The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 715 Seeking Help from Chen Lao Hu
"Are you saying that someone deliberately let those natives riot and then massacre the Chinese?" Lin Changning looked at Chen Zhengwei fiercely.

"What else? It's normal for riots to occur in one city, but is it such a coincidence that riots occurred in several cities? Do you believe that there is no one behind the scenes pushing it?" Chen Zhengwei had a grim look on his face.

He was too familiar with this kind of thing.

After all, it happened in the previous life, and more than once.

"Who do you think is behind this?" Lin Changning asked Chen Zhengwei.

"How the hell should I know?" Chen Zhengwei snorted coldly.

"But this is a good thing for us!"

"If something like this happened, the local Chinese would be terrified! As soon as the news got out, a lot of people would come to the port with their luggage, wanting to go to the United States."

"And then?" Lin Changning kept looking at him.

"What are you looking at me for?" Chen Zhengwei cursed angrily.

"You still want me to arrest those people? I'm not a fucking policeman, that's not my territory, I have no connection with them, what the hell does it have to do with me?"

"This is a good opportunity to win people's hearts!" Lin Changning thought for a while and said.

"What the hell! Do they have any other options? Do I still need to win people's hearts?" Chen Zhengwei sneered, stood up from his chair, stretched, and then kicked the table next to him to pieces.

"Xiwen, send me a telegram to clarify the situation!"

"Who the hell doesn't know that I'm the leader of overseas Chinese? If you massacre the Malaysian Chinese today, will you massacre the Hawaiian Chinese tomorrow? Will you massacre the North American Chinese the day after tomorrow? Are you going to kill me too?"

"They're all trying to kill me, so why shouldn't I kill their entire family? People who don't know would think I'm a member of a church!"

After cursing, Chen Zhengwei thought for a moment and realized, damn, he really is in the church.

Immediately change the words:

“If you don’t know, you’d think I’m a Buddhist!”

Chen Zhengwei crushed half a piece of wood on the ground with one foot and staggered away.

People have to be killed, but it has nothing to do with helping those Chinese people to take revenge, as those people are not related to him.

It has nothing to do with winning people's hearts.

It's just because he's very unhappy now.

"Send a telegram to find out the exact scope, the number of casualties, the current situation of the Chinese over there, and the situation in Singapore!" Lin Changning said to Li Xiwen.

Li Xiwen nodded and left.

Lin Changning took out a dagger from his clothes and pulled it out with a clang, the cold light shining brightly.

Lin Changning lightly brushed his fingers across the edge of the blade, and suddenly he stood up and jumped out. A flash of knife light appeared like thunderbolt, and then his body turned into a swimming dragon, or a tiger, full of murderous aura.

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In a house in Penang.

"Why can't we send troops?" Ye Guansheng asked angrily.

"They will send troops sooner or later. Otherwise, if all these people die, who will come to mine? But I can't tell the British when to send troops!" Zheng Jinggui said as he spread his hands.

"They are most active in collecting money at ordinary times, but now that something has happened, they are silent. These British people are simply unreliable!" Ye Guansheng said angrily.

Someone immediately echoed.

"I understand now. Malaysia is not our place after all. With the British and the natives around, we Chinese are at the mercy of them. We might as well go back to the Qing Dynasty!" another wealthy businessman said angrily.

Although the Qing Dynasty is not that great, at least they are all Chinese.

The dozen or so people in the room were all wealthy Chinese businessmen from all over the country. In addition to the wealthy Chinese businessmen from the Perak Sultanate, there were also wealthy Chinese businessmen from the Selangor Sultanate.

That night, a riot broke out in Larut, Perak Sultanate, and Yap Kuan Seng fled out of the city with his men.

Zheng Jinggui's manor was also attacked, and he left with a batch of valuables under the escort of Haishan, Lin Yalai and Lao Jiu.

The two sides met at Krian Port after daybreak.

This is the nearest port to Larut, only 13 kilometers away.

Although there was some chaos, both sides gathered together, numbering hundreds, and took a ship carrying tin ore to Penang for refuge.

This is the Straits Settlements after all, and more than half of the local population is Chinese.

Although they ran away, most of the Chinese in Larut did not escape. There were heavy casualties and various tragedies occurred.

The news they later received from various sources was shocking.

It is said that after dawn, the city of Larut was littered with the bodies of Chinese people.

Chinese shops were looted and burned, and Chinese people were massacred and humiliated.

The air was filled with the smell of blood and burnt food.

There were more than 20,000 Chinese in Larut, and at least thousands of them were massacred that night, and it is impossible to count them clearly.

The worst hit were the Chinese businessmen in the city, who were also the main targets of the thugs.

The rest either hid or gathered together to resist.

These people were not rich to begin with, and they gathered together to resist, so they barely survived.

The riots then continued to spread, breaking out in various cities and mines in the Perak Sultanate, and then spread to the Selangor Sultanate.

The wealthy Chinese businessmen in the Selangor Sultanate got the news early and fled with their families. But only some of them escaped.

"We have all received the news about this matter. I don't believe that the British haven't heard the news and yet they haven't taken any action! This matter may be related to those British!" A wealthy businessman from Selangor suddenly said.

When they fled from Selangor, the British Resident in Selangor and the local army did not take any action.

After they arrived in Penang, they heard that the same thing had broken out in several cities in Selangor.

This is so weird.

It's not just the person who's speaking who thinks of this, but everyone else too.

But now everyone gathered together in panic, and he said it before anyone else could speak.

"We Chinese have suffered a great disaster this time!" sighed a Chinese businessman.

"Let's see what's going on in Penang first! I understand now. The most important thing in this world is to have a gun in your hand! If you don't have a gun in your hand, what does it matter if you have a lot of money? Aren't you still a pig that can be slaughtered at any time?"

"Now we can only hope that the British can calm the situation quickly and prevent the Chinese from suffering too much damage... There's nothing we can do in this situation." said another wealthy businessman.

These wealthy businessmen have some connections with the local Chinese gangs, but those gangs can only barely protect themselves.

In this situation, who is still able to help others?
"Just because we are powerless doesn't mean that everyone is powerless!" Ye Guansheng said coldly, his heart full of anger.

"What does Boss Ye mean?" someone asked immediately.

"Who else can think of helping out in this situation?"

Others also looked at Ye Guansheng.

"Mr. Ye, are you talking about Chen Lao Hu? He should be near the South China Sea now..." Zheng Jinggui suddenly spoke.

Before Chen Zhengwei left Hong Kong, he should have headed south.

I don’t know where it is.

"That's right, we have no men and no guns, so we can't do anything. But Mr. Chen... from San Francisco is different! He has strong ships and powerful guns, so he may be able to do something." Ye Guansheng said coldly.

"Chen Lao Hu from San Francisco? I heard that this guy has powerful subordinates, and I also heard that he was in Hong Kong before. But we don't know him at all, so how can we ask him to help us?" asked another wealthy businessman.

"It's better to rely on the British than on him. After all, this is British territory. What can he do if the British disagree?" Zheng Jinggui said from the side.

"On the one hand, we can seek help from Mr. Chen, and on the other hand, we can think of a solution from the British! If they don't send troops, then let Mr. Chen send troops to rescue the Chinese in Perak and Selangor!" Ye Guansheng said immediately.

"How could it be his turn to send troops to British land? Even if he does, they will be sent by the Sultans!" Zheng Jinggui said.

This is a major issue between countries, not a child's game. How could the British allow Chen Lao Hu's army to operate on their land?
He thought Ye Guansheng was just daydreaming.

"I've been running around these past two days and I'm tired! I'll go to the Governor's Mansion again tomorrow and try to find a way to meet with the Governor's adjutant!" Zheng Jinggui said.

He felt that the only way to calm the situation in various places was to persuade the British to intervene.

There will definitely be some casualties among the Chinese, but with more than 100,000 Chinese in Perak and Selangor, most of them should be fine even if there are some.

However, his own estate and mines suffered considerable losses this time...

Although he left, others were still discussing and asking Ye Guansheng.

While these wealthy businessmen were discussing, another group of people in another house in Penang were also filled with indignation.

"At that time, I led my men in a bloody battle with those natives. I killed at least a hundred of them. They were like crazy!"

"I had more than a hundred men under my command, but in the end, there were less than 60 left."

"I've tried my best! Those bastards will be killed sooner or later!" Lao Jiu said angrily while standing behind Lin Yalai.

It's not just people from Haishan who are here. People from Yihai, Yixing, Yifu, Hesheng, Cunxin, Jiandetang, Heheshe, Quanyishe and other halls have gathered together, and everyone has an angry look on their faces.

Every Chinese was involved in the riots in Perak and Selangor.

Whether it's the wealthy businessmen, the laborers, or the gang members.

Not to mention the heavy casualties among their men, most of the laborers here also have membership in a collective and have to pay money to the collective every month.

"Why wait any longer? We should kill them now!" A man with injuries and a ferocious look slammed the table.

He is the boss of the Hehe Society, Jijiaodong, and his main activity area is the mines in Selangor.

This time he also fought fiercely with the natives, and suffered many casualties. Seeing that the situation was not good, he led his men to Penang.

“How do we do it? With a knife or a gun? Perak and Selangor are both in chaos now, how many can you do?” Chen Yayan from Yixing asked back.

"What do you mean?" Jijiaodong from Hehe Society slammed the table and glared over.

"I want to fight too! Those natives are trying to exterminate all of us Chinese! We are a gang, not an army! There are tens of thousands of people in a city, how many of us are there in total?"

"Everyone gather together, the British might attack us first!"

"Then what do you say we should do? Be a coward here? I can't do that!" The people from Hehe Society were immediately angry!

"No one told you to be a coward! If fighting hard would work, I would fight too. Now... we can find someone to help!" Chen Yayan said gritting his teeth.

"Who to ask? Who can help in this situation?"

"Chen Lao Hu!" Chen Yayan said in a deep voice.

Hearing this name, Lin Yalai from Haishan's expression changed slightly.

(End of this chapter)