Chapter 19: Sin City

"Mr. Ye Tan, are you there? I'm Shangguan Ying, and I've come to you for something. ”

Outside the courtyard gate, Shangguan Ying's somewhat timid voice came.

Ye Tan opened the wooden door and saw Shangguan Ying standing there anxiously, walking back and forth, like ants on a hot pot.

Seeing Ye Tan, she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, "Mr. Ye Tan, the night before yesterday, in Chinatown, I overheard a news that the 'piglet' bought by Hong Zitang would go to the San Francisco dock in the middle of the night tonight. Mr. Ye Tan, you don't know, those sisters and compatriots who were bought were actually very pitiful, and they only needed 1,000 US dollars to be sold to the land of fireworks. Beginning in 1852, almost none of them survived for 5 years, and all of them died from the virus. I hope Mr. Ye Tan, you will do good deeds and save them. ”

Shangguan Ying said, she couldn't cry anymore, and knelt down for Ye Tan. If it weren't for Ye Tan's quick hand to stop him, he would have started kowtowing.

Regarding Shangguan Ying's origin, Ye Tan couldn't just listen to one side of the story. Who knows if it's a tiger away from the mountain?

Ye Tan didn't agree, shook his head, and said, "Miss Shangguan, you also know that I offended Hong Zitang, who knows if they will come to attack us tonight?" So, for the sake of the lives of more than 1,000 people, I can't promise you. ”

Shangguan Ying stood up in despair, without saying a word, her whole body seemed to have exhausted her strength, and she stumbled out of the courtyard.

Seeing Shangguan Ying leave, Ye Tan could only say sorry.

When it comes to his own secrets, it is impossible for Ye Tan to trust a person, even if it is his own relatives.

Ye Tan was in the wooden house on the left, and 15 24-pounder Napoleonic field guns, 50 12-pounder Napoleonic field guns, 8,000 Sharps flintlock rifles, and a large number of bullets and shells were removed from the blue pupil space. Then he informed his father that he was leaving.

After finding Liu Juliu and telling him something, Ye Tan hurriedly left the camp.

As we all know, Chinatown is also known as Chinatown, but few people know that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was also known as the City of Sin.

In fact, in 1807, there were merchants from Canton operating in San Francisco. Especially after the discovery of gold in California, in San Francisco in 1852, gangs began to target here.

The current Chinatown is not as long as 1,000 meters in later generations, nor does it have 16 lanes, only about 200 meters, and has developed 6 lanes. Far from the prosperity of later generations.

In the early days of San Francisco, there were only wooden houses, let alone high-rise buildings with concrete structures.

It wasn't until the clever Cantonese people brought granite from Guangzhou, built stone houses, and made yellow mud, painted white lime mortar, and covered with terracotta tiles, that the architectural history of San Francisco was rewritten.

Why is Chinatown only such a small place?

With the virtue of the Chinese relocating to the land, if it were not for the California government, which legislated to prohibit the Chinese from buying land, I am afraid that more than half of San Francisco would have belonged to the Chinese long ago.

The reason why Ye Tan broke this situation was because of Jebkuta's face. Coupled with his medical skills in resurrection, his title of California's Most Honorary Citizen, and the yellow gold bar, John Brown. Weller had to weigh the weight of Ye Tan.

Ye Tan is very aware of this history of blood and tears.

In San Francisco in 1870, there were 40,000 Chinese, and there were only about 2,000 Chinese women, but there were 2,000 Chinese women who were forced and coerced to engage in fireworks. At that time, there were 159 fireworks venues.

Among them is Bai Zhenlie, a small-footed girl from Nanhai, Guangdong, who does not succumb to coercion and scolding, and wants to die. Later generations of Chinese erected monuments to commemorate this respectable woman.

What Shangguan Ying said, Ye Tan also knew.

It's just just crossed, where is the time to bother with these things? It's okay if you don't know, now that you know, Ye Tan has to take care of it.

Ye Tan took out a silicone hood from the cargo ship that simulated a Western face, put it on, changed into a military uniform, shoes, and a pistol, and quickly ran to Chinatown.

He was fast, 20 kilometers away, and in less than 10 minutes, he arrived in Chinatown.

It was nearly 9 o'clock in the evening, and the lights in Chinatown were brilliant and people came and went, especially the white* people. Almost every house is full of guests.

Bursts of laughter and string music kept coming from the cabin.

A large number of grooms of all colors, followed by thugs, have long been blocked at the corner of the street, vying for business.

When you meet a regular customer, you will be warmly welcomed, in fact, to prevent being intercepted by others on the way. When encountering strange guests, the groom used his three-inch tongue to lobby in front of the guests.

There are also some familiar guests, so they pass by and go straight to the place they want.

This is just the first level. In the second level, there is also a cigarette girl, standing in front of the store in thick costumes, chattering to hook customers.

The first time I saw a real person, it was different from reading the information.

It's cold in San Francisco in New Year, with sea breezes. Almost all the cigarette girls wore peach, red, and lake blue satin cotton jackets and cotton pants, smeared with rouge and gouache, held handkerchiefs, scratched their heads, and shouted very attentively when they saw guests like Ye Tan. Ye Tan's nose was sour when he heard this.

Walking three streets and alleys along the way, there were at least 35 smoking girls, rushing to drag Ye Tan into their gates.

The strong and inferior taste of rouge gouache made Ye Tan feel sick.

After a few strokes, Ye Tan quickly fled from this place.

"Smoke me!" Ye Tan desperately breathed in the fresh air, and after relieving his breath, he said with palpitations, "Where can I find out the news?" ”

In this place, Ye Tan didn't want to go a second time.

"Huh! That's right! Auction Hall! Tomorrow, Hongzitang wants to auction Chinese women, so it will contact the auction hall. ”

After figuring out the cause and effect, Ye Tan simply hid in the dark, opened his perspective eye, and was in the third house in the fifth lane.

Putting aside the entanglement of the grooms in the lane, Ye Tan went straight to the fifth lane.

ordered a bowl of seafood porridge at a porridge stall on the street, and Ye Tan observed while eating.

Suddenly, Ye Tan saw a thug, dragging a female compatriot, from outside the street to the center of the street, followed by an old mother, scolding and pinching the female compatriot, very cruel.

The poor female compatriots, calling the heavens and the earth unwilling, wept and trembled. Even the clothes on the upper body were ruthlessly pulled apart, for the purpose of not only humiliation, but also cold corporal punishment.

Ye Tan couldn't see it, hid in a dark corner, and two M1836 pistols appeared in his hand from the blue pupil space.

"Phew!" With a bang, two shots rang out at the same time. In the blink of an eye, the old mother and the thug were killed by one shot! Fall to the ground.

The gunfire alarmed everyone in the whole Chinatown, and they thought it was a pirate coming, so they came out of the house in a panic and ran away.

The female compatriot was so frightened that she didn't know what to do, and then she came to her senses, got up from the ground, and ran desperately south.

Ye Tan looked at the direction of the female compatriot and breathed a sigh of relief.

Go to Monte San Bruno, at least her life is guaranteed.

In the auction hall, the high-level officials of Hongzitang, who were negotiating, were startled by Ye Tan's grass, and left in a hurry with their entourage like a frightened bird.

Seeing this, Ye Tan quietly followed behind.

When he went to Ross Mountain, the middle-aged man who led the way found that there was nothing unusual, so he slowed down.

"Spitway, the recent rumors are too tight, our leader said that as soon as there is news of the navy's encirclement and suppression of us, he will notify us as soon as possible."

A middle-aged man said with a heavy breath.

"Yao Baili, I heard that yesterday, Colonel Jebkuta took a Chinese man he just met very seriously, called Yetan. Not only did he receive the title of California's Most Honorary Citizen, but also John Brown. Governor Weller also went to see him in person. And broke a ban in California, selling 5 million dollars of land to him in one go. I hope you can get Jebkuta to let you go through that Mr. Yetan. ”

"Shi Biwei, don't you know that the white-eyed wolf died at Ye Tan's hands?"

Yao Baili suddenly said angrily.

"Yao Baili, the white-eyed wolf provoked Mr. Yatan, it was self-defeating! Did You Know? Yesterday, Mr. Yatan killed more than 120 pirates in one go! Marksmanship hits every shot! I suspect that even West, Sarawi, and Annoda died at his hands. If you Hongzitang want to find death, don't pull me! ”

"You, you, what did you say?!"

Yao Baili suddenly stumbled and said in horror. He was dumbfounded, his mouth wide open enough to fit a duck's egg, and his head was down and blank.

Suddenly, "Phew! A gunshot rang out, and Sphow fell in a pool of blood.

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