America 1881: Legend of the West

Honolulu, Pearl Harbor.

The port was permanently leased to the United States. A dock had been built and another deep-water port was being excavated.

There are many ships docked in the port.

Among them, there are two ships belonging to Chen Jianqiu.

The "Kun" is temporarily left here. As long as this ship is here, there will be no trouble in Hawaii.

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

In addition, Chen Jianqiu also left behind the bolt-action rifles and two Maxims confiscated from the Japanese, as well as some Chinese soldiers.

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

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

Another merchant ship is undergoing final maintenance and supplies, preparing to return to the United States.

The pier was very busy with people coming and going.

Most of them were dock workers, wearing gray or khaki linen clothes, carrying sacks of supplies and boxes of ammunition to the ship.

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

As the "consort" of the Kingdom of Hawaii, he put on gorgeous clothes and got a wig from nowhere.

Although the royal family has stepped down, this does not affect their status in the hearts of the Hawaiian people. Therefore, Sean's every word and deed also attracts much attention.

Others can dress casually, but he can't.

At the same time, there were also local Chinese representatives such as He Kuan and Chen Dewang who came to bid farewell.

"Boss, are you really planning to leave me here?" Sean walked up to Chen Jianqiu and whispered to him quietly.

"Otherwise? You can't follow me all your life." Chen Jianqiu looked at him with a half-smile.

"I would rather hang out with you all the time." Sean said sincerely.

Chen Jianqiu straightened his collar, just like he had tidied Holly's clothes, and then patted his shoulder: "Princess is pregnant, please spend more time with others, and don't fool around outside all day long."

"If I really need you one day, don't worry, you can't run away. I will 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." Xiao Xiao stood up straight and said to Chen Jianqiu.

Chen Jianqiu nodded with satisfaction.

But he quickly got close to Sean's ear and whispered to him: "Watch the white people here for me. If there is anything rash, please discuss it with Xu Ajiu."

Sean looked solemn and was about to agree immediately, but Chen Jianqiu's next words almost scared him out of his wits:

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

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

Chen Jianqiu patted his shoulder again, laughed loudly, turned around and walked away.

"Boss!"

Sean shouted from behind.

"Is there anything else?" Chen Jianqiu turned his head.

"Feiniao, Brother Feiniao is still alone, you can help him get started." The black man shouted loudly.

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

He walked towards He Kuan and the others.

"Send someone to deliver a letter to me if you have anything to do." Chen Jianqiu said to He Kuan and a group of congressmen from the Republic of Hawaii, "Say what you should say and do what you should do. We have no retreat and no backing. We can only rely on ourselves."

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

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

He looked around, but finally said nothing.

Upon seeing this, Chen Jianqiu waved to him and called him aside.

The two people turned their backs to the crowd and faced the sea:

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

He Kuan whispered: "There is a gentleman named Sun who has admired your name for a long time and wants to meet you. He."

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

"Gone, gone. Like I just said, do what you should do. If you need human and financial support, just tell me."

After saying that, he turned around, said goodbye to everyone, and walked towards his merchant ship.

When a torch lights up in the dark night, it illuminates the way for future generations. Whether you see it or not is not that important.

If 1893 was considered a muddle-through year for Cleveland and the Democratic Party, it could be said that was a year that Cleveland and the Democratic Party were able to get by.

That year of 1894 was an absolute disaster.

The financial crisis is intensifying on the American continent.

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

People were selling their assets like crazy in exchange for gold.

During the financial crisis, many people's seemingly substantial assets were wiped out in a short period of time.

Among them were Hawke and Walter Hopkins, who had acquired a large number of Chen Jianqiu's railway company shares.

The first to be unlucky was Hauke.

His Philadelphia Railroad collapsed at the first sign of the crisis.

Although Haoke used all social resources and power to try to save it.

But one day in March 1894, his finances told him that the company could no longer sustain itself.

The bankruptcy and huge debt of Pacific Railroad became the last straw for him.

Rockefeller was the first to abandon him.

He told Hauke ​​that he would no longer provide him with any financing guarantee because Hauke ​​had caused him heavy losses.

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

On a hazy morning without the sun, Hauck jumped from the bridge outside Philadelphia and chose to end his life in a careless way.

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

Master Walter's business policies are quite radical.

He continued to borrow money to build the railway.

If it were during a period of great development, such crazy expansion might be compensated by compensation from the state government, demolishing the east to pay for the west, and borrowing new debt to repay old debt.

However, during the financial crisis, this was undoubtedly a case of putting one rope after another around his neck, because he felt that he was not dying fast enough.

Young Master Hopkins obviously has not experienced anything like this.

The Pacific Railroad collapsed faster than Hawke jumped off a bridge.

The unfinished railroads were in ruins and almost worthless.

The California court came on behalf of the creditors and confiscated all of Master Walter's property, including the castle left to him by the elder Hopkins.

It is hard to imagine that if his father knew that the family fortune he had worked hard for most of his life to save was completely destroyed by his son in a very short period of time, would he crawl out of the coffin and drag this prodigal son into the coffin with him? go.

Master Walter disappeared soon after.

Some people said that he embarked on a ship to the East and went to Asia to find some opportunities; some said that he was crazy and entered the Elizabeth Mental Hospital.

Regarding all this, Chen Jianqiu did not show much emotion.

He is still waiting, waiting for the opportunity to intervene at the bottom.

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

The first is to hold a meeting with the legal and financial center in New York to arrange some tasks for the coming year.

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

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

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