In Rio Gran do Sul, as Li Mingyuan set off for Paraguay, the Chinese living in various places began to usher in the festive Mid-Autumn Festival.

After more than a year of hard work, the Chinese who have accumulated some of their family assets spend the second Mid-Autumn Festival in Rio Gran do Sul in their own ways, while in San Francisco, the United States, on the other side of the mainland, a group of costumed Chinese also hold a solemn ceremony in this festival.

"1 Since entering the Hongmen, your parents are my parents, your brothers and sisters are my brothers and sisters, your wife and my sister-in-law, and your sons and nephews, if there is any disobedience, the five thunders will be destroyed.

2. If there are parents and brothers, a hundred years old, no money to bury, once Bai Aya flies to the person, in order to ask for help, immediately know that there is money to contribute, no money to contribute, if there is fraud do not know, five thunders will be extinguished. ……

36. Shinong industry and commerce, each holding a single art, once entering the Hongmen, must be loyal and righteous first, befriend brothers from all over the world, and revolt in the future, they must work together to kill the Qing Dynasty, and protect the Lord as soon as possible, so as to avenge the burning of the five ancestors. ”

A young Chinese man with pigtails knelt in the center of the hall, recited the thirty-six vows, and respectfully inserted the incense candle in his hand into the incense burner in the center of the desk.

"Hall Master, after the congregation has recited the oath, it's your turn."

"Ahem...... Chen Yuandong of the Xiangshan clan, who entered my Hongmen Hongshun Hall on September 8 of the year of his own year, and with the consent of the patriarch and the deacon, Chen Yuandong was included as a disciple of Hongshuntang's Anzi generation......"

After some cumbersome etiquette, more than 40 Chinese completed the initiation ceremony, and as the main host of the ceremony, Huang Shengui looked a little tired.

"Hall Master, there are a total of forty-seven brothers who have joined Hong Shun Hall, this is the specific list, please take a look."

The "companion hall" who was responsible for assisting the hall master in managing the affairs of Hongmen handed over a brand new book.

"All these people?"

Huang Shengui flipped through the roster in two or two and asked.

"Thirty-two local Chinese workers, thirteen brothers who followed the hall master from Canada to San Francisco, plus the hall master and the villain, four are forty-seven people in all."

Hong Shuntang's "companion" carefully explained, "The hall master has been away from California for seven years, and he may not know much about the situation here.

Half a year ago, a group of Chinese who claimed to be from Rio Grande do Sul came to the United States, and they reached an agreement with the company that built the Pacific Railroad that they would pay for the transportation of the Chinese workers who completed the construction of the railway, so half of the Chinese workers who built the railroad were transported to Rio Grande do Sul by them, and the remaining half of the Chinese laborers joined other Hongmen Tangkou in San Francisco, some left San Francisco to seek a living in other places, and many people were bewitched by a Chinese named Wang Youtian and chose to stay and wait for the arrival of the migrant ships. Like the earlier immigrants, they immigrated to Rio Gran do Sul, so the number of brothers who joined Hong Shuntang was not large. ”

"Rio Gran do Sul?" Huang Shengui pondered silently and asked, "How much do you know about them?" Are they the same as the Yee Hing Tong in the Malay Peninsula, selling Chinese slaves in the name of immigrants? ”

Hou Yaoguang is not only the owner of Hongmen in the Malay Peninsula, but also the largest human trafficker in the British Straits Settlements, Hou Yaoguang relied on his three or four thousand subordinates to obtain the monopoly of human trafficking in Penang, C'emoh, Kuala Lumpur and other places by taking refuge in the British Straits Settlements officials and the local kings of Penang, and constantly defrauded and bought Chinese from the mainland in the name of the Guangdong company under his name, and then sold them to the Malay Peninsula, the East Indies, Southeast Asia Peninsula and other South Sea regions.

With the profits from the trafficking of Chinese laborers, Hou Yaoguang maintained a force of more than 500 people armed with muskets, and it was by relying on the core force of more than 500 people under his command that half a month ago, Hou Yaoguang and Qiu Tiande, the head of the Grand Hall of the two major Chinese forces in Malaya, not only refused the recruitment of the National Defense Force, but also killed the envoy sent by Sun Bin.

Yixingtang and Dagongtang wantonly oppressed Chinese workers, helped foreigners suppress their own people, and vigorously suppressed other Hongmen halls, which had long caused dissatisfaction among many Hongmen branch halls, including Huang Shengui, but because Yixingtang and Dagongtang were strong and had the support of foreigners, other halls did not join forces to deal with them.

The reputation of Yixingtang and Dagongtang has become infamous in overseas Chinese circles, and Hong Shuntang's "companion" heard Huang Shengui mention Yixingtang, and immediately understood that Huang Shengui had a misunderstanding of the Chinese in Rio Gran do Sul, and immediately explained, "The villain originally suspected that Wang Youtian and their transportation of Chinese laborers was ill-intentioned, but two months ago, the villain personally asked more than a dozen Chinese workers who returned from Rio Gran do Sul, and from their mouths they had some understanding of the situation in Rio Gran do Sul. ”

The "Companion Hall" paused for a moment and asked Huang Shengui, "Have you ever heard of a group of Chinese people establishing a state in the southern part of the Brazilian Empire?" ”

"Canada is in the middle of nowhere, and it was difficult for me to hear from the outside there, but when I was traveling by rail to the east coast, I heard from a few Chinese workers in Peru that the Chinese workers in Peru had rebelled and defeated the Peruvian army that surrounded them. But didn't the South American Chinese rebel in Peru? Why did you go to the south of the Brazilian Empire to establish a state? ”

"The hall master is not wrong to hear the news. The Chinese workers in South America first rebelled in Peru, and then they gave up the territory they occupied in Peru and moved all the way to southern Brazil, where they defeated the main force of the Brazilian Empire with the Paraguayan troops, occupying the land of the two southern states of Brazil in one fell swoop, forcing the Brazilian Empire to recognize the fact that the Chinese occupied the two southern states. ”

"The Chinese workers in South America are very powerful, they defeated the armies of several countries unarmed, and forcibly took a piece of land from the foreigners, I really want to see what kind of person the leader of the Chinese workers in South America is who leads the uprising of Chinese workers in South America!"

After listening to the introduction of the accompanying church, Huang Shengui did not complain that Wang Youtian and others had robbed the potential congregation of Hong Shuntang, but became interested in the leader who led the Chinese workers' uprising in South America.

"I heard other Chinese workers say that the king of Rio Gran do Sul is Li Mingyuan, the son of Li Shixian, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, who led the troops like a god and has never lost a battle since he led the Chinese workers to revolt."

"The king Li Shixian is indeed a rare famous general, I can't imagine that his son is young, but he is not inferior to his ancestors in commanding battles."

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement lasted for more than ten years, in 1862, when the Qing army and the Taiping army were in the ascendant, Huang Shengui came to the United States to seek a life, and was an early group of Chinese who came to the United States, and at that time the main force of the Taiping Army was still alive, Huang Shengui was in the south, and he had heard a lot about the deeds of Li Shixian, Li Xiucheng and other famous Taiping generals, and he was deeply impressed by Li Shixian's bravery and good fighting.

"Seven days ago, Wang Youtian invited the representatives of the Chinese workers in the east coast region to discuss the matter, and the villain saw more than 300 Chinese young men in charge of guarding at them, although they did not carry weapons, but only from the outside, the 300 Chinese guards were not comparable to the ordinary Hongmen congregation."

"Wang Youtian once invited you to the meeting?"

"Yes, Wang Youtian wants the Chinese forces in the United States to defect to Rio Gran do Sul."

"How many forces have agreed to take refuge in them?"

"There are quite a few ordinary Chinese workers who are willing to immigrate to Rio Gran do Sul, but there are not many who are willing to take refuge in them."

"Overseas Hongmen have their own affairs, and it is not easy to add a management body to their heads." Huang Shengui thought.

"Hall Master, do you say that Wang Youtian will they salute first and then soldiers, and after our Hongmen refuses their request to take refuge, will they implement forcible means to suppress Hongmen?"

"Overseas is not as good as the mainland, even if they want to forcibly absorb Hongmen, it is impossible to do too much, but our Hongmen has been developing in the United States for too short a time, and the various Tangkou forces are scattered, if they want to deal with Hongmen, the situation is not good for us."