Battle of the Third Reich

"Chinatown is a magical place. I promise you can't find anything like this in all of Europe... well... what to say..." Clay looked up and opened the skylight on the top of the cab.

"You want to say the gathering place?" Welbe dusted cigarettes in the ashtray.

"Um...it can be described like this, sir, but it's not very accurate. The actual situation is much more complicated than what is recorded in the data." Cray pressed the cigarette lighter under the dashboard and took it from the car cigarette case A cigarette.

"According to the information we have, the situation of these Chinese people is very bad now, and they are eager to get help from the outside world." Welbey frowned and looked at the documents on his knees.

"The outside world's help?" Clay smiled, and he gently poked the cigarette on the leather-covered steering wheel, then pulled out the popped cigarette lighter.

"I wrote the most recent report, Mr. Welbe." Cray lowered his head and lit the cigarette. "Obviously, gentlemen sitting in the office confused some of the most basic concepts. But this is entirely possible Understand, this is the biggest difference between them and those of us. We use our brains to think about problems."

It seems that the agent is quite dissatisfied with the superior, but in view of his previous experience, Welbe feels that he can be considerate of this mood. In other words, he is in a dilemma, maybe it will be a bit harsher than Cray. Times.

There are indeed mistakes in the General Information Administration. This incubation plan has been a bit hasty since the beginning of the formulation. Many details have not been taken into account. After all, these agents have received very comprehensive training and the psychological endurance is very high. If they are replaced by early security Those who are trained by the General Administration of the People's Republic of China may have made big mistakes long ago.

"You mean, there is something wrong with these materials?" Welbe asked, shaking the document in his hand.

"No, there is no problem with the data, but it depends on how you interpret it, sir." Clay said, tilting his head and shaking the window on the side of the driver's seat.

"Hey, Officer! What the **** is going on!" the driver shouted to a patrolman standing on the middle of the road on his hips.

"Don't stop, keep going, sir." The patrolman didn't answer Cray's question, he just kept drawing circles with the baton.

"Stupid note, he doesn't seem to know what happened." Cray took a sip of the cigarette and then changed it to his left hand.

"At this rate, we are going to be late nine or nine times." Welby glanced at the patrolman through the car window.

It looks like he is in his thirties, wearing a crisp navy blue uniform with the S.F.P.D seven-pointed star badge on his left chest, wearing a full set of armed belts, and a huge M1917 revolver inserted in the holster.

"Why don't we turn right." Welbe suggested.

"You have to pass the first two intersections to find a way to get around. The entire street on the right is a tramway. Look at the cars in front. It's not just us who are smart people, sir." Cray from the cigarette case Then he took another cigarette in his mouth, held the remaining half of the cigarette **** in his right hand, and continued to get angry. Then he pressed the cigarette **** into the ashtray under the dashboard.

"Okay, it's up to you." Welbe smiled cheerfully, a character with a character, this is not a bad thing.

"You haven't finished talking before, Clay, about Chinatown." Welbe pulled the words back.

"Oh, those Chinese people, when I first arrived in San Francisco, I dealt with them all a lot." After the intersection, the traffic flow speeded up a little, and Cray changed his gear neatly.

In the 1940s, San Francisco’s Chinatown surpassed the Chinese communities in other parts of the world in terms of area and population. The world’s largest Chinatown was not an advertisement that attracted tourists, but deserved honor.

The modern Chinese go to the world, but it is not a motivational story full of positive energy, which is full of dark, **** and dirty transactions.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the wave of abolitionist movements around the world was regarded as a great victory for human rights and moral reform organizations and churches. Of course, we should not erase the merits of those who are morally noble, but we should also see the hidden behind the wave of abolitionism. , Whether it is a huge substantive interest in politics or economy.

For example, the abolition of slavery in the United States is industrial capital versus agricultural capital, the reformists are conservatives, the game between the new aristocracy and the old aristocracy, the new immigrants and the old immigrants, and finally led to the Civil War. This civil war determines the politics and interests of the United States. The re-division of the territory has a direct impact on the direction of development of the United States in the next century.

Although the abolitionist movement was successful, it also brought considerable sequelae. Although politicians have benefited greatly from politics and fame because of their abolitionist position, for colonial capitalists, this is simply lifting stones and hitting their feet, which is a disaster.

Because both in the Americas and Central and South America, or in distant Australia and New Zealand, a large amount of cheap labor must be obtained to fill the gap created after the release of black slaves.

After the black people became hired workers, they seriously reduced the original net profit of slave capital. Former slave owners must find alternatives to black slaves as soon as possible, work in their cornfields, sugarcane gardens, tobacco fields, coffee gardens, cotton fields, and at the same time bear the weight of road construction and mining industries that do not require too much technology Manual work.

The British colonists soon discovered an excellent candidate, that is, "I Qing" with almost unlimited human resources.

From the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, China's national power has been declining continuously for about half a century. Elder Shiquan has successfully defeated the savings left by the ancestors. Even if he left a middle hall to let his son slaughter, but the country's vitality has been hurt and the decline is already there. With Jiaqing's ability, he cannot turn the tide.

More importantly, people's hearts have also started to chaos with the decline of national power. During these half a century, a series of natural disasters and man-made disasters have occurred on the land of China. Water, drought, locusts, and plague have appeared almost every year. They can only leave their hometowns and go back to the areas where they think they can eat.

At the same time, instead of reducing its total population, China has experienced explosive growth. From the sixty years of Qianlong to the first year of Xianfeng in just fifty years, the population of the country has grown from 310 million to 430 million. The population growth will again encounter a crop failure due to disasters. Prices are rising rapidly.

At the same time, the opium trade caused a large outflow of silver, but the country instead used silver as an agricultural tax currency. In order to convert copper coins into silver, most of the farmers’ one-year harvest fell into the hands of landowners and food merchants. A large number of self-cultivation farmers lost land and became tenants. The situation of land mergers nationwide has intensified, and has even fallen into a vicious circle.

The economic decline is bound to cause political turmoil. From the eight-year White Lotus rebellion in Sichuan and Chu in the late Qianlong to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement that broke out in the first year of Xianfeng, the Manchu government gradually lost its ability to control the local area.

The previous Opium War completely revealed the essence of the Manchu government's strong and hard work outside the country. When "I Daqing" can no longer hold the bluffing man's shelf, it is not far from the day when it bowed and stepped down.

The recruiting place for the early Chinese coolies was in Xiamen. At its peak, six intermediary banks were opened in Xiamen City at the same time. Five of them were opened by the British, and the other one was owned by the Dutch. The number of Chinese coolies exported from here every year is more than 2,000. The term "selling piglets" was born from this time.

At that time, foreign intermediary banks usually subcontracted their recruitment share to local brokers in China because of language barriers. These people are called “guests” in Fujian dialect, and each time they recruit a coolie, the guest can get a huge commission.

Residents of Fujian and Guangxi had a custom of going out to sea for a long time. After a large number of northern refugees flooded into the coastal area during the Qianlong Jiaqing period, the arable land that had been lacking became more tense, and a large number of landless farmers appeared in the countryside. s Choice.

The residents of the Fujian and Guangdong regions basically chose to go to Southeast Asia for development, such as Borneo, Vietnam and the Philippines, which was the route that Zheng He's fleet had taken.

These coastal people do not resist going overseas to make a living, but the number of intermediary companies recruited has been difficult to rise, because less than a last resort, most people still do not want to leave the land where their grandparents live.

At that time, every time they recruited a coolie, the Chinese brokers could get a commission, which is almost equivalent to the monthly salary of local workers. In order to make more money, some people began to lose their conscience, they colluded with the local viable social groups, that is, the infamous "triad", these people stubbornly stubborn, joined together to do There was a business that hurt the compatriots. He did not hesitate to use the method of deceit, abduction, and even blatant plunder, and sent Chinese people to Westerners' coolies.

In order to deceive the coolie to board the ship, the brokers are totally useless. For example, they will deceive some ignorant Chinese people, saying that one hour in China is equal to two hours in foreign countries, so the time signed in the contract is actually only equal to China. Half of the year, half of the time to earn double the money, this opportunity can not be missed.

The triad's best method is to set up a gambling game, and then pay the gambling players to owe a large amount of gambling debts, the purpose is to force the other party to go out to pay the debts. What's more, they directly took the method of kidnapping tickets, intercepted innocent passers-by in the wild, put them in sacks and sent them to the coolie boat.

These people who boarded the coolie ship were as ignorant as the newly born piglets. Many people still had the hope of returning home with their wealth in their hearts, and they did not know what kind of fate awaited them across the ocean.

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