If Scrooge heard someone ask him, "Have you heard of the Xingzhong Society?" Then Scrooge, who had an explosion of bad taste, might have asked rhetorically, "Have you heard of Amway?" But Chen Bachi really hadn't heard of Amway, so naturally he wouldn't have come up with such a sentence, and even he hadn't heard of any "Xingzhonghui", but when he heard the word "will", he naturally remembered things such as "triad", "elders", "knife club" and the like. So he said casually: "I don't know, I'm not very familiar with gangs and the like." ”

"We're not gangs." Hearing that Chen Bachi regarded the "Xingzhong Society" as a gang, Li Chongguang was obviously very unconvinced, and his face was slightly red, "Our Xingzhong Association wants to expel the Tatars, revitalize China, and establish an organization of the United Government, not a gang." ”

"Ah, isn't it anti-Qing and restoring sight?" Chen Bachi thought so in his heart, but he was already old and sophisticated, and he didn't say it.

Li Chongguang continued to introduce their Xingzhong meeting to Chen Bachi, and that posture really had a bit of Amway's flavor. From his description, Chen Bachi also has a general understanding of the situation of the "Xingzhong Society".

According to Li Chongguang, this Xingzhong Association was a revolutionary organization led by Mr. Sun, which was founded in Honolulu, and now a general association of the Hong Kong Xingzhong Association has also been established in Hong Kong, intending to launch a revolution and overthrow the Manchu government.

"Support for the revolution", especially for "the revolt of the colonial peoples against the imperialists. Country. Host. "The Revolution of Righteous Oppression" is one of the common businesses of Blackwater, so after hearing the word "starting a revolution", Chen Bachi's interest immediately rose.

"I don't know how many members your association has now, how many people have guns, but you need to buy weapons and equipment and receive military training." Chen Bachi immediately said, "Little brother don't know if you know, I worked in Blackwater before I retired, and now I have friends in McDonald Infantry Weapons and Blackwater Security Company." If you need weapons, if you need services in terms of personnel training, you can come to me. You may not know that what we Blackwater is best at is teaching people to rebel. Panama, for example, would never have been able to become independent without us, and Cuba, which was still under Spanish colonial rule, but the people of western Cuba had gained a high degree of autonomy for a considerable extent. And their situation is inseparable from their victory in the armed resistance to Spanish rule, and their victory is inseparable from the weapons and training we provide them. So, if you want to rebel, you can't go wrong with us. Baojiao Baohui, one-stop service. ”

"Mr. Chen, we are indeed preparing for revolution. I think that guns and weapons must be needed. However, I don't know exactly how much you need, and whether you need your company's services. Li Chongguang said, "Mr. Chen, if you want to stay in Hong Kong for a few more days, I can lead Mr. Chen to talk to Mr. Sun." ”

"I do have to stay in Hong Kong for a few more days, until next Wednesday, and then go back to North America on the Cassiopeia. Tickets have been booked for a long time. If those above you are interested and available, I can go and talk to them. Where I live, you know. Chen Bachi replied.

……

On the morning of the second day after returning to Hong Kong, Chen Bachi had just had breakfast and was sitting on the rocking chair by the window reading a newspaper when a waiter from the hotel came to inform him:

"Mr. Chen, there is a Mr. Li and a Mr. Sun coming to visit you outside."

"Ah, let them in." Chen Bachi said.

After a while, Li Chongguang led in a man who looked about five and a half feet (about one meter six or eight) in a white suit and a white helmet hat and looked about thirty years old.

The height of five and a half feet is considered to be on the short side in the United States, but in China at that time, because of nutritional reasons, most people were generally low in height, especially in southern China.

"Hello, Mr. Chen. This is the Mr. Sun I mentioned to you. Li Chongguang first introduced the person behind him to Chen Bachi, and then turned around to introduce Chen Bachi to the person, "Mr. Sun, this is Mr. Chen." ”

Mr. Sun took off his hat, revealing his hair without braids and with a very short cut. He stepped forward and stretched out his hand to Chen Bachi: "Contemptible Sun Wen, fortunately." ”

"Fortunately, fortunately. Mr. Sun sits here. Chen Bachi also stretched out his hand to shake Mr. Sun, and then let him go to the rattan chair next to him. If it was Scrooge, he might have a little reaction to the name Sun Wen, but of course, the reaction would not be very large. And Chen Bachi is not a traverser, he doesn't know anything about the founding father of the Republic of China, the forerunner of the revolution, and Mr. Sun doesn't have the legendary aura of a tiger body shaking and worshipping from all directions, Chen Bachi naturally doesn't have any special feelings. In his eyes, this Mr. Sun Wen was just a customer who could make him feel a little good (because he had always maintained a lot of malice towards the Manchus).

"I heard that Mr. Chen also turned against the Qing Dynasty back then, and he is also our predecessor." Mr. Sun spoke first.

"Back then, I rebelled with King Dongwang, and although it was lively, to be honest, after I arrived in the United States, I saw some of the world, and I realized that the level of rebellion at that time was really not high. To be honest, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was rotten in the morning, and if we had made fewer mistakes at the beginning, we would probably have stopped wearing braids by now. Since he intended to make this deal with Xingzhong, Chen Bachi of course did not hide his contempt and hatred for the Manchus.

"Yes, the Manchu government lost its power and humiliated the country, brought disaster to the country and the people, and should have been overthrown a long time ago. You see, sir, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was such a big country, and it was not only that it was frequently bullied by the Western powers, and it was recently at war with a small country like Japan, and it was also completely defeated...... How can such a traitorous government not be overthrown and not defeated? Mr. Sun first enumerated the sins of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for losing power and humiliating the country, and then denounced the Manchu Qing's national policy.

"Sir has been abroad for many years, so he naturally knows the idea of the nation-state. Now the Manchu Qing Dynasty is not my race, but its essence is just the same as the foreigners, they all regard our China as a colony, and use our Chinese anointment to support those useless children of the Eight Banners. Therefore, once the Manchu government encountered a foreign enemy, it did not dare to seriously resist, because the children of the Eight Banners had long been useless, and if they wanted to resist, they had to use the Han people, and the Han people were worried that the Han people could overthrow them if they had military power, so when the Manchu Qing Dynasty ruled the country, the first priority was not to strive to make the country rich and strong, but to suppress the Han people. I heard that before the First Sino-Japanese War, Li Zhongtang repeatedly wrote about the lack of naval armament, the aging of ships, the backwardness of artillery, and the fact that its strength was far inferior to that of Japan. However, in order to curb the Han Chinese, the Manchu court deliberately embezzled naval military funds for other purposes. I have heard that the Manchu aristocracy often said in private that the Han people prospered and the people died. Therefore, I would rather the country decline and be the meat of the great powers, rather than let the Han people such as me have room to show their skills. I, the Han Chinese, dozens of times and the Manchus, are the main body of our Chinese people, how can there be a reason why the main body has been oppressed to this point and the country can prosper? When I look at the politics of the Westerners, it can be said that people can make the best use of their talents, make the best use of the land, make the best use of things, and make the flow of goods -- these four things are the great scripture of prosperity and strength, and the great foundation of governing the country. But in China, this cannot be done without overthrowing the Manchus. If this continues, the fate of the Indians in North America and the Mayans in South America will not be far away. If this is the case, what face will I have when I die, and I will see my fathers and fathers......"

"Mr. Sun, the Manchus are bastards, if you don't say this, I know it. It's just not known how Mr. Sun intended to overthrow the Manchus. Chen Bachi said. If it was a few years earlier, Chen Bachi estimated that he might have been moved by Mr. Sun's words, and maybe he would have joined Mr. Sun's Xingzhong Club to make a revolution. But now it's different, first, Chen Bachi is also old, and although his skills are not bad, they are still much worse than before. Second, the older the rivers and lakes, the less timid they are, and the more they think. After so many years of knowledge and experience, Chen Bachi also knows that many times, what they say is useless, and the key depends on how they do it.

"First of all, of course, it is to propagate the revolution and arouse the ...... of the people," Mr. Sun began to tell Chen Bachi about how he planned to make a revolution.

"Mr. Sun, I would like to ask how many people there will be in Xingzhong now. Of course, if it's inconvenient, forget it. In addition, this kind of thing is very expensive, and I don't know how to ensure the funding of Mr. Sun's Xingzhong Society. Chen Bachi asked, and now these two questions are the ones he is most concerned about.

"It's still in its infancy, and it's not a lot of people. However, the Manchu Qing Dynasty acted perversely, and it was really driving away fish for the abyss, and it was believed that it would not be long before the revolutionary ranks would expand rapidly. As for the funding, it is mainly based on the fundraising of our aspirants. Mr. Sun replied.

"What kind of people can join Xingzhonghui. What kind of discipline does the Xingzhong Association have? Chen Bachi continued to ask.

"As long as you are in favor of the national revolution, support the overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the establishment of a united government, you can join us......" Mr. Sun thought that Chen Bachi was moved by him, and hurriedly spoke again.

But unlike what Mr. Sun thought, Chen Bachi was not moved by the blueprint he depicted, on the contrary, he heard a lot of very bad things. Later, in a letter to his friend, Chen Bachi made this evaluation of the "Xingzhong Society" initiated by Mr. Sun:

"This Xingzhong Association is a freak, it does the most dangerous thing - rebellion, but it is loosely organized like a polo club, or even worse than a polo club, you know that the polo club has a threshold of funds. They are overly optimistic about propaganda, almost taking it for granted, and they certainly don't have the tools in their hands to influence public opinion broadly like the Associated Press, and even they don't think of building something like this. Of course, more importantly, what they promote is the so-called 'Great Truth', and they seem to really believe that there are really so many people in the world who are willing to risk their heads for the sake of the 'Great Truth'. And where it really matters, that is, what tangible, immediate benefits the revolution can bring to ordinary people, they say almost nothing, not accidentally, but because their revolution really does not seem to be able to bring about these immediate changes. Therefore, I think that their revolution at that time will probably be similar to the 'Little Knife Society' at most, and it is far less than the Heavenly King and the Eastern King back then......"