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"The image of the Chinese in the world of ugly public opinion is fluid, and the hey gang is by no means their first identity label.

'coolie' is the first image of Chinese in the ugly country, and it is probably the first Chinese word that the ugly people come into contact with.

It all started with the California Gold Rush.

In the 50s of the 19th century, missionaries from Chou brought the news of the discovery of gold in California to southern China.

At this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was on the rise, and the Lingnan area had become a pot of porridge.

Some brave poor people saw that they would not be able to survive, so they simply risked their lives and took a boat to the west coast of the ugly country to pan for gold.

Later, along California's Highway 49, the Chinese who successfully landed ashore set up shacks and began a journey of gold panning in foreign countries.

Mark Twain, a young journalist who was not yet well-known at the time, was reporting on California's gold prospectors, and his portrayal of Chinese miners was similar to that of later generations of Chinese who left the world with the impression that they left on the world: hardworking, low-key and gentle.

At that time, California was completely the law of the jungle, and whoever had a hard fist was the boss.

In order to compete for the veins, whites often drove away Chinese miners.

There were also a number of large-scale armed fights between the Chinese and the Irish, each time with heavy casualties, but they also saw the power of a revolver for the first time.

When the gold rush ended, the Chinese who came to Chouguo began to join the army of railroads and other industrial sectors, and in these places, the Chinese once again showed their hard-working qualities.

Not only did the Chinese get the Pacific Railroad completed seven years ahead of schedule, but their wages were one-third of that of their ugly counterparts, and even lower than that of white child laborers.

With the increase of the number of Chinese, there are also large-scale Chinatowns in big cities such as San Francisco and New York, and this touches the interests of white people.

At that time, shortly after the end of the Civil War, there were several economic crises in the ugly country, and a large influx of cheap Chinese labor took the jobs of many whites.

These 'rat-eaters' with pigtails in their eyes and strange language became scapegoats for their unfortunate lives.

Many people know the infamous Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, but in fact, in California, as early as the 70s of the 19th century, there was a law prohibiting the employment of Chinese people in public projects.

In those years, white people discriminated against Chinese people much more severely than now, and it was systematic discrimination.

This means that even if a Chinese person is beaten to death by a white man in the street, the judiciary will not waste a minute on him.

The cruel reality made some Chinese who had accumulated a lot of wealth after years of hard work begin to realize that if they did not organize their own groups, they would only be slaughtered in the ugly country.

As a result, various associations based on regions and clans appeared.

In addition, these associations have formed a syndicate of six companies.

The six companies were later renamed the Chung Hwa Gong Office, and later became the behind-the-scenes organization that controlled the Chinese community in Chouguo for a long time.

In the beginning, these groups were only mutual aid organizations, mainly helping new Chinese people solve problems with food, lodging, and work, and occasionally helping people in trouble to fight lawsuits.

Soon, however, some ambitious community leaders began to seek the greater good, and these societies became alienated into bloody gangs.

The honest Chinese coolie cut off his braids, put on a top hat, and became a ruthless gang member from then on.

For the Chinese living in the shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act, survival is the only rule, not a choice.

When the Chinese are systematically excluded from mainstream society, they are left with very few opportunities.

When the gold rush faded and the Pacific Railroad was completed, only the lowliest jobs were the shelter for the capitalless Chinese.

For a long time, apart from coolies, laundry was one of the few legal businesses that Chinese could operate.

Even in such a barely subsistence business, the Hey Gang also has to intervene, and the common means is to make the neighboring laundry rooms drop their prices significantly, until the new laundry can't stand the price war and succumbs to the control of the Hey Gang.

At the same time, the Peggy Act of 1875 nominally prevented Asian women from entering the country, but in practice, it completely blocked Chinese women from entering the ugly country, which also reduced Chinatown to a bachelor community.

Later, the "Scott Act" prevented the Chinese workers who left the country from returning to China, which made many Chinese workers completely lose hope of returning to China.

And it is not difficult to understand why the Chinese Hey Gang only needed to take out 500 knives to recruit a killer who carried a knife to death.

The limited "market" also means a brutal fight for Hey Bang himself.

Wang Anliang of the Anliang Chamber of Commerce was an emperor of the soil and an underground mayor to Chinatown at that time.

But he was not completely without opponents, and in order to compete for territory, the two sides led their respective horses to engage in four large-scale armed fights in Chinatown, which lasted for nearly two decades, each time with several heads falling to the ground.

In order to defeat the opponent, he once used a machete to dismantle the opponent's little brother in broad daylight, and both sides offered a reward of thousands or tens of thousands of dollars for the other's head.

Some people even did not hesitate to use the hands of the judiciary to rectify the enemy from the outside, and as a counterattack, every time the Anliang Chamber of Commerce was confiscated, they slaughtered an opponent's person as a burial.

Although they have the same black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin, they speak the same native dialect.

In order to cope with this lose-lose situation, the 'Big Six' set up a war board to mediate disputes between the various gangs.

However, the conflict between the Chinese gang has never been completely quelled.

A certain great man who has mixed up with the road once said that the 40,000,000 people in China are like a plate of loose sand.

Even later, most of the Chinese who climbed to the top looked down on the Chinese below, and the skilled immigrants wanted to be good citizens who were safe and disciplined, but they were still ostracized in the workplace, so they were even less keen to fight for ZZ rights.

Sometimes Li Yaoyang is also confused, why can't the Chinese people unite?

One Chinese person has a dragon, and ten Chinese people are all worms.

No, Xiao Er had just gone to the main hall of the Anliang Chamber of Commerce to talk harshly, and the next day, there was a phone call directly to Li Yaoyang's office.

"Master Long?" Li Yaoyang was a little surprised, if it was okay, Long Ye would not take the initiative to call.

"Time is tight, don't talk nonsense, let Xiao Er take people back to Atlantic City first." Long Ye spoke quickly and in a solemn tone, not joking, and he wouldn't joke.

"What's wrong?"

"I'll explain to you and let him go!"

Li Yaoyang took a deep breath, he knew that now was not the time to talk nonsense, and Master Long would definitely give him an explanation afterwards.

"I see!"

hung up the phone, Li Yaoyang called the Mei family directly, if nothing else, Xiao Er must have stayed at his house last night.

After waiting for a long time, a woman answered the phone, apparently not very familiar with this new thing.

"Hello? Did you hear that? You should be able to hear it, right? ”