Due to the early departure, when Li Liang and the others arrived in New York, there was still some time left before the Washington Conference was held.

Therefore, Li Liang and others, who had just arrived in Washington, did not rush to leave for Washington immediately, but stayed in New York first. Especially Li Liang himself, he needs some free time―――――― because in a way, he is also a New Yorker.

Long before following Yan Shao, Li Liang had always lived in New York's Chinatown. Although New York's Chinatown is not as big as San Francisco's Chinatown, it has a history in the United States.

However, after leaving Chinatown, Li Liang has not been back here for a long time.

Of course, Li Liang did not come here to visit his relatives, because in fact, after the establishment of the Nationalist Government, the political situation had been stabilized, and at the same time, Li Liang's status in China had reached a height second only to Yan Shao, and most of Li Liang's relatives had already returned to China from New York.

It is not surprising that one of the most fundamental reasons why these people left China in the first place was because they could no longer live in China. If this is not the case, in this era of returning to their roots, how many Chinese are willing to leave their homeland?

Of course, after so many years of hard work, these Chinese in the United States have more or less some family businesses. But no matter how much family business there is, it is obviously not as much as Li Liang can take care of them, not to mention that Li Liang was not the only one who went out of Chinatown at that time.

Whether it was those who followed Yan Shao in the first place, or those who came out of Chinatown later. These 'returnees' who returned from the United States are definitely not a few in the national government. It's just a little inferior to the localists.

And with the power and status of these people in China, it will definitely not be too bad to take care of those Chinese people in Chinatown.

In addition, Yan Shao is also a person who misses the old love, how much help these people in Chinatown helped him at the beginning. Yan Shao himself also knows it. Therefore, although he didn't say much on the surface, he definitely cared for him in private. It's like some of Yan Shao's properties in the United States, many of which are handed over to these people in Chinatown, and some of them can even be called relatives with Li Liang.

On the one hand, the situation in the country has stabilized, and on the other hand, it can be taken care of in many ways.

Whatever you think, returning home is a very good choice. It was also for this reason that in the years after the establishment of the National Government. More and more Chinese are choosing to return from the United States.

Of course, this does not mean that America's Chinatown is abandoned, since some people have chosen to return to their home country. Then there will inevitably be people who choose to stay here.

While a large number of Chinese returned to China, a considerable number of Chinese chose to stay in the United States. On the one hand, it is also equivalent to half of the homeland for these Chinese, and the other reason is that with the beginning of the First World War. Due to the growing importance of China. The discrimination against Chinese in the United States has also been declining. Especially after the Americans also participated in this bloody war, the US government even canceled the Chinese exclusion bill, which was originally very discriminatory against China.

The so-called Chinese Exclusion Act was a bill signed by the United States on May 6, 1882. It was developed in accordance with the revision of the Treaty of Berlin in 1880. The amendment to the regulations allowed the United States to suspend immigration admission, and Congress quickly enforced the decision. The bill was a response to the large number of Chinese who had moved to the western United States due to China's internal unrest and the opportunity to get railroad work, and in some ways it was the first ethnic immigration law in the United States to be used to build railroads.

Historically, the Chinese Exclusion Act was lifted after the outbreak of World War II to address the kind of bill that might affect U.S.-China relations.

During the First World War, both China and the United States were the main exhibitors. It can even be said that it was an important belligerent country second only to Britain and France―――――― when Russia was almost finished.

It is also because of this that this bill naturally seems a little out of place. will be canceled. It became a natural thing.

And it is precisely because of the cancellation of the Chinese Exclusion Act that a large number of Chinese are willing to stay in the United States.

At present, most of Li Liang's relatives have returned to China, but some remain in Chinatown. Others are Li Liang's acquaintances and elders when he was in the United States, and now that he has finally returned to New York, he naturally needs to visit them one by one.

It's also a little sad to say that since he left the United States that year, Li Liang has not returned to the United States for seven years since 13 years. Naturally, there is no opportunity to visit these former relatives and friends.

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Compared to when Li Liang left, Chinatown has not changed much.

No, to be exact, it is just that the changes on the surface are not very big, in fact, compared to when Li Liang left, the entire Chinatown is obviously ......... Deserted?

It is not surprising at all that a large number of Chinese people came to the United States in the first place. One of the most important reasons was that the domestic political situation in China at that time was chaotic, and even a large number of Chinese had to flee abroad.

However, China is now in a booming momentum, and no one can deny that China is now in a period of prosperity that has rarely been seen in the past 100 years. Moreover, this prosperity is far from reaching its peak, so the number of Chinese who are willing to leave their homeland and come to the United States has naturally become much smaller.

At the same time, there were many more Chinese who did not want to continue to be discriminated against in the United States, but wanted to return to China.

On the other hand, when Li Liang was taking some people back to Chinatown to visit relatives and friends here. Gu Weijun and Bu Zigao also began to visit New York under the arrangement of the U.S. government, which had already begun to be in London at the same time. In the original history, it even replaced London as a global financial center.

Obviously, as one of the largest cities of this era. New York is undoubtedly very bustling.

When they took Gu Weijun and them around the city, the officials of the New York City government and the US government led them with a look of pride and ostentation.

But on the other hand, for Gu Weijun, Li Liang and others, the qiē in front of them seems to be ......... Nothing?

"It's okay, right?" Gu Weijun made some evaluations with his own gaze. The development momentum of the whole city feels good, but it is a little too dirty..."Gu Weijun said this, his eyes were also through the car window. Looking at the shadow of a tall building, there is a pile of garbage.

"yes," Buzigao nodded lightly.

Obviously, Gu Weijun just saw the scene. And did not escape his eyes.

Then the rest of the delegation also agreed with Gu Weijun's words.

As one of the largest cities in the world, New York is naturally very bustling. But in the eyes of Gu Weijun and others, that's just the case, after all, today's Shanghai has gone through several years of development. Although it seems that there are many places that are not as good as New York. But the momentum is good.

Even on the surface, Shanghai, which is in the period of large-scale construction, is not much inferior to New York―――――― of course, when it comes to the actual situation, there is still a big gap compared with New York.

After all, New York is also an old financial city. In particular, by taking advantage of the opportunity of the First World War, it successfully achieved the status of the world's second largest financial center, second only to the original first place London―――――― in the original history. It was only after the Second World War that New York took the world's first place from London. It's as if after the end of World War II, the Americans took over the position of global hegemon from the British.

It should be noted that the third financial center in the world is Shanghai...

Shanghai, known as the magic capital of the Far East, was originally the financial center of the Far East. It is also the largest city in Asia, and no matter how much humiliating history and humiliating treaties are behind the city's prosperity, it is undeniable that these have also brought prosperity to Shanghai.

Of course, while the prosperity is accompanied by the chaos caused by the lack of regulation, the city is more or less unproductive. After all, it is a colonial city, and even the government of this country cannot control it much, so you can imagine how chaotic the city is.

However, with the establishment of the Nationalist government, the order of Shanghai soon took on a new look.

A large number of new, and at the same time strictly enforced laws were passed, so that the gangs that had been doing evil in Shanghai were not dismantled, but they were also silenced. Then the new streets and the high-rise buildings that reach into the sky give the city a different look.

In addition, Shanghai is already the largest financial city in the Far East and even in Asia, and it is somewhat logical that it can seize the position of the world's third largest financial center.

In fact, even in Yan Shao's era, there were only a few large international financial centers that could be on the table. For example, the top 10 financial centers in the world at that time were New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai, Paris, Frankfurt, Sydney in Australia and Armstrong in the Netherlands.

And then then then ...

In this day and age, things are somewhat different.

New York and London aside, one is the emerging super-capitalist power, the other is the old imperialism and the most powerful country in the world. In the case of the United States, it is not surprising that New York, with its strong national strength, especially the opportunity of the First World War, allowed New York to seize the second place in the world, and in the case of London, with the tradition of the past and the accumulated momentum, it is also a matter of course to maintain the first position.

Even in later generations, when Britain had been reduced to a second-rate country, with tradition and the accumulated past, London could still become the world's second largest financial center, and even compete with New York for the first place, not to mention the current period when Britain was still relatively strong.

But the financial centers that came back in history are a little bit more in this era...

For example, Hong Kong, as a metropolis, is naturally very prosperous. But compared with Shanghai, it is still a little worse. Even in later generations, Hong Kong was able to surpass Shanghai because China was too closed at that time, and the only way to guide the outside world to contact China was through Hong Kong.

There is such a country with blood transfusion behind its back. It can be said that even a pig can become a super strong pig. What's more, Hong Kong's conditions in all aspects, especially in terms of geography and politics, are very good.

Later, after China gradually opened up, Hong Kong's situation became much worse.

Especially in the period when Yan Shao crossed over, Hong Kong's situation was getting worse and worse, coupled with its internal chaos, it is estimated that this was once the largest financial center in Asia. It's not been a long time coming...

As for Tokyo, it was the capital and largest city of Japan in later generations. After all, no matter what. It is also a country that has been the world's second largest economic power for many years.

But on the other hand, here's the problem...

Although Tokyo was very powerful in later generations, it was still in a state of development. If you give Tokyo some more years. Maybe Tokyo can grow very well. However, in this era, with the competition from China, it is naturally difficult for Tokyo, which is not very good, to compete with Shanghai.

Especially with China's competition, the pressure on Japan is even greater.

As for Singapore? This city is good, but it is much worse than China.

How to say it, at the same time in history, Shanghai's population was about 2 million. At this time, Shanghai's population has reached more than 4 million. This is not impossible, because the population of Shanghai in 1920 was more than 2 million. By 1930, it had suddenly increased to more than three million.

In that chaotic period of the original. Shanghai's population is growing so fast, let alone in this period of stable development?

In fact, between 1910 and 1915 alone, Shanghai's population increased by more than 700,000 people, so you can imagine how fast Shanghai's population grew during this period.

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By the way, as for Singapore? Despite the city's location, almost every ship heading to East Asia via the Indian Ocean passes through Singapore's location. However, in fact, the population of Singapore was only more than 400,000 during the same period, perhaps in the original history Singapore was indeed stronger than Shanghai, but during this period, Singapore could not even compare with Shanghai's heels, even compared with Tokyo and Hong Kong, there was a large gap...

From a certain point of view, the reason why China can be regarded as the third largest power in the world today is also related to Shanghai's economic status―――――― the world's third largest power and the world's third largest financial center are not very compatible? It's like the United Kingdom, the world's largest power, with London, and the United States, the second with New York.

On the other hand, although New York is indeed much better than Shanghai in all aspects, Shanghai far surpasses New York in terms of order and cleanliness in the whole city.

The Americans specially invited the Chinese delegation to visit New York this time, perhaps with the intention of showing off in front of the Chinese delegation. It's a pity that what they show off is not very successful, just like peacocks, although it seems to be very beautiful on the surface, it's a pity that they give Gu Weijun not only the front, but also the buttocks...

Uh-huh, the next one immediately made up 0-0

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