Chapter 5: Hongmen Big Boss (4)
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The next morning, after breakfast, Zhao Zhenzhong and the other two brought the prepared gifts and drove straight to Anliangtang's headquarters in New York.
After getting off the bus, Zhou Hao saw that Lao Wu, who went to invite them yesterday, was waiting outside the headquarters, so he introduced Zhao Zhenzhong and Lao Wu. After a few of them were polite, they led him to Situ Meitang to the place where the daily guests were met by Situ Meitang.
In the room, Zhao Zhenzhong met two old men chatting. Both of them were in their 60s, one of them looked majestic and majestic, while the other looked a little thin.
"I have seen Mr. Situ and this old man." Zhou Hao stepped forward and bowed to the two old men with a smile, and then introduced them to them: "This is Lao Zhao, who I once mentioned to Mr. Situ, and is also my brother-in-law."
Zhao Zhenzhong glared at Zhou Hao, blaming him for being a little rude, and then clasped his fists and said, "My junior Zhao Zhenzhong has met two seniors. Xiaohao is a little rude, so please don't blame the two seniors."
The majestic old man stood up and said to Zhao Zhenzhong: "Brother Zhao, I can't take this as a gift from Situ. As for the reason, I will explain in detail later." Then, Situ Meitang pointed at the thin old man beside him and introduced to the three of them: "This is the general leader of the various halls of the Hongmen Zhigong Hall in the United States, Huang Sande, and Huang." Then he turned to Huang Sande and said to Huang Sande: "In addition to the brother Zhao who introduced himself just now, these two are the Zhou siblings I told you yesterday."
Huang Sande nodded with a smile on his face and praised, "Hehe, they are really extraordinary, and they are all dragons and phoenixes among people." He turned his head and smiled and said to Situ Meitang, "No wonder you have thought about such good materials and beautiful quality."
Situ Meitang shook her head with a wry smile and said, "Forget it! Don't mention that! Don't look at the fact that the three of them are not old, but in terms of the age, the generation of the world is quite large." Then, Situ Meitang turned around and asked Zhao Zhenzhong and Zhou Tian: "I heard Zhou Hao say that your three masters are from Wudang Mountain and have the title of "Boxing and Sword Master". Is this true?"
After hearing the question, Zhao Zhenzhong was stunned and then replied: "It's true. There are innate Tai Chi and Wudang sword techniques as evidence."
Situ Meitang nodded and said, "That's not wrong." Then, he said to Huang Sande: "Does Brother Huang still remember the Master Zhang who taught us martial arts in San Francisco in the western region?"
"Why don't you remember?" Huang Sande also remembered, "We are not afraid of those big noses, thanks to the fist and foot skills taught by Master Zhang."
Situ Meitang continued: "At that time, Master Zhang once said that he learned a lot of his skills from his elder brother. Did the elder brother come from Wudang or his nephew who is 't both fist and sword'."
"I really have a little impression when you say this." Huang Sande nodded and admitted, and then woke up: "If this is the case, wouldn't the three of them become our little brothers and sisters?"
"Who said no?" Situ Meitang looked at the people and sighed: "I used to want to accept the siblings as apprentices, but later I saw that the kung fu they learned was even more skillful than I did, and I also learned about their martial arts origins, so I had to give up this idea."
After hearing this, Huang Sande looked strange. He could almost imagine the depression of his brother Situ at that time. So Huang Sande smiled and comforted: "Haha, this is not bad. Is the disciple a junior brother still a family?"
Zhao Zhenzhong and the other two looked a little strange on their faces. Unexpectedly, they had a relationship with Situ Meitang and Huang Sande through this method. Zhou Hao even muttered to himself: "This matter is a mess. If there are any martial arts secrets in his country, wouldn't it be that the Republic of China will become a martial arts?"
After hearing Huang Sande's words, Situ Meitang nodded helplessly and said, "That's true." Then he said to Zhao Zhenzhong: "I have always heard Xiaohao say that Brother Zhao is very good at martial arts. I wonder if you have mastered your boxing and sword skills? Can you open your eyes to brother?"
Looking at Situ Meitang and Huang Sande's eyes with some hope, Zhao Zhenzhong did not expect that the two old men were still so fascinated by martial arts, so he smiled and nodded and said, "It's okay to have achieved a little after practicing for many years. If the two old men want to see, I should accompany you."
"Two old men, don't take the martial arts exam for Lao Zhao as soon as they meet. Let's do the job first." Zhou Hao reminded with a smile: "I heard Lao Wu say you need to understand the situation in the country. Lao Zhao just happened to come from China, so it's better to understand clearly first and then talk about other things."
"Haha, I'm anxious." Situ Meitang stroked her beard and said with a smile: "The domestic situation, we can only know about some reports from the United States and the domestic and Hong Kong calls. The cause and effect of many things are not clear. Brother Zhao just happened to come from the country, so he would talk to me and Brother Huang."
"I wonder what things the two brothers want to know about? From which year will it start?" Zhao Zhenzhong asked.
"We learned about the events before the 14th year of the Republic of China. We all learned about the Zhigong Party when we established the Zhigong Party. Let me start from the 15th year of the Republic of China. We mainly talk about the forces in the country and the livelihood situation of the people." Situ Meitang suggested.
"Okay, I will start from the spring of the 15th year of the Republic of China and talk about some of the things I know that have happened in China in the past few years." Zhao Zhenzhong nodded in agreement.
Then, Zhao Zhenzhong talked about the major events that happened in China from early 1926 to July 1929 to the two Hongmen bosses. From the 26th Beijing March 18th, the Zhongshan ship incident, the initiation of the Northern Expedition, and the debate between the two parties during the two parties, Wu Peifu's troops retreated step by step; in 27th, the great powers bombarded Nanjing, April 12th Incident, July 15th Incident, and the Nanchang Uprising, Chiang Kai-shek stepped down, Ning Han merged, and the Zhilu coalition counterattacked; in 28th, the Nanjing government's second Northern Expedition, Fengcheng retreated, Jinan massacre, Huanggutun Incident, and Northeast Change of Flags; as well as the 29th Jianggui War, Zhongdong Road Incident, etc., Zhao Zhenzhong chose to tell them. Of course, Zhao Zhenzhong did not forget the power of the Yimeng Autonomous Government and the approximate achievements of the two battles between the Northern Expedition.
After telling these major events, Zhao Zhenzhong said again: "As for the people's livelihood in China, I don't know much about other places, but judging from the situation in Shandong, the improvement is limited, and it is basically a mess. It turns out that when Zhang Zongchang was there, various taxes and taxes emerged one after another, and natural disasters and man-made disasters, it can be said that people are living in poverty. Every year, there are hundreds of thousands of people from Shandong who fled famines in Everbright, Shenyang and other places. This does not count the large number of people who fled famines in other places and died on the road."
"Now the Nanjing government has driven away Zhang Zongchang. Although it has reduced a lot of tycoons and miscellaneous taxes, due to war and natural disasters, and bandits everywhere, the lives of the people have not been really improved. The officials appointed by the Nanjing government did not care about the production and life of the people. Instead, the county government forced the food but failed, causing the people to break through the county town, and the Northern Expedition Army sent troops to suppress it again."
"From these perspectives, the Shandong National Government is just a bird of a feather between Zhang Zongchang. Even the Nanjing government and the Beiyang government are not necessarily better. They are still bragging to the outside world and exploiting internally."
"Little brother, are you a bit biased? Since the National Government has reduced many taxes and taxes, how could people's lives not improve?" Huang Sande was a little unbelievable.
"Brother, I don't exaggerate this, but the truth." Zhao Zhenzhong explained with a wry smile: "Due to years of turmoil, Shandong cannot be discussed in terms of water conservancy construction. The Yellow River and canal river prevention are even more riddled with holes. Every year, it floods and floods villages and farmlands. In addition, other natural disasters continue, so there is no harvest in the ground. In this case, the landlords still collect rent at a minimum of 60%. With other taxes and fees collected by the government, the people cannot say that they can improve their lives at all."
"For example, a family can only earn up to 10 yuan a year. The original government had to collect 100 yuan a year for consuming grains for the first time. The current government has reduced the taxes and collected 30 yuan a year. If the government does not consider the income list of the people, it should indeed have improved greatly, but in fact, the amount of levy after the improvement also exceeded the affordability of most people. The result can only be that people are living in poverty."
Zhao Zhenzhong's words made several people feel very heavy. Huang Sande sighed and said, "One of the things I regret most now is the mobilization of the overseas Hongmen to support Sun Yat-sen and his fellow villagers. We contributed people, worked and paid, but in the end we raised such a group of ungrateful wolves! Not only did we ignore the kindness of the Hongmen back then, but we first harmed the overseas Chinese in Guangzhou, and now we poisoned the country. Sun Yat-sen's fellow villagers are not good things!"
Seeing Zhao Zhenzhong and others with some confusion, Situ Meitang explained: "In the 13th year of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek were suppressing the business group in Guangzhou. Even if Chen Lianbo deserves to die, what is the reason for the many overseas Chinese families in Guangzhou? He was also tragically attacked by Sun Yat-sen's party members in that incident?"
"In the 14th year of the Republic of China, after we learned the reason of the incident, we all hated Sun Yat-sen and his followers. As a result, the American Hongmen Zhigongtang began to unanimously oppose Sun Yat-sen. In addition to the grudges between our American Zhigongtang and Sun Yat-sen in history and other reasons, in the fall of the Republic of China, we finally gave up Sun Yat-sen, who had fully supported the past, and instead elected Chen Jingcun, who had benefited his hometown and had a far better character than Sun Yat-sen, to be the Prime Minister of our Zhigong Party."
Zhao Zhenzhong and the other two looked at each other, but they did not expect that Situ Meitang, Huang Sande and others chose Chen Jiongming as the Prime Minister of the Zhigong Party, and there was such a reason behind it.
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