Chapter 923

Yang Xiaotian didn't plan to meet Yang Wanli at the first time.

Although Yang Wanli is the leader of Hongmen and holds a high position in the Chinese circle in North America, Yang Xiaotian is a capitalist and does not value the influence of the gang.

In this world, gangs bully ordinary people. It's hard to be of great use. Du Yuesheng, the former leader of the Green Gang, has made a figurative analogy: these gangs are actually big people's chamber pots. After using the chamber pot, they do dirty work. When they are not in use, they plug the chamber pot under the bed and hide it. Once the pot is too dirty, just throw it away.

All the gangs that seem to have great scenery can survive only with the permission of big people. The Mafia in Sicily was so powerful at that time, but when they met Mussolini, a big man who didn't need them, they were beaten to pieces. Compared with Mussolini, their strength was not a bit worse.

The North American side is relatively loose, with limited funds. The police force can only be deployed in the prosperous areas of New York. In some places that can't be taken care of, gangs are needed to maintain order. What's more, if politicians here need to vote, gangs can also win votes for politicians, which is of great use.

As long as the gangs in North America do not do anything harmful and do not threaten the long-term stability of North America, the North American authorities will turn a blind eye to the gangs. Just like Hongmen, the reason why it is allowed to exist and grow is actually due to the official logic of "controlling China with China".

In any case, due to the existence of cultural barriers in Chinatown and the Chinese world, the management of white people is more troublesome. In order to reduce the management cost, it is a more economical way to directly communicate with Hongmen.

In the most glorious years of Hongmen, President Roosevelt was once a lawyer of Hongmen. At that time, the situation of Chinese in North America was not very good. Any Chinese who wanted to avoid being bullied in North America had to join the Hongmen newspaper group to keep warm. At that time, Hongmen was under the banner of big brother situ. It was famous for a time, and its influence was from North America to China.

However, since racial discrimination became a sensitive topic in North America and the "anti Chinese act" against Chinese disappeared, Hongmen began to decline. The original Chinese people had to rely on Hongmen to gain a foothold in North America. Therefore, Hongmen represents almost all the Chinese people and is very powerful.

But now the ceiling for the Chinese still exists, but the apparent exclusion has disappeared. It is not difficult for the Chinese to work hard to become a middle class. As a result, a new generation of young people are not willing to join Hongmen. Coupled with the impact of new Chinese immigrants, Hongmen will inevitably decline.

Over the years, Hongmen's sphere of influence has been shrinking. On the whole, it was Wang Xiaoer's new year, and every year was worse.

But after all, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse. Even if it is not the same today, Hongmen is still the biggest force of Chinese in North America. On the North American side, there are not many rich Chinese and their political power is not strong. It is not that Hongmen is too powerful, but other forces are too weak.

If Yang Xiaotian wants to make a career in North America, he really has no help but Hongmen.

In the past, Hongmen was always run by the situ family.

But in the past 20 years, the situ family has fallen into a frenzied infighting, which makes outsiders take advantage of it. Yang Wanli rose as a new force and won the support of big and small forces in Hongmen. He replaced the situ family and became the leader of Hongmen.

Yang Wanli is ambitious and obviously not satisfied with his position as the leader of Hongmen. Over the years, he has been trying every means to make money in an attempt to turn himself into a big capitalist. However, it is not so easy to start from scratch and become a capitalist.

The arrival of Yang Xiaotian is an opportunity for Yang Wanli, so Yang Wanli immediately sent an invitation to Yang Xiaotian, using humble words and polite attitude, which can make people feel good about him.

Yang Xiaotian doesn't care about Yang Wanli.

Now, due to the repeated encounters yesterday, Yang Xiaotian finds that Hongmen is still very useful, which makes Yang Xiaotian have a new idea.

Let Hongmen deal with the Dionysus.

On the one hand, it's a nomination for Yang Wanli.

On the other hand, it is a test of the power of Hongmen.

Yang Xiaotian is not sure how powerful Hongmen is now. The world stresses the exchange of interests. Yang Xiaotian looks at gangs with capitalist thinking. In Yang Xiaotian's view, Hongmen is a company. He has to value the company to determine his price.

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Chinatown.

Chinatown, as its name suggests, is a community where Chinese gather. This is the case in North America, where different races do not mix. White people will not live in the black community, and black people generally will not live in the Chinese community.

Because in history, the Tang Dynasty in China was relatively strong and far-reaching, so the area where Chinese gathered was called Chinatown.

The location of New York's Chinatown is not remote, and it can even be said that it is in the prime of New York, because only one wall away from Chinatown is the famous wall street.

That's the heart of the North American economy.

If North America is compared to a person, then Wall Street is the heart of North America.

There, it represents a gluttonous feast of wealth. The capital of the world is concentrated on Wall Street, which determines the market of the world economy through the stock market of North America. The price of oil as far as the Middle East, the price of soybean in South America, the price of rice in India, the price of light industrial products in China, the price of automobile in Japan, the price of raw materials in Africa, the fluctuation of world economy and the prosperity and decline of trade all depend on the game of capital on Wall Street.

The wealth there is beyond measure.

Next to Chinatown, there is the famous Broadway, the center of North American literature and art. It's a stage performance, which represents the highest artistic level in North America. Even Hollywood has to bow down.

But Chinatown, separated by a wall, is a different sight.

The public security in Chinatown is not good. It is very dangerous to go out at night, so there are many tramps here. The Chinese living in Chinatown are not very well-off, so Chinatown shows the poor and backward appearance of New York. There was a newspaper report about the chaos in Chinatown, but there has never been any improvement.

Many Chinese in Chinatown don't speak English at all, and many of them are illegal immigrants who come all the way here to serve dishes.

Of course, all the high-rise buildings in Hongmen are doing very well. Most of them, in fact, don't live in Chinatown and buy houses in the upscale neighborhoods of Manhattan. But there is still Hongmen industry in Chinatown, and the branch of Hongmen is set here.

If you work, you'll still work in Chinatown.

At this time, Chinatown is a lively scene.

In order to meet the arrival of Yang Xiaotian, Yang Wanli did not spend less effort.

He specially organized people to make the atmosphere as lively as the Spring Festival.

Anyway, it's almost the Spring Festival, so we should rehearse in advance.