The embankment is located in the southwestern part of Sai Kung, about 5 km away from the urban area of Sai Kung. In 1932, the Franco-Vietnamese authorities merged Saigon with the embankment to form Shuanglian City, which is why it was called the West Embankment.

5 km is not too far, but it is not so easy to get to the city.

The car seemed to be walking on sawtooth, and the bumps made people dizzy. Thousands of cars, motorcycles, bicycles, tricycles...... Three-wheeled carriages full of passengers crowded the dusty streets. Pedestrians scurryed between trucks and cars, causing drivers to brake hard again and again.

Money isn't worth much, and it's hard to earn.

Outside the car, the locals selling all kinds of fruits on their shoulders, and the coolies who unloaded their goods on the docks, worked from morning to night, and did not necessarily earn 20 VET (piast). Barely able to support his family, let alone send his children to school.

In the past two months, Wang Jingui seems to be dreaming.

First of all, he was taken in by the kind-hearted young master of the Li family, and the father and son just had a place to stay, and just after a few full meals, Mr. Liu asked the child to come all the way from Phu Quoc Island.

Send the child and his mother to the hospital to see a doctor, send the child to study in Ngee An Middle School, which only Teochew people can enter, and pay for the travel expenses, hospitalization fees and tuition fees. No longer have to go to the wood factory to carry wood, no need to go to the warehouse to carry bags, the salary has risen several times at once, 2,000 Vietnamese dollars a month, and the advance is three months in advance, as long as you protect the eldest young master.

If you can be happy and stable in this life, who wants to be displaced?

The grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by a spring, not to mention that people offer such a high salary, even if they only give 200 Vietnamese dollars a month, they have to go to the soup.

Wang Jingui sat in the co-pilot, vigilantly looking at the people who were looking this way on the side of the road, and subconsciously stretched his hand into his arms, ready to draw a gun at any time. At the same time, he was thinking about how long it would take for the Chaozhou Gang brothers who were driving motorcycles in front and the six old subordinates on the truck behind to come over for reinforcements if the other party rushed up, and if the other party also had guns.

Ding Maocai has been secretly taking care of those shady businesses, and the eldest young master is not allowed to do it anymore, so he can only change his errand. He hates studying the most, and when he heard that he was going to train last night, he suddenly got big, and he took the initiative to ask Ying to be a bodyguard with Wang Jingui this morning.

And the reason is very sufficient, Wang Jingui and the others are outsiders, who knows the face but does not know the heart, who knows if they will have bad intentions in the future, and whether they will be bought? Second, they are all ** veterans who fled from the mainland, do not speak Vietnamese, and are not familiar with the surrounding environment, especially the terrain.

Liu Jiachang thought about it, and there was indeed some truth, so Young Master Li had a "guard" composed of Heshan disciples and veterans.

Two motorcycles in front, a truck in the back, guns are all from the black market American goods, M1 carbines, Thomson submachine guns, M1911 automatic pistols, the truck trunk even hid a box or two of grenades and Ting Browning light machine guns.

The firepower is strong, and it can fight a platoon-level blocking battle. It's just that they don't dress uniformly, and the camouflage is relatively successful, and outsiders don't know that they are in a group.

Ngo Dinh Diem persuaded Bao Da to come back together in Paris, and now the Vietnamese nation has no leader, and Bao Da's uncle Bao Loc can't do it, and Pan Hue Kuo is serving as the acting prime minister who will not go out.

There will be no danger before Wu Tingyan comes back, Li Weimin is not as nervous as them, and he sits in the back row and talks and laughs with He Tianming and Jiang Wenshui.

"Mr. Li, in fact, we know very well that no matter how hard we try, we will not be able to see immediate results. After all, the impression of the embankment on the locals is so ingrained that many people think of the embankment as a place of filth and filth, and in fact it has been a concentration of opium houses, brothels and gambling houses for nearly a hundred years. ”

Ah Shui added with a look of frustration: "There are not a few Chinese businessmen who are rich and unkind, and there are also black sheep who are traitors and criminals. ”

Not to mention the current embankment, it is like the Manhattan Chinatown of later generations.

The forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, Li Weimin sighed secretly, and said seductively: "Ah Ming, Ah Shui, it is not easy for you to see this. What's even more valuable is that you are not only seeing, but you are trying to change that. In fact, I feel the same way as you, the atmosphere on the embankment is too bad, something must be done, and the overall image of our overseas Chinese in the minds of the locals must be changed. ”

He was one of the most influential young men on the embankment, and more importantly he had money.

He Tianming did not want to miss this precious opportunity, and said with great anticipation: "Mr. Li, since you agree with our point of view, on behalf of all the students of the Chinese Youth Association, I sincerely invite you to serve as our honorary president. ”

"The title of president is not good, it is not democratic, even if it is honorable. Ah Ming, Ah Shui, I suggest that you organize like a company, set up a board of directors, and the person in charge of specific work serves as the chairman. As a director or honorary director like me, we can go back and do the work of Ma Gongzi, Wu Gongzi and Guo Gongzi, and bring them all in, so that our strength will be stronger and our influence will be greater. ”

His friends were all the richest young people on the embankment, He Tianming was overjoyed, and nodded again and again: "What Mr. Li said is very true, we will revise the constitution when we go back, and only have a chairman of the council, not a president." ”

These children are very thoughtful, and they can't ask them what to do, they can only guide.

Li Weimin smiled and said: "Ah Ming, I just suggest that you have to make your own decisions about what kind of organizational structure to establish and what kind of positions to set up." By the way, since it is an organization, it needs activity funds, so I will donate 50,000 Piast as an ordinary member first, and then I will fight local tyrants when I have time.

Ma Anyi and Wu Changming have money, and we are not albino yuan, all this money will be used on the blade, such as doing public welfare or something, in the final analysis, it is still helping them change their image of being rich and unkind. ”

Thinking that the federation would no longer have to worry about funding in the future, Ah Shui couldn't help but smile and said: "Mr. Li is right, we are not for ourselves, but for everyone, for the sake of nearly one million overseas Chinese on the embankment. ”

"So we have to be justified when we want money."

Li Weimin smiled, and suddenly changed his words: "It's easy to turn into a relationship, the key is how to make people willing to pay for it." I think that we need to do a good job in publicity, and we must let people know that we are different from the Workers' Party and other dangping, and that we are fundamentally different from the Five Gangs Association, otherwise people might as well donate their money to other parties or to the association.

We have to make it clear to people that we are not interested in what isms, and if there is, realism. We don't want to make any revolution, we just want to save our lives, our own lives, the lives of our relatives, and the lives of our friends. After all, Beijing can't give us any help, and Taiwan can't resettle the millions of overseas Chinese on the embankment or even in Vietnam. ”

He Tianming said with emotion: "Teacher Qian thinks so too. ”

"This shows that our proposition can arouse everyone's resonance, and today I invite you to go to the city together, firstly, because I want to use this time on the road to communicate, and secondly, because we are a social group, there is a problem of legitimacy. Later, we will meet with a very important person, and if we can get his support, the future activities of the Federation will be protected by the government. ”

The Franco-Vietnamese authorities granted the overseas Chinese on the embankment a certain degree of autonomy, and they could do whatever they wanted in the Chinese area of the embankment, and they were nothing after leaving the embankment. Most of the embankments are overseas Chinese, and no amount of publicity can change the image of overseas Chinese.

How can I get out of the house, which has been bothering He Tianming, and when he learned the true intention of this trip, he suddenly asked in surprise: "Mr. Li, you have been caring about us and trying to help us in every way?" ”

"It's not a concern, it's a concern. As for help, I am a member, and I may become a director in the future. Besides, the federation is for everyone, as an overseas Chinese on the embankment, these are all things I should do. ”