Chapter 238: Fire

New Shanghai, also known as San Francisco and San Francisco, has always been one of the cities with the largest number of Chinese in the United States.

The entrance to the so-called Wuzhou Hongmen Hall is in San Francisco.

Previously, Zhu Fugui ordered Jinyiwei to bribe a group of Hongmen bigwigs with a silver dollar offensive, and shouted to ordinary Chinese through leaflets and dollar banknote printing and drawing.

Of course, the purpose of the shouting is not to let them lie dormant in San Francisco and do the act of setting fire to the city.

It's a small thing that works in a small place like Seattle, but when faced with a behemoth like San Francisco, only real power can tear it apart.

San Francisco was the largest city west of the Mississippi River in Citi during this era.

If Shanghai is the Paris of the Far East, then San Francisco is the Shanghai of the West Coast.

"In 1849 the miners came,

In 1851 the prostitutes also came,

Wait for them to get together,

The locals appeared. ”

This is the folk song of San Francisco in the 19th century, and it is also the best portrayal of this San Francisco in this era.

The discovery of gold in 1848 and silver in 1859 brought life to the original small fishing village.

After 15 years of rapid development, the city now has a population of 270,000, and its urban construction is not inferior to many important eastern towns, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a metropolis.

What is the concept of 270,000 people?

It is larger than the total population of the Ming Dynasty and more prosperous than the Fengdu, and it is a behemoth that cannot be swallowed in a benevolent way.

In the face of such a behemoth, Hu Linyi said, "using thunderbolt means to show the heart of the Bodhisattva" is the only choice.

And those Chinese who have crossed the ocean and settled in this city are, in a sense, the heel of Achilles of the Ming Dynasty.

In this regard, Zhu Fugui made arrangements earlier last summer.

Through the infiltration of the Jinyi Wei spy and the "white hound", Zhu Fugui gave them two choices.

1. Go north to Daming.

The Ming Dynasty will provide all the conveniences to help the Chinese workers and the leaders of the Hongmen flee north.

In fact, it is not called escape, at this time, all the Chinese in San Francisco gathered in Chinatown.

Chinatown, on the other hand, is completely anarchic, unrun by white people, and is sustained by the power of traditional sects.

This kind of governance is naturally relatively weak, and it is not too difficult to leave with the assistance of Jinyiwei.

For those who return to the north, the Ming Dynasty will directly grant them national status and effectively protect their personal rights.

For those gang leaders who return with the crowd, Daming will also issue a benefit fee according to the number of heads brought.

However, all returnees will be dispersed, educated and reformed, and the original gang bosses will be no exception, and they will not enjoy special political treatment.

2. Encourage gang leaders to bring people to Latin America or Nanyang for development, and Daming will send a letter of appointment stamped with the seal of the Son of Heaven, as well as a generous Cheng Yi for encouragement.

If these gang members develop well in the future, they will also be able to obtain a steady stream of "national protection funds" and even weapons and military assistance from Daming.

No matter which path you choose, it can be said that the conditions given by Daming are very generous and sincere.

A considerable number of Chinese workers and patriotic gangsters came to Daming with the help of Jinyiwei.

They will be greeted with a new life and a bright future.

In addition, there are also a group of ambitious heroes, who brought silver dollars and letters of appointment from the Ming Dynasty, as well as revolvers and opium seeds, and plunged headlong into the chaotic Latin American region, and won a share of wealth and wealth.

Die or ...... Rich enough to rival a country, or, a country of its own.

However, there are still some gang bosses, who believe that they have settled in San Francisco, even opened factories, rented docks, and made friends with sheriffs and city councilors.

Of course, the so-called friends are the ones they think they think are, but in fact, they are the kind of dogs who have become other people's dogs and bring their own meat and bones.

They were unwilling to give up everything they had fought so hard to get and stubbornly stayed in San Francisco.

They even instigated ignorant Chinese workers to denounce the Ming Dynasty as a "pseudo-Ming".

Among the pictures distributed by Jin Yiwei in San Francisco, there are many "reliable" photos of cultural relics that prove the identity of Zhu Fugui, Zhu Ming's descendants.

These gang leaders did not directly say that Emperor Xinming was an impostor, but denounced Zhu Fugui as "the legacy of King Fu" and "Queen Gui".

And Hongmen is from the palace of Yanping County, as a minister of the Tang Dynasty, he naturally has to resolutely resist.

There's even an old guy with a lot of ink in his belly.

He also wrote a special "Examination of the Puppet Emperor's Usurpation", from the attack case in the Wanli period, to the "Tang Gui Dispute" between the Heaven and Earth Society and Mu Wangfu, all the way to Zhu Fugui, a guy who forgot his ancestors in the number of dictionaries, tried in vain to steal the throne.

The whole article is impressive, and it has the style of Chen Lin scolding Cao.

Zhu Fugui also deliberately read this booklet and almost made it happy.

Zhu Fugui himself has the heart to learn from Cao Cao and show the generosity of Zhou Gong, but the times have changed after all.

The life of a literary dog is not as good as the life of hundreds of thousands of Chinese laborers.

This old man finally did not survive last year's Chinese New Year's Eve, and "stumbled" and fell into the stinky ditch behind Chinatown.

Jin Yiwei's fangs frightened many people, including many Chinese workers and gang members who were already swinging.

As a result, during the Spring Festival days, many Chinese left San Francisco, either to the north or south, and disappeared into the vast night.

As of January 25, the third year of Dewu, according to the preliminary statistics of the "White Hound", the original Chinese population in San Francisco was more than 50,000, and after more than half a year of secret war work, the remaining population is now less than 8,000.

But these people are also outright diehards.

A week ago, the Ming side made a final attempt to send them an evacuation alert again through secret channels, but the latter still turned a deaf ear.

What's more, some people even shared this information with the San Francisco and California state governments, so that they could plan defenses in advance.

At this point, Daming has done his best, and there is no need to hesitate.

Fifty kilometers east of San Francisco, in the satellite town of Antioch, a battle began.

When the "Hua Brave Death Squad", which was pointed at the gun of a white man, appeared in Qi Wenchang's telescope, the veteran of the Taiping Army, who had already killed in Jiangnan with bloody hands, had a calm face.

These guys, who shouted "don't shoot, we are also Chinese" in their mouths, are no longer compatriots of Daming.

Long live Lord Nai, who has given them so many opportunities.

And I am the blade in the hands of Banzai, and unnecessary kindness is only a burden.

"Fire!"

Qi Wenchang raised the walkie-talkie and coldly gave an order.

All of a sudden, 3,000 German rifles burst out at the same time.

There is a hell of Shura ahead.