Chapter 516: Fight Tooth for Tooth, Fight Violence with Violence

To be honest, Liang Yao was very disappointed with the Buchanan government, which had just come to power.

He did not expect a mediocre person like Buchanan to lead the United States out of the quagmire of the economic crisis. His greatest expectation for the Buchanan government was to maintain the basic social order in the United States and ensure his normal economic activities in the East.

Obviously, he overestimated the ability of Buchanan and his cabinet, and the Buchanan government could not even do this.

The riots in the East were not curbed, but tended to intensify.

Thinking of this, Liang Yao inexplicably missed the time when Fillmore was in power.

Although Fillmore was not a genius, he was at least a qualified president who maintained the status quo.

The president of the United States is really worse than the previous one, Liang Yao sighed in his heart.

Those who are in power in Washington now are not even politicians at all, they are just a group of political clowns.

"President, among us, you have the most face and your words carry the most weight. You have to make the decision for us." A Cantonese businessman ran to Liang Yao and said in Cantonese.

He hoped to use his hometown accent to bring the two closer, hoping that Liang Yao would help him out of friendship.

"Heaven helps those who help themselves, and heaven abandons those who abandon themselves. Only you can make your own decisions." Liang Yao took another sip of tea to moisten his throat.

"Let me ask you a question. Can you tell the difference between Yankees and Dixies?"

"Dixies prefer riding, shooting and hunting. In addition, the sun in the south is fierce, so the neck and face of Dixies look redder, as if they are burned by the sun.

But not every Dixie is like this. If you ask me to tell whether a person is a Dixie or a Yankee, I am not sure."

Pan Zhengwei, who arrived at Tingtao Garden almost at the same time as Liang Yao, said after thinking carefully.

The Tongfu Group of the Pan family has done a lot of business in the United States in recent years. The Tongfu Group was listed on the Wall Street Stock Exchange last year.

Therefore, the Pan family has to frequently deal with the barbarians that he once thought were foreign countries.

The Pan family has business dealings with the Yankees in the north and the Dixies in the south. On this issue, Pan Zhengwei still has a say.

"Then can you distinguish between Chinese and Yankees and Dixies?" Liang Yao continued to ask the next question.

"The president is joking. Even if we cut our braids, take off our long gowns and jackets, and put on Hanfu or even Western suits. But yellow skin, black and straight hair, these things are left to us by our ancestors and cannot be changed." Pan Zhengwei said.

"What does the president mean, there are thugs targeting us Chinese?" Wu Yuanhua suddenly reacted.

"Yes. There are many free people among blacks, but in the 70 years since the founding of the United States, these black free people are nominally free, but in fact they have not received real citizen treatment." Liang Yao sneered.

"Since they discriminate against blacks and do not regard them as human beings, they will naturally discriminate against us Chinese and do not regard us Chinese as human beings, thinking that we are weak and can be bullied!"

"How unreasonable! I will call Washington to protest!" Wu Yuanhua was filled with righteous indignation and ran to the telegraph room to send a telegram.

"Wait! These white politicians in America are all cheap bones. They are hard to deal with and do not respond to soft words. It is useless to play words with them. They must be taught a profound lesson so that they will remember it." Liang Yao stopped Wu Yuanhua.

Liang Yao knew the nature of politicians in Washington better than the Chinese businessmen present. They would never take a verbal protest seriously.

In this matter, they must not retreat and give in, otherwise, those jumping clowns in Washington will only become more unscrupulous. It is not even ruled out that these clowns will take risks and turn their spearheads against the West in order to divert the contradiction between the North and the South, turning it into a contradiction between the East and the West.

This result is what Liang Yao least wants to see.

In this way, the official blatant racial discrimination against the Chinese, the anti-Chinese movement is not far away.

Liang Yao must prepare for the worst.

"President, what should we do? We all listen to you!"

"Yes, we all listen to you! Whatever you say, we will do!"

The Chinese businessmen all realized the seriousness of the problem, and they only followed Liang Yao's lead.

"Okay! Since you have promoted Liang, I will do this for you!" Liang Yao said very happily.

"With your words, we are relieved. Just tell me, what should we do?" The Chinese businessmen all gathered around Liang Yao and listened carefully to Liang Yao's words, fearing that they would miss a word.

"First, we must fight back with tooth and fight violence with violence. Call all the chambers of commerce and hometown associations in the east and let them inform all the Chinese who make a living in the east to gather together temporarily and prepare guns. If you encounter any lawbreakers who want to do something lawless, don't ask too much, regardless of black or white, just shoot and kill!" Liang Yao said the first one.

"The Chinese in the east already live together, and the chambers of commerce are equipped with weapons and ammunition. This is not difficult to do. I will do it." Wu Yuanhua nodded.

"We should teach those foreigners a lesson, otherwise they will think that we Chinese are easy to bully."

Everyone had no objection to this and expressed their support.

"Second, from today on, Chinese merchants will suspend all business activities in the eastern region and strike to protest. Those who violate this article and trade without authorization will be expelled from the chamber of commerce immediately and will never be allowed to enter the chamber of commerce again!" Liang Yao said.

The strike caused controversy.

Once the market goes on strike, the first thing to do is to face direct business losses.

This is still secondary. Once the cooperation with the original business partners and customers is temporarily cancelled, it is inevitable that the credibility will be lost, and the business partners and customers that have been attracted with great difficulty will be lost.

"President, I think this is not appropriate. If our customers find a replacement during the strike, I am afraid..." Zeng Jinsong hesitated.

Liang Yao was very angry at this sentence. Liang Yao was about to scold Zeng Jinsong. Deng Wenyu on the side had already pointed at Zeng Jinsong's nose and cursed.

"Stupid! Short-sighted! Just now you said you would listen to your third brother. Why, you are reluctant to give up even a little money when it comes to the strike? Didn't my third brother make enough money with you?!

If we give in today, even if we can make money in the future, we will make money on our knees and have to act according to other people's wishes! If we are tough today, once the matter is accomplished, we will all make money standing up in the future, and no one will dare to provoke us!"

"Jinsong, are you blinded by money? Can't you tell right from wrong?!" Wu Yuanhua was also very dissatisfied with Zeng Jinsong's words, and he didn't care about the seniority and etiquette, and called him by his name.

Liang Yao stood up and said to Zeiss: "Zeiss, immediately write to the New York branch of the American Group. From now on, the American Group will suspend all its business in the east!"

"Yes! Your Excellency." Zeiss nodded, trotted out of the reception room, and went to the telegraph room to send a message.

Liang Yao swept his cold eyes over everyone: "Liang has never forced anyone to do anything. If you don't want to participate in the strike, you can just say so now and leave the Chamber of Commerce on your own. From now on, we will go our separate ways. If you encounter any difficulties in the future, don't look for the Chamber of Commerce again, and don't mention that you are a member of the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce and you are Chinese!"