Chapter 314: The Wind Rises in Chinatown
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"Is Guangjitang okay? Are Long Ye, Yao Ye, Crane Ye, and Zhu Ye okay? Ling Yunfeng said with concern.
"It's all right, Guangjitang has also been reborn, thanks to the help of this little friend next to me, you don't know each other yet, right?" The dragon also said.
"Let me guess, this is Li Xiaoyou from Dongxing, right?" Ling Yunfeng said with a smile.
"Mr. Ling, Li Yaoyang has seen it here." Since the other party is more traditional, then use traditional etiquette to deal with it.
The two sides gave a salute, and Long Ye answered:
"Now that we all know each other, you might as well say anything you have to say."
"On behalf of the Triad Hall, I would like to apologize to all of you."
Apologize?
This answer was unexpected by everyone, shouldn't it be a message? And then put a few threatening words?
"The fact that the triad in New York was so impulsive and used non-compliant mediation has aroused great attention within the association."
Li Yaoyang hurriedly asked:
"Isn't it the decision of the Triad Hall to capture Xiao Er?"
"No, it's someone with a bad mind, who decided on his own, that this trip to New York, I'm here to remove this obstacle and garbage."
A few people looked at each other, so this was a misunderstanding? They were still wondering if they were forcing him to worship the dock.
But is this true? It always feels a bit like a joke.
But this is a very reasonable explanation, why Ling Yunfeng came, and not others.
"So, where are the little two?" Li Yaoyang asked.
"At the New York Hall, I'll go and get people back, don't worry." Ling Yunfeng promised.
"Thanks, I can go along." Li Yaoyang was not at ease.
"No, I'll send people back completely, and besides, about the Triad Hall, I hope you don't have a problem, from beginning to end, the goal of the Hall is to solve all the troubles for all the ugly Chinese."
Li Yaoyang doesn't know whether to agree or not, it's impossible to have no mustard, this is equivalent to slapping you and apologizing to you, will you forgive?
Forgive the fart! Either pull it back, or kill you directly, don't blame him for being careful, Jair's retribution is his motto!
Ling Yunfeng didn't stay long, and after saying this, he said goodbye and left, and he was in a hurry, it seemed that the matter of the Triad Hall was not trivial.
"Master Long, do you think I should believe his words?"
"It's hard to say, with what I know about Ling Yunfeng, he should disdain to tell lies."
But Yao Baihu said:
"But it's true! I've met the Triad New York Speaker once, and he doesn't like to cause trouble. ”
Long Ye asked rhetorically:
"Who is it? Have I seen it? ”
"The surname is Li."
"Lee? I don't know. ”
Li Yaoyang sighed:
"What's going on, the huge triad hall, I don't want to have a head-on conflict with them, but Xiao Er was arrested inexplicably, if I don't do something, this team will not be easy to lead."
Long Ye nodded in understanding:
"That's it, let him get the people back first, and as for whether he wants to retaliate or not, let's talk about it later."
"Hmm~ Xiao Er's safety is the most important." Yao Baihu also persuaded so.
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Let's just say, Xiao Er may be a little impulsive, and he is always arrested every day, which is also strange, if he doesn't arrest others, he will arrest Xiao Er, what kind of hatred and what kind of grudge?
Xiao Er was released, looking depressed, although he was not injured, but the grievance could still be felt.
"Brother Yang~"
After receiving Xiao Er, Li Yaoyang didn't know how to comfort him, so he let him get in the car first, and then went to Guangji Hall, where Long Ye had something to ask him.
No one spoke in the car, Xiao Er looked out the window a little melancholy, Li Yaoyang wanted to speak several times, but finally didn't ask anything.
Back in Guangji Hall, Long Ye had no scruples, and asked directly:
"What happened after you got you back?"
"I was blindfolded all the time, I didn't know where I was taken, and when I took off my mask, I appeared in a very small room, surrounded by walls, and I couldn't see the light, and no one asked me or tried me." Xiao Er said truthfully.
"Haven't seen anyone?" Yao Baihu asked.
"No, except for the guy who took off my mask, it's supposed to be a whoop."
"Hmm~ I know, you go to rest first, and we'll give you an explanation when we get back."
Xiao Er shook his head:
"Forget it, I'm fine, don't embarrass Brother Yang."
Li Yaoyang is still very warm-hearted, after all, Xiao Er said this completely for himself, so he can't just forget it.
Even if you can't get revenge on the Triad Pavilion, at least you have to make that kid from King Jimmy pay!
Chinatown, it's going to be windy!
Throughout Chinatown's history, there have been four large-scale corporate vendettas and scuffles.
This has also led to ugly Chinese people seeing Chinatown as a devil's land and Chinese immigrants as bad people.
This is, of course, a generalized misunderstanding and a preconceived bias.
In fact, the members of the community in Chinatown are only a small part of the Chinese immigrants, and these Chinese community members are no more evil than immigrants from other regions.
According to the statistics of the New York Police in 1904, among the 23 categories of "birthplaces of the arrested", the Chinese were only the second-to-last.
Therefore, the outbreak of such a large-scale fighting in Chinatown must not be attributed solely to the members of these associations, but also to the complex background reasons behind it.
First of all, the cultural barrier has led to the inability of Chinese in Chinatown to smoothly integrate into the society of the ugly country, and the Chinese and the ugly people have prejudices and exclusions from each other, and the Chinese can only barely struggle to survive in New York.
The language barrier and the cultural differences between China and the United States have led to the fact that Chinese immigrants in Chinatown do not adapt to the way of living in the ugly country society and fail to integrate well into the ugly country society.
Instead, they hid in Chinatown to form a relatively independent local autonomous community that continued the management of the big Chinese family, in order to seek a corner of peace.
This, in turn, led to a lack of understanding of Chinese immigrants among the ugly people, leaving a negative impression of Chinese xenophobia, strange diets, and bad habits, and creating deep-rooted prejudices against Chinese people.
Second, in order to improve their social status and make profits, a minority group of Chinese immigrants in Chinatown began to get involved in illegal fields such as gambling, duck slices, and underground women's houses.
Most of the Chinese immigrants in Chinatown are very hardworking, mainly working in low-level occupations such as laundry workers and tobacco workers, and their incomes are not high, and they live in low-rent apartments.
In order to cope with the hardships of life, they often form mutual aid societies.
There are three main types of Chinese associations, one is a regional association, similar to a hometown association;
One is the clan association, which is mainly composed of members with the same surname;
The third type, which is made up of sworn brothers, called "tang", is ostensibly a charitable organization, but in fact it is gradually involved in gang activities and breeds criminal behavior.
One of the four people involved in the fight was the Anliang Chamber of Commerce, a third type of association, and they were all involved in illegal businesses such as casinos, duck restaurants, and women's branches.
The other Sikaitang, which participates in the Tang Dou, belongs to the second type of society, the clan association.
Finally, the connivance of the New York City power and the corruption of some institutions further contributed to the fight.
In order to sustain these illegal businesses, Chinatown community leaders used their network of connections to make friends with the powerful, bribing high-level officials and New York police, prosecutors, and lawyers to buy the protection of the powerful.
Under the temptation of money, the power turned a blind eye and the corruption of the police, like an invisible hand, the power of the Chinatown community continued to grow, and they favored favoritism in the court disputes, further intensifying the contradictions between different associations.
Cultural rejection, the pressure to survive, and the infiltration of power and money all combine to create the evils of the Chinese community in Chinatown.
Under the combined influence of these factors, they were ambitious and greedy, and finally went off the rails, disregarded the law, and committed multiple crimes.
Therefore, the specific events that triggered the four fights were only the fuse of the situation, and the above complex social factors were the root cause of the large-scale fights.
The four fights in New York's Chinatown were not for a single purpose. From the triggers of the four fights, we can see the change of power in the Chinese community in Chinatown.
The first fight took place between the Anliang Chamber of Commerce and their old rivals, ostensibly for control of the casino, but in reality for the police department's attention and recognition, or for dominance in Chinatown.
The second fight, between Anliang Chamber of Commerce and Sihaitang, was a private dispute between a woman, with both parties trying to manipulate the course of the case.
The incident itself did not have a large-scale impact, did not touch major interests such as casinos, and the reason why it escalated to the scale of a fight is that both sides want to save their own face, honor and prestige.
The third fight took place between the Anliang Chamber of Commerce and their old rivals, beginning with a struggle for control of the duck slice trade, and then evolving into a battle for face.
In this fight, the weapon has also been upgraded, no longer limited to a single knife and a single gun, but a new weapon with multiply the lethality of the bomb has been introduced.
The fourth battle still occurred between the Anliang Chamber of Commerce and the old rival, and the reason for this was that an important figure of the Anliang Chamber of Commerce defected to join the opponent due to internal contradictions.
This fight also did not involve disputes caused by gambling, duck slices or women, and it was entirely the society's attempt to punish traitors, protect brothers, and save face according to its own rules.
This fight had a wide range of influence and lasted for a long time, and it occurred in branch churches all over the country at the same time, lasting for nearly ten years.
In the first fight, the two sides tried to compete for the support of the police, and they were effectively restrained by the police.
In the second and third court fights, the community grew stronger, gradually broke away from the police constraints, and acted more boldly, which also attracted the police to crack down on them in the form of large-scale searches of casinos and duck restaurants.
By the time of the Fourth Fight, the community had already taken ownership of casinos and other properties, and its assets and power were even larger, long beyond the control of the police.
The local authorities, too, have long since grown tired of uncontrollable fighting, but have no recourse to do so, because the way they search illegal places is no longer a deterrent.
As a result, the impatient police used violence to expel the Chinese to suppress the Tangkou forces, even at the expense of implicating innocent Chinese.
It can be seen that in the course of these four court fights, the power of the Chinese community in Chinatown continued to expand, and its crimes and violent methods also escalated and gradually got out of control.
However, after many fights and strong police suppression, the community was also greatly damaged.
Coupled with the economic downturn during the Great Depression, the pressure to make ends meet gradually outweighed the need for face, and the fatigue of the community became apparent, prompting the parishes to let go of their long-standing resentment and hostility.
The armistice was signed in exchange for the long-awaited peace in Chinatown, and the great tide of the times was used as an opportunity to gradually learn to coexist peacefully in Chinatown.
This time, however, the rise of a new force has sparked panic among traditional forces.
One of the representatives is the Anliang Chamber of Commerce, who has been involved in almost every fight in Chinatown, large and small, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are-stirring sticks.
Chinatown, an out-of-control, desperate place, left the New York County District Attorney at a loss.
Despite all his efforts, the fighting between the various churches in New York continued, and nothing worked.
Threats and negotiations, the closure of casinos and duck parlors in Chinatown, the deportation of unmarried white women, the door-to-door search of weapons, the arrest of suspects, the imprisonment of repeat offenders, and the death penalty are useless.
This short-lived peace was about to be broken again, and the high-ranking elders of the Anliang Chamber of Commerce, who had not been seen for several years, came out of hiding, as if they no longer needed to worry about the rival gunmen lurking in the streets of the Tang Dynasty.
This time, though, they're for a rising star.
Truth be told, fighting can be any reason, because the estrangement between the various societies and gangs is too deep, and any one thing can break down the mutual trust between the two sides.
A member of the Boston Anliang Chamber of Commerce raised a gun because he felt that an adversary was being too courteous to his wife.
Cousins in the east and central and western regions immediately exchanged gunfire, and dozens of Chinese died tragically.
The prosecutors could still get the two leaders of New York to sit together, know what was at stake, and let them end the war at the right time.
But now, after years of operation, the influence has spread to dozens of cities.
At the same time, with the death of the founding generation, the undesirable successors have failed to demonstrate their authority to quell the riots in the recent sudden uprising.
Not only that, but the upgrade of the weapon has only aggravated Tang Dou's casualties.
When axes and machetes turn into pistols, automatic weapons, and even bombs, an unprecedented crisis looms.
Tangdou began, which was also the first time that Dongxing had opened a killing spree at his own door since its establishment.
The Anliang Chamber of Commerce's uncooperative and non-negotiating attitude annoyed Li Yaoyang.
He didn't plan to be good, but he still said that, he couldn't afford to provoke the triad hall, the tiger of the Anliang Chamber of Commerce, he had to punch him a few times, otherwise the grievances of his wife and his brother would be in vain.
Prior to this, both Dongxing and Anliang Chamber of Commerce received warnings from various forces, which can also be regarded as an "ultimatum".
Warnings say that if the killings do not stop, prosecutors will petition the federal side to deal with it.
This is by no means a bluff, the federation has long solemnly stated that once the cousins with criminal records are arrested again, they will be forcibly repatriated to China;
Now, they are determined to increase the punishment.
So, after a Dongxing brother was shot and killed, and a Hello of the Anliang Chamber of Commerce was crushed to a crushed skull and died, the New York side decided to take drastic action.
Four federal agencies are working together to repatriate every Chinese in New York who does not have a legal residency document.