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As far as I know, all the overseas Chinese who came to the United States sat in the airtight cargo hold of a foreign ship, eating, drinking, and sleeping in it for dozens of days, and transported to the United States like piglets, and in the process, sixty percent of them died on the ship before they arrived in the United States, and their bodies were thrown into the sea by those evil ship owners to feed the fish!

The newly arrived and hopeful Chinese workers were all arranged to do the hardest and most tiring work at the bottom of the society, such as mining and building roads, but they could only get the least income. Some went back to see Jiangdong's fathers because they had no shame, gritted their teeth and stayed, and did all the lowly and hard work.

For so many years, white Americans have discriminated against yellows and blacks. Beating and insulting Chinese has become a daily pastime for white people, and some whites pull Chinese workers' braids on the street and forcibly ask to knock their heads, causing onlookers and applause from passers-by.

The Chinese and overseas Chinese have no human rights here, and they are wantonly killed by whites, how many of them have died tragically in a foreign land? I can't count them. At that time, the Manchu Qing court not only did not protect overseas Chinese, but overseas Chinese could be beheaded if they returned to China according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty. So we stood up. Overthrew it!

All the western United States can have today's prosperity and prosperity, our Chinese workers are absolutely indispensable, without you, can the main railway artery that runs through the east and west be built? No! When building this railroad, our Chinese laborers were more efficient than Caucasians, which is a fact that American employers also admit themselves, but. The Chinese always do the hardest and most dangerous jobs, while the whites do the light, safe jobs. What's even more infuriating. The Chinese are always paid much less than the whites, often more than twice as much. Due to the poor working conditions, the work tasks are heavy, and the pay is too poor. During the construction of the railway, how many people died due to illness or accidents? No less than 10,000 people! Some people say that under every sleeper of the great railway that crosses the east and west, there is a corpse of a Chinese worker buried, and this sentence is no exaggeration!

After the completion of the railway, many of our Chinese workers were unemployed, and at that time, due to the economic recession caused by the American Civil War, which spread to the west, a large number of laborers also flowed to the west, and in order to survive, we Chinese workers ignored the poor working conditions. and doing those hard, tiring and low-income jobs, so that the Chinese workers have jobs. But many whites are unemployed, because American employers prefer low-paid and hard-working Chinese workers!

As a result, the large-scale anti-Chinese movement began, and the anti-Chinese wave spread like a plague, and it was common for us Chinese to be beaten and killed. Each person had to pay a poll tax of $10, and his hair was not allowed to exceed an inch. Bones cannot leave the country, and there are so many laws and regulations that specifically control the Chinese! ”

Xiao Zhenlei's speech said here, tens of thousands of overseas Chinese on the dock all remembered the suffering they had suffered for so many years, one by one full of tears, many people cried loudly, they have gritted their teeth for so many years, no matter how hard and tired they are, they can never cry, and now Xiao Zhenlei said these words let them know that the motherland knows the bitterness in their hearts, so they can no longer help but open the floodgates of feelings.

Xiao Zhenlei waved his arms with a stern face and said loudly: "Is this fair? It's not fair! Why do we Chinese do the hardest and most tiring work, but can only get the lowest pay? Why should we Chinese be wantonly killed by white people, and they should not be punished? Are we born cheap? Wrong, we Chinese are not only not lowly, but also one of the most noble races in the world, when our ancestors created a splendid civilization, they were still drinking blood like savages, so why did we Chinese fall into this field in the United States or other countries? That's because we Chinese don't have a strong motherland, we don't have a strong backer behind us, we don't have a strong motherland to support you, of course you have to be bullied, this is the truth!

In the Ming Dynasty, our country was still one of the world's most powerful countries, and no one in the Western powers dared to underestimate us, it was the damned Manchu Dynasty that harmed our country for more than 200 years, and in these 200 years, our country not only did not progress, but also regressed, and if it was backward, it would be beaten!

But now it is different, we have built a new state, although this country has only just been established, but we are not as cowardly as the Manchu Dynasty, we will defend our power to the death, no one, no country will want to bully us again!

This time, I received an invitation from President Wilson to visit the United States, and there were several very important things to discuss with President Wilson, most of which were about commercial cooperation between China and the United States, but I changed my mind on the way here, and I decided to add one more thing to these things, that is, first of all, to raise the issue of the unfair treatment of overseas Chinese in the United States to President Wilson, and laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act are strict racial discrimination against us Chinese and overseas Chinese. If this problem cannot be solved, commercial cooperation between our new government and the US government will not be possible, and even deeper exchanges and cooperation will be put on hold, and even the diplomatic relations between the two countries will be affected.

If you have been wronged and treated unjustly here, you can go to our embassy in the United States for help; If you are homesick, we welcome you to go home often to see, now the country is still very poor, but you still have a bite to eat when you go back to eat, if you are at ease with our new government, that there are great business opportunities in the country, you can return to China to invest in factories and do business, we all strongly support and welcome, try to solve the difficulties for you!

Just now I received an invitation from Mr. Situ to go to the Zhonghua House to meet with some representatives of overseas Chinese from all walks of life in the United States, and I also heard that the streets outside the pier leading to Chinatown are full of our compatriots, these people are coming to see me, most of them are from far away from all over North America, it is not easy to come here, I have come here for the first time to receive such hospitality, I feel the enthusiasm of the compatriots, I want to go out to meet them, you can go with you, please keep order, Don't have a crowded stampede, okay? ”

"Okay—" Tens of thousands of people agreed.

A road was separated in the middle, Xiao Zhenlei led the civil and military officials along the passage under the protection of the security personnel, during which people kept stretching out their hands, and Xiao Zhenlei smiled and shook hands with them one by one.

In a short distance of a few tens of meters, Xiao Zhenlei and others walked out of the wharf for more than ten minutes, and when they came to the outside of the wharf, the number of Chinese people was more, and the streets were full of Chinese people on both sides, all of them waved a small national flag, and they quickly cheered when they saw him walking in the front, and they cheered for the young president of the motherland, and then the cheers spread farther and farther, until the end of the street.

The vehicle was already ready on the side of the road, and the guards had even opened the door and waited for Xiao Zhenlei to get into the car, but Xiao Zhenlei saw this situation and said: "Don't take the car, walk!" ”

The guards were shocked, this is not good, if you don't take a car, in the case of so many people around, safety is really not guaranteed, it is too dangerous, if someone hides in the crowd and shoots black guns, the consequences are unimaginable. But Xiao Zhenlei said: "If I take the car, don't you think that so many overseas Chinese who have come to see us will be very disappointed?" I believe that you can do an excellent job of guarding the mission", which made the guards unable to hold on any longer, and could only raise the spirit of 120,000 to prepare for the unexpected that may happen at any time.

Xiao Zhenlei wanted to walk, and the other civil and military officials naturally couldn't take the car, so they all walked with him, and everyone walked in the middle of the road together, and now the road was empty, and the police in Los Angeles opened the way in front and drove the people standing on the street to both sides, Xiao Zhenlei walked in front, and the others followed behind.

As he walked, he kept waving to the overseas Chinese on both sides of the street, smiling from beginning to end, and the whole process was filmed by many photographers.

Everywhere he passed, the overseas Chinese on both sides frantically waved the national flag and shouted: "Long live!" Perhaps only this is the only way to express their inner respect. Even in this era, no previous president has ever done such a pro-people thing in the United States government, which claims to be the most democratic in its own country.

Walking to a place, the earth-shattering gongs and drums suddenly sounded, the beating was deafening, Xiao Zhenlei turned his head to look, and waved his hand to those overseas Chinese who were beating energetically, which made these overseas Chinese who were beating gongs and drums even more excited, and some of them were so excited that they couldn't help themselves.

As Xiao Zhenlei and others walked along the street, the overseas Chinese on both sides followed behind with national flags in their hands, and after a while, the entire street was densely packed with Chinese, filling the entire street.

In the crowd not far ahead, a young Chinese man wearing a top hat, a vest, and a suit on his arm looked at Xiao Zhenlei walking in front of him in the middle of the road, he broke the ram of the revolver hidden under the suit, as long as he pulled the trigger, the gun would go off, and Xiao Zhenlei would be shot and killed. (To be continued) R580