Chapter 316 The status of the Chinese in Europe is raised
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At the beginning of the 20th century, many countries such as Europe and the Stars and Stripes had gathering places for Yanhuang people in China, which were generally called "Chinatown" or "Xiaoyanhuang District" to the outside world. The former mostly refers to large blocks that can be "self-circulating" with a population of more than 10,000 people, while the latter refers to small areas with a population of several thousand, which cannot be regarded as completely climate-bound and cannot be "closed" to operate independently.
In later generations, the Daimyo of Stars and Stripes Chinatown has a high reputation in Yan and Huang China and the world, such as Oakland, Honolulu and New York Chinatown of the Stars and Stripes are world-famous, and they are also the three places with a high concentration of Stars and Stripes Chinese, accounting for 22.4%, 15.5% and 15.4% of the total Chinese population of the Stars and Stripes, respectively. On the other hand, the fate of Yanhuang Chinatown and the Chinese in Europe is rarely mentioned and known.
According to the historical data recorded by Yadi in various European countries on the main plane, Wang Fan learned that most of the early Chinese sources in Europe were "Huanu".
At the end of the 19th century, European merchant ships loaded with silk, porcelain and other goods arrived in the port of Hamburg from Guangdong. A group of black-haired, yellow-skinned Chinese who sometimes walked down the ship, known as the "Huanu", had been adrift at sea for nearly a year and had been imprisoned to work under the ship's bilge for a long time. Because the Chinese were more industrious than the slave laborers from Africa and the Americas, they were especially "loved" by European caravanserais. Later, with the gradual passage of time, some of these "Chinese slaves" escaped from the captain's "claws" due to various coincidences, and stayed in Europe to live and settle down for a long time.
After the start of World War I, the British and French coalition forces hired 140,000 Chinese laborers from the then Yanhuang Republic of China because of the unfavorable war, heavy casualties, and severe attrition, in order to make up for the shortage of labor in a large area of their country, and some of these Chinese laborers later stayed in Europe. In 1938, Hitler began to implement a policy of "pure German blood", believing that "only five generations of Germans are true Germans". Thus began the nightmare of the Chinese in Germany, who were forced to divorce their German wives on the grounds that they would "stain the blood of the Germanic people". Then Hitler conquered the whole of Europe, and this policy was naturally implemented over a larger area, resulting in the exodus of the Chinese in Europe. However, even with this extreme policy, in 1944 there were still more than 160 Chinese living in Hamburg, the core city of Germany.
According to the historical records of the main plane, on the morning of May 13, 1944, the Nazis would accuse the Chinese of being spies under the pretext of working on the British ** ship, and then imprisoned 160 Yan and Huang people in a concentration camp in Williamsburg until the end of World War II. During this period, more than 20 people died due to unbearable torture, and only more than 140 survived. But this is the first target plane after all, and history has quietly changed here.
"Schmuck" Street, Hamburg, Hong Kong Hotel, July 3, 1944.
The founder of the Hong Kong hotel is surnamed Zhang, and there is a large black and white portrait of the owner himself, which is a typical image of overseas Chinese businessmen in that era: wearing a suit, a tie around his neck, a neat middle parted hair, his left hand crossed his waist, and a look of hesitation.
Since "Schmuck" Street was originally a gathering place for Chinese, more than 2,000 Chinese lived here when the Consulate of the Republic of China in Germany was established in 1921.
However, with the beginning of Hitler's policy of "pure German blood" and the gradual shift of the target population of the German police force from Jews to Yanhuang and other countries, the good days of the Chinese came to an end, a large number of Chinese had to flee Germany, and the business of Hong Kong hotels was also booming. But even so, Boss Zhang didn't plan to leave, because first, the Hong Kong hotel was almost all his property, and second, he really had no relatively safe place to go.
At 11 a.m. on July 3, Lars, a small German businessman, walked into the Hong Kong Hotel. On the whole, the Hong Kong hotel is actually small in scale, only one floor, and the total number of rooms is less than 15 rooms, and the entrance hall looks more like an old bar, and the small restaurant on the right hand side of the foyer, Mr. Zhang runs a Chinese restaurant here, which is also the main source of income for Hong Kong hotels to survive without many guests.
"Chongtinm (the German name for Boss Zhang), bring me a lunch, the same as before." Lars, who likes Chinese-style fried noodles, walked into the restaurant, sat behind a dark brown solid wood table, and said loudly.
"Okay!"
A few minutes later, a large plate of fried noodles with sausages stir-fried in the Chinese style was brought to the table. And Boss Zhang saw that because it was still early, there were no other guests for the time being, so he chatted with Lars and listened to some news on the market.
"Lars, any good news lately?" Boss Zhang, who knew that Lars was a well-informed person, asked.
"Good news? There are a lot of them. The combined forces of the British and the Star-Spangled Bannermen had been beaten by the great German team, and they cowered near Normandy and did not dare to come out. Lars's first reaction was to talk to Boss Zhang excitedly about the battle ahead from others.
"It's really good, the great German team is invincible." Boss Zhang, who knows how to properly cater to customers, is the only way to be a man and do business, and praised him very sleek and comfortable.
"Of course, the great FΓΌhrer is invincible, and so is the German army!" Lars followed suit, and then spoke in a slightly lower tone: "It's a pity that the Soviet Union is too large, otherwise it would have been wiped out long ago." β
"I remember that the battle with the USSR is already in its third year, right?" Boss Zhang silently calculated in his heart and guessed.
"That's right, it's been three years, and there's a tendency to move towards a fourth. Damn the Soviets, how many troops do they have? We have wiped out 15 million Soviet troops, but there are still nearly 10 million Soviet soldiers standing in the way of Moscow and other fronts. β
"They have a relatively large population."
"That's right, it's estimated that it's several times that of our Germany, by the way, when it comes to population, chongtinm, is your country more, I heard that it's as high as 400 million."
"400 million? I don't know, where did you hear that? When I went abroad, my motherland had no nationwide population census because of the long-term war and the invasion of the Japanese invaders. Boss Zhang shook his head, he went to study at the University of Hamburg in Germany from the Yanhuang Continent in 1938, and when he came out, the Japanese invaded Yanhuang War and had just begun, and the little devils had a great advantage.
"I heard from a Swiss businessman that it seems that your country has changed its ruling party, and I heard that the newly established 'New Yanhuang Democratic Republic' is called the 'New Yanhuang Democratic Republic', which has opened an embassy in Switzerland, a neutral country in Europe."
"New Yanhuang Democratic Republic? Is it true? The latest news I heard last time was that the Yanhuanghong Party forces had just unified the north and recovered the three eastern provinces. β
"I can't be wrong, because the Swiss businessman also said that in their Yanhuang embassy, a large living room is used as a reading room for Yanhuang's basic national conditions, which lists some basic information about Yanhuang's country, such as population, history, and information about the ruling party. But with a huge market of up to 400 million people, alas~~ What a pity~~"
"It's a pity?"
"Well, you must know that because the Atlantic sea power is not in the hands of our Germany for the time being, otherwise we can definitely sell a lot of German products there, and we can buy goods that are very in demand here." Lars, who has always wanted to expand his business and become a shareholder of a world-renowned company, has a bright eye.
"Lars, you're building your corporate empire out of thin air again? Not to mention anything else, one thing I know very well is that Yanhuang can only sell here with value in the porcelain and tea industry, do you want to buy these? β
"Impossible!" Hearing Boss Zhang's conclusion, Lars, who was so rigorous and paranoid in business, immediately had a serious expression and retorted in an aggravated tone: "Do you know the recent high-end 'stockings and underwear' turmoil that has been popular among wealthy businessmen and high-ranking military officers in Hamburg (considering the weight of air transportation and cost-effective factors, penicillin, nylon stockings, and women's underwear are the commodities with the highest profit margin)? β
"I've heard that there seem to be several kinds of high-stretch stockings that make women crazy on the market, and it is said that the 'devil's mana' has been applied to them, and many women are crazy about them. I have also seen the real goods and the price on the black market, and the price is enough for my hotel to sell for 3 months. β
"Those are produced in your home country."
"What? No way! β
"It's true that at the beginning, only Switzerland bought from Yanhuang alone, and then sold it all over Europe at a higher price. Now other neutral countries such as Spain and Sweden have all established diplomatic relations with Yanhuang and have begun to buy this commodity in large quantities. β
"It's hard to believe~~"
"That's why I'm extremely depressed, because of our relationship with the Japanese Invaders, we can't establish diplomatic relations with your motherland, it's really bad!"
Twenty minutes later, Lars, who had finished eating the last noodle, suddenly turned around and said, "Chongtinm, have time to clean up the guest room, don't let the bed be full of dust." β
"Why?" Boss Zhang, who has not had any tenants for 1 or 2 years, is a little confused.
"In a few days, Germany will gather all the Yanhuang people from all over the country here, and your 'Hong Kong Hotel' will be busy by then."
"Concentrated?"
"Well, I heard that the ambassador of your country to Switzerland passed on the news through the Swiss government, it seems that in order to protect the safety of the Yanhuang Chinese in European countries, Germany has agreed to set up Chinese gathering places in several European countries and provide necessary living materials on a regular basis."
"So good?"
"Of course, you must know that the greater the number of Chinese in the Chinese gathering area, the greater the discount on the stockings and underwear that Yanhuang sells to Germany through neutral countries, and will give priority to ensuring the supply to Germany. Do you know how many wealthy businessmen and mid- and high-ranking military officers there are in Germany as a whole, and how much demand and influence they have? So hurry up and clean up, and soon it will be crowded with people. With that, Lars put on his carefully selected top hat and walked out the door.