Chapter 311 The Benchmark of Chinese Americans?
After such a incident, Link was in no mood to stay anymore.
He found Fan Zhongkun and said apologetically, "It seems that I should go." ”
Fan Zhongkun could only smile helplessly and said, "I'll send you!" Fu Zi asked him to invite Link. He agreed because he also felt that Chinese Americans should unite.
The Chinese have been in the United States for almost 180 years. During this period, he experienced 60 years of racial discrimination that was severely excluded, which was discrimination and even persecution in the form of legislation. Even after decades of hard work, the US Congress apologized for this more than ten years ago, but it was only a "regret" and not a real "apology".
Asians are still one of the most unemployed in the United States, and Chinese people may still be checked for their ID cards at any time. After the Chinese were naturalized 70 years ago due to the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act and became legal citizens of the United States, there have only been two U.S. House members and one senator until now.
The number of Chinese Americans is growing, perhaps reaching five million in a few years, but discrimination against Chinese people remains outside the law.
When did Jews first come to the United States? A large number of Jews appeared in the United States during World War II. There are more Chinese than Jews, and Jews control the finances of the United States, but the Chinese are discriminated against. It would be a joke to say that it was simply because the Jews came from scientists or businessmen.
Fan Zhongkun believes that it is because the Jews did not have a state at the beginning, and now they are also the little brothers of the United States with a firm position, and it is impossible for them to pose a threat to the United States. Then there is the fact that Jews are white.
The Chinese are different. There may be a China behind the Chinese. A country of great size could overthrow the United States as the world's leader at any time. In fact, that's what China is doing right now. Therefore, it is impossible for the United States to give the Chinese the treatment they deserve.
In addition, the situation within the Chinese is also very complicated, and even if Shantouism has become a minority in the United States, it is still very vigorous.
The Jews have always been united in the goal of a reunification and the guarantee of the existence of the Jewish state. And the Chinese come from all over the place, and they can't be unified at all. The internal struggle has never stopped. There is no shortage of people of insight among the Chinese in the United States, but they are knowledgeable, and they cannot erase their personal selfishness.
Fan Zhongkun agreed to invite Lin Ke to come, hoping to unite all the forces of the Chinese to the greatest extent. As a result, someone didn't want Link to be in the group. He thought about it before and after, and thought that it was just because of selfishness.
Most of the wealthy Chinese in the United States are from Taiwan or Southeast Asia. Link, on the other hand, is essentially from the mainland, and the richest family, the Huang family, is from South Africa. A country that did not abolish the system of ethnic segregation until the nineties of the last century.
If there is a benchmark for Chinese Americans, Fan Zhongkun personally hopes that it is Link rather than the Huang family.
He felt that the founders of the Huang family may have been indifferent to the Chinese because they had grown up under a system of racial segregation. For example, the Huang family's response to Warren Buffett's initiative to donate their inheritance sounds good. But in his view, it is not necessarily an unconditional compromise with mainstream American society, and the purpose is only to allow the Huang family to truly integrate into American high society.
There seems to be nothing wrong with that. But the reality is that the Chinese population has never really had the opportunity to integrate into the United States, and the top 500 American billionaires in the United States only have more than 70 corresponding Buffett's calls.
Is it too urgent for the Huang family to do that?
He doesn't think that such a family is suitable to become a benchmark for Chinese Americans.
Link is different.
Link's previous actions show that he has the courage to confront injustice against the Chinese. And he seems to have that power too.
He felt that was what the entire Chinese American population was lacking right now.
So he thinks that Link is more suitable to be a benchmark for Chinese Americans.
It's just a pity, and now it seems that Link is not keen on this. And there are people who don't want to see that kind of fact.
Link didn't know that Fan Zhongkun was thinking so much. He only thought that he had come today, which could be regarded as giving Fan Zhongkun face. He left another check for five million dollars at the reception and walked out of the club.
While waiting for the helicopter, Fan Zhongkun said to him, "I plan to open some branches in other cities in California, can you provide me with some more beef?"
Link thought for a moment and asked, "How many are you going to open?"
"There may be twelve openings this year. In California, 12 of the more populous people have opened one. ”
Twelve families have about four or five cows a day. Link thought for a moment and said, "Yes." ”
"Then the other vegetables and meat, if you have them on your farm, also deliver them together, no problem. ”
"Absolutely. It's what I'm delivering to you right now. Link said with a smile. "After a while, it's time for the organic food certification of those farms to be approved. Maybe I'll expand the area of vegetables at Hans Farm. There will be more variety. ”
Although he now has a plan to sell the produce produced on several farms. But Fan was the first person he worked with, and the amount they needed would not affect his plans, and there was no need to leave the other party behind.
Fan Zhongkun jokingly said: "So can the wine supply be more discounted? You know that the business of Chinese restaurants is very competitive." Let me earn a little more?"
"That's not going to work, if you make more money, won't I lose money?" Link could tell he was joking. "And if you want to negotiate the price, you should talk to Snapton. I don't care about those things now. ”
"Forget it. Talking to Miss Snapton is just a waste of saliva. The last time I asked her to get a little lower delivery price. She agreed, but she put one condition that we would pay for the delivery. As a result, the cost is still the same. I admire this computing power. ”
Link laughed and said, "Maybe this year's new wine can have a lower price." If you can accept it, maybe you can sell some as well. ”
"You can try it when the time comes. Fan Zhongkun heard the sound of the helicopter engine.
After a while, he put Link on the helicopter, and he smiled and shook his head as he watched the helicopter take off. He doesn't care what other people think of Link. He just needs to keep his relationship with Link.
It took just over ten minutes for the helicopter to take Link back to the top floor of the hotel. When he got back to his room, he called McCully and Bella.
He sat the two of them down and asked, "Is there any suspicion that the Los Angeles Forum Publishing Group is defaming me in the 'infringement' report against me?"
Bella thought for a moment, shook her head and said, "In my impression, the media with such suspicions have been found. They don't have them. ”
McCully also affirmed: "Not really." The comments in their reports, while negatively oriented towards you, are careful that they don't express much of their own opinions, but mainly quote other media and individuals. Those remarks were inappropriate though. But when they comment, they use inferences, not judgments. ”
He paused for a moment and explained, "You know, the president of the Los Angeles Forum Publishing Group is Chinese, and I'm particularly concerned. They reported on the case throughout the course of the case, and although they reported on one pro-defendant, their reporting could not prove that they were defamatory. ”
After hearing what they said, Link pursed his lips and nodded, and only after a long time did he say, "I see." So be it. ”
If Tribune Publishing Group were suspected of that, he wouldn't mind taking the other party to court. But now there is no such obvious suspicion. He certainly wouldn't do anything more. For the media, as long as it is a lawsuit that they will not lose, they are willing to fight it every day.
After the two left, Link called Douglas, "You go check something." ”
"Boss, you say!"
"Help me check the Huang family in Los Angeles. I want to know all about the lives and activities of the main members. Whether it's just positive news or negative rumors, you have to check it out. ”
"Okay. ”
"It's better to be hidden! If you can do it without doing it, don't do it yourself. They are super-rich and you try not to get yourself in trouble. ”
"Understood!"
After Link hung up the phone, he found Catherine's phone, and when he tried to dial it, he immediately dismissed the idea. Now, Catherine's media company is not needed for the time being.
He didn't want people to think he couldn't fight back. It doesn't matter who the other person is.
Although he also knew that the Forum Publishing Group's coverage of him was not friendly, he didn't know that it was aimed at him, but felt that it was just a normal report, after all, many media reported it like that.
However, judging from the performance of the third-generation heir of the Huang family at the golf course just now. It is he who thinks of people's hearts too well.
If it weren't for meeting Prian Wong at the golf course today, he wouldn't even have imagined that he was deliberately targeted by a wealthy Chinese man.
Judging from today's events, he can probably understand why the Huang family rejected him.
Perhaps they are worried that their status in the Chinese American community is too high, which will affect their status. That's a kind of "rather the head of the chicken" thinking.
However, it was a calamity for him. He had no intention of raising hope among the Chinese.
The label of Chinese is from his blood and from the inside out, and he can't erase it. Of course, he has to admit this identity. However, to say that he wants to establish his position in the Chinese community in the United States, he really has no intention of doing such a thing.
He thought about doing that, but he felt it was too laborious and too cost-effective.
If he could improve his status among the Chinese, it would certainly be of many benefits to him. But he wasn't going to do that. If he had made a great effort to improve his standing among the Chinese, the price might have been lower than that of raising his status in the United States. The problem is that the status of the Chinese in the United States is not very high. Even if he is the number one person in the Chinese in the United States, other Americans may not buy it.
Because he felt that as long as his status in the United States improved, his status among the Chinese would naturally rise.
And he has been moving in this direction.
If he wants to raise the social status of the entire Chinese community in the United States, he does not think that he can do it alone.
The Huang family wanted that status, and he didn't care at all, but the other party hit him with the idea. Well, that's not the case.
He really didn't want that status. But it is absolutely unacceptable that someone would take him for the sake of obtaining that status.
He can not be the leader of the Chinese community, but he also does not want to have such a leader. Because he also didn't want the Chinese leader to be a person who wanted to ostracize him.