The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 630 Pacific Islands Alliance

Before becoming king, Kalakaua had always been wary of the United States, even more so than European powers like Britain and France.

After all, Britain is too far away from Hawaii.

The United States is different. In recent years, its influence and control in Hawaii has been increasing. The United States has tried to interfere in Hawaii through those businessmen and missionaries.

In this situation, he tried to cooperate with other countries to resist US control.

At the beginning, his target was the Qing Dynasty, and for this purpose he gave great preferential treatment and support to the Chinese businessman Chen Fang.

But the Qing Dynasty did not have much interest in this area.

On the contrary, the Chinese led by Chen Zhengwei are gaining more and more influence in the United States.

This made Kalakaua begin to fear Chen Fang and the Chinese in Hawaii. He tried to get rid of them and introduce interference from other forces to reduce the influence of the United States and the Chinese in Hawaii.

At this time, the Japanese came over, which made Kalakaua very interested.

"Your Majesty, I sincerely invite you to visit Japan in person. His Majesty the Emperor is also looking forward to meeting you." The Japanese businessman opposite Kalakaua continued.

"I'll consider it!" Kalakaua did not rush to respond.

But he was indeed moved.

He has always had an idea in his mind to establish a Pacific island alliance centered on Hawaii, but most of the Pacific island countries are very weak.

And Japan can obviously become an important part of this alliance.

A week later, Kalakaua responded.

He will take a global tour in the coming days to strengthen Hawaii's international relationships.

The first country to visit is Japan.

……

Chen Zhengwei sat on the sofa with his legs crossed. Not far away, there was a loud baby crying and the nanny was coaxing Jindan.

"Since you cry so loudly, your voice will definitely be loud in the future!" Chen Zhengwei said with a smile.

After a few days, the golden egg's skin looked less twitchy and much better looking.

"Maybe I can be as powerful as Brother Wei in the future!" Chen Zhenghu said with a smile.

"As powerful as me? That's difficult!" Chen Zhengwei flexed his arms, his swollen muscles almost bursting his clothes.

"Go on, you'll be in charge of the New Year this year! Make it more lively."

“And it’s being held in San Francisco and Chinatown together!”

"The whole of San Francisco will have a three-day holiday! We have to let those foreigners get used to our Spring Festival!"

"From now on, these foreigners will speak our language and celebrate our festivals. Do you think they are Chinese or foreigners?" Chen Zhengwei said with a smile.

We can never relax for a moment when it comes to cultural matters.

We have to hold on to both guns and culture.

The former can kill the enemy, and the latter can turn the enemy into one's own.

"He must be a foreigner. His hair and eyes are different colors!" Chen Zhenghu said immediately.

At this time, let alone people with different skin colors, even if they had the same skin color, no one would recognize them outside the village.

In many places, leaving the village is like leaving the country.

"Bullshit!" Chen Zhengwei kicked him directly in frustration.

"By the way, I heard that you took a concubine? Why didn't you tell me?" Chen Zhengwei asked again.

"She's just a concubine. I just want someone to warm my bed!" Chen Zhenghu didn't care. The concubine was from a brothel and he took her in.

"If I were to get married in a formal ceremony, I would definitely ask Brother Wei to help me preside over the ceremony!"

Seeing him like this, Chen Zhengwei was too lazy to say anything. He kicked him out of the house and told him to prepare for the New Year.

Last year it was Lin Changning who took care of it, and now she is still in confinement after giving birth.

He strolled to the nanny. The golden egg in the nanny's arms had been coaxed into not crying with great difficulty, but as soon as she saw him, her mouth opened and tears came out.

"Fuck, it's like I saw a ghost!" Chen Zhengwei suddenly became upset and turned around to go out to find Anna.

When I went out, I saw Qiao Niang, Zheng Wu and Situ Xianyi. The three of them were sitting at the door, eating ice cream.

Ice cream is very popular in the United States now.

Situ Xianyi was sitting there, a tall man, and Chen Zhengwei found him annoying no matter how he looked at him.

However, after beating up Qiao Niang and Situ Xianyi together last time, Situ Xianyi stayed at home to recuperate for a few days, and their relationship has improved a lot.

After being severely punished, Qiao Niang became much more restrained.

After all, the bruises on my body are still there.

Hearing the footsteps behind them, the three of them turned around and quickly stood up.

"Mr. Chen!"

"Brother, my whole body hurts!" Qiao Niang burst into tears when she saw Chen Zhengwei.

"Are you reminding me that I didn't hit you lightly?" Chen Zhengwei glanced at her.

"Brother!" Qiao Niang felt very aggrieved.

"Okay, you can have ice cream, that means nothing's wrong! Remember this lesson next time!" Chen Zhengwei patted her on the head and was about to get on the carriage.

"Brother, are you coming home for dinner tonight?"

"No need to wait for me."

Anna was looking out the window of the bank. When she saw several carriages, an expression of surprise immediately appeared on her face.

She quickly picked up her scarf and hat and ran downstairs.

When he got downstairs, his steps became more reserved.

The henchman opened the carriage door, Anna got on the carriage, and kissed Chen Zhengwei on the face.

"Why are you here today?"

"You might as well tell me what we're going to eat tonight." Chen Zhengwei said in a long tone.

"Italian food?" Anna asked after thinking for a moment.

"People eat Italian food? They only know how to make pancakes!" Chen Zhengwei sneered: "They said a new French restaurant opened in San Francisco, and it's said the food is good."

Not long after, the two showed up at Truffle Restaurant in downtown San Francisco.

The door of the restaurant was pushed open, and the cold and damp air rolled in directly.

Seeing Chen Zhengwei and Anna come in, the waiter hurriedly came over and said, "Good evening, Mr. Chen!"

"Good evening, ma'am!"

"Truffle Restaurant is honored to serve you and has the best seat in the restaurant!"

Although this was Chen Zhengwei's first visit, every San Franciscan could recognize Chen Zhengwei.

"Mr. Chen."

"Mr. Chen!" The well-dressed guests in the restaurant stood up and greeted Chen Zhengwei when he passed by.

"You eat yours!" Chen Zhengwei nodded at everyone.

Anna always had a smile on her face.

After sitting down, he leaned forward, stared at Chen Zhengwei and said with a smile: "You are amazing!"

She has not forgotten the first time she and Chen Zhengwei went to the restaurant.

"It's obvious!" Chen Zhengwei said bluntly.

……

The next day, Chen Zhengwei and Anna went to the suburbs.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's San Francisco campus, which is under construction, is also a busy scene.

One of the main buildings has been completed. It is a three-story building covering an area of more than 4000 square meters and is the main teaching building.

Dormitories are being built in the back. "The main structure has been completed, and the interior decoration will take another half a year. It should not affect the enrollment of students in the second half of the year. We will continue to expand it later." The person in charge of the construction site said beside Chen Zhengwei.

"Hold on tighter!" Chen Zhengwei nodded.

As long as it doesn’t affect the recruitment of students, nothing else matters.

"In addition to here, there is also a women's medical college to be built over there!" Chen Zhengwei said, looking into the distance. There is also a women's medical college one kilometer away from here.

The area between the two colleges is reserved for expansion.

Anyway, San Francisco doesn’t have much else now, but it has a lot of land.

In other words, he has more land.

He owns most of the farms around San Francisco, all the way to Los Angeles, a total of more than 1,800 square kilometers of land, including canyons and a small number of mountains.

It seems like a lot, but California’s total area is more than 42 square kilometers.

The fertile farmland purchased from those farmers costs nearly $5000 per square kilometer, an average of $20 per acre.

Chen Zhengwei was quite fair in this matter.

The ordinary forest purchased from the California government only cost $80 per square kilometer, and the California government also gave him tax breaks.

The land occupied by the MIT San Francisco campus and the Women's Medical College campus was donated by Chen Zhengwei.

Back at the club, Chen Zhengwei had just returned to the office with Anna when his henchman brought a telegram.

"Brother Wei, it's from England!"

Chen Zhengwei took it and took a look. It was from Randolph Churchill.

The goal is still penicillin.

"It's him again!"

It is winter now, and many people have contracted pneumonia due to colds, not to mention that many British aristocrats and capitalists have syphilis.

Even if it was only provided to the aristocrats and capitalists, the penicillin in Randolph Churchill's hands was not enough.

He sent telegrams to Chen Zhengwei every few days, asking him about expanding production.

Chen Zhengwei pondered for a moment, picked up the phone on the table and said, "Transfer it to Xiucai!"

After a moment, the scholar answered the phone: "Who is it?"

"The new pharmaceutical factory has been put into operation now, right?"

"Brother Wei, we have been working on this for half a month." Xiucai said immediately.

"How much penicillin can be produced in a month now?" Chen Zhengwei asked.

"Almost 30,000!" the scholar said immediately.

"We should be able to have 40,000 next month. It takes time to manufacture equipment and train workers."

It sounds like a lot, but many times patients need not just one, but several or even dozens.

Thirty thousand doses can only treat two to three thousand patients a month, and they have to be distributed to the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and even Spain.

"It was announced that the production capacity has been tripled! This month, the number of Churchill doses for the UK will be doubled to 6000, and 1000 doses for other countries. Next month, 9000 doses will be given to Churchill, and the rest will be given to hospitals in various places in proportion, and the rest will be invested in San Francisco."

"Aren't there so many patients in hospitals outside the city who want penicillin? Let them come to San Francisco for treatment and surgery!"

Chen Zhengwei estimates that in just two years, San Francisco's medical standards will improve rapidly.

With the establishment of the Women's Medical College, San Francisco's medical standards should be among the best in the United States in the future.

Chen Zhengwei felt that he really worried about San Francisco.

It would be unacceptable for the people of San Francisco not to kowtow to him.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Zhengwei asked again: "Where is the ship?"

"We should be near Peru now." The henchman said immediately.

The fleet would send telegrams to San Francisco every evening.

"It seems like they can still come back to celebrate the New Year!" Chen Zhengwei smiled and signaled his men to leave.

After entering the bedroom inside the office, when Anna went to take a shower, Chen Zhengwei opened the safe on the wall, which was filled with stacks of US dollars.

As Chen Zhengwei's hand passed over, a large amount of US dollars disappeared and were collected into the system space.

Then Chen Zhengwei opened the system and took a look, and saw that there was only more than 360 million.

Have someone send another batch of cash over tomorrow.

……

A few days ago.

At the New York dock, a group of students stood on the dock, looking at the surrounding scenery with a bit of confusion on their faces.

Having studied and lived in the United States for so many years, they have long been accustomed to this place.

They always thought that after completing their studies, they would return to their country with what they had learned and serve the court.

However, he was suddenly recalled after only learning half of it, and all his years of hard work were wasted.

Especially the court's sudden recall of them and the attitude it showed made them even more uneasy about their prospects after returning home.

"Although you are returning home early, you still have opportunities after you go back. Although you cannot study in school, you can still learn through practice after you go back! You have broadened your horizons here, and you will be able to bring back something new after you go back." Ouyang Ming said to everyone.

"I wish you a safe journey!"

"Thank you, Lord Ouyang!" everyone said, but the confusion on their faces did not disappear.

Not far from Ouyang Ming, Zhang Kangren, Tan Yaoxun, Rong Kui, and seven or eight other young men were standing there bowing and seeing them off.

Some of these people were fired, and some had no one left at home and decided to stay here.

Zhang Kangren also made a gesture to those students.

Those people understood what he meant.

Some of them have already made up their minds that after returning, they will find an opportunity to go to Guangzhou and then take a boat to the United States from there.

Some people are still undecided and plan to go back and see how the court will accommodate them.

As everyone boarded the boat, the students waved.

Goodbye, the place where they studied hard day and night and experienced their youth.

With the sound of the whistle, the passenger ship slowly left the port.

Wu Jiashan was also in a very good mood. He could finally go back and no longer be controlled by the mob.

Wu Jiashan subconsciously touched his leg and found a wound there, caused by a gunshot wound.

Now, whenever it is cloudy or rainy, the wound will ache slightly, reminding him all the time.

He made up his mind that he would report the situation of that gang of thugs to the court when he returned.

And these students were secretly colluding with those thugs. Did he really think he didn't know?

However, after two days on the boat, Wu Jiashan began to vomit and have diarrhea.

He died in just two days.

After hearing the news, the students rushed to check, only to find that Wu Jiashan's body was somewhat stiff.

Some people immediately shouted in anger: "This old dog deserves to die!"

"What a pity! I wish he had died earlier!"

Some others found this matter a little strange. Wu Jiashan was fine when he boarded the ship, but died within a few days.

Although the sailing time was long at that time, death was also a common occurrence.

But this is too coincidental for Wu Jiashan.

However, everyone was just guessing and kept the matter to themselves.

A few days later, someone accidentally discovered that there were actually a few Chinese people on the ship, and they were staying in the most luxurious rooms. They could enter and leave the cabin and the kitchen without anyone stopping them.

(End of this chapter)