v3 Chapter 907： To Situ's House

San Francisco’s Chinatown is the place with the highest concentration of Chinese in the Western Hemisphere. More than 100,000 overseas Chinese live here. In terms of scale, it is second only to New York’s Chinatown.

Throughout California, most Chinese people gather here. For hundreds of years, San Francisco Chinatown has become a mecca for overseas Chinese.

In a country where guns are flooded, social security is a huge problem. Coupled with the issue of racial discrimination in the United States, Chinese people can only choose to get together if they want to survive.

In the entire state of California, there are nearly a thousand Chinese groups, most of which are concentrated in San Francisco.

Among them, there are six most famous halls in San Francisco, namely Wuzhou Hongmen Zhigong Hall, Binggong Main Hall, Cuisheng Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Hesheng Main Hall, Yingduan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Jinmen Xiesheng The labor union, each of these six companies has a history of more than a hundred years.

The purpose of establishing these halls back then was to protect members by force from others. Members, regardless of social background, surname, or native place, united and helped each other to take care of each other.

It’s just that with the passage of time, the social resources and heritage of each lobby are accumulating more and more, and due to the environmental factors of the United States, each lobby is constantly being washed white. If you want to change from black to business, the difference lies in washing The degree is different.

The person who invited Xia Yu this time was the Patriarch of the Situ Family and Situ Boshan, the head of the Zhigong Hall!

Xia Yu and Situ Boshan knew each other well. When he first came to San Francisco to set up Polaris Capital, he spent $1.7 million to buy a mansion in the wealthy Atherton district of San Francisco’s South Bay. After going out, people kept visiting. Xia Yu met Situ Boshan at that time.

During the previous election, when Ronald Reagan came to San Francisco to give a speech, Xia Yu visited Situ Boshan again and asked him to help mobilize the Chinese to wave the flag for Ronald Reagan.

And when voting in the general election on November 4 this month, Xia Yu also commissioned Situ Boshan to mobilize the Chinese to vote for Ronald Reagan. The latter also did his best to do this and contributed to Ronald Reagan. A strength.

It's just that Xia Yu has been busy, and in the true sense of the December electoral vote has not yet taken place, so Xia Yu just made a phone call to express his gratitude, and did not come to visit.

This time, Situ Boshan took the initiative to invite Xia Yu, not as the master of the Gongzongtang, but as a private party. It was a family banquet, so Xia Yu bought a bunch of gifts before going.

From a distance, Xia Yu saw two people standing at the door of Situ's house, one old and one young. It was Situ Boshan and his 28-year-old son Situ Nan.

After the car stopped, Xia Yu immediately got out of the car and walked forward with a smile to say hello: "Master, brother Situ, I'm sorry you have been waiting for so long here. I'm really sorry."

Situ Boshan laughed, shook hands with Xia Yu and said loudly, "Mr. Xia said, you are not late."

"Furthermore, you are a distinguished guest of our Situ family. To show that you value it, I should greet you at the door."

Xia Yu humbly said again.

"Mr. Xia, what other presents do you bring, it's too much."

Seeing Li Wuming taking out a pile of gifts from the trunk, the old man Situ Boshan said with some dissatisfaction.

Xia Yu laughed and said: "Yes, no one has nothing to do. I have some fruits."

Situ Bo Shanban pretended to be upset and said, "Mr. Xia, you can't bring it next time. Your arrival has already made the humble house and Pengxuan shine. You can come to give me the greatest gift."

After finishing speaking, Situ Boshan instructed his son Situ Nan: "Anan, pick it up for Mr. Xia."

"Mr. Xia, please inside!"

"Master, please invite first!"

"Go together!"

After a few words of mutual humility, Situ Boshan and Xia Yu entered side by side, Situ Nan and Li Wuming followed behind by two steps.

The layout of Situ's house is in accordance with the Chinese style, and the decoration is the same.

If you didn't know that this was San Francisco, and just walked into it, you would definitely think that you came to the rich and ancient mansion of which village in China.

In San Francisco, thousands of miles away from the motherland, the Chinese retain many customs and cultures from their hometown, and the layout of houses is a very obvious place.

The Situ family is a large family. After hundreds of years of reproduction, the family population is already quite large. Even though some of the direct family members returned to the motherland by Situ Boshan's uncle decades ago, there are still dozens of them.

As for the Situ family members who stayed in San Francisco, Situ Boshan is the main family.

Xia Yu also met Situ Boshan's wife, as well as Situ Nan's wife and 4-year-old son in the yard.

Situ Nan originally had a son, but died unexpectedly.

After a brief cup of tea, I had lunch.

The lunch was made by Situ Boshan’s wife and daughter-in-law together. It was a very authentic Cantonese cuisine. Xia Yu had a great appetite and ate very smoothly.

After the meal, it was half past one in the afternoon.

The father and son Situ Boshan and Xia Yu came to the yard together and sat down around the rustic stone table to drink tea.

"Father, this time the election will bother you."

Xia Yu thanked him.

Situ Boshan waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "It's nothing to raise your hand. Before, we Chinese didn't care about politics, so we didn't participate in voting in every general election. This time I can help Mr. Xia. Of course I have to help you."

Xia Yu expressed his gratitude again. After taking a sip of tea, he pondered for a moment and said to Situ Boshan: "Master, there are no outsiders here. I will just say a few words of heart-wrenching. If you don't listen to it, I will still look at the sea."

Situ Boshan's eyes condensed, and he made a gesture of please and said, "Mr. Xia, please tell me, there is nothing to say between you and me. Your career is so big, and it is my honor to be able to listen to you. "

"Don't dare to give advice, just say a few humble opinions!"

With a modest sentence, Xia Yu said slowly: "All the time, Chinese Americans have not cared about or participated in politics. This has something to do with the cultural thoughts of our Chinese since ancient times. We should take care of our own one-third of an acre and pay attention to'people do not commit crimes. I, I’m not a criminal,’ so I have a mindset of keeping away from American politics.”

"Of course, this does not rule out the fact that the Chinese tried to integrate into the American political field, but the efforts were fruitless.

"But I don't agree with this approach. The United States does not have the long-standing cultural heritage of ours in China. American culture is inherited from pirates and prisoners. The emphasis here is the supremacy of the strong. If you want to live well here, you can only fight. ,competition!"

"In the United States, whites have always been supreme. Blacks were originally as miserable as our yellow races, but blacks have been fighting. So today, although the status of blacks is not as good as that of whites, it is far beyond that of the yellow races in the United States. There is no denying the reason for the larger number of blacks."

"But among the yellow race, our Chinese ethnic group is the largest, followed by Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese."

"But in fact, although we Chinese have the largest number of people, the highest social status is the Filipino, followed by the Indian. Why is this result? It is because they will fight!"

"We Chinese Americans have things that are basically not resolved through the official, but privately resolved by ourselves, and do not participate in politics, so both the Democratic and Republican parties give up to us, so in the final analysis, the social status of the Chinese is low, but it is actually ourselves. As a result, we gave up the rights granted to us by the U.S. Constitution."

"Now the top Chinese groups are trying their best to clean up. Isn’t it to improve social status? The best way to improve social status is to actively participate in politics and climb up as much as possible. The majority of Chinese people speak out, defend our rights and compete for our resources!"

After Xia Yu finished speaking, Sima Boshan sighed and said, "Mr. Xia, I know what you said is correct, and I am aware of this. However, the large groups of Chinese are intertwined and the situation is very complicated."

"It's not that no one has thought about participating in American politics for hundreds of years, but they have been excluded. We have more than enough energy but not enough energy! Over time, we naturally gave up!"

"In addition, the entrances to the lobby are now deeply trapped, and there are a lot of internal struggles. It is difficult to work together to climb up, and this opportunity is not found."

"Because of this, we simply gave up participating in politics and used our own methods to solve problems."

"Even if it is Zhigongzongtang, although I am the head of the hall, it is not as beautiful as it seems. The major elder families in the main hall still have a lot of right to speak, not to mention the lower-level forces involved. Now!"

"After all, many Chinese can't live a stable and good life, and they don't live well. How can they be expected to care about politics?"

Xia Yu was silent for a moment.

He also had a special knowledge of Zhigongtang's situation and knew that what Situ Boshan said was true.

Among the six top halls in San Francisco, the other five halls kept whitewashing, resulting in the lowest level of whitewashing at the Gongzongtang. After the leader Zhou Tianlong, the leader of the future generations, reached the summit, it became more and more black. When Tianlong was arrested, he was convicted of 162 counts by the US judicial department and sentenced to life imprisonment, plus more than 2,900 years of imprisonment, without bail, completely defeating Zhigongtang's reputation.

As for the best sentence of Situ Boshan, it also explains the current situation and true thinking of the Chinese Americans.

Rather than allowing them to rely on political power to solve their own problems, they prefer to rely on their own hands to support themselves, even if they are a little tired, this is the most industrious nation in the world.

"But father, it's not a way to live by it. The Chinese have paid no less than other groups for the construction of the United States. If you don't fight, all kinds of education and social welfare will exceed the Chinese as they are now. These things are what the Chinese deserve~ www.novelhall.com~ And if the Chinese want to live well in the United States, climbing up is the best way out. Pure commerce is limited. Without political asylum, no matter how big the foundation is, it is easy to collapse, so politics is the path You must go, and you must be strong enough to have sheltering ability!"

Situ Boshan nodded and said: "I know, so after knowing that you have friendship with Ronald Reagan, I wondered that it is time to go on this path. Let me take the lead first. As long as I am willing to go, after all There will be a way out. Maybe one day we Chinese will also have sheriffs, judges, governors, and councilors!"

Xia Yu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Master, I have a good relationship with Ronald Reagan. I can really help in many places. I want to know what you plan to do?"

Sima Boshan suddenly looked at Situ Nan, who had been silent for a long time. Situ Nan had a firm expression and sincerely pleaded with Xia Yu: "Mr. Xia, I intend to go into politics. I want to work for the happiness of Chinese people in the United States and extend my compatriots. Justice, please give me some advice!"

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