The Cadillac heads west along Pine Street, an uphill street lined with small three- to four-story brick and stone buildings, with shops on the ground floors.

The 1906 earthquake nearly flattened the city, the waves destroyed the wooden support structures of the old western buildings, and just as most hard-working Chinese families were already up for breakfast at about 5 a.m., a broken natural gas pipeline, combined with an overturned stove, eventually sparked a skyrocketing fire that swept through the city. Therefore, when it came to the subsequent planning to rebuild Chinatown, the new houses were built with masonry and concrete structures that were more resistant to earthquakes and fires at the time.

THE LOCAL CHINESE RESIDENTS CALL PINE STREET "BANJIE", WHICH IS THE TAISHAN DIALECT TRANSLITERATION OF THE ENGLISH WORD PINE, WHICH IS EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE VICINITY OF CHINATOWN, WHERE EVERY STREET HAS A TAISHAN STREET NAME, AFTER ALL, MANY RESIDENTS DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH AT ALL.

The intersection in front encountered another traffic jam, and Cadillac stopped more than thirty meters away from the intersection.

"This is St. Mary's Square, and the tall red building on the other side of the square is the famous St. Mary's Church... Well, at least it's famous here. Clay took advantage of the gap in the waiting and pointed to the empty space on the right side of the car.

At this time, St. Mary's Square was located on the site of the parking building of later generations, and was still a garden and meadow built against the slope, and some benches were placed on the flat slope for passers-by to rest.

"There's a statue of Sun Yat-sen inside, which is said to be made in Italy, by the way, do you know Sun Yat-sen?" Clay asked, looking back.

"A well-known Chinese politician whose party led a revolution that overthrew the Qing Empire." Welbe lowered his head and dusted off the cigarette ash that had fallen on the front of his suit, and replied nonchalantly.

"Listening to the Chinese here, he used to have American citizenship." Crayre snapped into gear, and the sedan moved forward slowly.

In 1940, when he entered the country with a U.S. passport issued by Hawaii, he was seized by the San Francisco Customs, because it was recorded that he had entered the country with Chinese nationality eight years ago, so the U.S. Customs detained him on suspicion of forging a U.S. passport.

The court also hired a lawyer to start a lawsuit against the customs on his behalf, claiming that Dr. Sun was born in Honolulu, grew up and studied there, and was a legitimate American citizen, which was well known in San Francisco's Chinatown.

In fact, Sun Yat-sen was born in Xiangshan, Guangdong, and only went to Hawaii with his mother at the age of 11 to join his eldest brother Sun Mei. At that time, Sun Mei had already relied on his diligence and business acumen to become a famous big plantation owner on Maui, and was known as the "King of Maui" by the locals.

From elementary school to college preparation, Sun Yat-sen studied in a school in Hawaii until he was 17 years old and forcibly sent back to his hometown in Xiangshan, Guangdong Province by Sun Mei because of religious beliefs.

It stands to reason that Sun Yat-sen was not eligible for naturalization in the United States at that time, but through the relationship between the revolutionary comrades and the township party, he obtained two legal documents under oath by American citizens to prove that he was indeed born in Hawaii, so he obtained a U.S. passport issued by the Hawaiian government.

To put it bluntly, this identity was forged from the beginning to circumvent the Chinese Exclusion Act, and US government officials somewhat overestimated the bottom line of the revolutionary forefathers.

This identity played a significant role in Sun Yat-sen's later revolutionary activities, in addition to allowing him to enter and leave the United States at will to raise funds and personnel without being affected by the "Chinese Exclusion Act", it also became a talisman to block the Qing court's intention to arrest him.

It was not until 1909 that Sun Yat-sen's U.S. citizenship was finally revoked by the U.S. State Department on the grounds that he had "failed to fulfill his obligations as a U.S. citizen and illegally participated in anti-government activities against friendly countries." Therefore, the media in a certain place said that Sun Wen was naturalized because the US government supported China's democratic revolution, which was completely groundless.

At the junction, Cadillac turns right and turns onto Grant Street, also known as "Tuban Street".

This street is one of the oldest streets in San Francisco, as we all know, San Francisco was originally developed as a Spanish colony, and it was transferred to the United States of America after the Mexican-American War. So like other old streets in San Francisco, Grant Avenue originally had a Spanish name, Calle de la Fundación, or "Built-up Boulevard".

After the U.S. occupation of San Francisco, many of the city's main roads were named "Dupont Street" in honor of Admiral Dupont of the U.S. Navy.

It can be said that this street witnessed the birth and growth of San Francisco's Chinatown, so that after the San Francisco government changed the name of Dupont Street to Grant Street in honor of President Grant, the local Chinese could not change it anyway because they were used to calling the name "Duban Street". (Grant Street is still written as Chengduban Street on Google Chinese Maps, which is really an interesting fact about Chinatown.) ）

As part of Old San Francisco's Old Town, the streets of Chinatown are narrow, and the width is still stuck in the horse-drawn carriage era, that is, the European standard of two carriages.

It was not yet noon, but there were already a lot of cars parked on the right side of the street, and the width of American cars in the forties was still decent, so there was still enough space on the road to drive relatively well.

At that time, the size of American cars was still in accordance with British and European standards, and although there were already signs of gigantic bodies, they were not as exaggerated as they were in the sixties and seventies. At that time, because of the popularity of fashionable wide-body cars, many roads in downtown San Francisco had to be changed to one-way streets.

As soon as I drove onto Duban Street, the dragon lampposts on both sides of the street full of Chinese characteristics immediately attracted the attention of Verbe, he had never seen anything similar elsewhere, this street lamp was designed in the style of a golden four-clawed dragon holding up the palace lamp, which is a unique symbol of San Francisco's Chinatown, as long as you see this kind of street lamp on the street, it means that you have entered the Chinese community.

"It's exquisite, isn't it?" Clay slowed the car.

"What did you say?" Verbe turned his face.

"I mean, these street lamps are exquisite, like a work of art." Clay said with a laugh.

"Ah, you're right, it's artistic, how far is it." Verbay said, looking out the window.

"We've arrived." Clay flicked the brakes, and the car slowly leaned towards the side of the road.

"This is the Shanghai Building." The driver turned his head and pointed out the window.

"Right here?" Verbay tilted his head and looked up, only to see the kind of colorful sign that is common at the entrance of a nightclub with the English letters "Shanghai Lo" in the middle.

"We were already twenty-three minutes late on the second floor, but I heard that the Chinese have always been very patient." Clay looked at his watch, then opened the door and got out of the car.

Clay walked from the back of the car to the right and respectfully opened the door for Verbe. "Remember the code." The driver asked.

"The triad is superb?" Verbe frowned slightly, and uttered a somewhat stiff Cantonese.

"Well, superb, my car is parked just across the street." Clay nodded.

"You just stay in the car and wait for me, watching your surroundings." Verbay straightened his cuffs and put on his black top hat.

"Yes, sir." Clay bowed slightly.

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