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Chapter 1806 Lin's Shuangshu

The Mayflower Hotel, is the most famous five-star luxury hotel in Washington during this era. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This hotel was built when An Yi participated in the Whampoa Military Academy, and it is almost the same as An Yi's military age. It is located in downtown Washington's business and shopping district, just minutes from the White House, within walking distance of the Washington Monument and the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, and a stone's throw from the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Museum.

The hotel is quaintly decorated and has an elegant lobby with gilded ceilings, marble and reliefs imported from Italy. Of course, no matter how luxurious the appearance of the decoration, as a hotel, the guest room is the main thing, the Mayflower Hotel has a total of more than 600 rooms of various types, the rooms are spacious, the decoration is classical, equipped with air conditioning, radio and other advanced facilities, the presidential suite is equipped with a movie room and a small ballroom, the ballroom has a small bar, with a record player, tape recorder and other devices. Since its sunset, the hotel has become a national monument, and since President Coolidge's swearing-in ceremony here, it has become the premier venue for meetings between mainstream politicians in the Washington area.

An Yi and his entourage, who came all the way from South China, were arranged by the US government to stay here.

An Yi didn't know much about this hotel, and he didn't know that in the original time and space, after the Chinese leaders visiting the United States arrived in Washington, D.C., they all stayed in this hotel.

Today's Mayflower Hotel has been chartered by the White House, and since An Yi and others moved in, the store has been closed here, and even the street outside the hotel has been given *** by heavily armed police.

Roosevelt was very thoughtful, and he feared that hostile forces would send spies, hire killers and other dangerous elements to take advantage of the opportunity to assassinate the South China delegation. You must know that with An Yi's identity and status in South China today, if something happens in Washington, South China is very likely to fall to the Axis powers, leading to the collapse of the Allied powers.

For this summit meeting of the three countries, the White House has spent a lot of effort. At present, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is affiliated with the United States, the US Intelligence Coordination Agency (the predecessor of the CIA), which is directly related to the White House, and the police departments of various districts in Washington, have all mobilized to carry out comprehensive and meticulous monitoring of all important places in Washington. The White House issued an order to arrest a suspicious person as soon as he is discovered, and he would rather be caught and let go of the wrongdoing, and then interrogated and released after the Chinese and British leaders return to China. If you resist, you can shoot on the spot!

The outside was heavily guarded, but inside the Mayflower Hotel was not relaxed at all, and the agents in black suits and red ties were scattered throughout the hotel, their faces were serious, and they had walkie-talkies in their hands, which could be seen everywhere.

Seeing this, An Yi couldn't help but smile dumbly, and said to the Roosevelt couple beside him: "Mr. President, do you treat us as giant panda protection?" Or are we the golden birds that can't help but be weak? ”

"Giant pandas? What is that? ”

Roosevelt asked rhetorically with some doubts, and then when he heard the latter words, he vaguely knew the meaning of An Yi's words, and explained: "This is also something that can't be helped, we in the United States are a country of immigrants, and even we don't know if there are any spies from other countries inside, so it's always right to be cautious!" ”

An Yi was slightly stunned, don't people at this time know about giant pandas? He called Zhou Ziwei, who was recording the whole process with a tape recorder, and asked, "What is the name of the animal that is distributed in the mountains and valleys of our southwest and has a black and white body?" ”

Zhou Ziwei thought for a while and said: "Last year at the Nanjing Zoo, there was an exhibition, which exhibited a kind of big white face with a round face, two deep dark spots around the eyes, like a taxidermy made of animal skin wearing a pair of sunglasses, they called him 'black and white bear', also known as 'big cat bear', it should be the kind of animal you said." It is said that when our special forces officers and soldiers were training, they encountered many times that the locals called that kind of animal as 'white bear', 'flower bear' or 'bamboo bear', and it had a very docile personality and generally did not hurt people. ”

An Yi scratched his head, and then translated Zhou Ziwei's words to Roosevelt. He did not know that in last year's exhibition, because of the labeling of taxidermy, the popular international writing format was adopted, indicating Chinese and Latin, respectively. Since simplified Chinese has not yet been implemented in China, and the customary reading of Chinese is different from the left-to-right reading of Nanhua, but from right to left, so visitors all read "panda" as "panda", and over time, they conventionally called "big panda" "giant panda".

Roosevelt was amazed and said that this animal was really unheard of, and that he would have to see it with his own eyes when he had the opportunity in the future.

In the banquet hall, An Yi finally saw more than 40 Chinese personnel arranged by the White House to participate in the reception, including Zhang Xi, chairman of the United States Bank, and his wife Sharapova, Lin Xudong, president of Huaqing Society, and Ma Zhiyuan, vice president of Huaqing Society, Lin Xiaotong, chairman of Meiya Media, Lin Xiaoran, president of Fox Department Store Group, Huang Sande, chairman of Hongzhi Bank, and Situ Meitang, president of Hongzhi Bank, Zhong Zhizhai, executive officer of Midland Education Fund, and Jiang Tao, CEO of Eurasia Bank.

Since he participated in Lin Yaodong's wedding, three and a half years have passed now, Lin Xudong looks a lot older, and gray hair began to appear on his temples, but it is the Lin sisters, whose skin is like snow, delicate and beautiful, and their skin exudes a healthy luster.

In fact, An Yi has now discovered the abnormality in his body.

It stands to reason that I am about to be thirty-three years old now, and the so-called people who are nearly middle-aged refer to the current state. However, so far, he still feels that he has endless energy all over his body, and he is extremely energetic, and when he is directing a battle, it is no problem to stay up all night. In appearance, there is no difference between him and a young man in his twenties. An Yi began to faintly believe that the things that the gods and gods chatter about the old way may really work, from his beloved sisters Gong Qian and Ye Qing, to his wife Ou Chuer, Feng Jieyun, and the confidants around him, every time seems to have left no traces on them, this feeling is really amazing.

The mentality of the Lin sisters is also very complicated, in fact, after returning to the United States from Syria, they felt the abnormality in their bodies, and they had a trace of awe for An Yi and Lao Shoudao behind him, it turned out that in this world, there are still things that science cannot explain. They also asked about the wonderful elixir, and when they heard that there were less than 100 pills due to the inability to collect the materials, they understood the preciousness of this medicine. Later, An Yi kept sending letters, almost every week or two, a letter came, chatting about the people and things happening around him, and at the same time guiding the creation of department stores, supermarkets, and the production of cool clothes, nylon stockings, high heels and other products, the two girls knew that An Yi's talent was really amazing.

Think about this stinky guy for the sake of his career, he has thrown his sisters aside for many years, and then think about the women around him, the Lin sisters who have accepted the new ideas will not fight anywhere. However, the two girls also know very well in their hearts that Chinese tradition is like this, and now the Lin family has spread all over the world, flourishing in the military, political and business worlds, and An Yi's support can be said to be closely related, and it is reasonable to rely on the bond of marriage to maintain, the old patriarch promised them to An Yi, this is the fate that they cannot escape.

Just when the two girls and An Yi's hearts were like electricity, Lin Xudong strode up to An Yi, An Yi and he hugged each other affectionately, reminiscing about old feelings, and then met with Ma Zhiyuan, Zhang Xi, Situ Meitang, Zhong Zhizhai and others, and finally it was the turn of the Lin sisters, and the scene was extremely lively.

At this moment, the banquet hall of the Mayflower Hotel almost included the elites of the Chinese consortium.

Many people say how the Chinese American consortium is, but the real rise is actually nothing more than more than ten years after An Yi decisively sent Zhang Xi to the United States to develop.

Due to the influence of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the status of Chinese Americans has always been very low. The Chinese are the only ethnic group in the history of the United States that has been excluded and banned by Congress and the federal government. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, although the United States forcibly centralized the management of Japanese Americans, the United States did not legislate to strictly prohibit its citizens from immigrating to the United States, and only the Chinese were the most discriminated against.

In the forties and fifties of the last century, Chinese immigrants began to go to the western United States in large numbers to pan for gold, and then to help build railroads. When there were too many Chinese workers, the white miners and road workers were not happy, because the white workers, who were mainly of Irish descent, had never seen the yellow Oriental people with braids and melon skin hats, and the yellow people were small but very capable of work, which was appreciated by the boss, who wanted to hire more Chinese workers, and the white workers were very dissatisfied.

The eating habits of Chinese workers are different from those of white workers, who hate the taste of Chinese food, and also hate the language and living habits of Chinese workers. One of the larger ones is the October 24, 1871, Los Angeles hundreds of white mobs killed 19 Chinese in Los Angeles Negro Lane, and six years later, all Chinese homes in the same area were set on fire; On October 13, 1880, more than 3,000 white mobs surrounded a Chinese residential area in the downtown area of Denver, Colorado, where a Chinese was killed, countless people were injured, and the property damage exceeded 50,000 US dollars.

In 1882, Senator Miller, a Republican from California, proposed to the Senate that Chinese workers be suspended from going to the United States. The proposal was debated in the Senate for eight days, with both apartisan senators in the western part of the United States and Democratic senators in the South supporting him, and only senators in the Northeast opposing it from both parties. The Senate voted 29-15 to pass the Chinese Exclusion Act; The House of Representatives passed by a further vote of 167 to 66, with 55 abstentions. May 6, 1882, Chester. President Arthur signed the bill, which disgraced American history.

The content of this bill mainly has ten points, the most important of which is that Chinese workers are not allowed to go to the United States for ten years, and Chinese people have become the only targets for white Americans to exclude foreigners. In 1892, the Chinese Exclusion Act was extended for another ten years, and in 1904 it became indefinite, until Roosevelt signed the Repeal Act.

Under this kind of racial discrimination, the number of Chinese in the United States has dropped from 107488 in 1882 to 78,000 before the Anyi Group entered the United States, and the proportion of the population has dropped from 0.2% to 0.05%. Due to the restrictions on the Chinese to engage in various activities, they could only rely on the strength of the community to protect themselves, which was also the reason why the only truly famous large Chinese group at that time was the Zhi Gongtang family led by Huang Sande and Situ Meitang.

When the Huaqing Society landed on the west coast, it had a dragon and tiger fight with the Zhi Gong Tang, because the Hua Qing Society had a large number of soldiers who had retired from the An Jia Army, the Zhi Gong Tang was not an opponent at all, and the power was greatly weakened.

Today's American Chinese consortium is essentially an emerging Chinese group represented by Zhang Xi and Lin Xudong, and is involved in various industries such as banking, medicine, clothing, daily necessities, shipbuilding, shipping, aircraft manufacturing and air transportation, catering, and fast food chains, and has penetrated into all aspects of American society, which is truly integrated into the American economic system.

In the original world, the development of the Chinese consortium was gradually emerging after the outbreak of the Pacific War, and the opportunity was the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which led to the withdrawal of a large number of American capital from the Hawaiian Islands.

The prosperity of the Chinese consortium is also related to the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the influx of a large number of Chinese. With the increase of Chinese, the three industries of groceries, catering, and laundry gradually flourished, and then developed into garment, catering, jewelry, Chinese patent medicine, grocery and supermarkets, and Chinese capital began to occupy a certain proportion of the national economy in the United States.

An Yi thought about many scenarios when facing the Lin sisters, but when he really faced the beauty, he was a little at a loss.

For this relationship, he was actually resistant at first, but whether it was Lao Shoudao, Jiang Yunshan and Dong Zechuan and other think tanks, or Gong Qian and Ye Qing, two confidants, they all persuaded him to accept it. This kind of marriage is actually a combination of power, and once it fails to meet the demands of the people of Lin Village, it is very likely to cause an internal rupture, which no one wants to see.

"You ...... Okay? An Yi greeted with some restraint.

Lin Xiaotong and Lin Xiaoran looked at each other and couldn't help but smile. They never expected that An Yi, who had behaved generously and with a leader's demeanor just now, would turn red at the moment, at a loss, and feel very funny.

Lin Xiaotong is the one who runs the media in the end, and people from all walks of life have seen a lot, and said to An Yi generously: "We are all very good, and we pay attention to the domestic situation at any time." Everything you did in Nanhua, especially the decisive southward movement at the end of 37 years and the creation of the foundation of Nanhua, my sister and I admired it very much! In the past, my sister and I were worried that you would be a great achievement, but then you couldn't end it, but now it's much more reassuring! ”

Today's Lin Shuangshu are both wearing a pink full-breasted Confucian skirt, their indistinguishable and beautiful faces, inlaid with a pair of black and white, bright big eyes, Qiong's nose is straight and small and exquisite, and there is no trace of defects on the ears, hanging the same crystal pendant.

The same cherry mouth, sharp and smooth cheeks, tight and narrow fragrant shoulders, bulging chest triggers endless reverie, crystal clear little hands, peerless works of art like crystal carving, slender waist, *** buttocks, a pair of beautiful legs with slender proportions, small feet like golden lotus, white and tender skin like washing cream, eyebrows and cheeks are heartbeat, and Gu Pansheng smiles!

Seriously, in the face of the two beautiful women, An Yi couldn't tell who was the sister and who was the sister, if Lin Xiaotong hadn't taken the initiative to mention it, I'm afraid there would have been jokes.

An Yi nodded gratefully to Lin Xiaotong, carefully examined the difference between the two girls, and did not find the subtle difference until the two girls were red-sister Lin Xiaotong's right ear had a small red mole, and the strange thing is that Lin Xiaoran's left earlobe also had a small red mole that was almost invisible.

Just when the two girls wanted to get angry, An Yi stretched out his hand to them: "All along, I have ignored your feelings, here I say I'm sorry!" Whether you believe it or not, I, An Yi, promise you that as long as I am one day, no one can bully you! ”

Lin Xiaotong smiled slightly, stretched out his hand, and put it on An Yi's palm, Lin Xiaoran glanced at her sister, pouted, and put her hand up.

When the people next to them saw it, they all applauded vigorously, but only Leng Yue and Zhou Ziwei were sad, but they had to squeeze out a smile on their faces.

Under the arrangement of the staff, the guests and hosts sat down one after another.

An Yi and Roosevelt sat across from each other. I don't know if it's a coincidence or intentional, An Yi is on the left and right, and there are sisters Lin Xiaotong and Lin Xiaoran sitting next to him.

As the banquet master announced the start of the dinner, the hotel service staff began to serve the dishes in an orderly manner.

Western banquets, unlike Chinese banquets, are divided into separate meals. On the huge long table, red candlesticks are placed at one end and the other, and the candles are swaying and full of warmth.

Tableware was placed in front of each person, and the waiter began to serve the food, placing small plates of Chinese porcelain filled with food in front of the guests.

Roosevelt smiled and said to An Yi: "I know that your country's food culture has a long history, and there are hundreds of dishes at just one Manchu and Han banquet. We in the United States of America are a country of immigrants and have a diverse food culture, so today I have specially prepared a French meal for your guests, and I hope you will enjoy it. ”

An Yi hurriedly said: "Where, where, this is already very rich!" Before I left for the United States, I stayed in the barracks every day, ate and lived with the officers and soldiers, and I had a big pot of rice and a big pot of food every day, and then I trained with them. There is a lack of vegetables in the Middle East, and the food is bean sprouts, fried potatoes with luncheon meat, and salted fish with tempeh, etc., and I still eat them with relish, which is already very good! ”

Anna. Eleanor looked surprised: "Mr. An Yi really lives with ordinary soldiers?" Eating the same meals? ”

Got An Yi's affirmative reply, Anna. Eleanor said with a sigh: "Mr. An Yi can let go of *** share, eat and live with the officers and soldiers, and it will definitely greatly boost the morale of the army." I now understand why Mr. President's soldiers are so brave and good at fighting, and the soldiers die for their confidants! ”

Roosevelt also remembered his military career: "At the last European war, I was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Wilson, a position I held for six years. To this day, I remember that it was the most precious treasure of my life. Without that experience, I would not have been able to overcome the terrible illness that I have made from governor of New York to where I am today. ”

Anna. Eleanor's expression was a little unnatural.

It turned out that Roosevelt was an assistant secretary of the Navy when he was in contact with Anna. Eleanor's female secretary, Lucy. Mercer had a dewy marriage, and since then, Lucy has been in contact with Roosevelt, attending Roosevelt's presidential inauguration twice. Roosevelt couldn't move around, so Anna. Eleanor traveled 40,000 miles a year to visit the people on his behalf. Anna. As soon as Eleanor returned, Roosevelt took the trouble to ask her about it, and humorously gave his wife the secret agent code name: The Rover. And when Eleanor was not at home, Lucy went to visit Roosevelt, and the relationship was ambiguous.

By this time, the waiter had already filled the glasses in front of all the guests with bright red wine. Roosevelt raised his wine glass, shouted "Cheers", and then lightly touched An Yi, who picked up the quilt, and drank it all.

Hull, Marshall and others toasted An Yi one after another, and An Yi toasted to the American representatives, and the atmosphere was extremely harmonious.

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: The tonsils are severely inflamed, with a high fever of 39 degrees, and the whole person is very uncomfortable!

Today's chapter is written in a muddy nightmare, I originally wanted to take a day off, but thinking about the promise, I still gritted my teeth and persevered! The weather has been bad recently, it's been March, and it's still so cold, everyone should take care!