Chapter 62: The Descendants of Lan Fang

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  After most of the soldiers and black households left, the entire "Mei Hua Experimental Zone" was immediately deserted. It is worth noting that in this closed environment, the disappearance of hundreds of people who often came out to wander around made it impossible to hide the sense of emptiness, and many people felt quite uncomfortable for a while.

  But everything is still going on in an orderly manner. The factory continues to expand, the workforce continues to increase, and the number of Chinese immigrants coming from the West Coast is increasing. The proportion of Chinese people in Chicago as a whole is growing significantly. Because official schools refused to accept Chinese children, Chen Xiaoqi could not openly establish a Chinese school to confront the government during this time of anti-Chinese sentiment. He had no choice but to temporarily establish his own educational institution within the company, establishing a Workers' Children Education Center, where old scholars and students from China taught enlightenment and basic education to these children aged 6-16. Except for not being able to obtain formal qualifications, the level of education received by these children was still relatively guaranteed. Some 16- or 17-year-olds could work as apprentices in the factory, and then slowly further their studies later on. After all, they were internal people, and there was no talk of excluding them because they didn't have qualifications. Basic industry workers don't need a high level of cultural knowledge.

  Apart from this, the training of the security department has slowed down but never stopped. The scale of sending people to study abroad is getting larger and larger, but basically, they are all students who can participate in high-level work. There are almost no one, after all, there is only so much old foundation. In this era, talents are scarce resources, who would be willing to put them here for others to use?

  Roughly calculated, Chen Xiaoqi found that the number of international students he had funded over the years was a staggering figure, reaching 2,000! These people are distributed in various industrial fields around the world for further study and will definitely be used by him first in the future. Of course, this expenditure is also extremely large.

  The training grounds are still ongoing, but the number of people in each batch is not too many. The Chinese youth who have been bullied and oppressed by Westerners for a long time are increasingly supporting Chen Xiaoqi's idea. The more they understand, the more they realize the importance of having a strong country and nation behind them. Without a strong country, where is personal honor and dignity?

  So there is no need for Chen Xiaoqi to make extra efforts, his training camp has always been crowded with people. If he didn't hold back and dare to do more, he could have trained a large number of troops in these few years. Of course, the limited conditions also have their advantages, that is, he had to select the best from among the enthusiastic ones, and the selected personnel underwent repeated value-added training. As a result, every individual who came out was not just a simple soldier, but had at least one year of military study time, with sufficient military literacy to serve as a squad leader or even a platoon leader.

  With a large number of people at home laying the foundation, the people who have been cultivated in succession will no longer accumulate and leave. Basically, one batch is completed and another batch goes on duty, and then the new ones are assigned to go home for actual combat training, finally becoming the backbone of their team's martial power after a hundred refinements.

  On this day, Chen Xiaoqi was busy in the office as usual. Due to the expansion of the group's scale, apart from Shang Pei'en's laboratory, he also started building his own office building in Chicago. The main body had been built for a period of time and it was the first glass curtain wall building in this era. Although it was only over ten floors high, he believed that it was enough to attract everyone's attention.

  In the midst of busyness, someone suddenly knocked on the door. Then Zhou Yunpeng's head poked in from outside the door and he smiled at Chen Xiaoqi, saying: "Boss, there's someone who wants to see you."

  After several years of tempering, this young man has become increasingly mature and sophisticated. Not only are his military skills well-honed, but he has also completed the internal special training courses with flying colors. He even followed in the footsteps of the "Zhuque" unit and carried out assassination work on members of the "3K Party", a group that was very unfriendly to Chinese people in Chicago. Having seen blood and killed before, he has matured greatly.

  At this point, he is already the core leader of Chen Xiaoqi's personal bodyguards, working with Hu Qian in two shifts to take charge of internal and external security matters. As Chen Xiaoqi's importance becomes more prominent, his reputation in the United States and even around the world continues to grow, and the number of financial organizations and countries that are wary of him also increases.

  There have been signs that some of the major financial groups in the US have attempted to assassinate him more than once. However, because Chen spends most of his time hiding in heavily guarded laboratories and rarely appears in public, there haven't been many opportunities for these attempts to succeed. The few times someone has managed to get close to him have ended in failure.

  So, recently, except for those few female secretaries whose backgrounds are completely under control, most of the guarding work has been replaced by internal guards, including message transmission and so on. Even the food and mail of some important people within the company need to be checked and confirmed by the "Zhuque Department" internal security personnel, just in case.

  Chen Xiaoqi didn't even lift his head, looking at the file while asking: "Who is it?"

  Zhou Yunpeng said: "It was Luo Badao, who finished his training last year and started to be in charge of the defense work of the third group this year."

  Chen Xiaoqi put down the file, let out a long sigh, and nodded: "Oh, I remember him, he's a very capable kid, let him come in."

  Zhou Yunpeng responded with a "yes", and soon, a young man who was not very tall, with a slightly dark complexion and bright eyes, knocked on the door and came in. Chen Xiaoqi responded with a "yes" and gestured for him to sit down in the seat across from him. However, the young man did not rush to do so, but instead stood at attention in front of him, saluted with a loud "crack", and then walked forward steadily, sitting up straight.

  Chen Xiaoqi was familiar with the situation of each person who entered the core team, such as this young man named Luo Badao, who is only 22 years old now. His ancestors had sneaked into the United States more than a decade ago and finally settled down after many twists and turns. He is already the second generation here, but also a very passionate young man. Usually, they would often exchange ideas in internal gatherings, but it was the first time for someone to come see him like this today.

  Chen Xiaoqi was very satisfied with the young man's spirit in front of him. After he sat down, his hands were crossed on the table, and his eyes measured him up and down before smiling and saying: "Little Luo, you came to find me today, is there something special?"

  Lu Badao was slightly tense, Chen Xiaoqi's eyes could clearly see that his arms were trembling slightly due to clenching his fists, as if he had just gone through a fierce ideological struggle. Lu Badao then said in his low voice: "Reporting to the boss, I have something important to say. This matter is of great importance, so..."

  He didn't continue speaking, but slightly lowered his head. Chen Xiaoqi smiled and pressed a switch under the table with her hand. Then, urgent footsteps were heard coming from outside, and personnel in the offices on both sides began to evacuate. The sound of chairs being lightly moved and doors opening and closing continued to be heard until everything returned to calmness. Finally, someone knocked gently and rhythmically on the door a few times, and then there was complete silence.

  Chen Xiaoqi said: "Alright, now no outsider can hear the movements inside this house. What is it that you want to say?"

  Luobo Road gritted his teeth and said excitedly: "Boss, I don't know if you've ever heard of the name Lanfang Republic?"

  Chen Xiaoqi was taken aback for a moment, this name he had heard of, it is the first republic established by Chinese people, located in today's Borneo - Kalimantan Island. However, this country was not initially a political organization on Kalimantan Island, but a trading company. In 1770, Luo Fangbo, a Hakka from Mei County, Guangdong, founded the "Lanfang Company" in western Borneo (now West Kalimantan), and in 1777, Luo Fangbo changed the "company" to "republic", becoming the "Lanfang Republic". They also called themselves the "Lanfang Grand Unified Regime", a very strange democratic organization established by Chinese people during the imperial era. This republic lasted for over a hundred years, but was eventually annexed by the Dutch colonizers due to lack of strong national support, and after the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912, they formally occupied the entire territory, this country that once occupied the entire Borneo disappeared, and many Chinese people were forced to leave and never returned.

  Chen Xiaoqi knew this name, after all, as a special case existed, after the anti-Chinese incidents and tsunami events occurred, about the treacherous deeds of those ungrateful monkeys on this land were heavenly wrath and public outrage, he also went to understand this history with many people, so he knew that this peculiar country had once existed in history.

  He didn't know why Luo Badao brought up this topic, but he knew that these people who had been trained repeatedly would not waste his time for no reason, so he nodded to show that he understood and waited for Luo Badao's explanation.

  Luobei Road became more agitated, his fists clenched tightly in his hands, and his voice trembled as he said: "Boss, I am a descendant of the Luo family from the 'Lanfang Republic'! Not just me, Jiang Kai from Group 4 and Song Yu Xiang from Group 6 are also, and Liu Quande and Xie Bao who have already returned to their country are too, we are all descendants of several big families!"

  Chen Xiaoqi was shocked, he really didn't expect that his own company would have such a hidden dragon and crouching tiger! Those families who ventured into Southeast Asia and finally established their own business empire were not simple at all. They had been struggling on this land for several generations or even dozens of generations, accumulating huge wealth, and their influence was also enormous. Their relationships were complex and intertwined, and among the tens of millions of Chinese people in Southeast Asia, they were undoubtedly a powerful force. But what he didn't expect was that after the "Lanfang Republic" disappeared, so many descendants of these big families actually came to the United States and even entered the core team of his company!

  Chen Xiaoqi nodded slowly and said, "I really didn't know these things. I only knew that you several families moved to the United States around the same time and joined the company around the same time. I just didn't expect that you are actually descendants of 'Lan Fang'. Hmm, okay, what do you want to do? Continue."

  "Boss, we are all people who were forced to leave our hometown by the Dutch. Our ancestors had many relatives and elders killed by those damned foreigners and locals! Each of us has thought about avenging this blood feud, but we never had a chance! After coming to the company, your teachings made us understand the root cause of all this, and we also know what to do now! Boss, I beg you to let us go back and take revenge!"