Updated: 202-02-0

Arms purchases came to an end, and other work on the North American rudder began to operate. If you want to build a big company in 54 and organize Chinese laborers in North America; Launched a big scientist in North America and applied for a patent. The first step is to address the issue of nationality and funding.

The question of nationality is relatively simple.

In Hong Kong, Tang Muyao, who manages the Hong Kong Huafu Foreign Company, has collected the identity documents of many American gold diggers, the records of payment of fees and taxes, and the letters of recommendation provided by the Hong Kong church, which are all necessary supporting materials for naturalization. When Qian Shuiting returned to China this time, he specially asked Wang Xie Tang to come to these materials and bring them to North America.

In '54, California's gold rush had cooled down with the dwindling of new gold veins. Many Chinese workers began to return to China, including some of the first Chinese workers who came to California in '49. Most of these people came from Guangdong and were transferred to the United States through recruitment by foreign companies and local smugglers in Hong Kong. Although many people do not know Chinese and English, they are indeed very careful to keep all kinds of documents and vouchers given by the government, and they bring them back to China. After some searching and buying, Tang Muyao finally came up with the identity certificates of a group of old Chinese workers. The Church in Hong Kong suffers from the slow progress of missionary progress, and when a group of parishioners (self-proclaimed) who have to travel far and wide come to ask for help, it is natural that someone will come to protect these people who are not very familiar with it, after all, these new foreign merchants seem to have a good understanding of Protestant doctrine.

Using the space-time box, the rudder crew made several brief reconnaissance crossings in San Francisco, Sacolamento, Baltimore, and near the Champing's house. The time of crossing is from late afternoon to early morning, and in the west they try to avoid contact with the locals. In the east, because of the rarity of Asians, they simply rely on the help of modern means such as night vision devices and cautious action, completely avoiding direct contact with anyone. In the places where they had been, they had placed surveillance recording and camera equipment as an aid in the preparation of the crossing.

San Francisco in '54 was far less prosperous than it was in later years, with a chaotic urban area, a harbor packed with fishing boats, and only a handful of clippers. The first thing Qian Shuiting did when they entered California was to use a bullet to overturn Murray, the chief judge of the California Supreme Court.

In the infamous "People v. Hall" case in '54, the California Supreme Court ruled that Chinese people had no right to testify about whether a white person had committed a crime or not. California Supreme Court Justice Murray declared the majority, saying that because most people believe that the race of Chinese is inherently inferior, the development of intelligence is limited, and they are different from whites in language, opinion, color, and physique, and there is an insurmountable gap in nature with whites, they have no right to testify to end the life of any American citizen, nor have they the right to participate in the management of U.S. government affairs.

The timely elimination of Judge Murray helped to protect the lives and property of the Chinese in California at that time to a certain extent.

On Friday, July 2nd, '54, in Saccolmento, the capital of California on the west coast of the United States, a nondescript law firm had a wooden bar diagonally nailed to the side of the door frame. Five laborers-like Chinese in the room are discussing with the lawyer here about entrusting a naturalization application.

The lawyer's beard was so bearded that it was impossible to tell his exact age, and only when I heard him speak did I know that he was a young man. Lawyers are examining the supporting documents of the applicants.

"You're in California in '49? Then you must be rich, right?"

The Chinese who was questioned raised his head, his eyes wandered, as if he wanted to say yes, he shook his head for a moment, and finally shook his head and lowered his head again.

Like the Chinese laborers often seen here, these men were wrinkled, as if they hadn't washed their faces in a long time, their hair was disheveled, and a braid was hidden under a tattered felt hat. The worn-out clothes seemed to have been freshly washed, and several patches were scattered all over the place. Several people sat helplessly, scratching their bodies. One of them answered the lawyer's question and stumbled on a cliché story. On several occasions they had just found a place where there was a lot of gold, but they were driven away by the white men who came later, and they took all the gold...... This is a fat man, who seems to have the best English of the six, and he is always talking, but his English is not only stammering, but also has a strange accent, and a few invented words pop up from time to time.

"Mr. Cohen, please help us, we love this country, if we become Americans, we will be better off, and others will not always bully us."

Although lawyer Cohen did not take the Chinese's expectations seriously, he nodded with a professional smile, "You have been living here for five years, and you have annual mining fee receipts to prove that you have been living here and paying taxes on time." All I have to do is go to the local police station and make sure you don't have any criminal record, and you'll have all the paper. Forty dollars per person for the lawyer's fees, you can pay it now, and I'll take care of it. ”

"But other lawyers only cost thirty dollars."

Several people also told the lawyer that they should get a discount on the group purchase, and promised to give more publicity to Mr. Cohen in the future, so that family and friends would come to him for immigration.

California only became a state in 50 years, and it became a U.S. territory during the 4-year Spanish-American War, and most of the local population immigrated after the gold rush, and many people did not meet the requirements for naturalization. Filled with expectations for the future, attorney Cohen agreed to take on the case at $25 per person, and only half of it was paid upfront.

Several people scratched on their bodies and left the law firm with a thousand thanks. As soon as they left, Cohen told the servants to hurry up and clean the office, especially the chairs they had sat on, "I don't know how many lice they brought." ”

At this time, the few Chinese who were not far away were also cursing the lice in their clothes.

"I can't just wear this clothes next time. Damn, it took a little work. The tall one said.

"And this is just the beginning, if you want to gain a foothold in this time and space, hard work is indispensable." The thin man said.

"Well, these clothes should still be useful, so let's take them back and disinfect them before wearing them." Said the short man

"Damn, bring this rag back, the space-time machine has a limit. You don't have the money to fight with them all day about quotas. ”。 The fourth one was sighing, he was not tall, he was not short, he was not fat, he was not thin.

The fat man said, "Don't bother so much, just boil it in boiling water." ”

These five people, the tall one is called Liu Gang, the thin one is called Zhou Weisen, the short one is called Lin Hanlong, the fat one is Qian Shuiting, and the tall one is not short, not fat or thin is called Chen Gong. As he spoke, several people disappeared into the shacks in the Chinese area.

The North American rudder relied on Liu Gang's half-baked Cantonese to carry out activities in the Chinese circle in California, and made many friends who were gold panning Chinese workers, especially Dou Laosan, one of the leaders of Chinese workers in San Francisco.

Dou Laosan came to North America four years ago, when gold was discovered in California, and he was recruited from Guangzhou to mine gold. After so many years of gold panning life, Dou Sanye's dream of making a fortune has long been dull, and now he just wants to live peacefully in a tavern.

Dou Laosan's tavern is open in a shack area where Chinese gather, and in the evening, the tavern is always crowded with Chinese laborers who have been tired all day.

"There is an old Chinese saying that if you are not of my race, your heart will be different. Do you speak foreign? Do you have Citi nationality? Liu Gang sat in the tavern, he shook his head, "Third master, people have no long-term worries, they must have near-term worries." Xiang Yu burned Afang Palace, did he think that Wujiang would kill himself; When Lord Chongzhen ascended the throne, he was full of spirits, did he not think of what he would look like after the year. We're in white man's territory right now, and we have to be careful in everything. ”

Dou Sanye didn't speak, he is also an old Jianghu, knowing that Liu Gang spoke like this, he must have a deep meaning. Zhang Dabiao, a young man, shouted, "We eat with our strength, and we don't commit foreigners' things, and foreigners can't be unreasonable." ”

"Foreigners are reasonable, that is to their own people, we are yellow-skinned Chinese." Liu Gang sneered, "Everyone remembers, 4 years ago, the miners who let us pan for gold pay an extra $20 a month, and the people in Citigroup don't pay it." The year before last, we were asked to pay an extra dollar per month, and last year it rose to $4. ”

The people in the tavern stopped talking, and they all nodded silently.

Liu Gang showed the document he had just arrived, "This is the American citizen certificate, with this certificate, white people will not dare to bully us casually." ”

The Chinese workers suddenly chattered and made an uproar. Some say that becoming a U.S. citizen is a betrayal of one's ancestors, and one cannot go to the grave of one's ancestors after death. Some people say that we don't understand foreign languages, and foreigners won't give us documents. Others said that he had inquired and that it would cost a lot of dollars to get these documents.

"Everyone, be quiet!" Liu Gang stood up and raised his voice, "The United States recognizes two nationalities, that is, if you become an American citizen, you are still Chinese, and you can still enter the ancestral grave after death." If you don't know foreign language and don't have money, you can join our Chinese Revival Mutual Aid Association. The purpose of the Chinese Revival Mutual Aid Association is to 'provide all reasonable and lawful assistance to Chinese people in the United States.' The Chinese Revival Mutual Aid Association is a group of Chinese people, and all the Chinese who join us will sign a contract to open a mine together and pay wages on a monthly basis. We will also help members of the Chinese Restoration Association to apply for U.S. citizenship free of charge. When members encounter any difficulties, the Association will do its best to help them solve them. ”

Leaving Liu Gang to organize Chinese laborers in California, Qian Shuiting, Zhou Weisen, Lin Hanlong, and Chen Gong shifted their attention to Baltimore on the east coast of North America.

In 54 years, Baltimore, on the east coast of the United States, thousands of sails floated in the outer harbor, and sailboats gathered on the shore, which was the birthplace of the famous scissor sailboat, a busy scene.

Four Orientals without braids, one short, one fat and one thin, and one is not tall, not short, not fat, not thin, four of them are dressed in high-end suits and hats, speak fluent English but have a strange accent, carrying their luggage, and walking out of the customs dock with a calm expression.

Out of the dock, a few people walked into the Lexington Market outside the harbor first. It's not a busy time for the market, and there are only a few horse-drawn carriages parked on the side of the road, and there are several banks here. They exchanged a few hundred dollars of Spanish silver for a few hundred dollars in several banks, mostly twenty dollars in gold, some in silver, and a few in banknotes, and a few more men wandered around for a while before they called a carriage and headed straight for the Methodist church.

With a certificate and a letter of recommendation from the Hong Kong Methodist Church, the four took up temporary residence at the Methodist Church in Baltimore. Within a few days, the pastor of the church helped them rent a large house and a shop for business. The most pleasing thing for everyone was that by the river in that small town on the outskirts of Baltimore, they also rented a large yard surrounded by a grove. This courtyard is the same coordinate as Qian Shuiting's original home in time and space.

As the North American rudder spreads out, it gradually feels the pressure of funds. But this is in North America, as a region with very strict financial regulations, it is not so easy to empty the white wolf, and the funds required to cross are hundreds of millions of dollars.

Together, solving this problem is actually very simple, which is to dig treasure.

It is well known that the Spanish plundering of colonial wealth during the colonial period was the most barbaric way, when South America was rich in gold and silver and other rare resources, so the only job of the Spanish colonists in the New World was to mine and operate the mines, and shipwels of gold and silver treasures were mined and shipped to Spain, many of which were sunk at the bottom of the sea due to hurricanes.

Zhou Weisen and Chen Gong suggested digging up these treasure ships. Among them, the wreck of the Lady Atoka is known as one of the world's top ten treasures, with 40 tons of treasure, including nearly tons of gold, 500 kilograms of precious stones, and all treasures worth about 400 million US dollars.

"We're going to track down the cases that have been successful." Chen Gong emitted a glimmer of excitement through the 200-degree lens, "The Lady Atoka has been successfully salvaged in 95, right?" The coordinates are well located and not very difficult. We traveled back to '54 to salvage them, and it didn't take much effort at all! ”

Through Chen, Qian met Jerry, who runs a coffee shop and a private sailing club in Miami. He is a 26-year-old Chinese-American born here, whose ancestral home is Quanzhou, Fujian Province. His Chinese name is Xie Jindiao, the character 鵬達.

Although Xie Jindiao is a descendant of immigrants and grew up in North America, his father is from Fujian and his mother is from Guangdong, so he can speak fluent Hokkien and Cantonese. Due to the influence of multiple languages since childhood, Xie Jindiao's language talent has been well trained, and he can also use Mandarin, Japanese, and French freely, not to mention American English.

From the exchange, Qian Shuiting felt that Xie Jinpeng had a very strong sense of compassion and compassion, and he kept saying that he was a baptized Christian and a pacifist since childhood. Although there was some hesitation, Qian Shuiting and Bai Baoxiang communicated and finally absorbed this yellow-skinned and white-hearted banana man into the North American rudder.

Bai Baoxiang said to Qian Shuiting: "The three views are not correct, it doesn't matter, you can transform them in a different time and space." Even if he is a foreigner, as long as they have a skill and can be used by me, we can all absorb it, of course, security and confidentiality are still necessary. ”

A secret operation to "save the treasure" aimed at salvaging a shipwreck on the bottom of the sea quietly began in Miami.