American nativists began to claim that the gold in California belonged to Americans. They put pressure on the government and allowed the government to pass the Chinese Exclusion Act specifically suppressing Chinese people, and began to carry out cruel physical and mental harm to the weak Chinese.

The most heartbreaking feature of the tragic encounters of the Chinese in California is that the pain they suffer is mostly imposed on them by the government in the name of the law.

The California government legislation stipulates that all foreign miners who cannot become American citizens should pay a monthly gold rush license tax, and the tax officials impose this law separately to the Chinese.

Many government tax collectors often carry blank licenses with them and patrol the gold mining area. Whenever they meet Chinese people, no matter what they do or whether they are rushing gold or not, they will force them to pay taxes. Even patients and disabled Chinese who cannot move cannot be exempted from being exempted.

Government tax collectors often appear in the mines several times a month. Sometimes, they force the Chinese who have already paid the tax to pay again without waiting until the end of the month.

Some tax collectors are said to be impersonating, and the receipts they sent were denied by other tax collectors. If the Chinese refuse to pay taxes again, these government tax collectors immediately punched and kicked the Chinese, put their knives and sticks together, or pulled out their guns to bombard them.

It is often seen in the mine that tax collectors tied Chinese people to trees and beat them up. Some tax collectors were still riding on horses, escorting a group of Chinese people who were connected together with ropes, staggering and staggering behind and rolling and crawling.

Squares in small towns often become places where tax collectors impose collective punishment on Chinese people. Tax collectors beat and scold these poor Chinese people to enjoy it.

In the mines, tax collectors usually follow the merchants who bought old goods. The tax collectors sold the Chinese property they snatched or confiscated to these old goods at extremely low prices. If no one was willing to buy it, the government tax collectors would destroy or burn the clothes, bedding and other items they had plundered.

At the end of the 19th and the turn of the 20th century, gold mines near Sacramento, California were also excavated, and even quartz veins that were several hundred meters deep were mined, and California could provide less and less gold.

Therefore, Chinese people who specialize in mining were forcibly expelled from gold mines and moved to cities such as San Francisco to engage in low-paid labor and servants, which made them even more difficult.

Even so, Americans still criticize the Chinese in all kinds of ways. They believe that Chinese people have immoral and unhygienic living habits and engage in improper business competition by lowering wages. Therefore, Americans use this as an excuse to exclude and suppress Chinese people more severely.

Under the oppression of mainstream American society, the US government has become increasingly harsh and restricted Chinese immigrants, treating Chinese as races that are inferior to black slaves, and has carried out various persecutions.

Therefore, Chinese people in the United States can only unite and seek self-protection. The Hongmen Zhigongtang and the Qing Gang branch of the Huaqing Gang and other Chinese communities have developed rapidly in the United States.

Especially Zhigongtang, due to its early development, it provides safety and assistance to the Chinese community, and plays a role equivalent to the underground government of the Chinese community. Therefore, although the number of Chinese in the United States is rarer than that in Nanyang, Hongmen Zhigongtang has achieved great development.

In San Francisco alone, there are dozens of halls and more than 20,000 disciples. In addition to the social relations of the disciples themselves, the entire city of San Francisco, the entire United States, and the entire American Chinese society has a close relationship with the Hongmen Zhigong Hall. Overseas, where there are Chinese people, there is Hongmen, which is a true portrayal.

Even the revolutionaries who were active overseas were from the Hongmen. In order to win the support of the Hongmen, many revolutionary backbones joined the Hongmen. The revolutionaries almost all rely on the power of the Hongmen to raise funds.

The reason why overseas Chinese donated funds was very enthusiastic was not that they were attracted by the bourgeois revolutionary slogans, but that they believed that this was the anti-Qing and restoration movement led by the Hongmen.

Speaking of this, Wang Xuanzhang picked up the teacup and drank a few sips of tea, moistening his throat. Then, he sighed sadly, and in a deep tone, he continued to say to Ye Hui, Zheng Tiexue and others who were listening carefully: "In April last year, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake occurred in San Francisco, causing damage to the urban water supply system and a fire caused by the dumping of the stove. The fire lasted for three days and three nights, turning 10 square kilometers of urban area into ashes. More than 60,000 people died, and the direct economic loss reached 500 million US dollars.

Among them, due to the consistent discrimination and persecution of us Chinese by the US government, after the earthquake, they not only did not rescue and treat us Chinese, but instead instigated the gangsters to take advantage of the situation to rob us Chinese, which made us Chinese worse and the losses were particularly serious.

Although the entrances of the Hongmen Zhigong Hall were all helping each other, in the face of such a huge disaster, the Hongmen Zhigong Hall was weak after all and could not take care of them one by one. Many Chinese compatriots died because they did not receive timely assistance and treatment. Some Chinese people lost all their property due to fire or robbers. They were unable to think about it for a moment and even committed suicide.

Over the past few months, all the work of our PLA has been going smoothly. Comrade Ye Hui was busy going to the Springfield Arsenal with the arms merchant James and purchased guns and ammunition. Now, two PLA special forces have escorted Mr. James, rented several large American cargo ships, and carried a large number of weapons and ammunition to Borneo.

Comrade Zheng Tiexue has also developed well in San Francisco in the past few months. Comrade Tiexue chose to develop in the suburbs near San Francisco, which can better ensure our safety and secrets. Now, Tiexue has purchased three large farms near San Francisco to accommodate a large number of Chinese refugees who were unable to make ends meet for a while.

According to statistics, there are more than 3,200 Chinese refugees we have placed, most of whom are middle-aged and young men who escaped from the earthquake zone, and only 643 other elderly women and children. Under our compulsory orders, all of these middle-aged and young Chinese men have cut off their pigtails and have short hair.

Because we have received our assistance and we have allowed them to live a happy life of full food and clothing for free. Therefore, these Chinese refugees now regard us as reborn parents and are very grateful. Even if we ask them to kill and set fire, they will move forward without hesitation.

At present, these middle-aged and young Chinese men are in our farm during the day, using farming as a cover to conduct military training. At night, we teach them to recognize words and learn patriotic ideas in the large wooden house we built.
Chapter completed!