The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 802: Little People Change the World

"Aren't you going home for the New Year?" Lin Changning helped Chen Zhengwei pack his luggage. Although he could buy anything with money, many times he couldn't buy what he wanted.

"No, I have to hold my breath for a whole year. Are you going to suffocate me to death?" Chen Zhengwei stood at the window and smoked a cigar for a while. From here he could see the twinkling lights of Los Angeles city and the bright street lights on the roadside.

Like Los Angeles and San Francisco, they were among the first cities to promote electric lighting, and electrical wires were laid when the city was built.

In other places, only wealthy families could use electric lights, but in Los Angeles, most areas, including the city government, had electric lights.

The only problem is that the AC power is unstable and the voltage is unstable. Except for the city center where Chen Zhengwei is located, other areas have to take turns to supply power.

At this time, Li Xiwen and two of his men were waiting in the small living room on the first floor.

Seeing Chen Zhengwei coming down, Li Xiwen stood up and walked over quickly: "Brother, they sent someone here!"

"boss!"

"I've brought the person you wanted!"

"All alive?"

"They are alive. We found a doctor for them in Hong Kong and even used penicillin. We managed to save their lives!"

Hearing this answer, a smile immediately appeared on Chen Zhengwei's face.

"What about people?"

"In the carriage outside. Does the boss want to see him?" the two asked hurriedly.

"bring it here!"

After the two of them went out to bring people, Chen Zhengwei said to Li Xiwen, "This was delivered on time! If it was a day later, I would have gone to Houston!"

"Brother, sea transportation will always be delayed! After all, the sailing of the ship depends on God!" Li Xiwen helped them explain.

A moment later, two men with bruised faces and noses were dragged in from outside.

Valverde's face was pale, his eyes were full of panic, and his whole body was shaking.

After being kidnapped from home that day, I was put on a ship and first went to Hong Kong, and then was sent to the United States. It took more than a month.

He also thought about escaping, but there was no chance at all!
He had thought countless times about what was waiting for him.

At this moment, looking at the young man sitting on the sofa in front of him, his teeth were chattering and he couldn't utter a word.

"Do you know where this is?" Chen Zhengwei looked at the expressions of the two men with interest. He liked the fear on their faces.

After he finished speaking, he remembered to ask the henchman next to him: "Do these two people know English?"

"This meeting! He is from some chamber of commerce..." One of them kicked Valverde.

"The other one is a lieutenant in their police force, similar to the sheriff here... He only knows Spanish."

"Oh? Are you the one who fell on the street? You are very brave! How much money did that guy named Kang Youwei give you?" Chen Zhengwei looked at Valverde.

"He gave me 100,000 Eagle Dollars, I'll give them all to you, please don't kill me..." Valverde's lips moved for a while and he kept begging for mercy, his voice trembling.

"One hundred thousand British eagle dollars... the Spanish Navy is so worthless!" Chen Zhengwei said with a sigh.

"One hundred thousand British francs destroyed the Spanish navy and all its colonies..." Chen Zhengwei slapped his thigh and laughed, with a murderous look in his eyes.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you!" Chen Zhengwei laughed for a while and then said, "Who doesn't know that I hate killing people the most?"

"You probably don't know what happened!"

"The United States and Spain are about to go to war..." Chen Zhengwei took out his pocket watch to check the time: "It's about time!"

"Spain has sent half of its navy from its homeland to Cuba, but they are doomed!"

"Once the Spanish navy is sunk, they will not be able to keep their colonies, they will have to hand them over!"

"Then I will have you sent back to Spain... and tell all the Spaniards that this war was caused by you, for a hundred thousand dollars!"

“That would be wonderful!”

Chen Zhengwei thought about it while holding a cigar in his mouth and found it more and more interesting. He turned to Li Xiwen and said, "Do you know what this is called?"

"Uncle, this is called killing someone and destroying their heart!" the big-headed guy next to him said immediately.

If that were the case, the Spaniards would wish this man dead when he returned.

Including his family members will be dug out.

Making his life more painful than death!

"Bullshit! This is called a small person changing the world!" Chen Zhengwei felt that Big Head Boy still didn't understand him. He usually looked very smart, but his smartness was not in the right place.

"This is the most glorious moment of his life!"

"It will be recorded in history books in the future, because the greedy head of a business company was called...what was it?" Chen Zhengwei asked his henchman again.

"Boss, it's Valverde!"

"A greedy Chamber of Commerce head named Valverde accepted a bribe of 10 American dollars, which led to the Spanish-American War. Spain lost most of its navy and all its colonies! From then on, it became the last in Europe, marking the end of the remnants of the old era!"

"And the United States has officially begun to step onto the world stage!"

"Doesn't it sound epic?" Chen Zhengwei joked.

At this time, Valverde was shaking all over, and his eyes began to wander.

He never thought that the United States and Spain would go to war because of that Chinese liar... If it was really as Chen Zhengwei said, the consequences would be chilling to think about.

"Of course, there is also this sheriff!" Chen Zhengwei looked at Lieutenant Montoya.

He was much calmer than Valverde, although his face looked grim... but that was because his injuries had not healed. He knew this was America, and he also knew he was doomed, so he was calm.

"Tell him what I just said!"

While his henchman was translating, Chen Zhengwei watched with interest the changes on Lieutenant Montoya's face, before he struggled wildly and started swearing.

"He said Spain can't lose!"

"So I'll let them see it with their own eyes, and then send them back to Spain! Until then, keep an eye on them for me and make sure they're alive!"

After Chen Zhengwei finished explaining what he had done, he let his men take the man away.

"Send another telegram to Hong Kong, asking them to urge Guangdong Governor Fang Yao. It's just about arresting one person, why is he taking so long?"

"It seems that Kang Youwei has been hiding his identity, and now people in Guangdong are looking for him everywhere. The governor of Guangdong sent people to his hometown to keep an eye on him, but they didn't find him." Li Xiwen whispered on the side.

As Chen Zhengwei stood up and walked out, he slapped Li Xiwen on the head: "Just hurry me up if I tell you to! How to catch the person is his business, I only care about the result!"

"If he can't even catch anyone, what great things can he do? It would be better to let him go home and drink milk, that would be more suitable for him!"

"Tell him exactly what I said. If you can't catch him, go home and drink milk!"

"Governor of Guangdong? Tsk!" Chen Zhengwei sneered and staggered up the stairs.

He went back to the study and rummaged through the drawers, then ran to the bedroom and rummaged through the drawers.

"What are you looking for?"

"Where is my sheriff's badge?" Chen Zhengwei asked. He had just talked about the sheriff downstairs and suddenly remembered that he still had a sheriff's badge.

I also have an official status!

"It's at the golden egg! Why do you want to find that?" Lin Changning said.

"Suddenly I remembered that I am also a person of status!" Chen Zhengwei laughed, went out, turned a corner and came to Jindan's room.

Jindan was wearing Chen Zhengwei's sheriff's badge and holding a small wooden gun in his hand: "Don't move, I want to catch the bad guys..."

Then the door opened.

Seeing Chen Zhengwei standing there like a human bear, Jindan quickly put the gun behind his back.

"Catch the bad guys? Everyone knows that the police will catch whoever I tell them to catch!" Chen Zhengwei sneered! "So the important thing is not to catch the bad guys, but who I tell them to catch!"

"Damn it, you have no ambition at all. When I was your age, you were already thinking about robbing a bank!"

Chen Zhengwei was very contemptuous of the golden egg's ideal.

"The Minister of Justice is also responsible for catching bad guys!" Lin Changning said behind Chen Zhengwei.

"First of all, the Minister of Justice has nothing to do with the police, he is a politician!" Chen Zhengwei corrected.

"Secondly, if you want to catch bad guys when you are young, you can be the Attorney General at most when you grow up! I wanted to rob banks when I was young, and I can rob the whole world when I grow up!"

When he went to bed at night, Lin Changning was still asking, "Did you want to rob a bank when you were two years old?"

She thought Chen Zhengwei was bragging.

It's not like she hasn't heard Qiao Niang talk about her previous life in China. Chen Zhengwei's family ran a small business going from street to street. Although Chen Zhengwei was a bit hot-tempered at that time, he was still honest.

He was out of control when his father died and his shop was taken over by someone else. In a rage, he killed the entire family of the wealthy businessman and then ran away with his brother and sister-in-law.

"Of course!" When Chen Zhengwei was a child, he played police catching bad guys with the neighborhood kids. He was always the bad guy, and he was a bank robber.

He showed outstanding talent in this area at a very young age.

The next day, when Chen Zhengwei was watching his men loading the boxes onto the carriage, Li Xiwen walked up to Chen Zhengwei and whispered, "Brother Wei, the battle has begun!"

"A merchant ship was sunk near the Cuban port last night, and just now, the US government declared war!"

"I don't like the excuse they made!" Chen Zhengwei turned his head and said, he is still upset about this.

However, Chen Zhengwei may be unreasonable, but the US government still has to save face.

If you want to start a war, you have to find a reason, otherwise the American people will oppose it.

When Chen Zhengwei looked at his pocket watch last night, the merchant ship exploded and sank near the port.

……

At 1883 p.m. on January 1, 19, an American merchant ship was "sunk" near the port of Havana, Cuba.

At 1 a.m. on January 20, the U.S. government officially declared war on Spain.

As soon as the news came out, it caused a huge uproar.

Even though senior U.S. officials had previously expressed concern for the Cuban people, and even though the massacre at the embassy had occurred... many knowledgeable people had already realized that war seemed inevitable.

But no one expected it to be so sudden, and that the United States was the first to initiate the war.

"The United States officially declares war on Spain!" After US President James Garfield said this in a loud voice to reporters, every reporter's face was filled with shock.

What a big deal!

From this moment on, the atmosphere in Washington changed.

Countless telegrams were sent from Washington to all parts of the world.

An hour later, Chen Zhengwei boarded a train to Houston.

(End of this chapter)