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"In order to avoid legal disputes, we have hired a number of well-known lawyers as consultants of An Liang Tong, this is Mr. Franklin, although he is young, but he is a fair man, he is dedicated to the legal affairs of An Liang Tong, and he does not ask for too much money, and he has won the favor of the people in the church. He is also a good friend of mine in the legal profession. After Dai Hongci and Wu Chenxuan and their entourage stayed in an old Fengqingtang store in Chinatown, the next day, at Wu Chenxuan's request, Situ Mingtang brought a young lawyer dressed in typical mainstream American society to the old store.

"Fortunately, Mr. Wu." Lawyer Franklin tried to greet the high-ranking official of the ancient empire, who was also young, in his newly learned Chinese, but his mistake worried Situ Mingtang next to him, for fear that the young high-ranking official would walk away.

"Hello, Roosevelt, M.S. attorney." Wu Chenxuan replied to his greeting in fluent American English.

Franklin was stunned for a moment, and immediately smiled, "Looks like I made the same mistake, didn't I?" Mr. ”

"No, it should be said that we respect each other's traditions equally, and that's obviously a good start, so please take a seat, Mr. Roosevelt." Wu Chenxuan's casualness and kindness made Franklin feel very comfortable.

After he sat down, Wu Chenxuan cut straight to the point: "Mr. Roosevelt, I would like to ask you to help analyze if the Labor Knights and the Mining Union are in chaos for a long time, what do you think are the chances that we will overturn the Chinese Exclusion Act?" ”

"With all due respect, almost zero." The young Roosevelt didn't yet understand how to put it tactfully: "You know that the Act was continued by the Geary Act of '92 and that it has no expiration date." Moreover, in '84, your country signed a new treaty with our government, prohibiting Chinese workers from going to the United States for ten years. This treaty indicates that your government has effectively recognized the legitimacy of the '82 Chinese Exclusion Act, and it makes our government feel even more that the Qing country is weak and can be bullied, and the Chinese exclusion is becoming more and more unscrupulous. On April 27 last year, the U.S. Congress passed a bill to extend all Chinese Exclusion Bills without a period. It is by no means easy to move this series of laws now, even neutrals who do not have a position on Chinese exclusion will not want to see the government law change overnight, and most of the people in the labor organization are in favor of this law, and the voice of opposition to Chinese exclusion will not be too high until the value of Chinese workers is not overestimated, so the parliamentarians will probably not give much support to the Chinese for the sake of their votes. ”

"You're right, I totally agree with you." Wu Chenxuan said with a smile: "This year, the Qing Dynasty broke out in the movement to resist the manufacture of American goods, and I would like to have some exchanges with a few important people of insight in the American business community, which should be able to win some votes, at least to force the US government to order the relaxation of entry restrictions for teachers, students, businessmen and tourists." ”

"If you're looking for a big consortium like DuPont, Morgan, Rockefeller, Mellon, or Chicago, you might have some chance of success."

"Your opinion is worth taking. Mr. Roosevelt, our Shandong Chamber of Commerce has now set up a residence in San Francisco, well, an office, and then we want to do some business in the United States, I wonder if we can hire you as our legal counsel as a part-time company? ”

"Call me Frank." The young lawyer smiled and said, "If the conditions are right, I don't think it's fine, but I mainly work in the eastern region, will this cause inconvenience to your company?" ”

"It's okay, Frank, soon the offices in New York and Chicago will be opened, and you can get in touch from either office." Wu Chenxuan asked the manager of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce to prepare the letter of appointment and the contract, "You can call me by my English name, Sean." ”

After a relaxed and friendly conversation, Wu Chenxuan personally sent Situ and the young man away, but he knew that they would visit again soon.

Wu Chenxuan sorted out some materials on the US anti-Chinese situation, and finally understood the cause and effect of the whole incident. The Chinese in the United States began to enter the United States in large numbers during the First Opium War and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, taking advantage of the gold rush in California. This continued until some of the major labour-intensive works that followed, such as the construction of the Transcontinental Railway. Most of them came from poor hired peasants in southern China, who had fallen into poverty after the Taiping Rebellion, and came to the United States in search of their wealth.

At first, there was plenty of surface gold, so the presence of the Chinese was tolerated, if not warmly accepted, by the local whites. However, when the reserves of easily available gold shrank and competition intensified, so did the hatred of the Chinese. Nativist groups began to claim that California's gold belonged to Americans, and then began to abuse foreign gold miners. After being forcibly evicted from the gold mines, the Chinese moved into the cities, mainly San Francisco, where they worked as wage labor and servants. As the U.S. economy declined, the hatred against the Chinese was overshadowed by Governor John ?? Biegler was politicized, blaming the misfortunes of the United States on Chinese coolies and Chinese laborers who signed contracts to build the Central Pacific Railroad in 1864 and 1869. Another important anti-Qing force is the white supremacist groups.

Initially, the California government did not support Chinese exclusion because Chinese taxes covered the government's deficit. Later, when the government became financially rich, it no longer opposed the exclusion of Chinese. Prior to 1860, the Chinese were the most dà immigrant group in California. Because the majority of the Chinese were healthy adult men, although they provided cheap clothing, they did not have access to public facilities such as schools and hospitals.

As time went on, more and more Chinese came to California, and violence often occurred in cities such as Los Angeles. By 1878, Congress decided to enact and pass the Chinese Exclusion Act, but it was vetoed by then-President Hayes. During the Chinese Exclusion frenzy, California even declared March 6 in 1881 a holiday to support the Chinese Exclusion Act with a massive parade.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was finally passed in 1882. California further passed statutes that were later deemed unconstitutional, deepening the exclusion of the Chinese. After the regulations were passed, most Chinese families were faced with the choice of staying in the United States alone or returning to China to reunite with their families. The press across the country, especially in California, began to smear and accuse the Chinese of causing many problems such as white unemployment. The police also used various tactics to arrest the Chinese. Although the dislike of the Chinese was extremely widespread at the time, some capitalists and entrepreneurs resisted the Chinese Exclusion Act due to economic factors.

The main arguments for Chinese exclusion are: Chinese people have many vices and prejudices, and it is impossible for them to Americanize their lives, let alone accept the ethical and moral standards of the United States based on Christianity; Moreover, the influx of Chinese workers has created a tense situation of competing for jobs with American workers. The arguments of the anti-Chinese exclusionists are that the exclusion of Chinese violates the policy of free immigration in the Sino-US Treaty of Anson and the founding principle of "freedom and equality" of the Republic of America. But in the end, anti-Chinese doctrine gained the support of a majority vote in Congress.

On May 6, 1882, the US Congress passed the first bill in the history of the United States to restrict immigration, the "Act on the Enforcement of the Provisions of the Chinese Treaty," commonly known as the American Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The Chinese Exclusion Act was one of the most severe restrictions on immigration in U.S. history. The Chinese Exclusion Act banned Chinese laborers employed as miners from entering the United States for 10 years or face imprisonment or deportation. Many Chinese were brutally beaten simply because of their ethnicity. A small number of non-working Chinese who want to immigrate to the U.S. must obtain a permit from the Chinese* government, which is extremely difficult.

The bill also affects Chinese who have already settled in the United States. Any Chinese who leaves the U.S. and wants to re-enter the U.S. must obtain a permit. Moreover, the bill deprived Chinese immigrants of their American citizenship rights, thereby permanently isolating the Chinese. After the bill is passed, Chinese people in the United States can reunite with their families or start family life in their new home.

"Mr. Sean, I'm sorry we took the liberty of disturbing you, but can you give a fair assessment of these people's deaths?" Sure enough, after Wu Chenxuan visited San Francisco and Los Angeles for half a month and established the first office of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce in the United States, Situ Mingtang and Franklin came to visit Wu Chenxuan's hotel again, and Franklin did not have the demeanor of later generations of political masters, his questions were more straightforward, to be honest, Franklin never expected this sunny-looking big man to be so ruthless. Several newspapers were spread out on the coffee table, and on the miàn were reports and black-and-white photographs of the violent deaths of several politicians.

"The President of the Knights of Labor Te?? Wen?? Mr. Baldley was found dead early this morning in front of the mailbox in front of his home, and according to police speculation, he died of a sudden onset of some kind of disease. ”

"The President of the United Sons of America, James Brown. Mr. Anderson was found dead in the tub and was presumed to have suffered a cerebral hemorrhage"

"Mr. Vindeko, the vice chairman of the Ku*Klux Klan Party in California, suddenly deteriorated his illness yesterday and passed away at the Episcopal Hospital in Los Angeles."

"Well, it seems that your God is still principled, and he has punished these guys for what they have done, may they have a happy life in hell." Wu Chenxuan brought coffee to the two of them, and he tasted the sunshine green tea brought from China.

"Don't you think it's a bit of a coincidence that they died one after the other in less than three days? You must know that they were all leading figures in promoting the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the amendment, and they actually died in a concentrated manner on the day of the Qing mission's visit, which seems to be a little unfriendly. ”

"Birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature, although they have done a lot of things to be sorry for the Chinese, and I also hope that they will be punished, but people die and the accounts are settled, and I will not hold them accountable." Wu Chenxuan smiled and said, "By the way, I'm afraid it's a little tricky for the police to deal with such a thing, so you might as well let the doctor conduct an examination, and wouldn't it be more convincing to judge through an authoritative medical appraisal?" ”

Wu Chenxuan and the others didn't know that in the forensic office of the Los Angeles Police Department now, all the forensic experts were helpless against the three corpses, and they had just opened the head of a corpse, and the brain tissue inside was like a ripe tomato, and the blood was flowing down the ditch. The other corpse's chest cavity was opened in a similar way, with severe bruising but no obvious trauma, as if all the walls of the blood vessels had become a hose full of eyes, and the blood seeped out to the internal organs of the whole body. Of course, they don't know what the reason is, unless they know that there will be such a thing as ultra-concentrated heparin in two hundred years, which is usually used to deal with the blood cleaning of animal internal organs in the time and space when Wu Chenxuan came, but this dose of heparin can be turned into a bag of blood water even for elephants, and it is enough to inject 2ml intramuscularly with the syringe hidden at the top of the civilization stick.

"The police concluded that they died from an attack of some kind of disease." Franklin looked at the sunny man in front of him, but there was a chill in his heart, "It seems that Mr. Sean's prayers have worked, and they have indeed seen God." ”

"It seems that this is the final official explanation, and I think we can accept that conclusion." Wu Chenxuan didn't deny the whole thing, but there was no evidence, and he didn't even know the real cause of their deaths, so that those white reckless men who were clamoring for revenge had no clue. "But maybe there will be some guys who are too radical and will come to find trouble, Master Situ, I suggest that you gather everyone recently, my office has purchased a batch of Shandong-made Liuzi cannons, which can be sold to you in a batch, and there are also some self-defense weapons such as hand * thunder, the price is very cheap, I think you can use it, it is better to ask for others than for yourself, isn't it?"

Situ Mingtang came to see Lord Wu today because of this matter, and he got the answer he wanted, and Situ Hall Master was very satisfied.

"Please greet Lady Eleanor on my behalf." When Wu Chenxuan sent them to the foyer, he suddenly said, "This is a small gift for your little Beibei, who is still about to be born, please transfer it on your behalf, thank you!" ”

Franklin held a small golden horse made of gold in his hand, smiled wryly and left with Situ.

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