Chapter Thirty-Seven: The American Elite

  Five overseas children were originally kidnapped by someone, Chen Xiru joined the Zhongyong Army shortly after leaving Yale University in the United States and was transferred to the Bartoldi Energy Company by Zhou Yu that year to serve as a representative of the Zhongyong Army stationed at the British Energy Company.

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  Because his own power was too small, he brought over several of his closest friends from the United States, including Huang Kaijia, Ouyang Geng, Tang Shaoyi, Li Enfu and Zhang Kangren.

  These five people were the Qing government's children sent to study in America, but some within the Qing government said: The children are losing China's moral integrity and becoming just like foreigners without any rules.

  They believed that even if these children were educated and returned home, they would still be harmful to the country. Weighing the two evils, the Qing dynasty preferred ideas over people, and decided to recall Dai Jitao.

  At the end of 81 and the beginning of 82, the Qing government ordered the recall of these American students. Chen Xiru happened to summon them at this time, asking them to come to Batol Energy Company to help him, so they secretly snuck into the UK headquarters of Batol Energy Company.

  They decided to evade the Qing's recall because they yearned for freedom and disliked the Qing's rigidity, corruption, and rules, even more so their enslavement of the Chinese people.

  Zhou Yu immediately hired them with a high salary of $100 per month after receiving Chen Xiru's report.

  Huang Kaijia was a postal and telecommunications expert, while Tang Shaoyi and Ouyang Geng were experts in politics and languages.

  Li Enfu is now married to a New England woman named Elizabeth and has children. He is a writer, and in later life he wrote the book "When I Was a Boy in China", which vividly describes how he set foot on the journey to study in the United States from a small town in southern China.

  Zhang Kangren, everyone who has seen the previous content is quite familiar with him. He was the one who was reminded by Zhou Yu on the dock in New York, USA, and studied law at Columbia University Law School in the United States.

  At that time, Zhou Yu's words did not have much of an impact, but the later development in America was just as Zhou Yu said, and the status of Chinese people really did decline further.

  Even, in a California daily editorial describing Chinese as half-man and half-devil, eating rats, dressed in rags, ignorant of law, hating Christian culture, smoking opium, cheap labor, sucking the entrails of Asiatics.

  At this time, Zhang Kangren felt that Zhou Yu's words were true, and he also stopped applying for American nationality in the United States. When Chen Xiru told him that it was Zhou Yu's company recruiting people, he rushed to the UK resolutely.

  A few old friends who hadn't seen each other for a long time gathered together, and it was inevitable that they would discuss the past and present. They were all the most outstanding talents of contemporary China.

  They uphold freedom and democracy, love their motherland, and are extremely indignant about the strong anti-Chinese wave in the United States. They have worked hard, shouted loudly, and also wavered.

  "Let's take a look at how Americans treat other ethnic groups today. It is hard to imagine that this nation, which was founded on the principle of freedom by Abraham Lincoln, has grown and prospered by oppressing other nations. Is this what they call freedom? Freedom built on the oppression and plundering of one nation over another? How far has this republic strayed from its original ideals? We only need to look at their western anti-Chinese events."

  They also regard themselves as 'unyielding fighters of the Chinese nation'. However, without the support of their motherland, their efforts seem so insignificant.

  They hope to awaken their compatriots and strive for equal rights, but facing a group of uneducated compatriots, they all feel powerless.

  Compatriots have become accustomed to suffering under the oppression of whites, and would rather cower in the corners of Chinatowns, shivering with fear, than stand up to testify and cry out against the injustices they have suffered.

  Their state of mind at that time was so similar to Zhou Yu's when he saw the domestic people accustomed to suffering from the white man's oppression in Shanghai!

  Under the circumstances at that time, the Qing Dynasty was indifferent to the life and death of the Chinese people. For those Chinese who lived abroad, they were even more hated from the bone. In the eyes of those bureaucrats in the Qing government, these overseas Chinese were a group of abandoned ancestors and losers who were not worthy of sympathy.

  Moreover, facing the pressure of powerful Western countries, they themselves are hard-pressed to survive, let alone talk about being masters of their own destiny.

  Let those traitors who have abandoned their ancestors and forgotten their roots go to extinction on their own!

  "Is the Dongni, Huaxia Zhongyong Army really as you said, a group fighting for the rise of Huaxia? Are they not just a bunch of fame-seekers? Have you been deceived without even realizing it?" Li Enfu fired off his questions like a machine gun as soon as they met.

  "Haha! You can rest assured! I won't say anything else, but just the fact that Mr. Zhou Yu has implemented workers' pension, health and medical insurance, social insurance system for Chinese people in Hawaii and Vietnam's Old Street, and universal compulsory education is a pioneering move that has never been seen before or since."

  "Do you know how much investment is needed for this?"

  "In other industries I don't know, but in the energy income that I am responsible for, Mr. Zhou Yu can reach over 10 million pounds every year, this is just the beginning, later it will be more."

  "He basically spent this calculated money on education, pension and insurance."

  "Mr. Zhou often reminds us that a nation without culture, quality, morality and soul is extremely pathetic and terrifying."

  "How can such a person be mentioned in the same breath as those who are fishing for fame and fortune?"

  "Although he has such great achievements, it does not mean that he is not a dictator." T'ang Shao-yi, who advocates for democracy and the cabinet system, could not help but express his own views.

  "You don't need to worry about this anymore, Mr. Zhou and his followers advocate for enlightenment through popular education, so that the Chinese people can become enlightened, know their rights and obligations."

  "He said: The people of the Huaxia nation are not suitable for implementing American-style democracy until they truly understand what democracy, freedom, rights and obligations are."

  "You are in the United States advocating and shouting for Chinese people, and you have also seen the result. The Chinese laborers in the United States, due to lack of education, are accustomed to being oppressed by whites and do not maintain their own rights."

  "This isn't, even more proof that Mr. Zhou is right!"

  "What about his own army, system, economy and people's livelihood? How will he treat the great Qing in the future? How to treat the vast number of officials of the great Qing?" Ouyang Geng was concerned about this aspect because his cousin Ouyang Ming (courtesy name Huiting, pseudonym Jintang) was then serving as the Qing government's consul general in San Francisco.

  "Need you ask? Of course, the wise will take it, the foolish will obstruct it, and the evil will kill it."

  "What kind of law is being used by the Zhongyong Army?" Zhang Kangren, who specialized in legal studies, also raised his own question based on his expertise.

  "The current law of the Zhongyong Army is to abolish slavery and cancel the kneeling ceremony. In civil affairs, it implements equal rights to guarantee citizens' rights and obligations, including human rights, personal freedom, religious belief freedom, communication, speech freedom, and private property legitimate rights."

  In the military, there are compulsory service laws, military law regulations, and the Three Main Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention.

  "It can be said without exaggeration that the laws being implemented by the Zhongyong Army are the most scientific, people-loving, fair and just in today's world. If you have the opportunity, you can go to Hawaii to observe carefully, and you will surely gain insight."

  "Now that they have the freedom of communication and speech, what measures or reforms do they have in terms of communication?" Huang Kaijia was more concerned about this matter than others.

  "Sorry, I'm not allowed to answer that question. But rest assured, it's far better than you can imagine. When the day comes and you all truly decide to become members of the Loyal Courage Army, you will find out that our army's various technologies are the most advanced in today's world."

  "Really? You're speaking as if you're singing!" Everyone was skeptical.

  "It's true, more precious than gold and silver! Within five years at most, people all over the world will be shocked by the bravery of the Zhongyue Army. The purpose of our Zhongyue Army is to be the backbone of the Chinese nation, so please wait and see!"

  Chen Xiru's words filled the American elite with curiosity about the Huaxia Zhongyong Army and its leader, Zhou Yu. They also deeply hoped that the Huaxia nation would become stronger and that Chen Xiru's words would come true soon, comforting their own burning patriotic hearts.

  They also decided: to calm down and study and work hard, to lay a foundation for the revival of the Chinese nation in the future.

  They then went on to discuss current events and politics as well as economic issues, after which Chen Shiru gave them a detailed division of labor.

  Ouyang Geng and Tang Shaoyi were respectively in charge of inspection and public relations in Europe, the Americas, Arabia, Asia and Australia.

  Huang Kaiji was in charge of overall recording, coordination and dispatching work.

  Li Enfu was in charge of allocating various energies, sending high-quality energy products needed by the Zhongyong Army to each base of the Zhongyong Army, so that the Zhongyong Army had no worries.

  Zhang Kangren is in charge of all legal matters.

  Chen Xiru himself was in charge of overseeing everything and taking action as needed.

  After further in-depth understanding, Li Enfu and others found that they had been fishing for wood in the past. When they tried to reflect on the hardships of Chinese workers' lives every day to gain Americans' understanding and sympathy, the Zhongyong Army was quietly doing practical things for the Chinese nation in a corner of the world.

  Now they know: it's better to be self-reliant than to want others' charity and sympathy!

  The arrival of Zhang Kangren and others suddenly made Chen Xiru feel at ease, and with the spare time, he planned to go to various energy bases for in-depth exploration.