Section 58 From Behind the Scenes to the Front Desk [II]

After Qin Lang decided to make his presence public, he quickly became the most famous person in San Diego — the Mexican Chinese boss of the Big Viper Weapons Company and Umbrella Security Services Company that everyone talked about. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Before, when the workers were talking about it in the bar, many people were skeptical, but now they have to admit it.

In the face of this extremely shocking fact, everyone's attitude is different. Some people just take it as a rare and funny thing, some are more or less unhappy, and others, of course, the most staunch Chinese exclusives and white supremacist racists, do feel jealousy, disgust, and hatred for having a wealthy Chinese boss in San Diego.

Especially jealousy. Huge sums of wealth are always coveted by the greedy, and Rachel drives them even more crazy: many people see her as Qin Lang's girlfriend, lover, or wife, otherwise they can't think of a reason why he appointed a woman who was only eighteen years old as the company's general manager.

But the reaction of the citizens of San Diego was just that, Qin Lang sometimes even felt strange that no one had taken drastic violence against him, but the actual situation was indeed much better than he expected.

But this is also reasonable - ordinary Americans advocate Chinese exclusion, either because they believe that Chinese coolies have taken away their jobs, or because Chinese people have completely different religions and living customs from Americans, or because they think Chinese people are barbaric, backward, and uncivilized......

However, Qin Lang is different. What he brought to San Diego was a job opportunity. Although some argue that Big Viper Arms' recruitment of workers from Arizona is also detrimental to the citizens of San Diego, at least white people are getting jobs, and Big Viper Arms and Umbrella Security Services are growing in size and new jobs are being created. So ordinary people can't find a reason to oppose him.

And in addition to his skin color and appearance, Qin Lang could not find any characteristics of the Chinese of this era. He was fluent in English, knowledgeable, and Americanized, and even more American than many European immigrants who had just arrived in the United States. Ignoring his racial prowess would make anyone see him as an orthodox, not Chinese, well-educated, upper-class gentleman.

As long as his special identity is ignored, no one will take action against him, except for the purest and most complete white supremacist who advocates anti-Chinese because of racial discrimination. And the racists, despite shouting many slogans in private, have not taken any substantive action.

They don't have the courage to act.

After all, Qin Lang was not an unarmed and weak-minded Chinese coolie. With each appearance, he would put his large-caliber "Anaconda" pistol in a conspicuous position, and he would have twelve Umbrella company guards by his side at all times. There was no one to get close to him and attack him, even if they wanted to hit him with rotten eggs and rotten tomatoes.

And every resident of San Diego can clearly feel that the attitude of the police in San Diego towards him is also very problematic.

Not only did they allow him to roam around the city with weapons and guards, but they also increased the patrol force near his company and home. Take Chris. Some corrupt policemen led by Sergeant Roque made frequent rounds of those two locations, and anyone who looked at the two buildings for a little longer would immediately be questioned harshly.

There is no doubt that people have speculated that the police have been bought by the Chinese.

In fact, this speculation is not entirely correct - Qin Lang is not yet capable of buying all the police officers in San Diego, and not every police officer can be bought. He simply presented the San Diego Police Department's chief and deputy commissioner with a special commemorative edition of the "Anaconda" pistol, which was produced in smaller quantities than the limited edition "Anaconda", only 500 units, so the price quickly exceeded $2,000.

After accepting such a valuable gift, of course the leaders of the police station would not trouble Qin Lang again, as long as there was no overt criminal act, they would not care no matter what he did. Increasing the patrol force near his company and home was only a small gift in return.

As for Chris. Roque and those corrupt cops...... Since they are known as "corrupt cops", it is certainly very easy to buy them off. Now they receive two salaries a month - one at the police station and one secretly from Umbrella. The policemen were happy, and Qin Lang was also happy.

Of course, those extremists who tried to attack Qin Lang were very angry. But the days of the western cowboys are over, and the police, who represent the authority of the state, are the defenders of order in the west, so no one has the courage to risk arrest and cause trouble - and there are heavily armed private guards waiting for them.

So they can't do anything. The only thing that could be done was to attack Qin Lang with saliva in the newspapers and wait for the city government and parliament to act.

But it doesn't make sense at all.

The San Diego city authorities were not willing to do anything to Qin Lang at all. His company created new jobs, the mayor was satisfied, and the American economy was in a depression from June 1893, with four million people unemployed in the United States, for an idiot to do something to the owner of a well-functioning business. Moreover, Qin Lang is always able to pay taxes on time and in full, and he also strictly requires the company's shareholders and employees to pay taxes, so the officials of the Internal Revenue Bureau and the local tax bureau also like him.

And Qin Lang also likes to give gifts to others.

In that case, who cares about the opinion of ultra-racists who do not bring any benefit to their political performance, do not increase government revenues, and never give gifts?

As for the City Council......

While the extremists were wasting precious time in the newspapers, Qin Lang was busy making deals — or, more bluntly, bribes — with the San Diego City Council's members. But not every congressman is eligible to be bribed by Qin Lang, and most of his attention is focused on the Republicans in the parliament.

He is well aware of how the political situation in California will develop. Current Governor Henry. Markham is a Republican, and the next governor ...... It seems to be Democrat James. Bard is. But from 1899 James. Bard's resignation began in 1939 and ended in 1939 by Democrat Culbert Brown. Up to O'Llison as governor, all nine California governors in the four decades were Republicans.

In California, the Republican Party has an absolute preponderance.

And the Republican Party still holds the presidency. Franklin. Draenau. Roosevelt was the 1861 James Brown. Buchanan was the first Democratic president since he left office, and that was already in 1933. Therefore, Qin Lang sees no need for him to make large-scale political investments in Democrats, especially in California, where the Republicans are overwhelmingly dominant -- of course, he doesn't mind some short-term investment activities in the Democratic Party. Mr. Bard provided campaign funds.

Since he is destined to serve as governor for four years, it is certainly very cost-effective to invest in him, and Qin Lang is also willing to temporarily make a cameo in the role of a wizard who knows prophecy to congratulate him on his victory in advance...... Mr. Bard would love this kind of thing.

But the Democratic Party can only be a supporting role, and the Republican Party is Qin Lang's main target. And it's even easier to co-opt a city councilor than to bribe a corrupt police officer. While they need the support of voters, they need campaign finance even more. For career politicians who aspire to become state legislators, congressmen, and even senators, campaign finance is even more important.

Although it seems that Qin Lang cannot provide much money to lawmakers at the moment, even a dollar is important in the election campaign. Why should parliamentarians embarrass a sponsor of their own?

Moreover, some parliamentarians are simply eager to be bribed.

Qin Lang is a popular character and is still becoming more and more popular.

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"So, those racists are so stupid, they have so much time, energy and money to waste in the newspapers, and they might as well use it to bribe our esteemed parliamentarians." Qin Lang crumpled up a San Diego local newspaper and threw it into the trash can in the corner of his office.

"They'll always understand that. Qin, don't be too careless. Rachel warned, "And are you going to just let them continue to curse in the newspapers?" ”

"The problems must be solved one by one......" Qin Lang suddenly saw Rachel's earrings. New earrings, no doubt so, because he had never seen them before. And most importantly, of course, "Diamond earrings? ”

"Yes. It's a pity that the diamond's grade is not good enough. "She looked regretful." However, in San Diego, you can only buy such ordinary goods. ”

But that's not what Qin Lang wants to know. He thought of the diamonds that were still in the truck. "Rachel, do you know how to identify diamonds?"

He was full of anticipation for her possible answers.

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PS: I'm sorry, today's day is a bit special, I'm in a bad mood, I'm writing very slowly, and the chapter I owe will be made up tomorrow

Again: The cover of the book was chosen by the editor at random, and it has nothing to do with me, let alone the content of the book