In the early days, Chinese who went overseas to make a living liked to gather in a certain place by region or kinship, forming a concentrated Chinese settlement, commonly known as Chinatown.

Because of the relatively closed environment and the lack of cultural literacy, most of the Chinese in Chinatown do not attach importance to local traditions and do not take the initiative to integrate into the local society: they are open for business on rest days, and do not comply with tax laws and labor laws in their operations; Rarely communicate with locals, spitting, loud noises, etc.; Even if they make money, they rarely invest or buy real estate in the local area, and only regard the local area as a place to make money.

One consequence of these problems is the exclusion of the local society, which the early Chinese who made a living overseas had to face.

The marginalized situation and the refusal to go out of Chinatown to integrate with the local society forced those Chinese in a foreign land to unite and cooperate and help each other, giving birth to Chinese groups with a certain gangster nature.

With the passage of time, no matter which mutual aid organization was established, no matter how the purpose of its establishment was to help each other and love each other, it will eventually degenerate into a gang organization, busy fighting for land and collecting protection money, and using illegal business to survive, which is the ultimate fate of most overseas Chinese mutual aid associations.

Things are expensive to leave their hometowns, and people are cheap to leave their hometowns. How can those Chinese gangs in other places compete with local gangs? Most of the targets of bullying of those overseas Chinese gangs may only be their own nationals, and the so-called 'Chinese gangsters conquer the world' are just literary legends.

Fortunately, with the opening of the country, a group of Chinese immigrants brought a new way of thinking, and they are organizing in a completely different way than their ancestors, defending their rights and interests in a legal or illegal way. And the first foothold of this group of new immigrants is not the developed Europe and the United States, but Surabaya and Jakarta in Indonesia.

Unlike the traditional, money-making Chinese, these newcomers seem to have an endless amount of money to spend, and the first thing they do when they arrive in Surabaya and Jakarta is to bid for infrastructure projects. Surprisingly, these businessmen from Macau were able to beat the local builders on the same terms and grab a large number of basic projects; Moreover, these people also call those powerful and officials brothers, and go in and out of high-end nightclubs and clubs such as 'Heaven and Earth' and 'Muchen' that they run themselves.

Under the watchful eye of the magnates and officials, Macau businessmen quickly gained a foothold in Indonesia, taking over infrastructure projects that had previously been monopolized by local builders. The local builders did not fight back, but a few of the leading ones were thrown into prison by the police, and when they saw the blonde beauties from Eastern Europe, accompanied by a group of high-ranking officials, they all flinched.

With the start of these infrastructure projects, thousands of Chinese laborers came from across the ocean, and then in a very short period of time, all the gangs entrenched in the Chinese settlements of Surabaya and Jakarta were crushed and swallowed up. Those leaders who usually only dared to bully their own compatriots were caught by the police and thrown into prison, and those who did not commit death disappeared without a trace, and were replaced by a Chinese organization called the 'Xingtian Society'.

It is also interesting to say that this 'Xingtian Society' not only does not collect protection money from Chinese shops, but also uses their power to protect the Chinese and prevent local gangs and police from harassing those Chinese. However, this organization insisted that all Chinese merchants must abide by local customs, close their doors when Muslims and Christians worship, and pray to the sages or ancestors such as the Yan and Huang Emperors, the Taoist Sanqing, Buddha, Confucius, and Mencius.

There were also some Chinese who disobeyed, but it was accompanied by brutal and unreasonable whipping. The members of the 'Xingtian Society' arrested the disobedient Chinese from their shops and homes and stripped their pants and whipped in front of everyone, on the grounds that they did not respect their ancestors and sages, and they were not worthy of being a glorious descendant of Yan and Huang.

After a period of time, not only the Chinese in the settlement, but also the Chinese who have lived in Surabaya and Jakarta for hundreds of years, have become accustomed to the rules of the powerful organization of the 'Xingtian Society', and Islam and Christians also honestly stay at home and pray to the gods and Buddhas or ancestors when they worship. Even when Indonesia's discriminatory laws prevent Chinese people from celebrating traditional festivals in their own way, they close their doors and gather in Buddhist temples to celebrate privately in the name of worshipping the Buddha. And those policemen who usually have black faces and black faces, under the bribes of the 'Xingtian Society', turn a blind eye and even help maintain order.

In the early 90s, Indonesia's economic development was rapid, and it was known as one of the four Asian tigers, especially in the 95s, which was repeatedly publicized by some big media in the United States, which greatly improved the country's image. The authoritarian ruler Suharto even appeared on the cover of the Asian edition of Time Magazine, known as the 'father of Indonesia's development', and for a time was in the limelight in Southeast Asia. As the hero behind the scenes, Sun Lei, who helped the government to make friends, make friends, and receive American media reporters, was also received by Suharto and was personally praised as the representative of the new Chinese in Indonesia.

On August 21, 96, the Indonesian authorities finally abolished the discriminatory law against the Chinese, allowing the Chinese to open Chinese-language schools, celebrate festivals according to their own traditions, and recruit Chinese civil servants and military police to a limited extent...... Wait.

Time flew by, and by the beginning of June '97, before the first financial crisis broke out in Thailand, the 'Xingtian Society,' a semi-open, semi-gangster organization, had faintly become a semi-underground political party that could represent the Indonesian Chinese; moreover, it was inextricably linked with the Democratic Party and the professional group party, and became the financial investment adviser to many high-ranking government officials.

Through the efforts of the 'Xingtian Society' in the past few years, the vast majority of Chinese who still have feelings for their family and country have begun to agree with their proposition that democracy and freedom are earned, not by forbearance and begging. After a considerable number of Chinese youths took the initiative to join the 'Xingtian Society', they entered the Indonesian military and police system according to the arrangements of their organization, and used the money and beauty provided by the organization to win over and corrupt those middle- and low-level officers and police officers.

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The moonlight is like water, in the bay of Surabaya, Sun Ziming and Yang Guozhong, who were sitting on the bow of the boat and smoking, were silent, Li Chengkai saw that they had nothing to say, and continued: "In the past few years, the 'Xingtian Society' has been secretly provoking local gangs to fight among themselves, which has made various gangs form mortal enemies. ……”

After listening to the news from Li Chengkai, Sun Ziming didn't say anything, but Yang Guozhong, who was sitting next to him, was a little puzzled.

"Ziming, don't you think there's something wrong with this?"

Sun Ziming refilled a cigarette, flicked the cigarette butt out, and drew a red curve in the night, until it fell into the inky sea.

"yes, there's something wrong. If so, will Guangzai ask to see us? ”

Well, it seems that Sun Lei has lost control, and the relationship network he has woven is too big, which may have made the butcher in a dilemma. Based on his previous experience, another small-scale upheaval that attracts the attention of the people may allow him to continue to sit in the presidency, but the reputation that has just been touted by the Americans will be in vain, and those high-ranking officials who are inextricably linked to the 'Xingtian Society' may also get in the way.