In the spring of the thirtieth year of Guangxu, Qiao Fu went to the United States to propagate the revolution and mobilize overseas Chinese as the "Hongmen" of Hongmen. Hongmen Zhi Gong Hall welcomed his arrival with a grand scene. In order to show the righteousness of the Hongmen brothers, Situ Mingtang and his brothers entertained Qiao Fu to live in a hotel, but Qiao Fu objected to save money to support the revolution. Situ Mingtang didn't say a word, invited Qiao Fu to live in his house, and the two lived together for five months. At home, Situ Mingtang was Qiaofu's cook, cooking for him; When he went out, Situ Mingtang was Qiaofu's bodyguard, guarding his safety. At that time, some diplomats of the Qing government in the United States wanted to harm Qiaofu, but after learning that Situ Mingtang was his bodyguard, they no longer dared to think about it. They know that Situ Mingtang can't afford to provoke Hongmen, and whoever dares to touch Hongmen will be demolished. However, the revolution was defeated repeatedly, and there was a situation where the revolutionary donations were missing, which made Situ Mingtang and them deeply disappointed, and this time the constitutional delegation of the Great Qing Dynasty visited, Situ Mingtang originally felt that the Tao was different and did not conspire with each other, but a telegram made him change his opinion and personally came from New York to receive him.

Now Situ Mingtang is holding this telegram in his hand: "The gentleman of Tianxingjian is constantly striving for self-improvement, and the unfair treatment of the Chinese can only be overthrown by the common struggle of the Chinese in the world. ”

"I really didn't expect that this Lord Wu really has goods under his hands." The bigwigs of An Liangtang have been attracted by the swarthy goods, "500 double-action revolvers, 6-shot repeaters, 50,000 9mm bullets, 100 double-barreled trolls (shotguns), and these 7,000 grenades." My obedient yell, if they all give us Anliangtang, it will be enough to sweep away the three major families in Sicily. ”

"Are these all from that Lord Wu?" As the master of the White Tiger Hall in charge of the armed forces, Wang Gantang was not deceived by these guys, "Could it be that Lord Wu, what do you want us to do?" ”

The truth that courtesy must be sought by others is not only officialdom, but also the same for those who are mixed with the rivers and lakes. Situ Mingtang just couldn't figure it out here, so he felt unsteady. "Lord Wu didn't seem to say it explicitly, but just said that he hoped that if we had a gun in the future, we wouldn't be inferior to the guy who bullied us, and don't be soft on the guy. In addition, I think those three guys were all sent by Lord Wu to kill them, although I don't know how he managed to do it seamlessly, but it did make those guys with white hats restrain a lot. ”

"I think what Master Wu said is right, the strong are afraid of the hard, and the hard are afraid of the dead. We Chinese have a rotten life, and if we dare to exchange their white-skinned lives one-on-one, for three or five hundred, I don't believe that they don't tremble. Liu Peng, a double-flowered red stick, shouted loudly, "Dozens of brothers under my command are all planning to do this, rather than letting people slaughter like pigs, it is better to fight for a life and pull a few backs." Hall master, the boss gave us a hundred iron pineapples, and our brothers hung one around their necks, if they ran into Tu Hua's, they could pull a few white-skinned pigs to see the king of Hades together. ”

"Well, this matter needs to be considered in the long run." Zheng Zecheng, the pro-revolutionary party's Seattle helmsman, said: "I always feel that this Wu Chenxuan is fighting with the Americans with our lives, and he has no good intentions." Mr. Qiao is right, the motherland has been restored, and with international status, we Chinese can walk with our chests held high. ”

"Phew, don't mention that Qiao cannon, the empty cannon is not old and young, our hundred brothers are all dead, and they haven't even rubbed the Manchu Dynasty's oily skin, relying on them to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and recreate Xuanhuang I don't know the Year of the Monkey." Liu Peng's brother died on the Huanghuagang, and he didn't like Qiao Cannon very much, "No matter how this Lord Wu is a Han person, how can people send guns and cannons be as good as Qiao Cannon who uses a mouth to pull people to cheat money, if you want me to say that Lord Wu did the right thing, kill a few white-skinned pigs in their early years, these guys will be soft." ”

"You, you horseman, you know how to work hard. We Chinese who have crossed the ocean did not come to the United States to give their lives, nor did we give our lives to any family. Zheng Zecheng slapped the table angrily.

"I don't know who let the white-skinned pig burn a stockade and kill the seventy or eighty old and young alive, and I was stunned to cooperate with the police to come to the conclusion that I was careless with fire, so that so many unjust souls could not rest in peace. Do you Zheng Zecheng dare to pat your chest and say that you are right about them? Liu Peng also saw that this well-dressed fake foreign devil was not pleasing to the eye.

"I, I have at least saved a few other workers in the village, I am worthy of our Anliangtang, and worthy of the brothers who want to eat in peace." Zheng Zecheng, who had a righteous face, retorted.

"Don't make any noise." Situ Mingtang knocked on the table and looked at these swarthy guys with a frown, "Since it's been delivered, everyone will take it first, and the five incense halls in the west will be divided according to the head, and I will find a way to the incense halls in the east." ”

Wang Gantang was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood Boss Situ's thoughts, pushing it back meant breaking with the forces of Wu Chenxuan's faction, seeing the power of Lord Wu, the bigwigs of An Liangtang understood that these people could not afford to offend, and it was still two days to decide whether to do it according to the other party's intentions after accepting it. As for why not let these guns? Ammunition was sent to the east, on the one hand, because it was easy to leak during transportation, and on the other hand, it was not a plan to survive with the scorpion tiger's chain broken tail, if things were really out of control, it would be a big deal to close the five Xiangtang in the west, and the Xiangtang in the east would be replaced, and An Liangtang would still be able to survive. Although this boss is young, he is thoughtful and has a long-term plan, and Wang Gantang also felt that An Liangtang could prosper in this hand, so he nodded approvingly, and drove other incense halls to agree.

Putting aside these hands and feet in An Liangtang, Wu Chenxuan has accompanied Dai Hongci to inspect the constitution these days, because Wu Chenxuan is proficient in English and has some understanding of the United States.

In addition to their constitutional studies, the officials of these delegations also developed a keen interest in the material and cultural undertakings of American society. In fact, such a social atmosphere is really refreshing for them. So, during their month-long trip across the American continent, they visited a number of local social sectors and institutions. Broadly speaking, there are administrative and service departments such as government offices, post offices, and mints, as well as institutions such as prisons and lunatic asylasylums, such as the control of alternative groups of people in society; From groups such as the YMCA and chambers of commerce that rely on religious and social forces, as well as cultural and educational institutions such as art academies, museums, and schools, it can be said that they have had a relatively wide range of close observation and understanding of different aspects of American society, and have made different degrees of comparison with China's social situation.

In their spare time, the ministers who inspected the constitution also enjoyed a rare leisure time. Whenever they go to the big cities of the United States to investigate, they always do not forget to go to the so-called "excellent travel rest" place to relax: "Every prosperous area, there must be a good place to rest. In contrast, China's "thousand-year-old civilization is still inferior to people", which inevitably dwarfs these ministers. After they returned to China, they immediately asked the school department and the police department to preside over the preparation of these public facilities in Beijing, and the Qing Dynasty government "set up the provincial governors and governors, and first opened up the atmosphere in the prosperous places of the provincial capitals, so that the wisdom of the people will be opened up day by day, and the people's livelihood will be successful.

After returning from this constitutional expedition, these attachés not only proposed the gradual establishment of libraries, museums, zoos, parks, and so on throughout the country, but also did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy back a batch of animals from abroad and put them in the newly built 10,000-animal zoo in Beijing, which can be said to have contributed to the prototype of the earliest zoo in China. According to Ta Kung Pao, the animals that arrived in Tanggu from abroad included an elephant, two lions, three tigers, two zebras, two leopards, two bison, four bears, an antelope, four kangaroos, four ostriches, six cranes, eight deer, 14 swans, and 38 monkeys, and a total of 59 cages. It's spectacular. Although the author is slightly ironic when he writes about this matter, the introduction of new things will inevitably add some brightness to the society to a greater or lesser extent, and this brightness seems to be related to the five ministers' overseas investigations. The development of botanical gardens and zoos in China in the early days became an unintentional contribution of these ministers who went abroad to promote China's social development.

On the second day of arriving at the Big Apple in New York, in the large private room of the Green Goryo Hotel, one by one the men in the top hats in a hurry entered the door, and then the bodyguards stood at the door, lined up face-to-face in two rows in the corridor on the seventeenth floor, and the waiters were all blocked out of the door.

"Hi Michael. Is Uncle John's health better? A white, middle-aged man with a big nose greets another pot-bellied guy, "What's going on with your Pacific stocks?" Next time, I will shake the profit plate again, and say hello early. ”

"It's nothing, the manager below operates, I went to Mexico a while ago." Michael said, "Hawley, what do you think of Lehman Brothers, I think they are really acting very weird, you must know that they did not make much profit in the Russian-Turkish war, I think their capital chain is not very safe, you see?" ”

"Yes, I feel the same way, maybe we can operate it together, this time you account for 67%, which can be regarded as compensating for the mistakes of my subordinates, how about it interesting." Michael's expression won my heart, but his eyes did not take off the four people by the window, three ordinary-looking middle-aged white people and a young man in braids in a lead-gray suit.

These men seemed to be less conspicuous than the other merchants in the hall, but none of them had a net worth that anyone else could match, not even the ridiculously big-braided yellow-skinned monkey they had the privilege of talking to. Those middle-aged people's names are very ordinary, but their surnames are stronger than Hamilton in American soil, and if the US Treasury Secretary is present, he will immediately turn around and make people stare at the foreign exchange market and the stock market, because when the three heads of Morgan, Rockefeller and DuPont are present, they can set off a storm that will sweep through American finance at any time. And the Chinese name of the Qing people may not be known, but as the founder and majority shareholder of the standard Montagu system, the Chinese Sean can be said to be no less than the existence of any European business family, and the gathering of these prehistoric giant crocodiles makes those jackals, tigers and leopards in the business world have to whisper on the side and dare not squeeze on the side