Opening game, American Tycoon

Chapter 218 Huagong (Today's update! Please subscribe, please support)
In the city of Lima in September 1864, the most talked about was probably the American company and the fleet moored in the harbor. In the past few days, in order to welcome the arrival of the fleet, the president even held a A grand ball welcomes these guests from afar.

Even if the vast majority of these guests are Indian... no, they are Chinese, so what?They came with a warship, and most of the Peruvians are also of mixed race.Even if it is the same as all South American countries, the higher the upper class, the whiter the skin.But that's not the case, the problem now is that Peru needs their help.

People are always pragmatic, skin color, can skin color help them resist the Spanish invasion?

No, but America's fleet can.

It is also because of this that the president and politicians in Peru will continue to advocate "friendship between Americans" in newspapers, and by the way, they will also satirize Chile's betrayal of the Americas.

In a word, under the official promotion of Peru, the American company is a part of America, and the local Chinese immigrants are of course also American.

In the eyes of the Indians, these "Americans" are even more friendly than the Hispanic immigrants. Even after witnessing the politeness of the whites to the sailors, they will inevitably feel envious, and some even want to learn Chinese on their own initiative.

Not to mention the Indians who felt this change, even Gu Zhijie and the others also found that everything seemed to be changing.

Once upon a time, the high-spirited policeman in front of them has become very polite when speaking now.

"Mr. Gu, you are busy."

Seeing the patrolling police leave politely and politely, Gu Zhijie's expression became a little strange.It took a while to say.

"Have you noticed that these people seem to be different from the past!"

"It's not the same."

Li Laishun narrowed his eyes, looked into the harbor, looked at the three large black warships, and said.

"Maybe, it's because of those warships."

"It's not maybe, it's just!"

Li Sanbao put the dishcloth on and said proudly.

"I said, Brother Lai Shun, you didn't go out to have a look. You came here from the warship of the Amelia Company. People who looked down on us in the past are very polite to us now. Why? Ah! Isn't it because the officers and soldiers on the warship are Chinese, and we are also Chinese..."

In the past, no one has ever taken Chinese people seriously.But now it is different. Ever since the fleet came, even if the fleet was not sent from the Qing Dynasty, it was because most of the officers and soldiers on board were Chinese that the Peruvians looked at them highly.

He became more polite when he spoke and acted.

"Huaxia people..."

Gu Zhijie looked up at the bay, was silent for a moment, and then spoke.

"Say, will they help us?"

"Help us?"

You don’t need to ask, you also know what “helping us” refers to. It’s not helping them, but helping those Chinese workers who are still suffering.

Li Sanbao glanced at the hat Gu Zhijie was wearing, pursed his lips, thought for a while, and then said.

"Gu Siye, if you cut your braids, maybe they will really help us. After all, we are also Chinese, but we just have one more braid than the military men..."

There are more braids than military men!
The military master doesn't have braids!

The official doesn't have braids either, and even the official looks a bit like a foreigner?
But no more braids, they also look Chinese and speak Mandarin.

If you don't ask them, who will you ask?

"...Evil barbarians rely on the rich to bully the poor, lose the good and disregard the good, treat the contract as old paper, and wait for people to die. Food, clothing, industry and banking are only stingy, haggard, tired and tired, and refuse to show mercy. They are often demanding, constantly beating and scolding, or Work hard while being chained, or plow and hoe while enduring hunger and cold..."

The dozen or so Chinese laborers kneeling on the deck knelt down and prayed after Gu Zhijie finished reading the appeal letter.

"The villains are all Qing people who were deceived by the Peruvians to come here more than ten years ago. The Peruvians treated me extremely cruelly. After eight years of work, not one of a thousand people can survive. Today, tens of thousands of compatriots are still trapped in various parts of Peru. Please sir, save us and our compatriots out of the sea of ​​suffering!"

"My compatriots please rise up quickly, please rise up quickly..."

Li Xuelin quickly stretched out his hand and said.

"Please stand up and speak,"

In any case, he never thought that he would encounter such a thing as soon as he arrived in Lima. Before they could support the Peruvians, Chinese laborers came to accuse the Peruvians of their crimes.

But something seems wrong about this!

Even if it is Li Xuelin who sympathizes with these people, what can he do?

The fleet is Nanhua's fleet, and the navy is Nanhua's navy, but they... are from the Qing Dynasty!

Of course, he, Li Xuelin, also came from there, but the people of the Qing Dynasty were angry and abused outside, shouldn't it be the Qing Dynasty who came forward?Nanhua's coming forward...is inconsistent with legal principles!
"Everyone!"

Mario stepped forward and said.

"Ma is the plenipotentiary special envoy to visit Peru this time. My lord knows about the abuse and oppression you have suffered, and is extremely annoyed, but you need it. The fleet is Nanhua's fleet, but you are... people from the Qing Dynasty, It's really inconvenient for me to wait!"

The official's refusal changed the faces of Gu Zhijie and the others. Just when they were looking desperate, they heard Mario say again.

"However, it is not difficult to do this. You are willing to become a naturalized Nanhua."

In fact, before Mario came to Peru, he had already received a secret message from Nanhua asking him to use this visit to completely solve the problem of Chinese laborers in Peru.

Although Zhu Xianhai let the leader of Aoguanhai snatch a wave of Chinese laborers on Chincha Island, he was unable to save tens of thousands of Chinese laborers in the plantations in the interior of Peru, and in the past two or three years, Peru has introduced tens of thousands of laborers. Chinese workers, what kind of life do those Chinese workers live?Chinese workers were treated like slaves.These Chinese laborers are forced to do dangerous work, and their treatment is even more appalling.

Perhaps for the Qing Dynasty, these Chinese laborers were the so-called "abandoned people from the celestial dynasty", but for Nanhua, these Chinese laborers were precious wealth. There were tens of thousands of them!
And there are still tens of thousands of young and strong laborers. They can be road workers and farmers with tools, soldiers with guns, and reproductive machines with women... Well, in short, they are all the help of China's conquest of this land.

How can such a help be given up, of course not.

Naturalization of South China?

In fact, it is to solve the problem from the perspective of law. Of course, for Gu Zhijie and the others, they don’t know what it means to be naturalized in Nanhua. The only thing they care about is that they will have a backer after being naturalized in Nanhua. Speaking of it, this is probably a lot The reason why North American Chinese workers joined the gang was to find a backer.

The so-called naturalization is very simple. It is nothing more than issuing a passport. In fact, in this era, people can travel to and from various countries without a passport. The so-called passport is actually a piece of paper, but it only took less than an hour. Gu Zhijie and others He became a citizen of Nanhua, or a citizen of Linhai City of the American Company.

Immediately after they completed their naturalization, the "petition" was rewritten. The petition no longer allowed them to uphold justice, but asked the official to rescue their relatives who were "imprisoned" in the Chincha Islands and Peruvian plantations.

(End of this chapter)