The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 679 Mr. Chen has no enemies
After hearing Zhang Yan's words, Lin Fuyuan thought for a moment and asked, "What do Yixing and Yifu think is wrong? As long as they are sent to San Francisco, each person will get 120 silver dollars!"

"Even if we just send it to the ship, it will be 30 silver dollars!"

“This price is not low!”

The Ghee Hin Kongsi was the largest clan organization in Malaysia and Singapore.

The other lobby is Haishan.

The strength of these two companies accounts for 60% of these halls.

"It has nothing to do with those!" Zhang Yan took the teacup from the servant next to him and put it on the table.

"Why is that?" Lin Fuyuan asked.

"Face!" Zhang Yan said with a hint of mockery.

"You went there late, so you don't know. Yixing did open a gang in San Francisco!"

"But he swept all the gangs in San Francisco!"

"The feud has been established."

"Are they so bold?" Lin Fuyuan frowned.

"It's not that big. They don't dare to go to San Francisco. But Malaysia and Singapore are mountainous and long, so they are certainly not afraid." Zhang Yan sneered.

"What about Haishan Company and Cunxin Company?" Lin Fuyuan asked again.

"They got involved with the British. They sent the laborers to the mines and plantations. How dare they get them out? Even if they could, they would have to consider the British's opinions."

Zhang Yan took a few sips of tea and picked up a newspaper beside him: "Will he come to Singapore?"

"How can I know about this kind of thing?" Lin Fuyuan shook his head and then bowed:
"No matter what, I'll trouble Master Zhang to take care of these matters. My Lin family will bear all the expenses!"

"Are you leaving?"

"The boat leaves at noon, heading for Guangzhou!" Lin Fuyuan said.

……

Ouyang Ming sent a telegram to the Qing Dynasty to explain the matter of smokeless gunpowder. After some discussion, the Qing court decided to purchase a batch of smokeless gunpowder and handed the matter over to Ouyang Ming.

Ouyang Ming then approached DuPont and proposed to purchase a batch of gunpowder.

"Minister of the Qing Dynasty?" After hearing the news, Eugene Dupont thought for a moment and then met Ouyang Ming.

In fact, the Qing Dynasty and DuPont had transactions. When the Qing Dynasty was suppressing the Taiping Rebellion, it urgently needed a large amount of gunpowder and purchased it from DuPont.

In addition, a large number of guns and bullets were sold to the Qing Dynasty.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Minister!" Eugene Dupont greeted Ouyang Ming with a bit of arrogance without even standing up.

Ouyang Ming didn't care about the other party's attitude, mainly because he was used to it.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Dupont!" Ouyang Ming said with a smile.

"I heard you need to buy a batch of smokeless gunpowder..."

"Yes, ten tons of smokeless powder!"

"I'm sorry!" Eugene DuPont spread out his hands.

"We at DuPont have a good friendship and trading history with the Qing Dynasty, so I am meeting you here. But I cannot sell you smokeless gunpowder."

"Why?" Ouyang Ming frowned.

"Because our partner disagrees! He once demanded that the sale of smokeless gunpowder to the Qing Dynasty be strictly prohibited!"

"Chen Zhengwei?" Ouyang Ming's brows furrowed even deeper, and he knew who it was almost instantly.

"Well! You should be respectful to him and call him Mr. Chen!" Upon hearing this name, Eugene DuPont's eyes began to twitch and he corrected seriously.

"Is there any solution?" Ouyang Ming asked.

"Get his consent!" said Eugene DuPont.

Ouyang Ming left DuPont, but still felt awkward.

He knew why Chen Zhengwei banned the sale to the Qing Dynasty.

Right now, things were not going well between Chen Zhengwei and Daqing, and it was almost impossible to convince him. Ouyang Ming thought he couldn't do it.

and……

Ouyang Ming knew that Chen Zhengwei had just snatched Ryukyu from Japan, and the ownership of Ryukyu was still unclear, because this incident might cause the relationship between him and the Qing Dynasty to continue to deteriorate.

In addition, given Chen Zhengwei's current location, he suspected that Chen Zhengwei would go to Daqing, Taishan Wencun.

With his current achievements, it is only natural that he has a separate page in the family tree when he returns to his hometown to worship his ancestors.

On the way back to New York, Ouyang Ming had been thinking about this matter, and he started writing as soon as he returned to the embassy.

Emphasize to explain to the court Chen Zhengwei's current influence in the United States and the Western world, as well as the significance of penicillin and smokeless gunpowder.

He hoped that the court could take advantage of Chen Zhengwei's return to improve relations between the two sides.

As long as Chen Zhengwei could be dealt with, it would be easy for the court to buy equipment and technology from the West.

After finishing the letter and signing his name, Ouyang Ming sighed again.

In fact, he had already mentioned Chen Zhengwei's influence and situation several times in telegrams.

How could he not know what the court was thinking?

He can only do his best and leave the rest to fate.

……

On July 7, in Hawaii, after a passenger ship entered the port, several guards got off the ship among the passengers to notify the police station and the royal palace and send police and guards to greet them.

This scene was also seen by the Chinese who were watching near the port.

"Is this the ship?"

"It should be about time, go notify them!"

Soon, the news reached Huang Quanzheng's ears, and he immediately asked his men to go to the police station to inquire.

At the door of the police station, the thug pretended to report a case. After looking around several times, he quickly stopped a police officer.

"Is the king back?" The policeman hesitated and nodded.

The henchman took out a rolled-up tube of money from his pocket and stuffed it into the other person's hand, then hurried back to inform Huang Quanzheng.

"Go and notify those Portuguese!" Huang Quanzheng said quickly again.

"Let them speed up."

There were many Portuguese laborers in Hawaii, all of whom came from poor areas of Portugal.

Huang Quanzheng bribed them easily.

When the guards and police sent by the palace arrived at the port, King Kalakaua got off the ship and went to the palace with great fanfare.

However, as soon as their team arrived at the city center, a large number of aggressive Portuguese people rushed out from both sides of the street, holding sticks in their hands.

The guards were frightened.

However, soon, the Chinese who poured out from another direction started fighting with the Portuguese, and the scene became chaotic.

The Hawaiian king in the carriage had a gloomy look on his face. Has the public security in Hawaii become so bad?

As some people chased and fled, they soon collided with the king's troops. The guards began to drive them away, and the scene became even more chaotic.

Soon the chaos involved even the palace guards and police.

Seeing this scene, the police chief wiped the sweat from his head and looked around.

He felt something was wrong.

Bang bang bang!

There was a sudden burst of gunfire at the scene. The police chief's body trembled and he watched helplessly as several bullet holes appeared on the carriage.

Then the Portuguese and Chinese who caused the chaos dispersed.

King Kalakaua was assassinated!

That night, the cabinet imposed martial law in Honolulu to investigate the murderer and instigator of the king's assassination.

The target was quickly identified, John Dominic, the Governor of Oahu.

He also sent security forces to arrest Dominic and announced the removal of Dominic from his post.

It was then announced that the king's sister, Lydia Dominice, would be disqualified from succession.

This should have caused a little splash in the world, but it didn't.

Because on the same day, another major event happened that attracted the attention of all countries.

President James Garfield was assassinated.

James Garfield had just returned from vacation when he was shot twice in the back at the Baltimore and Potomac train station. One bullet grazed his arm and the other hit his back.

There was an uproar in the United States for a while.

……

At this time, Chen Zhengwei's fleet had just left Naha.

He stayed in Naha for a week, leaving a small number of people to familiarize themselves with the local situation with the cooperation of local families.

He himself went to Guangzhou on the fleet.

However, the fleet had only been gone for half a day when the ship received a telegram from San Francisco in the evening.

"Brother Wei, the King of Hawaii is dead, and... the President of the United States was assassinated!" Li Xiwen walked quickly to Chen Zhengwei with the telegram.

"The President of the United States was assassinated?" Chen Zhengwei was originally lazily basking in the sunset, but when he heard this, his eyes suddenly became sharp, like a sword drawn from its sheath, full of murderous intent.

As for the previous sentence that the King of Hawaii was dead, he automatically ignored it.

"Dead or not?"

You know, James Garfield has always performed well, and the two sides are now in the honeymoon period of cooperation.

If he dies, it may not be the same if there is a new president.

Most importantly, who doesn't know that James Garfield has his back?
Going to assassinate him?
"The news we have received from Washington is that he is not dead yet, but the specific circumstances are still unclear." Li Xiwen handed the telegram to Chen Zhengwei.

Chen Zhengwei glanced over and saw that James Garfield had been shot in the back and was seriously injured.

There were many police officers at the scene at the time and they caught the murderer on the spot.

Even the purpose of the murder was discovered.

The murderer was Charles J. Guito, a member of James' campaign team. After James became president, he was not given a diplomatic position, so he was dissatisfied and assassinated him at the train station.

"What the hell do American police do? They let the murderer shoot the president at close range in the back? And they even shot him twice?
Just one person died last year, how can this happen? Did they all grow up eating shit?"

Chen Zhengwei looked annoyed.

"Because he was dissatisfied with not being given a position? Do you think I should believe this result or not?"

Li Xiwen didn't say anything, he didn't understand these things.

"Let Xu Yan go to Washington and bring penicillin. Also, see if there is anyone who needs help and try to treat them!"

"If necessary, we can send two doctors over, but it's so far away, I'm afraid the doctors will be dead by the time they get there."

The doctors under Chen Zhengwei's command are highly skilled in treating knife and gunshot wounds.

But San Francisco is too far from Washington.

"Also, send someone to treat the murderer well and keep him under control through the FBI. Don't let anyone else get in touch with him. I'll interrogate who ordered him to do this once I figure it out."

Chen Zhengwei gave the order quickly and then fell into deep thought.

He was thinking about how to take advantage of this.

Who is the better person behind this?
Republicans…Democrats…or someone else?

Chen Zhengwei thought about it and realized that he actually had no enemies in the United States.

"Suddenly I realized that I have such good popularity!" Chen Zhengwei raised his eyebrows.

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