On the streets of Chicago, 16-year-old Mei Binlin was walking with Sun Yat-sen towards a laundry house run by overseas Chinese.

In February 1910, Sun Yat-sen traveled from San Francisco to Chicago with a simple carry-on luggage.

After arriving in Chicago, Sun Yat-sen made a special trip to Chinatown and came to a restaurant called "Shanghai Restaurant" to find the manager there.

The manager of the "Shanghai Restaurant" is called Mei Guangpei, who is a native of Guangdong. The reason why Sun Yat-sen wanted to find Mei Guangpei was because Mei Guangpei was his fellow countryman, and second, he was introduced by his friend.

Although Mei Guangpei didn't know Sun Yat-sen, he had already heard of this fellow countryman, and he was introduced by a friend, so Mei Guangpei let Sun Yat-sen live in the "Shanghai Restaurant".

After the greetings, Sun Yat-sen bluntly explained to Mei Guangpei the purpose of his visit to Chicago.

The first was to raise money from the Chinese diaspora in Chicago to continue to prepare for the revolutionary uprising in the country; The second is to propagate revolutionary principles to the overseas Chinese in Chicago and establish a branch of the League. Since Sun Yat-sen was not very clear about the situation of overseas Chinese in Chicago at that time, he hoped that Mei Guangpei could help him, and it was best to find a reliable person to be his "guide".

Mei Guangpei quickly found a young "guide" for Sun Yat-sen, he was 16 years old at the time, living in the "Shanghai Restaurant" in Chicago and working and studying.

In the following months, Sun Yat-sen followed the "guide" Mei Binlin to propagate the revolution and raise donations among the overseas Chinese in Chicago, but because Kang Youwei had come to Chicago once before and turned a large number of overseas Chinese into a "royalist", Sun Yat-sen's fundraising action was quite unsmooth.

Just like now...

"Is anyone there, please?" After walking into the laundry hall, Sun Yat-sen knocked on the open door and asked softly inside.

The boss who was ironing his clothes with an iron inside thought that there were guests, but when he came out, he saw that it was Sun Yat-sen, and his face was pulled down at that time.

"It's you car cannon, what are you doing here? Isn't it because you want to promote your revolution again? ”

Sun Yat-sen just wanted to speak, but the owner of the laundry hall had already continued. "I'm not interested in hearing about your revolutions, so you'd better let me go quickly, don't delay my business."

When Sun Yat-sen heard him say this, he hurriedly stopped the angry Mei Binlin, and after smiling politely back, he took Mei Binlin out of the laundry hall and walked towards another shop.

"Cut!" After making a cut, the owner of the laundry continued to work with the iron. (All of the above are historical facts)

After walking outside for a whole day, Sun Yat-sen returned to the "Shanghai Restaurant" with a tired body

In the past few months, Sun Yat-sen has not made any achievements at all, at least the owners of the "Shanghai Restaurant" Mei Yaofu, Mei Xuyao, and the manager Mei Guangpei have become the first batch of members of the Chicago League, but the difficulties are still too great compared with the results.

"Mr. Sun, are you back?" After seeing Sun Yat-sen come back with Mei Binlin, Mei Guangpei hurriedly greeted him.

Since becoming a member of the Alliance, Mei Guangpei and others have honored Sun Yat-sen as Mr.

Sun Yat-sen, who was looking down to think about things, was startled, but chuckled when he found out that it was Mei Guangpei.

At this time, Mei Guangpei was holding a stack of newspapers in his hand, and when Sun Yat-sen walked into the hotel, he hurriedly handed over the newspapers.

"Mr. Sun, do you think this Yan Guang is the one you once mentioned?" In the newspapers, the news about the Tampico oil field is clearly written, and even some of Yan Guang's deeds are clearly written, but most of them are inventions that Yan Guang once made in the United States, as for the stocks in London and the factories in Sichuan, these newspapers may be able to find out, but it is obviously impossible to find them in one day.

"Oilfield?" Looking at the two biggest words in the newspaper, Sun Yat-sen frowned, and then turned to other contents.

"That's right, this Chinese named Yan Guang seems to have discovered a big oil field in Mexico, and now newspapers all over the United States have published this matter." As he spoke, Mei Guangpei pointed to the other guests who were reading the newspaper in the hotel, the newspaper in their hands may not be from a newspaper, but there is news about Petroleos Mexican on the front page.

Sun Yat-sen found a place in the hotel and sat down, and then carefully flipped through the newspaper.

It's just that...

"Guangpei, is this oil field of any value?" Sun Yat-sen, who has never been in contact with the oil industry, is still a little puzzled after looking at it for a long time.

understood that Sun Yat-sen did not understand oil, so Mei Guangpei only started from the simplest point and made Sun Yat-sen understand the value of this oil field.

"It is said that 36,000 tons of oil are produced, which is equivalent to 260,000 barrels, and if it is sold at a price of $1 per barrel, then this Chinese named Yan Guang can earn at least more than $90 million a year..." And this place called Tampico is very large, it is impossible to have only one oil well, although there may not be an oil well with a production of more than 30,000 tons, but it is still very possible to find a 10,000-ton oil well, and then this surnamed Yan can earn at least more than 100 million US dollars a year..."

According to the exchange ratio of the US dollar to the silver dollar or Kuping silver at this time, Sun Yat-sen's mind soon appeared with a huge number that he could not even think of in the past...

At this moment, Sun Yat-sen's idea of pulling Yan Guang into the alliance was stronger than ever.

It's just that just when Sun Yat-sen was about to send a telegram to San Francisco, calling Huang Yihua and then the two of them went to Mexico together, Mei Guangpei suddenly sighed.

"It's a pity that although this surnamed Yan has the life to dig it out, I'm afraid he won't have the life to enjoy it..."Saying that, Mei Guangpei motioned to Sun Yat-sen to see the few white diners in the restaurant, and at this moment there were only two words on the faces of these white people.

"Greed."

Sun Yat-sen, who was still a little excited, sat down gloomily, and at this time he also understood the fate that Yan Guang was going to suffer.

"It seems that this oil well is not only a windfall, but also a windfall that costs people's lives..."Sun Yat-sen sighed as he looked at the contents of the newspaper.

Just as Sun Yat-sen was sighing at the newspaper, Huang Lao, who was far away in San Francisco, also saw the content in the newspaper.

It's just that unlike Sun Yat-sen and Mei Guangpei, Huang Lao didn't think of the danger Yan Guang was going to face at this time, he just took this newspaper and called a few juniors, and then...

"Look, look at the people, how much time did it take to drill such an oil well in Mexico, look at you, I only know that I am mixed with Li is male, and I don't know what mess I am doing." As he spoke, Huang Lao glanced at a few juniors who were lowering their heads, and sighed heavily. "If you can have a strong one percent, the old man, I will be blind even if I die."

A few middle-aged people standing on the side heard Huang Lao say this, and hurriedly hugged him, while Huang Yihua and several other young people lowered their heads even lower, but...

"Yan Guang, you remember it for me!" This is the common sentiment of several people.

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