Chapter 128 China exclusion case storm 2

The next day.

Accompanied by Ouyang Kang, Consul General of San Francisco, Hu Chuyuan took a carriage to San Francisco Chinatown - Duban Street with Wu Shuzhen and Ye Tongguang.

It is close to the city center of San Francisco. It used to be the only way from the city center to the coastal pier, but now there are more than 30,000 Chinese living there. Due to the lack of planning, poverty and other factors, this place is particularly dirty and messy, and there are wooden houses made of wooden boxes on the dock everywhere.

San Francisco Municipal Axe has always regarded this area as an epidemic area, and has set up isolation lines around it to restrict the Chinese from leaving at will.

Through the window, looking at the slum and the ragged Chinese workers, Hu Chuyuan felt very uncomfortable.

Through Duban Street, continue to the shop street opened by Chinese people. There are about dozens of shops, including restaurants, hotels, rice shops, tea houses, pharmacies and cloth stores, most of which are opened by Cantonese.

Along the way, Ouyang Kang introduced the situation here, looking a little numb and a little helpless and sighing.

He is in his forties and not tall. As the Consul General, he is also the owner of the Guangdong Guild Hall. He is barely a rich man among Chinese in San Francisco.

He has a cousin named Ouyang Geng, one of the young children studying in the United States. He is studying at Yale University. Because he is older and his surname is gentle, he serves as the president of the self-love association for young children studying in the United States.

The Chinese workers here are generally here to make money. They are abducted and sold as pigs. Many people sign a death deed that is close to the deed of sale. More or less, you can still earn some salary, but this money will also be deducted, and there are not many people who can really get it.

It is impossible to make a fortune in San Francisco.

Those so-called rich people who go home to show off... They are all liars and continue to deceive their fellow villagers.

Many people came here ten years ago and can barely survive to this day. They can redeem a free body, but they can no longer find a suitable job. They can only act as low-cost labor at the dock. They are in their forties and don't even have a wife.

There are a lot of Chinese, but they are all men. Getting married is a very difficult thing... It's even impossible at all.

Hu Chuyuan can only sigh that it is still very difficult to change this situation. Even if he can do it, it will take a long time.

Take your time.

He said something like this to himself.

After leaving Duban Street, Hu Chuyuan returned to the hotel. He decided to speed up all kinds of things he had to do. Accompanied by several managers of Wanqi Yanghang, he personally selected a new newspaper location and bought new printing equipment.

Everything is handled in the fastest way, even without the cost.

Two-pronged approach, a few days later, Fist Delano bought the San Francisco Citizen Times. On the basis of the original newspaper, Hu Chuyuan retained all the staff such as the editor-in-chief and moved to a three-story building he bought for $700,000. The factory next door is the printing factory.

With a little preparation, the San Francisco Gulf News began to operate. Each quotation was reduced from 3 cents to 1 cents, and the page was also increased from one to two. The exhibition of supplements and columns were published, and the page and content were doubled at the same time.

Subsequently, Hu Chuyuan set up the North American CITIC Investment Company first. Through the network of Fister Delano and Wanqi Yanghang, he found a real estate agent in San Francisco to buy land around Auckland and start from the port.

On the west bank of Lake Merit in Auckland, he first planned a piece of land as a new Chinese street.

The plan of Auckland Port in ten years is three times larger than that of the existing San Francisco Port, all of which are deep-water ports, and the construction of intercity railways and light rails will connect Auckland with other surrounding towns.

These are not things that can be done in a short time, and Hu Chuyuan is not in a hurry.

After having some foundation, he took the train to Washington and joined the anxious envoy Chen Lanbin.

When Hu Chuyuan arrived in Washington, DC, D.C., it was October 22, 1881, which was late autumn.

It has not been long since the invention of electric lights that can be officially used in commercialization. In the United States, a country that is keen on new technologies, the capital Washington has arranged electrified street lamps.

On both sides of the street, the dim lights are bright and dim, which is still a little unstable, but this adds some mysterious atmosphere.

Hu Chuyuan sits in his carriage, while Chen Lanbin sits opposite him. Next to him is always the elegant Miss Wu Shuzhen, the most unique partner in his career.

Chen Lanbin's anxiety and embarrassment can be seen.

Hu Chuyuan said it was not urgent and false. He just didn't want to show it.

Through the car window, he looked curiously at the street lights on the street, as if time had passed, and returned to the more familiar era that could not belong to him.

He likes this era of wings. Only here, he is a god-like person, always full of countless unknowns.

"About that thing...!"

Chen Lanbin is eager to communicate with Hu Chuyuan. With his understanding of Hu Chuyuan, if there is another person in China who can turn the situation around, it must be Hu Chuyuan.

Hu Chuyuan raised his hand slightly and motioned Chen Lanbin not to be in a hurry to speak for the time being, leaving him a little time to enjoy the illusion of returning to many years later.

The carriage slowly stopped in front of the door of the slightly shabby Daqing Embassy and slowly entered the embassy. The street lights disappeared, only two nondescript red lanterns hanging under the eaves of the gate.

After getting out of the car, Hu Chuyuan said to Chen Lanbin, "Don't worry for the time being. This kind of thing... is not within our control. Let's take a look at the situation."

Chen Lanbin then sighed, "Hu Ti, now I'm waiting for you to meet. Anyway, there's nothing I can do. Americans are so arrogant that they don't talk to us at all and say that it's their business and has nothing to do with us.

Hu Chuyuan said, "Don't worry."

Of course, Chen Lanbin was anxious. This matter had shocked the Empress Dowager. His future was almost tied to this. As a last resort, he wrote a fold to ask for withdrawal, and said that Hu Chuyuan was the only one to solve this matter.

He wants to put oil on the soles of his feet and make it clean.

In the embassy, Rong Hong and Wu Jiashan were also waiting for the news in the hall.

Say hello to them one by one. Hu Chuyuan still didn't say much. It was only when he ran out of dinner before he invited Rong Hong to his room to discuss the matter separately.

When Hu Chuyuan left the United States last time, his relationship with Rong Hong was not very harmonious.

But it turned out that Hu Chuyuan's method was right. After 27 older students, including Rong Hong's nephew Rong Kui, were sent back to China and handed over to the jurisdiction of Fuzhou Ship Administration. After the more moderate Ouyang Geng established a self-love meeting, the situation was obviously much better. The students and The conflict between Wu Jiashan has also been greatly eased.

It was because of this that Chen Lanbin especially believed in Hu Chuyuan and believed that he had different abilities. At the critical moment, he and the court suggested that Hu Chuyuan should replace him.

On the other hand, after Rong Cui and others arrived at the Fuzhou shipping administration, Hu Chuyuan also mercilessly put them into the sailors for half a year, and then successively selected more suitable candidates to return to the UK to study, including Rong Cui.

This is also a great face for Rong Hong. For Hu Chuyuan, Rong Kui is a prick. At this moment, he only knows to think about his dignity and freedom.

Rong Hong is also very clear about this.

He closed the door, and as soon as he sat down, he sighed with Hu Chuyuan, "The previous days had some disputes with Hu Shao. Now that I think about it, I really care about it!"

Hu Chuyuan looked rigorous and said, "Those are all small things. Don't think too much, sir. The past is over. I have arranged for Rong Kyu to go to the UK to learn mechanical manufacturing. There are two fellow villagers, Ye Fu and Deng Shichang, to take care of them. There will be no problem.

Rong Hong smiled contentedly and said, "It's really annoying."

Hu Chuyuan waved his hand, indicating that he didn't have to say anything more about this matter.

At this time, Wu Shuzhen also knocked on the door and came in, and asked Hu Chuyuan with a smile, "Oh, it's still very mysterious."

Hu Chuyuan quietly pulled a chair and let her sit down.

Rong Hong then said, "Mr. Hu, the things you asked me and Mr. Wu to do the other day are almost done. In two days, we will arrange for you, Mr. John Sherman of the Republican Party of the United States, who is now the chairman of the Republican Party. Miss Wu seems to be very clear about some of the situations here.

Speaking of this topic, Wu Shuzhen couldn't help sighing and sighing, "Isn't politics all like that? Just like the disputes between conservatives and foreign affairs in the Qing Dynasty, there are three reasons, ideas, rights and regions. At present, there is chaos within the Congress and the Republican Party in the United States. The Mingzhu Party is united, which is to exclude China and win public opinion through the card of China.

Rong Hong continued: "Since the economic crisis in 1873, the House of Representatives has been again controlled by the Mingzhu Party, and they are indeed the key to the problem. The Mingzhu Party members have an extreme psychology of Chinese exclusion, including discrimination against all non-white people, including blacks. Their main supporters are the current estate owners and the grassroots American people. What they are promoting is the scourge theory of Chinese workers, believing that it is the Chinese workers who have caused the economic crisis, and they firmly believe that if the Chinese workers are not expelled, the United States will be occupied by the Chinese and become a low-level yellow man's territory.

Hu Chuyuan listened silently and thought in his heart.

In fact, such a problem has continued for many years. Whether in terms of economy or human rights, the Mingzhu Party has been in a conservative position since its birth, and their tendency to exclude Chineseism and [***] has continued for a long time.

Rong Hong continued: "Hu Ti, although we tried our best to contact John Sherman, the chairman of the Republican Party, for you, he is only a representative of the middle party. Even if he is also a middle party, there are many contradictions between him and President Chester Arthur. At present, the real person in power is Secretary of State James G. Brian, but he belongs to a more radical faction, so it's okay not to contact him.

The three people talked so much that they roughly sorted out the current political situation in the United States. There is no doubt that Grant and Sherman are the best breakthroughs at present.

(to be continued)