San Francisco is the most important place for Chinese in the United States, in 1853, the first American Hongmen organization was established in San Francisco, and after more than ten years, the United States appeared in the United States Binggong Hall, Xiesheng Hall, Hesheng Hall, Zhaoyi Hall and other nearly 100 churches, of which San Francisco as the main residence of Chinese in the United States, the number of local churches exceeded 20.

Huang Shengui was originally a gold digger in California, but after completing a labor agreement with an American company in 1862, Huang Shengui moved to Canada with a group of freed Chinese laborers, and founded Hong Shuntang in 1863.

By 1868, the number of members of Hong Shun Tang expanded from the initial dozen to more than 600 people, and the headquarters of the synagogue was also transferred from the gold mining area of Barkerville to Montreal, which is close to the border between the United States and Canada.

The rapid development of Hong Shun Tang gave Huang Shengui the intention of opening a branch of Hong Shun Tang in the United States, so after taking care of local affairs in Canada, at the end of August 1869, Huang Shengui left Canada with more than a dozen of his subordinates and came to San Francisco, where he had stayed seven years earlier.

In the original historical trajectory, Huang Shengui arrived in San Francisco soon opened the situation, Hong Shun Tang American Hall after just five or six years of development, the strength of the Canadian main hall, in 1876, the full-fledged Hong Shun Tang San Francisco Hall replaced Montreal Hall, became the headquarters of Hong Shun Tang, in 1880, Hong Shun Tang united more than 30 halls to reorganize the Zhigong Hall, Huang Shengui served as the head of the reorganized Zhigong Hall, from 1880 to 1887 Huang Shengui stepped down, The power of Zhi Gong Tang expanded from San Francisco to more than 30 cities in the eastern United States, laying the foundation for the comprehensive development of Zhi Gong Tang in the future.

Since arriving in San Francisco, Huang Shengui has already had a general plan for the development of Tangkou in his heart: unite the low-level Chinese workers, use the power of Tangkou to protect ordinary Chinese from the oppression of foreigners, and at the same time make friends with other Tangkou in Hongmen in the United States, gradually unify the power of Hongmen, and form a unified Chinese American organization.

In the troubled world, human life is like grass, and the poor in weak countries are bullied overseas, and Huang Shengui and his own personal experience made Huang Shengui see the suffering and helplessness of the overseas Chinese community, and also gave him the ambition to unite the overseas Chinese. His departure from the United States and the establishment of Hung Shun Church in Canada, where the Hung Men were not yet under influence, was the first step in realizing his ambition, and the Hung Shun Church congregation reached 600 people, and moving the headquarters to the U.S.-Canada border was the second step, and the establishment of a branch in San Francisco was the third step.

The first two most difficult steps of the entrepreneurial period have been taken, just when Huang Shengui was ready to show his skills and realize his ambitions in the United States, but was blocked by Wang Youtian and other national defense forces, the original Chinese workers who were the source of the congregation were exposed by the national defense forces, and the remaining Chinese workers were not only limited in number, but also faced competition from other churches, and Huang Shengui's career in the United States suffered a major setback at the beginning of its development.

Although Huang Shengui downplayed the threat of the National Defense Force, he felt a huge threat in his heart.

Since ancient times, the people did not fight with the officials, and the Wehrmacht was able to defeat Peru and snatch a piece of land from Brazil to build a country, and the strength of the United States Hongmen was certainly not weak, but the United States Hongmen all had their own halls, and everyone was Hongmen brothers, but each hall had its own policy, and no one was convinced by whom, and the Wehrmacht really attacked the Hongmen, and it was difficult for each hall to resist.

Huang Shengui was aware of the threat of the Wehrmacht to the various halls of Hongmen, and at the same time he did not want to give up the foundation he had laid to join them.

"Hall Master, no, Ruisheng Hall Master Liu Xing rushed towards the hall with more than a hundred people!"

"Ruishengtang?" Huang Shengui whispered, his brows furrowed, and said, "Zhou Companion Hall, have you ever invited Ruisheng Hall to pay a subjective ceremony when the hall opens?" ”

"Four days ago, the villain personally came to the door to send an invitation to Hall Master Liu, but he refused, and today is the opening day of Hongshun Hall, and the hall master of Ruisheng Hall came with more than a hundred people, I am afraid it is ill-intentioned."

"The soldiers will block, the water will come to cover the earth, on the day of the opening of Hongshun Hall, I will not allow others to provoke me, Zhou will accompany the hall, and order the brothers in the hall to go out with me to welcome guests!"

"Yes......"

As Huang Shengui got up and left, a group of disciples who had just joined Hong Shuntang poured out of the hall.

"Hall Master Liu, Hong Shuntang opened today, and Guitangkou came with a lot of horses, what do you mean?"

Although the number of people in Hong Shuntang is not large, but against Ruisheng Hall, Huang Shengui's momentum is not weak, and as soon as the two parties meet, they immediately open their mouths and ask.

"Hong Shuntang? When was there a Hongshun Hall in Hongmen? As soon as Liu Xing opened his mouth, he didn't give Huang Shengui face, and he didn't recognize the identity of Hongshuntang Hongmentang.

In the Hongmen, only the disciples of the Hongmen can open a hall. And Huang Shengui was not a disciple of Hongmen when he founded Hongshuntang in Canada, so Liu Xing used this incident to pick on his thorns.

Of course, according to the ancestral teachings of Hongmen, there are many rules for opening a new hall, but with the passage of one or two hundred years, Hongmen has been divided into hundreds of halls that do not belong to each other, and many Chinese who are not from Hongmen have created Tangkou, and they can be recognized by other Hongmen Tangkou by claiming that Tangkou belongs to Hongmen, and the reason why Liu Xing does not recognize the identity of Huang Shengui's Hongmen disciple is not to maintain the rules of Hongmen, but to look down on him and deliberately find an excuse to suppress Hongshuntang.

"Whether Hongshun Hall is the entrance of Hongmen Hall or not is up to the hall masters of Hongmen, and you don't need to be told by Ruisheng Hall."

Huang Shengui snorted coldly and said: "Hall Master Liu, I respect you as a Hongmen brother, today is the opening day of Hong Shun Hall in San Francisco, if you are here to watch the ceremony, I Hong Shun Hall will open the door to welcome, if you want to make trouble unreasonably, I Hong Shun Tang will also accompany you to the end!" ”

"Huang Shengui, when you were working as a coolie in San Francisco seven years ago, Lao Tzu followed his uncles to manage the affairs of the church, and in front of Lao Tzu, put away your fake trick of buying people's hearts."

Liu Xing looked at Huang Shengui with disdain, and said loudly, "Liu Xing, please all the hall masters to be a witness, Hong Shuntang's disciple Wu Anlong injured my brothers, everyone comment, how should this matter be calculated!" ”

Liu Xing arched his hand to the many stewards of Hongmen Hall who came to watch the ceremony, and ordered his subordinates to bring a Chinese with a blue nose and swollen eyes from behind, walked up to Huang Shengui, and asked, "Huang Shengui, recognize the person, see if he is from your Hongshuntang?" ”

"There are a total of forty-seven congregants in San Francisco Hongshun Hall,......" Huang Shengui did not distinguish the face of the beaten Chinese in front of him, and directly retorted, but was stopped by the actions of his subordinates before he finished speaking.

"Hall master, Wu Anlong is indeed a disciple of Hong Shuntang, he was sent out by the villain to take over a batch of opium five days ago, and there has been no news, I didn't expect him to fall into the hands of Ruishengtang."

After listening to the reminder of his subordinates, Huang Shengui couldn't help frowning.

Opium and human trafficking were the main sources of profit for the gangs, and like other Hongmen Tangkou, Hongshuntang also secretly ran the opium business in order to raise the funds needed for the development of the Tangkou. However, because Huang Shengui had just returned from Canada, the affairs of the opium trade had always been in charge of Zhou Beitang, who had been staying in San Francisco all the year round, and Wu Anlong, who was specifically in charge of the opium trade, had not had time to see him because he had gone out to trade opium a few days ago.

"Hall Master Liu, how can you judge that my people have injured your subordinates without any evidence?"

After knowing that Wu Anlong belonged to Hong Shuntang, Huang Shengui immediately changed his words.

"You want evidence, okay, I'll show you the evidence!"

"Come on, bring up our wounded brother!"

Liu Xing's words fell, and two Chinese with white cloths wrapped around their bodies were quickly lifted up from behind the crowd.

"Shen Quan, Ding San, in front of everyone, tell me how Hong Shuntang's people hurt you!"

"The day before yesterday, Ding San and I went to the kiln to listen to the music, this goddamn miscellaneous was trying to rob the girl we fancied, and we didn't follow him and took the initiative. Hall Master, he beat us with all the wounds on our bodies, you have to call the shots for us! ”

Shen Quan, who had a white cloth wrapped around his head and arms, cried.

"Hall Master Liu, my brothers have moved their hands for a while, your people have already taught Wu Anlong a lesson, I think this matter is over, let's not pursue it, what do you think?"

Wu Anlong and the people of Ruishengtang only had a conflict because of a trivial matter, and Liu Xing brought Wu Anlong to ask for the crime, so it seems that the opium matter was not leaked out, Huang Shengui breathed a sigh of relief, his tone was relaxed, and he planned to solve the matter in a big and small way, and then asked Wu Anlong about the opium.

"Hong Shuntang's people provoked first, you Huang Shengui let me let people go with a word, let me put Ruishengtang's face where to go!"

Liu Xing had the intention to make the matter bigger, and he didn't hesitate to say, "Huang Tang wants to give Rui Sheng Tang an explanation, apologize to my two brothers on behalf of Hong Shun Tang in public, or make enemies of Rui Sheng Tang, Hong Shun Tang only has these two choices, I hope Huang Tang Master will make a choice as soon as possible, my patience is very limited." ”

"Hall Master Liu is deliberately unable to get along with Huang, and he really thinks that I, Hong Shuntang, am too good to bully!"

The clay man still has three points of anger, Liu Xing asked Huang Shengui to apologize to his two subordinates in public, it is not just a simple matter of coming to the door to comment, but a naked slap in the face, if Huang Shengui puts down his identity and apologizes to the two juniors, he will not be able to raise his head to be a man in Hongmen in the future, let alone make Hong Shuntang bigger.

"Whether it's easy to bully or not, you can only know if you try, Huang Tang is mainly unconvinced, although he let the horse come." Liu Xingsheng was holding the coupon, and while continuing to provoke the other party, he gave his subordinates a look.

After receiving a hint from the head of his own hall, except for the two wounded people lying on the ground, more than 100 Ruisheng Congregations held their weapons in their hands and were ready to rush to the Hongshun Congregation opposite.