Honolulu, Pearl Harbor.

The port was leased to the United States in perpetuity, and by this time a wharf had been built and another deep-water port was being excavated.

There are many ships docked in the harbor.

Among them, there are two that belong to Chen Jianqiu.

The Kun was temporarily left here, and as long as the ship was there, Hawaii would not be able to make trouble.

After all, truth is always within the range of a cannon.

In addition, Chen Jianqiu also left behind the bolt rifles and two Makqin that had been confiscated from the Japanese, as well as some Chinese soldiers.

With them as the core, the Hawaii Chinese Association has formed a very deterrent team.

This team still exists in the name of the militia, above the Honolulu police, and the command is in the hands of Xu Ajiu.

Another merchant ship is doing the final rounds of repairs and resupplies, ready to return to the United States.

The docks are very busy with people coming and going.

Most of them were dock workers, dressed in grey or khaki linen clothes, carrying sacks of supplies and boxes of munitions, and carrying them aboard the ships.

In this gray-yellow, Sean's dress is very conspicuous.

As the "colt" of the Hawaiian Kingdom, he put on a gorgeous costume and didn't know where to get a wig.

Although the royal family stepped down, this did not affect their status in the hearts of the Hawaiian people, so Sean's words and deeds also attracted attention.

Others can dress casually, but he can't.

At the same time, there were also representatives of local Chinese such as He Kuan and Chen Dewang.

"Boss, you're not really going to leave me in this place, are you?" Sean walked up to Chen Jianqiu's side and whispered to him.

"Or else? You can't follow me for the rest of your life. Chen Jianqiu looked at him with a smile.

"I'd rather follow you all the time." Sean said sincerely.

Chen Jianqiu straightened his collar for him, just like he had sorted out his clothes for Holly, and then patted him on the shoulder: "The princess is pregnant, spend more time with others, don't fool around outside all day long." ”

"If I really need you one day, don't worry, if you can't escape, I'll find someone to drag you back from this island immediately." Chen Jianqiu glanced at the black man.

"Boss, as long as you say a word, I will be at your call at any time." Sean stood straight and said to Chen Jianqiu.

Chen Jianqiu nodded with satisfaction.

However, he quickly leaned into Sean's ear and whispered to him: "Watch the white people here for me, if there is any rash move, discuss it with Xu Ajiu." ”

Sean looked awe-struck, and was about to agree immediately, but Chen Jianqiu's next sentence almost didn't scare his soul:

"Of course, if you want to help restore the royal family and become king yourself, you have to tell me in advance."

The black man immediately stood up straight again, looking at the smile on Chen Jianqiu's face, and shaking his head like a rattle.

Chen Jianqiu patted him on the shoulder again, laughed out loud, and turned around and walked away.

"Boss!"

Sean shouted behind his back.

"Anything else?" Chen Jianqiu turned his head.

"Asukia, Brother Asuka is still single, you can also help him Zhang Luo." The black man shouted loudly.

Chen Jianqiu turned around, leaving Sean with a back, and at the same time raised his right hand high and made an "OK" gesture.

He walked towards He Kuan and them.

"Send me a letter for something." Chen Jianqiu said to He Kuan and a group of legislators from the Republic of Hawaii, "Say what you should say and do what you should do, we have no way out behind us, and we have no backing, we can only rely on ourselves." ”

The lawmakers looked at Chen Jianqiu as if they were looking at a lighthouse.

He Kuan's lips moved, but his voice was small.

He looked left and right, but finally didn't speak.

Seeing this, Chen Jianqiu beckoned to him and called him aside.

Two men turned their backs to the crowd and faced the sea:

"What's the matter?" Chen Jianqiu asked.

He Kuan said in a low voice: "There is a gentleman surnamed Sun who has admired your name for a long time and wants to see you, he."

Before he finished his words, Chen Jianqiu waved his hand and said with a smile:

"Gone, gone, like I just said, do what you have to do, if you need human and financial support, just tell me."

With that, he turned around, said goodbye to the group, and walked toward his merchant ship.

The torch is lit in the dark night, which illuminates the way for future generations, and it is not so important to see it or not.

If 1893 was barely a passable year for Cleveland and the Democrats.

That 1894 was an absolute disaster.

The financial crisis intensified on the American continent.

A wave of bank and real industry failures swept across the continent.

People are frantically peddling assets in exchange for gold.

In the midst of a financial crisis, many people's seemingly fulfilling assets were wiped out in almost a short period of time.

Among them were Hawker and Walter Hopkins, who had acquired a large stake in Chen Jianqiu's railroad company.

The first to be unlucky was Hawker.

His Philadelphia Railroad collapsed as soon as the crisis hit.

Although Hauke used all his social resources and forces to try to save it.

But one day in March 1894, his finances told him that the company was completely unsustainable.

The bankruptcy of the Pacific Railroad and its huge debts were the last straw that crushed him.

Rockefeller was the first to abandon him.

He told Hawke that he would not provide him with any further financing guarantees, as Hawke had already lost a lot of money.

To put it bluntly, this railway tycoon no longer has any use value in his opinion.

On a gloomy morning without the sun, Hawke jumped off a bridge outside Philadelphia and chose to end his life in a scribbled way.

As for the rich second-generation Mr. Walter, what happened was not much better, or even worse.

Master Walter's business policy is quite aggressive.

He kept borrowing money to build the railway.

If it were in a period of great development, such a frenzied expansion might be compensated for by the state government's compensation, the demolition of the east wall to replace the west wall, and the repayment of old debts by borrowing new debts.

However, in the time of the financial crisis, this was undoubtedly putting one rope after another around his neck, because he didn't die fast enough.

Young Master Hopkins had obviously not experienced anything like this.

The Pacific Railroad collapsed faster than Hawke could jump off the bridge.

Those unbuilt railways were rotten and almost worthless.

The California court came to confiscate all of Master Walter's property, including the castle that Hopkins Sr. had left him.

It's hard to imagine that if his father knew that the family business he had saved for most of his life had been made by his son in a very short time, he would have crawled out of the coffin and pulled this loser into the coffin together.

Master Walter disappeared shortly after.

Some say that he embarked on a ship to the East, to Asia in search of some opportunities; Some say he went crazy and went to the Elizabeth Asylum.

And for all this, Chen Jianqiu did not show much mood swings.

He was still waiting, waiting for the opportunity to intervene.

At the end of December 1894, he stepped on a train to New York.

First, I had a meeting with the Legal and Finance Center in New York to set out some tasks for the coming year.

He had a hunch that next year would be the most important year after the financial crisis.

Second, it was his friends in New York who wanted to see him.

Theodore Roosevelt became the chief of the New York City Police Department.

(End of chapter)