Chapter 164 Daydreaming of "Founding the Country"!

The Chinese workers' residence is not too far from San Francisco, about thirty or forty miles, very close to the beach. To be precise, they are staying in a small shrimp village by the beach. The so-called shrimp village is naturally a small village for raising shrimps and catching shrimps.

The Chinese workers who first came to the United States were attracted by the gold rush, and after the gold mine was washed away, the Chinese workers changed the railway. After the railway was completed, some of them turned into farmers, some opened laundry, Chinese restaurants, car clothes factories, etc., and some of them were invested in the shrimp fishing industry, catching shrimps in traditional Chinese ways and raising shrimps. By 1875, there were about 30 shrimp villages in San Francisco alone. Recently, around 1880, the Chinese shrimp fishing reached its peak. The largest shrimp village had more than 500 residents, which was more than the total number of Chinese living in a capital of Colorado. During the shrimp fishing season, shrimp farmers would use American cedars to make sampans and sailboats, plus bag nets imported from China to catch shrimps, and transform Chinese traditional threshing machines into machines that remove shrimp skins and shrimp heads. During the harvest season, about 1 million pounds of shrimps can be produced every season.

However, although the shrimp fishing industry is still "prosperous", as the wave of expulsion in China becomes increasingly large, small villages such as shrimp villages far away from the city are also beginning to be affected to a considerable extent. The shrimp produced is becoming more and more difficult to sell, and most of them are sold at a low price, barely making money for a living. This is not counting. Many white fishermen have begun to stop Chinese shrimp fishing, and there are even reports that the municipal government is legislating to prohibit Chinese fishing and shrimp fishing during the peak season of shrimp production, and no longer allow dried shrimps to be exported and exported. Of course, Chinese-style bag nets are not allowed to use shrimp fishing and dried shrimps. These news have had a deep impact on Chinese shrimp people. The shrimp people know that their future is bleak, and many people have left to change jobs, while more people are preparing to leave or change jobs.

The Chinese workers are stationed in such a small shrimp village that has begun to fall.

The village chief of Xiacun is Guan Dengxing, who is an old acquaintance of Qian Shide. The two have a life-long friendship, because they are both "changhaired" from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

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"Jin Zhang, did you release Charlotte?"

After coming out of San Francisco, he returned to the shrimp village all the way. After seeing his brothers, Guo Jinzhang was quickly questioned. Everyone was very excited because he let Charlotte go.

"Have you forgotten our grudge?" Chu Si's roar could almost be directly transmitted to San Francisco. Although he did not take action, his expression was almost like walking forward and grabbing Guo Jinzhang's neck. Moreover, the veins that kept beating on his forehead, as well as his red face and neck were enough to show the anger in his heart. The people next to him didn't say anything, because everyone knew that Chu Si saw dozens of brothers die under the pursuit of the white militia with his own eyes. That kind of powerlessness and sorrow were deeply imprinted in his heart and he never dared to forget it.

"I haven't forgotten." Guo Jinzhang replied calmly. He knew Chu Si's mood, so he could understand it.

"I haven't forgotten you and let the person go? What do you want to do, what do you want to do?" Chu Si continued to yell.

"I want the group of people in San Francisco to come out to find us on their own initiative." Guo Jinzhang looked at him and looked at the other people who were looking at him. "There are more than 100,000 people directly attacking San Francisco. Even if we can break into this, it is just a water pattern in the sea, what is it enough? Besides, our goal is not just to destroy San Francisco."

"Then you don't have to let Charlotte go. That guy has a deep feud with us. What do you think if you let him go?" Hou Nan asked with a frown.

"I think it won't take long for brothers to understand my painstaking efforts." Guo Jinzhang said.

"Do you want to use Charlotte to force those people in Chinatown to work with us?" Li Asheng glanced at him and thoughtful.

"No, I warned Charlotte that he would not disclose what we had been to Chinatown, and he would not dare." Guo Jinzhang said.

"You warned him, he dared not?" Zhao Dachang said with a "cut" and said disdainfully.

"I can prove this. The boy said it himself. He will never disclose any news about Renbao in Chinatown before he captures us all." Liu Tongfu interrupted.

"You just believe him so much? That guy is not a good thing. Besides, can those white people believe what they say?" Ding Huaiyuan asked.

"It's hard to say. That boy has suffered so much in our hands, so he may not have listened to our words. He is not afraid of falling into our hands again?" Cheng Degui said, holding his mustache.

"If someone hides in San Francisco, they still have to be afraid of us?" Ding Huaiyuan asked.

"If someone who has never had any dealings with us and hiding in San Francisco, he might feel safe. Especially if they will definitely go to the San Francisco City Government or the police station, they feel that they are protected and they will definitely have some courage. But I think Charlotte may not have the courage to fall into our hands... How many times did he fall into our hands? In the end, we were surrounded by Denver. If they hadn't seen the opportunity, they sent him out and we would have been in there. Although San Francisco is several times larger than Denver, he might not have felt that it would be safer than Denver." Cheng Degui said.

"This is reasonable. Don't forget that we are still holding this guy's handle... He is involved in the murder of the governor of Colorado. If we poke such a big deal out of him, he will still be unable to escape that rope." Liang Zuying also said.

"Hmph, let's just steal it and care about it? Who are we? In the eyes of those white people, we are just a group of bandits! Do you understand? They are bandits!" Liu Tongfu glanced at him, "Besides, we are mortal enemies with Colorado, and even more mortal enemies with the mayor of Denver. If we expose it, can those white people believe it?"

"Afu's words are right. Even if we have the handle, we will definitely be unable to deal with that guy." Hou Nan said.

"Jin Zhang, what are you thinking? Don't let everyone guess it." Qian Shide was pulling Chu Si aside and comforting her softly. Thanks to Chu Si's own bad temper, he felt a little calmer after yelling for two times. In addition, Qian Shide has always been the leader of everyone, and he can listen to what he says, so he didn't say anything again. But as everyone talked about it, he couldn't find the idea. Qian Shide himself couldn't help it, so he simply asked Guo Jinzhang directly.

"Yes, Jin Zhang, what do you think?" Li Asheng asked immediately.

"Didn't I just say it? I let Charlotte go to help us pull out the people from San Francisco..." Guo Jinzhang sighed: "The city is the territory of white people. If we launch an attack rashly, although we can catch them off guard, or even if everything goes well, we can destroy the largest city in the western United States. Have you ever thought about it? There are more than 100,000 or 200,000 people! Two or three hundred times ours! As long as they react, even if a small group of them react, block them during our attack and give more time to react, what will happen to us?..."

"It's not necessarily true? We haven't fought with those white men. Just like their bears, as long as the war starts, they will definitely only have to escape. Who did Pueblo, Colorado Prince, Aurora, and Lakewood, not this way?" Zhao Dachang said.

"That's our luck." Liu Tongfu curled his lips, "If we hadn't killed more than 3,000 of them first and scared those white people, just with our 700 people, I want to build so many cities? Go dreaming."

"What did you say if you are surnamed Liu?" Zhao Dachang stood up suddenly, "You say it again?"

"I'll say it again, isn't it still the same?" Liu Tongfu shrank back, "If you have the ability, you have something to talk about. Do you have to do it and show off your strength?"

"Afro said it makes sense." Qian Shide thought for a moment, "Our number is indeed too small. Being able to dominate Colorado is not only because we dare to fight and fight, but the white people have never paid attention to us from the beginning. Even if we killed three thousand militias, as long as they can stabilize, we may not be able to defeat them.... Just like when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, our Taiping Army, which had tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, went to attack someone's city, may only have a few thousand defenders, only a fraction of us, but sometimes it still couldn't be defeated after a few months."

"In the Qing Dynasty, all cities have city walls. Do these white people have city walls? No?" Li Asheng said slowly.

"But they have people." Guo Jinzhang said, "Think about it, how many Chinese are there in the whole United States? San Francisco is the most Chinese, with only tens of thousands of people living in the sky, followed by Los Angeles. But in addition to these two cities, how many Chinese are there in other places in the United States? Colorado is still a state with a large number of Chinese people, with only two or three thousand people. In this way, the whole United States will only be over 100,000, which is more than 100,000 Chinese, and white people? 30 million! A gap of 300 times. We have to kill at least 300 of them to be worthy of our own loss of a brother, but do you think this is possible?"

"..." Li Asheng was silent, then nodded again and stopped talking. Guo Jinzhang was right, but they all knew this. After experiencing so many things, they actually didn't feel afraid of the white people, and even looked down on them. However, the huge population of white people has been a huge rock that has been pressing on everyone's hearts. How can they really deal with so many white people's liquidation?

"I'm so stupid, it would be great if I could transport people from the Qing Dynasty here." Jian Wang said with his breath.

"I want to do it too." Guo Jinzhang sighed: "But at least one base is required. We need a piece of land that can be held for a long time so that we can transport a large number of people here. There is no need to be too many. Even if we can transport 500,000 Chinese back, it is enough for us to gain a full foothold in the United States. If there are one million, I will dare to divide the entire American territory west of the Rocky Mountain into our sphere of influence; and if there are more and more than two million, I will dare to build a country on this land!"

“…Kinn the country?”

Everyone was shocked!

"Jin Zhang, what did you just say? Jianguo?" Hou Nan was almost always listening. He knew that he was old and didn't know much, so he didn't want to interfere with the decisions of the young people too much. But now he found that it was so "dangerous" just listening to these boys' discussions beside him... Jianguo? Jin Zhang actually said Jianguo? There were only seven or eight hundred people, and it was on the territory of others. Did this boy actually say that he wanted to build a country?

"That's right, it's Jianguo!" Liu Tongfu was always the one who responded the fastest. Before Guo Jinzhang could answer, he had already answered Hou Nan's question first. However, after answering, he himself met Guo Jinzhang: "Don't you have a fever, right?"

"No fever!" Guo Jinzhang replied.

"You're still talking nonsense if you don't have a fever?" Ding Huaiyuan asked dissatisfiedly.

"So, do you think I'm talking nonsense? If we have two million people, even if it's just some ordinary people, do you think we have the hope of occupying this land on the west coast of the United States?" Guo Jinzhang chuckled and asked back.

"But you said too, there are 30 million..." Zhao Dachang shouted.

"I know they have 30 million, but have you thought about it carefully as I said, huh?" Guo Jinzhang asked back.

"Think carefully, how do you think carefully..."

"Achang, don't talk for now." Zhao Dachang was extremely dissatisfied with Guo Jinzhang's attitude. Although he was not as brave as before, there was no one in this circle who dared not question him. In addition to Hou Nan, there was also Li Asheng. So after Li Asheng signaled him to stop, he stopped decisively, stood aside, and asked Li Asheng to talk to Guo Jinzhang:

"Jin Zhang, if you have two million people, no, even if there are only five hundred thousand people, do you want to..."

"It seems you have thought of it." Seeing Li Asheng's thoughtful expression, Guo Jinzhang smiled slightly, "Isn't it difficult?"

"It seems that it's really not difficult now." Li Asheng smiled bitterly, "But do you know how troublesome this is? Moreover, we can't have so many people."

"So, those words just said." Guo Jinzhang sighed: "What a great opportunity, I watched it slip away in front of me... I was really a little unwilling to accept it."

"It's not difficult to be unwilling to give up? What kind of mystery are you two fighting?" Liang Zuying asked carefully.

"Jin Zhang means that if we have enough people, we will send troops to cut off the Pacific Railway." Li Asheng sighed, "Everyone knows how dangerous the Pacific Railway is. In some places, even if there are only a few dozen people, as long as there are sufficient ammunition, it will be impossible to open thousands of men! At that time, no matter how capable the Americans are, they will probably only watch us swallow his land."

"It's a pity that our number is too small. Even if we can defend the Pacific Railway, we can't suppress the white people in the west. So we can only stare at me and see such a great opportunity slip away in vain." Qian Shide also sighed long.

"In other words, after all, Jin Zhang is still dreaming in the daytime?" Liu Tongfu asked.

"Absolutely." Guo Jinzhang nodded first.

"Then what's the use of these?" Zhao Dachang glared at him angrily, "I really think I have a chance."

"That's you stupid. Jin Zhang had said a long time ago that if there were two million people, he would dare to establish a country. How many of us are there now? You are just your own silly!" Jian Wang snorted and said.

"Is it what I want to scream? It's not that Jin Zhang is talking nonsense by himself." Zhao Dachang said dissatisfied.

"Okay, stop arguing, it's useless to talk about it." Chu Si interrupted Zhao Dachang with a dark face, then turned to Guo Jinzhang and asked, "Jinzhang, you haven't said why you let Charlotte go! If you don't explain it clearly to me, I will never end up with you."

"Didn't Jin Zhang already say it? In order to let Charlotte go to inform the white people in San Francisco, he asked him to lead the white people out to deal with it." Cheng Degui said.

"What if I can't lead it out?" Chu Si asked.

"It can definitely be drawn out." Guo Jinzhang smiled, "The US government has been suppressing the spread of things. Most of California don't know what we did in Colorado. Even if we know, most of them don't know the specific situation. Their contempt for Chinese people is still engraved in the bones as before. So, once we know that we are coming, they will definitely send people to destroy us as soon as possible. What we need to do is to clean up the poisonous fangs they stretch out one by one, just like tooth extraction."

"What about that?" Wan Gongxiang asked.

"Then? Hehe," Guo Jinzhang smiled, "of course it is attacking San Francisco!"

"But didn't you just say that there are too many people in San Francisco and too big a city to attack directly?" Liu Tongfuqi said.

"That's right. But have we wiped out the groups of troops they sent one after another?" Guo Jinzhang smiled and said, "It's like when we were in Pueblo, we killed three thousand militiamen first and drifted the Arkansas River, which scared them to death. When they launched an attack, they would have no resistance. Even if there were, they were very small and difficult to form a threat."

"So you made this idea." Ding Huaiyuan smacked his lips, "It sounds good. But have you ever thought about it? We are making trouble here, what should the guys in Chinatown in the city do? That Charlotte saw you have contacted them with his own eyes. Even if you threatened him, he wouldn't tell the white people about your meeting? Moreover, we originally wanted to vent their anger this time, but now we have not only not directly entered the city to avenge them, but also may bring disaster to them. Have you ever thought about what they would think?"

"Think about it." Guo Jinzhang replied.

"Then you also know that it may bring disaster to them?" Ding Huaiyuan asked.

"In fact, even if Charlotte won't reveal the news that we would meet with those people in Chinatown, as long as we appear next to San Francisco, those white people will not let them go." Guo Jinzhang said.

"That's right. If those white people knew that we were outside, how could they let so many Chinese stay in the city? I'm afraid it would be light to drive people away at that time. I'm afraid..."

Hou Nan didn't finish his words, but everyone knew what he meant. I was afraid that those white men would kill directly like they were in Denver!

"We were only more than 400 people at the beginning, but if we were in San Francisco, we would have had tens of thousands of Chinese people!"

"They won't be able to do it?"

"Why can't we do it? We could do everything we forced us to build roads in desperate situations, but now we are just taking action directly. What can't we do?"

"That's it. In order to compete with the Indians for territory, didn't they offer rewards to Indians in the name of the government? Even the baby's scalp is needed. Can you do such inhuman things, and do you care about killing a few more Chinese people?"

"Who told us to be outside? At that time, just say suppression, who can say what else they are?"

Hounan's word "fear" ignited everyone's hearts, and all kinds of terrible scenes emerged in everyone's heart. Didn't we give up Denver and come to California just to give a breath and avenge the compatriots who were killed here? Although we did not go directly into San Francisco, we changed our plan halfway, but the original intention was still there and the goal did not change. We had already made up our minds. No matter whether those compatriots in Chinatown agreed to cooperate with them, we would take action at that time. No matter how many Chinese people stayed in the United States and were bullied, there would always be someone to say something and fight back... However, if more Chinese people caused greater disasters to more Chinese compatriots because of their actions, it would not be our original intention.
Chapter completed!