The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 574 A Future to Look Forward to

"I hate it most when people interrupt me when I'm talking!" Chen Zhengwei swept his eyes around, and the fierce aura made everyone behave themselves.

Seeing that everyone had quieted down, Chen Zhengwei continued, "Other than that, I'm a very good person. Especially to you guys!"

"From the looks of you, you don't seem to be having a very good time here!" Chen Zhengwei glanced at the whip marks, wounds, and thin bodies of the Chinese laborers.

"It looks like a pack of dogs! The stray dogs in San Francisco have it better than you!"

"I have the same skin, hair and eyes as you! So I'll be kind and take you away from this damn place!"

"Go to San Francisco! Of course, you don't know where San Francisco is! Just know that life there is better than what you have now!"

"How much do you make here per day?" Chen Zhengwei asked, changing the subject.

"You say!" Chen Zhengwei pointed at a laborer.

"50 points..."

"Two days for one Sol?" Chen Zhengwei raised his eyebrows. The currency of Peru is Sol, and 1 Sol is divided into 100 cents.

And 1 sole is now 20 cents.

"You fucking come here to mine and work as slaves for others, and only get 10 cents a day? Are you all crazy?" Chen Zhengwei pointed at them and cursed.

The Chinese workers were so scolded by him that they dared not say a word.

Almost all of them were deceived.

After getting ashore, I was pointed at with a gun and had nowhere to escape.

The only thought was to save up his half-sol daily salary so that he could go back alive one day.

"Tell them how much a worker in San Francisco earns per day!" Chen Zhengwei said to his men beside him.

"One dollar! The Chinese in San Francisco can work for ten days in one day, and they can eat beef every day and wear decent clothes!" Su Ya shouted immediately.

"Did you hear that? Workers in San Francisco earn 5 soles a day!" Chen Zhengwei snorted coldly.

"So you're lucky! You met me!"

"I fucking hate it most when my compatriots are being enslaved by others!"

"This time I have a deal with Peru, one of the terms is that all Chinese in Peru follow me!"

"There will be a ship that will take you to San Francisco later!"

"I know you have doubts in your hearts, but even if I sell you out, your life will not be any worse than it is now. Once you get on the ship and arrive in San Francisco, you can ask around and find out who I am!"

"Remember, you all owe me a life!" Chen Zhengwei thought for a moment and said, "There's still $150!"

When the workers heard Chen Zhengwei say $150, they became restless again.

They didn't understand anything else, but they just understood one thing: 1 dollar is 5 soles.

They only get 15 soles a month.

"Shut the fuck up!" Chen Zhengwei's face was full of ferocity.

"Or I'll throw you all into the sea!"

Everyone immediately became quiet again.

But I still felt uneasy, even though Chen Zhengwei said he could earn $1 a day in San Francisco.

But when they were deceived into coming to Peru, those people also told them that there was gold and silver here.

They don't dare to trust anyone.

But seeing how fierce Chen Zhengwei was, they were also frightened. Otherwise, if they were allowed to continue to get agitated, there might be a riot.

Chen Zhengwei knew very well how to deal with these people.

Sometimes it’s useless to explain to them, you have to whip them before they will listen to you.

And he was too lazy to explain it to them.

He had been kind enough to these people.

$150, 1% interest per month, he is doing charity!

We have to take care of their meals and their illnesses along the way, and arrange jobs for them when they arrive so that they can pay back the money.

Once they arrived in San Francisco, they could pay off the debt in about a year by deducting half of their salary every month.

And even if they were only given half of their salary, they would still live much better than here.

At least you don’t have to worry about dying in a mine or being beaten to death.

You can get full by eating beef every day.

Eat well and sleep well.

After a year, these people have paid off their debts, and with one month’s salary they can buy a few acres of land in California or a neighboring state.

"That's how it is!" Looking at the people below becoming like quails again, Chen Zhengwei waved his hand in boredom.

"I'll tell you the situation. I won't say more. You'll know who I am when you get to San Francisco!"

"Let them all disperse!" Chen Zhengwei jumped off the carriage and ordered his men.

Soon, the thugs drove all of them away.

Chen Zhengwei left in a carriage as he had to visit other places.

After Chen Zhengwei left, the Chinese workers began whispering again.

"This person doesn't look like a good person!"

"Do you think what he said is true?"

Everyone didn't dare to believe what Chen Zhengwei said, but there was a little more light in their eyes.

No matter what, it's better over there than here, right?
Another week passed, and after the ships transporting the goods had unloaded, inspected and repaired the goods, the resettlement sites on the outskirts of Lima were reopened to allow the Chinese to go to the port terminals.

The little turtle was walking in the crowd, turning his head to look left and right.

He was sold here at the age of 15. In the two years since he came to this country, he has never really seen the country.

When he arrived at the port, his attention was immediately attracted by several huge warships in the port.

"Look!"

Needless to say, the others' attention was also attracted by the warships. And not just warships, but also a large number of steel ships, not the shabby wooden ships they had seen when they arrived.

"Those are all... Chinese!" There were many people at the port wearing canvas pants and shirts, boots and soft hats on their heads. All of them had Chinese faces.

Some people were leaning aside smoking and chatting, some were standing there looking around, and some were talking to the Peruvians.

Almost all of these people were carrying guns.

Especially on those huge warships, there were Chinese people climbing down.

The workers immediately understood that these people were with the man they saw that day.

"Everyone is in such a state!" An employee of a security company looked them up and down, saw the anxiety in their eyes, and recalled his own old days.

You have to know that many of these people in the security company are remnants of the Taiping Army who are mining in Peru.

"Okay, stop being so nervous! Don't cause trouble once you get on the boat. You will have a good life when you arrive in San Francisco!" The security company employee shouted at them.

The workers saw that he was easy to talk to and spoke with a local accent, so some of them immediately approached him and asked, "Brother, who are you? Where are we going?"

"We work for Mr. Chen!"

“Send you to San Francisco!”

"Don't think too much. I also spent quite a while in Peru! In Iquique, have you heard of it?" The security company staff laughed.

"Brother, what are you doing in Iquique?" someone immediately asked curiously.

“Dig guano!”

One of the group suddenly remembered something: "Are you the ones from Iquique...?"

Originally, these people had never heard of what happened in Iquique.

But recently these workers have gathered in the suburbs of Lima, including some miners who dig guano near Iquique, and they told the story.

This is how the matter spread.

"Yes! But we call that an uprising!" the security company employee laughed.

He also said a few words in broken Spanish and the native language, and the workers immediately believed him, and then became even more surprised:

"Then why are you here...?"

These people escaped from Iquique, and now they dare to show up here instead of hiding far away!
And it seems that these Chinese people have a very high status here!

"Did you see it?" The security company employee pointed to the most eye-catching Warrior!

Then he stretched out his hand and waved it from the Warrior to the Tel-class gunboats, and then pointed to the ships that filled most of the harbor.

He said with some pride:
"It's all ours!"

"Why do you think we are here?"

The surrounding workers were suddenly in an uproar; they finally understood.

It can be seen from this fleet that the ships are much better than those of Peru.

This shows that Mr. Chen is much more powerful than Peru.

"Are we going to San Francisco? What's it like in San Francisco? Are Chinese people still being bullied?" someone suddenly asked.

In fact, in this era, Chinese people are bullied everywhere.

In all the American countries, they struggled to survive like slaves.

The security company man smiled after hearing this. "No one dares to bully us!"

"Don't worry!"

"More money means better food!"

After hearing what the other party said, the workers felt much more at ease.

After all, the other party was just like them, working as laborers here, and then they stole the boat from Iquique and ran away.

They are more likely to believe what the other person says.

Afterwards, these Chinese workers were arranged to be sent onto ships. Although they were all cargo ships, for them, as long as they had a place to stay, it was enough.

And when they got on board, they met quite a few security company employees who had dug guano in Iquique before, and they all said pretty much the same thing.

This finally gave peace of mind to the workers who had suffered so much here.

There was a gleam of anticipation in his eyes.

The future finally gave them some reasons to look forward to.

It took two days to get all the laborers on board.

"Send them to Panama and come back!" Chen Zhengwei said to Liu Guanchang.

He was too lazy to go over this time.

The transport ships were escorted to Panama and back by Liu Guanchang's Warrior and several Tel-class gunboats.

Then they will continue south, round Cape Horn and head for Cuba.

A day later, dozens of ships carrying supplies set sail, whistles blasting, slowly sailing out of the port and heading for Panama under the escort of the Warrior.

When the ships set sail, Chen Zhengwei crawled out from the pile of limbs, kicked the two girls next to him off the bed, and grabbed a cigar from the table.

He swaggered to the window, stood there naked, smoking a cigar, and overlooking half of the city of Leland and the ships setting sail.

After finishing a cigar, several girls got up.

Chen Zhengwei ignored them.

What's the point of being a woman?

It's meaningless!

He put on a pair of trousers and a shirt and went out, telling his men: "Send a telegram to Panama. Ask Yung Wing to arrange for these people. When they finish their work, they can also take these ships back."

"After sending people to San Francisco, they will be registered. Otherwise, who will you ask for money from?"

"And then send it to Los Angeles to build roads!"

(End of this chapter)