwei, feeling a little reluctant to leave.

Before dinner in the evening, Cicely went back to her room to change her clothes. When she came down, she put her hands behind her back mysteriously.

"Your actions always make people feel like there is a gun behind you, ready to take it out and shoot me at any time!" Chen Zhengwei said directly.

He hated it when people put their hands behind their backs when facing him.

Although I sense danger...I still hate it.

"Are you kidding me! I wanted to give you a surprise!" Cicely Dupont pouted, looking like a little girl.

In other words, she is a little girl who is completely in love.

"What?" Chen Zhengwei crossed his legs and took two puffs of his cigar.

"Look!" Cicely Dupont took out a leather-covered notebook from behind and put it on the table.

"Is this the surprise you were talking about?"

Chen Zhengwei took it with one hand, glanced at it casually, and quickly raised his eyebrows.

The first page only had two lines of text, written in a very beautiful fancy font:

"Forever yours, forever mine."

"It's always ours!"

(End of this chapter)