Chapter 727

In fact, the stone bear himself had no grudge against the city in his previous life, but he couldn't stand it. The old stone family was a big family. To be exact, the people who had enemies with the city were the ancestors of the stone bear.

Well, it's Shixiong's grandfather's father!

According to the ancient system, Shi Xiong should call this ancestor Tianzu, and Shi Xiong is the descendant of this ancestor.

Before this era, every time Shi Xiong went back to his hometown for the new year, he would see the very old genealogy in the stone ancestral hall of his hometown. On that genealogy, Shi Xiong could see the name of the old ancestor named "Shi Chuanwen".

When I was a child, Shi Xiong's grandfather once told Shi Xiong many stories about these ancestors in the genealogy, among which the most important one was the story of Shi Chuanwen, because compared with other ancestors in the genealogy, the story of Shi Chuanwen is really legendary.

The Tianzu of the stone bear was born in 1890 in the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. If the old ancestor was still alive, he would have been 129 years old in the year when the stone bear passed through.

When he was young, because his family was poor, he couldn't afford to eat. When he was 16 years old, in 1905, he ran out to find food himself. He went all the way north, and finally came to Tianjin Wei, where he was fooled into a boat, and then he was pulled to Los Angeles, the city of angels, and became an oil producer in Los Angeles

Shi Chuanwen worked as an oil producer in Los Angeles for three years. He thought he would never return home. As a result, in early 1908, a big fire broke out in his oil field. The old ancestor and several Chinese oil workers narrowly escaped death, and then took advantage of the chaos to escape from Los Angeles.

At first, the ancestor wanted to go north to San Francisco with the other three compatriots who had escaped. Because there were the most Chinese people there, four of them met a rich Chinese businessman on their way. Coincidentally, the rich Chinese businessman and Shi Chuanwen were fellow townsmen of Shandong Province.

When the rich Chinese businessman saw the tragedy of these compatriots, he took the initiative to invite the four of them to go with him to Mexico, because the rich Chinese businessman also needed some people who knew the roots to work for him. Compared with the lazy and greedy local people, this rich Chinese businessman is more willing to use his hardworking compatriots.

So Shi Chuanwen and the four of them went to Mexico with the rich merchant, and finally settled in toreon.

Thanks to their hard work, the four of them soon got a foothold in toreon. Shi Chuanwen even found a compatriot's daughter-in-law when he came to toreon.

The next year, Shi Chuanwen's first child was born, and with the help of the rich businessman, he also had a small business of his own. Although it's not very rich, it's absolutely no problem to support the family.

Shi Chuanwen's daughter-in-law is also a Chinese. The couple work hard with their newly born child, and they plan to return to their hometown when they have saved enough money. How to say again, here are all foreign countries, where has own hometown to be good?

As a result, this kind of good days did not last long. In May 1911, the famous toreon massacre in history completely destroyed this originally happy home.

After being elected president of Mexico in 1877, bofilio DIAS began to implement the policy of encouraging foreign investment and immigration. In 1899, he signed a treaty of friendship and trade with the Manchu Qing government in China, so many Chinese began to flow into Mexico.

Most of these Chinese people live in several states in northern Mexico. As a city with high strategic significance, Torreon naturally needs Chinese people to settle here.

Relying on hard work and smart mind, the Chinese soon gained a firm foothold in Torreon and made a lot of money. At that time, more than 600 Chinese settled in toreon, and there was even a well funded Chinese bank there.

The success of the Chinese made many local people jealous. When Mexican rebels under the leadership of Francesco Madero launched an attack on Torreon on May 13, 1911 and broke the city, the rebels and local people slaughtered and ransacked the Chinese merchants in Kashgar. In more than 10 hours, more than 300 Chinese were killed on the spot, causing a bloody tragedy that shocked the world. It's known as the toreon massacre.

The ancestor of Shi Xiong lost his left hand and his wife died in the tragedy. Fortunately, under the protection of Shi Chuanwen and his wife, their two and a half year old son is OK.

After the massacre, although the Manchu government at that time was too busy to take care of itself, it immediately made a strong protest to the Mexican government and put forward a claim for compensation of up to 30 million pesos. Later, because the Mexican government ignored it, the Manchu Qing government sent the cruiser Haiqi, which was repaired in New York, to put pressure on the Mexican government.

The tragedy caused great harm to the Chinese people in toreon. The ancestor of the stone bear left the village with his surviving son and went back to his hometown sadly.

Well, the surviving son of Shi Chuanwen is the grandfather of Shi Xiong's grandfather, and also the ancestor of Shi Xiong. And the daughter-in-law who died in that tragedy was Shi Xiong's granddaughter in heaven

Although Shi Chuanwen got married and had a son after returning to his hometown, if there was no Tianzu grandmother who died in the tragedy, and if Shi Chuanwen's first son didn't survive by luck, there would be no Shi Xiong in the world, and there would be no great China empire in this time and space.

These things were all told by his grandfather when he was a child, and they were not told once or twice, so the stone bear was very impressed with his heavenly ancestor, and he also remembered the place of toreon.

Therefore, although toreon has no direct relationship with the stone bear himself, the stone bear's grandmother died in this place after all. So when the stone bear decided to fight against the governor of New Spain and suddenly saw the city on the map, the stone bear decided to avenge his grandmother.

Although in this time and space, in this era, Torreon did not hurt the stone bear's grandmother, but the memory of his last life is not so easy to forget.

And is it difficult for the current bear army to flatten a city?

So the city was completely ruined.

Although Torreon is now a large fortress, it is far from a city. But blame you for the name!

The two artillery regiments of the first and eighth divisions and the artillery battalions of each regiment surrounded the fortress, which occupied a large area, and then carried out a full 20 minutes of saturated shelling.

By the end of the bombardment, the fortress had become a ruin, worse than Boston before.

Along with the more than 1000 local residents and Spanish businessmen who did not escape from the fortress, and a small part of the garrison, they all turned to ashes