Chapter 61: Sam's Help

"I'm strange," Wu Shan pondered for a moment, "Could it be that Sam doesn't spy on our embassy at all?" ”

"How is that possible?" Qin Dayou's eyes widened: "They can't wait to follow ten or even a hundred people around each of us and observe our every move." ”

"Huh?" Wu Shan was taken aback: "Then wouldn't it be dangerous for you to come out tonight?" ”

You know, in order to keep it secret, he didn't even make a domestic call.

At present, Qin Dayou's mobile phone was just bought by a random person on the street.

If Sam's CIA or FBI were to track every citizen, there was no way around it.

Otherwise, they can't listen to the signals of both sides.

On the other hand, if a mobile phone or landline calls to China, there is a 100% chance that it will be spied on.

And now, it is known that the personnel of the embassy are closely monitored by Qin Dayou, that is to say, the possibility of this manor being exposed is relatively high at present.

Nima, this time it was a big deal, and the giants who overturned Wall Street were wiped out.

"It's okay!" Qin Dayou laughed: "Actually, Sam people don't know at all, I have a twin brother Qin Dapeng, who also came here together." ”

Wu Shan suddenly realized when he heard this, it is estimated that this guy usually switches with his brother, making Sam people mistakenly think that the real Qin Dayou is still in the embassy.

"That's good," he breathed a sigh of relief, "how are you going to transport it?" ”

If there was no careful planning for such a valuable item, Wu Shan would rather take the risk of taking it away himself, and it would be impossible for Sam's secret services to keep an eye on it.

Qin Dayou said something. Let him feel that it is still feasible.

As a nation of immigrants, Sam attracts thousands of people around the world, including Chinese.

The number and impact of Chinese immigrants is growing in Sam. This has indeed brought new changes to the composition of the Sam nation.

The existence of the "overseas Chinese" is a world phenomenon that can be found in vast areas from Southeast Asia to the Caribbean, and Sam-Chinese are only a part of it.

It is the same as what has happened to the Jews in Europe for a long time. Chinese are often referred to as the "Jews of Asia."

Overseas Chinese are engaged in occupations very similar to those of the Jews, and they live their own independent cultural and social lives in many different countries, which is also the same as the Jews.

The skills and organizational skills of the Chinese make them valuable migrants in many poor countries. And the affluence of their families made them the targets of political blows.

Therefore, the attitude of the governments of these countries towards the Chinese has always been one of love and hatred. The attitude of many Latin countries to Chinese immigrants. It has always been sometimes encouraged, sometimes restricted.

Sam-Chinese have always been a very small part of the world's overseas Chinese army.

Their experiences clearly illustrate the interplay between the culture they bring with them and the environment they live in at Sam.

The long history and culture of the Chinese nation can be traced back thousands of years before the birth of Christ.

For a long time, my country has been the most advanced country in the world in terms of economic, technological and social organization.

China reached a level of economic development in the 11th century that no European country could match before the 18th century.

Mark? Polo discovered a city of 2 million people in China. At that time, the largest city in Europe had no more than 50,000 inhabitants.

In the 16th century. China still has the highest standard of living in the world. The emergence of overseas Chinese is associated with the decline of this great civilization.

Both dates back to the Ming Dynasty.

The government, dominated by reform-minded intellectuals, exercised total control over the economy and society, especially over large-scale enterprises.

In the last century of Ming rule, the exodus of Chinese began, forming the first sizable Chinese communities.

The skills and organizational skills of these overseas Chinese allowed them to eat everywhere, but they exacerbated China's decline and poverty.

One of the great ironies of modern Chinese history is: Chinese people can get rich in all countries of the world, but they are poor at home.

In modern China. The weakness of local and central governments leads to all kinds of powerful and violent centers of autonomy, such as clans, warlords, and secret societies.

In modern China, secret societies, or "tangs", like the mafia in southern Italy, were once a force for resistance and revenge against foreign warlord oppression.

They have had widespread popular support, but at the same time they have become criminals who specialize in extortion.

These secret societies or churches have become a common feature of the overseas Chinese community, including Sam's Chinese.

Another characteristic of Chinese culture that came to Sam's with the Chinese was the respect for knowledge.

In imperial China, for thousands of years, it used guò education and imperial examinations to select its civil officials, and learned people were highly respected.

It took generations for the Sam-Chinese to get and make the most of higher education at Sam's, but they were well prepared before the opportunity came.

News of Sam's discovery of gold in 1849. It was really a ghost, and thus began the migration of the Chinese to Sam.

Many Chinese came to Sam's as contract workers or by borrowing money from Sam's Chinese organizations, which acted as a kind of regulator for the Chinese at Sam's.

Like other immigrants who are completely unfamiliar with Sam's language and culture, Chinese laborers often work in collectives supervised by their own compatriots.

Although the Chinese are smaller than the Sams, they are able to endure hardship in agriculture, railway construction, and other heavy physical labor.

Moreover, they have low salary requirements and a frugal lifestyle, saving money from what Sams consider to be a meagre income.

It is these qualities that make the Chinese regarded as competitors by whites, hated and feared.

Later, an immigration law aimed at excluding Chinese kept the inflow of Chinese below 1,000 until 1890, rising to 1,716 in 1890.

The first Chinese immigrants were almost exclusively male. This, as is the case with other races, suggests that moving to Sam was only tentative. And not permanently.

Many are more sojourners than immigrants. About half of the Chinese who came to Sam's in the early days did not stay.

Year 1880. The number of Chinese people leaving Sam has exceeded the number of Sam's.

This was partly due to their intention to return home after making money at Sam's, and partly due to the unpleasant experience at Sam's.

The attitude of the Sams towards Chinese immigrants is harsh and sometimes brutal.

The Chinese are neither Caucasian nor Christian.

At the time, these two were indispensable, and either one was enough to constitute a fatal weakness.

The Chinese look differently, dress and eat differently, and follow customs that are completely alien to the Sams.

Either culturally or physiologically. They are all considered a race that cannot be assimilated.

Sam saw them as competitors because they were hard-working and had low wages. It will reduce the standard of living of Sam's laborers.

The Sam's Union has long been at the forefront of the exclusion of Chinese immigrants and wants to drive Chinese residents out of Sam's.

White mobs burned and ransacked Chinatowns on the West Coast and in the Rocky Mountains, killing innocents everywhere they went.

Los Angeles, 1871. A gang of white gangsters shot and hanged about 20 Chinese overnight.

In addition to being attacked by street scoundrels and gangsters. The Chinese have also been hit by another form of decent class.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 drastically reduced the number of Chinese immigrants to Sam's.

Other new laws first prohibit naturalization as Sam citizens in Sam Chinese, and then make citizenship a prerequisite for multiple occupations and even land ownership.

In 1854~1874, there was a law prohibiting Chinese from giving testimony against white people in court, which was actually equivalent to publicly declaring that Chinese people could be arbitrarily abused, and when Chinese people were robbed, injured and attacked, the law did not care.

The door to Chinese immigration to Sam's was almost completely closed, with far-reaching and disastrous consequences for the Chinese in Sam's.

Because the early Chinese immigrants were almost exclusively male, for the vast majority of Chinese in Sam's, all hopes of a normal social or family life were dashed.

Many Chinese have wives and children in China. It's hard to see each other for the rest of your life. With employment opportunities severely restricted, many people cannot afford to return to their home countries to return to their normal lives.

The travel expenses to Sam's can still be paid in advance after arriving at Sam's as a hard worker. But getting Sam back home -- more than twice as long as the journey to Europe -- was difficult.

Many people who come to Sam's as sojourners are trapped in Sam's permanently.

Others who had planned to settle in Sam with their families were now unable to bring their families with them, and they were unable to become Sam's citizens themselves.

Since the imposition of severe immigration restrictions, smuggling Chinese to Sam's has become a big deal. Some were smuggled to Sam's for the purpose of immigration, but many were women.

At that time, there was an idiom called "not necessarily a Chinese opportunity", which meant that things were hopeless.

Wherever the Chinese were tolerated, there was a great need for manpower for their professions and where the whites were unwilling to do it, such as cooks and laundry workers in the mines, or servants in the cities. In the early days, the Chinese also worked as farm laborers in the fields, leaving early and returning late, but the wages were very low.

Even within their narrow circles, the Chinese continue to be harassed by the law.

Businesses owned by Chinese or operated in a Chinese manner are subject to special taxes and surcharges.

In the face of pervasive discrimination, the Chinese have responded by withdrawing and trying to keep things as low as possible, much like European Jews in ghettos or within fences.

Chinatown has developed its own social organization and has elected leaders to handle its own internal affairs, never turning to the local Sam's Agency unless absolutely necessary.

This situation is also common among the diaspora in Asia and elsewhere.

At Sam, the Chinese chieftains deliberately avoided the courtroom and the political stage.

This is possible in part because Sam's Chinese live in separate communities, all from the same part of a Chinese province.

In these enclaves, they have maintained traditional Chinese cultural values in their original place, which has been disintegrating in China itself.

The leader of Sam's Chinatown, the source of his power is not political prestige. It's their wealth and the means to borrow force.

At that time, Sam's society provided few economic opportunities for the Chinese, let alone social opportunities.

In this case, the Chinese bosses of the civil society wanted to purge the activists in the political sector or the people who caused the labor movement. The solution is simple, as long as they are not given jobs or credit, it is enough to make them desperate.

The Chinese internal organization can decide who can work where, who can start a business where, and what methods can be used to raise funds, etc.

Economic and social pressures are backed by force. It is stored in secret societies or churches in China and other overseas Chinese communities, and in Sam's Chinatowns.

In the 19th century, the killers of secret societies used axes as weapons to commit crimes. So Sam came up with the word "axeman" in English.

The term can now be used to refer to a person who engages in all kinds of criminal activities.

But the axe of the secret society gradually evolved into revolvers and machine guns, which can be regarded as part of the assimilation of Sam's society.

Each parish has a demarcated sphere of influence for brothel, gambling and opium smoking.

Most of the residents of early Chinatown were homeless. There were no women around, so gambling on female tickets and smoking opium were very popular among them.

From time to time, sporadic violent clashes broke out between the congregations.

The "Tang War" that broke out in Chinatown in the 19th century was particularly bloody. After entering the 20th century, the Tang War was still fought from time to time.

Despite the sensational battles that caused a sensation in the press, most of the Sam-Chinese were quiet and peaceful.

It's like in China. The family is very powerful among Sam's Chinese.

The head of the family has both economic power and social influence.

A businessman of Chinese descent usually holds the leadership of a family. Shelter their people near the shops, provide them with almsgiving, care and shelter, and help them open their doors.

Because the number of Chinese people in Sam's is relatively small, some families have joined together to form a large family.

The family kept the business secret and restricted the opening of new shops, laundries and restaurants. Different families rule Chinatowns in different cities.

In addition to families, various mutual aid organizations have emerged. These organizations function as employment agencies, rotating lending associations, mediation agencies and social groups.

Because this kind of mutual aid organization has multiple functions, it can win the respect or recognition of the Chinese. Without such an organization, these miserable people in foreign lands would be deprived of many of the services and enjoyments they need.

The various Chinese mutual aid organizations were finally merged into the Chinese Charity Federation. Generally known as the "Six Companies", it forms the unified voice of Chinatown. And speak for all the Chinese in Sam's.

Moral, economic, and political pressures from the family, the Six Companies, and the Tang have made Sam's Chinatown a highly self-enclosed community.

At a time when China was not liberated, these families, the six companies and the Tang Dynasty had been longing for a strong motherland to form a reunification.

Whether it was the old democratic revolution led by Mr. Sun or the revolution led by our party, these Chinese undoubtedly played a vital role in it.

When Qin Dayou called one of the bigwigs over, Wushan was almost stunned.

Those who have seen the photos of the founding ceremony must know that by Taizu's side, there are two beautiful bearded men, one in a dark robe and glasses, and that is Mr. Zhang Lan.

And the other one, very similar to the person in front of him, is Situ Meitanggong.

"Mr. Situ?" Wu Shan asked tentatively.

"Hehe, the little gentleman knows my cheap name." The smile on this person's face was very bright: "Situ Longming has seen Mr. Xiao. ”

In the Chinese world, Mr. Little is a legendary figure.

Came to Sam thirteen years ago, in a hurry, in a flash.

Although the photos of Wushan are not flying all over the sky, no, it can be said that they are extremely low-key, and they have not left any photos in the newspapers.

But according to the photos and some descriptions obtained from relevant channels, Situ Longming, the current head of the Situ family, called out the nickname of Wushan in one mouth.

Mei Tang Gong is a patriot and the leader of a family.

It is impossible for every family, in any era, to put their eggs in the same basket.

Back then, when China was founded, many people followed Meitang Gong back to their motherland, and some people still stayed in Sam's.

"Mr. Situ," Wu Shan decided to go straight to the point: "Mr. Qin Dayou and the things he carried, please leave it to you, is there any difficulty?" ”

"There are definitely difficulties, but we have a complete set of measures over the years."

Situ was very excited, he could serve the country and make friends with the founder of Yanhuang, and he would be a fool not to do it.

Yan Huang is inextricably linked to local Chinese and overseas Chinese around the world, helping them re-establish their image as Chinese and helping them get more job opportunities.

But all of this qiē has nothing to do with Wushan, and the people below will do it properly.

"Please!" Wu Shan didn't say much, but just held his fists in front of him and arched. (To be continued......)